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    Under the giant heads of Mascots live absurd humans just like us

    by Eliza Berman Oct 15, 2016 3 minutes
    Mindy and Mike Murray, a.k.a. Tammy and Ollie, two of the devoted mascots in Christopher Guest’s new film

    WHEN PARKER POSEY GOT A CALL from Christopher Guest offering her a part in his next movie, she already knew the drill. Having appeared in all four of the faux-documentaries Guest had written and directed since 1997, she knew he’d give her the basic character sketch—in this case, Cindi Babineaux, a mascot for a Mississippi women’s college basketball team who’s aging out of her tenure as Alvin the Armadillo—and it would be her job to fill in the details. “The nine-banded armadillo is limited,” she says, recalling her attempts to crack the

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