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The public didn't pick up on the predictable patterns of Truman Capote's malignant narcissism, just as they accept it as innocuous now, the rattlesnake again in the grass with Taylor Swift. But as Willa Cather's literary executor, her life-partner Edith Lewis knew she could show the radical difference: it was in the spirit of the works and the Being, and what that extraordinarily opens in the tremendous for all of us. It's now there to be found. It's what gay socialite and Willa Cather's close friend Stephen Tennant would write about Willa and that become his literary legacy, what Audrey Hepburn would audaciously risk herself in showing, what extraordinary scholar and biographer E. K. Brown would write in intensity as...

Truman Capote himself said he had no content. He said that he was a liar. He showed his desperate need and intent to invade personal lives past boundaries and cause as much harm as possible for fame. Truman Capote demonstrated malignant narcissism, his patterned personality disorder in every line written and every action and in his obsessive preening for constant attention. Why did no one believe him when he said what he was? As narcissists do, he assumed ownership of other people—and now we can see—their writing. Personality disorders distort perception in their own head and then manipulate that perception with others.Now we can look at the evidence at the beginning of Truman Capote’s career of manipulation of fame and...

What emerges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Audrey Hepburn. What emerges is very real person in the here and now and what she did that stands out and apart from the movie and shows us what she’s made of. From that it is that we are engaging with her spirit, her inner character that speaks volumes—more than even the formidable endurance of the classic movie—of which entertainment and “fame” have been the limits, not exactly transition in understanding, but now we are breaking free into something more real beyond the screen that is alive and powerful and moving. I think it is the thing of this moment to know what that is. Audrey actually had to work around it being a movie to accomplish a greater goal. The movie...

To see what happened in the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s being plagiarism from prophetic, world-altering art and the transformation of this to the alive, effective dynamism of the movie that still ignites us with Audrey’s spirit, one has to see the movie in the light of what was known by the creators in that moment as they demonstrated it in the movie and the follow-up Paris When It Sizzles (1964), and why Truman Capote subsequently would say that Breakfast at Tiffany’s “made him want to throw up” (“'My mother was like a steel fist in a velvet glove': the real Audrey Hepburn” The Guardian 19 November 2020). We can look at the high humor of what was created making light of a dark, manipulative, self-centered situation where...

At this moment I’m right outside of fame, right outside the industry, the press, somewhat purposefully so. It’s been a lifetime of intensity of thought. It culminates in this moment with what we are all able to bring together. As a child I was all right with that intensity, the encapsulation in an odd isolation because I knew it had a purpose. I did the hard work, the hard thinking, the planning. For most those potentialities should come to fruition then in your twenties, when you’re ready to take on the world. My existence didn’t open up then in Beingness, creativity, and love. It stayed tightly encapsulated for further, deeper into teaching, writing, and literature, and after discovering that the...