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Neal Cassady

Why You Should Never Meet Your Idol

Mara Menachem | Posted 04.18.2013 | Books
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ma, Mara Menachem, Poetry, Teenage Angst, Berkeley, Jack Kerouac, Lowell, Telegraph Avenue, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Beatnik Generation, Books News
Mara Menachem

My imagination ran wild. What witty thing would I say to Mr. Ginsberg? What will I do when he asks me to drop out of college and be his full time assistant? What will my family say? But how can I turn down such an opportunity?

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Movie Review: On the Road

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.17.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Jack Kerouac, The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles, Slim Gaillard, On the Road Movie Review, Sam Riley, Dean Moriarty, David Chase, Allen Ginsberg, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Garrett Hedlund, Sal Paradise, Movie Reviews, Counterculture, On the Road, Marshall Fine, Somewhere, Not Fade Away, Neal Cassady, Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, Bohemianism, Charlie Parker, Sofia Coppola, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's taken me a while to get around to it, but I wanted to offer a nod of approval for Walter Salles' On the Road, which came out in limited release at the end of 2012.

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Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Oscar, Duke, Alan Ginsberg, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Day After Superman Died, David Kahne, Tie Dye, Angelina Jolie, Alex Gibney, The World's Fair, Cold War, Easy Rider, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Twist and Shout, Ravi Coltrane, On the Road, The Beatles, Archival Verite, Emmy, Stanley Tucci, John Coltrane, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Wolfe, Love Potion Number 9, Howl, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Jerry Garcia, JFK Assassination, Jack Kerouac, Allison Ellwood, The Merry Pranksters, Hair, Greensleeves, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, The Sixties, Ellington, Neal Cassady, Post 9/11, Entertainment News
Cynthia Ellis

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

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Neal Cassady Drives Again in 'Magic Trip'

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.04.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Neal Cassady, Alex Gibney, Magic Trip, Alison Ellwood, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Film, Magic Trip Film, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

See Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's "archival cinéma vérité" documentary "Magic Trip" to see Neal Cassady's next chapter, as the driver of Ken Kesey's bus Further.

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HuffPost Review: Magic Trip

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.04.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Lsd, Alison Ellwood, Deadhead, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Alex Gibney, Grateful Dead, Magic Trip, Dean Moriarty, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bus Trip, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, New York World's Fair 1964, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Tom Wolfe, On the Road, Further, Magic Trip Movie Review, Neal Cassady, Merry Pranksters, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

You don't have to be a Deadhead or a Ken Kesey-phile to find the fun and the wistfulness in Magic Trip, Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's reconstruction of the famous cross-country bus trip by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

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Literary Classic Headed To Film

Posted 06.15.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Big Sur Movie, Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac Big Sur Movie, Big Sur, Books, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Big Sur, Movies, Entertainment News

Fifty-plus years later, the Beat Generation is finally making its mark in film. A big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur," about the fame...

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