A Jessica Harper Holiday

December 18, 2010 12:01 PM

Jessica Harper, whom most mefites will recognize as the star of Phantom of the Paradise and Suspiria, has reinvented herself as The Crabby Cook and recently released a book full of recipes and survival tips. Among the treasures on her YouTube channel: fun with her young relatives in "Christmas Cookie Crisis."
posted by hermitosis (16 comments total)

Hooray, Jessica Harper! Don't forget her turn as nu-Janet in the Rocky Horror followup Shock Treatment.
posted by brookedel at 12:04 PM on December 18, 2010 [5 favorites]

And the victim in Minority Report!
posted by lumensimus at 12:06 PM on December 18, 2010

How wonderfully strange.
posted by nola at 12:10 PM on December 18, 2010

Now following her on Twitter as well.
posted by hermitosis at 12:13 PM on December 18, 2010

And as Steve Martin's wife in Pennies from Heaven imtheonlypersononearthwhosawthatarenti.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:15 PM on December 18, 2010 [3 favorites]

Always liked Jessica Harper. This is cool.

Also, she looks eerily like my old professor. Hunh.
posted by Sticherbeast at 12:17 PM on December 18, 2010

And as Steve Martin's wife in Pennies from Heaven imtheonlypersononearthwhosawthatarenti.

The movie version of Pennies From Heaven is awesome and underrated. Christopher Walken dancing on a bar? Very yes.
posted by Sticherbeast at 12:18 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]

That cookbook sounds appealing to me; I'm in my first year of being in charge of weekday family dinners, and I swear sometimes at 4:30 PM I'm like "what if I just never went home again?"
posted by brookedel at 12:19 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

Well, since this post is here....

Scene-by-scene breakdown of Phantom Of The Paradise

Phantom Of The Paradise meets The Brady Bunch Hour

Phantom Of The Paradise soundtrack/film score (not the same as the sountrack album) [scroll down for links]

Shock Treatment remix album
posted by hippybear at 12:21 PM on December 18, 2010 [6 favorites]

Is she TRYING to be Sue, from Glee?
posted by HuronBob at 12:37 PM on December 18, 2010

I think you just solved the problem of what to get one of my daughters for Christmas. And conveniently another daughter works at a bookstore.....
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 12:43 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

She and I swapped books a couple of years ago at BEA. She was very nice when I told I had a crush on her from My Favorite Year.
posted by jscalzi at 1:35 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]

Jessica Harper, star of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and wife of controversial Fox Studio chief Tom Rothman.
posted by vhsiv at 1:42 PM on December 18, 2010

I had a crush on her from My Favorite Year.

Me, too.
posted by briank at 2:31 PM on December 18, 2010

And Garry's wife in the fourth season of It's Garry Shandling's Show.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 3:07 PM on December 18, 2010

I had a crush on her from My Favorite Year

Amateurs. I was obsessed with Jessica Harper for much, much too long after seeing Inserts in the theater. Damn.

So I'll check out the cooking show.
posted by mojohand at 3:27 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]