THis is Siegel feigning concern and paternalism, all the while gleefully rubbing his greedy hands together as he booked this train wreck and watched him make a spectacle of himself on national television. Transparent and evil.
Reading a biography on him. Neither one of his parents wanted him, they dumped him on various relatives and when they were stuck with him, they locked him in a hotel room to scream and cry all night so they could go out. He was a toddler at the time. It was very traumatizing.
I heard he was partying all night at clubs and just showed up for the interview that morning. I don't think he had any 'people' to look after him that day!
In the 70s there were so many interviews like this. Totally stoned personalities. I’m fortunate my parents tried to shield me from these reruns bc I wouldn’t have understood it as a child - but when my aunt babysat I watched a lot of Carson and other talk shows 😂 I have a very vivid memory of John Lennon looking stoned and getting angry and also of Keith Richards looking too drunk to appreciate meeting his idols. I think that was a way of establishing “cred” after a career went on hiatus for a bit - S, D, n R&R on a talk show. Good thing I thought it was an act. It wasn’t until later I’d rewatch some of those interviews with great sadness. Remember this immediately followed the era of the Dean Martin Variety Show and he feigned drunkenness on every episode as if it were all part of the fun. Pull those up everybody looks half in the bag
Some celebrities didn’t have people like they do now and that was the whole idea of him going to these shows was to be the outlandish spectacle of a little homosexual that he was, people don’t admit it but this commands peoples attention even in this time so imagine then.
He was also admittedly an alcoholic though, alcoholics rarely use any other drug without drinking on it too, he could quite have obviously been drunk or maybe both, his response to the question ‘Have you been drinking?’ was telling, he was too gone to lie.
@Marlon Truman went to high school with grandfather in Greenwich CT. That is how I first heard of him. In his biography it was said he would steal some of his mother's Seconal sleeping pills, a barbiturate. From a chemical perspective it is anaesthesia in a pill. Its the same class of drugs used in surgery and lethal injection. To be fair he was most certainly an alcoholic, his famous quote "I am alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual...and I am a genius." He is in a better place now, entertaining heaven like its a never ending hangover free Studio 54 in the clouds.
@@mattmammone2338 : In more than one interview that capote had done, notably one or two on the dick cavett show, he was asked quiet bluntly about his addictions and he categorically denied ever having been an alcoholic. You can see the interviews for yourself were he says this, unless he was lying or didn't care to reveal that side of him, it's possible. Now i don't doubt that capote still drank and likely did cocaine or whatever, thoses were the legendary studio 54 days. The man certainly had his wild side and he was indeed a genius..
Tom hollander is such a great actor. Its insane how he legit sounds and acts just like him. All the way down to how he rubs his eyrs with his fingers. Its so crazy.
I don't think this is any more common among brilliant minds. It's just that your average alcoholic/drug addicted Joe is of no interest to the general public.
@@opheliabloom8321 I can attest to that. I sat in AA meetings for an entire year. Never before have I met such awful bores who all think their stories of woe are a brilliant exposé on the human condition. Talk about your delusions of grandeur.
>"Have you been drinking?" >[long pause while staring off into the distance] Yeah, that's basically saying "Yes, and quite heavily for quite a long while now. And much more than just drinking as well!"
Really exploitative, and no redeeming value other than shock. Siegel knew the answers to those idiotic questions. It was no secret Truman had the disease, an had it BAD. A decent man would have called an ambulance or at the very least arranged for him to be driven home safely.
@@mattmammone2338 I don't think the producers were expecting Truman to show up so out of it and he was a famous writer so who wouldn't want to interview him? Also, how do we know that no one arranged for him to be driven home safely? I seriously doubt that anyone would allow a famous writer who is clearly intoxicated, to stagger home thru the streets of NY alone.
