Friends, a quick programming note. To ensure consistency, Done & Dunne is going to an every-other-week schedule starting Monday, April 26, with the conclusion of the trial of Dominque Dunne's murderer. Look forward to longer, more in-depth episodes every other Monday, and thank you so much for your support of this labor of love.

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We have certain underlying assumptions about how the criminal justice works, and how the courtroom will treat the grieving family of a murder victim. Nick sure did, until it was his family gathered in a Los Angeles courthouse, watching a grave miscarriage of justice play out as the man who murdered his daughter Dominique stood trial.

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In this Done and Dunne episode, Alicia talks about the lynchpin in Dominick's First Act Hollywood downfall, occurring during the filming of Ash Wednesday, starring the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Dunne profiles Elizabeth for Vanity Fair in December 1985's "The Red Queen". Theirs is a tale of friendship, respect, and recovery and an excellent example of the kind of information Dominick is able to solicit in his pieces.

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In this high society and hot gossip of an episode, Dominick Dunne weaves the tale of much married and much widowed Lady Enid Kenmare as first told in his March 1991Vanity Fair piece "Memento Mori". Lots of marriages, scandals, and a woman who was quite a legend.

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Alicia explores the odd intersection of two of her favorite fandoms: Our man Nick and the king of laid back music, Jimmy Buffett. Their connection point occurred in the late 1950s, when Dominick Dunne was casting a forthcoming show called Adventures in Paradise and handed off his business card to a handsome man he met in a coffee shop. That man was Gardner McKay, who would become a heartthrob during three seasons helming the Tiki III through shirtless adventures across the South Pacific. One future pirate that McKay inspired a young Jimmy Buffett.

Further Reading:

Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Amazon link)

We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About (YouTube)

Beautiful Swimmers (YouTube)

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Alicia follows Dominick's gaze to California and tells the story of Muriel and Seema Silberstein and the 96% of the shares of the Beverly Hills Hotel they owned in equal proportion. It was that last 4% that drove them over the edge. Beverly Hills was scandalized. Dominick was intrigued.

Further reading:

Beverly Hills Coup, by Dominick Dunne. Vanity Fair, February 1986

Fatal Charms and the Mansions of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link)

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A deeply personal tragedy, and a horrific crime, accelerates Dominick's transition into a warrior for justice. This week we meet Dominique Dunne, the beloved California child of Nick and Lenny, whose murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend in 1982 was chronicled for Vanity Fair in her grieving father's own words.

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In this episode, Alicia tells the story of the feud between our man Nick and Frank Sinatra, which led to a bizarre altercation at The Daisy, the “it” place for Hollywood’s movers and shakers in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sources:

Eighty-Two Very Good Years (newyorker.com)

Excerpt: Craig Brown on Frank Sinatra, Dominick Dunne, and Phil Spector (vanityfair.com)

The Daisy in Beverly Hills (martinostimemachine.blogspot.com)

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra (esquire.com)

Dominick Dunne: After The Party (amazon.com)

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Welcome to the premiere of Done & Dunne! Alicia takes us through Dominick Dunne’s first act, from a comfortable childhood marred by conflict with his father, to a Hollywood career that gradually gave way to substance misuse, the breakdown of his marriage, and finally, a long stay at a remote cabin in Oregon where Nick began to piece himself back together. 

Sources for this episode:

Dominick Dunne: After the Party (Documentary, Amazon link)

A Death in the Family (Essay by Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair, May 2003)

The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (Book by Dominick Dunne, Amazon link)

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Welcome to the Done and Dunne Podcast - the podcast for all things Dominick Dunne. Coming to you Mondays beginning March 2021!

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