Life Page #2

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" East of Eden"

as a kind of companion piece,

only, of course, this time it's...

"Magnum", New York.

John Morris.

Hey, John, it's Dennis.

My favourite menace.

Listen, you know Kazan's got

his new movie coming out?

- Kazan...

- Yeah, Elia Kazan. "On the Waterfront".

Oh yeah . Kazan.

I-I never saw it.

Yeah, well, there's this kid

in it, he's interesting.

In "Waterfront"?

No, in, uh, in the new movie.

It's, uh...

from a Steinbeck book.

The kid's name is James Dean.

You heard of him?

Dennis, I am very busy.

What's he been in?

I mean, nothing yet.

But, uh...

I think he might be

starting something special

and I want to get in early,

do a photo-essay on him.

A photo-essay on

an unknown actor.

The way he looks,

the way he acts...

He won't be unknown for long.

You lose me here, Dennis.

Sell it like he's the symbol of the new

movement or something.

A movement? Like, what,

like a political movement?

John, I've been busting my gut doing

red carpets and set stills,

and I finally find what

might be a good story,

and I want to chase it! I want get

it on people's radar.

That's our job radar.

- Just leave that to us.

- Yeah, well, if leave it to you,

I'm going to be doing

this sh*t in ten years.

I've got to push

things along, John.

You're doing good stuff.

You're building your portfolio

one job at a time...

Yours is coming . It's coming.

Yeah, but you get these good jobs

for Elliot Erwood and Ernest Hass.

You know, Hass

had an exhibition.

I want to get an exhibition.

One day, you will have the body

of work for an exhibition.

This is my ticket out of here.

I got to get back to New York.

No one respects

a photographer in LA.

Do you realize how many

prima donnas I deal with every day?

I'm going to hold you directly

responsible if my mind gets poisoned.

OK.

Tell me what his name is, again.

His name is James Dean.

Alright. Who would you

like me to talk to?

I mean, who do you think?

You try "Life".

They'll know who he is.

I'll get back to you.

James Dean.

You know who James Dean is?

So you did theatre arts at UCLA.

You didn't graduate?

Why you asking me questions

you already got the answers to?

Well, I'm just confirming.

Oh, okay, so it's

like a... statement,

not a question.

Yes, I did one semester at UCLA.

But then I decided that acting

was better than studying, so...

here I am.

Like, uh... some people

might think that

writing novels is better than,

you know...

writing about them.

Or something like that.

Do you prefer film to theatre?

I mean, I've done

more theatre than film,

so the jury's still

out on that one.

But you think you'll move in the

general direction of film?

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