Steve McQueen - Marc Eliot [144]
Various live appearances as himself on The Perry Como Show, The Bob Hope Buick Hour, What’s My Line?, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and The Ed Sullivan Show.
Sources and Notes
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INTRODUCTION
1. “that rarity of rarities” Andrew Sarris, Village Voice, 11.12.80.
CHAPTER 1
1. “I left home” McQueen, quoted in TV Life, 4.59.
2. “When I’d get lazy” McQueen, quoted in Terrill. As a general note, Terrill rarely cites direct sources, offering instead a list of publications he used for each chapter.
3. “When I was eight” McQueen, quoted in Nolan, p. 8.
4. “I was a dreamer” McQueen, quoted in TV World, 4.59.
5. “black hole” From Rob Katz’s 1998 documentary Steve McQueen, King of Cool. The entire sentence from Andrew Sarris, “King of Cool,” American Movie Classics, 3.98.
6. “win back the other kids’ respect” Toffel, p. 4.
7. “You lay your” Terrill, p. 8.
8. “The place had a board of governors” McQueen, quoted in Amy Lewis, “The Defiant One,” Silver Screen, 6.60.
9. Pantier’s kind words Recalled by McQueen in Silver Screen, 6.60.
CHAPTER 2
1. “I’m from the Actors Studio” McQueen, quoted in TV Life, 4.59.
2. “Taking orders still bugged me” McQueen, quoted in TV World, 6.59.
3. “golden” pen points Ibid.
4. “The whole thing” Ibid.
5. “I was so broke” McQueen, quoted in Erskine Johnson, NEA syndicated services, which distributed Johnson’s column “Hollywood TV Closeup,” 11.13.58.
6. “Say, why don’t you” McQueen, quoted in TV World, 6.59.
7. “That’s when I became a man” Johnson.