Parker Posey

She dated Craig Ferguson. I remember some of her appearances on his show were really awkward (maybe they were already exes by the time she appeared).

Oh god I miss Craig. Hope he's happy in Glasgow.

Love Parker. Eccentrics are delicious. He had Amy Sedaris on sometimes - loved her too. (don't remember him w/Parker - I'll look for clips)

Oh, his interview of Meghan Markle is a hoot. She was trying to be sexy and attract him, he was practically rolling his eyes at her.

Found the Ferguson/Markle link

I don’t know if she’s lesbian but she shoved a friend of mine into a drink case in the Union Square Whole Foods years ago. She was there with some nelly gay and stormed out without looking back. She had very butch energy in that moment.

I like Parker in movies, but she seems like she could be a very unpleasant person in real life.

Much like the characters that she plays.

[quote]Oh god I miss Craig. Hope he's happy in Glasgow.

He went back to Scotland? I thought he became an American.

[quote]She was there with some nelly gay

LOL

[quote]She dated Craig Ferguson.

this I find hard to believe

R8 Not sure why. She was engaged to singer Ryan Adams forever. She's had several relationships with "famous" men. Don't know about women.

I find her humor hilarious but I wouldn’t want to be around her in real life.

I know her, she's normal.

I park my poosey vherever I smell moaney.

She was hilarious in Best in Show

She should settle down with a straight husband, just like I did. Twice!

I waited on her years ago she seemed a little shy. She’s funny someone should give a series . Something dark and funny. She comes off straight and dates men. Just because she’s not JLo serial marrying and dressing in hyper sexualized manner does not mean she’s a lesbian or butch some of are so antiquated in your thinking.

Craig Ferguson became a US citizen back in 2008. Why would he return to Scotland?

For the haggis?

Parke Posey with CF

On Late Night..

From 1995

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How does she still look so young?

She has great skin for someone who's turning 54.

I don't like the hairstyle though.

OP, Google is your friend....

This hairstyle is much more flattering on her.

With Keanu Reeves..

[quote] Parker Posey: ‘I didn’t think I would work again – so I wrote a book’

Being an arthouse darling became something of a curse for Parker Posey, as Hollywood consigned her to ‘little parts in big films’. Now, her new comic memoir charts her struggle to survive in an ageist, sexist industry.

It’s not that Hollywood forgot about Parker Posey, it’s more that it just didn’t quite know what to do with her. “I felt like I didn’t have a place in the culture of entertainment,” she tells me as we sit in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, her dog Gracie nestled on the side. Her consignment to the sidelines was maddening; this, after all, was an actor dubbed “queen of the indies” by Time magazine in 1997, who had broken out with attention-demanding roles in Dazed and Confused and Party Girl, and displayed an infectious comic energy in everything from Best in Show to Scream 3. And yet, she says, “it was hard to find a job that would pay, so I thought maybe I’d make something”.

That something is You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologising Memoir, a book of warm, witty, eccentric tales from the 49-year-old star’s life, told as if she’s sitting next to you on a flight. It is why we’re sitting here on a sunny July afternoon, just blocks from her apartment in Greenwich Village, but it is not easy for her to talk about – the process of writing is still fresh. “It’s like a postpartum kind of feeling, like: ‘What was that all about?’” she says. “It still feels like it’s going on.”

In the book, Posey often refers to the lives of female movie stars from the golden era (the cover sees her wearing a Norma Desmond-esque turban), and in person there’s something that feels out of sync with the era, from her outsized sunglasses to her shock when I explain what double-screening is (“So you do that? How old are you?”). Posey is a hugely engaging presence, but perhaps also a confounding one for demographic-obsessed Hollywood execs looking for someone easier to define.

“Are you one of those interviewers that has, like, a list of questions that you wanted to ask me?” she asks as we nip into the local pharmacy to pick up some lightbulbs. She jokingly suggests that I make a note of the brand for the piece and, throughout the day, she often parodies the idea of a celebrity profile, offering up amusingly silly ideas about how I might frame the interview (“Ben are you going to quote this? I’m just too tired to put on mascara,” she says while preparing for the photographer, affecting a faux-diva character).

