
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle

Related Topics

Algonquin Round Table

Hard Eight

Dorothy Parker

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Gena Rowlands

Running With Scissors

Captain Hook

Laryngeal mask airway

Alexander the Great

Hush

Butterfly lemma

In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parker was known in the 1920s for her acerbic wit; she was also a suicidal pessimist and drunk who got into deadbeat relationships with her colleagues.
		Parker started a daily lunch meeting with other notable writers of the era in the restaurant of the hotel in which she lived, the Algonquin Hotel in New York City.
		Some complained that Leigh mumbled her way through the film and was difficult to understand; in fact this was a dead-on affectation of Parker's own voice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mrs._Parker_and_the_Vicious_Circle (193 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" is that it allows us to empathize with Dorothy Parker on her long descent.
		Certainly it was not already there waiting for Parker and her crowd, and the movie's explanation is as good as any: The head waiter (Wallace Shawn), exasperated by all the famous people crowding around one tiny banquette, simply had it wheeled in one day.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" is the kind of movie best appreciated, I think, by those who already know the players around the Round Table, and have read some of their work.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941223/REVIEWS/412230301/1023 (1057 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Alan Rudolph - 1994 - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Movies Review
		Parker and the Vicious Circle, we're introduced to the world of Dorothy Parker, the most famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, and one of the few whose work is still read widely today.
		Parker was well aware that she was moving in men's circles, and that she would have to fight for every scrap of respect and to be treated as an equal.
		Parker's struggles are timeless, and may strike particular resonance with those of us who find ourselves in similar professional and creative situations, faced with inner pressures as well as outer ones and trying to reconcile who we are with what the world expects of us.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10003523 (1333 words)

	MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
		Her sympathy is apparent and complete for the Dorothy Parker that she creates--a tragic figure whose fall from literary grace and relentlessly bad luck with men fueled her propensity for morbidity and cynicism.
		Dorothy Parker was the most famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, a cadre of New York writers who met for lunch daily at the Algonquin hotel on Manhattan's West 44th Street beginning in the 1920s (for a New York movie, this one has surprisingly little New York in it, relying overwhelmingly on pretty interiors).
		Parker struggle ever-so-briefly to come to terms with Hollywood, and we get to eavesdrop on the titular "vicious circle" of authors (all of whom besides Parker are virtually unknown today), but none of this is compelling and most of it is unconvincing.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/mrsparke.html (708 words)

	Amazon.com: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker and her Vicious Circle" sparked my interest in writer's of this generation, and that is what a biographical film should do.
		Dorothy Parker was also a lonely woman who was profoundly unhappy all her life, failed twice at marriage and suicide, and loved her friend and colleague Robert Benchley all her life, never acting on her desire for him.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" is not always an easy film to watch because it depicts a brilliant and vulnerable woman slowly drowning in her own unhappiness, with no hope that things will ever get better.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303422136?v=glance (2223 words)

	‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’ (R)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle," his immensely entertaining look at the writer and her contemporaries, these guys sure loved to hear themselves talk.
		During the late '20s, when the bulk of the story is set, Parker worked as a drama critic -- she was the wisenheimer who famously described Katharine Hepburn's emotional range as "running the gamut from A to B" -- and an author of light poetry.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" is rated R for language, brief nudity and adult situations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mrsparkerandtheviciouscirclerhinson_a0a887.htm (707 words)

	Cinema (February 16 - February 22, 1995)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle, the latest film from director Alan Rudolph, is a behind-the-scenes look at the witty, bitter '20s literary icon that, with its dreary depiction of key events in her love life, would probably strike Parker as unbearable.
		Parker, who was notorious for her scathing reviews in Vanity Fair, was a constant fixture at these social meetings, her tongue the wittiest and sharpest of them all.
		Evidently Parker was a bit on the depressive side, because she seems to get more cynical, alcoholic and self-loathing as each relationship passes.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/02-16-95/cinema.htm (761 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (who is also in "Dolores Claiborne," another film that opened Friday) as Mrs.
		Parker - Dorothy Parker, that is - the drama and literary critic who was best known for her pithy poetry and acerbic zingers but who longed to be taken more seriously as a writer.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle" is rated R for violence (a suicide attempt and a slap from Parker's first husband), sex, nudity, profanity, vulgarity and drugs.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1251,00.html (534 words)

	Review of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
		Parker is rather one-dimensional, focusing on Dorothy’s romantic disappointments and her drinking and suggesting that these two aspects of her life fed off one another to create a vicious circle.
		The film even implies that one of Parker’s romantic disappointments, or at least frustrations, concerned her dear friend Benchley: that underneath their “intellectual friendship” lurked feelings of physical attraction and romantic longing that were never acted upon.
		Parker does not really reveal very much about Parker, about her early years, her politics, her literary influences, her decidedly complex character.
	www.robertbenchley.org /circle.htm (203 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle : Plot
		Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star is Born with her second husband Alan Campbell (Peter Gallagher), recalls her glory days as an Algonquinite.
		A great deal of attention is afforded Parker's vituperative bon mots, her alcoholism, her self-destructiveness, her suicide attempts, and her affairs with such literary contemporaries as Charles MacArthur (an uncharacteristically unsympathetic Matthew Broderick) and Robert E. Sherwood (Nick Cassavetes).
		Parker are Tom McGowan as the waspish Alexander Woollcott and Andrew McCarthy as Dorothy's near-invisible first husband, Eddie Parker.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/92465/plot.jhtml (219 words)

