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During my first listen to the debut record from Cloud, I found myself questioning just who these songs are supposed to be a comfort to. It doesn't appear to be the artist, who has made odd-pop songs within which he seems constantly unhinged and bedraggled. These unbalanced and hectic projections also make it difficult for the listener to find much relief; however with some dedicated exploration some respite and resolutions begin to appear.
Comfort Songs is the work of Tyler Taormina, a 21-year-old from LA who has crafted an album that is rich in both ideas and weighty substances that belie his somewhat tender age. Despite the help from his friends, who flesh out the tracks with full and vibrant musical backdrops, it's very obviously his record, and an extremely personal one at that. Halfway through opening track 'Cars & It's Autumn' he delivers the line "and sometimes, though it's futile, I fight these ghostly demands", and those words are a nicely succinct description of the record's narrative arc, which constantly feels like a confrontation of afflictions.
Playing out like a spirited but often embittered battle of persuasions, Comfort Songs' pace and tone is constantly shifting - often within the very same song. 'Cars & It's Autumn' delivers swaying group vocals that range from a sad sigh to a throttled grimace before the whole thing is turned on its head and drifts away inside a tenderly composed piano-led coda that "oohs" and "ahhs" in all the right places. What the track best highlights, however, is that Cloud know their way around a pop song, and for all of the album's off-beat charms, and occasionally hard-to-grasp content, it's a true pop heart which can be found at the centre of every song that helps to make this such a rewarding listen.
'Wish Little Fish' is gloriously elegant; the languid vocals sit atop a piano that weaves itself around some loose and shuffling percussion. 'Frere Jacques and Me' also has a soft charm to it, albeit charm tinged with the dull ache of growing up and the changes that brings.
It's certainly not all light and air though. Taormina is possessed with a voice that can mutate to a feral cry in one sharp midnight gust, bringing visions of a disheveled and drunken howl to the moon. 'Mother Sea' begins as a sprightly piece of straight-up indie rock, before it descends in to a unraveling self-evaluation ("I think I'm ready to love myself!") as the music builds and rises in to a hefty mass of guitar feedback, crashing percussion and half-buried, decaying keys.
Across Comfort Songs, Cloud present two very different sides, and it's difficult to say which is the more successful. The ballad, 'A Light Wish', is wonderfully heartfelt and grand. However, the band are just as enjoyable when romping through short-and-sharp pop songs such as 'Boy Sees Mirror' and the majestic 'Authorless Novel'. Thankfully we need not pick a winner, and it's actually the two poles that give the record the kind of balance that is much needed when presenting such a brow-furrowing and personal record.
There are moments when they get a bit carried away. The instrumental closure of 'Desperation Club' is lovely, but at least two minutes too long, while the slow-burning closing track 'Halleys Comet', with it's jazzy interludes and wistful romanticism's, plays out like a lonely 4am waltz and makes for a slightly wandering and underwhelming end; the album drifts away rather than delivering the final flourish that you might be waiting for given what came before it.
But that's almost certainly nit-picking, for Comfort Songs is an impressive debut record; an endlessly charming collection of strange and nuanced pop songs that manage to appear decidedly complex and yet satisfyingly basic. It's a record to get lost in. It's the sound of someone facing up to the age-old problem of growing up too soon and all the trials and tribulations that come along with that. What Taormina has done here is turned those vexations in to songs for all of us to confront and consider and explore - and there's always, eventually, a comfort to be found in that.
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Take Heart: Modern, Handmade, Vintage
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- Founded: 2011
- Founded by: Nina Burke Gordon
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With the holiday season here, you better believe we're gonna be keeping our eye out for stores, near and far, that will carry gifts we'll want to give to loved ones. A new clean, adorable and warm shop for gifts and more has opened up on the East Side of Austin, and we're mega excited.
Opened by Nina Burke Gordon just a few months ago, Take Heart is poised to become a favorite spot for Austinites looking for thoughtful gifts, home decor and items for the person that are a heady mix of vintage, modern, handmade, local and more.
Housed in a gorgeous retail space in the modern building built by local architects Bercy Chen, the shop isn't just filled with lovely items, it's lovely, too. The shelving and storage units for Take Heart were built by Nina's husband, local Austin woodworker Brian David Johnson, who also has some items in the shop.
You'll find everything from great tabletop decor to cards, soaps, jewelry, vases and more, all curated by Nina's sharp design eye. All together the place is refreshing, sweet, subtle and enjoyable.
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In 1730, Pope Clemens XII commissioned a competition to design a fountain; there were no rules or necessary requirements. The winner was Nicola Salvi with his enormous but beautiful design of a fountain with the sea god Neptune. Construction began in 1732 but sadly Salvi never saw the completion of his creation; the world-famous Trevi Fountain was only concluded in 1762, 11 years after his death.
Trevi means 'three roads'; the location where the fountain stands used to be an intersection where 3 roads came together. By far the largest and most famous fountain in Rome, the Trevi Fountain is 20 metres wide and 26 metres high. It depicts Neptune in a chariot pulled by 2 horses ridden by 2 Tritons, one older and one younger. Look more closely and you will notice that one horse is calm, while the other is quite wild; a symbol of the ocean's changing moods.
The water in the Trevi Fountain comes from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct; according to experts at the time, this was the softest and best tasting water in Rome. Every day, large kegs were filled with water from the fountain and brought to the Vatican. The water apparently was so delicious that the British in Rome used it to make tea. In 1961, however, the water was declared to be inappropriate for consumption. Today, the water from the Trevi Fountain is filtered by pumps and is just as clean as the water in your hotel. If taken straight from the pump, not from the basin, the water is appropriate for drinking – if you dare.
The Trevi Fountain is the place to come and toss coins into the water for good luck. Legend states that if you toss a coin over your shoulder into the fountain, you will return to Rome someday. Two coins will ensure an encounter with the love of your life, and three coins will guarantee marriage to a Roman. The coins never remain in the water for more than 7 days; the city removes them every week and donates the money to charity. The Trevi Fountain has starred in many movies, but its most famous appearance was in 'La Dolce Vita'. In this classic film, sultry Anita Ekberg takes a bath in the fountain.


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The street people of the urban east coast are for the most part marginally uneducated with limited social skills and couldn't hold a job in the best of times. As you get into the West and the coastal areas you find a better grade of bum. It is not to say that they are any less lazy, the just have adapted better to their environment. The urban outdoorsman in nicer areas are no less crazy, the just cope better.
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Help to Buy scheme extension costs being unveiled
Banks have begun to unveil mortgages which they will offer under the expanded Help to Buy scheme.
The government's initiative is designed to enable buyers who can afford only small deposits to buy a home.
RBS, NatWest and Halifax will start taking applications this week, with HSBC and Virgin Money joining later.
There have been concerns the scheme could fuel a housing price bubble, but Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander told the BBC that there is no UK price boom.
"People who think that there's a housing bubble should get out more. They should get out of Kensington and Chelsea, and go to Manchester or Birmingham, and major towns across the country," he said.
He said the scheme would help those people who did not have "piles of cash" for a mortgage deposit.
RBS and NatWest are offering a two-year, fixed-rate mortgage starting at 4.99% for those with a 5% deposit, with no fee.
Halifax will be taking applications in a few days at a rate of 5.19% with a £995 fee for those with the same deposit.
HSBC said it would join the scheme later in the year, with Virgin Money and Aldermore saying they would offer Help to Buy mortgages from January.
The scheme is getting under way as surveyors report their sales levels are at their highest for nearly four years.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said a large majority of surveyors were expecting house prices to rise.
The first phase of the Help to Buy scheme in England started in April, when buyers of newly built homes were eligible for a 20% equity loan from the government on top of their 5% deposit.
Similar schemes are operating in Scotland and Wales.
Under the second phase, buyers across the UK only need to provide a small deposit, with the government offering a guarantee of 15% of the loan to the lender - for a fee - to encourage the bank or building society to offer the loan.
That fee charged to the lender is expected to be up to 0.9% of the original loan level. This is a one-off fee dealt with entirely by the lender, which guarantees 15% of the mortgage for seven years.
Those who apply will face checks to make sure that they can afford the mortgage payments. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), which represents lenders, said affordability checks would be as "rigorous" as they were with any borrower.
The scheme will be available for first-time buyers and home movers borrowing to buy new and old homes valued at no more than £600,000. It is expected to continue for three years.
It means a buyer looking to purchase a home costing £200,000 would have to put down a deposit of around £10,000. Demands have been much higher than this for many first-time buyers since the start of the financial crisis, usually about 20% of the value of a home.
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Prime Minister David Cameron announced at the Conservative Party conference that the second phase of the scheme would be brought forward by three months from January.
A number of lenders have expressed an interest in joining the second phase. Lloyds Banking Group and RBS are the most prominent. Other lenders have yet to commit.
