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ADVANCE By Cynthia Blank-Reid, MSN, RN, CEN In September 1955, James Byron Dean was a 24-year-old man from the Midwest who had only starred in three movies when he ...

GM and Germany in Opel chicken run

Reuters -Blogs General Motors and the German government are playing out the Chicken Run scene from the 1950s James Dean classic film “Rebel Without a Cause”. ...

Screen on the Green
Examiner.com
Up next week: “Rebel without a Cause,” starring James Dean. It's also worth considering bringing the kids to this one. They won't be required to sit quite ... Gun that killed Dillinger goes for $36400 Chicago Sun-Times ... belonged to Howard Hughes, Harry S Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Adolf Hitler, as well as the only known piece of the Porsche in which James Dean died. ... Library To Show, Discuss "Giant" Hartford Courant - United States "Giant" was published in 1952, and made into a film in 1956, staring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. Copies of the book are available one ... Boruc is a cover Bhoy
The Sun - London,UK
By GERRY DUFFY and HERE'S cover Bhoy Artur Boruc looking lean, mean 'n seductive - as a dead ringer for Hollywood icon James Dean. ... Emotions in motion Time Out New York - New York,NY,USA By David Fear THE BIG RED ONE James Dean jump-starts the crimson-leather-jacket trend in Rebel Without a Cause. Classic-film archetypes may come in a ... Salute to storied film studio Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA Among the stars in the Warner stable: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, James Dean and Clint Eastwood. The choice of Frank Langella ...

Hugh Dancy's Wild Side BlackBook Magazine - New York,NY,USA “James Dean portrayed rebellion brilliantly,” he says, “but I don't necessarily think of him as a rebel. If anybody deserves to be considered a rebel in his ...

Wabash Men in History: Wabash College -

Crawfordsville,IN,USA James Dean had a small role. Nicholson co-authored Taxi, a movie of crime and romance, in 1932. It was a huge box-office hit that boosted the career of ...

Getting in the festival mood Bluffton News Banner - IN, USA Turned out there was a “James Dean Motorcycle Rally” that afternoon at Ivanhoe's. The small parking lot and the area was overflowing with at least a hundred ... Remembering Our Heroes EastsideBoxing.com - USA They are kept current with conspiracy theories and fanaticism, such as with JFK, Marilyn Monroe, MLK, Elvis and James Dean.. The deceased are often times ... Amateur James Dean films to be shown at festival Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA MARION — The first-ever James Dean Amateur Film Festival will be at 6:30 pm Saturday, July 25, at The Hotel Marion in downtown Marion. ... Geek Deal: 58% Off Scorsese, McQueen and James Dean DVD Box Sets
/FILM - Natick,MA,USA
This might be the last day in Amazon's DVD/Blu-ray Gold Box week. Today they are actually offering three different DVD box sets for 58% off in the Gold Box ...

DVD review The State: The Complete Series
Time Out New York - New York,NY,USA
James Dean, the Fonz, Marty McFly—every epoch has an icon who encapsulates the antagonistic coolness of its youth, who spits in the face of adulthood while ....

Los Angeles Times If Oscar had nominated 10 best pictures in past years . . .

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA But with an extra five nominees, actor James Dean's influential dramas "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause" could have been included as well as John ...

>They might be Giant
Examiner.com - USA
Directed by George Stevens, Giant (1956) is probably most famous for being James Dean's last film as a lead actor. Liz Taylor plays the newly married wife ...

James Dean: 54 years after his horrible death, he continues to ...
Examiner.com - USA
So what better way than to crash out a two-disc collector's set, James Dean: The Fast Lane (Infinity Entertainment Group). ...

Top Ten Ironic Ads Highlighted
Adrants - Groton,MA,USA
- The Consumerist has a list of the top ten ironic ads including Dutch Boy touting lead paint, James Dean promoting safe driving in a PSA and Union Carbide ...

The Sense of Danger
The Monthly (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Acting enables him to tap into his emotions, and in class he gives a powerful performance of the James Dean character in Rebel without a Cause. ...

How The Famous And Faulted Captivate Us
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
"James Dean had it, clearly Elvis Presley had it, Marilyn Monroe had it and I think it's something to do with this combination of extravagant talent and ...

JOHN BOGERT: Watching movies under - and amid - the stars in Hollywood
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
We enjoyed a family night in the cemetery on Saturday with a couple thousand hipster picnickers watching the immortal James Dean in "East of Eden" from a ...

Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dies at 97
The Associated Press
Malden helped create the "Legends of Hollywood" stamp series that has featured Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Gary Cooper, and another celebrating ...

 

How often do you go out (and how old are you?)
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... and their group of friends narrows down to something like a “best of” album by the Beatles (or maybe even a “best of” collection of James Dean films).

iTHINK Teens can turn to literature, movies for inspiration when ...

Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA As a die-hard fan of classic movies, it's impossible not to be irrevocably in love with James Dean. Not only was ''East of Eden'' an unforgettable book, ...

Tears and tributes for 'King of Pop' Jackson

Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia Many tributes put Jackson into the pantheon of tragic stars alongside Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Fan clubs around the world from Paris to ...

'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Night Tide'

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA Dennis Hopper had been kicking around Hollywood since the mid-1950s, notably as one of the gang members in the 1955 James Dean classic "Rebel Without a ...

Americana the beautiful: A collection of sites, historic and ...

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA ... photographing and writing about places like the hill where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, the junction where James Dean smashed his ...

Top five best films about fathers

Examiner.com - USA East of Eden (1955) - Raymond Massey and James Dean star in this Elia Kazan classic as a father and son in the midst of a troubled relationship. ...

Dharam ji impressed with James Dean

Times of India - India But it was James Dean who's personality made an impression on the Bollywood star. “Apart from Dean, I really like Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Mel Gibson in ...

Words of Advice from the Staples 2009 Salutatorian
Westport Now - Westport,CT,USA
... addressed tonight's baccalaureate ceremony and quoted the late film star James Dean who was killed in a car crash in 1955 at the age of 24. ...


Andrew Steele
Globe and Mail - Canada
The best illustration of Chicken was in the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause. Dean and another boy drive their cars off of a cliff, and the first ...

Dennis Hopper is still sober, still an easy rider, still a great ...
Examiner.com - USA
When he was at the top, he was best buds with James Dean and Natalie Wood; at rock bottom, his constant companions were cocaine and beer and rum ...

Coming-of-age movies focusing on not-grown-up grown-ups
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Narratives of maturation have been a Hollywood standard since Scout befriended Boo Radley in 1962, since James Dean rebelled with cause in 1955, ...

In Advance Of Father's Day, Ten Cinematic Takes On Being A Dad
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
In his first featured role, James Dean plays errant son Cal, who aches for the approval of his upright father (Raymond Massey). ...

Wintersun all over
Gold Coast News - goldcoast.com.au - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
It's opened my eyes up to James Dean, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe -- my room is covered in Elvis pictures and stuff. "I'm starting rock 'n' roll dancing soon ...

Marfa's solitary refinements
Boston Globe - United States
In the morning I ask at the front desk to see the small spare room where James Dean slept. They hand me the keys. I walk upstairs and open the door. ...

Magnum Contemporary
Dexigner - USA
Cartier-Bresson's seminal 'Place de l 'Europe' (1932) capturing a man jumping a large puddle, or Dennis Stock's famous photograph of James Dean walking ...

Siblings can still have their own space in a shared bedroom
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
The walls of my room are covered with Obama rally signs, UCLA pennants, James Dean quotes and the love of my life, Anderson Cooper. ...

Marshall Municipal Band to start 88th season in new location
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA
The band will continue with a work by composer Larry Daehn titled "As Summer Was Just Beginning (Song For James Dean)." Many will remember actor James Dean ...

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NASCAR Ranting and Raving - Charlotte,NC,USA
by $$$ on May 27, 2009 7:37 AM EDT 0 comments James Dean, strange you know the name before the man. Indeed many film buffs have never even seen the movies ...

Hollywood rebels to shine in Movies on the Meadow
Rome News Tribune - rome,ga,USA
This summer's theme is “Hollywood Rebels” and will feature films starring Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Movies will be screened the second ...

Friendship with actresses recalled as 'East of Eden' hits Bob Hope ...
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
"East of Eden" was nominated for four Academy Awards - James Dean in a leading role, writer Paul Osborn and director Kazan - but only Van Fleet took home ...

Heart of the story lost in Signature's 'Giant'
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
It seems that I've always been a huge fan of the Edna Therber book and the 1956 film starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. ...

Clothes Make The Show
Litchfield County Times - New Milford,CT,USA
Would James Dean have looked less brooding if he had been wearing something other than a white T-shirt, cuffed jeans and a leather jacket? ...