	The Edge: Film, DVD, Video - Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker were spent at the Algonquin Hotel, at the infamous, noisy Round Table of fellow writers and critics presided over by an imperious maitre d' (the wonderful Wallace Shawn).
		The engine for the film, however, is provided by the passionately platonic relationship between Parker (a notorious, if you will, maniser, with a fondness for well-developed bodies and underfunded brains) and fellow, married writer Robert Benchley (a terrific performance by Campbell Scott).
		A little overlong in its second half, perhaps, the film tends to neglect the real Dorothy Parker's left-wing credentials and her proud work during the Spanish Civil War (only hinted at under the credits), but then maybe this is just not that film.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmsmr/mrsparkerandtheviciouscircle.htm (481 words)

	Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: M: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
		Parker and the Vicious Circle · iweb · cached · Movie review and rating.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle · Links to movie reviews, synopsis, cast and crew information, and forum.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) · iweb · Plot summary, cast and crew information, and user comments.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=813764 (74 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) : Directed by Alan Rudolph, reviewed by Nick Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker and The Vicious Circle vanished from theaters in what seemed a matter of seconds rather than days should come as no surprise; it's a literate biopic that celebrates the dead art of true wit as delivered from one of the saddest figures in American literary history — Dorothy Parker.
		Parker was the queen of the bon mot, a razor-edged wit whose often sardonic poetry and fiction masked an enormous amount of pain and insecurity.
		It was at the Algonquin "Round Table" that Parker found her wit, surrounding herself with the best and brightest in New York and hiding her unhappiness in her marriage to the drunk, morphine-addicted Eddie (Andrew McCarthy, in a surprisingly good performance).
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/476 (479 words)

	Review: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle is set primarily against the backdrop of the roaring '20s, with critic/poet/writer Dorothy Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) as the centerpiece.
		Parker was by far the best known female member of the famed Algonquin Round Table -- a collection of journalists, actors, writers, and other artists who gathered daily for lunch at a 44th Street Manhattan hotel.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle is uncomfortable, as we in the audience are forced to watch someone emotionally drowning without being allowed to throw a life preserver.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mrs_parker.html (620 words)

	EUFS: Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The participants at these sophisticated lunch time gatherings provided Parker with the ideal stimulus for her sharp, biting wit, and they became known as the Vicious Circle.
		Dorothy Parker had many affairs of the heart, including with womaniser McArthur, but this film suggests that Benchley was the true love of her life, despite remaining "just good friends".
		Parker went on to work in Hollywood in the 40s with her next husband Alan Campbell on A Star Is Born, but despite success In literary fields and a growing reputation, her life remained unstable and unfulfilling.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/mrs_parker_and_the_vicious_circle.html (304 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle tend to discuss it less as an appealing piece of acting than as a sort of perverted misuse of mannerism, an affront to audience sympathy or pleasure.
		Parker and the Vicious Circle, like most of Rudolph's films (Choose Me, Afterglow), was produced by Robert Altman, and you can see why the two men have struck such a strong professional bond.
		Parker, the central questions are the degree to which one must suffer for one's art, or in fact, if the tragedy of a life like Dorothy Parker's is that she suffered so artfully that people applauded her instead of saving her.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/nkd4/mrsparkr.html (844 words)

	Shopping, best shop, Price comparison, Product review at dooyoo.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Patrick Parker, golden child of bomb-devastated Coventry, adored and encouraged by his mother, fulfils his dream destiny to be a bridge builder as great as Brunel.
		You are an unpredictable and vicious man who has turned to a life of violence after being flmailed by the Italian Mafia.
		Mrs Bennet is eager to find husbands for her five daughters.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-m/mrs-parker-and-the-vicious-circle-wide-screen (412 words)

	snowstone - Ew, you smell! When did you last change your mind?: Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle - review
		If I base myself on Mrs Parker's prose and poetry and a badly written but factually accurate biography, I would say that the movie did a pretty good job.
		On the one hand, it shows her talent (as far as this is possible within the context of a movie) by interrupting the storyline repeatedly with recitals of her poems; on the other, it shows that her friends, and she when with them, were shallow and playful to the point of fanaticism.
		It shows her many disastrous loves and the suicide attempts that sometimes followed them, but it doesn't cover up the truth that deep down, Lady Razor was a sentimentalist of the worst, that is, self-destructive, kind.
	www.snowstone.com /000110.html (720 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robert Altman produced this evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker that chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter.
		Parker, and she’s ably assisted by a stellar supporting cast, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Gallagher, Stephen Baldwin, Wallace Shawn, Matthew Broderick, Lili Taylor, Jennifer Beals, and Campbell Scott as her main partner in crime, the equally besotted wit Robert Benchley.
		The result is an unsparingly honest portrait of alcoholism and ego, and a loving celebration of Parker's gutsy battle against sexual discrimination and her own romantic failures in pursuit of artistic expression.
	www.videoflicks.com /titles/1056/1056987.htm?14107 (593 words)

