Slog - Comments on "I'm Charles Baker Harris. I can read. I can read anything you've got. Folks call me Dill." http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can Went to see the opening of To Kill a Mockingbird at Intiman last night. It was okay. (Good things: Recalling the story; a big cast; Lori Larson as a town floozy. Bad things: Jem, Scout, and Dill were almost impossible to understand, their little-kid voices at a shouty monotone; some guy wandering around playing bar harmonica in a portentous way; the whole production was a little slow, a little flat.) More importantly—I didn't know the character of Dill was based on Truman Capote. Dill, the neglected, clever, wimpy one. Dill, the messenger between kidland and adultland, the one who is... Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:42:32 -0800 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:08:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Blaire Wait, is like that business with the "Who's Tommy"?

]]> Blaire http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c807985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c807985 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:07:49 -0800 Comment by jake I was there, too. Intiman may as well have killed a whole flock of mockingbirds.

]]> jake http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c807987 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c807987 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:11:19 -0800 Comment by Geni There's been a persistent rumor for years - almost certainly started by Capote himself - that Capote was, in fact, the author. I've never bought it, and I always thought it was a crappy thing to do to one of his most steadfast friends.

]]> Geni http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808011 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808011 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:31:15 -0800 Comment by elm How, indeed?

]]> elm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808038 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:52:49 -0800 Comment by Brendan Kiley I don't know. I'm pretty embarrassed about it. And I wanted to share my shame with you.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808042 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808042 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:55:01 -0800 Comment by Johnny Ummm, for the love of GAWD, Truman Capote wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird".

One of the greatest books of our time written by: one of the greatest authors of our time OR ummmm Harper Lee...

Come ON.

]]> Johnny http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808105 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:38:13 -0800 Comment by Big_K Watch the movie on TCM sometime. The guy introducting the movie will tell you all about Dill/Capote.

]]> Big_K http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808123 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:52:11 -0800 Comment by Slip Mahoney Movie Trivia: John Megna, the child actor who played Dill/Capote in the movie of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was gay. He died of AIDS in 1995 at age 42.

]]> Slip Mahoney http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/im_charles_baker_harris_i_can_read_i_can#c808340 Books Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:08:16 -0800