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...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...
Neal Cassady was the inspiration for Dean Moriarty. His wife, Carolyn, was the model for Dean’s first wife, Marylou. Now 78, Carolyn Cassady has published a book, Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsburg, spilling her memories of the wild days that shaped Kerouac’s life and writing. True to “Dean” form, Neal Cassady led a life of drinking and sex. He was recklessly unfaithful, and for a time “loaned” Carolyn out to his pal Kerouac. Apparently Cassady’s sexual...
...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...
...real political figures, like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, arguing about court topics on Curveball, the takeoff of Chris Matthews' Hardball that the Justices sometimes catch on TV. There are also occasional moments of accidental hilarity; in the first episode Durning, talking to Garner about the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doppelganger Justice Esther Weisenberg, says, "Esther's giving that new boy her wet-panties pep talk." You can't come up with comedy like that on purpose...