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		<title>Katy Perry:  &#8216;Firework&#8217; inspired by Jack Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Cimino Katy Perry was not unknown to us here at The Beat Museum &#8211; after all, for a while she was married to Russell Brand, who in 2007 participated in a cross-country road trip commemorating On the Road&#8216;s 50th Anniversary. At the end of the journey, Russell did a live performance about Kerouac here at the Beat Museum that was recorded by the BBC and later broadcast all over the UK. This was before Forgetting Sarah Marshall hit it big. The BBC had contacted us weeks prior and asked if they could record an up and coming comedian who was about to make a splash with a US debut. Turns out Russell was a big Kerouac fan, and had retraced Jack&#8217;s journeys in On The Road across the US for the BBC, with a final stop here in San Francisco at The Beat Museum. Russell was a pretty interesting guy. I liked him. He really understood Kerouac, and I remember thinking while I watched his live performance, &#8220;This guy&#8217;s pretty funny in an outrageous sort of way. I wonder if he&#8217;ll make it here in the States?&#8221; Russell was very approachable and very casual, but also very focused and deliberate right before he went on stage. Made sense to me&#8212;he was doing a live performance in front of an audience of about 100 and it was being recorded for broadcast for millions. When the show was over he &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2012/02/katy-perry-firework/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road Around the World &#8211; Closing Photo Shoot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last year and a half we’ve showcased a magnificent exhibition called On The Road Around the World. It consisted of a hundred copies of On The Road in over twenty-five different languages. It testified to the staying power and reach of Kerouac’s work.  You’ve probably heard that when Truman Capote was asked about On The Road back in the 1950s, his comment was “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” No offense to Capote, but fifty-five years later we’ve got to wonder how many languages In Cold Blood has been translated into, and in how many places around the world it&#8217;s currently available. The books in the On The Road Around the World exhibition are from the private collection of Horst Spandler. Horst lives in Germany and is a good friend of ruth weiss. When it came time to ship all the books back to Germany, we delayed the dismantling of the exhibit for a couple of weeks to coincide with the arrival of the ‘49 Hudson, driven by Garrett Hedlund. We’d thought it’d make a great photo-op to showcase the books surrounding Garrett at The Beat Museum. An added bonus was getting Al Hinkle in on the act.]]></description>
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		<title>Arrival of the &#8217;49 Hudson (video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garrett Hedlund (portraying Neal Cassady in the upcoming film adaptation of Kerouac&#8217;s &#8216;On the Road&#8217;, directed by Walter Salles) drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco on December 7th, 2011 to deliver the 1949 Hudson used in the movie to The Beat Museum. Accompanying Hedlund were John Allen Cassady (son of the real Neal) and Al Hinkle (&#8216;Big Ed Dunkel&#8217; in the book, and the last living man to have accompanied Jack &#38; Neal). The 1949 Hudson is now on ongoing public display at the Beat Museum]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8217;49 Hudson Comes to the Beat Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neal Cassady’s legendary ‘49 Hudson, made famous in Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road, is lost to posterity. Other than Jack’s description of it in the novel (to the point where it is almost a character in the book) and the memory of it in the minds of Neal’s wife Carolyn Cassady and his friend Al Hinkle (&#8216;Big Ed Dunkel&#8217; in the book) there is nothing tangible that can prove it ever even existed. There is no bill of sale, no vehicle identification number, no license plate—not even a photograph. It’s memory is kept alive in the mind of the reader. And perhaps this is the way it should be. The ‘49 Hudson represents a dream, and dreams are malleable. The Hudson represents Freedom and Desire and “Go, go, go&#8230;” as Neal would say, so perhaps it is fitting that you can’t really touch it. The Hudson represents anticipation, the joy of being alive in the world and heading towards that next horizon. It’s an inner journey that is experienced in the external world. In other times the vehicle for this exploration might have been a sailing ship, a white horse in the Cowboy West, or in the future, Hans Solo’s Millennium Falcon. So none of us can really see the actual ‘49 Hudson that Jack &#38; Neal drove across America. Because there is no tangible record of it, some car collector might be showcasing it as the pride of &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2011/12/49-hudson-arrives/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Exhibition: Paris and the Beat Hotel, 1957 &#8211; Photographs by Loomis Dean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Beat Generation was the quintessential American literary movement. From Kerouac&#8217;s accounts of youthful odyssey against the backdrop of a splendorous landscape of prairies, mountains, endless highways, and cities crackling with energy; to Burroughs&#8217; satirical, absurdist danse macabre of addiction, control, and human debris; to Ginsberg&#8217;s naked verse, celebrating candidly and unapologetically the beauty and terror of an authentic life, the Beats not only reflected life in 1950s America with extraordinary honesty—they defined it. Strange then, it seems, that many of the most important works of the Beat Generation were completed—in Paris. