The best they can do?
In May, the University of Pennsylvania celebrates its 250th anniversary. UPenn has quite a list of famous alumni, including Martin Luther King, Noam Chomsky, Ezra Pound and five Nobel laureates.
Events like 250th anniversaries merit celebrity speakers, and they've managed to book.... Jodie Foster. Not that I have beef with Jodie Foster in particular, it just seems slightly bizarro...
Events like 250th anniversaries merit celebrity speakers, and they've managed to book.... Jodie Foster. Not that I have beef with Jodie Foster in particular, it just seems slightly bizarro...
posted by UK plc at 10:53 AM
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Did she at least go there too? It does seem odd that they would pick her out of millions of other suitable speakers.
Maybe they're just huge "Silence of the Lambs" fans and want a reason to creepily say
"Claricccccccce..." for a day. :P
NO! She went to Yale! Which makes it even more inexplicable. Crazy.
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Hard not to think you thought they should have had Gnome.
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