Nicholas Ray: Rebellion and the Darkness of Evening
Political Cortex - New York,NY,USA
The dynamic trio consisted of James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo, and the 1955 film was "Rebel Without a Cause." While "Rebel" by definition fit into ...

This Jimmy Dean sizzles
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
On the other hand, 1950s movie star James Dean does play an important part. He has no lines and never appears on stage, but he's always around the ...

DVD Review: Groucho! James Dean! And Marilyn!
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
Three of the silver screen's most iconic celebrities — Groucho Marx, James Dean, and Marilyn Monroe — square off in Johnny Legend's highly entertaining ...

Remembering the days when living was cool
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
And James Dean. When I lived in New York City as the '50s ended, I considered myself a beatnik. I'd moved there to escape small-town South Jersey life. ...

Warner Brothers Shares Classic Treasures
Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA
... but we can watch Cary Grant, the Marx Brothers, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean, and John Wayne at their very best. ...

James Dean Look-Alike Writes His Story: Singer Wes Bryan is ...
California Chronicle - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... an Akron construction worker whose life changed in 1957, when the Beacon Journal published a photo story about his uncanny resemblance to James Dean. ...

Kerouac, Dean & Brando, Elvis, and George W. Bush
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
James Dean and Marlon Brando brought an exciting level of realism and authenticity to film acting, replacing the stilted posturing and line deliveries from ...

Easter versus Christmas at the box office
Times Online - UK
The iconic James Dean movie Rebel Without a Cause was originally meant to begin at Christmas time. The toy monkey that the drunken Dean plays with on the ...

City Beats: Library gets DeWeerd
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
The Indiana preacher was "pastor/mentor" to a hometown boy - iconic 1950s actor James Dean, librarian David Bundy said. (Some of Fuller's archives are fun, ...

He's a Filmmaker With a Cause
California Chronicle - Los Angeles,CA,USA
He was at NBC, learning how to direct, in 1955 when the news came that James Dean had been in a car accident. As he told the story one recent night, Rydell, ...

Soldiers embittered by coffee shortage
SooToday.com - USA
By David Helwig James Dean's first film role was Hill Number One, a little-known made-for-television Easter special produced by Father Patrick Peyton of the ...

DVD Review: Hollywood: The Dark Side - Death & Scandal
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
The cover of this DVD shows James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Natalie Wood, the doomed cast of Rebel Without A Cause. Their collective story is a fascinating one ...

James Dean's Ind. high school faces demolition
Chicago Tribune - United States
AP FAIRMOUNT, Ind. - The small-town high school where James Dean was first exposed to acting could be demolished now that a California group has dropped its ...

Art after death: 27-plus posthumous projects that stand as worthy ... 'Rebel' Dean remembered
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
He was at NBC in 1955 learning how to direct when the news came that James Dean had been in a car accident. As he told the story Wednesday night, ...

Wax works of Hollywood icons to go on auction
Hindu - Chennai,India
London (IANS): Fans of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, the Beatles and Cher can now get their hands on their own life-sized models of the stars, ...

WHY IS THIS GOOFY GUY SMILING?
WSMV - Nashville,TN,USA
Girls just naturally seem to want a pretty smile, while boys seem to prefer the angst-filled persona of a James Dean or Marlon Brando.... hoping to avoid ...

Singing cowboy Hale dies aged 89
BBC News - UK
Hale also featured in the classic James Dean movie Giant. His wife of 31 years, Joanna Hale, said he had bought "laughter, adventure and joy" into her life. ..

Chasing the ghost of James Dean in LA
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
Hiked up to the Griffith Observatory this morning, chasing the ghost of James Dean. Anyone up on their "Rebel Without a Cause" trivia knows part of the ...

ARTS: Palmer method: actress reminisces for a good cause
Barnstable Patriot - Barnstable,MA,USA
Betsy Palmer has plenty of show biz stories to tell like her nine-month fling with James Dean, getting yelled at by Otto Preminger for turning down a role, ...

 

Scandals and the stars
Inquirer.net - Philippines
•The tragic and controversial deaths of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Heath Ledger. •Comedy star Fatty Arbuckle being accused of rape and ...

Why Michael Cera appears to be everywhere onscreen
Chicago Tribune - United States
Of course, vulnerability has been part of actorly Hollywood since at least the dawn of James Dean. But not since the rise of Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino ...

