Infamous
Hi.
Okay, here she is, folks. Kitty Dean.
That a girl, Kitty.
It's 38 degrees in New York this morning.
The time is 10:
49.Should I call and get our table for lunch?
Goodie-good.
And Big Mama? Bring lots of gossip.
Everything about him is designed to rivet:
The appearance, the demeanor,
and, of course, the voice.
The voice?
To the lucky person
...I can only say imagine what
a Brussels sprout would sound like...
...if a Brussels sprout could talk.
He's so magical...
...you soon forget the most unforgettable
sound in the world.
Here's a word I loathe: Eccentric.
Eccentric is a word that boring people use
to describe someone I think of as interesting.
A great many people think of me
as eccentric simply because...
...when I have my shoes polished
I have the entire shoe polished...
...top, sides and soles.
Some people think it eccentric...
...that every morning I have my maid
iron my money.
When I told Truman I had my maid iron
my money, do you know what he said?
Here's what he didn't say, "How eccentric."
Here's what he did say, "How wonderful!"
You can forgive a person a lot
He's loads of fun wherever you go.
He's the rarest thing in the world,
a good talker who is also a good listener.
How could Leland
have been bored with you?
Even someone who doesn't speak
English can look at you.
He listened to me the way you'd listen
to announcements in a train station...
...just enough to hear
if there's an emergency.
Oh, well. He's with Pamela,
and I need to move on.
Maybe you can...
...but tout New York is dividing
into the Slim or Pamela camps.
Babe and I are the head Slimites.
Tru Heart.
Oh, have you heard about Tracy?
Yeah. Having her eyes done, I know.
Well, a little more than that.
She's gone off to have an abortion.
Oh, who's the father?
I presume not Dick.
Chas Fitzgerald.
Oh, perfect. Does Dick know?
I think she should just tell Dick it's his.
- She can't. Dick's infertile.
- What?
- Well, I'm sure they do now.
Did you see the paper?
Yes. There's a story that's stuck in my teeth
like a little piece of pull candy.
What is it?
Well, these well-to-do farm people
out in Kansas...
...were murdered in the middle of the night
in the most gruesome way imaginable.
- Do they have any idea who did it?
- No idea.
But that won't affect the piece
I want to write for you.
I want to explore how a crime
like this affects a town...
...where everyone trusts each other.
It may be preferable that we don't know
the identity of the killers.
Exactly. Because what I imagine everyone
is now afraid of is:
"Who among us did this horrible thing?"
It used to be you'd look at someone
and think, "There's old Mr. Busybody."
Now you think...
..."Did you do it?"
Oh, I can't bear the thought of you
going to Kansas.
Whom will I talk to?
Oh, that reminds me.
Did you hear about Tracy?
- The eyes?
- More.
Abortion.
Oh, I just saw her at Sotheby's.
I wanted it for the guest bath...
...but Bill wants to put the little
Giacometti man we have in the hall there.
Tell him nobody wants to go to the bathroom
and find a little man in there.
- I know it from bitter personal experience.
- T-Bone.
How did you find out about Tracy?
Slim. But I'm absolutely sworn
to secrecy.
I'm only telling you
because you're my dearest friend.
Nelle, as my oldest and dearest friend,
do you think the Kansas thing is good?
Are you joking?
That small town stuff,
that suspicion, that gossip?
That is your world as much as this,
maybe even more.
- How were they killed?
- Shotgun.
But there's a caretaker not a hundred yards
from the house.
How could he not hear four gunshots
in the dead of night?
Maybe he did it.
Did you consider that?
Maybe. Though the victims
were bound and gagged...
...which suggests at least two
in the killing party...
...one with the gun
to make them cooperate...
...and one to tie them up
and make them sorry they cooperated.
The father and boy were shot
in the basement...
...the mother and girl in their beds.
- How do you know all this?
- I called the D.A.
May I tell him who's calling, please?
Yes, dear. This is Truman Capote.
I'm sorry. The district attorney
doesn't take calls from strange women.
And what did you say?
Who says I'm strange?
They can judge for themselves soon enough.
I'm going down there in a week.
Which of your pillbox hats
do you think they'll like best?
Why didn't Jack come tonight?
If he's your fella, he's always welcome.
Truman and I...
...had a taste for one another's company
above all others...
...but we weren't a together-wherever-we-go
couple. He's very social.
I'm not...
...especially with that crowd.
Jack didn't...
...approve of us.
He has the social graces of a syringe.
Jack is just so iron, you know,
he's so, "That's that."
Before he knew Truman...
...he was married to a darling actress
named Joan McCracken.
They were dancers together in Oklahoma!
And he was mad for her.
And then the war came,
and he went away and he came back.
And she told him that she'd had an affair.
Well, he was so humiliated...
...that not only did he end
their marriage that night...
...but he stopped sleeping with women
altogether and he switched to men.
Can you imagine?
Curing your distaste for infidelity
by turning to men?
What if one of the people
you interview is the killer?
And what if he thinks you know?
He's already committed four murders,
Honey, is this your funny way of saying
- Doesn't it seem dangerous?
- Come with me, then.
I can't. I'm trying to write my book.
Well, then it's o sole mio, off I go!
- I don't want anything to happen to you.
- Honey, I'm indestructible.
- Much to everyone's regret.
- Not mine.
Come with me. Your book's all done.
Well, I am intrigued...
...but I want to get started on my new book
before Mockingbird comes out.
How near did you say the caretaker lived
to the main house?
Nelle grew up with him in Alabama.
She based the other little boy in
To Kill Mockingbird on Truman.
Aptly enough, she named the child Dill.
People always mention his effervescence...
...but one must remember that at the center
of any bright flame...
...there's always that little touch of blue.
at an early age...
...leaving him with elderly relations
in my town.
And Truman always disguised his shame
over the absence of his parents...
...with grand tales
of adventure and glory.
"My daddy can't be here,
he's an aviator."
"My mother's a photographic subject,
but they're coming for me"...
"They're coming for me."
Every year at Christmas...
...our elementary school did a pageant
through the center of town.
And one year, Truman wrote his parents
that he was the star of the pageant...
...though he was only
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