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...Blue Valentine" has been gathering dust in the unpaved car lot every afternoon for three weeks in October '79, while inside the faceless, uninviting brick and concrete complex Tom Waits -- beatnik balladeer, jazz journeyman (the ad might read: "Have gravelly voice. Will stand up and sing.") -- has been readying his band for a tour that will take them across the country and through Christmas, visiting theaters and small halls. "I don't play many beer bars any more," Waits explains. "I used to play exclusively toilets, that's all I wanted to play. But the thing is, you play toilets...
...portrayed in the screenplay of Heart Beat that he demanded he be dropped entirely. "They wanted to have someone named Allen Ginsberg speak lines I never said," he says. "I wouldn't have minded if they put something intelligent in my mouth, but it sounded like third-rate beatnik poetry." Adds Novelist Ken Kesey, another friend of the trio: "I believe in dead rights, that no one has a right to mess with a guy, use Humphrey Bogart to sell batteries on TV, just because he's dead...
Cliffs only rival was Brando, who also symbolized the outsider in those pre-hippie, pre-beatnik days. When the two of them were making The Young Lions, Brando, who was playing a Nazi officer, had the idea that in his death scene he should roll dramatically down a hill and land with his arms outstretched like Christ's. "He does that, I'll walk off the picture," Monty fumed, afraid that Brando would steal the movie. In the printed scene, Brando is simply shot in the head by Dean Martin. Later, however, during Monty's dark days...
...Irons stands out less in a crowd than he did in 1963, when an FBI file he has since obtained described him as having "a beatnik appearance." Of medium height, with brown hair cut above his ears, he looks much like any graduate student--a little older, perhaps, but no more revolutionary...
Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...