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Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn.

In this episode, I am delighted to weave a tale for you about Elizabeth Taylor

and her influence and impact on our man Dominic Dunn. They know each other from the

Hollywood days and have a long history together. Elizabeth Taylor will be portrayed in Dunn's

fiction work in a character named Fay Converse, most notably in an

inconvenient woman, and another city, not my own. Elizabeth Taylor is a legend, y'all,

and there is a whole other narrative about the time that she and Nick spin together.

Much of this occurs in Dominic Dunn's last produced film, Ash Wednesday, which stars

Elizabeth Taylor. Today we're going to talk about that film, their enduring friendship, how Dominic

Dunn gets ousted from Hollywood because of that film, and the legend that Elizabeth Taylor is.

Let's investigate.

Let's back up the timeline, just a little bit, and remember that Dominic and Lenny separate in the late 1960s.

Their divorce is done by 1969.

And Dominic Dunn will have a number of years to descend into the depths of his addiction in Hollywood

before he takes off for that Oregon hideaway recovery cabin in

1978.

There's almost a decade that he has, filled with some successes and a lot of failures.

He's awkward with his kids.

He's having fallouts with his family.

He is struggling with his own sexuality and a looming drug and alcohol addiction

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