Released on = February 2, 2007, 6:39 am

Press Release Author = Rosemary McKittrick

Industry = Entertainment

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Press Release Body = Feb. 2, 2007--"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if
you really are friendly with somebody," writer, Truman Capote said. "You can't have
too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

It may seem like an odd match. Nonetheless, Joanne Carson, second wife of TV
megastar Johnny Carson and literary whiz kid Truman Capote bonded in a friendship
that lasted almost 20 years until Capote's death in 1984.

Carson and Capote met for the first time in 1966 at a dinner party given by
publishing icon Bennett Cerf. Cerf had become a regular guest on "The Tonight
Show." Capote was the wonder-boy riding on the coattails of his non-fiction hit "In
Cold Blood."

Capote loved the glitz and glamour of celebrity. Carson hated all the hoopla.

Despite basic differences, there was a child-like quality about the scratchy voiced
Capote that was charming. In him, Carson said she could see the wounded child. It
reminded her of her own early heartaches.

\"When we split, everyone moved to Johnny,\" Joanne Carson said. \"I had one person
stay with me, and that was Truman. He took care of me when I was down, and I took
care of him.\"

Joanne was one of a handful of friends who was there for Capote in the end. He took
over two of the five bedrooms in her Bel-Air, Calif., home, spending months there
every year, swimming and writing. Capote also died in Carson's home from liver
disease complicated by phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins, and drug
intoxication.

After he passed away, Carson kept many of his things and also moved books,
furniture, snapshots, clothes and memorabilia from his New York apartment to her
home.

\"The Private World of Truman Capote,\" Carson\'s 337-lot collection, sold on Nov. 9 at
Bonhams, New York. The auction totaled $250,753.

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