Wow. I had a huge crush on him as a kid. Never knew he was bi though.
| by Anonymous | reply 172 | June 6, 2019 2:19 AM |
Not bi. An opportunist when needed.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 27, 2019 3:00 AM |
Bobby needed a set of drums.....
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 27, 2019 3:02 AM |
Wasn’t bi. Someone who would do anything to get what he wanted.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 27, 2019 3:02 AM |
Sal fucked everybody. My ass is still sore.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 27, 2019 3:03 AM |
OP: Where did you read this?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 27, 2019 3:29 AM |
As a kid I had a crush on Buck Owens on "Hee Haw," and many years later I was floored to read that he was bi.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 27, 2019 3:39 AM |
Didn't Bobby and his "Here Comes The Brides" co-star David Soul both marry the same woman? David supposedly has been candid about being a kept man in his pre-fame days with wealthy older guys, much like Bobby with Sal.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 27, 2019 3:43 AM |
Where did you read that, r8?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 27, 2019 3:45 AM |
Sal Mineo and Bobby Sherman. Sal's girlfriend cancelled their wedding plans when she found out that Sal was having an affair with Bobby Sherman.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 27, 2019 3:57 AM |
Wouldn't you love to have an affair with him? I would!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 27, 2019 3:58 AM |
Bobby Sherman's Wikipedia article says he also had affairs with Wesley Eure and Danny Lockin???
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 27, 2019 4:02 AM |
In 1962 Jill Haworth Mineo’s “girlfriend” kicked open Mineo’s closet door, catching the 35-year-old actor bedding his buddy Bobby Sherman 20 -years-old. “But he didn’t stop,” she said. “He kept going at it.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 27, 2019 4:02 AM |
Sal was only about 4 years older than Sherman, not 15.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 27, 2019 4:03 AM |
Sherman was 20 in 1962 Mineo was 35. Hit the magnify button R17
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 27, 2019 4:07 AM |
Sal was born in 1939. He was 23 in 1962.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 27, 2019 4:09 AM |
I love that his wife caught him fucking sherman and he just kept going.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 27, 2019 4:13 AM |
R21, one should never waste a good twink.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 27, 2019 4:15 AM |
We've been through this topic so many times in the fairly recent past. It's all from the last bio on him. Sal was a horny hot stud
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 27, 2019 4:28 AM |
Loved Sal. My first crush
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 27, 2019 4:32 AM |
The alleged relationships with two other men cast Sherman in a different light than opportunist and gay-for-pay as theorized above, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 27, 2019 4:42 AM |
I read Sal was a top. Don't know how big he was. Cassidy's monster would have wrecked Bobby's lil tush.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 27, 2019 4:48 AM |
Seems more like he was just plain gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 27, 2019 4:49 AM |
I remember there being a thread on Danny Lockin here not too long ago. He was murdered in 1977. I recall reading about Wesley Eure here as well. Bobby S sure got around. A true bisexual.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 27, 2019 5:20 AM |
He was good with hand cuffs. Had a big night stick
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 27, 2019 5:29 AM |
Another former actor who became a cop was the kid who played Eddie on Leave it to Beaver.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 27, 2019 7:11 AM |
My sister went to see Bobby Sherman sing at Disneyland, at the peak of his fame in the 1970s. She said people were standing on tables in Tomorrowland to see him. Years later he built a detailed, 1/5 scale model of Disneyland's Main Street in his backyard. He was a Sherriff or deputy for a while, I think for San Bernardino, CA. His official fan site which is defunct since the site's creator passed away, states that he lives at his home in Encino, CA, and donates his time to the LAPD as a sworn officer, or at least he used to. He is now 75 and has 2 sons and 6 grandchildren. Go figure...
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 27, 2019 7:47 AM |
I had a crush on both of them. But I prefer to think about Sal and Don Johnson.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 27, 2019 8:17 AM |
Good grief! Sal was never married! Get real.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 27, 2019 8:20 AM |
R37 Sal just kept going...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 27, 2019 8:28 AM |
r36, I think Bobby was a paramedic for many years.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 27, 2019 10:01 AM |
I'll have to research Danny Lockin. Never heard of him before.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 27, 2019 12:37 PM |
Reading the wiki articles... I had no idea Wesley Eure from Land of the Lost is gay!
