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Biography illuminates life of author Jack Kerouac Kerouac, by Ann Charters If you're searching for a possible paper in Fnglish literature, then Jack Kerouac is your m.n. For those who are interested in the author's iifi and its effect on his writings, you can be comforted to know that at least five of his iovjI". dealt with experiences in his early years. Or if an Oedipus complex is your thing, you n-.ljht be interested to know that after three shallow marriages, Kerouac said he wanted to m.i.ry someone like his mother. Ann Charters, in her book Kerouac, lets you uoiuler about these and other possibilities. Charters begins with Kerouac's birth in 1922 in Lowell, Mass. She details his childhood, the loath of his brother, Gerald, and Kerouac's athletic ambitions that led to a scholarship and short football career at Columbia University. bruce nelson runny papers K "teniae got more than a broken leg in football from Columbia. Before dropping out in ':is sophomore year, he absorbed an intense (it-ire to write. It had to wait, however, for World War II and a brief stint with the IWiciijiit Marine, who described Kerouac in his dj .. .-banjo as indifferent. r-iTouac then left for New York to write ..bout his life and there met Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Both inspired Kerouac's artistic desires. Kerouac spent the rest of his life drinking, traveling and then writing about it, until alcohol killed him on Oct. 21. 1969. For many, Kerouac's nov.-i On the Road was the beginning of the "beat generation". The drugs, the Zen Buddhism and the bumming around the country that are now everyday things were in part spawned by the writings of Kerouac and his cohorts. Charters, who knew Kerouac, is sympathetic, perhaps too sympathetic. Kerouac's life is pictured as worse than any of the characters he created and is almost a classic story of an artist destroyed by his own success. The book is demythifying, but Charters is still too adoring. She rarely says a negative thing about Kerouac's books. You also get the impression that Charters thinks everything in Kerouac's life was equally important because she gives everything equal time. This lack of any overall theme or idea makes the book somewhat heavy. These shortcomings are small, however, and the biography is an excellent one. If you've read some of Kerouac's books, you'll find his biography illuminating and if you haven't, you'll find it a good introduction to the man. If you didn't have the money to get it in hardback, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye, by Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, will lx out in the next few weeks in paperback. It'1 interesting and better than the usual Kennedy paraphernalia. Taiwanese opera artists, to perform' Three members of the National Chinese Opera Theatre (Taiwan) -a director, an actress and a tumbler-will be in the Union South Crib at 4 p.m. today. Chinese opera includes a variety of non-singing acts, unlike Western opera. The 80-member opera company includes artists in many different areas, and is currently on tour throughout the United States to represent Nationalist China. The entire company, featured in this week's Time magazine, will perform at the Omaha Civic Music Hall on Oct. 12. Bl .r. in, in , ir )-,vV"-r , .I'll) (KnV'f Id .hi 'c'"..ivi' l-' f in' individual M.iryl noil Otni-rs loot In li'.irn (rum pi'f u.ili.", ,, 'in t' iT. Surr.i' iiii'i, ,im- yhn h.iyr rjrown ui v.ith ,1 iliffi-o-nt f !:,'! ,v'ii"i they tusir of mi'nt.ihty In, in im( ,vhu:h is tl I, ) .'i 1'it'if molhi'i ', .ifins All fri-l in, it t,c nnly solution Id tin ! K. ! " drvM'.i' U 1 1 iff I rises 1m.ii tniiMli'n Id split mi'n I liy It jfnVMH inl.icj ,ivjniw r tn. o . v . ,,f (j,)d ,), O'o.S'M n. 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Michael Montgomery represents a growing class of independent filmmakers. Changing times fell Hollywood kingdom The kitvjdoin of Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s was a movie nuikiny factory. Big studios like Warner Bros., Paramount and MGM were its sovereign states, and the stars and directors that were its royalty. They made three movies a year instead of one movie every three years, as is the case today. It was a time when movies were deeply rooted in American cultui e and lives. But television and the audience's changing interests spelled the kingdom's doom. Persons attended movies for the sake of going. Now the public has become more select in viewing and planning its movie-going. The last 15 years in cinema history have been uncertain and changing. Filmmaker, are constantly searching for new attractions that will appeal to the public. Some have ventured in bold, new directions while others prefer to play it safe with standard, money making formulas. Companies like American International, known for producing inexpensive films with violence and sex, try to reach one type of audience. But the American Film Theater, with its eight soon to be-released dramatic classics, is attempting something new to reach an entirely different audience. Out of these changes has emerged an entity nearly unknown in Hollywood's heyday, the independent filmmaker. Independent film producers have reacted against the Hollywood image; and in many ways has succeeded in demystifying it. The goals and intentions of the independent cinema are still vague. It is associated with the avanto garde. Films such as Easy Ruhr or even Billy Jack are in spirit similar to avante -garde films. The idea for this at tide grew from an interview I had last week with Michael Montgomery, the produceractor of Just Re There, a film now showing in Lincoln. Montgomi;iy is a Vietnam veteran with no pievious experience or background in film. Yet several years ago, he started his own company, Montgomery Productions, and began work on Just Be There, his first film. Working with an inexperienced cast and crew at feature filmmaking, Just Be There is nonetheless a respectable effort. A comparison of production costs between his movie and a Hollywood release should further emphase the situation. Montgomery said he feels the American public is in the moejd not only for Just Be There, but also for his next film something he calls a country western adventure comedy. In the sphere of the independent filmmaker Michael Montrjornory appear, to have more in common will. Hollywood than Andy Warhol or Jonas Mekas. But it also appears that he and others like him have found a place in our movie woi Id puCJO 8 daily nebraskan Wednesday, October 3, 1973