Steve McQueen was fuckin' COOL.

[CanuckAmok]

That's all. No real post, per se, but Steve McQueen was COOL. Did his own stunts, played Bullitt AND Pappilon.

Raced cars in his spare time. Had a realistic physique.

Fuckin' COOL.

Fuck you, today's "action heroes".

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. He was not a very good Marine

but, I guess that was not his style.

[CanuckAmok]

2. A better actor than soldier...

This, I can agree with.

[Droopy]

3. What's that mug shot all about?

What was he arrested for?

[CanuckAmok]

5. DWI in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1972

I never said he was a saint.

[Downtown Hound]

6. He also spent time in the brig from when he was a marine

I don't remember what for.

Yes he was COOL!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Affirmative. It was for assaulting another recruit. But he was VERY

cool, I agree.

[maveric]

4. Died too young.

http://members.tripod.com/~stvmcqueen/

[Robeson]

8. Yes he was...

...especially "back in the day".

[punpirate]

9. In fact, McQueen did not do all his own stunts...

... and the picture shown of McQueen in the Mustang from "Bullitt" is actually McQueen's old motorcycle racing pal, Bud Eakins (Eakins said of this, "Steve was determined to do the chase scene driving and the insurance companies went insane about that, so they told him we weren't shooting that day, and next thing I know, they have my hair sprayed silver and I'm in the car"). Eakins, in fact, also did the motorcycle lay-down stunt in the same film.

Eakins also did the motorcycle jump in "The Great Escape" against McQueen's protestations. I believe McQueen had even tried a test once or twice and he and Eakins had done some fiddling with the motorcycle to get enough power to do it safely without getting ripped up by the barbed wire, but the insurers won out that time, too.

All that said, McQueen has been too often derided as a handsome face, in part because he did do some real clunkers early in his career, and his choice of roles too often was guided by a competition with Paul Newman that existed largely in his own head. He was greatly underestimated, though, and did some very good films--"Bullitt," "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Papillon" and "The Sand Pebbles" among them. An altogether better actor than his filmography might suggest.

[meg]

10. Not Cool! He beat women

t's ironic that the reputation of the most popular and highest paid movie star of his time is now in limbo. That would have been disturbing to Steve McQueen who, in his later years, had an offensive, self- centered, domineering sense of his importance. Perhaps his popularity dwindled after his death from lung cancer in 1980 because his antiestablishment film persona wasn't compatible with the establishment attitudes of the Reagan era. Perhaps it dwindled because revelations after his death made clear that he was a beer-swilling spouse abuser; a compulsive, bragging adulterer; an arrogant bully.

link

[jukes]

12. no one's perfect

most "stars" have a degree of misbehavior in their backgrounds. genius has many demons to fight.

i detest abusing females, children, & animals. can never forgive jack webb from beating julie london; a goddess of "lounge jazz." 'course, webb was a mediocre talent @ best...

i try to divorce the artist from the person. as an artist he was superb, as a human, he may well have sucked.

[jukes]

11. the blob

great early film!

steve trained in Jute Keen Do under Bruce Lee, and, i believe, in Ed Parker's American Kenpo System.

legit bad-ass!

[Pump Man]

13. Was he in EASY RIDER also

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