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 27, 2019 12:54 PM |
R44
And Eure reportedly had an affair with Richard Chamberlain.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 27, 2019 2:01 PM |
The most surprising thing I have discovered in this thread is that Datalounge has a HeeHaw thread.....
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 27, 2019 5:06 PM |
R43, Danny Lockin played Barnaby Tucker in the movie version of Hello Dolly.
"But I prefer to think about Sal and Don Johnson."
And MUCH more likely.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 27, 2019 5:15 PM |
"Sal-lie Do You Love Me?"
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 27, 2019 5:37 PM |
Much more likely than...? I don't follow.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 27, 2019 5:37 PM |
Lucky Sal ? I was in love with Sal on Rebel
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 27, 2019 5:41 PM |
He was beautiful, in that lush, overripe way some Italians have.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 27, 2019 5:43 PM |
Yes Bobby and David Soul married the same woman, Patty something..
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 27, 2019 5:52 PM |
R8 Buck Owens: the original butterface
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 27, 2019 6:11 PM |
Mineo "Sal Mineo discovered and mentored actor Don Johnson." They had good chemistry...
[quote]This 16mm film has been lost for 50 years, a piece of history which no one knew existed. The film is 15 minutes in length and acts as both an introduction and a sample from the controversial John Herbert play Fortune and Men's Eyes, performed at the Coronet Theater in L.A. in 1969. The play was being directed by Sal Mineo, who also rewrote and reshaped the play a bit. 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).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 27, 2019 6:56 PM |
Another in the Mineo/Johnson series...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 27, 2019 7:04 PM |
Sal scored! And I don't blame him.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 27, 2019 8:51 PM |
Sal's prodigious endowment...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 27, 2019 11:15 PM |
Don Johnson from Miami Vice ? I didn’t know he’s that old.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 27, 2019 11:22 PM |
I'm pretty sure that's photoshopped. The picture was originally taken for a fan magazine and I doubt that such a full-length image would have been captured in the first place in the 1950s.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 27, 2019 11:57 PM |
R55 Thanks for posting. I'd forgotten how good Mineo was and how beautiful Donnie was.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 28, 2019 12:00 AM |
Don Johnson's full frontal from "The Harrad Experiment" (1973).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 28, 2019 12:01 AM |
showers Sal far left Donnie far right
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 28, 2019 12:03 AM |
R67, he was such a hot twink.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 28, 2019 12:03 AM |
Grew up in Malibu in 60's. Donny Johnson & Mike Vincent (Jan Michael Vincent) were the boy toys of that era. They were passed around at "fruit soirees" like hors d'oeuvre . Tippi was apoplectic when her little Melanie ran off with a hustler. She cut off the money until she came back but they were on and off for 20 years. Go figure.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 28, 2019 12:15 AM |
Why not ? Make it pay while you are young and beautiful
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 28, 2019 12:17 AM |
the happy bride and groom with Cher
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 28, 2019 12:19 AM |
[quote] Grew up in Malibu in 60's. Donny Johnson & Mike Vincent (Jan Michael Vincent) were the boy toys of that era. They were passed around at "fruit soirees" like hors d'oeuvre . Tippi was apoplectic when her little Melanie ran off with a hustler. She cut off the money until she came back but they were on and off for 20 years. Go figure.
Don’s full name is Donald.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 28, 2019 12:21 AM |
Donnie hasn't had as much "freshin" as Mel
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 28, 2019 12:23 AM |
The Fortune and Men’s Eyes film is horrible. The “Queenie” character is insufferable.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 28, 2019 12:26 AM |
R76 When I was buying my doobies off him in '66 he was Donnie. Sorry if I offended you doubt it would offend my ole dealer Donnie.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 28, 2019 12:27 AM |
Found an interesting quote on this site attributed to Sal about Donnie...
