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...Cruise had said that - now that would have been a speech. But you take your pleasures where you can get them. There was Woody Allen, introducing a more tasteful post-Sept.-11 tribute to movies shot in New York and looking awfully youthful (maybe because he didn't have his tongue down the throat of an actress fifty years younger than him). There was the thankfully short amount of time Whoopi Goldberg actually spent onstage. There were those only-at-Oscar weirdnesses, like the brightly colored mime/harlequins prancing backstage, near Donald Sutherland and Glenn Close doing play-by-play from...
...message of the Beat poets goes on, and not just because it is commonly force-fed to students. In fact, fascination with Beat literature and culture is experiencing something of a renaissance, with not only Kerouac but fellow hipsters William S. Burroughs ’36 and Allen Ginsburg enjoying the spotlight...
...drinking and sex. He was recklessly unfaithful, and for a time “loaned” Carolyn out to his pal Kerouac. Apparently Cassady’s sexual escapades were not limited to womanizing, as his wife once inadvertently interrupted her husband in an intimate moment with Allen Ginsburg...
...Allen Ginsburg was in and out of psychiatric wards. It was in one of these that the poet met Carl Solomon, who became a friend of the group and was Ginsburg’s inspiration for “Howl.” Solomon was committed after trying to steal a cafeteria sandwich in front of a uniformed policeman...
...project has been 20 years in the making. Writer-director Doug Sharples was inspired by Allen Ginsburg, who in 1982 staged a ten-day celebration of Kerouac intended, as Sharples remembers, to “turn the tide against the literary establishment that was still leery of Kerouac even thirteen years after his death...