When I lived in L.A., I worked with several people in "the business" as a voice teacher and choral musician.
It happens that I worked with two men that directed a couple of popular TV shows each, and they both knew JW and his kids, and oddly enough, they both talked about Dean.
They talked about the same thing everyone else with a brain says: he gave the APPEARANCE of being that troubled youth that represented the angst of the time...
They both said (and stated that most folks they knew in the industry agreed) that his career WOULD have died out very shortly had he not died, and he most likely would've been a mere blip on the radar.
As we all know, tragedies concerning celebrities can have strange results with the public, and their perception of them.
For the record, they didn't get the appeal of him either, and stated that a lot (but certainly not all) of people in the entertainment industry didn't buy all the hype either.
