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Prohibition Era | New York City
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1995 | Jennifer Jason
Best Feature | 1995 | Robert
Best Director | 1995 | Alan
Best Female Lead | 1995 | Jennifer Jason
Best Male Lead | 1995 | Campbell
Best Screenplay | 1995 | Alan
Best Actress | 1994 | Jennifer Jason
Keith Carradine, who has a cameo in this movie as Will Rogers, also created the role of Will Rogers in "Will Rogers Follies" on Broadway. For that role, he was nominated in 1991 for a Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, and for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, losing both to Jonathan Pryce who starred in "Miss Saigon".
The founding of the "New Yorker" magazine is a subplot in this movie; Wallace Shawn's father, William, was, for many years, editor-in-chief of "The New Yorker".
Peter Benchley, the grandson of humorist and featured character Robert Benchley, plays editor Frank Crowninshield.
According to the article "Back to the Round Table With Dorothy Parker and Pals. . ." published in 'The New York Times' on 29th August 1993, star Jennifer Jason Leigh was so dedicated to doing this movie that Leigh did it for what she says was "a tenth of what I normally get for a film".
Cyndi Lauper makes a cameo as a guest at the croquet game party. She sits next to Martha Plimpton's Jane Grant character on the porch.
"Dorothy Parker: Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful; you might as well live."
"[after being chewed out for missing a magazine deadline] Dorothy Parker: Someone else was using the pencil."