Some products from the Halifax and Bank of Scotland will be available from Friday, with deals from other lenders expected to be in place by January.
Comparisons on the interest rates are difficult, as there are so few 95% mortgages on the market at present.
The most competitive, widely available two-year fixed rate mortgage before Help to Buy, for those offering a 5% deposit has an interest rate of 5.95%, according to financial information service Moneyfacts.
For those able to offer a 10% deposit, the cheapest mortgage deal was 3.54%, with a fee of £1,675, Moneyfacts said.
Price rises
An influential group of MPs has echoed concerns about the potential effect of the Help to Buy scheme. The Treasury Select Committee said that great care was needed from the government when setting up and running the scheme.
"Mistakes could distort the housing market or carry threats to financial stability," it said.
It said that - without care - the scheme could raise house prices, rather than stimulate the number of homes for sale.
"We continue to believe that the government of the day will face strong incentives to extend the scheme, with the attendant risk that the mortgage guarantee scheme becomes a permanent feature of the UK mortgage market," it said.
Last month, Chancellor George Osborne asked the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to make annual reviews of the scheme, starting next September. The committee had been due to make an assessment only after its first three years of operation.
Treasury officials said that the FPC would advise on the fee that lenders have to pay, which could be changed each year, and whether to change the £600,000 limit.
Mr Osborne said that the housing market was recovering from low levels of activity and the latest extension of Help to Buy would help many more people get a foot on the ladder.
Mr Alexander said the Treasury Committee was right to say that Ministers should keep a close watch on Help to Buy. "We will make adjustments if they (the FPC) recommend them," he said.
He also rejected criticism that the government should be tackling a house supply shortage, rather than demand. "All the housebuilders tell us is that what is holding them back (building more houses) is a lack of demand," he said. "There are lots of other policies that this government is doing to tackle demand."
Chris Leslie, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, questioned whether homes as expensive as £600,000 should be included in the scheme, and said that more affordable homes should be built.
"Unless George Osborne acts now to build more affordable homes, as we have urged, then soaring prices risk making it even harder for first-time buyers to get on the housing ladder. You can't tackle the cost of living crisis without building more homes," he said.
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Norway Dashes Cold Water on Bitcoins
Dec 16, 2013 10:54 AM PT
Norway's government ruled that Bitcoins don't qualify as a real currency, and it will treat them as an asset -- as opposed to a legitimate currency -- that is subject to capital gains tax.
Many countries have been weighing in on how they will treat Bitcoins. Earlier this month, China said that its banks and financial institutions shouldn't handle the digital currency.
Bitcoins made headlines in Norway in October after a university student who bought US$24 worth of Bitcoins in 2009 suddenly found his account was worth more than $800,000.
Norway is in the bizarre financial situation of perhaps having too strong an economy. There is concern that the nation's $100,000-plus GDP per capita and $700 billion rainy-day fund have made the nation somewhat lethargic.
Last month, officials mulled cutting Norway's budget if its currency, the krone, got too strong for exporters to remain competitive.
[Source: Bloomberg]
Cambridge Builds More Energy-Efficient Supercomputer
Cambridge University researchers have built a supercomputer designed to be incredibly powerful, yes, but also environmentally friendly.
The machine, named "Wilkes" in honor of computer pioneer Maurice Wilkes, will be used to develop a Square Kilometer Array, or SKA, which is a type of radio telescope.
Wilkes has the computer power of 4,000 desktops working simultaneously, but it ranks just 166 among the world's fastest supercomputers. However, it was designed for efficiency -- not raw power,according to its designers.
It ranks No. 2 on the "Green 500," a ranking of the world's most energy-efficient computers.
[Source: BBC]
China Lands on Moon
China's "Chang'e 3" unmanned probe has landed on the moon.
State-run television broadcast images of a giddy crew at the Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center, which is controlling the rover.
The probe deployed the rover Yutu, which means "jade rabbit," which was named by an online poll.
[Source: Tech In Asia]
Google Tells UK to Dismiss Privacy Claim
Google wants the UK high court to agree that a case brought by Web users there should be heard in California.
Google stands accused of secretly skirting security settings on the iPhone, iPad and desktop version of Safari, Apple's default Web browser.
The case is the first group claim against Google in the UK, and Google would prefer the suit to be heard on its home turf instead of the on the Isle.
"Google's approach that British consumers should travel all the way to California to seek redress for its wrongdoing is arrogant, immoral and a disgrace," said Judith Vidal-Hall, one of the claimants suing Google.
[Source: The Guardian]
Deja EU: Canada to Open Antitrust Case Against Google
Canadian regulators are expected to open an antitrust investigation into Google, which is suspected of abusing its search market dominance and stifling competition -- basically the same stuff that Europe has been accusing Google of for three years.
Canada's Competition Bureau says in a federal court filing that Google may have violated the country's antitrust laws. The bureau "has reason to believe" that Google has been up to no good, so to speak, specifically when it comes to giving preferential treatment to its own results and bumping down rivals.
Canada launched an informal (and unannounced) probe into Google in May.
[Source: The Associated Press]


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Mullaney owns an 8-0 record this season (photo courtesy: Zack Williamson).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 2 Harvard men's squash team travels to New York this weekend to take on No. 8 Cornell and No. 12 Columbia in a pair of Ivy League contests.
Follow Harvard Athletics on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay connected with all the breaking news from around Cambridge and to get inside access to your favorite Crimson programs.
Last Time Out
The Crimson swept 11 of its 18 matches to post a 2-0 mark last weekend edging No. 4 St. Lawrence, 8-1 and No. 5 University of Rochester, 8-1. Brandon McLaughlin dropped his first match of the season against St. Lawrence's Moustafa Bayoumy in the No. 2 spot, while Bryan Koh pulled out a close, 3-2, win over Sebastian Riedlsheimer in the sixth position. Dlyan Murray fell to Rochester's Mario Yanez in the No. 3 spot, while McLaughlin, Koh and Nigel Koh picked up five-game victories to help secure the win.
Related Link: No. 2 Men's Squash Powers Past St. Lawrence, 8-1
Related Link: No. 2 Men's Squash Knocks Downs No. 5 University of Rochester, 8-1
About No. 2 Harvard
Harvard is 9-0 on the year and 3-0 in Ivy League play. The Crimson has dominated its opposition in wins this season, sweeping seven of its eight opponents. Ali Farag is a perfect7-0 on the year, playing out of the No. 1 position on the ladder. Nick Hopcroft, the Koh brothers, Tom Mullaney, Tyler Olson and Gary Power are tied for the team lead with eight wins apiece. As a team, Harvard boasts a .966 winning percentage, going 86-3 in the first nine contests of the year
Around the Ivy League
Harvard and Yale stands alone as the only two undefeated team in conference play this season. Yale is 2-0, and Harvard boasts a 3-0 record. The Crimson has posted undefeated seasons 25 times, while starting out 9-0 or better 29 times in program history.
Related Links: 2013-14 Men's Squash Standings
Break Out The Broom
The Crimson swept its first seven opponents of the season for the first time in program history to post a 7-0 record. The previous program record for consecutive shutouts to begin a season was six, which it did in 2004-05, 1991-92 and 1972-73. The program record for shutouts in a season is 12, set by the 1991-92 team and equaled by the 1994-95 squad.
Tournament of Champions
Farag competed in the 17th edition of the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York City Jan. 18-24. The senior defeated Australia's Ryan Cuskelly in straight sets to advance to round two of qualifying where he stunned Cesear Salazar of Mexico in three games to advance to the main draw for the first time. Playing in the glass court in the Grand Central Terminal, Farag fell to England's Chris Simspon, 9-11, 11-0, 12-10, 11-5.
Coach's View
Assistant coach Luke Hammond is now blogging to give fans an inside perspective of the Harvard men's and women's squash teams. The blog will be periodically updated throughout the season, recapping the latest results and highlighting other interesting tidbits about the squad.
Related Link: Harvard Squash Blog
Scouting No. 8 Cornell
Cornell, looking the snap a three-game losing streak will host four matches across three days Jan. 31-Feb. 2, welcoming Franklin & Marshall, United States Naval Academy, Harvard and Dartmouth to Ithaca, N.Y. The Big Red sit at 4-3 overall and 2-1 in Ivy League play, while most recently falling to Yale, 5-4, Trinity College, 6-3 and St. Lawrence 5-4.
All-Time Against the Big Red
Harvard holds a dominant, 43-2, advantage over the Big Red. The Crimson has taken four of its last five meetings, dropping a, 7-2, decision in December, 2010.
