1 00:00:05,788 --> 00:00:07,525 [dog whimpering] 2 00:00:10,632 --> 00:00:12,669 [whimpering continues] 3 00:00:24,493 --> 00:00:26,363 [dog whimpering] 4 00:00:26,363 --> 00:00:30,237 I told Martha to throw these goddamn things away. 5 00:00:30,237 --> 00:00:31,841 Happy Rockefeller. 6 00:00:31,841 --> 00:00:34,546 It couldn't just be a girl from the secretarial pool. 7 00:00:34,546 --> 00:00:37,619 With you, it always has to be a monument to your fucking ego. 8 00:00:37,619 --> 00:00:39,322 Oh, so it's my fault? 9 00:00:39,322 --> 00:00:41,426 I'm not the one who told him everything. 10 00:00:41,426 --> 00:00:43,798 Of course I told him! 11 00:00:43,798 --> 00:00:45,802 He was there for me. Where were you? 12 00:00:45,802 --> 00:00:49,309 Have you ever wanted to have a conversation with me? 13 00:00:49,309 --> 00:00:51,146 No! 14 00:00:51,146 --> 00:00:53,417 Your bloated lack of discretion and-- 15 00:00:53,417 --> 00:00:55,789 What the fuck did we do to him? 16 00:00:55,789 --> 00:00:57,492 Other than roll out the red carpet 17 00:00:57,492 --> 00:01:00,164 so he could prance on twinkle toes into our world. 18 00:01:00,164 --> 00:01:02,769 He was a fucking guest! 19 00:01:02,769 --> 00:01:07,746 Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Lee... 20 00:01:07,746 --> 00:01:10,718 he leaves them practically alone. 21 00:01:12,922 --> 00:01:15,194 It's hatred. 22 00:01:15,194 --> 00:01:16,831 Pure hatred. 23 00:01:16,831 --> 00:01:18,634 [phone ringing] 24 00:01:18,634 --> 00:01:20,672 I feel like I'm going insane. 25 00:01:20,672 --> 00:01:23,410 He comes off far worse than any of you do. 26 00:01:23,410 --> 00:01:24,546 I need something. 27 00:01:24,546 --> 00:01:26,383 I need a pill. Where...? 28 00:01:26,383 --> 00:01:29,890 Martha, would you make Mrs. Paley a cup of tea, please? 29 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:31,494 Yes, you have a phone call, sir. 30 00:01:31,494 --> 00:01:32,863 [Bill] Thank you. I'll bring you a Valium. 31 00:01:32,863 --> 00:01:35,702 I don't want your fucking help. 32 00:01:35,702 --> 00:01:37,104 [door closes] 33 00:01:40,177 --> 00:01:41,647 You miserable little fuck. 34 00:01:41,647 --> 00:01:44,653 Don't call here again. Ever. 35 00:01:44,653 --> 00:01:46,590 You might as well move to Patagonia. 36 00:01:46,590 --> 00:01:48,828 That is how isolated you will be, 37 00:01:48,828 --> 00:01:50,799 starved of oxygen. 38 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:52,569 And I will watch. 39 00:01:52,569 --> 00:01:55,441 I will watch as you die alone. 40 00:01:55,441 --> 00:01:57,946 So go and die. 41 00:01:57,946 --> 00:01:59,783 [dial tone] 42 00:02:44,673 --> 00:02:46,710 ♪ ♪ 43 00:03:13,497 --> 00:03:15,534 ♪ ♪ 44 00:03:50,938 --> 00:03:52,975 ♪ ♪ 45 00:04:31,687 --> 00:04:33,724 [phone r 46 00:04:35,828 --> 00:04:37,865 [ringing continues] 47 00:04:47,417 --> 00:04:48,921 [Truman on answering machine] It's Truman. 48 00:04:48,921 --> 00:04:50,959 You know what to do, 49 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:54,933 so do it after the beep. Here it comes, the beep. 50 00:04:54,933 --> 00:04:56,770 [answering machine beeps] 51 00:04:56,770 --> 00:04:58,774 [James Baldwin] Mr. Capote, it's Jimmy Baldwin. 52 00:04:58,774 --> 00:05:00,912 If you are there, hiding behind some hideous piece 53 00:05:00,912 --> 00:05:03,951 of Ormolu furniture, please pick up. 54 00:05:03,951 --> 00:05:05,655 I'm counting. 55 00:05:05,655 --> 00:05:06,790 One. 56 00:05:06,790 --> 00:05:09,061 Two... 57 00:05:09,061 --> 00:05:10,932 [Truman] Hello, Mr. Baldwin. 58 00:05:10,932 --> 00:05:12,401 Mr. Mailer tells me you're despondent. 59 00:05:12,401 --> 00:05:14,105 Is this true? N'es pas? 60 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:16,409 Oui, j'suis desolé. 61 00:05:16,409 --> 00:05:21,687 I mean, stunned, shocked. 62 00:05:21,687 --> 00:05:23,658 I'm speechless. 63 00:05:23,658 --> 00:05:25,695 This is the worst time in my life. 64 00:05:25,695 --> 00:05:27,933 I think... 65 00:05:27,933 --> 00:05:31,807 I may have tried to kill myself last night. 66 00:05:31,807 --> 00:05:34,078 Let me turn this thing off, it's taping us. 67 00:05:34,078 --> 00:05:36,049 I don't need that. 68 00:05:36,049 --> 00:05:37,953 So the ladies who lunch 69 00:05:37,953 --> 00:05:39,957 are taking their pounds of flesh, are they? 70 00:05:39,957 --> 00:05:43,063 Oh, no. Not pounds. 71 00:05:43,063 --> 00:05:45,066 All of it. 72 00:05:46,870 --> 00:05:49,108 Flaying me alive. 73 00:05:49,108 --> 00:05:53,083 A concentrated effort to effectively ensure 74 00:05:53,083 --> 00:05:55,087 I am a social pariah. 75 00:05:55,087 --> 00:05:57,659 What are you doing right now? 76 00:05:57,659 --> 00:06:00,430 Well, I was standing at the window, 77 00:06:00,430 --> 00:06:02,535 thinking about throwing myself 78 00:06:02,535 --> 00:06:05,675 into the East River, frankly. 79 00:06:05,675 --> 00:06:08,547 Then you called. 80 00:06:08,547 --> 00:06:10,818 Let's meet for lunch. 81 00:06:12,855 --> 00:06:15,160 The scene of the crime, today, 1:00 sharp, I'll reserve. 82 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,464 [Truman] I don't want to go there. 83 00:06:17,464 --> 00:06:20,537 It's full of enemies. 84 00:06:22,007 --> 00:06:24,111 They might not even let me in. 85 00:06:24,111 --> 00:06:26,482 [James] What a story that would be. 86 00:06:26,482 --> 00:06:30,991 They can't refuse entry with this Black man, can they? 87 00:06:37,505 --> 00:06:40,010 They're all glowering. 88 00:06:40,010 --> 00:06:43,984 What if somebody comes over and starts a ghastly scene? 89 00:06:44,953 --> 00:06:47,024 Well, I'll just beat the living shit out of them. 90 00:06:47,024 --> 00:06:49,028 [laughing] 91 00:06:49,028 --> 00:06:50,765 Besides... 92 00:06:50,765 --> 00:06:53,604 you've had ghastly scenes here before, haven't you? 93 00:06:53,604 --> 00:06:56,744 Didn't that murderess spritz you with Chablis once? 94 00:06:56,744 --> 00:06:58,580 Sancerre, actually. 95 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:06,062 Mr. Capote, 96 00:07:06,062 --> 00:07:08,668 I am going to tell you some hard truths today. 97 00:07:08,668 --> 00:07:12,509 You're going to spend the day listening and learning from me. 98 00:07:12,509 --> 00:07:14,613 Class begins henceforth, baby. 99 00:07:14,613 --> 00:07:17,619 I'm not a very quick study, Jimmy. 100 00:07:17,619 --> 00:07:20,190 Then let's order some oysters. 101 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:23,029 Oh, what is this faux Basque shit? 102 00:07:23,029 --> 00:07:25,802 I've been to the Basque coast, darling, this is not Basque. 103 00:07:25,802 --> 00:07:28,740 This is New York continental frou-frou. 104 00:07:29,843 --> 00:07:32,982 - [sighs] - [James chuckles] 105 00:07:32,982 --> 00:07:35,788 Why are you being nice to me? 106 00:07:37,124 --> 00:07:40,932 We're friends, I mean, but we're not close friends. 