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Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-11-02T16:27:23Z

Jglassow: straship enterprise correction - Star Trek, not Star Wars

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==Movies==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZihmGVjDys Clip...] 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==Actors==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
171 : Henry Fonda 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==Screenwriters==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==Cinematographers==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==Movie Soundtracks==

318 : Mike Curb 

==Television==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Trek") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==Cartoons==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==Commercials==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==Characters==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

XYZ

2009-10-08T14:56:04Z

Jglassow:

==X==

'''Xandra''' 
168; Asian receptionist at Golden Fang Enterprises, Inc. Corporate HQ

==Y==

'''yakuza''' 
Members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan, and also known as "violence groups"; torpedo (a professional killer who uses a gun), 82;

'''Yastrzemski, Carl (b. 1939)''' 
Nicknamed "Yaz," Yastrzemski is a former American Major League Baseball player who played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox, primarily as a left fielder, with part of his later career played at first base and as a designated hitter; his bat, 316

'''Yellow Haze''' 
140; smoking product made from banana peels, created by Kevin, the owner of Kozmik Banana in Gordita Beach

'''Yosemite Sam''' 
Animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. He is commonly depicted as a short-tempered and extremely grouchy Western outlaw with an intense hatred of rabbits, especially Bugs Bunny; 326

'''Younger, Evelle (1918-1989)''' 
4; for whom Penny Kimball works; Younger was Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.

'''"Yummy Yummy Yummy" (1968)''' 
First hit for the Ohio Express, and a classic "bubblegum" song; Herb Alpert cover, 332

==Z==

'''Zappa, Frank (1940-1993)''' 
An American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. On a T-shirt, 146; guest artist at Pauley Pavilion, 223.

'''Zeilder & Zeilder''' 
56; tailors where Doc got his "double-breasted velour suit" disguise

'''Zimmer, Norma (b. 1923)''' 
257; Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" for more than two decades on ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' beginning in 1960.

'''Zirconia''' 
230; "young woman in a wine-colored minidress" in Nine of Diamonds, Las Vegas

'''Zody's''' 
9; Zody's was a chain of discount retail stores that operated in the United States from 1969 to 1986. The chain operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan. Zody's closed the last of its California stores in March 1986, with many locations being sold to Ralphs, a supermarket chain. Possible annagram: ZOYDS.

'''zomes''' 
62; zonahedral domes; The name "Zome", a combination of the words and 'dome' and 'zonahedral geometry', was coined by Steve Baer following his discovery of this unique geometry in 1969. This patented construction system is an evolution of 5,000 years of geometrical discovery, from the Babylonians to R. Buckminster Fuller; at Arrepentimiento, 249; "doorways to other dimensions" 253; Shasta's necklace, 262

"Corners constrict the mind....Domes break into new dimensions." ''Steve Baer''

'''Zucky's ''' 
96; "legendary Santa Monica delicatessen; 366;

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Talk:Inherent Vice Title

2009-10-04T03:59:29Z

Jglassow:

Am I off the mark to suggest that "inherent vice" might be "shit happens" with a law degree?

Yes, I think your off the mark.

M

2009-10-03T06:58:25Z

Jglassow:

'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; Led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; A philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

''Surfer slang'': A "Hodad" is one of those guys who has a surfboard, but never surfs. A fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks along until 1990 when word got out.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232;

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; "The Crystal Ship"

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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M

2009-10-03T06:37:57Z

Jglassow: HODAD definition & 2 links

'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; Led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; A philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

A "Hodad" is a fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks along until 1990 when word got out.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232;

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; "The Crystal Ship"

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
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97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; Led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; A philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "Here Come the Hodads" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

A "Hodad" is a fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks along until 1990 when word got out.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232;

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; "The Crystal Ship"

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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'''Doc made a couple of phone calls and took the back route up by way of Burbank and Santa Paula, reaching the Ojai turn-off just before lunchtime.''' 
Doc takes an unusual and very out-of-the-way route. From Gordita Beach (Manhattan Beach) or Rancho Park (end of chapter 11) most drivers would go north on the 405 freeway to the 5 freeway north, exit at the 126 highway, proceed west to Santa Paula, and then take "the Ojai turn-off" (Ojai Road, 150) to Ojai. But for Doc to go to ''Burbank'' is quite a roundabout route to take. 

'''reaching the Ojai turnoff fust before lunchtime.''' 
Morning, Sunday, April 26, 1970. 
'''Krotona Hill''' 
A hill in Ojai where an institute run by the Theosophical Society in America is currently located.

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'''Dr. Threeply''' 
The name may refer to three-ply plywood. Basic run-of-the-mill (literally) plywood that's used in quantity for sheathing when building houses is often three-ply. This is, perhaps, consistent with the paragraph describing him, which mentions two other building products (aluminum siding and screen doors) and alludes to some event that has "torqued him out of tolerance," as might happen to plywood that has been misused and become twisted.

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'''J Kirshnamurti''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti] was a prominent Indian-born spiritualist who did, in fact, live in Ojai.

 
'''After lunch, Doc was bustled around''' 
Afternoon, Sunday, April 26, 1970. 

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'''Shaggy . . . Scoob''' 
Characters in the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''. An appropriate reference since the cartoon first was aired in 1969 and involved solving mysteries.

==Page 191==
'''edges of cliffs in Hawaii''' 
This passage about suicidal love sick men is strikingly similar to one in ''Vineland'':
:Hawaii is where men from California bring their broken hearts, seeking exotic forms of self-injury not so readily available on the mainland. Some specialize in active volcanoes, others in cliff diving, many go for the classier swimming-out-to-sea option. I can put you onto several travel agents who offer Suicide Fantasy packages, if you're interested. (p. 60)

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'''the shadows around the place were lengthening.''' 
Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 26, 1970. The metaphorical shadows are lengthening, too. 

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'''the word is not the thing, the map is not the territory''' 
The expression "the map is not the territory" first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski (developer of General Semantics) gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931. ''The map is not the territory'' signifies that individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built up over time, about reality ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#.22The_map_is_not_the_territory.22 Wikipedia]). The phrase "The symbol is NOT the thing symbolized; the word is NOT the thing; the map is NOT the territory it stands for." also appears in S.I. Hayakawa's ''Language in Thought and Action'', Harcourt, Brace and Company, (New York), 1949, p.31.

 
'''Doc got back to the beach just at early evening''' 
Evening, Sunday, April 26, 1970. 

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'''"...put everything in the Ostracizer and made smoothies..."''' 
Denis means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterizer Osterizer], a brand of blender or food processor.

'''Didn't you see that movie?''' 
Denis is referring here to the 1932 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks ''Freaks''], a horror film about sideshow performers with a cast of actual sideshow performers.

The Shasta/Mickey story shows some similarities to the central love story in the film. A "normal" and beautiful woman pretends to love--and marries--one of the "freaks" simply for his money. The freaks revolt against her and maim her, ultimately turning her into freak show exhibit.

'''Code of the Freaks''' 
is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]

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'''Next morning Doc threaded in to work''' 
Morning, Monday, April 27, 1970. 

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'''Tarzana''' 
Completely irrelevant trivia: Tarzana is named after Tarzan because Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author who created Tarzan) was a prominent citizen. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzana here].

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'''''The Beverly Hillbillies'' rolled along toward ''Green Acres''''' 
A little troubling since Green Acres usually aired at 9:00 P.M on Saturdays, and Beverly Hillbillies on Wednesdays at 8:30 P.M., while this is Monday, April 27, 1970. 

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'''Gleichschaltung Model 33 Automatic Bazooka'''

''Gleichschaltung'', meaning "coordination," "making the same," "bringing into line," is a system the Hitler regime developed for the complete forcing into line of German society in terms of politics, information and culture. Gleichschaltung's system established totalitarian control over the individual, therby forcing the individual/society to follow a specific way of thinking using an oppressive police force. It started, unsurprisingly, in '33.
'Schaltung' in German also refers to gears and switches (often, but not exclusively those of cars), so it might also refer to the bazooka's automated mechanism here.

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'''...can we improve your life tonight?''' 
Evening, Monday, April 27, 1970. 

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'''We've been trying to call you all evening.''' 
Evening, Monday, April 27, 1970. 

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'''That night Doc dreamed''' 
The night of Monday, April 27, 1970. 

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'''dead people who do and don't come back''' 
Sounds like the Thanatoids in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''].

'''He walked around well into the morning''' 
Morning, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

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'''cachaça''' 
160; popular Brazilian liquor made from fermented sugarcane juice, unlike Rum which is made from molasses. The caipirinha is the most famous cocktail using it these days.

'''Cadillac''' 
5; 1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car

'''''Call Me Madam''''' 
1950 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed US Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg. While there, she charms the local gentry, especially Cosmo Constantine, while her press attache Kenneth Gibson falls in love with Princess Maria; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" sung by Ethel Merman, 247

'''Campbell, Glen (b. 1936)''' 
American country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman"), as well as for hosting a television variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television; 331

'''canasta''' 
215; Spanish for "basket," a card game originating in Uruguay, where players attempt to make melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand and discarding. It is commonly played by two players with two standard decks of cards, but many variations exist for 3- and 4-player games or teams.

'''"Can't Buy Me Love"''' 
3; [[B#beatles|Beatles]] song, from the 1964 film ''A Hard Day's Night''

'''Canter's Delicatessen''' 
126; Times have changed. [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's] is no longer a "hippie-friendly" deli at 419 N. Fairfax.

'''Carillo, Leo (1880-1961)''' 
78; Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist, in Santa Monica, CA. He played stereotypical latins. He played Pancho on the 1950s TV show, ''The Cisco Kid''. As used here, "Leo Carillo" probably refers to Leo Carrillo State Park, west of Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, named in his honor for his conservation services to California; "night cricket" 130

'''Carmine & the Cal-Zones''' 
228; band in Nine of Diamonds, in Las Vegas; "Just the Lasagna (Semi-Bossa Nova)" 229;

'''Carol''' 
47; see [[M#carolmerrill|Merrill, Carol]]

'''cars''' 
1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car, 5; VW buses, woodies, 19; Harley Earl Impala, 76; "1949 Mercury woodie" driven by "zombies" 133; motorcycles, 141; Luz's "red SS396" Super Sport Chevy, 143; Boris' "'46 Dodge Power Wagon" 149; Eldorado, 151; Electra Glide shovelhead, 153; Wolfgang "ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel" 175; Excaliburs and Ferraris, 177; Doc's '64 Dodge Dart, 180; Jaguars and Porsches, 180; 1934 Hispano-Suiza J12, 184; Falcons, Nova, VDub, 184; 216; '69 Camarro, 218; '62 Bonneville, 223; Ford Rancheros, ancient T-Birds and Chevy Nomads, 228; F-100s and Chevy Apaches, 236; Morgans, Cobra 289s and '62 Bonnevilles, "supernatural DeSoto" 298; Lincoln Continental, '65 Impala, 328; '59 Cadillac hearse (as depicted on the novels dust jacket), 329; Bigfoot's "Cherry Bomb Glasspack" 330; Vibrasonic (Made by Motorola, this device was connected to a car radio to add reverb), 335; Falcon, 335; 442 Olds, 338; "'53 Buick Estate Wagon, the last woodie that ever rolled out of Detroit" 349; Stingray, 369; See [[Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice|Cars Mentioned in ''Inherent Vice'']]...

'''Castro, Fidel (b. 1926)''' 
One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He is currently the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba; 95

'''Chamberlain, Wilt (1936-1999)''' 
Nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lbs as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA; 4

'''''Champion'' (1949)''' 
The film in which actor Kirk Douglas, playing a selfish boxer, established himself as a Tough Guy. An American ''film noir'', ''Champion'' is a drama filmed in black-and-white, and recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring; 336

'''Channel View Estates''' 
8; Mickey Wolfmann's "chipboard horror" housing development; ''Channel View Estates:'' suggests countless single-family homes, each with a television for viewers to flip through the channels. 
From the Oxnard Press Courier, May 8, 1970: 
[http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh24/redbarnlane/cie.jpg Channel Island Estates ad] 
[[File:Channel_Island_Estates.jpg]] 
'''Chantays''' 
37; "Pipeline" 124;

'''Charlie the Tuna''' 
The cartoon mascot tuna for StarKist Tuna, was created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency after StarKist hired Leo Burnett in 1961. StarKist Tuna is the name of a brand of tuna; 119

'''Charlock, Clancy''' 
146; Glen Charlock's sister; tending bar in Inglewood, 214; screwing with Tariq Khalil, 288

'''Charlock, Glen''' 
15; "Aryan Bro" in prison with Tariq working as a body guard for Mickey Wolfmann; murdered, 23; and the Wolfmann raid, 85; footage of his murder, 142; 247; details from Tariq Khalil, 290; 319-320; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Chateau Marmont''' 
158; a landmark from 1920s-era Hollywood where John Barrymore and Errol Flynn held inebriated court in the baronial living room. Greta Garbo regularly checked in as Harriet Brown, and Jim Morrison was one of many celebrities to call this home in later years. John Belushi overdosed in Bungalow #2.
[http://www.frommers.com/destinations/losangeles/H32788.html#ixzz0KP8rslNY&D]

'''Chatfield, C.C.''' 
360; Sauncho Smilax's boss

'''Chick Planet Massage''' 
20; a massage parlour located in a "makeshift miniplaza" near Channel View Estates; 76; raid, 141;

'''Chiffons''' 
An all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960; "One Fine Day" 224

'''Chino''' 
16; A city in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles; also shorthand for the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino where Tariq Khalil did time

'''Chlorinda''' 
91; waitress at Belaying Pin

'''Chopin''' 
The Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major (also called Grande Waltz Brillante), Op. 18 was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833. It was first published in 1834 and is Chopin's first waltz composition for solo piano. It is often used as incidental music in Brazilian overdubbings of Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny. Dubbing was made from the original film rolls, which did not provide the voices and background music in separate audio tracks. Lacking the resources to hire an orchestra, voiceover studios re-used recordings of classical pieces which had a similar feel to the pieces used in the original soundtracks; played by Liberace during "one of his shows at the Riviera" 220

'''choppers''' 
Hope Harlingen's, 36; new false teeth for Coy Harlingen, 300

'''Chryskylodon Institute''' 
111; upscale rehabilitation facility in Ojai; where Japonica is sent, 171; Greek for "gold fang", 185; Doc visits, 186; 301. Any chance this is a veiled critique or parody of Scientology? cf also Synanon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon]

'''Cielo Drive''' 
208; The original home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California is infamous for being the scene of one of the Manson "family" murders.

'''Club Asiatique''' 
77; in San Pedro; 80; 131; 168

'''Coddington lens''' 
286; magnifying glass consisting of a single very thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, thus limiting the rays to those close to the axis, which again minimizes spherical aberration.

'''Code 7''' 
208; this police scanner code stands for "meal break." [http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html]

'''Code of the Freaks''' 
196; is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]

'''Cohen's Beauty and Barber Shop''' 
127; in East London, where Spotted Dick gets their asymmetric bobs. A reference to Vidal Sassoon, inventor of the asymetric bob "I wanted to be a footballer but my mother insisted I get a profession, so I was apprenticed to a very distinguished hairdresser called Adolph Cohen" [http://english.sem40.ru/jewish_fortune/8333/]

'''COINTELPRO''' 
An acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. The FBI's motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order"; and Black Nationalists, 74

'''Collins family''' 
128; vampires in TV show ''Dark Shadows''

'''Cookie and Joaquin''' 
71; ex-grunts from Vietnam; 76; 80

'''Cortes Bank''' 
Cortes Bank is a dangerously shallow chain of underwater mountains in the Pacific Ocean, about 115 miles (188 kilometers) west of Point Loma San Diego, USA, and about 50 miles (82 kilometers) south-west of San Clemente Island. Beginning in 1990, Cortes Bank attracted the interest of surfers. In ideal conditions, which are rare, surfers have caught waves up to 70' high. Although very difficult to get to, the reputation of Cortes Bank draws crowds when conditions are good; 358

<div id="corvairs">'''Corvairs, the'''</div>
This surf band is also in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/Chapter_3#Page_22 ''Vineland''], being where Zoyd Wheeler was living "shortly after Reagan was elected governor" (which would be shortly after January 3, 1967) with "elements" of the band. In ''Inherent Vice'', Elfmont and Scott Oof, Doc's cousin, are in the band; 43

'''Cottie food!''' 
146; ''coup de foudre'' is French for "love at first sight"

'''Country Joe and the Fish''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971; Shasta in a band T-shirt, 1, 261;

'''''Courage'', Camille''' 
The phrase originally comes from Alexander Dumas' 1857 play ''Camille: The Lady of the Camellias'' in which Monsieur Duval tells Camille, "Courage, Camille, Courage."

