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  1. Sundance 2013: 10 Movies to Watch and Why It Still Matters

    Thu, 17 Jan 2013

    Radcliffe is at the festival promoting "Kill Your Darlings," about a murder that draws together the famous poets of the beat generation . That's about as far from Hogwarts as you can get. 3. More Foo for you. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's documentary

  2. Oscar Contender 'On the Road' Burns the Candle on Both Ends

    Tue, 25 Dec 2012

    classic 1957 Jack Kerouac novel On the the nascent " beat " generation of the 1950s famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg , are introduced life and what the beats perceived as yagé and wrote Allen Ginsberg several letters

  3. Kristen Stewart, Post-Split, Says She's 'Doing Fine'

    Fri, 7 Sep 2012

    book their whole life," Stewart told The Associated Press, saying that she first read the defining novel of the postwar beat generation when she was 14. Fans flocked to the red carpet gala of the new movie to see Stewart, who wore a Zuhair Murad dress

  4. Whip-Its: Brief Highs, Big Dangers for Demi Moore?

    Fri, 27 Jan 2012

    1800s, it remained a largely recreational drug among poets and aristocrats, and had another surge of popularity among beat generation writers and artists of the 1950s. Nitrous Oxide Whip-Its Pose Risks, Police Say Today, however, nitrous oxide is largely

  5. 'Mad Men' Gets It Right: Booze, Sex, Secrets

    Fri, 2 Oct 2009

    gives birth to baby Gene. That movement was "a cultural resonance gripping the country," said Wilentz, as the '50s beat generation gave way to folk singers like Dylan, who set the stage for hippies. With five episodes left before the close of the third

  6. 'On the Road' Turns 50 Amid Controversy

    Tue, 5 Jun 2007

    The 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac 's generation-defining novel "On the Road" is approaching Publishers is deliberately removing my name from books on the beat generation and Jack Kerouac , deliberately keeping out references to me, my Kerouac

News

  1. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Tue, 26 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

  2. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Mon, 25 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

  3. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Mon, 25 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

  4. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Mon, 25 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

  5. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Mon, 25 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

  6. Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup to Go On the Road

    Fri, 22 Jun 2001

    After 50 years of speculation, anticipation, and false starts, On the Road, Jack Kerouac 's seminal novel about the Beat Generation , is finally making its way toward the big screen, the BBC reports with one of this generation's

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  1. Dustin Hoffman Interview on 'Tootsie,' Early Career

    Fri, 1 Feb 2013

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