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Steve McQueen - The Humanitarian

Movie  Legend.  Super  Star.McQueen arrived promptly on his cycle. He was
the only star to show. I call that the act of
He was a Rebel, an Outsider, and The King ofa good man".When Nicaragua was devastated by
Cool, but beneath the bad boy image lay aa massive earthquake in the early 1970's he
heart of gold, as Steve McQueen supportedbought $50,000 worth of food and medical
needy children all over the world.While insupplies and had it flown in to the
Taiwan in 1966 filming The Sand Pebbles,victims.While filming The Hunter in 1979,
Steve and his first wife Neile came across anSteve was so struck by the poverty in some of
orphanage for young girls (most of whom werethe areas they were filming in that he asked
prostitutes). It was run by a catholic priestclose friend Pat Johnson to go down to the
called Edward Wojniak. Steve donated $12,500local catholic church and ask the priest what
then and there, and continued to support thehe (McQueen) could do to help. The priest
mission until Wojniak died in the latemade a list, and Steve pulled out a check
1970's.Over the years Steve constantlybook and paid for it all. According to
visited the boys home (Boys Republic) whichJohnson it was a large amount of money. Steve
he himself had spent time in while growingalso gave his stuntman and friend Lauren
up. Each year in the holiday seasons (whenJanes some money, and sent him out to buy 100
their spirits could be lowest because theybaseballs, mitts and bats, and 100 footballs,
had no family to visit them) he appeared withand had him put them in a local field for all
Christmas toys, Easter baskets andthe kids to find. According to Janes, he did
Thanksgiving turkeys. So these boys without athat many times, in many different
family of their own got to see a real movieareas.Steve would eat with and talk to all
star each Christmas and on other festivethe cast and crew on his films, and while
occasions. It wasn't just a quick publicitytalking to one of the extras on The Hunter (a
walkthrough either. Steve would actually justyoung 15 year old girl named Karen) he
sit with them and talk for long periods ofdiscovered that her mother was in hospital
time. On one occasion, when he heard that twoand dying of alcoholic poisoning. Steve went
teenage boys had been sent to an adultto the hospital with her to meet her mother
prison, he offered to pay for them to be sent(who was a big fan). "What can I do to
to a less severe BOYS institution. Over thehelp"?, he asked. "All my life I wanted my
years Steve donated large amounts of money todaughter to go to school. I could die a happy
Boys Republic.He said, "Somewhere, right now,woman knowing my daughter had a way out of
there are kids going through what I wentthis slum", was her reply. Steve and his
through. Maybe if they know I survived, theythird wife Barbara took 15 year old Karen in,
can find hope. I can't promise they'll evereventually enrolling her in a private
forget what happened to them. But if theyboarding school close to where they lived, so
hold out, they'll get through okay and learnthat she could come and spend weekends with
to live with the bad memories...and stillthem. That young girl went from the ghetto to
learn to love."During the filming of Le Mansstudying to become a veterinarian. She still
in 1970, Steve made a brief stopover inremembers the McQueen's with a great deal of
London, where he toured the Great Ormondlove.Almost all of these things he did
Street Hospital for Sick Children, movinganonymously, and they were only made public
from bed to bed, talking with each child. Atafter  his  death.
this time he also arranged an auction of one
of his antique guns, with all the proceedsSources  McQueen  by  William  F  Nolan,
going to the French Childrens Fund for
orphans.Los Angeles Times columnist JoyceSteve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel
Haber wrote an article on Steve in 1971, inby  Marshall  Terrill,
which  she  reported:
McQueen: The Untold Story of a Bad Boy in
"A few seasons ago the owners of Four Oakes,Hollywood  by  Penina  Spiegel  and
a local restaurant, invited fifty black
orphans for a free Thanksgiving Day dinner.My Husband, My Friend by Neile McQueen
They also invited several celebrities.Toffel.



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