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….
West Coast Shows Us Love
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…
Excellent Evening
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…
New Dottie Locations
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…
Make it a Benchley Night; Blast from the Past
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…
Don’t Miss Magazine
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…