Centered: Joan Didion in a still from The Center Will Not Hold, next to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. Photograph: Julian Wasser

Interview

Joan Didion director: 'She’s always been painted as this mystic, gloomy figure'

Griffin Dunne talks about his aunt, the subject of a new documentary that charts her rise and the impact her work had on a generation of would-be writers

Jake Nevins
Wednesday 25 Octobre 2017

Perhaps surprisingly, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, which is available on Netflix from 27 October, is the first documentary about a writer whose body of work helped define and record American life, particularly during the restive 60s and 70s. From the Manson murders and the Iran-Contra affair to the Salvadoran civil war and her own bereavement, Didion tackled them all with her signature lyricism and savvy. And for the actor Griffin Dunne, Didion’s nephew, finding a way to render that legacy in film was his tallest task.

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood death: Robert Wagner named 'person of interest'

Six years after the reopening of the investigation into the actor’s mysterious death, CBS has learned her husband is a potential suspect

Jake Nevins
Fri 2 Feb 2018 08.19 GMT

Nearly 40 years after Natalie Wood died mysteriously on a boat trip to Santa Catalina Island, investigators have named the actor’s husband Robert Wagner as a person of interest.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators told 48 Hours, the CBS news magazine series, that they intend to speak to Wagner, 87, regarding the circumstances of Wood’s death in 1981.