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Truman Capote

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    It's Hard As Hell To Party Like Its the 1940s (Census)

    Ancestry.com and its little green leaves can take a hike. Yesterday, the National Archives flicked on the switch for the 1940 census, marking the end of 72 years of confidentiality that held the records back from the public. In less than four hours, the site was paralyzed after being hit with 22 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2012

    Brooklyn Heights House Where Truman Capote Wrote His Breakfast Sells

    Well, there goes your dream of living like Truman Capote, or at least in his former dwelling. The Brooklyn Heights home where Capote wrote his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's sold for about $12 million, an amount that constitutes what the Daily News calls the "highest price for a single-family home i ... More >>

  • News

    February 22, 2012

    Andy Warhol's New York, 25 Years On

    Looking for signs of the artist a quarter-century after he disappeared

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Daily News Publishes Tasteful Naked Photo of Truman Capote

    ​The New York Daily News launched a blog about literature and publishing today called Page Views. So far it has three posts: one introductory post from each editor and also a nude photo of Truman Capote lounging in a towel. As if a tabloid with a lit blog wasn't novel enough!

  • Film

    November 9, 2011

    After the Murders, Before the Death Penalty, Into the Abyss

    ​The New York Daily News launched a blog about literature and publishing today called Page Views. So far it has three posts: one introductory post from each editor and also a nude photo of Truman Capote lounging in a towel. As if a tabloid with a lit blog wasn't novel enough!

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Truman Capote's House On Sale at Rock-Bottom Prices!

    70 Willow Street ​Run, don't walk to go buy Truman Capote's former home in Brooklyn Heights. The property at 70 Willow Street where Capote once drank martinis all afternoon long has been on the market for some time, but as Curbed noted today, the asking price has taken a dive from $18 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Breakfast at Tiffany's Screening Protested for Racism

    ​"Moon River" by the river? Maybe not. An online petition is asking people to boycott the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's August 11 Syfy Movies With A View showing of the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Calling the film "horribly offensive" in the petition, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    The 10 Best Bitchy Comments Of All Time

    ​Who would know better than me? The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows: 10) "She doesn't write, she types!" (Gore Vidal re popular author Jackie Susann) 9) "She looks like a truck driver in drag." (Truman Capote re the very same ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    What the Great Gay Authors Ate

    In many cases, gay authors are also aesthetes, and who'd be surprised to learn that they often take an enthusiastic interest in food? (Read about this week's Big Gay Food Blog here.) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ​Even by modern standards, Wilde was flamboyantly "out." He toured America in velvet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Truman Capote Was Adorable Yet Evil

    ​Socialite Slim Keith was one of author Truman Capote's favorite "swans--i.e. uptown beauties--in the 50s and 60s, but as such, she definitely suffered some animal abuse from the famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. In Slim's memoirs, she reveals that Capote was impishly ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2011

    Hey, Boo: A Cinematic Mash Note to Harper Lee and her Mockingbird

    ​Socialite Slim Keith was one of author Truman Capote's favorite "swans--i.e. uptown beauties--in the 50s and 60s, but as such, she definitely suffered some animal abuse from the famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. In Slim's memoirs, she reveals that Capote was impishly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical

    One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Anthony Bourdain Advises Official Foodie Handbook Co-Author to 'Brush Off the Cat Hair'

    Bourdain, without cat hair.​Earlier today, the Guardian held a live chat with Anthony Bourdain on its website. Numerous members of the British populace clamored to ask him questions. Among them was Paul Levy, a writer who is best known for inflicting the word "foodie" upon the world as the co- ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 8, 2010

    Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs+She Keeps Bees+Leisurely

    Bourdain, without cat hair.​Earlier today, the Guardian held a live chat with Anthony Bourdain on its website. Numerous members of the British populace clamored to ask him questions. Among them was Paul Levy, a writer who is best known for inflicting the word "foodie" upon the world as the co- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    New York Tale: Loyal Butler Scores $8.4M Estate

