Howl (2010)

James Franco: Allen Ginsberg

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• Allen Ginsberg : There's no beat generation. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get published.

• [first lines] 

  Allen Ginsberg : "Howl" for Carl Salomon. 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, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

  [continues reading but unheard, credits roll]