1 00:00:07,816 --> 00:00:10,086 ♪♪ ♪♪ 2 00:00:31,062 --> 00:00:32,599 Knock, knock. 3 00:00:32,666 --> 00:00:34,101 Everybody decent? 4 00:00:34,168 --> 00:00:37,609 Oh, for fuck's sake-- carnations? 5 00:00:37,675 --> 00:00:40,715 Who would dare? 6 00:00:41,684 --> 00:00:43,921 Brooke Astor. 7 00:00:43,988 --> 00:00:46,158 Relentless. 8 00:00:47,962 --> 00:00:49,231 There. 9 00:00:49,298 --> 00:00:51,537 Hellebores, your favorite. 10 00:00:51,604 --> 00:00:53,439 Better. 11 00:00:55,177 --> 00:00:57,716 Oh. 12 00:00:57,783 --> 00:01:00,053 I'm so tired. 13 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,424 No, it's not a hangover. 14 00:01:02,491 --> 00:01:04,428 In fact, you'll be proud to know 15 00:01:04,495 --> 00:01:06,633 I haven't had a drink in three months. 16 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,840 The first weeks were agony, but now I swear 17 00:01:09,907 --> 00:01:12,210 I really don't even crave it. 18 00:01:12,277 --> 00:01:14,849 Just the thought of a drink makes me squirm. 19 00:01:16,186 --> 00:01:18,724 Serenity, courage and wisdom. 20 00:01:19,491 --> 00:01:22,431 There are many wonderful things about sobriety. 21 00:01:22,498 --> 00:01:25,571 The little catchphrases are not among them. 22 00:01:27,174 --> 00:01:30,313 Scooch over, dear, let me lay down. 23 00:01:31,115 --> 00:01:33,152 Oh. 24 00:01:34,857 --> 00:01:37,127 [sighs] 25 00:01:38,362 --> 00:01:41,202 [sniffles] You're positively frigid, Babe. 26 00:01:44,743 --> 00:01:47,447 Everything's frigid without you. 27 00:01:50,821 --> 00:01:52,892 Is it better in there? 28 00:01:55,665 --> 00:01:58,637 I may be joining you before too long. 29 00:02:06,052 --> 00:02:08,322 Knock, knock. 30 00:02:09,158 --> 00:02:11,429 May I come in? 31 00:02:12,465 --> 00:02:14,836 Let me in, please. 32 00:02:17,274 --> 00:02:19,245 Let me in. 33 00:02:19,311 --> 00:02:21,248 [intercom buzzing] 34 00:02:24,221 --> 00:02:26,526 - [Jack] Hello? - Hey, Jack. 35 00:02:26,593 --> 00:02:28,330 Let me in. 36 00:02:28,396 --> 00:02:30,702 Let me in, Jack. Please let me in, Jack. 37 00:02:30,768 --> 00:02:33,774 -Tru? - Please let me in. 38 00:02:33,841 --> 00:02:36,513 [door buzzes] 39 00:02:38,116 --> 00:02:40,120 -Are you okay? -I just w... 40 00:02:40,187 --> 00:02:42,626 wanted to come in. 41 00:02:42,693 --> 00:02:44,362 I need to... 42 00:02:44,428 --> 00:02:46,399 Something smells very good. 43 00:02:46,465 --> 00:02:48,504 Is that garlic? You like garlic now? 44 00:02:48,570 --> 00:02:49,973 I like a lot of things now, 45 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,877 but I've always liked garlic. Are you drunk? 46 00:02:51,943 --> 00:02:55,017 I am as sober as Pat Boone on a Sunday. 47 00:02:55,083 --> 00:02:57,188 May I please come in? 48 00:02:57,254 --> 00:02:58,657 I'm seeing someone, Truman, 49 00:02:58,724 --> 00:03:00,995 and I would prefer not to inflict you on him. 50 00:03:01,062 --> 00:03:02,832 -Even sober. -Well, 51 00:03:02,899 --> 00:03:05,303 I certainly can't blame you. [laughs] 52 00:03:05,370 --> 00:03:08,376 Mmm, it smells so good. 53 00:03:08,443 --> 00:03:11,483 What is that, tomatoes, rosemary? 54 00:03:11,550 --> 00:03:13,452 It's a Bolognese sauce, Mr. Capote. 55 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,892 -Oh. -I made pasta, too. 56 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:17,461 Please stay. 57 00:03:17,528 --> 00:03:19,699 -I've always wanted to meet you. -[chuckles] 58 00:03:24,008 --> 00:03:26,913 All right, come in. 59 00:03:28,082 --> 00:03:30,353 [chuckles] 60 00:03:31,289 --> 00:03:32,558 No, no, Nick, 61 00:03:32,625 --> 00:03:34,361 the drugs, the drink-- I can't anymore, 62 00:03:34,428 --> 00:03:35,798 it led to real problems, 63 00:03:35,865 --> 00:03:38,704 as I'm sure poor Jack has no doubt told you. 64 00:03:38,771 --> 00:03:41,008 He only says glowing things about you. 65 00:03:41,075 --> 00:03:43,013 Is that true, Jack? 66 00:03:43,079 --> 00:03:45,183 In fact, it is. 67 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:47,287 Oh, and yet here we are, 68 00:03:47,354 --> 00:03:49,092 trying to live without each other. 69 00:03:49,158 --> 00:03:50,928 -[chuckles] -[laughs] Oh. Hey. 70 00:03:50,995 --> 00:03:54,035 I get along without you very well. 71 00:03:54,101 --> 00:03:56,139 I think Nick is 72 00:03:56,205 --> 00:03:59,011 too young to know that tune. 73 00:03:59,077 --> 00:04:01,315 Are you writing now, Truman? 74 00:04:01,382 --> 00:04:02,885 I know everybody asks you that, 75 00:04:02,952 --> 00:04:04,723 but I've read everything you've ever-- 76 00:04:04,790 --> 00:04:07,428 I'm going to finish Answered Prayers, actually. 77 00:04:07,494 --> 00:04:10,200 But-- and-and Jack may like to hear this-- 78 00:04:10,267 --> 00:04:13,106 it's going to be, uh, my apology 79 00:04:13,172 --> 00:04:15,310 for Cote Basque. 80 00:04:15,377 --> 00:04:17,214 An apology, really? 81 00:04:17,281 --> 00:04:18,551 You, Truman? 82 00:04:18,617 --> 00:04:21,089 Mm, and a kind of a masterpiece. 83 00:04:22,358 --> 00:04:26,366 An apology and an explanation to all the people that I hurt. 84 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:28,670 The swans and... 85 00:04:30,073 --> 00:04:32,144 ...a confession of my misdeeds 86 00:04:32,210 --> 00:04:34,415 and the reasons and... 87 00:04:34,482 --> 00:04:36,620 how I hurt them. 88 00:04:36,687 --> 00:04:39,893 But fiction, you know, as was Cote. 89 00:04:39,959 --> 00:04:41,697 Well, it's, uh, 90 00:04:41,763 --> 00:04:44,234 too late for Babe to forgive you. 91 00:04:44,301 --> 00:04:46,740 And Bill Paley... 92 00:04:46,806 --> 00:04:48,243 won't. 93 00:04:48,310 --> 00:04:50,113 Just forget that and... 94 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:51,817 what if, uh, Lee and Slim say, 95 00:04:51,884 --> 00:04:53,687 "Too little, too late, fuck off"? 96 00:04:53,754 --> 00:04:55,758 Well, let me ask you a question, Jack. 97 00:04:55,825 --> 00:04:57,494 Why do you always forgive me? 98 00:04:57,562 --> 00:04:58,931 Who says I do? 99 00:04:58,998 --> 00:05:02,037 Well, I'll tell you why. Because apologies, 100 00:05:02,104 --> 00:05:04,375 when heartfelt, matter. 101 00:05:04,442 --> 00:05:07,114 Because that is how the heart is built. 102 00:05:07,181 --> 00:05:09,184 It wants to forgive. 103 00:05:09,251 --> 00:05:11,155 Hmm, does it? 104 00:05:11,222 --> 00:05:13,827 I think this may be wishful thinking on your part. 105 00:05:13,894 --> 00:05:15,931 No. I've seen it. 106 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,474 On death row, with those boys in Kansas. 107 00:05:20,542 --> 00:05:22,310 I've seen... 108 00:05:22,377 --> 00:05:24,382 You know, people want both to... 109 00:05:24,448 --> 00:05:27,420 forgive and to be forgiven. 