Also, "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try.

Also, a line masterfully delivered by Bob Hope as radio personality and craven muckraker Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence in the 1940 horror-comedy ''The Ghost Breakers''. It is also used in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 ''Against the Day'', on page 345]

'''Cramer, Floyd''' 
198; was a self-taught pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." His distinctive piano style can be heard on recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and many others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. [http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/floyd-cramer]

'''''Creation of Adam, The''''' 
A fresco painted by Michelangelo circa 1511 that appears on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man; God passing a lit joint, 124

<div id="creepingfig">'''creeping fig'''</div>
36; this highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

'''Curb, Mike''' 
American musician, record company executive, race car owner (in both NASCAR and IRL), and Republican Party (GOP) politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 during the second administration of Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. He is also the founder of Curb Records, an independent record label. Curb wrote and performed (with his group The Mike Curb Congregation) the music for the 1969 film ''The Big Bounce''; Doc hears Curb's score while high on PCP, 318

'''Curly's''' 
221; bar on Rampart in Las Vegas, hangout of Puck's and Einar's; former "crossroads saloon" 225;

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Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-20T07:52:27Z

Jglassow: /* Actors */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==Movies==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZihmGVjDys Clip...] 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==Actors==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
171 : Henry Fonda 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==Screenwriters==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==Cinematographers==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==Movie Soundtracks==

318 : Mike Curb 

==Television==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==Cartoons==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==Commercials==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==Characters==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Inherent Vice Reviews

2009-09-10T21:14:12Z

Jglassow: 08/10/09

==Review aggregators==

:[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popus/pynchon.htm The Complete Review]

:[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/from-the-archives-reviewing-thomas-pynchon/ ''The New York Times'': Reviewing Thomas Pynchon...]

==Reviews==

'''Please add any relevant reviews as they come in. Blog reviews are fine as long as they're substantial and more than a few paragraphs.'''

[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=24037880&cds2Pid=22496]

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'''09/06/09''' - [http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/books_literature/article/BVICE06_20090902-182205/289984/ '''Richmond Times-Dispatch'''] Zak M. Salih: "This easy and breezy read is a wonderful introduction for readers who've been frightened away by the author's more massive works (''Gravity's Rainbow'', ''Mason & Dixon'') and his wild writing style. The key to enjoying the ridiculous narrative of ''Inherent Vice'' -- and any Pynchon novel -- is to simply suspend your disbelief. Let the inventive writing style carry you along. And never take things too seriously. After all, this is California in the late 1960s." [http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/books_literature/article/BVICE06_20090902-182205/289984/ Entire review »]

'''08/31/09''' - [http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/ '''Blogcritics Books'''] Richard Marcus: "There's a note of sadness that runs through ''Inherent Vice'' that will hopefully have people questioning the neat and tidy image of the sixties that's being packaged these days. Pynchon make no apologies for where his sympathies lie, with those on the other side of today's right wing moral code. Yet at the same time he doesn't let sentiment or nostalgia prevent him from showing the darker side of that lifestyle. Still, you can't help but feel a pang for what was lost and what might have been when you come to the end of this book. Very few people seem to want to tell the truth about the 1960's but Thomas Pynchon isn't one of them. You couldn't ask for a better guide to its demise." [http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/ Entire review »]

'''08/31/09''' - [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-miley/huff-post-review-thomas-p_b_273008.html '''Huffington Post'''] Mike Miley: "For those who have yet to be introduced to Pynchon, ''Inherent Vice'' would serve as a wonderful gateway drug to his more difficult work, though starting with Inherent Vice may be a bit misleading because his other novels are much more difficult (though more rewarding). On the other hand, those all-too-familiar with the rigor of reading ''Gravity's Rainbow'' or ''Mason & Dixon'' will delight in kicking back with a margarita and taking another trip with their buddy T.P. Either way you slice it, with ''Against the Day'' and ''Inherent Vice'', it's clear that Thomas Pynchon still has it, and he's not going to let up." [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-miley/huff-post-review-thomas-p_b_273008.html Entire review »]

'''08/20/09''' - [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Kirn-t.html?_r=1&em '''New York Times Sunday Book Review'''] Walter Kirn: "If Doc sounds like a literary joke — the Private Eye with drooping lids who can’t trust the evidence of his own senses — then he must be a joke with a lesson to impart, since Pynchon isn’t the type to make us laugh unless he’s really out to make us think. Even in ''V.'' and ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', the colossal novels of ideas that have inspired a thousand dissertations as unreadable as the books are said to be but actually aren’t, he grounds his intellectualism in humor and livens it up with allusions to pop culture while sacrificing none of its deep rigor. He’s our literature’s best metaphysical comedian. The weighty points his work makes about the universe — that it’s slowly winding down as the Big Bang becomes the Final Sigh — tend to relieve our despair, not deepen it, by letting us in on the cosmos’s greatest gags: for example, that the purpose of the Creation was to make itself perfectly unmanageable and purely unintelligible. No wonder so many of Pynchon’s characters revel in chemical dissipation. Entropy — if you can’t beat it, join it." [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Kirn-t.html?_r=1&em Entire review »]

'''08/27/09''' - [http://www.seemagazine.com/article/arts/arts-feature/vice0827/ '''SEE Magazine'''] Clara Loginov: "For my money, at least on first reading, these moments are some of the greatest pleasures the book offers: I couldn’t tell you exactly who dun what in ''Inherent Vice'', but I can tell you about Godzilligan’s Island, and I’m okay with that." [http://www.seemagazine.com/article/arts/arts-feature/vice0827/ Entire review »]

'''08/20/09''' - [http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/08/20/inherent-vice/ '''North Coast Journal'''] Jay Herzog: "The Manson murders hang in the backdrop of the novel, signifying the end of the hippie dream, but there's such a curious lack of real threat in Pynchon's laid-back world that when violence does finally break out it seems a bit out of place. The death-haunted grandiloquence of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' has given way to pothead paranoia, and it's interesting to see how the fantastic elements always present in Pynchon's work are here framed as someone's stoned fantasy. " [http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/08/20/inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/19/09''' - [http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_b7bef7fa-8d10-11de-a123-001cc4c03286.html '''JournalStar.com'''] Francis Moul: "This is not an easy book to read. There are many layers of complexity, yet one also finds just plain fun. Keeping the characters straight is an engaging game, and the plot seems to be continually just out of reach. But the end does come, and with it some finality. Or is there?" [http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_b7bef7fa-8d10-11de-a123-001cc4c03286.html Entire review »]

'''08/18/09''' - [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1207415/Thomas-Pynchon-Inherent-Vice.html '''Daily Mail'''] Helen Brown: "Pynchon's prose is as densely and deftly rolled as ever, loaded with hip erudition, demented digression, super slick dialogue and wacky wordplay. It perfectly reflects the murky mood of Los Angeles after the Manson murders, when the hippy dream had curdled and fear spread 'like blood in a swimming pool'." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1207415/Thomas-Pynchon-Inherent-Vice.html Entire review »]

'''08/16/09''' - [http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-PYNCHON_08-16-09_2KFAQM6_v12.f789f5.html '''Providence Journal'''] Sam Coale: "Ah, but the Sixties are dying. The pre-revolution’s crumbling. Paranoia’s thriving. Nixon’s president. Sharon Tate’s dead. Charlie Manson’s been arrested. Ah, them Sixties: “this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness...” Nostalgic haze mixes with a marijuana-induced miasma in Pynchon territory. Inherent vice is a term used by marine insurance companies, sort of like original sin: “It’s what you can’t avoid.” Many of us won’t. We’re still living off the sweet fumes." [http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-PYNCHON_08-16-09_2KFAQM6_v12.f789f5.html Entire review »]

'''08/15/09''' - [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/08/15/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon.aspx '''National Post'''] Tim Jacobs: "Even through this melancholy, ''Inherent Vice'', like his other novels, offers silly fun and songs galore. Goofy characters abound with trademark Pynchonian names like Puck Beaverton and Vincent Indelicato. Doc enjoys peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches and a character unknowingly wears a pizza on his head. Then there are the goofy acronyms: Heroin Users’ Liberation Kollective (HULK), Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM) and Bong Users’ Revolutionary Brigades (BURBs). Pynchon does his best to make it all fun, but Doc still can’t shake his funk as his era fades." [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/08/15/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon.aspx Entire review »]

'''08/12/09''' - [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-08-12-inherent-vice_N.htm '''USA Today'''] Carol Memmott: "Readers may not always be clear about what's going on, but that's no crime. Most of the characters are high all the time and aren't sure either. Doc, interviewing suspects and witnesses, sometimes wonders, "Did I say that out loud?" More pressing matters for ''Vice's'' characters include wondering why there's "Chicken of the Sea but no Tuna of the Farm" and "trying to remember where the glue is on the Zig-Zag paper." If you think you don't possess the patience or the gray matter to "get" a Pynchon novel, ''Vice'' is for you. This reader would go so far as to call it a beach read." [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-08-12-inherent-vice_N.htm Entire review »]

'''08/10/09''' - [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=24037880&cds2Pid=22496 '''Ward Sutton on Inherent Vice''']

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/books-inherent-vice/ '''Washington Times'''] Christian Toto: "The author wraps his serio-comic story in a relatively conventional fashion, but it's a testament to his narrative control that he could steer the tale toward a satisfying finale. In the end, "Inherent Vice" emerges as a deeply cynical yet amusing snapshot of the Woodstock generation's final days in the sun." [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/books-inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/postopinion/postopbooks/inherent_vice_183674.htm '''New York Post'''] Kyle Smith: "In the three novels that made his reputation  "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49" and the National Book Award winner "Gravity's Rainbow"  Thomas Pynchon used his electric imagination to whip paranoid conspiracies into a froth that bubbled with dread and comedy. Now it's four books later and his fictive powers suggest not tour de force but Tourette's." [http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/postopinion/postopbooks/inherent_vice_183674.htm Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Hey__man__a_Pynchon_private_dick.html '''Philadelphia Inquirer'''] David Hiltbrand: "Literary stoner detectives have been with us almost as long as bongs. A giddy early example was Moses Wine in Roger Simon's 1973 book ''The Big Fix''. Following in that tradition, ''Inherent Vice's'' Doc doesn't so much investigate as he does connect the dots swirling in front of his eyes. He is, like Tyrone Slothrop, the protagonist in Pynchon's masterpiece, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', a passive but jaunty hero." [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Hey__man__a_Pynchon_private_dick.html Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece '''St. Petersburg Times'''] Colette Bancroft: "When you think about it, the tough detective novel is a natural form for Pynchon, given his longtime fictional obsessions with quests, paranoia and conspiracy, and the true nature of the American character. ''Inherent Vice'' makes rich use of the genre, as well as giving Pynchon plenty of opportunity for groaner puns and his beloved shaggy dog jokes (wait till you see what he does with Job 28:18), plus great swaths of flat-out beautiful, lyrical writing. And, despite its twist-and-turn plot, this is the most linear book Pynchon has ever published." [http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1767732.html '''The Independent'''] Thomas Leveritt: "Pynchon is both the US's most serious and most funny writer. With his most accessible book to date – half ''Chinatown'', half ''Fear and Loathing'', all searing jeremiad about the modern American soul – he may have come up with something even the British literati can read." [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1767732.html Entire review »]

'''08/08/09''' - [http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13022546 '''Contra Costa Times'''] Gene Maddaus: "There are also references to local history, including a riff on Gordita Beach's troubled past. Egged on by the Ku Klux Klan, locals are said to have burned a black family's house to the ground and then confiscated the land for a local park. That seems to be a clear reference to Bruce's Beach, which was a black resort until the city of Manhattan Beach seized it in 1924 and turned it into a park. According to local historian Jan Dennis, there was an active local chapter of the KKK and black-owned homes were often torched." [http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13022546 Entire review »]

'''08/08/09''' - [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-fagend-of--the-hippie-dream-1854782.html '''Independent.ie'''] John Boland: "Here's a first  a Thomas Pynchon novel that you can actually read and understand. In his 73rd year, the reclusive author who has furrowed the collective brow of generations of literary students with his dense, complex and often baffling fiction has finally come up with a genial and almost entirely comprehensible shaggy dog story in the form of a crime novel." [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-fagend-of--the-hippie-dream-1854782.html Entire review »]

'''08/07/09''' - [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/RVTI18ELIO.DTL '''The San Francisco Chronicle'''] Alan Cheuse: "If that wit appeals to you, then you're on the same wavelength - and height - of "Inherent Vice," the title of which, by the way, comes from a term out of the marine insurance business that describes breakage and damage you just can't avoid. Which reminded me of William Burroughs' definition of "Naked Lunch" as what you see on the end of your fork as you're raising it to your mouth, or Joyce's "ineluctable modality of the visible" in "Ulysses" - "what you damned well have to see." Pretty good for a minor Pynchon to conjure up the memory of those two books, yes? Or have I just been smoking?" [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/RVTI18ELIO.DTL Entire review »]

'''08/07/09''' - [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334652562017492.html '''The Wall Street Journal'''] Joseph Bottum: "Such confusion may be a deliberate narrative technique. Doc is so stoned most of the time that it is amazing that he manages to keep anything straight. But somehow, out of all the confusing threads, the detective’s investigation begins to weave something interesting in the last quarter of the book. It’s a pretty strange bit of fabric Mr. Pynchon ends up with—a kind of paranoid blanket, embroidered with conspiracy theories—but it manages to cover the mystery elements and put the story to bed in reasonable shape." [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334652562017492.html Entire review »]

'''08/06/09''' - [http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1.1350231 '''Newsday'''] John Anderson: "Raymond Chandler meets Panama Red in Thomas Pynchon's casual, occasionally hilarious "Inherent Vice" - which makes sense for an author whose works can be measured in kilos (especially the last two, "Mason & Dixon" and "Against the Day"). It also makes sense for an author whose work has long married the perversely dystopic to the poetically giddy, with the same cosmic unease with which ''louche noir'' detectives have long found a home under the insistent Los Angeles sun." [http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1.1350231 Entire review »]

'''08/06-12/09''' - [http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/77101/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-book-review '''Time Out New York'''] Joshua Rothkopf: "Quickly, the novel grabs you in a sexier way than anything since ''The Crying of Lot 49'', but with its familiar post-Chinatown structure (and an inevitable doozy of a conspiracy) comes an undeniable lightness. Heroin deals and loan sharks come as an underwhelming conclusion from a book that intimates a deeper social indictment; the heaviest it gets here is a Palo Verdes community dad leaning in and insisting to Doc, “We’re in place.” Still, the welcome vibe of the novel has the feeling of cruising around suburbs on a warm night; it may become an L.A. classic." [http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/77101/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-book-review Entire review »]

'''08/06/09''' - [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503839.html '''Washington Post'''] Michael Dirda: "These majestic works are more than worth the effort, but they aren't what most people would call page-turners or comfort books. Which is just what "Inherent Vice" is. Imagine the cult film "The Big Lebowski" as a novel, with touches of "Chinatown" and "L.A. Confidential" thrown in for good measure. Imagine your favorite Raymond Chandler or James Crumley mystery retold as a hippie whodunit, set in Gordita Beach, Calif., at the very end of the 1960s. Imagine a great American novelist, one who is now a septuagenarian, writing with all the vivacity and bounce of a young man who has just discovered girls. Most of all, imagine sentences and scenes that are so much fun to read that you wish "Inherent Vice" were twice as long as it is. Imagine saying that about a Thomas Pynchon novel." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503839.html Entire review »]