I was "fortunate" to watch this program. Seigel opened the show by announcing that Capote had taken ill and would not be on the show. Capote insisted on being interviewed and Seigel reluctantly agreed
@@jackmcca87 Who were his family at that point? His mother and biological father were both gone. So was Joe Capote. Jack Dunphy? The point is toxicated or otherwise does not detract from his literary greatness.
@@jamesharding17 I'm not questioning his literary greatness; "In Cold Blood" is my favorite book. but I'm saying there are people who probably care whether or not he was drunk. being a great writer and being a substance abuser can be seperate, but equally massive, traits.
@@jackmcca87 you mentioned his 'family'. He had no family other than Jack Dunphy and he was only child. His so-called friends had deserted him as a result of Answered Prayers. He lived the life he wanted and was brave enough to do so.
@@walkawayheatherene341 Well, if you're talking about those wealthy society women that he called his "swans" YES he did in a way betray them in his novella 'Le Cote Basque' by telling all their dirty little secrets. Its his attitude I didn't appreciate. They confided in him and his response was 'I'm a writer what the hell did they THINK would happen?'
At least when he died he was staying with a real friend, Johnny Carson's ex wife Joanne. She was a nurse and took care of him, and I read they went out and flew kites in the days before he passed and I think that's pretty beautiful.
As will I. My Grandfather went to Greenwich High School with Truman. He was one year ahead of him. According to my Grandfather he was a poor student and was relentlessly bullied, but was smarter than anyone in school including most of the teachers.
He was quite young ! I always thought he was old,because he ran socially with older women,ant woman that was beautiful rich and talented,was in Mr.Capotes address book. My,he was remarkable.
If you watch the movie Capote, you'll understand his alcoholic complications. It's actually quite sad to see how his life experience has effected him deeply as it has.
@@NellieKAdaba Well, the movie is a lot different than the book. In the book, the narrator (Paul in the movie) is gay. He never falls in love with Holly and she simply leaves in the end. Its been said that the narrator is based on Capote himself in the 1940's. Its also suggested that Holly is bisexual. In 1960 you could not portray gay characters on screen so the entire thing was changed.
According to Andy Warhol's diary he was pissed off about one of his friends selling him out in a libel case against Gore Vidal. He made said person very unpopular by revealing what they had told him in secret about how they felt about various people.
Funny ... all you people commenting below how terrible it was that Siegel interviewed Capote and the network broadcast it ... yet y'all are here watching it ... hypocrites.
All is revealed in "Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era" by Laurence Leamer. Truman Capote lost himself in opportunistically exploiting and betraying a lot of his closest confidantes and best friends, and he was punished by being socially excluded from their hallowed presence in return. The book also exposes of the ugly underbelly of selfishness, duplicity, misery and fake values of the "beautiful people", the wealthy elite in high society.
Surprised they let him on in that condition, very talented man (‘in cold blood’ and his short story compilations are wonderful reads) but he had totally lost control of his life by this point
He had a colossal problem with benzos and talked about it many times. He also had a problem with alcohol. This looks more like a benzo waste than alcohol but I would bet both are involved.
It was both, plus another even worse monster, barbiturates. They don't make them anymore except for a few drugs. I took one it those for headaches, and two pills had me unable to stand up without swaying. That s why they used to be called 'wallbangers' and they feel like alcohol with more of a high feeling. I threw the bottle out after that experience!
I watched the movie Capote years ago and I’m always interested in people that have issues with alcohol or drugs. That movie got me to read in cold blood, which is such a wonderful, well written book.
I'm expecting an avalance of hits on this video after tonight's "Feud" episode. Stanley Siegel was the host who attempted to interview Truman, who was either drunk or pumped full of drugs.
It made ME laugh too! Yet, I always got a big kick out of Truman. When he said "ohhhhhhhhh aaalllllllll-co-hol" I simply cracked up laughing. He must have still thought he was at Studio 54! LOL
The Schmercks- when you wake up the next morning after a drunk and cringe and wince at your behavior the night before. I bet this was a king sized case of the schmercks.
