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Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s.
Told from Neal Cassady's (Thomas Jane) perspective, in a form of a letter, the film follows his life before and after the suicide attempt by his longtime lover, Joan (Claire Forlani). Demonstrating Neal's active mind and ever-changing thoughts, the film jumps back and forth between before and after the attempt.
Neal Cassady was the real-life model for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road. The scene when August talks Neal into leaving Emma so she can be happy is parallel to the season one episode " Dreamy ," when the Blue Fairy talks Dreamy (who later becomes Grumpy/Leroy) into leaving Nova so she can be happy.
Magic Trip is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, about Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters. [1] The documentary uses the 16 mm color footage shot by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their 1964 cross-country bus trip in the Furthur bus. The hyperkinetic Cassady is frequently seen ...
From Jack Kerouac’s Benzedrine benders to Allen Ginsberg’s sexual subversion, the Beatniks radically changed American literature and culture in the mid 20th century, turning post-war America ...
"Pull My Daisy" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady.It was written in the late 1940s in a similar way to the Surrealist “exquisite corpse” game, with one person writing the first line, the other writing the second, and so on sequentially with each person only being shown the line before.
Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg is an autobiographical book by Carolyn Cassady.Originally published in 1990 as Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, it was republished by London's Black Spring Press, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
The broadcast networks are deep into finale season, and several of those season enders are represented in our Quotes of the Week column. In the list below, we’ve gathered nearly 20 of television ...