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Created: 2025-06-24 17:39:11 UTC

Brandon Flynn to star as James Dean in ‘WILLIE AND JIMMY DEAN.’

It is based on William Bast’s memoir, where he described meeting Dean at the UCLA theater program at the age of XX and wrote that the two men became friends and eventually lovers.



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