Who was Dorothy Parker? Defining voice of NYC’s Roaring Twenties, ‘A Star is Born’ scribe and more
Dorothy Parker did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people who ran it. The native New Yorker — whose witty, urbane writing helped define the Roaring Twenties — couldn’t even deign to utter the words Los Angeles; she called it “out there.” Yet in 1929, at … Read more