107 00:07:40,932 --> 00:07:44,506 [waiter] Mr. Baldwin, I'm told you have a special request. 108 00:07:44,506 --> 00:07:47,077 Oh, yes, the best thing... the best thing I ever ate 109 00:07:47,077 --> 00:07:49,549 was at a place outside of Biarritz. 110 00:07:49,549 --> 00:07:51,854 Something called kokotxas. Do you know it? 111 00:07:51,854 --> 00:07:54,693 Ko-ko-txas? 112 00:07:54,693 --> 00:07:58,233 With cod cheeks in a salsa verde. 113 00:07:58,233 --> 00:08:01,272 Olive oil with fish stock, 114 00:08:01,272 --> 00:08:03,109 garlic, finely-chopped parsley, 115 00:08:03,109 --> 00:08:05,013 and it comes on this perfect crusty bread. 116 00:08:05,013 --> 00:08:06,215 Could you do something like that? 117 00:08:06,215 --> 00:08:07,719 We need to do something 118 00:08:07,719 --> 00:08:09,890 to bolster this man's flagging spirits. 119 00:08:09,890 --> 00:08:11,225 [waiter] Of course, sir. 120 00:08:11,225 --> 00:08:13,697 I have noticed that most minorities, 121 00:08:13,697 --> 00:08:17,204 Blacks, thank God, Asians, women, Jewish folk, 122 00:08:17,204 --> 00:08:20,878 they all have a community to turn to in their time of need. 123 00:08:20,878 --> 00:08:22,816 The homosexual, not so much. 124 00:08:22,816 --> 00:08:23,984 Not yet. 125 00:08:23,984 --> 00:08:25,855 You, me, Gore, Tenn, 126 00:08:25,855 --> 00:08:28,961 we are the only gay American men of letters pretty much. 127 00:08:28,961 --> 00:08:32,034 I'm not counting Frank O'Hara and Ginsburg 128 00:08:32,034 --> 00:08:35,106 because they are just poets. 129 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:38,012 Gore hasn't reached out to you, I'm guessing. 130 00:08:38,012 --> 00:08:41,887 [laughs] Gore? Are you kidding? 131 00:08:41,887 --> 00:08:45,862 He's dancing in joy at my misfortune, 132 00:08:45,862 --> 00:08:47,866 voodoo doll in hand. 133 00:08:47,866 --> 00:08:50,003 It's because he's jealous of you. 134 00:08:50,003 --> 00:08:51,774 I'm not jealous of you. 135 00:08:51,774 --> 00:08:55,147 Today, Truman, I am going to be your community. 136 00:08:55,147 --> 00:08:57,284 Because you need one. 137 00:08:57,284 --> 00:08:59,589 You are important to this country. 138 00:08:59,589 --> 00:09:00,758 Your words and ideas. 139 00:09:00,758 --> 00:09:03,631 As... as are yours. 140 00:09:03,631 --> 00:09:06,135 Well, we know that. We're not talking about me today. 141 00:09:06,135 --> 00:09:08,874 Your story is being dismissed as a... 142 00:09:08,874 --> 00:09:11,045 as a small salacious roman a clef. 143 00:09:11,045 --> 00:09:12,916 And it is much more than that. 144 00:09:12,916 --> 00:09:14,251 It is? 145 00:09:15,220 --> 00:09:17,057 I mean, it is. 146 00:09:17,057 --> 00:09:18,627 [chuckles softly] 147 00:09:18,627 --> 00:09:20,731 I want to know what you left out. 148 00:09:20,731 --> 00:09:24,906 All the awful things you could've said about the swans. 149 00:09:24,906 --> 00:09:27,578 Why do you want to know that? 150 00:09:28,814 --> 00:09:31,954 I'll tell you at the end of the day. 151 00:09:31,954 --> 00:09:33,791 Let's start with Babe. 152 00:09:33,791 --> 00:09:36,629 I know she's your favorite. 153 00:09:37,865 --> 00:09:39,669 [Bill] Can we please just talk about this in the bedroom? 154 00:09:39,669 --> 00:09:40,972 [Babe] What is there to talk about? 155 00:09:40,972 --> 00:09:43,042 Everyone overheard. 156 00:09:43,042 --> 00:09:44,679 Of course, you happened to slip in 157 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,215 that in between buying a Max Beckmann painting 158 00:09:46,215 --> 00:09:48,854 and a Max Ernst painting in Berlin, 159 00:09:48,854 --> 00:09:50,958 that you just fucked somebody. Listen to me! 160 00:09:50,958 --> 00:09:53,697 [Truman] It's the sex stuff that I revealed 161 00:09:53,697 --> 00:09:56,335 in my Sneak Peek magazine article that's made them mad. 162 00:09:56,335 --> 00:10:00,076 It's not the Bang Bang cruelty or even their funny names, 163 00:10:00,076 --> 00:10:02,815 it's the rough truth of it, it's Bill's affairs. 164 00:10:02,815 --> 00:10:04,786 [Babe] I don't know what matters more to him, 165 00:10:04,786 --> 00:10:07,257 the fuck or me knowing about it. 166 00:10:07,257 --> 00:10:09,663 ♪ ♪ 167 00:10:09,663 --> 00:10:12,100 ♪ How long has this been going on? ♪ 168 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:14,873 You think it's harmless, flirting with the help? 169 00:10:14,873 --> 00:10:17,244 Oh, it was hardly flirting, dear. 170 00:10:17,244 --> 00:10:18,714 Well, I was mortified. 171 00:10:18,714 --> 00:10:20,417 She has legs like a tree trunk. 172 00:10:20,417 --> 00:10:22,689 Why don't you cut one off and count the rings? 173 00:10:22,689 --> 00:10:26,262 If I wrote a book, it would be called Thieves I've Known. 174 00:10:26,262 --> 00:10:29,401 Starting with Betty Bacall, who stole my look. 175 00:10:29,401 --> 00:10:32,942 The fabric I found, gray flannel that I found? 176 00:10:32,942 --> 00:10:34,846 And any man I ever spent a night with, 177 00:10:34,846 --> 00:10:36,717 she had to do the same thing, 178 00:10:36,717 --> 00:10:38,253 until finally I heard from one of these guys that he couldn't 179 00:10:38,253 --> 00:10:40,423 tell the difference who he was fucking, her or me. 180 00:10:40,423 --> 00:10:44,131 - [laughter] - And what's left of me after everything's been stolen? 181 00:10:44,131 --> 00:10:46,302 "Formidable excellence" is how I'm described. 182 00:10:46,302 --> 00:10:48,908 - That's code for a dry hump. - [laughter] 183 00:10:48,908 --> 00:10:52,749 [Truman] I was trying to go after the men. 184 00:10:52,749 --> 00:10:54,285 Not the women. 185 00:10:54,285 --> 00:10:56,757 ♪ ♪ 186 00:10:56,757 --> 00:11:00,363 The truth, Jimmy, the thing that I could have written 187 00:11:00,363 --> 00:11:03,169 but didn't is that they all fuck everybody 188 00:11:03,169 --> 00:11:04,739 and get away with it. 189 00:11:04,739 --> 00:11:06,843 The affairs of the rich are different, 190 00:11:06,843 --> 00:11:09,181 but these women pillory anyone else who does so, 191 00:11:09,181 --> 00:11:11,018 as if they were above it all. 192 00:11:11,018 --> 00:11:14,158 Babe had many affairs in their apartment 193 00:11:14,158 --> 00:11:16,195 when Bill would go to L.A. 194 00:11:16,195 --> 00:11:17,899 for his programming trips. 195 00:11:17,899 --> 00:11:20,036 I even helped her pick out the outfits. 196 00:11:20,036 --> 00:11:22,140 One time, she wanted to dress up 197 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:24,946 - as a Hermes pirate for a lover. - [elevator dings] 198 00:11:24,946 --> 00:11:28,419 The men were always unsuitable. 