Category: james dean
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Rebel…With a Cause
“You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean Quirky dame that I am, I admit to never swooning over Elvis Presley…with one exception. His rendition of “Battle […]
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“Come back to the corner of Van Buren & Main, Jimmy Dean! Jimmy Dean!”
Sometime during the summers of 1955 or ’56, my big sister Sarah and I engaged in our happy walk of a couple of blocks to attend a block-buster which our mother recommended. Edna, an avid reader, boasted often, “Hmmmm, this movie…not nearly as good as the book,” and the transplanted southerner usually wasn’t “just whistlin’ […]