Author Dunne was gifted reporter too
August 27th, 2009 - 6:55 pm ICT by IBNSBy Rohit Dave
Aug 27 (IBNS) Celebrated author and journalist Dominick Dunne had been regarded as a gifted reporter who proved as fascinating as the people he wrote about, according to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
Dunne is at peace after fighting a lost battle with bladder cancer. His suffering is over. He was 83. He passed away Wednesday in Manhattan, according to his son, actor- producer Griffin Dunne. Dunne was a novelist, a film producer, a TV executive and amateur prosecutor.
Carter said: Anyone who remembers the sight of O.J. Simpson trying on the famous glove probably remembers a bespectacled Dunne, resplendent in his trademark Turnbull & Asser monogrammed shirt, on the court bench behind him.”
Carter added: It is fair to say that the halls of Vanity Fair will be lonelier without him and that, indeed, we will not see his like anytime soon, if ever again. …Dunne was part of a famous family that also included his brother, novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne; his brother’s wife, author Joan Didion; and his son [actor-director Griffin Dunne].
A one-time movie producer, Dunne carved a new career starting in the 1980s as a chronicler of the problems of the wealthy and powerful.
Tragedy struck his life in 1982 when his actress daughter, Dominique, was slain — and that experience informed his fiction and his journalistic efforts from then on.
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