[quote]I lived with Don Johnson, I discovered him, put him in a play set in prison with a gay theme (“Fortune and Men’s Eyes”). I lived with both Don and his sister, and people imagined all sorts of things. I’ll put it like this: Yes, I’m bisexual, and blond guys are my favorite type, and I did enjoy seeing Don nude on the stage, and on the silver screen, for that matter. Who wouldn’t? So what – SAL MINEO
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 28, 2019 12:28 AM |
Did Sal hit on James Dean on set ?
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 28, 2019 12:55 AM |
Peter Lawford interviews Sal Mineo about James Dean (c. 1974)...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 28, 2019 1:27 AM |
Were Sal Mineo and Bobby Sherman even alive at the same time?
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 28, 2019 1:32 AM |
I don’t know why, but I always thought Mineo was killed in the ‘60s. Just looked it up and it was 1976!
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 28, 2019 1:51 AM |
The Golden Age of Entertainment was The Tiger Beat Era featuring Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and......Sajid Khan.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 28, 2019 1:51 AM |
R60. Sal Mineo's penis was intact, not mutilated. The pic you posted is photoshopped and not Sal.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 28, 2019 1:55 AM |
Not R86, but you can see from this nude portrait he posed for, The New Adam.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 28, 2019 2:41 AM |
Sal was a stunner. Articulate. Something about him reminds me of Paul Newman. Not look wise but maybe his manner and voice. Bet he was a wild man in bed
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 28, 2019 3:12 AM |
R90 where is the whole thing ?
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 28, 2019 3:23 AM |
Wow, Danny Lockin and Sal Mineo were both stabbed to death 18 months apart. Aside from the horror of that for the victims, it must have been a chilling coincidence for Sherman.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 28, 2019 3:40 AM |
R91 I posted it upthread.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 28, 2019 3:42 AM |
I read the Sal Mineo biography from several years ago. I remember Sal's boyfriend said that after his murder, his thug family immediately descended on his apt. and took/destroyed a bunch of his "private" things. Then, they harassed HIM, demanding that he turn over love letters that Sal had written to him, which he refused to do.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 28, 2019 3:46 AM |
R88 Thanks for finding that. I stand corrected.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 28, 2019 3:47 AM |
The shower picture was taken in 1956 for a movie magazine shoot and amazingly appeared in the story.....What a Man.....it was cropped right at dick level.....the photo showing lower is a fake....
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 28, 2019 6:18 PM |
R60, you're the most gullible person at the DL.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 28, 2019 7:45 PM |
"When I was buying my doobies off him in '66 he was Donnie"
In 1966, "Donnie" was barely 16 years old.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 28, 2019 7:52 PM |
Gay History – February 12, 1976: Gay Actor Sal Mineo Murdered In West Hollywood
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 28, 2019 8:00 PM |
The Gruesome Murder of Hello Dolly Actor / Singer Danny Lockin
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 28, 2019 8:04 PM |
After his divorce, Lockin went back on tour with Hello Dolly!, continuing his role as Barnaby. He stayed with the tour until it ended; at which point, with his career in decline due to substance abuse issues, Lockin moved into his mother's apartment in Anaheim. Around 1974, Lockin began assisting his mother in running the Jean Lockin Dance Studio.[13] The studio closed in early 1977, and Lockin began teaching at another dance studio.
On the night of August 21, 1977, Lockin went to a gay bar in Garden Grove, California.[14] He left the bar with a slight, 34-year-old unemployed medical clerk, Charles Leslie Hopkins (who already had a police record, and was on probation at the time). Several hours later, Hopkins called police to say that a man had entered his apartment and tried to rob him.[13] Upon arrival, police found Lockin's body on the floor of Hopkin's apartment. He had been stabbed 100 times, and bled to death.[13] His body had also been mutilated after death.[14] Hopkins claimed he had no idea how the dead body got in his apartment.[15] He was arrested immediately.
Lockin was interred at Westminster Memorial Park cemetery in Westminster, California.
