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...featured character of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Ken Kesey, died Saturday. On a similar note, people driving to Yale this weekend will have a ride that lasts about...
...play, by Dale Wasserman, is based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, but it was the 1975 movie adaptation that gained the story immense fame while sweeping its way that year to the five most prestigious Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay...
...Kesey intends the injustice of the hospital’s bureaucracy to serve as a metaphor for the oppressive American sytem. Nurse Ratched, the head of the ward, is the epitome of strict, mindless ruling. She is challenged by the arrival of Randall Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy, who advocates revolution and butts heads with the authority of Nurse Ratched, points out the injustice of the institution. He leads the group of patients, which consists of varying temperaments and levels of sanity, to the realization that they do not have to stand for the ill treatment they receive. Chief Bromden, the half...
...several factors (changing regimes, the death of the "small" Hollywood film with the advent of Spielberg and Lucas, a reputation as one who "indulged" quite a bit). His position as a "name" journalist-in-residence on Rolling Stones tours had the same sad, resigned air as Ken Kesey's travels with the Grateful Dead. Given the nature of his later professional endeavors (including the script of an unfunny 1980 hardcore porn comedy, "Randy the Electric Lady"), the sweetest surprise waiting for Southern fans in "A Grand Guy" is the revelation that he remained a productive and prolific writer during...
...large corporation; a man smashes crackers with a giant sledgehammer on a crowded Manhattan street corner). The book clearly tapped into the zeitgeist of the time: the pranks and scams pulled off by Grand prefigure the performance-art "happenings" of later years, the carefree antics of Ken Kesey's "Merry Pranksters," and the media-grabbing events staged by Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin...