The.Capote.Tapes.2019.1080p.WEBRip.x264-RARBG.HI.English Subtitles

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00:00:43,871 --> 00:00:45,Woman: [INAUDIBLE]

00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:47,George Plimpton: Well it's so
nice to hear your voice.

00:00:47,392 --> 00:00:48,I'll tell you what I'm doing;
you know I'm doing this

00:00:48,945 --> 00:00:51,huge history of good old
Truman Capote?

00:00:51,948 --> 00:00:53,Woman: Yes?

00:00:53,846 --> 00:00:57,Man: And the people that he knew
and who talk about him
either pro or con

00:00:57,402 --> 00:01:00,they all seem to have their
Truman stories.

00:01:00,163 --> 00:01:01,Woman: Yes?

00:01:01,923 --> 00:01:03,Man: And I was wondering
if you could gather up
some of your memories?

00:01:04,616 --> 00:01:07,Woman: And one of the most
seductive people I ever met.

00:01:07,412 --> 00:01:09,Man: I thought he was a freak,
absolute freak.

00:01:09,793 --> 00:01:12,Man: One of the most lionized
writers since Voltaire.

00:01:12,762 --> 00:01:14,Man: It's a sleazy bit of work.

00:01:14,315 --> 00:01:16,Woman: Oh he was wicked.
He was fun.

00:01:16,145 --> 00:01:18,Man: He was totally
made out of drugs.

00:01:18,285 --> 00:01:20,Man: It would feel like
a candied tarantula.

00:01:20,287 --> 00:01:22,Woman: It was still the naughty
little kid in Truman.

00:01:22,634 --> 00:01:24,Woman: I haven't had
a good laugh since he died.

00:01:24,222 --> 00:01:26,[Laughing]

00:01:27,777 --> 00:01:29,George Plimpton: Do you think
he's the writer of the moment?

00:01:29,503 --> 00:01:32,Do you think Truman's going
to be read by generations?

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00:01:40,272 --> 00:01:44,Kate Harrington:
I'm Kate Harrington and I live
in Sheridan, Wyoming.

00:01:45,519 --> 00:01:46,[Car driving by]

00:01:48,384 --> 00:01:52,When I was 13 years old I was
basically adopted by Truman.

00:01:55,287 --> 00:01:58,I met Truman in my mother's
living room.

00:02:00,499 --> 00:02:04,And Truman was invited by
my father to come have dinner.

00:02:04,883 --> 00:02:07,And he came in this big
limousine

00:02:07,368 --> 00:02:11,out to our little neighbourhood,
about an hour outside
of Manhattan.

00:02:11,269 --> 00:02:12,[Car engine]

00:02:13,029 --> 00:02:15,Kate Harrington: And of course
all the kids came to look
at the limousine.

00:02:15,618 --> 00:02:18,I'd never met anybody who spoke
like he did.

00:02:18,552 --> 00:02:21,Um, and at first I had
to run into the kitchen

00:02:21,934 --> 00:02:27,and take a tea towel, and cover
my face 'cause I laughed about
his - the sound of his voice.

00:02:27,216 --> 00:02:29,And then my mother reprimanded
me hardly.

00:02:30,598 --> 00:02:32,After that my father came home
one day and said

00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,I'm going to become his manager.

00:02:36,294 --> 00:02:38,So we said oh that's great.

00:02:39,435 --> 00:02:41,Wonderful, so we didn't think
anything of it,

00:02:42,334 --> 00:02:43,but he and my father
became lovers.

00:02:45,268 --> 00:02:48,They had an on and off
relationship, very tumultuous.

00:02:48,582 --> 00:02:51,My father had a lot of problems.
He was an alcoholic.

00:02:53,311 --> 00:02:56,When my dad left he left us
with no money.

00:02:57,832 --> 00:03:02,Truman's number was up
by the telephone, and
so I called him and said

00:03:02,596 --> 00:03:06,do any of your friends
need a helper this summer?
I need to get a job.

00:03:06,772 --> 00:03:08,Truman treated me like an adult

00:03:08,981 --> 00:03:13,and just said OK, well
why don't you come into New York

00:03:13,089 --> 00:03:15,and we'll have lunch
and discuss it?

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00:03:18,888 --> 00:03:22,Kate Harrington: So I took
money out of the cookie jar,
played hooky,

00:03:22,374 --> 00:03:25,g***t on the Long Island Railroad
and went into New York.
[Train whistle]

00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,Truman told me how to do it
because I was so young.

00:03:33,765 --> 00:03:37,I gave the paper
with the address to the taxi

00:03:39,391 --> 00:03:41,and I went there to have lunch
with him.

00:03:45,742 --> 00:03:50,He said the only thing
you can do at your age to make
a good bit of money is model.

00:03:50,402 --> 00:03:54,I thought that was a crazy idea
because I had never thought
of myself in that way.

00:03:55,580 --> 00:03:59,He took me to Richard
Avedon Studio [camera flash]

00:04:01,724 --> 00:04:06,and just slowly, slowly, slowly
my whole world began to change.

00:04:07,523 --> 00:04:11,'Cause he opened up the doors
of literature, dance,

00:04:11,734 --> 00:04:14,art, music, fashion.

