271. Truman Capote Meets Peggy Lee and a Giveaway!!
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Alicia recounts Dotson Rader’s story about the time Truman Capote met Peggy Lee. This one contains all kinds of spiderwebs including Key West, Jimmy Buffett and Doris Duke too. It is a tiny tale that says a lot - but that is not the only delight in this one!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where it is not always linear, but it always does connect. |
| 0:12.2 | Thank you for joining me today for this mini episode and a giveaway too. |
| 0:17.7 | I want to tell you today about that time that Truman Capote met Peggy Lee as described by |
| 0:25.3 | Dotson Raider. There's so much good stuff packed into this tiny story today. This is way back |
| 0:31.4 | from the vault within our Truman Capote coverage. Truly the story is epic with connections |
| 0:36.9 | to our universe of Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:40.2 | We are going to dip into the story centering around the lovely and talented Peggy Lee. |
| 0:45.3 | And then what I have after is an exciting giveaway. I have all the details for a giveaway just for y'all over here at done and done of a Peggy Lee |
| 0:57.3 | coffee line from our friend Dominique at Breakfast at Dominique's. |
| 1:02.7 | That is coming right up for you after we investigate this tale from long ago about the time |
| 1:08.9 | Truman met Peggy. |
| 1:12.7 | Let's investigate. Hey, hey, hey, investigators, it is me. |
| 1:31.7 | And I have got a little bit of a story for you about that time. |
| 1:36.9 | Truman Capote met Peggy Lee. |
| 1:40.0 | And I know this doesn't have a thing to do with Truman Capote's High Society 6, but there is a similar theme, a movement, sort of a message in here that I find really intriguing. |
| 1:53.5 | As Morella Anelli talks about Truman and his interactions with people, the story is really, truly fascinating. Peggy Lee, |
| 2:04.8 | legend, was a household name in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. She has over 500 records to her credit. |
| 2:14.1 | She was a perennial performer in fancy nightclubs and was once described by the jazz critic Leonard |
| 2:21.5 | Feather as, you ready for this name, Miss Standing Ovation. I think that would probably be Taylor Swift |
| 2:29.9 | today was Miss Standing Ovation. This particular excerpt, again, George Plimpton and his Truman |
| 2:36.2 | Capote, this book, the subtitle is just delicious, in which various friends, enemies, |
| 2:42.8 | acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career. This particular story isn't very long, |
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