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☆ Opinion | The Babe Paley in ‘Feud’ Is Not the Woman I Knew
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Belle Burden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The first time I saw Naomi Watts playing my grandmother Babe Paley in “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” she was in tears. She had just discovered her husband’s affair with Happy Rockefeller, the governor’s wife, finding him on the bedroom floor, scrubbing a stain of menstrual blood from their plush carpet. Babe summons Truman Capote to her Fifth Avenue apartment, her face set in distress, her mascara running. In his book, Mr. Leamer surmises that the governor’s wife in Capote’s story is Marie Harriman, not Ms. Rockefeller. There are no live recordings of Babe, no way for an actress to know how she moved and spoke.

Persons: Naomi Watts, Babe Paley, ”, Happy Rockefeller, Truman Capote, mascara, Matisse, Laurence Leamer’s, Leamer, Marie Harriman, Rockefeller, Babe, “ Baba, Brooke Organizations: Swans, Basque Locations: “, Manhasset, Long

☆ Milan Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2024: The trends that matter
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Scarlett Conlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Milan CNN —Gimmicks were gone at the latest Milan runways — which concluded yesterday — with designers instead striking a more serious note that encouraged investment buying. Julianne Moore, A$AP Rocky and Salma Hayek front row at the Bottega Veneta fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week. Jacopo Raule/Getty Images1980s reduxRelegated as the style decade that people preferred to forget, the 1980s is slowly but surely starting to pop up on the radar. Jacopo Raule/Getty ImagesEven at MaxMara, famed for its trademark camel, creative director Ian Griffiths went in a deliberately different direction to focus on silhouette over shade. Jacopo Raule/Getty ImagesDark colors also dominated at Giorgio Armani this season.

Persons: Milan, Miuccia Prada, Raf Simons, Donatella Versace, ”, Julianne Moore, Rocky, Salma Hayek, Daniele Venturelli, Giorgio Armani, Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy, ” Franken, Franken, Jonas Gustavsson, Matthieu Blazy, Victor Virgile, Blazy “, Massimo Giorgetti —, Truman Capote’s “, —, knitwear, Jacopo Raule, Jil Sander, stilettos, Matteo Tamburini, Kim Jones, Karl Lagerfeld, Leigh Bowery, Judy, Julia, Versace, Anne Hathaway, Gina di Bernardo —, Aldo Fallai’s, Prince, Ferragamo, Tom Ford, Giovanni Giannoni, Ian Griffiths, “ We’re, we’re, Marco M, Gigi Hadid, Solange Knowles, Jacopo M, Matthieu, Aitor Rosas Sune, WWD, Hari Nef, Riccardo Giordano, Sipa Cate Blanchett, Gabriel Bouys Organizations: Milan CNN, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Blazy, Truman Capote’s “ La, Truman Capote’s “ La Cote Basque, Getty, Dolce, Diesel, Milan Locations: Milan, —, Bottega, MSGM, Truman Capote’s “ La Cote, London, “ London, MaxMara, Avavav, AFP

☆ Capote’s Black and White Ball Is Fabled. Does ‘Feud’ Measure Up?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The latest episode of Ryan Murphy’s new series, “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” recreates Truman Capote’s famous Black and White Ball, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1966. The event, which honored Katharine Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post, was a coveted invite. And the guests, who included Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra, were, according to The New York Times, “as spectacular a group as has ever been assembled for a private party in New York.”The series depicts the ball through imaginary footage shot by the Maysles brothers, the documentary team. It suggests a cattier side to the bash, with humiliated party crashers, scorned ex-wives and an inebriated host. Ahead of the third episode, members of the Styles desk discussed the gowns at the ball, designed by Zac Posen; the hair; and what made the party so good.

Persons: Ryan Murphy’s, ”, Truman Capote’s, Katharine Graham, Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra, crashers, Zac Posen Organizations: Swans, Washington Post, The New York Times Locations: New York City, New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Executive producer Ryan Murphy is known for creating vivid TV worlds where high drama feels completely normal. Costume designer and producer Lou Eyrich has helped him bring these worlds alive, and their latest collaboration, “Feud: Capote vs. Eyrich said Watts, who plays Babe Paley, “got hit the hardest” as the main character besides Capote. While the real Paley wore a designer dress with a fur coat to the ball, Posen made adjustments. “She took everybody’s notes really to heart and she really wanted it to be collaborative.

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☆ ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Review: Cold Blooded
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” which premieres Wednesday on FX (streaming on Hulu), is something that its protagonist could not abide: a bore. The second season of the anthology series “Feud” stretches the story of Truman Capote’s falling out with the “swans” of New York society across eight episodes and more than seven hours. They have gone instead for chilly, moralistic and cautionary. “Capote vs. the Swans” feels as forbidding and vindictive as the society wives who pass judgment on Capote. An element in that affect is the fashionably fractured approach the show takes to its storytelling.