Truman Capote is an American Star in the Literature World. It makes me sad to see him in this state. Where was a friend to stop him from doing this interview? David Siegel was a jerk.
Truman Streckfus Persons (Nueva Orleans, 30 de septiembre de 1924-Los Ángeles, 25 de agosto de 1984), más conocido como Truman Capote, fue un literato y periodista estadounidense, autor de la novela Breakfast at Tiffany's (Desayuno en Tiffany's) (1958) y su novela-documento In Cold Blood (A sangre fría) (1966).
I think he hadn't slept because he was on drugs, which everyone knows he imbibed in....he even ALLUDED to the fact that he did alcohol and more... I am GLAD, though, that you are kind enough to assume it was an innocent mistake thinking that people thought he was drunk/on drugs....you are a good person!
Title prays (my sorry, I'm Castillian just like Joyce'd say) "historical" and so you should honore this great writer ye gringos. He had the damned right for appearing the way he wanted, that's why he was Capote. Big universities teach journalism nowadays by "Cold Blood". He was just kinda Fuentes, Morrison, Garcia Marquez, Joyce himself, Hemingway, Proust… a human being. But such a human being! RIP Maestro Capote and forget those generations therefore and hereafter not loving you enough!
This is so typical of the genius creative type personalities! Tennessee Williams! Dorothy Parker! Actors actresses, singers! So many of the very greatest were the most tortured by life.
I mean....that's who you're referring to...how about Vincent van Gogh, da Vinci, Beethoven, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf..and many more brilliant troubled souls whom forever changed the world.
Still looking stylish! Dude 'needed' to be on something because when he was on his game you better look out! Too smart and cunning for many...it would of been cool to see him get his writing going...look at True Crime or instant celebrity now.
Come on, he was not JUST drunk here...clearly he was also under the influence of downers, whether they were tranquilizers, muscle relaxers, or the very fashionable downer of this particular era, barbiturates (quaaludes are my guess).
He never should have been allowed to appear on television in this inebriation state: it is pure exploitation. .Yes, it is riveting, but in the horrific way a car crash captivates attention. Negatively.
I find this clip very sad. Capote suffered and died from Liver Disease. We are watching this unfold in this clip. We are watching a man destroying himself and in pain and needing dire help from alcohol and substance abuse to prevent his death. This is no joke.
Oh Lord. Capote is a genius, he's a good guy and sadlly, very tormented. mostly because of his experience writing IN COLD BLOOD. If he want to get smashed before an interview, more power to him. Actually,, the host was a bit of a bozo
Stanley Siegel is NOT a nice guy and certainly not a friend of Truman's. This is a conversation that should have taken place in private - maybe on the way to the hospital or detox clinic. Plus you don't help a person by asking: Have you been drinking. They will get immediately defensive and probably deny it. Of course he'd been drinking. Go ahead and ask the NEXT question: What can i do to help? (That is if you are really a friend and not an exploiter.)
Capote would NOT have had to do this interview, at a vulnerable time he was loaded. On what? No one seems to know. I looks like alcohol, but it could have been drugs like benzo's(like Xanax, Valium etc.) which he liked to indulge in. Someone should have at least postponed the interview until he was coherent enough to do it.
What a rude question. Clearly he was on something, but it's pure showbiz to confront someone at their weak point for a big audience reaction. Disgusting to use that cheap shot and squander a great/rare opportunity to learn more about his fantasic writing. Tres triste.
I wonder if Hollander gets an Emmy cause holy shit he did a great job portraying Truman
Truman Capote was born in 1924. Just imagine what his feed would have looked like if he had lived long enough to have Twitter.
Capote had an IQ of 214. He would not go anywhere near Twitter.
@@pmbbmp Still fun to speculate though.
FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans recreates this scene shockingly well without it ever feeling like a parody. Hollander really goes for it.
