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Vassar College has been featured in many books, movies, and television shows. This is a partial list of references and fictional alumni. * Martin Geldhart: Vassar professor of landscape architecture in The Substance of Fire * Holly Goodhead, fictional character from ''Moonraker'' and its novelization * Miss Jane Hathaway, a fictional character in ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', graduated from Vassar.〔 * Erica, the main protagonist of the Academy-Award nominated film ''An Unmarried Woman'' (1978), went to Vassar * Three Vassar Girls Abroad: Book series by Elizabeth Williams Champney about Maud Van Vechten, Barbara Atchison and Cecilia Boylston (current students) * Katherine "Kitty" Montgomery: fictional character played by Susan Sullivan on Dharma and Greg * Olive Snook: fictional character played by Kristin Chenoweth on Pushing Daisies, attended on a jockey scholarship * Georgina Tuskin: Character in Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted * Lilly Kane from Veronica Mars was attending Vassar in a second-season dream sequence; in the actual storyline she had been murdered three years earlier. * Two young men in Terrence McNally's Off-Broadway play "Some Men" portray gender studies majors from Vassar College. * In the 2007 movie Georgia Rule starring Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, and Jane Fonda, Lohan's character mentions future plans to attend Vassar. * Nanny's Grandma from the book "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin. She says: "You know, I don't remember having a single conversation like the ones you describe when I was at Vassar." * Heidi Holland, main character of The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein * In the 1990 book American Psycho the character Timothy Bryce tells a story about a sexual encounter he had with a "Vassar girl." * In Miss Congeniality, Benjamin Bratt introduces Sandra Bullock to "Beth," an undergrad at Vassar, doing a paper on law enforcement. * Two old ladies in The Dark Tower, the seventh and final book of the series of the same name, by Stephen King. * Principal Willoughby, from the Nickelodeon cartoon Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius * Characters from the 1963 novel, The Group, by alumna Mary McCarthy * Cricket Feldstein, from Hamlet 2, an ACLU attorney who holds a degree in French. * Betsy Ann Fitzgerald, from The Curse of the Jade Scorpion * Kathy Lacey, from Gentleman's Agreement, a high status New Yorker portrayed by Dorothy McGuire. * Marian Stevens, from Robin and the Seven Hoods, mob daughter, portrayed by Barbara Rush. * Selena St. George, from Dolores Claiborne, alcoholic journalist portrayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh. * The Simpsons has referenced Vassar several times. In one of these, "Lisa Gets an ‘A’," Lisa is upset after her entire school finds out that she cheated on an exam. Her rarely tactful father, Homer, responds with, "Aw, don’t worry about the test... Maybe Vassar will still take you." in an episode called "The PTA Disbands," Lisa is upset that her school is on strike. She says she won’t be able to get into an Ivy League school, and adds, "At this rate, I probably won’t even get into Vassar." But Homer responds, "I’ve had just about enough of your Vassar-bashing, young lady." * Elizabeth Vaughan, the central character of the musical ''If/Then'', as well as her friend Lucas〔(Theater Review: In Duality and Doubt, If/Then Is a Musical of City Life Now )〕 * In the WB series ''Gilmore Girls'' season 2 episode 21("Lorelai's Graduation Day") Lorelai Gilmore says, "I was supposed to go to Vassar" before she got pregnant and could not attend college.〔http://www.crazy-internet-people.com/site/gilmoregirls/pages/s2/s2s/42.html〕 *In the NBC series ''Friends'' season 2 episode 20("The One Where Old Yeller Dies") Richard is leaving for a basketball game and Monica yells, "Go Vassar!"〔http://uncutfriendsepisodes.tripod.com/season2/220uncut.htm〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vassar College in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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