172. Dunne Profiles Phyllis McGuire
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Investigators, this week we continue our journey into dip into Dominick Dunne’s reporting in personal profiles as he begins his third act. In June 1989, Phyllis McGuire was the subject of Nick’s gaze, in a story that takes us from the famous trio of singing sisters to Sam Giancana to Dorothy Kilgallen to Frank Sinatra, with jewels, personal Eiffel towers, and oil money along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where we are continuing our summer of our man Nick's writing. He really does get the scoop like no one else can, especially about the ladies. The lady in our story today, a legend really, Phyllis McGuire, one of the trio of famous |
| 0:24.2 | singing sisters, lover of Sam Giancana for a time, too. |
| 0:29.2 | Dominic Dunn profiles Phyllis for Vanity Fair in June 1989 in a piece called High Roller. |
| 0:37.0 | You can find this profile as well in Dunn's Fatal Charms and Mansions of Limbo. |
| 0:42.5 | By 1989, Dominic Dunn has been at Vanity Fair for five, six years, definitely setting the pace for his third act, |
| 0:52.1 | which will really come into focus in the early 1990s with |
| 0:56.0 | his crime reporting on the Menendez case and the O.J. Simpson trial. But long before that, Dunn |
| 1:03.4 | completed profiles of many a famous lady. We have seen a few of these this summer here on the |
| 1:09.5 | main feed. There are more to come. |
| 1:12.9 | Before we begin today's episode, I do have a few fine folks to thank. |
| 1:17.0 | A huge welcome and big thanks to our newest supporters on Patreon. |
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| 1:45.7 | episodes and not done yet bonus episodes too. |
| 1:49.9 | Next up in the Big Thanks Department is a whole heap of shoutouts to give to all the fine |
| 1:55.5 | folks who joined me for our book club last Sunday. I loved talking about Griffin Dunn's new memoir, the Friday |
| 2:02.8 | Afternoon Club with you. Big, big thanks to Sabrina, Melissa, Sarah, Virginia, Diane, Whitney, Mark, |
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