199 00:11:28,419 --> 00:11:30,156 [bell dings] 200 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:32,761 [bell dings] 201 00:11:33,462 --> 00:11:35,166 Lee... 202 00:11:35,166 --> 00:11:38,039 Lee plays the part of America's original pilgrim, 203 00:11:38,039 --> 00:11:39,475 but she's a true slattern, 204 00:11:39,475 --> 00:11:41,913 voracious and predatory. 205 00:11:41,913 --> 00:11:43,483 But the worst is Slim. 206 00:11:43,483 --> 00:11:45,320 In the final years of her marriage, 207 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,759 she'd relegated Kenneth to the guest room 208 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:50,897 and brazenly paraded in a series of lovers. 209 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:56,843 And even C.Z., who is a human chastity belt, 210 00:11:56,843 --> 00:11:58,981 she had her time as a party girl. 211 00:11:58,981 --> 00:12:02,922 Does she not remember posing nude for Diego Rivera? 212 00:12:02,922 --> 00:12:06,763 Mostly, her lovers are the tiny vegetables she tends to. 213 00:12:06,763 --> 00:12:09,970 Because vegetables can't talk, or talk back. 214 00:12:09,970 --> 00:12:11,807 [Truman] I mean, there's a double standard. 215 00:12:11,807 --> 00:12:15,347 When the men get caught, oh, brother, hell to pay. 216 00:12:15,347 --> 00:12:16,950 But what do the men ever get 217 00:12:16,950 --> 00:12:18,821 for the women's indiscretions? Nothing. 218 00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:21,359 And in many ways the women are far, far worse. 219 00:12:21,359 --> 00:12:23,262 - [Babe] Darling... - [Truman] They make the men pay 220 00:12:23,262 --> 00:12:26,803 because the ultimate threat to the swans are younger women. 221 00:12:26,803 --> 00:12:29,174 And, God, do they hate them. [chuckles softly] 222 00:12:32,147 --> 00:12:34,484 Please excuse me while I throw up. 223 00:12:37,023 --> 00:12:38,893 [sighs] 224 00:12:47,444 --> 00:12:49,347 [inhales sharply] 225 00:12:53,924 --> 00:12:55,459 Babe? 226 00:12:57,030 --> 00:13:01,272 I hope you get this message, I hope Bill... 227 00:13:01,272 --> 00:13:03,275 doesn't erase it. 228 00:13:06,048 --> 00:13:08,554 I'm at Cote. 229 00:13:08,554 --> 00:13:10,557 And without you... 230 00:13:13,129 --> 00:13:15,099 ...it's nothing. 231 00:13:16,603 --> 00:13:18,873 Nothing even tastes good. 232 00:13:24,585 --> 00:13:27,390 I never meant to hurt you. 233 00:13:35,574 --> 00:13:38,112 - [phone clicks] - [coin jingles] 234 00:13:55,313 --> 00:13:57,283 [James] Why did you leave all that out? 235 00:13:58,653 --> 00:14:01,325 You know, fascinating fact, 236 00:14:01,325 --> 00:14:04,899 swans are actually terribly aggressive with one another. 237 00:14:04,899 --> 00:14:07,638 One race of swan hates the other. 238 00:14:07,638 --> 00:14:09,609 I read a bit about them 239 00:14:09,609 --> 00:14:11,212 before our lunch, dear man. 240 00:14:11,212 --> 00:14:12,982 The Beswick swan, for example, 241 00:14:12,982 --> 00:14:16,523 hates the Whooper with a kind of rabid passion. 242 00:14:16,523 --> 00:14:18,894 A Mute swan will do anything 243 00:14:18,894 --> 00:14:21,600 to eviscerate a Trumpeter swan and take its home, 244 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,104 even if the Trumpeter lived there first. 245 00:14:24,104 --> 00:14:26,943 A swan? Mm. 246 00:14:26,943 --> 00:14:28,514 It will kill if it can. 247 00:14:28,514 --> 00:14:29,949 [Truman] Yes. 248 00:14:29,949 --> 00:14:33,356 As they are trying to kill me. 249 00:14:33,356 --> 00:14:36,328 My swans, yes. 250 00:14:36,328 --> 00:14:38,934 And I think they might actually succeed. 251 00:14:38,934 --> 00:14:41,338 No, fuck them. No. 252 00:14:46,448 --> 00:14:48,118 Oh, thank you. 253 00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:52,360 My swans would never do this. 254 00:14:53,530 --> 00:14:56,101 Have lunch alone with a Black man. 255 00:14:56,101 --> 00:14:58,974 I am aware. This is not news. 256 00:14:58,974 --> 00:15:01,212 Maybe they just never thought they had to. 257 00:15:01,212 --> 00:15:03,951 But they are constitutionally by nature 258 00:15:03,951 --> 00:15:09,227 not curious enough to cross the imaginary barriers. 259 00:15:11,331 --> 00:15:14,672 Come out and say it. You can say it. 260 00:15:14,672 --> 00:15:18,647 Well, there is a... 261 00:15:18,647 --> 00:15:21,385 subtle racism below the surface 262 00:15:21,385 --> 00:15:23,189 of the water they swim in. 263 00:15:23,189 --> 00:15:26,362 Exactly. Your next chapter? 264 00:15:26,362 --> 00:15:27,999 Well, it's never overt, 265 00:15:27,999 --> 00:15:29,502 the racism, 266 00:15:29,502 --> 00:15:32,440 or the classism. 267 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,013 It's subtle, but it's... 268 00:15:35,013 --> 00:15:36,716 meant to convey one thing: 269 00:15:36,716 --> 00:15:39,689 I am a privileged, wealthy white woman 270 00:15:39,689 --> 00:15:42,294 and I am better than you. 271 00:15:42,294 --> 00:15:45,200 And the pecking order speaks volumes. 272 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,070 Blacks for labor, 273 00:15:47,070 --> 00:15:49,007 gays for entertainment, 274 00:15:49,007 --> 00:15:51,546 women for the men to look at, 275 00:15:51,546 --> 00:15:54,351 and all of us there to serve them. 276 00:15:54,351 --> 00:15:56,455 And the people next to her and Bill? 277 00:15:56,455 --> 00:15:59,427 White. Money. Power. 278 00:16:00,229 --> 00:16:03,402 Even Jack usually wasn't invited, 279 00:16:03,402 --> 00:16:06,408 too overtly homosexual, 280 00:16:06,408 --> 00:16:10,049 us together might upset the other guests. 281 00:16:10,818 --> 00:16:14,559 Oh, it stung me, those parties. It really did. 282 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:17,698 Okay, let's talk Bianca Jagger. 283 00:16:17,698 --> 00:16:19,569 Or rather let's not. 284 00:16:19,569 --> 00:16:21,305 I say we all get on the same page. 285 00:16:21,305 --> 00:16:23,309 Oh, she's fine for a dinner party, 286 00:16:23,309 --> 00:16:27,585 but you don't want her purring on your sofa. [laughs] 287 00:16:27,585 --> 00:16:31,358 [Truman] Does this have anything to do with Bianca's skin 288 00:16:31,358 --> 00:16:34,231 not being alabaster white? 289 00:16:34,231 --> 00:16:36,703 Of course they would argue no, 290 00:16:36,703 --> 00:16:39,207 they don't include Bianca because she's too loud, 291 00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:42,748 or some such other reason, but I think it does. 292 00:16:42,748 --> 00:16:46,088 They don't want to corrupt the pool. 293 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:49,629 Whites only. WASPs only. 294 00:16:49,629 --> 00:16:51,131 They're not even aware they're doing it, 295 00:16:51,131 --> 00:16:53,202 it's just that this kind of bigotry 296 00:16:53,202 --> 00:16:56,743 is so intrinsic to their world and who they are 297 00:16:56,743 --> 00:17:00,149 that they can't see it even when it's right in front of them. 298 00:17:00,149 --> 00:17:03,222 Let me tell you something, it's impossible for a white person 299 00:17:03,222 --> 00:17:04,759 or an American white person, 300 00:17:04,759 --> 00:17:09,067 to not be, in some fundamental sense, a racist. 