"Jimmy liked s-x with bumps, boots and belts and being burned with cigarettes"
Jimmy liked s-x with bumps, boots and belts. And that they burned him with cigarettes, that's why he earned the nickname of the Human Ashtray, that's how the second volume of Hollywood Babylon defines the unknown practices of James Dean. This is the first time that the actor's homos-xuality is openly discussed and these statements have given rise to other similar ones.
Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince are the two authors who have continued this controversy in the biography of Rebel Without a Cause actor James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes. In it, not only are Dean's strange customs revealed, but Marlon Brando is also mentioned, as a partner in the actor's masochistic practices.
Contrary to what Brando told in his memoirs, when he affirms that he and Dean were never friends, these two authors assure that both had a relationship in which s-xual and psychological games were the protagonists. According to the testimonies of friends and acquaintances of the actors who collect for the memories, Dean and Brando were attracted when they met and ended up kissing during one of their first conversations.
After this episode the actors entered into a relationship in which, apparently, Dean played the role of a young man in love and Brando that of a cold and unfeeling man. In fact, a friend of James claimed that he followed Brando like a puppy begging for his love. But he only used it for s-x.
But the most surprising thing is that Poter and Prince claim that Steve McQueen was also obsessed with Dean and that Walt Disney, Dean and director George Cukor staged a ménage à trois in the latter's mansion.
