tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post3387256622806460353..comments2024-03-28T20:53:54.312-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: Who’s who on Route 66Michael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-9270719538947432232014-03-11T08:31:52.423-05:002014-03-11T08:31:52.423-05:00Very nice. Having watched the whole series, I now ...Very nice. Having watched the whole series, I now know both names. :)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-14900254437986154182014-03-10T18:16:56.193-05:002014-03-10T18:16:56.193-05:00Or as we say in our circle..
http://imageshack.com...Or as we say in our circle..<br />http://imageshack.com/a/img829/8681/49zi.jpgBarbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12197340334699196246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-73734015596178807812013-05-02T09:56:19.789-05:002013-05-02T09:56:19.789-05:00I’ve read that too, but I can’t tell if it’s anyth...I’ve read that too, but I can’t tell if it’s anything more than a plausible story.<br /><br />Adair, our likemindedness is sometimes embarrassing: I much prefer Kerouac’s poetry to his prose.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-60166115400678422992013-05-02T08:49:59.552-05:002013-05-02T08:49:59.552-05:00I read somewhere that Kerouac considered suing the...I read somewhere that Kerouac considered suing the producers of Route 66 for the show's similarities to On the Road. Forgive me, Michael and all Kerouac fans,I hate to say this, but I find the characters and situations on the tv show generally more interesting than those in Kerouac's novel. I also find the actual writing better. I am intrigued by Kerouac himself, by his life and personality---he must have been amazing to know---and by what he was trying to achieve linguistically, but I just have never been able to enjoy his novels. (I have however found passages in his poetry that are startling.)Adairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472918455336742493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-2841265338732858122013-05-01T11:12:30.346-05:002013-05-01T11:12:30.346-05:00I’ll let you know when we get there. (It’s a long ...I’ll let you know when we get there. (It’s a long road.)Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-25010073736593712832013-05-01T10:50:27.622-05:002013-05-01T10:50:27.622-05:00The episode "Love is a Skinny Kid" traum...The episode "Love is a Skinny Kid" traumatized me when I saw it as a boy and is still hard for me to watch. Chloris Leachman (who later starred in the great great Mary Tyler Moore Show) is in it. There are some very painful scenes. Definitely not for kids! Yet in syndication in the later 60's, the series was often shown during the afternoon, around the same time as children's programming, and of course I thought the fistfights were very cool then, not to mention the Corvette!Adairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472918455336742493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-73762747851862711192013-05-01T10:40:41.092-05:002013-05-01T10:40:41.092-05:00Adair, I was hoping that you’d weigh in here. Yes,...Adair, I was hoping that you’d weigh in here. Yes, the content is often dark, dark. I was wondering last night how some of it ever made it to television in 1960. It’s a series for grown-ups, for sure.<br /><br />Kerouac appeared on Steve Allen’s show in 1959, so I will guess that a good number of viewers must have seen the resemblance. If they didn’t, they were missing out!<br />Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-40404520841256149902013-05-01T10:07:00.259-05:002013-05-01T10:07:00.259-05:00I love this series. Some of the episodes are power...I love this series. Some of the episodes are powerful, even disturbing. Every episode, practically, has a fistfight, which I don't like, but then, in the early 60's, that really was a common way for men to settle their differences. "Let's step outside."<br /><br />In some shots, Maharis actually looks like Kerouac! Milner was great in this series too---he has this American "Boy Scout" decency about him, square but reliable, that contrasts perfectly with Maharis's beat, jazzy, more complicated nature. The look and type of American that Milner plays seems all but extinct today. In fact, the show depicts a country that, on the whole, has vanished.Adairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472918455336742493noreply@blogger.com