301 00:17:09,802 --> 00:17:11,371 Mm. 302 00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:14,779 Well, I worry about what I'm not seeing. 303 00:17:14,779 --> 00:17:17,551 I spend so much time with them, 304 00:17:17,551 --> 00:17:19,656 how can I not be guilty as well? 305 00:17:19,656 --> 00:17:21,258 Well, you are of course, 306 00:17:21,258 --> 00:17:23,095 but the question is how you address it. 307 00:17:25,299 --> 00:17:28,372 I've always wondered at the great effort it seems to take 308 00:17:28,372 --> 00:17:31,412 a certain segment of society to work so hard 309 00:17:31,412 --> 00:17:34,819 to ignore what was happening. 310 00:17:34,819 --> 00:17:37,825 Their good work? Never meant for us. 311 00:17:37,825 --> 00:17:40,664 It's all for their world. 312 00:17:40,664 --> 00:17:43,670 No one else's. 313 00:17:43,670 --> 00:17:46,408 The Met, the Botanical Gardens, 314 00:17:46,408 --> 00:17:48,412 the New York Public Library, 315 00:17:48,412 --> 00:17:50,149 the Frick. 316 00:17:50,149 --> 00:17:53,656 It's for preservation of their monuments. 317 00:18:00,336 --> 00:18:02,273 Then let's go somewhere 318 00:18:02,273 --> 00:18:03,810 to brighten up the day a bit, my dear. 319 00:18:07,584 --> 00:18:09,253 [chuckles] 320 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:24,552 So, tell me something. 321 00:18:24,552 --> 00:18:27,591 Are you in love? Or dating anyone? 322 00:18:27,591 --> 00:18:30,764 Me? My love life has been a series of... 323 00:18:30,764 --> 00:18:33,570 arias, fumbles, 324 00:18:33,570 --> 00:18:35,908 half-finished sentences and a quick amour, 325 00:18:35,908 --> 00:18:38,814 and fleeing into the night. 326 00:18:38,814 --> 00:18:40,851 Living in Paris helps. 327 00:18:40,851 --> 00:18:43,222 Exile makes sex more felt. 328 00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:44,959 Mm. I remember that. 329 00:18:44,959 --> 00:18:47,430 You sleep with a sailor in Marseilles 330 00:18:47,430 --> 00:18:49,669 and you really get to know what a Frenchman is like, 331 00:18:49,669 --> 00:18:53,777 what he smells of, what he dreams of. 332 00:18:53,777 --> 00:18:55,446 Maybe I could just-- 333 00:18:55,446 --> 00:18:57,217 No, don't go. Stay. 334 00:18:57,217 --> 00:19:00,256 Stay here. 335 00:19:00,256 --> 00:19:01,926 It will feel like surrender to your adversaries. 336 00:19:01,926 --> 00:19:04,898 - They want you gone. - [Truman chuckles] 337 00:19:06,702 --> 00:19:09,408 Why did we never date? 338 00:19:09,408 --> 00:19:11,946 We were in Italy at the same time. 339 00:19:11,946 --> 00:19:14,619 We've circled each other... 340 00:19:14,619 --> 00:19:18,660 We would've murdered each other. 341 00:19:18,660 --> 00:19:23,168 Two flowers, no gardener, that's... [laughs] 342 00:19:24,905 --> 00:19:29,314 We are here to talk about the swans. 343 00:19:29,314 --> 00:19:31,686 I brought you here for a reason. 344 00:19:31,686 --> 00:19:34,792 From the collection of William S. Paley. 345 00:19:34,792 --> 00:19:38,465 Now, you tell me why. Why do they care so much about art? 346 00:19:39,702 --> 00:19:42,641 Well, they love to put their names on things, 347 00:19:42,641 --> 00:19:45,981 but they don't know how to love them, these things. 348 00:19:45,981 --> 00:19:49,254 They collect and collect and collect, 349 00:19:49,254 --> 00:19:50,958 the appetites are insatiable, 350 00:19:50,958 --> 00:19:53,797 but the swans are never full. 351 00:19:53,797 --> 00:19:56,770 They're like a starving person who keeps buying food 352 00:19:56,770 --> 00:19:59,007 only to tuck it away in their pantry 353 00:19:59,007 --> 00:20:01,780 and then the person says, "Why am I so hungry? 354 00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:05,419 My shelves are positively overflowing with food." 355 00:20:05,419 --> 00:20:06,823 [both chuckle] 356 00:20:06,823 --> 00:20:09,027 Everything the swans do is skin-deep. 357 00:20:09,027 --> 00:20:11,398 It's why they're not truly interesting people. 358 00:20:11,398 --> 00:20:13,937 Their situations are interesting, 359 00:20:13,937 --> 00:20:16,408 sure, their lives are fascinating, 360 00:20:16,408 --> 00:20:18,412 but they, themselves, are truly dull. 361 00:20:18,412 --> 00:20:19,882 They don't know what's going on in the world. 362 00:20:19,882 --> 00:20:21,619 They don't read anything 363 00:20:21,619 --> 00:20:25,025 except the Ladies' Home Journal or McCall's. 364 00:20:26,762 --> 00:20:30,403 It's funny because Lee really wanted to be an artist. 365 00:20:30,403 --> 00:20:32,708 She tried her hand at interior design. 366 00:20:32,708 --> 00:20:34,377 She has a great high style. 367 00:20:34,377 --> 00:20:36,749 She loved designing her own homes, 368 00:20:36,749 --> 00:20:38,520 ordering people about. 369 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,824 It never occurred to her that designing for other people 370 00:20:40,824 --> 00:20:42,795 would involve taking orders. 371 00:20:42,795 --> 00:20:44,397 I don't know, Lee. 372 00:20:44,397 --> 00:20:47,303 It's just not what we discussed. 373 00:20:51,546 --> 00:20:52,982 Well... 374 00:20:52,982 --> 00:20:55,654 what would you like me to do? 375 00:20:55,654 --> 00:20:57,925 Would you like me to go back to the Garment District 376 00:20:57,925 --> 00:21:02,000 and ask them to cut and hem a whole new set of drapes? 377 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,374 It's not what we discussed. 378 00:21:07,143 --> 00:21:08,713 [Truman] You know what it is? 379 00:21:08,713 --> 00:21:10,416 There's not one ounce of humility 380 00:21:10,416 --> 00:21:12,387 or empathy or compassion. 381 00:21:12,387 --> 00:21:14,357 They don't care about any of that. 382 00:21:14,357 --> 00:21:17,430 They only care that they appear to care about it. 383 00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:22,440 Tell me, in nature the one thing swans are good at is parenting. 384 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,547 [laughs] Let me tell you this. 385 00:21:25,547 --> 00:21:27,050 I said one time to C.Z., 386 00:21:27,050 --> 00:21:28,920 "Doesn't it bother you that the governess 387 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,090 sees your children more than you do?" 388 00:21:33,028 --> 00:21:35,968 And she replied without batting an eyelash, 389 00:21:35,968 --> 00:21:37,437 "Of course I see my children, 390 00:21:37,437 --> 00:21:39,675 I go fox hunting with them." 391 00:21:39,675 --> 00:21:41,880 All my swans are horrible mothers, 392 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,115 all of them. 393 00:21:43,115 --> 00:21:46,723 Babe is an interior woman. 