OSCAR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
This undated photo provided by Sony Pictures Classics shows actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in a scene from "Capote." "Capote" was nominatd for best picture and Hoffman was nominated for best actor for the 78th annual Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 31, 2006. The winners will be announced at the Oscar ceremony on March 5. (UPI Photo/Sony Pictures Classics/Handout)
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NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- British actor Toby Jones says in New York he doesn't worry about being the second actor seen playing Truman Capote on film in slightly over a year.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- "Infamous" director Douglas McGrath says he changed the title of his new film from "Every Word is True" because legal advisors said the latter was misleading.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- British actor Toby Jones says he didn't know much about Truman Capote before he was hired to play the U.S. literary icon in the new film, "Infamous." The movie focuses on Capote as he writes his ground-breaking 1965 novel, "In Cold Blood."
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A standing-room-only crowd attended a series of short films opening the independent Woodstock Film Festival in the New York Catskills artists' colony.
Today is Saturday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2006 with 92 to follow.
