David Susskind Archive: Truman Capote Tells All (1979) | Full Documentary

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    An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social persona and impact. More than an interview, the wide-ranging conversation between longtime friends delves into topics you are unlikely to see elsewhere.
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  • @robertm.8608
    @robertm.8608 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    I had a flower shop on 51st. on first ave during that tome frame.
    Mr. Capote and his male friend at the time would often stop by to pick up flowers....or have them delivered to his apt. at the UN Plaza.
    He was always very very kind to me and never expected special treatment as many famous & rich often would expect that I serviced.

    • @circussounds855
      @circussounds855 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @FunnyImpala-jn6wk new york now is horrible! it’s
      lost its
      edge & gone to disney world! eek!

    • @colleensreviewsandstories5213
      @colleensreviewsandstories5213 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      A lot of southern writers of that time were like that. Hunter Thompson was said to to the perfect southern gentleman when meeting fans.

    • @roc7880
      @roc7880 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      he seemed like a guy who will avoid conflict at all costs.

    • @kevinwhelan9607
      @kevinwhelan9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice story - thanks.

    • @linneys8246
      @linneys8246 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My new favorite NEW YORK story. Wonderful visual 💚💚

  • @mikekennedy5470
    @mikekennedy5470 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    In 1972 or 73 not sure my mother was a waitress for him and a couple others she said he over the course of dinner asked her a few questions about kids , her life just simple things as she came to the table now this was over 50 yrs ago when they left she found 2 ten dollar bills and a hundred dollar bill where he was sitting .nice man .

    • @andyokus5735
      @andyokus5735 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      That's incredible!

  • @Lolabelle59
    @Lolabelle59 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Used to love to watch The David Susskind Show, Sunday nights, living in NYC in the 70s-80s. Capote was fascinating. Rest in peace.

  • @farmerinthedells
    @farmerinthedells 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

    I will only say that Truman Capote helped me through a difficult Christmas this year. I only just discovered his story, A Christmas Memory. I watched several different versions of it and also listened to Truman personally narrate the story. I made some life long friends of the characters, and was distracted from otherwise difficult life circumstances that kept me from being with family. I will always remember this Christmas as the one I spent recuperating alone surrounded by the new friends I came to know through his literary creations. Next year, though, I hope to spend Christmas with the family I am missing now.

    • @deborahfay102
      @deborahfay102 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      What a wonderful story

    • @CQ-369
      @CQ-369 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I'll read that next year, as you're celebrating with your loved ones.

    • @jeffreybailey5535
      @jeffreybailey5535 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      !q!q!qq!qqq

    • @lisafranklin6734
      @lisafranklin6734 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I read a Christmas Memory every year. I almost know it without the words on the pages - so glad you got such comfort from this wonderful work. Hope you have a great year and the most beautiful Christmas in 2024 back with your family. 😊

    • @Anita_Backrub
      @Anita_Backrub 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Isn’t it wonderful that we can pick up a book and be drawn into a world of words that comfort us in such a way. I will read it and forever think of this post. ❤

  • @Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living
    @Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +227

    David Susskind was being a jerk toward Truman Capote, but he handled this interview like a champ. He acted completely unbothered by Susskind’s rudeness and sometimes had hilarious answers.

    • @bluecollarlit
      @bluecollarlit 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I agree with your comment!
      David Susskind is a name that was always kind of known and familiar when I was in my growing-up years.
      I never really watched an interview, at the time... didn't realize how bad he was, Yikes.
      Haha.
      Recently watched him interview Mary Tyler Moore (in that special her husband put together) - mr. Susskind seemed desperate to pick a fight with her over whether women should - like, cook for their families and - exist, and stuff.
      It was super weird! LOL. How did he get a job as a TV journalist...?

    • @spinrash6000
      @spinrash6000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      😂😂😂lol i was like dude calm down it ain’t that serious

    • @myguitardetective5961
      @myguitardetective5961 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      David was being unnecessarily confrontational, and asking silly questions about Studio 54 and plastic surgery, for the first 17 1/2 minutes....

    • @michaelknight4041
      @michaelknight4041 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yea whats up with him? I think hes pissed off at Capote for some reason. TC probably snubbed him at some party once, probably too drunk to even remember anything about it 😅. Or maybe Suss couldn't get into 54? He seems a little prickly about that, droning on and on.
      Ok, as I watch on i realize he's pissed at Capote for several things. After this interview he was no doubt pissed at him for one more reason.😅 Despite trying desperately to embarrass and belittle Truman throughout the interview Susskind only succeds in making himself more unlikable.

