# Fay Hepworth

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Fay Hepworth - Lord Mountbatten's PA who travelled the world

Fay Hepworth was born during the 2nd world war. Initially her family were living with her grandmother close to Silverstone in Northamptonshire. Fays father was a captain in the army and had served with the hussars and had seen action in North Africa. The family moved to Northern Ireland where Fay w…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #34: “..what kind of girl do you need, Doc?...” with Angelica Jade Bastien

Well, hello there. And just like that, Shasta Fay Hepworth is back, bringing with her Inherent Vice’s most complex, and erotic, and disturbing, and confounding scene…one in which mystery begets mystery, and both she and ol’ Doc Sportello are laid completely bare…and yet are somehow all the more mys…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #33: “..word is your girl’s back in town...” with Bilge Ebiri

So this is it: The Beginning of the End. We begin the strange and hazylazy final third of INHERENT VICE today. Speaking of threes, today’s is the only scene in which the film’s three principles come together in real time—Doc Sportello, Bigfoot Bijornsen, and one not-so-missing Shasta Fay Hepworth—t…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #32: “...hello, little hippie...” with Ethan Warren

A billionaire land developer who’s technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi… A man who dreams of giving away his billions to build free housing for hippies, all while his properties act as money-laundering fronts for the arm of the vaaaaaaast conspiranoid body that’s a heroin cartel infecting…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #25: “...that one day in the rain...” with Rian Johnson

The mystery of Shasta Fay Hepworth bookends Inherent Vice. Despite a few brief memories and cameos, she primarily anchors either end of the story, suffusing the long stretch of two hours and 30 minutes in between with the dusting of her starstuff, as if she is this universe’s Big Bang and Big Crunc…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #6: "...not you, bong-brain..." with Drew McWeeny

”A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: Mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.”—Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin PeaksInherent…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #9: "...she's gone, man..." with Alicia Malone (Author, TCM Host)

Near the end of Douglas Sirk’s 1954 Technicolor melodrama, Magnificent Obsession, Otto Kruger makes a pretty heavy declaration:“Once you find the way, you'll be bound. It will obsess you. But believe me, it will be a magnificent obsession.” We agree that’s a sentiment that our pal Doc Sportello wou…

INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #2: "...I need your help, Doc..." with Kim Morgan

“It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the l…

Ark Audio Book Club # 26 "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon

Inherent Vice (2009) is a shaggy dog story about a hippy private investigator, Lawrence “Doc” Sportello, living in L.A. at the tail end of the 1960s (which I think could really mean up until 1974ish). One night, his “ex-old-lady”, Shasta Fay Hepworth, comes around looking for help to stop the kidna…

XHM #256 - "Motto panukeiku" (2015 March 23)

I may not be a do-gooder, but I done good now and then. Podcasts will be getting slowly asynchronous as repairs are made, so caveat emptor. Under these paving stones, this will be your beach: 1. Kendrick Lamar: These Walls [w.Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat] (To Pimp a Butterfly, 2015) Top Dawg/Aft…