| September 30th, 2005 09:28 AM |
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| Jair |
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif.
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| September 30th, 2005 06:04 PM |
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| kath |
wanna hear something creepy?? i remember that day!!! i remember hearing that he was dead. my parents had taken me to see "GIANT" just a little while before. i remember being very sad and i remember my mom saying what a terrible waste it was.
being old kinda sucks...... |
| October 1st, 2005 12:58 AM |
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| texile |
wow - i envy that you were breathing in the same world james byron dean was living in.......damn that donald turnupseed..
a friend and i went to marfa, tx a few years ago and just stood there imagining 1955....
'thought i was james dean for a day..'
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| October 1st, 2005 01:06 AM |
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| exile |
Yes I enjoyed his movies. Shame he died so young.
Im sure he would have gone on to do great things. |
| October 1st, 2005 01:09 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
weird
lil trivia, ya'll know what famous ranch in Texas the "Giant" novel/movie was based upon ?
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| October 1st, 2005 06:34 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Johnny Depp got inspired by James Dean
29th Sept 2005 17.40 IST
By Agencies
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has revealed that legendary actor James Dean inspired him to act in movies.
The ‘Finding Neverland’ actor toyed with the idea of becoming a guitarist before he took to acting in Hollywood.
Johnny told Radio 2 that he has been a huge fan of James Dean since he was young, when he was influenced by the ‘Fifties stuff’, wearing ‘big hair, jeans and biker jackets’.
The Sun quotes Depp as saying: “I started out as a guitarist in the early Eighties. I hooked up with a guy who idolised James Dean and he gave me a copy of the Dean biography, The Mutant King, which I thought was really interesting.”
“While reading the book, I watched Rebel Without A Cause, and I thought, ‘Wow, this guy really has something’, and I was hooked.
“I wasn’t really into acting at the time - but James Dean was the catalyst,” he added.
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| October 1st, 2005 07:24 AM |
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| egon |
he only made 3 movies, right? |
| October 1st, 2005 04:43 PM |
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| texile |
damn blozze. i don't remember the name of the actual ranch - i know it was real family.....but i remember little reata.... |
| October 1st, 2005 04:45 PM |
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| texile |
giant is the best texas movie ever ......
it was seminal for me as a kid. |
| October 1st, 2005 11:12 PM |
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| Bloozehound |
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texile wrote:
damn blozze. i don't remember the name of the actual ranch - i know it was real family.....but i remember little reata....
the ranch the book was based on is called the King Ranch, located down in south texas around Corpus, for a long, long time it was the largest ranch in the entire world
you've probably seen Fords King Ranch series of pickups around |
| October 2nd, 2005 05:13 PM |
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| kath |
king's ranch is HUGE!!!
well, yeah, he made three commercial movies. he made some porn early on, was in a number of plays.
GIANT is one of my most favorite movies in the world. elizabeth taylor was breathtakingly beautiful, rock was hunky..it was a glorious movie!! |
| October 2nd, 2005 05:41 PM |
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| Gazza |
quote:
kath wrote:
wanna hear something creepy?? i remember that day!!! i remember hearing that he was dead. my parents had taken me to see "GIANT" just a little while before. i remember being very sad and i remember my mom saying what a terrible waste it was.
being old kinda sucks......
I always understood that "Giant" came out a few months AFTER Dean was killed and that a bit of editing had to be done as his part wasnt complete at the time he died
imdb.com lists its year of release as 1956.
As far as I know, "East of Eden" was the only one of his 3 films to have been released while he was still alive... would it not have been THAT one you had gone to see? |
| October 2nd, 2005 06:32 PM |
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| texile |
when we were kids - we used to be able to stay up late and watch giant...it was a fucking event - this movie IS texas....the racism, the arrogance and recklessness...my favorite scene is that mexican kid playing in a field after sal mineo's funeral...and that scene in the diner where rock hundson stands up for that mexican family...rock's finest moment;
there's an old interview with jagger from 74 where he's talking about dean and how he never cared for him, then he says, 'wait, i saw giant the other night on tv so i guess he was a good actor...'
that's true gazza - jimmy died a rising star.....only eden had been released;
during the filming while liz and rock were partying, jimmy kept to himself, and hung out with the mexican extras......
my gay friend loves this movie - its a virtual feast...
rock, jimmy, sal mineo - and then of course butch luz....
