While I wouldn’t ordinarily presume to know what was the greatest night of a stranger’s life, with Truman Capote, I think we can be fairly confident: Nov. 28, 1966, the evening of his storied Black and White Ball. This was the so-called “party of the century,” where some 500 movie stars, socialites, politicians, foreign dignitaries, and artists gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City to see and be seen (when they lowered their ostrich-feather carnival masks, that is), to drink and to dance, to snack on midnight scrambled eggs strewn with anchovy breadcrumbs, and above all, to celebrate him.
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