Word: mcqueens
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...exactly sure when Americans began going to alternative medicine clinics south of the border. As early as 1963, the Hoxsey Clinic had opened in Tijuana with its motto ?run by Americans, for Americans.? And then in 1980, a dying and seemingly desperate Steve McQueen rode off into the sunset in Mexico while seeking laetrile treatments to cure his lung cancer. There may have been hundreds of alternative health clinics at that time. Today, there are only a few dozen...
...Steve McQueen, fresh from the Actors Studio, got his first starring role in this 1958 TV series, and at times he must have thought Lee Strasberg would disown him. McQueen's method here was a weathered glint and a sawed-off Winchester rifle in his holster. As a bounty hunter with a stern personal code of ethics, McQueen did have something Hollywood could appreciate: star quality. The fun in this first-season DVD is watching him mix it up with other tyros--James Coburn, Warren Oates, Michael Landon--who would also soon learn how to commandeer the screen...
...home, in this 1960 version of the Kurosawa classic. For a time, it upended the genre's concentration on noble or twisted loners; this was the first all-star western romp. It's in no way a terrific film; director John Sturges was a pedestrian showman. But to watch McQueen, Coburn, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach fight for screen time is to see a fabulous showdown of egos--like Meet the Fockers, with six-guns instead of sex puns...
...inspired. The cast performs the song in a crowded subway car and recruits unsuspecting commuters into their impromptu revelry. Keith Young’s spirited choreography transforms every inch of the cramped quarters into performance space—the result is a dance sequence as exhilarating as any Steve McQueen car chase or Chow Yun-Fat shoot-out.The film’s acting and singing is uniformly strong, possibly because most of the original Broadway cast reprises their roles: The exceptions are Tracie Thoms as straitlaced lesbian lawyer Joanne and Rosario Dawson as the HIV-positive Latina heroine. Thoms proves herself...
...weeks. "I honestly don't know how to do it differently," says Lucas, smoking a cigarette in his trailer on the set of next year's Poseidon, which will be just as physically demanding. "I'm so interested in the physical integrity of the performance. You see Steve McQueen jump the wire fence [on his motorcycle] in The Great Escape; it makes a huge difference. Russell Crowe has been a great person who helped me understand that as an actor," he says. "I think that's what it takes, even if it's a plane action movie...