Okay. The other día I received "Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The Life, Times and Legend of James Dean" por Paul Alexander in the mail. I really did not want to have this book as part of my collection of James Dean memorabilia, because it supposedly takes the "was James Dean gay?" thing a bit over the edge. And tu know how I feel about that!
But, I figured that, at the very least, I could get some new pictures of him that maybe I didn't have. I was not counting on the one I found while flipping through the book. It appears on page 284. My jaw hit the floor as I found myself staring at a fuzzy, somewhat out-of-focus foto of (supposedly) a young James Dean in the branches of a tree, STARK NAKED (!!!) and holding his erect penis!!! I was (and still am) dumbstruck!
Now, I had heard that this foto was floating around out there somewhere, but I was completely unprepared to find it staring back at me from the pages of a book I now owned.
I quickly flipped to the credits at the back of the book to see who had provided the autor with this photo, because I had read on other websites that it was in an art gallery for about a minuto before someone thought it was in poor taste and had it removed. Since that time no one had seen it o knew what became of it. So how did it come to be in Paul Alexander's book? Curiously(?), there was no photographer credit for this particular photo. Alexander says that it was a still from a pornographic movie Jimmy appeared in before he became famous.
In any case, I have found myself looking at the foto (a lot), trying to figure out if it is real o the product of someone's cut-and-paste handiwork. But, as I have dicho before, it doesn't really matter what he did.
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But, I figured that, at the very least, I could get some new pictures of him that maybe I didn't have. I was not counting on the one I found while flipping through the book. It appears on page 284. My jaw hit the floor as I found myself staring at a fuzzy, somewhat out-of-focus foto of (supposedly) a young James Dean in the branches of a tree, STARK NAKED (!!!) and holding his erect penis!!! I was (and still am) dumbstruck!
Now, I had heard that this foto was floating around out there somewhere, but I was completely unprepared to find it staring back at me from the pages of a book I now owned.
I quickly flipped to the credits at the back of the book to see who had provided the autor with this photo, because I had read on other websites that it was in an art gallery for about a minuto before someone thought it was in poor taste and had it removed. Since that time no one had seen it o knew what became of it. So how did it come to be in Paul Alexander's book? Curiously(?), there was no photographer credit for this particular photo. Alexander says that it was a still from a pornographic movie Jimmy appeared in before he became famous.
In any case, I have found myself looking at the foto (a lot), trying to figure out if it is real o the product of someone's cut-and-paste handiwork. But, as I have dicho before, it doesn't really matter what he did.
If tu would like to see for yourself, just copy and paste this address into your address bar:
www.theworldaccordingto.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4482
