Film News

Tall tales of the Texas film industry

"...Fadette. A fall start is possible... Infamous, the other Truman Capote film with Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee, lives...."

July 14, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

In Print

'Screenwriters' Masterclass'

"...From Y Tu Mamá También's Carlos Cuarón: "I believe Truman Capote said 'Don't humiliate yourself by answering a critic.'..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends

"...to do it.'") A nearly senile Groucho Marx exasperates Truman Capote with constant interruptions, while a young Bill Cosby..."

March 24, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Film News

'The King' finds a throne, Hanks finds another Wilson, and where you'll find time to help Marian Yeager; plus, Sandra Bullock should stay closer to home

"...foreign. Maybe this bodes well for your Central Texas-shot Truman Capote biopic, which recently changed its name to Have..."

July 29, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

After a Fashion

Who are the up-and-comers coming up from UT Fashion program? Plus, Your Style Avatar weighs in on the controversial subject of little stickers with kids' names, sport, team, and jersey number on the back of SUVs.

"...– Holly Golightly from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's...."

April 29, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Film News

No good deed goes unpunished, just ask Mopac Media's Kevin Triplett; plus, Explore UT and awards all over the place

"...Bullock herself has been busy filming scenes for the Truman Capote biopic Every Word Is True, in which she..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Despite a forlorn fall, Austin racked up its second best film year ever in 2004, and, cross your fingers, 2005 is starting off strong

"...in place. When Sandra Bullock and friends arrive for Truman Capote biopic Every Word Is True in February, every..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

After a Fashion

Stephen gets all gushy when he poshes it up in Houston – sort of like The Simple Life, but backward.

"...Dynasty, it was the La Cote Basque section of Truman Capote's Answered Prayers – and I swooned all over..."

April 2, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Authors Who Need Authors

Authors who need authors are the luckiest authors: We assess the harmonies and tumults at the 2002 Texas Book Festival.

"...but he's also a longwinded pontificator ... He's like Truman Capote, only a little more square."..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Summer Reading

Words gone wild! The best and the breeziest for beating the heat in 2002

"...-- in three seasonal installments. Already in stores are Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth,..."

May 31, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Articulations

Liz Smith writes up Zach Scott, Jaston Williams plans new acting projects, and ArtPlex undergoes a name change.

"...along the lines of last year's solo turn as Truman Capote at Zach. First up is a summer run..."

March 23, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...taste for the outrageous and his sharp ears (like Truman Capote, he eschews the tape recorder)...."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Food-o-File

What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.

"...a performance about a great Southern author and personality, Truman Capote, by another of Austin's most beloved favorite sons,..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...book are letters written to and from Fidel Castro, Truman Capote, Boris Pasternak, Jean Genet, and a party list..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...of the New Journalism that might include parts of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the first half of Mailer's..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

A Honky-Tonk Song

Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball

"...En route to Houston, Truman Capote's stepfather tried to separate Ball from his $100..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Celebrated for the Least of Reasons

Chronicle reviewer Tom Doyal has took to writin' just like Larry L. King, the playwright behind The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (and much more, Doyal reveals, in his review of King's new book of letters).

"...of the The Cross, Broderick Crawford as Santa Claus, Truman Capote as the Yuletide Fairy) let me wish you..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

All Done Up

"...she's been dead for 25 years, and, to quote Truman Capote, she looked like "a truck driver in drag."..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...fueled the imaginations of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote; Leitman no less poetically and eloquently mines the..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Charles Whitman in the UT Tower

"...with Chicago's Richard Speck and Smith and Hickock of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Charles Whitman ushered in the..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...from a Cockney street urchin to a fair lady, Truman Capote's hipper, darker version of Pygmalion gave us Hepburn..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Mediocre Media '96

A Rough Beast Kicks in the Water

"...person who finds this fascinating as well as sordid. Truman Capote proved three decades ago that simple crime stories..."

Jan. 3, 1997 News Column by Chris Walters

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

"...a variety of fiction -- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, and The Island..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...Truman Capote's coming-of-age novel The Grass Harp has been adapted..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter, in this Truman Capote coming-of-age story adapted for the screen by Stirling..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Stephen weighs in on the Belmont and what Dubya might be reading these days...

"...– and yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman was fabulous as Capote in the film Capote, but Toby Jones in Infamous..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

'A Conga Line of Incongruous Celebrities'

Sam Staggs chronicles the extraordinary life of a Hollywood gadabout in 'Inventing Elsa Maxwell'

"...I wonder if she would have been invited to Truman's [Capote] party. She died at just the right time."..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

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