'''08/05/09''' - [http://www.bookforum.com/review/4216 '''BookForum.com'''] Paul La Farge: "An outline of the narrative strands that run through ''Inherent Vice'' would look like a web spun by a spider on marijuana: densely connected in the middle, but lapsing at the edges into loopiness. Suffice it to say that the assembled characters are, for lack of a better word, Pynchonian: there’s the ex-con Tariq Khalil, now affiliated with the Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM); there’s Coy Harlingen, a surf-band saxophonist who may or may not be dead; there’s Fritz, possibly the first hacker to break into the ARPANET (the Internet’s precursor), which at that point consisted of less than a dozen nodes. There are puns and musical numbers and references to the lost continent of Lemuria. And at the center of it all, there’s the Golden Fang, which is certainly a ship but may also be a drug cartel, or a syndicate set up by dentists for tax purposes, or the secret power that controls the world." [http://www.bookforum.com/review/4216 Entire review »]

'''08/05/09''' - [http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/68134--inherent-vice '''The Eye Weekly'''] Brian Joseph Davis: "Given that quick rundown, you may detect a hashy whiff of ''The Big Lebowski'' (and its source text, Robert Altman’s ''The Long Goodbye''), but Pynchon uses no protective irony in regard to telling a mystery set in the counterculture. Almost every character is high — and there are pages where you feel high with them, drifting along before snapping back and exclaiming, “oh yeah, I totally get it” — but Pynchon is almost always in control. Every other line is either deadpan funny or sublimely strange, yet doesn’t detract from Sportello’s quest." [http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/68134--inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''08/09''' - [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html '''Bright Lights Film Journal'''] John Carvill: "Think of it this way: if ''Gravity's Rainbow'' resembles a week-long acid binge, ''Inherent Vice'' is more like a single, perfectly rolled joint. On almost every page, there is something truly remarkable; again and again, Pynchon throws out an unexpected turn of phrase, a perfectly pitched joke, or a dazzlingly beautiful image. Each one of these takes root in your mind, where they ripen and bloom like kernels of psychedelic popcorn. You finish ''Inherent Vice'' and your first instinct is to flip back to the start and enjoy it all over again. It brings to mind what Oscar Wilde said in praise of one of his favourite vices, the cigarette: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" " [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html Entire review »]

[[image:sportello_tatiana-suarez.jpg|caption|Illustration: Tatiana Suarez, for ''The Village Voice''|thumb|right|250px]]
'''08/04/09''' - [http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/books/surf-noir-thomas-pynchon-s-inherent-vice/ '''The Village Voice'''] Zach Baron: "Like ''Vineland's'' Zoyd Wheeler (with whom Doc's cousin once played in a band), Doc is eventually forced to discover that though love itself endures, free-love most definitely does not. Already there's the prospect, in the high, 1970 summer of both Willis Reed and Charles Manson, that "a certain hand might reach terribly out of darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good." Which, if you know the rest of the sad, Nixonite story, is exactly what ended up happening. Bummer, man." [http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/books/surf-noir-thomas-pynchon-s-inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/04/inherent-vice/ '''Christian Science Monitor'''] Carlo Wolff: "I suspect that he wrote “Inherent Vice” in hopes of aligning himself with today’s readers; I don’t feel he invested much in his characters, who rarely transcend cartoon level. '''He already has set up an “Inherent Vice” wiki''', a kind of online index with which to track the characters. This will launch on the date of publication in early August, '''modernizing a book that, despite its hipness and creativity, feels strangely old-fashioned'''. It will join other wikis dedicated to his novels, nurturing a sense of community under the banner of metafiction." [http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/04/inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://flavorwire.com/32195/reviewing-the-reviewers-inherent-vice '''Flavorwire: Reviewing the Reviewers'''] Heather Schwedel: "Thomas Pynchon’s new novel officially comes out today, and it seems like every book critic in the world has already weighed in. The debate over the book’s merits reminds us of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” ''Inherent Vice'' is a detective noir set in ’70s L.A.; the ''Times'' calls it Pynchon Lite, but the ''Wall Street Journal'' wonders if the book could actually be “a classic Pynchon opus masquerading as a light read.”" [http://flavorwire.com/32195/reviewing-the-reviewers-inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://www.slate.com/id/2224020/ '''Slate'''] Jonathan Rosenbaum: "In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there … or … if you were there, then you … or, wait, is it …" Once again, for his seventh novel, ''Inherent Vice'', it sounds as if the author has furnished his own jacket copy, exploiting the doper humor that's often been part of his signature." [http://www.slate.com/id/2224020/ Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aqrE1J9C8Bek '''Washington Post'''] Craig Seligman: "All of which suggests a cold, dark novel -- but as it happens “Inherent Vice” is Pynchon’s sunniest book. He may not have lost his pessimism, but the lethal intensity of the novels he was writing in his 20s and 30s, when his own future was still uncertain, has disappeared. And that’s a problem. For all the corruption and violence and evil that Doc turns up along the way, it never feels like very much is really at stake. The book begins to seem long." [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aqrE1J9C8Bek Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29494393/the_bigger_lebowski '''Rolling Stone'''] Rob Sheffield: "''Inherent Vice'' is the funniest book Pynchon has written. It's also a crazed and majestic summary of everything that makes him a uniquely huge American voice. It has the moral fury that's fueled his work from the start — his ferociously batshit compassion for America and the lost tribes who wander through it. A master of pastiche, Pynchon is working this time in the mode of the hard-boiled detective novel à la Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, although it's more like a hard-boiled egg scrambled during a late-night munchies attack —"
[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29494393/the_bigger_lebowski Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html?hp '''The New York Times'''] - Michiko Kakutani: "If “Vineland” read like a user-friendly companion piece to “The Crying of Lot 49,” then “Inherent Vice” reads like a workmanlike improvisation on “Vineland.” Once again the plot is propelled by a search for a missing woman, a former hippie who consorted with an incongruous representative of the capitalistic power grid. And once again there are efforts by the powers-that-be to turn hippies and potheads to the dark side, to turn them into informants through re-education programs or the enticement of money." [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html?hp Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all '''The New Yorker'''] - Louis Menand: "Pynchon’s capacity for goofball invention is limitless. A list of characters’ names, drastically abridged, might be enough to suggest the variety, and also the relative fineness, of the narrative texture: Ensenada Slim, Flaco the Bad, Dr. Buddy Tubeside, Petunia Leeway, Jason Velveeta, Scott Oof, Sledge Poteet, Leonard Jermaine Loosemeat (a.k.a. El Drano, anagram of Leonard), Delwyn Quight, and Trillium Fortnight. Not overly fine, in other words. Plotwise, there are probably too many pieces of the puzzle to hold in your head, and it’s not completely clear where, or whether, every piece fits. But that, too, is standard business procedure in the form. Despite Chandler’s demand for greater realism, his own plots could be pretty far-fetched, and they’re not always coherent, either. When Howard Hawks was shooting the film adaptation of “The Big Sleep,” he got in touch with Chandler to ask who was supposed to have killed one of the characters, a chauffeur. Chandler was embarrassed to say he didn’t know." [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/751883.html '''The Buffalo News'''] - Jeff Simon: "Lest anyone think “Inherent Vice” isn’t deeply Pynchonesque from its opening sentence (“She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to”), you’ll be immediately disabused of that notion by going back to his amazing first novel “V.,” whose protagonist Benny Profane “schlemiel and human yo-yo” is clearly an East Coast forerunner of “Inherent Vice’s” Doc Sportello. Pynchon’s new protagonist is a short, 1970 hippie and private eye who lives near “Gordita” (read Manhattan) beach in L. A. (shades of Jim Rockford and Harry Orwell), has long hair, smokes every joint he can lay lips on and has no trouble doing a few lines of coke, too, just to be sociable." [http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/751883.html Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' - [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09214/987571-44.stm '''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'''] - Bob Hoover: "Pynchon is brimming over with asides like that one, chucklers that make "Inherent Vice" great entertainment. But, perhaps I need to reconsider, taking into account the man's reputation in some quarters as an American genius. Could his new book really be a symbol-filled allegory about the nature of the modern novel, a Nabokovian joke about fiction and its ultimate meaning? Sounds like I've been smoking some heavy-duty stuff, too. Naw, I think Pynchon's just having a blast, and we are lucky to join in." [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09214/987571-44.stm Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' - [http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/ '''New York Magazine'''] - Sam Anderson: "Pynchon has always been a cartoonist: He specializes in simplification, exaggeration, and brightly colored types. This means that, paradoxically, his wildest invention occurs right at the edge of cliché. He may have finally fallen over that edge. His types, after 45 years, have themselves become types. The characters in ''Inherent Vice'' are not only paranoid, they walk around constantly talking about their paranoia. Aside from the dopily lovable Doc, everyone is just the standard tangle of phonemes attached to a Pynchonesque hobbyhorse: computers, threesomes, chocolate-covered frozen bananas. Switch those hobbyhorses around and you don’t lose much." [http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/ Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas1/ '''BlogCritics'''] - Ted Gioia:
"The small details are half the fun here. For no extra charge, the reader is given a new interpretation of the Japanese movie ''Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster'' (1964) which explicates it as a reworking of ''Roman Holiday'' (1953) — full disclosure: I still can't decide whether Ghidrah is supposed to be Audrey Hepburn or Gregory Peck. We find Henry Kissinger on the ''Today'' show, formulating foreign policy: "Vell, den, ve schould chust bombp dem, schouldn't ve?" We learn about a Beverly Hills auto collision repair shop called ''The Resurrection of the Body''. And we find a health food joint off Melrose called ''The Price of Wisdom'', which is located upstairs from Ruby's Lounge — but you will need to check out Job 28:18 to figure that one out."
[http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas1/ Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-thomas-pynchon2-2009aug02,0,6295118.story '''Los Angeles Times'''] - Carolyn Kellogg:
"Still, after getting pretty far out, "Inherent Vice" eventually circles back and ties up all its loose ends. It has a climactic moment, a cushiony denouement -- by gum, closure. If this stands in counterpoint to Pynchon's most acclaimed work, perhaps we should pay heed to the novel's title: "Inherent Vice" refers to a hidden defect that undermines a property's worth, a marine-legal term for a Shakespearean flaw. It could refer to Los Angeles; it could refer to the 1960s. Or it could refer to the author's work itself: With Pynchon's brilliance comes readability."
[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-thomas-pynchon2-2009aug02,0,6295118.story Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/08/02/pynchons_inherent_vice_delivers_manic_requiem_for_60s_70s/?page=1 '''The Boston Globe'''] - Richard Eder:
"The hopes are recalled, reconstituted, and chastened in “Inherent Vice’’ and so are the ’70s shadows that overtook them. As for the beach, in California, it is restricted in some places, turned tawdry in others; though with beauty enough along large stretches, surfboarding still, and lots of bicycling." [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/08/02/pynchons_inherent_vice_delivers_manic_requiem_for_60s_70s/?page=1 Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/674817 '''TheStar.com'''] - Alex Good: "''Inherent Vice'' is also nostalgic in that it takes us back to earlier Pynchon: the tangled intersection of politics, technology, and paranoia, a landscape of secret societies (here it's the Golden Fang or Chryskylodon) and submerged continents. Of course, there's lots of sinister slapstick involving perversely unmusical song lyrics and a bewildering cast of characters with such silly names as Sauncho Smilax, Bigfoot Bjornsen, Japonica Fenway, Special FBI Agents Flatweed and Borderline and sexy stewardesses Motella and Lourdes." [http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/674817 Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review '''The Guardian'''] - Christopher Tayler: "Behind a lot of Pynchon's complication, there's a simple sadness about lost possibilities and the things that America chooses to do to itself. It's expressed in the closing vision of Californian exurbia in ''The Crying of Lot 49'', and it's here too in Doc's wish, on a misty freeway, "for the fog to burn away, and for something else this time, somehow, to be there instead". Sometimes, reading the book, I found myself wondering if Pynchon, of all people, hadn't undersold the era's apocalyptic paranoia. You get a much stronger sense of fear and confusion from Joan Didion's ''The White Album'' or Robert Stone's ''Dog Soldiers'' - more conservative books in some ways, but also more beady-eyed about the myths of the 60s."
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-books-review-vice-0729-08aug01,0,7373405.story '''Chicago Tribune'''] - Art Winslow:
"We find ourselves on a cultural tour that is alien and not. The real and fictional points of interest include the Aryan Brotherhood, a right-wing paramilitary auxiliary to the police department, groups such as the Bong Users' Revolutionary Brigades and Warriors Against the Black Man Armed Militia, heroin traffickers, ARPAnet (a precursor of the Internet), FBI agents named Fleetwood and Borderline, U.S. currency with Nixon's face on it, Chick Planet Massage, lost continents, zombie flicks, surf-music bands, Wyatt Earp's mug with its mustache protector, Dagwood and Yosemite Sam, and period television shows from "The Flying Nun" and "Adam-12" to "Dark Shadows" and "Gilligan's Island." Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll abound."
[http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-books-review-vice-0729-08aug01,0,7373405.story Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1914149,00.html '''Time Magazine'''] - Richard Lacayo: "And speaking of Leonard, ''Inherent Vice'' is like nothing so much as an Elmore Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach–to–Vegas locales that Leonard has touched down in. But the earthbound author of Get Shorty doesn't go in for Pynchon's lyrical riffs about the immemorial forces that pull the world's secret levers and keep the dispossessed of all kinds — the poor, the nonwhite, the nonconforming — from coming into their own."
[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1914149,00.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/07/is_this_thomas_pynchons_late_s.html '''BBC'''] - Paul Mason: "Said observed that the late style artist typically "abandons communication with the established social order of which he is a part and achieves a contradictory, alienated relationship with it". But Pynchon doesn't need to: he achieved that long ago. This late turn in his literary style achieves something opposite but equally surprising. It is a move towards form, and closed form at that, towards genre, and towards communication. And it is a move away from subtext."
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/07/is_this_thomas_pynchons_late_s.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html Salon.com] - Laura Miller: "Hard-boiled detective fiction may not seem like the ideal vehicle for the often cryptic style and subject matter of Thomas Pynchon, but his newest novel proves otherwise. An account of the adventures of a hippie private eye pursuing assorted nonlucrative commissions in a Southern California beach town around 1970, "Inherent Vice" is a sun-struck, pot-addled shaggy dog story that fuses the sulky skepticism of Raymond Chandler with the good-natured scrappiness of "The Big Lebowski." It's an inspired formula; the mystery plot supplies the novel with a minimum of structure (as well as confidence that there's some point to the enterprise) and the genre provides ample cover for Pynchon's literary weaknesses." [http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html Entire review].

