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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...
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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" code word 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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    Dorothy Gale is a fictional character created by the American author L. Frank Baum as the protagonist in many of his Oz novels. She first appears in Baum's...
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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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  • 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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    a City (2021). The New York Times has called Lebowitz a modern-day Dorothy Parker. Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. She had one...
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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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  • 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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  • 1942-1943 (2013), with a Foreword by Chris Ware and essays by Jeet Heer, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Nel Barnaby, Volume Two: 1944-1945 (2014), with a Foreword...
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  • films. Sherman-Palladino was also influenced by the "acerbic wit" of Dorothy Parker. The pilot episode of Gilmore Girls received financial support from...
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  • and a relationship interfered with that. Maureen Dowd quoting poet Dorothy Parker (2005). "What's a Modern Girl to Do?". The New York Times. Archived...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • influential non-fiction 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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    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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    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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  • "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...
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    American neurosurgeon Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), American satirist and poet Dorothy Phillips (1889-1980), American actress Dorothy Peto (1886–1974), first...
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  • Lucanor)[citation needed] Friedrich Nietzsche Mark Miremont Oiva Paloheimo Dorothy Parker Patanjali Petar II Petrović-Njegoš Faina Ranevskaya François de La Rochefoucauld...
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  • Lebowitz, whom British Vogue described as "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker." She had amassed following for her wit in the columns "Lebowitz Report"...
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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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  • Polone, Daniel Palladino, and David S. Rosenthal. It is produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Hofflund/Polone and Warner Bros. Television...
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    darling'." Britton's book was among those irreverently reviewed by Dorothy Parker for The New Yorker magazine as part of her famous Constant Reader column...
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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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