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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20011206
Author:HOWARD ROSENBERG

Talk show hosts barely fit to get crumbs from writers' round table

By HOWARD ROSENBERG

Los Angeles Times

Thursday, December 6, 2001

Hollywood -- The '20s and '30s had the Algonquin Round Table.

Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Alexander Wollcott, Ring Lardner and Marc Connelly were among this klatch of renowned literati who lunched weekdays and created famously witty, lively discourse around a table in the Rose Room of New York City's Algonquin Hotel between two world wars.

Legends sprung up around them. Newspapers chronicled them. Books were ...

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