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As we told you last month, author Marion Meade has scheduled two readings/book signings to promote her new work Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin. The book, about Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay during the Twenties, came out today from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. Read a story about it here. The…
On Tuesdays June 1st and 8th at 9:00pm, Cindy Ball returns to Don’t Tell Mama as Helen Kane in Boop-Boop-A-Doop Girl! This musical romp through the “Era of Wonderful Nonsense†pays tribute to Helen Kane, the baby-voiced vaudevillian who booped her way to stardom in 1927 and later inspired the cartoon character Betty Boop. Ms….
Finally a Star Wars connection to Dorothy Parker. Carrie Fisher is taking part in a reading of Parker work on June 8 in Los Angeles. It took Liz Smith to break the news that the Drama Dept., a New York-based organization that launches Broadway shows, is holding the event. The group had a similar fundraiser…
We have been following this case since 1999. Now the case is back in the news: Penguin Group wins ruling Appeals court reverses judgment that blocked sales of Parker poems By Bloomberg News An appeals court reversed a judge’s ruling that blocked Penguin Group USA from selling a collection of Dorothy Parker poems because of…
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade is coming out May 18. We were kindly sent an advance copy, so we could write about it here. It is highly recommended for all. It concerns the 1920s of Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meade wrote the excellent Parker bio What…
Marion Meade’s new book Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties is like manna from heaven for aficionados of the Roaring Twenties. Seventeen years ago Meade wrote What Fresh Hell is This? It remains the definitive Dorothy Parker biography; now she expands on the 10 most exciting years of Parker’s life,…