FRIENDS OF STEVE MCQUEEN BENEFIT!
Every March for the past four years, I have featured "The Annual Steve McQueen Film Festival" on this Blogsite. I wanted to make you aware of a unique fund raising event to benefit The Boys Republic in Chino Hills, California where Steve spent a crucial part of his youth. Steve passed away in 1980 at just 50 years of age. However, he remembered The Boys Republic in his Will. During his lifetime, he visited the school frequently, and these visits were not "photo ops". In this day and age of people sitting in restaurants and bars texting from their Blackberries and cell phones as if their lives depended on it, I have to laugh. No one was busier than Steve McQueen, and yet he "made time" to visit with the boys at the school and offer advice from his own life experience. That is the measure of the true person Steve was! He chose to "be the difference that makes a difference". Here is a link for more information about the California benefit that will also display the poster (above) in a full screen format: -
Post It Note: The joys and the challenges of blogging and "changing things up" remain vital to me. Keeping it real and relevant have had me thinking for the past several days about a subject that I'll take on here this week. It regards the number one question people ask me at least five times a week. I'll get to it. Meanwhile...
HAVE A NICE WEEK!
posted by Michael Manning @ 12:00 AM
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Reading that poster, there are some fabulous cars/clubs attending. That is something I wish I was a part of. Will you be heading west for the show? My travels are done - until September anyway.
Sounds like it will be quite a festival from the poster. It's a bit far for me to go though! :) Have a great time. Steve McQueen sounds like he was a genuinely good bloke. My mother always thought he was wionderful!
steve mcqueen sure has a lot of friends.
Martini: Most likely. :)
Bob-kat: I agree. Steve McQueen was a fascinating person who was very philanthropic.
Seraphine: He does! By the millions worldwide and still growing due to the appreciation of his tremendous talent!! :D)
A great lesson for all of us.
D-Man: Yes indeed! A down to earth guy who got it together and then we lost him much too soon. The fact that Steve is missed 29 years after his death is a testament to the fact that as biographer Marshall Terrill shared on this very BLOG Page, Steve made us care!
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