‘Inherent Vice’ is a novel by Thomas Pynchon which was made into a movie in 2014. It stars Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello and is set in the West coast of the Seventies, when Richard Nixon was president and America was still at war in Southeast Asia.

‘Inherent Vice’ in a Marine Insurance policy is anything that you can’t avoid.
Eggs break, Chocolate melts, Glass shatters.

Here are some of the names from the cat of characters:

Rhus Frothingham
Crocker Fenway
Adrain Prussia Friend
Sauncho Smilax Esq.
Riggs Warbling
Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd
Dr. Threeply
Dr. Lily Hammer
Dr. Buddy Tubeside
Puck Beaverton – ‘a bald-headed asshole with a swastika tattoo’
and
Agent Flatweed
and
Agent Borderline

Dick Bonkowski would have ben a name that would not have sounded out of place in this list.
Given a chance to cast him in the movie, I would have made him the anonymous Agent who makes a point at sitting next to Joaquin Phoenix at the table in the Interview Room. The Unnamed Agent leans in and says, ‘Do you realise how thoroughly we can fuck your life up?’

Here’s another moment from the film:

SCOTT WILSON – ‘I’m living in a house in Topanga Canyon. A band I used to play in, The Boards, but none of them know that it’s me.
JOAQUIN PHOENIX – ‘How can they not know that it’s you?’
SCOTT WILSON – ‘Even when i was alive, they didn’t know it was me.’