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Sal Mineo
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In Fallen Angels, Marvin J. Wolf and Katherine Mader wrote that "the prophesies of Sal Mineo’s childhood had in the end come true" and that despite his movie career, he "couldn’t elude his fate." This implication of this statement is not quite fair. Mineo did not die a criminal, did not die because he had so often played "The Switchblade Kid," nor did he probably die because of his lifestyle. He most likely died the victim of a street crime that happened to catch him in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Sal Mineo stars as a bus boy in the Deuce, obsessed with club DJ Juliet Prowse and he begins stalking her. After receiving some nasty, sweaty obscene phone calls, she seeks the help of a detective who turns out to be even more lurid than the sex-obsessed stalker. And the film just gets sleazier from here, making you want to get up and shower!
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Complete collection of the songs Sal Mineo recorded for the Epic label, including his chart smash, "Start movin" (#5 on Billboard's hot 100 singles chart in 1957). Digitally remastered from the original mono recordings into lush, full stereo.
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Years later, he would describe this encounter to his biographer H. Paul Jeffers: As Mineo was strolling along a beach close to his home, he met an adoring fan as he had so often before. But Mineo felt something special for this particular young man that he could not, or did not want, to deny. He admitted to himself that he was sexually attracted to the man. He invited the fan to his home. The man accepted and Mineo discovered to his delight that his feelings of erotic attraction were reciprocated. Jeffers would write that Mineo looked back on this incident "with astonishment" because, in Jeffers words, it allowed the actor to finally realize "his true sexual nature."
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Mineo made an effort to break his typecasting. His acting ability and exotic good looks earned him not only roles as a Native American boy in Tonka, but ... as a Jewish emigrant in Otto Preminger's Exodus for which he received another Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.
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In directing Mineo as Dov Landau in Exodus (1960), Otto Preminger made possible the ideal fusion of these two aspects. Landau is surely Mineo's finest performance, though, ironically, it is achieved by the explicit repudiation of the character's gay connotations.
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