We tend to look at such careers as tragic foreshortenings - Monroe's sudden suicide, Capote's slow-motion crash landing (except for occasional stories and some brilliant fragments of ''Answered Prayers,'' he wrote himself Who never quite filled the void in her heart, and who finally overdosed on love's substitutes, drugs and celebrity. Paley, Gloria Guinness, Slim Keith - to whom Capote would be attracted as courtier and confidante, but the more vulnerable Monroe was his mirror image, another yellow-haired, love-starved country bumpkin with a little girl's voice In her blithe elegance, Audrey Hepburn was a perfect emblem for the ''swans'' - Babe ''Capote,'' we learn that he actually argued Monroe's case (in vain, fortunately) with the producers. In a tantalizing aside in Gerald Clarke's enthralling, novel-like biography,
HAROLD HALMA TRUMAN CAPOTE MOVIE
Moreover, when it came time to do the movie of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' he saw Holly not as Audrey Hepburn but as Marilyn Monroe.
Where drugs, alcohol and the ''mean reds'' - the free-floating anxiety that ambushed the deeply insecure - would get the best of him, and he would spiral down in a sordid exit that lacked the grace and brevity of he charmed and wrote his way into the literary limelight he seduced the rich and famous. He had come to the big city from Monroeville, Ala.
Journalism'' was already recording the arc of his life. In this 1958 novel, the future avatar of ''new Flaubert, Capote's literary idol, only entered the mind of Emma Bovary, whereas Capote was his provincial waif. A number of dashing women about town claimed to be the model for the heroine of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's,'' but to a marked degree she took her shape and essenceĪnd angst and hummingbird existence from the author himself. Truman Capote might well have said, echoing the words of Flaubert. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy Molly Haskell Molly Haskell writes about film for Vogue.ĬAPOTE A Biography. June 12, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Correction Appended The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
0 kommentar(er)
