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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans Recap: Two Deaths and a Funeral
It’s fair to wonder how much story is left after the death of our two central characters.
But, you know, in a show about Capote and his swans, about the end of a gilded era of New York society, about a tell-all that proved to be the death knell of entire friendships, the line feels like an apt précis of how Babe has come to understand her life: as something to be curated to perfection. The opposite turns out to be true, in fact: after all, even in this fantasia of an episode, Babe spends her dying breaths thinking not of her children (there gathered at her bedside) but about the one other man who broke her heart. • Love when bits of dialogue make literary and socialite gossip the stuff of trivia: the inspiration behind Capote’s Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is believed to be Carol Grace, who had taken her husband’s — Academy Award winner Walter Matthau — name after their marriage in 1959.
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