Rebel Without a Cause News

Dennis Hopper appeared in over 150 movies during a career that spanned more than 50 years, including "Rebel Without a Cause" with James Dean and "Apocalypse Now" with Marlon Brando.

When I was a kid, and in a hurry to assert my masculinity, I made stupid remarks about gay people and indulged in the unfocused and thoughtlessly cruel bigotry of my peers.

As a Beaumont High School student in the late 1950s, David DeCordova fancied himself James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause". In hand-tooled leather belts that read "Shafters," he and classmates played a number of pranks on their peers and teachers, including leaving live chickens locked in a classroom over a weekend, he said.

The Lesser Blessed is a powerful coming-of-age story about Larry, a native teenager balancing his romantic heart with a dark past that threatens to unravel his life.

We love the magic of the cinema as much as the next person, but sometimes it's more fun to see what goes on when the cameras aren't rolling.

The biopic, titled Life, will follow the recent trend for movies that touch on a vital period in their subject's life, eschewing the once-popular "cradle to grave" format.