Persons: Truman Capote’s, —, Babe Paley, Jon Robin Baitz, Gus Van Sant, Ryan Murphy —, “ Capote, ” Organizations: Swans, Hulu, Basque Locations: New York, La

☆ Truman Capote Cashed In on His Friends’ Secrets. It Cost Him Everything.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | More About Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She died of lung cancer in 1978 never having spoken to Capote again. In the fall of 1955, Mrs. Woodward shot and killed her husband at their estate in Oyster Bay, in the middle of the night, believing that he was a burglar. Capote decided it was not, even though someone eventually pleaded guilty to trying to rob the Woodward house on the night of the shooting. In mid-October, just as Capote’s story was set to drop, Mrs. Woodward killed herself in her uptown apartment. While she had had a difficult life and there was no way to know why she did it, many speculated about the correlation.

Persons: ”, William Paley, Paley, Capote, Ann Woodward, Capote’s, Woodward, Basque ”, “ Ann Hopkins, “, bigamist, ” Alex Belth, Rich Little Organizations: Basque Locations: New York, Oyster Bay, Nassau, Basque

☆ Naomi Watts, Demi Moore and Diane Lane Swan at the Plaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Melissa Guerrero | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The show focuses on the schism between the novelist Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, and the coterie of New York City socialites he befriended. Some of the society fixtures, whom Capote referred to as his “swans,” are played by a distinguished cast: Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Nancy “Slim” Keith (Diane Lane), C. Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny), Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart), Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald) and Ann Woodward (Demi Moore). The series is based on “Capote’s Women,” a 2021 book by Laurence Leamer. The Times’s Charlotte Curtis reported that “international Who’s Who of notables” attended including Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow and the Maharani of Jaipur.

Persons: FX’s, ”, Truman Capote, Tom Hollander, Barbara “ Babe ” Paley, Naomi Watts, Nancy “ Slim ” Keith, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Lee Radziwill, Joanne Carson, Molly Ringwald, Ann Woodward, Demi Moore, Laurence Leamer, Capote, Charlotte Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow Organizations: Swans, New, New York City, Esquire, Museum of Modern Locations: New York, Jaipur

☆ Lost Truman Capote story published after discovery in notebook
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An unknown story by Truman Capote has been published for the first time, after it was discovered hiding in plain sight in a red notebook belonging to the acclaimed author. Capote, a famous American writer and novelist, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in 1984. “Then in a red notebook, there was a handwritten short story from Truman Capote. “The whole work of finding these unpublished works is something which I have to say is satisfying when it comes to fruition. But generally it’s something very, very frustrating, because you’ll find that you’re always coming up with nothing,” he told CNN.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. “I am so happy to be writing stories again — they are my great love," he wrote to a friend. She’d trusted him to the extent of her capital: let him sell her the land, allowed him to build the villa, supply, at pirate prices, the native paraphernalia that furnished it,” Capote wrote. Thomas Fahy, author of “Understanding Truman Capote,” says that the author likely related to Iris Greentree's sense of displacement and alienation. “You could see how his life became very lonely and isolated.”The Strand has published rare works by Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and many others.

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☆ André Leon Talley’s ‘Sanctuary’ in White Plains, N.Y., Is for Sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Talley was the first Black creative director of Vogue Magazine. Mr. Talley didn’t cook, Ms. Thomas said. “I said, ‘You should put stanchions up’” so nobody could sit on it, Ms. Thomas said. Mr. Talley used one of the four bedrooms in the house as a linen closet. “Nobody slept there but me,” Ms. Thomas said.

Persons: Talley, Alexis E, Thomas, Talley didn’t, “, Truman, ‘, ” Ms Organizations: Vogue Magazine, influencers

☆ Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Schreiber, who aspired to a literary career and at one time was romantically involved with the playwright Eugene O’Neill’s oldest son, wrote celebrity profiles and pop psychology pieces for outlets such as Cosmopolitan. And Wilbur, who had treated the actor Roddy McDowall — Case 129 in a book she co-authored about the causes and “treatment” of male homosexuality — craved the kind of broad audience that magazines then attracted. Rather than telekinetic powers, she develops a preternatural ability to assume different personas. Wilbur by any modern metric crossed the line from transference to enmeshment. She crept into her patient’s bed to administer electroshock treatment with an outdated device, doled out Pentothal (a barbiturate then wrongly thought to act as a truth serum) to the point of addiction, and took her on creepy road trips.

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