    • @myguitardetective5961
      @myguitardetective5961 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@michaelknight4041 Vincent Canby, writing for the NYT, took pleasure in humiliating Susskind over his late 60s Lee Radziwell version of “Laura” (a project Capote pressured him to direct) by noting that it was such a critical flop that Johnny Carson would always taunt him by playing the famous “Laura” theme when he introduced Susskind as a guest on the Tonight Show. That’s classic cringe comedy but Susskind hated to be the object of Johnny’s public scorn. David blamed Truman for this….

  • @debpalm8667
    @debpalm8667 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Truman, one of the best southern writers.

  • @davidanthonystone5165
    @davidanthonystone5165 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    A late friend of mine lived around the corner in midtown Manhattan. Truman would come over and a few times I
    Made him a cocktail “double vodka hold the produce tall fellow”. At this point in the 1970’ he was quite shunned by NY Society but very interesting for an hour

  • @davidbrienlantry8760
    @davidbrienlantry8760 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Fascinating that after he was pressed for an answer, the first person he named that he loved was Barbara Paley.

  • @christinefay1761
    @christinefay1761 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Truman never disappoints. He handles Susskind beautifully

    • @irshgrl500
      @irshgrl500 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      RIGHT?

    • @terifarmer5066
      @terifarmer5066 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shows who has the Class,

  • @frankcheers7529
    @frankcheers7529 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    This is very interesting. Capote makes no bones about who he is.

  • @thestuffoflife88
    @thestuffoflife88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Truman coasts beautifully through Susskinds judgements only occasionally a wayward glance. Truman wholly and wonderfully himself.

    • @spinrash6000
      @spinrash6000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Dude try to bully Truman, he was not having it. I can say what I want to say lol😂😂😂

    • @irshgrl500
      @irshgrl500 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OMG, beautifully put! Yes indeed!

  • @susannec659
    @susannec659 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    After basically scoldingg Truman for gossiping through his writings, Susskind happily sits there dishing the dirt happily encouraging the man.

  • @DiaryofAnOldMadBlackWoman
    @DiaryofAnOldMadBlackWoman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    The way he speaks about Gore Vidal is hilarious!!😂

  • @cheyenneasiafoxe292
    @cheyenneasiafoxe292 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Love Truman Capote. Taught In Cold Blood in all my university courses. He was a master and funny too. A great intellectual and David Susskind was one of the first great television interviewers who asked tough questions and pulled no punches unlike today's candy ass interviewers.....

    • @harryprice3065
      @harryprice3065 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Truman once said or wrote to an acquaintance of mine that he did this show because he loved Susskind's hair. David was no candy-ass, not in the way you mean it.

    • @katesleuth1156
      @katesleuth1156 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did David Suskind ask everyone he interviewed the tough questions? No celebrity would sit for a no holds barred interview like this today. Everything is scripted now.

    • @etamommy
      @etamommy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      loved that book too, being a true crime lover and that one being kind of a pioneer of its genre.

    • @kevinwhelan9607
      @kevinwhelan9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God you said it! Can you imagine this kind of encounter on Conan O'Brien or anywhere else? They're all so insufferably GLIB.

  • @user-bu7jl6zy5d
    @user-bu7jl6zy5d 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    Capote was a victim of his own success. If he had stuck to writing after the phenomenal success of "In Cold Blood," instead of pursuing his fantasy of being the darling of New York society, we would have no doubt had more superb books from him. Rest in peace Truman.

    • @jjbalsalm955
      @jjbalsalm955 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It’s hard to write. And it’s lonely. Would u have wanted him to be some kind of of compulsive scribbler like Asimov or so many others. Leave the guy alone and celebrate his accomplishments.

    • @castoputa
      @castoputa 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He didn’t regret it, and still had the friendship of a lot of the people he most admired, don’t pity him, he would have hated that most of all ❤

    • @Scorchy666
      @Scorchy666 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I think the increased drinking really clouded his judgment. Once his chapter on the swans hit the magazine stands everyone around him feared what he would write about them.

    • @johndalton3180
      @johndalton3180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "More tears are shed over answered prayers..."

    • @JoshJamesification
      @JoshJamesification 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would you write when everyone is watching tv

  • @pauldalnoky6055
    @pauldalnoky6055 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    In the early 80s as a bike messenger I delivered a package to him at UN Plaza, one doorman asked the other, " is the asshole home?"

