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The source is nonsense, but the rumour was bound to crop up. He may well be approached - and I think he could do a great job - but he'll almost certainly be tied up in more personal projects after winning an armful of Oscars.

[Elvenstar]

Considering my obsession with Slumdog of course I would really love to see Danny as Bond 23 director!
But frankly I don't believe he will be willing to a big budget action movie...

[plane17]

This just hit the news wire, thoughts?
IMDB

[qtst]

A touch sensor garage will store his Range Rover and £75,000 Maserati Gran Tourismo sports car.

So he sold his Aston Martin Vanquish?

You know I wondered about that. Maybe he has it on Hawaii only at their other home or maybe....he decided to downsize due to economy?

Well, he seemed unhappy with the car...
http://www.nypost.co...tos/photo01.htm

[Tarl_Cabot]

If this story was generated by Pierce's publicist, Brozo should fire them. No one wants to read a "look how fantastically rich I am" story at the moment.

I applaud him for spending the cash on things he wants. *That's good for the economy*. Pierce always struck me as a guy tailor made to be on Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Anyway, after being in that awful 2 film run of Bond films and getting dumped twice as Bond I say have at it Pierce!

[Sniperscope]

Now, let me get this straight... if you slice away all the hyperbole the sum total of this "gadget" driven "high tec" wonder home Brozza has is:
Hi-def theatre
Pressure pad and infrared security
Electric blinds
Electric revolving tie holder
Wireless and bluetooth
Electric gates
and solar power...
Horrors!!!
Ye gads!!!
Can any one mere mortal hold such devestating, earth-shattering, mysterious and unheard of technology in his power and yet still remain but a mere mortal???

Edited by Sniperscope, 09 March 2009 - 07:38 AM.

[Jaws-vs-007]

Now, let me get this straight... if you slice away all the hyperbole the sum total of this "gadget" driven "high tec" wonder home Brozza has is:
Hi-def theatre
Pressure pad and infrared security
Electric blinds
Electric revolving tie holder
Wireless and bluetooth
Electric gates
and solar power...
Horrors!!!
Ye gads!!!
Can any one mere mortal hold such devestating, earth-shattering, mysterious and unheard of technology in his power and yet still remain but a mere mortal???

Ha ha, I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like Brozza's high-tech crib couldn't hold a candle to Bill Gates's Xanadu. Not good publicity. Given his environmental preaching, this reminds me of Al Gore's energy-hog 20-room mansion with heated swimming pool and natural-gas lanterns on the lawn. Do as I say, not as I do?

[DR76]

At first, I thought this was going to be for a stage production, which I thought might be interesting.

But if they're really remaking MY FAIR LADY, then it's a terrible idea, and I hope Craig steers clear.

He says, he can just about hold a tone - he will never do stuff like thta - no worries here.

Ah, but that wouldn't matter for the role of Henry Higgins, which is traditionally speak-sung.

I thought that Craig could carry a tune, anyway. I recall him singing in "INFAMOUS". I swear, the man could have had a career in Country-Western.

[danslittlefinger]

http://www.dailymail...shion-show.html


Puppy love: Dressed to Kilt host Sir Sean Connery cuddles a tartan-wearing dog with his wife Lady Micheline

Dressed to kilt: Andie MacDowell and stunning young daughters hit the catwalk for Sean Connery fashion show


Last updated at 11:43 AM on 31st March 2009

Andie MacDowell proudly showed off her two stunning daughters on the catwalk of a charity fashion show last night.
Looking more like sisters than mother and daughters, the Four Weddings And A Funeral actress strolled down the catwalk with Rainey, 18, and Sarah Margaret, 14, at the Dressed to Kilt event.
The three women donned tartan dresses and a sporran for the annual fashion show in New York City, hosted by Sir Sean Connery and wife Lady Micheline.

At the age 50, Andie is looking better than ever and showed off her long legs and cleavage in a blue and green tartan mini dress.
Her youngest daughter Sarah also worn the same pattern, but kept covered up in a floor-length tiered strapless gown.
While Andie and Sarah embraced the tartan look, Rainey kept things subtle in a simple little black dress, but gave a nod to the Scottish theme with a sporran as a handbag.

The teenagers have not only inherited their mother's good looks, but also her flowing brown hair.

Missing out on all the fun was Andie's 23-year-old son Justin, her third child from her former marriage to Paul Qualley, which ended in 1999.
Andie has Scottish roots and attributes them to her good porridge-making skills.
She said: 'I love my oats, and I could definitely be the world championship porridge maker - and eater.
'I have an aunt who has done a fair amount of genealogy and I have Scottish relatives on my grandmother's side.'
Andie and her daughters joined a host of stars at the 7th annual Dressed to Kilt event at the M2 Lounge, organised by the Friends of Scotland group to celebrate Tartan Week.
Tickets started from $99 a person, with proceeds going to the Paralysed Veterans of America, the Wounded Warriors Organisation and the Erskine Hospital in Scotland.

