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Patton Oswalt is obviously one of the most beloved stand-ups and comedic actors working today. After all, not every performer has the power to shape multibillion dollar science-fiction franchises with random guest spots on network sitcoms.
But there was once a time when Oswalt was still a struggling young actor, forced to take less than glamorous gigs, such as his minor role in the forgettable 1996 Kelsey Grammer-led comedy Down Periscope.
But one of Oswalt’s very earliest roles happened to be in one of the most iconic TV shows of all time: Seinfeld. And he only secured the job thanks to his experiences working in the unrelenting hell that is customer service.
Oswalt appeared in the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Couch,” a memorable episode to be sure, seeing as it dared to address the abortion debate in America via a pizza-based metaphor.
But Oswalt’s part had nothing to do with all that.
But there was once a time when Oswalt was still a struggling young actor, forced to take less than glamorous gigs, such as his minor role in the forgettable 1996 Kelsey Grammer-led comedy Down Periscope.
But one of Oswalt’s very earliest roles happened to be in one of the most iconic TV shows of all time: Seinfeld. And he only secured the job thanks to his experiences working in the unrelenting hell that is customer service.
Oswalt appeared in the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Couch,” a memorable episode to be sure, seeing as it dared to address the abortion debate in America via a pizza-based metaphor.
But Oswalt’s part had nothing to do with all that.
- 7/24/2024
- Cracked
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The 2024 Emmys nominations were announced Wednesday morning, with Paul Rudd and Ryan Gosling among the list of first-time nominees.
Rudd earned his first Emmy nod, for best supporting actor in a comedy, for his season three run on Only Murders in the Building. And Ryan Gosling, recognized with a best guest actor in a comedy series nod for hosting a memorable episode of Saturday Night Live, is also a first-time Emmy contender.
Two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts also received her first Emmy nomination for her role in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. She’s nominated in the category of best actress in a limited or anthology series, competing alongside Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country), Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry), Juno Temple (Fargo) and Sofía Vergara (Griselda).
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won an Oscar this year for her supporting role in The Holdovers, also received her...
Rudd earned his first Emmy nod, for best supporting actor in a comedy, for his season three run on Only Murders in the Building. And Ryan Gosling, recognized with a best guest actor in a comedy series nod for hosting a memorable episode of Saturday Night Live, is also a first-time Emmy contender.
Two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts also received her first Emmy nomination for her role in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. She’s nominated in the category of best actress in a limited or anthology series, competing alongside Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country), Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry), Juno Temple (Fargo) and Sofía Vergara (Griselda).
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won an Oscar this year for her supporting role in The Holdovers, also received her...
- 7/17/2024
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Having trouble predicting who will win Best Movie/Limited Actor at the upcoming Emmy Awards? Let’s consult Gold Derby’s 2024 Emmy Experts! These savvy pundits from major media outlets have chimed in with their predictions, and the majority of them believe the trophy will go to Jon Hamm (“Fargo”). The other potential nominees, per the Experts’ current racetrack odds, are Richard Gadd (“Baby Reindeer”), Andrew Scott (“Ripley”), Matt Bomer (“Fellow Travelers”), David Oyelowo (“Lawmen: Bass Reeves”) and Tom Hollander (“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans”).
As of this writing, a leading seven out of our 18 Emmy Experts predict a victory for Hamm for “Fargo”: Eric Deggans (NPR), Jazz Tangcay (Variety), Kelly Lawler (USA Today), Susan King (Gold Derby), Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby), Thelma Adams (Gold Derby) and Wilson Morales (BlackFilmandTV). He plays corrupt Sheriff Roy Tillman on Season 5 of FX’s quirky anthology series. Hamm has received 16 total Emmy...
As of this writing, a leading seven out of our 18 Emmy Experts predict a victory for Hamm for “Fargo”: Eric Deggans (NPR), Jazz Tangcay (Variety), Kelly Lawler (USA Today), Susan King (Gold Derby), Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby), Thelma Adams (Gold Derby) and Wilson Morales (BlackFilmandTV). He plays corrupt Sheriff Roy Tillman on Season 5 of FX’s quirky anthology series. Hamm has received 16 total Emmy...
- 7/15/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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In Cold Blood In Cold Blood, 11.05pm, Monday, July 8
Jennie Kermode writes: Richard Brooks' adaptation of Truman Capote's celebrated book was made in 1967, just eight years after the murder of all four members of the Clutter family in their Kansas home, and two years after the execution of killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. It was shot in the small community where the family lived, with real neighbours appearing in the background, and it features Nancy Clutter's much-loved horse, yet it's a world away from the true crime dramas of today. With noirish photography and the same sense of melancholy detachment as the book, the film is studiously unsensational and all the more compelling as a result. It largely sets aside the character of the writer as it follows the two killers through their awful, almost accidental journey, full of muddled decisions and panicky brutality. Robert Blake, playing Smith,...
Jennie Kermode writes: Richard Brooks' adaptation of Truman Capote's celebrated book was made in 1967, just eight years after the murder of all four members of the Clutter family in their Kansas home, and two years after the execution of killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. It was shot in the small community where the family lived, with real neighbours appearing in the background, and it features Nancy Clutter's much-loved horse, yet it's a world away from the true crime dramas of today. With noirish photography and the same sense of melancholy detachment as the book, the film is studiously unsensational and all the more compelling as a result. It largely sets aside the character of the writer as it follows the two killers through their awful, almost accidental journey, full of muddled decisions and panicky brutality. Robert Blake, playing Smith,...
- 7/8/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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I had dinner with an old friend on Wednesday at L.A.’s Hotel Bel Air, the miraculous kind of catch-up where no one looks at their phone for hours. Afterwards on my way to the valet, I crossed the hotel’s stone bridge and admired the elegant swans that live in a tiny pond beneath.
By the time I was buckled into the car, my messages had exploded with conversation about Derek Blasberg – a professional best friend to celebrities who has exhibited remarkable staying power within elite circles around the world, keeping odd jobs in and around the entertainment and media business all the while.
He, as you almost surely have heard, was “revealed” by a media report as the notable visitor who fled Gwyneth Paltrow’s Amagansett home in the Hamptons weeks ago. Blasberg reportedly ghosted the Oscar winner’s house after an unseemly incident in her guest cottage,...
By the time I was buckled into the car, my messages had exploded with conversation about Derek Blasberg – a professional best friend to celebrities who has exhibited remarkable staying power within elite circles around the world, keeping odd jobs in and around the entertainment and media business all the while.
He, as you almost surely have heard, was “revealed” by a media report as the notable visitor who fled Gwyneth Paltrow’s Amagansett home in the Hamptons weeks ago. Blasberg reportedly ghosted the Oscar winner’s house after an unseemly incident in her guest cottage,...
- 7/5/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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Exclusive: Producers Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron are developing the Broadway-bound Studio 54 The Musical, a new work with a book by Chad Hodge and set to feature a full playlist of hits from the disco era.
Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Sergio Trujillo (Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations), the Broadway-bound Studio 54 musical will trace “the astonishing ascent and sudden downfall of the most legendary club in nightlife history.”
“Neil Meron and I started talking about the amazing story of Studio 54 as a possible series years ago,” said Greenblatt in an exclusive statement to Deadline, “but we finally came to our senses and realized we had the perfect musical right under our noses.”
Add Meron, “And with book writer Chad Hodge and the incredible Sergio Trujillo, who came of age during the disco dance craze in Toronto and New York, we have the...
Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Sergio Trujillo (Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations), the Broadway-bound Studio 54 musical will trace “the astonishing ascent and sudden downfall of the most legendary club in nightlife history.”
“Neil Meron and I started talking about the amazing story of Studio 54 as a possible series years ago,” said Greenblatt in an exclusive statement to Deadline, “but we finally came to our senses and realized we had the perfect musical right under our noses.”
Add Meron, “And with book writer Chad Hodge and the incredible Sergio Trujillo, who came of age during the disco dance craze in Toronto and New York, we have the...
- 6/27/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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In a compelling exploration of a lifelong friendship and occasional rivalry between literary icons Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, Hollywood stars Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto teamed up for a documentary project. With Lisa Immordino Vreeland directing Tennessee & Truman: An Intimate Conversation, Parsons and Quinto offered their voices as Capote and Williams, respectively.
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However, while the Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto’s association with the project came smoothly, Jim Parsons was rather hesitant to join the team. But fortunately, after his exit from the widely acclaimed series The Big Bang Theory, with nothing significant in hand, Parsons marked his notable collaboration with Quinto in their 2020 documentary.
With Reduced Opportunities, Jim Parsons Teamed up with Zachary Quinto
Finding his breakthrough following his role as the uber-geek Sheldon Cooper in the much-loved 12 season sitcom The Big Bang Theory,...
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However, while the Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto’s association with the project came smoothly, Jim Parsons was rather hesitant to join the team. But fortunately, after his exit from the widely acclaimed series The Big Bang Theory, with nothing significant in hand, Parsons marked his notable collaboration with Quinto in their 2020 documentary.
With Reduced Opportunities, Jim Parsons Teamed up with Zachary Quinto
Finding his breakthrough following his role as the uber-geek Sheldon Cooper in the much-loved 12 season sitcom The Big Bang Theory,...
- 6/24/2024
- by Krittika Mukherjee
- FandomWire
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We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.
Click on for more of our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The State of the Race
While the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie is a bit short on contenders with truly standout performances, the Emmy race for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie is full of them.
Click on for more of our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The State of the Race
While the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie is a bit short on contenders with truly standout performances, the Emmy race for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie is full of them.
- 6/22/2024
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
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There are bulging closets all over Hollywood, but Irene Albright’s are bigger. Thirty-four years ago, the Og stylist and fashion archivist founded her Albright Fashion Library in New York, now with 20,000 pieces of true fashion finds for rent. “When I first had the New York showroom, most of the menswear in American Psycho came from it — I had all this Armani!” says Albright, who began building her collection early in her career, buying leftover pieces from photo shoots.
After opening a small Beverly Hills showroom a decade ago, she’s moved Albright Fasion Library LA into luxe new digs in L.A.’s Trousdale Estates. The house functions as a mega-closet, featuring 7,000 rental-ready pieces of designer eveningwear, couture gowns, jewels, shoes (25 racks of them) and evening bags — both new and archival — plus a full photo studio for celebrity shoots and commercials.
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After opening a small Beverly Hills showroom a decade ago, she’s moved Albright Fasion Library LA into luxe new digs in L.A.’s Trousdale Estates. The house functions as a mega-closet, featuring 7,000 rental-ready pieces of designer eveningwear, couture gowns, jewels, shoes (25 racks of them) and evening bags — both new and archival — plus a full photo studio for celebrity shoots and commercials.
Sydney Sweeney attends the 2022 HBO Emmy’s Party...
- 6/19/2024
- by Merle Ginsberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Griffin Dunne’s family has done so many larger-than-life, unbelievable things that when the actor-director-producer started to write his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Memoir of Family,” he realized it wasn’t enough to start the story with his complex writer father Dominick Dunne.
In fact, it was impossible to understand the forces that shaped the Dunnes, including his uncle John Gregory Dunne and sister Dominique Dunne — without understanding his father’s abusive upbringing in an Irish Catholic family, his mother’s Mexican heritage and all great love stories, clandestine affairs, celebrity encounters and tragedies that seem to surround them, buffeted with lots of pitch-black mordant humor.
The heart of the new memoir is the 1982 murder of Griffin Dunne’s younger sister, “Poltergeist” star Dominique Dunne. It’s the first time he’s really grappled with telling the story of that pivotal event in his family’s history. The...
In fact, it was impossible to understand the forces that shaped the Dunnes, including his uncle John Gregory Dunne and sister Dominique Dunne — without understanding his father’s abusive upbringing in an Irish Catholic family, his mother’s Mexican heritage and all great love stories, clandestine affairs, celebrity encounters and tragedies that seem to surround them, buffeted with lots of pitch-black mordant humor.
The heart of the new memoir is the 1982 murder of Griffin Dunne’s younger sister, “Poltergeist” star Dominique Dunne. It’s the first time he’s really grappled with telling the story of that pivotal event in his family’s history. The...
- 6/17/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
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Calista Flockhart, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a TV legend. The actress shot to fame 27 years ago playing a Harvard Law graduate who goes to work in a Boston firm on David E. Kelley’s groundbreaking Fox comedy series Ally McBeal (1997-2002), for which she garnered three Emmy noms and won a Golden Globe. She subsequently starred on other notable shows including ABC’s Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011) and CBS/The CW’s Supergirl (2015-2018). Most recently, on the 2024 FX limited series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, she played Lee Radziwill, the socialite sister of Jackie Kennedy and, for a time, close friend of Truman Capote — and now finds herself back in the Emmys race.
Over the course of this episode, the 59-year-old reflects on the sequence of unlikely events that led to her being pulled out of relative obscurity and...
Over the course of this episode, the 59-year-old reflects on the sequence of unlikely events that led to her being pulled out of relative obscurity and...
- 6/17/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Fans of the AppleTV+ series Hijack have been forced to endure a long wait for the second season of the popular thriller.
The bad news is that they'll need to wait at least a few more months, as filming for Hijack Season 2 is currently underway in the UK.
The good news is that star Idris Elba will be joined by a top-tier supporting cast when the show eventually makes its way back to our screens.
Deadline reported today that three very talented stars are currently on set in London.
First off is Toby Jones, a British actor, who might he might be best known for his work in American period pieces, such as Frost/Nixon, My Week With Marilyn, and Infamous (in which he memorably portrayed Truman Capote).
While he's gained a reputation as an esteemed "actor's actor," Jones is no stranger to the world of action and green screens.
Related:...
The bad news is that they'll need to wait at least a few more months, as filming for Hijack Season 2 is currently underway in the UK.
