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Kerouac played football like he wrote, with a lot of power and invention. He was an athlete at the typewriter who could compose with speed and accuracy. It is fascinating to see how he keeps popping up in the news stream. Today, boston.com and the Bos. Globe  include an arts note among the Super Bowl news from Indianapolis—the legendary scroll typescript of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is featured in a big museum display in the city along with other cultural treasures from the collection of Colts owner Jim Irsay. The scroll photo illustrates the news note. Read about it here.

Jack Kerouac in the 1938 Lowell-Lawrence football game.

Jerry Cimino of the Beat Museum in San Francisco has an intriguing segment in his latest newsletter, which I’m reproducing in full because the effect would be lost in paraphrasing. So, courtesy of www.kerouac.com, here’s news about the now-completed “On the Road” film that is expected to premiere in France this spring. The tweets must be read from the bottom up.

In related news, a reporter from Radio France, the national public radio network, will be in Lowell tomorrow as a guest of the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau to prepare a story about Kerouac and Lowell in connection with the film’s release in Europe.

B).  Variety Says On The Road is Gonna Be Great

JOSH DICKEY WRITES FOR VARIETY and he was at the Sundance Film Festival last week and as he was
boarding the plane for his flight back to LA he sent out the following excited five tweets on Twitter.  We copied them below and you need to read them from the bottom up:

27 Jan  Josh Dickey @Variety_JLD
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And that’s all I know. (At least, that’s all I can tell you!) Hope it’s new to somebody; I don’t follow as close as some of you guys.

27 Jan  Josh Dickey @Variety_JLD
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There were no problems w/ film; just awaiting the right moment to show & actively start seeking distribution.

27 Jan  Josh Dickey
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… it would not be a stretch to see it open Cannes. Producers are thrilled with the result & eager to at least have it there. More …

27 Jan  Josh Dickey
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OTR is finished. Took 1 year to edit, and is very, very good. According to a discerning and in-the-know viewer, it’s so good that …

27 Jan  Josh Dickey
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ON THE ROAD fans, I have some cool news to share with you. Just got to the airport so stand by…
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Thanks to the Beat Museum in San Francisco and its website www.kerouac.com, here’s news about a film release date for the movie version of Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.” The cast includes Amy Adams, who starred in “The Fighter” and Viggo Mortensen of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Here’s the notice from the Beat Museum in quotes:

1).  MARK MAY 23, 2012 ON YOUR CALENDAR
The internet websites are abuzz with
the news that came via a tweet yesterday from the French Film Production Company
MK2.  They announced the French Release of OTR the movie will be May 23rd.  Now,
we have no inside info but we can read a calendar as well as anyone and the
Cannes Film Festival is May 16 – May 27.  Hmmm.  And Walter Salles has a long
history at Cannes with a number of his films as well as an OTR trailer at the
2011 festival.  Double hmmmm.  And MK2 is a French company.  Triple
hmmmmm.

Here’s a link to more info.

The Beat Museum in San Francisco is now a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post. Here is a recent post about the forthcoming film version of Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.”

“On the Road” goes to an iTunes app. If you are into Kerouac, check this out.

See a video of the new app.

Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com