Article: When McQueen was king.(REEL WORLD)(Steve McQueen)

STEVE McQUEEN WAS AN ICONIC antihero screen star of the 1960s and 1970s. The foundation to that monumental movie career was a hit Western television series about a bounty hunter, "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (CBS, 1958-61). After the completion of the program's first season, Hollywood powerbroker columnist Hedda Hopper wrote an insightful profile of the actor. McQueen revealed in the piece that he long had been a student of one of the Western's signature film stars--Gary Cooper. The young actor also managed to dovetail from his New York method acting training to a Cooper minimalism that he admired more than any technique: "I went to Actors Studio [home of the method] three ...

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