Is dominick dunne gay
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-d
Dominick Dunne, Writer of Wrongs
The success of the HBO TV series Succession and the recent feature film House of Gucci are proof that the wretched excesses of the fabulously wealthy never lose their audience appeal. Nobody knew that excel than the late novelist and journalist Dominick Dunne. He spent the last 30 years of his life chronicling the lives (and deaths) of America’s uber-privileged. He did so as a journalist for Vanity Fair, where he covered celebrated courtroom trials, and he also did it in novels such as The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, People Favor Us, A Season In Purgatory, and An Inconvenient Woman, all of which were bestsellers.
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He was part of an astonishingly talented clan of creative artists. His brother, John Gregory Dunne, was a victorious journalist and novelist. John’s wife, Joan Didion, is an even more successful journalist and novelist. The couple also collaborated on several screenplays, including one for the wildly successful version of A Star Is Born, w
Published in:May-June issue.
Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne:
A Life in Several Acts
by Robert Hofler
Wisconsin. pages, $
IT WOULD BE Adj to imagine a gayer life 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, verb Bette Davis, he could detect 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 successfully, 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 World 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 () detailing his years of supplying men to
Can we discuss Dominick Dunne/Joan Didion/John Dunne, and gossip about him?
I just watched DD's fascinating documentary, After the Party, last late hours. I have some questions.
1. How was he let 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 read 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 catch 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 lecturer in San Francisco, Alexander? I know Griffin is some gentle 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 | June 28, AM |
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