Nabopop: Humbert Humbert in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
A Humbert Humbert reference in episode 6, season 4 of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel! It’s screen-captured below:
The show is available for streaming here.
Nabokov in The X-Files!
Check out The Enchanted Hunter motel -- a nod to Lolita's The Enchanted Hunters hotel -- in this X-Files episode from the 2016 season, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster." The episode was written by Darin Morgan, who is no stranger to awesome Nabokov references. His 1996 X-Files episode, "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," features a space overlord named Lord Kinbote.
Lolita Spotted in The Man in the High Castle
Check out the Lolita poster in this frame from The Man in the High Castle!
Nabopop: Pale Fire in Noah Baumbach's Mistress America
Check out Greta Gerwig holding Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire in Noah Baumbach's lovely, effervescent, way way funny Mistress America!
NaboPop: Nick Cave's "20,000 Days on Earth"
In the very Nabokovian documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, Nick Cave recalls the very earliest memory of his dad: Him reading Lolita to him, admiring the writing, and Cave admiring his father. "He became a greater thing," Cave says. Lolita recurs in the movie -- it pops up briefly in the opening sequence and will return at crucial moments. Some screencaps below.
Sighting: Best Last Lines
Sighting: "Signs & Symbols" for the Internets
Nabopop: Franken-Olympia-Edition Lolita in Masters of Sex
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NaboPop: Nabokov's Pale Fire in Spike Jonze's Her
See also: Nabokov's Ada pops up just behind Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.
Vivian Darkbloom in Pretty Little Liars
Vladimir Nabokov's anagram, Vivian Darkbloom, has appeared in Ada and Lolita (and in the Acknowledgments page of Arthur Philips's The Egyptologist). She now also appears in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars, where Vivian is the alter-ego of Alison DiLaurentis.
Thanks to the Nabokv-L Listserv and to Jansy Mello for the tip.
Semi-Transparent Semi-Alive Sighting! Nabokov in Dawn of the Dead
Nabopop: Bored to Death
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Nabopop: Museum Mouth's "Outside"
“Outside” name-drops writers Vladimir Nabokov and J.D. Salinger. Other tunes like “Virginia” – Kuehn calls them “slow jams” – incorporate keyboards and have a more deliberate, moodier feel. At live shows, however, “we play everything fast,” Levin said.(The rest of the story is here.)
Museum Mouth at Tumblr / Museum Mouth at MySpace (where "Outside" can be streamed)
Nabopop: The Man Who Wasn't There
references Lolita
? (I saw it, years ago, didn't catch the reference.)Viz (from the Amazon DVD description): Almost in spite of the obsessive cultural references (flying saucers, Nabokov's Lolita, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), Ed Crane steps neatly from the fray as one of cinema's most memorably disenchanted characters.
SIGHTING: John Shade Sings!
Recording under the pseudonym John Shade (a name he gleaned from a fictional poet in the Vladimir Nabokov novel “Pale Fire’’), Godowsky has released his debut album, “All You Love Is Need.’’(The rest at The Boston Globe.)
The musician's official web site is at http://johnshademusic.com/
SIGHTING: Gina Gershon Likes Lolita
What is your favorite book?
One of my all-time favorite books is Lolitaby Nabokov. I just think he’s such an amazing writer. It’s not the favorite because I have about a zillion favorite books. I’ve always liked The Art of Happiness
, Dalai Lama’s book. I think that’s always a good go-to book if you’re feeling depressed. It puts things into perspective.
, a character is referred to as a "one-day Lolita Pollyanna." I can't remember if it's Gershon ("Cristal Connors") or someone else.
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