Posted on 05/27/2011 9:24:08 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
I always liked that guy's films, own a couple of 'em. What an interesting read. Go to Wiki sometime and put his name in, wow. That guy was cool. I guess I didn't realize he died so young (ha, 50, I'm older than that).
I can identify with him so much, what a trip.
I love that film "Le Mans" because I am a racing film. It is basically stupid, except for the tasty automobiles, but I watch it every few months and always get a tear. I'm weird like that about films.
You are a racing film?
I’m not a racing fan, but had the privilege of
performing for the movie premiere of “LeMans”
in LeMans, France in 1971. I honestly did not
understand anything about the race. My job was
to smile and sing.
Steve McQueen went to Mexico for unorthodox
cancer treatment. He was a manly man. My
husband’s favorite movie is “The Great Escape”.
Well, I am actually more of a Samurai film, but yeah, I mistyped that. I’ll get over it.
I was a racing film for a time.... I gave it up as it’s bad for the health as you surely know.
Only if you try and drive like that guy in “Bullitt.”
I live in a city full of people who never heard of Steve McQueen, but try to drive like him.
McQueen was indeed the King of Cool.
My two favorite McQueen films are The Sand Pebbles (good bit of historical fiction along with an entertaining film), and the often overlooked Papillon (ya never see that one on cable, but man is it great!).
I feel sure I have seen “The Sand Pebbles” but cannot remember. I’ll have to snoop around and find it. I looked it up and it sounds very involved, have to sit down and watch it.
Steve McQueen played in the NBA for the Celtics and was the first one in the NBA to smash a backboard during a game. That factoid will win you $20 from any of your friends. (You can send me a beer)..lol.
Helluva guy, and I have been told very real and approachable when away from the cameras and the paparazzi. Then again, like Lee Marvin, how else would you expect a former Marine turned movie star to be? Their personalities and honor were formed long before Hollyweird got hold of them.
‘The Great Escape’ - one of my top 10 movies
(you think you’re weird:>)
I knew him through work, when he was married to Ali McGraw. After they broke uo, he wanted to get serious about acting, and got an English screenwriter to adapt the Ibsen play, “Enemy of the People” for McQueen to play the lead. He grew a huge bushy beard, and kept it for a long time. His first unorthodox cancer treatment was with a doctor in Wa., William Kelly. I believe it was Kelly who then sent McQ to Mx for laetril (sp?) treatments which were outlawed by the FDA.
Very interesting book. Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life [Book] by Darwin Porter in Books
He was very nice, very shy hard of hearing. My favorite films of his are “Baby, the Rain Must Fall” and “Junior Bonner”.
Laetril... good memory.
Forgot he was married to Ali (love means
never having to say you’re sorry) McGraw.
Sorry but Papillion was his greatest film. The racing ones are OK, but they were not anywhere in the same league as he and Hoffman.
Always figured he was in his 60s when he died. He didnt age well.
Will you be at the Playboy Jazz Festival?
Best car chase sequence in movies: Bullitt. Also a good mystery and McQueen is very good as the cop.
It was an odd match that didn’t last. She looked a lot like his first wife. He liked brunettes, had had a thing with Natalie Wood.
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