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But most of all, Schoolhouse Rock got the music right, with jazz hepcats like Bob Dorough and Blossom Dearie.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2025
Modigliani did indeed know Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Juan Gris and all those early 20th century Parisian avant-garde hepcats.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
Her father, Louis Vadala, was a jazz drummer who styled himself as a free-ranging hepcat.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Enter Email Sign Up With his shaggy hair, hepcat beard and racy poems touching on British youth’s anxieties, dreams of freedom and lust, he was hailed as Britain’s answer to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, which raised eyebrows among some guardians of traditional British values.
—Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
With his shaggy hair, hepcat beard and racy poems touching on British youth’s anxieties, dreams of freedom and lust, he was hailed as Britain’s answer to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, which raised eyebrows among some guardians of traditional British values.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
The role of San Francisco hepcat Sammy Fong, played by Jack Soo in the movie, was played by Larry Blyden on Broadway.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
Somehow the greasy nerd who used to give Gilda Radner noogies on Saturday Night Live in 1979 has become a hepcat Sinatra.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
The smartest touch is counterpointing the pair’s bickering with the idealized representation of American life presented by a scatting jazz trio, who comment on the action like a Greek chorus of ’50s hepcats.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2025
Modigliani did indeed know Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Juan Gris and all those early 20th century Parisian avant-garde hepcats.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
Her father, Louis Vadala, was a jazz drummer who styled himself as a free-ranging hepcat.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Enter Email Sign Up With his shaggy hair, hepcat beard and racy poems touching on British youth’s anxieties, dreams of freedom and lust, he was hailed as Britain’s answer to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, which raised eyebrows among some guardians of traditional British values.
—Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
With his shaggy hair, hepcat beard and racy poems touching on British youth’s anxieties, dreams of freedom and lust, he was hailed as Britain’s answer to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, which raised eyebrows among some guardians of traditional British values.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
The role of San Francisco hepcat Sammy Fong, played by Jack Soo in the movie, was played by Larry Blyden on Broadway.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
Somehow the greasy nerd who used to give Gilda Radner noogies on Saturday Night Live in 1979 has become a hepcat Sinatra.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
The smartest touch is counterpointing the pair’s bickering with the idealized representation of American life presented by a scatting jazz trio, who comment on the action like a Greek chorus of ’50s hepcats.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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“Hepcat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hepcat. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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