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Article: An affectionate paean to Allen Ginsberg
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1994
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
Directed by: Jerry Aronson
Playing at: Brattle Theatre through March 10
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You couldn't ask for a warmer profile of poet Allen Ginsberg.
With "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg," filmmaker Jerry Aronson
gives us the prophet-poet as idealist, genius, gentle teacher, loving
son, adventurous thinker and calm center. Authorized by Ginsberg,
the film overflows with praise-filled but smart interviews with
Ginsberg's brother and stepmother, with writers like Norman Mailer,
William Burroughs and Ken Kesey, with Timothy Leary and Joan Baez and
Ginsberg himself. Plus, there is an abundance of romantic footage of
Ginsberg's Beat-era ...