The campaign to get Dorothy Parker into the New York City subway system’s Poetry in Motion program will be part of the walking tour on April 28, with the launch event on April 30 in Brooklyn at the New York Distill Co. (home to Dorothy Parker American Gin). The walking tour and the launch night…
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Lou Reed a Parker Reader
In 1999 we had a passing Lou Reed reference to Dorothy Parker. Thanks to eagle-eye Wes, we got a tip to another and better quote from the rock icon today, from an old interview with music journalist Bruce Pollock from the June 1985 issue of Guitar magazine: And then we talked about prose. “Dorothy Parker…
Brazil Nightclub Salutes Parker Reputation
I just finished writing about a Dorothy Parker play in the Netherlands, when I was alerted to more international Parker news. This time it’s on the other side of the globe, in Brazil. It seems that the hottest new nightclub/disco is called Dorothy Parker, and caters to the upscale crowd in Sao Paulo. An English-language…
Al Hirschfeld Chair Rolls Over to NYPL
David Leopold, archivist of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, says that if the great illustrator didn’t draw your caricature in the 20th Century, you pretty much didn’t matter. Dorothy Parker had her likeness dipped in Hirschfeld ink several times, illustrations that appear today on the covers to Complete Stories and Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems…
Dorothy Parker Connected to Clint & Beyoncé in Re-make
News came out today that Clint Eastwood is going to direct the third remake of the classic 1937 Hollywood chestnut A Star Is Born, with Beyoncé Knowles in the role of Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester. Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson wrote the screenplay for the original, snagging an Academy Award nomination for their story…
Dorothy Parker Named to ‘The New York City 400’
The Museum of the City of New York, one of the most prestigious history institutions in the region, this week released its list ‘The New York City 400’ to mark the 400th anniversary of the exploration of New York. Among the list of the city’s greatest residents is Dorothy Parker. The Museum said, “The NYC400…