Congrats to Rien, who was first to pipe up with the answer to yesterday's Threes! (What film featured Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, and Gwyneth Paltrow?) As our winner, Rien now has the privilege to make and proudly wear a homemade construction-paper medallion. Yay!
Also answering correctly, just a bit more slowly, were kristYn, Reese, Joe, previous winner JimD, and Britta.
For the answer, sit back, clear your mind, and visualize the Inviso-Text!
As Joe Allen observed, it was indeed "the other Truman Capote Biopic": 2006's Infamous, starring Toby Jones as Capote. Infamous and 2005's Capote (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) had been in production at the same time with the same subject: the author's manipulation of murderer Perry Smith while writing In Cold Blood. Bennett Miller's Capote was the slightly larger, more prestigious project and got into theaters first, nabbing a slew of Oscar nominations and a win for Hoffman. But Douglas Mcgrath's Infamous is possibly the better film–Jone's performance as Capote is actually richer and less showy (if such a thing is possible when playing Capote), and the film is more nuanced.
Paltrow plays a socialite friend of Truman's, and Bullock is Nelle (Harper) Lee, who assisted Capote's research while finishing her own book, To Kill a Mockingbird. (Catherine Keener was nominated for playing Lee in Capote.) A pre-Bond Craig (who appears this weekend in Defiance) played Perry Smith in Infamous.
Perry Smith was played by Clifton Collins Jr. in Capote, by Eric Roberts in a 1996 TV movie of In Cold Blood, and most famously (now infamously) by Robert Blake in the in the original 1967 masterpiece In Cold Blood. Smith's partner in murder, Dick Hickock, was played by Pushing Daisies' Lee Pace in Infamous, by Mark Pellegrino in Capote, by Anthony Edwards in the '96 Blood, and by the great character actor Scott Wilson in the '67 original.
