Truman Capote: The Troubled Author of In Cold Blood
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2024
- Truman Capote was a darling of the New York literary set long before he became an international sensation with the publication of his novel In Cold Blood in 1965. He had written short stories and essays, novels, a novella, contributed to screenplays, and provided critical essays on other works. A Southerner by birth, he was a fixture of the New York social scene.
After he published In Cold Blood, he found himself in demand for talk shows and public appearances. Magazines and newspapers peppered him for interviews and commentary. An openly gay celebrity was a rarity at the time. Capote was not only openly gay, he was flamboyantly gay. He hobnobbed with celebrities, claimed sexual relationships with celebrities of both sexes (including Errol Flynn and Greta Garbo), attended lavish parties, and became a dominant personage in society in New York, London, and Beverly Hills. Among the many celebrities he partied with were Lee Radziwill and her sister Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Princess Margaret, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, and Elizabeth Taylor.
He seemed to thrive on little more than drugs, alcohol, gossip, and controversy. He gleefully feuded with some celebrities, including author Gore Vidal, who once said of him, “Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art”. Capote responded with the comment, “Of course, I’m always sad about Gore. Very sad that he has to breathe every day”.
Their feud continued until Capote's death, which Vidal described to a press reporter as “a wise career move”. By the end of his life, Capote had made being a celebrity the focus of his career, having not published anything but a few essays since the appearance of In Cold Blood in 1966. Yet he had remained one of the major literary influences of the late 20th century.
In 1968, Truman Capote sat for an extensive interview with Playboy Magazine. During the course of the interview, which covered that year’s presidential election, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and his fellow writers and artists, Playboy asked him, “Are there any writers on the current literary scene whom you consider truly great?”. Capote responded, “Yes. Truman Capote”. He then listed several others he considered “commendable”. Gore Vidal was not among them. And none ranked equally to him, in his estimation.
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0:15 Quite a mouthfull, nobody expects that from a smallwood. Perfect as always!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice. The best way to counter the joke everyone's already thinking is to preempt them.
The "Smallwood" jokes are getting daring😂.
I can practically hear George Takei saying, "Ooohhh, my!" in response.
Blame it on Tru .
That one is a classic on his other channel. First time I heard it I was dying.
I was skeptical at first without Simon, but I'm really happy I've stuck around. You're doing great as host Karl and I'm still really enjoying the content just as much as I did with Simon.
Lmfao this video’s Smallwood joke was hands down the best yet🤣 “best yet” is not something you hear very often about a small wood
I think you forgot to touch on his relatioship with his Swans.
Once again another outstanding script. Thanks to the entire biographics team
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor”
Truman Capote
Whether completely non fiction or a bit of a mix. In cold blood is still a fantastic book.
Yeh, gonzo. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Kinna like Steinbeck. Thinkin' Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men territory.
It's really not. I found it dull, unconvincing, and largely pointless.
3:05 - Chapter 1 - A southern childhood
7:40 - Chapter 2 - A new voice emerges
11:45 - Chapter 3 - Through the 1950's
14:55 - Chapter 4 - A journey to kansas
17:20 - Chapter 5 - In cold blood
19:40 - Chapter 6 - Professional celebrity
22:05 - Conclusion
Thanks for the video
Well done. I like u talk fast and don't drag things out. Great pics too !
Ooh, ooh, ooh you've dropped "the interim host". Does that mean you've finally and officially scored the gig ?💜
See that is what I am wondering. I liked Simon, but it is possible I enjoy Karl’s accent even MORE
@@MalloryNewcomb I'm from up north near where Karl hails from and yes his accent is much better 😂
@@bunyipdragon9499 Ireland?
Sacrifice for the algorithm! Love your content! Keep up the good work karl!❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
Thanks so much!!
@@Biographics Always
Z-Rex has a dope cover. I'd buy it just for it alone, but the story sounds fun too.
Loved Capote just because Capote... looked up the books from your collection - found them on an online book thrift store... purchases may have been made.
If anyone is wanting to know what his voice, and speech were like watch a film called "Murder By Death", by Neil Simon. It has not just Capote, but an ensemble cast of some real movie royalty, Niven, Falk, Guinness, Lanchester, amongst many more.
Its a comedy based upon the claasic movie trope, "The old, dark house murder mystery".....but with a twist 😎
👴🏻🥃 IS PETER FALK ITALIAN?
Sawra tv production once. Called
" Tru " , I believe. A soliloquy, set in an apartment room around Christmas. Oswald might've played hin. Touching and tragic.
When i first read To Kill a Mockingbird, i thought "Is it just me or does this kid Dill come off as gay?" When i found out he was based on Capote, i thought, "Okay, it's not just me."
This is the first Capote documentary that makes zero mention of Babe Paley and the swans, probably the most influential experience of his life, short of "In Cold Blood".
🥃👴🏻 SWANS??? HOO WANNA SEE SWAN?
I used to go to secondhand bookshops and choose books purely based on the cover, not even reading the blurb. Found some gems.
But one of my favourite books was just randomly given to me by one of my flatmates of the time.
His words were "I picked up some sale books from the library. I've tried reading this but haven't got past page 3. You like weird shit. Here you go."
