![]() ![]() “His parents split up early on and they left him in care of his relatives. “I read everything I could on Capote’s life at that time,” Poole says. ![]() So Poole decided to populate the story with characters based on Capote’s real cousins. I didn’t want to damage it, but I wanted to fulfill the task of making it fit two hours.” I wanted to preserve and protect the emotion that is inherent in the story. ![]() “To fill out a TV movie, I realized I had a lot of work to do. “It’s such a slight story, very long on emotion and very short on incident,” Poole says. Three years ago he penned the teleplay to the NBC movie “One Christmas,” which was based on a little-known prequel to “A Christmas Memory.” The Capote estate, which previously had turned down all requests to have “Christmas Memory” adapted as a two-hour TV movie, was so pleased with Poole’s work that it gave him and executive producer John Dayton the rights to “Memory.”īut Poole soon realized that there were wasn’t enough of a story to fill two hours. “A Christmas Memory” is the favorite short story of Capote buff Duane Poole, who wrote the CBS adaptation. Shot on location in the quaint Georgia towns of Peachtree City, Sharpsburg and Senoia, the new “Christmas Memory” also stars Eric Lloyd (“The Santa Clause”) as Buddy Piper Laurie as Buddy’s stern cousin Jenny Anita Gillette as cousin Callie and Jefrrey DeMunn as his cousin Seabon. ![]()
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I have plenty to gush on both matters but before we get into that, let’s discuss my recent hiatus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, Poskett’s book contains more ideological propaganda than honest scholarly research, though in spite of that (or probably it would better to say thanks to that), there are chances that it becomes one of the reference works in history of science within the next years. Now it is the turn to the last bestseller in a field on which I can presume of having a little bit more knowledge than in the other two cases, which may be the reason why I think the book’s argument is much worse than theirs: James Poskett’s Horizons: A Global History of Science. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have already written a couple of reviews of recent books that tried to awaken us from our outdated, Eurocentric, rationalistic and neoliberal assumptions about the essence of history (Graeber’s and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, and Anderson’s The Realness of Things Past). 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