Ayyyy Parker Posey!
Back in college my bff Meghan and I would stay up late eating popcorn with chopsticks, making blender drinks and lip synching to Madonna’s greatest hits. We’d also rent movies. Once we rented Party Girl in which Parker Posey played, oh hell I don’t even remember, a librarian maybe? It was the singularly worst film either of us had ever seen and instantly when something was bad it was known as “Party Girl bad.”
I don’t even really need to say it, do I?
Hey, I liked Party Girl! It was about a party girl who becomes a librarian and through learning the Dewey decimal system, restores order to her life. And she falls in love with the falafel guy, who is very cute.
Okay, I admit, having written that out, it doesn’t sound very good. But it was light and fluffy and I’d had a miscarriage that week and it was just what I needed in my misery.
It’s like she grabbed Cinderella’s dress away before the mice could finish making it. “You rodents are too slow for me!”
I liked Party Girl too! I thought it was hilarious. I still remember it fondly. Liev Schrieber (sp?) is in it too. As a creep. And anything about the redemptive power of library science is A-OK with me!