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The backstory is also explored: about Kesey's history as an athlete and would-be writer who worked in a mental hospital while writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and who volunteered for U.S. Army experiments at Stanford University in the early 1960s, in which he was given LSD, among other drugs, and left alone to record his thoughts into a tape recorder.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Magic Trip Marshall Fine 2011

There were sexual politics, both in terms of the power structure of the trip despite Kesey's egalitarian approach and in terms of who was sleeping with whom.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Magic Trip Marshall Fine 2011

On the other hand, if you're someone who read about and, perhaps, identified with and tried to emulate Kesey's adventures in Tom Wolfe's epochal The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, well, this movie is like a secret entryway into a world you could only imagine in the past.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Magic Trip Marshall Fine 2011

Or you can see Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's "archival cinéma vérité" documentary "Magic Trip" to see Neal Cassady's next chapter, as the driver of Ken Kesey's bus Further.

Regina Weinreich: Neal Cassady Drives Again in 'Magic Trip' Regina Weinreich 2011

"Magic Trip" had its theatrical premiere last week, for a crowd that could mostly appreciate Ken Kesey's artistic eccentricities as antique.

Regina Weinreich: Neal Cassady Drives Again in 'Magic Trip' Regina Weinreich 2011

Or you can see Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's "archival cinéma vérité" documentary "Magic Trip" to see Neal Cassady's next chapter, as the driver of Ken Kesey's bus Further.

Regina Weinreich: Neal Cassady Drives Again in 'Magic Trip' Regina Weinreich 2011

Among writer Ken Kesey's final work is a novel about the rodeo, "Last Go Round."

Rodeo hauled into court over cologne 2011

By the early-60s, following a meeting with the author Ken Kesey, Cassady had become the amphetamine-fuelled driver for Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a troupe of Californian hippies who piled into a brightly painted bus and set out to introduce the mind-expanding properties of LSD to the stuffy straights of middle America.

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Among writer Ken Kesey's final work is a novel about the rodeo, "Last Go Round."

Rodeo hauled into court over cologne 2011

"Magic Trip" had its theatrical premiere last week, for a crowd that could mostly appreciate Ken Kesey's artistic eccentricities as antique.

Regina Weinreich: Neal Cassady Drives Again in 'Magic Trip' Regina Weinreich 2011