2024-08-15 14:34:14
Truman Capote (1924 to 1984) is still one of the most brilliant literary figures in America and is not only a book legend with books like “In Cold Blood”, but as a New York socialite he also supports the movies and series (most recently: “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”). Author Anuschka Roshani is the editor of the German language edition of Capote’s works published by Kein & Aber. your book”Truboy. My summer with Truman Capote
Anushka Roshan: What was your first meeting with Capote?
Kate Harrington: I was twelve years old when my father and Truman came to our house for lunch one Sunday. He had already told us that Truman was famous and that he was his new manager, and he was upset because we couldn’t do anything with Truman’s name. My mother spent days brainstorming recipes for the famous guest. A middle-class Irish Catholic family lives in a clean town on Long Island, far from the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. New York City, that is high lifetotally opposite world to ours. We never thought of someone like Truman. You’re an idiot – your cute little guy means nothing to us.
Until then I didn’t know anyone who gay eat I don’t even know what that’s supposed to be. Just his high, very gay voice with a southern tinge made me laugh. He was still standing in the doorway when I ran into the kitchen like a madman, grabbed a tea towel and stuffed it in my mouth because I was laughing so hard. My mother came in and teased me: “Stop!” But at the end of the day, Truman was attractive to all of us, and we both had a special relationship with each other.
Roshni: What did he use to make you all become his finger?
Harrington: He was the sweetest, funniest person I’ve ever met! When he turned to his charm, everyone between the ages of eight and eighty fell at his feet. He gave each of us something: my mother an illustrated book “Notices,” and gave me an Amethyst block, which I can show you later. That afternoon, I saw that my father was happy for the first time, and in a corner of my mind, I suspected that he was not in our world. ordinary life will return. I only knew my father in a bad mood, drunk, unpredictable, always violent.
He didn’t beat me like the youngest child – he left me with nasty comments, which I still have different scars – my three brothers did. As his father had beaten him himself when he was a child. With Truman, the atmosphere of the house changed from one moment to the next, and our daily family life became happier. For us, 1973 begins this year Happy Hour. And Truman’s words to me when I said goodbye that evening changed me forever: “She’s dead, my beauty!” No one ever told me I was beautiful.
Roshni: And then?
Harrington: After that, he often talks to my mother on the phone; And no matter how Catholic his feelings were, he remained sympathetic to Truman. He even said: Don’t judge Truman! And she was very happy that she was free from her husband. She and Truman became good friends and laughed a lot together. In the early 1970s, no one in our town would have dreamed that my father was a Truman lover. As far as I can see only with the delay which one great person Truman represented America first, as strange as it seemed to the people at the same time. Everyone knew him at that time, but few had read his book. Only after my mother allowed me to watch Truman on the ‘Johnny Carson Show’ Looking at it, I understand how popular it is.
Roshni: She later moved in with him. How did that happen?
Harrington: My father sent us postcards from the greatest places, he earned a lot, and we were happy for him – even for us, because with him the tension at home was always lost. I was happy to escape it thanks to Truman’s presence in our family. At one point Truman must have told my mother that my father had rushed him to the hospital in Key West when he was high on cocaine – which was a huge shock to him. She might be thinking about what such a drug means to a character like her husband.
He knew well about the effect of alcohol on him – immediately after that he filed for divorce. I don’t know what Truman was up to when he told her about their sexual relationship. And of course he was surprised by that – my father was the first man and the only man in my mother’s life, and he was shocked and told his best friend, no one else. But I think that because drugs are so much the devil for him, it is his snorting cocaine that scares him the most. That scared him more than my father’s sexuality.
Roshni: Will the friendship between Truman and his mother last?
Harrington: Yes, they continue to be tight. By the way, from then on I never saw my father again. I didn’t see him until Truman’s death, during his Oflin service, and I didn’t talk to my father there either, out of loyalty to my mother. I didn’t do that until I got married twenty years later. Without a doubt, over time I have become more of Truman’s daughter than my father. First, I could be wrong, you might want to make my dad jealous by choosing me, Daddy’s Darling. They had a nasty on-off relationship for years, and when they were apart, Truman sent my father a photo of himself and me.
Maybe Truman initially liked me simply because I looked so much like my father. In any case, Truman had a hard time leaving her, no matter how bad things were with my father. Truman never mentioned my father to me during our time together, but I had experienced his cruelty and cruelty firsthand for a long time. When I think about it, I’m actually ashamed of my father’s behavior. This does not mean that I do not love my father.
Roshni: And what was the beginning of your relationship?
Harrington: Truman and I were cut from the same cloth, both children who had more or less had to raise themselves. Security behavior is installed. At least I had a very loving mother, Truman was more difficult, but we both had to deal with a weak, unstable parent. Truman’s phone number was written on a pad next to our phone. And so I called Truman secretly about a year after he visited us. I want to help my mother somehow, who has to watch how we cope without any support from my father. She was a housewife. I quickly realized that Truman had contacts with all the important people. So I thought you could hire me during the summer holidays and call your number.
Roshni: Does it help you?
Harrington: And maybe He took me as an adult. Well, he said on the phone, write my address on a piece of paper, skip school tomorrow and catch an early train to New York. From the train station, you’ll take a taxi to UN Plaza 860 at my cost, and once you’re here, we’ll walk around the block from my house to lunch at La Petite Marmite – that’s where Truman eats your breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. Then we will discuss everything quietly. I followed your instructions. I found money for the train from the cookie jar by phone.
Roshni: And what kind of job does it have for you?
Harrington: First he tried to talk to me at school. He said, he is very intelligent, and smart people don’t have to go to school, but I mutinied, to which he replied, well, but as a student, only one thing is enough money good: model. I thought the idea was crazy, but he immediately made an appointment with his friend Wilhelmina, who owns one of the big modeling agencies, and we went there together. (Excited, he imitated his loud voice when he responded to Wilhelmina’s objection that he had a model named Terry O’Neil under contract with whom he could be confused:) Well, Kerry’s mother had a lovely maiden name, Harrington, and Kerry’s grandmother was named Katherine – why not Kate Harrington?
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(Next, Roshani Harrington talks about her fast-paced modeling career, editorial.)
And in a moment, with the second sentence from Capote, his transformation has begun: “my transformation,” he said. Her metamorphosis from Kerry O’Shea to Kate Harrington. He recently advertised Colgate, for lip gloss; He appeared in the fashion pages of Seventeen while finishing school on Long Island. His family cheered on the checks he brought home, and with each check he grew a little more than himself. For practical reasons – because her modeling career was accumulating – she moved to Truman’s beautiful apartment.
At that time, everyone of any status lived in the UN Plaza, Kate remembered, and from the 26th floor they could look down on the peaceful boats of the East River through the large glass fronts and yet they protect from the noise. That attention gave Truman the nerves he needed to be able to write. Kate felt safe under his roof. Fatherless daughter and motherless son.
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