    • @pamcornelius9122
      @pamcornelius9122 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Susskind?

    • @michaelknight4041
      @michaelknight4041 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@pamcornelius9122😅 👍 Capote is at least a likeable asshole.

    • @carolannemckenzie3849
      @carolannemckenzie3849 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Truman lived at UN Plaza. Personally I think Susskind was the bigger asshole 😁

    • @julietteyork6293
      @julietteyork6293 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Well earned moniker. Capote was a sociopath who destroyed his friends’ lives.

    • @user-xe5cz3dw8m
      @user-xe5cz3dw8m 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@julietteyork6293 I think so too! I cannot believe all these people on here defending this creepy little man. He was a notorious liar. David Susskind knew it and was calling him out on it. Ordinarily, I would say an interviewer giving a guest this hard time would be inappropriate, but not here. he was a brilliant writer, but a horrible self-absorbed person.

  • @frankcheers7529
    @frankcheers7529 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    This is actually one of the best interviews EVER. It is very honest without being mean spirited. Capote's incisive wit is spot on. Part of what made Capote such a great writer was his level of observation. My gosh!

    • @barbarajones9385
      @barbarajones9385 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Why not focus on Truman Capote's work? Horrible interview.
      The interviewer poses so many negatively-inflected, accusatory questions, in fact statements, about Capote's bad behaviour. Invasive, overly personal and nasty.
      It's all so combative. Granted Capote's social life sparked scandal and opprobrium but there were so many more interesting topics to discuss. Capote lived in so many places, wrote brilliant books and knew fascinating people.

    • @michaelknight4041
      @michaelknight4041 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​​​@@barbarajones9385It is sad that the interviewer missed the chance to actually interview such an interesting character, not mention literary titan, as Capote. But I think the other commenter was referring to his cunning wit and the rather satisfying way that he continually comes off the better here despite Susskind's almost personal obsession with trying to make him look bad. At least thats my feeling.

    • @jeffryphillipsburns
      @jeffryphillipsburns 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It seems antagonistic, but it also seems that the interviewer and subject are friends, so maybe this is just banter, in any case, I didn't really enjoy it. I hope Capote wasn't serious about admiring the Shah. (I've read that the Shah was installed by the Eisenhower administration to attend to United States oil interests and that the Shah was murderously ruthless.)

    • @jeffryphillipsburns
      @jeffryphillipsburns 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe, but he doesn't say merely "one of the better Capote interviews"; he says "one of the best interviews EVER [sic]". That's rather pushing it. I've listened to or read hundreds of better interviews.

    • @joehepworth9984
      @joehepworth9984 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why not focus on Capote’s work?”
      Here’s why, he produced nothing but gossip after In Cold Blood. At this point, Capote the writer was long dead. What remains was the Capote celebrity

  • @pld427
    @pld427 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Been waiting years to see this interview again. A broken man on top of his game, a true artist 🙏🏼

  • @marquitaarmstrong399
    @marquitaarmstrong399 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    No matter what....the man was a genius.

  • @arundelmercure553
    @arundelmercure553 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Great writer and personality, one of a kind. I was going to write about my dad's bar-buddy friendship with Truman around the time this video was filmed, it's a funny story. But I'll just say Dad tremendously liked him- he liked "characters"- and always got a kick when Truman was on TV, like in "Murder by Death". Exquisite, lyrical writer and social observer, there will never be another Truman.

    • @astridlabodhisattva1098
      @astridlabodhisattva1098 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think Breakfast...is the most perfect novella ever written

  • @julietteyork6293
    @julietteyork6293 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Truman Capote trying to portray Studio 54 as wholesome, harmless fun is ludicrous. The rampant drug abuse, sexual depravity and criminal activity of the owners and patrons is legendary. It made Sodom and Gomorrah look tame. The least he could have done is acknowledge the hedonism and his attraction to it, but honesty wasn’t his forté. My opinion of Capote changed after I learned how he betrayed his closest friends. He was a sociopath, which is one of the reasons he was fascinated with murderers.

    • @hopesc1345
      @hopesc1345 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He was hugely voyeuristic

  • @gregoryreese7686
    @gregoryreese7686 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You can tell that was a time when people spoke their minds without fear.

