![]() Other Oscar-nominated and winning actresses are being approached to star alongside Watts playing Capote’s Socialite Swans, including Slim, Pamela, Lee, Gloria and C.Z., as well as Johnny Carson’s second wife Joanne Carson, a good friend of Capote’s who remained close to him until his death. ![]() Worldwide search is underway for an actor to play Capote in Capote’s Women. Its publication destroyed Capote’s friendships, with all of his swans cutting him off, as well as his reputation and his social standing. La Côte Basque‘s characters were thinly disguised versions of Capote’s female confidants and exposed their shocking secrets and scandals, from adultery to murder. The list of top socialites in his inner circle included Babe Paley, wife of CBS head Bill Paley, who will be played by Watts in Feud: Capote’s Women Slim Keith Pamela Churchill Harriman, ex-wife of Winston’s son and future wife of Slim’s husband Lee Radziwill, sister of Jackie Kennedy Gloria Guinness and C.Z. The piece was intended to be a chapter in Capote’s infamous unfinished novel “Answered Prayers,” his followup to the blockbuster “In Cold Blood.”įollowing the enormous success of “In Cold Blood,” Capote was the toast of New York high society who counted the city’s most beautiful, stylish, and wealthy women as close friends, his swans. It chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author as he stabs several of his female friends - whom he called his “swans” - in the back by publishing a roman à clef short story called “La Côte Basque 1965” in Esquire in 1975. ![]() An adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era,” the miniseries is set in the 1970s, and ends with Truman Capote’s death in 1984. ![]()
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