Updated July 28, 2010 Each link in my
yellow and blue chart leads to multiple pages. URL
www.deaners.net Please
note my new email address:
secop@parlorcity.com
Myriad Sections of Sandra Weinhardt's Deaner's website here
13th
Annual James Dean Fans Weekend
July 23 - 25
All on-line now
at this page
Here is David Loehr's 2010 schedule for Fairmount activities
Fairmount Lions Club Car Show
Thursday night, September 23
35th Annual James Dean Festival and Car Show
September 24 - 26
James Dean Memorial Service Thursday,
September 30
For Information Call: (765) 948-3326
taken from David Loehr's website,
www.jamesdeangallery.com
Hotel Information Call (800) 662-9474
James Dean Fans Spring
Get-Together May 28 – 30 Photos coming.
James
Dean
Birthday Weekend Dance photos are ready here!
| Frequently Asked Questions about James Dean events |
David Loehr's Gallery reopened in Fairmount,
Indiana! And here is David's own, updated site. |
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| September Festivals in Fairmount, Indiana (Dean's home town) through the years 2008 and 2009 not written yet | ||
| James Dean Memorial Services in Fairmount through the years: Back Creek Friends Meeting, and Park Cemetery 2008 and 2009 not written yet | ||
|
James
Dean Fan Club's news and membership form Jesse Dillinger's page |
Fan
Appreciation weekends through the years
(2008 not done yet) |
James
Dean Run cars shows in Fairmount, Indiana
through the years NEW SPONSOR FOR 2010!
Bob Geimer, President |
| Rock Lasso and Lookalikes are included with September Festivals. | People who influenced James Dean | People greatly influenced by James Dean |
|
California information: Cholame, cars,
monuments, etc. Soon to be updated by noted author Lee Raskin!!! |
Away from Fairmount, Indiana | Around Fairmount, Indiana: Birthday parties and Lenny's Rebel Rebel store and Fairmount Antique Mall; + nightwalks! |
| Marfa, Texas where Dean filmed the movie Giant |
Links to others' Dean and 1950s sites The Fairmount Lions Club 2009 James Dean collectible pin is on sale |
Visit Cholame with Maurice Rubio, 2/2008 |
We note the passing of Dennis Hopper, friend and co-star of
James Dean. Here is a letter from fan and entertainment
writer Bob Rees, to me.
" I was very fortunate nearly 25 years back to interview Dennis Hopper when he was here in Houston. He visited Rice University campus in order to run his new film--Out of the Blue. He had just finished Blue Velvet recently as well. He also put on a bizarre multi media spontaneous presentation, and he spoke. He was not in good shape--as he was pretty messed up on drugs, but he has nice things to say about Jimmy. I spoke with him after his lecture and he was very worshipful towards Jimmy. That was his idol.
Jimmy taught him how to act, he said. "How to smoke a cigarette short". He said Jimmy told him that he thought the two of them should--"take hold of this town (Hwood) by its tail, and give it a good spin". After Jimmy died, Hopper tried to take up Dean's mantle of being the Rebel. Living that role on and off screen. But what Hopper lacked was discipline and grounding. Anyway--after the media presentation and lecture ended--we all got in school buses and drove out of town to a race track! There Dennis Hopper proceeded to tie himself into a chair that was rigged with sticks of dynamite and he ignited it! All that happened was that the chair went up in the air several feet and came right back down to sit on the ground!
He was lucky-as this was a serious and dangerous stunt he pulled. After--he was -of course-more dazed and confused than he already had been. A few weeks later he was picked up in Mexico out of control running naked through the streets. He went to a sanitarium of sorts.
Glad to say that the last 20 years of Hopper's life--he cleaned up his act and life. Publicly and privately-he pulled himself together and had many "normal" years. He was a special, distinctive and unique kind of talent. There is no one quite like him around nowdays. It was seldom an easy ride for the Easy Rider--but he will be missed and remembered as an important Hollywood character. Need I add--my interview with him was the strangest one of my career as an Entertainment Writer. Interesting memories--again Dennis was one of a kind, and I am glad I got to spend an evening in his world so many years ago. R.I.P. Dennis.
best--Robert Rees--here in the Lonestar Giant state."
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January 20, 2010: My newspaper today noted the passing of Kate McGarrigle, mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, friends of all the Deaners. Rufus once performed a whole concert at Ball State University to raise funds for saving Jimmy's High School. The article I read did not mention Louden Wainwright, her husband, but did mention her sister Anna and Jane. She died at her home in Montreal after an extended battle against intestinal cancer which had spread to her liver. She was only 63 years old.
Masumi Furusawa likes James Dean's Fairmount!! See chart
below for what happened on the
May 2009 Fan Gathering while she was here.
| Opening page | At Payne's Custard | At the Jas. Dean Gallery |
| Planting Jesse's Tree |
At the Banquet OR page two of banquet |
Extra Photos |
The get-together for May 2009 started with dinner at Stephen Payne's on Friday night.
Also upcoming: News of Harvey Cocks's latest revision of his play, James Dean, The Boy From Fairmount, plus my venture into the James Dean Festival, September 2008 and the Memorial Service, 2008. (As soon as I sell my house and move.) Also the Fan Appreciation Weekend in July, 2008, so far still not on-line.
How to find
Jimmy's mother's grave in Marion, Indiana, updated
Poem by Linda Levine on the fan club site: www.tentativetimes.net/jdr/lindpoem.html
Jesse's
photo courtesy of Jesse's mother, Judi Dillinger, email
judidillinger@hotmail.com.
We are sad to report that James Dean Jeopardy champion and
long-time friend Jesse
Dillinger has passed. Details are on
the new
Jesse page.
Please note:
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
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one index page into French for us. URL is
www.tentativetimes.net/dean/freindex.html
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