Celebrity: Dominick Dunne

Now well into his ninth decade, writer, producer and decorated war hero Dominick Dunne is best known lately for his biting coverage of celebrity courtcases in Vanity Fair magazine. The scourge of O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector knows celebrity from the inside out: he has lived the life of a Hollywood high-flier with the intrepid dedication – and subsequent dismay – of a congenital outsider. His frank reflections on a life misspent and repented are interspersed here with further evidence: his own, star-struck home movies, and incisive testimony from Joan Didion, Tina Brown, Liz Smith, Robert Evans and more. [Source: World Cinema Showcase 2009]

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