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In Reply to: Re: Moniker change posted by rcrump on August 10, 2001 at 17:22:45:
Bout 20 years ago, before I became a permanent resident of the Nasty Apple, a client brought me to NYC and put me up at a suite in the Algonquin.... Dinner sitting at the Round Table brought illusions of great sophistication and savoir fair. As we sat eating a wonderful chateaubriand with a wonderful tuscan, the client started reminding me more and more of Francis Pangbourne and I started to giggle... and I couldn't stop. Lordy, I miss those days of overindulgence.
The bar now (the bartender is a novelist friend), is pretty much a tourists trap, but with a smattering of habitues who can afford the ambience.
Come to think of it, your partner is starting to remind me of WCF...
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seem to recall the Algonquin Roundtable of the thirties included Woollcott, Kaufman, Connelly, Adams, Ross, Broun, Parker and Benchley........Who was WCF? Curl would fit into that crowd of curmudgeons very well as he speaks his mind.....
Your enumeration of the principals is correct. Don't think W.C.Fields was part of the crew and altough I've never met JC (either) I can imagine him in 'The Dentist'. We should not forget that occasional visitor, P.G. Wodehouse, with Bertie Wooster played by Thorsten.
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