Jack on Film: Take 2 at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac . Here’s a YouTube playlist with great video of the entire Jack on Film show — . =========================================== Here’s a riffing interview with WCAP in Lowell about all things Kerouac — and the new “Jack on Film: Take 2” show — with nearly a hundred photos […]
Jack on Film: Take 2 and Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) 2023 videos
October 31st, 2023 · 11 Comments · Brian on YouTube etc., Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Interviews, Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
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“Jack on Film” sample
September 29th, 2022 · 5 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Here’s a little taste . . . My “script” notes for the first dramatic portrayal of Jack . . . . Pull My Daisy (released Nov. 1959) One of the Big Five to focus on MY THESIS HOW THIS IS THE GREATEST BEAT GEN CREATION. Filmed in their prime . . . . Kerouac’s best […]
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The Making of “Jack on Film”
August 28th, 2022 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
The Making of “Jack on Film” . . Believe it or not this whole thing started when I got a call on January 12th, 2021 — six days after the Capitol insurrection (!) and still deep in the pandemic lockdown daze. A musician friend I’ve known since 1976, Will Hodgson, was home with his kids […]
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Rolling Stone Book of The Beats, Power of The Collective
March 6th, 2016 · 5 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, New York City
Floating Universities — The Power of The Collective in Art . Give me your befuddled masses, Your rejection slips, pink slips, verbal slips, all; Knock down the gates, throw open the bars, The artists are havin a ball. Teach me, show me, let me in; Challenge me, push me, help me win. Athletes have their […]
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Wailin’ at The Whitney
January 26th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City
Wailin’ at The Whitney (a feature story from 1995 on the historic Whitney Museum show) Communities of creative minds exchanging ideas has been a dream of artists from the moment they first walked away from the other apes and got back to the land to set their soul free. The Lost Generation café klatch […]
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Beat Movie Guide
January 9th, 2013 · 30 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
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 […]
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