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| October 3rd, 2005 12:09 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
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texile wrote:
when we were kids - we used to be able to stay up late and watch giant...it was a fucking event - this movie IS texas....the racism, the arrogance and recklessness..
I've always been more partial to The Last Picture Show, the quitesential Texas film
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| October 3rd, 2005 12:37 PM |
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| texile |
picture show is my friend's favorite - and it's more artful and meloncholy....but giant is just like a big picture book - colorful, loud and that's texas to me ....
picture show reminds me of those long lonely drives through those sad lonely texas towns....listening to hank williams - depresses me. |
| October 3rd, 2005 12:53 PM |
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| telecaster |
Ever see the safety movie he made for the California Highway Dept weeks before he died?
He says be careful because the life you take may be his!
Ouch baby |
| October 3rd, 2005 02:06 PM |
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| Joey |
" Ever see the safety movie he made for the California Highway Dept weeks before he died? "
No
" He says be careful because the life you take may be his! "
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http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&DB_LANG=&KEY=&SPID=22&SPSID=1
Sassy !
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| October 3rd, 2005 02:08 PM |
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| texile |
he said
'the live you save might be mine...'
and about one week later...... |
| October 4th, 2005 12:09 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
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texile wrote:.
picture show reminds me of those long lonely drives through those sad lonely texas towns....listening to hank williams - depresses me.
thats the beauty of it, tex
both films essentially say many of the same things in a way, but I think Picture Show nails it in a more realistic way
don't get me wrong Giants good, its the only Jimmie Dean film I actually like but.... |
| October 4th, 2005 06:33 AM |
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| stonedinaustralia |
quote:
Bloozehound wrote:
I've always been more partial to The Last Picture Show, the quitesential Texas film
i loved that film too
and it's funny bloozy - while t you it may be all about texas if you change the accents, the cars and some of the clothes it could just as wellbe about some of the country/outback towns in australia |
| October 4th, 2005 07:09 AM |
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| October 4th, 2005 12:40 PM |
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| texile |
true blooze - and i love bogdanovich....its a great poetic film - captures the loneliness and desolation of being cut off from the world......THAT'S also texas to me but too close to home - as a kid, i hated those endless drives that stretched for miles and miles of cattle fields...and through little towns like refugio, adna and port lavaca - .....they were like ghost towns just like in picture show;
giant is a childhood memory and it hit all the right notes in its own big, ostentatious way.....
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| October 5th, 2005 02:30 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
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texile wrote:
as a kid, i hated those endless drives that stretched for miles and miles of cattle fields...and through little towns like refugio, adna and port lavaca - .....they were like ghost towns just like in picture show;
naw way, those long road trips were great, its almost like going back in time,you'd lay in the back and sleep or listen to the radio, back when the radio played real country music, only to stop for lunch or dinner when you reached the next Dairy Queen in the next little town
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| October 5th, 2005 02:47 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
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stonedinaustralia wrote:
i loved that film too
and it's funny bloozy - while t you it may be all about texas if you change the accents, the cars and some of the clothes it could just as wellbe about some of the country/outback towns in australia
true
it has certain universal truths of small town life that could apply anywhere not just in texas, but I know what your saying
One thing lots of australian freinds I've met over the years have told me is that they feel very comfortable living in texas, they say the two actually have alot of similarities |
| October 5th, 2005 12:54 PM |
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| texile |
quote:
Bloozehound wrote:
naw way, those long road trips were great, its almost like going back in time,you'd lay in the back and sleep or listen to the radio, back when the radio played real country music, only to stop for lunch or dinner when you reached the next Dairy Queen in the next little town
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or stuckeys...
blooze - my dad used to crank up the hank williams and THAT was depressing to me - hated it then but love hank now - so i gotta say .....glad for the memories and proud of my texas roots - it really is like nothing else..
i just drove from austin back to houston threw a small town called bay city and this place looks like picture show - nothing has changed in places....desolate.
when i was in austin - it occured to me that for all its trendiness and cool factor, there's something to be said for that small town vibe..something authentic - not a coffee shop in sight, unless its a diner - a real one.
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