Word: ferlinghetti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real trailblazer. The group, out of Detroit by way of some dark but friendly musical star, gets hold of a brawny rhythm-and-blues foundation, overlays it with some up-to-the-second dance sounds and ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...
...instance, hitchhiked with Kerouac to Big Sur, stormed the president's office at Columbia and studied beat poetry with Ferlinghetti. Not even the competent acting of Saulnier and Frisch can instill plausibility into these characters...
...guilty as well as the innocent. The result is a fictionalized autobiography in which Kesey is called Devlin Deboree, a once celebrated novelist who served a short jail sentence in California for marijuana possession. Tracking the cast requires some familiarity with Beat Generation hagiography. The names Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso are included in a straightforward litany. But Neal Cassady, the loquacious speed demon, is swathed in multiple fictions. He is called Houlihan by Kesey-Deboree, who complicates matters by saying that Houlihan, rather than the real Cassady, was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac...
...rejection of conventional lifestyles, and the way the Beats unashamedly took on the role of prophets, that horrified the rest of America. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, was arrested in 1957 for distributing Allen Ginsberg's allegedly obscene book Howl, Serlinghetti's account of the trial is included in McDarrah's book, and it gives a good idea of how much alarm the Beats caused in some circles...
...charming rite may soon end. Real estate speculators have bought the building, says Ginsberg, and are trying to evict its occupants. The neighborhood, a center for low-income artists, is undergoing gentrification. So, perhaps, is Ginsberg. His earlier works were printed by small presses, notably City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Beat Generation landmark in San Francisco. Now, for the first time, Ginsberg has an agent and a six-book contract with a major New York publisher...