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Sep 26, 2024 · Burroughs Jr appears fairly briefly and explains that he was raised mostly by his grandparents due to a “horrible accident”, referring to the episode when Burroughs allegedly killed his mother, Joan Volmer, while trying to shoot a shot glass off the top of her head.
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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- 1980-09-24
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
Born poor in Salt Lake City, his mother died when he was a child and he raised by an alcoholic father on Denver's skid row. Cassady served many stints in reform school for car theft, claiming to have stolen 500 cars by the time he was 18.
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The Last Time I Committed Suicide is a 1997 American drama film directed by Stephen T. Kay. Based on a 1950 letter written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac, it stars Thomas Jane as Cassady. The cast also includes Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody, Gretchen Mol and Claire Forlani. It received a limited release on June 20, 1997.
May 11, 2010 · Neal Cassady died in the middle of the night alongside the railroad tracks on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende after leaving a party. It’s been said that he died of exposure, but the cause of death was never quite determined.
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Nov 5, 1978 · Even the fact that the film was based on a memoir written by Carolyn Cassady, Neal's widow and the close friend and sometime lover of Kerouac, did not quiet the stir.
