Random thought: As I sat today eating my home-grilled hamburger for lunch, I once again wondered, what confused person first called it that, and why no one bothered to correct him? "No sir, this one is made of beef, not pork"
One of my favorite WWII movies is The Great Escape. Probably the best known scene in the entire movie is where Steve McQueen's Virgil Hilts jumps a tall barbed wire fence on his stolen German motorcycle. And even though they let McQueen do the stunt where the motorcycle was stolen (he played the German who layed down the bike after hitting a trip wire), the production simply wouldn't let him make the jump. He was perfectly capable of making the jump, but they couldn't risk shutting down such a large overseas film production.
Enter Bud Ekins. Good friend of Steve McQueen fellow bike enthusiast, and Hollywood stuntman, including another stunt in Bullitt. The stunt certainly fooled the audience. Even in the still shot, it's hard to tell it's not McQueen.
So why bring this up? Why today?
"Bud Ekins, one of America's pioneering off-road motorcyclists, died on October 6. He was 77 years old."
"Bud Ekins, one of America's pioneering off-road motorcyclists, died on October 6. He was 77 years old."
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