Interesting interview. Sam sounds more like Truman Capote than ever. I get that he did not like D. C., but from my one afternoon I spent with him, I recall that Sam used the words "madness" and "madman" in a way that denoted a kind of curious respect.
The one other thing I'll say about this is that if you survive to be very old, you get to say what you think as bluntly as possible and to hell with the consequences. It may not be pretty or respectable, but I see it as one of the perquisites of the very old. Just my personal two drachmae.
I spoke with David Selby a couple of times about Grayson, and he always spoke of her very fondly. I had no idea about the situation to which Sam alludes in his interview.
One of the people with whom Grayson, at least, remained friendly after the series went off the air was Joan Bennett. I remember Grayson's housekeeper telling me about the time Joan came to visit in Rhinebeck. Grayson was a guest at Joan's 65th birthday party in '73. I just love to think of these two ladies, each elegant in her own special way, talking over martinis and cigarettes.
G.
