Torchwood: Children of Earth (season three trailer)
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Doing the Beats: Kerouac, sexuality and On the Road
The long-awaited film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ground-breaking novel presents the perfect opportunity to re-examine the lives of the Beat Generation, writes Richard Watts. It’s not hyperbole to say that the Beat Generation – a small coterie of writers who met up in New York City in the spring of 1944 – changed the world. Without their individual quests for personal freedoms – a quest for sex and drugs before there was rock and roll; a quest which spawned the western world’s first counter-culture, the beatniks – the hippy movement of the Sixties would never have happened, and punk would have been a quiet snarl rather than a global reaction. Of all the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac, author of the autobiographical beatnik bible, On the Road , is unequivocally the most famous. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922, to working class French-Canadian parents, Kerouac aspired to be a writer from a young age, though he was also a keen football player. Indeed, it ...
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Now that you've seen it (I assume), can I ask what you thought of Kev-from-Shameless as Tully in Being Human?
Caoin - yep, that was a brief but passionate Jack-Ianto pash you saw, so we know that particular relationship isn't being played down. Indeed, from what I've read it's being played UP.
And I still haven't seen part two of Being Human yet - am seeing it this Sunday instead if all goes to plan...