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quip, "Is a man's grave his castle?" The Immortal seems less an oblique biography than a piece of calculated synicism and distortion. Is it because he is alleged to have had a variety of

bedfellows of both sexes that the author can find no one with a clear, good word for "Johnny"? Infallibly, and with the solid stroke of a meat-ax, each chapter hews a fresh slice from the hero's reputation, until at last it is implied that not only was "Johnny" a whore, a sponger, a schemer, a heartless philanderer, and an incipent criminal, but that he was not even an actor. The traits about him that seemed good in the eyes of others are obliterated; every intention is made to seem dishonorable, and his attractions for others placed on the level of a modern Svengali.

One cannot help wonder how devotees of the James Dean Legend, (if there are any left) will react to this. book (if they read it at all). Dr. Bergler would, of course, crow with delight.

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