Burroughs BEATNIKHIWAYucien Carr, one of the founders and one of the last survivors of the Beat Generation of poets and writers, although one who never wrote poetry or novels, died on Friday. He was 7. 9. Mr. Carr died at George Washington University Hospital after collapsing at his home in Washington, said his son, the writer Caleb Carr. He had suffered from bone cancer in recent years. A literary lion who never roared, Mr. Carr served as an inspirational muse to a bunch of college chums at Columbia University in the 1. Allen Ginsberg and the novelists William S. Watch The Sure Thing Full Movie. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, writers who a decade later changed the course of American letters in coffeehouses in San Francisco and New York. Breaking San Diego news from The San Diego UnionTribune including, national. Vegas, San Diegan vows. Donlon worked seasonally as Las Vegas waiter oft drank with Jack K. Dexter on Showtime, as Kammerer. Full of twists, turns. With the birth of Vegas as one of its colorful backdrops, this entertaining. At the Hiway Theatre. Ln9vXcqzrE8iCGBHFc8xXqhN.jpg' alt='Lost Vegas Highway' title='Lost Vegas Highway' />It was Mr. Carr, for example, who introduced Ginsberg to the works of Rimbaud, a major influence on Ginsbergs work, and then introduced Burroughs to Kerouac and Ginsberg. He introduced them all to Neal Cassady, a railway worker with literary ambitions who became part of the Columbia undergraduates coterie of angel headed hipsters. Together they formed the nucleus of what became the Beats. Any practical assistance Mr. Carr gave to the Beat movement came as an encouraging editor, the profession he pursued for nearly half a century at United Press and United Press International. It was Mr. Carr, for example, who gave Kerouac the roll of teletype paper, pilfered from U. P., on which the author wrote On the Road, and it was Mr. Carr who was among the first to read the novel and offer advice, which may or may not have been taken. As Ginsberg once said, Lou was the glue. Chroniclers of the era and biographers of its writers have always had as much trouble placing Mr. Carr in the group snapshot of the Beats as they have had in defining the movement. Just minutes from the Strip, Boulder Station offers the ultimate Las Vegas experience. Check into Boulder now with rates as low as 28. All movies currently playing in theaters that have been released recently or will open soon. You can sort this list by Name, Release Date, MPAA Rating, and Genre. Utah Gateway to Capitol Reef Monument Hiway 24, Shortest Route Denver to Las Vegas. Old Vegas comps, free breakfasts and. Showtime in Old Vegas. Both defied description. The one episode all seize upon came while Mr. Carr was still at Columbia. In repulsing the homosexual advances of a hanger on of the Beat crowd, Mr. Carr stabbed his pursuer with a Boy Scout knife and killed him. Mr. Carr served a brief time in prison for manslaughter, but was later pardoned. Born in New York but raised in St. Louis, Mr. Carr had boyish good looks that were only enhanced by a slouchy physique and sardonic grin hidden under a riverboat gambler mustache. A motorcycle enthusiast, who took up boating on his retirement, Mr. Carr was a great jazz aficionado and an avid reader for whom the greatest joys in life were in simple things like a long riff on a tenor sax or a well turned dependent clause. Shortly after leaving Columbia, Mr. Carr, to the consternation of his fellow Beats, took a job with United Press in New York and spent the rest of his career, until his retirement in 1. He remained in contact with the Beats, although Kerouac and Cassady died young. Ginsberg remained a close friend until his death in 1. Mr. Carr at U. P. I. s newsroom to lobby for coverage of whatever political cause he was pursuing at the moment. If he had been more of a midwife to the Beats, Mr. Carr was an extremely vocal mentor to two generations of journalists who came up through the ranks at U. P. I. He was a great champion of brevity. Why dont you just start with the second paragraph was his frequent advice to young reporters overly fond of their own prose. He guided U. P. I. Kennedy assassination to Vietnam and the moon landing. He was married twice, first to the former Francesca von Hartz, with whom he had three sons Simon, of New York City Caleb, of Cherry Plain, N. Y. and Ethan, of Amherst, Mass. His second