{"id":7200,"date":"2016-03-01T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2016-03-01T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:31:50","slug":"hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2016\/03\/01\/hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

From West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein<\/a><\/em>, excerpted by Andrew O’Hagan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I was very young in 1955, when Warner Brothers did Rebel without a Cause \u2013 18 or 19 years old. We\u2019d started shooting in black and white, and two weeks into it Jack clearly saw that something was going on with James Dean. He said, \u2018Change this picture to colour. The kid\u2019s going to be a star.\u2019 He\u2019d found his new Rin Tin Tin.<\/p>\n

Then one day, the next year, Jimmy Dean and I were coming out of the commissary on the Warner Brothers set, and Jack Warner came up to introduce the banker Serge Semenenko to Jimmy: Semenenko put out his hand to shake hands, and Jimmy reached into his pocket, threw a bunch of coins at their feet, and walked off. They looked completely stunned. I followed Jimmy like a puppy dog and said: \u2018What the hell was that all about?\u2019 So he told me that Jack had convinced [his brother] Harry that they should sell the studio, and they sold it to Semenenko; then, the day after, Jack bought back in. All he had really done was to buy his brother out. So that was Jimmy Dean\u2019s reply to what Jack had done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein, excerpted by Andrew O’Hagan: I was very young in 1955, when Warner Brothers did Rebel without a Cause \u2013 18 or 19 years old. We\u2019d started shooting in black and white, and two weeks into it Jack clearly saw that something was going on with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10,13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}