‘Licorice Pizza’ review: Coming-of-age odyssey is Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to 1970s San Fernando Valley
Gary Valentine is almost famous. This enterprising hustler parlays his demi-fame into a kind of accidental-on-purpose mystique, that of a 15-year-old L.A. whiz kid, with one foot in the Industry as a child actor and the other in whatever he’s cooking up at the moment.
“Licorice Pizza,” writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s gloriously hazy hangout of a movie, starts from the premise of this San Fernando Valley high schooler putting his idea of “the moves” on 25-year-old Alana. She works as a
