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Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell

Listen to Radio Play by the Parker-Campbell Team

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

June is the anniversary month of the passing of both Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell. It will be a good time to revisit a little-known chapter of their lives, a radio play they co-wrote in 1939 that was never collected into a book or magazine. The anniversary of Alan’s death is June 14, 1963;…

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Rare 1952 Algonquin Hotel Radio Show Uncovered

Posted on November 10, 2014May 3, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner, and screenwriter-author Anita Loos. It’s an amazing time capsule of the hotel, at…

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BBC 5 Live Radio Interview

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The BBC Radio journalist Joanne Griffith interviewed me about the life and legacy of Dorothy Parker in January. The interview is now available to listen to here (it is #8 on the list). Note that Mrs. Parker helped found the Screen Writers Guild, not the Screen Actors Guild. The address of the Algonquin Hotel is…

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