You have no doubt heard of by now the upcoming Vietnam War movie Finding Jack—which will (as of this writing) star a CGI-resurrected James Dean.
Dean’s “casting”—and the public furor that followed—brought up an interesting question.
Who “owns” James Dean?
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We have the same neuroses.
–Maila Nurmi on her friendship with James Dean
Irresistibly bound up in the seemingly eternal icon of James Dean is equal parts sex and death, like sweet heroin to the angst-ridden teenagers of multiple decades. So perhaps it was only fitting that one of Dean’s supposed “best friends” also encapsulated that dark wedding of eroticism and morbidity, her simultaneously cadaverous and sexy visage spawning a veritable amazonian army of the undead.
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