 "Subterraneans" author Jack Kerouac (qv) was disturbed that his  friend, author John Clellon Holmes (qv), managed to get his "Beat  Generation" novel "Go" into print before his own was published  ("Go", in which Kerouac is a main character, was published in 1952,  while "On the Road" was not published until 1957). Kerouac was  worried that Holmes was plagiarizing him, although Holmes was  careful to credit Kerouac with creating the term "Beat" for their  generation, and much of the material was common amongst them and  other writers of their circle, such as Allen Ginsberg (qv).  Ironically, producer Albert Zugsmith (qv) outfoxed Kerouac by  copyrighting the term "The Beat Generation", which he used as the  title of an egregious film. The 1960 movie of "The Subterraneans",  made by a top studio with top talent, proved to be a major  disappointment as it grossly misrepresented the scene (as well as  Kerouacs novel), but ironically, it is probably the premier movie  about the Beats, as so few "Beat" movies were made, the phenomenon  occurring during a time of strict screen censorship in the United  States. By the time censorship was lifted in 1968, the Beats had  been supplanted by the Hippies.