The good news is that star Idris Elba will be joined by a top-tier supporting cast when the show eventually makes its way back to our screens.
Deadline reported today that three very talented stars are currently on set in London.
First off is Toby Jones, a British actor, who might he might be best known for his work in American period pieces, such as Frost/Nixon, My Week With Marilyn, and Infamous (in which he memorably portrayed Truman Capote).
While he's gained a reputation as an esteemed "actor's actor," Jones is no stranger to the world of action and green screens.
Related:...
- 6/12/2024
- by Tyler Johnson
- TVfanatic
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“Is it a gift or is it not a gift that you can only play the age you are?”
It’s a rhetorical question Diane Lane asks — but doesn’t pretend to have the answer to — and also a thought she embraces.
“I am grateful for it,” she says. “And I’m optimistic that I’m at the right age to play some interesting people.”
Interesting is one of the many things that could be said about Slim Keith. In FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Lane plays the real-life socialite, who was among the women that acclaimed novelist Truman Capote collected like prized confidantes in the 1960s, before using the secrets they entrusted to him as thinly veiled material for his final unfinished novel, “Answered Prayers.”
A California native, Keith was the pinnacle of elite society and style in the mid-20th century. She was a force in...
It’s a rhetorical question Diane Lane asks — but doesn’t pretend to have the answer to — and also a thought she embraces.
“I am grateful for it,” she says. “And I’m optimistic that I’m at the right age to play some interesting people.”
Interesting is one of the many things that could be said about Slim Keith. In FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Lane plays the real-life socialite, who was among the women that acclaimed novelist Truman Capote collected like prized confidantes in the 1960s, before using the secrets they entrusted to him as thinly veiled material for his final unfinished novel, “Answered Prayers.”
A California native, Keith was the pinnacle of elite society and style in the mid-20th century. She was a force in...
- 6/11/2024
- by Hunter Ingram
- Variety Film + TV
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In school, Jonathan Bailey studied “Mulholland Drive,” examining the nuances of Naomi Watts’ breakout performance. Now Bailey has the chance to grill the Oscar nominee about her process. In Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” from FX, Watts portrays Babe Paley, the New York socialite and one of Truman Capote’s “swans,” whose falling out with the author was legendary. And after steaming up the screen in “Bridgerton,” Bailey takes on another sweeping romance with Showtime’s “Fellow Travelers,” this time as Tim, an idealistic congressional staffer who enters into a decades-long affair with a closeted World War II veteran and State Department official.
Naomi Watts: I heard that you were shooting three things at the same time: “Bridgerton,” “Fellow Travelers” and “Wicked.” Is this true?
Jonathan Bailey: That is true. [His voice cracks.] Did you hear? My voice just broke.
Watts: Yeah, because you have Ptsd?
Bailey: Maybe?...
Naomi Watts: I heard that you were shooting three things at the same time: “Bridgerton,” “Fellow Travelers” and “Wicked.” Is this true?
Jonathan Bailey: That is true. [His voice cracks.] Did you hear? My voice just broke.
Watts: Yeah, because you have Ptsd?
Bailey: Maybe?...
- 6/11/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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“She stuck to her guns,” says Diane Lane of her character Slim Keith on the FX series “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” The real life New York socialite continued the war with writer Truman Capote long after many of her fellow “Swans” chose to soften towards him. “Some other people might’ve said it’s time to forgive and she wasn’t ready,” admits Lane, “And maybe that makes her a leader in the unforgiveness department. But I think she felt particularly betrayed for her own reasons.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
The titular “Feud” of this series is the result of Capote (Tom Hollander) publishing a chapter from his forthcoming novel in a magazine, with thinly veiled character assassinations of his closest female friends. These high society women, led by Slim Keith and Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), froze the writer out of all social functions.
Watch our exclusive...
The titular “Feud” of this series is the result of Capote (Tom Hollander) publishing a chapter from his forthcoming novel in a magazine, with thinly veiled character assassinations of his closest female friends. These high society women, led by Slim Keith and Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), froze the writer out of all social functions.
Watch our exclusive...
- 6/11/2024
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
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Much like our social media-driven news cycle today which is fixated on cancelation and schadenfreude, there arguably was a judge, jury and executioner style in Truman Capote’s published Esquire pieces, read “La Côte Basque 1965″ about New York City female elites. Ryan Murphy and Jon Robin Baitz’s latest FX limited series Feud: Capote vs. Swans dives into Capote’s deconstruction and takedown of the fancy ladies he supped and partied with.
How in God’s name would Capote operate in a social media world?
We kick around that notion today with the series’ stars Tom Hollander who plays the tender, though nitpicky and sassy Capote, and Naomi Watts who plays the author’s best friend, though a betrayed one.
Hollander acknowledges that there remains today, like decades ago “a ghoulish fascination about the glamor and the compromises” of high society women, “there’s sort of a style porn that...
How in God’s name would Capote operate in a social media world?
We kick around that notion today with the series’ stars Tom Hollander who plays the tender, though nitpicky and sassy Capote, and Naomi Watts who plays the author’s best friend, though a betrayed one.
Hollander acknowledges that there remains today, like decades ago “a ghoulish fascination about the glamor and the compromises” of high society women, “there’s sort of a style porn that...
- 6/11/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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“Feud: Bette and Joan” took the Emmys by storm in 2017, with the first season of the Ryan Murphy anthology show receiving rave reviews for its depiction of the rivalry between actresses Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange).
Season two will hope to match that Emmy success (more on that later) with its portrayal of Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his falling out with a group of New York high society socialites known as the Swans. Capote wrote a fictionalized account of the Swans’ dramatic lives, leading to the Swans vowing revenge for betraying their confidence.
The glossy show is typically gorgeous, scandalous, and theatrical while the performances are all top-drawer. Hollander dazzles in the lead role as Capote, which is no mean feat considering the late, great Philip Seymour-Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Capote in 2005’s “Capote”). Meanwhile, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane,...
Season two will hope to match that Emmy success (more on that later) with its portrayal of Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his falling out with a group of New York high society socialites known as the Swans. Capote wrote a fictionalized account of the Swans’ dramatic lives, leading to the Swans vowing revenge for betraying their confidence.
The glossy show is typically gorgeous, scandalous, and theatrical while the performances are all top-drawer. Hollander dazzles in the lead role as Capote, which is no mean feat considering the late, great Philip Seymour-Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Capote in 2005’s “Capote”). Meanwhile, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane,...
- 6/10/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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Jessica Lange plays the type of women you best keep your guard up around. Step carefully, or she could hurt you with a turn of phrase so gutting because it locates all your insecurities. But that’s also because these women are broken, too, and played with the rare cocktail of vulnerability, resolve, and brio that the two-time Oscar winner is known for on stage and screen.
