An invitation to one of Nick and wife, Lenny?s, parties was highly prized. But, as glorious as it was, it all ebbed badly, and the low tide that quickly followed reeked.
Hollywood was and is a social bonfire. Dominick Dunne played with it and suffered third-degree burns to 100% of his psyche.
It would become a large back-monkey; it?s addictiveness both potent and consuming. And addiction to that led to dependence on alcohol and cocaine. That volatile mix in turn put loud, scandalous words?words derogatory, yet honest, about some well-known people–in Nick?s mouth at well-attended cocktail parties. The Hollywood elite was not amused and it characteristically rejected him.
Bitter, depressed and blackballed, Nick slumped into an old Ford and headed due north to the Cascade Mountains for wound licking, respite and introspection.
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