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Feud’s Molly Ringwald Is an Answered Prayers Truther
“In the show, she says it was just one thing written over and over and over again. I feel like it might show up in a box somewhere.”
In Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, writer Jon Robin Baitz has leaned, perhaps too heavily, on the notion that the second wife of the famed Tonight Show host Johnny Carson was rather off-kilter. We saw the eclectic (and violent) Thanksgiving dinner she hosted a few weeks back, how wounded she was when Capote cruelly pointed out Johnny’s philandering during the famed Masquerade Ball, and in the penultimate episode, “ Beautiful Babe,” we saw the futile attempts Joanne makes to save Truman in his final hours: diving headfirst into her pool when she finds him floating in the water, nursing him back to life, and then, seeing he’s perhaps too far gone, calling and hanging up on 911, unsure whether any outside help would do Truman (or her) any good. Those agonizing moments are key to reassessing Joanne in the world of Feud, something Molly Ringwald relished — as an actress and as a writer and translator who has long been inspired by Capote’s work.
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