num_pages: 252
description: "The Boswell of the blue bloods."-- San  Francisco Examiner."One of the snappiest  writers around."--Liz Smith, New York  Daily News .From the author of the  best-selling People Like Us and   The Two Mrs. Grenviles comes this  unvarnished look at the gilded world of the real-life  rich and famous. Here are the highly colorful and  highly provocative look at the gilded world of the  real-life rich of famous. Here are the highly  colorful and highly provocative close-up interviews  Dominick Dunne has written for Vanity  Fair . In them, Dunne tells all about  today's creme de la creme as only as insider can tell  it. Here is his engaging profile of the  everlasting regal Elizabeth Taylor; a bizarre encounter with  Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos exiled in Hawaii; a  revealing, behind-the-scenes portrait of the great  poseur Claus von Bulow; an inquiry into the squalid  life and mysterious death of Alfred Bloomingdale's  mistress, Vicki Morgan; Dunne's moving account of  his daughter's violent death and the man who got  away with her murder; as well as revealing glimpses  of Ivan Boesky, Ava Gardner, Diane Keaton, Gloria  Vanderbilt, Candy and Aaron Spelling, and  others-plus a look inside the exclusive Mortimer's  restaurant and the real Palm Beach. Sassy and stirring,  candid and controversial, Fatal  Charms is a startling expose of charm-in all its  guises-both fatal and benign.
language: English
title: Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today
titlecomplete: Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today
genres: True Crime, Crime, History, Biography, Memoir, Essays, Journalism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 650
publisher: Bantam