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Adapted from George Plimpton’s 1997 novel “Truman Capote” by writer/director Douglas McGrath (“Emma”), “Infamous” covers the same ground as “Capote,” but does so at a fanciful, almost comical pace...
British actor Tobey Jones steps in to play Truman Capote, joined by a frumpified Sandra Bullock as Harper...
...armed with an Oscar and countless film festival awards, Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly seems to have nailed the role of Truman Capote in last year’s aptly titled “Capote.” One year later, another film emerges that chronicles the era in which Capote lived. Despite the period overlap between the two films, “Infamous” should not be missed on account of its contextual similarities to “Capote...
...first portion of the movie, which takes place in Manhattan, focuses on Truman and his high-society friends—Hope Davis (“The Matador”), Sigourney Weaver, and even Gwyneth Paltrow as a lounge singer. McGrath takes us deep within Capote’s upper-class social environment through his rendering of at-once exuberant and breathtaking scenery...
...when it comes to his books, there's a desire in him to mean something. He talks seriously about John Steinbeck and John le Carr--The Little Drummer Girl "has had more of an influence on me than any other work of suspense"--and Truman Capote. Grisham read In Cold Blood twice last year. "It's a beautiful book; it's mesmerizing; it's a classic. But there are times when I would read something that Capote wrote, and I'd say"--he makes a face. "Just, you know, I wouldn't say it that...