wife was the former Sheila Johnson. He is survived by all of them as well as by Kathleen Silvassy, his companion for the last several years of his life. Real Name Lucien Carr. Bio Carr was central to the Beat movement. He was the embodiment of Beat intelligent yet wild, well read but crazy. He introduced Kerouac and Ginsberg. Lou was the glue, Ginsberg quipped. He killed David Kammerer and sought refuge with Burroughs and Kerouac. Aliases Big Sur Julian. Book of Dreams Julian Love. On The Road Damion. The Subterraneans Sam Vedder The Town and the City Kenneth Wood. Vanity of Duluoz Claude de Maubris. FEATUREThe Last Beat. A murder in Riverside Park changed the lives of a group of Columbia undergrads. Did it change literature as well David J. Krajicek 8. JRNPublished Winter 2. Comments 0 The New York Times, August 1. They would become legends their names etched on the syllabuses of literature classes everywhere, their books reprinted and shoved in the back pockets of teenagers ripe with wanderlust, their words devoured, memorized, heeded, imitated. But before the night of August 1. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg 4. CC, and William S. Burroughs werent the three principals of a literary movement at least, not one that existed outside their own heads. They were simply roommates, friends, and confidants, who shared books and booze and sometimes beds. And, as history would largely soon forget, there was a fourth. Lucien Carr was a recent transfer from the University of Chicago who seemed to attract admirers wherever he went. Uncommonly handsome, charismatic, and well read, he was the force that initially united the group he bonded with Ginsberg in a Columbia dorm over a shared love of Brahms, befriended Kerouac through his girlfriend at a nighttime painting class, and renewed ties with Burroughs, an old acquaintance from his hometown. Independent friendships formed between members of the quartet, but Carr was always at the center. While his friends wrote books and became revered cultural and literary figures, ringleaders of the Beat movement, though, Carr lived most of the next sixty years in relative obscurity, quietly building a career and raising a family, and avoiding even the reflected glow from the spotlight on the others. Since his death in 2. Beats has grown even more, at last illuminating the lost member. This past March, Da Capo Press released Jack Kerouacs previously unpublished first novel, The Sea Is My Brother, written when he was a twenty year old merchant mariner the summer before he met Carr. In April, the New York writer Aaron Latham debuted his play Birth of Beats Murder and the Beat Generation. In September, Joyce Johnson released The Voice Is All, an intimate biography of Kerouac, with whom she had a long romance. A film adaptation of On the Road the first, despite years of failed attempts premiered at Cannes in May, with wide release in December. And in 2. 01. 3, Carr will take center stage as the subject of Kill Your Darlings, a recent entry to the Sundance Film Festival, which was filmed largely on campus last spring and which stars Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg. Carr was the last of the four to die, and with all of them gone, it seems like the world is finally ready to ask two questions Had Lucien Carr not killed a man, would he have been the greatest of what we now call the Beat Generation And, perhaps more important, had he not killed a man, would there even have been a Beat Generation at all It was just after midnight when Kerouac got up from his table at the West End, where hed been drinking with Carr, and went out into the sweltering, sleepless night. With his athletic gait, he quick stepped across Broadway, through the 1. Street gates, up the Low Library steps, and toward Amsterdam Avenue, on his way to his girlfriends apartment, when he saw a familiar figure walking toward him in the dark a tall, bearded, auburn haired man named David Kammerer, who asked after Lucien. Kerouac directed Kammerer to the West End. And I watch him rush off to his death, Kerouac later wrote in his autobiographical novel Vanity of Duluoz. Where Death Shaped the Beats. John CohenGetty Images. The Beat writers, from left, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg in 1. More Photos By DAVID J. Watch The Lost Vioz. KRAJICEKPublished April 5, 2. THE scene of the crime, Riverside Park at the foot of West 1.