Capote (91 page)
Authors: Gerald Clarke
page 469 “‘that dirty little toad…’”:
Ibid.
, page 50.
page 469 “‘After all,’ explained her husband Wyatt…”: Wyatt Cooper to GC, January 6, 1976.
page 469 “‘It’s very hard to be a gentleman…’”: Morgan,
Maugham
, page 344.
page 469 “‘the chic of the week…’”: Charlotte Curtis to GC, April 12, 1976.
page 469 “Marella Agnelli, who more than once…”: “Marella Agnelli: Life Is to Be Involved,”
Women’s Wear Daily
, November 30, 1976, page 7.
page 470 “‘I hate the idea of Truman…’”: Cecil Beaton to Patrick O’Higgins, undated.
page 471 “‘He was the most surprised and shocked person…’”: Liz Smith to GC, March 6, 1985.
page 471 “Joanne Carson watched helplessly…”: Joanne Carson to GC, January 14, 1982.
page 471 “He telephoned Slim…”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, January 29, 1986.
page 471 “‘I have other ways of torturing…’”: Interview with a friend of William Paley.
page 472 “He introduced her to his…”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, June 4, 1978.
page 472 “‘Babe always spoke of Truman…’”: John Richardson to GC, March 7, 1985.
page 472 “Harper Lee glimpsed that disappointment…”: Harper Lee to GC, March 2, 1986.
page 472 “‘If ever there was a woman…’”: Interview with a friend of Lady (Nancy) Keith.
page 473 “‘Oh, honey! It’s Proust!’”: Diana Vreeland to GC, March 1, 1976.
page 474 “Simon had chosen him as the model…”: Neil Simon to GC, November, 1975.
page 474 “‘Gore Vidal must be dying…’”: Josh Greenfeld, “Truman Capote, the Movie Star?”
New York Times
, December 28, 1975.
page 475 “‘Making that film knocked…’”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 475 “‘The original intent may have…’”: Josh Greenfeld,
op. cit.
page 475 “‘How am I as an actor?…’”: Liz Smith, “Truman Capote in Hot Water,”
op. cit.
, page 56.
page 475 “…but Guinness’ critique…”: Alec Guinness to GC, February 28, 1986.
page 475 “‘To put Capote at a table…’”: Ernest Leogrande, “Moore Doing Nicely in ‘Out-of-Work’ Role,” New York
Daily News
, July 6, 1978, page 73.
page 476 “‘It’s pretty good,’ he reported…”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, June 4, 1978.
page 476 “When she picked him up…”: Joanne Carson to GC, September 16, 1986.
page 476 “‘I’ve always [concluded]…’”: John O’Shea to Alan Schwartz, February 29, 1976.
page 477 “‘Truman and I have talked this…’”:
Ibid.
page 477 “‘John was always talking…’”: Joanne Carson to GC, January 14, 1987.
page 477 “‘It’s all very interesting being with you…’”: John O’Shea to GC, March 7, 1987.
page 477 “‘I want something dramatic…’”:
Ibid.
page 478 “‘Truman didn’t want to…’”:
Ibid.
page 478 “John Knowles saw him…”: John Knowles to GC, October 13, 1976.
page 479 “‘It was the only time he had ever been invited…’”: Richard Zoerink, “Truman Capote Talks About His Crowd,”
Playgirl
, September, 1975, page 54.
page 479 “He admitted, in fact, to a sharp…”: Deposition of Gore Vidal, September 16, 1976, pages 31–34.
page 480 “‘I’m looking forward to getting that little toad!…’”: Liz Smith’s column, New York
Daily News
, February 16, 1976, page 22.
page 480 “When had he last seen Truman?” Deposition of Gore Vidal,
op. cit.
, page 164.
page 480 “For his part, Truman managed to mangle…”: Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Vidal–Capote Papers: A Tempest in Camelot,”
New York
, June 11, 1979, page 54.
page 480 “He also suggested that in bringing…”:
Ibid.
, pages 60–61.
page 481 “In the middle of May, John…”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 481 “A week after his furtive departure, his car struck…”: “Capote Is Mum on Drunk Driving Charge,” New York
Daily News
, June 1, 1976, front page and page 3.
page 483 “Capitalizing on his suddenly sinister reputation…”:
Esquire
, May, 1976, pages 55–68, 122–24, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134–35.
page 484 “‘Somewhere in the world…’”:
Ibid.
