Steve McQueen Heirs Sue Clothing Maker

Heirs of the late actor Steve McQueen have gone to court to stop an apparel manufacturer from using the King of Cool's name and likeness to promote its products without their consent.

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McQueen Shades Net $70,000 at Auction

Bidders looking for a piece of the "King of Cool" shelled out six figures for motorcycles and paid more than $70,000 for one pricey pair of shades in an auction of items that once belonged to actor Steve McQueen.

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A year ago, in a stroke of brilliance, artist Steve McQueen came up with the idea of producing a set of stamps to commemorate the British men and women who had lost their lives in Iraq - and making them available across the world, by persuading the Royal Mail to produce them.

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When Mustangs Could Fly

On a recent trip to the San Francisco bay area, I was given the option at the rental car counter to upgrade — for an additional ten dollars a day — from a pre-arranged Ford Focus to a Mustang. "Is it dark green?" "No, it's red. But a good red."

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The NYT reports:

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Move over Colin Farrell, Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom. The new king of cool is ... Steve McQueen.

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IN the classic film The Great Escape, Allied prisoners led by crawled on their bellies through two hand-dug tunnels in one of the most daring prison breaks of World War II.

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Actor Steve McQueen's 1963 Ferrari is expected to fetch $800,000 to $1.2m (£600,700) at auction in August. Christie's auctioneers unveiled the metallic-brown Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso on Friday.

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The installation of stamp facsimiles, bearing unaltered portraits of soldiers, will be displayed in the Great Hall at Central Library, Manchester, from February 28 to July 15.

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