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The official screenplay book tie-in to the "one of the best films of the year"(Rolling Stone, Newsweek), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as legendary writer Truman Capote on his six-year journey to research and write his masterpiece In Cold Blood.

Capote: The Shooting Script includes the complete screenplay for the acclaimed film, a foreword by Gerald Clarke, author of the bestselling biography Capote, exclusive Q&As with screenwriter Dan Futterman and director Bennett Miller, and an 8-page color photo section. ... Read more

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Such A worthwhile script
This is an amazing script, that anyone who is interested in writing scripts should read. The complexity and subtext of the text will educate you and provide you with the example of what is required to write a truelly amazing script.

I don't know if it deserved the Academy Award, BUT ...
I can say that this is a great script, as I've been reading some pages around the internet and I'll surely buy this book very soon. The dialogue, as well as the whole script, is very realistic, and also very enjoyable.

I can't say if it really deserved the Award, but I can say that this script deserves to be read by every screenwriting fan.

This script deserved the Academy Award
Dan Futterman is a genius.It is pure magicianship how he weaves the texts of "Capote" the biography, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote and whatever other research material he depended on, (not to mention his own witty imagination) into this gripping, thorough, and accomplished story.I am so sorry he got knocked down by the "Brokeback" voters - I've read both screenplays and their source materials and have seen both movies and this is by far the more insightful and entertaining.A must for any student of film writing.I look forward to Dan Futterman's future works.JPN, Bronx, NY ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on September 25, 2007. The length of the article is 942 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Happy birthday, Advocate! Turning 40 is definitely cause for celebration when you have friends like these to wish you well.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Author: Alan Cumming
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 993Page: 16(3)

Article Type: Letter to the editor

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The Newmarket Shooting Script® Sets offer a value-priced opportunity for screenplay lovers to build their collection. Each book within the set includes a facsimile of the film's actual shooting script, plus exclusive extras, such as introductions by or interviews with the filmmakers, notes on the film's production, selected movie stills, and complete cast and crew credits. This 3-vol. paperback set includes the script books for the movies Capote, The Squid and the Whale, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Capote: Winner, Best Screenplay, Independent Spirit Award; features full-color section of film stills and background information
The Squid and the Whale: Winner, Best Screenplay, National Board of Review; includes a Q&A with Noah Baumbach
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It's two o'clock in the morning when Andrew Gulliver gets a phone call from his mother, who tells him his twin sister, Annie, is gone. This is not the first time. Ever since she was sixteen, she's been taking off without notice to places as far distant as Papua New Guinea, then returning unexpectedly, only to disappear yet another time, again and again and again.

But this time is different.

Last month, Annie got into serious trouble in Sicily and was briefly held in a mental hospital, where an Italian doctor diagnosed her as schizophrenic. Andrew's divorced mother refuses to accept this diagnosis. Andrew himself just isn't sure. But during the course of a desperate twelve hours in New York City, he and the Gulliver family piece together the past and cope with the present in a journey of revelation and self-discovery. Recognizing the truth at last, Andrew can only hope to find his beloved sister before she harms herself or someone else.

The Moment She Was Gone, a shattering novel of a family confronting its collective secrets, marks the high point in a writing career spanning almost five decades.Amazon.com Review
It's an axiom of fiction as well as real life that a phone that rings in the middle of the night rarely portends good tidings. For Andy Gulliver, the protagonist of Evan Hunter's gripping new novel, it usually means that his peripatetic twin sister, Annie, is gone again, along with her tenuous hold on reality. Annie has been disappearing with no warning and reappearing just as unexpectedly ever since her adolescence, when she ran off to Sweden to find her first love, a boy she met on an earlier trip abroad with her family. However, the real, if unconscious, object of her search, as Hunter makes clear, is the father who abandoned the Gullivers years before. Annie's occasional postcards and letters from places as far-flung as Nepal and New Guinea offer just enough reassurance to enable Andy and their mother to maintain the illusion that there's nothing really wrong with her. Annie's increasing mental deterioration, like her family's implacable denial, is brilliantly depicted, and drives the narrative to its heavily foreshadowed but still shocking conclusion. Hunter, a master of suspense, is the author of 20 novels as well as countless police procedurals and detective stories, all of which are marked by the psychological acuity that suffuses this, his latest. --Jane Adams ... Read more

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Hunter not Macbain
A sorrow story of love over runaway twin sister by her brother and a mother. Not much of relief on their soul but this must be meant for what the reality of life is. Another Evan Hunter, certainly not Ed Mcbain but still I got funny feeling of certain connection with personality like Bert Cling in his 87th Precinct stories.

