Chapter 27 Section 27

Yanni could no longer hear the words behind her friend.Yanni suddenly felt tired, very tired, and if she persisted, she would only get more tired. Ten days later, on October 9, Jenny Woodward committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide, only two months before her 60th birthday. Jenny's death sealed Truman Capote's pen.When it was officially published, the book was called Answers to Prayer—An Unfinished Novel. Old Mrs. Elsie of Odwald said: "That's all right now. She killed my son, and Truman killed her, and it's over. We've got nothing to worry about from now on, I think."

The old lady never expected that nine months later, James Woodward jumped off the building again.This time, he succeeded and successfully ended his 29-year-old young life. Five years later, in July 1981, Mrs. Elsie Woodward passed away at the age of 98.This old man, who has experienced almost the vicissitudes of the whole century, sent away his husband, his two daughters and only son, his daughter-in-law and a grandson with his own hands.What the old lady talked about before she died was that she also left behind an eldest grandson, a good eldest grandson. William Edward III was a good obedient boy when he was young.Unlike his father and brothers, William III valued family honor and followed the arrangements of his elders.He was obliged to enter Harvard and entered the newspaper industry. He started as a reporter for the Vietnam War. Back to his alma mater Harvard Business School took an MBA degree.

In 1979, William III bought Moore Publishing House, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and later met Dominic Dahn, editor of Vanity Fair magazine and famous crime literature writer, during business contacts. The two had been very close for a time.Dominique later said that he wrote "The Two Ladies of Greenville" mostly out of concern for his friend's family background. The details in the book were either narrated by William III himself or with his approval. For convenience, the characters in the story used their real names and surnames at the beginning, and they were changed to pseudonyms one by one after the draft was finished.The implication is that the content of the book is based on the meaning of the family members of the parties concerned.

However, in the final analysis, this is a family scandal of the Odwa family. At the same time that "The Two Ladies of Greenville" was published, William III hurriedly got married and left the United States with his wife. etc., all left to the readers themselves. William III lived overseas for more than ten years. No one knows what happened during this period, but there must be many unsatisfactory things.In short, after his wife filed for divorce in 1996, William Edward III returned to his long-lost homeland, and three years later, he followed his mother's brother's footsteps and committed suicide by falling from his Manhattan office at the age of 54.

So far, the Woodward family has been wiped out, and there is no successor. A big scene in Hollywood is the "Toy boys" that can be seen everywhere and at any time. According to the definition of writers John Morella and Edward Epstein: "a group of extremely intelligent, extremely handsome young people, with no shortage of money and lack of talent, mixed in the upper class of Hollywood, specializing in catering to those who are extremely lonely, Empty, bored women. They look to them for excitement, to regain youth, and to find newness, like a new toy in the hands of children."

Among the "Toy boys", there are many successful ones, and more are quickly squeezed out, eliminated, forgotten, and replaced by younger newcomers. When Johnny Stepanato first entered Hollywood, he was confident that he would not be replaced or forgotten. He did it.