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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York (ISBN 0-9766706-0-7) from Roaring Forties Press Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923 ( ISBN 978-1-4917-2267-1 ) from Donald Books The Lost Algonquin Round Table: Humor, Fiction, Journalism, Criticism and Poetry From America’s Most Famous Literary Circle ( ISBN 978-1-4401-5152-1 ) from Donald Books
In Dorothy Parker's poem, "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk", the narrator reminisces about the scandal that was her "neglect of the waters Pierian" in favor of "the habit of love". [9] In the 1986 David Cronenberg film The Fly, the protagonist Seth Brundle succumbs to madness and disease as the result of a science experiment. He rants at ...
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Read more:Dorothy Parker's Life of Counterpoints The contestant agreed with Jennings' assessment of the famed poet's 20th-century observation, replying, "very." Wallace's fellow competitor, health ...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding: Edgar Neville Spain: 28 December 1899: 23 April 1967: playwright, film director Christopher Okigbo Nigeria: 16 August 1932: September 1967: Writer J. Robert Oppenheimer United States: 22 April 1904: 18 February 1967: Physicist, professor Joe Orton United Kingdom: 1 January 1933: 9 August ...
"Here We Are" is a short story by American writer Dorothy Parker, first published in Cosmopolitan Magazine on March 31, 1931. The story, written almost entirely as dialogue, describes a tense scene between a newly married couple traveling by train to New York City for the first night of their honeymoon.
Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle; In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition ...