Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JACK KAREY WCFL Chicago...
Storm center of this culture crisis was Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years...
...knife. Requiem for Bird, named for the late Jazz Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, looks like a grey goose hit hard in flight by a charge from a chokebore shotgun. "When I run out of materials, I borrow and steal shamelessly," says Morris. "After I painted some canvases on the Jack Paar Show, I sold one to a dealer in Chicago. Then I was on CBS and NBC newsreels. I got other customers. They came, but they couldn't wait to get out of here fast enough. They were afraid to get their mink suits dirty...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Jolly good fun for the crime crowd, with Jack Hawkins puffing the inspectorial briar...
Some Like It Hot. The nation's No. 1 box-office attraction has Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed as females and Marilyn Monroe half-dressed as herself...