I really wish I’d kept a list of all of the names that Griffin Dunne drops in The Friday Afternoon Club. ‘Drops’ might be a little unfair – the people he mentions are/were family friends, relatives, and colleagues. But to give you a flavour, the list would include Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Carrie Fisher, Roman Polanski, George Clooney, and Joan Didion (and husband John Dunne).

During one of my parents’ extravagant parties I got up to pee and caught Judy Garland rifling through the medicine cabinet in my bathroom. Warren Beaty once played the piano in our living room in lieu of joining a drunken game of charades captained by a smashed Ida Lupino. Sean Connery saved me from drowning. Continue reading →