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Article: DENERSTEIN: WRITER AS CELEBRITY HOFFMAN CAPTURES CAPOTE IN EXPLORATION OF AUTHOR'S TORTURED MISSION WRITING 'IN COLD BLOOD'.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2005
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote's 1965 masterpiece - told the story of a 1959 crime that shook the nation. Two former convicts traveled to the obscure town of Holcomb, Kan., and wiped out four members of the Clutter family.
The killers - Perry Smith and Richard Hickock - were humanized, though not forgiven, in Capote's beautifully written and brilliantly reported "non-fiction novel." That book deserved all the praise it received, but it exacted a heavy toll on its author, so heavy it's possible to make an entire movie about what transpired.
Capote might be the best movie ever made about the complex ...