“I’m kind of talked out, I’m sorry,” she says early on, before telling me she’s not really in the right mindset for an interview. If anything, she’s more in the mood to just hang out and have fun, and there’s a delicate, gentle wrestle between us as we try to reconcile our two goals for the day.

We move between the park, a bubble-tea spot, a naan taco cafe and the streets around her apartment. There’s a whole chapter in the book about Posey’s decision to sell her place on Lower Fifth Avenue because she “didn’t want to do a CSI: Neverland” just for the money. She now rents from friends: a spacious spot on a picturesque Village street, with a spiral staircase up to a guest room and small patch of roof. It’s fitted out with thought, vintage furniture picked up along the way, the end result acting as an extension of her singular personality.

In writing, Posey is refreshingly honest about the difficulties she has faced in an industry that didn’t know where to place her. This has often made it a financially precarious career. Despite acclaimed arthouse work in Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming and The House of Yes, that “Queen of the Indies” label became something of a curse. “I’ve gotten some little parts in big films,” she says. “Something new would come up, like a three-scene part as the wife of Matt Damon in some big movie and I’d go: ‘God, why didn’t I get cast in that, just tell me what the feedback was, what did they say?’ and the response was: ‘You’re too much of an indie queen’. So my brand, or what I was called, just separated me from the work.”

Those “little parts in big films” included villainous, scene-stealing turns in Superman Returns, Josie and the Pussycats and Blade: Trinity. Posey also took small-screen roles in Louie, Will & Grace and The Good Wife, and became part of the Christopher Guest troupe, showing off her improv skills in a string of comedies, including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and most recently Mascots. In the book, she also references the ones she turned down, such as an Anaconda sequel (“I didn’t want to wrestle with snakes or be in wet clothes while at work”) and Girl, Interrupted (“I remember saying, ‘Who cares about a bunch of depressed white girls in the 60s? What about civil rights?’”).

Work became increasingly hard to find. Living in New York, she was isolated from the intense competition of LA, although she rejects that characterisaton of the industry. “It’s more like roulette because it’s not something you really have control over,” she says. “That’s the great and terrifying thing about it.”

Despite Posey’s old Hollywood vibe, she also seems to reject of some of the more ostentatious elements of stardom. As we enter her apartment, I ask if it’s a no-shoes kind of place. “Oh please, you can do whatever you want!” she says, before telling me she’s never been able to “master” having an assistant, especially a male one. She says she was spoken down to by a previous employee. “I would rather my back was out and have my friends help me than be subtly undermined, especially being a woman,” she says.

Posey wrote her book just as the #MeToo movement was gaining ground, and while it avoids digging into the darker side of the industry, she is no stranger to workplace sexism. “I’m good with denial or moving on because I’m a creative person and I just want to move on to the next thing,” she says. “The stories that I’ve gone through, I’m sure you could ask some of my friends. But I don’t really remember them.”

She refers to the outpouring of women’s stories as “heartbreaking” but remains wary of delving deeper. Just that morning, the New York Post translated a quote of hers about working with Woody Allen into the headline “Why Parker Posey actually likes working with Woody Allen”. I ask about Allen, the actors who have spoken out against working with him and his status as an industry pariah, and our gentle wrestle threatens to become more of a duel.

“I’m an actor,” she says, upset by the shift in conversation. “I don’t feel like I should be asked these questions and to be political in a way that the media expects.”

She mentions the Post article, her fear of “callout culture” and what she sees as the pervading meanness that surrounds us. “I’ve written something that isn’t mean and I try my best to protect myself and now I don’t feel protected because you asked this question and it feels like a manipulation,” she says, facing me on a now uncomfortably close couch.

“I just feel a little diminished and I’ve had enough of that,” she continues. “I wrote a book because I had to do something else. I didn’t think I would work again.”

She is, after all, a survivor of a difficult, ageist, sexist industry and knows how easily people in the public eye can fall. Until recently, she was being offered roles for scale, the minimum an actor can get paid, and was often expected to fly herself out to far-flung locations “to do these kind of parts you would expect from someone with less experience”. She sighs, “It was just kind of wild.”

