Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
The Algonquin Hotel sent this very nice card out this season. This is the last update of 2000. If you are signed up for the newsletter (and if you aren’t, what’re you waiting for?) you’ll be getting the holiday message today. It was some year! The highlight for us was Parkerfest in August. What a…
Dorothy Parker’s first biographer, John Keats, died on Nov. 3 in Kingston, Ont. He was 79 and lived in Kingston and on Pine Island in Ontario, in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Thirty years ago, he penned the first biography of Mrs. Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and…
Written for Expedia Travels Magazine, November 2000 By James A. Martin, ©2001 James A. Martin NEW YORK — The woman who coined the phrases “what the hell,” “one-night stand,” and “ball of fire” is now the focus of a Manhattan tour that begins on the Web and ends, if you time it right, in a…
Another connection to Mrs. Parker and the Algonquin has passed away. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., who had been the last surviving member of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten,” died of cancer Oct. 31 at his Manhattan apartment. He was 85. Lardner won Oscars for best original screenplay with Michael Kanin for the 1942…
One of Dorothy Parker’s contemporaries is hitting the New York scene in a big way. Tallulah Bankhead, a late addition to the Algonquin Round Table, is the subject of no less than three shows on and off-Broadway. Kathleen Turner is in one of them. One can expect Mrs. Parker’s name to be among the scripts…
What a weekend! It was a really terrific time last weekend for Parkerfest 2000, our second annual New York gathering to celebrate Dorothy Parker. We had 40 attend Speakeasy Night, 30 attend the Round Table Luncheon & Entertainment; about a dozen to 15 on the walking tour. See photos here; read all about it. Thanks…