'East of Eden' among TV movies, series on DVD
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
One can argue that the James Dean version (which adapts less than half of John Steinbeck's classic novel) is more compelling and in your face — but this ...

Looking For “It”
Rod and Custom Magazine - USA
It is why James Dean is still an idol 54 years after a movie career that only lasted two. It is why hundreds of ’32 Fords will be built in 2009, ...

Contrary to popular belief Michael Jordan did not invent the sneaker
Examiner.com - USA
Hollywood first picked up on the trend when teen idol James Dean sported sneakers with a T-shirt and jeans, and Michael Jordan brought them to a popularity ...

Marfa makes an art out of quirky
Chicago Tribune - United States
James Dean's third (and last) major film, "Giant," was shot here, as was "No Country for Old Men," which landed the president of The Marfa National Bank a ...

FOR THE RECORD
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A story Sunday listed the incorrect date of actor James Dean's fatal car crash. The actor died on Sept. 30, 1955.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1981)
DVD Talk - Portland,OR,USA
Far more faithful to Steinbeck's original story than the more famous 1955 feature film directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean (which only covers the ...

Liz Sheridan: Queen of her castle
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
One evening, life changed when she met then-unknown James Dean. They went on to have an intense affair chronicled in Sheridan's 2000 book, Dizzy & Jimmy: My ...

Rebel Without a Cause
Time Out Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
The hyper-emotive acting of James Dean. The red jacket he wears. Sal Mineo's obviously gay teen who idolizes new kid in town Dean. The planetarium. ...

Long-dead actor James Dean's last appearance still a mystery
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Brandon Lowrey, Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA - Movie legend James Dean walked into Tip's coffee shop on the outskirts of town on Sept. ...

Film explores senior dating, sex
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
It's between a 79-year-old, red-negligee-attired Liz Sheridan – James Dean's former betrothed and Jerry's mom on "Seinfeld" – and an 82-year-old Andy ...

Knight at the Movies: Gomorrah; Rebel Without a Cause
Windy City Times - Chicago,IL,USA
The film stars James Dean, the poster child for the beautiful and the damned who left just three movies behind after dying in an automobile crash in 1955 at ...

Essential Cinema: Two by Nicholas Ray
Chicagoist - Chicago,IL,USA
James Dean wearing a fire engine red jacket and a look as smoldering as the cigarette he's holding is one of the true iconic images of movie history. ...

Hooking Marlon
TheaterMania.com - New York,NY,USA
When speaking to reporters about James Dean's performance in East of Eden, Brando comments, "Mr. Dean appears to be wearing my last year's wardrobe and ...

Music Review: Phil Ochs - Greatest Hits
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
“Jim Dean Of Indiana” was a tribute to James Dean but might as well have been a beautiful look into his own childhood which was a much simpler time both for ...

Classics from the vault: Elia Kazan's East of Eden
Examiner.com - USA
East of Eden was James Dean’s first film, and he was a revelation as John Steinbeck’s rebellious brother with his hunched shoulders and nervously darting ...

Editorial comment February 23 2009
The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton,New Zealand
... of course, actor James Dean who, just before his death, was not even recognised by a police officer who pulled him over for a ticket. ...

Down the road to eternity: James Dean’s last ride
Signal - Santa Clarita,CA,USA
30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean drove from his home in Sherman Oaks to a garage in Hollywood to get a tune-up for his newest toy, a Porsche 550 ...

The Quick: The Dead:
Washington Post - United States
All three join a long list -- over 50 names, including Walt Disney, George Gershwin, Bernard Herrmann and James Dean -- of those who earned nominations ...

This Week in the Arts
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
In 1975, the women of a James Dean fan club gather for a reunion on the 20th anniversary of his death and reminisce about their youth in a series of ...

Here's looking at you, comeback kids
Salon - USA
... it could still be traced easily and directly to James Dean and Montgomery Clift, actors who had earlier explored the dark, resonant tension -- and the ...

Best Posthumous Achievement
The UCSD Guardian Online - San Diego,CA,USA
Immortalized forever as a tortured actor on the cusp of glory, the former junior chess champion joined the VIP list of early-death superstars: James Dean, ...

Giant Blob Tumbleweeds
Automoblog.net - Apex,NC,USA
That’s where Donald Turnupseed failed to use due care and caution and crossed in front of the 550 Porsche Spyder driven James Dean and his mechanic Rolf ...

