Kevin C. Fitzpatrick's Blog, page 2
August 1, 2016
Bi-Coast Toast to Dottie Parker’s 123rd Birthday
To celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Rothschild, we have events planned in New York and Los Angeles. If you can’t make it, raise a glass wherever you are.
New York – Monday, August 22, Noon, Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Walking Tour. Visit Mrs. Parker’s neighborhood and walk in her footsteps to her former apartments, haunts, school and more. See one of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods through the eyes of a young Dorothy Parker. Learn about the history of t...
June 20, 2016
Summer Weekly Walking Tours
To answer the demand for walking tours, they are going to be held weekly in July and August this summer. Beginning July 11, there will be a Monday Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Tour weekly at Noon. Starting on July 15 will be the 3:00 PM “Robert Benchley-Dorothy Parker Summer Friday” Algonquin Round Table Tour every Friday.
Advance tickets are on sale via Zerve.com and are recommended, as the tours do sell out. Phone orders can be taken 646-494-6696.
Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Tour: July...
June 17, 2016
A Star Is Born with Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Works
Possibly the best movie-related news in the world of Dorothy Parker came down this week. According to the New York Daily News, Bradley Cooper is behind a remake of A Star Is Born, and his Vicki Lester will be Lady Gaga to his Norman Maine.
The 1937 classic screenplay was co-created by Dorothy Parker, her screenwriter-husband Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson. This team was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay, but lost to The Life of Emile Zola. The original story was by Carson a...
June 6, 2016
Toast To Dorothy June 7 on Anniversary
The forty-ninth anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s death is Tuesday, June 7. We will be marking the occasion in New York at the Blue Bar of the Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th Street, from 5-7:00 p.m. If you can’t join us, a raise a glass or read a poem wherever you may. The 1967 front-page obituary from the Times is reprinted here.
May 11, 2016
Cat Adoption Van Returning to Algonquin
Dorothy Parker loved animals, as all true fans know. So we always like to celebrate whenever the Algonquin Hotel brings out Matilda for any event, and Monday, May 16 is a good one. The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals will have a cat adoption truck parked in front of the hotel in honor of the occasion of Matilda getting a new Forty-fourth Street perch.
Pet Tree Houses has partnered with the hotel once again and built this custom book case for Matilda’s window to allow her to perch and watch...
May 4, 2016
Don Marquis Joins Dorothy Parker & Edna Ferber in NY Writers Hall of Fame
The New York State Writers Hall of Fame has added to its august body. The induction ceremony is next month at The Lambs, and more fantastic writers are joining the Hall of Fame. The honorees are chosen by the Empire State Center for the Book. Dorothy Parker was admitted in 2011 and Edna Ferber was named the following year. One of their friends, Don Marquis (1878–1937), is in the Class of 2016.
Rocco Staino, who serves as the Director of the Empire State Center for the Book, made the announcem...
May 3, 2016
Dorothy Parker-Dawn Powell Walking Tour June 26
Celebrate two of New York’s greatest fiction writers on a walking tour to trace their footsteps in the neighborhoods they made famous: Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell. See their homes and haunts on a walk that begins at the landmark Algonquin Hotel and ends in Greenwich Village. The tour starts at Noon on Sunday, June 26. Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased here. Advance reservation is required.
The walking tour is led by:
Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s N...
April 21, 2016
Dorothy Parker Production in Brazil
The appeal of Dorothy Parker is universal, and a new production in Brazil based on her work has been put onstage. The Globe Theatre in São Paulo has “Just One More,” directed by Einat Falbel and Giseli Ramos. There must be something about Mrs. Parker’s appeal in the country, in 2011 a nightclub opened there named for her.
Roughly translated from Portuguese via Google’s app:
Just One More Discusses Social Role Of Women From Dorothy Parker Tales
With highly ironic tone, show debut in the Littl...
April 7, 2016
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour April 30
The first public walking tour of 2016 will be on April 30 at Noon at the Algonquin Hotel. The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, Marc Connelly and the rest of the Vicious Circle. Advance tickets on sale now.
Algonquin HotelThe tour begins and ends at the land...
April 2, 2016
April 30 Party at St Cloud in Times Square
Mike Davis and the New Wonders
The monthly Dorothy Parker Society party is on a roof! Wit’s End presents Mike Davis and the New Wonders at St. Cloud in the Knickerbocker Hotel, Saturday, April 30, 2016. The first Wit’s End party in 7 years to be held outdoors! Advance tickets onsale.
Dance to 1920s jazz, enjoy cocktails, and wear your best vintage fashions as we move the party outdoors under the stars! Tonight the band and party take over the outdoor roof and roof bar at St. Cloud!
Led by M...