In Paula Vogel’s (“How I Learned to Drive”) “Mother Play,” a “play in five evictions” now on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater, Lange is Phyllis, a hardheaded, chain-smoking, martini-swilling matriarch and — oh, when hasn’t Lange played a hardheaded, chain-smoking, martini-swilling matriarch, or at least a complicated woman with a gamut of dependency and emotional issues? Stage roles in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” or “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” put...
In Paula Vogel’s (“How I Learned to Drive”) “Mother Play,” a “play in five evictions” now on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater, Lange is Phyllis, a hardheaded, chain-smoking, martini-swilling matriarch and — oh, when hasn’t Lange played a hardheaded, chain-smoking, martini-swilling matriarch, or at least a complicated woman with a gamut of dependency and emotional issues? Stage roles in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” or “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” put...
- 6/10/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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In the final moments of “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” episode seven, Tom Hollander’s Truman Capote is dying. His last words are “Beautiful Babe,” referencing his Swan Babe Paley, played by Naomi Watts. The following episode, the season finale is aptly titled “Phantasm Forgiveness,” a dreamscape scenario that hops between the past, present and future.
In an imagined scenario, Capote continues drafting his book “Answered Prayers” and imagines his character P.B Jones apologizing and making amends as he seeks forgiveness. In the show, Capote betrays his close circle of New York’s high society circle of powerful women known as the Swans by publishing a story titled “La Côte Basque, 1965” in Esquire and revealing their secrets. The Swans include Babe, C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Slim Keith (Diane Lane).
Speaking at Variety’s TV FYC Fest, executive producer and writer Jon Robin Baitz explained his approach to that final episode.
In an imagined scenario, Capote continues drafting his book “Answered Prayers” and imagines his character P.B Jones apologizing and making amends as he seeks forgiveness. In the show, Capote betrays his close circle of New York’s high society circle of powerful women known as the Swans by publishing a story titled “La Côte Basque, 1965” in Esquire and revealing their secrets. The Swans include Babe, C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Slim Keith (Diane Lane).
Speaking at Variety’s TV FYC Fest, executive producer and writer Jon Robin Baitz explained his approach to that final episode.
- 6/7/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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“I loved the moral questions at the heart of it,” reveals writer Jon Robin Baitz of the FX limited series “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” The show chronicles a fallout between Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his dearest female friends after he published their scandalous secrets. The ensuing downward spiral of the author is a fascinating tale of betrayal and love. “When you’re a writer and you are using everything around you, which is an unstoppable mechanical event, “says Baitz, “as a writer, do you have an obligation to the people you have relationships with and are using in some way to be responsible to them?” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
Capote’s moral quandary is one that Baitz grapples with these days as he looks back on his career. “I spent many years as a playwright drawing from the experiences I’d had growing up and as...
Capote’s moral quandary is one that Baitz grapples with these days as he looks back on his career. “I spent many years as a playwright drawing from the experiences I’d had growing up and as...
- 6/6/2024
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
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Kim Kardashian and Chloë Sevigny share a love of high fashion, classic Hollywood glam — and Ryan Murphy, one of television’s most prolific creators, who also happens to be their mutual boss. Kardashian has appeared on television as herself since 2007; she currently can be seen on Season 5 of “The Kardashians” on Hulu. Now the reality star and influencer is transforming into an actor and producer of scripted projects. Kardashian’s first series regular role was on the recent season of FX’s “American Horror Story: Delicate,” in which she played Siobhan, a personal publicist with a double identity as a witch who draws power from Satan. It’s quite a debut!
In Murphy’s anthology series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Sevigny, herself a style icon for decades, plays C.Z. Guest, the elegant New York socialite. Guest — with her understated, patrician glamour and biting wit — was one of Truman Capote...
In Murphy’s anthology series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” Sevigny, herself a style icon for decades, plays C.Z. Guest, the elegant New York socialite. Guest — with her understated, patrician glamour and biting wit — was one of Truman Capote...
- 6/5/2024
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
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Naomi Watts had a ton of written material and photographs to research her role as legendary New York City socialite Babe Paley for the Ryan Murphy limited Series “Feud: Truman vs. The Swans.” That helped fashion a physical transformation that involved contact lenses, incredible wigs, makeup, and two different sets of false teeth that, it turns out, were an integral part of her character’s temperament. What she couldn’t find were any video or audio of Paley, somewhat remarkable considering her longtime close friend, Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander), was a fixture in front of any camera or microphone he could find.
Continue reading Naomi Watts Unfurls Her Physical Transformation For ‘Feud: Truman vs. The Swans’ [Interview] at The Playlist.
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- 6/4/2024
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
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Tom Hollander, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a brilliant British character actor who has distinguished himself on the stage and screens big and small, with the New York Times describing him as “vitally funny in dramatic roles [and] wrenchingly somber in comic ones.” Indeed, over the course of a career dating back 42 years, he has been a part of two SAG Award-winning casts, one for a film, 2001’s Gosford Park, and another for a TV series, 2023’s The White Lotus season two. He won a best supporting actor BAFTA TV Award for 2016’s The Night Manager. And he was nominated for a best actor in a play Tony Award for 2018’s Travesties.
Now, he is poised to land his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination, in the category of best actor in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, for arguably the...
Now, he is poised to land his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination, in the category of best actor in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, for arguably the...
- 6/3/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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She was on the cover of Time magazine in her teens, and decades later the acclaimed actor is having another big moment. She discusses Feud, A Man in Full and the highs and lows of Hollywood
In those final fading years of the New York socialites, Diane Lane was a teenager and already an actor. It was Manhattan in the 70s, and she had glimpses into the world of high society insiders such as Babe Paley and Cz Guest – women the writer Truman Capote “collected” and then betrayed, as depicted in the Disney Plus series Feud: Capote vs The Swans. Lane, who plays queen bee Slim Keith, remembers occasionally coming into these women’s orbits.
“I met Lee Radziwill on several occasions,” she says, of the sister of Jackie Kennedy and another of Capote’s “swans”. “I was a young person and she was not, but I distinctly remember what...
In those final fading years of the New York socialites, Diane Lane was a teenager and already an actor. It was Manhattan in the 70s, and she had glimpses into the world of high society insiders such as Babe Paley and Cz Guest – women the writer Truman Capote “collected” and then betrayed, as depicted in the Disney Plus series Feud: Capote vs The Swans. Lane, who plays queen bee Slim Keith, remembers occasionally coming into these women’s orbits.
“I met Lee Radziwill on several occasions,” she says, of the sister of Jackie Kennedy and another of Capote’s “swans”. “I was a young person and she was not, but I distinctly remember what...
- 6/3/2024
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
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“I wanted it to be alive more than anything, and there to be a sense of real delight and weirdness,” reveals “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” composer Julia Newman about her score for the FX limited series. For our recent webchat she adds, “What I love so much about this show is that there’s no good guys, but we empathize at different moments with all of the characters. Everyone inhabits a real humanness and in inhabiting that humanness, of course, everybody is flawed. I loved the idea of Truman Capote always listening, always with the typewriter going on, as everybody was always scheming. It’s actually part of what makes the story so powerful. As shallow as human beings can get and as deep as human beings can get, what does it mean to be on your deathbed and to regret a friendship lost? That’s so profound. So,...
