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Live Fast-Die Young: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean Hardcover - 1997

by Gilmore, John


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A candid, firsthand history of the private and public life of Hollywood's premier rebel
-- James Dean died in 1955 at the age of 24, leaving behind a legacy of film classics, including East of Eden, Giant, and Rebel without a Cause-- Contains 32 photos from the author's private collection

Sudden fame came early for James Dean. Confused and antagonized by the immediate celebrity that descended on him following the release of his first feature film, East of Eden, Dean chose to protect himself against Hollywood and the world by surrounding himself with a handful of "malcontent oddballs". John Gilmore was among the privileged few.

Live Fast -- Die Young recalls the author's first meeting with Dean in New York, their fast friendship, their riding motorcycles together, and their sexual encounters with women, men, and each other. Dean's insights into his brilliant Broadway success and the films that followed are revealed through Gilmore's story as well as Dean's feelings of hatred toward a disapproving father; his intimacy with his mother and their secret games that later led to Dean's sexual confusion in Hollywood; Dean's obsession with death; and, finally, the posthumous rise of the legend.

Through letters, diaries, tape-recorded conversations with the actor, and private remembrances by those closest to him -- including Rock Hudson, Sal Mineo, Elizabeth Taylor, Eartha Kitt, Natalie Wood, and Sammy Davis, Jr. -- Gilmore constructs a seldomseen portrait of the star.

"James Dean told me, 'You remember the movie Bogie made -- Knock on Any Door -- and the line, "Live fast, die young, have a good-looking corpse"? Shit, man, I'm going to be so good-looking they're going to have tocement me in the coffin!'" -- from the introduction

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  • Author Gilmore, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Thunder's Mouth Pr, NY
  • Date 1997-08
  • ISBN 9781560251460
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