In the book, she describes being offered a role in an exploitative, torture-porn thriller, and she tells me about recent offers involving nudity “in a very retro, Porky’s kind of way” that she didn’t perceive as “grown-up”. But the publishing deal coincided with bagging a key role in Netflix’s splashy remake of the 60s sci-fi classic Lost in Space, the second season of which she will start shooting in Vancouver in September. She is passionate about her character (the original series was a favourite as a child) and it is the sort of dependable role she has been grafting for (she is also easily the show’s most compelling element).

When the photographer arrives, the tension lifts, and she poses light-heartedly in a white and cream dress, with a Joan Collins picture book, and with her dog around Washington Square Park. In the book, she mentions that her yearning for conversation has often led her to dine with strangers. Throughout the day, she has been recommending local restaurants to me and, as I leave, she asks for my email address. I return to the office to receive a long, thoughtfully composed list, and three days later, she has invited me to her book party.

I see her that night at the event, at a members club in midtown, surrounded by friends who she mentions throughout the book. In her speech, she talks about the titular airplane acting as a space “between nostalgia and reinvention” and she is visibly overwhelmed while looking out on those who have supported her throughout a tough career. She told me that writing the book was her way of taking matters into her own hands and it is filled with ideas for new stories, characters, shows and movies that she has continued to pitch to agents, producers and even advertisers. Hollywood might have struggled to know what to do with Posey but instead, she has figured out what to do with herself.

This is how she looks in the most recent episode of Tales of the Walking Dead.

She plays Blair, a character very similar to the one she played in "You've Got Mail," as Tom Hanks' girlfriend.

It was a fantastic episode, and she was very Parker Posey in that role.

I love love Parker Posey but I’m also so sick of nearly every famous woman having to go on and on and on about what victims they’ve been to sexism, usually ignoring the fact they live in mansions and are being interviewed for television and magazines. Can any white woman in the western world EVER talk about anything else other than their victimization or going on about how they’re all allegedly so mistreated?

It’s become old and I can’t be the only person on the planet who’s begun to roll my eyes every time a woman starts up on that. Why are so many women so self centered? As if nothing other than them and their concerns are valid?

I quit watching all Walking Dead crap a long time ago, but I watched that new series episode with her, and she was fantastic.

Lots of praise for her portrayal of Freda Black in the STAIRCASE threads here.

I met her once, briefly, a few years ago. She was sweet, if a bit kooky. We talked a bit about us both being from Mississippi.

I was so surprised to read that Parker is from Baltimore, and also grew up in Mississippi.

Especially because she seems like she could be a native New Yorker.

Exactly what look is she going for here?

R30: yeah, gay men also are so self centered when they complain about homophobia.

R16 I think he soured on the US. Probably the politics.

But his departure from the Late Show or whatever was acrimonious. Dave Letterman was his boss. He did some brief other talk show, based on US history I think? And one of his first guests was Jay Leno (arch enemy of Letterman.) Dave wanted to keep Craig down - lousy studio, no sidekick (so Craig created his own - that skeleton), no music. Maybe money issues. Dave's the sweetest bon bon in the candy bag.

But Craig then had a game show with celebs - or people trying to name celebs in a category real fast - something like that. He won an Emmy I believe as a game show host but the show didn't do that well. So after the history show and the game show went belly up - he did some standup tours, maybe still does, in the US (I went to one at a casino in Biloxi, MIssissippi! - oh, hello Parker Posey, who lived in Laurel, Mississippi from age 11 to college...)

Anyway, at one point he said when he was young, he blamed his environment (Glasgow) for his problems, was about to jump in some river and kill himself but a man came along and invited him to have a drink or something - and he or somebody offered Craig a job in the US.... Anyway, at that one point, he said he was wrong. The it wasn't Scotland that was the problem - it was something inside himself - and he got homesick.

That's all I remember from being a fan of his late show.

*Dave is NOT the sweetest bonbon in the candy bag... an old greedy curmudgeon.

But at least he's a Democrat and has a decent IQ - oh and I think he's funny. One night he did compliment Craig for creating something 'new' in the talk show business and that's a very hard thing to do. (he himself had done it decades earlier)

I don't think of Parker Posey as Old Hollywood at all. I think should could have succeeded in the 1970s but no earlier.

She resembles Kat Hepburn facially, so maybe that's why people think she's a lez.

Someone wrote here that they shared a house with Posey at some movie festival. I think they all had movies showing there. They mentioned Posey as str8 - she was talking about fucking some guy, or she brought guy(s) back to her room - something like that.

Coming to Philly in a few weeks

Apparently CF did move back to Scotland even after becoming a US citizen. How does that work?

Guess there isn't much money to be made in Scotland since CF is back in USA on various projects.

People really do need to make up their minds....

My bet is she is from a very specific kind of Southern family. There’s a niche type of straight women who grew up Southern in a family with high social standing, but short on money or high on dysfunction (alcoholism, bad marriages, mental illness, living on faded glory, etc). These women come out kooky but very intelligent, sophisticated in a niche way, and confident and comfortable with themselves. They view attempting to fit themselves into a modern straight guy’s mold as beneath them or pandering, especially given the context of the South, where their age group marries young. And they baffle a lot of straight men. But given the family dysfunction or other issues, they’re fine being alone. Some more of this type are Amy Sedaris, Donna Tartt, and Julia Evans Reed.

[quote] My bet is she is from a very specific kind of Southern family. There’s a niche type of straight women who grew up Southern in a family with high social standing, but short on money or high on dysfunction (alcoholism, bad marriages, mental illness, living on faded glory, etc). These women come out kooky but very intelligent, sophisticated in a niche way, and confident and comfortable with themselves. They view attempting to fit themselves into a modern straight guy’s mold as beneath them or pandering

This sounds exactly like Cameran from "Southern Charm."

Parker and Colin were obviously a couple.

They look perfectly comfortable with each other here.

Now I want to see Parker Posey as Blance DuBois.

R11 tell us more

Cameron from Southern Charm is like the cousin to that type of Southern women, who can appreciate Eudora Welty but also cares enough about fitting in to rush a sorority. That type doesn’t end up alone.

I liked her as Dr. Smith in the "Lost in Space" reboot;. She brought a dangerous but still appealing vibe to the character.

Ah, yes, Eudora Welty is a perfect example of R42 type. Maybe Tallulah Bankhead? Carrie Nye, though married to Dick Cavett (lavender?) Who was that comedienne - Brett Butler? She was brilliant. Lillian Hellman, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, great bunch of weirdos. That bizarre place can make you do eerie things to your mind.

Flannery O'Connor - brilliant writer.

She supposedly had a steamy affair with Jack Nicholson.

I've encountered her with peculiar frequency in both LA and NYC and she never seemed normal to me. The first time, I can forgive her for. I look a lot like someone very famous and am often mistaken for him and she only realized after sitting right next to me in an otherwise empty room that I was someone else. But the other times were just as fucking weird and by then she had clearly realized I was someone else entirely.

You favor Richard Simmons?

Jack Nicholson? Ewwwwwwwww……

She has aged well but I recall thinking she was too old for her role in Superman. I loved her turn as Connie in Tales of the City.

R23 she’s giving Breakfast Club Ally Sheedy in that.

"[Ferguson] went back to Scotland? I thought he became an American. "

I think both.

[quote] so sick of nearly every famous woman having to go on and on and on about what victims they’ve been to sexism, usually ignoring the fact they live in mansions and are being interviewed for television.

Sexism, sexual harassment and misogynistic abuse happens at every social strata and class level. I’ve known rich women who were victims of it.

I kind of want to watch Party Girl again.

She had a really good role on Louie CK's show. I forgot the whole arc, but she was, per usual, this quirky, offbeat, cool chick, who Louie really likes. But then it's revealed that there's some mental health and general health issues and I think she dies.

Her best film is The House of Yes.

Me too, R59!

But it's early 90's, so that's almost 30 years ago and it will be hard to find.

I had the biggest crush on the guy who played Mustafa.

Hey hey hellayo!

Natashaaaaaaa!!

Parker nailed the queen scene way back when.

[quote]Can any white woman in the western world EVER talk about anything else other than their victimization or going on about how they’re all allegedly so mistreated?

I know! It's exhausting!

Role Recall:

Parker talks Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show.

She has Charlotte Rampling hair.

The late comedian Richard Jeni was in that Conan show Parker Posey clip. How sad to see him, he committed suicide in 2007.

