In Popular Culture
- In The White Album, Joan Didion wrote of her meetings with Kasabian during her stay in custody while testifying.
- Kasabian has been portrayed in various movies by the actresses Clea DuVall, Marilyn Burns, Michelle Briggs, and Tamara Hope.
- A British alternative rock band took on the name Kasabian in the early 2000s.
- The lead character in the 2011 film Martha Marcy May Marlene, played by Elizabeth Olsen, is somewhat modelled on Kasabian.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)