Allen Ginsberg

Birthdate:
June 3, 1926
Birthplace:
Newark, New Jersey

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    ...decides your sexuality." Franco, who has portrayed gay characters including an activist in "Milk" and beat poet Allen Ginsberg in "Howl," insists he finds plenty more dimensions to the characters than their bedroom proclivities. "Or......

  • Jon Hamm will 'Howl'

    ...working with "Mad Men," will work for a mad man. Hamm has signed on to play defense lawyer Jake Ehrlich in the Allen Ginsberg biopic "Howl," according to Variety. The movie follows Ginsberg's 1957 obscenity trial, based on phrases......

  • Five Actors Will 'Howl' with 'Pineapple Express' Star

    ...Friedman will make their narrative writing-directing-producing debuts on the beatnik biopic which stars Franco as Allen Ginsberg . The film will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ginsberg's epic poem "Howl" and will feature animated......

  • Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84

    ...nation's first alternative weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, in 1955. Along with Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, Mailer became one of the Eisenhower era's premier avatars of hip. He earned the......

  • A marriage made in Hell

    ...filmmaker Richard Kern, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Frith, proto-punk Richard Hell and Beat legend Allen Ginsberg . ''Those were the last good years -- after that it all went downhill,'' says Zombie, perhaps not entirely......

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