While he tries to deal with Buzz, he becomes friends with a 15-year-old boy, John, nicknamed Plato ( Sal Mineo ), who was also at the police station the night of the opening scene for shooting puppies.

The famous 1956 Warner Bros. film Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker and Dennis Hopper, was filmed in Marfa for two months.

Another Masseria ally was the large Mineo crime family ( formerly D ' Aquila ), whose members included Costello associates Albert " The Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, and Frank Scalice.

Salvatore " Sal " Mineo, Jr. ( January 10, 1939February 12, 1976 ), was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John " Plato " Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause.

Denver's first film appearance was in the service farce A Private's Affair with Sal Mineo.

In 1959, the movie biography, The Gene Krupa Story, was released ; Sal Mineo portrayed Krupa, and the film had a cameo appearance by Red Nichols.

Similarly, Blaster Al Ackerman declared himself a " Salmineoist " after Sicilian-American actor Sal Mineo, and John Berndt was credited by Ackerman as having given Neoism the name " Spanish Art ," circa 1983.

In his 1986 gossip book about gay Hollywood, Conversations With My Elders, Boze Hadleigh claimed actor Sal Mineo told him in 1972, " I didn't hear it from Jimmy ( James Dean ), who was sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel.

" Journalist, screenwriter and author of books about Hollywood, John Gregory Dunne wrote that " James Dean was bisexual, as were Nick Adams and Sal Mineo.

A second Sicilian gang was formed by Alfred Mineo in Brooklyn.

Mineo was killed in 1930 )

Rebel Without a Cause was Ray's biggest commercial success, and marked a breakthrough in the careers of child actors Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo.

However, Luciano later admitted that Masseria ordered the Aiello hit, which was performed by Masseria ally Alfred Mineo.

His death came the day before his Exodus ( 1960 ) co-star Sal Mineo was murdered.

After all, if it was good enough for Monty Clift or Sal Mineo ..."

Roughly half of Frankie Yale's men and territory would be absorbed by the D ' Aquila family, which was now led by Al Mineo, while the rest remained under Carfano.

Previously, " Mineo " was used as a housing base, but has since been returned to Italian Nationals and is no longer in service.

In 1962 Sal Mineo took Sherman under his wing and wrote 2 songs for him as well as arranging for Sherman to record the songs, then in 1964 when Sherman was asked by Mineo to sing with his old band at a Hollywood party ( there were many actors and agents in attendance ) he made such an impression at that party he landed an agent and eventually a part on the ABC television show Shindig!

As young man, Mineo, whose Mafia faction was based on the east side of the East River in Brooklyn became part of this gang.

Al Mineo faced the chance of losing power and influence within the D ' Aquila crime family to Valenti, but in 1922 Valenti was murdered by Masseria-Morello forces.

By the mid 1920s Mineo and his top lieutenant, Steve Ferrigno began to asses their position within the D ' Aquila organization, and understood at this time that the new power in New york was Joe Masseria, so Mineo secretly began to align himself with Masseria.

By this time Mineo had secured his Brooklyn interests and would now command one of the larger Manhattan based Mafia groups in New York, and with Ferrigno as his second in command and based in the Bronx, the Mineo crime family would control a number of profitable rackets such as bootlegging, gambling, numbers and extortion.

Oon November 5, 1930, Mineo and his lieutenant Steve Ferrigno were shot and killed in the courtyard of an apartment building on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx.

* Salvatore Mineo ( 1939 – 1976 ), actor

Attendees representing Brooklyn included Profaci, Magliocco, Vincent Mangano ( who reported to D ' Aqulia family boss Alfred " Al Mineo " Manfredi ), Joseph Bonanno ( who represented Salvatore Maranzano and the Castellammarese Clan ), Chicago mobsters Joseph Guinta and Pasquale Lolordo, and Tampa mobster Ignazio Italiano.

* 1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor ( d. 1976 )

** Sal Mineo, American actor ( d. 1976 )

* February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor ( b. 1939 )

A few weeks later actor Sal Mineo handed Bogdanovich a copy of the book, " I always wanted to be in this ," he said, " but I'm a little too old now ," and recommended that Bogdanovich make it into a film.

The film received accolades for its story and for the performance of James Dean and the young stars who appeared, among them teenagers Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, along with Nick Adams and Corey Allen.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

The great success of young rock stars like Elvis Presley and film stars like James Dean and Sal Mineo in the 1950s, as well as the wider emergence of youth subcultures, led promoters to the deliberate creation of teen idols such as Frankie Avalon and Fabian — and to artists who deliberately cultivated a ( safer ) idol image, like Paul Anka.

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

D ' Aquila's family, now headed by Alfred Mineo, sided with Masseria.

In the major reorganization of the New York Mafia that resulted, Vincent Mangano took over the Mineo family, with Anastasia as his underboss and Gambino as a capo.

In addition to displaying outfits, Lynx players ended the show with a dance based on the song " Background " by Lecrae and Andy Mineo.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.