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Article: A warm blooded portrait of Truman Capote; INTERVIEW Lifestyle Editor Carole Ann Rice meets the writer and actor w ho has specialised in bringing back to life towering but troubled literary gian ts like Truman Capote.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 15, 1998
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For personal reasons, Truman Capote tells us, he died. The arch wit and genius imp who was one of the leading lights of 20th century American literature left life's soiree in 1984.
"I went to LA (from New York) to lie low and that's what LA does to you", he quips from beyond the grave, in a voice drier than a gin and martini and now the bitch is back for sweet revenge.
An uncanny Lazarus-style comeback from the other side, Truman Capote, the legendary author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, struts to his chair, with Sinatra's New York New York ...