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[ChandlerBing]

It is a fact. Timothy Dalton is the father of all of the Daltonites on this board.

[Tarl_Cabot]

My dad can beat up your dad!

[CommanderBond]

Originally posted by Tarl_Cabot
'Later General' = thank me later, buy me a pint, pat me on the back...etc. You people are disturbed!

Im with ya on that one....peoples minds nowadays are always in the gutter....

[Tarl_Cabot]

[General Koskov]

What I have learnt from this thread: James Bond is kissed on the cheek, ergo, he and the kisser, are undeniably homosexual. Also, Timmy is a horny bastard.

What I have learnt in the rest of my life: a common way to greet someone in East Europe is to kiss them on both cheeks--like shaking hands is to Englishmen. Also, Timmy is a horny bastard.

[Jaelle]

From Gen. Koskov:
<What I have learnt from this thread: James Bond is kissed on the cheek, ergo, he and the kisser, are undeniably homosexual. Also, Timmy is a horny bastard.

What I have learnt in the rest of my life: a common way to greet someone in East Europe is to kiss them on both cheeks--like shaking hands is to Englishmen. Also, Timmy is a horny bastard. >




BTW, folks, I just tried using the "quote" function instead of "hit reply" function and this newfangled CBn board has some crazy new way of replying to posts that you wish to quote (did that make any sense?) Oh you internet designers just LOVE to confuse slow, aging computer learners like me, don't you!

[Genrewriter]

If it makes you feel better Jaelle, some of us younger computer users occasionally end up scratching our heads to the point where we actually break through to the skull.

[Dr Niles Crane]

Speaking of Tim's shagging, er sorry salad days - did he ever have it off with Mae West. I remember way way back that it was rumoured she said 'come up and see me some time' to young Timmy when they were doing a movie.

Sorry to drag the talk back into the gutter, but this is a rumour that has niggled at me for something like - ever since the Living Daylights and I wondered if any of you experts can fill me in.

[Jaelle]

Dr. Niles Crane:
<Speaking of Tim's shagging, er sorry salad days - did he ever have it off with Mae West. I remember way way back that it was rumoured she said 'come up and see me some time' to young Timmy when they were doing a movie.
Sorry to drag the talk back into the gutter, but this is a rumour that has niggled at me for something like - ever since the Living Daylights and I wondered if any of you experts can fill me in. >

In all of Tim's TV and print interviews throughout most of his career, there are three things reporters and talk show hosts ask about the most: Bond, the Lion in Winter and Sextette. They always bring up Sextette to tease him and he takes it quite well, poking gentle fun at Mae, talking about her with respect and affection, and laughing at himself. Arsenio Hall even ran a clip of him from the movie, wearing his tux, singing to Mae. Tim was there to promote The Rocketeer and when he realized what Arsenio was about to do he gasped "What have you done!" and then lowered his head looking mock-threatening at Arsenio. On Regis & Kathy Lee, Regis reminds him "Hey Tim, I was in that movie!" Which Tim had forgotten and then unguardedly says "that's right, you were, god, everybody was in that movie!" To which the audience breaks out laughing and Regis goes into a mock-insulted reaction. (*"Everybody?!"*)

Tim calls the film "a museum piece" and says it's "my contribution to vaudeville."

Apparently Mae did indeed make a pass at him (in an elevator -- which included feeling him up on his butt!). He laughs at it and says (when Regis asks if she made a play for him): "she did try, but only once, I made sure of that." He explained that she was always "on" and that it was a big joke on her part, part of her whole act. He said that the cast loved having dinner with her on Thursdays where she would regale them all with wonderful stories from Broadway from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and from old Hollywood in its infancy to the 30s. She had fantastic stories to tell.

Apparently her age was the subject of much comment on the set. To quote Tim: "she said she was 87, but everyone knew she was 91, and people who REALLY knew her said she was 94!" She had trouble remembering her lines and it frustrated her very much. One of his funnier quips involves him describing a scene where she had to do a line referring to the moon and being in love. And she kept flubbing it. Then Tim says "I don't think she even knew the Americans had gone to the moon!"

But he always said she was a very gracious, amazing lady to work with and enjoyed working with "a legend every day." At the time there was a lot of buzz about the movie because it was to be her last film. Throughout the casting process, she and the director had looked at more than 1000 young actors to play her sixth husband. Finally someone brought over Tim's version of Wuthering Heights and she chose him immediately after seeing him in the movie for only five minutes.

Tim was about 29 or so at the time when he made the film. As to why he accepted the part, he'd been away from films for 3 years and was looking to re-start his film career. One day his agent suddenly got a call from Paramount Studios telling him that Mae West wanted Tim to play her husband in her last movie and was offering him lots of $$. Well how could he turn that down? Esp. since he's always been such a big fan of old Hollywood.

The film had a pretty wild cast: Dom Deluise, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper, Walter Pidgeon, Ringo Starr, George Raft and Regis.

[Dr Niles Crane]

Thanks Jaelle

Was it really called Sextette? Wow!

[Genrewriter]

Cool info, Jaelle. A bad movie website I frequent has a review of it. And yes, that really was the title of the film Doc.