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Vanity: You ever want to read up on an interesting guy, look up Steve McQueen sometime.
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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.
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To: Soothesayer9
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:04:01 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: West Texas Chuck
"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
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:04:46 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:05:54 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:08:32 PM PDT
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
To: West Texas Chuck
"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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:10:12 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
To: Quix
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:12:13 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
To: Jo Nuvark
Not this year, I'll be at Monterey Jazz. Who is st the Playboy?
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:14:14 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: West Texas Chuck
He certainly seemed a lot more authentic than a lot of the Hollyweed pretty boys.
I liked that.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:17:54 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: willyd
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:21:17 PM PDT
by
ResponseAbility
(Islam...Imperialism in a turban.)
To: Quix
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.
To: Prokopton
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:24:50 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: West Texas Chuck
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
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:26:12 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: West Texas Chuck
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:28:51 PM PDT
by
Squeeky
("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tll it. " Emily Dickinson)
To: West Texas Chuck
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:30:12 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:45:56 PM PDT
by
Donkey Odious
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: West Texas Chuck
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.
To: West Texas Chuck
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:53:27 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
05/27/2011 10:55:11 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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