Is the show out now? i’ve been waiting for it
Someone broke a confidentiality clause because this didn't air yet!
@@classylady107 Yes it's on Amazon or FX
@@classylady107episode just came out tonight on Hulu and they did very well. I had came here just to watch this interview
Hollander is amazing in this film series.
When Capote was asked, "Have you been drinking?" He stopped and had to think about it. 🤣🤣
I used to catch Siegel's show and was watching that day. I'd never been so shocked by anything I'd ever seen on TV. Never forgot it.
THis is Siegel feigning concern and paternalism, all the while gleefully rubbing his greedy hands together as he booked this train wreck and watched him make a spectacle of himself on national television. Transparent and evil.
Reading a biography on him. Neither one of his parents wanted him, they dumped him on various relatives and when they were stuck with him, they locked him in a hotel room to scream and cry all night so they could go out. He was a toddler at the time. It was very traumatizing.
Wasn't his mother an alcoholic who killed herself - i mean jeesh - poor guy (no wonder he had so much darkness)
My ma and I loved that line about his alcohol, "That's the Joker in the deck of cards."
Capotes people shouldn't have let him on stage like that. Brilliant writer but sadly, brilliance is often born from torment.
Mental illness ... Its rather sad.
I heard he was partying all night at clubs and just showed up for the interview that morning. I don't think he had any 'people' to look after him that day!
@@NoNo-fy3kr Truman was NOT mentally ill. He was an alcoholic, a drug addict and a big ol' queen. He was a genius and quite brilliant!
In the 70s there were so many interviews like this. Totally stoned personalities. I’m fortunate my parents tried to shield me from these reruns bc I wouldn’t have understood it as a child - but when my aunt babysat I watched a lot of Carson and other talk shows 😂
I have a very vivid memory of John Lennon looking stoned and getting angry and also of Keith Richards looking too drunk to appreciate meeting his idols. I think that was a way of establishing “cred” after a career went on hiatus for a bit - S, D, n R&R on a talk show.
Good thing I thought it was an act. It wasn’t until later I’d rewatch some of those interviews with great sadness. Remember this immediately followed the era of the Dean Martin Variety Show and he feigned drunkenness on every episode as if it were all part of the fun. Pull those up everybody looks half in the bag
Some celebrities didn’t have people like they do now and that was the whole idea of him going to these shows was to be the outlandish spectacle of a little homosexual that he was, people don’t admit it but this commands peoples attention even in this time so imagine then.
Someone in distress isn’t a public spectacle . Now with mobile phones it’s even worse ...
This isn't distress.. This is just stupidity.
I completely agree with you. Well said.
He wasn’t drunk,he had taken loads of sedatives which he was known to have done for many years.... Rip Truman
He was also admittedly an alcoholic though, alcoholics rarely use any other drug without drinking on it too, he could quite have obviously been drunk or maybe both, his response to the question ‘Have you been drinking?’ was telling, he was too gone to lie.
Okay, he's not drunk. He's HIGH! LOL
@@retroguy9494 : Okay so he was on a couples of things…. that seemingly made him laugh
@Marlon Truman went to high school with grandfather in Greenwich CT. That is how I first heard of him. In his biography it was said he would steal some of his mother's Seconal sleeping pills, a barbiturate. From a chemical perspective it is anaesthesia in a pill. Its the same class of drugs used in surgery and lethal injection. To be fair he was most certainly an alcoholic, his famous quote "I am alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual...and I am a genius." He is in a better place now, entertaining heaven like its a never ending hangover free Studio 54 in the clouds.
@@mattmammone2338 : In more than one interview that capote had done, notably one or two on the dick cavett show, he was asked quiet bluntly about his addictions and he categorically denied ever having been an alcoholic. You can see the interviews for yourself were he says this, unless he was lying or didn't care to reveal that side of him, it's possible. Now i don't doubt that capote still drank and likely did cocaine or whatever, thoses were the legendary studio 54 days. The man certainly had his wild side and he was indeed a genius..