Scouting No. 12 Columbia
The Lions carries a 5-3 overall record and 0-2 conference mark into the weekend. Columbia split its weekend matches Jan. 18-19 as the Lions fell to Franklin & Marshall, 6-3 before bouncing back to edge Williams, 8-1. Columbia is led by the Ramit Tandon who is a perfect 8-0 in the top position, and Rishi Tandon who owns a 7-1 mark in the No. 2 spot.
All-Time Against the Lions
The Crimson and Lions have met twice in program history, with Harvard claiming each of the two matches, 9-0 and 8-1.
Looking Ahead
The Crimson will travel to Trinity College for a midweek matchup Feb. 4 for a rematch of last season's Potter Cup semifinals where Harvard fell to the Bantams, 6-3.


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Memorial Service Planned for NM Tech Student, Aug. 16, 2006
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SOCORRO, N.M., August 16, 2006 -- The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents, meeting in an emergency telephone conference this morning, has approved the posthumous granting of a bachelor of science degree in physics by the university to the late David Cady, 25. Cady, an undergraduate student at New Mexico Tech, died August 5 of a single gunshot wound sustained in an off-campus shooting incident.
Cady, a native of Watkins Glen, N.Y, was a senior majoring in physics at New Mexico Tech and had already earned more than 180 credit hours toward his degree. He was registered to resume attending classes at the research university this coming fall semester.
A campus-wide memorial service for Cady is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Monday, August 21, at New Mexico Tech's Macey Conference Center, at which time Cady's parents will be presented with his awarded diploma.
Gina Chavez, secretary of the Physics Department, is working with David's friends to plan the schedule of events, and persons who would like to speak should contact Gina.
"The entire campus community has been shaken and saddened by the loss of one our own students in this tragic incident, and our heart-felt thoughts and prayers are extended to his family during this profound personal tragedy," said New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López.


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|Sep 11, 2013
Development banks finance record amount in clean energy
|(Nanowerk News) In 2012 development banks financed $109bn in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electrical transmission and distribution, according to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The 26 institutions covered by the analysis have financed a total of $425bn in clean energy investment since 2007.
|Abraham Louw, clean energy analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said: This year we expect at least another 15% growth in development bank financing. There is potential for an even bigger increase in the longer term if other institutions such as a possible BASIC-country development bank become active.
|Clean energy financing by development banks has grown at a compound rate of 25% per annum over the last five years, estimates Bloomberg New Energy Finance. This trend is expected to continue, especially as the larger development banks such as the European Investment Bank and World Bank are scaling down their investments in coal projects, which should leave more of their finite capital available for clean energy projects.
|The executive summary of the report containing this new analysis can be downloaded here: http://about.bnef.com/white-papers/development-banks-breaking-the-100bn-a-year-barrier/
|The Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis was based on some 2,000 transactions by national and multilateral development banks and export-import banks, each with cumulative investment over $50m. Bloomberg New Energy Finance defines large hydro as hydro-electric installations with installed capacity of over 50MW. North-South investment was calculated by tracking financing by development banks owned by OECD countries that invest in non-OECD countries. For multilateral development banks the proportion of investment in non-OECD countries that constituted North-South investment was calculated pro-rata to their shareholdings.
|Development banks are financing institutions owned by governments with strategic economic objectives. Over the past decade development banks substantially increased their focus on financing clean energy.
|Europe has seen the most investment from development banks since 2007, receiving roughly half of the global total ($217bn). Most of these funds came from KfW, the German development bank, and the European Investment Bank. Asia has seen 30% of total investment from development banks over the same period, mainly sourced from China Development Bank. This trend was also seen in 2012, though the gap between Europe (at $48bn) and Asia ($40bn) is closing.
|Development bank investment between developing countries is close to reaching that from developed to developing nations. In 2012, North-South development bank investment amounted to some $10bn a year compared with a record $7.5bn of South-South flows a 21% increase on the 2011 total. During the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, developed countries committed to ensuring $100bn per annum of climate-related finance was invested in developing countries by 2020.
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kiddietron wrote:I can't remember exactly where I heard but the Starter edition supposedly only runs 3 applications at once to simplify the OS for the average user... (Look at the third link.)
W7 starter: the MID edition (you can't buy me.)
W7 home basic: the you can't buy me in any country Americans have heard of edition. (you can't buy me in any country with a gdp.)
W7 enterprise: the you've got offices in several states edition. (you can't buy me if you're reading engadget on a Tuesday afternoon.)
which brings us to;
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W7 professional: the I have an IT department, or I built my own home server edition. (you can buy me at best buy, but probably not at walmart.)
W7 ultimate: the I know enough about computers that I'm not wingeing about how many editions of windows 7 there are edition. (you can buy me at the same place you ordered your waterblocks.)
So there we have it, 3 versions you can actually purchase.
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Nobody ever saw Dominick Dunne and wondered, "Is that who I think it is?" You knew right away. The Turnbull & Asser ensembles in Crayola hues, the circular tortoiseshell glasses, the aroma of talcum powder that preceded him by five paces. It was all by design. He wanted you to recognize him. He wanted you to introduce yourself. He wanted you to tell him what you knew.
"He always used to say that people told him things, and they did," says Betty Prashker, Dominick's longtime editor at Crown, "and not just the people he was sitting next to at a dinner party, but the waiters who were handing him the food and the butlers who were taking his coat and hat."
"When you were with him at a restaurant, he always seemed a little disappointed if no one came over," says his friend Cynthia McFadden, of ABC News, "but he didn't have to suffer that kind of disappointment often."
"People always responded to Nick," says his sister-in-law Joan Didion. "He was kind of magic."
"He was our pop star," says *Vanity Fair'*s Reinaldo Herrera. "I suppose it was his Hollywood training. He certainly knew how to become a star, and he did."
There is a reason it has become customary to compare Dominick Dunne to Truman Capote, whose career he consciously emulated. Both writers emerged from obscurity to play outsize roles in the social lives of America's upper classes. Both used their insecurities to their advantage, exposing the offhand ways in which social arbiters dispense with pretenders. And both were at their best when writing about crime, revealing, from very different angles, the visceral horror of murder and the mundane inhumanity of the criminal-justice system.
But Dominick had something Capote did not: a life-defining cause. Justice wasn't just a plot device to him; it was his passion. Again and again, he'd watched as wealthy, well-connected people got away with murder—sometimes literally—and he never learned to accept it. "What drove Dominick was that sense of outrage," says *Vanity Fair'*s Marie Brenner. "He was furious."
"Nick kicked people who were on top," says the writer Jesse Kornbluth, "and to do that and have it published is not small. And then to be celebrated for it!"
What makes his accomplishments all the more astonishing is how low he was just three decades ago. Before he became one of the most instantly recognizable magazine writers in the world, Dominick Dunne's only claim to fame was his epic, humiliating failure. His charmed life as a Hollywood producer, party giver, and collector of A-list friends, from Gary Cooper and Jennifer Jones to Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper, had been undone in spectacular fashion by his insecurity, addiction, and indiscretion. "He was really a mess," says his friend Brigid Berlin, the Andy Warhol insider. "If anybody was at the bottom, Dominick was."
How he climbed back to the top is one of the great turnaround stories of the celebrity age. "What got him in trouble in Hollywood was his big mouth, getting hammered and telling stories out of school," says his elder son, Griffin Dunne. "And what made him popular was telling the same stories and people wanting to have the stories told about them."
Even when he was nobody, Dominick knew everybody. The author Jane Stanton Hitchcock met him in New York in 1982, at a dinner party hosted by Bobo Legendre, whose family, the Sanfords, are said to have been the model for the aristocratic Setons in the 1938 movie Holiday, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Dominick had just arrived from Los Angeles, his wounds still fresh. "He did not have a dime," Hitchcock says. "He'd had this whole Hollywood life, but he was struggling."
According to Griffin Dunne, then a promising actor with a starring role in An American Werewolf in London, Dominick's vast social network extended all the way from the dinner-party circuit to the gutter. "I'd have lunch with him, and all these street hustlers and vagrants would go, 'Hey, Dominick,'" Griffin recalls. "This is a guy who based his life on Cecil Beaton. Now he's Damon Runyon. I said, 'How do you know these people?' And he goes, 'Oh, you know, they're from the rooms.' He'd become a star speaker at various A.A. rooms in the Village."
It's not hard to imagine Dominick honing his repertoire of self-lacerating stories at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but he wasn't afraid to tell them in polite company, either. Those who knew him eventually heard them all.
He was born into a well-to-do Irish-Catholic family in Hartford, Connecticut, at a time when being Irish was still a social handicap. His father, a prominent heart surgeon, called him a sissy, beat him with a wooden hanger, and never accepted him—until he came home from World War II with a Bronze Star for rescuing two fellow soldiers from behind enemy lines. After the war he married a beautiful Arizona ranching heiress named Lenny Griffin, moved to New York City, and found work as the stage manager of the Howdy Doodyshow. But his lifelong fascination with movie stars soon propelled him to Los Angeles.
