So the 83rd Academy Awards – the only awards show that still kind of matters! – is tomorrow night. Sadly, I will be unable to watch unless I stumble across a television. But that won’t stop me from making a list of the nominees I’d like to see win. I don’t care about who actually [...]
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Destroyed by Madness: James Franco in “Howl”
Posted in Say/Think, tagged allen ginsberg, beat generation, howl, james franco, lawrence ferlinghetti, movies, poetry on October 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In every interview I’ve seen of Allen Ginsberg – and if you’re interested in documentaries on 20th Century literature and/or Bob Dylan, you’ve seen a lot – there’s always a level of performance, a sense that Ginsberg’s playing himself. Some of the tics and mannerisms that arose from his innate nebbishness are amplified into a [...]
