If you have unlimited means and are a huge fan of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, you may be in luck: BBC News has announced that the personal collection of Audrey Hepburn is about to be auctioned off. In September, Hepburn’s items—including “unique personal objects which have never before been seen on the market”—will go up…
Taking a break from playing Disney sidekicks, Josh Gad will add his interpretation of Truman Capote to the cinematic canon in the upcoming film Party Of The Century, about the author’s famous Black And White Ball. According to a release, the story is not entirely centered on Capote—instead, it focuses on the romance…
According to CNN, a portion of Truman Capote’s ashes were sold at an auction this weekend for $45,000. As we reported earlier this summer, the ashes were valued around “$4,000-$6,000” and sealed in a “carved Japanese wooden box” that included the “original cemetary packaging from Westwood Village Mortuary.” The buyer…
Sure to pique the interest of avowed bibliophiles and other people you don’t really want to talk to, Hollywood auction house Julien’s is now offering the rare opportunity to buy a literal piece of the late Truman Capote: his cremated remains, which you can have for the relatively low estimated bid of around…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.
For tourists visiting Hollywood, it can be frustratingly difficult to spot celebrities “in the wild,” so to speak. Sure, a traveler can get lucky and occasionally see a world-famous star patronizing a local restaurant or store, just like a regular person, but this is dicey at best and based purely on coincidence.…
Parody films are ephemeral by nature. Take Fifty Shades Of Black, the Marlon Wayans Fifty Shades Of Grey parody that comes out this weekend: Based on its trailer, it’s practically guaranteed to feature at least one gag involving someone farting during sex. It’s also practically guaranteed to be forgotten before the…
The original Hollywood film noir era petered out toward the end of the 1950s, or right around the time the cinephile directors of the French New Wave started riffing on it. But well into the 1960s, noir’s expressionistic visual style remained in play for some American auteurs (such as Sam Fuller, John Frankenheimer,…
Get ready for more true crime stuff (that is what you want, right?): The Weinstein Company is optioning the rights to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood with the aim of turning it into a TV event series.
A district court judge has ruled that documents pertaining to the 1959 murder case that inspired Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood may be published by the son of one of the investigating officers. The documents, retained by Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Harold Nye and passed on to his son Ronald, contradict certain…
