The second part of my Dyan Cannon discussion includes the film she wrote, directed, and starred in called The End of Innocence. Rebecca Schaeffer plays the younger version of Dyan's character in this film. It was her last role before her murder at the hands of a crazed fan on the doorstep of her West Hollywood home. Her death is the reason we have stalking laws in this country. I discuss her murder, along with 3 other notable names in the 1980s, Dominique Dunn, Theresa Saldana, and playmate Dorothy Stratten. The "reason" for Rebecca's murder was a role she played in the 1989 comedy Scenes from the Class Struggles in Beverly Hills. That film and her role in it is discussed at length along with the details of the laws that went into place after her death.
Resources include The End of Innocence and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Dyan's memoir, a 2020 episode about Rebecca's murder, Theresa Saldana's film Victims for Victims, Star 80, and countelss other interviews memoirs and magazine articles consumed over the course of my life.
