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| | Bright Lights Film Journal | Screw the Algonquin |
 | | The video, which features literary raconteurs Robert Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Alexander Woollcott, takes us back to the twenties, when Manhattans grip on popular culture was even more powerful than it is now, and the common people were quite willing to be entertained and even dictated to by their betters. |
 | | Benchley, Stewart, and Woollcott were well-known writers for newspapers and magazines in New York during the twenties, and had college degrees when the average American scarcely made it out of junior high. |
 | | Donald Ogden Stewart, who knew Parker well in both New York and Hollywood, was still alive at the time, and Keats interviewed him heavily. |
| www.brightlightsfilm.com /25/algonquin.html (2026 words) |
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