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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade was named one of the "finest books of the year" in a list by the San Francisco Chronicle. It concerns the 1920s of Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meade wrote the excellent Parker bio What Fresh Hell is This in 1987. The…

Dottie and her pals make an appearance in the comic stip Jazz Age Comics. Is this a first for the Round Table in this medium? History aside, George Gershwin wasn’t known to hang out with this group in the Twenties. And where did Mrs. Parker get that hat? Indiana Jones? Read it here… www.dorothyparker.com

Someone has already bought the $10,000 martini at the Algonquin Hotel’s Blue Bar, which we told you about last week. The story was all over the papers today, as a Westchester guy proposed to his girlfriend with a $13,000 martini & diamond. What would Dorothy Parker think of this? How about one of her classics:…

The Dorothy Parker copyright case we’ve been following since the late 1990s is now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. The article here says, "The question under copyright law is, to what degree did (Stuart) Silverstein exercise creativity in selecting and copyediting Parker’s lost verses for publication?" This case is the reason that Penguin…

Another Dorothy Parker show is onstage in New York this month. Here is the press info for this one-night only production. Discount Offer for THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d’Usseau starring Marian Seldes and featuring David Greenspan. Tickets only $20 (normally $30) available at http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu or by phone 212.992.8484 using…

The Dorothy Parker Society of New York “Theatre Night” is Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, as The Peccadillo Theater Company presents The Talk Of The Town which is running now through Sunday, December 5. The musical is at the Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street, in the West Village. Tickets are $19 (general admission) get ’em…