Word: corso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
...home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...
...husband, a railroad brakeman (played by Painter Larry Rivers), comes home. He has invited a High Church bishop for tea. The bishop is like 20 years old, and he brings his mother. Not all the Beats are pleased. Ginsberg: "I'll go in the bathroom and watch television." Corso wonders if the bishop knows about "beer bottles that come in magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters...
...inspiration for Beatnik Gregory Corso's poem Bomb [Sept. 7] might well have been the oft-chanted Episcopal (Book of Common Prayer) Benedicite, omnia opera Domini...
...test is time & i dont mean your publication-which is only another type of literature, feel free to print howl, moan or anything else. listen beat does not always mean unwashed or workless-i have 2 exhibitions here within the next fortnight-one at "city lights." gregory corso [is] first angel poet of america. stop laughing at artists...