And so he took refuge in booze and pills, pills and booze.”īuckley was oddly prescient in focusing on Capote as a creature of film, since more than three decades after his death, the controversial author has become known to younger Americans primarily through two biopics, Capote in 2005 and Infamous in 2006. He seemed astonished, at first, that old friends hung up the telephone when he called, and that others took trouble to avoid him. “It collected brilliantly and with relish related every ugly fact and rumor about New York’s glitterati that Truman Capote, in years of knowing and mixing with them, had assembled. “That work finished Truman Capote’s social life as decisively as a hangman’s trapdoor,” Buckley told readers. Shortly before Murder by Death entered production, Capote had published a portion of Answered Prayers, his unfinished novel, in Esquire. The plot, in which many wanted the worst for Twain, seemed a wry case of art imitating life. Buckley instead recalled a 1976 visit to the set of Neil Simon’s campy mystery movie, Murder by Death, which featured Capote as homicide victim Lionel Twain.
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