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Gloria Steinem 1965

Gloria Steinem 1965 Interview with Dorothy Parker Found

Posted on October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

What is the best magazine interview–ever–that Dorothy Parker sat down for? This one. Journalist Gloria Steinem was 30 and Parker was 71 when they met in the winter of 1964-65 for a long chat that ended up as a 2,300 word article in the New York edition of The Ladies Home Journal. At the time…

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Dorothy Parker in 1963.

1965 Newspaper Interview on Aging and Writing

Posted on September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

In the summer of 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating, astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk, the World’s Fair was underway in Queens, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading protests from Selma to Chicago. On a July day the assistant city editor from the New York World-Telegram and…

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214 W. 72nd Street

Apartment Building at Childhood Home Spot to Be Named for Dorothy Parker

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Dorothy Parker has lent her name to children, pets, a racehorse in Ireland and a bald eagle in Missouri. Her name is on gin distilled in Brooklyn, a disco in Brazil, and hotel suites and bed & breakfast rooms. Prince famous named a song for her. Plus there are more than 25 people walking around…

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Building Rises at Demolished Parker Childhood Home

Posted on August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

A porta potty stands in the spot where Dorothy Parker’s front door once was. The last childhood home young Dottie Rothschild shared with both parents—her mother Eliza Marston Rothschild died when she was just four—is today a construction zone at 214 West Seventy-second Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This was the Rothschild family home…

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Spring Walking Tour Schedule

Posted on March 9, 2014March 26, 2014 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Here is the spring walking tour schedule. (Note the March 29 walk is cancelled): Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side Walking Tour Saturday, April 12 Noon-2:00 PM, Riverside Park and West Seventy-second Street Visit Dorothy Parker’s neighborhood and walk in her footsteps to her former apartments, haunts, school and more. See one of the most beautiful…

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hollywood

Dorothy Parker’s Los Angeles Tour Dec. 14

Posted on December 6, 2013May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Hollywood’s Golden Age comes alive during a special bus tour of Los Angeles locations connected to Dorothy Parker, New York’s wittiest woman who had a 30-year screenwriting career. The tour is open to the public; it begins and ends at Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd (note bus pickup is across the street at old…

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Titanic sinking.

Sad Demise of Dorothy Parker’s Uncle on the Titanic

Posted on April 11, 2012April 15, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The sinking of the RMS Titanic 100 years ago this week has been generating headlines for days. The disaster also had a huge impact on the life of Dorothy Parker, who lost her uncle in the tragedy at sea, an event that in some small way contributed to the declining health of her father. Reading…

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Letter Writing Campaign Begins: Save Dorothy Parker’s House

Posted on October 25, 2011August 14, 2019 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The news that one of Dorothy Parker’s childhood homes could be demolished (first reported by Leslie Albrecht) is now leading to a letter writing campaign. On Friday, the New York Times also wrote about the old house at 214 West 72nd Street. It’s been on the website since 1998. The owners of the building was…

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Visit Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side

Posted on October 11, 2011October 19, 2011 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Special event: “Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side” on Saturday, Nov. 12. Meet at Riverside Park, West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive (at Eleanor Roosevelt) at 12 p.m. Walk is led by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York and president of the Dorothy Parker Society. See more than a dozen…

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Cleaning Up the Audio Collection for the DPS

Posted on February 1, 2011August 25, 2013 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

We are going to be cleaning up the audio collection for the Dorothy Parker Society over the next couple of months. Many of the files are RealAudio files from 2000, and are being converted to MP3. We have the biggest online collection of Dorothy Parker reading her work, as well as rare interviews found no…

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