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.counterpunch.org/cabal07312009.html '''CounterPunch'''] - Alan Cabal:
"It’s a hugely comic novel that ends on a wistful, tragic note lost in the fog, out on the freeway, the procession of the preterite, not sure where they’re going, not sure where they are. It’s a love letter to the Sixties, a wake, an elegy to doomed aspirations and thwarted idealism, but it speaks to our present condition directly and clearly, with an open heart. Nobody does it better."
[http://www.counterpunch.org/cabal07312009.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1764863.html '''The Independent (UK)'''] - Andy Martin: "''Inherent Vice'' is Pynchon's hymn to the Sixties, both homage and lament. In the novel we are at the end of the long Sixties, when the Manson gang have already sliced up Sharon Tate, the US military is still napalming Vietnam, and the West Coast counter-culture is suffering from an immense post-coital depression and hangover."
[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1764863.html Entire review »]

'''07/30/09''' -[http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/07/fiction_review_inherent_vice.html '''OregonLive'''] - Vernon Peterson:
"But something more serious is the underlying theme of "Inherent Vice." Southern California, America's leading edge and symbol, is not a promise of paradise gone sour. This Eden had a fatal flaw from the beginning. Real estate, a persistent theme in Pynchon's American stories, "Against the Day," "Mason & Dixon," "Vineland" and "The Crying of Lot 49," is the herald of New World doom. The empire has been built on the graves of Native Americans, dispossessed and nearly annihilated from one coast to the other."
[http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/07/fiction_review_inherent_vice.html Entire review »]

'''07/30/09''' -[http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/pynchon-chandler-book-readers '''New Statesman'''] - David Flusfeder:
"The tropes of the hard-boiled genre are here: a detective with a half-mended heart and a propensity to be beaten unconscious at crime scenes; a quest to track the missing; a rich folks' nuthouse; the corrupt LAPD. But whereas Chandler once admitted that whenever he didn't know how to advance his plot, he'd have a man walk through a doorway holding a gun, Pynchon just has his detective fire up another joint. It is in the moments away from the stoned haze of plot that this book is at its best. The sentences have their stately beauty, and Pynchon is poignantly good on the heartsick detective, his "lovelorn rectogenital throb"."
[http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/pynchon-chandler-book-readers Entire review »]

'''07/29/09''' - [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?Crime_tale%92s_a_rich_diversion&in_article_id=710577&in_page_id=28 '''Metro.co.uk'''] - Alan Chadwick: "Best of all, however, is the way Pynchon maps the psycho-geography and shifting sociopolitical sands of America at the time (drugs; the widening gulf between 'straight life' and counterculture; paranoia; and secret information)." [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?Crime_tale%92s_a_rich_diversion&in_article_id=710577&in_page_id=28 Entire review »]

'''07/28/09''' - [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/backwash-from-the-woodstock-generation/Content?oid=1928147 '''The Stranger'''] - Paul Constant: "Beneath it all, surfacing sporadically like a cheap serial villain, is the nascent internet, which in the late '60s was called the ARPAnet. One of Doc's friends introduces him to the prototypical World Wide Web, and he increasingly relies on it for information. He wonders why "they"—the men he's positive rule the world from a smoke-filled room—don't make it illegal, the way "they" criminalized acid. Pynchon, doing some of the nimblest, most whimsical work of his career, doesn't provide the answer to that mystery, or many of the mysteries in Vice for that matter, but he shares his infectious excitement about living in a world full of useless, beautiful ideas. For Pynchon, it's not the truth but the search for the truth that matters." [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/backwash-from-the-woodstock-generation/Content?oid=1928147 Entire review »]

'''07/28/09''' - [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/87111-Surf-bored/ '''The Boston Phoenix'''] - Peter Keough: "So it's a long way around the block for little reward. And though it's true that Pynchon never pays off in terms of closure or neatly resolved meaning (that being the point), in ''Inherent Vice'', ambiguity deteriorates into inanity. He's either trying too hard or not hard enough. Okay, you could scarcely expect another densely woven, absurdist masterpiece so soon after 2006's magnum opus, ''Against the Day'', which at nearly 1100 pages weighed in as Pynchon's heaviest tome to date. Then again, ''Lot 49'' came out only three years after his groundbreaking debut, ''V.''" [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/87111-Surf-bored/ Entire review »]

'''07/27/09''' - [http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2009/07/27/book-review-with-his-seventh-novel-inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon-invents-a-new-genre-marijuana-noir/ '''guardian.co.uk | Creative Loafing'''] - Cooper Levey-Baker: "But despite its uncharacteristic focus and brevity, it’s clear from sentence structure alone that ''Inherent Vice'' could have only sprung from the pen of Thomas Pynchon. One early sentence describing an LA dry spell goes like this: “In the little apartment complexes the wind entered narrowing to whistle through the stairwells and ramps and catwalks, and the leaves of the palm trees outside rattled together with a liquid sound, so that from inside, in the darkened rooms, in louvered light, it sounded like a rainstorm, the wind raging in the concrete geometry, the palms beating together like the rush of a tropical downpour, enough to get you to open the door and look outside, and of course there’d only be the same hot cloudless depth of day, no rain in sight." [http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2009/07/27/book-review-with-his-seventh-novel-inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon-invents-a-new-genre-marijuana-noir/ Entire review »]

'''07/26/09''' - [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice '''guardian.co.uk | TheObserver'''] - Sarah Churchwell: "Like many a Pynchon protagonist before him, Sportello is on a doomed quest. Pynchon's novels are always more or less picaresque journeys; his characters travel perpetually, but rarely arrive anywhere meaningful. What ''Gravity's Rainbow'' calls "the terrible politics of the Grail" means that quests in Pynchon are inevitable and also inevitable failures. At best, they will be mock-heroic; at worst, they will be tragic, but they will never succeed. ''Inherent Vice'' may be Pynchon's most overtly nostalgic book, featuring a character overcome by a longing he pretends to shrug off." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''07/24/09''' - [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5893305/Inherent-Vice-by-Thomas-Pynchon-review.html '''Telegraph.co.uk'''] - Tim Martin: "Unlike much of Pynchon’s other work, however, ''Inherent Vice'' wears its learning lightly, intermixing it with dialogue that zings, jokes that never overstay their welcome and a stream of hilariously bad puns and wickedly acute observations. Who would have thought it? One of America’s most wilful and obscure writers has produced the most enjoyable beach read of the summer." [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5893305/Inherent-Vice-by-Thomas-Pynchon-review.html Entire review »]

'''07/06/09''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry “Doc” Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, curvaceous femme fatales. We’re in early-’70s Southern California, so Gordita Beach inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City, too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines and ideal for Pynchon’s recurring tragicomedy of America as the perfect wave that got away."
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Inherent Vice Reviews

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'''09/06/09''' - [http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/books_literature/article/BVICE06_20090902-182205/289984/ '''Richmond Times-Dispatch'''] Zak M. Salih: "This easy and breezy read is a wonderful introduction for readers who've been frightened away by the author's more massive works (''Gravity's Rainbow'', ''Mason & Dixon'') and his wild writing style. The key to enjoying the ridiculous narrative of ''Inherent Vice'' -- and any Pynchon novel -- is to simply suspend your disbelief. Let the inventive writing style carry you along. And never take things too seriously. After all, this is California in the late 1960s." [http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/books_literature/article/BVICE06_20090902-182205/289984/ Entire review »]

'''08/31/09''' - [http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/ '''Blogcritics Books'''] Richard Marcus: "There's a note of sadness that runs through ''Inherent Vice'' that will hopefully have people questioning the neat and tidy image of the sixties that's being packaged these days. Pynchon make no apologies for where his sympathies lie, with those on the other side of today's right wing moral code. Yet at the same time he doesn't let sentiment or nostalgia prevent him from showing the darker side of that lifestyle. Still, you can't help but feel a pang for what was lost and what might have been when you come to the end of this book. Very few people seem to want to tell the truth about the 1960's but Thomas Pynchon isn't one of them. You couldn't ask for a better guide to its demise." [http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/ Entire review »]

'''08/31/09''' - [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-miley/huff-post-review-thomas-p_b_273008.html '''Huffington Post'''] Mike Miley: "For those who have yet to be introduced to Pynchon, ''Inherent Vice'' would serve as a wonderful gateway drug to his more difficult work, though starting with Inherent Vice may be a bit misleading because his other novels are much more difficult (though more rewarding). On the other hand, those all-too-familiar with the rigor of reading ''Gravity's Rainbow'' or ''Mason & Dixon'' will delight in kicking back with a margarita and taking another trip with their buddy T.P. Either way you slice it, with ''Against the Day'' and ''Inherent Vice'', it's clear that Thomas Pynchon still has it, and he's not going to let up." [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-miley/huff-post-review-thomas-p_b_273008.html Entire review »]

'''08/20/09''' - [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Kirn-t.html?_r=1&em '''New York Times Sunday Book Review'''] Walter Kirn: "If Doc sounds like a literary joke — the Private Eye with drooping lids who can’t trust the evidence of his own senses — then he must be a joke with a lesson to impart, since Pynchon isn’t the type to make us laugh unless he’s really out to make us think. Even in ''V.'' and ''Gravity’s Rainbow'', the colossal novels of ideas that have inspired a thousand dissertations as unreadable as the books are said to be but actually aren’t, he grounds his intellectualism in humor and livens it up with allusions to pop culture while sacrificing none of its deep rigor. He’s our literature’s best metaphysical comedian. The weighty points his work makes about the universe — that it’s slowly winding down as the Big Bang becomes the Final Sigh — tend to relieve our despair, not deepen it, by letting us in on the cosmos’s greatest gags: for example, that the purpose of the Creation was to make itself perfectly unmanageable and purely unintelligible. No wonder so many of Pynchon’s characters revel in chemical dissipation. Entropy — if you can’t beat it, join it." [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Kirn-t.html?_r=1&em Entire review »]

'''08/27/09''' - [http://www.seemagazine.com/article/arts/arts-feature/vice0827/ '''SEE Magazine'''] Clara Loginov: "For my money, at least on first reading, these moments are some of the greatest pleasures the book offers: I couldn’t tell you exactly who dun what in ''Inherent Vice'', but I can tell you about Godzilligan’s Island, and I’m okay with that." [http://www.seemagazine.com/article/arts/arts-feature/vice0827/ Entire review »]

'''08/20/09''' - [http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/08/20/inherent-vice/ '''North Coast Journal'''] Jay Herzog: "The Manson murders hang in the backdrop of the novel, signifying the end of the hippie dream, but there's such a curious lack of real threat in Pynchon's laid-back world that when violence does finally break out it seems a bit out of place. The death-haunted grandiloquence of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' has given way to pothead paranoia, and it's interesting to see how the fantastic elements always present in Pynchon's work are here framed as someone's stoned fantasy. " [http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/08/20/inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/19/09''' - [http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_b7bef7fa-8d10-11de-a123-001cc4c03286.html '''JournalStar.com'''] Francis Moul: "This is not an easy book to read. There are many layers of complexity, yet one also finds just plain fun. Keeping the characters straight is an engaging game, and the plot seems to be continually just out of reach. But the end does come, and with it some finality. Or is there?" [http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_b7bef7fa-8d10-11de-a123-001cc4c03286.html Entire review »]

'''08/18/09''' - [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1207415/Thomas-Pynchon-Inherent-Vice.html '''Daily Mail'''] Helen Brown: "Pynchon's prose is as densely and deftly rolled as ever, loaded with hip erudition, demented digression, super slick dialogue and wacky wordplay. It perfectly reflects the murky mood of Los Angeles after the Manson murders, when the hippy dream had curdled and fear spread 'like blood in a swimming pool'." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1207415/Thomas-Pynchon-Inherent-Vice.html Entire review »]

'''08/16/09''' - [http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-PYNCHON_08-16-09_2KFAQM6_v12.f789f5.html '''Providence Journal'''] Sam Coale: "Ah, but the Sixties are dying. The pre-revolution’s crumbling. Paranoia’s thriving. Nixon’s president. Sharon Tate’s dead. Charlie Manson’s been arrested. Ah, them Sixties: “this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness...” Nostalgic haze mixes with a marijuana-induced miasma in Pynchon territory. Inherent vice is a term used by marine insurance companies, sort of like original sin: “It’s what you can’t avoid.” Many of us won’t. We’re still living off the sweet fumes." [http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK-PYNCHON_08-16-09_2KFAQM6_v12.f789f5.html Entire review »]

'''08/15/09''' - [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/08/15/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon.aspx '''National Post'''] Tim Jacobs: "Even through this melancholy, ''Inherent Vice'', like his other novels, offers silly fun and songs galore. Goofy characters abound with trademark Pynchonian names like Puck Beaverton and Vincent Indelicato. Doc enjoys peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches and a character unknowingly wears a pizza on his head. Then there are the goofy acronyms: Heroin Users’ Liberation Kollective (HULK), Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM) and Bong Users’ Revolutionary Brigades (BURBs). Pynchon does his best to make it all fun, but Doc still can’t shake his funk as his era fades." [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/08/15/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon.aspx Entire review »]

'''08/12/09''' - [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-08-12-inherent-vice_N.htm '''USA Today'''] Carol Memmott: "Readers may not always be clear about what's going on, but that's no crime. Most of the characters are high all the time and aren't sure either. Doc, interviewing suspects and witnesses, sometimes wonders, "Did I say that out loud?" More pressing matters for ''Vice's'' characters include wondering why there's "Chicken of the Sea but no Tuna of the Farm" and "trying to remember where the glue is on the Zig-Zag paper." If you think you don't possess the patience or the gray matter to "get" a Pynchon novel, ''Vice'' is for you. This reader would go so far as to call it a beach read." [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-08-12-inherent-vice_N.htm Entire review »]

'''8/10/09''' - [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=24037880&cds2Pid=22496 '''Ward Sutton on Inherent Vice''']

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/books-inherent-vice/ '''Washington Times'''] Christian Toto: "The author wraps his serio-comic story in a relatively conventional fashion, but it's a testament to his narrative control that he could steer the tale toward a satisfying finale. In the end, "Inherent Vice" emerges as a deeply cynical yet amusing snapshot of the Woodstock generation's final days in the sun." [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/books-inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/postopinion/postopbooks/inherent_vice_183674.htm '''New York Post'''] Kyle Smith: "In the three novels that made his reputation  "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49" and the National Book Award winner "Gravity's Rainbow"  Thomas Pynchon used his electric imagination to whip paranoid conspiracies into a froth that bubbled with dread and comedy. Now it's four books later and his fictive powers suggest not tour de force but Tourette's." [http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/postopinion/postopbooks/inherent_vice_183674.htm Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Hey__man__a_Pynchon_private_dick.html '''Philadelphia Inquirer'''] David Hiltbrand: "Literary stoner detectives have been with us almost as long as bongs. A giddy early example was Moses Wine in Roger Simon's 1973 book ''The Big Fix''. Following in that tradition, ''Inherent Vice's'' Doc doesn't so much investigate as he does connect the dots swirling in front of his eyes. He is, like Tyrone Slothrop, the protagonist in Pynchon's masterpiece, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', a passive but jaunty hero." [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20090809_Hey__man__a_Pynchon_private_dick.html Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece '''St. Petersburg Times'''] Colette Bancroft: "When you think about it, the tough detective novel is a natural form for Pynchon, given his longtime fictional obsessions with quests, paranoia and conspiracy, and the true nature of the American character. ''Inherent Vice'' makes rich use of the genre, as well as giving Pynchon plenty of opportunity for groaner puns and his beloved shaggy dog jokes (wait till you see what he does with Job 28:18), plus great swaths of flat-out beautiful, lyrical writing. And, despite its twist-and-turn plot, this is the most linear book Pynchon has ever published." [http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article1024726.ece Entire review »]

'''08/09/09''' - [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1767732.html '''The Independent'''] Thomas Leveritt: "Pynchon is both the US's most serious and most funny writer. With his most accessible book to date – half ''Chinatown'', half ''Fear and Loathing'', all searing jeremiad about the modern American soul – he may have come up with something even the British literati can read." [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1767732.html Entire review »]

'''08/08/09''' - [http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13022546 '''Contra Costa Times'''] Gene Maddaus: "There are also references to local history, including a riff on Gordita Beach's troubled past. Egged on by the Ku Klux Klan, locals are said to have burned a black family's house to the ground and then confiscated the land for a local park. That seems to be a clear reference to Bruce's Beach, which was a black resort until the city of Manhattan Beach seized it in 1924 and turned it into a park. According to local historian Jan Dennis, there was an active local chapter of the KKK and black-owned homes were often torched." [http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13022546 Entire review »]

'''08/08/09''' - [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-fagend-of--the-hippie-dream-1854782.html '''Independent.ie'''] John Boland: "Here's a first  a Thomas Pynchon novel that you can actually read and understand. In his 73rd year, the reclusive author who has furrowed the collective brow of generations of literary students with his dense, complex and often baffling fiction has finally come up with a genial and almost entirely comprehensible shaggy dog story in the form of a crime novel." [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-fagend-of--the-hippie-dream-1854782.html Entire review »]

'''08/07/09''' - [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/RVTI18ELIO.DTL '''The San Francisco Chronicle'''] Alan Cheuse: "If that wit appeals to you, then you're on the same wavelength - and height - of "Inherent Vice," the title of which, by the way, comes from a term out of the marine insurance business that describes breakage and damage you just can't avoid. Which reminded me of William Burroughs' definition of "Naked Lunch" as what you see on the end of your fork as you're raising it to your mouth, or Joyce's "ineluctable modality of the visible" in "Ulysses" - "what you damned well have to see." Pretty good for a minor Pynchon to conjure up the memory of those two books, yes? Or have I just been smoking?" [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/RVTI18ELIO.DTL Entire review »]

