— “We would hate”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
10 “We were a strange family”: Ibid.
— “only tolerated by”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 4.
— Catholics Against Kennedy: Mulcahy, Why I’m a Democrat, 55.
— Birch as a Christmas present: Didion, Where I Was From, 205.
— “don’t get mad”: J. G. Dunne, Harp, 26.
— Lydia Ingersoll anecdote: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 5.
— “social barricade”: J. G. Dunne, Harp, 43.
11 “second best”/girls’ schools: Briscoe letter, September 11, 1979.
— “Perhaps an omelette”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 5.
— “equation between”/“same fervor”/restroom episodes: Briscoe letter, 1979; Carby to author.
— “twelve or thirteen”/“I was so unhappy”: Dominick Dunne to author for Variety’s “The Movie That Changed My Life.”
12 Senior Green tradition: Kurtich to author.
13 “I remember risking”: Dominick Dunne, “The Talented Mr. Lonergan,” Vanity Fair, July 2000.
— “Throughout the pattern”: “Slain Beauty’s Father Noted Playboy,” Journal-American, October 29, 1943.
— “If he was good enough”: D. Dunne, “The Talented Mr. Lonergan.”
14 correspondence between Hume and Richard Dunne: Canterbury letters, October 1, 1943, and November 18, 1943.
15 Indiantown Gap and Mariposa: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 6.
— “scared shitless”: Briscoe letter, August 30, 1986.
— Nazi helmet/“bad memory”: Briscoe letter, January 4, 1945.
— “colored (nigger) baby”: Briscoe letter, October 12, 1944.
— R. Dunne’s letters to D. Dunne: Briscoe letter, October 11, 1979.
16 constant verbal abuse: Briscoe letter, August 30, 1986.
— “gold-dust twins”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 6.
— princess of Lippe episode: Briscoe letter, May 25, 2009.
17 “cook’s night off”/“You must be so proud”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
— Devendorf, having sex: Briscoe letter, October 20, 1979.
— “My father had disliked”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 11.
— Dominick, Vidal, and Devendorf in Guatemala: Tyrnauer to author.
18 “You cannot overestimate”: Duff to author; Tyrnauer to author.
— “They met”/Vidal’s “We met”/“Utter nonsense!”: Tyrnauer to author.
— “For Nick, Will you float”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 11.
— “hairy like a tarantula”: Tyrnauer to author.
— “innocent”/“humiliation”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
19 “Gosh, Okie’s upset”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
20 “I gotta be in”: Ibid.
— “If you’re a character man”: Ibid.
— “these incredibly filthy things”: G. Dunne, Fresh Air interview.
— Sondheim correspondence: Briscoe letters, February 9, 1953, and February 24, 1953.
Chapter 2
Quotes from Barry Avrich (March 25, 2015), Scotty Bowers (January 11, 2016), Norman Carby (May 23, 2015), George Christy (September 2, 2015), Harry Clein (February 20, 2015), Mart Crowley (February 5, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Freddy Eberstadt (May 6, 2015), Susanna Moore (May 4, 2015), Howard Rosenman (January 30, 2015), Liz Smith (November 4, 2015), and Michael M. Thomas (February 9, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted. Quotes from Dominick Dunne and Griffin Dunne are from the documentary Dominick Dunne: After the Party, except where noted.
22 “Would you meet my girlfriend”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “which made the wheels”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 20.
23 “That’s the girl you’ll marry”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “proof positive”: Briscoe letter, December 7, 1979.
— “In my era, gay men”: Tim Teeman, “Dominick Dunne,” Times (London), February 19, 2009.
— “Late Love was a hit”/“Miss Ellen Beatriz Griffin accepts”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 19.
— Ellen Griffin letter: Briscoe letter, February 11, 1954.
24 “married Jacqueline Bouvier”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 5.
— “Did you know”: Eberstadt to author.
25 his younger brother John: Daugherty, The Last Love Song, 355.
— stage manager’s worst nightmare: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, 111.