- 5/28/2024
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
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FX/Hulu’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans depicts the infamous rift between writer Truman Capote and his “swans” — a handpicked collection of Manhattan socialites who ice out Capote from New York society after he publishes a short story loosely based on Babe Paley and her husband’s various infidelities. In this scene from the pilot, written by Jon Robin Baitz, the audience is treated to a meet-cute of sorts between Truman (Tom Hollander) and Babe (Naomi Watts) years before their clash that offers an idea of the deep connection between the two players.
Truman Capote is an American pop culture icon, recognizable to literary fans even today. Getting his voice and mannerisms on the page was important — and Baitz says that Hollander stuck to the script, avoiding any ad-libbing in character as Truman. “His respect for the word is based on his love of playwrights, of trying to figure...
Truman Capote is an American pop culture icon, recognizable to literary fans even today. Getting his voice and mannerisms on the page was important — and Baitz says that Hollander stuck to the script, avoiding any ad-libbing in character as Truman. “His respect for the word is based on his love of playwrights, of trying to figure...
- 5/22/2024
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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“Saturday Night Live” ended its 49th season on May 18, and now all eyes are set for the fall of 2024, when the monumental 50th season will begin. “I get awestruck at that idea and that concept,” reveals Bowen Yang, who just wrapped up his fifth year as a cast member. “It’s all tied back to [showrunner and creator] Lorne Michaels and all of the producers who’ve been on that journey with him and us, and who’ve supported people and launched their careers. It’s really, for lack of a better word, crazy to think about.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
Yang is a three-time Emmy Award nominee for “SNL,” first for writing in 2019 and then for acting in 2021 and ’22. Winning an award this year would be “another pipe dream,” he tell us. “This is a really hackneyed thing I’ll say: it was just an honor to be nominated. And...
Yang is a three-time Emmy Award nominee for “SNL,” first for writing in 2019 and then for acting in 2021 and ’22. Winning an award this year would be “another pipe dream,” he tell us. “This is a really hackneyed thing I’ll say: it was just an honor to be nominated. And...
- 5/22/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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Five acclaimed costume designers take us behind the scenes of their costume fittings to reveal the unexpected sparks of inspiration that happen when the wardrobes they created or sourced are paired with their performers for the first time.
In an exclusive video roundtable interview with Gold Derby as part of our Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel, “Abbott Elementary” costume designer Susan Michalek, “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” costume designer Lou Eyrich, “Shōgun” costume designer Carlos Rosario, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” costume designer Bernadette Croft and “The Wheel of Time” costume designer Sharon Gilham discuss what they love most about collaborating with the on-screen talent of their projects. Watch the full roundtable above. Click on each person’s name to watch an individual chat.
“It takes about two-three people to dress anybody with any of those costumes for about 45 minutes or an hour,” reveals Rosario about the arduous process of fitting his “Shōgun” performers.
In an exclusive video roundtable interview with Gold Derby as part of our Meet the Experts: Costume Designers panel, “Abbott Elementary” costume designer Susan Michalek, “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” costume designer Lou Eyrich, “Shōgun” costume designer Carlos Rosario, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” costume designer Bernadette Croft and “The Wheel of Time” costume designer Sharon Gilham discuss what they love most about collaborating with the on-screen talent of their projects. Watch the full roundtable above. Click on each person’s name to watch an individual chat.
“It takes about two-three people to dress anybody with any of those costumes for about 45 minutes or an hour,” reveals Rosario about the arduous process of fitting his “Shōgun” performers.
- 5/22/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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“It was fun to pivot,” shares Lou Eyrich about the change of milieu from the first to second installments of FX’s anthology series “Feud.” She was the costume designer on the first season “Bette and Joan” back in 2017, and though she now mostly collaborates with Ryan Murphy as a producer, she seized on the opportunity to return as costumer for “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” The designer describes the difference between the two sets of episodes as “going from a Hollywood movie perspective to this elite group of socialite jet-setters in New York, Manhattan, at the time, and they were the original influencers.” Gold Derby spoke with Eyrich as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV costume design panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Though the series focuses on the title “swans,” the tight-knit group of elites who writer Truman Capote skewered in his unfinished book “Answered Prayers,...
Though the series focuses on the title “swans,” the tight-knit group of elites who writer Truman Capote skewered in his unfinished book “Answered Prayers,...
- 5/22/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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The Mouse House is bringing its Emmy-themed “Disney FYC Fest” back for the third consecutive year, kicking things off May 29 with an preview event for FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” and ending with “Shōgun” on June 11. And like last year, it’s back at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood.
Besides “Feud,” the two-week run will include events for shows including “Abbott Elementary,” “Ahsoka,” “Dancing with The Stars,” “Fargo,” “Genius: MLK/X,” “The Golden Bachelor,” “The Kardashians,” “Life & Beth,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Quiz Lady,” “Shōgun,” “Under The Bridge,” “Vanderpump Villa,” “We Were The Lucky Ones” and “What We Do In The Shadows.”
The Disney FYC Fest installments will be available when the event officially opens on June 1 with “Fargo.” Like last year, costume and memorabilia displays, along with social media photo opps, will be installed in the DGA lobby. Among them: a jumbo-sized replica of Truman Capote...
Besides “Feud,” the two-week run will include events for shows including “Abbott Elementary,” “Ahsoka,” “Dancing with The Stars,” “Fargo,” “Genius: MLK/X,” “The Golden Bachelor,” “The Kardashians,” “Life & Beth,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Quiz Lady,” “Shōgun,” “Under The Bridge,” “Vanderpump Villa,” “We Were The Lucky Ones” and “What We Do In The Shadows.”
The Disney FYC Fest installments will be available when the event officially opens on June 1 with “Fargo.” Like last year, costume and memorabilia displays, along with social media photo opps, will be installed in the DGA lobby. Among them: a jumbo-sized replica of Truman Capote...
- 5/20/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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Exclusive: On April 18th of this year, at a parole board hearing in New Hampshire, convicted murderer James Parker was granted parole for his role in the brutal 2001 stabbing murders of Half and Suzanne Zantop, a pair of married Dartmouth professors. After acquiring rights to Judgment Ridge, a work of nonfiction detailing the chilly story of those murders, producers Randy and Steven Toll have enlisted Matthew Gentile (American Murderer) to direct a feature adaptation from his own script.
Written by Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff, Judgment Ridge evokes clear memories of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, as it delves deeply into the inexplicable behavior that led to these ruthless murders. It was at age 16 that Parker conspired with his best friend to commit the murders of the Zantrops. He and co-conspirator Robert Tulloch came to commit the crime after plotting to put together the $10,000 they needed to move to...
Written by Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff, Judgment Ridge evokes clear memories of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, as it delves deeply into the inexplicable behavior that led to these ruthless murders. It was at age 16 that Parker conspired with his best friend to commit the murders of the Zantrops. He and co-conspirator Robert Tulloch came to commit the crime after plotting to put together the $10,000 they needed to move to...