    ​There's a classic New York tale in the Wall Street Journal's new Greater New York section and it's one that's got to set teeth on edge over at the rival Times for a couple of reasons. The story's about how a loyal immigrant butler -- one Indra Tamang who was raised in a "mud house in a farmi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    When Gays Make Other Gays Uncomfortable

    ​Let's talk some more about Leslie Jordan's fun one-man show, My Trip Down The Pink Carpet, at the Midtown Theater. The pint-sized pixie talks about growing up as an effeminate southern child and yet wanting to vomit every time effeminate, southern Truman Capote popped up on the TV screen and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    IN THE HEIGHTS

    Where pearls and a cigarette holder look classy, not crazy

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Clip Job: Mekas Talks to the Maysles Brothers

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 3, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 20 Movie Journal By Jonas Mekas David and Al Maysles, together with Ricky Leacock, are working in that style of film-making which has become known as the Direct Cinema (in France it's called Cinema-Verite) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Irving Penn, 1917-2009

    ​ Photographer Irving Penn died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 92. He shot everything but was best known for his stately but expressive black and white portraits, such as these of a vulpine John Osbourne and Truman Capote as a tired executive, the burnished effects of which required much ... More >>

  • Theater

    January 28, 2009

    Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

    ​ Photographer Irving Penn died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 92. He shot everything but was best known for his stately but expressive black and white portraits, such as these of a vulpine John Osbourne and Truman Capote as a tired executive, the burnished effects of which required much ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 19, 2008

    Oscar Nominee Swallowed After BJ!

    Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    The "Is" Factor: 5 Roles/Actors That Are Made For Each Other

    Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Final 'Blogger of the Week' Winner!

    Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    Clip Job: Brooklyn Heights Newest Publication

    Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2008

    MONDAY | 6.2

    Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2008

    THE COCKETTE INVASION

    Fleet Week for fags

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008
  • Film

    August 28, 2007

    Halloween

    Fleet Week for fags

  • NYC Life

    August 14, 2007

    Off the Road

    Hey, Jack Kerouac, I know you dressed like a bum, but a shop in Soho is selling your boots for $475

  • Screens

    December 12, 2006

    Quality Distraction From Awkward Holiday Parties

    Hey, Jack Kerouac, I know you dressed like a bum, but a shop in Soho is selling your boots for $475

  • Film

    October 3, 2006

    Repeat Offender

    Slimmer in every sense, second Capote movie fails to improve on predecessor

  • NYC Life

    February 28, 2006

    The Oscars: A Return to Boring

    Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

  • Columns

    January 10, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

  • Columns

    October 25, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1965

    Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

  • Film

    September 20, 2005

    Hoffman Overpowers as Truman in 'Cold'-Blooded Biopic

    Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

  • Film

    September 6, 2005

    See It Now

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • Screens

    August 30, 2005

    Resurrecting an Unsung Horror Gem

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • Columns

    July 19, 2005

    Horoscope

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • People

    February 15, 2005

    Better Read Than Dead

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • Film

    December 28, 2004

    Film

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • Art

    October 5, 2004

    Richard Avedon, 1923–2004

    Who else would have put Genet, Chanel, Beckett, and Fabian within the same covers?

  • Film

    March 16, 2004

    That's My Bushranger

    Aussie renegade heroism and British dental derring-do thrive against overwhelming odds

  • Art

    November 12, 2002

    Mirror, Mirror

    Aussie renegade heroism and British dental derring-do thrive against overwhelming odds

  • NYC Life

    October 30, 2001

    Girl Trouble

    ‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

  • Film

    January 9, 2001

    Southside Story

    ‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

  • Books

    October 26, 1999

    Lust for Lit

    ‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

  • Film

    April 27, 1999

    Under African Skies

    ‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

  • Music

    February 23, 1999

    God Is in the Details

    ‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

  • News

    December 8, 1998

    Scents and Sensibility

    A Nose for the City

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