63. A Nick In Time | Truman Capote & Breakfast at Tiffany's
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, we drop into the year 1958 to catch up with Dominick and his family moving into their new Beverly Hills home.
1958 is a big year all around, as we connect a few through lines with Truman Capote and his 1958 novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's into our Dunne and Marilyn Monroe arcs.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. This week, it's another |
| 0:23.8 | Nick in Time episode for you. We're weaving into 1958 in this episode, both with Dominic Dunn and his |
| 0:32.3 | family, but also Truman Capote, who releases his famous novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the same year. |
| 0:40.7 | Dominic and Truman, a complicated history, but rich in details and all the juicy stuff we love |
| 0:48.8 | in this podcast journey. Let's investigate. |
| 0:52.3 | Music journey. Let's investigate. When Dominic and his family come to the West Coast, they will rent Harold Lloyd's Beach |
| 1:13.7 | cottage with some very famous neighbors. The Dunn's first Christmas at the beach, they will |
| 1:20.2 | attend the Christmas party of Patricia Kennedy-Lofford and Peter Lofford in their beach home next |
| 1:25.6 | store. Dominic will never miss an opportunity to write his |
| 1:29.4 | own mother about all the happenings in his new West Coast life. This particular Lawford Kennedy party |
| 1:37.8 | was held two weeks before the actual celebration of the holiday, as the Lafford Kennedy family would be headed to Palm Beach |
| 1:46.5 | for the actual Christmas Day celebration. But this party comes with all the trimmings, gifts are |
| 1:53.8 | open two weeks early, the tree is trimmed as well. It is here that Dominic really does begin to see exactly how terribly |
| 2:03.3 | Peter Lafford is treated by Joe Kennedy. Dunn's sympathy for Peter Lafford really builds at this point. |
| 2:11.6 | Dunn sees Peter being subjected to the worst of it from his in-laws. There are a few other swell suarez that Dominic Dunn and his |
| 2:21.2 | family will attend at the home of Martin Manilus at this time. Martin Manilus would be Dominic Dunn's |
| 2:27.7 | new boss in Hollywood and wauza. The Manilus parties are kind of a big deal attended by all the best folks. At the Manilus party, are kind of a big deal, attended by all the best folks. |
| 2:35.0 | At the Manilus Party, Charlton Heston will read, Twas the night before Christmas for all the children. |
| 2:42.0 | David O'Selznik will attend with his wife Jennifer Jones. |
| 2:46.0 | Oh, over there is Edgar Bergen, with his wife Francis and his daughter, Candice Bergen, as well. |
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