Dylan has had fans and even friends in the academy, among them the late poet Allen Ginsberg.
The sweet-looking James Franco is entirely charming as the young Allen Ginsberg in this rather tepid hybrid movie.
Nevertheless, Allen Ginsberg was said to be a generous man, giving support to less famous poets and other writers.
Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959.
Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): When I went to Kerouac's house once, and I'd been revising my poem, and he said, stop revising.
In his coming film, "Kill Your Darlings, " Mr. Radcliffe embodies one of the most quintessential New Yorkers of all time: Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
After a short stint in the merchant marine, Baker drifted to San Francisco, where he hung out with the likes of beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
As the band has asserted, Howl, is, after all, an homage to legendary 'Frisco beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who wrote a book of poetry by the same name.
The former child star plays beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a young student in the throes of literary revolution, along with his contemporaries Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Bookended by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl, " that decade's anthem, and Tom Wolfe's "Masters of the Universe, " the exhibition is a fast ride from the dropout generation to the material age.
An acquaintance recalled seeing him at a writers' conference which was attended by Allen Ginsberg, a self-publicising poet who declaimed his verse accompanied by an accordion he usually carried.
Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
Sam Riley, as Sal Paradise, the Kerouac figure, is almost as darkly handsome as Kerouac was, and the slender Tom Sturridge, with his big glasses, is charmingly silly as a sex-and-poetry-addled version of the young Allen Ginsberg.
Next, pause for free-form reverie in the designated Poet's Chair upstairs at City Lights, the bookstore owned by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who won a landmark 1957 free-speech case over the publication of Allen Ginsberg's incendiary epic poem Howl.
Salting the audience with friends of Dylan's like Allen Ginsberg and interested parties like the business manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Bill Graham, Gleason refereed nearly an hour's worth of inspired repartee from the 24-year-old songwriter.
In a famous scene from the film, Dylan, with Allen Ginsberg lurking in the background dressed as a rabbi, stands tossing cards with key words from the song as it plays on the soundtrack, an early music video.
Even better for a public avid for novelty, Allen Ginsberg turned out to be a character, a bald-headed bearded lump in sandals, never short of a lively opinion and, if there was a photographer around, happy to play the buffoon.
He proved his post-Harry Potter mettle in the hit horror The Woman in Black, but now Daniel Radcliffe has moved even further away from the role that made him famous - playing poet Allen Ginsberg in the low-budget, independent thriller, Kill Your Darlings.
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