Capote (90 page)
Authors: Gerald Clarke
page 389 “‘I wish we could begin tomorrow…’”: Lee Radziwill to TC, August 19, 1967.
page 389 “‘When I want advice…’”:
Ibid.
page 389 “‘I was
so
happy to get…’”: Lee Radziwill to TC, September 19, 1967.
page 389 “…Susskind insisted that ‘there
is
something…’”: Mark Shivas,
op. cit.
page 389 “…her Laura ‘was reduced to a stunning…’”: Jack Gould, “Cashing In on Crashing Bores,”
New York Times
, February 4, 1968.
page 389 “‘only slightly less animated…’”: “Specials,”
Time
, February 2, 1968, page 57.
page 390 “‘When that check fell out…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 22, 1967.
page 390 “‘He is now the No. 1 writer…’”: Arch Persons to Truman Moore, August 16, 1967.
page 390 “‘Where I was dumb…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 21, 1967.
page 391 “‘Now in my four years of isolation…’”:
Ibid.
page 391 “‘You must of course realize…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 22, 1967.
page 391 “‘I would like also for you…’”:
Ibid.
page 391 “‘It is hardly necessary for me…’”: Arch Persons to TC, August 21, 1967.
page 391 “‘Should we call her Princess…’”: Frank Perry to GC, January 5, 1976.
page 392 “Holding Lee’s hand—as if he were still a child…”: Edith Efron, “When Truman Capote Came Home Again,”
TV Guide
, November 23, 1968, page 22.
page 392 “‘Marvelous!’” he exclaimed”:
Ibid.
page 392 “‘Truman’s relatives just wouldn’t integrate…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 392 “…whom he called ‘that bastard…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 392 “‘Don’t you never think…’”:
Ibid.
page 392 “‘I think he’s going to marry…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 393 “‘Lee, I hope that you’ll work it out…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 393 “‘I think you used very poor taste…’”:
Ibid.
page 393 “Four years later, after losing…”:
Ibid.
page 393 “‘He had that Jew lawyer…’”:
Ibid.
page 397 “‘He never really recovered…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 398 “…or, as Forster phrased it…”: Forster,
A Passage to India
, page 149.
page 398 “‘…how he longed for praise…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, May, 1960.
page 398 “Truman never forgave an insult…”: “Holly and Hemlock: Truman Capote Lists the Books He Will Give His Friends for Christmas,”
Washington Post Book World
, December 1, 1968, page 2.
page 399 “Maloff had good reason to regret the day…”: “Letters,”
Washington Post Book World
, January 19, 1969.
page 400 “‘No words can express the secret agony…’”: Priestley,
Charles Dickens
, page 12.
page 402 “‘When I first knew him…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 402 “‘This phenomenon’ Cecil had once…”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, summer, 1953.
page 402 “‘I secretly feel T. is in a bad state…’”: Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, April, 1966.
page 404 “‘If an idea is really haunting you…’”:
Show of the Month News
, March or April, 1952, page 3.
page 405 “‘I aspire,’ he had jotted in a…”: TC,
Music for Chameleons
, page 250.
page 406 “He might have said, as Flaubert did…”: “‘Thank You for Making Me Read Tolstoy’s Novel’—The Letters of Flaubert and Turgenev,”
New York Times Book Review
, October 27, 1985, page 51.
page 406 “…he had sold movie rights…”: A. H. Weiler, “Capote’s ‘Prayers’ Are Answered,”
New York Times
, February 18, 1968.
page 407 “‘I have a strange new friend…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, fall, 1967.
page 407 “‘Write when you can…’”: Nancy Reagan to TC, mid-November, 1967.
page 407 “At the end of December…”: Windham,
Footnote to a Friendship
, pages 86–94.
page 407 “‘Whatever changes have been made…’”: Clive Barnes, “Theater: ‘House of Flowers’ Rebuilt,”
New York Times
, January 29; 1966.
page 407 “The show closed after only fifty-seven…”: “‘House of Flowers’ Closing; ‘Private Lives’ to Be Given,”
New York Times
, March 14, 1968.
page 407 “…the usually genial Arlen…”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 408 “…a reporter for
West Magazine
…”: C. Robert Jennings, “Truman Capote: Hot Shorty with Tall Cool,”
Los Angeles Times West Magazine
, April 28, 1968, page 10.
page 408 “‘I’m told not to walk…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, April 11, 1968.
page 409 “‘God, what a big lonely country…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, April 24, 1968.
page 410 “He had carefully studied the record…”: “Opinion, The Assassination According to Capote,”
Time
, May 10, 1968, page 65.
page 410 “‘The people who ran the thing…’”: Eleanor Perry to GC, January 29, 1976.
page 411 “‘I always felt that he was asking himself…’”: Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, page 199.
page 411 “The last time they met was…”:
Ibid.
