Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins

Born: July 22, 1932
in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies", also known as "comedy-drama. In late 1957, he enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1966, Robbins was contacted and then met with Doubleday's West Coast Editor, Luthor Nichols, who asked Robbins about writing a book on Northwest art. Instead Robbins told Nichols he wanted to write a novel and pitched the idea of what was to become Another Roadside Attraction.

Movies for Tom Robbins...

A Not So Still Life
Title: A Not So Still Life
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Ginny Ruffner overcame a near fatal car accident in 1991 in order to re-establish her worldwide reputation as an artist, but it is her indefatigable spirit that has influenced so many in and out of the art world.
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Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Title: Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Character: Himself
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magickian. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope. Whatever the label and rank, Robert Anton Wilson is undeniably one of the foundations of 21th Century Western counterculture.Maybe Logic follows a reality labyrinth which leads through the hollows of human perception to the vast star fields of Sirius where we find one man alone, joyfully accepting his status as Damned Old Crank and Cosmic Schmuck. Beaming with insight, frustration, compassion, and unshakable optimism, the ever-open eye of Robert Anton Wilson penetrates human illusions exposing the mathematical probabilities and spooky synchronicities of the 8 dimensions of his Universe.
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Breakfast of Champions
Title: Breakfast of Champions
Character: Pesky Weber
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
An unhappy car dealer believes that a dime-store philosopher has the answers to life's important questions.
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Anthem
Title: Anthem
Character: Self
Released: July 25, 1997
Type: Movie
When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Title: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends Bonanza Jellybean, one of the cowgirls at the beauty- ranch.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Mario the Toymaker
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.