Word: beatnik
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...UNKNOWN ACTOR scurries across a northern California beach. He's playing Jack Kerouac. But this supposedly athletic-looking Beatnik writer is thin and clumsy. He ends up ditching the beach after narrowly escaping a mound of dirt that plummets into the ocean...
...CAMERA CREW for Kerouac should have taken lessons from the makers of "Pull My Daisy" a 20-minute film which precedes Kerouac at the Orson Welles. Written and narrated by Kerouac in the late 1950s, "Pull My Daisy" is a humorous day-in-the-life tale of a few Beatnik writers during an afternoon and evening of goofing...
During interview segments, other Beatnik writers do not deny Kerouac's status as "King of the Beat Generation." Kerouac seems to be the hardest to pin down. He doesn't have the grisly panache of Burroughs or the self-conscious religiousity of Ginsberg. There is a certain instability, an un-disciplined heart to Kerouac's work and life...
...late 1950s, McDarrah was a strange cross between Beat writer and camera buff who once started a successful "Rent a Beatnik" enterprise, charging 5-40 for a Beatnik to appear at cocktail parties. His photographs of his Greenwich village buddies and his selection of commentaries from the time make up an eclectic collage...
...Beat Generation entered the public eye in 1952 when the New York Times Magazine ran an essay on the Beatnik's search for faith during the Cold...