{"id":2265,"date":"2010-02-01T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/fifth-avenue-5-am\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:16:04","slug":"fifth-avenue-5-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/fifth-avenue-5-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Avenue, 5 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/theharperstudio.com\/authorsandbooks\/sam_wasson\/the-book\/fifth-avenue-5-am\/\" target=\"_blank\">from HarperStudio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 2.3em\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #ffd200\">Fifth Avenue, 5 AM<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: #333333\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theharperstudio.com\/authorsandbooks\/sam_wasson\/wp-content\/themes\/harperStudioAuthors\/images\/2009\/06\/fifthavenue5am-HC-C-200x300.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-107\" title=\"Fifth Avenue, 5 AM by Sam Wasson\" alt=\"Fifth Avenue, 5 AM by Sam Wasson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" \/>The images of\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0are branded into our collective memory: we can see Audrey Hepburn stepping out of that cab on the corner of 57th and 5th, and we can picture her again with George Peppard, huddled in an alleyway and wrapped in a kiss, as the rain pours down around them. Those moments are as familiar to us as any in whole the history of movies, but few of us know that that ending was not the film\u2019s original ending. In fact, it was only one of two endings the filmmakers shot\u2014and it almost didn\u2019t make it in.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons why have to do with Tiffany\u2019s cutting-edge take on sex in the city, namely, when to show it, and how to do it, without getting caught. If Truman Capote had it his way, his beloved Marilyn Monroe would have been cast as Holly, but crafty executives knew that she\u2019d have the censors on red alert. So they went for Audrey. But would she go for them? Frightened at the prospect of playing a part so far beyond her accepted range\u2014not to mention the part of call girl\u2014Audrey turned inside out worrying if she should take her agent\u2019s advice and accept the role. What would people think? America\u2019s princess playing a New York bad girl? It seemed just too far\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Fifth Avenue, 5 AM<\/em>\u00a0is the first ever complete account of the making of\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>. Drawing upon countless interviews with those involved in the film\u2019s production, from actors to producer Richard Shepherd to Gerald Clarke, Capote\u2019s biographer, Wasson brings us inside the world and indeed inside the mind of one of America\u2019s greatest cinematic icons.<\/p>\n<p>With a cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, director Blake Edwards, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties, before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, for good. But that was the easy part. Getting Audrey there\u2014and getting the right people behind her\u2014that was the tough part.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/theharperstudio.com\/authorsandbooks\/sam_wasson\/the-book\/fifth-avenue-5-am\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full review at HarperStudio.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from HarperStudio Fifth Avenue, 5 AM The images of\u00a0Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s\u00a0are branded into our collective memory: we can see Audrey Hepburn stepping out of that cab on the corner of 57th and 5th, and we can picture her again with George Peppard, huddled in an alleyway and wrapped in a kiss, as the rain pours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}