In recent months, the celebrity weeklies have been all pregnancy, all the time. So on some level this makes sense:

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I’ve been finding so much amazing stuff on YouTube the last few weeks. Plugging random famous names into the site’s search field often reveals great obscure clips. Below is a seven-minute Jack Kerouac compilation that contains excerpts from a couple of prominent interviews. The first excerpt is from his 1959 appearance on The Steve Allen Show, wherein Kerouac reads pretentiously from On the Road and Allen apologizes for asking “square questions.” The second excerpt is a brief clip from a late-’60s interview conducted by William F. Buckley, wherein Kerouac looks bloated and awful and complains about “communists” who have criticized him. In between is footage of Walter Cronkite reporting Kerouac’s death on The CBS Evening News in 1969.

[via YouTube member Tarco.]

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