Sean Connery Dies @ the age of 90

[PamfromTx]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[chic]

I was too young to see the James Bond movies because my parents felt they would not be good for me so I missed all the best of Sean Connery, but I did enjoy him in other films. RIP.

 

[jerry old]

Brother was spitting image of Conner, , before there was a Sean Conner
When he was sixteen, girls would come to house seeking him.
How many? A bunch. He was prurty... Yep, plumb purty.
Me: age 12, had just discovered females-jealous, jealous, jealous

They could have passed for twins.
The ladoes flocked around him until the year he died!

 

[hollydolly]

It's a strange thing but somehow we never thought of him as being old...

Here he is on his 89th Birthday with his son ...

 

[terry123]

Loved him in all the Bond movies. Always thought he was a very sexy man even as he got older. RIP Sean. I still rewatch your movies when I can find them on tv!

 

[Gaer]

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OH YEAH! OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!
THE UNTOUCHABLES! WOW!!!!!!

 

[Treacle]

It's a strange thing but somehow we never thought of him as being old...

Here he is on his 89th Birthday with his son ...

Quite agree @hollydolly. I have an image in my head from when I saw him in films and that image stays. I have never seen a photo of him in his later years and seem shocked ....but why would I ? He has got older but my image of him has not got older? I look at the picture and it shows a very sweet and kindly man. Lovely photo. Bless him.

 

[WhatInThe]

Downer alert.

First several Bond movies were the best and perhaps closer to a bit of reality. He had presence. He knew/understood how to be on screen, in a photo etc. He had the look or swagger. Also I thought Man Who Would Be King and The Rock were some of his best movies.

But over time I sort of lost a hankering to see an action hero from another country especially when the he left the series, came back to a dud and yet did his own version of Bond. You realized it was plug in a play. Also when allegations of wife abuse surfaced that was about it for me.

Also a fascinating bio on his first wife from Australia Diane Cilento

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Diane-Cilento-never-stop-Mrs-James-Bond.html

 

[Pepper]

Always liked Diane Cilento. She died young, a talent lost.

 

[Jules]

For those who drink martinis, what’s the difference between shaken, not stirred?

 

[Pepper]

I would think @Jules, that being shaken mixes the liquids more efficiently than stirring. Actually, I have no idea.

 

[JimBob1952]

If you want to see a really good film, check out The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Sean Connery and Michael Caine in an adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story. John Huston directed.

 

[Lewkat]

For those who drink martinis, what’s the difference between shaken, not stirred?

Shaking it bruises the gin. Evidently Bond did not care.

 

[Lewkat]

Always liked Diane Cilento. She died young, a talent lost.

She was 79 when she died. That's not real young.

 

[Pepper]

She was 79 when she died. That's not real young.

Thank you, Lewkat for straightening out this detail. I'm glad she had a long life. Not as long as yours, of course.

 

[moviequeen1]

I read article in NYT,his widow,said he had dementia the last few months of his life,had trouble expressing himself which really frustrated him,how sad