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In a previous incarnation, writer Dominick Dunne was the toast of Hollywood--entertaining movie stars and socialites and invited by moguls to clambakes and black-tie dances. Long before he started churning out his romans à clef set in the private recesses of Hollywood and penthouses of New York City and his dispatches from notorious murder trials, he spent his days on movie sets, producing films like Ash Wednesday and working as an executive at various studios. In the off-hours, he and his wife Lenny ate dinner with Vincente Minnelli, Jack Benny, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Montgomery. They went to beach parties hosted by Jane Fonda and Roddy McDowall--and threw not a few bashes of their own, attended by, well, everyone and often photographed for Vogue magazine. Dunne seemed to carry his camera with him everywhere and "was always sticking [it] into someone's face." Kirk Douglas biting into an oversized hotdog, a scantily clad Paul Newman perusing a picnic table, Princess Margaret smoking, Mia Farrow dancing, and Natalie Wood hamming. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks.

The Way We Lived Then closely resembles those scrapbooks, filled as it is with images culled from them. Dunne sews the scraps together with a loose memoir that moves from the mundane (how the house was decorated for a certain party, how the subjects of a given photo were feeling about one another at the time) to the grand (meditations on his marriage and his children). All of these famous friends, glittery parties, and cozy evenings did add up to a picture-perfect life for a time. But by the mid '60s, Dunne was drinking hard, insulting acquaintances in public, and being a perfectly terrible husband to the lovely Lenny. He was soon arrested carrying drugs into the country from Mexico, divorced, nearly poverty-stricken, and living in a cabin in Oregon. But he lived to tell about it, and though his story is something of a cautionary tale about the dangers of success and excess, punctuated as it is by his dreamy photos, one can't help but wonder if he'd happily go back to the way he lived then. --Jordana Moskowitz.
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The 4th edition of the Hidden Places of Wales has been extensively redesigned to include a striking cover design and page layouts It is an easy-to-use guide which covers all 22 counties of Wales. In addition, you will still find details of places of interest and advertisers of places to stay, eat and drink included under each village or town, these are now cross referenced to more detailed information contained in a separate, easy-to-use section of the book. Often referred to as the 'Red Dragon', Wales is a country blessed with some of the most dramatic landscapes in Britain. To the north lies Snowdonia, a land of awe-inspiring mountains, wild moorlands and enchanting lakes whilst further south the land is abundant with deep valleys and vast forests. The west of the country has a spectacularly varied coastline of cliffs, coves and sandy beaches. The cover incorporates a photograph of the Castell Coch (Red Castle), Taff Valley near Cardiff..
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This is the 9th edition of The Hidden Places of East Anglia which has been attractively updated and contains a wealth of interesting information on the history, the countryside, the towns and villages and the more established visitor attractions, but it also focuses on promoting the more secluded and little known places of interest and places to stay, eat and drink..
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This is the 6th edition of The Hidden Places of Scotland which has been fully updated and contains a wealth of interesting information on the history, the countryside, the towns and villages and the more established visitor attractions, but it also focuses on promoting the more secluded and little known places of interest and places to stay, eat and drink..
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Settle Bets! Impress your friends! Using the highest strength Velcro, a 160 pound person will stick to the wall with only a four inch square. Rats have sex up to 20 times a day.In the U.S. more gold is used to make class rings than any other piece of jewlery.
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This is the 6th edition of The Hidden Places of England which has been fully updated and contains a wealth of interesting information on the history, the countryside, the towns and villages and the more established visitor attractions, but it also focuses on promoting the more secluded and little known places of interest and places to stay, eat and drink..
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