Candice Bergen on Truman Capote's storied Black and White Ball

I love all of Mo Rocca's segments

Clickbait. Bergen says little in this clip compared to several others who are also interviewed.

Amerikas 60 families ( book 1937).
...a sequel...
The rich and the super rich : a study in the power of money today. (Book1968).

---ferdinand lundberg 1902---1995...authored 10 books

"On the road with Charles Kuralt"
Damn.
The memories.....

An entirely different time. An entirely different place. An entirely different world.

Geez I wish Truman Capote would have taken his own advice....there not that meny beautiful People in that party...just a few famous women...the men looked old and over 50, if it was for beautiful people where was Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Richard Gear, Ricky Nelson, Mark Herman, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Tab Hunter, Micheal Landon, Guy Madison, ect, they were all still young and gorgeous at the time of these parties...but they had old men who were not....and I quote were not! Not beautiful at all... including Truman Capote himself...he looked like a half Hobbit and half Gollum character with a odd voice, and he was beautiful enough to get in?😂 Really!? Get real y'all.

Make it make sense.

Where was Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett, Bo-Derek, Sharon Tate, Raquel Welsh, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Ursula Andress, Priscilla Presley, Pam Grier, Brigitte Bardot, Cheryl Ladd, Ann Margaret ect...none of them where there, just Candice Bergman, other then that a bunch of boring unFuckable old people.

I’ve always wanted someone to produce a movie about the ball. Perhaps this is the only chance I’ll get.

Masquerade paper faces on parade.

I love how they say “how the other half lives” because today it would be the 1%.

59?! He looked 79 and not a modern-day 79. Don't drink or snort y'all

The black and white sun at the end was gorgeous.

I was astounded a while back to listen to Tom Hollander on an audiobook of JK Rowling's "A Casual Vacancy" and hear what he could do with his voice. It's no surprise that his Truman Capote is perfect!

I adore Candice Bergen.

I thought truman was from New Orleans

That was a truly fantastic report, very well done. Maybe I'll check out that series; I am sick of Hollywood doing biopic formula (and Capote's already been done, more than once) and every other kind of formula, they haven't an original idea in that town for virtually the last 20 years (and the previous 20 were nothing to be proud of either). But maybe I'll check this out. At least it focuses on one element of the guy's life, rather than doing the whole thing, so that's usually the only way biographical films work. ("What's Love Got To Do With It" comes to mind; so does "Capote", actually).

There’s a lot about this event in George Plimpton’s book of interviews about Truman.
A lot of guests afterwards deemed it a bust; a bit embarassing that Truman was so anxious for it to be a success.

I saw a brief glimpse of Gordon parks Sr at the end of this piece. Gordon was the first black photographer for life magazine. He also directed shaft. He was a Renaissance man.

Also, Capote's best Swan was Babe Paley, who's husband ran CBS!

Loved the Mo Rocca interview and footage of the Black and White Ball! So good to see Candice Bergen and hear from a live attendee. Tom Hollander totally captures Capote in Feud. Thank you Mo!

Minor quibble, but Candice Bergen was born May 9, 1946, so on November 28, 1966, she was 20, not 19.

Good christ, Charles Kurralt was SOOOOO baby-faced! lol What a cutie! Who knew?

"On the road with Charles Kuralt"
Damn.
The memories.....

To get an idea of Capote's genius as a writer, keep in mind that he wrote A Christmas Memory when he was about 17, Other Voices Other Rooms at 24 and Breakfast at Tiffany's in his thirties. The Clutter murders occured in 1959, so he was just 35 when he embarked on this monumental project.

Well, she was there, she would know, wouldn't she?

Wonderful piece of nutty history!

Wasn't Answered Prayers his last book? The one that got him into so much trouble? I read it in paper back. Nobody outside of society people knew who any of these people were! I think his m.o. was to get even for his mother. When her husband was imprisoned for embezzlement? she was ostracized by NYC society. She then killed herself. A.P. was his revenge. But it backfired on him.

Tom Hollander is incredible in Ryan Murphy's series.

They weren't friends; they were his narcissistic supply.

Question is asked, and could this type of party happen now ..interviewee says no, but ut does every year. Richest, prettiest, mose fashionsble, exclusive to the host: Met Ball.

To be alive in that era ….wow

Sweeten The Monument preservation fund up with tuxedos... classic Tiffany's perfect.

Wonder how many babies were sacrificed

So... eyes wide shut?

Capote was from New Orleans, not Alabama.

Poor Charles.

I'm far more interested in who turned down the invitation to the party. Because somebody(s) did. ;-p

Hearing this segment made me think that those attending felt it a tedious affair.

While I also hope that a party like this doesn't happen again, I can see this black and white ball as a theme for a high school prom.

Wasn’t Capote from NOLA?

All I can think about is how Phillip Seymour Hoffman absolutely nailed it when he played Capote.

I love Candace Bergen, she seems so normal❤

It's funny that these ultra-rich party-goers were referred to as "the other half".

In the 1960s it was "how the other half lives." Today, it's "how the 1% lives." Can't believe we're at a point where a 2 invome houshold is struggling to make it.

Thank you for letting us Borrow Truman Copote for a Gallery opening

Why don’t you ask Candice about her relationship with Charles Manson

Where's the creepy "Eyes Wide Shut" piano music??? Ridiculous rituals.

There’s a lot about this event in George Plimpton’s book of interviews about Truman.
A lot of guests afterwards deemed it a bust; a bit embarassing that Truman was so anxious for it to be a success.

Not quite as interesting as the other November 1966 event of the Beatles starting work on "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane."