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...Kerouac is a histo-biography, following the author from his working class beginnings in Lowell, Mass. to his eventual post-breakdown return to New England. Spliced in between are Kerouac's confrontations with the big city, his chaotic ventures through the U.S. that led to books like On The Road, and his encounters with members of the personality/literati circuit which included William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso...
Arranged as a collage of video media, Kerouac is at its best during the television clips of the writer's appearance on shows like William F. Buckley's Firing Line and The Steve Allen Show...
MAYBE THE CAMERA CREW for Kerouac should have taken lessons from the makers of "Pull My Daisy" a 20-minute film which precedes Kerouac at the Orson Welles. Written and narrated by Kerouac in the late 1950s, "Pull My Daisy" is a humorous day-in-the-life tale of a few Beatnik writers during an afternoon and evening of goofing...
...Pull My Daisy" gives a view of Kerouac from the inside, in his own jumbled form of narration. The feature film complements the shorter work because it looks at Kerouac from the outside--through the eyes of an objective biographer and through those of writers and artists who knew Kerouac best...
During interview segments, other Beatnik writers do not deny Kerouac's status as "King of the Beat Generation." Kerouac seems to be the hardest to pin down. He doesn't have the grisly panache of Burroughs or the self-conscious religiousity of Ginsberg. There is a certain instability, an un-disciplined heart to Kerouac's work and life...