THE MOMENT SHE WAS GONE
NEVER COULD GET INTO IT. I RARELY EVER STOP LISTENING TO A CD UNTIL IT ENDS BUT THIS STORY JUST BORING. SORRY.

A bit of mis-step from one of my favorite authors.
THE MOMENT SHE WAS GONE is a book trying to tackle an unusual subject and bring it to a human, understandable level.It is about a very mentally ill young lady, and the devastating effects her illness has on her family.Annie and Andrew are twins, and as children, they were very close, as twins are.When Annie becomes a teenager, and meets a young man she becomes enamored with while on vacation in Sweden, she begins to display some psychotic tendencies.The young man jilts her, and as her family shows her understandable sympathy, the reader sees that much of what Annie has experienced could very well simply be imagined...a fantasy.

The thing the book does very well as it shows us Annie's various descents into madness throughout the decades, is to demonstrate the manner in which those nearest and dearest to Annie (mother, siblings) kid themselves that she is basically okay.

The book starts just shortly after her brother Andrew has had to fly to Sicily to retrieve his sister from a mental institution there.She had been brutally assaulted (or so she claims) and caused a bit of trouble when she becomes unhinged.Annie comes back to NYC, and after a few weeks living with her mother, disappears again.But this time, her state is so disjointed that no one can credibly deny that she is very ill and very much a danger to herself and others.As the family members talk to each other, they begin to piece together a story that makes it quite clear they have been very blind to Annie's need.

The book is brief, and Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain) is sparse and convincing with his prose...particularly his dialogue, which has always been stellar in the extreme.He writes with such seeming ease.

It is a book suffused with sympathy for the plight of all concerned.However, to me, there were some weaknesses.First, Annie does not manage to garner much sympathy.Everyone in the family loves her, of course, but as "outsiders" we do not learn to care.Yes, she's very ill, and thus very frustrating.She can't be reasoned with.She doesn't really show much caring for the people around her.She's dangerous at times.She's greedy, foul-mouthed, stupid, belligerent (not all at once, but in turns).It may be a realistic portrayal, but it sure isn't pleasant.Second, the book has a weak structure.Much of it is told in flashback, but Hunter, who has done similar things before quite successfully, doesn't quite pull it all together.It feels a bit haphazard.It isn't that the book can't be followed, but the structure isn't compelling.

Hunter (and McBain) is a fantastic writer.One of my all-time favorites...and his recent death is a huge blow, particularly for those of us who love the 87th Precinct.And this book has many of his trademark strengths.But I just didn't find it compelling enough to give a hearty recommendation.You won't feel your time was wasted, but it isn't Hunter's strongest by a long shot either.

Who cares when she left, they ALL stayed too long!!!!
I stopped reading half way through the book.I realize the characters were supposed to be confusing, yet mysterious enough to keep us intrigued; instead the family members were little more than caricatures of every disfunctional family ever imagined.Some novels are character driven, others rely on plot.This book is devoid of both. Mr. Hunter has great abilility, but this book seems more like a rough draft; that needs a stabilizing narrator the reader can identify with; then a finished work.Extremely disappointing, I want my time and money back.

Hard to put down
I checked this book out on the basis of the author having written "Blackboard Jungle."I was not disappointed. Hunter, in spare, cogent style,offers a sensitive, realistic view of acondition difficult for families to face. The author covers various family member reactions such as denying, ennabling and defying. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on April 9, 2006. The length of the article is 1314 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Capote, convincente y hondo filme poético: ecos del Oscar.(Reseña de película)
Author: Mario Saavedra
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 9, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 52Issue: 2756Page: 78(2)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on June 24, 2007. The length of the article is 1174 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Role of slain reporter a test for actor.(Movies - Articles)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 24, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: d10

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