I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

Dundy grew up in a Park Avenue home where Elaine Dundy was educated by a governess though Elaine Dundy eventually attended high school where her boyfriend Terry was the son of playwright Maxwell Anderson. " Kirkus Reviews described it as "the most fine-grained Elvis bio ever. In 1950 Elaine Dundy met the theater critic Kenneth Tynan and two weeks later they began living together.