40 Years Ago Today — ‘Oh Boy’
December 8, 2020Tonight 40 years ago, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon. A recollection via the New York Post this morning: This incident took place on Dec. 8, 1980. Later that afternoon, Chapman did get…
Tag Archives: Steve McQueen
Archives Alive
May 12, 2015A bit of rare, interesting and nostalgic news today, producing a nice offset to the usual current gut-wrenching events, has been announcement of a new documentary, “Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans,” which will…
Impulse Ending — A Life Cut Short
December 23, 2012In the midst of weather-storms, and life-storms, and all kinds of tempest boiling-up everywhere, I’d surfed across the IMDB birthday list for today, and with a heart-pang saw Elizabeth Hartman’s name. She would have been…
Cool? No, He’s Just Abstract Thinking
November 7, 2010Thirty years ago today Steven Terrence McQueen died. McQueen was only 50. He died one day after an operation to remove several metastatic tumors in his abdomen, the end result of a fight against mesothelioma.…