  • @tommeredith7462
    @tommeredith7462 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    People were amazed at how his mind worked.
    Observant of his surroundings and very attuned to other’s mannerisms.
    A serial Name Dropper.
    Must have been a challenging time to be a lifetime Fem type.
    Speaking of his childhood growing up in Alabama.
    His best friend was a distant relative the equivalent of a cousin, he referred to her as Sook or Sookie.
    Truman’s mom never accepted his sexuality and thought her son just needed to link up with the right Doctor to heal and set him free from his gay ailment.
    Truman was witty and he enjoyed the company of eccentric, wealthy ladies.
    He felt like one of the Girls.
    Too bad he croaked at such a young age and was plagued by drugs and alcohol addiction, especially throughout his later year’s.
    Truman Compote, a one of a kind, Gone too soon..

  • @MrWphilips
    @MrWphilips 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Truman- such beautiful words!
    He will always be unforgettable to me!

  • @CH-ed4ui
    @CH-ed4ui 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Norman Mailer gave Truman Capote the best compliment I've ever heard him offer about a writer. Mailer said, "Truman Capote wrote the best sentences of his generation". Wow!
    C.H.

    • @huascar66
      @huascar66 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm not sure Mr. Mailer was being complementary.

    • @kevinwhelan9607
      @kevinwhelan9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No arguing with that.

  • @pfranks75
    @pfranks75 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Truman Capote is one of the best writers of the 20th century and so many interviews focus on his vices instead of his writing. Truman was discriminated against and maintained his poise and sense of humor. This man invented a new genre of literature!

  • @therose5783
    @therose5783 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Susskind was very prickish. Capote gave an interesting interview and quite revealing.

  • @robertwirth8459
    @robertwirth8459 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    “The rich cling together” incredibly observant one of the greatest writers in the world. I can’t wait to read Answered Prayers after seeing this interview.

    • @user-ke8st8jc1v
      @user-ke8st8jc1v 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Of course rich cling together, there is no other way unless you are a great artist of some kind .

    • @Calibound8
      @Calibound8 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Really? ‘The rich cling together’ is what is seen as an ‘incredibly observant’ comment? Geesh.

    • @suzide520
      @suzide520 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He never finished his novel "Answered Prayers"

    • @KaRen_The_OG_MaNaGeR
      @KaRen_The_OG_MaNaGeR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We are all waiting to read Answered Prayers 😂

  • @dennisdivine7448
    @dennisdivine7448 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Truman Capote tried to straddle a fine line: being an outsider who'd known rejection, and a social insider partaking of Manhattan's finest circles. But you can't have both, as he found out. After his career began to falter (the death of his mentor, the Random House cofounder-publisher Bennett Cerf, was a huge setback), Capote cannibalized his friendship's with the elite, and he was exiled for the rest of his life.

  • @whosaidcate4034
    @whosaidcate4034 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Im still enamored with man. As a kid in the 70’s I found him a bit off putting. My granny used to say “I don’t care for his type but the man can write “. Then came the 80’s and I delved into his writings. My gosh. His words hit me like a slap in the face in the most profound way‼️♥️ RIPTrumanCapote

    • @deebell8727
      @deebell8727 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I came here after seeing Capote VS. The Swans. 😊

  • @debraleesparks
    @debraleesparks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I just read “ Answered Prayers”, and it is really something! Love Grandma Debbie

  • @albertseabra8993
    @albertseabra8993 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    David Susskind really was excellent -- able to make people feel comfortable and open up.
    Unfortunately there are very few videos available in You Tube.

  • @ptrck99
    @ptrck99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    What an amazing interview. There were moments when I thought Truman was going to get up and leave the studio. I must be honest and admit that I did not know who Susskind was, but it became obvious that these two were friends, otherwise neither of them would have permitted the other such liberties, liberties that ended up producing such a great interview.

    • @cross75man75
      @cross75man75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I use to watch David Susskind Show regularly on tv growing up in NYC, celebrities were use to being ask tougher questions back then and knew how to handle themselves. Not like the sensetive kind we have now who need to be praised all the time.

    • @Calibound8
      @Calibound8 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suskind isn’t smart enough to be capote’s friend.

    • @cross75man75
      @cross75man75 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Calibound8 Spoken like a true know it all who knows nothing.

  • @simon5005
    @simon5005 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I felt like Susskind was acting through this entire interview specifically to get a rise out of Capote.........and Capote knew about it.

  • @Mat-fw1ky
    @Mat-fw1ky ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thanks for posting. Hope the second half comes available.

