I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.
I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'
When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.
My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.