Something Weird The Beatniks
Beatniks What beatniks Twobit punks, a closet rock roll star, and an outofhismind psycho: yes. Beatniks: no. Though The Beatniks was probably a lastminute title change to replace a less exploitable moniker, it didn t make much of a difference to the audiences of 1960. After all, to a world emerging from the Eisenhower era, bohemian artists and beatgeneration poets were seen as little more than socially maladjusted misfits in the same category as junkies, Commies, and teenage hoodlums or the pett
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