by 1977 capote had become something of a recognizable cliche. mocked by woody allen in the film annie haul. >> the winner of the truman capote look-alike contest. >> reporter: turns out that was truman capote in an uncredited cameo. he fell into a downward spiral of alcohol and drug addiction. as he freely admitted in a drunken appearance on a 1978 talk show. >> what's going to happen unless you lick this problem of drugs and alcohol? >> obvious answer is i'll kill myself. >> osgood: truman capote died in 1984 just shy of his 60th birthday. >> jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> osgood: coming up, the great debates. >> there you go again. is portion of sunday morning is sponsored by... announcing fluzone intradermal vaccine, a 90% smaller needle, wow that's...short. to learn more talk to your health care provider. [ female announcer ] fluzone intradermal vaccine is fda approved for 18-64 year olds. it shouldn't be given to anyone with a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component including eggs, egg produ

by 1977 capote had become something of a recognizable cliche. mocked by woody allen in the film annie haul. >> the winner of the truman capote look-alike contest. >> reporter: turns out that was truman capote in an uncredited cameo. he fell into a downward spiral of alcohol and drug addiction. as he freely admitted in a drunken appearance on a 1978 talk show. >> what's going to happen unless you lick this problem of drugs and alcohol? >> obvious answer is i'll kill myself. >> osgood: truman capote died in 1984 just shy of his 60th birthday. >> jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> osgood: coming up, the great debates. >> there you go again. is portion of sunday morning is sponsored by... announcing fluzone intradermal vaccine, a 90% smaller needle, wow that's...short. to learn more talk to your health care provider. [ female announcer ] fluzone intradermal vaccine is fda approved for 18-64 year olds. it shouldn't be given to anyone with a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component including eggs, egg produ

and after that, truman capote avoided the subject. he used the christopher isherwood ploy of leaving his sexuality going. later on, readers can go back and fill in the blanks. but after getting kicked in the teeth for other voices, other rooms, he avoided that subject. although, when he appeared on television, this is a gay man ni and he never had that. he never tried to put it up. . it was very flamboyant and he knew he was area and it had been appealed to him.itched vwe wan who is this strange man with a high-pitched voice that we want to listen to.t? >> host: was anyone surprised when tennessee williams came out?writer had >> guest: nobody was surprised. one writer said we knew he was an elk club father of the year. >> host: christopher bram's first book is "eminent outlaws: the gay writers who changed america." he has been our guest on booktv on c-span2. thank you, mr. christopher bram. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> a program now from mark edmundson and his chronicling of the last years of sigmund freud. in the publication

. >> we really wanted to go back to the way the plaza was in the beginning when truman capote had the> old world charm. >> the original plaza had red carpets on the stairs. >> with a modern twist. there's contemporary art everywhere. dozens and dozens of famous warhols. >> icons. >> i like american icons. >> liz taylor, grace kelly, marilyn monroe. part of the allure is that hilfiger knew warhol, a man of few words. >> one time i asked andy, why do you do what you do? he said, because i like it. that was it. >> on our tour, we got a peek inside his private office. >> actually, this is from the original "new york times" building. >> you're kidding me? >> there's this. >> this is the eloise room. it's really the tower in the plaza. >> you know eloise, she's the fictional story book character who wreaks havoc at the plaza. hilfiger commissioned the book's illustrator to do the mural in the room. speaking of rooms -- >> this feels like a plaza to me. >> it's sort of like our own hotel suite. >> with his and her closets. >> my own clothing store even though i wear the same thing every day.

. >> dijo que su novio no es un criminal, ella se subió al capote y el sujeto fue rodeado por otros conductorespelícula, mire, en la vida real, una joven recibió más invitados de los esperados, ella envío su invitación por facebook, pero más de 20 mil la vieron, y varios de ellos llegaron, al ver el alboroto la policía tuvo que asistir y los asistentes dijeron que ellos también fueron invitados, es que se le olvidó hacerla privada. >> por eso les invitamos a que nos sigan en facebook y twitter, dele "like" a nuestra página. >> manténganse bien conectado. >> un estudiante hispano desapareció sin dejar rastros. >> tenemos todo lo que pasó en la alfombra roja en los premios emmy, ya volvemos. >> . >> jackie garrido se ha dado la tarea para descifrar a los famosos, eso hizo ahora con macho camacho, veamos. >> en las gradas del gimnasio en la ciudad de guaynabo estaba con macho camacho. >> luces súper espectacular, ¿dices tu edad en cámara?. >> sí, 50. >> Él dijo que ese cuerpo lo matiene corriendo varias horas diarias. >> dos huevitos, avena y mi coca - cola, eso está bien, pero como liviano, dos v

