Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) was an influential participant in the early Beat Generation circle. While a student at Barnard College...
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Burroughs killed his second wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951 in Mexico City. Burroughs initially claimed that he shot Vollmer while drunkenly attempting a "William...
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Livingston. The film focuses primarily on the last several weeks of writer Joan Vollmer's life in 1951 Mexico City, leading up to her accidental killing by her...
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politician Herb Vollmer (1895–1961), American water polo player Jana Vollmer (born 1973), German beach volleyball player Joan Vollmer (1923–1951), American...
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awaiting trial for the allegedly accidental homicide of his common-law wife Joan Vollmer. The introduction of the 25th Anniversary edition of Queer, published...
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David Kammerer (as Waldo Meister), Edie Parker (as Judie Smith) and also Joan Vollmer (as Mary Dennison) – though she essentially has a non-speaking role (however...
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Joan Vollmer shared an apartment on 118th Street in New York City which came to be frequented by many of the then unknown Beats, among them Vollmer's...
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1947, Burroughs was born in Conroe, Texas, to William S. Burroughs and Joan Vollmer. His mother was addicted to amphetamines, and his father was a heroin...
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The shooting of Joan Lee is based on the 1951 death of Joan Vollmer, Burroughs's common-law wife. Burroughs shot and killed Vollmer in a drunken game...
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2008. In 1945, Burroughs met Joan Vollmer, who would become his common-law wife. In October 1946, Burroughs and Vollmer left New York for Texas, where...
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(1914–1997) shot and killed his wife, Joan Vollmer (1923–1951), during a drunken recreation of the William Tell act. Vollmer's death was ruled a culpable homicide...
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on the Moon (1999), followed by a role as William S. Burroughs's wife Joan Vollmer in Beat (2000) alongside Kiefer Sutherland. Love was cast as the lead...
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India, Arabia, Persia and the Balkans (Serbia). Freischutz Death of Joan Vollmer Stith Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: Index A-K : A Classification...
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Fighter Charlene Fleming 2011 The Muppets Mary 2012 On the Road Jane / Joan Vollmer The Master Peggy Dodd Trouble with the Curve Mickey Lobel 2013 Man of...
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Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived...
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S. Burroughs (in a recreation of the accidental killing of his wife Joan Vollmer), went on on display in New York's Half Gallery on 14 November 2008 with...
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Bramon Garcia 1999 Man on the Moon Lynne Margulies Miloš Forman 2000 Beat Joan Vollmer Burroughs Gary Walkow 2001 Julie Johnson Claire Bob Gosse 2002 Trapped...
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Kill Your Darlings 23 enigma People Joan Vollmer (wife) William S. Burroughs Jr. (son) William Seward Burroughs I (grandfather)...
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Julien Alexander Iris Brodie Roxanne William S. Burroughs Frank Carmody Joan Vollmer Jane Lucien Carr Sam Vedder Neal Cassady Leroy Gregory Corso Yuri Gligoric...
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biographical sketches preceding each chapter). Grauerholz, James. The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?. American Studies Department, University...
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Lee (William S. Burroughs) and Adams as the character's wife, Jane (Joan Vollmer). English actor Tom Sturridge was cast as Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg)...
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Kammerer Dave Stroheim Jerry Newman Danny Richman Edie Parker Elly Allan Temko Allen Minko Bill Tomson Earl Johnson Ed Uhl Ed Wehle Joan Vollmer June...
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novel was written in three weeks in April 1951, while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan...
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September 126 Johnny Altinger 5 October 127 Killer Petey 12 October 128 Joan Vollmer 19 October 129 The Dupont De Ligonnès Family 2 November 130 Joe Cinque...
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Kill Your Darlings 23 enigma People Joan Vollmer (wife) William S. Burroughs Jr. (son) William Seward Burroughs I (grandfather)...
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William S. Burroughs and may have been an accessory to the manslaughter of Joan Vollmer. He frequently hints at a mysterious military career that included experience...
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"Scotty" Beaulieu Scotcho Boldieu William S. Burroughs Will Hubbard Joan Vollmer June Mary Carney Maggie Cassidy Lucien Carr Claude de Maubris Billy Chandler...
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parataxis in the poem "Dream Record: June 8, 1955" about the death of Joan Vollmer, a technique that became central in "Howl". Ginsberg showed this poem...
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Chase to Columbia University. Chase met Joan Vollmer in New York in the early 1940s, and became one of Vollmer's tenants in the apartments at 421 West 118th...
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Rathbone, present at Lincoln's assassination, lived on Cherry Tree Rd. Joan Vollmer, beatnik and common law wife of William S. Burroughs. James H. Fallon...
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