, page 55.
page 485 “After rejecting Ann Woodward as his model, Truman chose Pamela Churchill, whose romances…”: For background I relied, in part, on the following: “Smart Set,”
New York Journal-American
, December 15, 1954, page 18; “Cholly Knickerbocker Observes,”
New York Journal-American
, August 30, 1949; Leslie Gordon, “Triumphs of a Churchill,”
New York Sunday Mirror Magazine
, May 13, 1956, page 2; Nancy Randolph, “Chit-Chat,” New York
Daily News
, July 29, 1959, page 8.
page 486 “…‘famous international siren,’ Cholly Knickerbocker had titled her…”: “Cholly Knickerbocker,”
New York Journal-American
, June 1, 1959.
page 486–487 “But his chief model for Kate McCloud was the aforementioned Mrs. Harrison Williams”: For background on Mona Williams I found the following articles particularly useful: “Harrison Williams, No. 1 Utilities Magnate, a Serene, Vibrant Figure,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, August 12, 1937; Morris Gilbert, “Bicycle Craze of 90’s Started Williams Toward Utility Coup,”
New York World-Telegram
, May 4, 1937; Bettye Lee Mastin, “Lexington’s ‘International Beauty’ Has Led Colorful, Checkered Life,”
Lexington
(Ky.)
Herald
, September 15, 1981; Alice Delman, “Louisville’s Cinderella Countess,”
The
(Louisville)
Courier-Journal Magazine
, February 10, 1963; Helen Worden, “First Ladies of the ‘400,’”
New York World-Telegram
, January 11, 1938.
page 488 “…
Esquire
was still receiving forty requests a day…”: Arthur Bell, “Bell Tells,”
The Village Voice
, April 5, 1976.
page 488 “‘Gossip-mongers may be…’”: Nancy Collins, “The Capote Caper, Chapter II,”
Women’s Wear Daily
, April 5, 1976, page 4.
page 488 “Most of the talk centered on Kate McCloud…”:
Ibid.;
Liz Smith’s column, New York
Daily News
, October 20, 1976.
page 489 “In the resolutely radical
Village Voice
, James Wolcott…”: James Wolcott, “Truman Capote Sups on the Flesh of the Famous,”
The Village Voice
, September 6, 1976, page 65.
page 489 “…on the other side, columnist Max Lerner…”: Max Lerner, “Capote’s World,”
New York Post
, April 28, 1976.
page 489 “Most furious was Tennessee…”: Tennessee Williams to GC, April 30, 1976.
page 489 “Porter, who was now in her mid-eighties, was just as displeased…”: Katherine Anne Porter to GC, April 8, 1976.
page 490 “Rorem’s response showed…”: Ned Rorem to GC, September 8, 1978.
page 490 “Even in its imperfect state—to paraphrase Edmund Wilson’s…”: Fitzgerald,
The Last Tycoon
, introduction by Edmund Wilson, page 6.
page 492 “…he conducted what one scholar terms a ‘ruthless judicial inquiry…’”: Quennell,
Marcel Proust, 1871–1922, A Centennial Volume
, page 44.
page 492 “‘It was kinda fun…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, March 20, 1965.
page 493 “…in which Strachey imagines the dying queen…”: Strachey,
Queen Victoria
, pages 297–98.
page 495 “‘Truman, I’m in love…’”: John O’Shea to GC, March 7, 1987.
page 496 “Rick Brown, who was once again tending bar…”: Rick Brown to GC, May 10, 1987.
page 498 “Ten days before Christmas, 1976, he invited a friend…”: The friend was GC.
page 500 “‘No! It was not sixteen yrs ago…’”: Jack Dunphy to Paul Cadmus, March 13, 1977.
page 501 “In his
Hollywood Reporter
column, George Christy…”: George Christy, “The Great Life,”
The Hollywood Reporter
, April 26, 1977, page 10.
page 501 “Helping him out, Carol Matthau…”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, September 1, 1986.
page 502 “‘When Mr. O’Shea came to see me at the [Hotel] Bel-Air…’”: unpublished nineteen-page manuscript by TC, June 12, 1980.
page 504 “John’s own account of those dark days…”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 505 “As if that were not enough, John himself phoned…”: Joanne Carson to GC, June 10, 1987.
page 505 “Only after they had arrived…”: Peg O’Shea to GC, December 10, 1986.
page 505 “‘I am an alcoholic, a genuine alcoholic…’”: “Is Truman’s Song: ‘How Dry Am I?’” New York
Daily News
, November 14, 1977.
page 505 “‘I’m not going to let this…’”: Peg O’Shea to GC, December 10, 1986.
page 506 “The next morning’s headline…”: “Is Truman’s Song ‘How Dry Am I?’”
op. cit.
page 506 “Rick, in any case, was unmoved”: Rick Brown to GC, May 10, 1987.
page 509 “‘Can’t you find somebody younger…’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, November 25, 1980.
page 510 “‘I will be the prince…’”: Anne Taylor Fleming, “Truman Capote’s World, Part 2: The Descent from the Heights,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 16, 1978, page 44.
page 510 “‘
Rendez-vous du High-Life
…’”: Mack,
Toulouse-Lautrec
, page 130.
page 510 “‘I’ve been to an awful lot of…’”: Leslie Bennetts, “An ‘In’ Crowd and Outside Mob Show Up for Studio 54’s Birthday,”
New York Times
, April 28, 1978.
