GROWING UP UNLOVED: MOVIES OF REBELLION
Rebel Without a Cause really gets the heart beating when the world is blown to bits. In an iconic scene near the beginning of the movie, James Dean's Jim Stark and other denizens of his high school gotto the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where they view a diorama, voiced by an elderly scientist, of what will happen when the earth is finished. The stars collide with our planet, the sky explodes and a crazy-quilt color of sight and sound greet the impressionable youth. J