I know it's hard to believe, but instead of seeing Chicken Little this weekend, we got a babysitter and saw Capote instead.  I really enjoyed the movie, and I think many parallels can be made between an author/journalist and a lawyer -- how much do you treat the subject matter of your representation as ends in themselves or as means to your own ends?  Also, how do we distance ourselves from human suffering of those around us in order to muddle through? 

Over the weekend, one blogger posed the question of whether Truman Capote wrote To Kill a Mockingbird instead of his lifelong friend, Nelle Harper Lee:  "Isn't it statistically remarkable to have such literary talent growing up as neighbors in some southern small town?"  Perhaps if they didn't know each other.  Obviously, being best friends with someone who became a famous author would tend to encourage someone to write or to send a manuscript to a publisher.  I tend to believe that everyone has at least one story inside, but not everyone has the inclination, skill, and opportunity to get the story out.

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