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James Dean Love Letters Up for Sale

Rob Quinn — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:29:46 CDT

Love letters from one of the major romances in James Dean's short life will hit the auction block for the first time. The actor, who was killed in a car crash at the age of 24, dated Barbara Glenn for 2 years, and the three letters up for sale date...

In Death, Taylor Reveals James Dean's Dark Secret

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:20:05 CDT

Elizabeth Taylor knew a painful secret about close friend James Dean—but, in a 1997 interview with Kevin Sessums, she asked the journalist not to reveal it until after her death. In a column for the Daily Beast , Sessums recalls that interview for POZ , a magazine dedicated to AIDS activism....

James Dean Lives—at Least in New TV Ad

Nick McMaster — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:39:01 CDT

James Dean is resurrected in a new TV ad for a South African investment firm, the Telegraph reports. The ad depicts Dean advancing through life as if he had he not died at age 24—directing his own films, leading a Vietnam War protest, going to a developing nation on...

Oscar for Ledger? You Must Be High

Kevin Spak — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:04:01 CDT

It’s time to put an end to the inane campaign to give Heath Ledger an Oscar for The Dark Knight , writes Eric Lucas in the LA Times. Ledger’s much-fawned-over performance “ultimately devolves into a can-can dance of snuffling pseudo-psychopathia,” Lucas writes. “It has all the subtlety of a hangover—exactly...

Top 10 Oscars That Weren't

Ambreen Ali — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:00:00 CST

In the Academy Awards' 80-year history, many classic films, performers, and directors have been robbed of their statues. CNN's Screening Room names the 10 most crushing Oscars that weren't, many of which lost out to—gulp—musicals: 1941: Seminal Citizen Kane loses to sappy How Green Was My Valley 1956:...

Young & Reckless: AP Brit Obit Sparks Macabre Debate

Peter Fearon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:30:00 CST

The Associated Press decision to prepare an obituary for 26-year-old troubled pop star Britney Spears has triggered a debate about the extent the news media should anticipate the early deaths of celebrities like Spears, actress Lindsay Lohan and singer Amy Winehouse, who are clearly living risky lives. The AP had...