Music: Kidiscography, 1960

(3 of 3)

A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote; United Artists). A U.S. Southland equivalent of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales that is every whit as good, indeed a minor modern masterpiece. Cousinly confederates, a woman in her 60s and a boy of seven celebrate the season in the preaffluent society of three decades ago. The woman is slightly daft and wholly generous. The boy is a boy. Their life is a touching mixture of the funny, the poignant and the evocative. With his reedy voice, Author Capote is a doubtful choice to perform his own work; yet he breathes regional life into it, and the region is the human heart.

Quotes of the Day »

Get & Share
GREGG KEESLING on reports that he received a call from an Army official saying he wasn't eligible to receive a condolence letter from President Obama because his son committed suicide, rather than dying in action
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

Get & Share
PETER COSANDEY, a former Zurich prosecutor, after a Swiss court granted director Roman Polanksi $4.5 million bail to move from a Swiss jail to house arrest

Stay Connected with TIME.com