At 13, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne’s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe. In his early 20s, he shared an apartment with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called Star Wars. A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin’s 22-year-old sister, Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s. THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny and moving characters --- its author most of all.