“By chance I bumped into James Dean. He complimented my acting and then asked me to come outside for a moment. In the parking lot was a brand new sports car. 'What do you think?' Dean asked me.
“I don't know why I said it and was surprised when the words came out of my mouth:
‘Please don't get into that car because if you do by 10 o'clock at night next Thursday, you'll be dead'."
Then the interviewer changed the subject. I wish he had continued to tell what James Dean's reaction was. However, we all know Dean's fate in less than a week.
Of course, Alec Guinness went on to teach us all about the force in Star Wars, as well as predestination in A Passage to India.
A meta-physician might explain Alec Guinness’ words to James Dean as: “In his tired state, Guinness taped into the Akashic Records, which is a cosmic library of all history past and future.”
A friend of mine in Japan, who was never late for his job in 8 years, overslept one time only. Being late, he took a taxi to work instead of the train. Had he taken his usual train, he would have been in the exact station at the exact time of the infamous Tokyo sarin nerve gas attack in 1995.
Why had he overslept on that morning only? Coincidence? Or, while asleep, had his subconscious mind tapped into that future information and kept him from responding to his alarm clock to keep him out of harm’s way?
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Like his role in Rebel Without a Cause, young man of our era were all driving dangerously and so many died needlessly. I recall my father going to three races at our half-mile track during the Central Wisconsin State Fair where drivers, including an IndyCar driver (no roll bar) died in all three races. He stopped watching car racing after that.
My dad warned me several times about our 1935 Ford hot rod with a Cadillac engine. Chopped, channeled and Zed. I was working on it in the shop at my college when I took my girlfriend and another couple for a spin. While doing about 80 mph uphill, a 16-year-old driving a panel van pulled out in front of me. I hit the brakes and the rear of the car came off the ground, and then we were sideways across the other way in front of an oncoming car. And then, sideways off a steep slope and began to roll. About 10 times, mostly on the open doors of the three window coupe. With no seatbelts, we flew around inside. I found myself grabbing the roof above my head on the outside until I realized that the door could slam and cut off my arm, so I pulled my arm back in and was thrust out of the car into the grass in my mouth with the car flying over the top of me.
We were lucky. My girlfriend was thrown from the car and received stitches on a fingertip and the top of her head from small cuts. She was bruised everywhere, but back to work after a few days. I got eight stitches in my knee where it caught under the dash as I was thrown out of the car. My male passenger jammed his foot and ankle under my seat and it was badly bruised but he could walk okay. His girlfriend and future wife had a cut above her eyelid that required one stitch. It was the third time that I had been in a car that rolled over without injury of any consequence. But all of those cars had a top. Open cars were different… Dangerous.
Unlike James Dean's Porsche, my $100 plus $200 of upgrades hot rod was totally destroyed. A big loss to me and my twin brother. Roger traded the still operational engine and chassis for a 1948 Ford two-door sedan. He found out later that the guy who got it put a 1940 Ford coupe on the chassis.
Ron