Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean
by Paul Alexander
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Drawing from new and documented sources, a revisionist portrait of the actor's homosexuality and personal identity conflict argues that Dean's angst-ridden public compliance with rigid sexual mores helped fuel the electricity of his performances.Tags
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Trashy but fun - being the only book I know of that has a picture of JD wanking up in a tree. Now whether or not the photograph is authentic is another story...
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Paul Alexander is cohost of the highly rated WABC radio show with John Batchelor, Batchelor & Alexander. is articles have appeared in George, Mirabella, The Advocate, and Rolling Stone. In addition, his cultural reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, New York, the Village Voice, Worth, Interview, the Los Angeles show more Times Book Review, Out, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, Premiere, Gear, Travel & Leisure, the New York Observer, and The Guardian. During the fall of 2002, he was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Alexander lives in New York City show less
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- Original title
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- James Dean
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Acting and performance Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- PN2287 .D33 .A84 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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