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Carmine went on to appear in supporting roles in the films Batteries Not Included (1987) and Leviathan (1989). In his final role, he played an AIDS patient in the drama film Longtime Companion (also 1989).
Michael Carmine, 1959–1989. Story & Recording by Timothy Dean Lee. My friend Michael Carmine (March 6, 1959 – October 14, 1989) was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn. His mother was the daughter of a Portuguese sales clerk at Tiffany’s on 5th Avenue and her mother was Jamaican. Michael’s father was a blond Northern Italian.
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Oct 18, 1989 · Michael Carmine, an actor, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 30 years old. A spokeswoman for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Barbara Carroll, said he died of a heart attack.
He died of AIDS soon after his last film, "Longtime Companion," was completed. In that film he played someone dying of AIDS. As was not unusual at the time, his official obituary did not mention that his heart failure was due to the effects of AIDS.
The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the euphemism The New York Times used during the 1980s to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.
