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2 days ago · With an all-star cast including Sean Connery, Carrie Fisher, Joan Didion, and Martin Scorsese, actor, director and producer Griffin Dunne joins us with stories from his life as a Hollywood insider. At eight, Sean Connery saved Griffin Dunne from drowning.
1 day ago · Actor and film director Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club is a remarkable feat of storytelling that would surely meet with the approval of the incomparable writers in the author's family, including his father, Dominick Dunne, and his aunt, Joan Didion. Dunne candidly charts his coming-of-age amid cultural touchstones and iconic figures ...
22 hours ago · Actor, director and producer Griffin Dunne discusses his colourful life from his starry beginnings, his friendship with Carrie Fisher, working with Scorsese, directing Joan Didion and the tragic ...
4 days ago · His aunt and uncle were the writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Still a family is a family, with its ups and downs, and fame never protects anyone from heartbreak, as Dunne’s book makes ...
22 hours ago · Her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter had passed away several years earlier. Leadbeater got the job, moved into Didion’s apartment and became both her assistant and her companion — arranging her meals, buying her favored type of tissues, conversing, keeping her company during hospital stays and absorbing her milieu.
22 hours ago · In "The Friday Afternoon Club," Dunne supplies anecdotes about A- and B-list entertainers, his mostly misspent youth, gigs as an usher in Radio City Music Hall and as an actor and producer, and ...
3 days ago · Growing up in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, Dunne’s best friend’s uncle was President Kennedy, his mother’s best friend was Natalie Wood and his aunt was the writer Joan Didion.