That book was Putting My Foot in It by Rene Crevel. I've still got it, and it has one of my favourite opening paragraphs...
"SUN AND TRADITION... A dazzling light and the firm intention not to let yourself be blinded, etc., etc."
That hit me and I proceeded to read it cover to cover, and then re-read it slower.
Rene Crevel would be a great biographics subject. Short but eventful life.
👴🏻🥃AWW SHUT UP!
🥃👴🏻 U REALLY LOVE U DONT CHA?
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
-- Truman Capote
Good video. You're doing great 👍
How can I forget Truman Capote. Nobody spoke like he did. Although, Gore Vidal had the same slow pace as Capote.
Nicely done! Well written and presented. I will only nit-pik one statement.................................there is no possible way that Park Avenue and Central Park can converge. They are blocks apart - and that's New York blocks...............................
🥃👴🏻.......................................WUT THE ..............DID U SAY U PIECE OF.....................EAT.....U LITTLE.............
You forgot to say like and subscribe at the beginning of the video.
This is an excellent video. It is indeed humorous as well as informative. Keep up the great work, Karl. 👍🏻
He was obnoxious. I can say that, I’m gay lol. I always liked Gore Vidal, he wrote more, that’s for sure. I remember an interview with Gore Vidal where he explained how they manipulated Carlton Heston into a homoerotic scene in a Roman epic film. It was hilarious.
Yah,sexual manipulation is so funny 🥴
Obnoxious transcends sexuality. 😁
👴🏻🥃 DO U WEAR PURPLE AND RED PANTS OR WATT?
"But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm a homosexual. I'm a genius." And quite modest, too.
🥃👴🏻 OH I GIT IT DATS SARCASM.
🙄 F.F.
Yes Karl I would buy that book Z Rex. Thanks for the idea
🥃👴🏻 LET RAYMOND BURR READ IT TOO.
I have an autographed copy of "other voices other rooms" wonder what's it worth
The only thing I've read of Capote is Other Voices, Other Rooms - and that IS worth a read.
I would have totally bought that book too
🥃👴🏻 FERRY
Left too many major things out to be comprehensive! No swans? Ann Woodward’s suicide? No legal battle with Gore Vidal? No mention of his mother complex which shaped him?
👴🏻🥃 NO MENTION OF PETER LORRE DRESS LIKE TRUMAN IN THE MOVIE BEAT THE DEVIL 1953.
I really enjoyed the show and wanted to see it the minute I saw the thumbnail. However the book review part was bad just bad.
Capote eventually came to like Audrey Hepburn and her interpretation of Holly Golightly after observing and talking to her on the set of "Breakfast At Tiffany's."
I understand Capote's objection to the chicke and elegant Audrey Hepburn; Holly Golightly is much more akin to Sally Bowles in "Cabaret"
👴🏻🥃 DAT MOVIE STINK.
Parents missed an opportunity. Hugh, Berry, Will SMALLWOOD
Randall (Randy) lol
After enjoying this video, I hereby request an episode about John Kennedy Toole.
I’m from Kansas and I presume that had something to do with In Cold Blood being required reading in AP English my junior year (well, the summer project anyway). I didn’t expect Karl to be into this but then I remember, he didn’t write it.
I first became aware of him as a kid watching the murder mystery parody film 'Murder By Death'. A strange role in a very strange film
🥃👴🏻 BA BA BOOEY HOWARD STERN
Truman Capote sent to fight Krankor!
Carl…the love of my life
👴🏻🥃 IS TERENCE FISHER THERE?
Harper Lee and Truman Capote were Jem and Scout Finch
Capote wanted his friend Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly. Later he said Audrey Hepburn was "perfect" for the Holly Golightly of the film, but that it had nothing to do with the novel character he wrote. If you have read the novel, which is a little masterpiece, you will see how totally different it is from the movie (there's no love affair in the first place) and how Marilyn would have been a much better choice for the novel character, even if Audrey Hepburn's performance is iconic now.
There was a story going around about him being challenged to an arm wrestling match with Frank Sinatra. Capote beat him hand down and had many challenges and won them all. I have know Idea if this is true or not but stranger things have happened.
Fun fact, Capote mean condom in french, must have been hard to have this surname
👴🏻🥃DATS WUT SHE SAID.
Can you do one on gore vidal
👴🏻🥃 HOO WAZ DAT?
It's alleged that Harper Lee wrote most of In True Blood.
Both of them didn't write much after their "big hit".
I’d buy the Z Rex book too
👴🏻🥃 U DONT HAVE A JOB.
@@paulyricca3881 what does your comment even mean, you don’t know me.
I'd have bought the Z Rex book. 😁
❤
Or just watch Phillip Seymour Hoffman play Capote - he got the voice on point.
The voice is that of Hans Moleman
Respectfully, you are mistaken my friend. The gentleman who keeps voting Nay at the union meetings in "Last Exit To Springfield" is listed as, appropriately, "The Nay Guy". He's got black hair, a mustache, and although diminutive, is nowhere near so decrepit as poor Hans Moleman :D
I miss the old guy. He just delivered the lives of his subjects, rather than interrupt them with obnoxious editorializing and show and tell. "Hehe...oh my...look how stupid and evil people of the past were," he limply snarks. Shut up and just tell me the guy's life story!