"On March 10, 2007, Jeni was found by his girlfriend Amy Murphy, a weather anchor and reporter for KTTV in Los Angeles, with a .38-caliber Colt Detective Special between his feet and an apparent self-inflicted handgun wound to the head on the bathroom floor in his West Hollywood, California home. Jeni and Murphy had been conversing in bed, discussing breakfast and their plans for the day, when Murphy left to cook breakfast downstairs. After a few minutes, she heard the sound of a gunshot, ran upstairs, discovered Jeni's condition, and called 9-1-1."

"Police and paramedics arrived and transported Jeni to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he died. His family later stated with certainty that the death was a suicide, and that Jeni had recently been diagnosed with "severe clinical depression coupled with fits of psychotic paranoia." According to the coroner's report released in June 2007, Jeni had a history of schizophrenia and had been taking antidepressants and a sleeping aid. The report further indicated that his girlfriend heard him talking to himself about a week earlier, saying "just squeeze the trigger."

You never know what goes on behind the facade that so many of these entertainers present to the public. The general public usually assumes rich and famous people are always happy and satisfied. So many of them have serious mental health issues.

The girlfriend was lucky that his paranoia didn't make her a target.

[quote]But it's early 90's, so that's almost 30 years ago and it will be hard to find. I had the biggest crush on the guy who played Mustafa.

You can possibly find Party Girl online, on one of those illegal movie/TV show websites, they have all sorts of HTF films and TV shows listed. I've been watching lots of streaming TV shows on those websites. I pay for cable & internet, I'll be damned if I start paying for streaming services. I especially want nothing to do with Amazon, screw them.

The guy who played Omar, his name was Omar Townsend, seems to have faded into oblivion. There's no info about him online, he's mentioned appearing in Party Girl, that's about it.

Meant to post, "The guy who played Mustafa...."

Is that the guy who gives her the Turkish delight? He sounds like an amateur, such a flat voice.

Yes, R70.

Omar Townsend is Mustafa the "Lebanese Delight" guy.

He's so cute, but also a terrible actor.

It almost felt like he didn't belong in this movie, because he was such an amateur and not a very big personality.

But then again, maybe they thought that he would balance out Parker's over-the-top persona.

Party Girl is readily available online. Free with commercials on a couple sites and available to buy or rent on even more sites - including for 99 cents on Amazon. House of Yes is only available to rent on AppleTV.

I much prefer Party Girl over House of Yes.

Party Girl was fun and light-hearted.

House of Yes was dark, and involved incest and murder. Not really a feel good type of movie.

I've never seen House of Yes. Someone upthread said it was her best movie, so I looked for it on the Justwatch website.

I HATED “House of Yes”. Loved “Clockwatchers”, in which she was her flinty bitchy best.

the crush i always had and still have on Darla Marks....yell at me next queen!!!

FABULOUS actress. She can do no wrong

Always interested to see what she’s in. Always liked her.

r75, The House of Yes is hilarious. How could you hate it? Even Tori fucking Spelling is good in it.

YES, that Southern woman thing is true of her and it reminded me of hearing that she wanted to play Marianne Williamson because they look so much alike. And Marianne is that same type of kooky Southern woman who had a weird upbringing. I’d love to see her playing Marianne if they ever made a movie about the the insanity of those debates in the election which dare not speak its name.

I watched Clockwatchers today based on a recommendation upthread. I finished it and don't think it's terrible, but it's not good IMO.

Such beautiful diction

I always have a place at the Dairy Queen.

Robin Williams' mother was from Mississippi. He said southern women like his mother are a hoot - like a half-and-half combination of Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon.

I've always liked her. One of my favorite of her roles was as the sister in Henry Fool.

She's in the second "Tales of the Walking Dead" episode with Jillian Bell.

She should have had the Selena Gomez role in “Only Murders in the Building.”

True, she wouldn’t bring in the “young people,” but is that happening with Gomez? I doubt it.

Some celebs manage to keep their private life private. Parker isn't the type of actress that has tabloids analyzing her love life. She never struck me as the traditional marriage and children frau type, but she definitely sampled some interesting dick over the years.

she's pretty

She and British musical comedy star Ruthie Henshall favor.