'''08/07/09''' - [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334652562017492.html '''The Wall Street Journal'''] Joseph Bottum: "Such confusion may be a deliberate narrative technique. Doc is so stoned most of the time that it is amazing that he manages to keep anything straight. But somehow, out of all the confusing threads, the detective’s investigation begins to weave something interesting in the last quarter of the book. It’s a pretty strange bit of fabric Mr. Pynchon ends up with—a kind of paranoid blanket, embroidered with conspiracy theories—but it manages to cover the mystery elements and put the story to bed in reasonable shape." [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334652562017492.html Entire review »]

'''08/06/09''' - [http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1.1350231 '''Newsday'''] John Anderson: "Raymond Chandler meets Panama Red in Thomas Pynchon's casual, occasionally hilarious "Inherent Vice" - which makes sense for an author whose works can be measured in kilos (especially the last two, "Mason & Dixon" and "Against the Day"). It also makes sense for an author whose work has long married the perversely dystopic to the poetically giddy, with the same cosmic unease with which ''louche noir'' detectives have long found a home under the insistent Los Angeles sun." [http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1.1350231 Entire review »]

'''08/06-12/09''' - [http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/77101/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-book-review '''Time Out New York'''] Joshua Rothkopf: "Quickly, the novel grabs you in a sexier way than anything since ''The Crying of Lot 49'', but with its familiar post-Chinatown structure (and an inevitable doozy of a conspiracy) comes an undeniable lightness. Heroin deals and loan sharks come as an underwhelming conclusion from a book that intimates a deeper social indictment; the heaviest it gets here is a Palo Verdes community dad leaning in and insisting to Doc, “We’re in place.” Still, the welcome vibe of the novel has the feeling of cruising around suburbs on a warm night; it may become an L.A. classic." [http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/77101/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-book-review Entire review »]

'''08/06/09''' - [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503839.html '''Washington Post'''] Michael Dirda: "These majestic works are more than worth the effort, but they aren't what most people would call page-turners or comfort books. Which is just what "Inherent Vice" is. Imagine the cult film "The Big Lebowski" as a novel, with touches of "Chinatown" and "L.A. Confidential" thrown in for good measure. Imagine your favorite Raymond Chandler or James Crumley mystery retold as a hippie whodunit, set in Gordita Beach, Calif., at the very end of the 1960s. Imagine a great American novelist, one who is now a septuagenarian, writing with all the vivacity and bounce of a young man who has just discovered girls. Most of all, imagine sentences and scenes that are so much fun to read that you wish "Inherent Vice" were twice as long as it is. Imagine saying that about a Thomas Pynchon novel." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503839.html Entire review »]

'''08/05/09''' - [http://www.bookforum.com/review/4216 '''BookForum.com'''] Paul La Farge: "An outline of the narrative strands that run through ''Inherent Vice'' would look like a web spun by a spider on marijuana: densely connected in the middle, but lapsing at the edges into loopiness. Suffice it to say that the assembled characters are, for lack of a better word, Pynchonian: there’s the ex-con Tariq Khalil, now affiliated with the Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM); there’s Coy Harlingen, a surf-band saxophonist who may or may not be dead; there’s Fritz, possibly the first hacker to break into the ARPANET (the Internet’s precursor), which at that point consisted of less than a dozen nodes. There are puns and musical numbers and references to the lost continent of Lemuria. And at the center of it all, there’s the Golden Fang, which is certainly a ship but may also be a drug cartel, or a syndicate set up by dentists for tax purposes, or the secret power that controls the world." [http://www.bookforum.com/review/4216 Entire review »]

'''08/05/09''' - [http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/68134--inherent-vice '''The Eye Weekly'''] Brian Joseph Davis: "Given that quick rundown, you may detect a hashy whiff of ''The Big Lebowski'' (and its source text, Robert Altman’s ''The Long Goodbye''), but Pynchon uses no protective irony in regard to telling a mystery set in the counterculture. Almost every character is high — and there are pages where you feel high with them, drifting along before snapping back and exclaiming, “oh yeah, I totally get it” — but Pynchon is almost always in control. Every other line is either deadpan funny or sublimely strange, yet doesn’t detract from Sportello’s quest." [http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/books/article/68134--inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''08/09''' - [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html '''Bright Lights Film Journal'''] John Carvill: "Think of it this way: if ''Gravity's Rainbow'' resembles a week-long acid binge, ''Inherent Vice'' is more like a single, perfectly rolled joint. On almost every page, there is something truly remarkable; again and again, Pynchon throws out an unexpected turn of phrase, a perfectly pitched joke, or a dazzlingly beautiful image. Each one of these takes root in your mind, where they ripen and bloom like kernels of psychedelic popcorn. You finish ''Inherent Vice'' and your first instinct is to flip back to the start and enjoy it all over again. It brings to mind what Oscar Wilde said in praise of one of his favourite vices, the cigarette: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" " [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html Entire review »]

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'''08/04/09''' - [http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/books/surf-noir-thomas-pynchon-s-inherent-vice/ '''The Village Voice'''] Zach Baron: "Like ''Vineland's'' Zoyd Wheeler (with whom Doc's cousin once played in a band), Doc is eventually forced to discover that though love itself endures, free-love most definitely does not. Already there's the prospect, in the high, 1970 summer of both Willis Reed and Charles Manson, that "a certain hand might reach terribly out of darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good." Which, if you know the rest of the sad, Nixonite story, is exactly what ended up happening. Bummer, man." [http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/books/surf-noir-thomas-pynchon-s-inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/04/inherent-vice/ '''Christian Science Monitor'''] Carlo Wolff: "I suspect that he wrote “Inherent Vice” in hopes of aligning himself with today’s readers; I don’t feel he invested much in his characters, who rarely transcend cartoon level. '''He already has set up an “Inherent Vice” wiki''', a kind of online index with which to track the characters. This will launch on the date of publication in early August, '''modernizing a book that, despite its hipness and creativity, feels strangely old-fashioned'''. It will join other wikis dedicated to his novels, nurturing a sense of community under the banner of metafiction." [http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/04/inherent-vice/ Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://flavorwire.com/32195/reviewing-the-reviewers-inherent-vice '''Flavorwire: Reviewing the Reviewers'''] Heather Schwedel: "Thomas Pynchon’s new novel officially comes out today, and it seems like every book critic in the world has already weighed in. The debate over the book’s merits reminds us of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” ''Inherent Vice'' is a detective noir set in ’70s L.A.; the ''Times'' calls it Pynchon Lite, but the ''Wall Street Journal'' wonders if the book could actually be “a classic Pynchon opus masquerading as a light read.”" [http://flavorwire.com/32195/reviewing-the-reviewers-inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''08/04/09''' - [http://www.slate.com/id/2224020/ '''Slate'''] Jonathan Rosenbaum: "In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there … or … if you were there, then you … or, wait, is it …" Once again, for his seventh novel, ''Inherent Vice'', it sounds as if the author has furnished his own jacket copy, exploiting the doper humor that's often been part of his signature." [http://www.slate.com/id/2224020/ Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aqrE1J9C8Bek '''Washington Post'''] Craig Seligman: "All of which suggests a cold, dark novel -- but as it happens “Inherent Vice” is Pynchon’s sunniest book. He may not have lost his pessimism, but the lethal intensity of the novels he was writing in his 20s and 30s, when his own future was still uncertain, has disappeared. And that’s a problem. For all the corruption and violence and evil that Doc turns up along the way, it never feels like very much is really at stake. The book begins to seem long." [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aqrE1J9C8Bek Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29494393/the_bigger_lebowski '''Rolling Stone'''] Rob Sheffield: "''Inherent Vice'' is the funniest book Pynchon has written. It's also a crazed and majestic summary of everything that makes him a uniquely huge American voice. It has the moral fury that's fueled his work from the start — his ferociously batshit compassion for America and the lost tribes who wander through it. A master of pastiche, Pynchon is working this time in the mode of the hard-boiled detective novel à la Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, although it's more like a hard-boiled egg scrambled during a late-night munchies attack —"
[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29494393/the_bigger_lebowski Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html?hp '''The New York Times'''] - Michiko Kakutani: "If “Vineland” read like a user-friendly companion piece to “The Crying of Lot 49,” then “Inherent Vice” reads like a workmanlike improvisation on “Vineland.” Once again the plot is propelled by a search for a missing woman, a former hippie who consorted with an incongruous representative of the capitalistic power grid. And once again there are efforts by the powers-that-be to turn hippies and potheads to the dark side, to turn them into informants through re-education programs or the enticement of money." [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html?hp Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all '''The New Yorker'''] - Louis Menand: "Pynchon’s capacity for goofball invention is limitless. A list of characters’ names, drastically abridged, might be enough to suggest the variety, and also the relative fineness, of the narrative texture: Ensenada Slim, Flaco the Bad, Dr. Buddy Tubeside, Petunia Leeway, Jason Velveeta, Scott Oof, Sledge Poteet, Leonard Jermaine Loosemeat (a.k.a. El Drano, anagram of Leonard), Delwyn Quight, and Trillium Fortnight. Not overly fine, in other words. Plotwise, there are probably too many pieces of the puzzle to hold in your head, and it’s not completely clear where, or whether, every piece fits. But that, too, is standard business procedure in the form. Despite Chandler’s demand for greater realism, his own plots could be pretty far-fetched, and they’re not always coherent, either. When Howard Hawks was shooting the film adaptation of “The Big Sleep,” he got in touch with Chandler to ask who was supposed to have killed one of the characters, a chauffeur. Chandler was embarrassed to say he didn’t know." [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all Entire review »]

'''08/03/09''' - [http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/751883.html '''The Buffalo News'''] - Jeff Simon: "Lest anyone think “Inherent Vice” isn’t deeply Pynchonesque from its opening sentence (“She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to”), you’ll be immediately disabused of that notion by going back to his amazing first novel “V.,” whose protagonist Benny Profane “schlemiel and human yo-yo” is clearly an East Coast forerunner of “Inherent Vice’s” Doc Sportello. Pynchon’s new protagonist is a short, 1970 hippie and private eye who lives near “Gordita” (read Manhattan) beach in L. A. (shades of Jim Rockford and Harry Orwell), has long hair, smokes every joint he can lay lips on and has no trouble doing a few lines of coke, too, just to be sociable." [http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/751883.html Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' - [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09214/987571-44.stm '''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'''] - Bob Hoover: "Pynchon is brimming over with asides like that one, chucklers that make "Inherent Vice" great entertainment. But, perhaps I need to reconsider, taking into account the man's reputation in some quarters as an American genius. Could his new book really be a symbol-filled allegory about the nature of the modern novel, a Nabokovian joke about fiction and its ultimate meaning? Sounds like I've been smoking some heavy-duty stuff, too. Naw, I think Pynchon's just having a blast, and we are lucky to join in." [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09214/987571-44.stm Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' - [http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/ '''New York Magazine'''] - Sam Anderson: "Pynchon has always been a cartoonist: He specializes in simplification, exaggeration, and brightly colored types. This means that, paradoxically, his wildest invention occurs right at the edge of cliché. He may have finally fallen over that edge. His types, after 45 years, have themselves become types. The characters in ''Inherent Vice'' are not only paranoid, they walk around constantly talking about their paranoia. Aside from the dopily lovable Doc, everyone is just the standard tangle of phonemes attached to a Pynchonesque hobbyhorse: computers, threesomes, chocolate-covered frozen bananas. Switch those hobbyhorses around and you don’t lose much." [http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58182/ Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas1/ '''BlogCritics'''] - Ted Gioia:
"The small details are half the fun here. For no extra charge, the reader is given a new interpretation of the Japanese movie ''Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster'' (1964) which explicates it as a reworking of ''Roman Holiday'' (1953) — full disclosure: I still can't decide whether Ghidrah is supposed to be Audrey Hepburn or Gregory Peck. We find Henry Kissinger on the ''Today'' show, formulating foreign policy: "Vell, den, ve schould chust bombp dem, schouldn't ve?" We learn about a Beverly Hills auto collision repair shop called ''The Resurrection of the Body''. And we find a health food joint off Melrose called ''The Price of Wisdom'', which is located upstairs from Ruby's Lounge — but you will need to check out Job 28:18 to figure that one out."
[http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas1/ Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-thomas-pynchon2-2009aug02,0,6295118.story '''Los Angeles Times'''] - Carolyn Kellogg:
"Still, after getting pretty far out, "Inherent Vice" eventually circles back and ties up all its loose ends. It has a climactic moment, a cushiony denouement -- by gum, closure. If this stands in counterpoint to Pynchon's most acclaimed work, perhaps we should pay heed to the novel's title: "Inherent Vice" refers to a hidden defect that undermines a property's worth, a marine-legal term for a Shakespearean flaw. It could refer to Los Angeles; it could refer to the 1960s. Or it could refer to the author's work itself: With Pynchon's brilliance comes readability."
[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-thomas-pynchon2-2009aug02,0,6295118.story Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/08/02/pynchons_inherent_vice_delivers_manic_requiem_for_60s_70s/?page=1 '''The Boston Globe'''] - Richard Eder:
"The hopes are recalled, reconstituted, and chastened in “Inherent Vice’’ and so are the ’70s shadows that overtook them. As for the beach, in California, it is restricted in some places, turned tawdry in others; though with beauty enough along large stretches, surfboarding still, and lots of bicycling." [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/08/02/pynchons_inherent_vice_delivers_manic_requiem_for_60s_70s/?page=1 Entire review »]

'''08/02/09''' -[http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/674817 '''TheStar.com'''] - Alex Good: "''Inherent Vice'' is also nostalgic in that it takes us back to earlier Pynchon: the tangled intersection of politics, technology, and paranoia, a landscape of secret societies (here it's the Golden Fang or Chryskylodon) and submerged continents. Of course, there's lots of sinister slapstick involving perversely unmusical song lyrics and a bewildering cast of characters with such silly names as Sauncho Smilax, Bigfoot Bjornsen, Japonica Fenway, Special FBI Agents Flatweed and Borderline and sexy stewardesses Motella and Lourdes." [http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/674817 Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review '''The Guardian'''] - Christopher Tayler: "Behind a lot of Pynchon's complication, there's a simple sadness about lost possibilities and the things that America chooses to do to itself. It's expressed in the closing vision of Californian exurbia in ''The Crying of Lot 49'', and it's here too in Doc's wish, on a misty freeway, "for the fog to burn away, and for something else this time, somehow, to be there instead". Sometimes, reading the book, I found myself wondering if Pynchon, of all people, hadn't undersold the era's apocalyptic paranoia. You get a much stronger sense of fear and confusion from Joan Didion's ''The White Album'' or Robert Stone's ''Dog Soldiers'' - more conservative books in some ways, but also more beady-eyed about the myths of the 60s."
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice-review Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-books-review-vice-0729-08aug01,0,7373405.story '''Chicago Tribune'''] - Art Winslow:
"We find ourselves on a cultural tour that is alien and not. The real and fictional points of interest include the Aryan Brotherhood, a right-wing paramilitary auxiliary to the police department, groups such as the Bong Users' Revolutionary Brigades and Warriors Against the Black Man Armed Militia, heroin traffickers, ARPAnet (a precursor of the Internet), FBI agents named Fleetwood and Borderline, U.S. currency with Nixon's face on it, Chick Planet Massage, lost continents, zombie flicks, surf-music bands, Wyatt Earp's mug with its mustache protector, Dagwood and Yosemite Sam, and period television shows from "The Flying Nun" and "Adam-12" to "Dark Shadows" and "Gilligan's Island." Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll abound."
[http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-books-review-vice-0729-08aug01,0,7373405.story Entire review »]

'''08/01/09''' -[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1914149,00.html '''Time Magazine'''] - Richard Lacayo: "And speaking of Leonard, ''Inherent Vice'' is like nothing so much as an Elmore Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach–to–Vegas locales that Leonard has touched down in. But the earthbound author of Get Shorty doesn't go in for Pynchon's lyrical riffs about the immemorial forces that pull the world's secret levers and keep the dispossessed of all kinds — the poor, the nonwhite, the nonconforming — from coming into their own."
[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1914149,00.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/07/is_this_thomas_pynchons_late_s.html '''BBC'''] - Paul Mason: "Said observed that the late style artist typically "abandons communication with the established social order of which he is a part and achieves a contradictory, alienated relationship with it". But Pynchon doesn't need to: he achieved that long ago. This late turn in his literary style achieves something opposite but equally surprising. It is a move towards form, and closed form at that, towards genre, and towards communication. And it is a move away from subtext."
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/07/is_this_thomas_pynchons_late_s.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html Salon.com] - Laura Miller: "Hard-boiled detective fiction may not seem like the ideal vehicle for the often cryptic style and subject matter of Thomas Pynchon, but his newest novel proves otherwise. An account of the adventures of a hippie private eye pursuing assorted nonlucrative commissions in a Southern California beach town around 1970, "Inherent Vice" is a sun-struck, pot-addled shaggy dog story that fuses the sulky skepticism of Raymond Chandler with the good-natured scrappiness of "The Big Lebowski." It's an inspired formula; the mystery plot supplies the novel with a minimum of structure (as well as confidence that there's some point to the enterprise) and the genre provides ample cover for Pynchon's literary weaknesses." [http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html Entire review].

