Capote (89 page)
Authors: Gerald Clarke
page 349 “‘The house is divine…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, probably July, 1963.
page 349 “‘I am in a really appalling state…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, September 17, 1963.
page 349 “To Cecil’s gratification, Truman heartily endorsed…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, November, 1963.
page 350 “‘I had so much to say & discuss…’”: Perry Smith to TC, November 24, 1963.
page 350 “He took Donald Windham…”: Windham,
Footnote to a Friendship
, pages 71–72.
page 350 “‘I really have been feeling very low…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, January 18, 1964.
page 350 “‘Go on with your work…’”: Jack Dunphy to TC, January 20, 1964.
page 350 “‘No, I want to be at least…’”: Jack Dunphy to TC, January 25, 1964.
page 351 “The Deweys, Sandy noted in his diary…”: These references are from Sandy Campbell’s unpublished diaries, which he very kindly allowed me to see.
page 352 “‘That you really liked my book…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, November 22, 1964.
page 352 “
Newsweek
, which sent a reporter…”: “The Fabulist,”
Newsweek
, December 28, 1964, pages 54–55.
page 352 “‘It wasn’t a question of my
liking
…’”: Jane Howard, “How the ‘Smart Rascal’ Brought It Off,”
Life
, January 7, 1966, page 72.
page 352 “‘As you may have heard…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, January 21, 1965.
page 352 “‘I’m finishing the last pages…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, January 27, 1965.
page 353 “‘Hope this doesn’t sound insane…’”: TC to Sandy Campbell, February 2, 1965.
page 353 “‘And I thought: yes, and I hope…’”: TC to Marie and Alvin Dewey, February 9, 1965.
page 353 “‘He was incredibly tense and unable to really talk…’”: Joe Fox to GC, January 20, 1976.
page 355 “‘Perry and Dick were executed…’”: TC to Donald Cullivan, April 17, 1965.
page 355 “‘Bless Jesus,’ he exclaimed…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 16, 1965.
page 357 “Only a writer ‘completely in control…’”: George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,”
New York Times Book Review
, January 16, 1966, page 2.
page 357 “‘Journalism,’ he said, ‘always moves along on a…’”: Gloria Steinem, “A Visit with Truman Capote,”
Glamour
, April, 1966.
page 357 “‘An author in his book…’”: Flaubert,
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
, page 173.
page 357 “‘I built an oak and…’”: Granville Hicks, “The Story of an American Tragedy,”
Saturday Review
, January 22, 1966, page 37.
page 358 “‘immaculately factual,’ Truman publicly boasted…”: George Plimpton,
op. cit.
page 358 “‘One doesn’t spend…’”:
Ibid.
page 358 “A man from the
Kansas City Times
…”: Robert Pearman, “Reaction to Capote Book Varies at Scene,”
op. cit.
page 358 “…he described Holcomb ‘as a broken-down place…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…”:
Newsweek, op cit.
, page 61.
page 358 “…Truman did give way to a few small…”: Alvin Dewey and Wilma Kidwell to GC, October 26, 1976.
page 360 “…the four issues broke the magazine’s record…”: “The Country Below the Surface,”
Time
, January 21, 1966, page 83.
page 360 “…and crowds waiting at a pier…”: Johnson,
Charles Dickens
, page 304.
page 360 “‘They evidently didn’t…’”:
Dodge City Globe
; quoted in
Books
, November, 1965, page 12.
page 360 “‘Drug stores say…’”: “New Yorker Demand Hits City; Magazine Doesn’t.”
Garden City Telegram
, September 29, 1965.
page 361 “‘It’s tremendous,’ said Harold Nye…”: Harold Nye to TC, September 29, 1965.
page 361 “Leo Lerman grumbled…”: Leo Lerman to TC, October 10, 1965.
page 361 “…Truman’s Greenwich High School…”: Catherine Wood to TC, September 30, 1965.
page 361 “‘I suppose you will have imitators…’”: Catherine Wood to TC, October 19, 1965.
page 361 “‘I would never have believed…’”: James Merrill to TC, November 10, 1965.
page 361 “Anita Loos adjudged…”: Anita Loos to TC, November 16, 1965.
page 361 “Noël Coward, who confessed…”: Noël Coward to TC, December 21, 1965.
page 362 “‘Such a deluge of words…’”: William D. Smith, “Advertising: A Success Money Didn’t Buy,”
New York Times
, February 20, 1966.
page 362 “By a peculiar stroke of luck…”: Louis Sobel and Jack O’Brian, “Otto Preminger Bopped: O’Brian-Sobel Are There,”
New York Journal-American
, January 8, 1966.
page 362 “‘L’Affaire “21,”’ as one newspaper…”:
New York Journal-American
, January 9, 1966.
page 363 “‘I would like to take…’”: William D. Smith,
op. cit.
page 363 “‘I’m mad about the new Capote…’”: “Capote Story of Kansas Murders ‘Upgrades’ Publishing Industry,”
Books
, November, 1965, page 1.
page 363 “‘A boy has to hustle his book…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…”:
Newsweek, op. cit.
