Sharon Tate for Esquire, 1967
William Helburn, via The Selvedge Yard
The Selvedge Yard has a fine piece on would-be Manson murder victim, actor Steve McQueen. There’s an amazing Esquire photoshoot of Sharon Tate from ’67 – setting the trend for the fashion now seen on ‘Mad Men’. There’s McQueen’s ‘hit-list’ reply, typed on notepaper from his ‘Le Mans’ epic. Great stuff.
What’s left out is that while McQueen was a bad boy for most of his life, he repented his wild ways in his forties. On hearing Kris Kristofferson’s iconic outlaw lament, “Why Me, Lord?” he found faith in his last years, and put a young extra from his last film, ‘The Hunter’, through college before he died. Hero.
Source:The The Selvedge Yard, Southern Gospel Yankee
