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Emma Thompson plays the poet and Sinead Matthews is the breathy movie star in Simon Berry’s compelling audio play
Truman Capote called Sunset Tower, an art deco triumph on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard, “a very posh establishment … where every scandal that ever happened happened”. In 1953, its residents included the English poet Dame Edith Sitwell, who was visited there one afternoon by Marilyn Monroe.
Sitwell had been commissioned to interview the star for Life magazine. Their meeting was engineered, she later wrote, because “it was obvious that we were born to hate each other, would do so at first sight, and that our subsequent insults to each other would cause a commotion when reported”.
