DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This two-part, four-hour documentary on the 1959 murder case immortalized by Truman Capote in In Cold Blood is chilling. It uses period audio recordings and film clips, as well as new audio of the victims' relatives, speaking for the first time about the case, to present a fuller portrait than ever before of the senseless slaughter of a Kansas family. Capote enters the story midway through tonight's Part 1, but the entire documentary is well worth viewing, for what it says about small towns, the media, gun violence, and many, many other things. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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Folks, we're leaving up these trolling comments as oddball case studies on the flexibility needed -- in this instance -- to twist the smallest reference of small-town life into some gigantic pretzel-insult made against conservative voters. Just sprinkle salt and enjoy. --TVWW

Nov 21, 2017 | Reply

Zeke

R. Dunn.
You are a guest on this site.
Do you think you could address this with manners?
(particularly if you want people to listen)

Nov 20, 2017 | Reply

David Bianculli

Dear Zeke: I want to thank you, in particular, for having the perfect response to one of our more aggressive trollers, by merely asking for civility. Our own Eric Gould takes an approach like I do, looking at this troller's rude and caustic political comments, especially, as case studies in the occasional by-product costs of free speech. I have no problem with differing viewpoints and opinions - but rudeness suggests nothing but an underlying roiling pit of insecurity and, much more often than not, ignorance. Oh, and for the record -- again, I'm addressing the troller here, not Zeke -- to call me a liberal college professor always mocking and insulting small towns in "fly over country" is as uninformed as most of your attempted insults. I worked and lived in Akron, OH, and loved it, and you don't get much more small-town than that. Why don't you, mr. troller, act more like Zeke here? You'd be very welcome - rather than tolerated, as you are now, because our tolerance level is much higher than your own. Oh, and as Thanksgiving weekends go, I'm very grateful for Zeke and all the TVWW readers and posters like him.

Nov 24, 2017

R. Dunn

Bianculli... Do not liberal college Professors like you always MOCK & INSULT "small towns" across the USA all the time? You know, "fly over country" between NYC & LA...the place where all those ignorant, red-neck, peasants who VOTED for Pres Trump live and work.

Nov 18, 2017 | Reply

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