James Dean Pepsi Commercial
Monday, September 19th, 2011[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQfikxbS4zE&w=425]
This 1950 Pepsi commercial was James Dean first television appearance. He is the guy who puts money in the piano.
Source: Retronaut
A Ravenous Hyena
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper was asked by one of the heads of Warner Bros. to have lunch with their new star James Dean. When Dean turned up for the lunch he was dressed like a bum. He made sure Hedda was looking, then went over and spat of a framed photograph of another Warner Bros. star that was hanging on the wall (she doesn’t mention who!). He then wiped the spit off with his handkerchief and sat down. Hedda describes, “Like a ravenous hyena, he began to gulp the food which had been served him.” Hedda walked out.
A while later after his first film, East of Eden had come out Hedda agreed to try to meet with Dean again. She immediately called him on his previous bad behaviour, “You misbehaved terribly” she told him. Dean replied, “I know. I wanted to see if anybody in this town had guts enough to tell the truth.” They were good friends from that time on, up to his death.
Source: Fifty Years of Movie Gossip, The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 3 1963, Page 32
James Dean Coffin Picture Explained
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Jimmy Dean lived every day for the future. He had no more premonition of death than you or I… The picture beside the coffin was made when Dean visited a high school chum in his home town. It was a gag picture that any young man might post for on an impulse. 
- George Stevens (director of Giant) in 1956 responding to reports James Dean knew he was going to die
Source: Weird Cult for James Dean Rises, Ocala Star Banner, Aug 29 1956, Page 7
Photo: Pavilion Seats