394 00:21:46,723 --> 00:21:51,633 Sensitive and deep, but also deeply self-absorbed. 395 00:21:51,633 --> 00:21:54,705 Ruled by a need for order and perfection 396 00:21:54,705 --> 00:21:57,076 that no mortal can ever attain. 397 00:21:57,076 --> 00:21:59,380 [children laughing] 398 00:22:00,951 --> 00:22:05,961 I said chrysanthemums, not carnations. 399 00:22:05,961 --> 00:22:07,597 [whispering] Chrysanthemums. 400 00:22:10,102 --> 00:22:11,873 [laughter] 401 00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:15,547 Amanda, sweetie, send everyone home now, okay? 402 00:22:15,547 --> 00:22:16,950 I don't feel well. 403 00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:18,887 I need some quiet. 404 00:22:18,887 --> 00:22:20,524 Thank you, darling. 405 00:22:20,524 --> 00:22:22,093 [Truman] The woman is so preoccupied 406 00:22:22,093 --> 00:22:25,066 with her own world, she's not even aware of the way 407 00:22:25,066 --> 00:22:27,403 she's ravaged her children's lives. 408 00:22:27,403 --> 00:22:30,443 And get that buffoon out of my house. 409 00:22:30,443 --> 00:22:32,046 [chuckles] 410 00:22:32,046 --> 00:22:34,752 - [crashing] - Oh, my God. 411 00:22:34,752 --> 00:22:36,923 [Truman] But I always felt her pain. 412 00:22:36,923 --> 00:22:39,862 Felt she knew she wasn't cut out for motherhood. 413 00:22:39,862 --> 00:22:44,638 It was too overwhelming loving messy, living things. 414 00:23:06,147 --> 00:23:08,151 [sobbing] 415 00:23:11,525 --> 00:23:13,128 [sobs hysterically] 416 00:23:18,973 --> 00:23:24,150 You know, sometimes I'm jealous of people making art like this. 417 00:23:24,150 --> 00:23:27,223 You get to hide in that abstraction. 418 00:23:27,223 --> 00:23:31,465 I much prefer figuration. 419 00:23:31,465 --> 00:23:35,507 You know how the goddamn artist feels about the subject. 420 00:23:35,507 --> 00:23:39,715 Like those wonderful Dick Avedons he has out right now. 421 00:23:39,715 --> 00:23:43,857 He makes the Duchess of Windsor like a cadaver. 422 00:23:43,857 --> 00:23:47,063 He even makes his own father a gargoyle. 423 00:23:47,063 --> 00:23:52,206 Maybe this lopsided circle is filled with rage, too. 424 00:23:52,206 --> 00:23:55,246 Maybe that's his mother's smile when she's drunk. 425 00:23:55,246 --> 00:23:56,749 [chuckles] 426 00:23:56,749 --> 00:23:58,753 Art, most of the work in this building, 427 00:23:58,753 --> 00:24:03,496 is about anger, truth and revenge for something. 428 00:24:03,496 --> 00:24:06,736 Art is revenge, isn't it? 429 00:24:06,736 --> 00:24:08,205 And so you're saying...? 430 00:24:08,205 --> 00:24:10,176 Stop apologizing to them. 431 00:24:10,176 --> 00:24:12,815 To any of them. Defy them. 432 00:24:12,815 --> 00:24:14,752 Defy the foul fowls, 433 00:24:14,752 --> 00:24:17,524 the Trumpeter swans, the Tundra swans, 434 00:24:17,524 --> 00:24:19,060 the Black-necked swans. 435 00:24:19,060 --> 00:24:21,464 Truman, do you understand? 436 00:24:24,203 --> 00:24:26,509 People think I wanted to hurt them. 437 00:24:26,509 --> 00:24:28,178 And admit you did. 438 00:24:28,178 --> 00:24:31,953 Admit it and keep going because you... 439 00:24:31,953 --> 00:24:35,560 You are the toughest little faggot in this town, baby. 440 00:24:38,866 --> 00:24:41,238 But I don't like what I'm seeing lately. 441 00:24:41,238 --> 00:24:43,877 I don't like it when I see you on television 442 00:24:43,877 --> 00:24:46,582 showboating and incoherent. 443 00:24:46,582 --> 00:24:48,953 You're better than that. 444 00:24:51,592 --> 00:24:55,734 I drink, Jimmy, because... 445 00:24:55,734 --> 00:24:58,873 I've been wounded my... 446 00:24:58,873 --> 00:25:02,179 entire life, over and over. 447 00:25:05,219 --> 00:25:07,557 I'm in pain. 448 00:25:08,693 --> 00:25:10,597 I know you are. 449 00:25:10,597 --> 00:25:12,233 Truman, so am I. 450 00:25:12,233 --> 00:25:16,208 So is she and him and them over there, 451 00:25:16,208 --> 00:25:19,180 but none of us end up in a blackout on television, 452 00:25:19,180 --> 00:25:21,250 so why are you? 453 00:25:24,390 --> 00:25:26,294 Because I'm afraid. 454 00:25:26,294 --> 00:25:28,164 Of what? 455 00:25:30,135 --> 00:25:32,306 Everything. 456 00:25:34,645 --> 00:25:36,181 Abandonment. 457 00:25:36,181 --> 00:25:38,586 Or acceptance. 458 00:25:38,586 --> 00:25:40,857 In their world. 459 00:25:43,328 --> 00:25:46,735 Life with them, life without them. 460 00:25:48,271 --> 00:25:50,943 Both are unbearable. 461 00:25:52,981 --> 00:25:55,620 But, Truman, they have abandoned you. 462 00:25:55,620 --> 00:25:58,325 The worst has happened and here you are. 463 00:25:58,325 --> 00:26:00,897 The rest is up to you. 464 00:26:00,897 --> 00:26:03,636 I really could use 465 00:26:03,636 --> 00:26:05,973 a nice pick-me-up. 466 00:26:07,076 --> 00:26:10,316 A little goddamn drinky. 467 00:26:10,316 --> 00:26:12,119 - [James sighs] - Come on. 468 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,226 Okay, I do know a very unlikely place 469 00:26:15,226 --> 00:26:17,396 where the bartender is a shaman 470 00:26:17,396 --> 00:26:18,933 with a maraschino cherry and rye. 471 00:26:18,933 --> 00:26:21,171 - Mmm. - But, Truman... 472 00:26:21,171 --> 00:26:23,375 Two drinks only. 473 00:26:23,375 --> 00:26:26,916 Well, and who doesn't love a maraschino? 474 00:26:26,916 --> 00:26:28,686 [chuckles] 475 00:26:34,330 --> 00:26:37,103 From Cote to cocksucker bar in one lovely afternoon. 476 00:26:37,103 --> 00:26:39,808 How I love New York! 477 00:26:39,808 --> 00:26:42,180 This day is cheering me up. 478 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:43,883 Two drinks only, Truman. 479 00:26:43,883 --> 00:26:46,856 Really. Got to get ahold of this booze thing, man. 480 00:26:46,856 --> 00:26:48,325 - [groans] - It's your main problem. 481 00:26:48,325 --> 00:26:49,828 Drags you all the way down to hell. 482 00:26:49,828 --> 00:26:51,364 Oh, God, you're right, 483 00:26:51,364 --> 00:26:54,137 we would've killed each other if we'd been lovers. 484 00:26:54,137 --> 00:26:55,339 Two drinks. 485 00:26:55,339 --> 00:26:57,744 Then we're leaving, Truman. 486 00:26:57,744 --> 00:27:00,717 [rock music playing on jukebox] 487 00:27:00,717 --> 00:27:02,787 ♪ ♪ 488 00:27:08,298 --> 00:27:10,202 [Truman groans] Jimmy, I have to say this. 489 00:27:10,202 --> 00:27:12,841 Because you're a gentleman, you haven't brought it up. 490 00:27:12,841 --> 00:27:16,682 I-I am ashamed, I have been unkind. 491 00:27:16,682 --> 00:27:18,920 About whom? 492 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,356 You. 493 00:27:20,356 --> 00:27:23,095 Not really. A few picayune criticisms 494 00:27:23,095 --> 00:27:25,332 of my work here and there, mostly true. 495 00:27:25,332 --> 00:27:29,708 I've criticized you, Truman, but only with the intent to... 496 00:27:29,708 --> 00:27:31,478 educate and uplift. 