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Article: GRASPING FOR CAPOTE ENIGMATIC WRITER KEEPS STAR OF FILM ABOUT HIM GUESSING.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 19, 2005
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
In 1965, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood made literary history. In telling the story of killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, Capote not only created what he called a "non-fiction novel," he produced one of the most influential pieces of 20th Century journalism.
Capote, a film about the writing of that landmark work, opens Friday at the Mayan Theater. The movie allows us to travel with Capote - brilliantly played by Philip Seymour Hoffman - to Holcomb, Kan., a remote town Capote said even Kansans referred to as "out there." In 1959 Smith and Hickock, a couple of drifting former convicts, drove to Holcomb. ...