159. Bad Blood | The Real Feud: Gore Vidal vs. Truman Capote (featuring Lee Radziwill) Part One
Done & Dunne
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4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It is time to bring all the spiderwebs together. This week, it is the first part of the actual feud happening – the one between Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill. In this episode we explore the origin story of Gore and Truman which begins in the mid-1940’s and runs through 1975 – up to and into the complicated love/hate triangle between these three.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, exploring and connecting all things within the Dominic Dunn universe. This week we are getting to some bad blood, the real feud, the one between Gorfidal and Truman Capote featuring dear Princess Lee Radzwell. Used to be mad love, but now all it is |
| 0:24.1 | is bad blood. And yes, for all my swifties, I am thinking of Taylor's song from the 1989 album. |
| 0:31.4 | We've had a few weeks of set up now, all the backstory on mothers named Nina, Gors and T Truman's, and Lee Radzell's story, too. |
| 0:40.5 | We did pop in a little bit of Dominic Dunn on Jacqueline last week, but today we arrive at it. |
| 0:46.9 | The feud. The beef. The battle. Almost. |
| 0:50.8 | See, Gore Vidal isn't going to take Truman to court until the end of 1975, but the thing you want to know is that there is 30 years more than of history between these. |
| 1:03.5 | It's a whole lot. |
| 1:04.8 | So much, in fact, that this episode is going to get Gore Vidal and Truman Capote from the mid-1940s to 1975, all spider |
| 1:15.5 | webs included. What is their history? To get them from, hello, so nice to meet you in the 40s, to |
| 1:23.0 | the I'm suing you level of gameplay in 1975. |
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| 2:29.0 | And fun is what Gore and Truman had for about five minutes back in 1946 to be followed by 30 years of animosity, |
| 2:37.5 | jealousy, and competition. It is all a big old hot mess, and that is even before Lee Radzwell |
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