TRU

I know, I know, two posts in one day....

With the Oscars approaching, alas, I had to suck it up and see Capote. Phillip Seymour Hoffman deserves the Oscar for Best Actor. Straight up. Sorry Heath, your movie's one for the history books but it's Phillip's year, not yours (We can always hope for Jake to win Best Supporting Actor).

Dear God, I'm going to have nightmares of the execution for weeks.

I was very interested to learn of Capote's friendship with the author Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my all time favourite books (perahps time to read it again?) but I never knew the following which is excerpted from a Capote biography on the internet:

"In his childhood Capote made friends with Harper Lee, who portrayed him as Dill in her world famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird. "Dill was a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him. As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead."

I had intented to do a double-bill this afternoon, and see Walk The Line after Capote, but I was just too emotionally wrought. So, I decided on a good steak, aged cheese and a nice bottle of red wine instead.