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Article: MASTER OF MALEVOLENCE; Scabrous wit, crashing snob, compulsive liar, Truman Capote was lionised by the rich and famous until, as a brilliant new film shows, he revealed their sordid secrets ...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2006
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Byline: JONATHAN FOREMAN
PICTURE two authors: the first is a startlingly pretty, elfin boy with huge round eyes looking insolently out from the cover of one of the bestselling novels of 1948. He is the epitome of defiant effeminacy, jailbait in a bow tie. The second is a wheezing, overweight gargoyle, his blubbery torso swathed in a kaftan, whisky-sweat running in rivulets down the thick makeup coating his bulbous cheeks, as he whispers venomous gossip in a lisping, girlishly highpitched voice on a TV talk show in the early Eighties.
They're both Truman Capote, the flamboyant creator of Holly Golightly, the winsome heroine of Breakfast At Tiffany's, and ...