00:04:15,634 --> 00:04:18,And meeting all kinds
of accomplished people.

00:04:20,915 --> 00:04:22,[Camera flash]

00:04:22,848 --> 00:04:26,He always said he was writing
a wonderful book about them.

00:04:27,543 --> 00:04:30,Um, I used to get bored
at the lunches

00:04:30,684 --> 00:04:34,and so he told me once
on the way there that
what I should do

00:04:34,653 --> 00:04:39,is sit in the booth and listen
to the conversation
of the people next to us.

00:04:41,039 --> 00:04:44,And on the way home
I could tell him everything
they talked about.

00:04:44,905 --> 00:04:46,It was sort of fun for him.

00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:49,And ever since then
when I go to restaurants

00:04:49,979 --> 00:04:52,I kind of do that out of habit.

00:04:52,982 --> 00:04:54,And I would write in my journal.

00:04:56,192 --> 00:05:00,Truman Capote: Tell me are you a
real writer? It depends on what
you mean by real.

00:05:00,645 --> 00:05:05,Well darling, does anyone buy
what you write? [Laughter]

00:05:05,650 --> 00:05:06,Not yet.

00:05:08,135 --> 00:05:11,I'm going to help you
she said. I can too.

00:05:11,725 --> 00:05:14,Think of all the people
I know who know people.

00:05:14,417 --> 00:05:16,[Upbeat jazz music]

00:05:16,177 --> 00:05:20,Fix me a drink darling, then you
can read me a story yourself.

00:05:24,910 --> 00:05:29,In America there is only one
social class

00:05:30,847 --> 00:05:32,that really matters
in a cultural sense.

00:05:34,437 --> 00:05:37,And that is the quote
"high society of New York."

00:05:40,857 --> 00:05:42,I mean you can be the richest

00:05:42,618 --> 00:05:45,and most famous person in Boise,
Idaho and it doesn't matter.

00:05:46,518 --> 00:05:49,Unless you're famous in New York
you're not famous.

00:05:51,799 --> 00:05:53,These people took him up.

00:05:55,044 --> 00:05:57,Truman saw everything
and he remembered it.

00:05:58,668 --> 00:06:01,Sooner or later he was going
to put it down on paper.

00:06:03,846 --> 00:06:07,Female interviewer: An
assortment of celebrated people
pay $50 to sip the bubbly

00:06:07,953 --> 00:06:10,and exchanged small talk.

00:06:10,197 --> 00:06:14,Mr. Capote was on hand
for a benefit preview
of his newest offering.

00:06:14,546 --> 00:06:18,You're a part of the in-crowd.
You're also referred to
as the beautiful people,

00:06:18,861 --> 00:06:20,do you know what that
phrase means?

00:06:22,830 --> 00:06:25,I don't think that
any such thing really exists.

00:06:26,455 --> 00:06:28,It doesn't mean anything.
Does it to you?

00:06:29,596 --> 00:06:30,Female interviewer:
I don't know what it means.

00:06:30,873 --> 00:06:31,Well I don't know then.

00:06:31,701 --> 00:06:32,Maybe you could tell me.

00:06:32,702 --> 00:06:34,[Laughs]

00:06:34,497 --> 00:06:36,Thank you.

00:06:38,294 --> 00:06:41,Kate Harrington: Truman started
his day getting a cup of coffee

00:06:41,539 --> 00:06:44,and sitting, and talking
to gossip columnists.

00:06:45,819 --> 00:06:49,He'd trade all the gossip
and they would discuss
all the happenings,

00:06:49,961 --> 00:06:53,secrets and you know I'd
hear him laughing hysterically

00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:56,that kind of hilarious,
guttural laugh.

00:06:56,243 --> 00:06:58,[Laughing]

00:07:00,799 --> 00:07:02,Oh well that wasn't
in the thing...

00:07:06,564 --> 00:07:07,[Laughter]

00:07:30,346 --> 00:07:35,Sally Quinn: He was a fantastic
gossip. He knew everything. So
you could sit next to

00:07:35,524 --> 00:07:37,Truman it was just a dream come
true

00:07:37,629 --> 00:07:41,because he would just you
know? [Laughs]

00:07:41,081 --> 00:07:42,Just spill it all out.

00:07:45,603 --> 00:07:47,So you would just eat it up.

00:07:49,158 --> 00:07:52,And thank god he [laughs]
he never thought he wanted
to write about me

00:07:53,265 --> 00:07:56,'cause God knows
what I told him. [Laughs]

00:07:57,373 --> 00:07:59,And he was bitchy,
but he was smart.

00:07:59,996 --> 00:08:00,I really mean this.

00:08:00,963 --> 00:08:02,Johnny Carson: Yeah?

00:08:02,758 --> 00:08:06,That the less intelligent the
performer is the better he is.

00:08:06,555 --> 00:08:13,For instance Marlon Brando is
an absolutely marvellous actor,

00:08:13,562 --> 00:08:15,but he's so dumb it makes
your skin crawl.

00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,[Audience laughter]

00:08:19,153 --> 00:08:21,John Richardson: He'd...