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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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- John Byrum
- 1980-09-24
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
Jan 8, 2024 · In my initial scan of the archive, iconic images of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Neal Cassady revealed themselves. These images seemed obvious to me at first – celebrities, familiar faces, clear choices to put out to the world.
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 ...
The film explores the love triangle of real-life characters Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Carolyn Cassady in the late 1950s and the 1960s. It chronicles Kerouac writing his seminal novel On the Road, and its effect on their lives.
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.
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