By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
He was an actor who made a career out of playing anti-heroes, the characters who rode alone, but were willing to pitch in and help others when it was the right thing to do.
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By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
It’s a Saturday afternoon in autumn, 1960. You’re 11 years old, clutching some coins in your hand as you approach the box office underneath the theater marquee. You and your friends are about to spend the afternoon at the movies. The poster advertises today’s offering: The Magnificent Seven.
By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
In The Great Escape, McQueen spends most of the movie imprisoned in a German POW camp, so when he breaks out, steals a German motorcycle and uniform, and heads for the Swiss border, the rush of energy is palpable. It’s an exciting chase sequence, where he’s almost captured, then makes it to the border…but will he make it over the fence?