Posted on 05/27/2011 9:24:08 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
Watched Tom Horn last night.... The Hunter is on the computer as well as are many more of his movies.
Interesting side note: Prowl around Pyongyang on Google Earth. There is no other country on earth with wider streets, fewer parked cars and less traffic. Christmas Day in Sheridan, WY. has more traffic. It's a democrat's wet dream.
My daily drive: 2001 Bullitt Mustang GT... check my sig. line :-)
Didn't like the ending, but I liked how he would have to have his *Morning Whiskey*.
Man knew how to start a day!
My mistake.
I continue to make that mistake.
I am always trying to make the Pueblo more prevalent in peoples minds
Dr. Phil would like to have you on his show.
Ive been to Sheridan Wy LoL
'The Great Escape' superstar spent his last year there, where he was treated as an average Joe. Friends recall his kindness and love of cheap beer.By Steve Chawkins Los Angeles Times November 30, 2008
One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly. Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living with his girlfriend in a hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane. In the evening, the tough-guy superstar would crack open cold beers with grease monkeys, fledgling pilots and aging flyboys who still had a few loop-de-loops left in them.
McQueen and his girlfriend, a stunning model who would become his third wife, slept on a four-poster brass bed amid his vintage motorcycles and airplane parts. His bright- yellow Stearman biplane loomed over their cramped quarters, its wings close enough to create a head-whacking hazard for someone groping through the dark.
But life was good: On Saturday nights, the couple kicked back in their hangar -- really a big storage shed -- to watch "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" on a black-and-white TV. Dinner was often a feed at the local Chinese restaurant.
"It was a sweet time in a sweet place," said Barbara McQueen, the last woman in his life. "We just loved it."
snip But Dewey's warmest memories were of the after-hours get-togethers and McQueen's fondness for Old Milwaukee beer, an inexpensive brew known as an acquired taste.
"He was in character drinking that awful stuff," Dewey said. "It just brings a smile to my face."
A reform school alumnus with a well-deserved bad-boy reputation, McQueen is said to have mellowed by the time he touched down in Santa Paula.
When a medical emergency required two friends in town to leave for a week, McQueen volunteered to care for their seven children. When a young man who worked at the airport died suddenly, McQueen paid off his family's mortgage.
Yep.... Agree !
Let me say, that back then hollywoods idea of men was different.
Paul Newman despite being a big lib was close to McQeen in status.
These bastards raced cars and rode motorcycles, romanced women and gave money to the poor but expected a smile in return.
Newman is a relative of a childhood friend, and he is a decent guy
Now we have POS role models in the movies
Carried a 1911 if I recall correctly.
For all the movies McQueen did, nothing summed up his persona like the great escape.
His dogged American determination and defiance
Thathump! Thathump! bouncing that damned ball
“Hell is for Heros” is one of my favorites.
Connors was not Gunsmoke, he was The Rifleman and Branded, but he was the pro Basketball and Baseball player.
Papillon is a good movie, but the book is absolutely fantastic.
“Papillon is a memoir by convicted felon and fugitive Henri Charrière, first published in France in 1969. It became an instant bestseller. It was translated into English from the original French by June P. Wilson and Walter B. Michaels for a 1970 edition, and by author Patrick O’Brian. Soon afterward the book was adapted for a Hollywood film of the same name.”
My favorite films are "The Hunter" (Not liked by many people, though) and "Papillon".
Yes, The Rifleman. My dad would laughingly correct my mistake, as it was his generations entertainment.
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