Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.
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He had the greatest power of concentration I have ever encountered. He prepared himself so well in advance for any scene he was playing, that the lines were no…
He would be bothered when someone would say he was mean and disrespectful. Because actually, he wasn't. They took silence to mean he cared little or nothing fo…
He could look in a delicatessen window and suddenly start waving at a bowl of prunes, like they were alive. He was childish in a charming way.