A real Bond wouldn't leave fingerprints on his car hood would he?
Nothing can top "his" legendary performances on Celebrity Jeopardy.
Connery: I have to ask you about 'The Penis Mightier'
Trabek: That's 'The Pen is Mightier'
Connery: Gussie it up however you want, the question is does it work?
The AFI has given this award to some nice people lately, but they certainly haven't had the careers of those they gave in the early days.
The earliest awards went to:John Ford, James Cagney, Orson Welles, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, John Huston, etc. I don't think Connery's career matches up--though his stature as an icon/celebrity does.
Connery will always be the quintessential James Bond.
A party? Pity I wasn't invited.
It was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli’s attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.“One day,” Dana Broccoli later recalled, “Cubby called me and said: ‘Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don’t know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.’ I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: ‘Cubby, he’s fabulous!’ He was just perfect, he had star material right there.”
Few men could make this line sexy, but reading it and knowing it comes from him has sexy on full throttle.
Sean Connery
I read somewhere that he hasn`t visited Scotland in the past few years and will not until it is completely independent from England. Here, I found one reference to this on IMDB....
"Declared in 2003 that he would not return home until Scotland is an independent country. He believes this can still happen during his lifetime."
Uh, does he expect pigs to fly as well?
Some more bizarre trivia from IMDB.......
Formerly worked as a coffin polisher.
Was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond.
Was the original choice to play Sybock in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). The words in the film "Sha Ka Ree" are a play on of his name.
Wears a toupee in all the James Bond movies. He started losing his hair at the age of 21. Privately and in most other movies, he wears none.
Started smoking when he was nine years old.
The inimitable.
BOND TIDBIT: In "Diamonds are Forever," the character played by Leonard Barr called Shady Tree---is the late singer Dean Martin's uncle.
According to IMDB and Greg Garrison, Martin's TV show producer.
While on a Med cruise as a Marine on a Navy vessel we were docked in Naples, close by some U.S. subs that were in port as well. We traded movies with them, they got all the current stuff, and came away with a couple of newly released (early) James Bond films. We left Naples and while at sea the James Bond movies were shown ... it was tough watching Bond making it with those beautiful sexy women that appeared in his movies. Being single, in the Marine Corps and on a Navy ship is a very monk like existence.