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oceancentury · 4 months

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Teaser for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming miniseries of Feud: Capote vs The Swans. Video

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chic-a-gigot · 1 year

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Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 30 avril 1800, An 8, (212): Capote en Satin et Linon. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Woman, walking to the left, with a 'capote' of satin and linen on her head. She wears a wrap over dress, decorated along the hem with a leaf motif, trimmed with contrasting trim. Short sleeves, low neckline and train. Further accessories: belt, scarf, long gloves, fan, flat shoes with pointy noses. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris, 1797-1839.

#Journal des Dames et des Modes #19th century #1800s #18aughts #1800 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #color #description #rijksmuseum #dress #capote #Mésangère

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scrumptiousfanbasement · 22 days

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"I never liked to say goodbye, but there's a wind behind everyone of us that takes us through our lives. We never see it, we can't command it, we don't even know its purpose. I would've stayed among you longer. But that wind is taking me away...I will miss it here. and I will miss you" - Father Brendan Flynn

This was for the 10th anniversary of his death, I wanted to pay a little tribute for the man I never thought Id actually full on grieve for. I appreciate this man, and I find so much comfort in him.

#philip seymour hoffman #Tribute #Scent of a woman #Capote #twister 1996 #Magnolia #The hunger games #Catching fire #Mockingjay #Love liza #Dusty Davis #Boogie nights #Scotty j #The master #Phil pharma #plutarch heavensbee #Art #Digital art

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papermoonloveslucy · 3 months

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LUCY & THE SWANS

BALL, CAPOTE & PALEY

The new FX series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans" depicts a world that Lucille Ball knew all too well - wealth, fame and celebrity. Although she does not inhabit the New York Society of Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Ann Woodward, C.Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness and others, she and her Desilu empire lie just outside of it - her influence on the era keenly felt.

Episode 1 of the teleplay ("Pilot") begins in 1958, and takes us to the executive boardroom of CBS in New York. There, Bill Paley (Treat Williams) holds forth, a photo of Lucy and Desi prominently hovering over his shoulder.

In this room, the Paley and the CBS brass made programming moves played out on a schedule board. The Monday 9pm time slot is occupied by "I Love Lucy", with a small photo of Lucy and Desi (the same one that hung on the wall) tucked into the title card - as if they needed reminding of who they were! The only slight faux pas is that "I Love Lucy" (as a half hour series) did not run in 1958. Its final episode aired in May 1957. It then became an hour-long celebrity-driven musical comedy hour under the banner of "The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse." Paley and CBS probably wanted Lucy and Desi for a 7th season, but Desi had other plans. He wouldn't kill the Ricardos (metaphorically) but relegate them to specials, interspersed with Desilu productions of new drama and comedy. It is possible that the action of "Feud" in this scene lies somewhere in that murky period between Desi's plans, and Paley's wishes for a seventh season of the half-hour format.

In actuality, during 1958, the 9pm Monday time slot was occupied by "The Danny Thomas Show" (filmed at Desilu) and "The Ann Sothern Show" (produced by Desilu). Monday also featured the Desilu Western "The Texan," making the only half hour of CBS's Monday primetime NOT created by Lucy and Desi "Father Knows Best."

Episode 6 ("Hats, Gloves, and Effete Homosexuals") set in 1978 includes a luncheon conversation at La Cote that mentions Lucille Ball and Lucie Arnaz. Truman's new boyfriend Rick (Vito Schnabel) is a handyman who once fixed Ball's air conditioner in Palm Springs.

Truman has promised to bring Rick to see They're Playing our Song on Broadway starring Lucie Arnaz. Rick says that he met little Lucie while she was swimming laps.

BILL & BABE PALEY

The power and influence of William S. Paley cannot be underestimated. He literally built CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System) from a small radio station to a multi-media conglomerate, serving as Chairman for much of its existence. He shepherded CBS from radio to television, and was responsible for giving the green light to Lucille Ball making the transition from "My Favorite Husband" to "I Love Lucy," bringing her real-life husband along for the ride. Without Paley and Lucy, CBS would not have gotten a foothold in an industry dominated by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

Paley's second wife was socialite Barbara Cushing Mortimer, who he married the year before he met Lucille Ball. Mortimer is best known as Babe Paley, and she was Truman Capote's favorite of the Swans. In "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" (1963), the group needs to find a replacement singer for the group and Viv suggests the unseen character of Barbara Cushing, who is a soloist in their church choir. Although Lucy, Viv, Thelma, and Dorothy were definitely not swans (more like Danfield Ducks) the writers were tipping their hat to the big boss's wife.

A few years later, in "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye" (1964), Kaye telephones Bill Paley to see if he has any spare tickets for his show to give fan Lucy. The best he can do is tickets to "The Jackie Gleason Show." Paley does not appear, nor do we hear his voice.

In real life, Paley and Ball were both in the first group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. Ball and Paley sat at the same table together at the ceremony.

In 1976, he joined those paying tribute to Lucy on "Lucy and CBS: The First 25 Years." Paley and his wife Babe had homes in Manhasset Long Island, and Squam New Hampshire, respectively known as Kiluna Farm South, and Kiluna Farm North, where they entertained a myriad of celebrities, Lucille Ball among them.

TRUMAN CAPOTE

On screen Lucille Ball had little to no interaction with writer Truman Capote. But in her personal life, Ball was guest at at least one of his lavish parties. Gary and Lucy's photo album included a photo of the Mortons at a December 13, 1975 party hosted by Capote, Allan Carr, and John O'Shea in Lincoln Heights, a wealthy neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 'mug shot' was part of a party game where guests were 'arrested' and forced to pay bail in order to get released. The money was usually donated to the host's favorite charity.

