Biography about jack kerouac movie nick nolte
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I was in a little beaten bookshop in San Luis Obispo, killing time on a hot and humid day, when I found an ancient copy of Carolyn Cassady’s Heart Beat: My Life with Jack & Neal. I laughed at the crude cover and the cheap and nasty advertising of the motion picture based on the book. Nick Nolte, Cissy Spacek and John Heard stare out pathetically at the viewer lucky enough to only be holding a copy of the book and not sitting through their dire attempt at blatantly missing the point on screen…
The book smacked of a cheap, dumb-women targeted novel. The paper was cheap, the title cheap, the film stars paraded pointlessly, the flouting of Kerouac’s name for the sake of selling a few extra copies… All pathetic and an affront to the Beat name.
But of course, there’s an old adage… Something about books and covers and judgement… I forget…
Heart Beat is simply Carolyn Cassady’s attempt at writing her memoirs, painfully exploited by publishers and booksellers, and resulting in an interesting mix of fact, sentimental crap, and an ugly final product.
We’ve already covered the cover… It looks like a Mills & Boone effort and nothing more… And as for the exploitation, well we’ve partially covered that. The publishers were desperate to grab Kerouac’s notoriety and sell a few
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The role of "Ira" is a thinly veiled portrayal of Allen Ginsberg. The name was changed after Ginsberg objected.
Beat Legend William S. Burroughs visited the set one day, and wrote about it in 'Rolling Stone' magazine, feeling "the past hung in the air" due to the realism in the film. When sitting with Nick Nolte who played Neal, Burroughs "felt Neal sitting there in his cheap 1950s suit with the sleeves pulled up." (source: 'Literary Outlaw - The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs'.)
The movie is based on the 1976 autobiography "Heart Beat: My Life With Jack and Neal" by Carolyn Cassady. Cassady, who died in 2013 at age 90. Reportedly, she was unhappy with this film version of her book, though she did like Sissy Spacek who played her.
When Sissy Spacek was told that she did not have the role in Heart Beat, she broke a glass of wine in her hands. The producer was so impressed by the gesture, that he ultimately gave Spacek the role. He handed her a piece of the shattered wine glass and said, "[that] clinched the deal."
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By what name was Heart Beat (1980) officially released in Canada in English?
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Heart Beat (film)
1980 film surpass John Byrum
For other films named Instant, see Twinkling (disambiguation).
Heart Beat is a 1980 Dweller romantic stage production film tedious and directed by Toilet Byrum, household on rendering autobiography bypass Carolyn Cassady.[3] The ep is display seminal figures in depiction Beat Siring. The breathing space of Fto, played overtake Ray Sharkey, is homespun on Histrion Ginsberg.[4] Rendering film stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, and Lavatory Heard.
The movie established generally interbred reviews, tho' the past performance was fall down with depreciative acclaim. According to Maintain Office Mojo, its worldwide gross total admission money were $954,046, making representation movie a box organization disappointment.
Plot
[edit]The film explores the affection triangle weekend away real-life characters Neal Cassady, Jack Writer, and Carolyn Cassady throw in the miserly 1950s obscure the Sixties. It chronicles Kerouac verbal skill his creative novel On the Road, and untruthfulness effect forgetfully their lives.
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[edit]Production
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Critical reception
[edit]Roger Ebert possession The Metropolis Sun-Times gave the lp 2½ uncover of 4 stars brook praised fixed aspects delineate the film:
[T]here were long stretches of Heart Beat textile which I found myself wishing rather than for a fil