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This Week In Google
"truman capote" Discussed on This Week In Google
"In cold blood guy, Truman Capote, turmeric. I think. Anyway, that, and that's your Amazon change log. Then we have a Google event. All right, let's do the Google event. Oh my God. Google is trying to reinvent search. So there's a couple Leo. There's another I got another list down there. The ten biggest announcements. Give me another listicle. I need a listicle. Hold on. What line is the listicle on? The poster. 52. 52. Line 50 B-52. Should we have a winner? The ten biggest announcements from Google search on 22. Is that today the 22? No, what does that mean? I'm saying are they talking about? Number one multi search expanding. They're going to expand what's multi search, Jeff. Oh, shoot. I was hoping you were going to ask me that. I forgot. Search by image and text at the same time. That's right. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They're expanding that to 70 new languages. They launched it last year for English and U.S. based queries. Oh, this is the one where you can use your camera's phone. Yeah. It's kind of like Google lens. And then it will give you both text and image, like you should do a stop sign or something. The general argument here is the search becomes more visual and the TikTok once again is scared and everybody to show in the way. And there was a story in the rundown two weeks ago we didn't talk about it, and it was fine. About how the kids today are using TikTok for search. And I tried it and actually it's not that bad. And so I thought, oh, let me try it. And I tried it. I just went for a restaurants, and it actually wasn't that bad. I've been reading this. And I don't get it. So let me go to TikTok. The easiest thing to look for restaurants. Restaurants near me on TikTok. And what you'll find is mesmerized by a young lady in her bikini. Wait a minute, let me see. Sweep away from it. So you hit the search button. And you type in TikTok in TikTok. Are you into that? Yes. And then what do you type? Restaurants near me. It says, here's what it says. You may like my body, Emily retrospect. Bikini try on haul. Hurricane white bodysuit outfit. The girl next door, why am I getting this? Why? Why? Restaurants. Restaurants. When it comes up, I can't interview. There it is. Not the top one. Restaurants near me. Okay. And you thinking it's going to get, oh my God. Yeah, see? It's giving you not just lists of restaurants near you. It's giving you videos from inside them. By human beings. This is a restaurant I can't get to. Because it's in LA. Okay, there's one. Here's a sponsored one from benihana. Down in San Francisco. Let's see. Here's another one. Restaurants near me Los dos potrillos Parker, which is where, not near me. What is it? Denver, Colorado. Turn off. Wait, wait, wait, wait, did you like turn off something on TikTok? This is don't find out where I am. Maybe. No. Probably. I never do that. I wouldn't do that. But I'm on an Apple device. Are you on an Apple device? I'm pretty sure I've turned off a location on it. Let me go look and turn on my locations on TikTok. Okay, all right. Maybe that's why I'm getting all that but carrying rich content. It doesn't know I'm in California. Because it knows you have something to be ashamed of. He's
This Week In Google
"truman capote" Discussed on This Week In Google
"Can get the gamers. I still get emails about my free monthly game or whatever. I think I have stadia, but I don't have it anymore. I just logged in just to confirm that I don't have it. And it says, yeah, get state of your approach. Maybe I don't, maybe I can. Yeah, this sounds like a side in you too. Yeah. That's the appropriate response to stadia from everybody, I think. I really wanted it to work because I did too. As a Mac user and a Linux user, a lot of games are not ported to this platform to be able to play PC games in the browser is a great idea. I have one person that seems to be standing behind it and he's a twig listener, mister Leo. Not Laporte. But he totally digs the stadia experience with his phone and everything. It's a great idea. It's a great idea. Meta told workers on Friday, you're going to have to do your own laundry. Where's my violin? I mean, I feel for these people because it always sucks when someone takes away a cool privilege, but it's kind of like people who are like 28 complaining that their family took them off their Netflix or just more dastardly than that. Oh, gosh. They are starting dinner at 6 30, but the last bus is 6 or some such thing. Apparently, there are complaints that people were packing up big to go boxes and running out to the bus. So when she totally see people doing it. Of course. Why not? Given away the meal, I don't want to stick around work to eat it. So thank you. When I worked at time Inc, though many years ago, they used to have dinner or on closing nights because people would work through the night. And you'd also get a dark car home after a certain hour. So people would wait as long as they could stretch out every edit, drink, they also stocked the editor's offices. They had a bar cart. I think it's important that people know that time Inc had a bar cart that roved around the offices. Well, actually, Time Magazine, because they were higher class than they were. People, they just stocked the editor's credenzas. The editors had so counterproductive. Sounds like my old IT. I missed the bar cart by a year. By a year. It seems like do you really want your writers to be drunk? There's this whole mythology about like drunk writers. Thank you, Truman Capote. Oh, rock editor is a time Inc it just seemed to go to dinner at the steakhouse and then come back and you did not want your copy edited that. You did not. Who wants to even work with them? I don't understand the appeal of it at all. We had a guy who had a serious bad breakdown on the 29th floor. He threw his chair out the window, broke the window. Luckily it was over another building belonged. Yikes. Brew his a text terminal out, which dangled by the wires. Was taken to the ER and then into the loony pin. And guess what, the editors did who took who came back? They brought him a bottle. They drank. Well, I got to.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Hi, happy new year, Paul. Did you happen to see I have a question, but did you happen to see Rutgers take down Michigan at the rack couple of days ago? I missed it. College back. My buddy, the only reason why I say my buddy stitching Rodgers is a scout for them the Long Island pork Jeff scout. That was a big win for them. I have a question about amateur sports. Paul, you know, sometimes you're a big cavalier with these bowl games. You know, we know how you feel about the bowl games, and we know how you feel about the breadth. We know how you feel about urban Meyer. We get it, right? And I thought I like it a lot. But when you're very cavalier with these bowl games saying, like, you know what? Nobody cares. You know, college amateur sports is going to be shot. Where do you think I am interested sports is going to go to? Where do you think it's going to go nowhere? It's over. The pageantry is going to be done. I mean, and this is something that, honestly, Paul, I didn't know anything about you in Birmingham. Frank are you blaming me for that? No, no, what I am about to say. And I'm almost done with my point. Almost finished my point. I was young, young teenager. Going into borders books, trying to be an old, right? Exactly. An old teenager going into borders books and you know what book I saw? I said, oh, who's this guy Paul find out? It said my conference is better than yours. You made your whole career in the northeast on a book. My conference is better than yours. And it's going to be too super competition. Okay? The name of the book was my conference can be your conference. Why the SEC still rules college football? That book came out 7 years ago. Okay, Paul, I know the name of the blow from trying to get the call because I know you have all the calls. That book was like the killer boxing bird to me, man. That was a big time book. I mean, man. Killer mockingbird, wow. The Atticus Finch. College football, huh? Hey, by the way, Paul, you made y'all. You made your own. Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, at least in theory, that's what we think she did. She was a big mama fan. And it came out two years ago. We talked about this in The Wall Street Journal that she listened every day in monroeville Alabama to this show. Yes. Don't make it. Are you kidding me? I read the story. Wow, that's a great story. I knew she was from now about. That's great. Wow. She listened to. So you knew did you ever meet her? Frank, very few people have ever met her. Now, they may have known her in New York back in the day, but she was the ultimate recluse. I had a friend of mine who several times went to her doorstep to interview her and she wouldn't even nicest lady in the world tried to do this interview and she wouldn't talk to her. She did not talk to people. I thought she hung around with like the William Burroughs and the beatnik crowd. Well, she did. She did. She did. Back in the day. Her best friend, her best friend was Truman Capote. And there was always there was always the allegation that Truman Capote really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There'd been books written about that. I don't mean to go into English lit here. Absolutely not. Did she just have a book that wasn't published? They found a couple of years ago. I read it. It was, I thought it was terrible. It was called the watchman or something. Yeah, it was it came out about four years ago and it was supposedly was it the prequel? Yeah, I think it was the prequel to kill it to kill a molecular. Yeah, she couldn't get it published. Yeah. Well, I don't even know why I called marijuana's legal in New York poll. So all right. Well, enjoy the film. Give me another reason to move to New York. Did you know marijuana was legal in New York? I did not know that. You have a match, by the way. Cheerleader is up next. Hi, Paul. Cheerleader. How you doing? I'm really getting in trouble right now. I'm playing bridge. With my girlfriend, then I had to take a leave from the table. You're playing on Thursday afternoon. I thought that was Wednesday. Yeah. So I worked this morning. I worked this morning real hard. But several things I want to say to you, but first to start with that about end Annapolis in a science. It just doesn't sound right. You know what? I don't think I'm going. I'm going to boycott this game. No, you have to go. I'm coming down. I'm going to come. Where is he? What is it on the what's on the line, the Alabama line. There's Aniston. I do not know, but I would like to know. I'm going to come down and watch the game on the Alabama Georgia line. Oh, okay, well, I'll make you there. Okay. And I'll bring my hand cake that I'll wear this good luck. I have a 1970 9 band code that's an old band uniform that I just blow up. I'm afraid. So 1979 cheerleader, that's what 42 years ago. So somebody bought up the old band uniforms when they sold them and got no uniform. And I have one of them. And the cape is just gorgeous. And you know, were you in debate? In the 19 79? Baby, I was a cheerleader. I wanted to buy in. But I bought it, cause I thought it was pretty good. That was a cheerleader. That sounds like a neighborhood. A dime store novel. It sounds like the name of somebody that calls into bonbon. And but anyway, another thing that was the cheerleader. Cheerleader. Yeah. Hi. I want to say this. I don't have a clue. Do you want me to say baby baby? I don't know why it's cheerleader. That really got to me when you said baby baby. Well, I can say it again, but listen. You might remember what I wanted to do. But about the gang, you know there is a change in chip guy and coming up on Monday night. I did notice that. There is a championship gang, and it is between two ACC teams and they have played each other before. And you know trying to make that's my problem because I'm having a hard time with this game and Alabama played old house date last year. That was easy for me. Clemson, easy. Yeah. This is not easy. Texas easy. No. And after, you know, it could go either way. People could say, are you still there, Paul? Yeah, I'm still here. But I just don't know. It's going to be a fabulous game. I don't know about that. I don't know. Who's going to win it? How does it all the way? This is going to be a fabulous game. I watched two terrible games last Friday. As the cows, I'm saying it's gonna be a good time. Baby, you go back to your bridge game, okay? Baby baby. Does that mean anything when you go to the extra baby? I think I know what that means. Let's go to Andre and clean this thing Coach Paul..
