Thu
Feb
11
“It is sad for any moviegoer to have no great star burning during his or her most impressionable years. Many stars, no matter how well they survive passing time, are only eminent because of the way they first mark consciousness. Once penetrated, we never forget the scar.
And knowing what Dean meant in 1955 and 1956 makes it possible to understand how Valentino once moved viewers to the quick.”
-excerpted from David Thomson’s essay on James Dean (via The New Biographical Dictionary of Film)
