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Dorothy Parker: Lusty Lady (Parker anecdote) At one time Dorothy Parker's office was a tiny, drab and dingy cubbyhole in the ...
Busy Body (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was once interrupted on her honeymoon by Harold Ross (her indomit...
Yappers (Parker anecdote) While attending the symphony one evening, Henry Parker was dismayed to find that...
Dorothy Parker: Leaden Excuse (Parker anecdote) The New Yorker was launched (in 1925) by Harold Ross on a shoestring budg...
Private Time? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was once visited in the hospital by her secretary, whom she had s...
Phool (Parker anecdote) "Joseph Parker stepped into the pulpit of the City Temple in London for his Thur...
British Rail (Parker anecdote) In July 1978, Sir Peter Parker set off for a meeting with Cumbria County Council...
Definitely Maybe? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker and a friend once found themselves gossiping about a mutual acqua...
Crafty Reply? (Parker anecdote) In the course of snooping through their hostess's bathroom one evening, Dorothy ...
Pearls of Wisdom? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker once encountered Clare Boothe Luce in a narrow doorway. "Age befo...
Horticulture (Parker anecdote) During a conversation about usage one day, Dorothy Parker was asked to compose a...
Dorothy Parker: Shedules (Parker anecdote) "Dorothy Parker was at a party in New York where an American actor who had appea...
Vicious Circle? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker and a friend once fell into a conversation about a certain uninhi...
Margot Asquith: Self-Regard (Parker anecdote) Shortly after the appearance of Margot Asquith's autobiography, Dorothy Parker r...
Classic One Liner? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker once attended, and later wrote a piece about, a Yale prom attende...
Barrister (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was once told that a certain London actress had broken her leg. "...
Fool (Parker anecdote) While attending a party one evening, Dorothy Parker was confronted by an arrogan...
Close Harmony (Parker anecdote) During a particulary dismal dress rehearsal of Dorothy Parker's play ...
Fascist Novel (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker once reviewed a novel by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. "This...
Dorothy Parker: Guest Book (Parker anecdote) Though William Randolph Hearst frequently invited prominent Hollywood personalit...
When We Were Very Sore (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was dismayed to learn one day that, in a bid to promote her lates...
Dorothy Parker: Razors Pain You (Parker anecdote) Throughout her life, Dorothy Parker struggled with heroinism and depression. Amo...
Dorothy Parker: Constant Reader (Parker anecdote) "Constant Reader" was Dorothy Parker's book reviewing pseudonym at ...
Inferiors (Parker anecdote) A friend of Dorothy Parker's once endeavored to convince her of the fine quality...
Phony Excuse? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was among a group of celebrated wits who regularly congregated at...
Dead in a Month? (Parker anecdote) In her later years, Dorothy Parker often battled depression with a heavy dose of...
Beautiful Words (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was once asked her opinion of the two most beautiful words in the...
Cat (Parker anecdote) One day Dorothy Parker learned that a friend was agonizing over whether and how ...
Bourgeois Entertainment? (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker and Somerset Maugham attended a party one evening at which guests...
George Parker: Monopoly (Parker anecdote) "Monopoly was not invented by [Parker Brothers co-founder] George Parker. When h...
Dorothy Parker: Bored (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker did not suffer boredom, or bores, gladly. ("He's the type of man,...
Big Production? (Parker anecdote) Producer Jerry Weintraub started his career as an agent and concert promoter. In...
Parker's Plight (Parker anecdote) When George Oppenheimer and Ruth Gordon both produced plays featuring characters...
Sodom and Gomorrah (Parker anecdote) After a service one day, Joseph Parker (minister of the City Temple in London) f...
Alligators (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker once inadvisedly accepted a pair of baby alligators as a gift. Un...
For the Birds (Parker anecdote) The writer and wit Dorothy Parker once owned a pet canary. She had named it Onan...
Kiss Off (Parker anecdote) In April 2003, the artist Cornelia Parker wrapped Auguste Rodin's classic marble...
RIP SOB? (Parker anecdote) Shortly after his death, Dorothy Parker visited F. Scott Fitzgerald's body in a ...
Ham (Parker anecdote) "Among the friends who stood with Dottie [Dorothy Parker] on those California st...
That's My Bush! (Parker anecdote) Following George W. Bush's presidential election victory in 2000, Trey Parker an...
New Baby (Parker anecdote) Upon the birth of her baby, Robert Sherwood's wife received a congratulatory not...
Speaking Terms (Parker anecdote) In 1950, Dorothy Parker and her second husband, Alan Campbell, were remarried af...
Catfight (Parker anecdote) Little love was lost between Dorothy Parker and Clare Boothe Luce. One day Parke...
Finland (Parker anecdote) One day at a low point in Dorothy Parker's career, John Gilbert graciously lent ...
Mary-Louise Parker: Naked in Esquire (Parker anecdote) In 2002, two years after appearing nude in Esquire, Mary-Louise Parker pr...
$arah Jessica Parker (Parker anecdote) During an appearance on Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio" one evening, "Sex an...
Sarah Jessica Parker: Broadway Moment (Parker anecdote) Sarah Jessica Parker's most embarrassing moment came during a Broadway performan...
Sarah Jessica Parker: Minor Omission (Parker anecdote) In 2002, Sarah Jessica Parker won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her role as Ca...
Dorothy Parker: Wedded to the Theater (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker once found herself conversing with a talkative actress who had no...
Fritz Lang (Parker anecdote) Director Fritz Lang's wife Thea von Harbou was famed for "campaigning" for her h...
Massive Discovery (Parker anecdote) In 1820, Captain Nataniel Brown Parker was out hunting for seals one day when he...
Parker's Dress (Parker anecdote) While attending a party one evening, Dorothy Parker was approached by a certain ...
Parker & Broderick (Parker anecdote) Though Matthew Broderick, husband of "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parke...
Spat in the City (Parker anecdote) In March 2002, Us Weekly reported that "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica...
Dorothy Parker: Caption Writer (Parker anecdote) "At 21, Dorothy Parker saw her first poem published in Vanity Fair. That ...
Dorothy Parker's Epitaph (Parker anecdote) In 1967, Dorothy Parker died alone of a heart attack in the hotel room she calle...
Biting Demands... (Parker anecdote) On the eve of the Millennium, "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker made ...
White Man's Way (Parker anecdote) "In his old age, after he quit the warpath, Quannah Parker adopted many of the w...
Not Much Fun (Parker anecdote) Dorothy Parker was once asked by a Bartender what she was having. Her reply? "No...
Charlie Parker (Parker anecdote) Charlie Parker's predilection for drugs and heroin became a thing of legend. On ...
Watch This! (Parker anecdote) While visiting a speakeasy one day, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker were show...
Cut Sub? (Parker anecdote) In 1999, Matt Stone and Trey Parker released a feature film based on their hit c...
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