Tom hollander is such a great actor. Its insane how he legit sounds and acts just like him. All the way down to how he rubs his eyrs with his fingers. Its so crazy.
Yes!! I think so to!!!! Tom should win an award!!
we will always love you, Truman!
Poor guy. He was brilliant though and honest though.
Sometimes brilliant minds can not handle the world and they get lost with any substance to feel being "normal".
I don't think this is any more common among brilliant minds. It's just that your average alcoholic/drug addicted Joe is of no interest to the general public.
@@opheliabloom8321 I can attest to that. I sat in AA meetings for an entire year. Never before have I met such awful bores who all think their stories of woe are a brilliant exposé on the human condition. Talk about your delusions of grandeur.
Rosie Summer absolutely
He was not honest. He was brilliant.
Writers, so many of them are tormented souls!
That was not alcohol that was messing up Mr. Capote. It was quaaludes.
Yeah man.
For sure.
I took quaaludes back in 79 fucked me up for 6 hours.
Worse then hím.
I wish the ludes still existed...
Silly comment. Alcohol looks the same. 😂
@samueltexasbelavarga5571 my mother said they were given out by doctors like handfuls of candy
I wish someone would upload the entire interview
>"Have you been drinking?"
>[long pause while staring off into the distance]
Yeah, that's basically saying "Yes, and quite heavily for quite a long while now. And much more than just drinking as well!"
The producers are disgusting for allowing this interview to continue
Its what its all about. What do you think brings in good ratings? Humiliating people. Sadly enough. And it STILL happens!
Really exploitative, and no redeeming value other than shock. Siegel knew the answers to those idiotic questions. It was no secret Truman had the disease, an had it BAD. A decent man would have called an ambulance or at the very least arranged for him to be driven home safely.
Lol the only disgusting thing is Capote
@@TomorrowWeLive After you.
@@mattmammone2338 I don't think the producers were expecting Truman to show up so out of it and he was a famous writer so who wouldn't want to interview him? Also, how do we know that no one arranged for him to be driven home safely? I seriously doubt that anyone would allow a famous writer who is clearly intoxicated, to stagger home thru the streets of NY alone.
I blame Siegel. He obviously knew Capote was a wreck before the interview and should have improvised and done something else.
agree 100% he should not have had him on the live show. what a jerk!
ratings vulture
I was "fortunate" to watch this program. Seigel opened the show by announcing that Capote had taken ill and would not be on the show. Capote insisted on being interviewed and Seigel reluctantly agreed
Yes, totally agree!! So distasteful to do for ratings.
This served Capote right. Capote exploited Perry Smith for In Cold Blood, in the killer's time of need. Capote deserved it right back, in his own.
Who cares if he was drunk or not. He’s still a great writer
True.
I guarantee his family cared whether or not he was drunk.
@@jackmcca87
Who were his family at that point? His mother and biological father were both gone. So was Joe Capote. Jack Dunphy? The point is toxicated or otherwise does not detract from his literary greatness.
@@jamesharding17 I'm not questioning his literary greatness; "In Cold Blood" is my favorite book. but I'm saying there are people who probably care whether or not he was drunk.
being a great writer and being a substance abuser can be seperate, but equally massive, traits.
@@jackmcca87 you mentioned his 'family'. He had no family other than Jack Dunphy and he was only child. His so-called friends had deserted him as a result of Answered Prayers. He lived the life he wanted and was brave enough to do so.
Wow with such great talent, it’s hard seeing him downwards...
His writing style did not just get under the skin of the characters,
it inhabited the very marrow of their every thought.
my Gd he was just 60 years old ? this is really sad, he seems like he just needed a nice person in his life to be with who really cared about him
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He DID have someone in his life. His boyfriend/partner was Jack Dunphy and they were together up until Truman's death.
@@retroguy9494 He did have ppl in his life that liked and loved him, but he betrayed them.
@@walkawayheatherene341 Well, if you're talking about those wealthy society women that he called his "swans" YES he did in a way betray them in his novella 'Le Cote Basque' by telling all their dirty little secrets. Its his attitude I didn't appreciate. They confided in him and his response was 'I'm a writer what the hell did they THINK would happen?'
At least when he died he was staying with a real friend, Johnny Carson's ex wife Joanne. She was a nurse and took care of him, and I read they went out and flew kites in the days before he passed and I think that's pretty beautiful.
I saw this live when it happened, it was mind blowing.
I will always admire and love him. ❤️🙏🏼
As will I. My Grandfather went to Greenwich High School with Truman. He was one year ahead of him. According to my Grandfather he was a poor student and was relentlessly bullied, but was smarter than anyone in school including most of the teachers.
It has been published only recently, but I can send you a scan of the original print.
For what?
He was quite young ! I always thought he was old,because he ran socially with older women,ant woman that was beautiful rich and talented,was in Mr.Capotes address book. My,he was remarkable.
At the poikt this was filmed he had already been cut off from most those friemds except lee, cz and miss carson
If you watch the movie Capote, you'll understand his alcoholic complications. It's actually quite sad to see how his life experience has effected him deeply as it has.
Thanks, one day I'll watch. I've watched Breakfast at Tiffany's based on the book.
@@NellieKAdaba Well, the movie is a lot different than the book. In the book, the narrator (Paul in the movie) is gay. He never falls in love with Holly and she simply leaves in the end. Its been said that the narrator is based on Capote himself in the 1940's. Its also suggested that Holly is bisexual. In 1960 you could not portray gay characters on screen so the entire thing was changed.
According to Andy Warhol's diary he was pissed off about one of his friends selling him out in a libel case against Gore Vidal. He made said person very unpopular by revealing what they had told him in secret about how they felt about various people.
Probably Lee Radziwill, no?
Very interesting and brilliant man that was some what tortured by past experiences. It was sad how he died
Capote, brillant writer....
Funny ... all you people commenting below how terrible it was that Siegel interviewed Capote and the network broadcast it ... yet y'all are here watching it ... hypocrites.
All is revealed in "Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era" by Laurence Leamer. Truman Capote lost himself in opportunistically exploiting and betraying a lot of his closest confidantes and best friends, and he was punished by being socially excluded from their hallowed presence in return. The book also exposes of the ugly underbelly of selfishness, duplicity, misery and fake values of the "beautiful people", the wealthy elite in high society.
Truman Capote drunk is like saying Truman Capote is Gay .
Surprised they let him on in that condition, very talented man (‘in cold blood’ and his short story compilations are wonderful reads) but he had totally lost control of his life by this point
Nothing surprises me about the media whores.
"in cold blood" was a real story...
@@LoyalOpposition yes of course it was ? Truman was responsible one of the most famous true crime novels ever written
That part where he says the obvious answer is I’ll kill myself without meaning to that gets me every time.😞
He had a colossal problem with benzos and talked about it many times. He also had a problem with alcohol. This looks more like a benzo waste than alcohol but I would bet both are involved.
It was both, plus another even worse monster, barbiturates. They don't make them anymore except for a few drugs. I took one it those for headaches, and two pills had me unable to stand up without swaying. That s why they used to be called 'wallbangers' and they feel like alcohol with more of a high feeling. I threw the bottle out after that experience!
Ludes
He wasn’t just drunk- pilled out af
This makes me sad...
Its capote. He gets ah pass.
Well, he'd be dead within a few months so . . . .
poor fellow. Just read Breakfast at Tiffany's. Wow! Excellent writer.
I watched the movie Capote years ago and I’m always interested in people that have issues with alcohol or drugs. That movie got me to read in cold blood, which is such a wonderful, well written book.
