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...cycled from group to group in shorts and polo shirt, shaking hands and making nice - seems to have made the right tactical choice in his force's mix of relentless civility and unexpected accommodation. Timoney, for example, granted out-of-town demonstrators permission to camp out in Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall. And while police could've shut down today's march, they didn't. As the KWRU group began to siphon down the east side of Broad, 33 helmeted and mounted policemen lined up two by two off to one side, exhibiting the restraint that, so far, seems...
...Fairmount, Indiana, in the early 1940s, James Dean would "dream out loud about getting in the movies." Ortense Winslow, the aunt who raised him after his mother died of cervical cancer at 29, thought it an odd ambition for a farm boy. "I mean," she says, "there wasn't anything very different about him -- except he had this strange ability to take you along with his feelings...
...California highway and died. That was nearly 40 years ago, and it marked the birth of Saint Jimmy, Punk Martyr. His life and death have inspired films (September 30, 1955), plays (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) and dozens of songs. Visits to Dean's Fairmount gravesite have become as much a part of celebrity mythology as trips to Graceland or Jim Morrison's plot in Paris' Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Next year there will be a big-time Hollywood biopic; every male star under 30 pines to play the lead...
Background #1: James Dean--James Dean was born in 1931 in Fairmount, Indiana, a town which even today had a population of less than 4000 people. It was something of the quintessential small farm town; there was one school there were clapboard farm houses, a few stocky rebuilt motorcycles kept in the backs of barns...
Backround #2; James Dean--After James Dean left Fairmount, he went to UCLA and then to New York to try to make an acting career New York in the '50s was friendlier to actors. There were lots of theaters, and television (not yet abstracted to Los Angeles) was serving as a new outlet. Dean joined the ranks of young actors at Strassburg's Actor's Studio and began getting small parts in televised plays. All of these shows were live...