  • @kathybaity4587
    @kathybaity4587 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I bet his conversations where the best.

  • @enekervis
    @enekervis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    At first I felt that the interviewer was being harsh, but he knows his subject.

  • @HRH-THO-II
    @HRH-THO-II ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Poor Truman. One can tell that in this interview and subsequent others that his addictions were overcoming him. He's still one of the best American authors of all time.

    • @JeffRebornNow
      @JeffRebornNow ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He was sober here. He didn't drink or drug in 1979, that's how he was able to write the pieces in Music For Chameleons.

    • @clintcalvert9250
      @clintcalvert9250 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Zero signs of “addictions”during this interview. Possibly one wants others to appear less than grand in order to feed insecurities.

    • @lizziebkennedy7505
      @lizziebkennedy7505 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@JeffRebornNowhis addictions were rampant. And he wrote much of MfC much earlier. Answered Prayers’ scandal killed him, slowly.

    • @Fran-px1oh
      @Fran-px1oh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Genius is a beautiful gift. If misused, disappears.

    • @dreamsofturtles1828
      @dreamsofturtles1828 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Well, he sounds just like my alcoholic uncle, deep in denial. It does not diminish his genius writing for me though. He was brilliant.

  • @kristenoneill8083
    @kristenoneill8083 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a wonderful interview. I’ve always been intrigued by Truman and love that his story is being told.

    • @artlewis4216
      @artlewis4216 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What year is this interview and is it before or after his shocking Esquire story C'ote Basque that turned high society against him

  • @nathanfarias5779
    @nathanfarias5779 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazing interview ! Truman was on fire .. Susskind taking him on .

  • @domd6280
    @domd6280 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "...don't worry. you're not going to show up in the book..." I'm cracking up! Love Capote!

  • @knockshinnoch1950
    @knockshinnoch1950 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I wonder if Truman left after the interview and went straight to Studio 54?

    • @nathanfarias5779
      @nathanfarias5779 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He had his facelift party there !

    • @jasonbeard4713
      @jasonbeard4713 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Truman never went straight ANYWHERE.....

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a lovely memory- thanks for sharing it❤

  • @stephencarroll230
    @stephencarroll230 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great! The wink-too funny! Despite his celebrity persona, Truman was a great American author.

    • @terryhammond1253
      @terryhammond1253 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TRU sounds like anything BUT an intellectual literary genius. Rather a bore!

    • @stephencarroll230
      @stephencarroll230 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@terryhammond1253 If you think Truman is boorish you should see Kerouac with Buckley! He sounded like a drunken moron. Buckley was laughing at him the entire interview-"So here is your great counterculture messiah."

    • @Mat-fw1ky
      @Mat-fw1ky ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stephencarroll230 Kerouac was expecting a one on one interview. I believe he agreed to do it because he admired Buckley. He was upset to find out he was to be part of a panel with a pre determined boring “beatnik” theme and got drunk. I still thought he was funny and entertaining..and the comment you replied to didn’t say Truman was boorish he said he was a bore. Sheesh.

    • @Mat-fw1ky
      @Mat-fw1ky ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@terryhammond1253 you’re just jealous because you never went to Studio 54.

    • @oscarfun100
      @oscarfun100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@terryhammond1253 Read some books.

  • @cyndimanka
    @cyndimanka 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is pretty funny. He says somethings not true then he says something and then he says what he just said wasn’t true, so how would you ever know if he’s lying or not. I saw the movie of him and it was done very well. What a character. What a great interview.

  • @brendaleverick3655
    @brendaleverick3655 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Genius! Truman had genius. He answered a question I have won- dered for decades, regarding unanswered prayers. Thank you, Truman. R.I.P. 🙏🏼

    • @Calibound8
      @Calibound8 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Genius at being an in-denial, mean gurl.

  • @dingodave9160
    @dingodave9160 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Touche, Truman for fighting against David Suskind's accusations and bigotry! David should be grateful that he didn't get up and walk away.

  • @beetlebum1
    @beetlebum1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Patronising - Truman is wonderful

  • @butterflygirl2285
    @butterflygirl2285 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    IMO - I just love listening to Truman Capote. He was so witty. If he were alive today, he would have had a very successful social platform, because the world has changed so much.

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    One of the great literary geniuses of all time.
    It’s like all folks can talk about, is drugs and alcohol, about him.
    Truman Capote was an intellectual powerhouse, an ingenuous wit, a child prodigy, with great powers of observation.

