In pre-internet days, getting blackballed in Hollywood was very difficult to prove because there was built-in deniability. All it took was a phone call from Sue Mengers mentioning to the heads of the six major studios that none of her clients, many of them the most bankable stars in the world, nor any of the talent at her agency, ICM, would ever work on any picture Dominick Dunne produced. Sprinkle that with a little gossip about Dad’s drinking problem and incompetence as a producer, and a black ball starts rolling that everyone will deny exists. Calls are not returned, scripts are no longer
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