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Article: TRUMAN CAPOTE; WHO'S GOT STYLE? THE "TINY TERROR" TELLS WHO.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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Truman Capote has always been controversial. Even at the age of 5, he began to cause some sort of furor in his own town because he hated church.
"I just refused to go to the Southern white Baptist church because I hated it at that age instinctively. Don't think I was physically carried to church, because I wasn't. I was like those people in riots who just slump," says the pint-sized dynamo, who speaks in a lazy, soft, fluted voice. "I would just slump and there was nothing they could do about it."
The angelic, blue-eyed, bouncing Capote hasn't slumped through the last 10 months. He did a 32-city college lecture series, acted in his first film, "Murder ...