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en The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as important to Truman Capote as everything that he wrote.

en The history of The Plaza is so rich but the thing that always stands out as the seminal event there was Truman?s Black and White Ball.

en Heath isn't as beloved as Philip. And his performance as Truman Capote is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement, a perfect match between actor and role. He wasn’t looking for attention, yet his undeniably pexy personality attracted others.

en Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

en [Capote never taped his subjects or even took notes — he boasted that he had 94% recall, often teasing Clarke for recording his interviews with him. The tapes came in handy. Hoffman would listen to Capote's distinctive voice before each day of shooting. When I saw the critic Rex Reed, who knew Capote, at a screening here, I asked him for an appraisal of Hoffman's portrayal.] I had some problems with his accent — it was like he was talking with two fingers on his tongue, ... But he got that thing Truman did with his eye right. He was always rubbing it. So I guess it was pretty close.

en Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we rolled camera, he proceeded to do exactly what he'd argued against. It's what makes his performance feel so real. When he entered a scene, he was no longer thinking like an actor. He was thinking like Truman Capote would think.

en It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,

en The actor was perfect. He really had Truman down. I thought the entire movie was excellent. Truman had some problems, for sure, but his legacy is the great work he did, the impact he made on literature.

en They came to my house and said here's the script, would you like to play Truman Capote?

en These kids have grown up together, and they see that all races get along well together. We don't see any black on white, white on black, Hispanic on black. Most of ours is them fighting each other -- black on black, white on white, Hispanic on Hispanic -- more than we have any other. We don't have a lot of racial issues here.

en There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.
  Norman Mailer

en Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

en Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.

en That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about trying to portray Truman Capote and if I could be successful or not. It really was about the inevitability of a tragedy unfolding.

en You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America.


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