Truman Capote

Sandra Bernhard and Erasure Will Be At Gay Wedding On Saturday

No, they're not marrying each other. Lesbians don't marry gay musical groups. But Sandra will be performing the wedding ceremony, after which Erasure will do some hot tunes. The lucky newlyweds will be Fab.com CEO Bradford Shellhammer and his partner (the publicist didn't supply the name), and it' ... More >>

Breakfast At Tiffany's On Broadway: Not A Full Meal

Richard Greenberg's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's turns out to be earnest, talky, and rather lifeless despite its good intentions. Telling the story of a chirpy socialite/hooker in 1943 New York and her interaction with a writer who isn't exactly straight, thi ... More >>

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: What the Cat Dragged In

Cast and creatives make a dog’s dinner of Truman Capote's novella

Drag Queens and Gay Sex Back on Broadway Where They Belong!

In Kinky Boots, Lola's straight! No, gay! But sexless!

Drag Queens And Gay Sex Are Back On Broadway Where They Belong! Here's The Dish

This week's column is a perky peek inside two of the shows that are helping make it a tres-gay season on Broadway: There's Kinky Boots, based on the movie about an enterprising drag queen who saves a shoe factory, with a Harvey Fierstein script and a Cyndi Lauper score.

Here Come Dueling Hitchcocks, Thanks To One Of The Dueling Capotes

Toby Jones (above) plays the great Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO movie The Girl, about the way the British director tormented actress Tippi Hedren (played by Sienna Miller) during the making of the 1963 nature-gone-amok thriller The Birds. It premieres October 20, just in time to beat the Hollywood f ... More >>

Is Honey Boo Boo Child The Reincarnation Of Truman Capote?

That's the titillating question posed by a thread on the gossip site datalounge.com. Says the thread's querulous author: "Sometimes, when she looks into the camera and cocks her head after making some campy little remark, I can see the monster in her trying to get out.

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 >>

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 >>

Andy Warhol's New York, 25 Years On

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

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!

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs+She Keeps Bees+Leisurely

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 >>

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 >>

IN THE HEIGHTS

Where pearls and a cigarette holder look classy, not crazy

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 >>

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 >>

Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

Oscar Nominee Swallowed After BJ!

Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.

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

Final 'Blogger of the Week' Winner!

Clip Job: Brooklyn Heights Newest Publication

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THE COCKETTE INVASION

Fleet Week for fags

Trouble Boy Thomas Dolby Strikes Again

Quality Distraction From Awkward Holiday Parties

Repeat Offender

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

The Oscars: A Return to Boring

Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

1965

Hoffman Overpowers as Truman in 'Cold'-Blooded Biopic

See It Now

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

Resurrecting an Unsung Horror Gem

Better Read Than Dead

Film

Richard Avedon, 1923–2004

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

That's My Bushranger

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

Girl Trouble

‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

Southside Story

Lust for Lit

Under African Skies

God Is in the Details

Scents and Sensibility

A Nose for the City