Done & Dunne

Dominick Dunne, by his own admission, worshipped Marilyn Monroe, and was lucky enough to get to know her a bit during their overlapping years in Hollywood. In this episode, we’ll meet Marilyn at the beginning of her journey, including her childhood, first marriage, and the origins of her stardom.

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Done & Dunne has spent some time at Beverly Hills mainstay The Daisy, the exclusive club that Nick and Lenny were members of, and where Frank Sinatra once paid the maitre d’ to punch Dominick in the face. Years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was a hostess at The Daisy when she, very consequentially, met OJ Simpson.

But before The Daisy, another legendary establishment occupied the same address. Romanoff’s, a restaurant that served as the hangout for the stars who built Old Hollywood, was the contribution of flamboyant owner Michael Romanoff, a man who spun a tale about his own origin story and in the process, made himself a figure in the glitz and glamour of the place and the era.

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Author Martin Turnbull has made Hollywood's Golden Age the focus of his career. His Garden of Allah novels transport readers to a time when the glitz and glamour of Hollywood was new, and would become the stuff of legend. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about The Garden of Allah, its famous players, The Hollywood Canteen, and so much more! 

Enormous thanks to Martin for being so generous with his time. Find him online at his website, his photo blog, at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or at his blog. You can also check out his Amazon author page, and of course, explore Hollywood's Golden Age through his eyes in his Garden of Allah novels. You can get the first two in ebook form by signing up to his mailing list!

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Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “The Shrink Next Door” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why), and Peter Stormare. Listen to all six episodes ad free on Wondery+ on May 9.

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Darlings, in this episode, we pull the thread of Natalie Wood and connect her back into Laurel Canyon. Her parents built a home on Lookout Mountain on Woodrow Wilson Drive, that will have quite a storied history beyond Natalie, and into the spiderwebs that are Dominick Dunne. 

Get ready to meet Mart Crowley, ponder the Boys in the Band, and recall Romanoff's (not those ones).

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In this episode, we move ahead in our Old Hollywood investigation to explore Dominick Dunne's universe in the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, Alicia focuses on Dominick's recollections in The Way We Lived Then, his photographic memoir released in 1999. 

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We begin the deep dive into our Laurel Canyon investigation with a story about a famous log cabin located at the intersection of Lookout Mountain and Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

From its origins as the Laurel Tavern, to the home of Tom Mix – the King of the Cowboys, to the home of Frank Zappa and a season of 1968 counterculture, this home has quite a storied past.

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In today's episode, we take an tour of Laurel Canyon, from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Laurel Canyon's storied history is fascinating and complex and all the players connect in one timeframe or another. This episode is your foundation and introduction for many of the stories to come in the next few weeks. 

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In this Bonus Dunne Day Episode, Alicia takes you first to the West Coast to explore San Francisco's New Amsterdam, forever preserved in the song Mr. Jones by the Counting Crows. Then, we head to the East Coast - New York City - where we talk about the building, history, and the ghosts, too, of the other New Amsterdam. 

Get ready for a cross-continent journey spanning more than a century. Highlights include the Ziegfeld Follies, The Merry Widow Hat Skirmish, Kung Fu Movies, a Times Square renovation, and some of the biggest Disney musicals of recent decades.

It is a whole spiderweb today that takes us from 1903 to the present day. 

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Continuing our journey into Old Hollywood, Alicia unpacks the wild romance of the "It Couple" of Hollywood in the late 1910s, Olive Thomas and Jack Pickford. Both certainly have their archetypes, and lived them well.

We follow Olive from her humble beginnings into her trajectory to fame, and Jack's esteemed pedigree as the brother of America's Sweetheart. Finally, we explore their marriage and, of course, the mysterious death of our fair heroine.

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