American actor Steve McQueen, an experienced off road rider who represented the United States in the ISDT bought a number of Cheney's motorcycles at full price because he considered them better than other makes.

The making was a race itself, as John Sturges and Steve McQueen planned to make a similar movie titled Day of the Champion.

He protected well-known personalities such as Muhammad Ali, Steve McQueen, Michael Jackson, Leon Spinks, Joe Frazier and Diana Ross, charging $ 3, 000 per day, to a maximum of $ 10, 000 per day, depending on the clientele's risk-rate and traveling locations.

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After Pulp Fiction was completed, he then directed Episode Four of Four Rooms, " The Man from Hollywood ", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen.

" Second single " Steve McQueen " won the Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy.

Eventually directed by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen, the film went on to become a 1965 hit.

Filmed on location in Prescott, Arizona, the story covered a week in the life of aging rodeo rider Junior " JR " Bonner ( Steve McQueen ) who returns to his hometown to compete in an annual rodeo competition.

Promoted as a Steve McQueen action vehicle, reviews were mixed and the film performed poorly at the box office.

Eager to work with Peckinpah again, Steve McQueen presented him Walter Hill's screenplay to The Getaway.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.

The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits led by Calvera, portrayed by Eli Wallach.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico ( Horst Buchholz ); Chris's friend Harry Luck ( Brad Dexter ) who believes Chris is seeking treasure ; the drifter Vin ( Steve McQueen ), who has gone broke after a round of gambling ; Bernardo O ' Reilly ( Charles Bronson ), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage ; cowpuncher Britt ( James Coburn ); and an on-the-run gunman Lee ( Robert Vaughn ), who is in the midst of a crisis of confidence.

* Steve McQueen as Vin

** Steve McQueen, American actor ( d. 1980 )

Pallbearers at his funeral on 31 July 1973 included Taky Kimura, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Chuck Norris, George Lazenby, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, and Lee's brother Robert.

That same year, however, Hauer starred as Nick Randall in Wanted: Dead or Alive as the descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name.

He worked with Elvis Presley and Dolores del Río in Flaming Star ( 1960 ), with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes and Lee Marvin in the influential The Killers ( 1964 ) before directing a series of five films with Clint Eastwood that were commercially successful in addition to being well received by critics.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

In 1964, Tate made a screen test for Sam Peckinpah opposite Steve McQueen for the film The Cincinnati Kid.

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

Steve McQueen packed a gun when he went to Jay Sebring's funeral.

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Willis ' acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

On MinnPost. com, Ventura's agent, Steve Schwartz, describes the book thus: " is revealing why he left politics and discussing the disastrous war in Iraq, why he sees our two-party system as corrupt, and what Fidel Castro told him about who was really behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

During the Steve Patterson era, relations between the two institutions became increasingly hostile ; several NBA executives told ESPN's Chris Sheridan that the situation was the " most dysfunctional media-team relationship " that they could recall.

* Sir Blunderbrain ( performed by Steve Whitmire )-A brave Fraggle who appeared in a legend told in the Fraggle Rock episode " The Terrible Tunnel.

Steve Crisman, Mariel Hemingway's then-husband in 1996, told People that year, " This was the best I'd seen her in years.

Reportedly, folk singer Judy Collins had seen him perform at a New York City club and was so taken and moved by his performance that she told her friends Bobby Colomby and Steve Katz about him ( knowing that they were looking for a new lead singer to front the band ).

" Like they said and like I said, all things are possible ", Peek told interviewer Steve Orchard in 1985.

Steve Swasey, Netflix Vice-President of Corporate Communications, told TechRepublic that despite the willingness of developers to implement digital rights management measures in the media framework application Moonlight ( an open-source implementation of Silverlight ), Netflix cannot be " everything for everybody all the time ".

Steve McCurry told Vanity Fair magazine:

About Colaiuta's ability to play Zappa's notoriously complex music and the complex style of polyrhythms, guitarist Steve Vai told the following story:

Former Mirage owner Steve Wynn ( who hired the duo in 1990 ) told Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV the events were substantiated as described by Fischbacher.

In the season finale of the 6th season (" Whistleblower ") of the North American version for the TV series The Office, Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, suggests that the fictional paper / printer sales company Dunder Mifflin should punish the person who told the press about the defective printers by sending them to a prison in Montego Bay ( when actually he meant Guantanamo Bay ).

Cucurrullo claimed that he was fired from Duran Duran by letter because Rhodes and Le Bon feared his reaction, though he told Duran Duran biographer Steve Malins: " I would never get aggressive in a situation like that.

Entitled The Soundhouse Tapes after Kay's club, Steve Harris explains that they decided to release the EP " because everywhere we'd go we'd do really well at the gigs, and then afterwards there'd be, like, all these fans asking where they could buy one of our records and when we told ' em there wasn't any yet they couldn't believe it.

Though not known for extravagant claims, Steve Waugh told a journalist that Ponting could easily be the best batsman in the world, and put him alongside Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara.

During the game, O ' Callahan receives an injury that could keep him out of the entire Olympics, and starting goaltender Jim Craig is told he may be benched in favor of back-up goalie Steve Janaszak.

After unveiling the prototype, Steve Jobs called Schwartz's office and told him that Apple would sue Sun if Sun moved forward to commercialize it.

At 19: 06, Valentich asked Melbourne Flight Service Officer Steve Robey for information on other aircraft below ( 5000 ft, 1524 m ) and was told there was no known traffic at that level.

" On 25 November 1993, he told journalist and medical writer Steve Dow that Labor governments generally were better for Australia but not always in their handling of health care.

In an interview with Steve Albini for his Matter column in 1983, singer and guitarist Bob Mould told Albini: " We're going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny touring band idea.

Congressman Steve Chabot told the U. S. House of Representatives in 2005 that the commission took " several months to correct in its record a statement by the Syrian ambassador that Jews allegedly had killed non-Jewish children to make unleavened bread for Passover.

Steve Carell told MTV he would reprise his role as Brick Tamland if the opportunity arose.

The main story is told by the novel written by Steve Perry, the comic series by Dark Horse, and the Nintendo 64 / PC game.

Steve Krantz told Bakshi that studio executives would be unwilling to fund Heavy Traffic because of its content and Bakshi's lack of film experience.

It is in the Super Six match that Steve Waugh is reported to have told Herschelle Gibbs " Mate, you just dropped the World Cup " when the latter dropped him en route to a match-winning century, a comment which has been denied by Waugh himself in interviews.