Sal Mineo News

These days, we call them "youth at risk." Back in the 1950s, troubled teens were known as juvenile delinquents, and they threatened to destroy the bedrock of American society.

The other night, we were all sitting around the gallery, and Leonard Krakovitch King, who owns the Kenetic Gallery, next door said to Gaudry, "You look like Sal Mineo!" [See inset]. You can even see Lawrence's finger pointing to Gaudry as he said that.

Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa; Book by Sybille Pearson; Based on the novel by Edna Ferber; Directed by Jonathan Butterell First thing: Forget the movie.

"Rebel Without a Cause" : While the film arguably catapulted stars James Dean and Natalie Wood to stardom, the film is said to be cursed after several of its young stars died in untimely and unusual deaths.

THE word for 'The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more. Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, some dandy musical sequences and a plot that, however authentic, plays like a familiar success story.

Cult item dug out of the Sixties rubbish bin for reissue in the Nineties. Its most surprising and titillating features, much more than the bulge-revealing jockey shorts, swimming trunks, and white slacks of Sal Mineo or the bra-and-panties cheesecake of Juliet Prowse or the thematic menu of phone sex, voyeurism, fetishism, lesbianism, rape, murder, ...

The Great Basin Film Society is scheduled to show 'Who Killed Teddy Bear?' at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St.

There's a pictorially striking extended image in the teleplay "Dino," one of the selections in the recent DVD set "Studio One Anthology," that isolates Sal Mineo behind a partially opened door.