, page 168.
page 412 “That did not stop Truman from going…”: Jack Gould, “TV: Truman Capote Defines His Concept of Justice,”
New York Times
, June 15, 1968.
page 412 “Such a plan of wholesale murder…”: “Theosophy, Cult of the Occult,”
Time
, June 19, 1968, page 61.
page 412 “‘Mr. Capote is in complete confusion…’”:
Ibid..
page 412 “…an editorial in the
Christian Science Monitor
…”: “Vigilante Juries,”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 20, 1968.
page 413 “The program was too grim…”: “ABC, Truman Capote Fall Out Over Special,”
Broadcasting
, November 4, 1968, page 63.
page 413 “‘Well, what were you expecting…’”: “Truman and TV,”
Time
, November 29, 1968, page 73.
page 413 “…Elton Rule—‘that sun-tanned Uriah Heep…’”: Dwight Whitney, “I Want It on the Air!”
TV Guide
, July 4, 1970, page 7.
page 413 “‘My primary thing is that…’”: “Truman and TV,”
Time, op. cit.
, page 74.
page 413 “‘I have been working hard…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, second half of 1968.
page 414 “Shortly after Christmas he left for Palm Springs again…”: Joe Faulk to GC, March 9, 1978.
page 414 “He attacked what he called the ‘Jewish Mafia…’”: Jack O’Brian, “Broadway,” New York
Daily Column
, April 20, 1969.
page 414 “He once more denounced liberal Supreme Court…”: “TV: Dick Cavett Gets Talk Show in Prime Time,”
New York Times
, May 27, 1969.
page 414 “He struck first, using…”: Earl Wilson, “The Lady Protests,”
New York Post
, July 24, 1969.
page 415 “‘Words are like chemicals…’”: Nizer,
Reflections Without Mirrors;
full discussion of Capote-Susann dispute, pages 101–6.
page 415 “‘How pleasant to have a letter…’”: TC to Louis Nizer, May 16, 1973.
page 416 “‘He had become a television personality…’”: Susann,
Dolores
, page 68.
page 416 “Knocked unconscious, he was…”: William Diefenbach, M.D., to GC, June 19, 1985.
page 417 “‘Jack refuses to go to California…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, undated, end of 1969.
page 419 “…the first of Truman’s ‘men without faces,’ as Wyatt Cooper…”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 420 “‘He wore what they wear…’”: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 421 “‘Truman was always nagging on…’”: John Richardson to GC, March 7, 1985.
page 421 “‘He knew he was deceiving himself…’”: Saint Subber to GC, August 18, 1986.
page 422 “‘Here was a man…’”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 422 “‘He was an authentic primitive…””: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 422 “‘Truman knew what people…’”: Alan Schwartz to GC, March 17, 1983.
page 422 “Half in tears, he shouted…”: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 423 “Trying, like everyone else…”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 423 “Kay Graham was no less aghast”: Katharine Graham to GC, October 30, 1985.
page 423 “‘When he was with this man…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 425 “She was no more impressed…”: Lee Radziwill To GC, February 6, 1976.
page 425 “His ostensible purpose…”: Alan Schwartz, August 18, 1986.
page 426 “Alan telephoned Truman’s Palm Springs lawyer…”:
Ibid.
page 427 “Furious at what he labeled…”: “People,”
Time
, November 2, 1970.
page 427 “…of the following day, October 21…”: “Capote Jailed on Coast,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1970, page 31.
page 427 “‘I’ve been in thirty or forty jails…’”: “People”
Time, op. cit.
page 427 “Leaving Truman in Santa Ana…”: Alan Schwartz, August 18, 1986.
page 427 “‘He was absolutely flattened…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith, September 24, 1975.
page 428 “In his rage, he plotted schemes…”: Joanne Carson to GC, August 2, 1986.
