This afternoon while taking a walk in the light mist I saw an alley cat, huddling up against a wall, bringing to mind the cat without a name in Breakfast at Tiffany's. http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Tiffanys/tiffanys.htm This month is the film's 50th anniversary which is being remastered as a DVD release.
Apparently with Truman Capote's success came social celebrity. He mingled with the social elite, and was seen at the best parties, clubs, and restaurants. His novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), took much of its inspiration from those experiences.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is the story is about a struggling writer Paul Varjak that moves into a New York swank East Side apartment building (from the generosity of his female, married benefactor) and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOByH_iOn88
Capote lobbied for Marilyn Monroe in the lead, whom he deemed more suitable for the role, much to his displeasure it went to the aristocratic Audrey Hepburn, to play the rural- Texas-born Holly Golightly that he created. He even went as far as to say that Paramount double-crossed him in every way. Not a bad outcome for an act of deceit.
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