Used to see her around NY walking her dog. She seemed normal and friendly - didn't get a bitchy vibe at all.

yes, I used to see her around union sq all the time, did she move out of NY?

I really don't understand why nobody's written a show for her. I watched that awful Lost in Space reboot just for her. They must be aware she's got an audience, one that will at least get as good numbers as any other show they drop off into the streaming abyss these days. And there's a GREAT ROLE waiting for her if she works with the right people. She is always, always good, if not the best thing about whatever she's in. Remember her in that awful Brandon Routh Superman movie? Or Blade 3? ALWAYS GREAT

She deserves a White Lotus type of character piece written for her. Does she have a close relationship with any particular writer/producer?

R94: both White Lotus and OMITB are great suggestions for casting her. I think she is struggling financially.

She's done lots with Christopher Guest, but I don't think that'd be right. He'd want it to be an ensemble, and it'd be "wacky" and I want for her something more grounded and human, so she can win awards. White Lotus is a good example. She needs her Mike White.

Somebody like Nicole Holofcener or Lisa Cholodenko would probably be a good fit

I wonder what Posey's on-set reputation is like.

I'm guessing she's fine on set or there would be stories.

She seems like she might be too normal and not enough of an egomaniacal asshole to stay relevant. No social media, keeps a low profile, etc.

She was great in The Staircase recently.

Her eyes are cold

She needs to work with Soderburgh. He is a fellow Southerner and fellow eccentric.

I like this bitch. I bet she can sling a truly barbed insult.

She plays bitchy well, but I bet she's not that bitchy in real life. There's just an undefinable unique quality to her. Even in movies of hers I don't like or hate (and there are a handful) she's still interesting.

It’s the drawl.

Not quite Southern.

More Gen X / ennui.

Also, she's from Baltimore - doesn't that have some particular speech affects?

She was in Baltimore till age 11, then moved to Mississippi. Don't know what that does to your accent - or your personality lol.

But accents vary so much, even within the same town. Social class, level of isolation and interacting more with social media than with humans within your vicinity, what you hear in your home from your parents, etc., so many things affect accent. Experts say regional differences are not lessening - but that seems counterintuitive to me.

It really feels like there's much less pronounced accent (and I live in MIssissippi - not far from where Parker's dad had a car dealership - I used to watch his local ads on tv - "Chris Posey Chevrolet Nissan in Laurel, MIssissippi" - his son, Parker's brother, stayed in Mississippi, married with 3 kids.

I didn't know she had lived in Baltimore -- what a shame she never worked with John Waters then! That would have been an ace collaboration

Well, I meant to say 'tv and social media' because there wasn't any social media when Parker was growing up.

Nor me, but the tv made a big difference. And I made a conscious effort to eliminate as much as possible of my family's southern accent in myself because I was aware that people equate it with stupidity - Gomer Pyle and all that.

I love the Mississippi accent!

Sexay AF.

Well, you've got a point. Elvis did alright. And God incarnate, Morgan Freeman, from Clarksdale. Bill Clinton did alright too - though I realize Arkansas is not Mississippi. (might as well be)

But they had a softened version. If you heard some of what I'm talking about, uh... well, I'll just say not all Mississippi accents are created equal. And I don't think I'm the only one who consciously used tv news and talk show hosts, etc., to soften the hard edges.

I love her diction

Is that Jodie Foster’s sister?

No matter what she’s doing or will do I will only ever think of her as Mary Ann Singleton’s high school friend in Tales Of The City ( 1994)

[quote] I didn't know she had lived in Baltimore -- what a shame she never worked with John Waters then! That would have been an ace collaboration

She did.

I was reading through her bio, and John Waters wrote a movie called "Fruitcake," which was supposed to star Parker Posey and Johnny Knoxville in the lead.

But it was right after the 2008 financial crisis, and they couldn't get funding for the movie.

I was going to post that tidbit earlier in this thread, but I forgot.

Does anyone have information on this movie? It sounds like it would have been campy. What a missed opportunity!!

From her wiki:

[quote] She was set to co-star in John Waters' film Fruitcake. The film was to be set in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. However, in 2018, Waters announced that he has canceled Fruitcake, saying "I can't get it made ... I thought it would do well, but it's not. In this economy, I'm going to have to do a puppet show."

