High Riser (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Sal Mineo. Ok, I have heard of him, but a group of which I am a member posted some photos of him in a play called Fortune and Men's Eyes. Wow, bit raunchy and ever so homoerotic. He acted opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. I have seen it and it too had a strong homoerotic element. I don't remember Sal very well. No doubt I was very focused on James. Google images found a number of...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... just a few months before the release of his life story, portrayed on the silver screen by actor Sal Mineo. Fronting a quartet featuring pianist Ronnie Ball, reedman Eddie Wasserman and bassist Jim Gannon, Krupa engaged the July 2nd crowd with a set of swingers that featured the drummer holding back on his signature drum flurries until the very end. After all, he was 50 at this point in his...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Starring Sal Mineo and Juliet Prowse , Joseph Cates ' Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965) is one of he creepiest and most peculiar movies ever made. A rumination on voyeurism, repressed homosexuality, and fetishism (among other things), it's one of Sal Mineo's most ambitious and telling roles. It includes some truly sleazy, atmospheric location shots of 42nd Street in it's transitional state...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... scenes of his oeuvre is in Exodus (1960), in which David Opatashu’s relentless interrogation of Sal Mineo slowly peels away the lad’s plucky, aggressive exterior until he confesses the unimaginable pain in his heart. Preminger’s best films work in such a fashion, beginning with a chitinous but brittle sheen, and then digging until a far more complex vision resolves. Bonjour Tristesse is...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... he and John always dreamed about. Rob the money train. Will he be able to pull it off?Dino: Mineo at his disobedient best playing young bad boy befriended by a gal Kohner and a public worker named Keith. Reginald Rose adjusted his esteemed Television play, and Mineo re-made his featuring role. Cast includes Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner, Joe De Santis, Dime Santon, Blunt...
