Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We played that up for the show. You do things you feel could possibly have been true but having not been there, we don't really know. |
Maybe it has something to do with longing for ... a more articulate society than there is these days. That's part of what people find fascinating, that these people lived by their wits and their words. |
They were the media stars of the '20s even though if you read a lot of their stuff, it's so dated. |
We had so much trouble along the way convincing people it would work. |