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You're wrong. Breakfast at Tiffany's hit really the popular note. Now Truman was famous, not only for his books but for his personality because he was a gossip columnist's delight. He is always up to something that makes good copy.

The party that he gave last year was the social event of the last ten years. The New York Times put in the complete guest list, and to be invited to that party was to be considered having arrived. People who weren't invited were outraged. People came from Italy, France, Hollywood for this damned party. It was the greatest party of its kind ever given, and Truman was beaming. It cost him a fortune, but he couldn't have cared less.

We try to keep Truman's money intact. We dole it out to him in pretty short doses because the minute he gets it he spends it. We kept him from buying a helicopter once. We kept him from buying a house in Long Island that he has as much use for as I have for the Taj Mahal. But it's very hard to keep tabs on Truman. He's like Moss was. They have the real philosophy. They believe that money is to be spent.

Maybe they are right.

They are absolutely right.

What's going to happen tomorrow we don't know.

Truman lives it up. Oh, boy, does he live it up.