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How's this for an impossible mission: Tom Cruise against Truman Capote?
"Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."
Lately I've had certain writers on my mind. Dead writers, actually. (Yes, if you know me at all, "dead" comes into play more often than not!) Literary giants of our time, their lives and their writing cut short because of fame.
In Cold Blood, half a century onFifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then Truman Capote arrived in town . . .
The fear of any writer, in any genre, is always the fear of not being able to write again, on anything. Such as it might be for a music band becoming a One-Hit-Wonder.
The fear of any writer, in any genre, is always the fear of not being able to write again, on anything. Such as it might be for a music band becoming a One-Hit-Wonder. The fifth death to be realized by the acts of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock would be the literary care …
Three hundred-plus piece collection belonging to Joanne Carson to be offered at auction by Bonhams New York.The Truman Capote collection consists of hundreds of items providing a unique and fascinating insight into the life and character of the man.
To Catch A MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird isn't just a novel set in Monroeville, Alabama. It's the town's obsession. "Top secret," Mr. X whispered to me toward the end of my stay in Monroeville, Alabama. "Nelle is in town."
'PRIVATE WORLD' ON SALE; Carson's mementos of Capote going to auctionThey were an unlikely pair, Joanne Carson and Truman Capote. She was the plucky, gorgeous wife of the man who would become the undisputed king of late-night television.
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