UPI Almanac for Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007.

NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) -- D.D. Ryan, the former Harper's Bazaar editor who was also a creative force behind the popular "Eloise" books, has died in New York at age 79.

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.

TORONTO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The Toronto Film Festival is featuring high-profile films even though the market for art films is slow, a report says.

VENICE, Italy, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Actor Toby Jones, who plays Truman Capote in "Infamous," described at the Venice film festival how it felt to kiss Daniel Craig, the new James Bond actor.