    • @spinrash6000
      @spinrash6000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Reminds me of my gay patients. He seems like a ball of fun.

    • @basedsouljah
      @basedsouljah 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To be honest? I find it to be the opposite - I cannot find much other than the autopsy results about his "drug use" besides his prescriptions he was on (good god the cocktail is insane by the way) - thats beside the point!
      I find everyone seems to either hate the man's guts or find him to be an endlessly fascinating and unique intellectual. I find myself on the latter end I think he's a wonderful personality regardless of how he treated his damn friends for god sake. I just find it truly interesting the amount of modern hatred i've noticed he has garnered. I think those same people would fucking HATE Andy Warhol if only they knew more... lmao

  • @spacecoastaesthetics6990
    @spacecoastaesthetics6990 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Really enjoyed the documentary. Thanks

  • @josephb4770
    @josephb4770 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    At times in this interview, Capote looks like Marlon Brando.

    • @ganzyjam7828
      @ganzyjam7828 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When he cocks his head back looks up slightly I see it too.

  • @kingdoc3262
    @kingdoc3262 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Cautious discussion between two friends. Had a certain image of Capote. Now know him a bit better. Still don't know him because he hides so much 😅

  • @RickHawkDavison
    @RickHawkDavison 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    All these are Treasures. Thank you.

  • @juliehinkel608
    @juliehinkel608 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’m rather enjoyed seeing an interviewer confronting the interview subject with direct uncomfortable questions. He wasn’t letting Truman just present a canned narrative.
    I found it interesting that Truman was not skirting the accusations or apologizing for his lifestyle.
    This beats pre- approved soft ball questions.

  • @simonschreyer4559
    @simonschreyer4559 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Truman (as fucked up as he may have been towards the end): brilliant. Susskind: a worried bore.

    • @WhisperSonnet
      @WhisperSonnet 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      perfectly said.

    • @Kensington2714
      @Kensington2714 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He sounds like a bore & a judgmental a$$ he might have been a tad jealous.

  • @jjbalsalm955
    @jjbalsalm955 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is brilliant. Love them both. Best interview ever w Truman. David was such a wonderful character.

  • @dianaweld7777
    @dianaweld7777 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I have never seen Capote look or sound better. He is of course known for one of his works, “In Cold Blood,” which I read and saw the film adaptation. It was a riveting work and he was helped by Harper Lee, the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” He had family in Alabama who were neighbors of Harper Lees family, so they knew each other when they were young. Currently, Hulu is streaming the film, “Feud,” about Truman Capote and some of his socialite friends, Babe Paley, Lee Raziwell, and CZ Guest. They adored him because he was able to tell great stories.

    • @bethewalt7385
      @bethewalt7385 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's Radziwill, he grew up next to Harper Lee, they were childhood friends, Truman's swans were really lonely and isolated even in a crowd type of women who were naive about the machinations of a southern queen....

    • @jeffaldridge4051
      @jeffaldridge4051 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Great facelift!

  • @Fl0xtpvnk
    @Fl0xtpvnk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I’m doing lights for a one man show all about Capote towards the end of his life. I didn’t even know who capote was until watching this interview. Thanks for posting!
    The actor portraying Capote really does look and sound a lot like him, it’s incredible

    • @kellyharper8072
      @kellyharper8072 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tom Hollander.

    • @kellyharper8072
      @kellyharper8072 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tom Hollander in the Hulu series as of late.

  • @joniheisenberg
    @joniheisenberg 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for posting!

  • @susanbrown-gilmore8743
    @susanbrown-gilmore8743 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    David Suskind was a pompous arrogant jerk in this interview. Truman Capote was remarkably tolerant and patient.

  • @brober
    @brober 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Bill Paley's sharpened pencils were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a $10K mil. tax write off. What a philanthropist.

  • @ericmolnar4387
    @ericmolnar4387 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love Truman

  • @stephaniepersin4222
    @stephaniepersin4222 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I miss celebrity of yesteryear like Truman Capote. The most riveting person one can listen to.

  • @WhisperSonnet
    @WhisperSonnet 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Truman Capote was a good friend of my father's and he was a lovely man. I still remember him even though I was just a little kid. David Susskind was being a jerk, trying his best to humiliate him.

    • @terri6854
      @terri6854 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The swans felt the same way until he wrote about them. He obviously didn't turn your father into fodder for his books.

