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Feud: Capote vs The Swans review - Crass, confused and deadly dull, it's this drama that's the scandal, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Truman Capote was the ultimate Gay Best Friend. A delicious gossip when he was sober, a venomous tattler when he was drunk, he clung to New York's society ladies, stroking their egos like lapdogs.
But after his talent was washed away by a tidal wave of gin and vodka, he tried to earn one last publishing payday by writing about his ladies and laying bare their secrets — their drug habits, their sex lives, even their crimes and cover-ups. Facing him across the tables of Manhattan's most chic 1970s restaurants are an array of grandes dames: Chloe Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Diane Lane and at their head, Naomi Watts, as queen of the socialites Babe Paley. Capote's violent boyfriend John is a married man, played by Russell Tovey — in heavy-rimmed spectacles and sideburns that make him look disconcertingly like Richard Osman.
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