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We are about to hear next the story of Hollywood legend Steve McQueen told by a real-life Steve McQueen expert.

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My name is Marshall Terrell, and I'm the author of approximately 30 books, and I've written

seven on actor Steve McQueen.

Steve McQueen has held a fascination for me because I remember watching him on television

and on film because he was my dad's favorite actor. And so whenever there was a movie on television,

my dad would say, hey, McQueen's on. Let's go watch it. Or if a McQueen movie was out, he'd say, hey, there's a McQueen movie out. He'd take me out of school and then we'd go watch that. So that was kind of our bonding experience. And as I've traveled around the world now, talking about Steve McQueen, I've discovered that I'm not the only one. And that's how Steve McQueen, I think, has been passed

down down to the generations. It's not unlike the Beatles or Elvis Presley, where these parents

and grandparents now have such a love for this person that they want to pass that on to their

children and their grandchildren. And somehow, miraculously, they get filtered down to the next generation.

So Steve McQueen, there's a lot of that with him.

And I think one of the reasons for that is because his look is so timeless, you know,

and that he looks like if he stepped out of the screen today,

that he could fit in with society today because he had that great-looking haircut,

that great physique. He didn't look like he belonged in any sort of time period.

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