Elizabeth Taylor’s chronic tardiness, so severe it drove the budget to astronomical sums and took our father’s career down with it. Though he took the fall for the overruns, Dad made Paramount’s decision to fire him an easy one. Dominique was Dad’s date on his last night in the movie business. Our father was on a drunken roll, sharing inside gossip with a long table of cast and crew, sending everyone into fits of hysterics. He did an impeccably mean impression of Sue Mengers, then the most powerful agent in Hollywood, whose hefty weight was well-known but never discussed in public.
