there's all that shit about dying young, living on forever as an icon blah blah blah.
so i just assumed that would be the case forever.

but i was reading rupert everett's book, and he wrote about how certain movies that meant something when they were released are now meaningless. or how stuff that was ignored can resurface later and find an audience.
or how something can represent something different years later. he gives the example of doris day and rock hudson movies representing something different now than they did in their time.

then he asks why james dean lived on for years only to suddenly die. his museum just closed down recently due to lack of interest.

so do you think he's really less popular now than he was ten or fifteen years ago?

do you think maybe after the 50th anniversary of his death (2005) people just figured enough is enough and got stingy with their worship?

like how i bought the first three sheryl crow cd's, but then got exhausted. it's not that i liked the music any less. more like i got to thinking "am i committing myself to buying every album this bitch releases for what may be years and years to come? no, i'd rather not and now's as good a time to stop as it ever will be."

I agree with the idea Everett is trying to express but I think James Dean was more popular 15 years ago because the slacker image was fashionable. Maybe they'll come a time when it will die out and people will just show no more interest but it was Elvis' 30th anniversary yesterday and people are still obsessed so maybe James Dean was suffer the same fate.

I think alot of icons will go. Just give it a few more generations that will give that, "James who?" look.

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well people still remember Oscar Wilde lol. Like every single saying is somehow attributed to him and I'm sure more are being made each day.

maybe it just took them 50 years to realise he was a shitty actor