Joanne Linville

With Gilbert and actress Joanne Linville, Adler founded the academy, which started out in a tiny theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue. A 1991 fire shut down the school, and the building was facing demolition to make way for the subway when

Sometimes it's better to be misunderstood. That's certainly the case with James Dean, whose brief three-picture career and death at 24 transformed him into a Hollywood icon. Seen in the confines of those movies -- ''East of Eden,'' ''Rebel Without a Cause,'' and ''Giant'' -- he remains forever young, and forever alienated, yearning and vulnerable.