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Feud Sees Capote in Black and White
Despite a great cast and compelling premise, this ham-fisted bit of cable excess can’t deliver.
In 1975, Esquire published a thinly anonymized excerpt from his planned novel Answered Prayers, “La Côte Basque, 1965,” depicting all his inner circle’s dirty laundry (literally, there’s a passage about a mistress leaving menstrual blood on the upholstery). Guest; Calista Flockhart digging into the insecurities of Lee Radziwill (sister of Jackie Kennedy); Demi Moore as the unstable Ann Woodward, whom Capote claimed intentionally killed her husband; and Molly Ringwald as the more forgiving West Coast–based Joanne Carson (married to Johnny, for a time). Feud depicts some particulars of midcentury gay life — the simultaneous openness and elision the pre-Stonewall closet required — in compelling detail; early on, we see Capote cruising for trade (Russell Tovey) at the Russian Baths and then, disastrously, bringing him to lunch with the Swans.
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