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A Paradox
Named
Steve
McQiieee
A few months ago, I was awakened about 2
a.m. by a phone call from Steve McQueen.
"Where do I find that guy?" he burst out. "I'm going to
smash him!"
"You're going to smash who?" I asked groggily.
"Brendan Behan," he shouted. "I was told he socked you
in the face. Nobody is going to beat up a friend of mine and
get away with it!"
Steve was referring to an incident the day before when
playwright - Brendan Behan, dead drunk, unexpectedly
bashed me in the face because I refused to recite the
months of the year for him. A further fracas had been
avoided when Behan's bodyguard and two other persons
jumped in to keep us apart. If Behan hadn't ended up in
jail a few horn's later because he tried to tackle a couple of
Los Angeles policemen, Steve might well have taken off
after him.
To Steve, life is black and white. He believes in an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and will fight for his
friends with the same vigor as he does for himself.
Steve is now 32, but his attitudes were molded by his
rough and uncertain early life. The product of a broken
home, he was shunted about as a boy, seldom getting enough
food, let alone enough love. At 14, he was sent to a school
for children with behavior problems. He returned to his
mother briefly, then ran off to sea. He jumped ship in Texas
and from then on didn't have a steady job for years.
Recently, however, Steve's star has risen rapidly. In a
little more than a year he has had top billing in three major
films (budgeted at approximately $9.000,000) "Hell Is for
Heroes," "The War Lover," and "The Great Escape."
YET success has not changed Steve's basic attitudes. He
has tried to live down his tough-guy image and be a
person who is liked and accepted by everybody. But the re
sult has been a conflict between his old emotions and the
new image he has tried to acquire. He has become a curious
contradiction, a paradox of a man, full of ideas which he is
unwilling to compromise, yet determined to be the guy next
door which he will never be.
Steve is not the kind of man you can call up and ask:
"How about having dinner with us a week from Tuesday?"
He'll say "sure" and promptly forget about it. In fact,
if he knows there are going to be a number of people there,
he won't even attempt to make it.
A few months ago, my wife and I asked him to a party,
and he said, "How long do you think it's going to last?"
I
His rugged role in "The Great Escape" fits Steve naturally.
"About 1 a.m." I told him. So at 2 a.m. Steve and his
lovely wife Neile arrived. They stayed until 4, but with
Steve you don't allow yourself to get annoyed. You take him
as he is, or you might as well not try to be friends with him
in the first place.
Steve's contrasting nature shows up in other facets of his
life, too. Usually he wears blue denims and a sweat shirt,
and his cropped blond hair generally is uncombed. But his
home high in the Hollywood Hills is an architect's and
decorator's delight with its modern, functional design and
its clean-line beauty.
Steve loves risking his neck as a sports-car driver. In
fact, he is the official team driver for the British Motor
Corp. and has already won four races for the firm. Yet,
despite his daredevil exploits, he is a devoted family man
who knocks himself out working to build financial security
for his wife and their two children, Terry Leslie, 2, and
Chad, 1.
Steve's wife is the former dancer-actress-singer Neile
Adams. They met in New York, where Steve had gone in
1950 after getting out of the Marines. He became interested
in the theater through a chance meeting with drama coach
Family Weekly. December IS, 132