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Griffin Dunne, who directed a 2017 film documentary about his aunt, literary giant Joan Didion, has issued a statement on her passing. Didion, the author of five novels, including the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking, and whose screenwriting credits include the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, di…

Joan Didion, who died today at age 87, and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, sustained a uniquely frosty but profitable relationship with Hollywood over the years. As novelists and screenwriters, they earned top-dollar for their screenplays, and often accepted rewrites, yet also critiqued the foibles of the studio…

Joan Didion, the author of five novels including the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking who also excelled in essays and has screenwriting credits including the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, died Thursday of complications of Parkinson’s disease in Manhattan. She was 87. Her publisher at Knopf…

Red dawn in Santa Monica. No, not a John Milius movie, but another fire in Malibu. The sun has color from a high smoke layer. Still, there's no ash fall, and it doesn't smell like a tri-tip barbecue, so the wind must be blowing out to sea. Apparently, Malibu has to burn every seven-to-fifteen years, depending on…

Netflix said it will release two documentaries Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Gay Talese’s Voyeur, the controversial and debunked story about a Colorado motel owner who spied on guests. Both will premiere at the 55th New York Film Festival and launch globally on Netflix later this year. The Voyeur’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Joan Didion’s seminal essay Goodbye To All That was just optioned for the big screen by producers Megan Carlson and Brian Sullivan who have set up the project as the first in their new shingle, Carlson Sullivan Pictures LLC. This is yet another Didion work to be optioned as her novel A Book of Common Praye…