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