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...Harvard students feel up to the journey, they can catch up on Kerouac and the Beats at the release of a new documentary this weekend. A Kerouac Odyssey premieres today in Lowell, Mass., the mill-town in which Kerouac was born, and will play through March 12, the late author’s eightieth birthday...
...Kerouac Odyssey is framed not in defense of the author, but simply in memory. It is a documentary firmly “rooted in the 20th century, Kerouac’s century,” says Sharples, and captures the intellectual struggles of a man trying to reconcile the “naïve and hopeful” with “bouts of existential despair...
...been busy ever since. Hong Kong's comic genius, Stephen Chow, cast her for a part in Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. Corey Yuen's So Close is in the can. She's on screens now in Jeff Lau's Chinese Odyssey 2002, and has just finished working on Chinese director He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth. She might even appear in Wong Kar-wai's as yet unfinished...
...years ago, America was not ready,” Ackerman said. “It’s been something of an odyssey...
Bronson’s odyssey as a visual artist is central to the exhibit. Along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, Bronson founded the Canadian conceptual art group General Idea. The collaborative was more than just the exploration of media bombardment in the modern age, an omnipresent theme in their work. Rather, all three members doffed their former identities and names to form an all-encompassing way of art and life that lasted from 1969 until 1994. In 1994, General Idea dissolved when Zontal and Partz, so integral to Bronson’s artistic and personal life, died from AIDS...