Trial Police found a book of pornographic pictures in Hopkins' apartment which showed men being tortured during sexual orgies.[14] Prosecutors initially intended to seek a first degree murder conviction, and to use the book to prove that Hopkins had planned the murder. Hopkins' trial began in May 1978, but was delayed for two months after the prosecutor was injured in an unrelated accident.[14] During the delay, the Supreme Court of the United States held in United States v. Chadwick, 433 U.S. 1 (1977), that police may not engage in warrantless searches in the absence of an exigency.[16] On July 31, the trial court ruled the pornographic book inadmissible as evidence.[14] On August 8, the trial court judge held that the death penalty could not be applied to Hopkins due to lack of evidence of premeditation.[17]
On September 28, 1978, Hopkins was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to a three-year prison term.[15] Since the court was permitted to consider suppressed evidence if the evidence was not seized merely to obtain a lengthier prison sentence and it did not "shock the conscience of the court," the trial judge increased Hopkins' sentence from the usual three years to four years.[15] Prosecutors said that with good behavior, Hopkins would be released in two years (considering time served).[15]
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 28, 2019 8:18 PM |
Wow. Maximum of four years, out in two? WTF?
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 28, 2019 9:47 PM |
Don’t go with strange men
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 28, 2019 10:44 PM |
Back to Bobby Sherman, who is still very much alive...
[quote]Bobby Sherman (age 75) at the Opening Night of In A Booth At Chasen's at El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, California on November 11, 2018.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 29, 2019 6:27 AM |
So what really happened with Sal's murder? Was it a drug deal gone wrong?
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 29, 2019 6:43 AM |
No, just a random killing while walking to his apartment that he shared with a long time male lover. He was Bi, and lived with a young English actress for a good while. Lots of pix online. Also a playwright, director and all round good person and actor. He was in his mid thirties when he appeared in "Rebel without a Cause."
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 29, 2019 7:13 AM |
Bobby Sherman! How wonderful!
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | May 29, 2019 8:21 AM |
Sal was born in 1939, he was not in his 30’s when he was in Rebel.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 29, 2019 8:44 AM |
Sal was appearing in gay actor James Kirkwood's P.S. Your Cat is dead - a gay themed twist on a love story between a burglar and a guy whose life is flipped upside down. Sal who was heavy into bondage (just like Anthony Perkins) spent much of the play tied up over a kitchen sink.
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | May 29, 2019 8:57 AM |
R108, see r101.
Disgraceful. He barely served 2 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 29, 2019 1:11 PM |
R107 arrived here late, and insists on providing bio info we already know, plus a little bs...
Are you the same fool who "introduced" us to Glen Campbell in that other thread?
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 29, 2019 1:30 PM |
Sal in Who Killed Teddy Bear a sleazy b&w film where he plays a waiter obsessed with Juliet Prowse. Elaine Stritch plays a lesbian club owner who also is into Juliette. Some nice beefcake scenes with Sal working out and swimming. Awful movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | May 29, 2019 1:56 PM |
Clearly Hollywood only wanted him when he was a cute ethnic looking non threatening teen.
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 29, 2019 6:37 PM |
R114 now that's MY favorite pic of Bobby Sherman.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 29, 2019 6:51 PM |
Hutch, get your mitts off him. He could do better (and did!).
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 30, 2019 1:35 AM |
[quote]The Golden Age of Entertainment was The Tiger Beat Era featuring Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and......Sajid Khan.
I had a crush on Sajid Khan and I would secretly look at my sister's magazines to see pictures of him. There was a TV show called "Maya," with Jay North and Sajid Khan. One scene had them skinnydipping and I almost passed out.
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 30, 2019 1:36 AM |
R120 "I almost passed out". Lol! I'm glad that you revived to see the scenery!
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | May 30, 2019 1:37 AM |
I wish I could go back in time to be with Sal.
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | May 30, 2019 2:28 AM |
Bobby Sherman :"Easy Cum, Easy Go"
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | May 30, 2019 2:31 AM |
More Bobby Sherman beefcake...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 124 | May 30, 2019 3:34 AM |
Good lord, that's a hairy leg (@ R126) for someone with a completely hairless chest. He probably shaved it, though. Mineo clearly did.
