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My favorite Dorothy Parkerism was her famous pan of a Katherine Hepburn (no less!) stage performance:
"Miss Hepburn ran the entire gamut of emotions from A to B."
There's another zinger, I've been told, in a review of a new Kathryn Hepburn play, eagerly awaited by the multitudes licking their chops waiting to see just what scathing comment might come forth this time.
The review, when it appeared, was long and laboriously detailed, praising all aspects of the production but making no reference at all of KH.
Until the very end, where it concluded, "Miss Hepburn's performance was not up to its usual standard." [wince] - because we know just how abysmal was Dorothy Parker's opinion of Kathryn Hepburn's "usual standard"...
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Yes, there's always ways and means. That one was surprisingly subtle for DP!
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Something every good reporter learns early - "There's never a need to excoriate a subect... ust quote them accuately, and often" My keyboard will not print the letter that comes between i and k in the alphabet. Please insert the appropriate letter above. Thank you.http://www.levity.com/corduroy/parker.htm or search for "Dorothy Parker" for many links. One of Parker's poems : Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
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I read that when Dorothy Parker and a rival columnist arrived at a door at the same time the other woman waved Ms. P through first and said "Age before beauty."
The reply as she sailed through the door was "and pearls before swine!"
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Any good books out there about D.P. ...?
I suggest Marion Meade's Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is This? It is available in a reprint paperback.
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