True-Man Capote

See a portrait of the man before the downward spiral

Think you’re talented like, say, Truman Capote?

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You may not want to be. The writer gained acclaim and celebrity with stories like Breakfast at Tiffany’s that led to a downward spiral of booze, drugs, and incoherent television interviews.

Before all that mess, Capote wrote In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences in which he tells the story about a brutally murdered family. The film Capote chronicles this time period and presents an interpretation of the dynamic figure.


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