Posted 6:05 PM by Gene

One book I have gotten around to reading in fits and starts from our apartment's "library" is a Truman Capote anthology featuring "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Capote won't last because he was an observer, a JERNALIST, and he hung around with too many society airheads before forcing the Paleys to evict him, but he did create one indelible character. Capote wanted MM for the film version. She was too brash for it. But Audrey wasn't quite right as she was too sophisticated. In my eyes Holly Golightly is a smart but very naive blue-eyed blonde of an exceptionally flirtatious mien and a lilting soprano, so no actress could ever be quite right, but I place her closer to Audrey's size than MM's, so maybe Blake Edwards didn't miscast her that much. To put it another way she is as very close to my idealized woman as mortals can come. The one disconcerting thing is that you can't escape the notion you aren't reading all of Truman's frizzy debutante friends talking, you're reading Truman, and really a man shouldn't talk that way. But talk that way he did, and he got away with it.

CORRECTION at 9:35 p. m. I meant shorter. Audrey was taller than MM. Who was looking? I was thinking the proverbial "five-foot-two, eyes of...hazel?" But no one could be hypercritical around Audrey or MM.

P. S. on 8/31/2010 at 7:52 p. m. Judging from this zinger (qv) I never started reading it. I'm not a fiction guy. I still stand by my notion that Truman grafted a lot of himself on the character. I've never seen the film, and am not interested.