{"id":5920,"date":"2006-01-01T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/continued-light-blogging.html"},"modified":"2006-01-01T23:21:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T23:21:46","slug":"continued-light-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/continued-light-blogging.html","title":{"rendered":"Continued light blogging&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer situation still on edge&#8230;I may put a bloggerbleg out for some help for yet <em>another<\/em> situation, but I&#8217;ll wait and see if the answers to my questions come from another source first. Got it? <\/p>\n<p>A few things, a couple in this post and another in the next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Saw <em>Capote<\/em> tonight with son David, who is visiting. Superb. Can&#8217;t recommend it enough, particularly for anyone interested in the creative process. It is a complex character exploration, with the the mutual exploitation of Truman Capote and Perry Smith at the centerpiece, and a stark look at the relationship of artist to subject <em>and <\/em>to audience <em>and<\/em> success, in general. Hoffman&#8217;s performance is a marvel, and should win an Oscar, she confidently predicts.&nbsp; My son wondered to me afterward if it wasn&#8217;t over-the-top, until I reassured him that if he had ever seen tape of Capote, he would see that it wasn&#8217;t, and moreover, that Hoffman brings out the conflicted, narcissistic, at times deceitful, yet humane-despite-himself character of Capote. Absolutely time well spent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer situation still on edge&#8230;I may put a bloggerbleg out for some help for yet another situation, but I&#8217;ll wait and see if the answers to my questions come from another source first. Got it? 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