When I interviewed Doug McGrath '80 for The Daily Princetonian in the fall of 2000, he described himself as temperamentally unsuited for his first job writing for "Saturday Night Live," where work on ...

Excited to have finished a draft of his screenplay for his new film about Truman Capote, writer/director Douglas McGrath called independent film executive Bingham Ray to talk about it. Ray, who had ...

The old line you hear about certain authors — he’s as much of a character as anyone in his books! — doesn’t tend to be true even when we say it. Yet in Truman Capote’s case, it’s virtually an ...

TORONTO -- Doug McGrath, a nice Midland boy, went east for college and later landed a job writing for Saturday Night Live, which would've been a terrifically lucky break except that it "turned out to ...

“The Capote Tapes” is similar to the recent documentary “Billie,” in that it makes use of extensive audio recordings with people who knew the film’s subject — in this case the tapes that George ...

Truman Capote, the Southern-born literary genius, was an author, screenwriter, playwright, documentary director and even an actor, but did you know he also wrote one of the all-time classic horror ...

You probably went to the wrong Capote movie. We realized we did when we saw Infamous (out 2/13 on DVD), You probably went to the wrong Capote movie. We realized we did when we saw Infamous (out 2/13 ...

Douglas McGrath and Toby Jones have heard all about that other Truman Capote movie, the one that threatened to make their own look like a copycat or an afterthought. Jones stars as Capote in director ...

Ebs Burnough's doc portrait 'The Capote Tapes' relies partly on interviews conducted by George Plimpton. By John DeFore First-time filmmaker Ebs Burnough, according to his TIFF mini-bio, is a ...

“Capote” upset “Brokeback Mountain” on Saturday when the biographical drama was chosen best picture by the National Society of Film Critics. To date, the majority of critics’ groups had named ...

Audrey Hepburn was a truly inspiring movie star, a generous, charming soul who loved to share her good fortune with others. In addition to her beautiful personality, she was absolutely stunning. She ...