Done & Dunne

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179. Remembering Dominick Dunne Aug 26, 2024

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August 26 marks the 15 years since our man Nick’s passing in 2009, and this week, we honor him, his life and legacy. Dominick Dunne was fondly recalled by many – these are a few of the best stories about his life and impact, by Sean Elder and Jason Chaffee.

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178. The Swan Song of Truman Capote Aug 25, 2024

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It's a double-up week here on Done and Dunne! In this first drop, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984, forty years ago.

Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on August 25. Then, we drop in on Truman’s first memorial service with mourners attached to Dominick Dunne in so any ways, including John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, Carol Marcus Matthau, Robert Blake, Artie Shaw and Christopher Isherwood.

It's a whole hot mess, that leads into tomorrow's drop. There is always an investigation around this place.

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177. Roddy McDowall | A Fabulous Life and Friend To All Aug 19, 2024

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It is off to Old Hollywood this week, with the life and death of Roddy McDowall. Dominick Dunne was involved in both, and does he give a wonderful profile of his friend at this time of his passing in 1998.

Roddy – legendary in Hollywood, not only for his prolific acting career, but also his photographs and very famous friendships. Roddy was the best friend you could ever want – just ask Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld, or our man Nick.

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176. Elaine Young to Gig Young to Eugene Landy to Brian Wilson to Elizabeth Montgomery Aug 12, 2024

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This week, we are taking a little detour into the past in our investigation with a Not Dunne Yet bonus episode from many moons ago. Dominick Dunne really did interact with so many characters in his various acts, and this week we take our man Nick connecting a whole throughline of folks you might not know were connected. From Elaine Young to Gig Young to Eugene Landy, with Brian Wilson on the side, back to Elizabeth Montgomery – and an added Cliff Robertson mention too. So many spiderwebs in this one that pull so much together.

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175. A Nick In Crime | The Manson Murders Aug 05, 2024

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Dominick Dunne did write about the murders of his friends Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate on that terrible weekend in August 1969. This is a weekend that would change everything in Hollywood, and our man Nick was on the scene, and has the story from all his friends, so connected into our ongoing investigation.

Included: Robert Evans, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, Natalie Wood, Terry Melcher, Doris Day, Candace Bergen, among so many others.

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174. Dunne's Best Friends | Erskine, Hollerith, and Sondheim! Jul 29, 2024

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Alicia is back from NYC with the stars of Broadway in her eyes. It seemed the perfect week to investigate Dominick Dunne's squad of best friends that include Howard Erskine, Charles Hollerith Jr., and Stephen Sondheim! These chums go all the way back to the late 1940s in their Williams College days, and what a life well led for each individual. But together - their lifelong friendship was truly spectacular.

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173. Dunne on Paul Burrell: The Butler Who Knows The Secrets of Diana, Princess of Wales Jul 15, 2024

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In this episode of Done and Dunne, we take our man Nick to London in 2002 to report in

on the trial of Paul Burrell, the royal butler who knows all Diana’s secrets. The Diana in question is, of course, Princess of Wales. Dunne reports in on this trial of the most loyal servant ever, which is halted after 11 days, right before Paul’s appearance on the stand. Why the delay at The Old Bailey? Why, of course, Queen Elizabeth II steps in with late-breaking testimony about an important conversation from years before that will change the whole narrative in her Jubilee year.

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172. Dunne Profiles Phyllis McGuire Jul 08, 2024

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Investigators, this week we continue our journey into dip into Dominick Dunne’s reporting in personal profiles as he begins his third act. In June 1989, Phyllis McGuire was the subject of Nick’s gaze, in a story that takes us from the famous trio of singing sisters to Sam Giancana to Dorothy Kilgallen to Frank Sinatra, with jewels, personal Eiffel towers, and oil money along the way.

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171. Frank Sinatra's Trashy Divorces (A Crossover Classic) Jun 23, 2024

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This week in a special crossover episode, Alicia remixes the life and loves of Frank Sinatra, Old Blue Eyes himself - into a mamma jamma supercut of Nancy, Sr., Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, as well as a ton of trashy goodness and so many spiderwebs!

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170. Dunne Profiles Warren Beatty Jun 17, 2024

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Our man Dominick Dunne profiled Warren Beatty in 1994, after his marriage to Annette Bening. This episode brings that interview into our investigation, with so many attached spiderwebs including but not limited to Kate Capshaw, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Evans, OJ Simpson, Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, George Cukor, and Scotty Bowers too.

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