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Hollywood titan's haunting deathbed secret that he feared would blow up his Poltergeist actress daughter's murder trial - and left him on the brink of suicide

The brutal murder of promising actress Dominique Dunne, star of 1982 blockbuster Poltergeist, left her prominent Hollywood family traumatized. Alex, Dominique, and Griffin with their father, Dominick Dunne, in 1967 at the Chateau Marmont Dominique Dunne, far right, starring in the 1982 blockbuster Poltergeist shortly before she was brutally murdered on the driveway of her West Hollywood home Griffin Dunne …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Griffin Dunne finds balance between madcap Hollywood adventures and family tragedy in new memoir

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Griffin Dunne says he’s grateful his parents raised him with what he affectionately calls “benign neglect” in 1970s and ‘80s Los Angeles because it encouraged creativity and risk-taking that led to some wild experiences he chronicles in his new memoir. “The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir,” out Tuesday from Penguin Press, is filled with raucous tales …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club'

NPR

Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club' In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique. But at the heart of Griffin's new memoir, "The Friday Afternoon Club," is also the …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Griffin Dunne’s memoir shows a life of privilege and misadventure haunted by his sister’s murder

LA Times

Book Review The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir By Griffin Dunne Penguin Press: 400 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Sure, this is the story of Martin Scorsese’s dark screwball classic “After Hours,” but, based on his own testimony, it could as …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Griffin Dunne’s sister’s murder provides the pulse of his family memoir

LA Times

On the Shelf The Friday Afternoon Club By Griffin Dunne Penguin: 400 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Dunne carved his own path, starring in the films “An American Werewolf in London,” “After Hours” and “Johnny Dangerously,” while producing movies that included “Running …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Fresh Air Weekend: Yo-Yo Ma; Actor Griffin Dunne

NPR

Fresh Air Weekend: Yo-Yo Ma; Actor Griffin Dunne toggle caption Larry French/Getty Images North America Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. This week: Yo-Yo Ma on ‘touching infinity’ through his nearly 300-year-old cello, Petunia: About 25 years ago, acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma asked a …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

10 books to add to your reading list in June

LA Times

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your June reading list. Devil Is Fine: A Novel By John Vercher Celadon Books: 272 pages, $29 Vercher’s third novel provides a startling perspective, even darker than “American Fiction,” on what it means to be a person of color operating within our nation’s book-publishing industry. NONFICTION Miss …

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9 months ago

Carrie Fisher lost her virginity to childhood pal Griffin Dunne and remained friends until her death at age 60: 'We had a few practice sessions'

Daily Mail

The late Carrie Fisher considered her virginity a 'burden' so she asked her childhood pal Griffin Dunne to deflower her when they were teenagers in London in the early 1970s. At age 13, Dunne's mother brought him to his famous aunt Joan Didion's Los Angeles home for a party in honor of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Nicole Kidman's 1998 cult classic Practical Magic was 'cursed' by a witch consultant on the film says director

Daily Mail

It's the movie Nicole Kidman fans adore as a cult classic. Griffin Dunne, 68, the film's director, says that the un-named 'witch' became angry after she was denied profit participation in the film. American director Griffin Dunne says that a witch consultant 'cursed' his 1998 Nicole Kidman cult classic Pictured: Kidman in a scene from the film In Practical Magic …

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Hollywood titan's haunting deathbed secret that he feared would blow up his Poltergeist actress daughter's murder trial - and left him on the brink of suicide

Griffin Dunne finds balance between madcap Hollywood adventures and family tragedy in new memoir

Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club'

Griffin Dunne’s memoir shows a life of privilege and misadventure haunted by his sister’s murder

Griffin Dunne’s sister’s murder provides the pulse of his family memoir

Fresh Air Weekend: Yo-Yo Ma; Actor Griffin Dunne

10 books to add to your reading list in June

Carrie Fisher lost her virginity to childhood pal Griffin Dunne and remained friends until her death at age 60: 'We had a few practice sessions'

Nicole Kidman's 1998 cult classic Practical Magic was 'cursed' by a witch consultant on the film says director