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.counterpunch.org/cabal07312009.html '''CounterPunch'''] - Alan Cabal:
"It’s a hugely comic novel that ends on a wistful, tragic note lost in the fog, out on the freeway, the procession of the preterite, not sure where they’re going, not sure where they are. It’s a love letter to the Sixties, a wake, an elegy to doomed aspirations and thwarted idealism, but it speaks to our present condition directly and clearly, with an open heart. Nobody does it better."
[http://www.counterpunch.org/cabal07312009.html Entire review »]

'''07/31/09''' -[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1764863.html '''The Independent (UK)'''] - Andy Martin: "''Inherent Vice'' is Pynchon's hymn to the Sixties, both homage and lament. In the novel we are at the end of the long Sixties, when the Manson gang have already sliced up Sharon Tate, the US military is still napalming Vietnam, and the West Coast counter-culture is suffering from an immense post-coital depression and hangover."
[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-1764863.html Entire review »]

'''07/30/09''' -[http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/07/fiction_review_inherent_vice.html '''OregonLive'''] - Vernon Peterson:
"But something more serious is the underlying theme of "Inherent Vice." Southern California, America's leading edge and symbol, is not a promise of paradise gone sour. This Eden had a fatal flaw from the beginning. Real estate, a persistent theme in Pynchon's American stories, "Against the Day," "Mason & Dixon," "Vineland" and "The Crying of Lot 49," is the herald of New World doom. The empire has been built on the graves of Native Americans, dispossessed and nearly annihilated from one coast to the other."
[http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/07/fiction_review_inherent_vice.html Entire review »]

'''07/30/09''' -[http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/pynchon-chandler-book-readers '''New Statesman'''] - David Flusfeder:
"The tropes of the hard-boiled genre are here: a detective with a half-mended heart and a propensity to be beaten unconscious at crime scenes; a quest to track the missing; a rich folks' nuthouse; the corrupt LAPD. But whereas Chandler once admitted that whenever he didn't know how to advance his plot, he'd have a man walk through a doorway holding a gun, Pynchon just has his detective fire up another joint. It is in the moments away from the stoned haze of plot that this book is at its best. The sentences have their stately beauty, and Pynchon is poignantly good on the heartsick detective, his "lovelorn rectogenital throb"."
[http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/pynchon-chandler-book-readers Entire review »]

'''07/29/09''' - [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?Crime_tale%92s_a_rich_diversion&in_article_id=710577&in_page_id=28 '''Metro.co.uk'''] - Alan Chadwick: "Best of all, however, is the way Pynchon maps the psycho-geography and shifting sociopolitical sands of America at the time (drugs; the widening gulf between 'straight life' and counterculture; paranoia; and secret information)." [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/books/article.html?Crime_tale%92s_a_rich_diversion&in_article_id=710577&in_page_id=28 Entire review »]

'''07/28/09''' - [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/backwash-from-the-woodstock-generation/Content?oid=1928147 '''The Stranger'''] - Paul Constant: "Beneath it all, surfacing sporadically like a cheap serial villain, is the nascent internet, which in the late '60s was called the ARPAnet. One of Doc's friends introduces him to the prototypical World Wide Web, and he increasingly relies on it for information. He wonders why "they"—the men he's positive rule the world from a smoke-filled room—don't make it illegal, the way "they" criminalized acid. Pynchon, doing some of the nimblest, most whimsical work of his career, doesn't provide the answer to that mystery, or many of the mysteries in Vice for that matter, but he shares his infectious excitement about living in a world full of useless, beautiful ideas. For Pynchon, it's not the truth but the search for the truth that matters." [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/backwash-from-the-woodstock-generation/Content?oid=1928147 Entire review »]

'''07/28/09''' - [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/87111-Surf-bored/ '''The Boston Phoenix'''] - Peter Keough: "So it's a long way around the block for little reward. And though it's true that Pynchon never pays off in terms of closure or neatly resolved meaning (that being the point), in ''Inherent Vice'', ambiguity deteriorates into inanity. He's either trying too hard or not hard enough. Okay, you could scarcely expect another densely woven, absurdist masterpiece so soon after 2006's magnum opus, ''Against the Day'', which at nearly 1100 pages weighed in as Pynchon's heaviest tome to date. Then again, ''Lot 49'' came out only three years after his groundbreaking debut, ''V.''" [http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/87111-Surf-bored/ Entire review »]

'''07/27/09''' - [http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2009/07/27/book-review-with-his-seventh-novel-inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon-invents-a-new-genre-marijuana-noir/ '''guardian.co.uk | Creative Loafing'''] - Cooper Levey-Baker: "But despite its uncharacteristic focus and brevity, it’s clear from sentence structure alone that ''Inherent Vice'' could have only sprung from the pen of Thomas Pynchon. One early sentence describing an LA dry spell goes like this: “In the little apartment complexes the wind entered narrowing to whistle through the stairwells and ramps and catwalks, and the leaves of the palm trees outside rattled together with a liquid sound, so that from inside, in the darkened rooms, in louvered light, it sounded like a rainstorm, the wind raging in the concrete geometry, the palms beating together like the rush of a tropical downpour, enough to get you to open the door and look outside, and of course there’d only be the same hot cloudless depth of day, no rain in sight." [http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2009/07/27/book-review-with-his-seventh-novel-inherent-vice-thomas-pynchon-invents-a-new-genre-marijuana-noir/ Entire review »]

'''07/26/09''' - [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice '''guardian.co.uk | TheObserver'''] - Sarah Churchwell: "Like many a Pynchon protagonist before him, Sportello is on a doomed quest. Pynchon's novels are always more or less picaresque journeys; his characters travel perpetually, but rarely arrive anywhere meaningful. What ''Gravity's Rainbow'' calls "the terrible politics of the Grail" means that quests in Pynchon are inevitable and also inevitable failures. At best, they will be mock-heroic; at worst, they will be tragic, but they will never succeed. ''Inherent Vice'' may be Pynchon's most overtly nostalgic book, featuring a character overcome by a longing he pretends to shrug off." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice Entire review »]

'''07/24/09''' - [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5893305/Inherent-Vice-by-Thomas-Pynchon-review.html '''Telegraph.co.uk'''] - Tim Martin: "Unlike much of Pynchon’s other work, however, ''Inherent Vice'' wears its learning lightly, intermixing it with dialogue that zings, jokes that never overstay their welcome and a stream of hilariously bad puns and wickedly acute observations. Who would have thought it? One of America’s most wilful and obscure writers has produced the most enjoyable beach read of the summer." [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5893305/Inherent-Vice-by-Thomas-Pynchon-review.html Entire review »]

'''07/06/09''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry “Doc” Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, curvaceous femme fatales. We’re in early-’70s Southern California, so Gordita Beach inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City, too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines and ideal for Pynchon’s recurring tragicomedy of America as the perfect wave that got away."
[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html Entire review »]

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Chapter 12

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==Page 186==
'''Krotona Hill''' 
A hill in Ojai where an institute run by the Theosophical Society in America is currently located.

==Page 187==
'''Dr. Threeply''' 
The name may refer to three-ply plywood. Basic run-of-the-mill (literally) plywood that's used in quantity for sheathing when building houses is often three-ply. This is, perhaps, consistent with the paragraph describing him, which mentions two other building products (aluminum siding and screen doors) and alludes to some event that has "torqued him out of tolerance," as might happen to plywood that has been misused and become twisted.

==Page 188==
'''J Kirshnamurti''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti] was a prominent Indian-born spiritualist who did, in fact, live in Ojai.

==Page 190==
'''Shaggy . . . Scoob''' 
Characters in the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''. An appropriate reference since the cartoon first was aired in 1969 and involved solving mysteries.

==Page 191==
'''edges of cliffs in Hawaii''' 
This passage about suicidal love sick men is strikingly similar to one in ''Vineland'':
:Hawaii is where men from California bring their broken hearts, seeking exotic forms of self-injury not so readily available on the mainland. Some specialize in active volcanoes, others in cliff diving, many go for the classier swimming-out-to-sea option. I can put you onto several travel agents who offer Suicide Fantasy packages, if you're interested. (p. 60)

==Page 194==
'''the word is not the thing, the map is not the territory''' 
The expression "the map is not the territory" first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski (developer of General Semantics) gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931. ''The map is not the territory'' signifies that individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built up over time, about reality ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#.22The_map_is_not_the_territory.22 Wikipedia]). The phrase "The symbol is NOT the thing symbolized; the word is NOT the thing; the map is NOT the territory it stands for." also appears in S.I. Hayakawa's ''Language in Thought and Action'', Harcourt, Brace and Company, (New York), 1949, p.31.

==Page 196==
'''"...put everything in the Ostracizer and made smoothies..."''' 
Denis means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterizer Osterizer], a brand of blender or food processor.

'''Didn't you see that movie?''' 
Denis is referring here to the 1932 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks ''Freaks''], a horror film about sideshow performers with a cast of actual sideshow performers.

The Shasta/Mickey story shows some similarities to the central love story in the film. A "normal" and beautiful woman pretends to love--and marries--one of the "freaks" simply for his money. The freaks revolt against her and maim her, ultimately turning her into freak show exhibit.

'''Code of the Freaks''' 
is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]

==Page 199==
'''Tarzana''' 
Completely irrelevant trivia: Tarzana is named after Tarzan because Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author who created Tarzan) was a prominent citizen. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzana here].

==Page 201==
'''Gleichschaltung Model 33 Automatic Bazooka'''

''Gleichschaltung'', meaning "coordination," "making the same," "bringing into line," is a system the Hitler regime developed for the complete forcing into line of German society in terms of politics, information and culture. Gleichschaltung's system established totalitarian control over the individual, therby forcing the individual/society to follow a specific way of thinking using an oppressive police force. It started, unsurprisingly, in '33.
'Schaltung' in German also refers to gears and switches (often, but not exclusively those of cars), so it might also refer to the bazooka's automated mechanism here.

==Page 206==
'''dead people who do and don't come back''' 
Sounds like the Thanatoids in ''Vineland''.

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Movie references in Inherent Vice

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References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==Movies==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZihmGVjDys Clip...] 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==Actors==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==Screenwriters==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==Cinematographers==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==Movie Soundtracks==

318 : Mike Curb 

==Television==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==Cartoons==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==Commercials==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==Characters==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

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References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==Movies==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951)[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZihmGVjDys Clip...] 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==Actors==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==Screenwriters==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==Cinematographers==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==Movie Soundtracks==

318 : Mike Curb 

==Television==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==Cartoons==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==Commercials==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==Characters==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

User talk:Redbarnlane

2009-09-09T15:32:49Z

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Your Timeline looks pretty good! Maybe when you've got it all together you could make a single page showing the timeline. Are you reading the book backwards to figure out the sequence of events? jglassow

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2009-09-09T15:32:31Z

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Chapter 14

2009-09-09T15:12:42Z

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{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
Qiana: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 1

2009-09-09T05:12:23Z

Jglassow: /* Page 8 */

:'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police and to the discovery made by the rioting students, after prying up the stones, that there was sand underneath. Figuratively, it uses the metaphor of a beach to allude to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

For those interested in such things, [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=37487 here] is an odd and fairly lengthy online discussion about the phrase and its translation which, if nothing else, gives a flavor for how translations can go awry when people start trying to translate metaphors instead of words.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated three of his previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

"Shasta McNasty" was also the name of a fictional band, the subject of a short-lived UPN [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_McNasty sitcom]. The members of the band were three slackers who lived in Venice Beach.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 2==
'''makeup supposed to look like no makeup or whatever,...''' 
The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_cosmetics_in_the_1970s natural look]" was popular during the 1970s. Ads told woman that makeup was ''invisible'', "the makeup that ''is'' and ''isn't''." Another ad sez "It looks so convincing you'd swear it isn't makeup." (See: [http://books.google.com/books?id=oNaXkUvTztUC&pg=PA20&sig=FFS2Wbh7rtPlYd7kZrWtiW_cw7M#v=onepage&q=&f=false Disco divas: women and popular culture in the 1970s] By Sherrie A. Inness, page 21)

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''"Can't Buy Me Love"''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49'']. "She Loves You" is cited outright and there is the parody title "I Want to Kiss Your Feet" in reference to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by Slick Dick and the Volkswagens (Volkswagens are commonly referred to as Beetles). The German language versions of "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were recorded at the same session as "Can't Buy Me Love." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia entry for "Can't Buy Me Love"]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution pun in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy, to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. The moniker comes from the streets all being named for trees.

==Page 7==
'''''2001: A Space Odyssey''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_8#Page_115 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''].

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

[http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column41/2.html Channel View] is an image manipulation option in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop Adobe Photoshop], whereby a raster graphic is split into its constituent RGB or CMYK color values (or channels) to allow for individual, fine adjustments to the distribution of any of the graphic's 3 (or 4) basic colors. Channels and channel masks are also useful for creating composite images and transparency effects in Photoshop.

The name is perhaps intended as a telling contrast with "River View" (or "Riverview"), a common name for neighborhoods, real-estate developments and towns. Wolfmann's development is a "chipboard horror" - basic tract housing for the newly middle-class - and it has no river to view, only a drainage channel. "Ditch View Estates" might have been more pointed, if less believable.

Possibly a reference to "channels" on a television set with countless "viewers" looking at the tube in the Los Angeles city sprawl of future single-family homes.

==Page 9==
'''Flying Nun, The''' 

The Flying Nun (ABC sitcom '67-'70) starred Sally Field (who also played surf bunny Gidget in an earlier sitcom) as a young nun with a talent for catching the wind like a wave. Despite the reference to Bigfoot playing "comical Mexicans," the series actually took place in Puerto Rico. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun,_The Wikipedia]

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

'''Zody''' 
An anagram for Zoyd, one of the main characters in ''Vineland''. Also ''Zody's'', a chain of discount stores [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zody's Wikipedia].

'''Cal Worthington''' 

If Used-Car dealer Cal Worthington didn't exist, someone would have to invent him. Famous for his TV ads throughout California and his dog "Spot" [usually an exotic animal] the many parodies of Cal never exceed his own bizarre ads. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. It was recounted by Pynchon to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. The sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent 'clearly reptilian.'" [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

'''Playa Vista High''' 
Mira Costa High is the high school in Manhattan Beach ("Gordita Beach" in ''Inherent Vice'').

'''Dennis came back with his Pizza.''' 
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

'''"sez"''' 
Alludes to the Mr. Natural comic book character created and drawn by the 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist [http://www.rcrumb.com/ Robert Crumb.] (Robert Crumb also makes an appearance on [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_306 page 306 of ''Vineland'']) Perhaps Mr. Natural's most famous aphorism was, "Mr. Natural sez, Use the right tool for the job." ("Sez" appears numerous times throughout ''Inherent Vice'')[[File:MrNatural.jpg|thumb|right|Mr. Natural [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_(comics) Wikipedia]]]

'''Sortilège''' 
The act of divining the future by casting lots, also Sorcery; witchcraft. Middle English, derived from old French via Medieval Latin sortilegium, from sortilegus, diviner : Latin sors, sort-, lot + Latin legere, to read. see [http://www.answers.com/topic/sortilege Answers.com].

