. >> rose: and what about the sal mineo role? the movie in it is a feature film about the last day in his life. >> yes. so i did a movie -- i directed a movie called "sal" over two years ago. we took it to the venice film festival. >> it's going to be fabulous. it's going to be something that from my experience has never ever been seen before. >> rose: what do you mean by never ever been seen before? >> i just feel like -- i mean, we're starting to evolve a little bit but i feel like the way i want to make this film no one's had the balls to make it the way i want to make it. >> rose: and how you want to make it? how would you characterize it? >> i want to make it realistic? >> slick? >> realistic. >> slick? realistic. sorry, realistic. give me realistic. i need to know what realistic means. that actually kind of scares me, the realistic part. i want to hear it from you. >> the book is nothing but gritty beautiful realistic truth. and i feel like a lot of movies are being made about horrifying situations and circumstances. but whe

my boyfriend, who is now in jail for another crime, was bragging when those news stories about sal mineo'surder came out. he was bragging that he killed him. he brought the apartment and mineo walked in at the wrong moment and the wrong time. he stabbed him. this man was convicted in mineo's murder. it was over 30 years ago. still people i talk to think that i did a movie about sal mineo -- "didn't his lover kill him?" "wasn't it drugs?" his memory is still tainted. it is not the only reason i wanted to make the movie. there was a new biography out and i started thinking about how what i do this. if i did the story of mineo, how would i do it? i did an art piece about natalie wood. i thought it would be cool to do something about sal. i found that his situation was a great kind of tragedy. i have heard people like woody allen talk about it. the tragedy of the artist who cannot practice his art. that was sal. nowadays, you would say, "sal, go get a video camera and make your own movie." and he probably would. at that time, movies and television shows were a rarefied thing. you had to be on