497 00:27:31,478 --> 00:27:35,887 Yes, and your words sting because I admire you so. 498 00:27:35,887 --> 00:27:38,157 A criticism only hurts if you believe it. 499 00:27:39,093 --> 00:27:40,963 [chuckles softly] 500 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,386 My swans would never do this, what you're doing. 501 00:27:53,488 --> 00:27:56,161 In a crisis, in a time of treachery. 502 00:27:56,161 --> 00:27:58,331 No, no, no. 503 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:03,977 Because they compete and they are deeply disloyal. 504 00:28:03,977 --> 00:28:06,916 They may pretend to hate what I wrote about Ann, 505 00:28:06,916 --> 00:28:10,790 but they loathed her and they treated her savagely. 506 00:28:22,547 --> 00:28:24,818 [Ann] Hello, ladies. 507 00:28:24,818 --> 00:28:27,524 You are exactly who can answer this question. 508 00:28:27,524 --> 00:28:30,497 I'm supposed to be meeting Otto Preminger for lunch. 509 00:28:30,497 --> 00:28:33,068 He's now 20 minutes late. 510 00:28:33,068 --> 00:28:36,341 I mean, at what point do you just give up 511 00:28:36,341 --> 00:28:38,813 and order for yourself? 512 00:28:38,813 --> 00:28:40,282 Mind if I sit down? 513 00:28:40,282 --> 00:28:42,486 Oh, I wish you could, 514 00:28:42,486 --> 00:28:45,426 but we're being joined in just a second. 515 00:28:45,426 --> 00:28:48,365 What I would do is not sit and wait 516 00:28:48,365 --> 00:28:50,402 because clearly you can't dine alone. 517 00:28:50,402 --> 00:28:52,373 I would go home. 518 00:28:52,373 --> 00:28:56,114 [Babe] Yes. What you do in that situation is you send a note. 519 00:28:56,114 --> 00:28:58,151 You write it while you are sitting at home 520 00:28:58,151 --> 00:29:01,291 with your soup and sandwich, by yourself. 521 00:29:01,291 --> 00:29:04,296 Yes, that's exactly what you should do. 522 00:29:08,606 --> 00:29:12,380 So, I send a note, 523 00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:15,085 in which I tell him to go fuck himself, 524 00:29:15,085 --> 00:29:17,123 and then I heat up some sad soup 525 00:29:17,123 --> 00:29:19,527 and eat a half a tuna sandwich? 526 00:29:20,530 --> 00:29:22,868 In other words, 527 00:29:22,868 --> 00:29:24,905 get the fuck out of here? 528 00:29:24,905 --> 00:29:30,215 [laughs] Well, I would never have put it like that, but... 529 00:29:30,215 --> 00:29:33,822 I forget that you're not afraid to be vivid, are you? 530 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,155 The swans, they despise growing older. 531 00:29:50,155 --> 00:29:54,130 Once the bloom of youth began to fade, 532 00:29:54,130 --> 00:29:57,169 every one of them either underwent a brutal regime 533 00:29:57,169 --> 00:29:59,107 of fetal sheep cell injections 534 00:29:59,107 --> 00:30:00,877 or went under the knife. 535 00:30:00,877 --> 00:30:02,848 [James] What about yourself? 536 00:30:02,848 --> 00:30:06,221 You've succumbed to the same pressures and vanities, no? 537 00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:08,526 Well, it comes from a very dark place. 538 00:30:08,526 --> 00:30:11,231 [Lee] Have you seen Bill Blass lately? 539 00:30:11,231 --> 00:30:14,505 He looks like he's just come back from the fountain of youth. 540 00:30:14,505 --> 00:30:16,408 [Truman] One person gets something done, 541 00:30:16,408 --> 00:30:18,345 everyone else has to follow suit. 542 00:30:18,345 --> 00:30:21,284 Are you really relying on your wit 543 00:30:21,284 --> 00:30:23,321 to keep you in the game, Truman? 544 00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:25,960 I saw you on Cavett last weekend, 545 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,533 and Lord knows I'd want somebody to tell me. 546 00:30:28,533 --> 00:30:32,541 You're looking awfully weathered, to put it politely. 547 00:30:32,541 --> 00:30:35,245 And... And fat. 548 00:30:35,245 --> 00:30:37,316 I'm saying this because I love you to death 549 00:30:37,316 --> 00:30:40,990 and you're so often on television these days. 550 00:30:40,990 --> 00:30:44,130 More visible than ever. 551 00:30:44,130 --> 00:30:49,541 I think you might want to do something, my dear. 552 00:30:49,541 --> 00:30:51,946 [Truman] Someone raises the stakes, you ante up 553 00:30:51,946 --> 00:30:54,317 or you risk being thrown from the table. 554 00:30:54,317 --> 00:30:57,289 And they don't eat. None of them eat. 555 00:30:57,289 --> 00:31:00,497 They live on air, water, 556 00:31:00,497 --> 00:31:04,336 tiny portions of very rare meats. 557 00:31:10,716 --> 00:31:12,520 ♪ ♪ 558 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:40,543 A life without appetites is a life without joy. 559 00:31:42,246 --> 00:31:43,950 - No. - Cas... 560 00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:45,085 Oh, come on. 561 00:31:45,085 --> 00:31:47,624 No, it's time to get you home. 562 00:31:47,624 --> 00:31:50,128 Our two drinks are over. 563 00:31:51,632 --> 00:31:53,936 [sighs] 564 00:31:56,742 --> 00:31:59,080 Are you going to tell me what this day was all about? 565 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,482 Mm. 566 00:32:00,482 --> 00:32:02,654 All in good time. 567 00:32:02,654 --> 00:32:06,695 ["Eres tú" by Mocedades playing] 568 00:32:15,045 --> 00:32:18,018 [ice rattling] 569 00:32:18,018 --> 00:32:21,191 Now, it's just grapefruit juice for our little nightcap, right? 570 00:32:21,191 --> 00:32:23,361 Because last call was at the bar, Truman. 571 00:32:23,361 --> 00:32:25,165 Yes, yes. 572 00:32:30,543 --> 00:32:33,114 Shocking how little flavor grapefruit 573 00:32:33,114 --> 00:32:36,622 has all by itself, isn't it? [chuckles] 574 00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:39,327 Tell me more swan facts. 575 00:32:39,327 --> 00:32:41,999 I had so much fun at the library. 576 00:32:41,999 --> 00:32:43,603 Y-You must know that a full one-fifth 577 00:32:43,603 --> 00:32:46,140 of male swans are homosexual? 578 00:32:46,140 --> 00:32:48,746 Mm. Well, it makes sense. 579 00:32:48,746 --> 00:32:51,585 Swans are so comme il faut. 580 00:32:51,585 --> 00:32:55,593 Yes, and they couple, even raise cygnets together, 581 00:32:55,593 --> 00:32:58,699 and are far more successful than the straights. 582 00:32:58,699 --> 00:33:01,471 80% of the children of gay swans live, 583 00:33:01,471 --> 00:33:04,578 as opposed to something like 30% of the heterosexual ones. 584 00:33:04,578 --> 00:33:07,416 A lady swan might join them, I kid you not, 585 00:33:07,416 --> 00:33:09,387 for a ménage, and then go off, 586 00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:12,326 and the two gents raise the babies. 587 00:33:12,326 --> 00:33:15,567 Why do they thrive so well, their kids? 588 00:33:15,567 --> 00:33:18,305 The gay swans are stronger, you see. 589 00:33:18,305 --> 00:33:21,277 They are more able to provide. 