The American Film Institute last week named Katharine Hepburn No. 1 on the list of the 25 greatest female movie stars of the century. We all love that Dorothy Parker had once panned Hepburn’s acting (in The Lake) more than 60 years ago, when Dottie said Hepburn “ran the whole gamut of emotions from A…
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.
The Uncollected Dorothy Parker
One of the best new collections of Dorothy Parker verse is now coming out in a U.K. edition. We got word from Jeanette at Duckworth Publishers in London that The Uncollected Dorothy Parker will be out July 22. This is the same book as Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker. This book…
2 New Locales Added
Two new locales have been added. 1915 Boarding House is where Dottie lived when she was on the staff of Vogue. Girlhood Walk in Riverside Park is inspired by a photo of young Dottie as a girl in the park, which appears in a biography. Both of these additions add more background into Parker as…
Dash and Lilly Review
It has taken a few days for Dash and Lilly to sink in. Many Parker fans have e-mailed their opinions of the movie to the site. While this isn’t a review of the movie, which was eagerly anticipated because Bebe Neuwirth was playing Dottie, I wanted to list a couple of points: Bebe was wasted….
Six Degrees of Star Wars
Today Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is filling movie theaters. Here is the Star Wars connection to Dorothy Parker. Are your ready? You will only read this here: Bebe Neuwirth plays Dottie in Dash and Lilly on A&E.; She of course was Lillith on Cheers. Also on that show was John Ratzenberger (Postman…
Marshall University Web Site
Maybe it is the end of the school year and teachers are finally telling their students that Dorothy Parker is a worthy term paper subject, but traffic here is way up. A new site we were tipped off by from Maria at Marshall University has a general Parker biography, timeline, era and influence, and literary…