Roll over, Rimbaud: P. F. Kluge, Walt Whitman, and Eddie and the Cruisers
By Kirk Curnutt
Ask someone who came of age in the 1980s what they remember about the movie Eddie and the Cruisers and one of the following responses is likely: it spawned the great rock-radio staple “On the Dark Side” and briefly made MTV stars of the improbably named John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band…