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[TheSaint]

If Eon wakes up & smells reality & re-signs Pierce for Bond 21, does anyone else think it would be cool if Stephanie has a cameo in the film? Surprised it hasn't happened already.

[Xenobia]

Saint...how can I put this delicately?

I can't. So I will just say it:

There isn't enough Prozac in the world to be given to the two of them to make working together again, possible.

-- Xenobia

[Jim]

Don't they like each other, then?

(Honest question - Remington Thing passed me by)

[Loomis]

I guess there's a case to be made that Zimbalist launched Brosnan's career.

[Tarl_Cabot]

She hated him because he was prettier than her.

[RJJB]

Haven't we had enough cute little homages and references in Die Another Day?

I never saw Remington Steels, so having SZ would mean nothing to me.

[Xenobia]

No, they did not like each other. RS was supposed to be her show, he stole the spotlight, and then she wouldn't let him forget that he grew up poor and she didn't.

I think thiungs mellowed as Pierce's first wife was dying, but they will never be close.

-- Xenobia

[Loomis]

RS was supposed to be her show, he stole the spotlight

Well, that was very naughty of Brosnan, wasn't it?

Still, Zimbalist got first billing, didn't she?

[Xenobia]

Technically yes, but everyone knew him, and barely remembers her now.

-- Xenobia

[DLibrasnow]

I remember thinking Stephanie Zimbalist was gorgeous when I was a lad of 11 or 12....Man, what was I thinking?!

[TheSaint]

Wow! Such venom towards Ms.Zimbalist! I didn't even think this thread would get any replies. I just suggested a cameo, not her being cast as the Bond girl.

[DLibrasnow]

No real venom on my part...I just don't think she's as pretty as I once thought she was!

[Xenobia]

No venom on my part either, just telling it like it is. They don't get along and I don't think Pierce would support her having a cameo, and I don't think she would want one.

Besides, she's acted with Dalton and Brosnan before they were Bond. If anything, we should be looking at the next young English actor she works with.

-- Xen

[PrinceKamalKhan]

No venom on my part either, just telling it like it is. They don't get along and I don't think Pierce would support her having a cameo, and I don't think she would want one.

Besides, she's acted with Dalton and Brosnan before they were Bond. If anything, we should be looking at the next young English actor she works with.

-- Xen

There not getting along offscreen didn't hurt their onscreen chemistry on the show. In fact, it may have helped it. After all, Laura was always upset about "Mr. Steele" stealing her limelight so I guess art reflected life in that case.

What movie did Stephanie Zimbalist and Timothy Dalton appear in together?

[Xenobia]

You make a great point PrinceK, their off screen turmoil probably did help things onscreen.

One other key note...ever wonder why Mildred was closer to Mr. Steele than Miss Holt? Take note, in her autobiography Doris Roberts only mentions Pierce. In her Lifetime special, she only mentions Pierce.

Do you see a pattern forming here folks?

-- Xen

[Jim]

Only that Pierce is easier to spell than Zambezi or whatever the silly woman's name is.

[Loomis]

Technically yes, but everyone knew him, and barely remembers her now.

Were it not for James Bond, no one would remember Brosnan, either (yet Brosnan fans seem strangely convinced that their hero was one of the brightest stars in the firmament even before GOLDENEYE).

Brosnan got lucky with 007. He ought to be paying MGM and Eon, not the other way round.

[Jim]

Ssshhhh........you'll spoil things.........

[Xenobia]

Jim....what are you planning?

-- Xen

[Dr. Tynan]

she wouldn't let him forget that he grew up poor and she didn't.

Why would she think that matters?, Y'know what Brosan was like years before?

[Xenobia]

Some folks only judge a person by their wealth. It is sad but true.

-- Xenobia

[Dr. Tynan]

That's silly to judge someone on wealth, but to judge someone on what they were like that's what I mean . I'm not sure I understand that.

[DLibrasnow]

If you figure it out let me know!

[Xenobia]

I am sorry to be confusing, but Doc can you quote my quote that you are referring to.

-- Xen

[Loomis]

she wouldn't let him forget that he grew up poor and she didn't.

Quite right too! Miss Zimbalist displays precisely the kind of Flemingesque snobbery so sorely lacking in Brosnan's portrayal of 007. Perhaps she, and not her effeminate erstwhile co-star, ought to be playing James Bond.

[Contessa]

Not only would Zimbalist never appear in a cameo because she doesn't get along with Brosnan, but she has stated in interviews that she's never seen nor would she consider seeing a Bond movie. Apparently, she's too much "above it all" for the Bond genre. Personally, I've never cared much for her as an actress, but she had talented grandparents (a concert violinist and soprano opera singer), and I've always thought her father (of 77 Sunset Strip TV-show fame) comes across as rather warm and down-to-earth in interviews.

S. Zimbalist was rumored to have been something of a prima donna on the R.S. set, considering herself an East Coast Trained Thespian from an "old money" family.

Oddly, I never thought she was all that attractive when I was a teen and watched the show regularly, but I saw her in an interview a few years ago and thought she looked good.

Edited by Contessa, 31 March 2004 - 07:40 PM.

[The Dove]

It seems like there would be a better chance of seeing Bruce Willis and Cybil Sheppard re-unite in Die Hard 4 or a Moonlighting reunion (those two didn't get along either) than of seeing a Brosnan-Zimbalist reunion.

[TheSaint]

Of all the threads I've started on this forum, this one has had the most replies to it. Who would've thought?

[Dr. Tynan]

Some folks only judge a person by their wealth. It is sad but true.

-- Xenobia

I'm not being obnoxious Xen , I'm just saying that I wasn't so much referring to the fact that Zimbalist disliked Brosnan for being poor, but the fact she disliked because of what he was like, (regardless of what it was he was like). If you get me?

[Xenobia]

AH! Now I get it.

What can I say...she's a strange bird.

-- X