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | May 30, 2019 3:47 AM |
Bobby had an impressive recording career. He released 107 songs, 23 singles and 10 albums between 1962 and 1976, earning seven gold singles, one platinum single, five gold albums and seven top 40 hits. He also experienced permanent hearing loss from the loud screaming at his concerts.
From Wikipedia:
[quote]In 1962, Sal Mineo took Sherman under his wing and wrote two songs for him as well as arranging for Sherman to record the songs, then in 1964 when Mineo asked Sherman to sing with his old band at a Hollywood party (where many actors and agents were in attendance) Sherman made such an impression at that party he was signed with an agent and eventually landed a part on the ABC television show Shindig! as a regular cast member/house singer. Shindig! ran for two years keeping Sherman busy from 1964-66.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 128 | May 30, 2019 12:37 PM |
I love that the same studio singers back up Bobby Sherman and the Partridge Family.
| by Anonymous | reply 129 | May 30, 2019 12:44 PM |
Bobby sure was a charmer amidst the screaming. Some nice butt views towards the end of this Nashville gig...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 130 | May 30, 2019 1:17 PM |
Twinky, Mineo-era Bobby on 'Shindig' in1964...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 131 | May 30, 2019 1:48 PM |
[quote]Good lord, that's a hairy leg (@ R126) for someone with a completely hairless chest. He probably shaved it, though.
Why would you think that? Not every guy had or has a hairy chest.
| by Anonymous | reply 132 | May 30, 2019 1:49 PM |
This amazing look back at 'Shindig' in 1991 includes interviews with many of the recording artists who appeared on the show, including Bobby (@16:06) and out and proud lesbian, Lesley Gore (@ 7:57), along with some of the greatest soul and R&B singers of the era...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 133 | May 30, 2019 2:29 PM |
I wish there were more pics of Bobby and Sal together.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 135 | May 30, 2019 3:25 PM |
I wish there were a Bobby and Sal sex tape!
| by Anonymous | reply 136 | May 30, 2019 3:31 PM |
Bobby Sherman was/is cute but not really my type. However, am I bad that I still want to go to bed with Don Johnson?
| by Anonymous | reply 138 | May 30, 2019 3:41 PM |
Don Johnson always looked younger than his years and he's still got it at 69. I think that SF socialite he married is keeping him sober. Last year, he did a silly comedy opposite Jane Fonda and was the only one in the ensemble cast of older stars who brought any hotness and charisma.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 139 | May 30, 2019 4:23 PM |
Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones and David Cassidy where are my three adolescent heart throbs. So happy to hear about Bobby...
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | May 30, 2019 4:54 PM |
And then Jan Michael Vincent and Don Johnson were my late teen heartthrobs, because they showed peen in the movies
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | May 30, 2019 4:55 PM |
[quote]Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones and David Cassidy where are my three adolescent heart throbs.
Las Vegas
Dead
Dead
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | May 30, 2019 4:59 PM |
Don Johnson didn't become famous until about six years after Mineo was murdered, so that quote from Mineo about him is fabricated.
| by Anonymous | reply 143 | May 30, 2019 5:13 PM |
Care to tell us to whom you’re referring, r143?
| by Anonymous | reply 144 | May 30, 2019 5:38 PM |
R126, Paul McCartney - hairy arms and legs, very little chest hair
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 145 | May 30, 2019 7:33 PM |
I should've remembered Shindig, but I don't. (I do remember Hullabaloo!). So my first knowledge of Bobby came with Here Comes The Brides. Bobby was one of 3 brothers (Robert Brown and David Soul). Teenage girls went nuts over him because his character was shy and had a stutter worse than Mel Tillis. Then Bobby released "Little Woman" as a single and he became a star.
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | May 31, 2019 2:04 AM |
Don't forget - Bobby is a shrimp. Probably 5'5" tops!
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | May 31, 2019 2:19 AM |
Excuse me, [R147], but I think you mean he was "probably 5'5" bottoms"!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | May 31, 2019 3:04 AM |
What’s he doing with himself these days?
| by Anonymous | reply 149 | May 31, 2019 4:41 PM |
Sal Mineo was my first teenage crush.