110 00:05:35,672 --> 00:05:38,110 Well, what do you think, Nick? 111 00:05:38,176 --> 00:05:39,546 Uh, well, uh... 112 00:05:39,613 --> 00:05:41,550 I'm a bishop's son. 113 00:05:41,616 --> 00:05:43,788 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. 114 00:05:43,854 --> 00:05:46,727 "Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. 115 00:05:46,793 --> 00:05:50,133 Forgive, and you will be forgiven." 116 00:05:57,214 --> 00:05:59,084 Hold on. 117 00:05:59,819 --> 00:06:01,557 Thank you for letting me in. 118 00:06:01,624 --> 00:06:02,792 At the door, 119 00:06:02,859 --> 00:06:05,096 you looked so stricken. Why? 120 00:06:05,163 --> 00:06:07,668 Oh, just old ghosts, you know. 121 00:06:09,304 --> 00:06:10,908 No, I'm happy for you. 122 00:06:10,975 --> 00:06:13,580 You deserve someone good to love you. 123 00:06:13,647 --> 00:06:15,818 And so do you. 124 00:06:15,885 --> 00:06:17,589 Sober, writing-- 125 00:06:17,655 --> 00:06:19,559 you're just, uh, you're very easy to love like this. 126 00:06:19,626 --> 00:06:21,195 No, but I don't want love. 127 00:06:21,262 --> 00:06:23,534 I want forgiveness. 128 00:06:23,601 --> 00:06:26,607 And not just for what I wrote, but f... 129 00:06:26,673 --> 00:06:28,544 for what I have done. 130 00:06:28,611 --> 00:06:31,850 Whether these people forgive you or not may have 131 00:06:31,917 --> 00:06:34,188 more to do with who they are than anything else. 132 00:06:34,255 --> 00:06:35,824 It's... 133 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:39,966 When you're apologizing, there's only one person 134 00:06:40,033 --> 00:06:43,039 to be thinking of, and that is yourself. 135 00:06:45,009 --> 00:06:47,949 Everybody else can figure it out on their own. 136 00:07:08,055 --> 00:07:10,126 ♪♪ ♪♪ 137 00:07:24,889 --> 00:07:26,960 ♪♪ ♪♪ 138 00:07:53,514 --> 00:07:55,784 ♪♪ ♪♪ 139 00:08:20,734 --> 00:08:23,239 ♪♪ ♪♪ 140 00:08:46,018 --> 00:08:48,089 ♪♪ ♪♪ 141 00:09:15,010 --> 00:09:17,080 [sighs] 142 00:09:33,479 --> 00:09:35,751 ♪♪ ♪♪ 143 00:09:39,124 --> 00:09:40,995 [Truman] It was the end of the world, 144 00:09:41,061 --> 00:09:43,934 and I couldn't decide what to eat. 145 00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:46,405 Some version of life would go on, 146 00:09:46,472 --> 00:09:49,011 for some, but for myself, 147 00:09:49,078 --> 00:09:52,819 P.B. Jones, the closing of La Cote Basque 148 00:09:52,886 --> 00:09:56,058 was an event of cataclysmic proportions. 149 00:09:56,125 --> 00:09:58,897 Usually when an institution is shuttered, 150 00:09:58,964 --> 00:10:01,636 it takes years for the spirits and poltergeists 151 00:10:01,703 --> 00:10:04,074 to creep from their hiding places, 152 00:10:04,141 --> 00:10:07,114 but at La Cote, they just couldn't wait. 153 00:10:07,180 --> 00:10:09,385 All the ghosts had come for lunch. 154 00:10:09,452 --> 00:10:13,727 There was Sidney Dillon with his wife Cleo. 155 00:10:13,793 --> 00:10:16,800 The murderess herself, Ann Hopkins, 156 00:10:16,867 --> 00:10:19,238 at a table with her mother-in-law, 157 00:10:19,305 --> 00:10:21,475 Hilda Hopkins. 158 00:10:21,543 --> 00:10:24,048 Lee and Jackie were there. 159 00:10:24,114 --> 00:10:26,753 And in a far corner was none other 160 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:30,026 than Lady Ina Coolbirth herself. 161 00:10:30,093 --> 00:10:32,330 Ina was shunting my gaze. 162 00:10:32,397 --> 00:10:35,838 She was still bitter over how I'd bandied about her story 163 00:10:35,905 --> 00:10:38,175 of Sidney and the governor's wife. 164 00:10:38,242 --> 00:10:40,480 In fact, everyone in the dining room 165 00:10:40,548 --> 00:10:42,885 had been a victim at one time or another 166 00:10:42,952 --> 00:10:45,122 of the author's indiscretions. 167 00:10:45,189 --> 00:10:48,062 I had come this very afternoon to dine 168 00:10:48,129 --> 00:10:50,500 with one such embittered soul, 169 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:53,072 Kiki Kasperzak. 170 00:10:53,138 --> 00:10:55,209 Kiki entered with the flushed look 171 00:10:55,276 --> 00:10:58,015 of one just in from a polo match. 172 00:10:58,082 --> 00:11:01,255 She wore a red number she'd picked up in Palm Beach, 173 00:11:01,321 --> 00:11:04,863 that only a certain kind of woman could get away with. 174 00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:06,332 She was one of them. 175 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:08,369 Hello, P.B. Jones. 176 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:10,006 Kiki. 177 00:11:10,073 --> 00:11:12,678 What does one order for a last supper? 178 00:11:12,745 --> 00:11:14,448 The answer to your question, P.B., 179 00:11:14,516 --> 00:11:15,951 is all of it. 180 00:11:16,018 --> 00:11:18,189 - We'll take everything, Jules. - Thank you. 181 00:11:18,256 --> 00:11:21,997 We passed the afternoon gossiping and eavesdropping. 182 00:11:22,064 --> 00:11:25,871 At the far table, Lady Ina was being stood up, 183 00:11:25,937 --> 00:11:28,042 though she tried to play it off. 184 00:11:28,109 --> 00:11:29,812 [waiter] Would you care to order, Ms. Coolbirth, 185 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:31,983 or prefer to wait for your companion? 186 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:34,455 Companion? I'm not waiting for anyone. 187 00:11:34,522 --> 00:11:35,691 Of course I'll order. 188 00:11:35,758 --> 00:11:37,461 Companion. Please. 189 00:11:37,529 --> 00:11:39,699 [Truman] Though it was plain to see she'd ordered 190 00:11:39,765 --> 00:11:42,739 her champagne with two glasses. 191 00:11:42,805 --> 00:11:44,274 Meanwhile... 192 00:11:44,341 --> 00:11:47,615 I'll have a numbingly cold glass of Limoncello 193 00:11:47,681 --> 00:11:49,284 with a sprig of mint. 194 00:11:49,351 --> 00:11:50,788 Mm, how refreshing. 195 00:11:50,855 --> 00:11:52,958 I'll do the same thing. 196 00:11:53,025 --> 00:11:56,465 In that case, just bring me a Campari soda. 197 00:11:56,533 --> 00:11:57,835 [Truman] Poor Jackie. 198 00:11:57,902 --> 00:11:59,238 She can't even help herself 199 00:11:59,304 --> 00:12:00,908 stealing her sister's drink order. 200 00:12:00,974 --> 00:12:04,114 And at the best table, Cleo Dillon 201 00:12:04,180 --> 00:12:07,588 was writing something on a napkin. 202 00:12:08,356 --> 00:12:12,865 A room number at a hotel in midtown. 203 00:12:15,604 --> 00:12:17,875 ♪♪ ♪♪ 204 00:12:24,990 --> 00:12:27,193 Out with it. 205 00:12:27,260 --> 00:12:29,532 Something on your mind, P.B.? 206 00:12:29,599 --> 00:12:31,703 I'm sorry, Kiki. 207 00:12:31,770 --> 00:12:34,174 [scoffs] You should be. 208 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,445 [Truman] She had spent the last five years 209 00:12:36,513 --> 00:12:39,351 waiting to hear only those words. 210 00:12:39,417 --> 00:12:41,421 What I wrote... 211 00:12:41,488 --> 00:12:42,591 was cruel. 212 00:12:42,658 --> 00:12:44,094 No. You've got it wrong. 