26 “like a mick”/O’Hara and Appointment in Samarra: Briscoe letter, undated.
27 “What are you doing Friday night”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
28 “seven or eight bedrooms”/“We spent”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 37.
— “Were you drunk?”: Carby to author.
— “strong, uncompromising woman”: Dominick Dunne, “Justice,” Vanity Fair, March 1984.
— tree-trimming party/“humiliated”/“plastered”: Briscoe letter, December 16, 1958.
29 clients included Martin Manulis and Ralph Levy: Bowers to author.
30 death of infant girls/“an image”: Briscoe letter, November 2, 1979.
— Stompanato murder: Dominick Dunne to author for Party Animals; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 32.
32 “He’s a snob”: Several sources to author.
— Sinatra decided to unload: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, 325.
33 a “loser”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— Jay Sebring toupee and Daisy anecdote: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “It’s our own little Hollywood”: Gene Handsaker, “The Daisy,” The Gazette, June 6, 1967.
— “I’m awfully sorry”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “hit you in the head”/“If he ever did that”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
34 Sonja Henie/Princess Margaret anecdotes: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 139–40.
— “who was never photographed”: Dominick Dunne: In Search of Justice.
— After Dinner Dunnes: Avrich to author; Rosenman to author.
— $20,000 party/“Lenny’s mother”/“black-and-white motif”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 115.
35 “So naturally we invited him”: Dominick Dunne, “Surviving the Darkness,” Vanity Fair, December 2005.
36 143-word pan: Charles Gandee, “The Plot Thickens,” Vogue, September 1996.
— Bachardy sketched Lenny’s gown: Don Bachardy (March 21, 2015) to author.
— “There were hydrangeas”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 116.
— “If all else fails”: James H. Hyde, “Dominick Dunne,” NewEnglandTimes.com, 2009.
— “I always felt I was there”: Dominick Dunne: In Search of Justice.
— “He was at the mercy”: Griffin Dunne, Fresh Air interview, December 15, 2009.
37 “See if you can find a part”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 179.
— Mrs. Reagan was a popular: Several sources to author.
38 Davis and Dunne quotes regarding The Decorator: Crowley to author.
39 “she didn’t want to attend”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 143.
40 “lacked the substance”: G. Dunne, Fresh Air interview.
— “regret” his infidelity: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “first time I dropped acid”: Dominick Dunne, “Murder Most Unforgettable,” Vanity Fair, April 2001.
41 her friends “despised” him: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “What kind of man”: Moore to author.
— kids to Coronado Island: A. Dunne to author.
— “paint peeled inside and out”: Didion, The White Album, 15.
— “She had just done a concert”: Ibid., 25.
42 “he totally changed the game”: G. Dunne, Fresh Air interview.
— Joyce Haber: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
43 “real pot head”: Ibid.
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p; — “picture of propriety” and LAX arrest: Briscoe letter, November 27, 1979; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 175–77.
— “cunt” remark: Briscoe letter, November 27, 1979.
44 “beat it”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 176.
— “Who do you know”/“Because when I went to parties”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “architect of my own destruction”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
45 Dunne and Crowley encounter: Making the Boys; Crowley to author for Sexplosion.
— $80,000 dollars in “alimony”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
Chapter 3
Quotes from Peter Bart (February 11, 2015), Keith Baxter (May 17, 2015), Norman Carby (May 23, 2015), Mart Crowley (February 5, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Freddy Eberstadt (May 6, 2015), Billy Hale (February 13, 2015), Joseph Hardy (January 19, 2016), Tony Kiser (July 28, 2015), Neil Koenigsberg (March 11, 2015), Paul Morrissey (March 24, 2015), Larry Peerce (February 9, 2015), Dotson Rader (September 26, 2015), Markham Roberts (March 30, 2015), Howard Rosenman (January 30, 2015), James Samsun (March 25, 2015), Jerry Schatzberg (February 12, 2015), Joel Schumacher (July 14, 2015), Peter White (January 11, 2016), and Kitty Winn (February 13, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted. Dominick Dunne quotes are from the documentary Dominick Dunne: After the Party, except where noted.
