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1 month, 4 weeks ago

One-off £4.5m Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger created for film's 60th anniversary

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the classic 1964 James Bond spy movie Goldfinger - starring Sean Connery in his third outing as 007 - Rolls-Royce has created a new one-off long-wheelbase Phantom. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the classic 1964 James Bond spy movie Goldfinger - starring Sean Connery in his third outing as 007 - Rolls-Royce has …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

21 fan theories that will completely change the way you watch these iconic films

The Independent

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9 months ago

To hell with the hair – Aaron Taylor-Johnson will make a perfect Bond

The Independent

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9 months ago

Aaron Taylor-Johnson offered James Bond role: 007 movies ranked from worst to best

The Independent

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9 months ago

How Aaron Taylor Johnson, 33, went from High Wycombe to Hollywood after making name for himself in superhero movie Kick-Ass before meeting film director wife, 57, while playing young John Lennon - as

Daily Mail

He's married to a woman 23 years his senior and has seen his career go from strength to strength, with three huge film appearances this year alone. Aaron Taylor Johnson, 33, is understood to have been formally offered the chance to play the next James Bond Aaron is married to director Sam Taylor Johnson, 57, who his 23 years his …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Iconic Las Vegas Tropicana hotel that opened in 1957 and was home to Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr and Folies Bergere is set to close in WEEKS to make way for baseball stadium

Daily Mail

The iconic Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas will close its doors in a matter of weeks to make way for a new $1.5billion baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics. The Tropicana was once an icon on the Las Vegas strip but now appears to exude faded glory The girls, who all dance in the Folies Bergere at the plush Hotel …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

‘It was so embarrassing’: 30 times things went wrong on set

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m not a Bond fan – I stopped watching when Sean Connery left’

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at 20: The comic-book movie so bad it made Sean Connery quit acting

The Independent

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1 year, 6 months ago

Battered classic Mercedes bought by Sean Connery in 1983 goes on the market

Daily Mail

At first glance, it may not have much in common with James Bond’s famous Aston Martin. But this rusty old banger does share one significant feature with 007’s most celebrated car: it too was driven by Sir Sean Connery. Old banger: Paul Wiggington with the white Mercedes saloon formerly owned by Connery Sean Connery, left, with Ursula Andress, gave the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

As Sir Michael Caine turns 90, a look back at the Cockney acting legend's incredible life

Daily Mail

On March 14 the man formerly known as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite turned 90 - and not a lot of people know that. Old times: Sir Michael Caine with co-stars Vivien Merchant, Jane Asher, Julia Foster and Shelley Winters on the set of Alfie in 1965 Legend: The actor smokes a cigarette during his 1960s heyday - he pursued acting after …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Barbara Walters ‘legendary’ interview with Sean Connery resurfaces after broadcaster dies: ‘I’m speechless’

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

James Bond and The Beatles: the 1962 day that changed Britain

BBC

James Bond and The Beatles: the 1962 day that changed Britain Emmanuel Lafont Sixty years ago today, both the Beatles' first single Love Me Do and the first Bond film Dr No were released. As Ian MacDonald writes in Revolution in the Head, his seminal history of The Beatles' records and the sixties, the release of Love Me Do "blew …

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2 years, 2 months ago

James Bond at 60: Why Sean Connery would be rehired if he walked back in through the door

The Independent

It’s 60 years since Sean Connery’s 007 was first glimpsed on screen in Dr No in a scene set at 3am in a Mayfair casino. “We wouldn’t be here today if it were not for Sean Connery and all the people who made that original film,” Broccoli says of the first in the 25 film series. It still holds up.” …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Bond girls! Sean Connery's widow joins his socialite granddaughter Saskia to pose for bikini snaps

Daily Mail

Sir Sean Connery's widow has joined his socialite granddaughter to pose for a rare family snap as they lapped up the summer sun in the Bahamas. Lady Micheline Connery, 93, could be seen reclining on a boat alongside her granddaughter Saskia, 26, in the Bahamas, where she lived with the James Bond star until he died in 2020 aged 90. …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Chris Evans and the Captain America hangover: Why Hollywood stars can’t beat image trap of franchise hits

Firstpost

With Chris Evans in The Gray Man, the old jinx reared its head all over again in Hollywood. Hollywood actors scaling stardom through franchise roles have eternally struggled to shed the image that the particular performance brings in its wake, quite often never managing to overcome the hex. Playing the psychopathic ex-CIA agent Lloyd Hansen in The Gray Man was …

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3 years ago

Sean Connery turned down Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he ‘just didn’t get it’

