Wednesday, August 26, 2009

742...Another Dead Dude

Dominick Dunne died today at the age of 83.

Reuters eulogized him in this manner:

A former Hollywood producer who turned to writing after years of battling drug and alcohol abuse, Dunne wrote five best-selling novels that centered on scandal and crime in high society.

But he gained an extra measure of fame while chronicling a series of sensational court cases that transfixed Americans during the 1980s and 1990s.

Personally I cannot think of Mr. Dunne without thinking of the fate that befell his daughter, Dominique Dunne, who was best known for her part in the film Poltergeist and was strangled in November 1982 by her boyfriend John Sweeney who served 4.5 years for his malfeasance. Mr. Dunne subsequently wrote the article "Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of his Daughter's Killer" starting his long affiliation with Vanity Fair.

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