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Sal Mineo: Death
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By 1976 Mineo's career seemed to be turning around again. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead", he received substantial publicity from many positive reviews and moved on to Los Angeles with the play. Arriving home after a rehearsal on February 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in the alley behind his West Hollywood apartment building. According to Warren Johansson and William A. Percy's Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence, p.91, he was murdered under circumstances that suggested "a homosexual motive." When he died, Mineo was 37.
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Mineo's life came to a tragic end on the night of February 12, 1976, when he was brutally stabbed on the streets of West Hollywood; he was only 37 years old, and virtually broke at the time of his death. His murderer received a sentence of life imprisonment three years later. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.
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In 1960 Mineo played a Jew in Exodus who had survived the Nazi death camps and, after World War II, wanted to fight for a Jewish homeland in what was then known as Palestine. In this film, homosexuality was explicitly mentioned, albeit in the most negative possible context.
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