Rick Brown is the chief source for much of the information in this chapter, although Truman and others corroborated most of his facts. I do not think it necessary to cite each instance in which Brown has provided me with a conversation or background.
page 433 “‘Here was this boring and totally…’”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 435 “He had met Joanne shortly after the…”: Joanne Carson to GC, November 21, 1975.
page 435 “She had been born in California…”: Joanne Carson, M.A., Ph.D., “The Search for the ‘Magic Pill,’” book proposal, 1980.
page 436 “To his old friend Carol Marcus…”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, September 21, 1986.
page 437 (“Ironically, Fitzgerald, who also labored…”): “Ready or Not, Here Comes
Gatsby
,”
Time
, March 18, 1974, page 71.
page 438 “…and, on the whole, was pleased with it, he told Alan Schwartz”: TC to Alan Schwartz, February 9, 1972.
page 438 “But Paramount was not…”: “Ready or Not,”
Time, op. cit.
page 438 “‘Well, Truman, this is just…’”: Rick Brown to GC, April 8, 1978.
page 438 “Using the excuse…”:
New York Times
, March 31, 1972.
page 439 “‘I’m sinking back into my book…’”: TC to Alan Schwartz, February 9, 1972.
page 439 “‘It is totally necessary to develop…’”: Rosemary Kent, “Tru Confessions,”
Women’s Wear Daily
, May 30, 1972.
page 440 “‘Of course I basically don’t really want…’”: Andy Warhol, “Sunday with Mr. C.,”
Rolling Stone
, April 12, 1973, page 36.
page 441 “Beard was to take the pictures…”: Peter Beard to GC, November 13, 1975.
page 441 “…the ‘fantastic T. Capote,’ as Southern labeled him…”: Terry Southern, “The Rolling Stones’ U.S. Tour: Riding the Lapping Tongue,”
Saturday Review of the Arts
, August 12, 1972, page 26.
page 441 “Its title, ‘It Will Soon Be Here,’ he…”: Andy Warhol,
op. cit.
, page 40.
page 441 “‘Since there was nothing to “find out,”’ he explained…”:
Ibid.
, page 36.
page 442 “…he admitted that if he had been twenty-five years younger…”:
Ibid.
, page 40.
page 442 “But why, he asked, ‘should I do…’”:
Ibid.
, page 37.
page 442 “Theirs was a bond of brothers…”: Robert MacBride to GC, August 31, 1986.
page 442 “‘He seemed sort of uncooked…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, September 24, 1975.
page 452 “‘You can’t take my car!’”: John O’Shea to GC, November 2, 1986.
page 453 “‘For better or worse…’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, April 13, 1981.
page 453 “After spending a weekend in May with them…”: Windham,
Footnote to a Friendship
, page 101.<
page 453 “‘Please be nice to Johnny…’”: Alan Schwartz to GC, February 12, 1976.
page 454 “They stayed with the Wyatts…”: Lynn Wyatt to GC, October 7, 1986.
page 454 “‘I have a gun in my purse…’”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, August 28, 1984.
page 455 “‘Oh, Johnny, stop that’…”: John Knowles to GC, October 13, 1976.
page 455 “‘He didn’t try to hide…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 455 “Truman ordered him to take…”: Don Erickson to GC, March 10, 1987.
page 456 “‘Can I come up there?’”: John Knowles to GC, October 13, 1976.
page 456 “‘Accordingly,’ Alan dutifully wrote John…”: Alan Schwartz to John O’Shea, April 12, 1975.
page 457 “‘If Mr. Capote’s emotional dysfunction is such…’”: John O’Shea to Alan Schwartz, April 15, 1975.
page 457 “Truman’s second call was to Peg O’Shea…”: Peg O’Shea to GC, December 10, 1986.
page 457 “‘He was the father of my children…’”:
Ibid.
page 459 “‘What are you doing?’ he asked…”: Judith Green to GC, November 19, 1986.
page 460 “‘That’s impossible!’ bellowed Ava…”:
Ibid.
page 461 “Tennessee Williams, who was not…”: Tennessee Williams to GC, April 30, 1976.
page 461 “‘We stood back on our heels…’”: Gordon Lish to GC, December 5, 1986.
page 462 “‘La Côte Basque, 1965’”:
Esquire
, November, 1975, pages 110–18, 158.
page 466 “‘Truman told me that the point…’”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 467 “One day in July he took a friend…”: the friend was GC.
page 468 “What had bothered Ann most, a weary Elsie Woodward…”: Robert Ellsworth to GC, December 25, 1984.
page 468 “The reaction was most succinctly summed up by a cartoon…”: Edward Sorel, cover cartoon,
New York
, February 9, 1976.
page 468 “‘Who is that?’ Babe inquired…”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, January 29, 1986.
page 469 “‘Never have you heard such gnashing of teeth…’”: Liz Smith, “Truman Capote in Hot Water,”
New York
, February 9, 1976, page 44.
