An unsolved multiple murder in small-town America: a writing challenge, thought the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.“Everything would seem freshly minted,” he later told his biographer Gerald Clarke. 16, 1959, Truman Capote ran across a small story on of the New York Times: wealthy farmer, three of family slain. But, somewhere along the way, the well-intentioned miniseries makers embraced the notion that In Cold Blood was A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, just as the book’s subtitle asserts. Had this miniseries in fact been a reinterpretation, or even an interpretation, it might have been a worthy undertaking. We’ve had a perfectly decent run of Austens lately, and not enough people saw Demi Moore’s sex-larded The Scarlet Letter for it to do much damage. It’s hard to argue against reinterpreting masterpieces from time to time.
In Cold Blood is a masterpiece of a kind, not, as has been often alleged, as the first nonfiction crime novel–what was John Hersey’s Hiroshima, after all?–but as perhaps the truest work of fiction Capote ever wrote, and certainly the most passionate. explained, “and, as such, is certainly worthy of reinterpretation almost 30 years after it was written.” “Truman Capote’s book is a literary masterpiece,” miniseries executive producer Robert Halmi Sr.
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Mark Greene in the series ER“) as one killer, Eric Roberts as the other, and Sam Neill as the lawman. And yet, there it is, a four-hour CBS miniseries starring Anthony Edwards (“Fans knows him best as the lovable Dr.
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