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| | New York State Writers Institute - Documentary Filmmakers Series, Beat Night Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The play, in turn, was inspired by an incident in the lives of Neal Cassady, Kerouac’s partner on the road, and Cassady’s wife, Carolyn, who aspired to suburban respectability in Northern California
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 | | "‘Pull My Daisy’ came about largely from a group of painters and writers who wanted to make a movie to show their children and grandchildren what we were really like," said Mr. |
 | | "In ‘Pull My Daisy,’ nobody looks like a beatnik," he said of the cliched turtlenecks, berets and goatees that Kerouac likened to a Roman Catholic school dress code, and the movement’s subtext of drugs and malaise. |
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