  • @MissPerriwinkle
    @MissPerriwinkle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    he came to the univ of houston once to read from his works, but had to be led away as he was so tipsy.....I ADORE HIM.

  • @tonihernandez6862
    @tonihernandez6862 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what a great interview - thank you for posting. i never heard of david susskind before but i like his tone, and he appears to be very comfortable with truman. i would have been around 17 when this interview first aired. i used to see people like truman capote on the late night talk show circuit, or sometimes on hollywood squares or matchgame having no idea the wonderful or impressive past lives they led in younger days. they were for the sophisticates or grown-up viewers. they're all gone now. now that i am in my 60's i can really appreciate them and their accomplishments.

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where would you get this level of conversation and guest on TV today? That's right: you won't.

  • @groominator-magneticequato7195
    @groominator-magneticequato7195 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “There’s no drinking or sniffing at Studio 54”
    😂 his conviction, so Truman! 🤣

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

  • @blipblip88
    @blipblip88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I guess it's human nature to want to confront our heros about their weaknesses and hang-ups. But Capote seemed to be ok with interviewers caging him about his addiction. I wonder if it's just because he was also addicted to admiration and accolades-quite addictive, or because he wanted help? Great clip-Thanks!

  • @tothelighthouse9843
    @tothelighthouse9843 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I made it to 16:27 when Susskind snaps his fingers at Truman as he demands information from him...& I'm done. This isn't an interview, it's an interrogation.
    Truman paid a price for being himself. He endured so many of these public floggings, these brutal humourless interrogations by philistines like Susskind. Dull judgmental questions from a dull judgmental man.
    Mr Capote triumphs. Middle America was appeased by the public flogging of the fey nonconformist...but when the tv screen goes blank they're all still drowning in Middle America torpor. Meanwhile Truman is already back home, a faded but still luminous bloom in the glorious midnight garden of 1970s NYC.

    • @Lunchladydoyle
      @Lunchladydoyle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody gave a flying fuck that he was a nelly. They despised him because he was a despicable human being who used everyone around him for his own ends, even the vile trash who murdered a family for no reason. Get off your soapbox honey. Truman doesn’t need anyone’s help to pity himself. He was already superb at it

    • @DerekADempsey
      @DerekADempsey 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      A genius, spoken down to by a hack, but the genius knows this hack is easily crushable - no sport in that for a literary giant.

    • @michaelcelani8325
      @michaelcelani8325 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ...David Susskind condescending
      ATTACK on Truman is so awful even
      Susskind's children should be ashamed, considering that he is gone.
      Never, ever seen a gory hack job
      like this. Terrible.

    • @terry4137
      @terry4137 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I agree wholeheartedly! 🙄

    • @michaelknight4041
      @michaelknight4041 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Capote realized that he would have to sacrifice his personal life in the present in order to gain immortality in the future.

  • @anemicvampyre605
    @anemicvampyre605 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He did a great job. He wasn’t being a jerk. This is a real journalist. Today, those who call themselves journalists, are weak and are not after the truth.

  • @sarawelling5271
    @sarawelling5271 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    It is tragic and painful that the very first person to come to his mind as loving was Babe Paley. I'd like to think that out there, somewhere, they've reconciled and gotten back to loving one another, because it seemed very real.

  • @bluegalaxy7746
    @bluegalaxy7746 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    He could maul that interviewer so easily but he goes easy on Suskinn...

  • @hanschristianbrando5588
    @hanschristianbrando5588 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    His opinion of the Bouvier sisters certainly changed a couple of years later.

  • @Bigwave2003
    @Bigwave2003 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This isn't an interview. It's a scolding.

  • @mjrxyz
    @mjrxyz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The theme for Open End (Gateway to the West) still brings chills remembering some of the interviews that went on almost all night. Those days and shows like Firing Line were really America at it's best.

  • @EdwardCheek
    @EdwardCheek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What a remarkable and talented man. I could listen to him for hours. It's as if his aura is charged with electricity

  • @robins1237
    @robins1237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Seems like David had him on to clear his own reputation but it backfired on him. Truman could certainly hold his own.

  • @katiecole5817
    @katiecole5817 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Why is this dude giving Truman such a hard time? Is that the way interviews went back then???

    • @turnpikesteven9554
      @turnpikesteven9554 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      they.were quite close.so David wanted to stand his ground. Any other interviewer wouldve been stonewalled by Capote

    • @airmark02
      @airmark02 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      apparently they knew each very well & could butt heads without any problems

    • @cross75man75
      @cross75man75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yes! They didn't just kiss celebrity 🐎 like they do now, and that why things were more interesting, people weren't so sensitive and they could hold their own.