213 00:12:44,161 --> 00:12:47,066 That's not what you should apologize for. 214 00:12:48,068 --> 00:12:51,174 What really stung, P.B., was... 215 00:12:53,614 --> 00:12:57,020 ...where you lied for profit. 216 00:12:58,524 --> 00:13:00,560 On purpose. 217 00:13:01,596 --> 00:13:05,269 You cheapened the nuance of our lives. 218 00:13:06,038 --> 00:13:09,144 You understood how imprisoned I felt in my life. 219 00:13:10,313 --> 00:13:11,816 Trapped. 220 00:13:12,785 --> 00:13:14,722 And what you wrote... 221 00:13:14,789 --> 00:13:17,327 didn't acknowledge any of that. 222 00:13:17,393 --> 00:13:21,035 It was a two-dimensional cave scratching 223 00:13:21,102 --> 00:13:23,205 saying, "We ate, we drank, we fucked, 224 00:13:23,272 --> 00:13:25,544 and, God, we hated each other." 225 00:13:27,982 --> 00:13:30,521 I trusted you... 226 00:13:30,587 --> 00:13:33,827 to show me I was more than that. 227 00:13:35,063 --> 00:13:36,933 You knew how I felt. 228 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,872 I wanted to go back. 229 00:13:41,108 --> 00:13:44,014 Back to the person I was before... 230 00:13:44,081 --> 00:13:46,519 life happened to us all. 231 00:13:48,489 --> 00:13:50,861 To me. 232 00:13:51,930 --> 00:13:53,967 You're right. 233 00:13:55,403 --> 00:13:58,075 And I will never do that again. 234 00:13:59,612 --> 00:14:01,949 It may be too late. 235 00:14:03,352 --> 00:14:05,590 But maybe not. 236 00:14:07,493 --> 00:14:09,799 I do have 237 00:14:09,865 --> 00:14:13,372 one other small thing I could offer. 238 00:14:14,107 --> 00:14:17,715 ["Walking Dream" by Patsy Cline playing] 239 00:14:17,782 --> 00:14:19,317 What I had was a plan. 240 00:14:19,384 --> 00:14:22,223 A way to set free, in some small way, 241 00:14:22,290 --> 00:14:26,398 the spirit of that goddess in the gilded cage. 242 00:14:26,465 --> 00:14:29,270 To let her be the girl she had once been. 243 00:14:29,337 --> 00:14:32,344 To hide the great symbol of her wildness 244 00:14:32,410 --> 00:14:35,083 somewhere the judges and whisperers 245 00:14:35,150 --> 00:14:36,753 could never see it, 246 00:14:36,819 --> 00:14:40,025 but the dreamers and poets and cowboys might. 247 00:14:40,092 --> 00:14:42,263 The farther we drove, 248 00:14:42,330 --> 00:14:44,201 the more she changed. 249 00:14:44,268 --> 00:14:46,439 She was becoming herself. 250 00:14:46,506 --> 00:14:48,142 Raw, uncut, 251 00:14:48,209 --> 00:14:52,117 pure, concentrated, happy. 252 00:14:52,183 --> 00:14:54,254 She was America. 253 00:14:54,321 --> 00:14:55,691 [whoops] 254 00:14:56,458 --> 00:14:59,264 The hotel it hung in in Mexico City was shuttered. 255 00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:02,805 A ruin, but I figured this place had some life in it. 256 00:15:02,872 --> 00:15:05,010 I used to drink and fuck here. 257 00:15:05,076 --> 00:15:06,613 That's another story. 258 00:15:06,679 --> 00:15:09,752 And suddenly, I understood what freedom was. 259 00:15:09,819 --> 00:15:11,455 Real freedom. 260 00:15:11,523 --> 00:15:13,894 It was something that could only be experienced 261 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,167 by those who had suffered and been stifled, 262 00:15:17,234 --> 00:15:21,576 silenced, forced to pretend, ached. 263 00:15:21,643 --> 00:15:22,979 Hey, Diego Phan, 264 00:15:23,045 --> 00:15:26,753 we'd like to sell you this gorgeous nude. 265 00:15:26,819 --> 00:15:29,057 Yeah? How much? 266 00:15:29,826 --> 00:15:31,361 Two whiskies. 267 00:15:31,428 --> 00:15:32,731 I like it. 268 00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:34,301 It'll look good over the juke. 269 00:15:34,367 --> 00:15:35,771 Next to the armadillo. 270 00:15:35,838 --> 00:15:37,642 The cowboys'll love it. 271 00:15:37,708 --> 00:15:40,212 Who's the girl? She's a real killer. 272 00:15:42,751 --> 00:15:44,054 Oh. 273 00:15:44,121 --> 00:15:45,757 Beautiful women. 274 00:15:45,824 --> 00:15:48,530 Women stay beautiful forever, 275 00:15:48,597 --> 00:15:50,133 unless they're evil. 276 00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:53,038 So many evil beauties. 277 00:15:53,105 --> 00:15:54,876 I wasn't evil. 278 00:15:54,943 --> 00:15:57,347 Well then. Cheers. 279 00:15:57,414 --> 00:16:01,154 -To late freedom. -To late freedom. 280 00:16:02,423 --> 00:16:04,494 ♪♪ ♪♪ 281 00:16:08,570 --> 00:16:11,274 It was the product of years and years 282 00:16:11,341 --> 00:16:13,780 and years of longing, 283 00:16:13,847 --> 00:16:14,982 hoping, 284 00:16:15,049 --> 00:16:17,287 and when freedom came 285 00:16:17,354 --> 00:16:20,528 it washed over you like a tidal wave, 286 00:16:20,594 --> 00:16:21,863 all at once, 287 00:16:21,930 --> 00:16:24,067 when the universe decided 288 00:16:24,133 --> 00:16:27,273 it was your time. 289 00:16:28,275 --> 00:16:31,281 Maybe it wasn't the end of the world after all. 290 00:16:31,348 --> 00:16:35,657 Maybe, for Kiki, the world was just beginning. 291 00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:41,368 [sighs] 292 00:16:57,835 --> 00:17:00,105 [ice cubes clinking] 293 00:17:07,855 --> 00:17:09,792 What you think? 294 00:17:17,474 --> 00:17:20,146 [sighs] I don't know. 295 00:17:20,213 --> 00:17:23,620 It's out of character for you. 296 00:17:23,687 --> 00:17:25,724 More like your... 297 00:17:25,791 --> 00:17:29,397 juvenilia, frilly. 298 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,838 The kind of stuff you used to pound out 299 00:17:32,904 --> 00:17:34,842 before you found your voice. 300 00:17:34,909 --> 00:17:36,813 [laughs] 301 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,518 What a load of shit. 302 00:17:40,319 --> 00:17:43,025 It's not very kind, mother. 303 00:17:43,092 --> 00:17:46,866 -Here. Take this. -I'm on the wagon. 304 00:17:46,933 --> 00:17:49,003 Your writing is a little stiff. 305 00:17:49,070 --> 00:17:51,842 It'll loosen you up, okay? 306 00:17:53,379 --> 00:17:55,784 The warmth, that's what you're looking for. 307 00:17:55,850 --> 00:17:57,821 Now, take it. Jesus. 308 00:17:59,892 --> 00:18:01,529 [sighs] 309 00:18:05,704 --> 00:18:07,774 [sighs] 310 00:18:10,714 --> 00:18:12,483 That's funny. 311 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:17,360 The drink-- how it helps. 312 00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:21,435 Now your criticisms, 313 00:18:21,502 --> 00:18:25,008 which sting like a wasp-- 314 00:18:25,075 --> 00:18:29,117 I can barely feel them anymore. 315 00:18:31,488 --> 00:18:34,828 I have to criticize you, Tru. 316 00:18:36,098 --> 00:18:37,968 You represent me. 317 00:18:38,035 --> 00:18:39,905 You always have. 318 00:18:39,972 --> 00:18:42,243 Come on. 319 00:18:42,310 --> 00:18:45,382 If it weren't for me reminding you, 320 00:18:45,449 --> 00:18:49,157 would you ever strive to do better? 