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies.

==Page 13==
'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in Gravity's Rainbow & Vineland.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

'''Artesia Crips''' 
This is a potential anachronism. The novel ostensibly takes place in 1970, since it is after Charles Manson's arrest in December 1969 but before the trial began in mid-1970. However, many reports indicate the L.A. street gang that would eventually be called the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips Crips] was not founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Washington Raymond Washington] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams Tookie Williams] until 1971, and it was originally called the Baby Avenues, then the Cribs, and finally Crips.

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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*'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

*'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

*'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

*'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the '''Rhus''' genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

*'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

*'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

*'''Marijuana''' 
Cannabis or '''marijuana''' is indigenous to China, India, especially the northern region, Caucasus and Iran and is now cultivated commercially across the globe. Marijuana cultivation is carried out both legally for its fiber as well as its seeds, and also illegally as a recreational drug. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis Wikipedia...]

*'''Toloache''' 
Scientific name for '''toloache''' (355) is Datura inoxia, native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant toloatzin, and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355. Also known as: jimson weed, locoweed, moonflower, devil's weed, angel's trumpet. [http://adamofeden.ca/Images/datura%20white%202.jpg Photo...]

*'''Creeping Fig''' 
Creeping Fig (36) is a vine. Creeping fig can become invasive and cover landscape features if not contained. [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/images/c/cf/Creeping-fig.jpg Photo...]

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==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On pg. 273, the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a California state subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to drugs, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

==Page 181==

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[File:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|thumb|200px|left|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

==Page 182==
'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')
==Page 184==
'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]
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==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

==Page 277==
'''indict a bean burrito''' 
An amusing local twist on the common adage, which virtually every lawyer probably learned in law school, that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich."

==Page 278==
'''Midnight, pitch dark . . . blind cannonball''' 
That's quite a metaphorical excursion!

==Page 283==
'''Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme''' 
One of Charles Manson's devotees, not charged in the Tate murders, but later jailed for coming at President Gerald Ford with a loaded gun. Coincidentally, she was paroled after 30 years in jail, the very week Inherent Vice was released...

==Page 290==
'''El Huevoncito''' 
Someone with a better grasp of idiomatic Spanish can correct this, but:

"Huevon" is a vulgar slang insult, implying that that the subject is lazy and stupid. The "cito" is a dimunitive suffix. I suppose an English translation might be "little lazy asshole" or something along those lines.

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on pg. 395 of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''M&D'' too.

'''the tree of liberty . . . ''' 
This quote is from a 1787 letter Jefferson wrote to W. S. Smith.

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*'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

*'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

*'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

*'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the '''Rhus''' genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

*'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

*'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

*'''Marijuana''' 
Cannabis or '''marijuana''' is indigenous to China, India, especially the northern region, Caucasus and Iran and is now cultivated commercially across the globe. Marijuana cultivation is carried out both legally for its fiber as well as its seeds, and also illegally as a recreational drug. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis Wikipedia...]

*'''Toloache''' 
Scientific name for '''toloache''' is Datura inoxia, native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant toloatzin, and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355. Also known as: jimson weed, locoweed, moonflower, devil's weed, angel's trumpet. [http://adamofeden.ca/Images/datura%20white%202.jpg Photo...]

Plants of Inherent Vice

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Jglassow:

*'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

*'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

*'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

*'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the '''Rhus''' genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

*'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

*'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

*'''Marijuana''' 
Cannabis or '''marijuana''' is indigenous to China, India, especially the northern region, Caucasus and Iran and is now cultivated commercially across the globe. Marijuana cultivation is carried out both legally for its fiber as well as its seeds, and also illegally as a recreational drug. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis Wikipedia...]

*'''Toloache''' 
Scientific name for '''toloache''' is Datura inoxia, native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant toloatzin, and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355. Also known as: jimson weed, moonflower, devil's weed, angel's trumpet. [http://adamofeden.ca/Images/datura%20white%202.jpg Photo...]

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Plants of Inherent Vice

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'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the '''Rhus''' genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

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'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the Rhus genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

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'''cachaça''' 
160; popular Brazilian liquor made from fermented sugarcane juice, unlike Rum which is made from molasses. The caipirinha is the most famous cocktail using it these days.

'''Cadillac''' 
5; 1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car

'''''Call Me Madam''''' 
1950 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed US Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg. While there, she charms the local gentry, especially Cosmo Constantine, while her press attache Kenneth Gibson falls in love with Princess Maria; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" sung by Ethel Merman, 247

'''Campbell, Glen (b. 1936)''' 
American country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman"), as well as for hosting a television variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television; 331

'''canasta''' 
215; Spanish for "basket," a card game originating in Uruguay, where players attempt to make melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand and discarding. It is commonly played by two players with two standard decks of cards, but many variations exist for 3- and 4-player games or teams.

'''"Can't Buy Me Love"''' 
3; [[B#beatles|Beatles]] song, from the 1964 film ''A Hard Day's Night''

'''Canter's Delicatessen''' 
126; Times have changed. [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's] is no longer a "hippie-friendly" deli at 419 N. Fairfax.

'''Carillo, Leo (1880-1961)''' 
78; Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist, in Santa Monica, CA. He played stereotypical latins. He played Pancho on the 1950s TV show, ''The Cisco Kid''. As used here, "Leo Carillo" probably refers to Leo Carrillo State Park, west of Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, named in his honor for his conservation services to California; "night cricket" 130

'''Carmine & the Cal-Zones''' 
228; band in Nine of Diamonds, in Las Vegas; "Just the Lasagna (Semi-Bossa Nova)" 229;

'''Carol''' 
47; see [[M#carolmerrill|Merrill, Carol]]

'''cars''' 
1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car, 5; VW buses, woodies, 19; Harley Earl Impala, 76; "1949 Mercury woodie" driven by "zombies" 133; motorcycles, 141; Luz's "red SS396" Super Sport Chevy, 143; Boris' "'46 Dodge Power Wagon" 149; Eldorado, 151; Electra Glide shovelhead, 153; Wolfgang "ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel" 175; Excaliburs and Ferraris, 177; Doc's '64 Dodge Dart, 180; Jaguars and Porsches, 180; 1934 Hispano-Suiza J12, 184; Falcons, Nova, VDub, 184; 216; '69 Camarro, 218; '62 Bonneville, 223; Ford Rancheros, ancient T-Birds and Chevy Nomads, 228; F-100s and Chevy Apaches, 236; Morgans, Cobra 289s and '62 Bonnevilles, "supernatural DeSoto" 298; Lincoln Continental, '65 Impala, 328; '59 Cadillac hearse (as depicted on the novels dust jacket), 329; Bigfoot's "Cherry Bomb Glasspack" 330; Vibrasonic (Made by Motorola, this device was connected to a car radio to add reverb), 335; Falcon, 335; 442 Olds, 338; "'53 Buick Estate Wagon, the last woodie that ever rolled out of Detroit" 349; Stingray, 369; See [[Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice|Cars Mentioned in ''Inherent Vice'']]...

'''Castro, Fidel (b. 1926)''' 
One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He is currently the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba; 95

'''Chamberlain, Wilt (1936-1999)''' 
Nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lbs as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA; 4

'''''Champion'' (1949)''' 
The film in which actor Kirk Douglas, playing a selfish boxer, established himself as a Tough Guy. An American ''film noir'', ''Champion'' is a drama filmed in black-and-white, and recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring; 336

'''Channel View Estates''' 
8; Mickey Wolfmann's "chipboard horror" housing development; ''Channel View Estates:'' suggests countless single-family homes, each with a television for viewers to flip through the channels.

'''Chantays''' 
37; "Pipeline" 124;

'''Charlie the Tuna''' 
The cartoon mascot tuna for StarKist Tuna, was created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency after StarKist hired Leo Burnett in 1961. StarKist Tuna is the name of a brand of tuna; 119

'''Charlock, Clancy''' 
146; Glen Charlock's sister; tending bar in Inglewood, 214; screwing with Tariq Khalil, 288

'''Charlock, Glen''' 
15; "Aryan Bro" in prison with Tariq working as a body guard for Mickey Wolfmann; murdered, 23; and the Wolfmann raid, 85; footage of his murder, 142; 247; details from Tariq Khalil, 290; 319-320; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Chateau Marmont''' 
158; a landmark from 1920s-era Hollywood where John Barrymore and Errol Flynn held inebriated court in the baronial living room. Greta Garbo regularly checked in as Harriet Brown, and Jim Morrison was one of many celebrities to call this home in later years. John Belushi overdosed in Bungalow #2.
[http://www.frommers.com/destinations/losangeles/H32788.html#ixzz0KP8rslNY&D]

'''Chatfield, C.C.''' 
360; Sauncho Smilax's boss

'''Chick Planet Massage''' 
20; a massage parlour located in a "makeshift miniplaza" near Channel View Estates; 76; raid, 141;

'''Chiffons''' 
An all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960; "One Fine Day" 224

'''Chino''' 
16; A city in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles; also shorthand for the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino where Tariq Khalil did time

'''Chlorinda''' 
91; waitress at Belaying Pin

'''Chopin''' 
The Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major (also called Grande Waltz Brillante), Op. 18 was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833. It was first published in 1834 and is Chopin's first waltz composition for solo piano. It is often used as incidental music in Brazilian overdubbings of Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny. Dubbing was made from the original film rolls, which did not provide the voices and background music in separate audio tracks. Lacking the resources to hire an orchestra, voiceover studios re-used recordings of classical pieces which had a similar feel to the pieces used in the original soundtracks; played by Liberace during "one of his shows at the Riviera" 220

'''choppers''' 
Hope Harlingen's, 36; new false teeth for Coy Harlingen, 300

'''Chryskylodon Institute''' 
111; upscale rehabilitation facility in Ojai; where Japonica is sent, 171; Greek for "gold fang", 185; Doc visits, 186; 301. Any chance this is a veiled critique or parody of Scientology? cf also Synanon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon]

'''Cielo Drive''' 
208; The original home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California is infamous for being the scene of one of the Manson "family" murders.

'''Club Asiatique''' 
77; in San Pedro; 80; 131; 168

'''Coddington lens''' 
286; magnifying glass consisting of a single very thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, thus limiting the rays to those close to the axis, which again minimizes spherical aberration.

'''Code 7''' 
208; this police scanner code stands for "meal break." [http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html]

'''Code of the Freaks''' 
196; is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]

'''Cohen's Beauty and Barber Shop''' 
127; in East London, where Spotted Dick gets their asymmetric bobs. A reference to Vidal Sassoon, inventor of the asymetric bob "I wanted to be a footballer but my mother insisted I get a profession, so I was apprenticed to a very distinguished hairdresser called Adolph Cohen" [http://english.sem40.ru/jewish_fortune/8333/]

'''COINTELPRO''' 
An acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. The FBI's motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order"; and Black Nationalists, 74

'''Collins family''' 
128; vampires in TV show ''Dark Shadows''

'''Cookie and Joaquin''' 
71; ex-grunts from Vietnam; 76; 80

'''Cortes Bank''' 
Cortes Bank is a dangerously shallow chain of underwater mountains in the Pacific Ocean, about 115 miles (188 kilometers) west of Point Loma San Diego, USA, and about 50 miles (82 kilometers) south-west of San Clemente Island. Beginning in 1990, Cortes Bank attracted the interest of surfers. In ideal conditions, which are rare, surfers have caught waves up to 70' high. Although very difficult to get to, the reputation of Cortes Bank draws crowds when conditions are good; 358

<div id="corvairs">'''Corvairs, the'''</div>
This surf band is also in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/Chapter_3#Page_22 ''Vineland''], being where Zoyd Wheeler was living "shortly after Reagan was elected governor" (which would be shortly after January 3, 1967) with "elements" of the band. In ''Inherent Vice'', Elfmont and Scott Oof, Doc's cousin, are in the band; 43

'''Cottie food!''' 
146; ''coup de foudre'' is French for "love at first sight"

'''Country Joe and the Fish''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971; Shasta in a band T-shirt, 1, 261;

'''''Courage'', Camille''' 
The phrase originally comes from Alexander Dumas' 1857 play ''Camille: The Lady of the Camellias'' in which Monsieur Duval tells Camille, "Courage, Camille, Courage."

Also, "Courage Camille" is a game in which three players are required. Two of the players face each other and lock hands. The third person stiffens and falls backwards into their arms. This should be done several times, with the person falling farther backwards each time (the players locking their hands should lower them each time). Other players can then try.

Also, a line masterfully delivered by Bob Hope as radio personality and craven muckraker Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence in the 1940 horror-comedy ''The Ghost Breakers''. It is also used in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 ''Against the Day'', on page 345]

'''Cramer, Floyd''' 
198; was a self-taught pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." His distinctive piano style can be heard on recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and many others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. [http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/floyd-cramer]

'''''Creation of Adam, The''''' 
A fresco painted by Michelangelo circa 1511 that appears on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man; God passing a lit joint, 124

<div id="creepingfig">'''creeping fig'''</div>
36; this highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

'''Curb, Mike''' 
American musician, record company executive, race car owner (in both NASCAR and IRL), and Republican Party (GOP) politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 during the second administration of Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. He is also the founder of Curb Records, an independent record label. Curb wrote and performed (with his group The Mike Curb Congregation) the music for the 1969 film ''The Big Bounce''; Doc hears Curb's score while high on PCP, 318

'''Curly's''' 
221; bar on Rampart in Las Vegas, hangout of Puck's and Einar's; former "crossroads saloon" 225;

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'''Fairfield, Vehi''' 
102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent with Penny Kimball; with Borderline, in Las Vegas, 221-222

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; the Flintstones theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.''' 
:They're the modern stone age family.''' 
:From the town of Bedrock,''' 
:They're a page right out of history.

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

'''''Freaks''''' 
1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all" 196

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; 283; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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'''Fairfield, Vehi''' 
102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent with Penny Kimball; with Borderline, in Las Vegas, 221-222

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; the Flintstones theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.''' 
:They're the modern stone age family.''' 
:From the town of Bedrock,''' 
:They're a page right out of history.

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower.

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

'''''Freaks''''' 
1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all" 196

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; 283; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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267; goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered, or simply goods or materials found or left on the sea floor.

'''Lagonda''' 
71; at coroner's office

'''L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988)''' 
American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings; 148

'''Landers, Ann''' 
Pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the ''Ask Ann Landers'' syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon; 215

'''Land of the Pygmies''' 
336; Doc asks Kahuna Airlines to this destination

'''Lark''' 
237; "presentable young lady in a paisley minidress and white plastic boots" at the Kismet in Las Vegas

'''Laurel, Stan (1890-1965)''' 
English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II; 246; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel Wikipedia entry]

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film'' Lawrence of Arabia'' based on his life; 191

'''Laszlo and Ilsa''' 
Humphrey Bogard, as Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film ''Casablanca'' helps Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Nazis and in the process falls in love with Laszlo's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he'd been involved before she met and married Laszlo. In the end, Ilsa and Laszlo leave Casablanca on a plane, and Rick stays behind; 360

'''Leej''' 
104; See [[S#sortilege|Sortilege]]

'''Leeway, Petunia''' 
13; "a stunner in a starched cap and micro-length medical outfit" who sort of does reception for Doc and Dr. Buddy Tubeside; 145; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Lefty''' 
44; bassist in Beer

'''Lemuria,''' 
Hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography however, the scientific concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist, there is no known geological formation under the Indian or Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria; "Atlantis of the Pacific" 101; 105; 109; "It isn't just a place" 167; "dark metallic gray promontory" in downtown LA, 315; "risen and redeemed" (in Doc's dream), 341; California as an ark for those escaping Lemuria, 352; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

Also, there is a connection between Mt Shasta, Lemuria, and the legend of the 'Wolf Man':

"Before 18,000 BCE, Lemuria was a large continent in the Pacific whose islands were controlled by pirates. An Atlantean named Kull was enslaved by Lemurian pirates and forced to work as a gladiator, where he faced a Wolf Man. Forging an alliance with that Wolf Man, he later slew the wizard Rotath for the Lemurian monarch Asphodel IV."