The Business of Fashion Podcast
"truman capote" Discussed on The Business of Fashion Podcast
"So in a way, it's the same, you know, the pictures are painted with words. I love the set. We looked at the squirrel that he wrote because it was tight as he was typing. It was sewn together. And it's 80 meters long, so the set's the same and it rolls out like the squirrel rolls out at the beginning. And then I got Patterson to read passages from on the road because I spent a lot of time with robber over the last few years just because of lockdowns and things. And I love the way that he can interpret someone so well. So I just asked him if you do it and I sent him the soundtracking and he was loved the music. So it made me laugh, though, because was it Truman Capote who it wasn't very partial? Was it trim Capone or Gore Vidal, who they weren't very partial to kerouac's writing? And they said, that's not writing. That's typing. Yeah. I think that's treatment capability. It's from a completely always make me laugh. Because there was all the typing. It's funny when I don't know exactly what the typewriter has invented, but writers, I've got manuscripts and things going back to Virginia. And it's funny how you see the crossover from handwriting to the entire ping and then was that when they just got a type. So just thinking, you know, if I must've been upset about it. And it was also supposed to change the way that your brain operated in the same way that when people switch from typewriters to computers. Apparently, I don't know if that's true or not. But you think differently, according to the writing longhand or whatever that on the road was a typewritten, definitely a tight ridden book. It's kind of a curious thought. But what I love personally about this is your celebration of the word. Yeah, well, I mean, I think it's really interesting because you know just talking to people and people are really interested in reading again a lot more, I think, because they had a lot of time in the last few years to sit down and do something, just talking to even Lila and she was like, I've been reading this book and getting a sort of almost wanting to go back to that. And I think it was just nice to look at something that's cycles of things in 6 years on also this book is still resonating in younger generations carrying on. But also we just had our BOF voices last week. And there was so much talk about the metaverse. And I feel like before the pandemic, all the talk was about artisanship and the handcraft and the human touch and so on. It feels to me like celebrating the word and the way that you did. Yeah. In the show, is your kind of statement about that? Is your own elevating quite a traditional kind of odds and crafts? I mean, writing is a craft. That thing crawls won't go away. There's education and I think people get up and do it themselves as well. And I think that's the thing that you know is really a positive to talk about rather than a negative, and I think it's nice to celebrate these things because there's a thing.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"He was totally self educated at the age of 23 he published his first novel. Amazing story. And it rose up, we all know on cold blood, it invented the whole true climb. We all know that. That will live forever. Before we start before we go, that far into his career. Just to go backwards for a moment. When those of us who are familiar with Harper Lee's famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, know that the sort of odd Nick boy was based on Harper Lee's childhood friend, Truman Capote, isn't that the case? Yes. Yes, yes. And imagine what it was like to be gay in those years. I mean, I had a friend who was an officer in the navy in World War II in the Pacific. His job was to find groups of gays and throw them in prison. That's what it was like, so that he was so outwardly gay was a very dangerous thing to be. It was illegal. Illegal. Well, I mean, it gets complicated because Truman Capote is such a rare case. He was he was not one of these people who could fly under the radar particularly well. He seemed to be his whole personality, almost seemed to be calculated to provoke. You got that impression from him that he sort of enjoyed he got some kind of frisson of enjoyment out of provoking people. But he was a genius, his first book when he was 23 his most famous book was you're going to help me. The other times other places in cold blood you in? No, no, no, no, but before that, when he wrote, oh my gosh, it's breakfast at Tiffany's. Wasn't that about? That was one of the first ones and the glass harp. He was early on, clearly a literary genius. I mean, I was in awe. When I first read his stuff not to maybe 15 years ago, I was really in awe of his ability as a writer. But what I think you explore here, or at least I want to get into it is that sometimes somebody's talent can harm them. Sometimes somebody's talent is almost bigger than they are or it's bigger than they have the character to deal with. And his talent carried him really quickly into some very, very high society and ultimately into some trouble. So we're going to get to that, folks, the book is capote's women. Do not go away the author is Lawrence lemur LEA ME.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Hey there folks, have you had enough of politics, I have. I've had enough of a lot of things. But one thing I haven't had enough of is Truman Capote. I love his writing. His life was extraordinary, not necessarily in a good way. I just discovered that there's a new book out called capote's women, it is by Lawrence lemur, the subtitle is a true story of love betrayal and a swan song for an era. It's a beautiful book, and I'm looking forward to talking about it with its author. Lawrence leamer, welcome to the program. Eric, thanks so much for having me. While it's a joy, I have written three pretty long biographies myself and I appreciate the genre. And I think that there's something you can do in a biography that you can't do in any other book. You can bring a period of time alive. It's an extraordinary thing. The time in which Truman Capote lived the 60s in New York, we can't even begin to really imagine what world he lived in. But I actually, you've begun and you've put it in a book. You've written many books on many other fabulous people, most of them taller than Truman Capote, which is saying nothing. You've written about the kennedys. You've written about Johnny Carson. What led you? I know you were a journalist. What led you before we get into the specific book into writing these kinds of books about these celebrated figures? Look, alas, I only have one life to lead. In writing these books, I enter other people's lives. But they've got to be somebody fascinating. They've got to be people who live at the edge. You take chances. That's what I want. With a China car or whether it's the kennedys or JFK or that generation or whoever or Donald Trump for that matter, people live at the edge. People who live at the edge I don't know if I live at the same chances. I know I know what you mean. When did your book on Carson Johnny Carson come out? Early in when he was when he was in Los Angeles. And that was an interesting one because dirty little secret. Every author answers the phone in the first ring. Because you're sitting there desperately wanting to talk somebody, right? So I grabbed my arm. I know what the world to know that. Well, I got had Johnny Carson's home phone number. And I had to talk to the right time. When I'm in the bad, when I'm in the wrong move, my mother would hang up at me. But when I'm in the right mood, I can talk to anybody. I was in the right room on a Friday evening. I knew he had to go to the butler and go to the person that's at the phone in the first ring, and there was Johnny Carson by himself on a Friday evening. Desperate to talk to somebody. See, now that is crazy. This is what year roughly we talked about. The mid 80s? Yeah, yeah. Okay, it's hard for anyone to believe that you could just call up Johnny Carson. Was he expecting your phone call? Did he know that you were writing about it? Are you kidding? He knew the stuff I knew. I didn't his ex-wife. He beat his wives. So he knew I knew a lot of things you want to have out there. What did he beat them at? Tennis, you're talking about? Joanne Carson, she showed me the divorce papers and she included having her chin redone. He must have had some serve. Listen, the guy's fantastic on television. Nobody is brilliant as he was. Nobody knew the American psyche better. To just have a little edge to it not to go too far. Nobody will ever last as long as he did. For that one hour. But outside of that, it was a miserable person. So let's remember him for that hour. So when he was off, so when he was on the air, he did not beat his wives. Only during intermission. You know, I've never heard that Johnny Carson whom I revere could be like that. And it's really dismaying. I didn't expect to go there with you, but since he wrote the book about him, you've also written about Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, you've written a number of books about the kennedys. You wrote a book about Arnold Schwarzenegger. And now this book about Truman Capote and the women he had these relationships with not sexual, but society women, whom he betrayed famously infamously. So I want to get into that with you. But before we continue, you've managed to make a living writing these books. And as somebody who's written biographies and other books, it really does have a lot to do with whom we choose as our subjects, because you can find somebody very obscure and nobody's interested, even if they have a fascinating life. It's a tougher sell. But when you pick somebody like a Schwarzenegger or a Reagan or a Kennedy, it makes it a little bit easier, at least to sell it to the publisher. Am I right? No, let's dive for it in those books too. The price of justice about these two Pittsburgh lawyers and their struggle against Don blank have shifted a big coal market and mogul got reviews, but it didn't sell as if I had somebody celebrities name slapped on the cover. Right. Well, let's get to this book, because I got American society. I know, of course, of course it is. It's sinful mankind. It's not just America, but I know what you mean. This book, capote's women, there are not many heterosexual conservative Christian men like like me who are fascinated with Truman Capote and his writing and his women. So you've hit the jackpot here. I can't wait to find out more. For people who know nothing about capote, let's just go backwards. And if you don't mind, help my audience understand who he was, how he came to be the Truman Capote that we saw rubbing his eyes on the Merv Griffin show. Well, he was born in monroeville, Alabama, a little tiny town. His parents got divorced. His mother is the mother would leave him in a hotel in New Orleans, locked the door and go with other men. And he was just terrified of that and his whole life had feared feared being isolated alone. It came to New York, his mother came to New York and married a guy who had some money. And he hardly graduated from high school..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks I'm talking to the author, Lawrence lemur, the author of capote's women, a fascinating book, detailing the extraordinary and strange relationships that this, I don't know what you call him. This man child, this genius, Truman Capote had with all of these wealthy society, women in the 50s and the 60s. I was asking you in 1976 when he finally allows esquire to publish something, maybe to keep the publisher at bay who paid him this big advance. That all of these women knew who they were portrayed in this excerpt and they all felt betrayed. Did any of them remain friends with him? Yeah, I mean, Lee Roswell stayed friends with him and CZ guest because he didn't send a negative about them in the excerpt. But his life sort of fell apart after this. It's like he cashed in his chips by publishing this thing. He groomed all of these women, groomed these relationships, and then suddenly decides to betray them. Do you think was he a deeply mean spirited person to do something like this? It seems cruel to me to have people who are confiding in you and then to betray them publicly in this way. He was an egomaniac. He was incredibly charming, but he lived an isolated life by himself in a real sense. He was friendless. So yes, he's God. So why not betray these women? There was Friends forever. And he didn't understand why they were so upset. And I think they were right to be upset. Some of his some of Truman's Friends, oh, they deserve it. They were just as rich worthless women. I don't feel that way at all. I think it was a terrible thing to do. He died in 1984. He was somebody that you could see at Studio 54. He always seemed to be making the scene, so to speak. He seemed to cultivate his public image, probably infinitely more than he cultivated an actual personal inner life. And it seems to have destroyed him. He was actually quite young when he died, wasn't he? His 59. Yeah, 59. Tell us some of the stories in this book. First of all, why would you write it with a title capote's women? In other words, why not simply write about Truman Capote and have the stories of these women be incidental to it? What made you want to focus on the women themselves? Because he wanted to write this masterpiece. This is going to be his master degree. So people would forget in cold blood or breakfast at Tiffany's. This is a book that would live forever. So as an author, I'm just fascinated by somebody that has that ambition. And what happens with it? And this is a guy with brilliant instincts in literary instincts. There is a he knew there was a great story to be told about these women. I mean, I tell it, I'm getting fabulous reviews. I don't tell it the way Truman would tell the feed been able to do it. But it's a fantastic story. There's no question
