“Piper, nooo! Tsunami! Buddhism!” We’ve been listening to Parker Posey’s gloriously insane Carolina accent warp words to hilarious effect every Sunday on “The White Lotus” season 3, where the actress plays Victoria Ratliff, a wealthy Southern matriarch who must know where her lorazepam is at all times.
The hit HBO anthology series is a great showcase for the quirky character work that Posey has consistently been doing for decades as a veritable indie queen, working with the auteur likes of Richard Linklater (“Dazed and Confused”), Noah Baumbach (“Kicking and Screaming”) and Christopher Guest (“Waiting for Guffman,” which you can now joyfully watch on YouTube for free), among many others.
But one singular Parkey Posey role stands out for me among the offbeat bunch, and that’s the 1995 cult classic “Party Girl.” And just in time for curious viewers to fall even more deeply
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