[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria at Marvel Comics]

And, here's s reported sighting of Bigfoot on Mt Shasta:

[http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mtshasta.htm Bigfoot: Sasquatch Creature seen on Mt. Shasta in California 1976]

Is this the right place to mention how significant it is that Mickey Wolfmann reportedly gets upset when people don't spell his surname with a double 'n' at the end?

'''Lester''' 
66; riding with Bigfoot at Wolfmann residence

'''''Let's Make a Deal'' (1963-1976)''' 
Television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The contestants usually had to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "zonk". The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall; 47, 253

'''Lewton, Val (1904-1951)''' 
American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s; ''I Walked with a Zombie'' (1943), 261

'''Liberace (1919-1987)''' 
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and Italian descent. During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world; his "necktie covered with thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern" 220; 344

'''Lighthouse Cafe, the''' 
297; Coy Harlingen spotted there by Scott Oof

'''Li'l T-Rex''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''lingonberries''' 
208; Swedish pancakes with; the ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' &151; often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry.

'''Linus's Tavern''' 
354; where Doc meets Sauncho to observe the ''Golden Fang''; 359

'''Little Anthony & the Imperials''' 
300; Little Anthony & The Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. "Tears on My Pillow" (1958) was their first hit single. Sample lyric:

:If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate 
:Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you

'''Liv-a-Snaps''' 
195; a brand of dog food

'''Locard's Exchange Principle''' 
Locard's principle is applied to crime scenes in which the perpetrator(s) of a crime comes into contact with the scene, so the perpetrator(s) will both bring something into the scene and leave with something from the scene. Every contact leaves a trace; "every contact leaves traces" 213

'''Long Branch Saloon''' 
254; the saloon where Miss Kitty worked, in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1955-1975) was a western which took part in Dodge City, Kansas

'''Loosemeat, Leonard Jermaine''' 
264; aka El Drano, found dead

'''Lourdes and Motella''' 
See [[R#lourdes|Rodriguez, Lourdes]] and [[H#motella|Haywood, Motella]]

'''Lunchwater case''' 
25; "one more of the squalid matrimonials that were occupying Doc's time"

'''Lupino, Ida (1918-1995)''' 
59; Anglo-American actress and director, self-described as "the poor man's Bette Davis"; Pynchon trivia: she directed the pilot episode of ''Gilligan's Island''.

'''Luz''' 
59; "presentable young Chicana" maid at Wolfmann's; contacts Doc, 142;

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'''Sauncho Smilax''' 
All species of '''Smilax''' are climbing vines with sharp spiny thorns, forming dense impenetrable, invasive thickets. Common names include catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys, sarsaparilla and smilaxes. The word Smilax derives from the Greek, for "bindweed." Smilax is very resistant to eradication. [http://maturehealth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/smilax_rotund.jpg Photo...]

'''Petunia Leeway''' 
'''Petunia''' is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Petunie.jpg Photo...]

'''Japonica Fenway''' 
'''Japonica''' is an ornamental shrub native to Japan and cultivated for its red flowers. [http://louisey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/chaenomeles_japonica.jpg Photo...]

'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
Plants of the Rhus genus include: sumac, poison ivy, poison oak, skunkbush. [http://ncwildflower.org/images/plants/Rhus_vernix_leaves_resized.JPG Photo...]

'''Glen Charlock''' 
'''Charlock''' is a troublesome annual weed; also called field mustard. [http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/charlock.jpg Photo...]

'''Trillium Fortnight''' 
'''Trillium''' is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. Trillium is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/TrilliumErectum.jpg Photo...]

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'''St. Flip of Lawndale''' 
99; surfer; 256; Shasta staying at his house, 303; his "mythical break" aka Death's Doorsill, 357

'''"Samba do Aviao"''' 
162; Spanish: "song of the jet"; composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and used in the 1962 film ''Copacabana Palace'' by Italian director Steno (born Stefano Vanzina) (1915-1988)

'''Sanders, George (1906-1972)''' 
Sanders was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Known for his smooth upper-crust English accent, cocking his eyebrows was a facial gesture he deployed in many of his films to express skepticism and other reactions. In 1950, Sanders gave his most widely recognised performance, and achieved his greatest success, as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in ''All About Eve'', winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

'''Sassoon, Vidal (b. 1928)''' 
British-born Israeli hairdresser and businessman; 127

'''scag''' 
334; street slang for "heroin"

'''Schiffer, Mr.''' 
338; Doc's PE teacher in high school

'''Scott''' 
353; Doc's cousin

'''Screaming Ultraviolet Brain''' 
10; headshop operated by Ensenada Slim, in Gordita Beach; 256

'''''Sea Wolf, The'' (1941)''' 
Black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel ''The Sea Wolf'' with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. Refined fiction writer Humphrey van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster (Lupino) are passengers on a ship that collides with another vessel and sinks. They are rescued by the ''Ghost'', a seal-hunting ship. At the helm is the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen (Robinson), a compassionless individual who delights in dominating and abusing his crew. Garfield plays the rebellious cabin boy George Leach who becomes Ruth Webster's protector; Doc recalling, 356

'''Shaggy''' 
190; character in Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Scooby-Doo" (1969)

'''Shank, Bud''' 
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (1926-2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including ''The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds'', and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone; at the Lighthouse Cafe, 298

'''Shannon''' 
205; dead waitress at the Arizona Palms, in Doc's dream

'''Shannon, Del (1934-1990)''' 
148; "Runaway"; suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide in 1990 with a .22-calibre rifle; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvCa5lkgUw View a 1982 performance of "Runaway" on YouTube...]

'''Shasta''' 
See [[H#shasta|Hepworth, Shasta Fay]]

'''''shikantaza''''' 
102; Japanese term for zazen introduced by Dogen Zenji and associated most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, but which also is "the base of all Zen disciplines."

'''short''' 
333; hipster slang for "car"

'''Sinatra, Frank''' 
61; "exchanging glances" ("Strangers in the Night"); watching Jonathan Frid, in Las Vegas, 233; Sinatroid, 337

'''"single up all lines"''' 
119; a phrase frequently used by Pynchon, likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', p.11]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works!

'''"Skyful of Hearts"''' 
338; song sung by Doc in Sinatroid style, at Kahuna Airlines

'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
115; where Leo & Elmina are staying

'''Smedley''' 
128; Spotted Dick's keyboard player, "doing Hanon exercises on his Farfisa" he calls Fiona

'''Smilax, Sauncho''' 
26; Doc's attorney at Hardy, Gridley, & Chatfield who practice maritime law; 89; 117; lagan, 267; having seen ''The Wizard of Oz'', 286; 340 [[Sauncho Smilax|DISCUSSION]]; [[Plants of Inherent Vice|Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Smith, Maggie''' 
204; Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (b. 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing.

'''Sombrero, El''' 
221; "world-renowed Taqueria in Las Vegas

'''"Something Happened to Me Yesterday"''' 
193; Rolling Stones song on ''Between the Buttons'' (1967)

'''"Something in the Air"''' 
1969 hit for one-hit-wonder UK band Thunderclap Newman. It was originally titled "Revolution" but later renamed to avoid confusion with the Beatles' 1968 song of that name. A sample verse:

:Hand out the arms and ammo''' 
:We're going to blast our way through here''' 
:We've got to get together sooner or later''' 
:Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right''' 
:And you know that it's right

'''Sortilege''' 
11; used to work in Doc's office; Sortilege is the foretelling of the future by drawing lots. Sortilege is a form of Cleromancy, a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities. Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag; 101; "telling time from a broken clock" 282

It's apt that the 'sort' in 'Sortilege' comes from the word 'sort', recalling Maxwell's Demon and The Crying of Lot 49. Making it even more appropriate that the 'sorting' being done is the sorting of 'lots'.

'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
155; by Meatball Flag

'''Sound Mind Cafe''' 
172; "a secluded eatery" where Dr. Blatnoyd has first blind date with Japonica

'''Spade, Sam''' 
Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett. Known for his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice, Spade is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism"; 97

'''Spaniels, the''' 
American R&B doo-wop group (1952-1974), best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight." Some historians of vocal groups consider Pookie Hudson to be the first true leader of a vocal group, because the Spaniels pioneered the technique of having the main singer solo at his own microphone, while the rest of the group shared a second microphone. "A Stranger in Love" was recorded for their album ''Heart and Soul Volume Two'' (1958); 368

'''Spanish Words & Phrases''' 
142: ''ése'' - This guy, or just this 
142: ''sinvergüenza'' - shameless 
142: ''esta gente no sabe nada'' - these people know nothing 
144: ''compinches'' - partner in crime 
145: ''hijo de puta'' - son of a bitch 
145: ''otra vez, si?'' - another time, yes? 
174: ''la cabeza'' - the head 
192: ''por vida'' - for life 
224: ''quien es mas macho?'' - who is more manly? 
331: ''palabra'' - word 
338: ''peligro'' - danger 
338: ''vato'' - dude, gangster, homeboy (colloquial)

'''Sparky''' 
195; new kid at Gotcha! adept at the ARPAnet; 258; 267; 364

'''Spike''' 
11; Vietnam veteran and boyfriend of Sortilege; 102

<div id="spivey">'''Spivey, Boris'''</div>
147; "Another member of Mickey's muscle patrol"; Dawnette, his fiance, 148; disappeared, 214; "the second AP Finance alumnus ... who'd hired on with Mickey" 285;

<div id="gilroy">'''Sportello, Gilroy'''</div>
Doc's brother, "the one with the life" 112; in Doc's dream, 205; promoted, 352

'''Sportello, Larry ("Doc")''' 
1; "sportello" is Italian for door or window; his Afro, 14; arrested, 23; is he black? 34; Hawaiian shirt, 77; aka Xpp, 106; going to Chryskylodon Institute, 186; goes to the Kismet in Las Vegas, 235; feeling "evidence everywhere of ancient visitation" in Las Vegas desert, 249; visiting Penny Kimball at the Hall of Justice, 275; tape interview at Hall of Justice, 281; conversation with Thomas Jefferson at the Plastic Nickel, 294; "hopeless stooge of the creditor class" 303; with Shasta, 303-310; negotiating with Crocker Fenway, 346; class-warfare conversation, 347-348

'''Sportello, Leo''' 
112; Doc's father

'''Sportello, Vernix''' 
352; Gilroy's wife

'''Spotted Dick''' 
127; visiting British band, at Boards mansion; Spotted dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with either custard or butter and brown sugar; "George Formby covers, old movie music, regional folk material, plus their own stuff, which tends to be tuneful, poetic ... English" 130; zombies, 132; "Long Trip Out" 198;

'''Staccato, Johnny''' 
97; a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. John Cassavetes played the lead role.

'''''Star Trek''''' 
73; "not logical, Captain" 140; 254; Mr. Spock, 325

'''Stavrou, Inez''' 
183; Tito's wife or girlfriend

'''Stavrou, Tito''' 
181; Doc's friend who runs a limo service and has a gambling habit; in Las Vegas, 227; 335

'''Steamer Lane''' 
363; song Coy plays at the Surfadelic Freak-In up at Will Rogers Park; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamer_Lane Steamer Lane] is a famous surfing location in Santa Cruz, California.

'''Stewart, James''' 
in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''Stodger, Burke''' 
92; movie star (see ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk, 1910 - Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop - a ''noir''-ish murder mystery); ''Commie Confidential'', 93; set up Coy with the Viggies, 308; and Shasta, 309; ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; ''I Was a Red Dope Fiend'' and ''Squeal, Pinko, Squeal'' ("modestly budgeted FBI dramas"), 309; [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=%22paternoster+ruby%22+%2B+edmonds+%2B+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkolEDFk_&sig=g6LtMmYTkF8eXx7zavBAEgAE1a0&hl=en&ei=aZZPSpzUHpGgswOq8LmqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''Paternoster Ruby'' on Google Books]

'''''Stone Turntable''''' 
124; fictional "underground fan magazine"

'''Sun-Fary Market''' 
159; where Doc leaves Jason Velveeta

'''"Super Market"''' 
Appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368

'''Sureños''' 
Group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. There are hundreds of Sureño gangs in California, and each has its own identity on the streets; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

'''Surfadelic Freak-In''' 
Beer appearing at, 297; Hope and Amethyst's free passes to, in Will Rogers Park, 362

'''Surfaris, The''' 
101; "Wipe Out"

'''Surfer-Lowrider Wars''' 
46

'''"Surfin' Bird"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Trashmen

'''Surfing''' 
"absent surfers" 100; north shore of Oahu, 357

'''swag lamp''' 
4

'''sweep frequency''' 
199; the horizontal sweep frequency of a TV picture is 15,750 Hz. It is based on the fact that 30 frames times 525 (scan) lines equals 15,750.

'''Sybil Brand Institute''' 
135; the Sybil Brand Institute For Women was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (1899-2004), a noted local philanthropist and civic leader. Famously, this is where Susan Atkins admitted to another inmate that the Manson Family was responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T22:37:31Z

Jglassow: /* TELEVISION */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T22:32:58Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Chapter 19

2009-09-04T22:24:26Z

Jglassow: /* Page 343 */

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==Page 343==
'''a mural depicting the arrival of the Portola expedition in 1769 at a bend of the river near what became downtown L.A.''' 
A real or imagined mural?

'''The pictorial style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable crates''' 
Southern California used to be full of fruit/vegetable orchards. And local farms would develop their own crate labels. [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=california%20fruit%20crate%20labels&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1 Here are some examples].

==Page 344==
'''St. John's Episcopal Church''' 
Since 2008 referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Cathedral,_Los_Angeles St. John's Cathedral]. The reference may seem odd, as the church is now - and was in 1970 - a very liberal one. Of course, Crocker Fenway would have been married there in the 1940s, before its transformation from "an upper-level parish church controlled by businessmen" had occurred.

==Page 348==
[[File:Patek.jpg|thumb|right|Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Patek Philippe moonphase''' 
An expensive watch, obviously: characteristics include a high value and a very complex and precise mechanism. Crocker Fenway's watch would, today, fetch a significant price: a 1968 watch (with some unusual characteristics) went for over $183,000 at a Christie's auction in November 2008. Older, and particularly rare, models have sold for over a million dollars.

==Page 349==
'''1953 Buick Estate Wagon'''
[[File:1953BuickEstateWagon.jpg|thumb|left|Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Estate Wikipedia]]] 

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Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T22:05:26Z

Jglassow: /* SCREENWRITERS */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:58:56Z

Jglassow: /* SCREENWRITERS */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:56:18Z

Jglassow: /* ACTORS & ACTRESSES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:51:57Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:51:03Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKOaacvd-H4&feature=fvw Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:43:32Z

Jglassow: /* CARTOONS */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T21:39:44Z

Jglassow: /* CHARACTERS */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T18:57:33Z

Jglassow: /* CINEMATOGRAPHERS */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D.") 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T18:47:46Z

Jglassow: /* TELEVISION */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D.") 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T18:44:03Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres" 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D.") 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T18:43:47Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

----
==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clips...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres" 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D.") 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Movie references in Inherent Vice

2009-09-04T18:39:59Z

Jglassow: /* MOVIES */

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==MOVIES==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey" 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clips...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948) 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951) 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Wars") 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943) 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==ACTORS & ACTRESSES==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows") 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==SCREENWRITERS==

254 : Dalton Trumbo 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter 

==CINEMATOGRAPHERS==

254 : James Wong Howe 

==MOVIE SOUNDTRACK==

318 : Mike Curb 

==TELEVISION==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O") 
118 : "Dr. No" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres" 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Hawaii Five-O") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O" 
353 : "Another World" 

==CARTOONS==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==COMMERCIALS==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==CHARACTERS==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D.") 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)