Beat Movie Guide (dramatizations — not documentaries) Last Updated: Feb 19th, 2023 With not one, not two, but three movies based on Jack Kerouac books coming out this year (2013) it makes sense to make sense of the world of cinematic dramatizations based on Beat works. Since real people are given different fictional names in […]
Beat Movie Guide
January 9th, 2013 · 30 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Big Sur movie·Carolyn Cassady·Hassett's Beat Movie guide·Heart Beat·Jack Kerouac·Neal Cassady·On The Road movie·Pull My Daisy·Quantum Leap·Route 66·The Subterraneans movie·Vincent Balestri·Walter Salles
Making better time On The Road
September 8th, 2012 · 40 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales
Making better time On The Road So, I get to the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto at 7PM for a 9:00 show (on Sept. 6th) and there’s already a whole scene. It’s the World Premiere of the new and forever “On The Road” — the first-ever screening of the director’s revised and final cut. There’s a […]
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On The Road to On The Road in London — Sex, Drugs & Jazz
August 17th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales
On The Road to On The Road Sex, Drugs & Jazz A very abnormal thing happens — it’s post-movies Wednesday night (August 15th) when Carolyn & I normally part ways for our own offices and computers, but by fortune we met up in the kitchen and started talkin about the movie premiere tomorrow night, and […]
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A Shakespearean Cassady
June 17th, 2012 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry, Real-life Adventure Tales
A Shakespearean Cassady . A month of rain in 12 hours can’t dampen the Spirit of a lifetime of experience or the experience of a lifetime. Two compatible souls a generation apart, Somehow related, somehow unjaded, somehow not faded, Still giggling unburdened, still freely unherded, Two jazz cats still flowing, still riffing, still reading […]
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Carolyn Cassady birthday poem
February 9th, 2008 · 16 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry
Happy B Day to The Big C! A girl so nice you had to C her twice! It’s the Big Sea at Big Sur! And finding the sacred rocks to reflect, and seeing the glistening gems shine thru the crashing waves of life with you. I saw the best minds of my generation get buzzed […]
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