Capote, dishing on his friends, losing his religion

This article from Vanity Fair is the true essence of Vanity Fair, offering a fresh insight into one of the literary giants of our modern era, Truman Capote. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/truman-capote-answered-prayers. I love VF articles like this, choosing to sidestep politics and fashion posts for true literary gold, nicely packaged essays on the people I treasure most personally - writers.  I cannot imagine what kind of confused childhood Capote must have had, partly raised in deep south with "flamboyant" tendencies and the need to escape to more metro places that accepted the differences in humans.

 From what I have learned of him over the years, he was soft spoke, lispy, but large - a contradiction in stature and sound and a friend to many high society NY people once he was among their elite.
According to this and many other articles, he started to "dish" on these people who had welcomed and adored him towards the end of his life. This is similar to how Fitzgerald wrote his stories, using real people for his glimpses into this very exclusive, elusive world of the ultra rich. And both writers were paid in spades for it, the lower classes eating up the stories like tabloid bits, making the writers more wealthy.

However, using your friends to entertain the masses has its price- losing your friends. This has always been the writer's problem, and I've read so many writers say that they did not feel free to write until many of their own friends or family members had passed away (yes). I can understand this, as people with conscious feelings of guilt worry about how their loved ones would feel about seeing their obvious characters in print, for all to see.

Somewhere along the rosy path of indulgences and Park Avenue parties, Capote decided to incorporate his friend's true stories into entertainment for all, and they called each other after the stories appeared, hissing his name and growing paranoid and angry at such a betrayal. This is life, this is the writer - selfish, truthful, using life to satisfy a need to purge out all the hypocrisy of others, even their own friends. Capote, losing his religion towards the end, losing his loyalty to friends but perhaps trying to save his sanity.