Tman Capote paved the way for many gay men Ameri, a new film about his life shows | The Canberra Tim | Canberra, ACT

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The new documentary tails the great gay thor's wrg reer and high-society nnectns but also portrays his life as a fay man.

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TMAN CAPOTE PAVED THE WAY FOR MANY GAY MEN AMERI, A NEW FILM ABOUT HIS LIFE SHOWS

Directed by a gay former Obama Whe Hoe social secretary, Ebs Burnough, the film draws om the tap of wrer and edor Gee Plimpton’s 1997 oral history of Capote to build a more plete portra of the oral history also served as the basis of the 2006 film Infamo, but Burnough avoids the tenncy reprentatns of gay artists to simplify the role of inty their liv and works. Harrgton rells how Capote’s mother abandoned him ral Alabama, and that he nfid her about how “dreadful” was to live there as “this ltle gay, sawed-off man. The two big Hollywood movi about him — 2005’s Osr-wng Capote, starrg Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Infamo — zero on that era of his greatt mass market succs, when he prciently turned the murr of a prospero Kansas fay to the then-groundbreakg format of a nonfictn pecially draws all kds of nclns om his tortured, homoerotic relatnship wh the book’s crimal protagonist, Perry Smh, and the fallout of his journalistic betrayal as he awaed their executn.

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