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InFeud: Capote vs. the Swans, Diane Lane is making a meal out of mostly having meals.
He was allowed to be in the room, and that was pretty much it, Lane tells Vulture.
If he could be of service, they would use him.
Truman knew his status in the group wasnt going to last forever.
I also think there was some part of him that found the decision to be a bit adrenalizing.
Thats like being an assassin.
But you could argue thats what the women were doing too.
They played at being his friend, but they never really accepted him.
He was an accessory.He was a guest and he knew it and he felt it.
Nothing is more important, I think, than the truth being spoken out loud.
And its wonderful for people such as yourself to ask people such as myself what they think.
I really have to think about it, and I appreciate the question.
We learned last episode that Slim was allegedly sleeping with Bill Paley.
I really cant cast aspersions on past sex lives.
But I can only speak to what I was fortunate enough to get exposed toright from Slim Keiths pen.
She had tremendous, joyous memories with Truman.
They took trips together, and she helped him with his career.
He knew how to make her feel important, and everybody wants to feel important.
You wonder at which point this person became somebody you dont recognize.
Or was that always the case?
Her father blamed her mother and banished her from the home and excluded her from their family burial plot.
Slim was so hurt and shocked by that request from her father.
She did not speak to him for years and years, until practically his deathbed.
She had experience with this kind of betrayal, a previous scar.
You know, its very lonely at the top.
Slim saw over the moat.
She was a very well-read human.
I mean, Hemingway valued her opinion, which tells me a lot.
And so did Truman.
She had a lot of sway because she could converse with the great minds of the day.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
