Farewell to My Father
Griffin Dunne is an actor and film director. His on-screen film credits include: My Girl, Johnny Dangerously, Who’s That Girl, After Hours, and An American Werewolf in London. He has produced and/or directed more than 10 other features and has made numerous TV appearances, including Frasier, Saturday Night Live, Alias, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Griffin Dunne is the son of writer/producer Dominick Dunne.
On Thursday, celebrities and A-listers crowded St. Vincent Ferrer Church in New York to say goodbye to best-selling novelist and famed journalist Dominick Dunne. His son, director Griffin Dunne, describes growing up with a great social commentator.
The Big Books of Fall
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Sara Nelson picks the season's literary hits-including new novels from Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, and Dominick Dunne, Ted Kennedy's memoir, and a sprawling biography of Ayn Rand.
This memoir-the first by a Kennedy of the JFK generation-was originally scheduled for release in October, but the senator's death in August moved t...
My end of summer (of death) playlist is selected in honor of Dominick Dunne and all the other great, complicated artists, writers and thinkers we lost this summer. It ranges from the now defunct Silver Jews led by Steve Berman, a savant ...
Jon Robin Baitz's plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels and most recently The Paris Letter. He created the hit ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, and is currently writing a mini-series for HBO entitled Cheney's War.
Dominick Dunne: The Ultimate Reporters' Reporter
Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
The Daily Beast's Allan Dodds Frank reflects on the excitement of working alongside writer and friend Dominick Dunne.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, the Arrested Development movie is finally in development, the mean girls of Heathers plot a comeback, and Julia Child cooks up a bestseller. View our gallery.
Julie & Julia-Nora Ephron's wildly popular film about cookbook author Julia Child and blogger Julie Powell makes you want to run out and buy all of...
My Dishy Phone Calls With Dominick Dunne
Jane Stanton Hitchcock is a playwright and a novelist. Her new novel about Washington society, Mortal Friends was published in July.
The social chronicler's longtime friend, playwright and novelist Jane Hitchcock, on the literary advice she gave him, their marathon phone calls, and how she made him her muse.
If you haven't read Dominick Dunne's memoir The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, then I encourage you to take a look. A bestselling author, Vanity Fair correspondent and filmmaker but also a quintessential N...
Mr. Parker Bowles is Head of Production for Sharp Independent, a NY-based independent film and television production company. Sharp Independent has recently partnered with publishers HarperCollins to develop and produce feature films from the publishers’ book titles. Projects in development include Northline, to be written and directed by Courtney Hunt, and a television series, Coco Beach, based on the memoir Live From Cape Canaverel.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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