I am calling the Oscars right now. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a lock for Best Actor. "Capote" will be nominated.

OMG! I was stunned, overwhelmed by his performance and the movie itself. You could hear a pin drop. Hoffman is an extraordinary actor. He's never made a false move, and he chooses his films very well. He produced "Capote," too.

It's a deeply layered story about the creation of Capote's book, "In Cold Blood." Familiar as I thought I was with Capote and ICB, I never knew the devastating effect it had on him and how it changed his life.

I can't stop thinking about it. I was moved to tears.

I am calling the Oscars right now. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a lock for Best Actor. "Capote" will be nominated.

OMG! I was stunned, overwhelmed by his performance and the movie itself. You could hear a pin drop (and a half dozen beeping, ringing, zinging cells phones). Hoffman is an extraordinary actor. He's never made a false move, and he chooses his films very well. He produced "Capote," too.

It's a deeply layered story about the creation of Capote's book, "In Cold Blood." Familiar as I thought I was with Capote and ICB, I never knew the devastating effect it had on him and how it changed his life.

I can't stop thinking about it. I was moved to tears.

I've heard this about the movie and Hoffman. I am not familiar with Capote except in name. Would I appreciate the movie?

I've heard this about the movie and Hoffman. I am not familiar with Capote except in name. Would I appreciate the movie?

It's fascinating, moving, involving, and Hoffman is incredible. I can't imagine that you wouldn't appreciate the movie. No prior knowledge of Capote or the book or the real life event on which it was based is needed. I don't think you need to have seen or heard Capote in real life to get the depth and breadth of Hoffman's performance. Though if you have, you'll be even more blown away, I suspect. I know I was.

It was particularly moving for me on a personal level because Hoffman is a dead ringer for my oldest and not well-wrapped brother, who caused no little amount of pain and devastation in my family. My brother is also gay (which has no relationship to his pathologies), and many of his mannerisms are Capoteish in the extreme. I have been confused in my life because I look like my brother, and he looks like Capote. So, if A = B and B = C, then I should look like Truman Capote. I don't, but it never did anything for my self esteem.

My brother is involved in NY theater, and has always, I think, fancied himself the brilliant, witty raconteur that Capote was. He isn't, but oddly enough, he has his brilliant and witty moments.

There's a pivotal line in the film where Capote realizes how deeply involved he has become with Perry Smith (I dont' want to give anything away by saying who that is). He says in painful amazement: "It's as if we grew up in the same house. But I left through the front door and he left through the back." That's very much the way I feel about my brother.

My friend with whom I saw the film, who does not have the emotional relationship to the Capote myth that I do, was equally moved and awed by the movie and Hoffman's performance.