Picture StoryFrom the Archive Gore Vidal Rosie O'Donnell David Hasselhoff Aida Turturro Sarah Jessica Parker Tim Robbins Susan Sarandon

On This Day 2000: The Best Man Play Opening

Six photographs revisit the New York opening of Gore Vidal's The Best Man on 17 September 2000.

By Fame In Pictures DeskPhotographed 17 Sept 2000Published 17 Sept 20261 min read

Gore Vidal at the opening of The Best Man in New York City in 2000 — Image credit Big Pictures ArchiveLicense this image
On This Day 2000: The Best Man Play Opening
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Gore Vidal attends the opening of his play The Best Man in New York City on 17 September 2000.
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On 17 September 2000, guests attended the opening of Gore Vidal's play The Best Man in New York City. Six reviewed archive photographs show Vidal alongside Rosie O'Donnell, David Hasselhoff, Aida Turturro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

The sequence opens with Vidal before moving through arrivals by O'Donnell, Hasselhoff, Turturro and Parker. Robbins and Sarandon complete the selection together, with every identity included only where it appears in the archive metadata.

The photographs were captured in New York City on 17 September 2000 and are presented in their reviewed archive order. The source records carry editorial credit to Big Pictures Archive.