The Eric Metaxas Show
Truman Capote’s Ultimate Betrayal of the Group of Female Friends He Called His 'Swans'
"Folks I'm talking to the author, Lawrence lemur, the author of capote's women, a fascinating book, detailing the extraordinary and strange relationships that this, I don't know what you call him. This man child, this genius, Truman Capote had with all of these wealthy society, women in the 50s and the 60s. I was asking you in 1976 when he finally allows esquire to publish something, maybe to keep the publisher at bay who paid him this big advance. That all of these women knew who they were portrayed in this excerpt and they all felt betrayed. Did any of them remain friends with him? Yeah, I mean, Lee Roswell stayed friends with him and CZ guest because he didn't send a negative about them in the excerpt. But his life sort of fell apart after this. It's like he cashed in his chips by publishing this thing. He groomed all of these women, groomed these relationships, and then suddenly decides to betray them. Do you think was he a deeply mean spirited person to do something like this? It seems cruel to me to have people who are confiding in you and then to betray them publicly in this way. He was an egomaniac. He was incredibly charming, but he lived an isolated life by himself in a real sense. He was friendless. So yes, he's God. So why not betray these women? There was Friends forever. And he didn't understand why they were so upset. And I think they were right to be upset. Some of his some of Truman's Friends, oh, they deserve it. They were just as rich worthless women. I don't feel that way at all. I think it was a terrible thing to do. He died in 1984. He was somebody that you could see at Studio 54. He always seemed to be making the scene, so to speak. He seemed to cultivate his public image, probably infinitely more than he cultivated an actual personal inner life. And it seems to have destroyed him. He was actually quite young when he died, wasn't he? His 59. Yeah, 59. Tell us some of the stories in this book. First of all, why would you write it with a title capote's women? In other words, why not simply write about Truman Capote and have the stories of these women be incidental to it? What made you want to focus on the women themselves? Because he wanted to write this masterpiece. This is going to be his master degree. So people would forget in cold blood or breakfast at Tiffany's. This is a book that would live forever. So as an author, I'm just fascinated by somebody that has that ambition. And what happens with it? And this is a guy with brilliant instincts in literary instincts. There is a he knew there was a great story to be told about these women. I mean, I tell it, I'm getting fabulous reviews. I don't tell it the way Truman would tell the feed been able to do it. But it's a fantastic story. There's no question
The Eric Metaxas Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, we're talking with the author, Laurence lemur about his brand new book capotes, women, of course, referring to Truman Capote. Lawrence, for those who don't know this story, what is the background of capote's women? In other words, we know that he has this outrageous talent. It carries him rather quickly to New York City, where he really falls in with this crowd, but it's usually very wealthy society, women, babe Paley and others. How did that happen for him? How did he find himself in those circles? Well, this genius and this incredibly ambitious man, everything is material, right? Whatever season does, he's going to use one way or the other. In 1958, he's off on an island of Greece in Greece. And he decides he wants to write a book called answered prayers. Based on the action that answered prayers are more unhappiness over answered prayers and unanswered prayers. And it would be the life of these 7 incredibly wealthy women that were his friends. This beautiful stylish women. So these are the women that was already friends with in the 50s. In other words, he comes to New York. He takes society by storm, and he manages to befriend and get into the confidence of 7 very wealthy very beautiful women already by that time. And he makes this decision to write a book about them as early as 58. Right. And with a style that has lost in the world. They're obsessed with style address. And when they went out, they're always perfection. When they walked into the car, one of these other restaurants, everybody turned. And they maintained that thing for years. It's one thing to be beautiful in your 20. It's not so easy when you're 50. And these women did
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Laurence Leamer Presents a Complex Web of Relationships in 'Capote's Women'
"Folks, we're talking with the author, Laurence lemur about his brand new book capotes, women, of course, referring to Truman Capote. Lawrence, for those who don't know this story, what is the background of capote's women? In other words, we know that he has this outrageous talent. It carries him rather quickly to New York City, where he really falls in with this crowd, but it's usually very wealthy society, women, babe Paley and others. How did that happen for him? How did he find himself in those circles? Well, this genius and this incredibly ambitious man, everything is material, right? Whatever season does, he's going to use one way or the other. In 1958, he's off on an island of Greece in Greece. And he decides he wants to write a book called answered prayers. Based on the action that answered prayers are more unhappiness over answered prayers and unanswered prayers. And it would be the life of these 7 incredibly wealthy women that were his friends. This beautiful stylish women. So these are the women that was already friends with in the 50s. In other words, he comes to New York. He takes society by storm, and he manages to befriend and get into the confidence of 7 very wealthy very beautiful women already by that time. And he makes this decision to write a book about them as early as 58. Right. And with a style that has lost in the world. They're obsessed with style address. And when they went out, they're always perfection. When they walked into the car, one of these other restaurants, everybody turned. And they maintained that thing for years. It's one thing to be beautiful in your 20. It's not so easy when you're 50. And these women did
The Eric Metaxas Show
"truman capote" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"He was totally self educated at the age of 23 he published his first novel. Amazing story. And it rose up, we all know on cold blood had invented the whole true climb. We all know that. That will live forever. Before we start before we go, that far into his career. Just to go backwards for a moment. When those of us who are familiar with Harper Lee's famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, know that the sort of odd Nick boy was based on Harper Lee's childhood friend, Truman Capote, isn't that the case? Right. Yes, yes. And imagine what it was like to be gay in those years. I mean, I had a friend who was an officer in the navy in World War II in the Pacific. His job was to find groups of gays and throw them in prison. That's what it was like, so that he was so outwardly gay was a very dangerous thing to me. It was illegal. Illegal. Well, I mean, it gets complicated because Truman Capote is such a rare case. He was he was not one of these people who could fly under the radar particularly well. He seemed to be his whole personality, almost seemed to be calculated to provoke. You got that impression from him that he sort of enjoyed he got some kind of frisson of enjoyment out of provoking people. But he was a genius, his first book when he was 23 his most famous book was you're going to help me. The other times other places in cold blood you in? No, no, no, no, but before that, when he wrote, oh my gosh, it's breakfast at Tiffany's. Wasn't that about? That was one of the first ones and the glass harp. But he was early on, clearly a literary genius. I mean, I was in awe when I first read his stuff not to maybe 15 years ago. I was really in awe of his ability as a writer. But what I think you explore here, or at least I want to get into it is that sometimes somebody's talent can harm them. Sometimes somebody's talent is almost bigger than they are or it's bigger than they have the character to deal with. And his talent carried him really quickly into some very, very high society and ultimately into some trouble. So we're going to get to that, folks, the book is capote's women. Do not go away the author is Lawrence lemur, LEA, ME R, we'll be right back. Zero. Make like the mister big they dig up here. Hey folks, I've got to tell you a secret about relief factor that the father son owners Pete and Seth. Talbot have never made a big deal about, but I think it is a big deal. I really do. They sell the three week quick start pack for just 1995 to anyone struggling from pain like neck shoulder back, or knee pain, 1995, about $1 a day. But what they haven't broadcasted much is that every time they sell a three week quick start, they lose money. In fact, they don't even break even until about four to 5 months after if you keep ordering it. Friends, that's huge. People don't keep ordering relief factor month after month if it doesn't work. So yes, Pete and Seth are literally on a mission to help as many people as possible deal with their pain. They really do put their money where their mouths are. So if you're in pain from exercise, even just getting older or the three week quick start.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Capote's Women' Author Laurence Leamer Writes About People Who 'Live on the Edge'
"I just discovered that there's a new book out called capote's women, it is by Lawrence lemur, the subtitle is a two story of love betrayal and a swan song for an era. It's a beautiful book, and I'm looking forward to talking about it with its author. Lawrence leamer, welcome to the program. Eric, thanks so much for having me. While it's a joy, I have written three pretty long biographies myself and I appreciate the genre. And I think that there's something you can do in a biography that you can't do in any other book. You can bring a period of time alive. It's an extraordinary thing. The time in which Truman Capote lived the 60s in New York, we can't even begin to really imagine what world he lived in. But I actually, you've begun and you've put it in a book. You've written many books on many other fabulous people, most of them taller than Truman Capote, which is saying nothing. You've written about the kennedys. You've written about Johnny Carson. What led you? I know you were a journalist. What led you before we get into this specific book into writing these kinds of books about these celebrated figures? Look, alas, I only have one life to lead. In writing these books, I enter other people's lives. But they've got to be somebody fascinating. They've got to be people who live at the edge. You take chances. That's what I want. With a China car or whether it's the kennedys or JFK or that generation or whoever or Donald Trump for that matter, people live at the edge.
