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'My goal is just to be the girl next door'

'My goal is just to be the girl next door'

Living in a small central Illinois town, Audri Brooks, 28, considers herself a woman in a man's body.

And though Brooks has always known she's different, all she really wants is to fit in.

"My goal is just to be the girl next door," Brooks said. "I don't want to be noticed. I want to blend in and be totally normal."

transgendered people in central Illinois trying to be true to self

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James Deans Birthday today

Happy 

Birthday

James Dean!

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled stereotypical high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in East of Eden, and as the surly farmer Jett Rink in Giant. His enduring fame and popularity rests on only three films, his entire starring output. His death at a young age helped guarantee a legendary status. He was the first actor to receive aposthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).

Feature Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Fixed Bayonets!	Doggie	(uncredited)
1952	Sailor Beware	Boxing opponent's second	(uncredited)
	Has Anybody Seen My Gal?	Youth at soda fountain	(uncredited)
1953	Trouble Along the Way	Extra	(uncredited)
1955	East of Eden	Cal Trask	Nominated for Academy Award. Nominated for BAFTA Won Jussi Award
	Rebel Without a Cause	Jim Stark	Nominated for BAFTA
1956	Giant	Jett Rink	Nominated for Academy Award. Won Golden Globe Award

• James Dean at the Internet Movie Database
• James Dean at the Internet Broadway Database
• AMC's James Dean Photo Gallery: Living Fast and Dying Young
• James Dean.com link to "Official" CMG James Dean website
• 10 James Dean Essentials: Photo Essay on AMCtv.com
• Mad about the boy on the Guardian Unlimited.
• James Dean Gallery site
• James Dean at Find A Grave, includes photos of Dean's Tombstone.
• James Dean at American Legends.
• JamesDeanArchives.com
• William Bast, Dean's biographer.
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  James Dean Memorial in Cholame. Dean died about 900 yards east of this tree.

  www.jamesdean.com/-official website
  

James Dean
as Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955)
Born	James Byron Dean February 8, 1931 Marion, Indiana, United States
Died	September 30, 1955 (aged 24) Cholame, California, U.S.
Other name(s)	Jimmy Dean
Years active	1951-1955
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