Berman, who died at 50 in 1976, the victim of a
drunken driver, was a kind of Beat guru flying just below the radar, showing his work in only one conventional gallery exhibition during his lifetime and popping into rare
view in strange places: a cameo in «Easy Rider»; the cover of «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,» where his face is wedged next to Tony Curtis's, just below Jung's.