first installment ‘Fight’Another anthology series from mega-producer Ryan Murphy, co-creator of ‘American Horror Story’, among thousands of other popular works, focused on the well-known fight between actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, which reached its peak of intensity during filming. The legendary ‘What happened to Baby Jane?’ Jessica LangeA regular at the Murphy location was Crawford. Susan Sarandon was staying with Davis. Sustaining such a spectacular contest would be complicated; In fact, Murphy and his producers They excluded projects about Charles and Diana and the debates between conservative icon William F. Buckley and liberal Gore Vidal.Maybe because they are not needed in a world where ‘The Crown’ and the documentary ‘Best Enemies’ already exist.
A path was opened for them thanks to Laurence Leamer’s book ‘Capote’s women’. writer Truman Capote and the ladies of New York society with whom he got along, betrayed, and eventually sent him to ostracism. written by Jon Robin Baitz and almost entirely led by the living legend of “independent” cinema Gus Van Santeight-episode series ‘The Trial: Capote vs. the Swans’ (HBO Max, from Wednesday 7th) ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ is an appropriately languid visual translation of the story of its author’s slow downward spiral.
british actor Tom Hollander (The gay villain from the second season of ‘White Lotus’) addresses (and reworks) a character he’s played before Philip Seymour Hoffman And Toby Jones In ‘Truman Capote’ and ‘Crime Story’ respectively, both feature the creative process of his famous non-fiction novel ‘In Cold Blood’, which deals with the brutal murder of a Kansas family. Here desire is above all, Explain the epilogue to both films: What happened to Capote after this huge success, why he didn’t publish another book, and why he died in 1984 due to complications from his alcoholism..
Cape, accessories and life jacket
Capote is an expert in etiquette and fashion for beautiful, flamboyant and elegant women. “A dazzling accessory on your dining table”As Hollander himself told us in a virtual press conference. But they didn’t have him there just so they could boast of having one of the best writers of his generation. She knew how to boost their egos by reminding them that they were smarter than their careless husbands: “It was filling a huge void in their emotional lives.”says the actor. “They got a lot out of it. Until it all went wrong.”
Publication of an excerpt in ‘Esquire’ ‘Prayers Answered’, which Capote intended to be his masterpiece‘In Search of Lost Time’, a sort of American revision of ‘In Search of Lost Time’, has brought down many swans. The episode ‘La Côte Basque 1965’ was based in part on the sad affair of Barbara ‘Babe’ Paley (Naomi WattsShe returned to the Murphy area after ‘Lawless’) and her husband Bill Paley (Treat Williams), the founder of the CBS network who was disloyal to him. Watts herself explains: “Babe embraced her friendship with Capote as if it were the greatest love she had ever experienced; she had no sex, but that only made it worse. When the betrayal came, she, like the others, fell apart because “Everybody trusted her.”
In this semi-fictional chronicle of social events, the character who paraphrased the most thoughtless remarks was Lady Ina Coolbirth. Nancy ‘Slim’ Keith (Diane Lane), that’s right, a fashion icon with her slimness and height. “I think he saw from a distance that Truman needed help, and he helped him from time to time,” Lane recalls. Initially tasked with handling Capote’s deals for ‘In Cold Blood’, Keith eventually hired the tough Swifty Lazar as an agent, thus helping the writer become a success as well. more than two million dollars for the book. “I had access to his memories, so I really understand Slim’s anger; she strengthened him, she raised him, she was there for him during his formative years,” Lane says.
The Swans squad is complete Chloe Sevigny Like CZ Guest and someone healed Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill (a rarity since the early days of ‘Supergirl’); Also, we have Demi Moore as Ann Woodward, a failed candidate for Klansman and Molly Ringwald Like Joanne Carson, who never pretended to be one, she wasn’t one herself, and perhaps that’s why we see her as something like Capote’s last friend.
sorry tone
Experienced playwright and screenwriter Baitz, the creator of ‘Five Brothers’, whose cast was Flockhart, described this story as “the fatal fall of a helpless man”. So no, don’t expect the black and cartoonish black comedy of previous ‘Feud’; this delivery more dramatic in tone, almost funereal at timesAlthough most moviegoers will be amused by this reference ‘A mockery of the devil’Capote wrote the screenplay with and for John Huston, or the filming was reenacted. ‘A corpse for dessert’A parody of Capote owning the mansion where the incident took place.
However Ryan Murphy He seemed less interested in Capote than the swans he described as “early ‘influencers,’ but they didn’t ‘share’ about it.” The producer “wanted to talk about”A generation of women, including my mother, are caught between ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ and the pillShe was frustrated many times with the misogyny in society.” According to Murphy, “Ten years later, the same women in society would have successful businesses or brands.” If the show has such a sad tone, it must be because of this: Then they all “talk about that”The most depressing thing in the world: lost potential“.