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Michael Imperioli on Jack Kerouac, Buddhism and a Changing New York: ‘I Still Love the City to Death’
Ahead of the premiere of a Jack Kerouac doc at Tribeca Film Festival, Michael Imperioli talks about his love for the legendary beats writer.
The historic Buddhist text, written in India sometime in the 2nd century CE and believed to be the world’s earliest printed books, isn’t exactly the literary fare you’d expect to capture the fascination of a teenager in ’80s downtown New York — a subset more likely to be reading the likes of Bret Easton Ellis, J.D Salinger and William S. Burroughs. For the “Sopranos” actor, the 1957 autofictional novel serves as a metaphor for life, undeniably influenced by the Buddhist tenets that Kerouac lived by. Ahead of the premiere of “Keruoac’s Road: The Beat of a Generation” at Tribeca Film Festival, Variety chatted with Imperioli about his love for literature, Buddhism, politics and his thoughts on a rapidly-changing New York.
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