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Autograph Action Sets Record

Posted on March 26, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Online auction fever is driving up the price of signed first editions. This isn’t news. But the record-breaking price for a signed Dorothy Parker first edition on Ebay was set this month. On March 14, an Oklahoma collector auctioned off a signed edition of Parker’s 1936 greatest hits package Not So Deep As A Well…

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Weekend of Words in May

Posted on March 26, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

If it wasn’t for Dorothy Parker and her friends, there may not even be a New Yorker magazine today. That is why the publication shouldn’t ever forget the contributions of the original founders of the magazine, which in now celebrating its 75th anniversary. To mark the occasion, there is going to be The New Yorker…

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Dottie in death

Posted on March 18, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

If you are a Dothead you may also have a fascination with death. That is why we’re really happy for sites like Scott Michaels’ Findadeath.com, the best Internet guide to celebrities who are six feet under. When I first started visiting Scott’s site last month, I really wanted Dorothy Parker to be on the list….

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West Coast Shows Us Love

Posted on March 12, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Good news comes in surprising ways. We got a message from Roger Yim, the “Best of the Web coordinator” of the San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper tabbed DOT CITY as one of the best sites around for book lovers. For some reason we got thrown in with Jane Austen, which is kind of like having…

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Excellent Evening

Posted on March 6, 2000July 24, 2021 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

I’ve now attended four productions based on Dorothy Parker material. The way to judge a Parker play is on the acting. Because the source material is always excellent, and always the same, drawing on Parker short stories or verses. So it was with some bit of prejudice that I went over to the West 42nd…

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New Dottie Locations

Posted on March 6, 2000January 20, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

You ask, we deliver. More new pages to the Dot City guide to Dorothy Parker. There are 4 new additions to the site. Because so many members keep asking, “Where did Mrs. Parker drink?” I went out and added three places that Dottie tipped back a few. “21” is the most famous of all, and…

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Make it a Benchley Night; Blast from the Past

Posted on February 29, 2000May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

There is a great video now on sale in the Book Shop that captures on film three of the key members of the Algonquin Round Table: Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Donald Ogden Stewart. Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin is a must-have for fans of the Gonk. The video is a compilation…

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Don’t Miss Magazine

Posted on February 19, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

There is a Dorothy Parker speech reprinted in the current issue of Written By magazine. Dorothy Parker is together with John Irving this month. How’d that happen? Scour the newsstands for the February 2000 issue of Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild of America. There is a two-page spread that reprints Mrs. Parker’s…

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Rumor Mill

Posted on February 18, 2000May 28, 2014 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Someone said that Angelina Jolie quotes “Resume” in the new movie Girl, Interrupted . Has anyone seen this Winona Ryder vehicle, and care to comment? Annie Hall, Meet Marion Marion Meade will always hold a special place in all our hearts for her definitive biography 10 years ago of Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is…

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Parker Production in NYC

Posted on February 9, 2000 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

It’s been a slow month for Dorothy Parker news, but this came over the transom, courtesy of the Utica Drop Forge and Tool Company. It looks like the first Parker play of the Millenium in New York is about to open. We don’t know much about this play, except for the pertinent information. Perhaps someone…

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