Why read Dominick Dunne?

[swag]

Why, for sentences such as "I also saw the wonderful actress and dancer Leslie Caron, now an elegant lady of a certain age, whom I had not seen in the flesh since our Hollywood days years ago, when she was a great MGM star and danced with Gene Kelly in An American in Paris."

Reading that takes my breath away. And if I read it aloud, I go on a two-minute coughing jag. How about you?



Aitch, upon hearing the Leslie Caron sentence at the kitchen table this evening, opined, "He sounds like an erudite Willard Scott."



If the cover likenesses of the the bikini-clad Hillary Swank or the beteated Sandra Bullock do not sufficiently motivate your purchase of Vanity Fair at the checkout stand, a glance at "Dominick Dunne's Diary" just might. Investigate this diarist soon.

[jane_pippin]

1. He and Hitchens are the only parts of VF I can't bring myself to read

Well, Hitch once in a while, but rarely.

And how about that picture of Dunne in this issue! The little blazer, the shorts...ick.

I just don't get him. Ooh, a friend to rich people fawns over them in his diary? Why, I'd love to read as much of this as possible! Someone arrange a monthly installment of this immediately! Do. Not. Get it.

[swag]

2. Right, those shorts and those Chinese slippers.

If you saw him walking down the street in that shit, you would cross to the other side.

That get-up will never be okay.

[jane_pippin]

3. My theory is he was on vacation, possibly loaded on

some absolutely divine mojitos--the kind they used to know how to make in the old days when the studio system ruled Hollywood and glamour was given it's proper due--and the VF photographer had to cajole him into the picture.

"Come on, Mr. Dunne--I've brought you a suitable outfit..."

"Oh just give me the blazer and take your snapshot already. There. Now run along, I think I hear an expensive charm bracelet tinkling in the distance."

[bridgit]

4. "That funny little good for nothing, GiGi..."

[swag]

5. Quite the honey.

[bridgit]

6. did you see her in that flick: funny bones...

http://www.greencine.com/webCatalog?id=29402 people say it's too quirky but i like it, plus she still lights up any screen, or line she inhabits :thumbsup:

[swag]

13. I'll give it another try one of these days, if only to look for her.

Thanks.

[seaglass]

7. I used to love Dominick Dunne, unfortunately now all I can

see him as is a gossipy old man.

[swag]

16. Unlike you, I never got the chance to love him,

only to gaze on his words with a certain fascinated horror.

[pitohui]

8. it bothers me the way he profits off his daughter's death

he has been making a meal of her murder for an awfully long time

that said, the two mrs. grenvilles was certainly a guilty pleasure

yeah, occasionally i read his gossip column in vf but i don't know if i should!

[swag]

17. Not reading his column will not bring his daughter back.

Read on!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Doesn't this picture just suck you in though?

How could you resist his charms? Honestly, I just want to steal some of his obviously never touched notebooks.

[swag]

14. What a Moleskine queen you would be.

[bif]

10. I hate VF

My wife loves it. It's just a high-brow scandal sheet. Who killed who and got away with it.

[swag]

15. To be honest, I only buy that magazine for the drop-out cards.

[bif]

11. Why read, really?

[swag]

12. As Big Tony from Trouble Funk told us,

"It ain't nothin' but somethin' to do, y'all. It ain't nothin' but something to do."