46 Diners Club card: Briscoe letter, March 18, 1969.
47 “I suppose it was that I disgusted”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
49 Eastside apartment episode: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 184–85; George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “Chateau Tales,” Daily News, October 9, 1996; Rosenman to author.
50 “I was sitting in the shallow”: Didion, The White Album, 42.
— “Children were sent”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 193.
— photo instructions: Briscoe letter, August 14, 1969.
51 “They don’t think fags”: Making the Boys.
52 Morrison became so entranced: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 185.
— “from behind some disabling aphasia”: Didion, The White Album, 25.
52 “narcotized by Easy Rider’s grosses”: Ibid., 159.
54 “knocked over a lit candle”: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 183–84.
55 “Al’s going to steal the film”: Winn to author.
— Herald-Examiner visit to set: Bridget Byrne, “Controlled Panic on Set of ‘Needle Park,’” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 20, 1970.
— “They put us up” and other Dunne quotes relating to Needle Park: Schatzberg to author.
56 “I always had this fear”: James H. Hyde, “Dominick Dunne,” NewEnglandTimes.com, 2009.
57 “piece of shit”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “I thought you’d be”/“I don’t think he’s like me”: Lois Winebaum Perschetz, “Tony Perkins,” Women’s Wear Daily, October 2, 1972.
— Ann-Margret: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
58 Tramont/Mengers episode: Briscoe letter, November 26, 1979; Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “Shirley Temple with a leer”: “Show Business,” Time, May 15, 1972.
— Weld was an alcoholic: C. Robert Jennings, “This Must Be Bedlam,” Cosmopolitan, October 1971.
— “Miss Weld is not a very good”: “Show Business.”
— “Each of them listed”: Joyce Haber, “The Evolution of a Hollywood Brat,” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1971.
59 “He collected people”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “I get high on anything”: “Show Business.”
— “Well, they’re after me”: Ann Guerin, “Frank Perry,” Show, November 1979.
— “absolutely a marriage”/“experimented with time”: Ibid.
60 “very heady”: Daugherty, The Last Love Song, 320.
— “allowed to get away with”: J. G. Dunne, Harp, 218.
— “I can think of no higher praise”: Ibid., 235.
— Dominick’s ideas for the scripts: Robert von Dassanowsky (August 26, 2015) to author.
61 “The filming of Play It as It Lays”: Rex Reed, “‘Play It as It Lays’ Sees Hollywood in Harsh Light,” Daily News, January 23, 1972.
62 “vomiting up her life”/“marvelous”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; anonymous source to author.
— Miss Paranoia: Haber, “The Evolution of a Hollywood Brat.”
— “won an award at the Venice Film”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
— “peanuts”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “thousands of dollars”: Briscoe letter, October 25, 1979.
— “masseur to lunch”/“blurred in those days”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
64 “very regal, bedecked”: Heymann, Liz, 313.
— limo episode: Peerce to author.
— Taylor/Warhol encounter: Morrissey to author; Roberts to author; Samsun to author; Briscoe letter, January 3, 2009.
65 “The Burtons are coming!” Baxter to author.
— “You think it’s easy”: Amy Collins, “The Lure of Visconti,” Vanity Fair, December 2001; Roberts to author.
66 Berger could count Keith: Carby to author.
— monsignor episode: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; Baxter to author.
— Taylor and Vignale episode: Baxter to author.
— provide them with pornography: Heymann, Liz, 316.
— “My drinking reached”: Dominick Dunne: In Search of Justice.
67 gave everybody gifts: Peerce to author.
— launch into a scathing critique: D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 162.
— “Get that asshole”: Anonymous source to author.
68 “If there’s going to be anything grotty”: Peerce to author.
— “Frankly, I agree”: Peerce to author.
— “That’s not my job”: Baxter to author.
