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822. Kansas, Nov. 1959

Jim & Amy got #821!


After the arrest of the men in #821, many came in search of the story. This New Yorker was among them.

| posted by John, 7:28 AM

6 Comments:

This is Toby Jones as Truman Capote in Infamous.
Blogger Jim, at 9:48 AM  
Right, Jim! He's quite the babyface.

It was odd that these two movies came out so close together in time, but it wasn't the first time they pulled something like that. I remember a cable company put on an epic Helen of Troy movie, and right after that here came Troy.
Blogger John, at 10:01 AM  
Cynically put, I think that the guys with the money will spend more money on whatever has been recently successful. That's why we get so many remakes and comics made into live action - it all indicates a real lack of new plots and ideas. To be honest, it's even worse in the theater on Broadway.
Blogger Jim, at 12:55 PM  
Cynically taken! Film writers who come up with something new and different almost always talk about how hard it was getting a studio to invest in it. I forget how many studios turned down Back to the Future before someone finally gave it a chance. "That doesn't sound safe. Let's remake Psycho scene-for-scene instead." Apropos, Eragon appears so wholly derivative that I don't plan to see it.
Blogger John, at 1:25 PM  
After all that complaining, I actually thought that both the Capote movies were quite good...
Blogger Jim, at 2:03 PM  
Sorry... you built me a soapbox and I just had to climb on it.
Blogger John, at 3:46 PM  

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