https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0 This is a great little video. You can see Harold Lloyd, Babe Ruth, Fifth Avenue, Washington Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Third Avenue “El” and many more landmarks from 1920s New York. The end looks like it is footage shot in California, but overall this is a nice view of Manhattan when the Round…
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Dorothy Parker Short Film to Play at Hoboken Festival
We are happy to post this press release; this short film was screened in October 2007 at Dorothy Parker Day in Long Branch, Mrs. Parker’s birthplace. It is a fine film. The release: A film version of Dorothy Parker’s short story The Sexes will have its world premiere at the 2008 Hoboken International Film Festival…
General Review of the Sex Situation
Here is a video of actress Annmarie LaRocca reading Dorothy Parker’s classic “General Review of the Sex Situation.” The video is part of I Blame Poetry’s online poems project.
Benchley Finally on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-15TwZnJU A few years ago Kino International put out a great DVD collection called The Paramount Comedy Shorts 1928-1942: Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. To help promote it, the company has uploaded a little of a Robert Benchley short film, “How to Take A Vacation.” This is great stuff. Now you can…
New Video from DPS Member
Parker Society member Sue Bachner‘s band, Ether Park, has a new video out. We have the world debut of “Where’s Jeffrey?” right here. Watch Jeffrey attempt to finally “come of age” at the prom, in spite of his extremely worried mom, and his fellow Chess Club members. Congrats to Sue and the band, it is…
Celebrate Dottie’s Birthday August 22nd
The video clip above is Dorothy Parker’s birthplace in West End, a village in Long Branch, New Jersey. It is the only Literary Landmark for an author’s birthplace in the entire state (the landmarks are designated by Friends of Libraries USA, and the Dorothy Parker Society co-sponsored the plaque in 2005). On Wednesday, August 22,…