    • @oscarfun100
      @oscarfun100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Of course they were. Even later. "Britney, you're 17, are you a virgin? How big your breasts are?
      "Tina Turner, what are you? You're not just black, you're some mix, but I can't figure it out WHAT you are!"
      "Ricky Martin, admit it you're gay!"
      etc.

  • @markthompson180
    @markthompson180 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This interviewer is a real trip. I realize the interview dates from 1979, but it's like this guy stepped right out of 1950. Such a fussy prude. lol.

  • @YTfancol
    @YTfancol 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice and very entertaining interview.

  • @andrewbrendan1579
    @andrewbrendan1579 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Truman Capote's comment about "...a writer has only their own experience to work from..." and other comments at this point in the interview remind me of the famous interrogation scene in the movie "Basic Instinct" . In that scene Catherine Tramell (played by Sharon Stone) says, "I'm a writer. I use people for what I write. Let the world beware".

  • @rogerparis
    @rogerparis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic Telly.

  • @RoeReloaded
    @RoeReloaded 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “They probably were growing it” 😂😂😂😂

  • @DCFunBud
    @DCFunBud 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    David Sussking was not a typically handsome man, but I find him very appealing. He was so masculine and charming. He died the same day as Andy Warhol.

  • @barbarabangert6594
    @barbarabangert6594 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Truman gave a great interview. He was great sober .

  • @michelez715
    @michelez715 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Love all Capote's works, though I could never re-read "In cold blood", it was so wrenching. His best writing was about travel, imo, "The dogs bark".
    Can't help thinking of another great writer similarly destroyed by success, Tennessee Williams.

    • @marquitaarmstrong399
      @marquitaarmstrong399 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah yes. Tennessee Williams. 🎉

    • @richardjones186
      @richardjones186 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can highly recommend a book of his collected stories called Music for Chameleons, particularly "Handcarved Coffins - a nonfiction account of an American crime".

  • @blakedennis352
    @blakedennis352 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Let the guy breathe David....

  • @islesofshoals3551
    @islesofshoals3551 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I would have loved to experience Studio 54

    • @cross75man75
      @cross75man75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It was amazing, except at the time I didn't realize what a moment in time it was. I just though things were going to just go on like that, didn't see the conservatism of the 80s coming or AIDS coming, it was just a party at the end of the world, "The world being a broke and run down New York City". The hardest part was getting in.

  • @WintersWar
    @WintersWar ปีที่แล้ว +10

    some are outraged at susskind. That's always been his style, actually I found him tame here. Watch him scold WFB jr or Cassius Clay in other videos.

  • @louislorenzi-prince3842
    @louislorenzi-prince3842 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Why, why, why? Capote handled himself well with this character.

  • @christinejackson963
    @christinejackson963 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is Truman Capote,he is being mocked. If you hate him,he shouldn’t have been on. Talk about Breakfast at Tiffany’s talk about In Cold Blood. Not eating tiny lambs and partying at Studio 54. Susskin was trying to embarrass Truman. So many questions to ask.You could tell he hated him. Sad,actually. I understand people were furious at him,however,browbeating someone works not at all.

    • @mariechristensen8390
      @mariechristensen8390 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This man was one of a kind he had an IQ higher than most so called intelligent people of our day….such an interesting person RIP

  • @Jason-ml3vs
    @Jason-ml3vs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He could have told stories until the end of time and I’d hinge on his every word.

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember this show was on late on Sunday nights. FOX5

  • @frankcarter7146
    @frankcarter7146 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A wonderfully combative interview. Interesting to the end.

  • @texas1949
    @texas1949 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oh, man! Truman threw everyone under the bus! 😂

  • @avjohnson
    @avjohnson 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I think this interviewer, although renowned, is terrible. The way he asked questions was aggressive, though he was soft-spoken in his attack. But Truman held himself. The way he asked about his weight, and why he went on yachts and whether he’d liked people and about his addictions. Say something and then say, but you’re beautiful. Only watched it to see Truman but cringe each time this Suskind spoke.

  • @marquitaarmstrong399
    @marquitaarmstrong399 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm wondering would he enjoy his new found fame of today? Think he would find it worth observing. ❤ Truman. Also gets me to thinking of F. Scott..