Dominick Dunne
Nascimento : 1925-10-29, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Morte : 2009-08-26
História
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)
As orações de Christine Collins são ouvidas quando é encontrado o seu filho, que havia sido raptado. Mas, por entre o frenesim mediático da foto do reencontro, ela apercebe-se que aquela criança não é o seu filho. Enfrentando polícias corruptos e um público céptico, ela procura desesperadamente respostas, acabando por se ver confrontada com uma verdade que mudará a sua vida para sempre...
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
História livremente baseada na vida de Doris Duke (1912-1993), milionária herdeira de uma indústria de tabaco, e seu tímido mordomo Bernard Lafferty. A gélida porém jovial Doris demite seu mordomo por ele ter servido uma fatia de melão ruim. A agência de mordomos então envia a ela Lafferty, rapaz experiente no ofício que já havia trabalhado com Elizabeth Taylor e Peggy Lee. Alcoólotra, ele acabou de sair da reabilitação. Ainda assim Doris fica com ele, transformando-o em seu alter ego gay. Mas o tempo faz com que o relacionamento entre eles se torne paixão.
Self
A biography of powerful Hollywood agent and executive Lew Wasserman.
Self
Se um diretor sente que um filme ficou tão ruim ao ponto de querer tirar seu nome dos créditos sempre pode usar "Alan Smithee", o pseudônimo do Sindicato dos Diretores. Mas se o diretor se chama realmente Alan Smithee então está em um mato sem cachorro.
Matheson
Sam (Matthew Broderick, de Curtindo a Vida Adoidado) é um romântico do interior, apaixonado pela jovem Lina (Kelly Preston, de Jerry Maguire). Maggie (Meg Ryan, de Sintonia de Amor) é fotógrafa em Nova York e não acredita mais no amor por causa de seu ex-noivo Anton (Tcheky Karyo). Duas vidas completamente opostas que o destino uniu por uma estranha coincidência: ambos foram abandonados pelas pessoas que amavam... E agora, Linda e Anton moram juntos e estão apaixonados! Maggie quer vingança a qualquer custo e só precisa convencer Sam a ajudá-la. Em pouco tempo, eles estão espionando cada detalhe da vida do casal e elaborando um plano divertidamente diabólico para acabar de uma vez por todas com esse romance. Mas as coisas não estão saindo exatamente como eles haviam planejado!
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
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
Writer
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
Producer
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. Her daughter tries to warn her that even though she has had the surgery it might be too late for her marriage, but she clings to the hope that Mark will come back once he sees her new look. Meanwhile, she must decide whether or not have an affair with a young man she's met.
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
Um retrato dos viciados que transitam na Praça Sherman, Nova York, que para os drogados que ali freqüentam é conhecido como "Parque das Agulhas". Dentro deste contexto é focada a trajetória de Bobby (Al Pacino), um viciado e pequeno traficante que se envolve com Helen (KItty Winn), uma jovem sem-teto que acredita que sua relação com o drogado é a estabilidade que necessita. Porém, ela também acaba se viciando e a vida de ambos entra em total decadência.
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
Os níveis de tensão começam a aumentar e os nervos começam a aflorar conforme uma festa de aniversário se aproxima do clímax e os convidados vão revelando suas naturezas e suas personalidades reprimidas quando um homem heterossexual, convidado por acidente, se vê em meio à uma festa gay.
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.
