Horton Foote On Carson McCullers

Horton Foote is one of our national treasures and is missed by all who had the honor to know him even though his work will remain as a piece of southern family trial-by-fire and comfort for the ages. I learned through a mutual friend of his daughter, Daisy, that Mr. Foote and his wife were friends with Carson and Dr. Mercer while they were neighbors in Nyack. After a couple of lovely phone conversations, he invited me down to the Soho apartment of his daughter, the actress Halley Foote. He tells some beautiful tales and adds to the mystery that is Carson McCullers. He tries to dispel the rumors of her alcoholism and only describes a loving, chid-like Carson. Mr. Foote was not sweetening the truth for the interview - this was the truth about Carson as it was shown to him.

I am beginning a feature article to be title "Unravelling the McCullers" that will present all the contradictions in the perceptions of Carson and Reeves by those who knew them and thought they knew them - and think they know them now. Not to give away the ending but there is no resolution but it has been an interesting 20 years learning about the couple and talking to every who was still alive who ever knew, loved and hated them - including some of mine and Reeves shared distant relatives.

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