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22. “If I wanted” Ibid.
23. “After The Magnificent Seven” Ibid.
24. “He thought [adding Americans] would make” Robert Relyea, The Great Escape movie featurette.
25. “Besides the wire” Ibid.
26. “Steve’s performance was perfect” James Coburn, The Great Escape movie featurette.
27. “We got to Germany” Neile Adams, “Return to the Great Escape” featurette, 1993. Directed by Steve Rubin, produced by Deborah Gordon, for Showtime Productions.
28. “When Sturges … foolishly showed a rough-cut” Donald Pleasence, “Return to the Great Escape.”
29. “Coburn and Steve” James Garner, “Return to the Great Escape.”
30. “Steve was a little out-of-hand” James Garner on The Charlie Rose Show, 6.25.02.
31. Story of McQueen’s driving to work every day Hollywood Stories.com.
32. “When you find somebody” Sturges, quoted in Terrill, p. 91.
33. “We’re going to blend” Sturges, quoted in Relyea, p. 184.
CHAPTER 7
1. “The minute a picture is over” McQueen, quoted in James Gregory, “Steve McQueen, Superstud,” Movie Digest, 3.72.
2. “fanatically” Toffel, p. 109.
3. Steve promises not to race for the duration of the film Louella O. Parsons, “Escape from Delinquency,” Los Angeles Examiner, 6.23.63.
4. “She was able to use” Tom Bosley, quoted in Finstad, p. 246.
5. “she was vulnerable” Edie Adams, quoted in Finstad, p. 246.
6. “Making Love with the Proper Stranger” Natalie Wood, interviewed by Bruce Bahrenburg for the Newark Sunday News, 6.15.69.
CHAPTER 8
1. “It’s very expensive to act” McQueen, quoted in Rick Kraus, Bruin Review, 7.30.80.
2. “Steve McQueen’s splendid amalgam” Newsweek, date unknown.
3. “we devoted ourselves” Toffel, p. 115.
4. Background on Johnny Rivers and the Whiskey a Go-Go Gillett, “The Rise of Rock and Roll,” pp. 340–41.
5. “a genius with hair” Douglas, The Ragman’s Son, p. 288.
6. The details of the modification of Steve McQueen’s motorcycle Cycle World, “In McQueen’s Service,” 6.64. Article is unsigned.
7. “He was good in that department” Bruce Lee, from a rare TV interview he gave on The Pierre Berton Show, originally broadcast in December 1971, now available on YouTube.
8. pharmaceutical Sandoz and “I could feel the crinkle” Van Doren, p. 122.
9. “Next thing I know” Dave Resnick, quoted in Spiegel, pp. 209–10. No attribution given by Spiegel.
10. “we bought a lot of coke” Ibid.
11. Anthony Holden estimation of odds Anthony Holden, Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player (New York: Viking, 1990).
12. “produced heart-wrenching sobs” Toffel, pp. 125–26.
13. “[Steve] cried” and “He was a lost soul” David Foster, IA.
CHAPTER 9
1. “I’ve done pretty well” McQueen, interview with Bob Thomas, syndicated, Associated Press, 7.25.66.
2. “Look at the parallels” From Tom Rothman’s intro/outro bumpers for the uncut television screening of The Sand Pebbles on Fox Movie Channel. Continual airings.
3. “At the time” Ibid.
4. “I’ve got apples” McQueen, quoted by Abe Greenberg in his syndicated Hollywood column, “Steve McQueen Captures Taipei,” Citizen-News, 4.22.66.
5. “Taiwan was the pits” Toffel, p. 128.
6. “[t]he most difficult picture I ever made” Robert Wise, quoted in St. Charnez, p. 124. No further attribution given.
7. “For Chrissakes” Wise, quoted in Spiegel, p. 243. No attribution.
8. “Steve went wild” Rupert Allan, quoted in Spiegel, p, 244. No attribution.
9. “That gave Steve” Spiegel, p. 206. The speaker is not identified and there is no further attribution.
10. Day of the Champion Relyea, pp. 252–54.
11. “If Vietnam falls” McQueen, interview with Sheilah Graham, Citizen-News (and syndicated), 5.25.66.
12. “I don’t mind telling you” From an unpublished interview, date unknown.
13. Details of McQueen’s deal with Warner Several sources, including Variety, 9.27.66, and Film Daily, 9.27.66, which offer the best and most accurate details.
14. “looking toward” McQueen, quoted in “Just for Variety,” Army Archerd, Variety, 10.27.66.
CHAPTER 10
1. “Ten years from now?” McQueen, quoted in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner by Toni Kosover for an interview to promote the upcoming release