page 511 “‘Sometimes, when I’m sitting up…’”: “Steve Rubell, in the Heat of the Night,”
Interview
, February, 1979, page 33.
page 511 “‘It was almost as if we were in jail…’”: Bob Colacello to GC, September 16, 1986.
page 512 “‘My own feeling is that…’”: John Richardson to GC, March 7, 1985.
page 512 “Bill was later to lament…”: Tony Schwartz, “An Intimate Talk with William Paley,”
New York Times Magazine
, December 28, 1980, page 16.
page 512 “‘But it will take millions…’”: Interview with a friend of William Paley.
page 513 “‘What’s going to happen unless…’”: Transcript of
Stanley Siegel Show
, July 18, 1978, prepared by Radio TV Reports, Inc., New York.
page 513 “‘Drunk & Doped…’”: Georgiana Pine, “Drunk & Doped Capote Visits TV Talk Show,”
New York Post
, July 18, 1978.
page 513 “‘A talented man of considerable literary stature…’”: John Cashman, “Capote’s On; It’s Live TV,”
Newsday
, July 19, 1978, page 3A.
page 514 “‘I saw what that man is about…’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, July 20, 1978.
page 514 “‘At Bozeman, Montana…’”: Rick Brown to GC, November 7, 1978.
page 517 “It was not a glorious future he was…”: John Fowles, “Capote as Maupassant,”
Saturday Review
, July, 1980, pages 52–53.
page 517 “‘I do not recall ever discussing…’”: Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Vidal–Capote Papers: A Tempest in Camelot,”
New York
, June 11, 1979, page 56.
page 518 “…which in early June obediently printed…”:
Ibid.
page 518 “‘I’m tired of Truman riding on my coattails…’”: Liz Smith, “Sunday’s People: Truman’s True Love,” New York
Daily News
, September 23, 1984, page 3.
page 518 “‘Why, no one would have ever heard…’”: Liz Smith, New York
Daily News
, June 18, 1979.
page 519 “‘If the lovely, divine and sensitive…’”: Sally Quinn, “In Hot Blood,”
Washington Post
, June 6, 1979, page El.
page 519 “‘A cassette of this show…’”:
Ibid.
, page E3.
page 519 “‘I’ll tell you something about fags…’”:
Ibid.
, page E7.
page 520 “‘Love is blind…’”:
Ibid.
, page E3.
page 520 “‘This is pathology…’”: Sally Quinn, “Hot Blood—and Gore, Chapter Two,”
Washington Post
, June 7, 1979, page C7.
page 524 “‘Truman wanted to kill him, and I think…’”: Joel Michael to GC, August 8, 1987.
page 526 “Truman was drunk—‘gaga,’ to use John’s word…”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 526 “Responding to a drunken, incoherent call, Rick Brown…”: Rick Brown to GC, November 1, 1982, and August 9, 1987.
page 527 “‘Am I right to come into Truman’s life again?…’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, November 25, 1980.
page 528 “What poor Truman did not know was that…”: Helen Dudar, “The Shrinking World of Doctor Nathan Kline,” Manhattan section of New York
Daily News
, June 19, 1981, pages 1–3.
page 528 “‘Tonight was one of the great things…’”: Judy Klemesrud, “The Evening Hours,”
New York Times
, December 19, 1980, page B8.
page 528 “April Johnson, a journalist who had seen him…”: April Johnson to GC, May 9, 1987.
page 529 “…John, to use his own words, ‘beat the shit…’”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 529 “…he suffered a broken nose, a fractured rib, a cracked…”: Hospital records of Larkin General Hospital, Miami.
page 529 “…John made an urgent call to Dr. Harold Deutsch…”: Harold Deutsch, M.D., to GC, August 20, 1987.
page 529 “(Brian later denied that he had been involved…)”: Brian O’Shea to GC, September 1, 1987.
page 530 “As they sat down on that Easter Sunday…”: John O’Shea to TC, April 22, 1981.
page 530 “At 6:30 on the morning of April 24…”: Bob MacBride to Alan Schwartz, May 2, 1981.
page 531 “Before Bob’s arrival that morning, Truman had also…”: Joseph Petrocik and Myron Clement to GC, May 5, 1981.
page 531 “Increasingly disturbed, Bob confronted Jack…”: Bob MacBride to GC, August 22, 1987.
page 531 “‘I had always heard from Truman what a prince…’”:
Ibid.
page 531 “…Bob wrote Alan Schwartz the next day…”: Bob MacBride to Alan Schwartz, May 2, 1981.
page 532 “John had not been staying with him long…”: John O’Shea to GC, October 1, 1986.
page 534 “‘That’s just what I need!…’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, July 12, 1981.
page 534 “‘First there was Marilyn…’”: Robert MacBride to GC, August 22, 1987.
page 536 “‘What would he say? “I’ll be there…”’”: Joseph Petrocik to GC, February 2, 1983.