so sue me i heart dominick dunne

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ok sure this legendary toadying gossip and lickspittle turned self-obsessed justice-seeking avenger is an "acquired taste"

but his version of the royal butler story in this month's vanity fair is thermonuclear strength dunne, tireless namedropping ("my friend the queen of spain"), ludicrous moralising, world-class prurience, indomitable self-importance, even not-bad journalism now and then

i sort of wonder how much of it is a perverse wildean act, to overthrow the thing he seemingly adores

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I love him too. The best name dropper there's ever been? The pieces about his daughter are excellent, and I love thinking about he and Mark Fuhrman palling around, solving crimes together. It's like Sam Spade and Hercule Poirot working together, or something.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

is he as mighty as dominik diamond?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

they are exactly equal

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i usually like dwarvish name dropping fags, he i cannot stand, maybe 'cause i like the purience and not the morals ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

as a connoiseur of Dunne, I'm presuming you've read Gary Indiana's 'Resentment', where he's referred to as 'Judith Krantz in pants'.

The portrayal of Dunne and his jealously of his brother's and Joan Didion's greater literary respectability is truly hilarious.

"...fits like a glove some psychopath would use to fistfuck his mother..."

― ds, Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I like when he's mean to the Kennedys and the Skakels.

What was up with the Dunne/Vidal catfight?

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i nearly mentioned resentment, but i didn't finish it yet (not actually my favourite indiana) (i wish he wd compilate his VV art crit)

vidal so won that fight (= he can actually write)

nevertheless DD is my god

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

indiana is v. v. brill and i would remove my scrotum and juggle my testes for a collection of his vv art crit.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 13 December 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone know if there's a useful DD collection? I wld like to read his trial/murder stuff, not so bothered abt the celeb blow-jobbing, gd tho' that is to read while you're on the loo and all.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 13 December 2002 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh Lordy, Anthony, in my first job writers came in all the time (it was the American offices for PEN) and once the door opened and in stepped Kathy Acker and Gary Indiana. KA actually dissed GI as a side-effect of dissing Richard Hell, but he was not listening. I loved that job and got to meet Allen Ginsberg and all sorts, and cracked up the office because whenever he called there, Mr 'White Negro' would just bark "Mailer!" down the phone, which I'd duplicate for the Director.

Dominick Dunne is just really unctuous and Vidal wins that particular pissing contest (where the points of competition are 1. poshness and 2. intellectualism). Although I liked the pieces he wrote about his daughter (Dominique Dunne who was the eldest daughter in Poltergeist) there's something of the ¡UNPLANNED! career shortcut in getting famous on the back of (non-political) family tragedy that feels icky.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 December 2002 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i have an xmas card for you btw suzy.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 13 December 2002 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

chalk up another point for gore vidal:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/dominick-dunne-dies/?src=twt&twt=nytimes

― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

RIP.

I like his "Power, Privilege, & Justice" show on Court TV quite a bit.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

Also, I had no idea Griffin Dunne was his son.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

wow, RIP.

― Miss Fitzhenry (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

With no remaining Kennedys to write about in VF, redundancy beckoned.

― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― NYC in Alex (hmmmm), Thursday, 27 August 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

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