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Truman Capote died in Joanne Carson’s Bel Air home on August 25, 1984. Decades after first having dreamed up his Proustian magnum opus, Answered Prayers, he left...
Even Tom Hollander Felt Pressure Holding Court for the Swans
Ryan Murphy projects are not known for their subtlety. Then again, neither was Truman Capote. The pairing of creative lead and subject for FX’s Feud:...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Two Deaths and a Funeral
The year is 1978, and our story is coming to a close. Or so it appears. There’s one more episode after “Beautiful Babe,” though given...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Going Out of Style
We need to talk about the F-word. I mean, it’s used so liberally in this one episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans that even in such...
Truman Capote Celebrates Women’s History Month on SNL
Bowen Yang stopped by the Weekend Update desk on this week’s Saturday Night Live as Truman Capote to talk about women’s history month, much to...
Feud’s James Baldwin Was Real to Chris Chalk
When not reminiscing about the paradise lost with his “La Côte Basque 1965” excerpt in Esquire, Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) spends much of the first...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Ruffled Feathers
Well, it was perhaps too good to last. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, and have found many of the structural and...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Pity Party
The fourth episode’s title, “It’s Impossible,” is a nod to the musical cue that’s threaded throughout this installment, Perry Como’s same-titled song, a haunting bolero...
Gus Van Sant’s Maysles Masquerade
Gus Van Sant arrived as a director 35 years ago with Drugstore Cowboy, a movie about goodhearted but self-destructive eccentrics who live one day at...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: A Visit with Truman Capote
The year 1966 was pivotal for Truman Capote. That’s the year the author published his most celebrated work, In Cold Blood. A pioneering work of nonfiction...