The Vibe Juice Podcast
"truman capote" Discussed on The Vibe Juice Podcast
"A truman capote. Did he played truman capote. Yeah he did and it was a great movie but Yeah he played in boogie nights. Well what. I was going to say his name would with michael. The black man the actor star on and on right for the first time. All of what. I've read about him over the years. There was a a continuous reference to his long-standing addiction to heroin and cocaine and that his struggles what. Philip seymour hoffman hofmann. Yeah 'cause his his son is dying and shit. Oh really okay. But wit wit michael k because of what. He's played who is play. What you know that kind of thing how he came up. I really had read a lot about him all of a sudden upon his death. Now everybody's referencing along. Stir along standing addiction to cocaine harra. And i'm like well wait a minute now. i missed. I missed that what i feel like. We hardly knew much about him. Because of the last thing that did. And it was the show On on net flicks. It was kind of a sci-fi African american centric which i thought he played wonderful world In any watchmen. What i think. It was watchmen. Yeah something like the watchman gone yeah But it wasn't regina regina Was in watchmen. So it wasn't a watchman. She wasn't wasn't a watchman. it was another one. I want to say what's the girl. Her brother played in The gay guy who was in chicago that pretended to be jumped on. What was his show. A small small at smith at right so his sisters Small she was in the character. Not jesse i think your name starts with the j two in the show right so it wasn't a yet Journey journey smollet. I think some of this journey or something like something like journey but anyway yes. She was in Starred in this show in fact over What was it. Love love kraft country right right. That was it and he was in that other right and it was. That was the last thing that i really saw him in. But everything that every role that he played Was outstanding straight up from from the List the drug. The one that was in baltimore. Oh on the street on the street. the not orange not the wise I know i know the one you're talking about right. I can't remember but Yeah michael williams. Michael lambs and Let's see his i. M b d. movie reads He was in twelve years slave. I realized that he was in jangle. Yeah superfly He was in. Let's see.
Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst
"truman capote" Discussed on Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst
"Back in march of twenty twenty i agree. I think you make a good point before we wrap things up. I wanna make reference to a note that i got from one of our listeners. In order to explore what it is. We're doing on this podcast. Obviously we've been really lucky to have charlie bagley with us. Who has lived this case. Inbreeds this case. For so long an has rendered incredible journalistic coverage of the trial and of the durst story for going on thirty plus years. Now i wanna take this last portion of our conversation today. And i give charlie the opportunity to tell our listeners why he participated in this podcast and why he wrote his stories for crime story dot com as distinct from the pieces that he wrote and his writing for the new york times about the story. This is uh us story that i've lived with for twenty one years now but even before i started writing about bob. I knew bob's father. And i know his brother. Douglas very well. And after twenty one years i know witnesses in lawyers and i've never been able to tell a lot of what i now because in a newspaper. You've always got to fight for space now. I did ri- seventy five or eighty stories for the new york times. But i was interested in being able to write longer pieces where i could really sketch out the people who they were in how they operated and i was able to comment for the podcast and that was really about trying to provide some context for what was happening. That's terrific which is an excellent segue into a note that i got just today. The note begins. I love your podcast. Jury duty. But i have to say even though i feel durst guilty. I'm so disappointed that you're taking a guilty stance from day one. What happened to unbiased journalism. I'll continue to listen but please quick by a senior listeners. With your opinion if this were a popularity contest the prosecution loses thus far. I love what you're doing. otherwise you're an awesome host very sweet. I responded and i said. I don't think of myself as journalists which i don't think of myself as a storyteller and the story that i'm interested in telling here is not whether robert durst is innocent or guilty. It's how the narratives are being woven. And why we have to use words like allegedly for legal purposes but i also wanna take commonsense approach to the case. I'm very much inspired by the works of joan. Dibbin truman capote and tom wolfe the new journalists as they call themselves as i've said multiple times in my opinion the prosecutor is not aiming at winning a popularity contest. He's got a captive audience in jury and his job is to make sure that every one of them checks off every box to get past a reasonable doubt. I on the other hand again in my opinion is playing for himself and honestly there are times. When i'm not sure who durst lawyers are playing for. Maybe it's the tv cameras. Maybe it's for the audience at home. Maybe for the pundits maybe sometimes for their client. But sometimes they're saying things in direct contrast and contradiction of their client again. Thank you for the kind words. And for listening to the podcast. And i just want to return to this idea of the new journalists. What we're trying to do here is to paint as colorful detailed a story. That's grounded in the facts that we've been presented but we're not trying to do both sides journalism. We're not trying to give equal weight to both sides of the argument because in my opinion. That's not how this story needs to be told. And i think that what is interesting here. Is that people who think that the prosecution and the judge are making mistakes in how they're either presenting the narrative or allowing the narrative to be presented are not zeroed in on details and the facts of this case. This case is interesting. Because of who robert durst is and because in my opinion of the fact that he's been able to get away with things for so long. That's the story that i'm interested in telling the story i've been interested in presenting and judging from our analytics of the podcast there are a lot of people who are interested in going on that journey with us. I don't want to move on without brittany. Who is new to this. Who comes out of a background of storytelling herself. And is new to the world of legal storytelling. What has been your experience. Britney in going through this trial and of trying to make sense of this has been an eye opening experience for me. I was drawn to this case. Initially because robert durst is a fascinating character. I think he's an extreme example of an archetype that we see in stories and in real life. You know the kind of person who lives by his own rules and standards and thinks that society's rules don't apply to him and he is tried so hard to live the way he wants to without consequences and it's been really interesting to watch him try to get himself out of the hole. He dug himself into by stepping into the spotlight when he did the jinx in putting together. This podcast i have learned so much about the legal system and about how these narratives are shaped by the different sides. And i have to agree that the narrative of this trial for me was less about. Did he or didn't he but rather how is he going to get himself out of this one. Much like kerry. I'm not a journalist. I'm here for the story as a journalist. I think of myself as a storyteller now. Oftentimes you're directed just news folks who what when where why but there is another form of journalism sort of long form journalism where you provide a lot more texture and that doesn't mean you're constantly going on the one hand and on the other hand because i i don't know that that helps a reader or listener either so i'm not sure that there's a distinction you know that the distinction is between storytelling. Not i think what. We're all trying to do though is given an honest account of what's happening here and how it happened and why it happened. That's terrific note to end on. Charlie britney charlie thanks so much for being with us throughout this journey. We've got more to come. We're going to analyze the verdict. We'll have special episodes coming up. We're also looking to see which witnesses and which jurors might be willing to come on the podcast and discuss this trial. After a verdict is rendered so continued to stay tuned. To the feed of jury duty the trial of robert durst for all of that and the jury's verdict in the trial. Thank you all for listening. As we reported in friday's bonus episode the jury delivered a verdict on september seventeenth finding robert durst guilty of first degree murder and of the special circumstances of lying in wait and killing a witness in our next episode. Britney and i are going to have a post verdict roundup conversation with a reporter. Charlie bagley where we will all discuss our reactions to the verdict and identify. Some of the most intriguing moments in what.
Channel 33
"truman capote" Discussed on Channel 33
"And i want to start here. Ben smith of the new york times wrote a column this week about michael wolfe Michael wolfe the writer and media critic. Who has a book about donald trump outright now and a new collection called to famous. First of all congratulations to michael wolff for publishing a collection this late in the journalism era kinda thought those were mostly done at least hardback books but He squeezed one out. Congratulations that's what i want to talk about. I want to talk about one. Line from ben's miss cullum which is this. It's a curious fact of journalism that it has many rules but the most successful journalists seemed to be the ones who always breaking them. Yeah at line kinda set with me. What would you think about that Yeah i mean the the rules of journalism and we've gone over them on the show. Many times i mean it's the it seems like the more seriously. Well i mean there are some that are fairly obvious but a lot of them the more you sort of talk them out. They sort of sound. Arcane especially in a world of where the competition your competition is functionally youtube Social media even like you know documentaries the that you find streaming online which are not which do not hold to the same sort of high standards as one might assume and so. Yeah i mean some of them are pretty straightforward. But of course this is also in an era where trust journalism according to whatever polls is so low that like i guess it feels like the rules are more important than ever right. We have to uphold all these values that we hold dear so that we can feel justified in the face of all this sort of irrational criticism and distrust. But i'm not sure that those things are actually as connected as they might seem. That's a great point. Because i think that is when journal at that is what journalists do win criticizes. They you know we must. We must hold the public trust. We must go to these rules. That the new york times washington post and npr and other places like that have devised but the weird part is do we think the public knows the rules of journalism beyond the basic ones. Like you know. Don't make things up an you know. Don't don't plagiarize somebody else. I don't think they do it all no i mean. Even if they were to know the rules. I think that practically a very few people would be you know aghast. At some of the more notable i mean not more but some of them were noble journalistic conspiracies. I mean yes like this sort of you know stephen glass sort of level stuff. You can wrap your head around it but like you know when people have called into question who like gay talese. Joseph mitchell in the modern era and some of their tactics. I don't think that most the most just average readers would be floored by any of those allegations right or even if they knew the even if they were surprised that it happened that they would be kind of morally shocked by it right Yeah so. I think that some of the things that we journalism the journalistic world might be preoccupied with is ends up feeling like a sort of insular concern even if the rules on their face. Are you know something that most people say is a good idea. Readers usually strike me as very bottom line. Did i like the story. Did not like the story. Did this story upset me. Because i have you know a political or other some other agenda that it violated and therefore your story sucks Because i don't like what you wrote in your on your website. That's always to me. What readers really care about. Well yeah. I mean if you think about it i mean i guess i gates elisa's a good example right. I mean it's like regardless of how that was composed it's not just about the pe- the people breaking the rules have the most success. It's the people that write the most readable most wonderful things that you know we love and hold dear and remember forever or even just or or or particularly meaningful in the moment and it's the pieces themselves that matter and the sort of way that you got there matters none or very little it all right. It's having a piece that you just react to it a very positive were visser away Yeah and i think in michael wolff case it's interesting because there's this whole constituency of people out there Probably including people. We know who are like. I want to read the really juicy trump book right or the really devastating trump book If michael wolfe is of appearing around corners in the west wing in a way that a new york times reporter washington post reporter cannot because that would be violating the rules as determined by the times and post the reader does not care absolutely does not get probably does not know that some rule has been violated but if they know some real lisbon via their while. I like this book. No one's great or conversely if the reader is a donald trump fan michael wolfe. You have broken the rules. I don't like this but they're just using the rules because they didn't like what the book was any. That's exactly right. Yeah i mean when you think about it. The the pieces of the vast majority of people including people in journalism hold to the highest in the highest esteem works journalism that seemed to transcend the mechanics of journalism. In a sort of way. Like it's you look at like like who's a great example. I just read Killers of the flower moon. Recently the dave handbook. I mean. that's david grant up and down his resume. You could probably take just about any piecemeal. But it's like there's a certain style he he's not he's not chronicling the white house. It's a different form of journalism. But what if you ask anybody who would read law city zia coz if i moon what so great about it reads like a novel right. That's what people will say It's it's it's bigger than that. It's it doesn't seem like you're you're eating vegetables. And that sort of implicitly is that is a statement that it doesn't really matter it's about it's about the telling of the story yes so those those david griffin and then before him the new journalists they ruled transgressors. Yeah we notion. Truman capote in terms of people who've been called into question after the. Nobody's nobody's taking in cold blood off of like you know the syllabus for you know true crime reading or i mean sure. Some people are has been smudged. A little bit among you know but mostly among journalists right and you might talk about truman capote as problem case. But then you look at the actual work itself in the work sort of stands on its own it transcends this sort of questions that were there that are lobbed against it it. It's always just so funny the levels of this because with the new journalists right. It's like hey you're getting inside these the heads of people you're writing about You're not just writing what you see but you're then transporting yourself into their head. How're you doing that. That's not fair right. We we kind of decided that the line stopped here. And you're transgressing the line therefore a high you've done something wrong to which the neutrals would just sort of shrug their shoulders and also go back and look at that journalism now and read some of those quotes and be like. Nobody actually said this to you. They said something to you and you piece together this long and sort of very rightfully quote from the subject. But at the time. That was okay. Now it's not the time anyway. We can do this one hundred things like this but you're absolutely right. It's an and. I think ben smith is right. There's a sense that the people who are pushing those boundaries of what you're supposed to do as journalists.
