It's only become a more motley mishmash of neighborhoods since her apocryphal pronouncement. Los Angeles sometimes feels more like a medley of municipalities rather than a monolithic metropolis. It's literary lore now, but poet and wit Dorothy Parker supposedly said that Los Angeles was '72 suburbs in search of a city.' It was typically crass of Parker, who called the city her home off and on for more than 30 years, but she was onto something.
