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Note to aspiring actors: if your idea of movie stardom is a big trailer and a seven-figure salary, consider the career of Parker Posey. At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films. Yet to get to the set of Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, where she played the leading lady's "eternal love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned...
...POCKETFUL OF POSEY...
Here's a quick way to tell you're watching a mid-1990s independent film: PARKER POSEY is in it. The poised but perky 28-year-old was the toast of last week's Sundance Film Festival, appearing in three films, one of which Miramax bought for $2 million. Posey's characters range from a wisecracking temp to a chain-smoking music publicist to a mentally ill woman with a Jackie O. fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre...
BORN: Nov. 16, 1965, Evansville EDUCATION: Indiana U, B.A., 1988; Georgetown U, M.A., 1993 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Public-relations manager; congressional aide; sales representative POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 6893, Evansville 47719. Tel.: 812-422-0749 Weinzapfel grew up in Posey County, made his way to Washington for grad school, then served as an aide to then-Eighth District Representative Frank McCloskey. He now wants back in the Capitol as a Congressman. A founder of a local community task force, Citizens for Seniors, Weinzapfel is a defender of Medicare, a healthy minimum wage...
...good health, he's being treated well." The portrait of Hall that began to emerge was of a troubled loner with a Rambo complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed the group to broaden its anti-Communist activities. Adds a U.S. official: "Hall really thought he could just walk into the bush and blast Commies...