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[David Schofield]

Damn, I would have liked to see this.

I'll second that.

I don't understand why there can't be a biography both celebrating his acting legacy and showing the human side of the man. He's a fascinating, flawed person and you'd think the way he is in real life, what with suing whatever studio annoys him or whatever other controversy he causes, would be the way he'd want his story told.

He's no saint, and I don't think he'd want to necessarily be though of that way. So it seems like the last thing Connery would want would be a whitewashing of his life.

Not too sure about that. Connery is - essentially - a very very sensitive control freak who can't stand the slightest criticism. He slags off EON for not paying him enough for Bond (even though, financially, they were the risk takers), he blames every director when his films fail to be a success, he is unpleasant to journalists and he has a romantic attachment to Scotland which precludes living there.

I don't think any autobiography of Connery would get at the truth. I'm afraid you'll have to wait until he's gone before we get endless salacious muck raking tales. Read them with a pinhc of salt just like the cuttings-library biogs of the past and then decide for yourself what might or might not not be true.

Just don't espect frank honesty from Mr Connery in the meantime.

[Qwerty]

Interesting to see what develops now.

Can't expect a whole much more now it seems.

[booyeah_]

Too bad, I always found him to be as much an interesting character off screen as on screen. Maybe he'll reconsider.

[Bondian]

If he waits too long, it may never happen.

[Qwerty]

[quote name='Dr Blockbuster' date='4 April 2005 - 19:02'][quote name='Bondian' date='2 April 2005 - 22:22']If he waits too long, it may never happen.

[Athena007]

Dr Blockbuster... didn't he pull out of the deal this past March? Perhaps this Sunday Mail article is an old one... or old news rehashed.

[hartley_bond]

I guess that 95% of the so called autobiographies were in fact written by ghostwriters

With a few notable exceptions. Stephen Fry and Tom Baker come to mind.

Edited by hartley_bond, 01 October 2005 - 09:23 AM.

[Kingdom Come]

Why doesn't this greed merchant donate the 2 million to a worthy cause - he hardly needs the money. It's people like him and Brosnan that make me very happy that people are getting to their films without paying.





In answer to the user below (as the Moderators won't let me add the following):

I didn't mean that Connery should give money back to OTHER multi-millionares like Harper Collins! Be better if he gave it to people who are . . . 'poor'.

[Kingdom Come]

I wasn't thinking of him handing anything back to Harper Collins - he could hand it to people who are NOT multi-millionaires. Just a thought.

[Kingdom Come]

I'm not talking about him handing back the two million to Harpers Collins!!! if he could hand it to people who are not multi-millionaires it would be better!

[Kingdom Come]

I didn't mean that Connery should give the money back to OTHER multi-millionares like Harpers Collins! Be better if he gave it to people who are . . . 'poor'.

[Kingdom Come]

Oh dea I seem to have posted several times the same thing. But my point is not cemented to this book that is no longer going to be written. Look at it in the wider context. . .