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The collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of On the Road, written on January 19, 1951. [15] The original scroll of On the Road was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million (equivalent to $4.18 million in 2023). It has occasionally been made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled.
Cassady was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, and the character "Cody Pomeray" in many of Kerouac's other novels. In the surviving first draft of On the Road, which Kerouac typed on a 120-foot roll of paper specially constructed for that purpose, the story's protagonist's name remains "Neal Cassady". [34]
Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 [1] – July 4, 1997) was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. [2] [3] He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years. [4]
On The Road (French: Sur la route) is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac 's 1957 novel On the Road and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund , Sam Riley , Kristen Stewart , Alice Braga , Amy Adams , Tom Sturridge , Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss , Kirsten Dunst , and Viggo Mortensen .
The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
Thanksgiving leaves many lethargic and in a food coma. But for 22 NFL teams on Sunday, they will have to shake off that rust as a full slate of games takes place on Week 13 of the 2024 season.
Jon "Jay" Thomas Terrell [1] (July 12, 1948 – August 24, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and radio personality. He was heard in New York from 1976–1979 on top-40 station 99X, and later on rhythmic CHR station 92KTU, and in Los Angeles beginning in 1986 on KPWR "Power 106", where he hosted the station's top-rated morning show until 1993.
As much as he knew Bryan at home, he had no clue what Bryan was like. I’d want to know what my brother was like if I was in his situation. MELANIE: What’s funny is what I originally thought — Bryan was just partying around, he was studying partying. HEIDI: Melanie and I ended up going to visit him at Temple probably in our junior year ...