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In the article the following films are marked with an asterisk, yet I cannot see any description of what this means. Can anyone? If not I suggest the asterisk be deleted.

• Bell, Book and Candle* (1958) (motion picture)
• The Beat Generation* (1959) (motion picture)
• A Bucket of Blood* (1959) Roger Corman Production
• The Subterraneans* (1960) (motion picture)
• Greenwich Village Story* (1961)
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village*
• Neal Cassady* (2007)

Tobyhoward ( talk) 23:18, 5 February 2024 (UTC) reply