Here’s a blast from the past: In 1954, James Dean and Paul Newman audition for Elia Kazan’s East of Eden. Dean, famously, was cast and earned his first posthumous Oscar nomination. (His second nomination came for his work in Giant.) Dean was 23 here. Newman was 29.
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Through the Shattered Lens 
It’s a shame how much James Dean has been rendered down to just a personality that’s been co-opted and corrupted by wanna-be posers who think if they mimic Dean’s persona they too will be cool.
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At some point, a James Dean stand-in will be every girl’s fantasy boyfriend.
The main thing that jumps out at me, when watching this, is how James Dean comes across as the dangerous guy you fantasize about while Paul Newman comes across like the guy you know you’re going to turn to after Dean breaks your heart.
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I shall take your word for it. 🙂
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It’s true! 🙂 Because you could look at James Dean and just know that even though everyone else would say, “He mumbles too much,” and then you would be all like, “No, you just don’t know him the way I do! I can change him!”
And then, of course, you come home one day and he’s in there with some girl who has a cute, perky little nose and you’re all like, “How could you!?” and he’s all like, “C’mon, baby, forgive me because you’re beautiful even if you do have a big, huge nose and you’re so much smarter and prettier and hotter and nice and more talented and cuter than that other girl, I can’t live without you,” and you’re all, “Tough, babe.”
And then Paul Newman comes along and goes, “I love your nose just the way it is,” and you know, just from the way that he says it, that he means it.
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