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Published in 1962, Ken Kesey's novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the chief literary contributions to the prevailing cultural mood of the '60s. But unlike so many popular artistic and intellectual productions of that era, the book may have the capacity to outlive its historical moment. In telling the story of Randle McMurphy and the brief, abortive rebellion which he organized in an insane asylum, Kesey demonstrated a tough-minded understanding of the subtleties of revolutionaries and revolutions...
...nice place just to visit," concluded Actor Jack Nicholson after two months on location at the state mental hospital in Salem, Ore. Nicholson has just completed filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would...
...chance, the Class committee came up with playwright Arthur Miller as the next best thing. Miller accepted, and as if to disprove Death of a Salesman's thesis that "attention must be paid," he read from his introduction to Garage Sale, a collection of essays by Ken Kesey...
...many books that are so widely read after so many years. I can think of only two others that date from the same period that are still read by people with enjoyment, rather than any courses they might have to read them for. The other two are Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. I cannot think of any others. Pynchon readers, I think, come mostly from courses studying contemporary literature...
...prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood been so big-name conscious. "The system is geared toward overworking the stars," Nicholson points out. "There aren't that many stars around to haul the freight...