I've had little interest in this junk and "Capote Vs. The Swans" provoked the least interest in me. The main character is writer Truman Capote and five minutes with him is enough to make you want to bash his forehead with a meat tenderizer repeatedly. A talented writer but a horrible human being. Here, we learn all about the relationships he had with grand dames of Manhattan like Slim Hayward, Joanna Carson, Lee Radziwill and Babe Paley. They hated him. He loathed them. But they lunched every day.
Somehow, FX is making eight episodes where forty-two minutes is more than enough. Oh, have I said it makes you to want to bash in Capote's skull? While the stellar cast is a draw, there are no redeeming qualities. And Jessica Lange swooping in to play Truman's dead mother is such a hammy ploy that you then want to bash in her skull. God, this junk provokes violent tendencies, doesn't it?
Of course, this wouldn't be a Ryan Murphy production without exaggerations of the truth and some blatant factual errata. For instance, at a 1955 dinner party with CBS honcho Bill Paley, Capote discusses the TV show "Sixty Minutes."
That didn't go on the air till 1968.
Oh, and there's a scene where Capote is watching and extolling the TV show "Family" at Thanksgiving 1976. Except the show didn't go on the air till Spring 1977.
When you can't get basic historical facts right, just how are you fudging the characterizations of the ladies in this show? I can only imagine.
But, sadly, I am sticking with this and you ask why. Well, the odd reason why I am drawn to this in the first place is the inclusion of Calista Flockhart as Lee in the cast. Of course, just my luck. She's not in it a lot.
Len never learns.
Dinner last night: Leftover lasagna.
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