321 00:18:49,224 --> 00:18:51,529 -[chuckles softly] -[chuckles] No. 322 00:18:51,596 --> 00:18:54,200 Let's get to work on the next part. 323 00:18:54,267 --> 00:18:56,438 And let's try to make it 324 00:18:56,505 --> 00:18:58,476 a little less fruity. 325 00:18:58,543 --> 00:19:00,547 -Right. -[chuckling] 326 00:19:01,315 --> 00:19:03,886 -Less fruity. -Mm-hmm. 327 00:19:05,591 --> 00:19:08,061 You really never change, Nina. 328 00:19:08,128 --> 00:19:09,631 [chuckles] 329 00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:12,203 Well, I think the muse 330 00:19:12,269 --> 00:19:15,376 has revealed herself. 331 00:19:15,443 --> 00:19:19,417 Oh, you're gonna like this next part, Mama. 332 00:19:28,903 --> 00:19:30,773 [Truman] Lady Ina's string had run out in the late 333 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,212 middle part of her life amongst the famous 334 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:34,748 and the rich, 335 00:19:34,815 --> 00:19:37,387 and whatever society was left at the apex. 336 00:19:37,454 --> 00:19:39,124 She was now hungry, 337 00:19:39,190 --> 00:19:41,896 bitter, and she sure was lonely. 338 00:19:41,962 --> 00:19:44,535 It was young hustlers, navy boys 339 00:19:44,602 --> 00:19:46,506 and gigolos in assignations 340 00:19:46,573 --> 00:19:49,512 at the Wales Hotel in Carnegie Hill, 341 00:19:49,579 --> 00:19:51,415 but she wanted love again. 342 00:19:51,481 --> 00:19:56,058 Or if not love, at least power. And if not power, well, 343 00:19:56,125 --> 00:19:58,596 security would do in a pinch. 344 00:19:58,663 --> 00:20:00,801 No, no, no. Not you. 345 00:20:00,868 --> 00:20:03,606 -Stop, please. Just stop. -Fuck off. Leave me alone. 346 00:20:03,673 --> 00:20:06,679 My legs are shorter than yours. I can't keep this up. 347 00:20:06,746 --> 00:20:09,484 -I saw you come out of the Whitney. -[sighs] 348 00:20:09,552 --> 00:20:12,289 Stop, please, would you? 349 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:16,866 What's on at the Whitney-- is it the Claes Oldenburg 350 00:20:16,932 --> 00:20:18,335 giant ice pack sculpture? 351 00:20:18,402 --> 00:20:21,576 I met a girlfriend for soup in the cafeteria. 352 00:20:21,642 --> 00:20:23,445 Who has time for art now? 353 00:20:23,513 --> 00:20:25,216 -What is it you want? -To... 354 00:20:25,282 --> 00:20:27,153 be able to talk again. 355 00:20:27,220 --> 00:20:30,627 Talk?! Are you insane? 356 00:20:30,694 --> 00:20:34,502 Why didn't you think of that before you turned me into... 357 00:20:35,469 --> 00:20:38,910 ...Lady Coolbirth-- that person I am now? 358 00:20:41,248 --> 00:20:43,285 Ow! 359 00:20:47,260 --> 00:20:48,697 Ow. 360 00:20:48,764 --> 00:20:51,335 And then the venom from his deadly snakebite 361 00:20:51,401 --> 00:20:53,874 finally just drained out of her. 362 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:57,748 And what was left was a lingering, sorrowful anger 363 00:20:57,815 --> 00:21:01,287 comingled with a yearning. 364 00:21:01,354 --> 00:21:04,995 And a bone-deep exhaustion. 365 00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:08,035 Maybe she was just tired. 366 00:21:08,102 --> 00:21:10,473 Maybe she realized how much he regretted. 367 00:21:10,541 --> 00:21:12,009 Maybe she suddenly felt 368 00:21:12,076 --> 00:21:15,249 how much energy it had taken to loathe him. 369 00:21:15,316 --> 00:21:17,286 But for whatever the reasons, 370 00:21:17,353 --> 00:21:18,756 she let him follow her home. 371 00:21:18,823 --> 00:21:21,595 You're not packing like Cleo taught us all. 372 00:21:21,662 --> 00:21:22,964 These should all be delicately wrapped-- 373 00:21:23,031 --> 00:21:25,804 Who has the fucking energy for tissue paper? 374 00:21:25,871 --> 00:21:27,173 Cleo's gone. 375 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,078 And where I'm going, nobody's watching me unpack. 376 00:21:30,847 --> 00:21:33,451 Are you really gonna stay mad at me forever? 377 00:21:34,387 --> 00:21:36,626 You know where I'm moving to? 378 00:21:36,692 --> 00:21:40,432 To a little one bedroom "cottage" in Santa Barbara, 379 00:21:40,499 --> 00:21:42,638 A place called Hope Ranch. 380 00:21:42,704 --> 00:21:45,209 -Ha! Hopeless ranch. -Oh, fuck. 381 00:21:45,276 --> 00:21:47,146 -It's always foggy there. -Perfect. 382 00:21:47,213 --> 00:21:48,950 Another old broad on the beach 383 00:21:49,017 --> 00:21:51,990 collecting sand dollars drinking cheap vodka. 384 00:21:52,056 --> 00:21:54,662 Nobody around because you 385 00:21:54,728 --> 00:21:57,466 made me unlovable. Unfuckable. 386 00:21:57,534 --> 00:21:58,936 No, you're so fuckable, dear. 387 00:21:59,003 --> 00:22:00,907 Nobody even liked your goddamn story, 388 00:22:00,974 --> 00:22:02,711 so it's not like it could have been worth it. 389 00:22:02,778 --> 00:22:05,617 It didn't even get you out of financial trouble. 390 00:22:05,684 --> 00:22:09,156 You gained nothing. But you made me a joke. 391 00:22:09,223 --> 00:22:13,299 You made my dreams and ambitions seem so ugly, 392 00:22:13,365 --> 00:22:14,935 when it was all I had. 393 00:22:15,002 --> 00:22:19,110 I consisted of my ambitions, you fuck! 394 00:22:22,651 --> 00:22:25,188 Why am I even taking these? 395 00:22:25,255 --> 00:22:28,462 [groans] They're from Japan. 396 00:22:28,530 --> 00:22:30,466 I got them, then Betty Bacall did 397 00:22:30,534 --> 00:22:32,871 and everyone said hers were prettier. 398 00:22:34,107 --> 00:22:38,182 Your story cast its spell and took away everything I had! 399 00:22:38,248 --> 00:22:39,451 Throw it. 400 00:22:39,518 --> 00:22:41,020 Throw the dish at me. 401 00:22:41,087 --> 00:22:45,129 At me, at Cleo, at Bacall, and everyone, 402 00:22:45,195 --> 00:22:46,431 but for Christ's sake, 403 00:22:46,497 --> 00:22:47,968 you've got to get rid of this anger! 404 00:22:48,034 --> 00:22:49,136 Throw it! 405 00:22:50,540 --> 00:22:51,976 It's worth a fortune. 406 00:22:55,717 --> 00:22:58,088 And, after I picked up and flung 407 00:22:58,154 --> 00:23:01,228 the first priceless piece of china against the wall, 408 00:23:01,295 --> 00:23:03,031 it was open season. 409 00:23:04,535 --> 00:23:06,972 Lady Ina went berserk. 410 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:10,747 [cackling] 411 00:23:11,381 --> 00:23:13,653 [exclaims, laughs] 412 00:23:19,532 --> 00:23:22,771 Enough plates. I've missed you. 413 00:23:22,838 --> 00:23:25,610 -[panting] -And I you. 414 00:23:25,677 --> 00:23:28,214 And I know exactly what you need. 415 00:23:28,281 --> 00:23:32,056 To be the special one for once. 416 00:23:37,099 --> 00:23:41,642 [gasps] My own Black and White Ball? 417 00:23:41,709 --> 00:23:43,045 -But you'll wear red. -Really? 418 00:23:43,111 --> 00:23:45,684 Bill Blass is waiting to design it for us. 419 00:23:45,750 --> 00:23:47,854 The second Black and White Ball. 420 00:23:47,921 --> 00:23:52,998 And it is to honor Lady Ina Coolbirth! 