Good T-shirt, but is it grafitti?
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
By 1955, the T-shirt had evolved into fashion wear, thanks largely to James Dean, whose moody performance in East of Eden made him the Legend of Cool. ...

New cause for old rebel
Tonight - Johannesburg,South Africa
The death of his role model and close chum three years earlier, James Dean. That Dennis Hopper starred alongside Dean in his most celebrated movie, ...

The Day James Whitmore Honored Me
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Friendly with James Dean, whom he encouraged to study acting in New York at the Actors Studio, Dean would later credit Whitmore in part for his career ...

THE SILVER CHALICE
New York Times - United States
Newman had to wait two years for his next shot, when he replaced the deceased James Dean in the Rocky Graziano biopic “Somebody Up There Likes Me” (Angeli ...

Actress Betsy Palmer recalls most famous film role: Jason's mom
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
BY GENE TRIPLETT Betsy Palmer proved she could cut it on Broadway, live TV and the big screen in the 1950s, working opposite such A-listers as James Dean, ...

James Dean, Marilyn Monroe Photos Uncovered; Legends Licensing ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
“With the signing of this deal, we’re adding a new major legend to Legends Licensing – James Dean – and significantly expanding our existing library of ...

Review: Miss Adams Reopens Under New Management
iBerkshires.com - North Adams,MA,USA
... pictures of James Dean, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe were hanging behind the counter and the sounds of '50s music could be heard the second you walked in. ...

Bianca Knows Best ... About "Bad Boys"
Memphis Flyer - Memphis,TN,USA
Think James Dean, Colin Farrell, Robert Downey Jr. But we need to learn to lust from afar. After all, rebels typically die young or end up in rehab. ...

DVD Review: All-Time Greats Packaged In Four-Movie Sets
HollywoodChicago.com - Chicago,IL,USA
The “Romantic Dramas” edition of the “TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection” features two great James Dean movies and a pair of Tennessee Williams classics. ...

The Six Pack
PW-Philadelphia Weekly - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Hunter (The Searchers) is referred to as “the James Dean Jesus,” partly because Kings director Nicholas Ray also did Rebel Without a Cause and partly ...

James Dean celebration set for Feb. 7, 8
Chronicle-Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
The annual James Dean Birthday celebration will be Feb. 7 and 8 in Fairmount. Fairmount Historical Museum and Gift Shop, 203 E. Washington St., will sponsor ...
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James Dean would have loved it
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
On Friday night, the end of a long cold week, I was in need of some fun. Lo and behold, I found it – in a dark parking lot. Actually, it was the expansive ...

Best drives - Cambria, CA
Examiner.com - USA
... you'll drive the two-lane road that was once known as "Bloody Alley" for its many fatal crashes, including the one that killed James Dean in 1955. ...

'Road' brings Yates' masterpiece to the masses
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Yates is particularly brilliant at atomizing male vanity and weakness, men's desire to be Ward Cleaver, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Dean rolled into one. ...

Rewind: The Most Powerful Pants In Hollywood
MTV.com - USA
But when James Dean posthumously hit the screens in 1955's "Rebel Without a Cause" clad in a pair of cuffed Levi's, denim suddenly became cool. ...

Oscars odds, ends, facts and figures
The Associated Press
Others include James Dean ("East of Eden," 1955, and "Giant," 1956), Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967), Peter Finch ("Network," 1976), ...

Winning posthumous acting Oscar not easy
The Associated Press
Film legend James Dean was nominated for best actor twice after his death, for "East of Eden" in 1955 and "Giant" the following year. ...

Upcoming events
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
James Dean Birthday Celebration, Fairmount, Tours, 9 am-5 pm Free admission. Donations accepted. Sunday, 1 pm screening of James Dean film. ...

Ledger among those gone but not forgotten
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
The others are: Jeanne Eagels for The Letter (1929), James Dean for both East of Eden (1955) and Giant (1956), Spencer Tracy for Guess Who's Coming to ...

Zbigniew Cybulski featured at London festival
Thenews.pl - Warsaw,Poland
Polish actor Zbigniew Cybulski - know as the “”Polish James Dean” is one of three heroes of a film festival at London ’s Barbican (23-26 January) held under ...

Heath Ledger's death-defying bid for 'The Dark Knight': Why so serious
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
When another heartthrob star was nominated after dying young and tragically — James Dean — there was half a year between his demise and his Oscar loss. ...