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky first arrived in the Latin Quarter, on the left bank of the Seine, in 1957, and made a run-down roominghouse at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur their home, colloquially calling it the &#8216;Beat Hotel&#8217;. They were followed soon after by Gregory Corso and William S. Burroughs, and there met writers Harold Norse and Brion Gysin, with whom they would collaborate for many years to come. This proved to be a very productive period; out of it came Ginsberg&#8217;s Kaddish, and Burroughs&#8217; Naked Lunch. Corso penned &#8216;Bomb&#8217;, The Happy Birthday of Death, The American Express (novel), Minutes to Go with Sinclair Beiles, Burroughs, and Gysin, and Long Live Man The Beats were not alone, however. During the late 50s/early 60s, many students, artists, poets, and various travelers flocked to Paris, attracted by the bohemian tradition of the Left Bank. In decades past, the same cafes and &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2011/12/loomis-dean-photographs/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Beat Museum on Jeopardy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re nobody until you&#8217;re on Jeopardy!, they say.  If that&#8217;s true, then the word is definitely out, because &#8216;The Beat Museum in North Beach&#8217; was featured as an answer on last night&#8217;s Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions (at about the 6:12 mark in the clip below):]]></description>
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		<title>Penn Jillette Visits the Beat Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     ALLEN GINSBERG STANDS NAKED BEFORE THE WORLD Legend has it that Allen Ginsberg used to get naked at poetry readings because &#8220;The poet stands naked before the world.&#8221; Beat scholars tell us it only happened once, at a reading where one of Allen&#8217;s friends was being heckled by an audience member and Allen leaped to his friend&#8217;s defense, took his clothes off and challenged the heckler to do the same. We tell this story at The Beat Museum using a particular photo I&#8217;ve always liked. It&#8217;s a pic of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso standing naked looking directly at the camera. I love the photo because it&#8217;s so fun. It&#8217;s boyish, it&#8217;s impish. It&#8217;s not dirty or perverted or offensive at all. It&#8217;s almost like Allen and Gregory are saying, &#8220;Hey, look at us, we&#8217;re naked in the world.&#8221; PENN JILLETTE STANDS NAKED BEFORE THE WORLD We get our share of celebrities coming through The Beat Museum. It stands to reason: we&#8217;re in San Francisco, we&#8217;re in North Beach and we&#8217;re all about The Beat Generation. A lot of celebrities are celebrities because they&#8217;re &#8220;hip&#8221; and nothing says hip like The Beat Generation! So, it was no big surprise when Penn Jillette (of Penn &#38; Teller fame) walked in the door one day last week. He stayed for only a minute, he had a plane to catch but he told us he dug The Beats. He walked back &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2011/09/penn-jillette-visits-the-beat-museum/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Photos from 2nd Unit Shoot in April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story came to our inbox along with these exclusive photos. They’re being published today for the first time anywhere at Kerouac.com.]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road with Jose Rivera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Screenwriter José Rivera teamed up with director Walter Salles to adapt for the screen the story of Che Guevara&#8217;s 1952 motorcycle journey with Alberto Granado across South America. In this CityTV video, Rivera offers his thoughts on his latest collaboration with Salles in adapting Jack Kerouac&#8217;s classic, On the Road, to film.]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times article discussing On the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Many consider Jack Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road sacred text. The novel was, after all, originally typed on a scroll&#8230; &#8220;When it comes to the big screen, however, On the Road has faced a Kerouac curse. Past efforts by Hollywood to adapt the author’s work have been failures. Now, somewhat quietly, On the Road has finally been made into a movie. The $25 million production, shot in San Francisco, Montreal and other locales, is scheduled for release this fall&#8230;&#8221; More »]]></description>
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