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In the film Across the Universe (2007), the character Dr. Robert, played by Bono, is said to have been inspired by Neal Cassady. [28]
Jun 1, 2024 · Once Kerouac met Neal Cassady—a jail rat with a passion for freedom—he was inspired to drive across America with him. On the road with Cassady, Kerouac discovered his spontaneous prose style that would become a staple of the Beat Generation.
Adopted that Autumn by a local firefighter called Robert William Hyatt, the boy was renamed Robert William Hyatt Jr.. He only learned who his real mother was in 1993, five years after she died, and finally obtained his birth certificate naming Cassady as his father in 2011.
Oct 5, 2018 · Cassady with his friend Jack Kerouac, whose On the Road was inspired by the “Joan Anderson Letter.” Courtesy of the Neal Cassady Estate. At the same time, Cassady also was a literary influence who pushed Kerouac toward spontaneous prose.
Inspired by a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend, Neal Cassady, Kerouac, in 1950, outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz. [5]
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Jan 8, 2024 · At the forefront of this movement was Dr. Timothy Leary, a prominent American psychologist and counterculture figure who gained widespread notoriety in the 1960s for his advocacy of psychedelic substances, particularly LSD, and his exploration of consciousness expansion.