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| Audrey Hepburn as the Truman Capote character whose cards read "Holiday Golightly, Traveling." |
When I first watched Blake
Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s
at age 12, I was immediately fascinated by Holly Golightly’s veneer of
toughness over vulnerability, particularly because Audrey Hepburn’s plucky portrayal
of Truman Capote’s character was counterpointed by the poignancy of Henry
Mancini’s song Moon River.
“I suppose you think I’m very brazen or très fou or
something.” Mad parties, mean reds, the cat in the rain. Youth and beauty
and longing.
Thus have gay voices always
reached across the generations to each other, even when others could not hear
them.
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