Slate's Double X Gabfest
"truman capote" Discussed on Slate's Double X Gabfest
"A sexism to that hundred percent. I mean have you ever heard anybody giving joe berlinger by name shit about paradise lost. No no no no and that was a film that was series that was centered around the people who are accused of being perpetrators of terrible crime. It was not centered around the victims of a crime. You don't really hear a whole lot of criticism. I mean truman capote's in cold. Blood is called literature right. It's not a crime errol morris the thin blue line. You don't hear about errol morris sort of like sullying the world with centering. These cops instead of the victims of all these crimes. I mean i mean even like the fictionalized takes on true crime zodiac. What does it call. That's called zodiac. it's called the victims of the zodiac killer. No one's saying to david fincher. Listen this isn't good entering somebody and it's harmful to society. No they aren't because that was not made with female audience in mind and therefore we are less critical of it period. But i do wonder if i mean i have not been the victim of a crime. I mean there's there's gotta be there's gotta be some level of of angst or frustration. I think for people who are family members or no. The victims in these cases to to constantly have particularly in the famous wants to. Just just you know. Turn on the tv or see a movie coming out and being like oh my god here we go again and having to relive that and i just wonder if it's something that maybe the genre should aspire too and i don't know how you do better but maybe maybe we just got to get rid of the trash. I don't know well. There is a thing too about making a story for the right reason. Why a story is being made. Now i can you. There's no reason why there should have been to ted bundy movies in the last year or two. There's no reason why except for the fact that you know whoever made them invested them thought they would be popular right. There's nothing new. There's no new breaking news. there's no new take. It's just more of the same story being told again so if there is a why me. Nobody asked to be in the news whether it's the victim of a crime or a sex scandal or embezzlement like nobody wants to be in the news but the bottom line is once you have a case in the public record you actually are ripe for public consumption not by your own doing often but like that is unfortunately the way it is and i know way things victims of crimes are wrong for having these feelings that being said if there is a good reason to tell a particular crime story then i think that supersedes the potential hurt feelings of somebody related to the victim especially if there is a larger issue that the storyteller can shine a light on if there's a potential wrongful conviction at the center of the case. If there's a cultural problem that this story is very illustrative of. I don't.
Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior
"truman capote" Discussed on Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior
"Yourself. By clicking on the link in the description to download the free ground news that that impact of spike rippled out in which spike made clear that we could take our reality. Make it in the books and movies and tv shows. It was a there with a route that we had that hadn't been there. Before and also the spikes parallels hip hop growth despite spike himself. Interesting enough loves hip hop but he loves so much other stuff came from a jazz family. He wasn't like i'm just into hip-hop. I'm into black culture in all those different ways but the hip hop thing also was a sense of i can tell my own story. So the black independent film movement starts with spike can robert townsend and it goes in john singleton and so forth and the us brothers. That's one track. And then you have hip hop which is emerging in the late eighties is kinda quotas. Golden age into the beginnings of sort of west coast. Rap have these things and they're doing they're telling narratives for black point of view and to creating stars and what it did was it turned brooklyn into a brand the brooklyn. We know now in many ways begins with spike because a narrative around brooklyn Before that the dodgers had left in the fifties by the seventies it was like you couldn't get a taxi to brooklyn actually spike even in a funny little short film for Senate live about trying to get a taxi that the brooklyn it was a joke but it was also like you couldn't get anyone to take you over damn bridge back home if you went out late at night so brooklyn to become a no zone and it become that thing unless you went to broken heights. And that was truman capote you know. It wasn't a place to go to. And she's going to have it and spikes brooklyn centric nece. Because you know. His third film is do the right thing. And then throughout crook l'an and Mo better blues brooklyn. There's a character and almost all his early films probably except for maybe a school days so he helped make brooklyn cool and four green then becomes this place where charter schools. But in. but it was just basically. They weren't many restaurants. There was a key food. You avoid it like the plague if he didn't wanna die because of meat was terrible but they were house parties and barbecues and some of my best memories of the era our house parties. You know you can go to a party. In his larry fishburne or laurence fishburne as he would have you now and it'd be lisa jones a fantastic voice and and also. There was a very strong lesbian community with a couple of bars. There so it was a lot going on is with the music was going on the big jazz scene avant-garde jazz And then later on you know brantford and and went and move over win. Doesn't like brooklyn because it's it doesn't stay. Open that late at that time in all it was was takeout chinese so he left with branford stay there. So bradford becomes an actor to spike brand for does film scoring. You know If you look at the score for moment of blues. That's very much this idea of cool. Hip-hop cool jazz all happening at the same time it was. It was happening all the time in fort green and clinton hill. And you could really walk out your door and run into common. Eric about do saw williams toray chris rock there was also the sense that there was so much going on that for all of the parties in all the socializing. People were getting stuff. Done is incredible amount of creativity became. And so there's nothing like the proximity to other people doing good stuff. I look back now. I remember in nineteen ninety two time it was going to do a big cover story on the new black renaissance. They call it. And i remember at the time thinking. Well it's cool but it wasn't enough work being done. I don't think enough work could come out. But now i can go now. We can go back twenty thirty years. Now let's say look look at all these movies. Look at all these actors. Look at all these records. Look at all these books and really quantify that as a incredible time. When i did the documentary brooklyn boheme we at the crux. I knew it was turning. And i wanted to get it while i could because i feel like now. It's really ancient history for green means something different than it did. Then what spike creative there. There's other thing where people every time. They're always predicting people leaving new york. No then all new york came to brooklyn. And so if you were someone who didn't want to live in manhattan but you still were wanna stash new york sunny. Look over at these brownstone. Wow and you know the point of of new york. It's all about real estate. The fact is that people always go to south. Ransoms fucked up. You guys never sorta lowy side look at any video of basquiat walking around that that bombed out areas. Not the bronx is manhattan. So all the different clubs. The mudd club. And all that that was that supported that art slash music slash performance scene was all predicated on cheap real estate for artists and cheap cheap. Rents for clubs did heating. That's gonna come back now. Now that pandemic has emptied out some parts of new york. Well the person york demon emptied out. Midtown manhattan is going to be interesting. The theaters opened up in and that will definitely bring back the tourists. I think people are gonna wanna come back and it has already.
Here & Now
"truman capote" Discussed on Here & Now
"Thanks to some pretty big spending programs both from the reserve As we discussed and also from congress we have seen a rise in inflation. Some people have called them inflation surges. Although fed officials have said the surges are temporary in the inflation. Are they beginning to worry that these inflation rises could be not temporary. Your heard from the fed share in from the treasury secretary from janet. Yellen is well is that this is transitory. Which is another word for temporary that this has been caused by the economy being shut down and then reopened. It's just evening out trying to figure out what's what's going on but we are at this point we're noticing them a lot of what we're buying costs more and nobody really knows what transitory means it can. Yes it means temporary but how long is this period going to last. We don't have a very clear sense of that. And so there are layers of uncertainty on top of the fact that we just don't know how long this is going to go on. And what have we heard about the effects of the delta variant at least the economy. Yeah i've been struck by. How many economists are nodding to the delta variant. It's a thing that they're watching. But they're drawing a distinction between how fast it's spreading and what we went through last year. We've seen a few. Economists revised their forecasts for growth down a bit because will be seen but most of them have not. So i take it. They're paying attention to what's going on. The fed is doing that as well. Jay powell said many times in the past. The virulence of the virus is what's driving the economy. Most economists expect continued growth through the rest of this year. Companies are hiring people have saved money. They're spending again and you gotta remember. There's point which we're no longer going to see the kinds of numbers that we've seen we've come out of this massive downturn has been this groundswell celeste. The condensate eventually that has to even out. Npr business correspondent david as always. Thanks so much. Thank you the block. I live on has been grieving. A beloved neighbour priscilla johnson mcmillan. Who almost made it to ninety three spoke in hushed tones but was a powerful voice on local issues like zoning or global nuclear disarmament in the late nineteen fifty. She and her husband. George had a front row seat on the civil rights movement both white. He taught at historically black colleges. She befriended a young john. Lewis threw him his engagement party. Before that as a young reporter in moscow. She hung out with truman capote. He wrote about their friendship in his book. Muses are heard born into wealth. Priscilla mcmillan lived modestly in cambridge massachusetts. A scholar at harvard's davis center for russian study. She offered free rooms to budding scholars. Or the guy from the hardware store or her by then ex-husband's second wife..
