Done & Dunne

In this episode, Griffin Dunne joins his family’s writing legacy. Griffin Dunne, actor, producer, and director – and son of Dominick and Ellen Dunne, is releasing a memoir June 11, The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir , and this podcast is excited about it. In this excerpt, Griffin reveals his own perspective of a story we have investigated through the lens of his father within our first few...

Move over, Gilmore girls! This week, we turn our investigation to Anna and Delphine Dodge, the mother/daughter pair that takes the 20th by storm! The wife and daughter of one of the founders of Dodge Motors live in extraordinary circles - SO many family connections, real estate, yachts, pearls and scandals too - the Dodge girls are coming in hot! All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Con...

This week, we explore Dominick Dunne’s writing on Marion Davies, their brief meeting in the 1950s, as well as reveal a few mysteries from Nick’s clues about a few scandals, secrets, and spiderwebs within the family. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@adv...

Media mogul William Randolph Hearst can be cast as a hero or a villain of the 20th century, and plenty of writers have taken a stab at pinning down his legacy definitively. But one of the lesser remembered aspects of Hearst's life was his abandonment, in 1917, of his wife, Millicent, and their five sons, to spend the rest of his life with actress Marion Davies. One quirk of this arrangement is tha...

What happened at the White House in 1961? How does Lee become the real villain in this story, at least according to Truman? So much bad blood, and these problems can never be solved. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art...

It is time to bring all the spiderwebs together. This week, it is the first part of the actual feud happening – the one between Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill. In this episode we explore the origin story of Gore and Truman which begins in the mid-1940’s and runs through 1975 – up to and into the complicated love/hate triangle between these three. All sources can be found at  doneanddu...

In this episode, Dominick Dunne’s writing comes into focus in our investigation. Nick writes about the life and the passing of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994 for Vanity Fair. This episode was released on Patreon last year, and this week in between Lee Radziwill and the Gore Vidal Feud, was a perfect to share it on the main feed. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your inv...

In this episode, we explore the life, loves, and increasingly complicated relationships of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, which a lens to two in particular. The first with her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The next, with her best friend, Truman Capote. Moving from the White House to Montauk to the Greek Isles, this one connects many people into on ongoing investigation, and sets the stage for the re...

We completely depart the Feud series this week, beginning the first of a three-episode arc to unpack the real feud, which is little featured in the series – the feud between Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. This week, in a prologue of sorts, we connect Gore Vidal and Lee Radziwill, long associated before Truman, who are stepsiblings through marriage, thanks to Hugh D. Auchincloss. Hugh’s second and t...

In this episode, Alicia continues to reveal the behind-the-scenes happenings in real life for Truman Capote and his Swans, against FX/Hulu’s Feud: Truman Capote vs. The Swans. It is to Episode 6 of the series this week where we dip into glove shopping, terrible talk show interviews, and Truman’s time in Palm Springs. 1968 is the year that the air conditioning man comes into his life, with an inter...

In this week’s episode, we explore Episode Five of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans . Included are three segments: a critique of the episode, reaction from Babe Paley’s granddaughter, and a true-life literary connection about the origin story of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird , which happened at the first party Truman Capote hosted, long before his 1966 Black and White Ball. All sources can be found...

In this week’s episode, we explore Episode Four of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans . Alicia takes you through a summary of what you saw on screen, and then a special bonus from Kate Harrington, telling her own story. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@adverti...

In this episode, we explore Truman’s 1966 Black and White Ball from the people who were there – the build-up, the big event, and the aftermath. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne . Learn...

In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer Episode Three, Masquerade 1966. In this first episode of a double-drop week, we focus on everything but The Black and White Ball. That is a whole episode on its own. Here, we explore In Cold Blood, Truman’s Sagaponack Home and 1966 documentary, and C.Z Guest’s...

In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer Episode Two, Ice in Their Veins.   This week, we focus into the behind the scenes of four new players, including two more Swans, a lover and a mother: Lee Radziwill, Joanne Carson, John O’Shea and Lillie Mae Faulk. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com...

In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer the D Block of Episode One.  This week, we make it into the publication of the piece that scorches all his Swans in Esquire in 1975. Alicia dips into all the bits around this last segment of the Pilot episode, exploring both before and after the publication of...

In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans , it is time to conquer the C Block of Episode One.  This week, we look to a few more glorious sets – Truman’s apartment in UN Plaza and the famous gathering place La Cote Basque. Also, we meet a few more characters too – Jack Dunphy, John O’Shea, Slim Keith and C.Z. Guest, with a fe...

In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans , it is time to conquer the B Block of Episode One.  Included this week is that infamous Private Jet introduction, where Truman Capote upgrades his Swan Set, the coterie he has collected from early days - from Jennifer Jones and the Hollywood Swans through an introduction from David...

With everyone engrossed in FX/Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Alicia will be diving into each episode with a little extra razzle dazzle, explaining the spiderwebs and continuing mysteries. This episode covers the first 13 minutes of the series, from its opening scene to the first commercial break, with more to come through the week!  All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Contin...

In this week’s episode, we are circling back to Babe Paley, from a Patron Bonus long ago. Babe, a woman of much style and influence – this one really goes places, from fragrance to birdcages, and her influence on Truman Capote in the early days. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dunne,...

This week, we conclude our Robert Evans journey taking The Kid through his last years, with three additional wives and divorces, losing Woodland and getting it back and a few other connected spiderwebs.  All sources can be found at doneanddone.com . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...

This week in our continuing journey of the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, we take The Kid into the fabulous 1980s, which weren’t quite so fabulous at all for him. Busted for a cocaine possession, and his reputation ruined, Evans is then fueled with an obsession of bringing The Cotton Club to the screen. That is all before the murder of Roy Radin in 1983, which connects into it all, although it will...

Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs. There are expectations and rules – and if you break them, the consequences are big, and very public. And no, we’re not just talking about Harry and Meghan. There are royal families and wild r...

This week, we take The Kid through conquering the 1970s. From hit films like Love Story, The Godfather and The Great Gatsby to two marriages and divorces from Ali MacGraw and Phyllis George, this decade was filled for Robert Evans with all the ups and downs. Appearances in the episode include, but are in no way limited to, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Al Pacino and even Princess Margaret. All sour...

In our continuing journey of the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, this week we explore his time in the 1960s in Hollywood, firmly ensconced at Paramount Studios. Included in this episode, Evans marries and divorces his second wife, Camilla Sparv. He acquires his legendary Beverly Hills home, Woodland Estates, leading John Elgin Woolf’s Hollywood Regency style. Woodland’s guest list includes all the gr...