Wild Things proves no book is unfilmable Oct 15, 2009
Naked Lunch was a much more radical departure from William S. Burroughs book, but the authors presence was felt in every frame, says Rodriguez. Wild Things joins the club Director knows full well how freelancing from the source work can backfire. (MSNBC -- News)
Review: 'Chelsea on the Rocks' only so-so Oct 10, 2009
Ferrara mixes interviews of current and almost-current residents (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman) with archival footage of past Chelsea denizens (Janis Joplin, William S. Burroughs, Quentin Crisp) and a few re-creations of notorious incidents, such as the bloody death of Nancy Spungen in the room she shared with Sid Vicious. There are also references to the past-past, when the hotel hosted the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Will Hollywood adopt the scientific method? Oct 5, 2009
Under Barr's stewardship, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Andy Warhol, and Janis Joplin frequented the 12-story residence. "When I saw Stanley crying in the lobby after being served legal papers, I realized this change was taking place at the Chelsea," Gatien said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Interview, Part Two Oct 1, 2009
But then again, we had The Dark Eye, the William S. Burroughs narrated game with Brian Froud-ian puppets sort of "through a glass darkly," reenacting Edgar Allen Poe stories with pretty surreal backdrops. It came out of nowhere, though we haven't really seen anything like it since. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
The Original Beat Writers Sep 2, 2009
The core group of these influential writers were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs ... He started hanging around fellow Columbia students Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr in New York and soon met William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady ... After meeting Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs, Ginsberg travelled to San Francisco, where he read his poem, Howl, at the now famous Six Gallery poetry reading in October, 1955. (Suite101.com)
Still sonic but not so youthful Jul 29, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Noise Pollution. Welcome to Sydney Morning Herald Online. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
Kathy Acker's "In Memorium to Identity" Donald Antrim's "The Hundred Brothers" Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" Paul Auster's New York Trilogy Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine" J.G. Ballard's "The Atrocity Exhibition" John Barth's "Giles Goat-Boy" Donald Barthelme's "60 Stories" John Berger's "G" Thomas Bernhard's "The Loser" Roberto Bolao's "2666" Jorge Luis Borges' "Labyrinths" William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" Italo Calvino's "If on a Winter's... (Harper's Magazine)
* Digging into the City by the Bay Jun 18, 2009
City Lights three floors feature titles from small presses alongside books from major publishing houses, as well as titles from City Lights Publishers, which in addition to Howl also published works by other Beat luminaries, including Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. The stores selection of poetry titles and books on progressive politics is, not surprisingly, particularly impressive. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Iggy Pop: "Literature's like coke, music's like heroin" May 30, 2009
Literature, he said, had always been important to him, with a lot of William S. Burroughs in his early works along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Initially billed as a quieter album with jazz overtones, it mingles jazz, rock, pop and blues. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Assassination By Committee May 1, 2009
" And so it goes in this comic thriller, neither funny nor thrilling, although it seems to have pleased some of my critical colleagues who like to congratulate themselves for picking out cultural references -- William S. Burroughs, John Boorman and Arthur Rimbaud, for starters. This is one of those movies that's too cool to have a plot. The impassive Isaach De Bankole, a native of the Ivory Coast who is a regular member of Jarmusch's repertory company, plays a hit man who arrives in Madrid on a... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
VICTORY RECORDS Signs OTEP to Recording, Merchandising and Publishing Deal Apr 7, 2009
Ms. Shamaya says of the album, "The economic crisis is hitting every working family in this country. The album and its title track, "Smash The Control Machine", will lay bare the greed and corruption that fostered this calamity, but will also focus on the undying spirit of the working class that always fights the good fight. The title is a line from a William S. Burroughs poem. It is my intention to create an album that serves every head of the hydra that is OTEP. From poetry, to politics, to... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Graphic works: Revelations of conflict Mar 30, 2009
It delivers the texture of a movement easy to underestimate in brief biographies of touchstones like poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, novelists William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac and lesser-known lights like poet d.a. levy (an underground Cleveland icon) and mythopoeic poetess Diane di Prima. Like others in this revisionist, unabashedly liberal Hill and Wang series, this fearless, substantial history entertains as it uncovers. (Boston Globe)
Famous dead people Mar 25, 2009
Dead writer William S. Burroughs pretty much just follows other dead writers, such as Saul Bellow, Frank O Hara and Hunter S. Thompson. . (The Palm Beach Post)
Of Epic Proportions Mar 22, 2009
It's also bigger in other ways, in the tradition of large-scale ACT originals such as the English language premiere of Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs' "The Black Rider," Martha Clarke's ill-fated "Frank Loesser's Hans Christian Andersen" and Artistic Director Carey Perloff and choreographer Val Caniparolli's "The Tosca Project" (scheduled to premiere next season). "War Music," Groag explains, "is pretty much a choreographed and music piece all the way through. What we're... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A History of ACT commissions Mar 22, 2009
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs, English-language premiere, 2004. A Mother by Constance Congdon, adapted from Maxim Gorky, ACT commission, 2004. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Playwright Profile - Michael Schola... Mar 14, 2009
Michael Scholar Jr. started in the late 90s when he produced the world English premier of The Black Rider, written by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson, and William S. Burroughs. The show had great success and toured extensively, most recently to Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, where it retired in November 2008. (Suite101.com)
Newsweek: 'Watchmen' is too loyal to the graphic novel Mar 3, 2009
It alludes effortlessly to Bertolt Brecht, William S. Burroughs, "Dr. Strangelove," Greek mythology, ancient Egyptian history, Reaganism and Thatcherism. It's funny, gory, sexy, sleazy and heartbreaking. (MSNBC -- News)
Once-seedy Tangier gets a new shine Feb 8, 2009
This is where William S. Burroughs wrote the bulk of Naked Lunch, which marks its 50th anniversary next year, and where Paul Bowles completed his haunting and existential cult classic, The Sheltering Sky. As recently as the last decade, Tangier was still considered a down-on-its-luck town riddled with drugs and hustlers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
