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Whereas young people in their teens or 20s are into actors like Robert Pattinson or Chris Evans, those that grew up in the '50s have fawned over the late, but never forgotten actor James Dean. Dean was at the top of the world with his film credits including Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. His loss is still a heavy toll on Hollywood as Dean was at the height of his career, only to be taken so suddenly from a car accident. Today, Dean would have been 90 years old, so fans on Twitter celebrate the legendary...

James Dean, who died in a 1955 car crash at the age of 24, is making an unexpected return to the big screen. The cultural icon, known for Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden, has been posthumously cast in the Vietnam era action-drama Finding Jack. Directed by Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, the project comes from the filmmakers' own recently launched production house Magic City Films, which obtained the rights to use Dean’s image from his family. Canadian VFX banner Imagine Engine will be working alongside South African VFX company MOI Worldwide to re-create what the filmmakers describe...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – "Rebel Without a Cause" screen legend James Dean was molested by his childhood minister, according to an interview with Elizabeth Taylor published Friday. Hollywood icon Taylor, who died this week aged 79, revealed Dean's secret in an interview given 14 years ago, but requested that it not be published until after her death. "I loved Jimmy. I'm going to tell you something, but it's off the record until I die. OK?" best-selling author Kevin Sessums quoted Taylor as saying, in the interview published by the Daily Beast online. "When Jimmy was 11 and his mother passed...

Did Ronald Reagan inspire one of the most famous lines in movie history? The widely quoted Dirty Harry "Do you feel lucky?" line.That is what The Atlantic senior editor, Christopher Orr was wondering. Most of us would enjoy that premise. In the case of Orr, he found it "creepy." The Atlantic had posted a fascinating video clip from a 1954 General Electric Theater episode in which Ronald Reagan as a doctor confronts juvenile deliquent James Dean. Here is the analysis of that video from Orr: ...It's commonplace (and, I think, entirely accurate) to describe the "Dirty" Harry Callahan persona that...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tom Cruise is the first on the list to get Ducati's newest motorcycle — a $72,500 superbike bristling with titanium, magnesium and carbon fiber technology that can scoot up to 200 mph. Cruise is scheduled to take delivery of the Desmosedici RR at Beverly Hills Ducati this week. Only 1,500 of the red-and-white Moto GP racing replica motorcycles will be made and Cruise gets the first.

Dean was only 24 when he suffered fatal injuries in a smash between his Porsche and another car on a Californian highway on 30 September 1955. The junction where he died was officially renamed in his honour on Tuesday. A candlelight vigil in Dean's hometown in Indiana will be held at the time of his death on Friday. When he died, Dean had released only one film, East of Eden. Rebel Without a Cause and Giant were his other big screen releases. Yet the young man who played angry young outsiders on-screen and lived life fast by racing cars off-screen...

Revealed: the truth behind the crash that killed James Dean By Olga Craig (Filed: 25/09/2005) For James Dean fans it has been the ultimate unsolved riddle. Just who was behind the wheel the day the actor, only 24, died? For 50 years, since his death in a car crash on September 30, 1955, Dean has been portrayed as a daredevil driver whose speeding and recklessness on the road caused his own death. American icon: James Dean Now, new evidence has emerged proving that not only was Dean driving safely, but at a much lower speed than was believed at the...

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(The following speech was delivered at James Dean’s memorial service shortly after his fatal car crash on September 30, 1955.) Tonight we are gathered here to pay homage to the late great James Dean who tragically left us at a young age on September 30 in a fatal automobile accident. Let me set the tone of this memorial service by reading this condolence note from Rock Hudson, who co-starred with James in the recently completed, Giant: “On behalf of myself and my fellow actors and all of the film crew of Giant, we mourn the untimely tragic death of our...