First, let me apologize for not writing more often. School has a funny way of interrupting progress on blogs. But anyway, enough of the excuses. Here goes...I've noticed something very interesting while I've been researching the life of James Dean. There are a lot of biographies about his life, and most of them have been written by "friends" and "confidantes". I put those phrases in quotations because some of these authors seem a little, shall we say, fishy.
It seems that none of these authors wrote their memoirs without other intentions and none of the like one another. Each contains pointed digs at the others. Each author claims to have been James Dean's "Best Friend", some even claiming that they were his one true love. Each claims that James made derogatory comments about the others, that he actually didn't like them. With each new memoir they state that they are simply "setting the record straight." What a joke. It seems that they are simply enacting their own seperate agendas and are trying to make themselves look better.
I'm not saying that these books are bad. They are in fact quite the opposite. They are fun little books that paint the actor through the eyes of another person, which just happens to be my favorite type of memoir. It just strikes me after I've read through them that they were just trying to make you believe that they alone knew the "real" James Dean.
This begs the question: Who'll write your memoirs when you're gone?
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