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Over what one is allowed to do and discuss in public, over whats to remain private.
When Capote published La Cote Basque 1965, he couldnt have known his friend Babe Paley was dying.
is a bit more lenient, perhaps because she came out mostly unscathed.
She even disagrees with the social icing Slim suggests, contending, Its cruel.
The second is another proposition.
The writer had worked hard to get at the truth beneath the gilded superficiality of Babe and her ilk.
(All the episodes he wrote about were true, were they not?)
He misjudged just how much we loved him, Babe says.
Only real love can wound you the way he did.
Babe wont return his calls and wont accept his flowers, let alone his apology notes.
Hallucinatory visions of his swans (decked out in vengeful red) haunt his sweat-addled performance.
Its asshole behavior, C.Z.
She wonders whats happened to civility, to discretion to reciprocity!
Youre gonna be in trouble now, Truman remarks ruefully to C.Z.
after receiving Lees ice-cold shoulder.
Later, Slim visits C.Z.
Joining him is John, whos aggrieved by this change of plans.
Their relationship has grown more violent; John beats him once when Truman drinks himself into oblivion after C.Z.
Vodka stings more than your fists, Truman quips while nursing his bloodied face.
Jack rings up Babe once more, hoping to convince her to grant him absolution.
She cant go back to having two husbands, to catering once more to Trumans whims.
A show likeCapote vs. the Swanslives or dies on the strength ofits historical accuracy.
And my God are its costumes (by Lou Eyrich and Leah Katznelson) to die for.
My favorite this episode?
Babes pale-pink number accentuated with pearls that she wears as she hears out Jack in her home.
Ditto the music, courtesy of father-daughter duo Thomas and Julia Newman.
(Newman senior gets sole credit for the opening titles.)
Anyone else now eager to rentMurder by Death(available on Prime, it seems!)
just to witness Capotes attempts at acting?
