Review: 'Jukebox for the Algonquin' Exquisitely Captures the Paradox of Aging
The core group of residents at Placid Pines Senior Care Center in the Adirondacks may identify with the fish in an aquarium swimming around and around, nothing much new of any given day, except a compatriot going belly up only to be soon forgotten. However, they actually are a gang of wits not unlike the members of the Algonquin Round Table—Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Tallulah Bankhead, among other literati luminaries of the 1920s who met regularly for lunch at the famed New York hotel.
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