Interview: Rockabilly Hall-of-Famer James Intveld
Riverfront Times - St-Louis,MO,USA
It's called West of Eden, which is about a letter James Dean wrote to his girlfriend when he came out to California to make East of Eden. ...

Robert Pattinson: 'I Think Girls Prefer Bad Boys'
TheImproper.com - New York,NY,USA
A guy like James Dean would always win out against a gentleman." The 6'1" British hottie grew up watching American movies and admired American film icons. ...

Retro Redux: Rebel Without A Clue
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
My friends and I were nothing like James Dean; and a movie of our lives would probably have been named Rebels Without A Clue, but we did have a few ...

Accolades flow after Heath Ledger's 'Dark Knight' win
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Only two other actors have won posthumous Golden Globes: Peter Finch and a special achievement award for James Dean. While Warner Bros. has been waging a ...

18 years of books
SCSU University Chronicle - St. Cloud,MN,USA
Ludwig Van Beethoven sits next to James Dean. Johnny Carson stares at The Police. Brahms and Eminem stand back to back. Books Revisited is an independently ...

Weekly Ketchup: Watchmen Settlement Reached
Rotten Tomatoes - Brisbane,CA,USA
James Dean starred in the 1955 version, which because of the standards of the day, obviously had to say away from things like "sex" and "violence. ...

Not Even Jimmy Dean is Sacred: 'East of Eden' Gets its Crew
Cinematical - Santa Monica,CA,USA
by Monika Bartyzel Jan 14th 2009 // 5:03PM There was just something about James Dean. As a young girl, well before I was able to get my hands on tapes of ...

Oscar loves 'em, dead or alive
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
JAMES DEAN (best actor, 1955, 1956). The man who epitomized the phrase "live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse." Dean starred in three films in his ...

East of Eden Gets Director
JoBlo.com - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The 1955 James Dean/Elia Kazan classic based on John Steinbeck's literary powerhouse is quite simply, a perfect film. So naturally I'm thrilled that the ...

• Costume designer Manuel Cuevas appears at Rock Hall
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
What a way to start a career: doing James Dean's costumes for the movie "Giant." Since then, costume designer Manuel made Johnny Cash the "Man in Black," ...

East of Eden--The Steinbeck novel that was James Dean's breakout ...
Frankly My Dear . . . - Orlando,FL,USA
James Dean, Raymond Massey and Julie Harris starred in the classic 1955 film, which only dealt with the second half of this sweeping novel. ...

Oh Mickey You’re So Fine
TheCelebrityCafe.com - Valley Stream,NY,USA
His performances, filled with intensity, confidence, and of course his handsome looks, led to comparisons with Marlon Brando and James Dean. ...

John Steinbeck’s ‘East Of Eden’ To Be Adapted Again, Sans James Dean
MTV.com - USA
Variety reports that “East of Eden” is getting a new adaptation (let’s not call it a remake, even if the first did star James Dean) that will be directed by ...

East Of Eden Remake Moves Forward
Cinema Blend - USA
But when you're up against an original film that starred James Dean in his first Oscar-nominated role, can you ever really feel confident in what you're ...

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First Showing - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
That version with James Dean focused solely on the second-half of the story and had James Dean playing Adam's son Caleb. I'd venture to say Hooper's take ...

Costume designer Manuel Cuevas put the sparkle in stars' costumes
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
Either call 216-515-8426 or e-mail edu@rockhall.org What a way to start a career: doing James Dean's costumes for the movie "Giant. ...

MarketWatch's top stories of the week
MarketWatch - USA
You remember the original, the scene in "Rebel Without a Cause" in which James Dean and the other young man try to see who will be the "chicken" and jump ...

The Curse Of James Dean's “Little Bastardâ€
Jalopnik - Detroit,MI,USA
By The Auto Insider , 1:00 PM on Wed Dec 31 2008, 1055 views When we think of the Porsche 550 Spyder, the first thing that comes to mind is James Dean. ...

Hitting reel paydirt: Forget tough times with classic dream-come ...
Boston Herald - United States
... a stunning Elizabeth Taylor as Hudson’s wife and a Heath Ledger-like, posthumous star turn by James Dean as the ranch hand-turned-wildcatter Jett Rink.

An older, wiser Brad Pitt
Boston Globe - United States
Later in the film, when Benjamin reaches his prime, Pitt brings to mind James Dean on a motorcycle, or John F. Kennedy on his sailboat, navigating the ...