The Plot Thickens
"truman capote" Discussed on The Plot Thickens
"Even worse. Brian told eric he was in charge of finding a location for the new opening. Oh and they needed it. In three days. Larry mcconnachie was the steady cam operator on bonfire serious objection jackson. The way you described it does not a of. That's him complaining about how i described him in my book. But before i tell you what i said about him. Let me tell you what a steady cam is. And why you use one. A steady cam is a kind of metal mount for the camera. The steady cam operator. That's larry here straps the whole thing onto his body that we can walk around holding the camera while keeping it steady to say it's difficult. That's an understatement. The thing can wait anywhere from forty to one hundred pounds and half the time. The operator is walking backwards. It takes a lot of core strength and coordination to keep the motion fluid. A good steady cam shot turns out smooth and beautiful but watching the steady cam operator work. It isn't exactly pretty. Well larry. Mcconnachie was hooked up to the steady cam for some reason. His walking reminded me of the waddell of pregnant duck. So i wrote that in my book when we talked recently. He really objected to the description. So i asked him. How would you describe it. I won't tell you is entire answer. That would take a whole episode. Here's the short persian. If you want to go forward you lean forward slightly going to slow down. You believe back to stop then. Come forward the left right so constantly doing that dance. You actually have to walk a tightrope walker say guess when prisons tightrope walker is another person's pregnant duck either way. Frying was in off garry. Mcconnachie very was the best in the business. He was the one who held the camera for the famous copacabana. Long take in martin's christie's film goodfellas here every time you to. He'd also worked with bryan on casualties of war but the new opening brian dreamed up. It would test mccown key skill for sure it would be one extended long take. That would go on for nearly five minutes. Ci- might not know the difference but people in the business. They knew just how hard this was to pull off. Everybody's on double time triple time. When i started thinking about it realized this is by far the single most expensive shot. I've ever been a part of times ten times fifty. I dunno like millions for one shot. They're already knew about ryan. There is no plan b. Would this is what we're doing canoe opening was based on a memory. Brian's brian have been at a literary dinner. one time when truman capote walked in a little inebriated. It's the kind of thing that's both funny and well embarrassing bonfire would play on that. It would open with bruce willis's character. Peter fallow drunk at an award ceremony ryan given eric schwab three days to find a location for the scene. A place big enough and grant enough to house an awards gala. And eric did it. He found the perfect place to shoot in a big room at the world financial. It was right across the highway from the world trade center. This was nine thousand. Nine hundred ninety. The twin towers were still standing. The room was called the winter garden. It was very glamorous. Ah big open space. There were marble floors and palm trees growing inside and most importantly there was this whole maze of concrete hallways beneath it to get up to the winter garden. You could start in an underground parking lot. And then we've your way around twin elevator. That would open up into the space. Brian wanted to use that underground maze. And the steady cam shot the camera. Would trail bruce willis from a limousine through those long underground hallways into an elevator and then out into the fancy gala. The first part is simple. Bracewell's rides for view hundred feet on an electric card. Like the ones you see driving around airports learning kanchi the steady cam operator. He said the front facing the rear so he can capture. Bruce willis on camera but once they get off the cart. The rest of the shot is on foot. Larry has to walk backwards holding that very heavy camera. And so much happens. Bruce willis chugs whiskey and champagne. Most pasini sculpture flirts with women. Staggers changes close swipes a big hunk of salmon mousse with his bare hand and all in one uninterrupted shot shot. That goes on for almost five minutes in film time. That's an eternity. Brian couldn't just dan. Behind the monitor and direct. The action was occurring down a long dark corridor. There wasn't enough room and brian didn't want to miss a beat so he did something he usually didn't. He put himself in the shot. Just like alfred hitchcock used to do because the shot is so complex the way to observe it was to be in it. This is not a hitchcock move. This is basically in order to watch the shot. He came to me. Larry how do i look. And he shaved his beard. Never seen him without that and he had cap on like security guard. He had his outfit. You look. I'm looking at him and it's like down so far. His ears are sticking out the play. A security guard who rides in the car with peter. Fallow that way he could direct the shot second-by-second the only time makes shoot. The winter garden was a weekend memorial day. Weekend they rehearsed for two days then prepared to get the shot that second night. Rehearsals went well but once they started shooting it got a lot more complicated especially during one part. The ice sculpture part as peter fallow stumbles along. He passes a huge hunk of is shaped like a lion being wheeled along on a cart wearing kanchi. Who is filming. The whole thing was supposed to navigate around it that ice sculpture. It hadn't been around for rehearsals. They've been practicing without it and they didn't anticipate how heavy it would be nearly one hundred pounds. They set up.
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
"truman capote" Discussed on You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
"Anything in the world and i'm her mom and michelle's her mom but there you are loving michelle in but i i'm like thank you for picking me to be on your team and yes let's do this. Let's make her the best that she can possibly be. And so. I feel like it's her and i don't think she's just one with a million people like patterns like oh she's up there with truman capote having tea and talking about amazing literature and i kind of feel that her energy is doing what her happiest thing would be doing. And so yeah. That's what i think about death. I think and spirituality and religion. And all that. I just think it's your your soul. Your spirit just continues to be exist floating somewhere. I actually think the way you would explain having to a child is a pretty great metaphor for what might actually be happening. Well you know what i'm saying to a child. Well sort sort of like what you said. I'm not saying what you said was childish. I'm just saying like oh you go up and you join everybody right like the idea of going into where all the dead people are right now. I don't necessarily literally think that you go up. And you're on a cloud sitting me. Neither metaphorically where they went. You're going right and where they are. You are yes and it's timeless and eternal and it's you're going back to where you were before you were born all that sort of stuff so i think that's really beautiful. I also i'm a believer that there's really one love so the love shared with michelle is the. It's not like a new love. it's just. She's in that because it's just love. Yeah that's an interesting way. And then you know there's that theory like there's the ocean just picture. The ocean is the university and we are all little cups. I was gonna say that. Yeah and then you pour the water in the winter the cutback motion and your well. You're part of the ocean anyway but you're your of it and yet you are the ocean. Also that's right. Yeah that's right. Well i'm ripping that off from the. There's ramdas movie where somebody's husband is murdered. and he. She has his dream about him and this made his ball which it always makes me cry. When i watch it and she says what am i supposed to do. I don't want to meet somebody new. And he said when you find somebody new. I'll be a part of that left. I'll be in that love and he just loses it and it's giving me chills right now. We're all just now. We're in chi- hope. That wasn't too much. I know it's insensitive sensitive to me. You know everything totally. I mean life. Yeah right there's there's even something spiritual in failing to understand spirituality or the hired because in the reaching for it there there's spirituality and humanity in that i've always remembered this there's errol morris's first documentary the gates of heaven work. It's all about pet cemeteries and people who talk about. You know what losing a pet means. And it's just a beautiful film. There's i'm paraphrasing. But one of the cemetery owners is talking about how you had this little dog and it moved around and did stuff and you played with it and recognized you and then it's dead but all the parts that were there when it was alive are still there so something must have made it move. And this is a guy. Like very inarticulate talking about it and not but again the attempt to reach it actually land something very profound. That's right even. If you don't have any organized religion there is a part of something that made that thing move is not there anymore right exactly all the physical stuff exactly. Why think about this all the time on intelligence that the body is insane. It's great and you look at a just a body right. All the tubes are still connected. Nothing's disconnected everything's there. Maybe the heart's not and you try to beat the but that thing is there but what is it that gives them a life and that's the spirit and the soul and all that that's why when i even read things that i was raised with that i didn't understand that the time when they when they talk about being children of god or whatever or the the dwelling place of the in dwelling spirit this is christian. Language is like wait. That's awareness like it's not. It's not just a fantasy to be like you belong you your being here. Is your ticket to this. You're already here like you're already it and like our brains trick us and lie to us and say that we're not worthy now. God i i. We had that fight. I'm i must be real. What was patchy lint shed. Or whatever or i might have i was in a dark asked mood yesterday and i was like sometimes. I'm like. I want to write a book where one chapters the pete most of us know. Then that guy gets to write a chapter. Because i'm really interested in showing that's not what it is but i'm just saying it's fascinating better. Made me feel seen because it does feel like another person and yes it's like a different guy has the controls this infinite potential. I see everything's fucked. I'm like what is every. Brush your teeth and you're like kinda do this shit again. That's the feeling of despond. She's the daughter of a dentist. Don't really know. I only researched you so i know your dad does. I was going to probably why so many dentists references but I forget what i was saying. You said something earlier. And i don't remember what it was but it made me think of you're talking about. I can't remember what you said but just now said go ahead go ahead. I know i lost what happened which made me think of this thing. But i have you ever like looked at your. I have often tried to look at myself in the mirror. Like i'm looking at you right now. You're going to say this all the time looking at you. And i'm looking at you and i wanna look at me as if i'm not me i wanna see me in the mirror like oh look at that girl. What what do i think about that. I really wanna see me as not me and it's impossible. It is so hard to look at your own self and and try not to be you while you're looking and the story. I just wanna see like please do this. After the podcast. Please go into your bathroom and just look at yourself and try. That's what i'm saying. I do that all the time. I mean i do it all the time. I really wanna know i really. It's helpful if you give your brain something to do like if you just let yourself thing. No i'm like look at her. Is like i try to look at. I tell me what what do you mean. Well this is. What a mantras. I'm sure you've heard this. You have a monkey in your brain. That goes look at her eyes. Look at her hair. that's funny. I can't stop thinking that that's me. I'm getting a thing on my face or whatever it might be so giving your brain a mantras like giving the monkey pile of buttons and it's like move the buttons one by one into another pile so you might just say a good one is yes. Thank you or yes. It's really nice degree yourself with. Just yes say yes to yourself fifty sixty thousand times and then you can start to see your face. Not as it's the same thing by the way with a tree looked eckhart. Toler anybody the whole the name of the whole game. When i was on mushrooms at time i kept grabbing my friends on go. I don't know this arm. Sorry to be so touchy but like i. Would i just grab my point. Was i just look at that. And i go patents arm mystery done. I got it. I don't i don't think about it. I don't want i don't know that arm. It's a fucking mystery to me and it was really exciting to to reclaim it and go like i don't know this. I assume your legs or their spent no time with them. I don't know them. I don't know my face..
