Tag Archives: Dorothy Parker

the fifties: east side stories

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Dave

We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy | Leave a comment

you can call him AL

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)! It seemed the native St. Louisan had always been part of the firmament of the New York illustration scene and the theatre circle—his career having lasted for such a long span and being the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged al hirschfield, alex steinweiss, alfred drake, Dorothy Parker, ethel merman, jasmine lee, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, miguel covarrubias, paul buckley, s. neil fujita, s.j. perelman | Leave a comment

doctor i’d like a divine proportion

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

McBeauty. Is happiness an inside job? If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Hardly.No black swans. Cosmetic surgery, a procrastination of the genetic code is situated at the charged sweet spot between emotion and capitalism. A heady mix. Part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged cosmetic surgery, divine ratio, Dorothy Parker, fanny brice, goldie hawn, jennifer anniston, Joan Rivers, joseph heath rebel sell, laurie essig, Leni Riefenstahl, Leonardo Da Vinci, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, The Golden Ratio, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

a thurber carnival: happy days are here again

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Dave

The black, memorable year of 1929. Its 2011, three years since the great recession and the economic needle won’t budge.Employment is worse. And the housing crisis and foreclosures show little improvement. Are we in a socialized version of the dirty … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Ben Bernanke, charles krauthammer, Dorothy Parker, Eugene Delacroix, Gov. Rick Perry, James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Konrad yakabuski, kyle crichton, Mae West, Mark Steyn, max eastman, michelle bachmann, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Pecora Commission, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, W.C. Fields, William Saroyan | Leave a comment

just lookin’ for a kiss

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dave

Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Rohn, Buzz Bissinger, Catherine Cappellaro, Cathy Malchiodi, Country Joe MacDonald, David Dunlap, Dorothy Parker, Ed Sullivan, Geoffrey Nunberg, H.L. Mencken, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jesse Helms, Jonah Lehrer, Ken Burns, Kenneth Tynan, Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer, Northrop Frye, Piero Manzoni, Robert Lane Green, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steve Anderson, Steve martin, Steven Pinker, Steven Saus, Tiny Tim, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Dave

Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading →