“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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