false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg 18232 1 In a previous incarnation, writer Dominick Dunne was the toast of Hollywood--entertaining movie stars and socialites and invited by moguls to clambakes and black-tie dances. Long before he started churning out his romans à clef set in the private recesses of Hollywood and penthouses of New York City and his dispatches from notorious murder trials, he spent his days on movie sets, producing films like <I>Ash Wednesday</I> and working as an executive at various studios. In the off-hours, he and his wife Lenny ate dinner with Vincente Minnelli, Jack Benny, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Montgomery. They went to beach parties hosted by Jane Fonda and Roddy McDowall--and threw not a few bashes of their own, attended by, well, everyone and often photographed for <I>Vogue</I> magazine. Dunne seemed to carry his camera with him everywhere and "was always sticking [it] into someone's face." Kirk Douglas biting into an oversized hotdog, a scantily clad Paul Newman perusing a picnic table, Princess Margaret smoking, Mia Farrow dancing, and Natalie Wood hamming. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. <p> <I>The Way We Lived Then</I> closely resembles those scrapbooks, filled as it is with images culled from them. Dunne sews the scraps together with a loose memoir that moves from the mundane (how the house was decorated for a certain party, how the subjects of a given photo were feeling about one another at the time) to the grand (meditations on his marriage and his children). All of these famous friends, glittery parties, and cozy evenings did add up to a picture-perfect life for a time. But by the mid '60s, Dunne was drinking hard, insulting acquaintances in public, and being a perfectly terrible husband to the lovely Lenny. He was soon arrested carrying drugs into the country from Mexico, divorced, nearly poverty-stricken, and living in a cabin in Oregon. But he lived to tell about it, and though his story is something of a cautionary tale about the dangers of success and excess, punctuated as it is by his dreamy photos, one can't help but wonder if he'd happily go back to the way he lived then. <I>--Jordana Moskowitz</I> 19689 28 9 1999 The Way We Lived Then : Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper total:73|5:19|4:28|3:21|2:3|1:2| 73 278 111 9 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 3 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 17:45:34 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 05:44:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Aug 26 19:10:10 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 20:31:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 0 0 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 15:18:47 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 15:20:17 -0700 2009 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 3 0 false Thu Jul 02 15:30:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 15:31:27 -0700 2009 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 5 0 false Wed Dec 10 20:10:19 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 20:13:47 -0800 2008 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 0 0 false Tue Sep 08 20:05:12 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 20:07:15 -0700 2009 18232 0609603884 9780609603888 73 9 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166890422m/18232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232.The_Way_We_Lived_Then_Recollections_of_a_Well_Known_Name_Dropper 5 0 false Mon Aug 25 23:24:14 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 15:13:51 -0700 2008
To his credit, Dominick Dunne reveals unflattering things about himself along the way, along with the uniquuely insider anecdotes, but also contains much about his personal family tragedies.

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