Dorothy Parker Remembered

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."

Dorothy Parker died on June 7, 1967. She was 73 years old then and would be 118 today if she had lived. The always sassy Dorothy Parker was raised in New York and became one of the toasts of the town. A member of the Algonquin Round table, Dottie was the woman with the wags. "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.", she once said. Dorothy Parker was never a millionaire  but when she died she left her entire estate to Dr. Martin Luther King. Upon his death it we transfered to the NCCAP. Lillian Hellman was the executrix and tried to contest it. Dotties ashes sadly were left unclaimed and stored in a filing cabinet at he lawyers office for 17 years.
Dorothy Parker was punk rock before there was even rock. She was Jazz. She was a smart mouthed broad in 1919. She practically invented the critic chick. "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised". During the McCarthy era Dorothy Parker was naturally black listed. For many years she wrote under an assumed name, a nom de plume, Constant Reader.
Dorothy Parker wanted an epitaph: "Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." Go out and have a martini or four for Dottie.