Movies

January, 1980

The late Jack Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady were in love with the same woman. Although Cassady got the girl, Kerouac got published. His second novel, On the Road, was more or less a book about Cassady--a free-spirited lover of wine, women and dope who set the tone for the Beat Generation of the Fifties. Eventually, Kerouac also got Carolyn Cassady--sharing her with Neal from time to time once she'd settled down with his restive chum to have babies and run up bills in a dismal California tr...