James Dean Gallery Returning To Fairmount 
James Dean Gallery moving back to Fairmount. The James Dean Gallery has reopened where it began 20 years ago. David Loehr has moved the Gallery back to Fairmount, Indaina in the Old Victorian home on Main Street where it all began. Fans are thrilled to have the Gallery back where it belongs. You can visit seven days a week between 9am and 6pm. Admission is free.

2008 Festival new!
The 2008 James Dean Festival will be held Thursday September 25 thru to Sunday September 28th. The Festival's attractions will include the 33rd annual Museum Days and the 27th annual James Dean Run. The Festival will also feature live music performed on the Main Street stage, free showings of East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. The Yearly James Dean look alike contest, fashion shows, and a number of other events and activities suitable for children and adults of all ages. The James Dean Run will take place in Fairmount’s Playacres Park and feature car judging, flame throwing contests, music, trivia and much more. The James Dean Festival is the quintessential festival for fans. As more events are scheduled I'll post them here. Hope to see you all there!

David Loehr's 2008 Fan Weekend  new!
David Loehr's James Dean Fan Weekend is still scheduled to take place this year. It will take place the weekend of July 25th - 27th . For more information contatct the James Dean Gallery.

Nicholas Ray Biopic in works
A film based on Rebel Without A Cause director, Nicholas Ray's life is in the works. The director of the The Right Stuff Phillip Kaufman is set to direct the film which is based on Ray's memoir I was Interuppted. The film will focus on the last 10 years of the rebellious director's turbulent life. No start date for production has been set and no actors have yet been cast.

Giant added to Hollywood Immortals 
Imagine if Giant just suddenly disappered from cinema history. Or if any of Hollywood's classic films were no longer around for more generations to enjoy. As chilling as that might sound, such a scenario isn’t all that unlikely. In fact, it’s very real. Scores of classic film are lost every year due to the effects of nitrate deterioration, color fading and the recently discovered “vinegar syndrome” – a chemical reaction which attacks the safety film used to preserve most movies. In 1989 the Library of Congress created the National Film Registry and began the process of preserving classic films. The goal of the registry is to restore films of cultural, historical and artistic significance and call attention to the need for archiving and preserving the heritage of the moving image. On Dec. 27, librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 new inductees into the registry, including Giant.

Fairmount Historical Museum
The Museum has a new look to its official site to see it head over to FHM Site.

Sal Mineo Movie Update 
I have been receiving inquires to the status of the Sal Mineo movie that was announced back in 2001. The movie is still in the works and hopefully will be going into production soon! To read more about it visit Sal Movie for all the information on the film.

Rebel Costar Dennis Hopper's Art
Dennis Hopper Gets Floor of a Condo Tower Dedicated to His Art Hopper, Goode and other members of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s and '70s reunited for a party celebrating the installation of their artwork in a permanent collection at the 19-story Azzurra condo tower. Individual floors of the building are dedicated to artists including abstract painter Ed Moses, photographer Peter Alexander and Pop artist Ed Ruscha, known for his painted words and phrases. The building's third floor is dedicated to the photographs of Hopper. While building his movie career, Hopper also became part of the freewheeling Los Angeles art scene that emerged in the early 1960s. The loose collective included abstract painter Charles Arnoldi and photographers William Claxton, Jerry McMillan and Charles Brittin. The scene, which included visiting East Coast artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, was known for work that reflected the Southern California lifestyle of surfing, cruising in convertibles and worshipping the sun. Hopper's best-known contribution to the scene was 1961's ``Double Standard.'' The photograph shows two Standard Oil signs on a Santa Monica Boulevard intersection where Beverly Hills and West Hollywood meet. With its through-a-car-windshield perspective, corner gas station and traffic in the rear-view mirror, it's a quintessential Los Angeles image. ``When I took these photographs, from 1961 to 1967, it was a very important time for me, because that's all I was really doing,'' Hopper said yesterday in an interview. ``I was not really acting at that time. I had gone to New York and studied with Strasberg. It was a period when I was really more in the art world at that time. I wasn't involved in the acting world. And then I made `Easy Rider.'''

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