- 5/9/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Jessica Lange spoke critically of present-day Hollywood during a recent interview with Vulture, saying “there should be a law against it” when the topic came up about Warner Bros. Discovery axing already-shot movies like “Batgirl” and “Coyote vs. Acme” for tax write-off purposes. This topic became a launching pad for some of Lange’s wider criticisms of today’s entertainment industry.
“We’re living in a corporate world and it certainly has rolled over into the film industry,” Lange said. “So much of the industry now is not about the creative process. Obviously, this is not across the board, but there are many instances where I feel like the artistic impulse is overwhelmed by the corporate profit motive. You look at some of the best films of the past year — what do they have in common? They’re not from America. My favorite was ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ How often...
“We’re living in a corporate world and it certainly has rolled over into the film industry,” Lange said. “So much of the industry now is not about the creative process. Obviously, this is not across the board, but there are many instances where I feel like the artistic impulse is overwhelmed by the corporate profit motive. You look at some of the best films of the past year — what do they have in common? They’re not from America. My favorite was ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ How often...
- 4/25/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
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After a seven-year break, FX’s anthology series “Feud” is back with another installment of rivalry and gossip titled “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” telling the story of Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and a high society New York City socialite group known as The Swans, which includes Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny), Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart), Ann Woodward (Demi Moore) and Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald). The previous season of the Ryan Murphy docudrama that starred Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis nabbed 18 Emmy Award nominations and two wins. Let’s look back at their haul to see how it may impact this current season at the 2024 Emmys.
Here are the 2017 Emmy wins and nominations for “Feud: Bette and Joan”:
Best Limited/Movie Non-Prosthetic Makeup (Won)
Eryn Krueger Mekash, Makeup Designer
Robin Beauchesne, Assistant Makeup Department Head
Shutchai Tym Buacharern,...
Here are the 2017 Emmy wins and nominations for “Feud: Bette and Joan”:
Best Limited/Movie Non-Prosthetic Makeup (Won)
Eryn Krueger Mekash, Makeup Designer
Robin Beauchesne, Assistant Makeup Department Head
Shutchai Tym Buacharern,...
- 4/20/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
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One of 2024’s obsessions is “Feud: “Capote vs. the Swans.” The FX on Hulu limited series revolves around the best-selling novelist Truman Capote‘s friendship with several of the highest of New York’s society women include Babe Paley, Slim Keith and Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The women treat him as a sort of father confessor, but when he publishes an excerpt from what he considers his will be his masterwork “Answered Prayers” in Esquire — a thinly veiled account of their lives and secrets –they feel betrayed and turn their back on their once trusted friend. He spends the rest of his life trying to get back into their good graces.
Everyone knows Capote wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and his superb “In Cold Blood” and was a witty albeit inebriated guest on countless talk shows, but how much do you really know about him?
Capote was...
Everyone knows Capote wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and his superb “In Cold Blood” and was a witty albeit inebriated guest on countless talk shows, but how much do you really know about him?
Capote was...
- 3/19/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
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Having trouble predicting who will win Best Movie/Limited Actor at the 2024 Emmy Awards? Let’s consult Gold Derby’s Emmy Experts! These savvy pundits from major media outlets have chimed in with their first set of predictions, and they say the trophy will go to either Jon Hamm (“Fargo”) or Tom Hollander (“Feud: Capote vs. the Swans”). The other potential nominees at this early stage are David Oyelowo (“Lawmen: Bass Reeves”), Hiroyuki Sanada (“Shogun”), Matt Bomer (“Fellow Travelers”) and Andrew Scott (“Ripley”) — but that could all change in the coming months.
As of this writing, two our of six Emmy Experts predict a victory for Hamm: Peter Travers (ABC) and Ray Richmond (Gold Derby). He plays corrupt Sheriff Roy Tillman on Season 5 of FX’s quirky anthology series. Hamm has received 16 total Emmy nominations throughout his career for his work on “Mad Men,” “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,...
As of this writing, two our of six Emmy Experts predict a victory for Hamm: Peter Travers (ABC) and Ray Richmond (Gold Derby). He plays corrupt Sheriff Roy Tillman on Season 5 of FX’s quirky anthology series. Hamm has received 16 total Emmy nominations throughout his career for his work on “Mad Men,” “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
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Stepping into the shoes of Truman Capote, Tom Hollander delves into the writer’s tumultuous final chapter in FX’s ‘Feud: Capote and the Swans’. The series, an eight-episode saga, explores the complex rift between Capote and his high-society muses, the Swans, against the backdrop of his controversial novel, ‘Answered Prayers’. The narrative spans until Capote’s demise at 59 from liver disease in 1984, with the unfinished novel seeing posthumous publication two years later. Hollander, who previously missed out on portraying Capote, expresses a sense of serendipity about his casting in ‘Feud’. I’m now, of course, thrilled that I didn’t get it,
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- 3/17/2024
- by Mickey Stevenson
- TVovermind.com
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Feud: Capote vs. the Swans came to an end with the eighth episode of this series, which portrayed the famous writer Truman Capote’s most controversial relationships with his socialite group of friends. In the previous episode, which was the most well-executed storytelling I’ve seen so far in the series, we witnessed both Babe and Truman’s deaths, but the story didn’t end right there. In this final episode, which has nothing special to offer except for its over-the-top dramatic developments and frustratingly boring storytelling, we learned a little bit about Truman’s unfinished novel, “Answered Prayers,” which had never been found after his death in 1984. Probably the makers took some creative liberties to portray what Truman might have written in the manuscript, and this episode followed those writings that Truman had never been able to publish.
Spoilers Ahead
What Was In “Answered Prayers”?
Episode 8, titled “Phantasm Forgiveness,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Was In “Answered Prayers”?
Episode 8, titled “Phantasm Forgiveness,...
- 3/15/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
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Ryan Murphy continues his reign over TV with the latest season of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. While not covering a rivalry as culturally infamous as that of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, the story of writer-slash-gadabout Truman Capote and the coterie of glamorous rich women he befriended then betrayed is so perfect for the Murphy oeuvre, it seems practically gift-wrapped for him.
- 3/14/2024
- by Kayleigh Donaldson
- Primetimer
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The last scandalous reveal in Ryan Murphy’s docudrama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” was far more surprising than any of the gossip-filled tales penned by Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander). The final twist came 32 years after his death when a longtime confidant, Joanne Carson (played in the drama by Molly Ringwald), decided to auction off the writer’s remains to the highest bidder.
In the finale, the last moments of Capote’s life show him floating in and out of consciousness. Excommunicated from New York, after penning several stories exposing his socialite friends’ darkest secrets, and banished to Los Angeles, Capote seeks refuge in the home of Carson. And it is in that room that Capote takes his last breaths, asking for his mother and “beautiful babe,” aka Barbara Paley (played by Naomi Watts).