, page 63.
page 363 “‘A Book in a New Form…’”: Harry Gilroy, “A Book in a New Form Earns $2-Million for Truman Capote,”
New York Times
, December 31, 1965.
page 363 “‘When you average it out…’”:
Ibid.
page 363 “‘
In Cold Blood
is a masterpiece…’”: Conrad Knickerbocker, “One Night on a Kansas Farm,”
New York Times Book Review
, January 16, 1966.
page 364 “He had recorded ‘this American tragedy…’”: Maurice Dolbier, “In-Depth Report on Brutal Crime in Rural Setting,”
New York Herald Tribune
, January 14, 1966.
page 364 “Rebecca West, who had produced…”: Rebecca West, “A Grave and Reverend Book,”
Harper’s
, February, 1966, page 108.
page 364 “Writing in
The New York Review
…”: F. W. Dupee, “Truman Capote’s Score,”
The New York Review of Books
, February 3, 1966, page 3.
page 364 “‘It is ridiculous in judgment…’”: Stanley Kauffmann, “Capote in Kansas,”
The New Republic
, January 22, 1966, page 19.
page 364 “But his diatribe was itself…”: “In Hot Blood, Kauffmann-Capote Reaction,”
The New Republic
, February 5, 1966, pages 36–37.
page 364 “For Truman the congenial atmosphere was ruined…”: Articles reprinted in Tynan,
Tynan Right and Left.
page 365 “Jimmy Breslin, the street-smart columnist…”: “Jimmy Breslin, In Cold Blood,”
New York Herald Tribune
, January 19, 1966, page 21.
page 366 “‘I’ve gotten rid of the boy…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,”
Newsweek, op. cit.
, pages 62–63.
page 367 “…in what a fashion columnist called ‘the most…’”: Eugenia Sheppard’s column,
New York Herald Tribune
, October 2, 1965.
page 367 “‘He wanted to be in the thick…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 367 “…walking into it, he wrote in…”: “Truman Capote Describes His…,”
House Beautiful
, April, 1969, page 94.
page 368 “‘Garden City Opens Arms…’”: Elvira Valenzuela, “Garden City Opens Arms to Capote,”
Wichita Eagle
, April 23, 1966.
page 368 “‘His light and somewhat nasal…’”: Harry Gilroy, “Truman Capote Wins Applause as Reader in Town Hall Session,”
New York Times
, May 6, 1966, page 53.
page 368 “‘In the eye of the daily…’”: Virginia Sheward, “Capote Reading Capote: Poignant Evening,”
Newsday
, May 6, 1966.
page 368 “‘It was a very moving moment…’”:
Ibid.
page 369 “‘Have not had a genuine holiday…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 20, 1966.
page 369 “‘Serious writers aren’t supposed to make…’”: “People,”
Time
, August 5, 1966, page 34.
page 369 “‘I think it was something a little boy…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 370 “‘Truman,’ she said, ‘I haven’t…’”: Eleanor Friede to GC, October 1, 1975.
page 371 “‘I don’t know whether or not I should invite…’”:
Ibid.
page 371 “Leo Lerman joked that ‘the guest book reads…’”: “Modern Living,”
Time
, December 9, 1966, page 88.
page 371 “Jerome Robbins, the choreographer…”: Gloria Steinem, “The Party,”
Vogue
, January, 1967, page 50.
page 372 “‘Now, honey,’ he told her…’”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 372 “‘Truman wouldn’t give them to me all…’”:
Ibid.
page 373 “She was vacationing on Cape Cod…”:
Ibid.
page 373 “‘I’ve never seen women putting…’”: Eugenia Sheppard, “Capote Has a Hot Idea,”
New York World-Telegram
, October 18, 1966.
page 374 “But he did not send one to his aunt…”: Marie Rudisill to GC, June 27, 1982.
page 374 “‘I feel like I fell into…’”: “Modern Living,”
Time
, December 9, 1966, page 88.
page 374 “‘People were really carrying on…’”: Diana Trilling to GC.
page 374 “Hearing the commotion from her house in Nyack…”: Jordan Massee to GC, February 16, 1977.
page 375 “‘He
ordered
his friends…’”: Glenway Wescott to GC, February 9, 1976.
page 375 “‘Oh, I like Truman…’”: Glenway Wescott to TC, October 8, 1966.
page 375 “Flanner asked Glenway to drop Truman…”: Janet Flanner to Glenway Wescott, October 14, 1966.
page 375 “‘Piping away like Blake’s little…’”: Glenway Wescott to Janet Flanner, October 20, 1966.
