Feb 05
Dorothy Parker’s cat — and bed, books, lamps, and shells. I was actually searching for a clip of that great scene from Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle where Jennifer Jason Leigh says, to a man at a party, “Pardon my pussy.” In context it’s just about the best movie line, ever. Marion Meade reports in Dorothy Parker: What fresh hell is this? that New Yorker founder “Harold Ross never trusted her and once referred to her, with an affectionate smile, as an alley cat.” (Um, what?) “When James Thurber had been an editor at The New Yorker, Ross cautioned him to keep an eye on Dorothy because she inserted double meanings into her copy to embarrass him. He warned Thurber to query everything.” “God damn it,” Ross allegedly once said to her when her writings turned political, “why can’t you be funny again?” See also Dorothy Parker speaks (audio) and Mrs. Parker on literary gatherings (she wasn’t a fan).

Dorothy Parker’s cat — and bed, books, lamps, and shells.

I was actually searching for a clip of that great scene from Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle where Jennifer Jason Leigh says, to a man at a party, “Pardon my pussy.” In context it’s just about the best movie line, ever.

Marion Meade reports in Dorothy Parker: What fresh hell is this? that New Yorker founder “Harold Ross never trusted her and once referred to her, with an affectionate smile, as an alley cat.” (Um, what?) “When James Thurber had been an editor at The New Yorker, Ross cautioned him to keep an eye on Dorothy because she inserted double meanings into her copy to embarrass him. He warned Thurber to query everything.”

“God damn it,” Ross allegedly once said to her when her writings turned political, “why can’t you be funny again?”

See also Dorothy Parker speaks (audio) and Mrs. Parker on literary gatherings (she wasn’t a fan).

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