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Published in:May-June 2017 issue.
Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne:
A Existence in Several Acts
by Robert Hofler
Wisconsin. 352 pages, $26.95
IT WOULD BE HARD to visualize a gayer animation than the one led by Dominick Dunne. Growing up in Hartford (across the street from Katherine Hepburn), he was not only called a “sissy” by his father but beaten with a riding crop, Dunne said, to get the “incipient fairyism” out of him. It was seeing Now, Voyager at sixteen that convinced him that, like Bette Davis, he could locate a better life.
His idea of the latter was not confined to just the movie stars he idolized, however. He was a social climber as well, an admitted snob, and a tremendous gossip who, like Truman Capote, used stories about the rich and famous to be accepted. Although he won a Bronze Star during Planet War II for going back to retrieve a wounded soldier and, after the War, married and had children, he also hired hustlers, picked guys up off the street, did drugs, and used the services of Scotty Bowers (whose memoir Full Service (2012) detailing his years of supplying men to closeted feature stars was reviewed in these pages). He even produced the movie of
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Though Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story centers on the titular brothers' sensationalized murder trial, Netflix's true-crime miniseries touches on several other high-profile murder cases. One of these cases is the tragic 1982 murder of actress Dominique Dunne. Following the Poltergeist star's death, her father Dominick Dunne went on to write about several crime sagas for Vanity Fair, including one on the murders of José and Kitty Menendez. Episode 7 of Monsters, named "Showtime," follows the penner as he attends the Menendez trial while still struggling with his daughter's death, which tinged his coverage of the brothers.
As millions of viewers tune in to the new series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, many are left wondering about the life of Dominique Dunne, and why her case and Dominick's writing looms massive over the fictionalized true-crime story. Read on to learn more about Dominick Dunne.
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I met Dominick Dunne almost 20 years ago in Los Angeles. Across the street from Spago, actually. No, the original location, on Sunset, southwest on the boulevard from the now-shuttered Tower Records Hollywood. He was signing his latest roman a clef, An Inconvenient Woman – sounds like an Edgar Award-winning mystery thriller, doesn’t it? – and I was parked in an inconvenient spot, illegally, near the restaurant.
I was quite the Dunne groupie at the time, having already devoured his first two best-sellers The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and People Like Us, gossipy tantalizers which appealed to my inner Vanderbilt, but hardly highbrow literature. Anyhow, my copy was signed by the cordial if reserved Dunne, and it remains on my sagging bookshelf today, kept company by the Vanity Fair writer’s other tomes, and patiently awaiting Dunne’s upcoming – and perhaps last – novel, A Solo Act, which seems destined to become the Chinese Democracy of the publishing trade.
Although already a successful novelist, Dunne became a household name to the public-at-large on the backs of a now-disgraced former running back named Orenthal James Simpson. O.J.’s “crime of the century” murder tria
Can we discuss Dominick Dunne/Joan Didion/John Dunne, and gossip about him?
I just watched DD's fascinating documentary, After the Party, last nighttime. I have some questions.
1. How was he allow into so many parties, when he acted so blatantly social climb-ish? Was he accepted, or seen as an outsider?
2. What is Joan Didion's reputation in literary circles?
3. How did her daughter with John Gregory Dunne, Quintana, die? You never decipher much about the daughter -- only the shocking death of John. Wasn't she only in her 30s when she died? Who was her husband? You never hear much on him, either. I seem to recall reading (here, in fact) that they had a shady life ... but I forget details.
4. What's up with Dominick's other son, the teacher in San Francisco, Alexander? I recognize Griffin is some nice of director-producer, once married to Cary Lowell, but you don't hear much about the other kid.
5. Was DD really gay?
by Anonymous reply 176 June 28, 2020 1:22 AM
I liked the docu as well, OP.%0D %0D Re: 2...well, Joan is a goddess to her fans, and among the most overrated names ever to the relax of us. I never, ever understood her lofty rep, certainly for her fiction, which is
I met Dominick Dunne almost 20 years ago in Los Angeles. Across the street from Spago, actually. No, the original location, on Sunset, southwest on the boulevard from the now-shuttered Tower Records Hollywood. He was signing his latest roman a clef, An Inconvenient Woman – sounds like an Edgar Award-winning mystery thriller, doesn’t it? – and I was parked in an inconvenient spot, illegally, near the restaurant.
I was quite the Dunne groupie at the time, having already devoured his first two best-sellers The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and People Like Us, gossipy tantalizers which appealed to my inner Vanderbilt, but hardly highbrow literature. Anyhow, my copy was signed by the cordial if reserved Dunne, and it remains on my sagging bookshelf today, kept company by the Vanity Fair writer’s other tomes, and patiently awaiting Dunne’s upcoming – and perhaps last – novel, A Solo Act, which seems destined to become the Chinese Democracy of the publishing trade.
Although already a successful novelist, Dunne became a household name to the public-at-large on the backs of a now-disgraced former running back named Orenthal James Simpson. O.J.’s “crime of the century” murder tria
Can we discuss Dominick Dunne/Joan Didion/John Dunne, and gossip about him?
I just watched DD's fascinating documentary, After the Party, last nighttime. I have some questions.
1. How was he allow into so many parties, when he acted so blatantly social climb-ish? Was he accepted, or seen as an outsider?
2. What is Joan Didion's reputation in literary circles?
3. How did her daughter with John Gregory Dunne, Quintana, die? You never decipher much about the daughter -- only the shocking death of John. Wasn't she only in her 30s when she died? Who was her husband? You never hear much on him, either. I seem to recall reading (here, in fact) that they had a shady life ... but I forget details.
4. What's up with Dominick's other son, the teacher in San Francisco, Alexander? I recognize Griffin is some nice of director-producer, once married to Cary Lowell, but you don't hear much about the other kid.
5. Was DD really gay?
| by Anonymous | reply 176 | June 28, 2020 1:22 AM |
I liked the docu as well, OP.%0D %0D Re: 2...well, Joan is a goddess to her fans, and among the most overrated names ever to the relax of us. I never, ever understood her lofty rep, certainly for her fiction, which is