He’s so witty and his genius mind works amazingly even when he’s pilled out of his mind and drunk 24/7. Just crazy
I'm expecting an avalance of hits on this video after tonight's "Feud" episode. Stanley Siegel was the host who attempted to interview Truman, who was either drunk or pumped full of drugs.
That ending should've won an oscar.
g-d this is so sad i'm crying
Geez what is Siegel’s deal? Who’d ever want to open up to that heel.
Oh so someone bought the ashes at an auction and gave him a final resting place?? Ok good.
His voice sounded like it was on helium.
Not to mention his public drunk rant taking credit for to kill a mockingbird…the guy was a fiction himself
I've got to admit Capote's face and the long pause after the reporter asks "Have you been drinking?" was pretty hilarious
It made ME laugh too! Yet, I always got a big kick out of Truman. When he said "ohhhhhhhhh aaalllllllll-co-hol" I simply cracked up laughing. He must have still thought he was at Studio 54! LOL
Hilarious, no; tragic, yes…
he was very honest.
He was such an icon RIP this fucking GOD
The Schmercks- when you wake up the next morning after a drunk and cringe and wince at your behavior the night before. I bet this was a king sized case of the schmercks.
We call it beer fear where I’m from
They offer you a drink in the green room but your not suppose to down the whole bottle.
Siegel was an opportunistic rat, no matter how he paints it.
I love him just the way he... was.
Truman feels no pain
Tom Hollander is genius
Truman Capote is an American Star in the Literature World. It makes me sad to see him in this state. Where was a friend to stop him from doing this interview? David Siegel was a jerk.
PDUB OKC
He’d burned most of his bridges by that time, I think, because of his addictions/bad behaviors.
They shouldn’t have allowed him on.
Tom Hollander nailed this scene!
Truman Streckfus Persons (Nueva Orleans, 30 de septiembre de 1924-Los Ángeles, 25 de agosto de 1984), más conocido como Truman Capote, fue un literato y periodista estadounidense, autor de la novela Breakfast at Tiffany's (Desayuno en Tiffany's) (1958) y su novela-documento In Cold Blood (A sangre fría) (1966).
Why is everyone assuming it was alcohol? He suggested that he hadn't slept in 3 days...
supafly345
Oh come on !!!
Qualudes perhaps !!
I think he hadn't slept because he was on drugs, which everyone knows he imbibed in....he even ALLUDED to the fact that he did alcohol and more...
I am GLAD, though, that you are kind enough to assume it was an innocent mistake thinking that people thought he was drunk/on drugs....you are a good person!
supafly345 he revealed in a later interview it was tranquilizers
supafly345
Truman also enjoyed cocaine and was known to indulge in it often.
Gonna kill myself without meaning to when he said that it broke my heart.
Gave me chills]\]
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u mean very lightly???????
Pills.
Nie. On the nodd.
LOVE HIS WATCH
Title prays (my sorry, I'm Castillian just like Joyce'd say) "historical" and so you should honore this great writer ye gringos.
He had the damned right for appearing the way he wanted, that's why he was Capote. Big universities teach journalism nowadays by "Cold Blood".
He was just kinda Fuentes, Morrison, Garcia Marquez, Joyce himself, Hemingway, Proust… a human being.
But such a human being!
RIP Maestro Capote and forget those generations therefore and hereafter not loving you enough!
Next to the girl from Poltergeist.
Thank you Mama Termite
Never let the real truth ruin a good story””””” Truman
I once made him a double vodka at a friend’s apartment. Way back in the wild 70’s
He died at the home of Johnny Carson's ex Joanne.
doesnt have to be booze here...pills will do the same thing with the slurred words etc...
I remember watching this as it happened and even at a very young age, I knew this was a scumbag move by Stanley... It cost him his career.
Yeah. He's a POS you know what . . . Exploiter.
This is so typical of the genius creative type personalities! Tennessee Williams! Dorothy Parker! Actors actresses, singers! So many of the very greatest were the most tortured by life.
