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posted by box on Sep 21, 2024 - 6 comments

Past, present and future collide as Truman makes a final push to finish Answered Prayers. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Apr 1, 2024 - 0 comments

Babe reflects on her life and her greatest treasures. Truman and the Swans reel in the fallout of a tragedy. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Mar 28, 2024 - 0 comments

In New York, it's the end of an era. In California, Truman tries to usher a new era with a hunky beau. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Mar 25, 2024 - 0 comments

In November 1975, the day after the Esquire article is published, Truman receives an inspiring visit from a fellow writer. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Mar 18, 2024 - 3 comments

Babe makes peace with a harsh reality. Truman makes an effort to get sober. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Mar 15, 2024 - 0 comments

At the height of his fame, Truman throws a lavish ball at the Plaza Hotel, a night which goes down in New York high society history. [more inside]
posted by dnash on Feb 18, 2024 - 1 comment

In the aftermath of the Esquire article, Truman starts on a downward spiral. The Swans form a unified front. [more inside]
posted by dnash on Feb 4, 2024 - 1 comment

In 1975, famed author Truman Capote published a chapter from his novel in progress Answered Prayers in Esquire magazine, which spilled some ugly, gossipy secrets about the lives of some of New York City's richest, most famous women - who had also, up to that moment, been Truman's best friends. [more inside]
posted by dnash on Feb 2, 2024 - 6 comments

A story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee ( Timothée Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 2, 2022 - 7 comments

Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The stranger-than-fiction true-crime series is based on a 2016 BuzzFeed article that detailed the shocking 2015 crime.
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 27, 2019 - 7 comments

Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny) spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. But one wild night out becomes a bad trip that never ends when Lou wakes up with symptoms of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy. Who-or what-is growing inside her? As her due date approaches with alarming swiftness, the fear, paranoia, and conspiracy theories begin to pile up.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 27, 2018 - 5 comments

A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 18, 2018 - 30 comments