178. The Swan Song of Truman Capote
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's a double-up week here on Done and Dunne! In this first drop, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984, forty years ago.
Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on August 25. Then, we drop in on Truman’s first memorial service with mourners attached to Dominick Dunne in so any ways, including John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, Carol Marcus Matthau, Robert Blake, Artie Shaw and Christopher Isherwood.
It's a whole hot mess, that leads into tomorrow's drop. There is always an investigation around this place.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:08.2 | Where today, on the 40th anniversary of his death, we are going to spend a little time talking about the Swan Song of Truman Capote. |
| 0:18.8 | We have covered so much of Truman Capote in this podcast, his life, his writing, |
| 0:24.9 | his swans. Today we are going to talk about the last period of his life. Truman Capote does |
| 0:31.7 | pass away August 25, 1984 at the home of Joanne Carson. From the weekend of his passing, we are going to |
| 0:41.5 | slip stream a little bit over to Truman's memorial service that was held in California at the |
| 0:48.6 | Westwood mortuary. There's a lot of names in this, a lot of connections to of the mourners at treeman service in |
| 0:57.2 | California that will be important to you here were dominic's brother john gregory done and his |
| 1:03.5 | wife joan diddian really a whole lot interconnected and interwoven in this surprise bonus episode today in a double drop of a week. |
| 1:14.2 | I wanted to get this episode out as it is the anniversary of Truman's death day 40 years ago. |
| 1:21.6 | For my done and done listeners who do not perhaps subscribe over to trashy divorces on trashy divorces. Today, the |
| 1:31.0 | trashy divorce I covered was Jack Dunphy's divorce from Joan McCracken. A little bit of a slip |
| 1:38.7 | stream in the two episodes this week on both sides. Please feel free to choose your own adventure. |
| 1:46.9 | Hello, if you're here from Trashy Divorces. |
| 1:50.1 | Investigators, I'm so glad you returned today. |
| 1:53.1 | I don't want to delay too much. |
| 1:54.6 | This is going to go a little bit long. |
| 1:56.4 | I'll do some shoutouts in tomorrow's double drop of an episode this week. |
| 2:01.5 | Today it is to the last days of Truman Capote, his death and his first services. |
| 2:09.4 | Let's investigate. Today we are going to open with a little bit about Truman's last days. He spends them with his swan, Joanne Carson. |
| 2:36.5 | There's some incredible memories again. We're going to Truman Capote, in which various friends, |
| 2:43.4 | enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career. This collection was assembled by |
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