I mean....that's who you're referring to...how about Vincent van Gogh, da Vinci, Beethoven, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf..and many more brilliant troubled souls whom forever changed the world.
@@christopherone1 indeed so
He needed the Lord Jesus, just like anybody else.
I heard that Capote went on the Siegel show and trashed the socialites he kbew, just ranted about them. Maybe it was in this particular episode?
He wrote a entire book doing just that he was a terrible little fruit
Still looking stylish! Dude 'needed' to be on something because when he was on his game you better look out! Too smart and cunning for many...it would of been cool to see him get his writing going...look at True Crime or instant celebrity now.
Come on, he was not JUST drunk here...clearly he was also under the influence of downers, whether they were tranquilizers, muscle relaxers, or the very fashionable downer of this particular era, barbiturates (quaaludes are my guess).
“Eventually I’ll kill myself without meaning to….”: Prince, Basquiat, Michael Jackson, Hendrix, Joplin……..
Truman died at the 2nd Mrs. Johnny Carson's home in Los Angeles.
Robert Lothrop bullshit. Seen him in a movie about the book he wrote. In cold blood the book was called and the movie is about him researching this.
@@thomassttt9650 I would really like to inform you of some things, but first I'd like to know if you're being serious in your comment.
Thomas sttt
Of course, you *must* be joking, sir.
Our Media behaving unprofessional like Jane Pauly interviewing Super Star Dolly Parton in a patronizing way.
Yeah. Exploiting Truman here. Not helping.
He sounds like Shoenice.
He never should have been allowed to appear on television in this inebriation state: it is pure exploitation. .Yes, it is riveting, but in the horrific way a car crash captivates attention. Negatively.
And decades later the industry realize this sort of exploitation of people would make a great genre of television
Comment Number 104 As At January 13, 2022^^
I find this clip very sad. Capote suffered and died from Liver Disease. We are watching this unfold in this clip. We are watching a man destroying himself and in pain and needing dire help from alcohol and substance abuse to prevent his death. This is no joke.
He and Brando r very similar in how they speak and look, just saying
Hah 'The eye movement ...Thought the same watching the other Younger Vid of him talking about Drugs
Oh Lord. Capote is a genius, he's a good guy and sadlly, very tormented. mostly because of his experience writing IN COLD BLOOD. If he want to get smashed before an interview, more power to him. Actually,, the host was a bit of a bozo
The way his looking around I can Tell his on acid, payote or some other kind of heavy shir.
The narration comes off like a robotic mother.
What year was this interview ?
n nick the chinese year of the ram
@@thomassttt9650 so 1979?
Stanley Siegel is NOT a nice guy and certainly not a friend of Truman's. This is a conversation that should have taken place in private - maybe on the way to the hospital or detox clinic. Plus you don't help a person by asking: Have you been drinking. They will get immediately defensive and probably deny it. Of course he'd been drinking. Go ahead and ask the NEXT question: What can i do to help? (That is if you are really a friend and not an exploiter.)
Disgusted they brought him on and prodded him like a circus animal
Yes! F/ing media whore interviewer.
Sanctimonious...
HE was a genius, very artistic, he was not like some others normal people
And yet he was like any other ordinary alcoholic!
@@DG-mv6zw ALCOHOLISM IS A DISEASE, AND THAT´S NOT EXCLUDE HIS TALENT
Kind of exploitative.
Very sad.
Capote would NOT have had to do this interview, at a vulnerable time he was loaded. On what? No one seems to know. I looks like alcohol, but it could have been drugs like benzo's(like Xanax, Valium etc.) which he liked to indulge in. Someone should have at least postponed the interview until he was coherent enough to do it.
What a rude question. Clearly he was on something, but it's pure showbiz to confront someone at their weak point for a big audience reaction. Disgusting to use that cheap shot and squander a great/rare opportunity to learn more about his fantasic writing. Tres triste.