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  1. Heart Beat: Directed by John Byrum. With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey. The life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.

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    • Drama
    • John Byrum
    • 1980-09-24
  2. A fictional re-telling - mostly from Carolyn Cassidy's point of view - of the goings-ons between her, Neal Cassady (her husband), and Jack Kerouac, in the 1950s. She wrote her memoirs once as Heart Beat, then revised them at greater length as Off the Road.

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    • John Byrum
  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0143944Neal Cassady - IMDb

    Neal Cassady never lived to see 1969. He died sometime on the night of February 3/4, 1968, after attending a wedding party in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He imbibed the alcoholic beverage pulque at the wedding, which may have contributed to his death as he was taking the barbiturate Seconal that day.

    • Writer, Soundtrack
    • February 8, 1926
    • Neal Cassady
    • February 4, 1968
  4. Stone based the character of Ray Hicks on Beat writer Neal Cassady, with whom Stone became acquainted through novelist Ken Kesey, a graduate school classmate of Stone's at Stanford University. [ 5 ] Hicks' death scene on the railroad tracks at the film's conclusion is directly based on Cassady's death along a railroad track outside of San ...

  5. Kerouac’s novel starred a heroic proto-beat named Dean Moriarty, based on the legendary underground figure Neal Cassady. And now in “Heart Beat” we get the story of Neal and Jack and Neal’s wife.

  6. Heart Beat is a 1980 American romantic drama film written and directed by John Byrum, based on the autobiography by Carolyn Cassady. [3] The film is about seminal figures in the Beat Generation. The character of Ira, played by Ray Sharkey, is based on Allen Ginsberg. [4]

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Neal_CassadyNeal Cassady - Wikipedia

    Hicks' death scene on the railroad tracks at the film's conclusion was directly based on Cassady's death along a railroad track outside of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1968. Heart Beat (1980), which portrays Neal Cassady's friendship with Jack Kerouac, stars Nick Nolte as Cassady and John Heard as Kerouac.

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