What do Dorothy Parker and Spiderman have in common? Michael F. Hoover. He’s the Emmy winning (for Children of Dune) special effects wiz in Hollywood, who named his company after the Garden of Allah, where Mrs. Parker, Robert Benchley and Scott Fitzgerald used to hang their hats (and their hangovers). Michael was cool enough to…
Benchley’s Best Top 10 List
Just in time for the holidays, we got a message from David Trumbull from The Robert Benchley Society in Cambridge. The Robert Benchley Society announces a “top ten” list of humorous holiday readings.The list includes two pieces by Mr. Benchley along with eight other humor authors.Members of the Robert Benchley Society suggested readings for the…
New Parker book for 2004
Great news for all Dorothy Parker fans: author Marion Meade has a new book coming out May 18, 2004 about our favorite person. Meade wrote the definitive and best Parker biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? in 1987. Now she goes back to the well one more time for Bobbed Hair and Bathtub…
New York Sun Writes About Parkerfest
Thanks to our friend Gary Shapiro at the New York Sun, we got a nice article in the paper today about Parkerfest. www.dorothyparker.com
Weekend of Parker Excess a Success at Parkerfest 03
NEW YORK — One of Dorothy Parker’s friends, New York World editor Herbert Bayard Swope, once said, “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” Swope knew a thing or two about hosting big parties, and he would…
Parker Fans Raise Glasses to Mrs. Parker
The Dorothy Parker Society gathered again to mark the anniversary of Mrs. Parker’s death. About a dozen DPSNY members enjoyed discount cocktails at the Dead Poet, 450 Amsterdam Avenue. As always, the group was diverse and fun to socialize with. As usual, we didn’t have any minutes to read, dues to collect, reports to read,…