Donald Sutherland's Character is not out of place.

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2009)

I didn't catch this flick until after it had been shown on network TV several, (many?), times. As such, I thought the DS character Oddball, was right in keeping with the times. I base this opinion on one thing, and, I will explain. In a Playboy magazine anniversary issue, (I don't recall which one), they reprinted an article from the 1950s by Jack Kerouac, voice of the Beat generation. (Termed beatniks by the press.) He stated clearly, that the non-conformist individuals know as beats, began appearing in cities in the late 1930s. The ancestors of the later generation hippies. Anyway, I had read the article before viewing KH, and it made perfect sense. Oddball wasn't a time shifted hippie, he was an early beat. If Kerouac was still around, I'm sure he would have recognized him.