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Dominick Dunne, the Glossary

Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer.^[1]

87 relations: A Season in Purgatory, Addicted to Love (film), Al Pacino, Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Allen Ginsberg, An Inconvenient Woman, Ann Woodward, Another City, Not My Own, Ash Wednesday (1973 film), Battle of Metz, Bernard and Doris, Biography (TV program), Bladder cancer, Bloomberg News, Bronze Star Medal, Canterbury School (Connecticut), Chateau Marmont, Claus von Bülow, CNN, Court TV, David Brown (producer), Dennis Hopper, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice, Dominick Dunne: After the Party, Dominique Dunne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Griffin Dunne, Four Star Television, Gary Condit, Gillette Castle State Park, Griffin Dunne, Hadlyme North Historic District, Hannah Dunne, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Humphrey Bogart, Irish Catholics, Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Johnnie Cochran, Killing of Chandra Levy, Kingswood Oxford School, Larry King Live, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Library of America, Los Angeles Times, Lyle and Erik Menéndez, ... Expand index (37 more) »
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A Season in Purgatory

A Season in Purgatory is a 1993 novel by Dominick Dunne.

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Addicted to Love (film)

Addicted to Love is a 1997 American romantic black comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Tchéky Karyo, and Kelly Preston.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor.

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Alfred Schiffer Bloomingdale (April 15, 1916 – August 23, 1982) was an American businessman who launched the credit card business Dine and Sign, was chairman of Diners Club, and became known as "father of the credit card." He was an heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune and the lover of murdered mistress Vicki Morgan.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. Dominick Dunne and Allen Ginsberg are LGBT people from New York (state).

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An Inconvenient Woman

An Inconvenient Woman is a 1990 novel by Dominick Dunne.

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Ann Woodward

Ann Eden Woodward (born Angeline Lucille Crowell; December 12, 1915 – October 10, 1975) was an American socialite, showgirl, model, and radio actress.

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Another City, Not My Own

Another City, Not My Own is a 1997 novel by Dominick Dunne.

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Ash Wednesday (1973 film)

Ash Wednesday is a 1973 American drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Elizabeth Taylor.

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Battle of Metz

The Battle of Metz was fought during World War II at the French city of Metz, then part of Nazi Germany, from late September 1944 through mid-December as part of the Lorraine Campaign between the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lieutenant General George Patton and the German Army commanded by General Otto von Knobelsdorff.

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Bernard and Doris

Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban.

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Biography (TV program)

Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987.

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Bladder cancer

Bladder cancer is any of several types of cancer arising from the tissues of the urinary bladder.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Bronze Star Medal

The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

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Canterbury School (Connecticut)

Canterbury School is an interfaith, college preparatory, coeducational boarding and day independent school for students in grades 9-12 and post-graduate.

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Chateau Marmont

The Chateau Marmont is a hotel located at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

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Claus von Bülow

Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Court TV

Court TV is an American digital broadcast network and former pay-television channel.

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David Brown (producer)

David Brown (July 28, 1916 February 1, 2010) was an American film and theatre producer and writer who was best known for producing the 1975 film Jaws based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director.

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Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice

Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice is an American true crime television series that examines real-life cases of crime, passion, and greed involving privileged or famous people.

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Dominick Dunne: After the Party

Dominick Dunne: After the Party is a 2008 documentary directed by Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley about Hollywood author and reporter Dominick Dunne.

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Dominique Dunne

Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.

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Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995) was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage, and television.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Ellen Griffin Dunne

Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne (January 28, 1932 – January 9, 1997) was an American activist.

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Four Star Television

Four Star Television, also called Four Star International, was an American television production company.

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Gary Condit

Gary Adrian Condit (born April 21, 1948) is an American former politician who represented California's 18th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003.

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Gillette Castle State Park

Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River.

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Griffin Dunne

Thomas Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor, director and producer.

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Hadlyme North Historic District

The Hadlyme North Historic District is an historic district located in the southwest corner of the town of East Haddam, Connecticut (just north of the town line with Lyme).

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Hannah Dunne

Hannah Dunne (born) is an American actress and model.

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Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.

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Irish Catholics

Irish Catholics (Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish.

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Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth

Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth is a 2020 American documentary film that studies Jay Sebring's life as the first international pioneer in the industry of men's style and hair.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Gregory Dunne

John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American writer. Dominick Dunne and John Gregory Dunne are novelists from Connecticut.

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Johnnie Cochran

Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr.Adam Bernstein,, The Washington Post, March 30, 2005; retrieved April 17, 2006.

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Killing of Chandra Levy

Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977 – May 1, 2001) was an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001.

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Kingswood Oxford School

Kingswood Oxford School is a private school located in West Hartford, Connecticut instructing day students in grades 6 through 12 with a college preparatory curriculum.

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Larry King Live

Larry King Live was an American television talk show broadcast by CNN from June 3, 1985 to December 16, 2010.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is a daily subscription newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lyle and Erik Menéndez

Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Murder of Martha Moxley

Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16, 1960 – October 30, 1975) was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975.

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New Milford, Connecticut

New Milford is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Nicole Brown Simpson

Nicole Brown Simpson (née Brown; May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the second wife of American football player O. J. Simpson.

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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O. J. Simpson

Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) was an American football player, actor, and media personality who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Play It as It Lays (film)

Play It as It Lays is a 1972 American drama film directed by Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion.

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Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes.

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Poltergeist (1982 film)

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg.

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Ron Goldman

Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and aspiring actor.

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Ron Nagle

Ron Nagle (born February 21, 1939) is an American sculptor, musician and songwriter.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Star-Gazette

The Star-Gazette is the major newspaper for Elmira, New York.

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Star-News

StarNews is an American, English language daily newspaper for Wilmington, North Carolina, and its surrounding area (known as the Lower Cape Fear).

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The Boys in the Band (1970 film)

The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by Mart Crowley, based on Crowley's 1968 Off-Broadway play of the same name.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Panic in Needle Park

The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino (in his first lead role) and Kitty Winn.

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The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.

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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

The Two Mrs.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an American media company covering the business of entertainment and media.

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Too Much Money (novel)

Too Much Money is the last novel written by Dominick Dunne, published posthumously in the year of his death 2009.

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TruTV

TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American basic cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Valley Hospital Medical Center

Valley Hospital Medical Center is a for-profit hospital owned by Universal Health Services and operated by Valley Health System.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Vicki Morgan

Victoria Lynn Morgan (August 9, 1952 – July 7, 1983) was the mistress of Alfred S. Bloomingdale, heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune.

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Voluntary manslaughter

Voluntary manslaughter is the killing of a human being in which the offender acted during the heat of passion, under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed to the point that they cannot reasonably control their emotions.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford.

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European descent, who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the Mainline Protestant elite.

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William Kennedy Smith

William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims.

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William Woodward Jr.

William Woodward Jr. (June 12, 1920 – October 31, 1955) was the heir to the Hanover National Bank fortune (later Manufacturer's Hanover), the Belair Estate and stud farm and legacy,, decorated war veteran, and a leading figure in racing circles before he was shot to death by his wife, Ann Woodward, in what Life magazine called the "Shooting of the Century".

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Dunne

Also known as Dominck Dunne, Dominic Dunne, Dunne, Dominick.

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