Press Box: Dietrich to Capote

Thursday means a new Out There column at the B.A.R. Roberto's writing about The Grand Surprise -- The Journals of Leo Lerman. "From the world of Russian Jewish emigres to the circles of Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas and Truman Capote ('Yesterday morning, Truman told me so many dreadful things about everybody. It's wonderful'), Lerman was a famed party-giver and career-launcher."