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Feb 8, 2008 · “Bernard and Doris,” a new HBO film directed by Bob Balaban, is like the most delectable kind of Vanity Fair article, one that doesn’t leave you feeling guilty or venal or vaguely nuts...
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Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban. The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish butler Bernard Lafferty later in her life.
Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in 1988, Duke left control of the bulk of her fortune to Bernard Lafferty, her butler of six years. As Heffner fights to...
They form a delightfully oddcouple partnership where the evermore devoted Bernard protects Doris from hangerson (and herself)—so much so that Duke made Lafferty the executor of her will (and when he died, he left everything to her trusts).
Like Upstairs Downstairs and The Remains of the Day, Bernard and Doris is a butler movie. Doris Duke, toward the end of her life, hires as her butler a gay, alcoholic Irishman named Bernard Lafferty and they become each other's most trusted friend.
Aug 5, 2021 · True Crime. The Doris Duke Cold Case Reopens: The Only Known Eyewitness Speaks for the First Time. A former Newport, Rhode Island, paperboy says that in 1966 he confronted the billionaire heiress...
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Jul 16, 2020 · In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.”