— “bombe plastique”: Briscoe letter, undated.
— Berger and Burton encounter: Baxter to author.
69 “You stupid cow”: Baxter to author.
— “They can damn well”: Heymann, Liz, 315.
70 Lassie movie anecdote: Peerce to author.
— “I want a Bloody”: Peerce to author.
71 Thanksgiving dinner anecdote: Baxter to author.
— “this is going to be your last film”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— fat girl anecdote: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
72 “It’s possible. Sue was a great friend”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— Kellow on Tramont: Brian Kellow (February 15, 2016) to author; Kellow, Can I Go Now?, 201.
Chapter 4
Quotes from Marie Brenner (October 19, 2015), Norman Carby (May 23, 2015), Douglas Cramer (July 13, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Jack Egan (June 2, 2015), Joseph Hardy (January 19, 2016), Hudson Hickman (January 13, 2016), Tony Kiser (July 28, 2015), Jesse Kornbluth (April 23, 2015), Asa Maynor (October 6, 2015), Dotson Rader (September 26, 2015), Wendy Stark (April 8, 2016), Arnold Stiefel (January 29, 2015), and Andrew Tobias (August 10, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted. Dominick Dunne quotes are from the documentary Dominick Dunne: After the Party, except where noted.
74 McDermott got him the job: Carby to author.
— Coward and Maugham: Briscoe letter, September 26, 1979.
75 “one on one”: Briscoe letter, November 19, 1979.
— “didn’t come into her own”: James H. Hyde, “Dominick Dunne,” NewEnglandTimes.com, 2009.
— “tomb of secrets”: J. G. Dunne, Harp, 31–32.
75 “That didn’t happen”: Hyde, “Dominick Dunne.”
— Carr parties: Hofler, Party Animals, 28–31.
76 “If Bunnies were lacking”: Joyce Haber, “The Evolution of a Hollywood Brat,” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1971.
— “Nureyev was sexually”: Hofler, Party Animals, 13.
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sp; 77 Stein anecdote: Briscoe letter, December 1, 1979.
— “I never repeat gossip”: A. Dunne to author.
— Irving Lazar party: Briscoe letter, December 7, 1979.
78 “He gets invited”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— Carr/Capote party: Hofler, Party Animals, 32–37; Carby to author; Carol Whitman (October 5, 2015) to author.
80 Capote and Dunne quotes at Beverly Wilshire: Rader to author.
81 Dominique Dunne letter: Briscoe letter, undated.
82 Stark joke: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; anonymous sources to author.
— Melnick anecdote/“low esteem”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
83 John Gregory Dunne critique of script: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 188; Kiser to author.
84 “out-of-body experience”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 188.
85 unemployment anecdote: Christopher Bagley, “Party Time,” W, October 1999.
— Carr/Begelman party: Dominick Dunne interview with author for Party Animals; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 187.
86 Polo Lounge episode: Egan to author; Briscoe journal, 1979–80; Briscoe letters, November 6, 1979, November 26, 1979, and March 11, 1980; D. Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 208.
88 Prashker lunch: Briscoe journal, March 15, 1980; anonymous source to author.
89 Cramer dinner: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “We need somebody who knows”: Cramer to author; Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “Where’s he?”: Cramer to author.
— Haber rumors: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
90 Dominick’s funeral attendance: Hardy to author; Rosenman to author; Griffin Dunne, Fresh Air interview, December 15, 2009.
91 “I know. I know”/“I care completely”: Hardy to author.
— suicide attempts and sex for hire: Briscoe letter, November 30, 1979.
92 The Users screening: Hardy to author; Briscoe journal, 1979–80; Briscoe letters, November 1, 1979, and December 10, 1979.
— “fun”/“blah review”: Briscoe letter, November 1, 1979.
93 “grim-faced”: “Eye,” Women’s Wear Daily, September 20, 1978.
— “It’s the only present”: Carby to author.
— Simon & Schuster book deal: Stiefel to author; Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
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