Finally a Star Wars connection to Dorothy Parker. Carrie Fisher is taking part in a reading of Parker work on June 8 in Los Angeles. It took Liz Smith to break the news that the Drama Dept., a New York-based organization that launches Broadway shows, is holding the event. The group had a similar fundraiser February 9 at the Prada store in Soho, and a dinner at the Algonquin in March. Edie Falco (The Sopranos) and Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers, Frasier) were among the readers. (Hey Drama Dept, thanks for forgetting to invite the DPSNY…)
If you want to attend the LA event, dig deep, tickets are $500 each. Info here. It is at the home of pundit Arianna Huffington. Also reading are Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Colleen Camp (Wayne’s World), Sprague Grayden (Law & Order: SVU), Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Huffington’s sister, Agapi Stassinopolis (author of Conversations with the Goddesses). Peter Gallagher is also supposed to be there, he played Alan Campbell in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
Hopefully someone in our “West Coast Chapter” will attend and send us a report (and pix). Mrs. Parker had a love-hate relationship with her Hollywood years. As a founding member of the Screewriters Guild — and hostess of many fundraisers in her Beverly Hills home — this sounds like a good time and something Dottie would enjoy.