page 376 “‘This city’s normally…’”: Leroy Aarons, “Capote Is Cold Blooded to the Uninvited Masses,”
Washington Post
, November 25, 1966.
page 376 “When Herb Caen…”: Herb Caen, “A Supertruman Effort,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, December 2, 1966.
page 376 “‘The ladies have killed me…’”: Enid Nemy, “…And Before It All Started,”
New York Times
, November 29, 1966.
page 376 “‘I think I’ve lost my mind…’”:
Ibid.
page 376 “Arriving that afternoon, Kay Graham…”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 377 “As the Caens were leaving…”: Herb Caen, “A Supertruman Effort,”
op. cit.
page 377 “…it appeared that Pamela Hayward might have been right…”: “Modern Living,”
Time
, December 9, 1966, page 88.
page 378 “‘It’s too early to tell how…’”: Charlotte Curtis, “Capote’s Black and White Ball: The Most Exquisite of Spectator Sports,”
New York Times
, November 29, 1966, page 53.
page 378 “‘It was
formidable vraiment
…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, February 9, 1967.
page 379 “Pete Hamill wrote an outraged column…”: Pete Hamill, “The Party,”
New York Post
, November 29, 1966.
page 379 “A soldier in an Army training camp…”: Private Charles Rosner, “Viewed from the Barracks,”
Time
, December 23, 1966, page 12.
page 379 “‘So Truman Capote had a blast…’”: Richard Waterman, “His Turn in the Barrel,”
Time
, January 6, 1967.
page 379 “A few days later Russell Baker…”: Russell Baker, “Observer: Truman Capote’s Gift to Literature,”
New York Times
, December 8, 1966, page 46.
page 380 “‘He did it. He did it…’”: Suzy Knickerbocker’s column,
New York World-Journal-Telegram
, November 29, 1966.
page 381 “‘You might say Truman Capote…’”: Toni Kosover and Ki Hackney, “Capote Does It Again,”
Women’s Wear Daily
, May 7, 1968.
page 381 “‘his name has a magic ring…’”: Enid Nemy, “Capote Magnetism Fills New ‘House,’”
New York Times
, January 24, 1968.
page 381 “‘Anything he does…’”:
Ibid.
page 381 “‘There’s a little secret to charity…’”:
Ibid.
page 382 “‘Somebody has got to tell Truman…’”: Suzy Knickerbocker, “A Grand Party for a Wonderful Cause,”
New York Journal-Telegram
, April 26, 1967.
page 382 “Writing in
Vogue
, he said, ‘Ah, the Princess!’”: TC, “Lee, A Fan Letter from Truman Capote,”
Vogue
, June, 1976, page 113.
page 382 “‘He’s my closest friend…’”: Lee Radziwill to GC, February 6, 1976.
page 382 “‘gold-brown like a glass…’”: TC, “Lee, A Fan Letter,”
op. cit.
page 383 “…an exceedingly comfortable life…”: Christine Kirk, “Starring Lee Bouvier,” New York
Sunday News
, June 18, 1967.
page 383 “‘Understand her marriage is all but finito…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, February 9, 1962.
page 383 “The irate husband of his longtime lover…”: Stassinopoulos,
Maria Callas
, page 252.
page 383 “‘Does the ambitious Greek tycoon…’”:
Ibid.
page 384 “‘Oh, Jackie, it would be such fun…’”:
Ibid.
page 384 “Lee’s reward for bringing them together…”: Martin,
A Hero for Our Times
, page 533.
page 385 “Many people in Finney County, including the editor…”: Editorials: “Not for the Community,”
Garden City Telegram
, May 26, 1986.
page 386 “‘When the young actress who was portraying Nancy…’”: “A Nightmare Lived Again,”
Life
, May 12, 1967, page 104B.
page 386 “‘You’re not happy.’”: Richard Brooks to GC, April 30, 1977.
page 386 “Two weeks later
Life
…”: “A Nightmare Lived Again,”
Life, op. cit.
page 387 “He persuaded Milton Goldman…”: Milton Goldman to GC, June 12, 1986.
page 387 “‘I feel absolutely
nothing
in common…’”: Jane Howard, “Girls Who Have Everything Are Not Supposed to Do Anything,”
Life
, July 14, 1967, page 56.
page 388 “…looked like ‘a dog’s lunch…’”:
Ibid.
page 388 “‘I have a feeling of now or never…’”:
Ibid.
page 388 “…pronounced them ‘very promising…’”:
Ibid.
page 388 “When he returned to Manhattan…”: Mark Shivas, “‘Laura’—In Blue Blood,”
New York Times
, January 14, 1968, page D17.
page 389 “…Susskind discarded Van Druten’s comedy…”: Matt Messina, “News Around the Dials,” New York
Daily News
, August 18, 1967, page 64.
