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The Immoralists
From André Gide to Michel Foucault, predatory behavior has frequently hijacked calls for gay rights to justify abuse.
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The Fix Is In
A credulous new biography of private eye Fred Otash makes some dubious claims about the detective's likely fictitious run-in with James Dean.
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The Porthole Windows of James Dean and Marlon Brando
I finally found the picture of Marlon Brando that convinced James Dean to rent an Upper West Side apartment.
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Was James Dean "Sexually Sadistic"?
An old 1956 newspaper story suggests that one of Dean's "friends" spread disparaging rumors about him after his death.
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Jason Colavito
James Dean and the Story of Schoenberg's Sixth Finger
How a mixed-up account of a 1937 interview became James Dean's favorite joke.
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Jason Colavito
"The Best Possible Denial"
Vogue magazine's new piece on James Dean's relationship with Pier Angeli tries too hard to rescue Dean from homosexuality.
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The Implausible Revelations of a Hollywood Fixer
A new book rehashes the sensational claims of L.A. private eye Fred Otash, but there's just one problem: There's a very good chance he made many of them…
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No, James Dean's Porsche Was Not Cursed
Supernatural stories about Dean's Spyder abound, but the ghostly tales are little more than profitable fiction. Here's the real story of how a legend…
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