The Independent

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3 years, 1 month ago

‘I knew it was a courageous thing to do’: The curious story of Bond’s first gay villains

The Independent

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3 years, 2 months ago

James Bond swaps bed-hopping for handshakes with his female counterparts in No Time To Die

Daily Mail

Over 59 years and more than 20 films, legendary MI6 agent James Bond's bedhopping antics have become as synonymous with the franchise as vodka martinis and Aston Martins. James Bond swaps bed-hopping for handshakes and camaraderie with his female counterparts in No Time To Die Therefore, while No Time To Die sees the typical explosive Bond drama beloved of the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

No Time To Die director says Sean Connery’s James Bond was ‘basically’ a rapist

The Independent

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4 years ago

Irrfan's Angrezi Medium to Sushant's Dil Bechara, last films of actors we lost in 2020

India Today

2020 has not only been unprecedented and unkind, but also relentless and ruthless. 1 IRRFAN - ANGREZI MEDIUM Irrfan, a legend in the cinematic universe, breathed his last on April 29 in Mumbai after a two-year-long battle with neuroendocrine tumour. The actor’s last film was Homi Adajania’s Angrezi Medium. 2 RISHI KAPOOR – THE BODY Prominent actor Rishi Kapoor passed …

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4 years ago

Sean Connery: Bond and superstar

The Hindu

HE seemed like a demented ogre, massive and dangerous, looming over his hapless, emotionally battered wife. Interestingly, after Saltzman and Broccoli selected him to play Bond in the first movie of the franchise, Dr. No, and sent some footage of Connery to United Artists, the production house got back to them with a terse cable that said: “SEE IF YOU …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Source: A compendium of objects to help you channel your inner James Bond

Live Mint

Piano Black Sean Sunglasses by Curry & Paxton EYE-SPY Piano Black Sean Sunglasses by Curry & Paxton Inspired by the frames worn by Connery in Thunderball, this pair combines piano black acetate fronts and tortoiseshell inners. Available at Row.MasonandSons.com; £149 Thunderball Gingham Shirt by Orlebar Brown GOING GINGHAM Thunderball Gingham Shirt by Orlebar Brown This camp-collared cotton gingham number, …

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4 years, 1 month ago

How James Bond turned the Rolex Submariner into an icon

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The other day, a friend of mine, in a suitably iconoclastic mood, exclaimed, “What’s the big deal about James Bond? Sean Connery wearing the Rolex Submariner in a publicity still from Dr. No The Dive Icon What you’re looking at is, for most enthusiasts of horology, simply the most important watch ever made. Both brands, of course went to town …

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One-off £4.5m Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger created for film's 60th anniversary

21 fan theories that will completely change the way you watch these iconic films

To hell with the hair – Aaron Taylor-Johnson will make a perfect Bond

Aaron Taylor-Johnson offered James Bond role: 007 movies ranked from worst to best

How Aaron Taylor Johnson, 33, went from High Wycombe to Hollywood after making name for himself in superhero movie Kick-Ass before meeting film director wife, 57, while playing young John Lennon - as

Iconic Las Vegas Tropicana hotel that opened in 1957 and was home to Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr and Folies Bergere is set to close in WEEKS to make way for baseball stadium

‘It was so embarrassing’: 30 times things went wrong on set

Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m not a Bond fan – I stopped watching when Sean Connery left’

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at 20: The comic-book movie so bad it made Sean Connery quit acting

Battered classic Mercedes bought by Sean Connery in 1983 goes on the market

As Sir Michael Caine turns 90, a look back at the Cockney acting legend's incredible life

Barbara Walters ‘legendary’ interview with Sean Connery resurfaces after broadcaster dies: ‘I’m speechless’

James Bond and The Beatles: the 1962 day that changed Britain

James Bond at 60: Why Sean Connery would be rehired if he walked back in through the door

Bond girls! Sean Connery's widow joins his socialite granddaughter Saskia to pose for bikini snaps

Chris Evans and the Captain America hangover: Why Hollywood stars can’t beat image trap of franchise hits

Sean Connery turned down Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he ‘just didn’t get it’

‘I knew it was a courageous thing to do’: The curious story of Bond’s first gay villains

James Bond swaps bed-hopping for handshakes with his female counterparts in No Time To Die

No Time To Die director says Sean Connery’s James Bond was ‘basically’ a rapist

Irrfan's Angrezi Medium to Sushant's Dil Bechara, last films of actors we lost in 2020

Sean Connery: Bond and superstar

Source: A compendium of objects to help you channel your inner James Bond

How James Bond turned the Rolex Submariner into an icon