used to avoid similes like the plague. [ laughter and applause ] on the subject of writing, truman capoteish my book. [ laughter and applause ] children are stupid. did you know most kids can't tell the difference between a circus tent and a house that's being fumigated? i made $15 today. [ light laughter ] i don't care how many africans have to die. blood oranges are delicious. [ light laughter ] my doctor told me to drink more whisky. his exact words were, drink less beer, but i knew what he meant. he also told me -- he also told me that i can't have children and that the medical explanation, as far as i understand it, is that when i ejaculate there's rarely, if ever, a woman in the room. [ laughter and applause ] and in conclusion, finishing a burrito is like taking a child into the backyard and shooting it. that is a quote from truman chipotle. [ light laughter ] thank you very much, guys! thanks. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: jim. jim hamilton, everybody! jim's new album "poems about

>> i begin with truman capote, who published their first major books within weeks of each other. i follow that with allen ginsberg, james baldwin, christopher isherwood, tennessee williams was also working at this time too, this is like the first wave, and they caught a lot of grief for what they wrote. right after world war ii, homosexuality was illegal in all 48 states. you couldn't talk openly as a gay person. but you could write fiction about it and say i'm not writing about myself, i'm writing about these other people who are fictional. everybody saw through this white lie and understood what was going on. but they caught a little use from critics about it. the critics couldn't say, oh, you're clearly a homosexual, that would've been liable at this time. they found other ways to kind of complaint and attack and criticize. this first-generation caught a lot of great remark so how explicit are open could a james baldwin be or a christian be? >> they were initially very open. the second novel, giovanni's room, is about -- it's about two white men in paris, one of the great blac

but it got some good reviews, and capote avoided the subject.herwood played there is a character named truman capote, but we wouldn't know his sexuality. he left it blank. later on, readers can go back to it still and fill in the blanks. but after getting kicked in the teeth, he avoided that subject, although, when he appeared on television, anybody listening to him could tell that this is a gay man, and he never had that. he never tried to butcher it up. it was very flamboyant, and he knew he was, and he worked with it. and it kind of had a perverse appeal. who is this strange man with a high-pitched voice, we want to listen to them. >> was anyone surprised when tennessee williams came out? >> one writer had this joke about, hey, we knew that he wasn't father of the year. so yeah, nobody was surprised. >> christopher barm's first nonfiction is "eminent outlaws: the gay writers who changed america" and he has been our guest on booktv on c-span2. thank you, sir. >> great to be here, thank you for having me. >> the national book festival from the

so i thought about these great non-fiction novels, like truman capote's "in cold blood" or schindler's list or "the right stuff." these books were-- where the authors have used novelistic skills of character and language to shape a true life event. i thought i wanted to do that, too, except the difference is that this time-- i'm writing about my story, they weren't writing about their own story. that's one of the reasons for pushing it into the third person. >> rose: i was going to ask that. >> because i wanted it to feel like the character with my name is a character like all the other characters and not separated out so that i could treat all of them alike. i wanted actually, i thought-- one of the going-in positions is that you've got to be rougher on yourself than anyone else. because otherwise the book reads like making excuses and nobody wants to read hundreds of pages of people making excuses for their life. >> rose: or to sound like they're whining. >> exactly. that third person just allowed me as the writer to take one step sideways from me character in the story and be, i thi

he was a centrist capote wanted in the worst way to keep the court together and project an image of stability and integrity so he tried to mask the court when he could. and sometimes he could. for example, the court unanimously struck down to national recovery act administration, which was the new deal legislation trying to spur the industrial sector of the economy. but he was not so successful when the court struck down the agricultural adjustment act, which was the actually try to spur the agricultural economy. so sometimes hughes had most of the court with them and sometimes he didn't. he sort of went back and forth and try to weekend project the notion of stability on that part of the court. and his nuanced treatment of the constitutional cases that went right past franklin roosevelt. he was just furious. he was furious over every single decision in which the court made up of four ideological conservatives and basically three liberals. the liberal wing was led by justice louis brandeis, but also justice benjamin pedrosa and justice harlan stone. and hughes and his fellow hoover appointee,

