My favorite thing of the fifties was James Dean, a favorite actor who died tragically in a car crash after doing three movies but he is a legend.
When I decided I would make a best friend for Rob, I knew what he'd look like but I couldn't figure out a name. But than I remembered James Dean and honored him by naming my character after him. I have seen Rebel Without A Cause and it's one of my favorite movies, it's like The Outsiders, with greasers with leather jackets and cool cars. I think S.E. Hinton probably took some of Rebel and put it in Outsiders, James Dean created the rebel image.
So my character, Dean Ellis was named after him, I wrote in that Carly loved James Dean like I do. Also Dean's father ditched Carly when she was two months pregnant with Dean and so Carly could name himself whatever she wanted. :)
Carly let Leo, her husband name their son, Alexander after his foster brother, Alexander the Great. But Carly named got to do his middle name which she decided Paul, after the famous actor, Paul Newman. An inside joke with the family is Paul Newman plays Doc in Cars and Alex says when he gets old he'll turn into a Hudson Hornet car.
Ginny, their little sister isn't named after anything. Leo and Carly both liked Genevieve but I'm thinking of a middle name for Ginny, the names I come up with don't work.
Well, that's it!
The pictures are of James Dean, Paul Newman and Alexander the Great, the legends they're named after.
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