Claire Donald

Like, we'll talk about this later.

She goes and she is immersed in experiences where there are a lot of drugs around.

And I never found accounts of her doing drugs, but watching people doing drugs.

Again, she's always watching.

She's like, you seem fucked up.

She's like, I'm going to write everything down that you're doing.

What are you on?

They move into this really big house on Franklin Avenue, not too much furniture, but it would become one of the most culturally important living rooms in the 1960s in Los Angeles.

The people that are about to get in there, huh?

Exactly.

Like when they moved to Hollywood, John and Joan really get into the Hollywood scene.

And this is where she stops becoming a magazine writer and becomes Joan Didion, the observer of America at its most glamorous, unstable, and artificial.

Wow.

Wow.

So their house quickly became a constant flow of famous, powerful people.

They hosted lots of dinner parties with filmmakers, rock and rollers, and models.

John and Joan famously had one rule.

You never leave a party before something ugly happens.

Wait, what?

They were like, you have to stay till the end.