"Tremonius" <ulTIMum.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<ZsUub.6402$sb4.887@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Henrick say:
>
> "Has I right? to day I saw his movie "Rebel Without a Cause" which for
> me is a really "beat-movie" one of the first beat-movie films."
>
> Dean was simply an infringement of the Brando patent, developed from the
> Method system. The style was for heavy brooding and angry sighs and soulful
> gazing off-camera with much suffering manifest. It grew tiresome over time,
> and I have sat in a hip audience in an art center theatre in recent years
> and heard actual laughs at Brando's hamming down on the beach for One-Eyed
> Jacks.
>
> As "Beat" in essence meant soulful self-pity and solipsist romancing then
> catching the bus home to Mom, I'd say Jimmy Dean very much was part of the
> dance troupe.
>
> Don't mean nuthin'.
I suppose Jimmy Dean could be considered a part of the Beat
Generation, he was certainly at the right place at the right time...
but in all my years, this is pretty much the first time, or at least
one of the few times, I've seen Dean actually placed with Kerouac's
crew. It does seem to make sense, though.
Will
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