Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Titular

So I guess I want to watch East of Eden...and read West of Eden!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/17/west-of-eden-by-jean-stein-review-hollywood

http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-west-of-eden-20160207-story.html

(And read East of...)

Hmmm.  I think this review is accidentally referencing the wrong movie:

"Hopper recalled a time when he and James Dean, while filming Easy Rider, were introduced to Serge Semenenko (who had just bought Warner Brothers) by Jack Warner. 'Jimmy reached into his pocket, threw a bunch of coins at their feet, and walked off,' Hopper reported." 

http://therumpus.net/2016/03/west-of-eden-by-jean-stein/


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"I was very young in 1955, when Warner Brothers did Rebel without a Cause – 18 or 19 years old. We’d started shooting in black and white, and two weeks into it Jack clearly saw that something was going on with James Dean. He said, ‘Change this picture to colour. The kid’s going to be a star.’ He’d found his new Rin Tin Tin.

Then one day, the next year, Jimmy Dean and I were coming out of the commissary on the Warner Brothers set, and Jack Warner came up to introduce the banker Serge Semenenko..."

http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/7200



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Maybe it was this one instead.



Giant ~ James Dean



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