Steve McQueen

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What do you have to say to that?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You appear to have cut your nose young man. Get it seen to at once.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Betta then Stallone, Eastwood, Schwarzenegger and any other pretender to the throne.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.daserste.de/stevemcqueen/getaway.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes but he was rubbish at escaping from concentration camps.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Julie Andrews was way more adept at tricking Nazis, come to think of it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote a song once called "Islamic Jihad" that had a verse in it about how in my dreams I'm Steve McQueen (mostly because he got to play hidden sausage with that babe from The Getaway)

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Share the lyrics, please, Millar.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 23 June 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792838408.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Yeah.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I like his MGM barrette.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you should get one for when you move to London.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Look what I found

the one God Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet
Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad
the one God Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet
Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad

Well in my dreams I'm Steve McQueen
And I move so fast I can't be seen
And my fingers smell like nicotine
Cause in my dreams I'm Steve McQueen

the one God Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet
Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad
the one God Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet
Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad

etc. ad infinitum with finger-snapping and a bit of softshoe and/or strutting

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tao of Him is da shizzle!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Best part of Fastlane is Billie's Steve McQueen fetish and the car from Bullitt.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That makes no sense, it's great. I'm going to post it on my cubicle at work and see if anyone says anything.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Le Mans is one my all time faves - it's insane!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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Spencer, do we have the exact same taste in everything?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i like how Jacqueline Bisset did absolutely fuck all in Bullitt, yet was still a featured star.

"no one understands him
but his woman..."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never gotten him.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

What is there to "get"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

only thing I know I like about him is that he's not Robert Redford.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, he's much better.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

He's my dad's favorite, and I was named after his son (who's in the Karate Kid!)

― chad s. (synkro), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

TCM was showing a Steve McQueen marathon yesterday. It featured Thomas Crown Affair, The Great Escape, The Blob, The Magnificent Seven, and The Cincinnatti Kid, amongst others. The fact that I left the tv and was willing to miss any of this says a lot about my company this weekend. I pity the fool who didn't have my boyfriend and/or friends and missed this.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Still no one has challenged the claim that there is anyone greater than Steve McQueen.

― ALlyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oliver Reed.

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rso.cornell.edu/cupb/images/recent/chappelle.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

how about....

http://www.the-artists.org/Images/mcqueen.gif

the real steve mcqueen!!!

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/540000/images/_544419_steve300.jpg

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/540000/images/_544419_macqueen.jpg

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The look on Steve McQueen's face at the end of "The Sand Pebbles" is beyond classic.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean...

The look on (white) Steve McQueen's face at the end of "The Sand Pebbles" is beyond classic.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

WHO WILL DARE DEFY MY EDICT THAT STEVE MCQUEEN IS COOLER THAN ANYONE READING THIS?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I would post some pictures but Google Images is all done fucked up right now.

Just trust me though.

Steve McQueen is better than you.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX agrees, look at the thread connections:

Who is the most talented person you know? (1 new answer)
Steve McQueen (2 new answers, 33 total)

BITCHES

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Kirk Douglas?

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/tour/2000/images/mozangeles/douglas-640.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No he is not as good, Mary. We should hang out this weekend though, I'll bring all my Steve McQueen movies and also the Great Escape videogame and prove all of this to you.

Hey do you want to go see the Streets/Dizzee Rascal maybe? bnw said he was thinking about it and Otis and I bought tix tonight. For the Tues. show.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I do need to be indoctrinated in all things McQueen. Yes, definitely this weekend, and is the Streets/Dizzy this Tues? I could go but fear Irving Plaza. I haven't seen a non-capactity show there since I saw Yoko Ono there in '96, oh those were the days.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Mitchum>Steve McQueen>Paul Newman>everyone else

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not this Tues, it is two Tuesday from now, the 29th. I have never actually seen a show at Irving Plaza! But I am definitely going now.

This weekend I will indoctrinate you and all others interested in the religion of McQueen. It is important to know, I feel, to understand everything else properly.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just added a bunch of SMQ movies to my netflix queue (I've never spelled that before, why do they call it a queue--are they Anglo or something?) but I first have to get through my Dirk Bogarde fest, you understand, right?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Tao of Him is da shizzle!
This is completely untrue. The Tao of Steve sucks some major ass, even for an indie-comedy.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary, I totally understand. It's like how sometimes I have to watch John Cusack instead of Steve McQueen, you know?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

hey..I love steve...I own The Getaway and have a poster of Bullet in my living room...but I have to put Clint ahead of him, if only, at least for the Sergio Leone trilogy, the Beguiled and directing/starring in the Unforgiven.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

BULLITT GODDAMN YOU BULLITT!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There's never a time when taking Cusack over Steve is acceptable.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not talking about choosing it, I'm talking about needing it. You'll never understand. *runs off crying*

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry it's late, anyway, Clint's way better.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not convinced about Clint. He doesn't have that much presence outside of the Dollars trilogy (and that could be almost anyone, couldn't it?). Other than, you've got Dirty Harry, and from that everyone remembers the gun, not Clint.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/554.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Someday I will own that poster.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Clint yelling at little girls in the Beguiled...he has subtle dimensions to his characters, expressed sublimely. Steve is like a statue to me, a beautiful, intense and powerful statue, but I don't think he has Clint's "range". And though I wouldn't say it's his fault, he didn't make as many good movies. And Clint DIRECTED the Unforgiven, which I think is a supremely beautiful and powerful movie. Also Play Misty For Me.

