Steve McQueen Must Be Rolling...

[ocdart]

I took a quick break for some lunch this past weekend and after sitting down with a sandwich noticed my wife was watching her favorite channel, The Hallmark Channel.
The program was just ending and when the credits started rolling I saw one of the actors was named Steven R. McQueen. I checked to verify and found out he's Steve McQueen's grandson.
The 'King of Cool' must be rolling in his grave! After his legendary acting career including great action movies like Bullitt, The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven, his grandson found work doing romance movies on The Hallmark Channel!

 

[SSVDP]

All of these American Icons going back to our founders (previously known as Founding Fathers) are all spinning at high RPMs.
I suggest wrapping them in copper and laying them to rest in a magnetic field to solve all of our energy problems.

 

[Takoctopus]

I thought I heard one of his sons had a serious racing accident and has been having a hard time with daily life. McQueen himself didn’t race after Le Mans finished filming. One racer lost a leg during the filming and it turned him off of racing.

 

[Ddaddy]

I doubt he is rolling, probably more like beaming with pride.

He was an actor and to have one of his grandchildren follow in his footsteps in the art he loved is a reason to be happy...not disappointed in the role his grandchild has earned.

 

[yellow rose]

I thought I heard one of his sons had a serious racing accident and has been having a hard time with daily life. McQueen himself didn’t race after Le Mans finished filming. One racer lost a leg during the filming and it turned him off of racing.

Pretty sure he kept riding dirt bikes after Le Mans.

On Any Sunday is a classic. Watch it two, three times a year. Watched it when it came out in the theatre. My mom is still pissed of at my dad for that.

 

[rumblefish360]

Romance or car racer film, I’d be happy and proud my kids are in the biz.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I doubt he is rolling, probably more like beaming with pride.

He was an actor and to have one of his grandchildren follow in his footsteps in the art he loved is a reason to be happy...not disappointed in the role his grandchild has earned.

I was sorta thinkin the same thing. But what the hell do we know?

 

[moparker]

He was also in the Blob. You have to start somewhere.

 

[adriver]

I would imagine the OPs point is the McQueen strove for realism in his movies.
Real architects, real doctors in the ER.

The two things I've seen from the Hallmark Channel are :
When Call The Heart and Cedar Cove.
Two nice shows, but full of visual and emotional puffery.
Houses, wardrobe and characters straight out of a fantasy world.

 

[famous bob]

I doubt he is rolling, probably more like beaming with pride.

He was an actor and to have one of his grandchildren follow in his footsteps in the art he loved is a reason to be happy...not disappointed in the role his grandchild has earned.

I wouldn`t be proud if I had one that went off the deep end like most all of them have done. Most end up gong plain stupid in the head, just look at what 90% of them have to say about political issues.

 

[ocdart]

I would imagine the OPs point is the McQueen strove for realism in his movies.
Real architects, real doctors in the ER.

Thanks, adriver, that's exactly what I was getting at.
My wife loves the Hallmark channel and that's all good, but all of their stories are the same. The only differences are the actors and what town the story is set in. They're all "escape" stories without much semblance of reality - in my opinion.

 

[adriver]

Thanks, adriver, that's exactly what I was getting at.
My wife loves the Hallmark channel and that's all good, but all of their stories are the same. The only differences are the actors and what town the story is set in. They're all "escape" stories without much semblance of reality - in my opinion.

Yea, the wife and I went through Cedar Cove.
Didn't see a piece of trash in the whole show..
All the houses were featured in House And Garden magazine.
Does anyone have a real job in this thing?
Then we started watching When Calls The Heart.
(Who came up with that name? Why not When The Heart Call).
Dudly Do-Right and other not ugly people were in it.
During the first episode I told the wife:
"This is like Cedar Cove meets Little House On The Prairie).
Sure enough, got to the end and a Landon Jr. was in the credits.
And both shows had the same plot.
Oh the drama. Oh the heartbreak.

 

[ocdart]

Not trying to send this thread to the Political Forum, but have you noticed the only black cast members are friends of the main characters? None of the shows my wife has watched on there have shown a "person of color" lead character.
Living in SoCal, that's certainly not my neighborhood.
And I probably wouldn't want to live in any of their "towns" either because I'd never be able to get any decent Mexican food! LOL

 

[diymirage]

I would imagine the OPs point is the McQueen strove for realism in his movies.
Real architects, real doctors in the ER.

realism in lying through their teeth?

sorry but im not a big fan of actors because, well, they make their money telling lies
and i ve told a lie or two in my own life and you know what? each time i told a lie i had to tell 2 more to hide the fact i lied in the first place untill i came to a place i didnt even remember how that plate broke, that car got wrecked or that Mr Hunters house burned down

my point is, if you spend enough time lying, soon enough you forget how to tell the truth, and i dont care much for people like that

 

[adriver]

realism in lying through their teeth?

sorry but im not a big fan of actors because, well, they make their money telling lies
and i ve told a lie or two in my own life and you know what? each time i told a lie i had to tell 2 more to hide the fact i lied in the first place untill i came to a place i didnt even remember how that plate broke, that car got wrecked or that Mr Hunters house burned down

my point is, if you spend enough time lying, soon enough you forget how to tell the truth, and i dont care much for people like that

Well, I guess you were not in the high school drama club then.
Though what you say seems sort of a non-sequitur to me.
One is not the same as the other.
Unless one is acting in a performance and a lie is in the script.
Now I've confused myself.

I feel a rush coming on.

 

[diymirage]

you know what the old greeks used to call a stage actor?
a hypocrite

 

[adriver]

you know what the old greeks used to call a stage actor?
a hypocrite

Isn't that were we get the medical oaf?

 

[Ddaddy]

you know what the old greeks used to call a stage actor?
a hypocrite

No, the Greek word was hypokrites that had a different actual meaning than the modern derivation from the root does. The derivation makes it have a different meaning and is not interchangeable with the original word.

 

[mopowers]

realism in lying through their teeth?

sorry but im not a big fan of actors because, well, they make their money telling lies
and i ve told a lie or two in my own life and you know what? each time i told a lie i had to tell 2 more to hide the fact i lied in the first place untill i came to a place i didnt even remember how that plate broke, that car got wrecked or that Mr Hunters house burned down

my point is, if you spend enough time lying, soon enough you forget how to tell the truth, and i dont care much for people like that

You don't like actors because they make their money telling lies??? LOL

 

[diymirage]

You don't like actors because they make their money telling lies??? LOL

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pretty much, yeah
and then they go around glorifying themselves and other like them, and now you got a whole generation of kids who idolize people whose only "talent" is being a convincing liar...that bothers me