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Zabou Breitman in "Dorothy" Photo: Pascal Victor/Opale.

Zabou Breitman Brings “Dorothy” to Avignon, Answers Q&A

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The words of Dorothy Parker have been translated into more than a dozen languages, from Spanish to Turkish. Since the 1950s Parker has been available in French. Now a new play by celebrated French actress-director Zabou Breitman is packing them in at the Avignon Festival, a major cultural event held annually in July in southeastern…

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Dorothy Parker Memorial Fund Launches

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The Dorothy Parker Memorial Fund is to support the final resting place of Dorothy Parker in Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York. Her remains were brought back to her hometown and interred on her birthday last year. A new, permanent granite gravestone is currently being created. The financial support will go to the memorial and…

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Al Hirschfeld Foundation Supports Dorothy Parker Memorial Fund With Exclusive T-Shirt

Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

No artist drew Dorothy Parker more often than the legendary New York “line king” Al Hirschfeld. The Al Hirschfeld Foundation has created a special limited edition t-shirt to support the Dorothy Parker Memorial Fund, which is how fans can support the final resting place of Mrs. Parker in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York….

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Bottles ready to fill.

Support Campaign for Dorothy Parker Gravestone Begins Today with New York Distilling Company and the Al Hirschfeld Foundation

Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Soon after Dorothy Parker’s cremains were returned to New York City ten months ago, and The New Yorker story was published, many of her fans asked how they could help support a gravestone. It can be announced today that the family of Mrs. Parker will work in partnership with the award-winning New York Distilling Company…

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Bottles ready to fill.

New York Post Breaks Story About Dorothy Parker Gin Funding Gravestone Fund

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Great news on Sunday: The New York Post broke the story that the New York Distilling Company is making a special batch of 250 bottles of Dorothy Parker Round Table Reserve Gin to raise money for her gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery. And the really cool part is that the Al Hirschfeld Foundation has allowed a…

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Balto in Central Park

Balto, the Dog Sculpture Hero of Central Park

Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Dorothy Rothschild as a girl walked her beloved dogs in Central Park and Riverside Park, both parks near her Upper West Side homes. But she also was a longtime writer about dogs as an adult. As a kid she and her father exchanged postcards about the health and doings of the family dogs, Rags and…

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‘News Item’ and ‘Résumé’ Enter Public Domain January 1

Posted on December 18, 2020February 2, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Do you celebrate New Year’s Day or Public Domain Day? For Dorothy Parker fans, why not both? Just as we published last year, turning the calendar pages of U.S. copyright law, on January 1, 2021, more works of art, film, music, poetry, and writing will enter the public domain. This milestone will bring out work…

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Gloria Steinem 1965

Gloria Steinem 1965 Interview with Dorothy Parker Found

Posted on October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

What is the best magazine interview–ever–that Dorothy Parker sat down for? This one. Journalist Gloria Steinem was 30 and Parker was 71 when they met in the winter of 1964-65 for a long chat that ended up as a 2,300 word article in the New York edition of The Ladies Home Journal. At the time…

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Dorothy Parker in 1963.

1965 Newspaper Interview on Aging and Writing

Posted on September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

In the summer of 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating, astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk, the World’s Fair was underway in Queens, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading protests from Selma to Chicago. On a July day the assistant city editor from the New York World-Telegram and…

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Urn placed in grave by staff. Credit: Joe Conzo, Jr.

Homecoming: Dorothy Parker’s Ashes Buried in New York City

Posted on September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Dorothy Parker has come home to New York. On August 22–the 127th anniversary of her birth–the poet’s cremains were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx beside her parents and grandparents. In a small private ceremony witnessed by less than 12 people, the urn containing Mrs. Parker’s cremains ended a 53-year odyssey. The story was…

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