Can anyone ID these people?


I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. In looking back at it on tape (it aired on Ovation and will again no doubt) I can identify most of the participants but there are a few I don't recognize. They are:

(Times are in minutes except the last one)
- the grey-haired woman reading On The Road outside at NYU (1:44) She reads "In the bar I told Dean 'Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict."

- the black sax player w/ cap and goatee, 14:10

- the white bass player who scats in a B&W scene, a familiar 50s/early 60s tv character, 50:07 (And what cartoon was the beatnick character that followed? Was that a Stan Freberg cartoon? I remember hearing his voice in there somewhere...)

- the guy who says "Maybe the Buddists see what I see. Who the *beep* knows." 52:16

- the older woman who, dancing in the Pucci dress, sings,"I'm always where the action is. I blow my mind all day. While on Long Island's tennis courts the bland suburbans play." 54:28

- the priest who talks about Kerouac's drinking at 1:02:41 (And I think reappears towards the very end.)

Thanks very much.

John L

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the first one might be Ann Charters. The guy who says "Maybe the Buddhists see what I see..." is Gregory Corso, and the next one is Helen Adam.

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Thanks!

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The priest could very well be Father Armand "Spike" Morrisette, a Lowell, Mass priest who presided at Kerouac's funeral in 1969. Just a guess.

Consilio et prudentia

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Thanks!

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"I'm always where the action is...." is Helen Adam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Adam

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- the black sax player w/ cap and goatee, 14:10


The only sax players I see are Charlie Parker (14:31) and John Coltrane (14:36), and they're not wearing caps nor do they have facial hair. Thelonious Monk, a pianist, often wore a cap and goatee, as did trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

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