This Halloween, Dress as Your Favorite Park Slope Celebrity!

Halloween is almost upon us, FiPSters! If you're still searching for a costume and have decided against going as an Internet Meme (I'm curious to know how people are going to transform themselves into Binders Full of Women, btw), here are some Park Slope-friendly recommendations that come in the form of our favorite local celebrities and their most costume-worthy movie roles. Because what would be greater than strolling down 7th Avenue on Halloween night, bumping into John Turturro and listening as he gushes that you're the "best goddamned looking Jesus" that he's ever seen. RIGHT?! OK, here we go:

1. John Turturro as The Jesus from The Big Lebowski

What you'll need:

• Purple pants, shirt (with "Jesus" embroidered on the chest), jacket and bowling bag
• Black bowling glove
• One of those cloth bag thingies to shine your balls in
• Lots of gaudy gold rings
• Black hairnet
• Douchey mustache and goatee

Notable quote to repeat through out the night: "I would have fucked you in the ass Saturday. I fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead. Wooo! You got a date Wednesday, baby!"

2. Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter in Fargo

What you'll need:

• Light brown or red turtle neck
• Brown, suede jacket with a fur trim
• A creepy man's mustache
• A handgun (fake, obvs)
• Fake blood and paper towels (if you want to dress as "post-gunshot wound Carl")

Notable quote to repeat through out the night: "I guess you think you're... you know, like an authority figure, with that stupid fuckin' uniform, huh buddy? King clip-on-tie there, big fuckin' man, huh? You know these are the limits of your life, man. The rule of your little fuckin' gate here. Here's your four dollars, you pathetic piece of shit." 

(side note: If you've got a friend who is already dressing like The Jesus, you should just go ahead and dress up as Donny and just carry a sign that says, "element" so that people may repeatedly tell you that you're out of it.)

3. Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier in X-men

Yes, I realize that Jean-Luc Picard would have been the obvious way to go here, but just look at that sweet wheel chair! If you take the time to build that thing, people are going to be IM-PRESSED.

What you'll need:

• A really nice, crisp suit: navy blue, dark gray or brown
• One of these head thingies (which you can probably make from kitchen sink spray hoses) 
• Oh, and don't forget to trick out a wheel chair

Notable quote to repeat through out the night: "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."

4. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Raven in Cecil B. DeMented

What you'll need:

• Lots of black and red make-up (see above photo)
• Lots of tight black clothing (preferably in vinyl or pleather)
• Spikey dog collar
• A chalice for your goat urine (see below)
• Goat urine

Notable quote to repeat through out the night: "It's goat's urine. Want some?"

5. John Hodgman as PC in the "Get a Mac" campaign 

What you'll need: See photo. BOOM.

Notable quote to repeat through out the night: "And I'm a PC." (then just stand next to an attractive hipster while looking undesirable.)