Word: kerouac
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...problem with Barfly is that it has a mission. This is to glorify the life of the Los Angeles beat poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote the semi-autobiographical script. Now Bukowski has a terrific literati-on-the-skids persona; more downwardly mobile than Kerouac or Burroughs, more degenerate than Ginsberg. He came of age as a writer in the same kind of desolate, marginal, flophouse and seedy bar milieu that Schroeder evokes so effectively in the film. And he's a fine writer--the problem is that you'd never know it from the script, which struck...
...instance, hitchhiked with Kerouac to Big Sur, stormed the president's office at Columbia and studied beat poetry with Ferlinghetti. Not even the competent acting of Saulnier and Frisch can instill plausibility into these characters...
...Muffin, or any cafe that draws devotees of the Bottomless Mug, is a Jack Kerouac kind of place. Personality, character, noise, life, odors, arguments...
...25th anniversary reunion for Buchanan High's class of 1960, and the gym is festooned with memories. Photo blowups freeze Michael Fitzsimmons (Kevin J. O'Connor), track star and would-be Kerouac, in full youthful stride. A larger-than-life-size shot of Prom Queen Peggy Sue Kelcher (Kathleen Turner) and King Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage), who soon got married and later separated, captures the popular couple with their teen dreams intact and life's promises spread before them like a red carpet. The blowups could be relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe...
...protect the guilty as well as the innocent. The result is a fictionalized autobiography in which Kesey is called Devlin Deboree, a once celebrated novelist who served a short jail sentence in California for marijuana possession. Tracking the cast requires some familiarity with Beat Generation hagiography. The names Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso are included in a straightforward litany. But Neal Cassady, the loquacious speed demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model for the character Dean Moriarty...