I enjoyed this celebrity memoir written by actor, director, and producer Griffin Dunne. It brought to life the crazy life of his parents and extended family in the 1960s and 1970s as they lived and worked in Hollywood. He tells his own life story without flinching from his father's closeted identity, his mother's illness, his brother's mental illness, his sister's murder, and disputes with his extended family, specifically John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Griffin Dunne grew up in a wealthy and entitled family, attended private schools (until he was expelled), then moved to New York City to try to make it as a stage actor. He had some success with acting and producing films, but discusses many of the missed opportunities that he had as well. He's not shy about sharing the names of many of the actors who attended parties as his parents' home, sharing seedy details about drunkenness along with heavy cocaine and LSD use. At one point he reports that Susan Sarandon gave him a sheet of acid from Timothy Leary's personal stash for his 28th birthday party. He also writes quite a bit about his life-long friendship with Carrie Fisher; they met at teenagers but stayed friends until her death in 2016. Most of the action in this book takes place in the 1960s through the 1980s, with a large portion covering his sister Dominique's 1983 murder trial.
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