Thomas Pynchon "appears" on "The John Larroquette Show"

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Old hat but I had never watched it --- and it's quite a gem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM98iFKu0ss

 > Those who follow Pynchon's occasional transgressions of his own wall 
of secrecy will remember his relationship with The John Larroquette 
Show. Larroquette considers himself a pretty literate guy, and is a big 
fan of Pynchon, so he started slipping references to Pynchon into the 
show. Eventually, the writers sent a script mentioning TP off to the man 
himself. The script called for TP to be represented on camera by an 
extra with his back turned, but Pynchon vetoed that idea. Nonetheless, 
the plot of the episode revolves around a character who claimed he knows 
Pynchon. Before the show was cancelled, the writers managed to squeeze 
in a few more TP references, including one in which the the girl from 
/Blossom/ assumes the name of a character from /V.<

/http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/01/the_history_of_thomas_pynchon.php/
/http://dangerousminds.net/comments/thomas_pynchon_wears_a_roky_erickson_shirt

 > Here’s the meat of the story reported by the Times:

    Pynchon has a special love for the losers lost on the wayside of the
    American dream. So co-executive producer Larroquette decided to
    feature Pynchon in a script and sent the work-in-progress to
    Pynchon’s agent for approval.

    “We made up a novel that he hasn’t written—and he gave us permission
    to say that he had written ‘Pandemonium of the Sun,’ ” Larroquette says.

    The mysterious, never-photographed Pynchon refused, however, to let
    a “Larroquette” extra, in a plaid shirt, be videotaped from the rear
    and represented as Pynchon.

    One scene called for Hemingway’s antagonist, the lunch counter
    operator, Dexter (Daryl “Chill” Mitchell), to reveal, quite
    casually, that he’s a longtime pal of the much-traveled writer.

    “You must have seen him, he was sitting here last night!” Dexter
    insists. The script says Pynchon was wearing a T-shirt with the
    picture of a certain, obscure musician.*

    “Pynchon, through his agent, wrote back and says, ‘Would you please
    make it a picture of Rocky [sic] Erickson on the T-shirt?’ ”
    Larroquette says.

    “I looked up Rocky Erickson. He was a psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll
    musician in the ‘60s who was institutionalized shortly thereafter
    and spent most of the rest of his life in an insane asylum. Somebody
    that Pynchon liked, I guess.” <

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