Novelist, screenwriter, playwright, creator of In Cold Blood, the first nonfiction novel, witty raconteur, and celeb jet-setter, Truman Capote was one of the most singular personalities of his time.

Before you see Spielberg's Ôø?War of the Worlds,Ôø? there are some basic facts you need to know about the original version. For example, director Byron Haskin disliked his two leads, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, so much, that he described their performances in public as Ôø?terribly wooden.Ôø?

It's Sunday night, October 30, 1938, 8pm—Do you know where your children are Spielberg's eagerly awaited ¬ìWar of the World¬î is a remake of the popular 1953 movie. But as far as impact is concerned, there's no match to the radio broadcast of the H.G. Wells novel by enfant terrible Orson Welles who at 22 caused mass hysteria with his powerful dramatization.