Harrison Ford helped build this deck at Joan Didion’s home. The result is a moving documentary “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” that debuts Friday on Netflix and will also play at the Metrograph theater. Grenvilles”), convinced his aunt to sit down in her Manhattan apartment and talk about her early successes and devastating late-life tragedies. Born in Sacramento, the descendant of pioneers who crossed the Donner Pass in the 19th century, she helped redefine journalism in the late 1960s and 1970s.ĭunne, who is also an actor (“After Hours”) and the son of novelist Dominick Dunne (“The Two Mrs. To everyone else, she is Joan Didion, the celebrated author whose memoir of grief, “ The Year of Magical Thinking,” won a National Book Award in 2005 and whose essays on California culture, in particular “ Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” an account of the destructively aimless San Francisco hippie scene, made her a celebrity. “It was pretty easy to pick up chicks in that thing,” Dunne, 62, tells The Post. He received first editions of her books as Christmas presents and, as a teenager, went to her parties where you would find “homicide detectives next to Warren Beatty next to Christopher Isherwood.” She let him drive her banana-yellow Corvette Stingray.
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