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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:18:01 PM EDT

I Am Steve McQueen

"He pre-dated cool."

Well worth 90 minutes of your life…

McQueen was always my favorite, and I'm sure a lot of y'alls as well. Great documentary on his life.

The King of Cool

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:20:42 PM EDT

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Absolutely..!!!

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:27:24 PM EDT

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Le Mans is still one of my favorite movies. It was basically real!

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:28:10 PM EDT

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Highest paid actor in the world at one point. Guy was a badass. I wasn't around to see him since I'm a youngn' but my dad turned me onto his film when I was a little one.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:29:50 PM EDT

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McQueen consider Paul Newman his rival.

They both were in The Towering Inferno. McQueen insisted that they both have the same number of lines of dialogue.

Another interesting thing is how their names appeared in the credits:

If you read from top to bottom, Newman has the top billing.

If you read from left to right, McQueen has the top billing.

Egos.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:30:31 PM EDT

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For some reason this makes me think of Paul Newman dropping the V8s in the pedestrian Volvo wagons. Anyone remember?

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:30:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:38:52 PM EDT

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Bad ass.
So many great movies.

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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:42:50 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/18/2015 10:44:06 PM EDT

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I most heartily concur!

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:44:44 PM EDT

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I actually walked out of the theatre on that movie. But then I was s shot nosed 10 year old too.

Picked up the blue ray a couple years ago and blown away by the photography and cars. What an awesome film.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:45:26 PM EDT

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I also like The Sand Pebbles and Papillon the most

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:47:48 PM EDT

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Great escape. Still love that movie.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:49:48 PM EDT

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From Life magazine.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:52:38 PM EDT

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McQueen rocks in the WWII movie Hell Is For Heroes:

Heck, looks like the whole movie is on youtube:

https://youtu.be/YX2fJDp5YvE

ETA: WTH, they want to charge to watch the movie! Oh well, here's the last battle sequence (warning, spoilers):

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:53:08 PM EDT

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That was on a recent episode of Chasing Classic Cars

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:53:54 PM EDT

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He tore ass in a rental car through downtown Anchorage while drunk, got arrested, said "Fuck you and your podunk town" and skipped bail.

Posted: 4/18/2015 10:57:01 PM EDT

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I caught this on tv last summer. It permanently saved on my dvr.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:05:17 PM EDT

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"The Getaway" is a classic and one of my favorite movies.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:14:37 PM EDT

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At the end of his life, he was racked with cancer and died from" treatments" in Mexico. His body was brought back to El Paso and a friend of mine helped the coroner do the autopsy. At first he didn't know who McQueen was because the tag said "Sam Shepard" and he was so shrunken from the cancer that he became unrecognizable. When the coroner told my friend who it was, he was amazed because the guy look so much smaller that what he saw on the screen. CSB, I know.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:22:50 PM EDT

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Dang, how many times did they pass that green VW???

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:28:20 PM EDT

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For some reason this makes me think of Paul Newman dropping the V8s in the pedestrian Volvo wagons. Anyone remember?

That was on a recent episode of Chasing Classic Cars

I've read stories about Paul SMOKING the asses of all kinds of unsuspecting supposedly hard core sports car owners at stoplights in the Volvo grocery getter.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:30:27 PM EDT

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Dang, how many times did they pass that green VW???

Every single time.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:37:03 PM EDT

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Any man worried about another man being cool is a fag.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:38:39 PM EDT

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On Any Sunday.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:48:08 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/18/2015 11:54:14 PM EDT

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Harvey Mushman

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:56:23 PM EDT

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Elsinore for the win...

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:59:20 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/19/2015 12:00:28 AM EDT

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David Letterman idolizes both McQueen and Newman. He was friends with Newman.

I recall him talking to some driver, maybe Gordon or Johnson, and he talked about a car Newman gave him. Some little VW, maybe a Fox, that Newman had somehow crammed a 7 liter Ford engine into the thing.

