Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
Writer-Researcher on Parker, her place in American letters, and the Algonquin Round Table We have the good fortune to ask Ten Questions of Stuart Y. Silverstein. His 1996 book, Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. The book…
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…
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…
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…
It has taken a few days for Dash and Lilly to sink in. Many Parker fans have e-mailed their opinions of the movie to the site. While this isn’t a review of the movie, which was eagerly anticipated because Bebe Neuwirth was playing Dottie, I wanted to list a couple of points: Bebe was wasted….
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…
Maybe it is the end of the school year and teachers are finally telling their students that Dorothy Parker is a worthy term paper subject, but traffic here is way up. A new site we were tipped off by from Maria at Marshall University has a general Parker biography, timeline, era and influence, and literary…
If you live in New York City, you can ride around in a bus with the images of Dashiell Hammett (Sam Shepard) and Lillian Hellman (Judy Davis). The A&E; Web site has a section devoted to Dash and Lilly, with a lot of photos and background material. There is only one photo of Bebe Neuwirth…
Special thanks to hip London gal Cyndi for scoring me a copy of the U.K. edition of The Sayings of Dorothy Parker, a slim tome that was tied to Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Jennifer Jason Leigh is on the cover of this 64-page paperback, only available in the U.K. The Sayings of Dorothy…
We have been buzzing about it for months, and A&E; is finally talking about Dash and Lilly, first reported in January. Live in New York? There is a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway with the two stars. Of course, Bebe Neuwirth plays Dorothy Parker, but she isn’t on the billboard, which is a drag. It…