The Big Picture
New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
Paul Newman: "If Marlon Brando and James Dean defined the defiant American male as a sullen rebel, Paul Newman recreated him as a likable renegade, ...

INTERVIEW: Golden Globe nominee Dustin Hoffman reminds us why he's ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Well, I did look in the mirror and say, “If I looked like James Dean, I could be a star like James Dean — and I’ll never be a star because I don’t look like ...

Re-engaging old favourites brings new insights
London Free Press - Canada
The first time through his heart bled for James Dean's character as he seeks to throw off the controlling tactics of his father, played by Raymond Massey, ...

Stars will live on through work
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
Where Marlon Brando and James Dean defined the sullen, defiant American male, Newman made him an impudent and (mostly) likable maverick. ...

Posthumous Oscar nominations a reality since the first Academy ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... nomination since James Dean was recognized for his leading performances in "East of Eden" (1955) and "Giant" (1956) after his death over 50 years ago. ...

Review Preview: Triumph Grill
Riverfront Times - St-Louis,MO,USA
James Dean with his leather jacket and cigarette. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on their doomed existential road trip. Leather-clad weekend warriors ...

Historical Society Panel to Discuss Life and Death of Movie Legend ...
SCVTV (press release) - Santa Clarita,CA,USA
The final day of life for movie star James Dean and the birth date of a Hollywood legend. On that fateful autumn day, Dean drove from Hollywood in his new ...

Joe Hyams
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Joe Hyams, who has died aged 85, was a Hollywood newspaper columnist and wrote best-selling biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean, earning him the ...

Rose reading
guardian.co.uk - UK
My web-stalking of David Dalton's study of James Dean and his influence on teenage America also gave me the impression that it's excellent. Ditto Zodiac. ...

Eartha Kitt James Dean

White screen legend James Dean was-not only a best friend (her play brother) of actress Dorothy Dandridge; he was also a close friend of Eartha Kitt. ...

Giant Appetites at Duff’s Diner and Nasdaq
Chronicle-Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
After trying to high-five a dusty ten-foot stuffed bear standing since James Dean left town, we’d head for the mounds of reformed starch. ...

The shadows of a 'Dark' year
CNN - USA
James Dean was 24 when a Ford coupe crossed into his lane and hit his Porsche Spyder head-on near Cholame, California. River Phoenix was 23 when he died of ...

Right on the ‘Button’: Brad Pitt’s film pushes cinema to new age
Boston Herald - United States
The only time “Button” got to me was when we see a startlingly youthful Benjamin aboard a 1950s-vintage Triumph motorcycle, a born-again James Dean, ...

Giant Appetites at Duff’s Diner and Nasdaq
Chronicle-Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
After trying to high-five a dusty ten-foot stuffed bear standing since James Dean left town, we’d head for the mounds of reformed starch. ...

Bad boys bad to the bone? No, it's in genes
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
That proverbial bad boy has got you beat - a fact familiar to women who prefer James Dean to Alan Alda. It's all in the DNA, according to research released ...

Paul Newman: 30 Unforgettable Roles
Entertainment Weekly - USA
... chance at stardom when Warner loaned him out to MGM after the sudden death of James Dean, who had agreed to play middleweight champ Rocky Graziano. ...

When stars die young
Inquirer.net - Philippines
The popular Hollywood star who died young (at only 23) was James Dean. Only a few years before he died in a car crash, he was an unknown. ...


Dennis Hopper's Not-So-Easy Ride
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
He took the job with Warner Brothers, and landed a small role in the James Dean-Natalie Wood classic, "Rebel Without a Cause." "What was it like, ...

It's not just the waist that's high
GQ - USA
... at Christie's in London, which includes a few items of sartorial note, like the tuxedo trousers worn by James Dean in 1956's Giant, pictured here. ...

Books of The Times The Lion of the Screen, and What Made Him Roar
New York Times - United States
Mr. Nicholson, along with James Dean, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio are all his heirs, ...

Poetry helps woman to find her way back from brain injury that ...
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
... she crashed her new sports car on a lonely stretch of State
Route 46 in Kern County, close to the spot where actor James Dean died in his Porsche 550. ...

Free mid-century movies at the Tivoli this week
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
James Dean earns his place in pop-culture history as a confused kid who is caught between a switchblade gang and the comforting arms of Natalie Wood. ...

