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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

In the show notes.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, apparently Warren Beatty had a huge crush on Joan.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh, really?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And it was very open.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

He would ask to sit by her at the table, at the dinner table in front of John, but John found it very amusing.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, he was just doing everyone left and right.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

This is before Annette Bening or probably still with Annette Bening.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I feel like she was not a faithful man.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I think this was in the 70s, so I think this was before Annette Bening.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Yep.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Good for her.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

What an honor.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Exactly.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So it was a very creatively hot environment.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Like everyone was talking about movies and arguing about movies.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And John and Joan, again, you know they wanted to be screenwriters.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So they are just like trying to soak all of this up.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And then one day she reads this book called The Panic in Needle Park.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And she was like, this has to be a movie.