How I dearly wish he'd come out of retirement for one last great acting role, instead of allowing his final performance to be in the wretched League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Don’t Toss In the Wish Gauntlet Just Yet, Jacko Department:
If the current scuttlebutt ‘bout The Great Scot mayhap returning for “Indy 5” pans out, movie-goers the world over just might have a Merry Christmas come a summer or two away …
Also, a coupla days ago Count BillyBard mentioned one of our favorite (least heralded AND seen) performances
in Sidney Lumet’s gripping
Tough, unsentimental and as emotionally/psychologically raw an outing
How I dearly wish he'd come out of retirement for one last great acting role, instead of allowing his final performance to be in the wretched League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I quite enjoyed League and Connery was perfect for that role he played, my OP.
There isn't another actor alive who could have brought Marko Ramius, the Raisuli, Jimmy Malone or Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez to life in the manner that he did.
I once saw a photograph of a drunken Sean Connery laughing while fending off the blows of a drunken topless woman with a very nice set of tits who for some reason was hell bent on slugging him.
Funniest and most interesting photograph of the old 007 I've ever seen.
Sir Sean seems relaxed and at ease in this brief interview. He even mentions 007...
Wine Talk: Sean Connery Legendary actor has long enjoyed wine and the good life Thomas Matthews Posted: October 6, 2009
Sir Sean Connery, 79, burst into stardom in 1962, with his portrayal of British secret agent James Bond in Dr. No. But Connery appeared in dozens of films between his debut in 1954 and his retirement in 2003, and he won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his 1987 role as Jim Malone in The Untouchables. In 2000, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Connery was born in Scotland, has lived in Spain and Switzerland, and now spends most of his time in the Bahamas. He spoke with executive editor Thomas Matthews, who has equated Connery, Bond and the good life since seeing From Russia With Love in 1965.
Wine Spectator: Tell us about your interest in wine.
Sean Connery: I can tell you more about whiskey than wine. I'm not an aficionado by any means, mostly because I have a heart condition and am not supposed to take much alcohol. But I do drink red wine, because of my great friend David Murray [a Scottish entrepreneur who owns two French wine estates, Château Routas in Provence and Domaine Jessiaume [in Burgundy]. He showed me the evidence that it was good for the health.
I favor Merlots from Chile for their value, and I keep a good deal of California wine in my cellar. Don't ask me to tell you their names. I have one that cost me $2,000 for two cases, which I think is rather steep, but people are prepared to pay it.
WS: Is there a particular wine that has really stuck in your memory?
SC: I once lived a few years in Spain. It was around the time I was doing The Man Who Would Be King [in 1975]. I enjoyed a wine called Vega Sicilia, and back then, you could get it by the bucketful. Now it's several hundred dollars a bottle.
WS: Do you ever visit wine country?
SC: I spend a week every year in France with David Murray. He's got the two main bases. We fly to France, then pick up the car, drive down to the coast and spend a week. Château Routas is 1,300 meters above the sea, and it's just a perfect site for health.
There's nothing but wine down there. It's amazing to see how it's all done, from soup to nuts, and how important it is to everyone. The people are really in tune with what they are doing, and it gives a great atmosphere.
We have good food and wine every night [chuckling]. When we're at his places, we drink his wines. But when we're traveling, we try everything. He's a great wine connoisseur, and I just go along with him. Providing you have nothing else to do, it's a marvelous way to spend some time.
WS: As James Bond, you played a character whose connoisseurship of wine was a defining trait. How much of that was from your own experience?
SC: That was all part of the character. I remember the Dom Pérignon scene in Dr. No. But I can't really claim I had any knowledge of wine at the time. The director, Terence Young, put a great deal of sophistication into the films [Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball], and he never got the credit he deserved. He taught me, and helped develop the character. I can wear the clothes well, but he was the one who picked them out.
Dr. No cost $1 million in 1962. Today, to make that film would cost $100 million or more. That gives you an idea how it's gone. Wine is the same thing.
Nice to see that Warner Archive has Tarzan's Greatest Adventure available. Haven't seen that since those Saturday afternoons on local TV in the early 1980s.
For those who think that Mister Connery is always such a nice guy/gentleman you should stop reading now.
My dad had his retirement party a few months ago (he was a cop). One of the colleagues told me a true story that happened a few years ago. This colleague said to me that a former boss of his is a golf player and that guy had been at a golf tournament where both celebrities and "unknown" people could participate. And that cop`s former boss' turn to start playing had just come and he was preparing to play when Sean Connery came over to that guy and starts yelling and telling that it was his (Sean Connery`s) turn and not that unknown guy`s turn to play. So in response to this, this "unknown" golfer got so angry that he faceslapped him so hard that Sean fell to the ground. Later that day the arrangers of that tournament had decided that Sean Connery was no more welcomed to play at that golf course anymore.
With that said I must say that he should come back from his retirement and start acting again instead of play golf and misbehave on the golf course because we all miss his acting, that`s for sure.
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