421 00:23:53,065 --> 00:23:55,235 -[laughs] -Yay! 422 00:23:55,302 --> 00:23:56,906 It surpassed the prior ball 423 00:23:56,973 --> 00:23:59,177 in terms of splash, publicity, 424 00:23:59,244 --> 00:24:01,516 exclusivity and glamour. 425 00:24:01,582 --> 00:24:03,686 The guest list was even grander. 426 00:24:03,753 --> 00:24:05,957 The champagne flowed freer. 427 00:24:06,024 --> 00:24:08,729 This time, no soggy chicken hash, 428 00:24:08,796 --> 00:24:12,303 but beluga caviar from a Russian in Paris. 429 00:24:12,370 --> 00:24:14,809 And Lady Ina Coolbirth was 430 00:24:14,876 --> 00:24:17,113 a dazzling vision, a triumph. 431 00:24:17,179 --> 00:24:19,818 It was rumored that she was about to be named 432 00:24:19,885 --> 00:24:21,956 chief of protocol at the White House 433 00:24:22,023 --> 00:24:25,029 or ambassador to the Court of St. James's 434 00:24:25,095 --> 00:24:26,331 or at very least 435 00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:29,070 head of the Academy of Motion Pictures. 436 00:24:29,137 --> 00:24:30,472 Maybe all the above. 437 00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:32,043 And it was also the night 438 00:24:32,109 --> 00:24:35,082 she met her final and most deeply felt love, 439 00:24:35,149 --> 00:24:39,190 the love story she had always been denied. 440 00:24:40,159 --> 00:24:42,831 -What do you think? -[Nina] Yeah. 441 00:24:42,897 --> 00:24:47,240 This Lady Ina Coolbirth-- 442 00:24:47,307 --> 00:24:49,043 she's a trouper. 443 00:24:49,110 --> 00:24:51,615 You've always been drawn to strong women like me. 444 00:24:51,682 --> 00:24:54,521 I'm not sure you were all that strong. 445 00:24:54,588 --> 00:24:57,694 I think it was a very dry teat 446 00:24:57,761 --> 00:24:59,898 I was suckling at, Mother. 447 00:25:01,067 --> 00:25:02,604 Let me in! 448 00:25:03,773 --> 00:25:06,211 Let me in. Please! 449 00:25:06,277 --> 00:25:07,647 Let... 450 00:25:08,449 --> 00:25:09,885 [Nina chuckling] 451 00:25:12,958 --> 00:25:16,699 [chuckles] Hey, Fredrick, Freddie? 452 00:25:16,765 --> 00:25:19,237 Would you, uh, run down to the lobby 453 00:25:19,304 --> 00:25:21,275 and get me some smokes? 454 00:25:21,341 --> 00:25:22,744 I'm almost out. 455 00:25:22,811 --> 00:25:25,817 Chesterfields, hon. 456 00:25:28,222 --> 00:25:29,891 Stop fucking me. 457 00:25:31,060 --> 00:25:34,200 Jesus Christ, what is the matter with you? 458 00:25:35,636 --> 00:25:37,907 What?! 459 00:25:37,974 --> 00:25:40,045 They're gonna bill me for this. 460 00:25:40,112 --> 00:25:43,318 Why can't I come dance, too? Like this. 461 00:25:43,385 --> 00:25:45,456 And do my special thing. 462 00:25:45,523 --> 00:25:47,794 Oh, stop it, for God's sake. 463 00:25:47,861 --> 00:25:51,334 Jesus, you are a basket case. 464 00:25:51,401 --> 00:25:54,508 Doesn't it ever bother you, the way people stare? 465 00:25:54,574 --> 00:25:56,713 Mama, I don't like that man. 466 00:25:56,779 --> 00:25:58,983 Let's just be me and you. 467 00:25:59,050 --> 00:26:02,155 Oh, you don't like that man, huh? 468 00:26:02,222 --> 00:26:05,697 You like your little bow tie, don't you? Huh? 469 00:26:05,763 --> 00:26:07,601 And your gingham shirt 470 00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:10,741 and your Fauntleroy trousers 471 00:26:10,807 --> 00:26:12,577 and those suspenders? 472 00:26:12,644 --> 00:26:14,414 You like those, don't you? 473 00:26:14,481 --> 00:26:15,750 -Huh? -Mm-hmm. 474 00:26:15,817 --> 00:26:17,153 Well, they all cost money, 475 00:26:17,219 --> 00:26:19,891 and money is what Mama doesn't have. 476 00:26:19,958 --> 00:26:21,829 That's why I have to woo and marry 477 00:26:21,896 --> 00:26:25,035 a man like that... 478 00:26:25,102 --> 00:26:29,010 without you messing everything up. 479 00:26:29,077 --> 00:26:30,781 A boy. [short chuckle] 480 00:26:30,847 --> 00:26:32,316 That's the last thing 481 00:26:32,383 --> 00:26:35,155 they always say when they're running for the hills. 482 00:26:35,222 --> 00:26:37,092 "Oh, I didn't know you had a boy." 483 00:26:37,159 --> 00:26:39,130 I want to tell them, "I don't. 484 00:26:39,196 --> 00:26:42,671 Have you seen the little thing, the way he flounces? 485 00:26:42,738 --> 00:26:44,240 It's not a boy at all." 486 00:26:44,307 --> 00:26:48,048 Lucky me, I got myself a sideshow attraction. 487 00:26:48,115 --> 00:26:50,286 I told him you were my nephew. 488 00:26:50,352 --> 00:26:54,460 I said I was doing a good turn for my wayward sister 489 00:26:54,528 --> 00:26:56,798 who's on a boxcar train 490 00:26:56,865 --> 00:26:59,538 somewhere between here and San Francisco. 491 00:26:59,605 --> 00:27:02,577 [laughs] It was pretty good, wasn't it? 492 00:27:02,644 --> 00:27:04,013 Huh? 493 00:27:05,517 --> 00:27:07,052 All right, now, listen to me. 494 00:27:08,389 --> 00:27:10,727 You stay in here 495 00:27:10,794 --> 00:27:14,535 and be just as quiet as a little mouse. 496 00:27:14,601 --> 00:27:16,271 And then, 497 00:27:16,337 --> 00:27:17,974 Mama's gonna give you 498 00:27:18,041 --> 00:27:21,882 the very last dance of the night, okay? 499 00:27:21,949 --> 00:27:24,655 Shut up and just stay in here. 500 00:27:24,721 --> 00:27:27,460 All right? Don't make any more noise. 501 00:27:27,527 --> 00:27:28,863 [mutters] 502 00:27:28,930 --> 00:27:30,733 [lock clicks] 503 00:27:32,604 --> 00:27:34,875 ♪♪ ♪♪ 504 00:27:38,783 --> 00:27:41,722 [muffled] [Fredrick laughing] 505 00:27:43,325 --> 00:27:45,362 Ooh, you look beautiful. 506 00:27:52,209 --> 00:27:53,478 [muffled] [Frederick laughing] 507 00:27:53,546 --> 00:27:55,750 [pounding] 508 00:27:55,817 --> 00:27:57,319 Let me in! 509 00:28:05,503 --> 00:28:07,707 [Nina] I will say... 510 00:28:07,774 --> 00:28:11,982 this chapter is superior to the other. 511 00:28:12,817 --> 00:28:14,721 Stronger. 512 00:28:18,929 --> 00:28:21,969 Here, have another drink. 513 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:24,741 You're onto something. Don't lose the flow. 514 00:28:24,808 --> 00:28:27,279 Oh, oh. Wait. 515 00:28:28,849 --> 00:28:30,987 And here. 516 00:28:31,054 --> 00:28:32,790 Boy. 517 00:28:34,861 --> 00:28:36,965 Here. 518 00:28:37,032 --> 00:28:38,736 Try a few of these. 519 00:28:38,803 --> 00:28:42,042 Hm? They'll keep you going. 520 00:28:42,109 --> 00:28:45,315 Look at these pills, huh? [chuckling] 521 00:28:46,952 --> 00:28:49,424 Like lozenges of pure relief. 522 00:28:49,490 --> 00:28:50,961 What a century. 523 00:28:51,027 --> 00:28:53,566 The meds, boy, oh boy. 524 00:28:53,632 --> 00:28:55,603 But you-- 525 00:28:55,669 --> 00:28:58,141 you just sit here and write. 526 00:28:58,208 --> 00:28:59,310 Come on. 527 00:28:59,376 --> 00:29:01,180 Make them love you again. 528 00:29:01,247 --> 00:29:02,382 Oh, and here, 529 00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:04,955 take a few more bennies. 