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Gov. Rick Snyder, (R-MI) discusses why he endorses GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and what this means for Romney's campaign and the GOP race, with Michael Steele, former RNC chairman.

What Happened to Kerouac? The Beat Goes On -- What Happened to Kerouac? The Beat Goes On, the extras to the acclaimed 1986 documentary, is composed of interviews taken from the original footage shot at the 25th anniversary celebration of the publication of On the Road, held at The Naropa Institute in 1982. It features fellow Beat writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and others. The film starts off with an all-star line-up of Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Krassner debating whether the Beat Generation was a political or cultural movement. Then Abbie Hoffman, activist extraordinaire, gives a passionate, funny speech praising the Beats. Other scenes reveal Kerouac's only daughter Jan's incestuous dream of her father, Edie Parker's marriage to Jack in jail, Kerouac keeping Steve Allen up all night, Allen Ginsberg recalling Kerouac's monumental drunken humor on the William Buckley Show, actor Paul Gleason telling of Kerouac's physical confrontations in bars along with his singing and loud voice, poet Robert Creeley describing a wonderful scene of a flood from Dr. Sax, Carolyn Cassady remembering the embarrassing night Jack and Neal brought a hooker home to the Cassadys, and Ann Charters' comprehensive overview of Kerouac's books, his critics, his Buddhism, his lost friendships, and his dutiful attachment to his mother. These extras delve deeper into Kerouac, offering more intimate, personal, and contradictory views than the original documentary. His genius, his writing styles, his working-class background, and his eventual decline into alcoholism are revealed by those who knew him best.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country marks the sixth feature film in the Star Trek series. The crews of the Enterprise and the Excelsior must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.

On patrol, the USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, is slammed by a shock wave traveling through space. Investigation shows that the wave came from Klingon space. The Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS (pronounced Kronos) is thrown into turmoil after the explosion of their homeworld?s moon, Praxis, a key Klingon energy production facility, damages their homeworld?s atmosphere. Estimates are made that the accident will have depleted the Klingon Homeworld's atmosphere in 50 years. No longer able to maintain a hostile footing, the Klingon Empire sues for peace with the Federation. Starfleet chooses to send the USS Enterprise to meet with Chancellor Gorkon and escort him to negotiations on Earth, a decision that doesn?t sit well with Captain James T. Kirk, whose son David Marcus died at the hands of Klingons, defending Lieutenant Saavik in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.