590 00:33:21,277 --> 00:33:22,713 Hmm. 591 00:33:24,149 --> 00:33:27,456 Can you imagine all the successful, 592 00:33:27,456 --> 00:33:31,263 gay New York artists and writers as swans? 593 00:33:33,234 --> 00:33:37,309 Tenn, Frank O'Hara, Ginsburg, Albee, 594 00:33:37,309 --> 00:33:39,547 even Gore, Andy, and so on. 595 00:33:41,150 --> 00:33:43,388 Perhaps your next ball? 596 00:33:43,388 --> 00:33:45,560 I'm going to heat up those crab cakes. 597 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,661 [grunts] 598 00:33:48,298 --> 00:33:49,635 Do you need more juice? 599 00:33:49,635 --> 00:33:52,206 I'm fine. 600 00:33:52,206 --> 00:33:55,178 - Just juice, Tru. - Mm. 601 00:33:56,682 --> 00:33:58,451 [bottle opens] 602 00:33:58,451 --> 00:34:01,090 [drink pours] 603 00:34:01,090 --> 00:34:02,694 [refrigerator closes] 604 00:34:02,694 --> 00:34:04,429 [sighs] 605 00:34:06,802 --> 00:34:08,773 Truman. 606 00:34:08,773 --> 00:34:11,176 Hey, man. 607 00:34:12,647 --> 00:34:14,349 Yes. Okay. 608 00:34:16,655 --> 00:34:20,161 I need vodka. I just do. 609 00:34:21,130 --> 00:34:24,771 I know, I understand. 610 00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,708 I do. 611 00:34:28,411 --> 00:34:30,448 I understand. 612 00:34:34,724 --> 00:34:37,764 Sit down and listen to me. 613 00:34:37,764 --> 00:34:39,568 It is time for our 11:00 number, Mr. Capote, 614 00:34:39,568 --> 00:34:41,705 the reason I gave you this day, 615 00:34:41,705 --> 00:34:43,341 one of my few days in New York 616 00:34:43,341 --> 00:34:45,713 before I fuck off back to France. 617 00:34:47,482 --> 00:34:49,755 Close your eyes, just for a second, 618 00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:52,827 until you see a glimmer 619 00:34:52,827 --> 00:34:56,167 of your great gargantuan, enormous worth and gifts 620 00:34:56,167 --> 00:34:59,407 which you have criminally lost sight of in your sickness. 621 00:34:59,407 --> 00:35:02,279 In your disease, which you reek of. 622 00:35:02,279 --> 00:35:05,419 Yes, you threw away the ten years 623 00:35:05,419 --> 00:35:07,156 since you published In Cold Blood, 624 00:35:07,156 --> 00:35:09,360 you jettisoned your unparalleled ability to paint hell. 625 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,297 I cannot blame you. 626 00:35:11,297 --> 00:35:13,234 In Cold Blood would have flattened anyone. 627 00:35:13,234 --> 00:35:15,840 I don't know what you sold to the devil to write it, 628 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,744 but let me tell you a secret. 629 00:35:17,744 --> 00:35:21,417 You can steal whatever the devil took right back. 630 00:35:21,417 --> 00:35:26,227 The moment you are born, Mr. Capote, 631 00:35:26,227 --> 00:35:28,231 the process of our dying begins. 632 00:35:28,231 --> 00:35:30,703 Ticktock, ticktock. 633 00:35:30,703 --> 00:35:33,475 And as the years go on, the dying accelerates 634 00:35:33,475 --> 00:35:36,447 until the final breath, and then silence. 635 00:35:36,447 --> 00:35:39,587 That is the order of the universe. 636 00:35:51,477 --> 00:35:56,522 This life, Truman, is vicious and dark, 637 00:35:56,522 --> 00:35:58,425 and you and me, we are angels 638 00:35:58,425 --> 00:36:02,466 sent here to light it on fire, and illuminate. 639 00:36:02,466 --> 00:36:04,905 Some of us, some of us real swans, 640 00:36:04,905 --> 00:36:08,546 not those fake dime store porcelain trinkets 641 00:36:08,546 --> 00:36:12,687 that you call swans, some of us, like you and me, 642 00:36:12,687 --> 00:36:14,758 we are given a torch, 643 00:36:14,758 --> 00:36:16,695 and your job was to keep it alight, 644 00:36:16,695 --> 00:36:20,469 it was to endure it and write the world. 645 00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:23,341 Goddamn it, Mr. Capote, 646 00:36:23,341 --> 00:36:25,847 your work isn't even half done, 647 00:36:25,847 --> 00:36:28,953 you have miles to go. 648 00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:30,790 Your fucking torch is still lit. 649 00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:33,896 Faint motherfucking glow, but it is still lit. 650 00:36:33,896 --> 00:36:37,604 The lunches and the trips and the soufflés 651 00:36:37,604 --> 00:36:40,342 and the yachts, and the nausea of demented privilege 652 00:36:40,342 --> 00:36:42,580 with these pathetic creatures are over. 653 00:36:42,580 --> 00:36:45,686 Their world, you captured it forever 654 00:36:45,686 --> 00:36:49,895 and everybody knows what you wrote, 655 00:36:49,895 --> 00:36:51,498 it's a dictionary of disgust, 656 00:36:51,498 --> 00:36:53,334 a thesaurus of American nausea, 657 00:36:53,334 --> 00:36:56,674 and I promise you: one day it will be seen. 658 00:36:57,910 --> 00:37:01,350 But you got to finish what you began, baby. 659 00:37:10,335 --> 00:37:13,041 That is your obligation, 660 00:37:13,041 --> 00:37:16,280 just as mine is to do everything I can do 661 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,487 to change my world. 662 00:37:19,487 --> 00:37:22,459 You got to do that, too. 663 00:37:22,459 --> 00:37:24,831 What is your obligation? 664 00:37:36,521 --> 00:37:38,390 [quietly sobs] 665 00:37:40,461 --> 00:37:42,398 It's not over? 666 00:37:45,104 --> 00:37:47,409 - It's not too late? - Too late? 667 00:37:47,409 --> 00:37:51,483 Baby, you set the table, now have the meal. 668 00:37:53,421 --> 00:37:56,595 Cote Basque is to be a chapter in your story 669 00:37:56,595 --> 00:37:58,866 of how the ruling class dies. 670 00:37:58,866 --> 00:38:02,907 So, keep going until you've killed all of them, Truman. 671 00:38:04,944 --> 00:38:07,883 Truman, don't you get it? 672 00:38:11,958 --> 00:38:16,100 Your book, it is your firing squad 673 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:18,404 that killed the Romanoffs, 674 00:38:18,404 --> 00:38:22,947 it's your guillotine that beheaded Marie Antoinette. 675 00:38:22,947 --> 00:38:27,624 This is your slave revolt, 676 00:38:27,624 --> 00:38:30,596 it's your Rite of Spring ushering in a new world, 677 00:38:30,596 --> 00:38:32,567 your Oppenheimer bomb, 678 00:38:32,567 --> 00:38:36,406 your Shiva "I am destroyer of worlds." 679 00:38:40,481 --> 00:38:42,385 [chuckles] 680 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,158 Hmm. 681 00:38:45,158 --> 00:38:47,830 Now go to bed. 682 00:38:47,830 --> 00:38:50,936 You have more bends in your river. 683 00:38:53,875 --> 00:38:56,714 Wake up without your hangover. 684 00:38:58,518 --> 00:39:02,694 Shower, shave, and put on the most comfortable sweater. 685 00:39:02,694 --> 00:39:04,598 Have someone go out and get you 686 00:39:04,598 --> 00:39:07,570 some great bad bacon, egg and cheese thing 687 00:39:07,570 --> 00:39:09,473 from the nearest deli. 688 00:39:09,473 --> 00:39:13,615 And you get back to work. 689 00:39:14,951 --> 00:39:17,623 The light is dimming. 