Filmmaker Ebs Burnough’s new documentary “The Capote Tapes,” featuring interviews with friends, contemporaries, and Capote himself, seeks to cast the author in a new light.
At his death in 1984, just shy of 60, in the Bel Air home of one of Johnny Carson’s ex-wives, Truman Capote was conspicuous less for his literary output than for his ubiquitous guest spots on late-night talk shows.
