Talks under way to move the ashes of famed New Yorker writer Dorothy Parker

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from her Baltimore resting place.

'Dorothy Parker just can’t rest in peace.

The ashes of the wisecracking New York writer have been shelved in the obscurity of a lawyer’s office. Then came proposals to sprinkle her remains in the Hudson River or paint them into art. Finally, her ashes were interred beneath a plaque in a Baltimore business park, for posterity.

Well, almost.

Her caretakers are planning to exhume and move again what’s left of the famously irreverent writer. She suggested as her epitaph: Excuse my dust.

“Her legacy means a lot. She’s been at 4805 [Mt. Hope Drive] for a number of years. It’s important to us that we do this right,” said Aba Blankson, spokeswoman for the national office of the NAACP, headquartered for decades at that address in the business park. Parker’s ashes have been buried there 31 years.'>>>

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-dorothy-parker-grave-20200712-rirzjyfeozda7pubup3ybjbh4u-story.html?

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1. Her executrix was opposed to the terms of her will

I was always fascinated by how Parker gave all her estate and future earnings to Martin Luther King Jr and the NAACP. Apparently, however, Lillian Hellman hated both and attempted to prevent publication of Parker's works, in order to block funds to the NAACP.

I knew Hellman was horrible, and I always laugh at Mary McCarthy's statement "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." But I did not know that Hellman was actively evil. Parker's legacy is not what it should be because Hillman blocked publication of so many works and refused to allow anything that would promote Parker.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5357079

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2. Didn't know this about Hellman.

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3. I doubt Dorothy Parker will ever rest in peace.

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
― Dorothy Parker

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4. LOLOLOL!

'it was against her better judgment.”'