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The Beat Generation (1959) associated the movement with crime and violence, as did The Beatniks (1960). [citation needed] An episode of The Addams Family titled "The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik," broadcast January 1, 1965, features a young biker/beatnik who injures himself in an accident, and ends up staying with the Addams family.
In 1959, Fred McDarrah started a "Rent-a-Beatnik" service in New York, taking out ads in The Village Voice and sending Ted Joans and friends out on calls to read poetry. [59] "Beatniks" appeared in many cartoons, movies, and TV shows of the time, perhaps the most famous being the character Maynard G. Krebs in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ...
Maynard Gwalter Krebs is the "beatnik" sidekick of the title character in the U.S. television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. [1]The Krebs character, portrayed by actor Bob Denver, begins the series as a beatnik, with a goatee, "hip" language, and a generally unkempt, bohemian appearance.
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac [1] (/ ˈ k ɛr u. æ k /; [2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet [3] who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Corso fell out with the publisher of Gasoline, Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore, who objected to "Bomb," a position Ferlinghetti later rued and for which he apologized. Corso's work found a strong reception at New Directions Publishing , founded by James Laughlin , who had heard of Corso through Harvard connections.
The Gas House was a café that soon became popular with Los Angeles beatniks and poets, who read their work alongside Nord. The Gas House was used as the setting for a cult horror film called The Hypnotic Eye (1960) that featured Nord as a bongo-playing beatnik. The role helped to launch Nord's brief film career.
William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
In his eyes they contributed to the unhealthy climate of the Cold War as much as the cultural commissars behind the Iron Curtain did. [ 8 ] David Bergman , in Camp Grounds describes Ginsberg as a poet who, while not addressing the need to support the homosexual community directly, used a "Comically carnivalesque" tone to paint a picture of the ...