There he and Lenny became known for their extravagant parties, which were attended by the cream of Hollywood: Kirk Douglas, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder, Merle Oberon, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall, and so on. These affairs produced some world-class scrapbooks, but they took a toll on the Dunnes' marriage, not to mention on their children, Griffin, Alex, and Dominique. "If it was a particularly noisy or rowdy night," Griffin remembers, "we'd get bundled up in our pj's and checked into a hotel with our little schoolbags for school the next day."
Perhaps worse, from Dominick's perspective, he was never really accepted by these new friends. As a TV producer socializing with movie stars, he didn't rank. Frank Sinatra told him to his face that he was a no-talent hack. Others just said it behind his back.
Even the crowning triumph of the Dunnes' Hollywood life ended with a sour twist. In 1964, Dominick and Lenny celebrated their 10th anniversary with a lavish black-and-white ball at their home on Walden Drive, in Beverly Hills. "Le tout Hollywood was there, and my eyes were falling on the floor," says Mart Crowley, whose play The Boys in the Band was later adapted for the screen with Dominick as co-executive producer. Among the guests were Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale, Billy and Audrey Wilder, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Loretta Young, Natalie Wood, Vincente Minnelli, and Truman Capote, who was photographed for Vogue dancing with Tuesday Weld.
Two years later, Capote gave his famous black-and-white ball in New York and neglected to invite the Dunnes. The snub infuriated Dominick, but he had more in common with Capote than he realized. Not long after Dominick arrived in Hollywood, he attended a party thrown by the producer William Frye. "I had all the old movie people that were still alive," Frye recalls, including Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, and Bette Davis. A week later, the Dunnes invited Russell and Davis to a party at their house, and they didn't invite Frye. As Dominick wrote in his memoir, The Way We Lived Then, "I used to say that I was good at writing assholes because I used to be one."
Lenny divorced Dominick in 1965. After that he went into a downward spiral. He was arrested for possession of marijuana following a flight back from Mexico and was paraded through the airport, handcuffed, past his brother John Gregory Dunne and sister-in-law Joan Didion, two of the literary celebrities of their day. He torpedoed his producing career, he always claimed, by making a tasteless joke—later printed word for word in The Hollywood Reporter—about the powerful and popular agent Sue Mengers and her husband. Mengers responds, "I was flattered that Nick Dunne would identify me as the person who ended his career in Hollywood because of my power. I wish it were true."
Realizing that his Hollywood life was over, Dominick left town, drove north, and wound up in a cabin in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, where he stayed for six months. He contemplated suicide, but resolved instead to sober up. It occurred to him that he would be a writer. He was 50 years old.
Back in Los Angeles, he sold almost everything he owned, including his West Highland terrier. "I paid $400 for Alfie," remembers Connie Wald. Then he moved to New York, where he rented a tiny apartment on Ninth Street and focused on finishing his first novel, The Winners, which he'd sold as the sequel to the gossip columnist Joyce Haber's novel The Users. He must have thought the worst was behind him, but it was about to come.
George Hamilton still remembers what it was like in 1982 inside the intensive-care unit at Cedars-Sinai hospital, in Los Angeles. "There was no time or light," says the actor, whose 52-year-old half-brother, Bill, was terminally ill. "I would be there sometimes for 20 hours at a time." He was keeping vigil when an ambulance arrived carrying Dominick Dunne's daughter, Dominique, a 22-year-old actress who had just appeared in Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist.
Dominique had been strangled almost to death by her 26-year-old boyfriend, John Sweeney, a sous-chef at the L.A. hot spot Ma Maison. Dominick awoke in the middle of the night to a phone call from Lenny, and he boarded the next plane to Los Angeles. The family, re-united by tragedy, convened at Lenny's house, on Crescent Drive, then headed to the hospital. "At first I did not realize that the person on the bed was Dominique," Dominick later wrote. "Her neck was purpled and swollen; vividly visible on it were the marks of the massive hands of the man who had strangled her. It was nearly impossible to look at her, but also impossible to look away." Tests showed that Dominique was brain-dead, so the family, while still struggling to come to grips with this nightmare, gave consent for her to be taken off life support. Before his daughter was wheeled away for the last time, Dominick leaned over, gave her a kiss, and whispered, "Give me your talent."
Her killer's trial was a travesty. The judge was a preening attention seeker, Dominick later wrote, who wore "designer jeans, glossy white loafers, and no necktie beneath his judicial robes," and who seemed to go out of his way to accommodate the defendant, whose history of violence against women was not revealed to the jury. The Dunnes attended every session on the advice of victims'-rights activists, who told them, "It's the last business of your daughter's life." The judge, meanwhile, issued a Draconian set of restrictions at the defense attorney's request: "If any member of the Dunne family cries, cries out, rolls his eyes, exclaims in any way, he will be asked to leave the courtroom."
Dominick sat there and absorbed it all. Later, he would say he had never given "five seconds' thought" to the criminal-justice system until that trial. Now he found himself helpless to protect his family from a second tragedy. Only after the jury delivered its verdict—manslaughter, which meant that Sweeney would be back on the street within three years—did he finally erupt. After the judge thanked the jury on behalf of the attorneys and both families, Dominick shouted, "Not for our family!" Griffin remembers the moment: "He's being pulled out of the court by the bailiffs and met by the reporters, who had their cameras ready. That's when he found his voice." Dominick's article about John Sweeney's case was published in the March 1984 issue of Vanity Fair under the title "Justice." Even today, you can feel the rage pulsating behind his carefully chosen words.
By the time I met Dominick, in 1998, he had channeled that anger into a world-class writing career. He and his editor—my new boss at the time, Wayne Lawson—had been working together for 15 years, producing definitive coverage of the most notorious, and irresistible, criminal trials of the 80s and 90s. The world they introduced me to bore no relation to anything I had experienced before. My last big adventure had been a somewhat disappointing year abroad, studying Anglo-Irish literature at University College Dublin. There I decided that I wanted to work with real live writers, instead of spending my life figuring out what James Joyce had had for breakfast the day he wrote page 236 of Finnegans Wake. Wayne worked with some of the magazine's best, and my job, as his assistant, was to make the reporting and editing process as painless as possible for them.
I did what I could, though no one ever accused me of being the concierge type. Dominick inscribed a copy of his book Justice to me with the words "To Michael Hogan, who saves my life every day," but he wasn't always so charitable. I'll never forget how furious he was the day he called me from Wilmington, Delaware, where he was reporting a story about a drug-addicted DuPont heir whose prostitute girlfriend had wound up dead, stuffed inside an air-conditioning duct. I had been sloppy and booked him in a middlebrow hotel in the wrong part of town. "Do you know who I am?" he screamed. "I'm a star at this fucking magazine!"
But he was also capable of great kindness. His words of encouragement meant a lot to a 24-year-old scholarship kid who was struggling to get his bearings in the sophisticated atmosphere of Vanity Fair. And he could be funny. Once, Wayne took us to a fancy restaurant where on a previous visit I had spotted a tiny worm inching its way across my hamburger bun. When we arrived, the maître d' said it would be a few moments and motioned us to one side. Waiting for tables was not Dominick's thing, and after two or three minutes he could bear it no longer. Whipping out one of his signature green, leather-bound, personalized Smythson of Bond Street reporter's notebooks, he said in a very loud voice, "So, tell me about the worm you found on your hamburger the last time you ate here!" Within seconds we were seated.
Maybe Dominick was destined to become a star, and maybe Vanity Fair was destined to become the magazine it is today, but neither outcome seemed especially likely in the spring of 1985. The magazine had debuted just two years earlier and was still struggling to find its footing. Every week, it seemed, the papers ran another item predicting its demise. Being underestimated had its advantages, though, starting with the camaraderie it fostered among the small staff. "We were on a mission," Marie Brenner remembers. "And Dominick was the missionary. It was as if he was creating himself for the first time. He had the esprit of a kid, even though he was old enough to be everybody's uncle."
He wrote at a feverish clip, contributing to issue after issue—profiles of Diane Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Candy Spelling, as well as a dispatch from the trial of the man who killed Vicki Morgan, the ex-mistress of merchandising tycoon Alfred Bloomingdale.
Then came the sensational re-trial of Danish-born aristocrat Claus von Bülow. Two years in a row, in 1979 and 1980, his rich American wife, known as Sunny, had fallen into a coma during Christmas celebrations at the family mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The first coma passed, but the second would hold her in its grip until her death 28 years later, in December 2008. In 1982, Claus was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years, but the well-known defense attorney Alan Dershowitz won him his freedom on appeal.
