Mark your calendars: Saturday, Aug. 28, 1999, is Parkerfest in the Big Apple. The Dorothy Parker Society of New York is organizing events to coincide with Parker’s birthday on Aug. 22. At least three big events are on tap. First, things kick off with a walking tour of many of the locales in Dot City,…
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New Parker Book in the UK
Now available in the U.K. is The Uncollected Dorothy Parker. See the June 14 news item about this great book. A must for all Parker fans. www.dorothyparker.com
Hepburn on the Lake List
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…
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…
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…