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Travis B's avatar

Well, then maybe there is no objective truth even what one says. I know that your book, based on what I have read, will attempt to shoot down egregious falsehoods and provide some truth. But irrespective, Dean’s art is alive and well and seems secure in the future.

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Interesting, I think one can accept as fact that Bast was moving in with Dean prior to latter death. Dean may have been gay and recognized that fact. I don’t know why Bast would stick to the sanitized story of the 50s and 60s publicly in a 2010 email transmission. In email, he stated that he thought there was a fine line between gay and straight. But Dean also said and did things with women that show that he may have been bi or still searching. The list of women include teacher in hometown, Beverly Wills, Liz Sheridan, Betsy Palmer, Arlene Sachs, Geraldine Page, Vampira, Barbara Glenn, Connie who was waitress with Dean while he filmed RWAC, Ursula Andress, Pier Angeli, Mitzi McCall, Alice Dunham, Lili Kardell, Natalie Wood. I am sure there are others I am missing. I think it not right for fabrications by heterosexuals or gays to be perpetuated because they wish him to be what they want him to be as opposed to what he was. Thanks for response.

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