To think I once praised this channel for offering up one of the few truly neutral, objective treatments of Ayn Rand I'd ever seen years ago. I don't even recognize this channel anymore.
Obviously you haven't seen Simon lately. I rarely watch his stuff any more because Karl interjects less than Simon. Simon has become a jerk and I'm being polite.
He suffered hallucinations in the 1880's?? Wow. 😂
Don't know if u guys have done this but what about King Henry the eigth's longed for son King Edward VI. I can imagine Henry's disgust when Edward aged 15 died and showed up in Heaven and Henry's just like "AH COME ON SON! U COULDN'T EVEN LIVE A FULL LIFE?
It's "CapoTEE". A feature on a writer of his gifts should be SCRIPTED and well- written at that ("hung around with"? Surely "socialized" is better). Otherwise, a good introduction to the author. As to the comic range of "Smallwood" there is an Irish actor called Jimmy Smallhorne", and decades ago in Romford, Essex, I knew a Dennis Crapnell ( one introducing himself before a lecture, he added, "I've heard all the jokes." Staying on this theme, there is a famous Irish journalist called Fiona Looney🎉
He also mispronounced (John) HUSTON, and PORGY (& Bess).
where is Simon ?
Karl Morningwood
I wanna go book shopping with Karl now?
I have a white wallet like Truman Capote
🥃👴🏻 GOOD!
🙄oh brother.
Geez, could you talk any faster you sound like an auctioneer!
He doesn’t talk nearly as fast as Simon. He’s really speedy!
A lot of mispronunciations too. CapoTAY....PorGEE.😮
Where is the bald, bearded guy?
🥃👴🏻 DUH I DONT NO.
Could not finish watching this over commentaried video, thank the Lord above for fast forward.
Pyrocynical?
Great job Smallwood.
Wait. WTF?! Karl, what the hell are you doing here? Where is baldy Fact Boi? How long has this been a thing? Has Simon got you in his cellar, or is he held hostage in yours!?
Joking aside, you're a cracking presenter, and a good fit for this channel... It just came as a bit of a shock when I clicked on a Biographics video and your face popped up... thought I'd clicked on the wrong thing! 😅
Very short version is that Simon stopped reading for this and a couple of other channels some months ago that we thought were part of the Whistlerverse 💜
🥃👴🏻 WUT DO DISS GOTTA DO WID JOHN TRAVOLTA ?
@@bunyipdragon9499🥃👴🏻 IS PETER FALK ITALIAN?
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Bring back Simon
I was interested in finding out about Truman but you put in lots of random things about yourself. It really spoiled it.
Truman Capo-tay. 😅😅😅😅
🥃👴🏻 TERRY I SEEN U IN THE MOVIE MIGHTY JOE YOUNG IN 1950.
@@paulyricca3881 that would be a trick, since I wasn't born until 1956.
Toni Morrison
Carl Jung
Zora Neale Huston
Langston Hughes
Princess Margaret
Jim Henson
Zheng He
Jane Austen
Who TF is this guy!
Alright, eventually, I’m gonna give this guy a chance but me’s gonna need some time.
Geroge freeman a australian illegal bookie
Went to listen to his voice. Saw a Johnny Carson interview. He was an ass that thought he knew it all. Seems he had to rip on others to make himself feel better about himself.
What happened to Simon?
Simon left due to an issue with the owner of the channel
He looks like the nazi computer in Captain America
I personally, never cared for Truman Capote. Granted, he was already well on his way to being a notorious ass by the time I was aware of him. I will admit that his subjects were never my genre of choice either. I have also met a few SF writers who probably weren't as bad as Capote but that doesn't mean I like them either. Their writings can be a different story, I might like their writing.
@ Smallwood Need subtitles. You deliver too many word per minute and not every word is intelligible.
Really? Maybe you need to get your ears checked.
That’s weird… I don’t sense that.
🥃👴🏻 ANYBODY SEEN RICHIE?
Bring back Simon.
Just be yourself man, you don’t have to try to imitate Simon. You got this.
Great, sly joke...😉😅
‘In Cold Blood” needs to be re-evaluated and recategorized as FICTION. He lied a LOT in that book and completely fabricated a ton of elements. He was always a liar and a gossip, which is even displayed in “In Cold Blood.” Overrated writer who got what he deserved in the end.
Karl is a better host than that bald guy.
Started out with books like these now they are trying to shove all sorts of stuff down small children’s throat.
Please stop the childish asides, and generally try and bring a more mature presentation style. Also, stop spelling out your name, it's written on the bloody screen.
Maybe it's just me, but Karl Smallwood becomes more irritating with every episode.
There is a reason I unsubbed from Fact Fiend years ago. Smallwood started getting obnoxious with spouting his radical leftist propaganda, I wanted facts, not political tangents. Karl Smallwood is the James Cordon of Factboys
'radical leftist propaganda.....'
Lovely but meaningless soundbite. Why would even think anyone gives shit lad. Move on, you're insignificant