	Cinefile Search Result: Detailed Information for "Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle" - www.cinephilia.net.au
		Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph, 1994)
		Jennifer Jason Leigh adopts a, presumably appropriate, tight-lipped drawl that is difficult to understand, the supporting cast with the exception of Campbell Scott is unremarkable and Matthew Broderick singularly out of place.
		Whilst the subject matter, Parker and the Algonquin set, is arguably of intrinsic interest, this is little more than a stringing together of incidents and witticisms with virtually no tempo or dramatic tension.
	www.cinephilia.net.au /show_movie.php?movieid=895 (147 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle
		Alan Rudolph's loose biopic of the Manhattan mistress of the bon mot, Dorothy Parker, is a typically intelligent and highly idiosyncratic affair which recreates the heyday of Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the Algonquin Round Table, her circle of equally witty, dissolute, and alcoholic literary friends.
		Rudolph directs with his customary improvisatory flair and a tendency towards ellipticism - Robert Altman, Rudolph's primary source of inspiration, acts as producer - refusing to rush the proceedings, to produce a literary biopic quite unlike any other.
		"Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle" is on BBC2, Sunday 3 December 2000, at 11.30pm.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/11/27/mrs_parker_vicious_circle_1994_review.shtml (323 words)

	Dorothy Parker
		June 7, 1967, is remembered as much for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit as for the disenchanted stories and sketches in which she revealed her underlying pessimism.
		Parker published her first light verse in Enough Rope (1927) and Death and Taxes (1931), volumes marked by an elegant economy of expression, sophisticated cynicism, and irony.
		These were followed by the short-story collections Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933), containing her single most famous story, "Big Blonde." Parker scripted films in Hollywood from 1933 to 1938 and in 1937 covered the Spanish Civil War for the New Masses.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/parker.htm (272 words)

	MRS PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker is one of the most celebrated and active figures of the reigning intelligentsia.
		With Robert Benchley, the only friend she ever had, and fifteen or so other writers, she'd often sit around a table from which sprang many a witticism.
		Parker brings to life a whole era, both hilarious and painful.
	www.pardo.ch /1997/filmprg/f066.html (72 words)

	RollingStone.com: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Review
		Alan Rudolph has a sneaky, clever notion in co-writing and directing this look at the intimidating wits, led by writer, poet and critic Dorothy Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who gathered daily for lunch and literate bitching at the round table in Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel during the 1920s.
		And the domestic drama is deadly, concentrating on Parker's alcoholism, affairs, bad marriages and her unrequited passion for Benchley, nicely played by Scott.
		Leigh is a fine, acute actress, much given to research; she listened to recordings of the real Parker's voice and duplicates her affected, clipped speech.
	rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/_/id/5949141?...&afl=imdb (225 words)

	Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle Film Review - Time Out Film
		This companion biopic of the mistress of the bon mot, Manhattanite Dorothy Parker, paints a similar mass portrait of the wits, wags and writers of the home team.
		All the Rudolph trademarks are here: the improvisatory feel, the overlapping dialogue, the ironic but celebratory tone, the vital performances from leads (Jennifer Jason Leigh as Parker and Broderick as Charles MacArthur, in particular) and cameos.
		In perhaps the one scene where she looks radiantly happy, Parker says to MacArthur, 'Oh, Charlie, I'm going to wear my heart on my sleeve like a red wet stain.' She could be speaking for Rudolph.
	www.timeout.com /film/73352.html (226 words)

	MRS PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With a stunning central performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle depicts the life and times of one of America's best-known and loved humorists.
		Set mostly in New York in the early twenties, much of the film focuses on the daily lunchtime gatherings at the Alonquin Hotel of the cream of New York critics and writers - the Vicious Circle.
		Contrasting professional success with personal unhappiness, Parker's life is portrayed as essentially unstable and unfulfilling, but the dialogue is witty and sparkling and the atmosphere is painstakingly recreated.
	www.shef.ac.uk /city/showroom/1995/april/parker.html (92 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parker, Benchley and, to some extent, MacArthur were part of the Algonquin Round Table, the so-called "vicious circle" of the title, a regular gathering of the luminaries of the writing field back in the good ol' days of Prohibition.
		The best are traded between Parker and Benchley, who flirt outrageously across the years but never "misbehave" -- with each other, anyway -- like so many of their peers were doing.
		Parker, like many of her friends, was an alcoholic.
	www.rambles.net /parker_circle.html (841 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jennifer Jason Leigh offers a bravura (if sometimes stridently mannered) performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table.
		The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs.
		A great deal of attention is afforded Dorothy's vituperative bon mots, her alcoholism, her self-destructiveness, her suicide attempts, and her affairs with such literary contemporaries as Charles MacArthur (an uncharacteristically unsympathetic Matthew Broderick) and Robert E. Sherwood (Nick Cassavetes).
	cscompanion.tripod.com /id28.html (238 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)