Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)

BOOK: Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)
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PINK TRIANGLE
THE FEUDS AND PRIVATE LIVES OF

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS,
GORE VIDAL,
TRUMAN CAPOTE,
AND MEMBERS OF THEIR ENTOURAGES

O
THER
B
OOKS BY
D
ARWIN
P
ORTER

B
IOGRAPHIES

Those Glamorous Gabors, Bombshells from Budapest Inside Linda Lovelace’s Deep Throat
—Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism

Elizabeth Taylor
,
There is Nothing Like a Dame

Marilyn at Rainbow’s End
: Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up

J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson—
Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America’s Most Famous Men and Women

Frank Sinatra
,
The Boudoir Singer. All the Gossip Unfit to Print

The Kennedys
,
All the Gossip Unfit to Print

Humphrey Bogart,
The Making of a Legend

Howard Hughes
: Hell’s Angel

Steve McQueen
,
King of Cool, Tales of a Lurid Life

Paul Newman
,
The Man Behind the Baby Blues

Merv Griffin
,
A Life in the Closet

Brando Unzipped
The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart Katharine the Great
—Hepburn, Secrets of a Lifetime Revealed

Jacko, His Rise and Fall,
The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson
and, co-authored with Roy Moseley

Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara
,
The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh & and Laurence Olivier

C
OMING
S
OON

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
—A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

Love Triangle
—Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis

F
ILM
C
RITICISM

50 Years of Queer Cinema
—500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made (2010)

N
ON
-F
ICTION

Hollywood Babylon—It’s Back!
and
Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!

N
OVELS

Butterflies in Heat, Marika, Venus
(a roman à clef based on the life of Anaïs Nin)

Razzle-Dazzle, Midnight in Savannah, Rhinestone Country, Blood Moon, Hollywood’s Silent Closet

T
RAVEL
G
UIDES

Many editions and many variations of
The Frommer Guides
to Europe, the Caribbean, California, Georgia and the Carolinas, New England, Bermuda, and The Bahamas

PINK TRIANGLE

T
HE
F
EUDS AND
P
RIVATE
L
IVES OF

T
ENNESSEE
W
ILLIAMS
,

G
ORE
V
IDAL
,

T
RUMAN
C
APOTE
,

A
ND
M
EMBERS OF
T
HEIR
E
NTOURAGES

Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince

PINK TRIANGLE

T
HE
F
EUDS AND
P
RIVATE
L
IVES OF
T
ENNESSEE
W
ILLIAMS
, G
ORE
V
IDAL
, T
RUMAN
C
APOTE
, & M
EMBERS OF THEIR
E
NTOURAGES

Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

Copyright ©2014, Blood Moon productions, ltd.

All RIGHTS RESERVED

www.BloodmoonProductions.com

Manufactured in the united states of America

ISBN 978-1-936003-37-2

Special thanks to the stanley Mills haggart Collection, the Woody parrish-Martin Collection, the h. lee phillips Collection, and Elsa Maxwell Cafe society.

Cover designs by Richard leeds (
Bigwigdesign.com
)

Videography and publicity Trailers by piotr Kajstura

Distributed in North America, the U.K., and Australia through National Book Network (
www.NBNbooks.com
)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

T
HIS
B
OOK
I
S
D
EDICATED

TO
T
HESE
W
ITNESSES OF THE
T
RIO
W
E’VE
D
EFINED AS
“T
HE
P
INK
T
RIANGLE:

F
RANK
M
ERLO
& S
TANLEY
M
ILLS
H
AGGART

Frank Merlo

Stanley Mills Haggart

CONTENTS

I
NTRODUCTION

C
HAPTER
O
NE

Enfants Terribles

C
HAPTER
T
WO

Tennessee in Provincetown

C
HAPTER
T
HREE

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C
HAPTER
F
OUR

Lana Turner and the Celluloid Brassiere

C
HAPTER
F
IVE

Sybaritic Isherwood

C
HAPTER
S
IX

Clark Gable, Nina, and Eugene Vidal

C
HAPTER
S
EVEN

Monty Clift

C
HAPTER
E
IGHT

Tennessee’s Glass Menagerie

C
HAPTER
N
INE

Gore Meets the Glorious Bird

C
HAPTER
T
EN

Tennessee Confronts Truman’s “Forked Tongue”

C
HAPTER
E
LEVEN

Gore vs. Truman (The Eagle Meets the Condor)

C
HAPTER
T
WELVE

The City and the Pillar

C
HAPTER
T
HIRTEEN

Truman’s Other Voices

C
HAPTER
F
OURTEEN

A Streetcar Named Marlon Brando

C
HAPTER
F
IFTEEN

Postwar Europe’s Most Sought-After Male Prostitute

C
HAPTER
S
IXTEEN

Tennessee’s Rocky Ride on “The Little Horse”

C
HAPTER
S
EVENTEEN

Truman and His Mother

C
HAPTER
E
IGHTEEN

Scarlett O’Hara--She’s Back!

C
HAPTER
N
INETEEN

Tennessee and Gore in Pursuit of Billy the Kid

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY

Gore Vidal Seduces Jack Kerouac

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-O
NE

Lancaster “Tattoos” Magnani

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-T
WO

Tallulah vs. Tennessee

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-T
HREE

Truman Beats the Devil

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-F
OUR

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