Dorothy Parker did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people who ran it.
The native New Yorker — whose witty, urbane writing helped define the Roaring Twenties — couldn’t even deign to utter the words Los Angeles; she called it “out there.”
Yet in 1929, at the age of 36, Parker went “out there.”
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