Von Bülow's second trial began in Providence in April 1985, and Dominick was there, covering it in a way that would have appalled the hoary heads of journalism. He became a guardian figure to Sunny's children from her first marriage, Prince Alexander von Auersperg and Princess Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auersperg, and never wasted a moment worrying about objectivity. "I took sides," he wrote on vanityfair.com after Sunny's death. "I believed Ala and Alex. I disbelieved Claus von Bülow."
But he was enough of a reporter to know exactly what to ask Claus and his girlfriend, Andrea Reynolds, when the opportunity presented itself. Reynolds, who later befriended Dominick and called him her "best enemy," says she and von Bülow had been warned not to speak to him, but an incident at the hotel in Providence where they were all staying softened her resistance.
"One evening I'm walking up the stairs to my apartment and what do I see? I see Dominick Dunne stuck between two floors in one of those old-fashioned metal elevators," Reynolds says. "Some people had gone to get help, so I lay down on the steps, and I took hold of his hand and tried to soothe him. My heart went out to him. So when he was saved, I said to Claus, 'You know, we're being unfair to this man. Let's give him the interview.' And Claus never really disagreed with me; he didn't dare."
On this occasion, at least, von Bülow would live to regret that policy. Dominick posed the two questions every other reporter had been too polite to ask: Did Claus ever really love Sunny ("Oh, yes"), and was it true that Andrea wore Sunny's jewelry? Andrea's reply—"Not true! I have far better jewels than Sunny von Bülow ever had"—wasn't likely to win her any fans in the cheap seats.
There was enough in Dominick's article to cause a stir, but what put it over the top were Helmut Newton's morbidly fascinating photographs of von Bülow and Reynolds in matching leather jackets that made them look, as Reynolds puts it, like "S&M people."
"That in itself was total trickery," says Reynolds, who claims that she and von Bülow had received the jackets as gag gifts from their respective children. (Hers had the words hell's granny stitched on the back in silver lettering.) She also claims that the leather shots were done as a favor to Newton, who promised not to publish them.
Dominick phoned Marie Brenner, ecstatic with the news. "The phone call that I remember is: 'You're not going to believe this. We have gotten Claus to pose in a black leather jacket,'" she says. "That picture went around the world."
The August 1985 issue, with Claus von Bülow and Andrea Reynolds on the cover, set a new sales record for Vanity Fair. If the magazine had helped turn Dominick's life around, it was no less true that he had been instrumental in saving the life of the magazine.
There was just one problem with the von Bülow trial: Claus was found not guilty. The verdict came down on June 10. "The courtroom was strangely mute despite a few cheers from elderly Clausettes in the back of the room," Dominick deadpanned.
For the next few years, he mostly stayed out of court. At Vanity Fair, he flitted from topic to topic, as most magazine writers do: Imelda Marcos, the Duchess of Windsor, Robert Mapplethorpe. It was interesting and glamorous work, but some who knew Dominick doubt that he found it altogether fulfilling. "He could talk the society stuff very well, but I don't think that's what he was really dancing to," says George Hamilton. "I think his heart was wrapped around the loss of that child and that tragedy."
Then, in 1990, a story broke in Los Angeles that was almost too ghastly to believe. Two wealthy, handsome young brothers, Lyle and Erik Menendez, were arrested for murdering their parents at their home in Beverly Hills. They hadn't just murdered them, however. They had massacred them in the family living room, with shotguns, blasting their father in the head, their mother in the face, chest, arms, and legs, and then both in the kneecaps in a clumsy effort to cast suspicion on the Mafia.
Dominick took up residence at the Chateau Marmont and spent six months covering the trial. Rhode Island had been one thing, but now he was back in Los Angeles, where he had gone off the rails, suffered his disgrace, and watched John Sweeney win a slap on the wrist. How good it would feel to get even. He threw himself into covering the trial, bluffing his way into the Menendez home, which was for sale at a heavily discounted price, and trading insults with Erik's defense attorney Leslie Abramson, who happened to be a close friend of Dominick's brother John Gregory Dunne. (John later dedicated a book to Abramson, at which point Dominick stopped talking to him for more than six years.)
Simon Brennan, who fact-checked Dominick's dispatches from the trial for Vanity Fair, sensed that he was having a hard time finding a way into the story. There were no grieving family members to side with. Jose and Kitty were dead, and their children were the killers. Still, his coverage of the trial was notable in at least one respect: outraged by the defense's central claim, that Jose had sexually molested the boys, and that this somehow justified their actions, Dominick wrote for the first time about his own experience of abuse. "I was not abused sexually, but physically and psychologically. I was beaten with straps, hangers, and riding crops," he wrote. "But I never wanted to kill [my father]. The thought never once entered my mind."
On June 17, 1994, Orenthal James Simpson and his sidekick Al Cowlings hit the road in a white Bronco, sparking the highest-rated low-speed car chase in television history. Five days earlier, Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman had been the fatal victims of an ultra-violent knife attack at her condominium in Brentwood. O.J., who had previously pleaded no contest to charges of spousal battery against Nicole, was the prime suspect.
The whole country paid attention, but Los Angeles was downright transfixed. O. J. Simpson wasn't just a retired football star—he was one of the nation's most charismatic African-American celebrities, as famous for his product endorsements and roles in films such as Roots and The Naked Gun as he was for his record-shattering 2,000-yard season as an N.F.L. running back with the Buffalo Bills.
The case painted a giant red stripe down the city's racial divide: white people, for the most part, thought O.J. was quite obviously guilty; African-Americans, remembering the Scottsboro Boys, Hurricane Carter, and countless other black men falsely convicted in crimes against whites, suspected the continuation of an old, sinister pattern. Jeffrey Toobin wrote extensively about the case's racial implications for The New Yorker, but he doesn't remember discussing them with Dominick. "I think that was to him a case about a murder and victims," he says, "not a case about the racial climate in Los Angeles."
Dominick became obsessed with the ensuing murder trial. "He went almost insane," says Griffin Dunne. "It was like a disembowelment for him, with everything that happened with Dominique. It was just churning up every ugly memory."
"O.J. has taken over my life," Dominick wrote in a May 1995 article in V.F. titled "All O.J., All the Time," which began with a dizzying description of his daily routine, starting at six a.m., "when room service brings me my o.j. and coffee," continuing through a review of the day's O.J. news, culminating with a long session in court where "we all stare at O.J. to see what kind of mood he's in or to which lawyer he's talking," and ending at a dinner party where "they all wanted to talk about nothing but O. J. Simpson."
The trial represented everything Dominick had come to despise about the legal system as it applied to rich and famous defendants. One defense attorney dedicated to smearing the victim was bad enough, as he saw it, but O.J. shelled out millions of dollars on a "Dream Team," including F. Lee Bailey, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, and Johnnie Cochran, of whom Dominick wrote, "Personally, I have never liked brown, pale-blue, or mustard-colored suits, or ties with horizontal stripes, but when he wears them, they work."
Dominick was alive to the surreal glamour of what soon became known as "the trial of the century," but he was also dead serious about the outcome he desired. He befriended the victims' families, particularly Ron Goldman's father and sister, and wrote movingly of their ordeal. He wanted a guilty verdict as badly as they did.
As always, he met people who told him things. "At first there was some skepticism," remembers Cynthia McFadden, who covered the trial for ABC. "I mean, how could he possibly just run into all these people? But it was just simply the fact."
All his life he had been a repository of tips, information, and gossip, but never before had his morsels been so highly prized. "L.A. was obsessed with the O.J. case, and Dominick was their point person," says Dan Abrams, who was covering the trial for Court TV. "He wasn't writing just about the trial. He was writing about the spectacle. And part of the reason he could write about the spectacle is because he had this unique access."
Dominick's lifetime of aggressive, peripatetic socializing was paying off in a big way. "I sometimes thought he got unfair criticism about name-dropping," Toobin says, "because that was his life, and the information that came from that life was interesting and relevant. Dominick would have lunch with Nancy Reagan the way I would take my son to one of his soccer games. One of those things is journalistically relevant and the other is not."
Those who weren't privy to both sides of him—the party guest and the courtroom sleuth—might not have realized how hard he was working. "I don't know when he slept," says McFadden. "He literally was out every single night, and he was the first person in the courtroom every morning."
Vanity Fair published nine of his O. J. Simpson dispatches over the course of 1995. In that pre-Internet media landscape, Dominick's reports were the only ones that, in Toobin's words, "tore down the curtain between what journalists say to each other at lunch and what they put in their stories." If you cared about the O.J. case, and almost everybody did, you had to read them.
Dominick became a constant presence on television news programs, from Nightline to Larry King Live. It was the dawn of the 24-hour-news era, and America, with no wars to worry about, was endlessly fascinated by the courtroom travails of its domestic villains. He began to be invited out, every night, to some of the most exclusive parties in Hollywood. "Dominick would be the center of attention, because it was Dominick to whom everyone turned to tell what was really happening in the courtroom," Cynthia McFadden says.
