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Why would a 17 year old Shaun Cassidy go to the crime scene the day after the murder? Why would he know where Mineo lived? Police interviewed him as a known associate. _____ More KAs swung by Sal’s place. 0400 hours/2-13-76. We interviewed Shaun Cassidy/WM/17. Mr. Cassidy revealed this: Sal was his friend. He saw him a month ago.
Sal Mineo came out in 1960 when few to nil other gay actors would dare. It probably cost him acting gigs and other opportunities, but Mr. Mineo felt it had to do what he had to do. Contrary to what many believe, Sal Mineo's murder was about robbery, not a trick scene gone horribly wrong.
Sal Mineo discovered and mentored actor Don Johnson in the part of Smitty, who had recently been seen in the San Francisco production of Your Own Thing. Producer Martin Poll saw both Don Johnson and Michael Greer in the play Fortune and Men's Eyes and cast them as the two leads in the lost cult film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970).
Sal Mineo would turn 81 today. ... Happy Birthday Sal! Offsite Link. by Anonymous: reply 5: January 10 ...
Sherman was straight, but felt Mineo could provide the connections for Sherman to get his career started. He began sunbathing on the beach outside Sal’s home, knowing he would be noticed. Bobby probably thought he could throw Sal a couple of blowjobs and that would be it, but Sal turned out to be a rough top who liked to fuck.
How weird that she was murdered in the same spot as Sal Mineo, a year to the day after he was. [quote]Her murder was like a ripper attack, so that makes me think it was a rage killing and not a professional hit to silence her.
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, written and performed about the same time that Boys In The Band premiered. Directed by and starring Sal Mineo. Of course, there is a bitchy character named Queenie. However, this one was the first play to have a fully nude, male-on-male rape scene onstage (Mineo raping Johnson).
Of course it was still directed by Sal Mineo, but everyone in the cast was new (usually the case with revivals). Tommy Lee Jones took played Rocky in the NYC production, the character Sal Mineo originated. Don Johnson was the only original cast member Mineo asked to come recreate the character of Smitty in NYC, but he rejected the offer.
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People back then grew up earlier. Dean grew up as a farm boy in rural Indiana. Sal grew up on the streets of NYC and he ran with gangs. Sal was a tough-talking kid from the Bronx, just had an angelic face but wasn't this soft, innocent and sheltered kid. He admitted he was in a gang and getting into fights.