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Peter Bart: Remembering Truman Capote’s Boozy Swan Dive And His Not-So-Great ‘Gatsby’
Truman Capote was hired to write The Great Gatsby screenplay, Peter Bart writes. It did not turn out well.
His star-packed Black and White Ball in 1966 re-defined the concept of the celebrity event, jamming New York socialites with Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra and his bride, Mia Farrow, in a dizzying mega mix. In the Swans TV series, Capote, hard-drinking and always tuxedo-clad, makes the rounds of glitzy parties, spinning gossipy stories to a worshipful band of wealthy women. Once, when a Merrick play was panned, he famously consulted a phone book for New Yorkers with the same names as the city’s top critics and got the civilians to write glowing blurbs for a full-page ad.
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