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Posts contrassegnato dai tag ‘jack kerouac’
Steinbeck vs. Kerouac
18 febbraio 2012
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
di Frank Jacobs per Big Think
In 1960, feeling he might not be long for this earth, John Steinbeck decided to travel across the length and breadth of America for one last time.
La prima volta che incontrai Dean
19 gennaio 2012
Garrett Hedlund
Le foto di Garret Hedlund (che sarà Dean Moriarty) e del regista Walter Salles durante le riprese di On the road.
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Dear Marlon
9 gennaio 2012
La lettera inedita di Jack Kerouac a Marlon Brando, 1957.
Caro Marlon,
vorrei chiederti di acquistare i diritti di “On the Road” per farne un film. Non preoccuparti della struttura del libro, saprei comprimere e riorganizzare la trama quel tanto che basta per farne un film dalla struttura perfettamente accettabile: rendendolo un viaggio unico invece che una serie di viaggi da una costa all’altra, come avviene nel romanzo – un viaggio di andata e ritorno che parte da New York, passa per Denver, fino ad arrivare a Frisco, in Messico, a New Orleans e poi di nuovo a New York. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Jazz Cat, Right on Time, Every Time
22 settembre 2011
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Most of the notables involved in what may have been the first-ever jazz-poetry reading of the so-called Beat Generation have passed on into legend. Of those presenting at that event, at the Brata Art Gallery on East 10th Street in Manhattan in October 1957, the sole survivor is the “jazz” cat David Amram, a French horn virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Dean Moriarty Jr.
17 luglio 2011
Timothy Leary e Neal Cassady (foto di Allen Ginsberg)
di Bill Hutchinson per il NYDaily News
Over ambient chatter of a rowdy East Village watering hole his father would have reveled in, the son of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady is sharing a quirky family secret. “My father named me after his friend Jack Kerouac and his friend Allen Ginsberg,” he says, rubbing his Hemingway-like white beard and speaking enthusiastically about his old man between puffs of a cigarette and sips of a strong cocktail. Read the rest of this entry ?
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4,000 Miles
16 luglio 2011
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
di Jerry Cimino per l’Huffington Post
Francis Ford Coppola has owned the movie rights to Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel On The Road for decades. And frankly most of us who love the book and Kerouac’s legacy and have been discussing the possibility of a movie for years took great solace from the fact that the movie was in the caring hands of Francis Coppola. He just seemed to be the kind of guy who would either make the movie “right” or he wouldn’t make it at all. Read the rest of this entry ?
“Socks are very important!”
4 giugno 2011
Neal e Carolyn Cassady, testo di Allen Ginsberg
scritto da John Allen Cassady
Now that principle photography has wrapped for the upcoming movie Big Sur, based on the 1961 novel by Jack Kerouac, I thought I would tell a story of my own about that magical stretch of California coastline. Before I journeyed there many times through high school and beyond with my friends for countless camping trips (and “trips”), I was first introduced to “The Sur” by my father, Neal Cassady. He affectionately called it “Big Sewer,” not out of any disrespect, but he could never resist a play on words. Read the rest of this entry ?
Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
24 maggio 2011Il brano di Tom Waits “Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come” contenuto nell’album Foreign Affairs è un medley jazzistico in cui – oltre alla sua nascita californiana – vengono ricordate le figure di Jack Kerouac e Neal Cassady.
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