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		<title>On the Road at Cannes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you read this, airplanes from around the globe are descending on France with hundreds of people poised to attend The 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Some of those people are Walter Salles, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund and many other members of the cast and production team from On the Road. Talk about an exciting time! For over thirty years, thousands upon thousands of Beat Generations fans of all nationalities have been anxiously awaiting this historic event. The debates have raged: &#8220;Who are the right actors &#038; actresses?&#8221; &#8220;How can anyone ever do On the Road justice?&#8221; &#8220;What would Kerouac think?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t screw with my personal vision of that book!&#8221; All I know is I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and good fortune to have been witness to this unfolding since 2005 when I sat in John Allen Cassady&#8217;s living room in San Jose, California along with his mother Carolyn Cassady and his sisters Cathy and Jami as they spoke to screenwriter Jose Rivera who was visiting for the day. As the core group of both Kerouac and Beat Generation fans we all feel we have a stake in this film. It&#8217;s a tribute both to a great work of art as well as real-life people most of us never met who had a tremendous impact on many of our lives. As a fan I couldn&#8217;t be more proud. After thirty years, this is the team of filmmakers who got &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2012/05/on-the-road-at-cannes/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First look at Kill Your Darlings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1944, nascent writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were arrested as material witnesses in the murder of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, their close friend and early leader of the intellectual circle which would become the Beat Generation. This event had life-altering consequences for both. Kerouac, unable to secure bail money from his father, was compelled to marry then-girlfriend Edie Parker. Burroughs&#8217; morphine habit worsened as he struggled to deal with the death of his old friend (Kammerer), developing into a dependency that dogged him throughout his life. Kerouac and Burroughs decided to collaborate on a novel about the murder. Each wrote alternating chapters, and in 1945 they completed And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a hard-boiled mystery novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett. Though Burroughs would later comment that Hippos was &#8220;not a distinguished work,&#8221; and that &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t sensational enough to make it&#8230;nor was it well-written or interesting enough to make it [from] a purely literary point of view,&#8221; the real-life events it was based on are nonetheless compelling. So compelling, in fact, that they&#8217;re the basis for writer/director John Krokidas&#8217; new film, Kill Your Darlings. Lucien Carr Dane DeHaan David Kammerer Michael C. Hall Jack Kerouac Jack Huston William Burroughs Ben Foster Allen Ginsberg Daniel Radcliffe Louis Ginsberg David Cross Edie Parker Elizabeth Olsen Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) portrays 18-year-old Allen Ginsberg in mid-Forties New York City, while David Cross, no doubt &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2012/04/first-look-kill-your-darlings/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Video from Jack Kerouac&#8217;s 90th Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Cimino So many people who love Kerouac and his works wanted to join in our 90th Birthday celebration, that we decided to hold it over a span of two days. On Sunday, March 11th, Al Hinkle (Big Ed Dunkel from On the Road) and John Allen Cassady (first person in the history of the world to be named after Jack Kerouac) shared the stage. On Monday, March 12th (Jack&#8217;s birthday) the good folks from V&#161;va Editions and Cleis Press gathered poets and writers from all over to celebrate. People around the world offered their skills with a tribute video, and Garrett Hedlund himself called in from New York to say hello to those gathered. Garrett Hedlund&#8217;s phone call on JK&#8217;s Birthday (4:27): Special thanks to Laura Schibinger, Elle Lutz, and Noémie Sornet for putting this video together! They also created the following video tribute to Kerouac: It was a special two days. We heard Al Hinkle&#8216;s stories about his friend Jack Kerouac, and John Cassady&#8217;s stories about his father, Neal Cassady. One new piece of information that came out that I&#8217;d never heard before is that Al Hinkle&#8217;s father actually knew Neal&#8217;s father. Al&#8217;s father was a Denver police detective, and Neal Cassady, Sr. was well known to all the police in Denver in those days. Al mentioned casually how sometimes when Cassady Sr. was incarcerated, his father would go fetch his barbering tools so that Cassady Sr. &#8230; <a href="http://www.kerouac.com/blog/2012/03/video-kerouac-90th-birthday/">Read more <span class="read-more">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Official On the Road Movie Poster Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook page for Walter Salles&#8217; film adaptation of On the Road debuted the official movie poster today: If you&#8217;re anticipating the film&#8217;s release as eagerly as we are, then you might recognize the photo&#8212;a view of the &#8217;49 Hudson rumbling off into the desert, a cloud of dust at its rear&#8212;from last year&#8217;s Cannes poster (below). This time around, the image is clearer, and in full color, and Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, and Sam Riley appear in the rearview mirror at the poster&#8217;s center. Last year&#8217;s Cannes poster: We can&#8217;t wait to see these posters adorning walls, buses, and theatres all over America!]]></description>
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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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