OT Sean Connery passed away today

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I actually went to Circus Circus about 4 years ago or so to play that balloon water gun game (and I won). I was eating at the Steakhouse there, not really to go to the circus. But what the hell, it was campy.

 

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Thunderball and Never Say Never Again were based on the same book.

Here is Connery playing it in the "game" scene"

 

[THE HCP]

My favorite movie of his was a later one....Finding Forrester....he was brilliant in that film

Just watched this with my kids. Their first time seeing it. Whole family loved it. Gus Van Sant!!

 

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One of my favorite Easter Eggs in Dr. No:




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_the_Duke_of_Wellington

The painting was acquired by the Duke of Wellington, and came into the possession of Louisa Catherine Caton, wife of Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds and sister-in-law of Wellington's older brother Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley. Her first husband Felton Hervey-Bathurst fought with Wellington in the Iberian Peninsula, commanding the 14th Light Dragoons from 1811 to 1814, and then on Wellington's staff in the Waterloo Campaign and Wellingtons representative at the signing of the Convention of St. Cloud on 3 July 1815.

It descended to John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds by the time it was put up for auction at Sotheby's in 1961. The New York collector Charles Wrightsman bid £140,000 (equivalent to £3,139,281 in 2019), but the Wolfson Foundation offered £100,000 and the government added a special Treasury grant of £40,000, matching Wrightsman's bid and obtaining the painting for the National Gallery in London, where it was first put on display on 2 August 1961. It was stolen nineteen days later, on 21 August 1961. It was later returned and Kempton Bunton confessed to taking the painting and its frame in July 1965.[3] Following a high-profile trial in which he was defended by Jeremy Hutchinson, QC, Bunton was found not guilty of stealing the painting, but guilty of stealing the frame.[4]

The theft entered popular culture, as it was referenced in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No. In the film, the painting was on display in Dr. Julius No's lair, suggesting the first Bond villain had stolen the work.[3][5]

 

[Natebishop3]

He lived to be 90, so that's a pretty good run.

I actually looked him up a month or so ago because I watched The Rock and I realized that I hadn't really seen him in a long time. He dropped out of the public eye in the early 2000s and nobody had really seen him in a while. He actually made a public appeared recently when he turned 90 and he very much looked his age. I had a feeling he probably wouldn't live a lot longer but it's still very sad. He was definitely one of my favorite actors of all time.

 

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