Dominick Dunne
Nacimiento : 1925-10-29, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Muerte : 2009-08-26
Historia
Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career as a producer in film and television, noted for involvement with the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, he came to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interacts with the judicial system. A frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Dunne, from the 1980s, also appeared regularly on television discussing crime.
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Self
An illuminating portrait of Jay Sebring — the long-forgotten artist, designer, and entrepreneur who created a billion-dollar hair & beauty industry and defined iconic Hollywood styles for men.
Himself
Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, "The Boys in the Band" changed everything. "Making the Boys" explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers, as well as perspectives by legendary figures from stage and screen, it traces the behind-the-scenes drama and lasting legacy of this cultural milestone.
Man on Jury (uncredited)
Christine Collins es una madre que recupera a su hijo, al que habían secuestrado meses antes. Pero en la locura del muy fotografiado reencuentro, comienza a sospechar que el niño que le han entregado no es su hijo. A pesar de unas fuerzas del orden corruptas y de una opinión pública más que escéptica, intenta dilucidar el misterio cueste lo que cueste. Tachada de loca e incapacitada, por fin encuentra un aliado en el reverendo Briegleb, que la ayudará en su búsqueda.
Self
Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Dominick Dunne has become known the world over for his vociferous championing of the rights of the victim in high-profile murder cases. His powerful commentaries have made compelling reading in Vanity Fair for a quarter of a century. Now, aged 82, Dunne is covering his last murder trial for Vanity Fair -- the trial of music producer Phil Spector -- and reflects upon his past as a decorated WWII Veteran, his rise and spectacular collapse as a Hollywood producer, and his rebirth as the writer we know today. Dunne's mind offers a fascinating insight into the American psyche and its obsession with fame.
Self (archive footage)
Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.
Board Member
Producción para la HBO que narra la historia de una rica heredera de un imperio tabacalero, Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) y su mayordomo irlandés, Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Fiennes), un alcohólico homosexual.
Self
A biography of powerful Hollywood agent and executive Lew Wasserman.
Self
Alan Smithee es el pseudónimo que usan los directores de cine cuando no quieren que su nombre figure en los títulos de crédito. En este caso es Arthur Hiller quien se oculta tras dicho pseudónimo.
Matheson
Sam y Maggie (Matthew Broderick & Meg Ryan) acaban de ser abandonados por sus respectivas amantes (Kelly Preston & Tcheky Karyo), que se han ido a vivir juntos a un apartamento. Maggie quiere vengarse y Sam desea recuperar a su novia, así que los dos se van a vivir a un edificio abandonado enfrente de la casa de la ex-novia de Sam para poder elaborar un plan de venganza. Pero la hostilidad inicial que hay entre ambos empezará a dar paso al amor.
Novel
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
Novel
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.
Producer
Randi, gran actor, no consigue un éxito desde el suicidio de su mujer. Será una mujer, Elena, quien consiga para Randi la fama perdida.
Writer
Randi, gran actor, no consigue un éxito desde el suicidio de su mujer. Será una mujer, Elena, quien consiga para Randi la fama perdida.
Producer
Bárbara (Elizabeth Taylor), una mujer madura con un matrimonio en crisis decide hacerse la cirugía estética para parecer más joven y reconquistar a su marido Mark (Henry Fonda). Tras la operación, que ha resultado un éxito, Bárbara espera a su esposo en una estación alpina para darle una sorpresa, pero antes de reencontrarse con él, conoce a un atractivo joven que la seduce. Ella cae rendida a sus encantos aprovechando su rejuvenecimiento. Cuando vuelve a reencontrarse con Mark éste le dice que ha conocido a una muchacha más joven.
Producer
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
Producer
Retrato de un grupo de adictos a la heroína que vagabundea por el "parque de la aguja" en la ciudad de Nueva York. Una de las películas preferidas por el propio Al Pacino de toda su carrera.
Guest
Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn teams up with jazz superstar Asha Puthli for a weekend romp in the Hamptons, in which they play two angels rescuing a bored, wayward heiress from herself.
Producer
Adaptación de una exitosa obra de Mart Crowley. Nueve chicos se reúnen para una fiesta de cumpleaños; ocho de ellos se declaran abiertamente gays, y el noveno sostiene que no lo es. Primer film con homosexuales con final no trágico producido en Hollywood.
Assistant Director
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