Not much of worth in ‘Twilight’ stories
In-Forum - Fargo,ND,USA
Alas, Robert Pattinson lacks James Dean’s mastery of method acting. Could there be anything more obvious than clenched knuckles and perpetual lip biting? ...

Shock of the Renewed
New York Times - United States
Like a ripe grape on joy’s tongue, James Dean reinvents sensitivity, anticipating Heath Ledger, who reinvents James Dean. Alice Waters reinvents nearby ...

Richard Schickel and George Perry's 'You Must Remember This'
International Herald Tribune - France
There's a saucy-looking Bette Davis, dressed as a foxy Santa, in a 1934 publicity shot; several arresting portraits of James Dean, one as a disaffected ...

James Dean's jeans in new Lee collection
FashionUnited US News - Amsterdam,Netherlands
Jeans maker Lee has put a replica of James Dean's jeans in its Lee Originals Collection. The original jeans were worn by denim icon actor James Dean in 1956 ...

Death of James Dean
Warren Beath
Drawing on the inquest manuscript and other previously unpublished material, Warren Beath cuts through the welter of conflicting reports and rumors to provide a...

Dennis Hopper on Elegy, James Dean, and Being Big in France
New York Magazine - NY, USA
And that’sa really long time: Hopper got his start at age 18 appearing alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Oh, and did we mention he directed ...

Newman, Dean, McQueen: top celebrity racecar drivers of all time
Examiner.com - USA
Steve McQueen earns bonus points for racing motorcycles and cars often weeks apart, and James Dean earns legendary status for wanting to race so badly...

James Dean at India's Fashion Week
Reuters - India
An Indian designer drew inspiration from actor James Dean's life...

The Coolest Person of all time.
Starplus.com
The Top 10 Coolest People Of All Time are:

Where a legend was born.
Randal C. Archibald
Hard-core fans honored James Dean at the site of his death...

Giant
Stephanie Zacherach
In Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean showed his stuff as an actor...

Give me a vampire with bite!
Boston Globe - United States
By Ed Siegel I've been spending the last couple of weeks watching, and enjoying, vampires seeking equal rights on HBO's "True Blood," a James Dean-ish ...

The Rebel Had NO Cause, but He Did Have 5F
New York Times- Usa
Russell Aaronson needed a new bathroom sink a few years ago. The old one in his Upper West Side studio apartment ...

James Bond's car sells big at auction
Sky News Australia - Australia
Two of cinemas most legendary icons - Marilyn Monroe and James Dean - are expected to excite buyers into a bigger bidding war - with a black silk jersey ...

Twentysomething: Mandom inspiration
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
James Dean? Marlon Brando? Michael Jackson? Who should we look to in order to know that we have truly become man? This simple question plagued me for years. ...


Review: "Somebody," a Brando biography, by Stefan Kanfer
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
But he was solicitous enough of his standing to shoot withering looks over his shoulder at both Montgomery Clift and James Dean, his closest rivals for ...


Modern Pirates, James Dean lead Blue Star Film Slate
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine - Los Angeles,CA,USA
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/28/08 — Modern-day pirates, a story right out the headlines, and James Dean, a story that will never die in Hollywood ...

Iconic roles that almost werent
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
In case of “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), James Dean was almost thrown out of the film even before filming began. According to the New York Post, ...

Profiles in History Auction to Feature Superhero Items
Superherohype.com - USA
... an extremely rare set of all seven Harry Potter books inscribed and signed by JK Rowling ($30000-$50000), James Dean's signature screen-worn "Jett Rink" ...

Undernews For November 25, 2008
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
The dean didn't catch his own allusion, but I did, because James Dean's movie, Rebel Without a Cause, came out the year I graduated from high school. ...

 

James Dean legend won’t go away

KPCnews.com - Kendallville,IN,USA
FAIRMOUNT — James Dean just won’t go away. Even though the young movie actor died 53 years ago after making only three motion pictures, still the James Dean ...


Former Hollywood Syndicated Columnist Joe Hyams Dies at 85

Editor & Publisher - USA
He wrote more than 25 books, among them the biographies "Bogie" (1966), "Bogart & Bacall: A Love Story" (1975), and "James Dean: Little Boy Lost" (1992), ...

 

Tributes Grow for Indie Film Pioneer John Daly
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Blue Star Technologies is honoring him with bowing a new James Dean retro plus a film about modern-day sea pirates, much in the news right now. ...