530 00:29:05,021 --> 00:29:07,393 Keep you going. 531 00:29:07,459 --> 00:29:09,831 [Truman] P.B. Jones walked into the restaurant 532 00:29:09,898 --> 00:29:11,367 and there wasn't the usual 533 00:29:11,434 --> 00:29:15,442 collective frisson of worry. Just ease. 534 00:29:15,509 --> 00:29:18,616 -He spotted Lee. -Why are you so down on California, for chrissake? 535 00:29:18,683 --> 00:29:20,452 You used to love it, and-- 536 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,256 -Hi. -Oh, Jesus. 537 00:29:22,322 --> 00:29:24,828 Her latest husband: a famously gay 538 00:29:24,894 --> 00:29:28,134 minor moviemaker with an acid tongue-- 539 00:29:28,201 --> 00:29:30,205 more acid even than hers-- 540 00:29:30,272 --> 00:29:32,143 specializing in ballet flicks 541 00:29:32,209 --> 00:29:35,115 and flimsy celluloid smart-assery, 542 00:29:35,182 --> 00:29:37,687 Burt Moss. Nobody's idea of a good guy. 543 00:29:37,754 --> 00:29:40,693 -No, I've got something for you. -Oh, what could you possibly 544 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,198 have for me, you snail-darter? 545 00:29:43,265 --> 00:29:46,772 Look. Read it. It's your memoir. 546 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:48,642 -Wh... -I know you're stuck. 547 00:29:48,709 --> 00:29:50,312 It's got your voice. 548 00:29:50,379 --> 00:29:53,853 I am giving you this book, and it'll be as if you wrote it. 549 00:29:53,919 --> 00:29:56,625 -[Lee gasps quietly] -I know you wanted literary credibility. 550 00:29:56,692 --> 00:29:58,161 I've found it very easy 551 00:29:58,228 --> 00:30:00,098 to write in your voice because I know you so well. 552 00:30:00,165 --> 00:30:02,704 She knew she had not been blessed with the talent 553 00:30:02,771 --> 00:30:06,044 or even the force of will to finish such a book, 554 00:30:06,111 --> 00:30:09,618 but that didn't matter because he was doing it for her, 555 00:30:09,685 --> 00:30:12,322 and it was as true and right as if she had done it herself 556 00:30:12,389 --> 00:30:16,732 because P.B. knew where all the bodies were buried. 557 00:30:16,798 --> 00:30:18,902 And she would finally be better at something 558 00:30:18,969 --> 00:30:21,441 than her fairy-tale sister. 559 00:30:21,509 --> 00:30:24,213 It's utterly beautiful. 560 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,119 -It's me. -[Bob] No, it's, uh... 561 00:30:27,186 --> 00:30:29,791 Okay, fine. What's the shrink's number? 562 00:30:29,858 --> 00:30:31,895 [Truman] "And I can give you something else you want," 563 00:30:31,962 --> 00:30:33,967 says P.B. Jones, quietly. 564 00:30:34,033 --> 00:30:36,036 She looked at P.B. 565 00:30:36,103 --> 00:30:38,776 "I can help you get rid of that mistake." 566 00:30:38,843 --> 00:30:43,284 "What mistake?" "The film director," he says. 567 00:30:43,351 --> 00:30:44,688 -Yes, yeah. -"I can help you 568 00:30:44,754 --> 00:30:47,459 kill the smarmy little fucker." 569 00:30:47,527 --> 00:30:49,296 How did you know? 570 00:30:49,363 --> 00:30:52,369 -That was a mistake. -Mm. 571 00:30:52,436 --> 00:30:55,008 He likes chorus boys and Bijan of Beverly Hills 572 00:30:55,075 --> 00:30:57,981 and Jerry Robbins and yachts, that's it. 573 00:30:58,047 --> 00:31:00,619 Well, we can get rid of him. 574 00:31:00,686 --> 00:31:02,990 ♪♪ Woke up this morning ♪♪ 575 00:31:03,826 --> 00:31:05,996 ♪♪ Wanting to cry ♪♪ 576 00:31:06,966 --> 00:31:09,069 ♪♪ Then I remembered ♪♪ 577 00:31:10,039 --> 00:31:12,977 ♪♪ Yes, I knew why... ♪♪ 578 00:31:13,846 --> 00:31:15,516 [Truman] Now he was going to help 579 00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:18,355 his aggrieved friend remove the latest grief, 580 00:31:18,421 --> 00:31:20,092 and in so doing, 581 00:31:20,159 --> 00:31:23,098 reestablish his own primacy in her life. 582 00:31:23,164 --> 00:31:25,102 A friend again. 583 00:31:25,168 --> 00:31:27,039 A friend to warm the phone lines 584 00:31:27,105 --> 00:31:28,977 and have someone to gossip with again. 585 00:31:29,043 --> 00:31:31,882 A friend indeed. 586 00:31:31,949 --> 00:31:33,586 There had been too many small 587 00:31:33,653 --> 00:31:36,792 and large humiliations to bear in this life of hers. 588 00:31:36,858 --> 00:31:38,795 Enough was enough. 589 00:31:38,862 --> 00:31:40,499 And now she had accidentally 590 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:43,171 on purpose married a viperous homosexual, 591 00:31:43,237 --> 00:31:46,945 and everyone knew, a dancer turned director, 592 00:31:47,012 --> 00:31:48,616 and how that stung. 593 00:31:48,683 --> 00:31:50,385 But P.B. had, 594 00:31:50,452 --> 00:31:53,358 in his travels, learned a lot, including 595 00:31:53,424 --> 00:31:56,765 how to poison someone using nicotine. 596 00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:58,134 A Russian sailor had taught him 597 00:31:58,201 --> 00:32:00,071 that parlor trick in a flophouse 598 00:32:00,138 --> 00:32:02,076 in the seaport of Split, in Croatia. 599 00:32:02,142 --> 00:32:05,415 It was a matter of taking the liquid form of the substance, 600 00:32:05,482 --> 00:32:07,452 at a very high concentrate, 601 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,758 and finding the right delivery system. 602 00:32:09,824 --> 00:32:11,227 Will this really work? 603 00:32:11,294 --> 00:32:12,830 And after feeding the victim 604 00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:15,102 some sort of sleeping pill, 605 00:32:15,168 --> 00:32:16,739 in this case, a nicely ground-up 606 00:32:16,806 --> 00:32:20,211 fistful of Seconal-- another good title-- 607 00:32:20,278 --> 00:32:23,218 in some very good single malt whiskey, 608 00:32:23,285 --> 00:32:25,857 injecting the concentrate of tobacco 609 00:32:25,923 --> 00:32:27,994 behind the ear. 610 00:32:34,708 --> 00:32:36,978 [Nina sighs] 611 00:32:39,450 --> 00:32:43,692 I read your latest story while you were napping. 612 00:32:44,493 --> 00:32:46,965 Did you read the Lee stuff? 613 00:32:47,032 --> 00:32:50,873 The book isn't working for one reason, 614 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:53,244 and I'll tell you what that is. 615 00:32:53,311 --> 00:32:57,118 You may be writing about the end of society, 616 00:32:57,185 --> 00:33:00,159 the last gasp of a dying class, 617 00:33:00,225 --> 00:33:02,931 their habits and foibles. 618 00:33:02,997 --> 00:33:06,137 But there is no discernible 619 00:33:06,204 --> 00:33:09,410 raison d'être 620 00:33:09,476 --> 00:33:11,948 because you are not in touch 621 00:33:12,015 --> 00:33:14,119 with your hatred. 622 00:33:14,855 --> 00:33:16,858 All these stories 623 00:33:16,925 --> 00:33:18,862 about the Swans-- 624 00:33:18,929 --> 00:33:22,837 it's all about them letting you 625 00:33:22,904 --> 00:33:26,578 back into their hearts, 626 00:33:26,645 --> 00:33:29,083 you bringing a gift 627 00:33:29,150 --> 00:33:31,655 to make up for it. 628 00:33:33,859 --> 00:33:36,397 So write about my suicide. 