![]() ![]() Although he won a Bronze Star during World War II for going back to retrieve a wounded soldier and, after the War, married and had children, he also hired hustlers, picked guys up off the street, did drugs, and used the services of Scotty Bowers (whose memoir Full Service (2012) detailing his years of supplying men to closeted movie stars was reviewed in these pages). He was a social climber as well, an admitted snob, and a tremendous gossip who, like Truman Capote, used stories about the rich and famous to be accepted. ![]() His idea of the latter was not confined to just the movie stars he idolized, however. ![]() It was seeing Now, Voyager at sixteen that convinced him that, like Bette Davis, he could find a better life. Growing up in Hartford (across the street from Katherine Hepburn), he was not only called a “sissy” by his father but beaten with a riding crop, Dunne said, to get the “incipient fairyism” out of him. IT WOULD BE HARD to imagine a gayer life than the one led by Dominick Dunne. ![]()
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