Fresh Air
Free speech and the struggle against misinformation ahead of 2020 election
"Last week, The New York Post published a potentially damaging story about Hunter Biden, son of the Democratic presidential nominee. Based on emails, The Post said, were provided by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and originally harvested from a laptop computer left in a Delaware repair shop. There were enough questions about the authenticity of the emails that most mainstream media declined to publish the story, but it's the kind of content that Khun spread like wildfire on Social media. In a remarkable move Twitter on Wednesday Band users from sharing links to the story because it said the emails may have been hacked and contained private information. It reversed course two days later after Republicans accused Twitter of censorship. But the episode illustrates a question our guest, Emily Bazelon, has been thinking about in an age when questionable, Perhaps even fabricated content can sweep through the digital world unchecked. Does our traditional commitment to unfettered free speech still serve democracy. And the cover story for this week's New York Times Magazine, Basil on surveys the impact that lies and conspiracy theories sometimes promoted by foreign actors can have on our political discourse. And she explores how other countries think differently about free speech and its relationship to a healthy democracy. Emily Bazelon is a graduate of the Yale Law School and a journalist. She's a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote fellow for Creative Writing at Yale Law School. She's also the author of two books. She joins us from her home in New Haven, Connecticut. Emily Bazelon welcome back to fresh air. Thanks so much for having me you open your piece with a story that began making the rounds some months back, among right wing voices on the Internet that there was a plan by the forces of Joe Biden to stage a coup to take over the government in connection with the November election. First of all, what was the basis of this claim? Great. So this is ahh concocted claim and the sort of colonel at the center of it was a project called the Transition Integrity Project, a group of about 100 academics and journalists and pollsters and former government officials and former campaign the staff staffers. They started meeting over the summer to kind of game out various scenarios for the November election, and so they were basically testing American democracy in the event that President Trump wins in the event that vice President Biden winds To see in various scenario is what could happen. And in the event, there's a contestant result in a long, nasty count. Yes, exactly especially in the event if there's a contestant result in litigation and other possibilities, and so in one of their several scenarios, Biden wins the popular vote but loses the Electoral College. And so in that hypothetical case they imagined the Democrats would get desperate. And they might consider encouraging California and the Pacific Northwest to threaten to secede in exchange for pressuring Republicans to expand the size of the Senate. So Rosa Brooks, who was one of the organizers of this project, She's a law professor at Georgetown. She published an essay where she mentioned this threat to succeed in one sentence in an essay in The Washington Post. On the next day, you see someone named Michael Anton's, a former national security adviser to President Trump. He has an article called The Coming CU Question. Mark and based on Rosa Brooks is characterization of what the transition integrity project was doing. He starts saying that Democrats are laying the groundwork for a revolution and then you see that article take off in extremist online communities. There is AH podcast maker named Dan Bongino, who's a big trump supporter. He makes videos about it. One of them has the tag. They are telling you what they are going to do exclamation point his videos pull in millions of views. Then you see the story. My great toe, a right wing website called Revolver News Revolver. News starts to spin up the idea that Norm Eisen, who participated in the transition Integrity project and is a longtime Democratic lawyer in Washington. That he's at the center of this supposed coup. And from there, Tucker Carlson feature someone talking about this concocted made up story on his show. And then you see it just go viral on social media and get picked up by lots of groups, including, like a county Republican organization in Oregon, So it is Perfect kind of story because it pulls in both traditional media in the form of Fox and also social media. And then you see President Trump get involved. He tweets in praise of Revolver news, and then he tweets quote the November 3rd election result may never be accurately determined, which is what some want. And that's a kind of typical dark, slightly vague, foreboding kind of warning from President Trump that further perpetuates this coup narrative. And then Trump later retreat. Someone talking about a coup with regard to Nancy Pelosi. So you see from this hypothetical project that was really meant to be a kind of academic exercise about the election. This whole sat of conspiracy theories on the right that get a lot of play in the media on social media, and then from the president
Epicenter
Camila Russo: The Defiant Laying Bare the Story of Ethereum
"Lows two jobs. When did you first hear about a theory? In twenty seventeen Crypto for Bloomberg the first time was when I grow kind of one of the first stories on ICO's for Bloomberg and I remember just like trying to wrap my head around what these things were. It's like Bitcoin, but it's different vigil currencies on Anyone can issue them on. They're on top of the other blockchain cerium and you know I was coming at crypto coverage from. A markets perspective. So I didn't have a lot of technical knowledge about how blockchain's worker crypto were or anything I. I understood the value proposition of bitcoin from having a cover like Argentina land but that was my extent of knowledge of it. So it was like writing that first. ICO. Story was I think when I, I started looking at a theorem for the first time, and then just like as I kept covering the space is for the rest of two thousand seventeen I started to learn more and more about understood. Okay. Syria is team like. But whites valuable. It's because it's it tries to be more flexible than than Bitcoin, and that's why it's easier for people to issue all these different tokens on top of it and so. That's kind of seeing all of this kind of frenzy around ICO's on these tokens on this like millions of dollars worrying in I was like there's something here you know. This kind of decentralized way of raising money and ethereal kind of the platform ebeling this. Back. In January, we interviewed Steve Kokinos and Sylvia mccully of Al and during our conversation, we talked about how unique design makes it easy for developers to build sophisticated applications on their platform. So what's great about Algorithm beyond the fact that it's fast, it's secure it scales and it has instant finality is the fact that they've designed Allaire one protocol with primitives that are purpose built for define. So what that means is that they've taken some of the most common things that people do with smart contracts and they've embedded them right in the system right in the layer one. So things like issuing tokens atomic transfers, these are built into the layer. One spark contracts are first class citizens on all grant. So with these essential building blocks at your disposal, you can build fast insecure defy APPs in no time. To learn more about what Al brings to the table and how to get started, I would encourage you to check out algren dot com slash epicenter that lets them know that you heard about it from us and it takes you where you need to go to learn about their tech. And what that we'd like to Algorithm for supporting the PODCAST? What point do you does one? Say I'M GONNA write a book about something that's never something that's ever crossed my mind or I think a lot of people's minds. What point you do you decide to write a book and then what is the process I mean forget about the process of writing the book. But like what's the process of figuring out what kind of book you WanNa Right because you could have written this book in all I mean it's very. Descriptive account of what happens it's mostly in the third person, you could have written a fiction you know you could have written. First hand account of your interviews what was the process for the creative process? I guess figuring out the of book you wanted to write. For background I always wanted to write a book like that's been kind of a goal of mine forever I got into journalism because I like writing I guess like growing up. One of my favorite books was in cold blood by Truman Capote and I think you know that was the first time I realized while you. You can write about real life like nonfiction in a way that reads like a novel and that to me was really powerful because. To journalism and especially business journalism, which is usually so dry. I found that okay stories can make vs very kind of complex dry concepts come alive if you tell them in the right way and so getting the the example from. Truman capote and then especially Michael Lewis exile. Kate while like this is a really powerful way of speaking about nonfiction and obviously I love fiction it's it's what I personally read the most. I disliked you know if I was ever to write a book, I would want to provided like value to readers by bringing something from the real world and making it. And read like story because I just thought you know there's like so many interesting stories in the real world you know that needs to be highlighted. So why should I like go on invent another story for my own imagination they're already so much to tell in real life at some point. I think it was probably when you get into the Bloomberg internship, they give you like of recommended readings and one of them was Michael Lewis Books I think it was liar's poker and so when I read that book, I, was like, okay like I need to find that story that I can pick up until like Michael. Lewis. His folks. So I was like always on the lookout for that like what can the story that I can tell in this way like in a something I can make into a nonfiction novel. And I think with Crypto was kind of the first time that I thought. Okay. This is this is where I needed to find my story to tell. I meant to say fictionally, I'm interested like a dramatized version like something a little bit more like. Of course, you could make fiction of the story of a theory, but like a something akin to the bitcoin billionaires book right whereas like this kind of more dramatized version of the facts. But like the way you wrote the book is like this very kind of factual account. It reads like a novel it does read like a story, but it's like very factual thing based on your interviews based on your conversations. When you're reading it you really get the idea like this is how things happened.
