Bonus Episode - Steve McQueen In His Own Words

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Bonus Episode - Steve McQueen In His Own Words

FromSpeeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen

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Nov 7, 2020

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Marshall Terrill discusses his new book, Steve McQueen In His Own Words, 40 years after McQueen's passing.

Released:

Nov 7, 2020

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Speeding Bullit: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen is a podcast that takes an in-depth look at the life and films of Hollywood icon Steve McQueen. The podcast was created and is written, produced, and hosted by Kelsy Norman. Episodes include conversations with writers, actors, and directors, as well as detailed reviews of the actor’s movies and TV appearances.

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Episode 24 - Baby, the Rain Must Fall: Steve McQueen expert shares stories from Steve’s time filming Baby, the Rain Must Fall, including anecdotes about Steve McQueen expensing drugs to the studio, his connection to JFK, and "The King of Cool's" rivalry with "The King of Rock and Roll,"... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 7 - Rumours: Tune in as Marshall Terrill debunks and confirms popular internet rumours about Steve McQueen, including his relationship with Sharon Tate, his connection to the Manson Family murders, and his unreleased adventure heist film Yucatan. Later in the... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 3 - Birth of the Cool: Steve McQueen expert Marshall Terrill returns as we take listeners way back to the birth of Steve McQueen, explore his youth, and examine his life up until he lands a role in “The Blob”. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 34 - Directed by Robert Wise: Writer J.R. Jordan discusses his book, , as well as the life and career of the director. The second half of the show features a conversation with , one of McQueen’s buddies from his days in Greenwich Village. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 4 - Beware of the Blob: Chuck Francisco joins me to discuss all things Blobfest, an annual event that celebrates the film in which Steve McQueen makes his first star-billing role. McQueen Expert Marshall Terrill joins me for the second half of the show to talk about how... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 6 - From the Same Alumni with Frank Hill: Time starts now! Frank Hill met Steve McQueen in 1963 as a youth attending Boys Republic in Chino, California. Over the next 17 years, Frank developed a close relationship with McQueen, spending a significant amount of time with the Hollywood icon.... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 14 - Funny Business: In Speeding Bullitt Episode #14, Marshall Terrill and I take a look at two Steve McQueen comedies, 1961's The Honeymoon Machine, and 1963's Soldier in the Rain. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 9 - Never So Few: Never So Few is a 1959 war movie directed by John Sturges, staring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, and Steve McQueen. On this episode, I talk with the author of Sinatra in Hollywood, Tom Santopietro, about Frank Sinatra’s acting career, and the... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 8 - The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery: The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery was based on true events that happened on April 24, 1953, in St. Louis, Missouri, when career criminal Fred William Bowerman and two other men entered the Southwest Bank with the intention of stealing up to 200,000... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Bonus Episode - Return of the Blob: Tune in to this Halloween bonus episode of Speeding Bullitt with The Blob-centric conversations with Steve Vertlieb, cinema archivist, journalist, film historian, and film music educator; as well as Mr. Lobo, horror host of the nationally syndicated... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 5 - Wanted: Dead or Alive: On this episode I am joined by Paul Bishop to discuss TV westerns in the 1950s and 60s. Paul is a 35-year veteran of the LAPD, and the author of fifteen novels. He starred as the lead interrogator in ABC’s reality show Take the Money and Run... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 12 - Fake McQueens: On this episode, Marshall Terrill provides insight into Jeremy Roberts' 2017 article, The Relentless Dilemma of the Fake Steve McQueens, exploring stories of people pretending to be related to "The King of Cool". by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 2 - Chasing McQueen with Andre Brooks: Actor Andre Brooks played Steve McQueen in the 2019 movie . Listen in as he takes me behind the scenes of making the independent film. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 15A - Hell is for Heroes: Episode 15A is a conversation with , founder of the department of film studies at Wesleyan University, a program that is considered to be one of the best of its kind in the world. She is the author of ten books on film including . Basinger is a... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 17 - Bruce Lee: After watching Bao Nguyen’s ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Be Water, I connect with the Steve McQueen expert Marshall Terrill to discuss McQueen's relationship with Bruce Lee. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 22 - Love with the Proper Stranger: On this episode of Speeding Bullitt, Marshall Terrill and I look at McQueen's life immediately after The Great Escape, following the "King of Cool" to New York City as he films Love with the Proper Stranger with the Magnificent Natalie Wood. After... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 10 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: During time off from filming Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve McQueen filmed two episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an anthology television show created, produced, hosted, by “The Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock. On this episode, I talk with... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 23 - McQueen's Machines: Matt Stone, author of and , joins me to discuss some of McQueen’s most popular machines, as well as to tell me about his newest book, Bullitt: The Cars and People Behind Steve McQueen. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 15B - Hell is for Heroes: Episode 15B is my conversation with , an internationally recognized author, film historian, producer, screenwriter, and promoter. He has written nine books, including . by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 27 -Young Steve McQueen: Writer and filmmaker Dana Schoel discusses his book, , and the process of trying to get his work onto the screen. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 13 - Buying McQueen: This episode explores the most expensive Steve McQueen related items one can purchase on eBay. Dr. Ian Olney, Associate Professor of English, York College of Pennsylvania discusses the history of movie posters; Jake Ehrlich, the world’s #1 Rolex... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 11 - The Magnificent Seven: The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 Western film directed by John Sturges and stars Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. The film is a remake of the 1954 Kurosawa Japanese film Seven Samurai. Sturges’... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 1 - A Hollywood Icon with Marshall Terrill: Welcome to Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen Episode 1. Tune in to hear my conversation with the , the Steve McQueen expert who has spent over 25 years researching and writing about “The King of Cool”. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Bonus Episode - Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind: Go behind the scenes of HBO’s documentary, with director , a pioneer of “making-of” documentary film making and the director of Netflix’s . by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 25 - The Cincinnati Kid: Writer and Steve McQueen expert explores Steve McQueen’s experience filming the classic 1965 poker movie The Cincinnati Kid. Dr. Robert Joseph, PhD joins me during the second half of the show to discuss the history of filmmaking in New Orleans,... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 16 - Interviewing Steve McQueen: In 1979, Alexander Hamilton High School student Rick Penn-Kraus had the opportunity to conduct an . It was the Hollywood icon’s first interview in almost a decade, and the last formal interview he ever gave. This is Ricks’s story about one of the... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 40 - Star on Wheels: On this episode, I connect with two people who worked with Steve McQueen in the late 1950s, actor Michael Dante and writer William F Nolan. Tune in to hear both guest share anecdotes about Steve McQueen and about working in Hollywood over the past 60... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 18 - The War Lover: On this episode of the show, I am joined by writer and Steve McQueen expert Marshall Terrill to talk about McQueen’s experience in England filming The War Lover, and by Matthew Burchette, Senior Curator at Seattle’s Museum of Flight to explore the... by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Episode 19 - The Great Escape: Film writer and critic Sheila O'Malley discusses her essay Not Caught, part of the Criterion Collection release of The Great Escape, after which film historian Steve Rubin explores how the film came together. by Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen
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Bonus Episode - Steve McQueen In His Own Words

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