"I said to him, 'But these are the very same fucking people who turned their backs on you and wouldn't give you the time of day. What are you doing?'" remembers Mart Crowley. "He said, 'Believe me, I'll never forget it, but that's not going to stop me.'"
McFadden remembers observing him at a party hosted by Tita Cahn surrounded by Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Frank Sinatra. "He had come back victorious to Los Angeles," she says.
As gratifying as it was for Dominick to reconquer the social world of Hollywood, it was nothing compared with the anguish he felt as one well-financed defendant after another wriggled off the hook. When Simpson's not-guilty verdict was announced, Dominick's mouth popped open in horror. His expression, captured by the courtroom cameras, became one of the indelible images of the trial.
"I was watching it live on television in a sublet apartment in the Village, and I saw the expression on my dad's face, and I started to cry," Griffin remembers. "Not long after that, he had a 70th-birthday party at Mortimer's, and I remember giving a toast and saying, 'I beg you, let this be your last murder trial.'" But there was no stopping him now. Dominick was already deeply involved in another murder case, one he would later be celebrated—and castigated—for single-handedly reopening.
The origins of his involvement in the Michael Skakel murder case stretched back to 1991, when William Kennedy Smith, the 30-year-old son of John F. Kennedy's sister Jean, was accused of raping a 29-year-old woman during an alcohol-fueled evening at his family's house in Palm Beach. But Dominick's complicated relationship with the Kennedys went back even further. "When I first met him," says Dominick's friend Fred Eberstadt, "he admired the Kennedys very much, and wanted to like them and be liked by them." Through a friend, Dominick attended Robert F. Kennedy's wedding to Ethel Skakel in 1950. And he later befriended Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford, who were neighbors in Santa Monica.
Dominick was starstruck by Jack Kennedy when he saw him at the Lawfords', but he later became disenchanted by the family's treatment of Pat's husband. "Peter was ill-used by his famous and glamorous brothers-in-law," Dominick wrote in The Way We Lived Then. "Get the girls, Peter. Get the blow, Peter. Tell Sinatra we can't come, Peter, we're staying at Bing Crosby's instead. Having to give that message to Sinatra was the kiss of death for Peter. Sinatra hated him from then on." To Dominick, the Kennedys were just like his old tormentor, Frank Sinatra. They were the "careless people" F. Scott Fitzgerald had described, who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."
So it should have come as no surprise when Dominick, covering William Kennedy Smith's rape trial for Vanity Fair, sided with the accuser, Patricia Bowman. As he saw it, Bowman, being a "virtual nonentity," was no match for the amoral tactics of "America's most famous theatrical family."
In the end, Kennedy Smith too was acquitted. But the trial wasn't a total loss, from Dominick's perspective, because while he was covering it he heard a juicy piece of gossip: William Kennedy Smith, someone told him, had been at the Greenwich home of Ethel Kennedy's brother Rushton Skakel on the night a girl named Martha Moxley was murdered.
The rumor proved false, but it piqued Dominick's curiosity. What ever happened to the Moxley case? In 1975, Martha, a 15-year-old neighbor of Rushton Skakel and his seven children, had been found dead under a pine tree outside her house, with the broken shaft of a Toney Penna golf club protruding from her neck. Her body had been dragged from the driveway, and a set of Toney Penna clubs was found at the Skakel house, but no one was charged with the crime.
Through a local newspaper, Dominick contacted Martha's widowed mother, Dorthy, who had since moved to Annapolis, Maryland. "I was eager to have anybody help me who would, and he was eager for some information for his book," Moxley recalls.
"I told Mrs. Moxley that I thought I could write another [best-selling novel] based loosely on her daughter's murder," Dominick later wrote in Vanity Fair,"since no facts were known publicly at the time, and it might turn a spotlight on the long-dormant case."
Dominick wasn't just blowing smoke; he had a proven track record for provoking controversy with his books. His first successful novel, published in 1985, was based on the famous Woodward murder case of the mid-1950s. Dominick had toyed with the idea of writing a nonfiction account, but ultimately decided that his facts were "too good to check," as Jane Stanton Hitchcock put it. The resulting novel, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, hit the best-seller lists and was soon adapted into a mini-series starring Claudette Colbert and Ann-Margret—to the dismay of the real-life Woodwards and their friends in high places.
Subsequent books would cause even more trouble. People Like Us, Dominick's thinly fictionalized study of New York society, earned him some very well-known enemies even before it was published. In January 1988, five months before the release date, the editors of Women's Wear Daily obtained a copy of the manuscript and printed a possible "who's who" of the characters. Among those mentioned were Elizabeth Taylor, real-estate agent Alice Mason, prominent walker Jerome Zipkin, and such power couples as Oscar and Annette de la Renta, Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, Alfred and Judith Taubman, and John and Susan Gutfreund. "Nick felt that he got shut out of a certain group at that time," says Susan Magrino, who worked in the publicity department at Crown. "Some got over it, but some I don't think ever spoke to him again."
Two years later, An Inconvenient Woman arrived to offend a whole new set of drawing-room power brokers. The book was based on the tragic case of Vicki Morgan, who was murdered by her psychotic roommate in 1983. Betsy Bloomingdale, who had cut off Alfred's payments to Morgan after his death, did not enjoy seeing this painful history served up for general consumption, and stopped speaking to Dominick. They later reconciled, she says, at Swifty Lazar's Academy Awards party at Spago. "Everyone was looking because there he was and there I was and blah blah blah," Bloomingdale recalls. "But I said, 'Hello.' And he said, 'Hello.' And then we were all great friends after that. A 'hello' could do it."
But that was soft stuff compared with the trouble he invited with his 1993 book inspired by the murder of Martha Moxley. A Season in Purgatory was a fictional account of the killing, based on Dominick's informed speculation about what had happened. The killer in the novel had a good deal in common with John F. Kennedy Jr., though Dominick really suspected Tommy Skakel, the second son of Rushton Skakel. Tommy, who was 17 at the time of the murder, had been fooling around with Martha that night. "I was convinced that he had done it, and had said so on TV," Dominick later wrote.
A series of strange encounters followed, of the variety that could have happened only to Dominick. First, a mysterious woman gave him a sneak peek at the autopsy pictures of Martha Moxley's body, which police later informed him had been stolen. She also told him, "It wasn't Tommy." Then a young man slipped him a copy of a secret report prepared, at Rushton Skakel's request, by an investigative firm called Sutton Associates. The young man said the evidence pointed to Tommy's younger brother, Michael, who was the same age as Martha. Apparently the two boys had been rivals for her affection. Finally, Dominick's old friend Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent, called and asked if he knew of any murder cases that her client Mark Fuhrman could investigate for his next book. Dominick didn't necessarily admire Fuhrman, the disgraced detective in the O. J. Simpson case whose past use of the word "nigger" had provided the defense with one of its most emotionally resonant victories, but he wasn't inclined to turn up his nose at Goldberg's suggestion. "It was a magic moment," Dominick later wrote. "'The Moxley case,' I said excitedly. 'I have some information that I will give him.'"
Assisted—and goaded—by Dominick and Fuhrman, the Greenwich police compiled a case against Michael Skakel, who was charged with murder on January 20, 2000. The trial began in the spring of 2002, and right away Skakel's attorney Mickey Sherman knew his client had a problem. "The jury isn't looking at me—they're looking at Dominick Dunne, they're looking at Dorthy Moxley," he remembers. "It was like arguing against apple pie."
Dominick and Dorthy may have held the moral high ground, but the evidence was worryingly thin. The murder had occurred a quarter of a century earlier, and even Dominick had to admit that "there were no fingerprints, no witnesses, no DNA—nothing, other than circumstantial evidence, on which to build a case." Skakel had made a series of confession-like statements over the years, but his confidants tended to be addicts and reform-school brats. Dominick was girding himself for another disappointment and enduring a bit of bullying from the Skakel and Kennedy clans. One day Michael's aunt Ann Skakel McCooey passed by, arm in arm with Robert Kennedy Jr., and loudly called out, "Jerk!"
Then the incredible happened: after deliberating for just three days, the jury found Michael Skakel guilty. Writing in the August 2002 issue, Dominick made plain what the outcome meant to him. "The verdict in the Moxley case is the one I wanted for John Sweeney, my daughter's killer," he wrote. "After covering celebrity trials for Vanity Fair over the years, I have become so cynical that I simply assumed Michael Skakel would walk, as people of his class and wealth so often do.… But at the trial, justice prevailed. Here's to you, Martha Moxley and Dominique Dunne, who got gypped out of your lives. I send you both my love."
Robert Kennedy Jr., whose undisguised dislike of Dominick was decidedly mutual, struck back with a scathing, 16,000-word article in The Atlantic, in which he called Dominick "a driving force behind Michael Skakel's prosecution" and generally portrayed him as a loose cannon with a vendetta against the Kennedys.
But, for those who had known Dominick since the shattering ordeal of his daughter's murder, it was thrilling to see him vindicated at last. "Nick was at his best in the Moxley case," says Marie Brenner. "He made it his business to get this case avenged, and he did." At least one other journalist covering the case day in and day out thought Dominick had been in the right. "Robert F. Kennedy I think spent a total of about three hours in that courtroom and did not watch the trial," says Jeffrey Toobin, who covered it for CNN and The New Yorker. "I thought that was revealed in his silly piece about the case."
Dorthy Moxley, meanwhile, has nothing but gratitude for what Dominick did. "I have always said I had a team of angels helping me," she says, "and he was a very big angel on the team. Small in stature, but he was big."
Early in 2001, the syndicated columnist Liz Smith, one of Dominick's closest friends, ran into Graydon Carter at a party and asked why Dominick Dunne wasn't writing a monthly column. His life certainly was interesting enough, she said. Carter liked the idea, and in the March 2001 issue "Dominick Dunne's Diary" made its debut. "While I do go out entirely too much," Dominick wrote in that inaugural installment, "something always seems to happen which makes going out irresistible to me."
By that time, Dominick had long since become accustomed to trappings of success that would have seemed unthinkable when he washed up in New York in the early 80s. He had a penthouse on East 49th Street and a country house in Hadlyme, Connecticut, which Cynthia McFadden describes as "exactly the kind of house you wanted Dominick Dunne to live in, filled with books and beautiful chintzes."
He could have retired in comfort and style, but quitting wasn't in his DNA. It would be another year before the Moxley case wrapped up, and he'd since become embroiled in the controversy surrounding the mysterious death of Edmond Safra, an international financier who died in a fire at his apartment in Monaco. For some reason Safra's team of bodyguards had that night off, and Dominick was convinced that the dead man's prominent wife, Lily, knew more than she was letting on.
Not much later, Dominick inserted himself into the case of Chandra Levy, a congressional intern whose disappearance raised questions about her relationship with Representative Gary Condit. After hearing a colorful—if far-fetched—theory about her disappearance from a man who claimed to be the inspiration for the movie The Horse Whisperer, Dominick made the mistake of repeating it on Laura Ingraham's radio show, on Larry King Live, and at dinner parties hosted by his friends Wendy Stark and Casey Ribicoff, widow of the Connecticut senator Abraham Ribicoff. In response, Gary Condit sued Dominick for defamation. "He just overreached," says Liz Smith. "He thought he was more powerful than he was." The $11 million suit, filed on December 16, 2002, did not name Vanity Fair, but Dominick nevertheless felt strongly that the magazine should finance his defense.
The fallout was unpleasant for all involved. The suit, which was later settled, "weighed heavily on him," says Dan Abrams. "He was embarrassed that he'd gotten it wrong, and I think that's reflective of the mentality of a real reporter." But the sting went deeper than that. Dominick felt betrayed by the magazine that had defined him, and that he had helped define. "He really almost couldn't bear it," says McFadden. "It was like breaking up with a lover."
Except the breakup never quite happened. Month after month, Dominick filed his dispatches. Month after month, his face appeared in the magazine's pages. He covered the Robert Blake, Phil Spector, and Martha Stewart trials, the Brooke Astor elder-abuse case, and O. J. Simpson's kidnapping trial in Las Vegas ("I don't really think he's guilty of this crime," he told Brigid Berlin), all the while keeping readers up-to-date on the latest developments in his starry universe. When he patched up the long-standing feud with his brother John, he wrote about that. When John died, followed nine months later by his adopted daughter, Dominick wrote, with heartbreaking candor, about that. And when Dominick himself was diagnosed with two kinds of cancer—prostate, in 2000, and then bladder, in 2007—he wrote about that too. In all, he contributed no fewer than 67 monthly Diary entries to Vanity Fair in eight years—a remarkable feat for a man in his 70s and 80s writing for a magazine that comes out only 12 times a year.
Meanwhile, a new audience was discovering him on television. Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice, an original series on Court TV (which has since been renamed TruTV), introduced viewers to the biggest trials of the past half-century—including several that had punctuated Dominick's career. The show premiered in 2002 and broadcast 57 episodes during his lifetime. New episodes were set to air this fall.
He also kept busy speaking to victims' organizations and finishing his long-gestating last novel, which is scheduled to come out in December. Crown is billing Too Much Money as a sequel to People Like Us, and its plot concerns a rich widow whose husband died in a suspicious fire and a congressman falsely implicated in the disappearance of an intern. As usual, Dominick's real-life inspirations are not hard to guess.
By the time work on the novel was completed, Dominick's cancer had taken a heavy toll. He declined to have his bladder removed after doctors discovered a potentially dangerous irregular heartbeat, and instead pursued a regimen of stem-cell treatment that took him to the Dominican Republic and Germany, where—not surprisingly, given his record for remarkable coincidences—he found himself one room away from Farrah Fawcett.
He seldom complained, and he bolstered his courage with gallows humor. Fred Eberstadt remembers a call from him that began, "Hi, am I dead yet?" And Mart Crowley still laughs at the response he got after complimenting Dominick on his svelte new figure: "Well, there's no diet like cancer!"
He spent his last days at home, welcoming a series of visitors, and Griffin took charge of making everything perfect for him. "I can't tell you how many vases of flowers were all around him," says Reinaldo Herrera. "He was the big star in the hospital in Hollywood in the 40s, like you saw in the movies."
Dominick died on August 26, but fate had prepared one last humbling joke for him. The night before, Ted Kennedy had beaten him to the punch. The man who, in Dominick's estimation, had "lived recklessly, performed brilliantly in Congress, and often failed miserably in life" was all anybody could talk about.
Even in death, Dominick was being tormented by the family he resented most. It was the kind of story that would have amused the hell out of him—if only it had happened to someone else.


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Sales Associate/Design Associate
- Employer
- La-Z-Boy
- Location
- Severn, MD
- Posted
- Jul 05, 2018
- Closes
- Jul 16, 2018
- Function
- Designer, Graphic Designer and Artist, Sales
- Industry
- Retail
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Sales Associate/Design Associate at La-Z-Boy Date Posted: 6/28/2018 Apply Not ready to Apply? Job Description BASIC FUNCTION: Responsible for creating sales utilizing exceptional customer service and knowledge of the La-Z-Boy selling process, products and services. Strive to create long-term customer relationships that will lead to increased sales and profitability. Develop awareness of interior design through practical experience, observation and interaction with a La-Z-Boy Designer. Design Associate: In addition, assist the Designer in designing and creating comfortable and functional environments that represent a client's lifestyle, taste and budget. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES; Drives Sales + Contribute to store sales goals by selling furniture, accessories and services offered by La-Z-Boy + Team with Store Manager, Sales Manager, Designer, and Associates to promote the Design program and drive overall store sales + Assist the Designer to achieve established Design program sales goals + Consistently execute the La-Z-Boy selling process and strive to provide a favorable experience to all customers. + Develop and utilize sales skills and principals including approach, rapport building, needs discovery, customized portfolio presentations, answering objections, closing, follow-up, after sale service and continuing contact with all previous and potential customers + Maximize store promotions, marketing initiatives, and grassroots programs + Maintain strong knowledge of features and benefits of existing and new product line + Meet or exceed established goals as set by management Design Program + Schedule professional home consultations to present customized room designs, including sample fabrics, furniture, tables and accessory recommendations as well as the benefits of a professional installation service. + Execute and champion the Design process per company guidelines + Responsible to support design related functions in the store Customer Focus + Provide the highest level of customer service to all current and future customers + Ensure that each La-Z-Boy customer has an informative and positive experience by using good customer service skills and knowledge of products, while following the company selling process + Effectively use Podium to ensure customer satisfaction and future follow-up + Make sound business decisions to deliver customer satisfaction and promote team environment + Provide store support to incoming phone calls and emails + Assist in handling customer issues and/or complaints. Provide appropriate solutions and alternatives to the customer to achieve a satisfied experience + Escalate unresolved issues to Store Manager, if not available then Sales Manager or Designer People + Maintain a positive working relationship with all store associates Operational Excellence + Assist with maintenance of the overall visual appearance of store, this includes but is not limited to assist to maintain floor and/or showroom displays, tagging of products and accessories, maintaining accessory catalogs and design center fabrics, floor moves, and maintaining general store cleanliness + Adhere to general store operational procedures and guidelines + Accurately complete order information, collect deposits and fees, keep orderly customer records, and research customer payments and deliveries + Responsible to accurately complete the daily On-Point system log + Show a sense of urgency, enthusiasm and excitement