“Truman treated me like an adult,” Harrington tells Ebs Burnough in his documentary The Capote Tapes, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. He gave her careful instructions on how to take the Long Island Rail Road and hail a taxi, and met her for lunch. Rather than waving off Harrington, or passing her over to his high-society friends for employ, Capote invited the teenager to come into Manhattan. When Harrington’s dad, an alcoholic, eventually abandoned the family, Harrington found the phone number of her father’s high-pitched friend to see whether he could help her find a job. Harrington’s father, a former bank manager, had invited Capote to the family home on Long Island for dinner one night-not telling his wife or daughter that he and Capote were actually lovers. When she was 13, Kate Harrington picked up the phone and dialed Truman Capote-the brilliant Breakfast at Tiffany’s author and ill-fated gossip whom she had met under stranger-than-fiction circumstances.
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