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March 25, 2006
Lillian Hellman - mean girl
The saga of Dottie and Lilly may be sad, but it's almost comical, too. Probably the first to smile about it would be Parker herself. She always imagined the hereafter as paradise, a sort of luxury hotel with hot and cold running dogs. Little did she imagine that settling permanently would require a Homeric journey of twenty-one years. More galling, her real-life coda—afterlife in a tin can—doomed her to spend fifteen of those years hanging around Wall Street, the symbol of everything she hated, followed by eternal rest in Baltimore, another place not to her taste, a short distance from a parking lot (Parker didn't drive). One of her oh-let's-kill-ourselves verses (aptly titled "Coda") concludes with the polite request: "Kindly direct me to hell."She should have been a lot more careful about what she asked for.
"Estate of mind," by Marion Meade on Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman, BookForum, April/May 2006
What I remember most vividly about Lillian Hellman are the American Express commercials she made ...
Posted at March 25, 2006 07:47 AM | Categories: America
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