Tom Hollander as Truman Capote, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson.
The series then jumps...
In the finale, the last moments of Capote’s life show him floating in and out of consciousness. Excommunicated from New York, after penning several stories exposing his socialite friends’ darkest secrets, and banished to Los Angeles, Capote seeks refuge in the home of Carson. And it is in that room that Capote takes his last breaths, asking for his mother and “beautiful babe,” aka Barbara Paley (played by Naomi Watts).
Tom Hollander as Truman Capote, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson.
The series then jumps...
- 3/14/2024
- by Meredith Woerner
- Variety Film + TV
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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans Episode 8, “Phantasm Forgiveness.”] Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans reached its bittersweet conclusion in the finale episode, “Phantasm Forgiveness,” as Truman Capote’s (Tom Hollander) light is extinguished. Unable to resolve his various feuds with the remaining titular swans — Slim (Diane Lane), Lee (Calista Flockhart), and C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) — Truman decides to occupy a fantasy world in which he offers up forgiveness in exchange for acceptance from his former confidantes. While Babe (Naomi Watts) is no longer there to provide him with such a fantasy, given that she died in the prior episode, that lingering regret eats at him along with the ghost of his mother, played by the deliciously vicious Jessica Lange. By the episode’s end, Truman has died and his ashes are being sold at auction. As the ghosts of his swans watch on, there’s a funeral feeling to it all. As...
- 3/14/2024
- TV Insider
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“Do I look like a monk?” Chloë Sevigny asks the room.
We’re in the Lower East Side apartment of Chris Peters, the head designer of the fashion label Puppets and Puppets, and Sevigny is trying on the sequined gown she plans to wear at a fundraiser for Tibet House that night. But she worries the outfit’s long sleeve, which begins at the hem, drapes around Sevigny’s neck like a scarf, and extends to her left wrist, evokes the robes favored by the Buddhist figures whose traditions the organization highlights. As the sun beats through Peters’ window, cascading along the dress’s spangles and filling the room with reflected light, Sevigny is more reminiscent of a disco ball than the Dalai Lama.
Peters quickly reassures her. “I wouldn’t say it feels monastic. It’s an odd kind of ’30s glam. You look incredible.”
Sevigny tilts her head,...
We’re in the Lower East Side apartment of Chris Peters, the head designer of the fashion label Puppets and Puppets, and Sevigny is trying on the sequined gown she plans to wear at a fundraiser for Tibet House that night. But she worries the outfit’s long sleeve, which begins at the hem, drapes around Sevigny’s neck like a scarf, and extends to her left wrist, evokes the robes favored by the Buddhist figures whose traditions the organization highlights. As the sun beats through Peters’ window, cascading along the dress’s spangles and filling the room with reflected light, Sevigny is more reminiscent of a disco ball than the Dalai Lama.
Peters quickly reassures her. “I wouldn’t say it feels monastic. It’s an odd kind of ’30s glam. You look incredible.”
Sevigny tilts her head,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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Hollywood’s biggest night is upon us at last. The 96th Academy Awards air Sunday at 7/6c on ABC, which is good news for “Oppenheimer” leading man Cillian Murphy, who on Monday will be able to return home to Ireland and not leave its shores for six months. The ceremony will again be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and many former winners, including Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey and Rita Moreno, will be on hand to help hand out this year’s awards. The evening will also include what is probably going to go down as one of the weirdest musical numbers to be featured on the Oscar stage, as someone was able to talk three-time nominee Ryan Gosling into performing the memorable hit song “I’m Just Ken” from Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” So although there haven’t been too many surprises this awards season, meaning Sunday’s telecast might be...
- 3/9/2024
- by Kaitlin Thomas
- Gold Derby
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[This story contains spoilers from episode seven of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.]
American socialite and former magazine editor Babe Paley was married to CBS founder William S. Paley for 31 years. But according to Naomi Watts, who portrays her in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, her relationship with Truman Capote was the deepest romance she’d ever had — minus the sex.
“Babe gave herself to this man and all of her secrets,” Watts tells The Hollywood Reporter in the conversation below. “She really trusted him, thinking they were such close friends that he would never dare to expose them.”
It’s for that reason Capote’s actions led to Paley “just [coming] undone,” the star and executive producer had explained earlier in the season to reporters, including THR. As shown in the second season of the FX anthology series, Capote (played by Tom Hollander) reveals the most intimate details of the lives of Paley and the...
American socialite and former magazine editor Babe Paley was married to CBS founder William S. Paley for 31 years. But according to Naomi Watts, who portrays her in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, her relationship with Truman Capote was the deepest romance she’d ever had — minus the sex.
“Babe gave herself to this man and all of her secrets,” Watts tells The Hollywood Reporter in the conversation below. “She really trusted him, thinking they were such close friends that he would never dare to expose them.”
It’s for that reason Capote’s actions led to Paley “just [coming] undone,” the star and executive producer had explained earlier in the season to reporters, including THR. As shown in the second season of the FX anthology series, Capote (played by Tom Hollander) reveals the most intimate details of the lives of Paley and the...
- 3/7/2024
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Step back in time and witness the captivating clash between literary giants in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” as Season 2 Episode 8, titled “Phantasm Forgiveness,” airs on FX at 9:00 Pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
In this enthralling episode, Truman Capote takes center stage as the past, present, and future converge in a mesmerizing dance. As Capote strives to put the finishing touches on his literary masterpiece, “Answered Prayers,” viewers are taken on a journey through the complexities of his relationships with the high-society women known as “The Swans.”
Expect a riveting exploration of forgiveness, phantoms from the past, and the inexorable link between creation and consequence. “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” continues to deliver a spellbinding narrative, offering a glimpse into the tumultuous world of literary brilliance, personal intricacies, and the haunting echoes of decisions made. Tune in for an evening of drama, nostalgia, and the enigmatic life of Truman Capote.
In this enthralling episode, Truman Capote takes center stage as the past, present, and future converge in a mesmerizing dance. As Capote strives to put the finishing touches on his literary masterpiece, “Answered Prayers,” viewers are taken on a journey through the complexities of his relationships with the high-society women known as “The Swans.”
Expect a riveting exploration of forgiveness, phantoms from the past, and the inexorable link between creation and consequence. “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” continues to deliver a spellbinding narrative, offering a glimpse into the tumultuous world of literary brilliance, personal intricacies, and the haunting echoes of decisions made. Tune in for an evening of drama, nostalgia, and the enigmatic life of Truman Capote.
- 3/6/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
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Four decades after his death, the infamous Truman Capote continues to dominate pop culture through the second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series Feud, titled Capote vs. The Swans. The show chronicles Capote’s falling-out with his socialite inner circle as well as his self-destructive spiral.
A pivotal moment of that spiral occurred during an intoxicated interview on the July 18, 1978 episode of The Stanley Siegel Show, which the series recreates in its penultimate episode. That single appearance eclipsed nearly a decade in which Capote was one of the most in-demand guests on talk shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, and Firing Line. During this time, Capote and the talk show format that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s had a symbiotic relationship fed by one’s ability to tell stories and the other’s ability to reach a vast audience.