with the store team and customers + Maintain adequate knowledge of company standards, product knowledge and internal processes and systems + Consistently schedule deliveries with customers + Other duties as assigned MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS: + Previous selling experience and ability to close a sale strongly preferred + Excellent communication, customer service skills, and organizational skills + Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate, build rapport, and positively influence + Demonstrated persuasion and negotiation skills + Ability to effectively manage time and conflicting priorities + Ability to effectively and productively with others as a team + Ability to work the schedule and hours dictated by business needs + Ability to work evenings, weekends and holidays as required + Initiative to meet assigned goals, missions and objectives and motivated to achieve more + Strong attention to detail + Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint Design Associate: + Currently enrolled in or a graduate of an Interior Design program + Experience in using floor and space planning applications + Knowledgeable of general principles of home decor and design (ie furniture, carpet, draperies, and color schemes) + CAD training a plus + CIDA accreditation preferred Sales Associate: + High School Diploma or equivalent is required. Bachelor's in Business or related field is preferred SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None Apply Not ready to Apply? Share With obs.net/jobs/la-z-boy/en-us/job/United-States/Sales-Associate-Design-Associate/J3N562780278487HHRD/ Sales Associate/Design Associate Job Snapshot + Employee Type: Part-Time + Location: Severn, MD + Job Type: Sales + Experience: Not Specified + Date Posted: 6/28/2018 About Us Things have really evolved since La-Z-Boy first introduced the recliner in 1928. Over the subsequent decades, our product line has grown to include a myriad of pieces and styles, and our brand name has become highly recognized across the country and around the globe. But throughout our history, one fact remained constant: The La-Z-Boy brand name is synonymous with comfort and quality. Are you looking to make a comfortable living? There's no better place to do just that than with the number one name brand, La-Z-Boy! From the furniture we carry to the people who work here, comfort is our business. We have a comprehensive training program that helps our employees grow to their greatest potential- where the sky is the limit. We offer great salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Are you a confident and motivated individual ready to work for an iconic, American company that provides challenge and opportunity for career growth? If so, what are you waiting for? Join the La-Z-Boy Talent Network! What is a Talent Network? Joining our Talent Network will enhance your job search and application process. Whether you choose to apply or just leave your information, we look forward to staying connected with you. Why Join? + Receive alerts with new job opportunities that match your interests + Share job opportunities with family and friends through Social Media or email Are you looking for a new job? Check out these current opportunities: College Grad and Internship Careers, Corporate Careers, Customer Service Careers, Operations Careers and Sales and Designer Careers


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In 'Sing Me a Story,' 2 pros put songs center stage
A great song, delivered well, is a powerful, powerful thing.
Stage veterans Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson lit up the Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre Friday evening, delivering a high-energy parade of musical gems and bringing those songs to life with the kind of theatrical polish that take years to learn/earn.
They whirled through silly tunes along the lines of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp)," touching numbers such as "Do You Love Me?" ("Fiddler on the Roof"), tour de force tunes like "Getting Married Today" ("Company") and roof-raisers like Kander and Ebb's "Ring Them Bells."
Written by Stiefel and Wilson and directed by Ray Jivoff and dubbed "Sing Me a Story," the show found the two singer/actors playing off of each other, as well as the musical material and the audience. They and their songs created an evening that was clubby, comfortable and generally delightful.
The pair used a few costume and prop bits for effect, creating a vivid vignette with each song. They belted, crooned, hammed and worked the room with the kind of poise, presence and complete fearlessness that comes from a great deal of natural ability and years on the stage.
Steifel and Wilson let each song blossom into an entity of its own, keeping themselves out of the way of the music. One tune flowed into the next, largely free of a contrived plot or too-personal reflections.
The result was a fast-paced, thoroughly entertaining evening that kept the songs at center stage.
The set, dominated by a mix of real and set-piece pianos, was filled with a congenial clutter of theatrical flotsam and jetsam that served as a backdrop to the songs.
Wilson accompanied the entire show, most of it from memory, moving from piano to piano, singing as he played. He did this with such apparent ease that it would have been easy to take his dual role completely for granted.
Some uneven amplification of Stiefel, and Wilson fishing his missing microphone from his clothing while joking with the audience, can be chalked up to opening night glitches.
"Sing Me a Story" runs through May 19 in at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 North Broadway. For ticket information visit www.skylightmusictheatre.org or call (414) 291-7800.
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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team fell to the Wagner Seahawks by a final score of 177.5-122.5 on Saturday in their final dual-meet before the NEC Championships on Feb. 19-22. Senior Kristina Gulia broke two pool records at the meet in the 100 and 200 yard breaststroke events in Staten Island, NY.
Saturday's loss to the NEC preseason favorite Seahawk squad marks the first in nine seasons.
The Blue Devils kicked off the meet with a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay. The squad, consisting of Gulia, classmates Kellen Power and Erin Massey, along with freshman Stephanie Czulewicz, touched the wall in 1:52.03.
Central tallied six gold-medal performances on the day, including two from Gulia. She raced a time of 1:06.60 in the 100 breaststroke and finished the 200 breaststroke in 2:23.77.
In both events, Gulia was followed by sophomore Alaina Papiro who finished fourth. She registered times of 1:09.84 and 2:31.73 in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, respectively.
The second victory of the day, following Gulia's 100 breaststroke win, came from freshman Christine Rasile, who earned the gold medal in the 50 freestyle. She touched the wall in 24.51 seconds and was followed by Massey, who tied for fourth, in a season-best time of 25.69.
Central then took to the 1-meter board to clinch a third gold-medal, this time from sophomore and five-time NEC Diver of the Week Jessica Goldman. Goldman posted a score of 250.87 in the event to claim the victory and was followed by junior Kaitlyn Dwyer (4th, 188.47) and sophomore Kaitlyn Beaver (5th, 162.15).
From three meters, Goldman was again the highest-scoring Blue Devil, tallying 223.20 points. She claimed second and preceded Dwyer (4th, 188.40) and Beaver (5th, 187.20).
In the 100 butterfly, Power tallied another gold for CCSU, registering a time of 59.48. Following in fifth was freshman Janel Crespo, who touched the wall in a season-best time of 1:02.36.
Rasile also earned two second-place performances, first in the 200 freestyle where she touched in 1:55.88 and again in the 100 free, finishing in 52.72. Rasile led CCSU in a two-three finish in the 100 free that included Power claiming the bronze in 55.46.
CCSU earned another two-three finish in the 100 back. Czulewicz claimed the silver medal with her season-best time of 1:01.43 and was followed by junior Kaylin Sylvester in 1:04.60.
In the 200 butterfly, freshman Sabree Thomas was the first Blue Devil to touch the wall, earning the silver and clocking a time of 2:12.83. She was followed by Crespo in third who registered a season-best time of 2:13.39.
Other notable performances for CCSU include bronze medals in the 1,000 freestyle and the 200 backstroke. Senior Kasey Chilton finished third in the 1,000 free, shattering her previous season-best time in the event (10:53.37) by just under ten seconds. She touched the wall in 10:43.39 on Saturday.
In the 200 backstroke, Czulewicz registered a time of 2:12.54 to claim bronze.
Central started and ended the day's competition with solid relay performances. The Blue Devils claimed the victory in the 400 yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:39.58. The team was made up of Power, Novak, Massey and Rasile.
The Blue Devils have approximately two and a half weeks to prepare for the 2014 Northeast Conference Championships. This year's competition, scheduled for Feb. 19 through Feb. 22, will beheld at MIT in Boston, MA.


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Golf team is as green as the course
Staff writer
With an inexperienced golf team, Hillsboro coach Scott O'Hare plans to get his players on the green as much as possible so they can practice before the first meet.
"It's difficult with spring break," O'Hare said. "But I told them to practice as much as they could, even if they have to pay green fees."
The seven-member team features two returning letter-winners — Andrew Meier and Evan Ollenburger — as well as five freshman and sophomore players. O'Hare said he is hopeful for a good season, but said that if they are going to have a good start, they'll have to use their available time to practice on the green.
O'Hare said he is looking forward to seeing the returning letter-winners play, and seeing them improve even more over the upcoming season. He also is anxious to see how the new, inexperienced players improve.
"When you have an experienced team, you can focus on your technique," he said. "Be we can't do that. We've got to start at the basics: how to play golf. I got them out on the driving range this week and we're going to spend a lot of time of the practice green."
In practice last week, O'Hare encouraged his players to follow through on their putts, focusing not only on hitting the ball, but where it is being driven. With these skills in tow, the Hillsboro coach hopes the team will do well this season — and expects the team members to do their best and have fun at each meet, learning to love the "lifelong sport of golf."
The first golf meet of the season will be 1 p.m. at the Herington Invitational in Herington April 2.