I was going to a Mets game with Linn and Brooke, and I was in the neighborhood of The Volney apartments. This is where Dorothy lived for the last years of her life, and where she died in 1967. It was a beautiful spring day, so as the weather gets better I will be adding…
Thomas Wolfe Connection
Are Dorothy Parker fans also Thomas Wolfe fans? We think some are. We got a note from Mark A. Moore of the North Carolina Division of Archives & History, and he works on the Wolfe web site in Asheville. It is among the best literary sites I’ve ever visited, and you should too. He has…
Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman TV Movie
Courtney from Wellesley dropped us a line to say that Dash and Lilly, the A&E; cable movie about Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, will FINALLY air on May 31. I have been seeking info on the broadcast for months. Bebe Neuwirth is playing Dorothy Parker, as reported here in January. I saw her in Chicago…
First Search Engine Result
Thanks to Yahoo! for including the Dot City link. Finally, it took four months, but it now appears! www.dorothyparker.com
Irish prose, poetry and music at Gonk
News from The Algonquin Hotel: two evenings you won’t want to miss. First, on March 15 in the Oak Room is an all-Irish invocation of the Round Table in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes), Edna O’Brien and Colum McCann are presenting Irish prose, poetry and music. On March 29, Nat Benchley…
Just a Little One to be Performed
It looks like there is a Parker show coming to town soon for three nights only. Dorothy Parker: Just a Little One will be at the Producer’s Club Theatre, 358 W 44th St, (Between 8th and 9th Aves), New York, NY 10036, (212) 315-4743, March 15 through 17 (at 7 p.m.). Written by Kelly Ellenwood,…
Real Audio samples of Dottie
There are 20 new Parker audio clips on the Dot Audio page. Some of the all-time favorites now included here are Coda, Bohemia, They Part, Tombstones in the Starlight, The False Friends and Partial Comfort. It was a lot of fun to add these Real Audio samples of Dottie reading her work. As far as…
Books and Things
A used book vendor on Columbus and W. 68th Street was where I found the excellent book “21” about the famous bar/restaurant, The “21” Club. There is photo of Dottie and husband Alan Campbell together that I’ve never come across before. The book is helpful in my current research into Parker’s watering holes. I’m compiling…
Parker and Kidman
Are there ‘six degrees of separation’ between Dorothy Parker and Nicole Kidman? Nope. One. Parker and Kidman have a connection to the Cort Theatre, all part of my new page about it.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Print
It has been five years since she starred in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is back to the Dorothy Parker look. In the new (Feb.) issue of Paper magazine, she is sporting the full-on Parker bangs and vintage dresses. JJL is now on Broadway in Cabaret, and she says in…