Capote Tapes, The

[Played Oct. 8 on AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Ebs Burnough's fascinating, insightful, informative, colorful, 98-minute, 2019 documentary that explores the career and life of world-famous, legendary gay writer Truman Capote through archival film footage and photographs, excerpts from his writings (such as Other Voices, Other Rooms, A Gathering of Swans, and Answered Prayers, audio recording snippets (such as partner Jack Dunphy, actresses Lauren Bacall and Candace Bergen, writer Norman Mailer, designer Donald Brooks, Babe's daughter Kate Paley, commentator William Buckley Jr., and friends, including Gavin Lambert, Slim Keith, Judy Greene, Barbara Lawrence, Loel Guinness, Leneore Hornblow, CZ Guest, and Margaret Agnelli), and commentary by writer and critic Sadie Stein, writers Jay McInerney and Colm Toibin, journalists George Plimpton and Sally Quinn, adopted daughter Kate Harrington, editor Lewis Lapham, friends and writers Dotson Rader and Phoebe Pierce, art historian John Richardson, former Vogue editor André Leon Tally, and talk show host Dick Cavett.
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