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | May 31, 2019 4:53 PM |
In the movie Maya with Jay and Sajid - Jay is putting on his loincloth and it falls off.....underage butt.....I was so horrible and damaging that my 11 year old self stayed to see the movie a second time....
| by Anonymous | reply 151 | May 31, 2019 5:07 PM |
...*it was so horrible....
| by Anonymous | reply 152 | May 31, 2019 5:08 PM |
[quote]What’s he doing with himself these days?
He’s holding his own.
| by Anonymous | reply 153 | May 31, 2019 7:46 PM |
Read an interesting interview once with Robert Westbrook, the author of the novel, “The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart”. Originally cast in the leads were Richard Thomas and Kate Heflin. Then the producer or one of the powers-that-be at MGM saw Don Johnson in “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” onstage, became enamored with him and replaced Thomas with Johnson. Westbrook thought it was a terrible idea and flat-out says in the interview that Don Johnson was a hustler of the most obvious sort. Then Kate Heflin (daughter of Van, by the way) was demoted to a smaller role in the film and replaced by Dianne Hull. Westbrook later married Heflin. (Crazy the things you remember, and yes, I’m an eldergay!)
| by Anonymous | reply 155 | June 1, 2019 6:36 PM |
R155 Thanks for the interesting tidbit. Westbrook said (in this 2014 interview) that experience in Hollywood made him quit writing for 15 years. Geez.
[quote]When did you first consider yourself a writer?
[quote]I suppose when I was 17. A few years later, in 1969, I wrote my first novel, “The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart,” which was made into a very bad movie by MGM. This was so discouraging, I stopped writing for nearly 15 years, turning my attention to studying jazz piano. In the mid-1980s, living in Hawaii, I started writing mystery novels – 3 novels for Crown Publishers, 4 for Signet, and my non-fiction memoir about my mother and Fitzgerald, “Intimate Lies,” which HarperCollins published in 1995.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 157 | June 1, 2019 11:19 PM |
[quote] Don Johnson always looked younger than his years and he's still got it at 69. I think that SF socialite he married is keeping him sober.
Really?
[quote] Jane Fonda and was the only one in the ensemble cast of older stars who brought any hotness and charisma.
Jane Fonda is a decade older than Johnson.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 158 | June 1, 2019 11:32 PM |
Dakota looks a lot like Dad
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 161 | June 2, 2019 12:21 AM |
Is Dakota a girls name or a boys name?
Yes, I know, no apostrophe....
| by Anonymous | reply 162 | June 2, 2019 3:30 AM |
Sal was on To Tell the Truth twice.
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | June 2, 2019 5:48 AM |
Adorable teenage Sal stumps the panel on What's My Line in 1957 at the tender age of 18 (between Oscar noms for Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Exodus (1960). Listen for the double entendre @ 2:30. Even host John Daly looks smitten.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 164 | June 2, 2019 6:32 PM |
That was great! Thanks for the find r164.
| by Anonymous | reply 165 | June 2, 2019 9:02 PM |
It sure was, R164. Thank you. Seldom did that panel get stumped.
| by Anonymous | reply 166 | June 3, 2019 12:53 AM |
He was very charming at R164!
| by Anonymous | reply 167 | June 3, 2019 4:58 AM |
Here’s “Special Guest Star” Sal Mineo on “The Name of the Game” with Sharon Farrell as a Janis Joplin-type singer.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 168 | June 3, 2019 5:03 AM |
Bobby Sherman, possibly the hottest musical heartthrob of all time.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 169 | June 5, 2019 2:05 AM |
I paid him back for the drums.....did he get anything back from any other trick?
| by Anonymous | reply 171 | June 5, 2019 7:02 PM |
Probably not, JB. You were a pretty good guy, though.
BTW, Sherman paid him $3,000 after the shakedown by Sal's lover Courtney Burr. That was probably around 1970, when Sherman was at the height of his popularity. That's the equivalent of almost $20,000 today.
| by Anonymous | reply 172 | June 6, 2019 2:19 AM |
