Vanity: You ever want to read up on an interesting guy, look up Steve McQueen sometime.

Me

[West Texas Chuck]

Interesting, I’ve seen “Papillion” fo sho. I’ll have to watch it again, all I remember is them being in prison and he has calculated the rotations of the waves to escape, or something. I’ll look it up.

[Lazlo in PA]

"I just want the brass ring and the pine trees and my kids and the green grass. I want to get rich and fat and watch my kids grow."-SM

[Quix]

IIRC,

He called Billy Graham when he was dying . . . or just before . . . and Billy led him to The Lord.

He reportedly died an authentic believer in Jesus The Christ as his Savior.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

I was at the Le Mercure hotel in Paris last week. THe theme was hollywood. My room name was “Steve McQueen”. Right next door was James Dean.

[Tainan]

"The Thomas Crown Affair"...1968...the original one.
This is why McQueen was the King of Cool.
Best chess match EVER.

A must see for McQueen fans.

[West Texas Chuck]

Good, I’m glad he died with a Savior in his heart. The guy’s life just cracks me up. Abandoned child, Marine, actor, racer, gun guy. I like that, I’d buy him a beer or three.

[Lancey Howard]

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I just read the entire Wiki biography and you’re right - - there’s a lot more to Steve McQueen than I ever knew. I knew he was a Marine but it was also interesting to read that he was a conservative Christian.

[Prokopton]

I always liked the story I read years ago that to me was the essence of Steve McQueen. There were terrible mudslides around LA and a number of famous peoples houses were threatened. Hollywood held a benefit for the cleanup, and McQueen showed up on a dozer to do the work himself.

[kabumpo]

Not this year, I'll be at Monterey Jazz. Who is st the Playboy?

[Quix]

He certainly seemed a lot more authentic than a lot of the Hollyweed pretty boys.

I liked that.

[ResponseAbility]

I believe you are referring to Chuck Connors of Gunsmoke fame, and the broken backboard was pre-game that put it an hour behind schedule.

[doorgunner69]

From the motorcycle guys that shyly stopped by his aircraft hangar up in Fillmore full of vintage motorcycles, he was very real. When he was there tinkering, he would always stop and entertain company. Just loved shooting the breeze with other people that had the same passions.

[West Texas Chuck]

Schveet. I love it. I can’t drive one of those beasties, so anybody who knows which lever to pull gets a thumbs-up from me.

[mylife]

The Sand Peb
bles is one of the most overlooked films in history.

USS Pueblo.

Papillion was also another underrated film..
But “The Blob” was a masterpiece LoL

[Squeeky]

All I know about him is this:

Steve McQueen

[mylife]

Love scene from the sand pebbles

[Donkey Odious]

Bullitt....Best. Chase scene. Ever.

From “Wanted Dead or Alive” and the infamous Mare’s Leg, to “The Magnificent Seven”, “Nevada Smith”, “Junior Bonner” and “Tom Horn”, Steve McQueen made himself into a cowboy legend. But in movies like “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Baby the Rain Must Fall” and “The Cincinnati Kid” he proved himself to be the true “King of Cool”. If there is beer in heaven, it will be my pleasure to buy him one.

[robowombat]

Steve McQueen was a brilliant stunt man who unfortunately for him was discovered as an actor. He was quite talented but the elevation to star status eventually overwhelmed him. He came from a dysfunctional family rife with maladaptive behaviors and was frank enough to say that enlisting in the USMC saved him from being a felon. McQueen was constantly in trouble in the Corps over a host of discipline matters. Some did show some foretaste of his stuntman prowess as on one occasion he absconded in a amphibious tractor and avoided detection for several days at Camp Lejeune. For a man with little more than 9/10 spotty years of formal education tinsel towns star treatment and the host of sycophants and manipulators drove him into a kind of depressive spiral. He hid out in a house out in the desert and would collect his mail at a filling station. Eventually he became a sad shell of his previous self, suspicious, wary, and near paranoid. Cancer was his final disaster.

[smokingfrog]

I love this one...

Steve McQueen: The Hunter

[Quix]

GREAT.