A pivotal moment of that spiral occurred during an intoxicated interview on the July 18, 1978 episode of The Stanley Siegel Show, which the series recreates in its penultimate episode. That single appearance eclipsed nearly a decade in which Capote was one of the most in-demand guests on talk shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, and Firing Line. During this time, Capote and the talk show format that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s had a symbiotic relationship fed by one’s ability to tell stories and the other’s ability to reach a vast audience.
- 3/5/2024
- by Trae DeLellis
- Primetimer
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“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” pits the incendiary author Truman Capote against a “gaggle” of New York socialites, but there is one “swan” that is truly at the heart of the roost, namely, Babe Paley, played by Naomi Watts. Since Babe is the closest of all the women to the writer, his betrayal of the group in 1975 in his scathing “Esquire” excerpt from his unfinished novel “Answered Prayers” hits her the hardest, and the other swans rally to her defense to ice the “In Cold Blood” scribe out of the upper echelons of society.
What makes the relationship between Babe and Truman so compelling—in addition to the performances of Watts and Tom Hollander—is how much we see of their friendship blossoming. The entire opening sequence of the season shows Capote comforting and strategizing with Babe over how to handle the latest and most disgraceful of her husband Bill’s (Treat Williams) infidelities.
What makes the relationship between Babe and Truman so compelling—in addition to the performances of Watts and Tom Hollander—is how much we see of their friendship blossoming. The entire opening sequence of the season shows Capote comforting and strategizing with Babe over how to handle the latest and most disgraceful of her husband Bill’s (Treat Williams) infidelities.
- 3/4/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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Bowen Yang, a familiar face on Saturday Night Live since 2019, has showcased his comedic talents through a variety of characters, from impersonating figures like George Santos and Truman Capote to crafting original personas. He even explored the dynamics of a “Straight Male Friend” in a 2023 sketch with Travis Kelce. But on March 2nd, Yang took a surprising turn, portraying a heterosexual version of himself in the SNL short, Bowen’s Straight.
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The sketch revolves around Sydney Sweeney, who develops a crush on Yang, only to discover a shocking truth: he’s secretly straight. According to him, playing gay is simply a career move, while his true “modus operandi” is charming women. He even flaunts his “straightness” by making out with both Gina Gershon and Sweeney.
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Bowen Yang and Sydney Sweeney on SNL
The sketch revolves around Sydney Sweeney, who develops a crush on Yang, only to discover a shocking truth: he’s secretly straight. According to him, playing gay is simply a career move, while his true “modus operandi” is charming women. He even flaunts his “straightness” by making out with both Gina Gershon and Sweeney.
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- 3/4/2024
- by Prantik Prabal Roy
- FandomWire
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[This story contains spoilers from the sixth episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, “Hats, Gloves and Effete Homosexuals.”]
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans is a reunion for Calista Flockhart and showrunner Jon Robin Baitz, who created Brothers & Sisters on which the actress starred during its five-season run. It was an instant yes, says Flockhart, when “Robbie” (as she calls him) and producer Ryan Murphy came to her with the role of Lee Radziwill in season two of the FX anthology — one of the coterie of New York City socialites with whom Truman Capote palled around (and later publicly fought) in the 1960s and ’70s.
Radziwell was perhaps America’s best-known little sister; she was four years younger than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who always overshadowed Lee despite her own efforts to achieve fame as an actress. But without the trappings of the official title of First Lady, Radziwill was able to flourish socially and was well-connected with the literary,...
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans is a reunion for Calista Flockhart and showrunner Jon Robin Baitz, who created Brothers & Sisters on which the actress starred during its five-season run. It was an instant yes, says Flockhart, when “Robbie” (as she calls him) and producer Ryan Murphy came to her with the role of Lee Radziwill in season two of the FX anthology — one of the coterie of New York City socialites with whom Truman Capote palled around (and later publicly fought) in the 1960s and ’70s.
Radziwell was perhaps America’s best-known little sister; she was four years younger than Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who always overshadowed Lee despite her own efforts to achieve fame as an actress. But without the trappings of the official title of First Lady, Radziwill was able to flourish socially and was well-connected with the literary,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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As the drama unfolds in “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” brace yourselves for an emotional rollercoaster in Season 2, Episode 7, titled “Beautiful Babe.” Airing at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, on FX, this episode promises a deep dive into the reflective moments of the iconic socialite Babe Paley.
In this installment, viewers can expect a poignant exploration of Babe’s life, accompanied by heartfelt reflections on her most cherished memories and possessions. Meanwhile, Truman Capote and the Swans find themselves grappling with the aftermath of a tragic event, adding a layer of complexity to their already intricate relationships.
“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” continues to weave a compelling narrative around the lives of these larger-than-life personalities, offering a glimpse into the glamour, struggles, and heartbreaks that defined an era. Don’t miss the captivating storytelling and stellar performances in “Beautiful Babe,” airing on FX at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
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In this installment, viewers can expect a poignant exploration of Babe’s life, accompanied by heartfelt reflections on her most cherished memories and possessions. Meanwhile, Truman Capote and the Swans find themselves grappling with the aftermath of a tragic event, adding a layer of complexity to their already intricate relationships.
“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” continues to weave a compelling narrative around the lives of these larger-than-life personalities, offering a glimpse into the glamour, struggles, and heartbreaks that defined an era. Don’t miss the captivating storytelling and stellar performances in “Beautiful Babe,” airing on FX at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
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- 2/28/2024
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
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Ottessa Moshfegh may have been channeling Hitchcock for her screenplay for William Oldroyd’s “Eileen,” but star Marin Ireland turned to a much different filmmaker for creative inspiration on the 1960s-set noir. The film was co-written by Luke Goebel.
Ireland, nominated for Best Supporting Performance for “Eileen” opposite Anne Hathaway, who was also nominated, came by IndieWire’s spot at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards red carpet to talk the 2023 Neon release. In the film, Ireland plays the mother of a teenager who’s been arrested for his father’s murder, and she’s hiding a secret.
“I had read the book years earlier, and I was like, what are we doing? Where did this come from?” Ireland said of her first meeting with Moshfegh. “She told me about this documentary she had watched called ‘Lost for Life’ about teens who were convicted as adults, who were serving life sentences,...
Ireland, nominated for Best Supporting Performance for “Eileen” opposite Anne Hathaway, who was also nominated, came by IndieWire’s spot at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards red carpet to talk the 2023 Neon release. In the film, Ireland plays the mother of a teenager who’s been arrested for his father’s murder, and she’s hiding a secret.
“I had read the book years earlier, and I was like, what are we doing? Where did this come from?” Ireland said of her first meeting with Moshfegh. “She told me about this documentary she had watched called ‘Lost for Life’ about teens who were convicted as adults, who were serving life sentences,...
- 2/25/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio and Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
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