629 00:33:37,365 --> 00:33:39,604 Why is that so hard for you? 630 00:33:39,671 --> 00:33:43,010 You were in your late twenties when I did it. 631 00:33:43,077 --> 00:33:45,181 You weren't a baby. 632 00:33:47,485 --> 00:33:49,290 Do you think that made it hurt less? 633 00:33:49,356 --> 00:33:50,960 Did you ever even read 634 00:33:51,027 --> 00:33:53,398 the police report, huh? 635 00:33:53,464 --> 00:33:55,268 Don't you walk out 636 00:33:55,335 --> 00:33:57,439 -on me! -You're drunk, Nina. 637 00:33:57,507 --> 00:34:00,345 Of course I'm having affairs. 638 00:34:00,412 --> 00:34:02,482 How else would I survive you? 639 00:34:02,550 --> 00:34:05,957 [Nina] You walk out on me and you will never 640 00:34:06,024 --> 00:34:07,861 stop paying the bills for it, 641 00:34:07,928 --> 00:34:09,296 do you understand? 642 00:34:14,172 --> 00:34:16,443 [moaning] 643 00:34:19,016 --> 00:34:20,619 No! 644 00:34:21,387 --> 00:34:23,825 Accidental overdose? 645 00:34:24,995 --> 00:34:26,397 How did they know? 646 00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:29,202 There was nobody there. 647 00:34:29,269 --> 00:34:31,341 That's the story you should tell. 648 00:34:31,407 --> 00:34:34,046 The story of the black swan. 649 00:34:34,112 --> 00:34:37,052 I don't want to tell that story. 650 00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:39,222 Please. 651 00:34:44,233 --> 00:34:46,203 I'm not asking. 652 00:34:47,272 --> 00:34:49,578 I'm demanding. 653 00:34:49,645 --> 00:34:51,280 I'm your mother. 654 00:34:54,086 --> 00:34:57,526 You show some goddamn respect. 655 00:34:59,798 --> 00:35:01,433 [crying] 656 00:35:04,406 --> 00:35:07,079 She's getting ready. 657 00:35:07,145 --> 00:35:09,182 I can smell it. 658 00:35:10,018 --> 00:35:11,922 I know this scene. 659 00:35:11,989 --> 00:35:14,761 Oh, boy. 660 00:35:14,828 --> 00:35:16,297 I hope you're prepared. 661 00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:18,134 Please, don't. 662 00:35:18,969 --> 00:35:20,572 Please. 663 00:35:35,803 --> 00:35:39,142 [Ann] You know, you told me that of all your swans-- 664 00:35:39,209 --> 00:35:42,750 of which I was only an honorary member-- 665 00:35:42,817 --> 00:35:46,925 that I was the one that reminded you most of your mother. 666 00:35:48,629 --> 00:35:50,499 [Truman] well, you had the same exhausted 667 00:35:50,566 --> 00:35:53,138 look of terror in your eyes. 668 00:35:53,205 --> 00:35:54,941 [Ann] Which you have, too. 669 00:35:56,010 --> 00:35:58,515 I recognized it. 670 00:35:59,584 --> 00:36:03,224 Maybe that's why you were so cruel to me. 671 00:36:04,528 --> 00:36:08,401 Could you ever forgive me for what I wrote about you? 672 00:36:08,468 --> 00:36:10,773 [chuckles softly] 673 00:36:10,839 --> 00:36:12,108 Never. 674 00:36:12,175 --> 00:36:15,616 There are some things that are beyond forgiveness. 675 00:36:26,605 --> 00:36:29,009 And the others won't forgive you, either. 676 00:36:29,076 --> 00:36:32,650 If you publish the finished Answered Prayers-- 677 00:36:32,717 --> 00:36:35,288 even if you think you're being kind-- 678 00:36:35,354 --> 00:36:37,459 it'll just make it worse. 679 00:36:38,629 --> 00:36:41,935 Those friendships died with Cote Basque-- 680 00:36:42,002 --> 00:36:45,643 the golden age of society. 681 00:36:45,709 --> 00:36:49,817 Which you-- you helped kill. 682 00:36:52,022 --> 00:36:54,092 Perhaps it was a... 683 00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,931 a subconscious 684 00:36:56,998 --> 00:36:59,537 final gift to your mother. 685 00:37:01,441 --> 00:37:03,344 And to yourself, for never feeling 686 00:37:03,411 --> 00:37:06,651 like you truly belonged. 687 00:37:08,588 --> 00:37:10,692 So, what can I do now? 688 00:37:11,628 --> 00:37:13,565 [Ann] I think you know. 689 00:37:14,968 --> 00:37:16,705 Poor Nina. 690 00:37:16,772 --> 00:37:18,809 Don't you want to say goodbye? 691 00:37:21,881 --> 00:37:24,720 I'm not good at goodbyes. 692 00:37:26,992 --> 00:37:29,764 [Nina exhales] 693 00:37:42,890 --> 00:37:44,961 ♪♪ ♪♪ 694 00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:17,526 ♪♪ ♪♪ 695 00:38:46,985 --> 00:38:49,757 ♪♪ ♪♪ 696 00:39:10,364 --> 00:39:11,901 [grunts softly] 697 00:39:13,973 --> 00:39:15,576 [lighter clicks] 698 00:39:43,164 --> 00:39:44,900 I can't. 699 00:39:46,571 --> 00:39:49,611 My masterpiece. 700 00:39:49,677 --> 00:39:51,814 The book or your soul. 701 00:39:53,384 --> 00:39:54,820 It's up to you. 702 00:39:56,958 --> 00:39:58,728 Light it. 703 00:40:01,133 --> 00:40:02,569 Go on. 704 00:40:32,195 --> 00:40:34,466 ♪♪ ♪♪ 705 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,104 [Joanne] You comfortable? You got your notepads, 706 00:40:53,170 --> 00:40:55,676 your pencils, erasers, 707 00:40:55,743 --> 00:40:59,349 alcohol, tobacco, firearms... 708 00:40:59,416 --> 00:41:00,552 [both laugh] 709 00:41:00,619 --> 00:41:02,557 You need anything else? 710 00:41:02,623 --> 00:41:04,126 Uh, just a muse 711 00:41:04,193 --> 00:41:07,165 to whisper in my ear. [chuckles] 712 00:41:07,232 --> 00:41:09,704 Mwah, mwah. 713 00:41:14,346 --> 00:41:16,617 ♪♪ ♪♪ 714 00:41:17,486 --> 00:41:19,055 [muffled voices] 715 00:41:19,122 --> 00:41:22,997 [Joanne] Truman, what have you done? [panting] 716 00:41:23,064 --> 00:41:24,900 What did you do? 717 00:41:24,967 --> 00:41:27,506 I'm gonna get some towels. 718 00:41:46,778 --> 00:41:50,485 [Truman] Why did you come? My mother. 719 00:41:50,553 --> 00:41:52,623 Oh, Truman. 720 00:41:52,690 --> 00:41:56,130 [crying] Truman. Truman. 721 00:41:56,196 --> 00:41:58,868 Mama. 722 00:42:01,307 --> 00:42:03,812 It's so cold. 723 00:42:04,548 --> 00:42:07,753 I'm so cold. 724 00:42:08,889 --> 00:42:12,963 How could this be California? 725 00:42:16,538 --> 00:42:19,242 Beautiful. 726 00:42:19,309 --> 00:42:21,781 What are you saying? 727 00:42:25,656 --> 00:42:27,593 Beautiful. Babe. 728 00:42:27,660 --> 00:42:29,930 ♪♪ ♪♪ 729 00:42:36,544 --> 00:42:38,882 [quietly] Beautiful. 730 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,129 No. 731 00:42:46,196 --> 00:42:48,267 [crying] 732 00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:54,747 Jack, are you still there? 733 00:42:54,814 --> 00:42:56,784 Yes, I'm still here. 734 00:42:59,590 --> 00:43:02,261 So, the book-- is it there? 735 00:43:02,328 --> 00:43:04,332 He said he was gonna finish it out there. 736 00:43:04,399 --> 00:43:05,334 Huh? 737 00:43:05,401 --> 00:43:07,507 The last time I saw him, 738 00:43:07,573 --> 00:43:09,342 he said he had a grand plan 739 00:43:09,409 --> 00:43:11,113 -for Answered Prayers. -Oh, Jack. 740 00:43:11,179 --> 00:43:15,020 -He was in no shape. -I know, I know. 741 00:43:15,789 --> 00:43:18,795 Truman-- grand plans. 