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Griffin Dunne’s Hollywood-Irish Family Had Its Grudges
“We were clinically crazy,” says the son of Dominick Dunne and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. “Like, really crazy.”
When we meet for lunch at Cafe Mogador, around the corner from his apartment in the East Village, I can still see a trace of the hapless Paul Hackett he played in After Hours, the 1985 Martin Scorsese movie about a night out in Soho that goes spectacularly sideways. He’s been an actor in movies — he co-starred with Madonna in Who’s That Girl in 1987 and tells a funny story about the not-so-tame mountain-lion extra in the film — and on TV, most recently in TheGirls on the Bus, playing a newspaper journalist loosely based on David Carr. His face lit up as if I’d just thrown him a lifeline.” (Brown wrote of a lunch at La Goulue later on, at which Dominick talked about “how his sister-in-law Joan Didion was closing a piece for the New York Review of Books and wouldn’t get off the phone when they needed to communicate with the cops.”)
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