Rodney Harvey

Do you remember the PSA they made using him to keep people from doing drugs? It was after he died. So sad that he became hooked to that stuff.

I remember there being a specific time he became addicted but can not remember around what time he began using. Sad. Always breaks my heart how many young people in the 90s/00s lost their lives to drugs.

It's much more tragic when the drugs

Kill hunks instead of just the ugs!

Never saw that before, but it was effective.

A terrible waste. No one more gorgeous.

He was a real up-and-comer.

He was discovered at age 17 by Paul Morrissey. Taken right out of South Philly High School to play a major role in the crime film Mixed Blood and a few laters played a supporting role in Spike of Bensonhurst. Both directed by Morrissey and show an interesting snapshot of 1980s pre-gentrification NYC with hot hunks and twinks.

He appears as the guy in the super revealing yellow crop top in Menudo's Hold Me music video

He also became a model, most notably for CK.

Shockingly, Ricky Martin is not the gayest thing in R5’s video.

Rodney is Salsa also starring ex-Menudo member Robby Rosa

He played Gary in ‘My Own Private Idaho’ alongside fellow heroin user River Phoenix. Both died young from it.

He played Soda Pop in the short-lived TV adaptation of The Outsiders. Very attractive male cast just as hot as the film's cast.

[quote]He played Gary in ‘My Own Private Idaho’ alongside fellow heroin user River Phoenix. Both died young from it.

Harold Pruett from The Outsiders also died from a heroin overdose.

Hmm... I think I remember him.

A YouTube comment left on a tribute video by someone who knew him claims he was taken advantage of by older people.

R15 that’s the case of most children in Hollywood, sadly.

Wasn't he a kept boy? Just like Bruce Weber's other "discoveries", Michael Schoeffling and Sasha Mitchell. But I remember in a MOPI thread, someone who knew him said Rodney was actually bisexual and not just gay4pay and he had a loving relationship with an older man.

You can see his bush in that last pic in the video

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