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MORE BARBIES THAN WE EVER IMAGINED

There’s an estate sale happening in Los Angeles this weekend and we saw lots of advance photos of the stuff on sale- this was a Barbie doll collector! We had NO idea there were SO many Barbies of SO many kinds produced over the years! Some are even copies of dead movie stars. How about Continue reading “MORE BARBIES THAN WE EVER IMAGINED”

LOIS SMITH DID A SCREEN TEST WITH JAMES DEAN FOR EAST OF EDEN

Lois Smith, 86 has had six decades of acting history and she has a new movie at Sundance called Marjorie Prime. But we were delighted to hear that she also has a 60 year old video on YouTube of her and James Dean doing a screen test for East of Eden. It’s a silent video Continue reading “LOIS SMITH DID A SCREEN TEST WITH JAMES DEAN FOR EAST OF EDEN”

OUR FAVORITE OF JAMES DEAN’S LAST PHOTOS

It was a jolt to come across this photo of James Dean that Tom O’Neil posted on Facebook – it was one of the last taken before Dean’s fatal car accident. He’s filling up the tank of his Porsche and we love seeing a sunny Los Angeles gas station in the 50’s. Not to mention Continue reading “OUR FAVORITE OF JAMES DEAN’S LAST PHOTOS”

THIS IS OUR RESPONSE TO KANYE WEST’S COMMENT THAT “COOL PEOPLE DON’T SMILE”

Is anyone cooler than James Dean? A smirk is as good as a smile. Kanye West needs more than a thuggish scowl to make himself cool. It’s funny how his wife Kim Kardashian took his advice and stopped smiling so she could be cool too.