WOMEN OF KAPOTEThe True Story of Love, Betrayal and the Swan Song for an Ageby Laurence Leamer There is a poem by Thomas Hardy, “Twain’s ApproachHe describes the construction of the Titanic in all its opulence, and simultaneously the formation of his “evil mate” – the iceberg that was preparing to destroy it: “And as …
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Has a book ever brought you closer to or come between you? A few years before my father died in 1978, he wrote a book called “Families: A Memoir and Celebration.” It’s about his family in Mississippi, where he was born, and the family he formed with my mother. I read every year. I was …
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There is some fascinating and provocative material in “The Capote Tapes,” which is diluted by director Ebs Burnough’s insistence on making fun of a question that has a questionable answer. The film opens with on-screen transcripts referencing “a journalist”‘s archive of interviews about Capote and rumors of an “incomplete scandal manuscript”. The journalist turned out …
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