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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 - 2 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

When ghostly pirate Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) comes to collect a blood debt, Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid his fate lest his soul be damned for all time. Nevertheless, the wily ghost manages to interrupt the wedding plans of Jack's friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 17, 2022 - 1 comment

A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity. [more inside]
posted by chappell, ambrose on Jun 22, 2019 - 3 comments

A television drama adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel, scripted by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey). Mary Thorne, pennyless and with undisclosed parentage, grows up under the guardianship of her uncle Doctor Thorne. She spends much of here formative years in the company of the Gresham family at Greshamsbury Park estate. As they close on the world of adult cares and responsibilities the past starts to impinge and the financial woes of the Gresham family threaten to tear relationships apart.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 14, 2016 - 5 comments

The lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 28, 2015 - 10 comments