Sarah Lawrence College in popular culture
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Sarah Lawrence College has appeared many times in popular culture in depictions ranging from humorous mockeries to more serious acknowledgements of the College's academic tradition. Below is a list of some of these appearances.
- In one episode of the sitcom Frasier, Gil Chesterton reveals that his wife is an SLC graduate.
- In an episode of the animated Fox sitcom, The Simpsons, the Thai restaurant owner says to new employee Bart, "You hang Thai menu on door. I get more business. Send daughters to small, liberal arts college. Swarthmore. Maybe, Sarah Lawrence. Call professors by first name."
- In an episode of Gilmore Girls, Louise complains about the work assigned to her by Paris. Paris responds by saying that Louise will be grateful when she gets into Sarah Lawrence. In another episode when Paris is rejected from Harvard, Rory tries to cheer her up by listing other schools that she can attend, including Sarah Lawrence.
- The college is mentioned in the book (and later, the film), American Psycho
- In the film 10 Things I Hate about You, Katarina Stratford wants to attend SLC.
- In the television show Will & Grace, Karen remarks that she attended Sarah Lawrence.
- A mention of the college is found in the Joseph Heller novel, Good as Gold.
- Sarah Lawrence is referenced in the J.D. Salinger novel, Franny and Zooey.
- It has been suggested that the bucolic east-coast college in the Don Delillo novel White Noise is based on Sarah Lawrence.
- In the Dani Shapiro novel, slow motion: a true story, Sarah Lawrence is mentioned.
- In the film The Notebook, Allie Hamilton attends SLC before becoming engaged to Lon Hammond Jr.
- In the television show "Designing Women", Charlene Stillfield (Jean Smart) is belittled for her lack of pedigree by her mother-in-law-to-be's old-money Mississippi family, with reference to the college.
- In the television show Entourage, Rex Lee's character, Lloyd, was an art history major at Sarah Lawrence.
- Sarah Lawrence alumna Ann Patchett based part of the setting of her novel, Bel Canto, on the President's House on the Sarah Lawrence campus.
- In an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Sabrina is transported to the 1960s and tries to apply to an all-male college. The college official suggests Sarah Lawrence instead.
- In the John Sayles film Baby It's You, Rosanna Arquette's character, Jill Rosen, attends Sarah Lawrence College and is introduced to a culture unlike her New Jersey upbringing.
- In the Tom Wolfe essay Radical Chic, "Harold Taylor, the former boy president of Sarah Lawrence, now fifty-five and silver-haired, but still youthful-looking..." is in attendance at a society party that Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia hosted for the Black Panthers.
- The college is mentioned in the book and film The Rules of Attraction.
- In the film Down and Out in Beverly Hills, the brother exclaims, "Well, if it isn't the princess, back from Sarah Lawrence," when his sister returns home from a break.
- In the comic book series Y: The Last Man, written by Brian K. Vaughan, the main character's older sister, Hero Brown, is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence.
