Book Review: Glamour and tragedy intertwine in Griffin Dunne’s memoir ‘The Friday Afternoon Club’

Actor and producer Griffin Dunne grew up in New York and Los Angeles with the glitterati all around. His father, Dominick Dunne, liked to hobnob with the rich and famous. His uncle, John Gregory Dunne, married writer Joan Didion and they became an L.A. power couple. But his idyllic life was marred by tragedy in 1982 when his sister, Dominique, was brutally murdered in an act of domestic violence. With a breezy style, Dunne chronicles how his family got through good times and bad by coming together as a family when it counted, the Associated Press’ Mae Anderson writes.