Pulp International - James+Dean

Sep 30 2009

HOLLYWOOD ENDING

Photo of actor James Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder after his fatal head-on collision with another car on U.S. Route 466, fifty-four years ago today.

U.S.A., James Dean, deaths

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Jul 16 2009

JIMMY JAZZ

He ain't here, but he sure went past.

Above is American star James Dean on the cover of two issues of Filmski Svet, aka Movie World, from the former Yugoslavia. Dean’s unexpected death still ranks as one of the most shocking in Hollywood history. In September 1955 he was driving his convertible Porsche 550 Spyder on U.S. Route 466 when a sedan in an oncoming lane turned in front of him and struck his small sports car head-on. Dean was alive when he was loaded into an ambulance, but was pronounced DOA at Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, aged twenty-four. Both of the above covers were published posthumously in 1967 (top) and 1957.

Yugoslavia, U.S.A., California, Paso Robles, Porsche, Filmski Svet, James Dean, cinema

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Mar 14 2009

APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY

March 1957 issue of Uncensored magazine, with James Dean, Xavier Cugat (Cugie), Mrs. Bruce Cabot (Adrienne Ames) and a pretty funny juxtaposition at lower right that makes Winston (Churchill) appear to leer at Ethel Barrymore.

Uncensored, Winston Churchill, Ethel Barrymore, James Dean, Xavier Cugat, Bruce Cabot, Adrienne Ames, tabloid

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History Rewind

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

September 03

1941—Auschwitz Begins Gassing Prisoners

Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps, becomes an extermination camp when it begins using poison gas to kill prisoners en masse. The camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, later testifies at the Nuremberg Trials that he believes perhaps 3 million people died at Auschwitz, but the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum revises the figure to about 1 million.

September 02

1967—Nation of Sealand Established

The Principality of Sealand, located on a platform in the North Sea, is established under the rule of Prince Paddy Roy Bates. Proving that paradise is a pipe dream as long as humans are involved, Sealand has already endured a coup, a war, and a hostage crisis since its formation.

1973—J.R.R. Tolkien Dies

English fantasy novelist J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, dies at the age of 82.

September 01

1902—French Go to Moon

Georges Méliès' Le voyage dans la lune, aka A Trip to the Moon, is released in France. It is the first science-fiction film ever made.

1939—Germany Starts World War II

Nazi Germany, along with the Soviet Union and Slovakia, attack Poland, beginning the chain reaction that leads to war across Europe.

1972—Fischer Beats Spassky

In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion. The match had been portrayed as a Cold War battle, and thus was a major propaganda victory for the United States.

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