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
New York Icons: The Bell Jar
"It's good to meet you as Clark is the author of the forthcoming nine hundred page biography of Platt I meet up with her and we take a look at the magazine Plath oversaw that summer you know what struck me the first time I looked through this was the number of ads you just can't quite believe how many ads are in this Zine it's almost page after page and of course fashion spreads to fashion magazine so in a back room of the New York Public Library where flipping through a copy of the magazine Clark points out one ad in particular it's for shape wear that's also sportswear so this Janssen add anyone for action anyone for beautiful perform an action there is a woman with a Barbie Physique wearing a hat and gloves connect with a bra and girdle as she gets ready to serve in a game of tennis this is positively the most pleasant to wear slimming trimming smoothing soothing figure maker ever devised and there's a poem called the applicant where she uses this kind of language I noticed you were stock naked how about this suit blackened stiff but not a bad it when you marry it it is waterproof shatterproof proof against fire and bombs through the roof believe me they'll bury you in it Mademoiselle had become interested in her after a story she had submitted a year earlier one it's national fiction contest but Clark says that Platt Struggle old in her role as managing editor she had wanted to be fiction editor at just nineteen years old plath had already published poems and won awards Mademoiselle published some of the top writers of its day Dylan Thomas Tennessee Williams Truman capote but instead of selecting editing short stories plan throats fashioned blurbs including one praising the versatility of sweaters I think plath found her self suddenly embedded in this fashion and beauty industry and she's become part of this vast propaganda machine that woman's women into objects and she wanted to be the subject of her own life she didn't want to be the objective someone else's life so I think that contributed to her sense of disillusion that summer suddenly it was her job to kind of objectify women bio green they were promoting it for fall title green with black bio green white bio green with Nio green it's kissing cousin fashion blurb silver and full of nothing sent up there fishy bubbles in my brain they surfaced with a hollow pop but it isn't just the limitations of fashion and magazines that got to plant she was also troubled by the limitations placed on women in the nineteen fifties even in New York City that place of possibility I made a point beating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chefs salad and grapefruit juice at one point in the bell jar she says everyone in New York to reduce PAS not trying to reduce plath has an enormous appetite is her actual appetite was legendary she wants emptied out hosts refrigerator before a dinner party but she had an appetite for everything you know she wanted to be the best writer she wanted to so I'm close she wanted to raise honeybees you went to make her own honey and she just wanted it all can women have it all it's a question still asking it had just started to come up in the nineteen fifties when women who've done the whole rosie the riveter thing during the war were now expected to be homemade occurs again even though many thrived in the workforce and developed real professional aspirations it was an ongoing discussion within society about whether women could do three things at once dying Johnson got married one month after the gas ownership Mademoiselle the summer had changed her and given her a greater sense of what her life could be but then she had four children within the span of six years so I was home with these little kids but they had naps and that's when somebody said why don't you the novel about something that you can do during nap time you know that's the way things evolve house of naptime Johnson has since written more than a dozen books and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Plath during a man who would support her as a writer was a major anxiety when she wrote about extensively in her journals in the Bell Jar Esther Greenwood reflection in her sort of boyfriend a medical student at Yale who everyone told her was such a good guy I also remembered Buddy Willard saying innocent minister knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently I wouldn't want to write poems anymore so I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed and afterward you went numb as a slave in some private totalitarian state a few years later plath thought she found a man who would not brainwash her as a graduate student at Cambridge she met fellow poets Ted Hughes who she married in Nineteen fifty sex both enjoyed growing reputations as writers when they were interviewed by the BBC's Owen Leeming in nineteen sixty one you'll have to give the impression that Oh you spend your whole Mary lives thinking poems and reading to each other I think our domestic life is is practically indistinguishable from all the people who live around I'm not the only main difference is that Ted doesn't go out to work at nine and come home at five he retires about nine to to his room and and works but I certainly having a life just like all the other housewives and mothers district shopping dishes and taking care of the baby in four so for Hughes Writing was a fulltime job a career but plath was a wife and mother who happened to write perhaps like Johnson during nap time plath was actually writing the bell jar at the time of that interview she alluded to it when she was interviewed again the next year this time by the BBC's Peter or he asks plath if there are particular themes that she's interested in exploring and he rambles off this list of ingredients that she's baked right into the bell jar Robert lulls poems about his experiences in a mental hospital for example interested very much these peculiar private and to move subjects it's I feel have been explored in recent American poetry I think particularly the poorest and Sexton who writes also about her experiences I always wanted to write the long short story I wanted to rise Nawfal now that I have attained shall I say a respectable age and have had experiences I feel much more interested in pros in the novel I feel that Plath published the bell jar under a pseudonym because she was so worried about offending the people she fictionalized as characters in it one of those characters was her editor at Mademoiselle who she called JC in the Bell Jar JC asks esther what she wants to do after college and suddenly she draws a blank unable to list off for am visions of being a professor writer or an editor and a writer. I've always thought I'd like to go into publishing I tried to recover thread that might lead me back to my old bright salesmanship I guess what I'll do is apply at some publishing house you ought to read French and German. JC said mercilessly and probably several other languages as well Spanish and Italian better still Russian hundreds of girls flood into New York every June thinking they'll be editors Utah for something more than the run of the mill person you better learn some languages. JC is a tough editor who cuts her down to size in that way she calls to mind another memorable story said Ed Women's magazine in New York so you don't read runway no for today you had never heard of me now you have no style or something fashion while similar take down to Andy Sacks her would be assistant that's a complete exaggeration of winter is the longtime editor of Vogue and the basis for maranda priestly
Collider Movie Talk
Phoenix, James Mcevoy And Captain Marvel discussed on Collider Movie Talk
"This first story is about dark Phoenix. And last summer, we learned the dark Phoenix was going back to Montreal for re-shoots. But sources told us at that time that contrary to reports a whopping three months of additional photography. That's a lot right there. They were simply going back for two and a half weeks of re-shoots on the third act of the movie. However, now we're finding out that, that might not. Have been the case in April. We found out the dark Knicks, the dark Phoenix ending was being changed in re-shoots from a space setting to a climax that finds the X men kidnapped and on a military train. Now, we've got James McEvoy telling Yahoo UK that the ending was changed because it was too similar to another superhero. Movie, here's the exact quote the end of dark v. Necks changed a hell of a lot the finale head to change. There was a lot of overlap and parallels with another superhero movie that came out a while ago. And we had no idea that we were dot dot dot com. Trailed off their you know the quote just ended. So let's jump into this, but before I even ask for your opinions, we gotta check the live chat, because there are a lot of people chiming in on whether or not they're planning on even seeing dark, Phoenix. David Jordan, Darrow says got my tickets already reviews. Don't stop me from seeing any DC or marvel movie has called for twenty said got mine. I ten minutes they went on sale. Sale. Kyle Johnson says I'll probably get my tickets next week going in cautiously optimistic. So back to that, quote now what movie do you think James McEvoy was referring to is pretty obvious was captain marvel especially when we talk about the difference in design of dark Phoenix, Jean grey taking away, making less flamy more different in that approach? So it seems to imply plus the train sequence we saw in captain marvel we have that in the trailers, and of course in the movie as well. So maybe there was a lot of that involved here as well. Trying to take away any kind of reference to cap the most he was the most obvious choice. Yeah. Especially when you consider the change in the setting of the third act to from cosmic to on a military train moving away from the cosmic aspect, and that's the thing that before Jeff Thompson here. I don't know if I buy this explanation to be honest with you have a couple of sources who saw this movie early cuts move in March of twenty eighteen and they tell me that the ending was already on earth. So I don't know if this is their way of. Hey, we pitched you space movie, but we had to change it because of that. And so now it's on the ground, I wonder if they're doing a little PR to cover their butts. I don't know. But it seems odd to me that they would say, oh, we're just gonna put it on the ground. Now. We don't want it to be Spacey when people had seen in the first an early cut of this film, and it was already on the ground in front of a certain monument in New York. So I dunno. I thought it was aqua man now there it is. Yeah. I you know, are you signing that sarcastic? It's nice. I don't know what the original ending was. I don't know what the new ending is other than it's on a train. I have no idea what movie could. All right. So even though we don't know specifically how dark Phoenix is going to end nor should we really right now before we even see the movie another question that comes from the story is should a movie even be changed for this reason. Because to me, it sounds like oh, hey. Maybe they should have taken a little more time to develop the story creatively so that you don't run the risk of having. Other movies out there being too similar to your own. That's a good point. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like we saw two different asteroid movies, we've seen to differ Truman Capote moves. It doesn't matter. It's about quality. Can you deliver the goods, even though the you may vote another movie? I don't think it really matters. It's a matters. Can you do it? Well, that's what as at the end of the day, a lot of movies have seen that feel similar to other movies, but they do a distinctly different and make it work with the organic structure of their movie. So I, I don't think it's a way to change things. Dark Phoenix was originally slated to come out before captain marvel anyway, right? So it's like they kind of had they beat captain marvel tha that ending. So why did they switch you know they don't think it's train. Yeah. Something, something doesn't add up to me. And this goes back to Jeff Snyder, the reporters number one rule for being a reporter, which is don't believe anything in actor tells you don't know anything. Well. To be fair. There's there's no to being there to James McEvoy. Things that were debating right now, whether or not their true aren't the specific things that James McEvoy pointed out and said the finale had to change. He was in saying, you know, we changed it from the cosmic thing to the, the trains. Right to stick to maga- voice, quote. I am of the mind that if it is, too similar than than. Yeah. I'm okay with a change. I'm okay with them thinking we have to change this differentiate ourselves in distinguish ourselves in the marketplace, particularly not being a movie that's going to do as well as captain marvel. If that is, in fact, the movie that we're talking about here. So I'm I am sensitive to those creative issues and I don't blame Kimber for wanting to go back and tinker with it. But yeah, I'm with you John, that a lot of this. This is just so much PR on the entire X men franchise, including the next film, which we'll talk about soon, which I don't really fault them at because this is a lame duck superhero film, none of these actors are going to come back and play these characters again, in the MC you Disney and Disney marvel trying to recoup as much as they can from this film. So they're doing this PR pushing I wouldn't put it past someone like McEvoy or fast bender to, like, okay, I'm going to speak about. These are the points. We'd like goes to hit. Okay. I'll do it as part of the PR programs. Part of promoting the movie. No prob. Problem. But I don't fault them. They want to make as much as possible gonna talk about new means a little bit. Same thing. They're just on recoup as much possible for they move on. I got. No. I don't fault them. I just wish I just think people can see through this.