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 Barnes & Noble Chuck Workmans 1999 documentary is The Source for everything you always wanted to know about the 50s Beatniks, godfathers of the 60s counterculture and great-granddaddies of the 90s poetry slam. Focusing on four of the Beat movements key figures -- Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and legendary muse Neal Cassady -- Workman (Superstar: The Life And Times Of Andy Warhol) combines interviews with Ginsberg and Burroughs from the 90s with a slew of old film footage and TV clips of his subjects in their heyday. Scores of other major and minor players and onlookers from the era get their say, including Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Norman Mailer. Dramatic readings of Beat literature by Johnny Depp, John Turturro, and Dennis Hopper round out this cinematic crazy quilt. Wittily contrasting the reverence paid to the Beats by their followers with the ridicule they often received from the mainstream, Workman fashions a fitting tribute to these groundbreaking cult heroes. Gregory Baird Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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