690 00:39:18,592 --> 00:39:21,097 But you're still here. 691 00:39:21,097 --> 00:39:24,537 Your light is still shining. 692 00:39:28,444 --> 00:39:30,081 [sighs] 693 00:39:31,718 --> 00:39:33,589 [door opens] 694 00:39:33,589 --> 00:39:35,391 [door closes] 695 00:39:42,205 --> 00:39:43,440 [Truman exhales] 696 00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:50,823 [commercial pl 697 00:39:50,823 --> 00:39:52,660 [TV turns off] 698 00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:07,823 [phone ringing] 699 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,470 [James] Did I wake you? 700 00:40:14,470 --> 00:40:15,973 I'm headed back to Paris, 701 00:40:15,973 --> 00:40:17,910 I just decided to take the night flight. 702 00:40:17,910 --> 00:40:19,781 You're leaving now? 703 00:40:19,781 --> 00:40:22,052 James, thank you. 704 00:40:22,052 --> 00:40:25,726 I'm getting ready to sleep. I'm okay, I think. 705 00:40:25,726 --> 00:40:27,764 Thank you. 706 00:40:27,764 --> 00:40:30,101 And, Truman, there's one final bit of swan lore 707 00:40:30,101 --> 00:40:31,638 I forgot to tell you. 708 00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:33,575 Oh, okay. 709 00:40:33,575 --> 00:40:35,980 You see, in England, the queen owns all the swans, 710 00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:39,153 all the unmarked Mute swans in wild waters there 711 00:40:39,153 --> 00:40:41,625 and it's been that way since the 12th century. 712 00:40:41,625 --> 00:40:43,929 The rich and the royal, they feasted on so many of them, 713 00:40:43,929 --> 00:40:45,666 they were disappearing. 714 00:40:45,666 --> 00:40:48,906 Served as centerpieces in their skin and feathers, 715 00:40:48,906 --> 00:40:52,279 with a lump of blazing incense in the beak at Christmas. 716 00:40:52,279 --> 00:40:54,884 "A lump of blazing incense"? 717 00:40:54,884 --> 00:40:56,955 If she wanted to now, the queen is still the only person 718 00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:58,826 who could legally eat a swan in England. 719 00:40:58,826 --> 00:41:01,598 That's wonderful. 720 00:41:01,598 --> 00:41:03,869 I thought you'd appreciate it. 721 00:41:03,869 --> 00:41:06,207 It's time for my flight, Truman, I've got to go. 722 00:41:06,207 --> 00:41:09,213 But you take care now, you hear? 723 00:41:09,213 --> 00:41:11,183 Remember what I said. 724 00:41:11,183 --> 00:41:12,954 Thank you. 725 00:41:12,954 --> 00:41:14,489 [line clicks] 726 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,518 ♪ ♪ 727 00:41:37,837 --> 00:41:39,640 [coffee maker burbling] 728 00:41:47,890 --> 00:41:49,025 Mm. 729 00:42:05,659 --> 00:42:07,062 [Truman] What have I been eating? 730 00:42:07,062 --> 00:42:09,968 An occasional egg sandwich and some spinach. 731 00:42:09,968 --> 00:42:11,571 I don't know, I've been in a trance 732 00:42:11,571 --> 00:42:13,609 for three days, Jack, I tell you. 733 00:42:13,609 --> 00:42:16,013 The words, t-the pain and the rage, 734 00:42:16,013 --> 00:42:18,284 is just pouring out of me. 735 00:42:18,284 --> 00:42:21,257 About the swans, about who they are, 736 00:42:21,257 --> 00:42:25,633 who they really are behind the plumage. 737 00:42:25,633 --> 00:42:27,904 It's my best writing. 738 00:42:27,904 --> 00:42:31,143 Jack, I've almost finished the book. 739 00:42:31,143 --> 00:42:33,882 They think "La Cote Basque 1965" was bad? 740 00:42:33,882 --> 00:42:35,886 Just wait for this. [chuckles] 741 00:42:35,886 --> 00:42:38,926 I was reading some passages this morning to Joanne Carson, 742 00:42:38,926 --> 00:42:40,963 and she called Johnny, and he wants me to give 743 00:42:40,963 --> 00:42:44,036 an entire week performing morsels every night. 744 00:42:44,036 --> 00:42:46,040 And I said I'd do it. 745 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,179 - This is my return. - [clattering] 746 00:42:49,179 --> 00:42:51,016 Jack, I have to call you back. 747 00:42:51,016 --> 00:42:52,920 Talk soon. 748 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,757 Matty? Is everything okay in there? 749 00:42:54,757 --> 00:42:56,327 [Matt] Yeah. All good. Sorry. 750 00:42:56,327 --> 00:43:00,134 Uh, just the... thing fell. 751 00:43:00,134 --> 00:43:02,673 Well, are we almost ready? I'm famished. 752 00:43:02,673 --> 00:43:04,409 Yes. I hope it's good. 753 00:43:04,409 --> 00:43:07,650 Uh, I've never made anything like this before. 754 00:43:07,650 --> 00:43:10,188 Uh, but I did my best. 755 00:43:10,188 --> 00:43:12,359 Honey, I'm sure it's divine. 756 00:43:12,359 --> 00:43:13,795 You've been my favorite waiter 757 00:43:13,795 --> 00:43:15,331 at Tavern on the Green for years, 758 00:43:15,331 --> 00:43:18,672 and you have aspirations of being a chef, no? 759 00:43:18,672 --> 00:43:21,778 Yes, I-I'm going to culinary school. 760 00:43:21,778 --> 00:43:25,251 Well, then this is an opportunity of a lifetime. 761 00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:27,957 Red or white? 762 00:43:27,957 --> 00:43:30,829 Oh, no, thank you, dear. I'm not drinking. 763 00:43:30,829 --> 00:43:33,167 Not until I finish the book. 764 00:43:38,143 --> 00:43:40,916 ["Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626" by Henry Purcell playing] 765 00:43:40,916 --> 00:43:43,287 ♪ ♪ 766 00:43:52,238 --> 00:43:54,944 [clattering from kitchen] 767 00:44:03,862 --> 00:44:07,002 Tell me again how you did it. 768 00:44:07,002 --> 00:44:10,341 I want to remember this forever. 769 00:44:10,341 --> 00:44:13,147 Uh, okay. 770 00:44:13,147 --> 00:44:14,751 I went to Central Park, 771 00:44:14,751 --> 00:44:18,491 just like you said, in the dead of night. 772 00:44:18,491 --> 00:44:20,361 [clears throat] Um... 773 00:44:20,361 --> 00:44:22,465 And they were all sleeping there together, 774 00:44:22,465 --> 00:44:25,371 but then I saw this big one kind of off to the side. 775 00:44:25,371 --> 00:44:27,877 And I-I snuck up real slow, 776 00:44:27,877 --> 00:44:30,481 and grabbed it by the neck. 777 00:44:30,481 --> 00:44:34,423 It-it kept moving even after I, uh... snapped it. 778 00:44:34,423 --> 00:44:37,194 Did it attack you? 779 00:44:38,163 --> 00:44:40,234 [gasps softly] 780 00:44:40,234 --> 00:44:44,176 Uh, I used ginger 781 00:44:44,176 --> 00:44:46,146 because the other spice in the recipe, 782 00:44:46,146 --> 00:44:48,885 "galangala," doesn't exist anymore I think. 783 00:44:48,885 --> 00:44:51,222 Do you mean galangal? 784 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,866 You did well. 785 00:44:55,866 --> 00:44:57,869 Very well. 786 00:44:59,807 --> 00:45:02,279 I'm going to throw in an extra hundred bucks 787 00:45:02,279 --> 00:45:04,115 for those war wounds. 788 00:45:10,227 --> 00:45:12,298 ♪ ♪ 789 00:45:28,798 --> 00:45:30,835 ♪ ♪ 790 00:45:40,922 --> 00:45:42,960 ♪ ♪