Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1965’s dark thriller Who Killed Teddy Bear?, a star vehicle for the trailblazing queer actor Sal ...

Police tape blocks off the road at both ends while TV news vans post up on the curbs and swarms of podcasters jostle each other as the mansion becomes part of the town’s topography of tragedy. By ...

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James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood in 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955). After the rebellious Jim moves to a new town, hoping to get a fresh start, he finds himself in similar trouble. Through the ...

Rebel Without a Cause was a defining portrayal of youth culture, but its stars faced real-life tragedies. The iconic 1955 film explores the lives of disillusioned and rebellious teens trying to figure ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

We’ve been swimming in the 1960s for decades, replaying the era like a classic-rock album. The artistic movements that came out of that time remain as fixed as the stars: Pop, minimalism, ...

Even today, The New Adam by Harold Stevenson still shocks. Everything about it—the colossal, panoramic format, the sumptuous execution, and yes, its unabashed subject—was and remains extraordinary.

Lionel “Ray Ray” Williams, the man convicted of Sal Mineo’s murder, is campaigning for exoneration in a recent documentary, Unseen Innocence. Williams, who got a 51-year sentence in 1979, recently ...

Sal Mineo, the Oscar-nominated actor from Rebel Without a Cause, was murdered at the age of 37 outside his West Hollywood apartment in 1976. According to The New York Times, the actor was returning ...

Depending on whom you ask, the murder of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” star Sal Mineo was due to revenge, salacious Hollywood blackmail, Deep State CIA-linked assassins or simply being in the ...