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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Premiere Recap: Welcome to Swan Lake
A jaunt through the decades reveals how Truman Capote cultivated his society swans and then ruffled their feathers.
The rift that drove the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood out of the stylish, moneyed set of society “swans” he was so fond of cultivating was the stuff of tabloid fodder and of more hushed (and therefore far more vicious) gossip among the wealthy elite. This leads to yet another La Côte Basque meeting, this time between Slim and Babe, with the former trying to close the swans’ ranks and retaliate as efficiently as possible against this “homosexual court jester.” It is she who delivers the episode’s most shocking revelation: Ahead of the publication of the article in Esquire, Ann committed suicide. And so the stage is set for our seasonlong feud between the tiny, flouncing literary sensation and the beautiful socialites he loved and betrayed — a scandal decades in the making wherein the question of which role storytellers can inhabit in such social strata is rife with possibilities.
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