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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Ruffled Feathers
James Baldwin enters the narrative to get Answered Prayers back on track, and test the limits of this series’ artistic license.
But here we’re finally shown what pulled Truman out of his funk: none other than James Baldwin (Chris Chalk), who spends a day talking and dining and drinking with Capote, eventually getting him on track to understand what it was about Answered Prayers that called to him in the first place. I had to go back and sift through Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era — the book this series is based on — to make sure I hadn’t missed this juicy bit of writerly buddy-comedy interaction. As Baldwin and Capote dine at La Côte Basque, peruse abstract paintings at the MoMA, and have drinks at the Library (a famed “cocksucker” bar in Manhattan), their conversation opens up the lives of Babe, Slim, Lee, Ann, and C.Z.
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