My dad’s friend just died a pretty horrible death from Covid. My dad had been hounding him for a year to get vaccinated, but conspiracy theories won out. Sad way to go man.
There is 1 band on this list that I admit to liking without any caveats (only the first record, time and place , guilty pleasure etc etc )
Guess which one.
There’s prob more specific Valley references I’m not familiar with and missed, but as a final bonus, I dug the giant Rat Fink cut out in the bg of one of the shots! Very So Cal 70s.
The movie’s based on the life of Tom Hanks’ pal/ biz partner Gary Goetzman. The title Licorice Pizza is from a chain of record stores in California from 70s-80s. Tom Hanks’ son Colin directed a documentary about Tower Records, a once defunct record store chain started in CA.
Coincidences/Easter eggs PT Anderson snuck into Licorice Pizza that I dug: Main character (who’s real life son of Phillip S Hoffman, PTAs late muse) is named Gary Valentine. 2017 PTA directed a music video titled “Valentine” for Haim (who all act in the film including lead role)