Synopsis
The Ten-Year Lunch celebrates the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920's. The core of the Round Table group included short story and verse writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, and Robert Sherwood.
The film introduces the 'Round Tablers' as young hopefuls, outspoken and outrageous, all the more so because they knew they would be quoted by each other in tomorrow's newspapers. Individually, they soon achieved the success they were striving for and, collectively, they changed the face of American humor. The film follows their accomplishments and escapades through the exciting decade of the '20s. They not only embodied the era but they also helped create it and shape it for others.
The Ten-Year Lunch:
The Wit and Legend of The Algonquin Round Table (1987)
The Wit and Legend of The Algonquin Round Table (1987)
Aviva Slesin
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