Anyone watching Capote vs The Swans on FX?

[beaglelover]

It's really good. Awesome cast: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockheart, Demi Moore, Tom Hollander (the evil gay from White Lotus 2 and many other European productions), Molly Ringwald, Treat Williams, etc.

I know nothing about Capote but am really enjoying this limited series. Highly recommend!

[badhair77]

1. It sounds interesting and

it’s on my list for the future. I realized I missed the first two shows so I need to catch up already. Time is limited right now. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Ocelot II]

2. Capote was a legendary character - author and socialite - in the '60s and '70s.

He's best known for his books "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's." He hung out with the elite NYC social crowd, and was openly and rather flamboyantly gay in a time when there was a lot less acceptance of LGBT people. He became friends with "the swans," four wealthy women, until he wrote an article that disclosed personal information about one of them (the subject of the FX series). He was also a good friend of the author Harper Lee. I'd seen interviews of the real Capote, and in the TV series the actor has him nailed.

[Sky Jewels]

4. Capote and Lee grew up together as next door neighbors in Mobile, AL.

That's a lot of literary talent on one block!

[dflprincess]

8. Lee & Capote had been friends since childhood.

The character Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was based on Capote. (Which was so obvious when I read that, I didn't understand wy I hadn't figured it out for myself.)

[Sky Jewels]

3. Yes! Loving it.

Amazing cast, sets, costumes, acting, cultural references, everything. Gus Van Sant did a great job.

[beaglelover]

7. Oh Yes, I failed to mention the director and now that I think of it Jessica Lange!!!

She was a nice surprise to see!

[lapucelle]

5. Anyone interested in reading the Esquire excerpt from Answered Prayers that started the feud

can read a cached version here.

"La Côte Basque, 1965”

Where the plat du jour is seated somewhere in sight.

By Truman Capote
REPUBLISHED: AUG 18, 2022

Truman Capote's "La Côte Basque," originally published in the November 1975 issue of Esquire, was meant to serve as the first taste from his upcoming masterpiece about the inner circles of high society women. That novel, eventually called Answered Prayers, wouldn't publish until after the writer's death, but the passage became famous for the scandals it brought.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a40376194/truman-capote-la-cote-basque/

[nuxvomica]

9. I read it back when it was first published

The thing that always stuck with me was the description of the Soufflé Furstenburg. I would love to order that some day.

[Bludogdem]

6. Holland's

rendition of Capote is spot on. I remember seeing Capote a number of times on the Tonight Show.

Also have read Copote’s work. He was very good.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. I remember seeing him on the Tonight Show

He was always so drunk and/or high he was hard to watch. He was only 59 when he died, but looked at least 10 years older even though he had gotten a face lift.