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Summary: WHOAAAA!!!!
Review: I knew pratically nothing about James Dean's life besides he was hot, so this book was very insighting and throughly shocking when Alexander continously arises questions on Dean's sexuality. Some of the scenes are so descriptive that its easy to concluded that most likely the author's own amourous feelings towards Dean most likely plays a role in the writing of this book. Oh, NAKED PIC OF JAMES DEAN IN THE BOOK!!!!!!!!! :o) FOR THAT IT GETS 5 STARS ALONE!! lol
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Summary: jimmy dahling!
Review: i really am in lvoe with jimmy and reading alot of book its saw godd but i didnt really like the way they wanted to prove him gay but really they should have pointed out that he was more open minded in his sexuality. I liked it ok, but the pictures were good especially the one of him naked it made mi day! but honestly its a good book for any fan but you shouldnt base your opinions about jimmy by this book.
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Summary: Alexander the not-so-great
Review: I've read several James Dean books and this is by far the worst book on the actor I've ever read in terms of its content and style. It seems to me that the author was on a mission to "prove" that James Dean was gay. However, there's a lot of conjecture in the book, making his work highly suspect. People who KNEW James Dean considered Dean experimental or bisexual. The emphasis and vulgar description on Dean's purported homosexual affairs is written like a trashy gay novel. Much of the rest of the information in this book is common knowledge to any Dean fan. For great books on James Dean's life, I recommend John Gilmore's "Live Fast-Die Young: My Life With James Dean" and Jay Hyams "James Dean: Little Boy Lost"
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Summary: Unreliable And Opportunistic Trash
Review: Paul Alexander came up with a very clever angle to sell his cut and paste bio of James Dean - Alexander would dwell on Dean's sex life, asserting that Dean was primarily homosexual in his inclinations but had some relationships with women to camouflage his real sexual identity. The problem is that Alexander has the loosest standard of what constitutes proof, demonstrated by his publishing a fuzzy picture of a young man sitting in a tree, exposing himself, which Alexander claims is Dean. It isn't, as Donald Spoto documents in a footnote in his book Rebel. Alexander grabs anything he can to make his case, speculates on one page, then treats his own speculation as fact later on. Some of the most salacious stories come from unnamed sources. Alexander completely ignores Dean's well-documented sexual relationships with Dizzy Sheridan, Barbara Glenn, and actresses Betsy Palmer, Lili Kardell and Arlene Sachs. There is nothing new or insightful about Dean's film, television, or theater roles here. Alexander says he spent hours interviewing John Gilmore, which shows that Alexander was desperately fishing for sex stories from Gilmore, who claims to have indulged in some sexual experimentation with Dean. Alexander shows no such zeal in pursuing original, deep research into other aspects of Dean's life. I would highly recommend Val Holley's James Dean: The Biography instead.
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Summary: Goes a little too far on the sexuality
Review: The beginning of the book is the best part about it because it really goes in detail about what affected his life. But later on in the book there are some parts going into detail too much about Deans sexuality. I have always known about his sexuality and didn't mind about it. A mans sexuality does not determine who he is. But Paul Alexander may have gone too far. Some parts of this led me to believe that the auther himself was gay and went to far by saying that women like Dizzy Sheridan and Pier Angeli were just coverups. It seemed that Alexander went in detail about the men who came in Deans life but didn't go a lot of detail about the women who came into his life. On those parts Alexander had gone too far. As for the rest of the book (the book is actually 60% sexuality and 40% other) it is quite acceptional.
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Summary: Sick
Review: The picture towards the end of the book could not have been Jimmy. #1 I don't think he would ever do that, #2 if it was really him wouldn't we have seen it by now? His friends denied it also. That picture was disgusting and uncalled for, along with the "stories" of his "homosexuality". I went to his hometown last July and I met several people who knew him personally. When asked, "What was Jimmy like?" One woman said, "Jimmy was all boy." I think that answered my question. Meeting people who knew him, and seeing his hometown you could almost feel him there. It's time that people need to stop trying to profit from this poor guy by saying he's gay. It's crazy.
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Summary: Vivid and frank...this book pulls no punches!
Review: This book should fall to the bottom of any list of James Dean biographies. Not because the book is bad, but because it is unresearched. Alexander makes claims that cannot be proven and doesn't even attempt to prove them. He takes the word of anyone who claims Dean was homosexual and disregards everyone else. Dizzy (Liz) Sheridan who wrote in her own autobiography of her relationship with Dean is given little time and Alexander claims she was only a platonic friend. (I wonder what she has to say about that). Dean's romantic relationships with women, most notably Pier Angeli and Ursula Andress are explained as coverups created by the studio to hide his homosexual lifestyle. Alexander needs to take a good look at some of the Dean-Angeli photos that exist out there because it's hard to believe they weren't truly in love. I for one don't care if Dean was gay, straight, both, neither, etc. etc. etc. but Alexander needs to prove whatever he is trying to say. Also he will spend two pages describing every thought and feeling Dean had during a few hours when he was alone. I guess Alexander is Dean reincarnated. If you want an unresearched, undocumented, unproven history on the life of James Dean and you are eager to delve into the homosexual nature of his bisexuality then go for it, just be ready to be disappointed.
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Summary: repulsive and exploitive.
Review: this didnt even deserve one star, but i had to put something. i think if james dean was to read this book, he would be appauled. in fact im sure hes turning over in his grave right now. for some unknown reason, the author focused his book on james' sexual experiences with men, but as i read this book i kept wondering, where is he getting this? not that he was bisexual or homosexual and so on, but this explicit and graphic details he delves into. i took it as fictitious interpretation and for lack of a better word, [...]. no one has the right to exploit someone like that and publish something like this, warp his private life like that. what stood out the most was the authors twisted writing ethics to create fictitious sexual escapades (because obviousy there is NO way this author could know that such specific and graphic things happend) its sad really. james dean wanted to be known for his acting, not his sexual preference, let alone a [...] book such as this. i love james dean and this was the most disheartening thing. pathetic.
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