Parker, Dorothy

Dorothy Parker once noted that “the only ‘ism’ Hollywood cares about is plagiarism.”

You almost feel like she carried something with her from the Dorothy Parker generation.

Later she observed that one of the most skilled in this idiom was the journalist Dorothy Parker.

They were young, beautiful—Dorothy Parker described them as looking “as though they had stepped out of the sun”—and fast.

Dorothy Parker smoke, drank, and slept around—in short, everything her male colleagues in the Algonquin Round Table were doing.