The action itself is the art form.” To read David O. “Its spirit is speedy, obsessive, immaterial. “The place makes everyone a gambler,” she wrote. “Discretion is ‘good taste,’ and discretion is also good business,” she wrote, “since there are enough imponderables in the business of Hollywood without handing the dice to players too distracted to concentrate on the action.”ĭidion loved explaining how Hollywood works. In her famous 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, “Hollywood: Having Fun,” Didion skewered film reviewing as a “vaporous occupation” and disdained outsider coverage of Hollywood from the likes of New Yorker critic Pauline Kael. What does New York mean? Then you start telling yourself what New York means is a sentimental story.” Then you start asking what it is to mean something. Los Angeles strips away the possibility of sentiment. “The first couple of years you feel this little shift in the way you think about things.
“Los Angeles presents a real culture shock when you’ve never lived there,” she told British Vogue in 1993. Didion wrote 19 books and, with Dunne, six screenplays, including the 1976 “ A Star is Born” remake starring Barbra Streisand, and Al Pacino vehicle “The Panic in Needle Park.” (Unproduced was their widely admired Norman Mailer adaptation “The Deer Park.”) They adapted two of their novels, Didion’s bestseller “Play It as It Lays” (1970) and Dunne’s “True Confessions” (1977), into Hollywood movies, starring, respectively, Tuesday Weld as a B-movie actress, and Robert De Niro as a Monsignor who clashes with his homicide cop brother (Robert Duvall).
Didion and Dunne were part of the fabric of ’70s and ’80s Hollywood, writing countless essays and criticism. Bradley Cooper Recalls Being Mocked by Peers for Oscar Nominations: ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ĭidion’s first novel “Run River” (1963) was set in her hometown of Sacramento, and her 2003 memoir, “Where I Was From,” looked back on her days in California.
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