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    Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, wit, and satirist based in New York; she was known...
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  • gay icon. Writer and critic Dorothy Parker is thought to be another potential origin of the term. The "friend of Dorothy" euphemism was commonly used...
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    the Producers Guild of America. Sherman-Palladino is the founder of Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions. She is known for her trademark rapid-fire dialogue...
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  • and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as writer Dorothy Parker and depicts the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers...
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    worked for women's rights George S. Kaufman, playwright and director Dorothy Parker, critic, poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter Brock Pemberton...
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  • "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" is a song written and performed by Prince. It is the fourth track on his 1987 double album Sign o' the Times, and features...
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    and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Leigh starred in a 1995 film...
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    County, Cooper lived near Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell. A close friendship developed, and a year after Parker's death in 1967, Cooper published...
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    "friend of Dorothy" became used as a slang term for homosexuals. This term is attributed both to American author and fellow gay icon Dorothy Parker, and to...
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  • listening chart. The song would later be referenced in "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" by Prince, who was a huge fan of Joni Mitchell's work. Billboard described...
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  • an American television writer, director, and producer. Pai works at Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, founded by close friend Amy Sherman-Palladino...
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  • considered hot), far more than women do, .... Maureen Dowd quoting poet Dorothy Parker (2005). "What's a Modern Girl to Do?". The New York Times. Archived...
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    A Star Is Born (1937 film) (category Films with screenplays by Dorothy Parker)
    directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor...
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  • the title from an apologetic line in a letter in which she posed as Dorothy Parker. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September...
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  • for our fractured times", and he has been compared to Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash. He has published three collections of verse, You Took...
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  • an American writer, stage actor, and screenwriter. He and his wife, Dorothy Parker, were a popular screenwriting team in Hollywood from 1934 to 1963. Born...
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    historian Dorothy Miner, American lawyer Dorothy Moskowitz, American singer Dorothy Klenke Nash (1898–1976), American neurosurgeon Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)...
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    That same month she joined several other literary figures, including Dorothy Parker and Archibald MacLeish, in forming and funding Contemporary Historians...
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  • two friends of Dorothy Parker named Gerald and Sara Murphy. This work led to her daughter, Leigh, being cast in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious...
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    original 1937 film, based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and...
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  • most influential books written in English since 1923. American wit Dorothy Parker said, regarding the book: If you have any young friends who aspire to...
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  • and historical figures, including subplots about the blacklisting of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman, Marilyn Monroe's affair with Arthur Miller, the...
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    Penguin Books CEO, grew up in Kew Gardens. Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), author. Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), poet. Will Rogers, Sr. (1879–1935), actor. Will Rogers...
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    Howard, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman. (According to legend, at a heated story conference, Goldwyn scolded someone—in most accounts, Mrs. Parker, who...
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    the New York Dolls. The New York Times has called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. Lebowitz gained fame for her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social...
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  • inspiration for the play. The title "The Little Foxes" was suggested by Dorothy Parker. In 1946, Hellman wrote Another Part of the Forest, a prequel chronicling...
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  • included his mother; and Alan Rudolph's biographical film of Dorothy Parker, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, where he portrayed the first editor of...
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    century's most influential humorists, along with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. "Dishing Dirt". The Orlando Sentinel. April 11, 2004. p. 3. Archived...
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    Dorothy Parker first encountered the couple riding on the roof of a taxi. "They did both look as though they had just stepped out of the sun", Parker...
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  • and was adapted into a 1940s stage production. The usually caustic Dorothy Parker had nothing but praise: "I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that...
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