Capote in Kansas

This town is still bleeding. Did you expect them to thank you for ripping off the bandage?

On Saturday, November 15, 1959, Dick Hickocks and Perry Smith entered a Kansas farmhouse and brutally murdered four people whom they’d never met. Truman Capote spent the next six years investigating the story and produced In Cold Blood, the original true crime novel.

Capote in Kansas deals with the crime peripherally; instead, it tells a fictionalized version of Capote’s years of research and writing. In Parks and Samnee’s version, the ghost of one of the victims assists the author.

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‘Potter’ Still Top Turkey

The numbers are in and it looks like everyone’s favority boy wizard is still tops at the box office.

  1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  2. Walk the Line
  3. Yours, Mine, and Ours *
  4. Chicken Little
  5. Rent *
  6. Just Friends *
  7. Pride and Prejudice
  8. Derailed
  9. In the Mix *
  10. The Ice Harvest *

* = New this week. More data.

Threshold Cancelled?

Zap2It is reporting that Threshold has been pulled from CBS’s lineup. There’s no confirmation from CBS as to whether or not it’s officially canned, but its lackluster ratings and schedule juggling make this no surprise.

Crap, does this mean Braga now has to time to fuc…er…work with Star Trek? ‘Cause I’m holding him to this.