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an utter hoot" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). With a voice "like Truman Capote on Seconal" (Dave Kehr, Daily News ), Adam Sandler regresses from the borderline maturity of The Wedding Singer back to his trademark sweet, addled, violent character--this time in a formula sports-loser-turned-sports-hero flick aimed at the fraternity/junior-high-school crowd.
The New Yorker excerpts George Plimpton's forthcoming biography of Truman Capote to tell the story behind Capote's In Cold Blood , the "factional" account of a 1959 murder in Kansas, which appeared in the magazine in 1965.
And then there are the bellybuttons: On one page Truman Capote, no longer the slender, bow-tied manchild Avedon had photographed a decade earlier, pulls open his dark shirt to show his navel, a winking eye in an expanse of pale flesh.
On the next page the Fugs (Ken Weaver, Ed Sanders, and Tuli Kupferberg) in all their hairy hippie insouciance, mimic Capote's pose.
Book -- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , by George Plimpton;