But you're right to a degree about "that could be almost anyone", I just watched the DVD of "Once Upon a Time in the West" and Leone could do an extreme close-up of Mr. Belvedere squinting and get a powerful response.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A Perfect World is my favorite Clint-directed film. I think that might have been the last time anyone got a good performance out of Kevin Costner.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~yoji/music/prefab02.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I was gonna post that.

I think I still have this poster around somwhere:
http://www.misterposter.com/test/images/dettaglio/SP040-BULLITT-4F.jpg

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

OK TS: Steve McQueen v. Lee Marvin

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee would have Steve sucking his metaphorical cock within 5 minutes.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are you implying Lee Marvin didn't actually have a dick?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Au contraire, I am implying that he not only had a literal dick but a metaphorical one, also.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 August 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

The last day of my History of Harlem seminar, when we came in, someone had scrawled all over the blackboard, earlier in the day, literally hundreds of times, "THE ONE GOD IS ALLAH AND MOHAMMED IS HIS PROPHET" and I actually thought of this thread, the entire class.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

McQueen on What's My Line?

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

:D :D :D :D :D :D

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 13 July 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I saw him not so long ago, while watching a videotape of Papillon. You know, he wasn't such a slouch as an actor. Dustin Hoffman certainly didn't outshine him in that. He clearly was a John Wayne sort of actor, though - he needed a part he could live in, rather than reinventing himself for the part.

― Aimless, Saturday, 14 July 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Steve's Ferrari goes on auction this week in Monterey. As I happen to be flying up to Monterey tonight to visit family in Carmel for a few days, I might have to look into this (as a spectator, but if Ally wants to rob some banks and send me the necessary funds I'll see what I can do).

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Cooler than Steve McQueen, huh?

Let's see -

Nope. Really can't do it. Some try, but then fail. And then there are flashes of brilliance, but no sustained coolness to rival Steve.

Well done, Ally.

― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 15 August 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

OH
MY
GOD
WANT!!!!!!!!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 15 August 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I almost certainly will be at the Concours, I just realized -- my uncle and aunt are visiting from South Carolina and my uncle's a major car fiend who tries to come out for it whenever he can. So I'll snag some photos if possible.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind -- the $175 price for entry to the Concours meant I left it to my relatives to do instead. But I did find a sign of the man's holy presence at dinner on Thursday:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1303/1192751349_654b31f946.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Bud Ekins, McQueen's friend and stand-in on the Great Escape motorcycle jump stunt, RIP.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Still no one has challenged the claim that there is anyone greater than Steve McQueen.

Lemmy comes close, but why choose when you can have 'em both in a video?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxJwP0izGgc

― Dziękuję bardzo panie robocie (Eisbaer), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINhAtoaV6A

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:47 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

not one mention of Junior Bonner here? srsly? His fave film, most actorly role (that i've seen at least).

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:49 (nine years ago)

def. his best film, although i like him in baby the rain must fall a lot

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:53 (nine years ago)

have you seen tom horn? I have a cheap DVD of that one, but haven't watched it yet.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:54 (nine years ago)

nothin after TowInferno, not even his Ibsen turn

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:54 (nine years ago)

His best film, yep. I've thought about rewatching The Getaway but the frist viewing more than 15 years ago was dispiriting.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:40 (nine years ago)

the getaway is pretty good if you don't expect primo peckinpah. it has a lot of his stylistic flourishes but there's just not a lot going on. ben johnson makes a good lecherous villain though.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:40 (nine years ago)

Steve McQueen is a snooze onscreen

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:41 (nine years ago)

that sounds like a line from blondie's "rapture"

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:48 (nine years ago)

he's takin' naps!
snoozin' too!

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:56 (nine years ago)

I remember hearing so much about him and then finally watching Bullit and I thought it was insanely boring and he especially was insanely boring. Then I tried The Getaway and I thought it was a piece of garbage. Admittedly, he has a lot of movies, and these are two.

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:57 (nine years ago)

he's not as boring as ali macgraw, at least.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:29 (nine years ago)

The Getaway is a dilly! Even Sollozzo from The Godfather and Sally Struthers are good. Great long tangent of McQueen going to get the loot suitcase on Amtrak after it's stolen by... Neri from The Godfather!

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:44 (nine years ago)

adapted by Walter Hill, also

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:44 (nine years ago)

for some reason when i think about the plot of the getaway, it kind of segues into the plot of mr. majestyk in my mind.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:47 (nine years ago)

you know the one with charles bronson as a mellon farmin' mellon farmer.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:48 (nine years ago)

Jim Thompson vs Elmore Leonard

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:48 (nine years ago)

somewhere in there is part of the plot of charley varrick, too.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:54 (nine years ago)

must be the al lettieri thing

― nomar, Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:55 (nine years ago)

mcqueen owns fwiw, the thing about 'bullitt' is it's not an action movie despite its reputation, it's a pretty low-key movie. i was underwhelmed the first time i saw it but when i saw it a second time years later, i thought it was pretty excellent and the style worked for me a lot.

― nomar, Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:58 (nine years ago)

re JB, Robert Preston and Ida Lupino are great as his parents (both only 12 years older than Steve); the tender scene they have toward the end is quite heartbreaking.

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsL/10706-10100.jpg

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― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:21 (nine years ago)

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