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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Reciprocity
Truman’s cruelty comes back to haunt him (sometimes literally) as the swans close ranks.
As we see in the first scene of “Ice Water in Their Veins,” cancer wasn’t about to derail Babe’s day-to-day life; she remains, even while getting treatment, committed to wearing exquisite outfits and playing hostess as if nothing were the matter. “The ineptly named first lady of New York,” for instance, is a great, brutal read of Happy Rockefeller delivered with gusto by Lane’s otherwise sedate Slim, while Truman’s tirade against John—“they know that dear old daddy is just a third rate suburban faggot banker who sticks his uncircumcised penis into the glorious asshole of America’s greatest living author who he’s supposed to be managing…”—is so off-color it’s divine). The sweepingly romantic score that helps us glide from Hollywood to Upstate New York, Manhattan to Palm Beach, feels of a piece with the elegant art direction and pristine costumes that adorn every scene.
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