“What fresh hell is this?” As a critic for Vanity ... and Gail Crowther’s “Dorothy Parker in Hollywood” — take a shot at making the master of bon mots meaningful now, a century since ...

According to one letter from 2001 in the Los Angeles Times, the source is Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a witty member of the Algonquin Round Table, who frequently invited gay men to fashionable ...