FX, Murphy Play the 'Feud' with Truman Capote

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Mark Jeffries

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Dec 5, 2023, 2:07:40 PM12/5/23
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The anthology series began in 2017 when the channel was still owned by Fox with "Bette and Joan," the story of Ms. Davis and Ms. Crawford making "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" together and fighting the whole way--the pandemic and producer Ryan Murphy's unsuccessful stint at Netflix delayed a second season, but it will premiere on Jan. 31 and will be "Capote vs. the Swans," about the relationship of the "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote with New York's highest-profile socialites in the 60s, with Tom Hollander as Capote, Naomi Watts as Babe Paley (wife of CBS founder Bill Paley, played here by Treat Williams), Diane Lane as Slim Keith, Chloe Sevigny as C.Z. Guest, Calista Flockhart as Jackie O's sister Lee Radziwill, Demi Moore as Ann "Bang Bang" Woodward and Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson, who I assume was the Joanne Carson who was one of Johnny's wives:


The first two episodes will air on Jan. 31, with sister channel FXX airing at the same time a "director's cut" of the pilot (presumably directed by Gus Van Zant, who is listed as an episode director), with eps including the "director's cut" to stream the next day on Hulu (where most viewers will probably watch it) and simultaneously stream on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ everywhere else.

Adam Bowie

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Dec 5, 2023, 4:36:00 PM12/5/23
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I'm looking forward to this. It's based on a book by Laurence Leamer called Capote's Women which I have yet to read. But I did read Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott which came out in 2019 and is a fictional telling of the same story, and what a remarkable story it is. 

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Bob Jersey

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Feb 7, 2024, 6:31:09 PM2/7/24
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Ringwald is already planning her next role in a Murphy project, after telling Seth Meyers she wanted to play a "psycho b!tch"... that I'd like to see!
And Mark is right about which Carson she played...
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