In July 1978, Capote joined Lucille Ball at Westbury Music Fair to see Lucie Arnaz perform in "Annie Get Your Gun".

Capote's one foray into acting was in Neil Simon's Murder By Death (1976), a camp comedy send-up of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries where Capote played the eccentric host, Lionel Twain. The film featured a few stars with close connections to Lucille Ball.

Peter Sellars (Sidney Wang) starred in Will The Real Mr. Sellars...?, an oddball film from 1969 with a very brief cameo by Lucille Ball courtesy of hidden camera footage.

Elsa Lanchester (Jessica Marbles) famously guest-starred on "I Love Lucy" as a woman who may - or may not be - a hatchet murderess. In 1973, she appeared on "Here's Lucy" as kooky bank robber Mumsie Westcott.

Although screen writer Neil Simon never wrote for Lucille Ball, or even appeared on the same screen with her, they did share credits on two television shows. He was a staff writer on “The Garry Moore Show,” which Lucy appeared on in 1960. Simon and Ball were both featured on “Bob Hope’s World of Comedy” (1976), but were not onstage at the same time. It was Lucie Arnaz who worked closest with Simon. She starred on Broadway in They’re Playing Our Song (for which Simon wrote the libretto) in 1978. She then took over the role of Bela in Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play Lost in Yonkers in 1992.

MISC. SWANS

Vivian Vance doing an in-character commercial for Swan dish soap on "The Lucy Show." Swan was made by Lever Brothers, and was discontinued in 1974.

SWAN SONGS

LUCY: "Would you begrudge an expectant swan her song?" RICKY: "You seem to forget that this particular swan has no talent." ~ Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song (1952)

LUCY: “It’s time for that swan to hit the come-back trail.” FRED: “That swan’s got a little ham in it.” ~ The Indian Show (1953)

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vreenak · 1 year

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CAPOTE (2005, dir. Bennett Miller)

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote Bruce Greenwood as Jack Dunphy Catherine Keener as Harper Lee

#capote #truman capote #philip seymour hoffman #bruce greenwood #catherine keener #jack dunphy #harper lee #dailymenedit #moviegifs #filmgifs #fyeahmovies #cinemapix #filmedit #my edits

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philhoffman · 2 years

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“I submit to you that the greatness of Philip Seymour Hoffman, in both individual roles and over the course of his career, is that he never stopped measuring the distance between what we want and what we get, what we hope for and what we’re stuck with — the perfect poetry of man at his most ideal and the crumminess of day-to-day life… He kept our secret — that everything goes to hell eventually, sometimes even beautifully — even as he acted it out, and for that we gave him our trust and the kind of love most movie stars only dream of.” –Ty Burr

“Phil permitted us to let his reflected light make our lives brighter, and not in a condescending way. In a generous way.” –John Baynes

“A pencil in his hand, a script at his fingertips, questioning, seeking, an inscrutable character being drafted, drawn, beamed in from the cosmos, an unknowable man becoming known, an unknowable man becoming seen, because he had to be. Because for Phil, to not create would have been to die a different kind of death. And each role provided him with a different kind of life. We are blessed with all the lives he’s left behind. The ones on screen, the ones he fathered, the ones he inspired, supported, enlivened and made better through his talent, generosity and humanity.” –Emily Ziff

“[Making art is] very fulfilling and challenging and maddening. Sometimes you can never get it right and usually you don’t, and you realize how art and life are very similar, ultimately. They really are. They don’t really end, and they don’t really answer themselves… The good stuff, you know?” –PSH

Happy birthday, Philip Seymour Hoffman! (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014)

#I LOVE YOU WITH MY ENTIRE SOUL! ❤️❤️#philip seymour hoffman #psh #capote #the master #boogie nights #the hunger games #synecdoche new york #almost famous #twister #and many many more #*#no one knows my heart the way you do. thank you so much philly #you've made all the difference in the world

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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"Self-Portrait"

2. "From Observations"

3. "Elizabeth Taylor", 1974

Truman Capote: Portraits and Observations

#truman capote #capote vs the swans #feud capote vs the swans #feud #capote #answered prayers #breakfast at tiffany's #babe paley #lady slim keith #swans of fifth avenue #lee radziwill #slim keith #elizabeth taylor

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sublecturas · 7 months

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"Desayuno en Tiffany´s", de Truman Capote.

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we-the-dreamers · 2 years

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"June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone."

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) - by Truman Capote

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oceancentury · 2 months

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Naomi Watts and Treat Williams as Babe and Bill Paley in Feud: Capote vs The Swans 🦢.

#feud #naomi watts #babe paley #bill paley #treat williams #feud capote vs the swans #capote #truman capote #ryan murphy #my gif #gif #gifset #gifs #tv gifs #oceancentury #tv and film

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chic-a-gigot · 11 months

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Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 8 juin 1799, An 7 (111): Chapeau - Capote. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

'Chapeau-Capote'. Dress with a wrap trimmed with decorative band, long sleeves and train. Under the bust a cord (belt) with tassels. Further accessories: necklace with cross, bracelet on the right wrist, flat shoes with pointed toes. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.

#Journal des Dames et des Modes #18th century #1790s #1799 #on this day #June 8 #description #dress #rijksmuseum #capote #instrument

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mus1g4 · 8 months

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would you post about and go into detail about your death row roleplay scenarios? Uniforms, method, feelings, preparations?

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