742 00:43:20,297 --> 00:43:23,003 Just seemed like there might be something to it this time. 743 00:43:23,070 --> 00:43:24,339 No. 744 00:43:26,409 --> 00:43:27,680 I picked up one of his notebooks 745 00:43:27,746 --> 00:43:30,051 -by the pool. -What was in it? 746 00:43:30,118 --> 00:43:31,554 Gibberish. 747 00:43:32,322 --> 00:43:34,827 Just one thing written over and over. 748 00:43:35,862 --> 00:43:39,704 "““A dream, a dream, a dream. 749 00:43:40,471 --> 00:43:43,545 "A dream that's as real as stubbing your toe." 750 00:43:43,612 --> 00:43:45,414 Whatever that means. 751 00:43:48,521 --> 00:43:50,659 Oh, what are we gonna do, Jack, 752 00:43:50,726 --> 00:43:54,700 now that he's not here anymore to tell us what to do? 753 00:43:56,469 --> 00:43:58,642 Do you want to plan the memorial? 754 00:43:58,708 --> 00:44:00,813 Uh... 755 00:44:00,879 --> 00:44:02,950 No. You should do it. 756 00:44:03,017 --> 00:44:05,655 He was closest to you at the end. 757 00:44:11,166 --> 00:44:12,736 He... 758 00:44:14,573 --> 00:44:16,844 He wanted to be cremated. 759 00:44:17,746 --> 00:44:19,182 I'll take care of it. 760 00:44:22,288 --> 00:44:23,725 Bye. 761 00:44:28,868 --> 00:44:32,208 [auctioneer] Up next, this very special item. 762 00:44:32,275 --> 00:44:34,179 From the estate of the late Joanne Carson, 763 00:44:34,245 --> 00:44:35,816 the second wife of Johnny Carson, 764 00:44:35,883 --> 00:44:38,087 this very unusual item. 765 00:44:38,153 --> 00:44:40,859 Mrs. Carson was a great and loyal friend 766 00:44:40,926 --> 00:44:43,163 of the great writer Truman Capote, 767 00:44:43,230 --> 00:44:46,872 who died at her home in Bel Air in 1984. 768 00:44:46,938 --> 00:44:49,710 And today, we're selling his ashes. 769 00:44:49,777 --> 00:44:51,180 And this is an historic lot, friends. 770 00:44:51,246 --> 00:44:53,150 This is the first time in the modern era 771 00:44:53,216 --> 00:44:56,423 that a celebrity's ashes have been at auction. 772 00:44:56,490 --> 00:44:58,227 And we're gonna start the bidding right now 773 00:44:58,293 --> 00:45:00,064 at just $2,000. 774 00:45:00,131 --> 00:45:02,034 2,000 right there in the back of the room, 2,000. 775 00:45:02,101 --> 00:45:04,272 2,500 will be the next bid, I have 25 right here. 776 00:45:04,339 --> 00:45:06,611 3,000 is the bid right now, 3,000 on the phone. 777 00:45:06,677 --> 00:45:07,947 3,500 is the bid right now. 778 00:45:08,014 --> 00:45:09,315 Friends, remember you are bidding against 779 00:45:09,382 --> 00:45:10,853 an entire world on the phone right now. 780 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,288 3,500 is the bid I'm looking for now. 781 00:45:12,355 --> 00:45:13,592 35 is the bid. 782 00:45:13,659 --> 00:45:16,230 Friends, think about this, Mrs. Carson famously said 783 00:45:16,296 --> 00:45:19,704 that these ashes-- having them-- gave her great comfort. 784 00:45:19,771 --> 00:45:22,609 In fact, she kept them beside her bed. 785 00:45:22,676 --> 00:45:24,980 4,000 is the bid I'm looking for now, 4,000 right now. 786 00:45:25,047 --> 00:45:26,283 4,500'll be the bid. 787 00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:27,720 45 is the bid right there. Thank you. 788 00:45:27,787 --> 00:45:29,055 5,000 is the bid. 789 00:45:29,122 --> 00:45:31,026 I have 5,000 right there number 110. Darby? 790 00:45:31,092 --> 00:45:33,197 $6,000 from a bidder from Hong Kong. 791 00:45:33,264 --> 00:45:35,134 6,000 is the bid, looking for 6,500-- 792 00:45:35,201 --> 00:45:36,370 The lady in green, thank you. 793 00:45:36,437 --> 00:45:38,040 7,000 is the bid, looking for seven. 794 00:45:38,107 --> 00:45:40,077 Now I have 7,000, looking for eight. 795 00:45:40,144 --> 00:45:42,281 -7,500 from Berlin. -7,500 from Berlin. 796 00:45:42,348 --> 00:45:43,751 And now we have eight. Now looking for nine. 797 00:45:43,818 --> 00:45:45,321 9,000, the lady in green. She's back. 798 00:45:45,388 --> 00:45:48,761 9,000 is the bid right now. Looking for $9,500. 799 00:45:48,828 --> 00:45:52,001 Friends, think about this: if Truman were here right now, 800 00:45:52,068 --> 00:45:53,572 he'd be loving this. I mean, this is a scene, 801 00:45:53,639 --> 00:45:56,678 and he loved to cause a scene. How about $10,000? 802 00:45:56,744 --> 00:45:58,548 -10,000 to the lady in orange right there. -Can I keep going? 803 00:45:58,614 --> 00:46:00,586 -[auctioneer continuing] -Yes, it's fine, you can afford it. 804 00:46:00,652 --> 00:46:02,857 Tell me when to stop. 805 00:46:02,923 --> 00:46:04,661 11,500 from the lady in green right there. 806 00:46:04,727 --> 00:46:05,996 12,000 right behind her. Thank you. 807 00:46:06,063 --> 00:46:08,433 12,500 for Mr. Capote's ashes. 808 00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:11,807 [auctioneer] 12,500 is the bid right now. 13,000 from the lady in green. 809 00:46:11,874 --> 00:46:15,114 13, five. 14,000. 14,500 in the back, there. 810 00:46:15,181 --> 00:46:17,051 15,000 right there. 15 and a half. 811 00:46:17,118 --> 00:46:18,755 16,000 is the bid I'm looking for now. 812 00:46:18,822 --> 00:46:20,759 [voice faces] 813 00:46:20,826 --> 00:46:23,096 ♪♪ ♪♪ 814 00:46:27,138 --> 00:46:29,877 Mr. Capote's ashes going once, for $45,000. 815 00:46:29,944 --> 00:46:32,382 Going twice. Going three times 816 00:46:32,448 --> 00:46:34,486 to a mystery buyer in New York. Confirmed. 817 00:46:34,554 --> 00:46:36,223 And, at $45,000... 818 00:46:36,290 --> 00:46:38,060 -[bangs gavel] -Sold! 819 00:46:38,126 --> 00:46:40,431 For $45,000. 820 00:46:44,138 --> 00:46:45,542 I wonder who bought them. 821 00:46:45,609 --> 00:46:49,550 Some oligarch for his library, maybe? 822 00:46:50,652 --> 00:46:53,157 -I'm just glad we got out when we did. -Oh. 823 00:46:53,224 --> 00:46:56,229 Look at all these flip-flops people are wearing. 824 00:46:57,131 --> 00:46:58,735 God, to a formal auction. 825 00:46:58,802 --> 00:47:00,404 The world is so graceless now. 826 00:47:00,471 --> 00:47:03,945 I never thought society would simply evaporate. 827 00:47:04,012 --> 00:47:05,582 What happened? 828 00:47:05,649 --> 00:47:06,985 Everything ends. 829 00:47:07,052 --> 00:47:09,657 [sighs] Shall we go have lunch? 830 00:47:09,724 --> 00:47:12,228 The Polo Lounge. 831 00:47:12,295 --> 00:47:15,669 It's the only place left that's a little like New York. 832 00:47:15,735 --> 00:47:19,744 Mm, nothing's a little like New York anymore. 833 00:47:19,811 --> 00:47:22,415 Not even New York. 834 00:47:22,482 --> 00:47:24,620 Jesus, what a dump. 835 00:47:24,686 --> 00:47:26,724 Let's get out of here, hmm? 836 00:47:26,791 --> 00:47:28,728 Amen to that. 837 00:47:28,795 --> 00:47:31,066 ♪♪ ♪♪ 838 00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:49,536 Come on, dear. 839 00:48:13,685 --> 00:48:15,955 ♪♪ ♪♪ 840 00:48:41,908 --> 00:48:45,380 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org