Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

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  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Dorothy Parker
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  Campbell Scott

  Robert Benchley
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  Matthew Broderick

  Charles MacArthur
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  Peter Gallagher

  Alan Campbell
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  Jennifer Beals

  Gertrude Benchley
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  Andrew McCarthy

  Eddie Parker
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  Wallace Shawn

  Horatio Byrd
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  Martha Plimpton

  Jane Grant
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  Sam Robards

  Harold Ross
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  Lili Taylor

  Edna Ferber