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If you were to spend one day with him what would you want to do

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:06:04 -0400

I would want to sit in an old cafe and talk about everything over a cup of coffee. He was so intellectual and I think to have the pleasure to talk to him, and also listen intently to what he would have to say would be a great honor. There are other things I would love to do if I got to spend a day with him, but there would never be enough time for that. When I die, he would be the first person I would want to see, someone like him is far too important to spend just a day with him.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:11 -0400

I know people always talk about how he was afraid to reach out to people and that he was weird or "sick" but I always picture him once you get past certain point with him being very friendly and very sweet!

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:38:45 -0400

Yes, its true people do tend to think the worst of him at times, he’s definitely got a bad rap because of the various conspiracies about his death and how he was supposedly under the influence, which is completely false, and also his lifestyle; being a very different individual which to me made him so wonderful and unique. He was a very good person, his uncle used to say he was helpful on the farm, and he loved animals, children and old people. Really was just a nice corn-fed Mid-Western farm boy. :)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:34:00 -0400

When was the first time you heard about James dean and when you fell in love with him?

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:41 -0400

It was years ago. I heard about him actually because of a book I always had that was about him; “The Mutant King”. There were many times I contemplated getting rid of it but we never ended up doing so because my mum told me I would learn to appreciate him one day (though she was never overly familiar with him at the time). And one day something in my head kind of clicked, I picked up the book and decided to research him a bit, I completely fell in love with him after that, he was the most fascinating person I have ever encountered, and its never ending.

Where did you get those vinyls of James dean?!

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:22 -0400

At an antique market

Hedda Hopper: You’ve got a long and beautiful life ahead of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:36:22 -0400

Hedda Hopper: You’ve got a long and beautiful life ahead of you.
James Dean: I hope the second adjective is the more abundant.

Hollywood, March 1955

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Fri, 17 May 2013 22:00:39 -0400

jamesdeandaily: When director Gary Legon found this screen test...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:58:57 -0400

jamesdeandaily:

When director Gary Legon found this screen test of James Dean and Joanne Woodward (for East of Eden), he knew he wanted to use it in his documentary, The Real James Dean. However he felt the need to ask Woodward’s permission first, since is was a rather “sexy scene” and she was, of course, married to Paul Newman, and they had children and such… Legon wasn’t sure if maybe this screen test would be embarrassing for her. So he wrote to Woodward about it, and she quickly wrote back, “Of course you can use this! This will be proof, finally, to my daughters, that I indeed had this incredible kiss with the late, great, James Dean!”

Once you’ve been up there, you know you’ve been someplace…

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:56:05 -0400

Once you’ve been up there, you know you’ve been someplace…

The most quirky record, the small text in the left hand corner...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:42:40 -0400

The most quirky record, the small text in the left hand corner really grabbed my attention, it reads: This recording is strictly for Dean’s-teens and eternal-lamp clubs. A collector’s issue for his faithful flock only.

Still sealed, record featuring music from all of James...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:39:29 -0400

Still sealed, record featuring music from all of James Dean’s movies. I love these tribute records, this is my second. A definite must for the nut-case collector like me haha…its all a matter of finding them.

This was an unexpected purchase today, it was just there, never...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:46 -0400

This was an unexpected purchase today, it was just there, never thought this random surplus store sold things like this…but lucky me right? All I need is a nice frame so I can hang it up.

“He drove like a demon, and he burned up the screen……see them...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:55 -0400

“He drove like a demon, and he burned up the screen……see them running wild just like Jimmy Dean, overdrive in chrome and steel….” [x]

One Sunday afternoon in May, while Ted Hartman and I were...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:42:16 -0400

One Sunday afternoon in May, while Ted Hartman and I were working on a new television project at my place, Jimmy turned up unexpectedly and asked if I wanted to take a drive to the beach. I jumped at the idea. I explained that Ted had to get home soon, so we’d be breaking shortly, if Jimmy didn’t mind waiting. Jimmy nodded and said he’d listen to some of my records in the other room.
Ted and I went back to work, but after few minutes, we became aware of some rather mournful music from the other room, and I remember wishing that Jimmy had selected something a bit more upbeat. We were writing a sitcom. About ten minutes later, Jimmy turned off the music, said he had somebody to see, and cut out, leaving as abruptly as he arrived. It bothered me somehow because I had the feeling he wanted to talk to me. I dismissed it, however, and went back to work.
About fifteen minutes later, Ted and I decided to call it a day, and he left, as well. It was a special day, and he was eager to get home to his family. I stepped to the window to watch him go and was surprised to see Jimmy still sitting behind the wheel of his car in the street below. He was just sitting there, staring straight ahead at nothing in particular. Was he waiting for me, or what? Then it hit me, and my heart sank. Suddenly I understood everything, his mood, his need for company.
I hurried downstairs and outside. But by then his car was roaring off down the street. I called after him, but, of course, he couldn’t hear.
I kicked myself for not realizing it sooner. It was Mother’s Day.
- Bill Bast, Surviving James Dean

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“Jimmy in my eyes was the prime example of the new type of...

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:46:46 -0400

“Jimmy in my eyes was the prime example of the new type of American. A leader of a new way of living, way of thinking, way of behaving, a way of dressing. Anyone who knew him well, and I believe I did, knew that he could make you feel as if anything were possible.”

Peter Pan lives again in “Rebel”. When we decided that they...

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:45:45 -0400

Peter Pan lives again in “Rebel”. When we decided that they would run away to a place that was an ideal, they arrive at Neverland, where there is mystery and privacy but a million doors… And Plato is the Lost Boys. So it’s Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. - Stewart Stern