many small banks will already meet those capote requirements.to be very well capitalized. that is important for small banks as well as large banks. there is a leverage requirement. most of the rules, particularly the most complex rules, will not apply to smaller banks. banks under $500 million of special exemptions from these rules. having said all of that, i will remind you that we have a proposed rule. we have a division of the committee a community bank supervisor who are particularly interested in making sure the rules are not excessively onerous. who will be looking at the cummins and trying to make sure we take into account the needs of community banks when we put out the final rules. >> thank you, mr. chairman. yesterday, the former fed governor, larry myers, at a conference in washington, said he had never seen such a divided fed. we have seen it. in the speeches to the run-up to today's decision, some people said it was dubious whether qe three could work. can you comment? do you wish that some of the fed officials that do not support q

so guy, capote in the sewers. >> thanks, don. can everybody hear me okay? i am pleased to be here in the last time i was here was to ask don for money and the capitol historical society provided me with two very nice screens to help me with the research on this book. i came to this project in 1998. i was covering the congress for the "washington post" at that time and it was the meadow of president clinton's impeachment troubles. yet problems with monica lewinsky. newt gingrich had troubles with the second wife, an interesting time. i was covering the house judiciary committee chairman henry hyde in the committee's efforts to reach -- to arrive at an indictment against president clinton. we have been working for maybe 16 days straight. 1998 was like that. and finally the press secretary for representative hyde, a guy named sam stratton, who is a capital bus said, you know, forget about this. we're not covering this anymore today. let's take a tour of the u.s. capitol and i'll show you around. so the first thing we did was climb the staircase between the inn

it is the most astonishing nonfiction novel since truman capote wrote "in cold blood." like to sell another book as well as my own because i figure why not double team it, and i've been talking about it because it's really an astonishing piece of work. beautifully, beautifully written, and the reporting is not to be believed. >> host: tom ahern, newport beach, california, e-mail: as a bookstore owner for 15 years, i immensely appreciated how reading changed my life. i closed my independent store last august, a victim of the economy, e-books and evil amazon. how do e-books, amazon and the loss of hundreds of independent bookstores affect you? >> guest: well, you know, it's -- there are cities where i used to go on tour that were anchored by an independent bookstore where one would appear and read and sign and the like. and i don't go on tour to some of those cities anymore because they don't have an indie bookstore. you know, people will say why do you guys always go to denver? well, most of us go to denver because of the tattered cover and the other, the other publicity

many small banks will already meet those capote requirements. small banks tend to be very well capitalized. that is important for small banks as well as large banks. there is a leverage requirement. most of the rules, particularly the most complex rules, will not apply to smaller banks. banks under $500 million of special exemptions from these rules. having said all of that, i will remind you that we have a proposed rule. we have a division of the committee a community bank supervisor who are particularly interested in making sure the rules are not excessively onerous. who will be looking at the cummins and trying to make sure we take into account the needs of community banks when we put out the final rules. >> thank you, mr. chairman. yesterday, the former fed governor, larry myers, at a conference in washington, said he had never seen such a divided fed. we have seen it. in the speeches to the run-up to today's decision, some people said it was dubious whether qe three could work. can you comment? do you wish that some of the fed officials tha

. >> stephanie: we decided he sounds like -- >> truman capote and droopy dog.der what a three way would sound like between reince prebus and dana lohse [ screeching ] >> ahhhhh. >> i can't do that impression unless i am scraping bone against metal. [ screeching ] >> stephanie: i'm like a morning zoo philharmonic conductor, aren't i? >> ow, you are sitting on my balls. [ laughter ] [ buzzer ] >> stop it! [ laughter ] >> god. >> stephanie: you're just weird. and everybody's favorite new character road flair mary. i love her so much. if you missed it john last week she told me to go smoke my dildo. >> and another thing [ choking ] the power of chris compels you. >> stephanie: her son can't get enough food stamps because the black people are buying all of the groceries and filling their escalades with them. steph she is making growling growling -- comments about how growly all of the mexican workers look. [ laughter ] >> oh, my god, i am already having a fantastic time! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ 12k3w4r50i6r7b8g9sdz 1y50ish8g9sz 79 gsdz [ tr