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...UNKNOWN ACTOR scurries across a northern California beach. He's playing Jack Kerouac. But this supposedly athletic-looking Beatnik writer is thin and clumsy. He ends up ditching the beach after narrowly escaping a mound of dirt that plummets into the ocean...
Even among contemporary works, there was a distinct lack of poems with a message. Springteen's social ballads were passed over for his purely imagistic "Blinded by the Light," and Ginsberg's bittersweet critiques of American mores were superseded by some of Kerouac's blood imagery work...
...Giant: 1:30, 5, 8:30. Mon: 9/30/55: 2, 5:50, 9:45; Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean: 4, 7:50. Tue and Wed: (like Fri and Sat). Cinema 2: American Flier: 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8, 10:05 daily. Cinema 3: Kerouac: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; Insignificance: 3:30, 7:30 daily. Midnight Shows, Fri and Sat: Cinema 1: Liquid Sky. Cinema 2: Blood Simple. Cinema 3: Eraserhead...
There must be better ways to see the country, and one that immediately comes to mind is the movie assignment, for "Kerouac and the Search for Self," Lost in America (Harvard Square). Dewitt can hardly think of a more delightful tourguide than Airplane's Julie Hagerty whose husband, played by director Albert Brooks, foregoes the yuppie life and takes Julie along for a ride in the Winnebago...
...influenced his architecture most of all. He arrived at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958 but found its "Prussian dogma" of modernism uncongenial. Breaking free, Hollein bought a Chevy and drove, covering 50,000 miles in a year and a half, just when Nabokov's Humbert Humbert and Kerouac's romantics were on the road. Recalls Hollein: "It was just incredible to me the space you have here, the sense of freedom." Seeing the West provoked a kind of epiphany. A generation ago, before pizazz had become architecturally fashionable, Hollein was out there on his own, learning from...