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Orson Welles: 1001 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 868-3600. Joshua Then and Now: 2:15, 5:30, 7:40, 10; Rebel Without A Cause: 1:30, 5:40; East of Eadon: 3:30; Giant: 7:45; Kerouac with Pull My Daisy: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; Insignificance...
...retrospect, the Beatnik's chaotic lifestyles and massive drug inhalations that shook some cultural foundations thirty years ago seem rather mainstream today. Even the lifetime chronicled in Kerouac has a definable pattern: Home-City-The Road-City-Home. Kerouac ends right where he began: as other Beats point out, the stabilty of home, his mother and his father is all he sought...
...really wanted to be that old fart that was his father," says Lucien Carr, now a wire service editor who first met Kerouac at Columbia University...
...television clips are most effective because they reveal Kerouac's conservative character, both politically and socially. A scene from Buckley's Firing Line is particularly tragic. With merciless interviewing poise, Buckley casually questions the seriousness of Kerouac's writing and his tenuous connecting of religion and literature. Kerouac, obviously very drunk, answers Buckley on the air with a string of babblings on Buddhism. Ultimately, Kerouac makes a fool of himself, at the same time highlighting his own inability to fit in with the chic literati...
While the story of Kerouac's life is a fascinating one, it is also much-told. While Kerouac is a meticulous documentary, it adds little to the spate of literary accounts of the author's life, many of which have been published recently. It is an opportunity sadly missed...