dean was the kind of man that women lovedyoung women loved him because he was so heroiche had actually been a boxer at one time , in an era when italians were making a big name for themselves in boxing , and he had apparently turned away from shady dealings with the mafia , which always seemed to lend him an aura that he knew more about the evil side of the world than the average personerrol flynn had been a boxer , but he was not as articulate as dean , and , according to truman capote 's later account , flynn was bisexual , not a real man 's man like dean .