Word: parkers
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...more limited role as the director of “Purim,” Guest relies on mainstays like Jennifer Coolidge (best known as “Stifler’s Mom” of “American Pie” fame), Catherine O’Hara, and Parker Posey, among others, to keep the witty and often nonsensical humor at its height. As the film’s producer, Coolidge gives her usual hysterical, Botox-enhanced performance. O’Hara—playing the role of the aging actress with emerging hopes of winning an Oscar?...
...This bloodsucking tale does serve the function of a standard college guide, but the introduction of the undead livens up the process. The story follows one Parker Norcross, who has found herself stranded outside Adams House without an ID card during intersession. When she discovers a staked body in the Adams Pool Theater, her vampire hunt commences. As Harvard buildings, majors, clubs, or concepts are mentioned in the story, they appear in bold and an explanation appears in a small paragraph in the margin...
...daily lives of the Crimson clad while also entertaining him with creatures of the night. It is successful in mentioning everything from Ec10 to Hillel. The bold descriptions are informative and amusing, describing not only Harvard activities, but also personalities: “If there was one thing Parker hated worse than being scared, it was being wrong. (Being wrong: Every Harvard student’s worst nightmare...
...Parker Norcross, her buddy J. Z. Crowther, and friend (who she actually dislikes) Neesa Barnett are all generally unlikable but strange enough to enjoy for a brief while—sort of like real live Harvard students...
...Exciting plot points, though, included the insinuation that HUPD officers are vampires themselves, and that even though Neesa Barnett killed a fellow student, it is far far worse that she plagiarized her thesis. (“‘She didn’t write it,’ Parker finished for him.” She didn’t write it: Submitting work that isn’t your own is quite possibly the gravest offense at Harvard...