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Cassady was born to Maude Jean (Scheuer) and Neal Marshall Cassady in Salt Lake City, Utah. [3] His mother died when he was 10, and he was raised by his alcoholic father in Denver, Colorado . Cassady spent much of his youth either living on the streets of skid row , with his father, or in reform school .
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.
Part of the novel is a fast-forward recapitulation of the events described in On the Road, which was also about Kerouac and Neal Cassady. When Kerouac appeared on The Steve Allen Show in 1959, he secretly read from the introduction to the then-unpublished Visions of Cody although he was supposedly reading from On The Road, the book he was holding.
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 ...
John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 – March 30, 1988) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go.Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.
The MIT 70 is the lowest profile Coast Guard-approved front entry inflatable life jacket on the market, and a dream for boaters who hate life jackets getting in the way of their movement.
"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.
T Bone Burnett, one of his best friends and favored collaborators over the last 50 years, and music executive Paula Batson, Neuwirth’s life partner of the past 30 years, spoke with Variety about ...