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Good news, A Star Is Born fans. It is getting good reviews and is “certified fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. After a week in theaters it’s doing really well and generating Oscar buzz. Dorothy Parker is also being mentioned in news stories as being part of the original Oscar-named original picture. We’ve been tracking this movie…
New York will remember the 125th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birthday with two events open to the public on Wednesday, August 22. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, in Long Branch New Jersey. A walking tour of her Upper West Side neighborhood will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then the festivities transfer…
May 18-20 (was) quite a weekend in Los Angeles with TWO Dorothy Parker inspired shows running, with the Impro Studio presenting their popular Dorothy Parker Unscripted improvised shenanigans at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, and, right next door in Venice, the Pacific Resident Theatre debuting their 15 cast member Dorothy Parker Project which dishes up both…
Tomorrow is the 81st anniversary of the April 27, 1937, debut of A Star Is Born. The screenplay was written by three transplants to Hollywood: Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell (Parker’s second husband), and Robert Carson. The story was by Carson and William A. Wellman; Wellman was also the director. A lot of other hands had…
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, let’s remember the crossover Ireland-New York poem Dorothy Parker wrote for March 17. This was written 96 years ago when Dorothy was 28 years old and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. This gem, published March 16, 1922, in the old Life, came out when Dorothy…
The audio collection of Dorothy Parker reading her own work, plus some other pieces, are now migrated to the new server. Dorothy Parker made two full-length LP recordings of her work: 1956: Her first LP is from Spoken Arts, An Informal Hour with Dorothy Parker (Spoken Arts 726). 1964: Verve asked her to read her…