I clicked on John Waters' Bio, and this is all I could find about the movie:

[quote] In 2008, he planned to make a children's Christmas film, Fruitcake[25] starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey. Filming was set for November 2008, but the project was shelved in January 2009. In 2010, Waters told the Chicago Tribune that "Independent films that cost $5 million are very hard to get made. I sold the idea, got a development deal, got paid a great salary to write it—and now the company is no longer around, which is the case with many independent film companies these days."

I wish they would do it now.

I don't know if Posey and Knoxville are too old to do it now, but we desperately need another John Waters movie.

I'm surprised that Parker isn't more of a gay icon.

From her Party Girl days, she has always had an affinity with our community.

And it's still going.

[quote] In 2012, Posey starred in four episodes of the third season of Louie as Liz, Louis C.K.'s love interest. She received positive reviews for her stint on the show. The website Vulture stated "Posey is superb in a brilliantly written role." Lindsay Bahr of Entertainment Weekly said "Posey used her arsenal of talent and the material written and directed by C.K. to bring Liz to life". Andy Greenwald of GrantLand felt Posey was "funny, engaging, and breathless", and went on to call Posey "one of the most gifted actors alive". Later the same year, she was honored with the Excellence in Acting Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.

Why can’t some billionaire bankroll it? Money is wasted on those fuckers.

You know what I find sad, R116?

REAL talent like John Waters and Parker Posey are struggling financially, because they do independent movies and projects.

So they stay below the radar, and just get by.

But then you have no talents like the Kardashians and Jenners, who are billionaires for doing essentially nothing.

Ugh.

Agree with R75 about 'Clockwatchers,' another 90's indy. Posey plays a cynical office temp in an ensemble cast that includes Toni Colette and Lisa Kudrow as fellow temps. The humor is more subtle than the trailer, with a serious subtext.

They had Clockwatchers on Criterion Channel recently so I finally saw it, and yeah it is fantastic - definitely ahead of its time with its weird tone, deserves to be a real cult classic

Whoever owned that development company might still own the script he wrote.

Did Posey do her own sitcom with Michael Arden. She tried to sell out but it didn't work.

[quote]with its weird tone, deserves to be a real cult classic

119 You're right; at some level it's a horror film.

I used to like Parker when she and I were young. Now, in her mature career, her mannerisms don't work IMO.

R117 John Waters is 73 and an independently wealthy millionaire. He's not filthy rich but he's fine.

Parker is in of my favorite movies ever, THE DAYTRIPPERS, along with young Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, and Campbell Scott. I watch it every few years or so. I just love character-driven movies like that.

[quote] I used to like Parker when she and I were young. Now, in her mature career, her mannerisms don't work IMO.

I don't know.

I saw the recent episode of her in "Tales of the Walking Dead" and it was pretty funny.

I think in certain situations, it can still work.

does she have her requisite classes in lesbian dance theory?

R117- John Waters net worth is supposedly $38 million . Why do you think he's a pauper?

[quote] Why do you think he's a pauper?

Because he couldn't make a $4 million film.

He should have just financed it himself.

Maybe he would have made his money back and more.

The only audience for John Waters these days is those who would attend a Waters' one man show.

I think that GenZ would actually like John Waters, R130.

They have the same taste as their GenX parents.

On Will and Grace:

"Are you kidding me, (with this Christmas window) Jack?

Not only will I fire you, but I will rehire you, pull your hair and then fire you again!"

They are showing Party Girl, Henry Fool, I think I saw they had Clockwatchers and there were a few others on Tubi which is all free.

"Best in Show" is on TCM today at 8 pm Eastern and 5 pm Pacific!

OP: Those are the only options in your mind, huh? Maybe she has a sex-related phobia. Maybe she can't stand being touched due to trauma? Won't let herself desire anyone? She embarrassed herself during sex once, and now is hell bent on avoiding a rerun? I could go on. Does she lack a libido--which is no sensations, not sexual snobbiness taking form as coldness?

Forgot to mention pain. Some women experience pain during every sexual encounter. That would make many ppl avoid the activity.

Simmer down, r135/r136.

Lol R137.