There are 20 new Parker audio clips on the Dot Audio page. Some of the all-time favorites now included here are Coda, Bohemia, They Part, Tombstones in the Starlight, The False Friends and Partial Comfort. It was a lot of fun to add these Real Audio samples of Dottie reading her work. As far as…
Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick
I'm a writer and sightseeing guide. I'm the author and editor of seven books tied to New York history. I started the Dorothy Parker Society in 1999 with friends at the Algonquin Hotel.
Books and Things
A used book vendor on Columbus and W. 68th Street was where I found the excellent book “21” about the famous bar/restaurant, The “21” Club. There is photo of Dottie and husband Alan Campbell together that I’ve never come across before. The book is helpful in my current research into Parker’s watering holes. I’m compiling…
Parker and Kidman
Are there ‘six degrees of separation’ between Dorothy Parker and Nicole Kidman? Nope. One. Parker and Kidman have a connection to the Cort Theatre, all part of my new page about it.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Print
It has been five years since she starred in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is back to the Dorothy Parker look. In the new (Feb.) issue of Paper magazine, she is sporting the full-on Parker bangs and vintage dresses. JJL is now on Broadway in Cabaret, and she says in…
Jennifer Jason Leigh
DOTTIE, TAKE 2 – Jennifer Jason Leigh really looks like the character she played in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, doesn’t she? Maybe she will make a sequel…
Parker Fans in High Places Dept.
New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman delivered her sixth annual budgetmessage yesterday to the state Legislature, and quoted Dorothy Parker (born in West End, N.J., in 1893). Gov. Whitman announced the $19.2 billion budget plan includes the first installment of $1 billion in tax rebates over five years. She quoted Parker, who once said the most…