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As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac and fellow Beats William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Then, as an aspiring filmmaker at RISD where classmates included future Talking Heads he was influenced by a visit to Italy, where he watched the Fellini film Casanova and met Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Beat influence can be seen in his first film, Mala Noche (1986), and even more so in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), in which Burroughs portrays ‘Tom the Priest’. Gus Van Sant talks with PKM’s David Stewart about the lingering influence of Jack Kerouac, on the eve of the centennial of the writer’s birth (March 12).
Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman.
After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscripts for William S. Burroughs. His mind awash in guilt and self-doubt, and his body with DT’s, he tried to concentrate on his Buddhistic disciplines and abstain from all temptations. That regimen fell apart in Tangier, which turned into a nightmarish cycle of excess and illness. Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. combed some unpublished diaries Kerouac kept in Morocco, to capture the real mindset of the ‘King of the Beats’ on the verge of fame.
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