shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Download Citation On Jun 1, 2011, Kavita I Nayar published Sam Wasson: Fifth Avenue, 5 a.m.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffanys, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman Find, read and cite all. In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting Breakfast at Tiffany's as we have never seen it before?through the eyes of those who made it. Indeed, cultural touchstones like Sex and the City owe a debt of gratitude to Breakfast at Tiffany's. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, 'Moon River' composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey?dainty, immaculate?is anything but true to life. Avenue 5 has been described as 'set in the future, mostly in space.' On board the interplanetary cruise ship, the Avenue 5, a momentary loss of artificial gravity and accidental death of its chief engineer sends the titular vessel 0.21 degrees off course.

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