In a curious episode of The New Yorker podcast, a Dorothy Parker short story deemed so poor it was dropped from the latest edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker was chosen. “I Live On Your Visits” is read on the podcast by Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer. He says that a friend gave…
Dorothy Parker Society Turns 20
This week is not only the 126th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birth, it is also the 20th anniversary of the Dorothy Parker Society. Lift your glass today for a toast. On August 28, 1999, a walking tour set out from the Upper West Side, beginning at 214 West Seventy-second Street (recently demolished childhood home of…
Building Rises at Demolished Parker Childhood Home
A porta potty stands in the spot where Dorothy Parker’s front door once was. The last childhood home young Dottie Rothschild shared with both parents—her mother Eliza Marston Rothschild died when she was just four—is today a construction zone at 214 West Seventy-second Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This was the Rothschild family home…
I. Miller Building 20th Anniversary as a Landmark
Dorothy Parker wrote reviews of all four women who are on the I. Miller Building in Duffy Square. Today it celebrates 20 years as a city landmark. It was recently restored to some of it’s former beauty. It’s on the walking tours of the Algonquin Round Table sites; all four stars on the building were…
Algonquin Round Table Centennial Summer
The Algonquin Hotel is not going to let the centennial of the first luncheon of the Algonquin Round Table pass without notice. The national literary landmark has planned an entire summer of events to celebrate the Vicious Circle, which began as a welcome home roast for critic Alexander Woollcott in June 1919. To mark the…
Vanity Fair Digital Archives Arrive
It took Condé Nast long enough, but finally there is a digital archive of the complete run of Vanity Fair. For Dorothy Parker fans, this is important, because it contains some of her earliest writing of prose, reviews, and poems. Now readers can see the pieces in the original format as they were presented in…
A Star Is Born Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Good news, A Star Is Born fans. It is getting good reviews and is “certified fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. After a week in theaters it’s doing really well and generating Oscar buzz. Dorothy Parker is also being mentioned in news stories as being part of the original Oscar-named original picture. We’ve been tracking this movie…
Dorothy Parker 125th Birthday Celebration
New York will remember the 125th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birthday with two events open to the public on Wednesday, August 22. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, in Long Branch New Jersey. A walking tour of her Upper West Side neighborhood will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then the festivities transfer…
Double Dorothy in LA; Show Continues to June 10
May 18-20 (was) quite a weekend in Los Angeles with TWO Dorothy Parker inspired shows running, with the Impro Studio presenting their popular Dorothy Parker Unscripted improvised shenanigans at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, and, right next door in Venice, the Pacific Resident Theatre debuting their 15 cast member Dorothy Parker Project which dishes up both…
1937 A Star Is Born to Meet 2018 Remake
Tomorrow is the 81st anniversary of the April 27, 1937, debut of A Star Is Born. The screenplay was written by three transplants to Hollywood: Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell (Parker’s second husband), and Robert Carson. The story was by Carson and William A. Wellman; Wellman was also the director. A lot of other hands had…