The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Inherent Vice dropped today and, as expected, it's a madcap psychedelic Southern California love song that may or may not feature an appearance by elusive author Thomas Pynchon.
Pretty soon we'll all be living under her cruel, pop-Western rule. Also today: Steve Carell lines up another TV series, Noam Baumbach and Paul Thomas Anderson plan for the future, and some important young man news.
In 1996 the New Yorker ran a "Talk of the Town" piece about the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon becoming a huge fan of an indie rock band called Lotion, a story the magazine now acknowledges was all a hilarious hoax.
Director Michel Gondry turns 46 today. Enrique Iglesias is turning 34. Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni is 58. Author Thomas Pynchon is turning 72. Model Josie Maran is 31. Advertising exec Richard Kirshenbaum is 48. Alex Van Halen is 56. Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey turns 58. Ted Sorensen, best known as JFK's…
It's such a headache for authors to think of notable acquaintances and friends-of-friends to needle for blurbs for the back of their book. Arianna Huffington recently got caught in her blurb assembly line, offering the same one twice. Some authors firmly say no to everyone, shutting down their blurb factory. The NYT…
At the 2004 Whitney Biennial, artist Zak Smith wowed the crowd with a wall of drawings showing what happens on every page of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Small press Tin House caught wind of the drawings' popularity and decided to publish them as a book entitled Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for…
So last night adult film auteur Tristan Taormino held a party to celebrate Chemistry, her "sexually experimental, uncensored Hi-Def first Vivid movie." Knowing your insatiable desire for hot girl-on-girl action, we sent a cameraman over to the event: the results are pretty much what you'd expect. This clip is in no…
Page Six today does a little bit of promotional work for Tristan Taormino, the Village Voice sex columnist and porn artiste who has never before used the fact that she's Thomas Pynchon's niece to help advance her career. Tristan is sad that her uncle refuses to acknowledge her artfully directed licking and sucking,…
There's been a bit of a stir around reclusive New York author Thomas Pynchon's latest novel. Slate reports that someone, very possibly Pynchon himself, posted a brief blurb for his forthcoming novel on the book's Amazon page. Amazon quickly pulled the page, but that didn't stop the legion of Internet-savvy supernerds…
From the NYT "Corrections" page: "An article in Arts & Ideas on Saturday about works of art inspired by science misstated the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. It is The Crying of Lot 49, not The Crying of Lot 69." The NYT staff has apparently confused a Thomas Pynchon novel with an Amy Sacco-run downtown club. This…
