Claire Donald
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Someone once brought Janis Joplin to a party at their house on Franklin.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
She had just done a concert and she wanted a Brandy and Benedictine?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
No, literally Benedictine?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Benedictine?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Who is that?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
I don't even know, but she wanted it in a water tumbler, but like brandy and some other kind of drink.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Oh, a drink.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Benedictine?
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Benedictine.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
I don't know what that is.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Me either.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
In a tumbler.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
In a tumbler.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
And she, Joan said, music people never wanted ordinary drinks.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
They wanted sake or champagne cocktails or tequila.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
which is like so funny because now that's like such normal drinks for us.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
But think about like in the 60s.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Like getting sake is like, ooh.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Yeah.
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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
What?