And I do agree that McQueen was the man.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:06:01 AM EDT

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Interesting to note who did the driving when.

McQueen, an accomplished driver, drove in the close-up scenes, while stunt coordinator Carey Loftin, stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins, and McQueen's usual stunt driver Loren Janes drove for the high-speed part of the chase and other dangerous stunts.[ Ekins, who doubled for McQueen in the The Great Escape sequence where McQueen's character jumps over a barbed wire fence on a motorcycle, also lays one down in front of a skidding truck during the Bullitt chase. The Mustang’s interior rear view mirror goes up and down depending on who is driving; when the mirror is up McQueen is visible behind the wheel; when it is down a stunt man is driving. Wiki

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:09:13 AM EDT

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I dated a series of girlfriends in the 80's and if they were going to hang with me they would have to watch The Getaway and Bullitt...and like it.

McQueen wanted to do the entire chase scene in Bullitt and was skilled enough but the directors had a stunt driver do it.

Nevada Smith was also a one of my favorite Westerns.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:14:18 AM EDT

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Posted: 4/19/2015 12:14:26 AM EDT

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"I was just goin' over here to get my baseball."

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:21:01 AM EDT

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The definition of "cool".

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:21:46 AM EDT

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Interesting to note who did the driving when.

McQueen, an accomplished driver, drove in the close-up scenes, while stunt coordinator Carey Loftin, stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins, and McQueen's usual stunt driver Loren Janes drove for the high-speed part of the chase and other dangerous stunts.[ Ekins, who doubled for McQueen in the The Great Escape sequence where McQueen's character jumps over a barbed wire fence on a motorcycle, also lays one down in front of a skidding truck during the Bullitt chase. The Mustang’s interior rear view mirror goes up and down depending on who is driving; when the mirror is up McQueen is visible behind the wheel; when it is down a stunt man is driving. Wiki

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Interesting to note who did the driving when.

McQueen, an accomplished driver, drove in the close-up scenes, while stunt coordinator Carey Loftin, stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins, and McQueen's usual stunt driver Loren Janes drove for the high-speed part of the chase and other dangerous stunts.[ Ekins, who doubled for McQueen in the The Great Escape sequence where McQueen's character jumps over a barbed wire fence on a motorcycle, also lays one down in front of a skidding truck during the Bullitt chase. The Mustang’s interior rear view mirror goes up and down depending on who is driving; when the mirror is up McQueen is visible behind the wheel; when it is down a stunt man is driving. Wiki

Supposedly McQueen, Bronson and someone else actually did the jump when the cameras weren't rolling and most of the staff were gone during "The Great Escape" production.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:31:51 AM EDT

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The absolute King of Cool...it was a cruel hand that cut him down in his prime.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:37:21 AM EDT

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The Great Escape was another of his movies with a great motorcycle sequence.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:40:02 AM EDT

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Dang, how many times did they pass that green VW???

I bet I've watched that scene fifty times over the years and I remember the green bug but never noticed how many times they passed it until now.

In the scene in The Getaway when he finds out Ali McGraw slept with the warden played by Ben Johnson and pulls over on the shoulder of the road, he actually slapped her according to the interview McGraw later had with Barbara Walters.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:41:47 AM EDT

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Tagged for the coolness!

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:47:26 AM EDT

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At the age of 17, McQueen decided to join the Marines, where he quickly ascended the ranks to become Private First Class of a tank unit. But he was still a punk kid at heart, and was demoted to Private on seven different occasions.

He also went AWOL for a period of time after taking for weekend leave, and splitting town with a chick for two weeks. When he was found by the shore patrol, he resisted returning to base, which landed him in the brig for 41 days.

This time in a dank hellhole must've given him a chance to sort things out, because he went on to become a decorated solider, later saving five Marines in the Arctic just before their tank broke through the ice and sank into the ocean. He went on to be stationed as a guard at then-president Harry Truman's yacht.

I also read somewhere that he hot-rodded a tank in the Marine corps and the motor blew up!