posted Dec 21, 2008 4:15 PM by Adrienne Crew
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updated Dec 23, 2008 2:20 PM
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My Google Alert for Dottie has been working overtime. It seems as if when the going gets tough, the tough love to get in touch with their inner Dottie Parker. - Choreographer, Rudy Perez, debuts latest piece, "Surrender, Dorothy!" based on Dotie's poem, Surrender, in Los Angeles at the Highways Performance Space. Hmm, wonder how Dottie would have felt about a choreo-poem of her work. Guess we should call this experiment "for discolored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow isn't enuff" ...
- East Coast Parkerites better visit the Michener Museum in New Hope by Feburary 1, 2009 in order to see Al Hirschfeld Foundation curator/archivist, David Leopold's
installation, ''Creative Bucks County,'' an interactive shrine to
writer-wit Dorothy Parker, painter Edward Redfield and 10 other local luminaries. The New Hope branch of the James Michener Museum is closing due to lack of attendance. It will also be the last chance to see the museum's other permanent installation, "Artisit Amongst Us," a 125-square-foot mosaic with 103 swiveling triangles, each with three images that illustrate the Bucks County borough as a cradle of creativity. Dorothy Parker and her circle are featured prominently. And so it goes
- Carrie Fisher recently name checked our Dottie in an interview with Carolyn Kellog of the Los Angeles Times:....
- I never had the hutzpah to think that I would be able to do write. I
would underline words that I didn’t know and sentences that I loved. By
about 16 I wanted to be Dorothy Parker.
JC: You're about the closest thing we have.
Carrie Fisher: Aw. I figured out the ways I am like her. Do you want to hear?
JC: Yes.
Carrie Fisher: She’s short. She was half Jewish.
She had brown hair and brown eyes. She was an alcoholic or addict. And
she married a gay guy!
But she married the gay guy again, then died in a small apartment in
New York, with a bunch of cats. ... These things I don’t want.
Um, Dorothy died surrounded by DOGS, Carrie, DOGS. But we know you've lost many, many, many memory cells to electroshock therapy so we forgive you. |
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