What's under your kilt? Mike Myers teases the audience, while Gossip Girl hunk Ed Westwick keeps his cool in his Scottish ensemble.

Joining Andie on the catwalk was comedian Mike Myers, Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick, Scottish singer Sandi Thom and X Factor 2007 winner Leon Jackson.
Canadian actor Mike, who played Scottish ogre Shrek in the hit trilogy, is proud of his Scottish heritage and jumped at the chance to join in.
Walking down the catwalk in his Canadian jockey shirt and New Balance trainers, the 45-year-old teased the audiences by lifting up his kilt.
English actor Ed, 21, who plays Gossip Girl fashion lover Chuck Bass, went for a more muted combination of brown kilt and checked waistcoat.

After leaving her record label RCA after poor sales of her second album The Pink and the Lily, Sandi is now in America, where she hopes to sign with a label.
While many of the stars suited their kilts, Miss Scotland Stephanie Willemse, 20, made a fashion faux pas with her catwalk outfit.
Strolling down the aisle in a white dressed covered in tartan bows, the beauty queen looked like a toilet roll cover with her huge skirt.

[danslittlefinger]

http://www.thesun.co...icle2352157.ece

DANCING On Ice champ Ray Quinn wants to quit the UK for Hollywood - to become a movie star.
He hopes to follow in the footsteps of fellow X Factor star and make it big in America.

And the 20-year-old reckons he could be the next James Bond.

Ray told us: "I'd love to live in LA or America like Leona and make a life for myself over there.

"My ultimate dream is to be James Bond - maybe when Daniel Craig throws the towel in.

"He has done it so maybe I can too! I'd definitely give it a few years though.

"Bond needs to be more mature looking than me. I'll get a few more wrinkles and then who knows."

He also joked it could spark an ITV spin off, adding: "A Dancing On Ice Bond special could be really cheesy and fun - maybe that would work."

Ray found fame on The X Factor in 2006 and released a swing album in 2007.

But last year he branched out into acting, landing the role of Doody in the West End musical Grease.

He was such a hit, show bosses have given him the lead role of Danny Zuko for this year's run, starting in May.

Ray said leaving his family behind to move to the States would be tough.

A move would also test loved-up Ray's new relationship with fellow Grease star, Emma Stephens.

Ray beamed: "I am very much in love at the moment. Emma is absolutely gorgeous.

"It's early days to think about wedding bells but I wouldn't rule them out just yet, I'm really happy.

"I don't know about kids just yet, I'm still a child myself - I'm too selfish for kids at the minute, I'm way too busy with myself.

"Anyway, I don't even know where I wanna go yet - I could turn into a builder next week.

"I've got the strength for it after all that training."

[Vauxhall]

DANCING On Ice champ...

That was enough for me.

I think we need a new tabloid trash deposit.

[Qwerty]

Puppy love: Dressed to Kilt host Sir Sean Connery cuddles a tartan-wearing dog with his wife Lady Micheline

Well that will make for a fun caption contest, I'm sure.

[Qwerty]

Dancing on Ice / X Factor star for the next Bond...?

Yeah, er... no.

[danslittlefinger]

Yes please move to tabloid trash..I couldn't find it.

[Righty007]

James Bond is supposed to be a man's man. This guy is a dainty ice skater. Why isn't this in Tabloid Trash?

[Mister Asterix]

What’s the slogan? Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him. Well, add this pseudo-somebody to the list of ‘all men’.

[jaguar007]

"I want to be the next James Bond!"

now maybe someone will write and article on me and my name will get thrown around the rumor mill.

[Safari Suit]

I reckon he'll get it because he asked for it. That's how these things work.

He's younger than me; God I feel old.

[danslittlefinger]

Well I figured we could all do with a laugh..by the way, whre IS Tabloid Trash hiding nowadays?
I swear I couldn't find it. My eyesight.

[Royal Dalton]

Sport Billy, maybe. But definitely not Bond.

[Safari Suit]

He might make a good Billy Whizz.

[Righty007]

Well I figured we could all do with a laugh..by the way, whre IS Tabloid Trash hiding nowadays?
I swear I couldn't find it. My eyesight.

It's okay, you don't have to make excuses for the fact that you enjoy posting a new thread for each tabloid trash story you come across. You do it daily so don't tell us your "eyesight" is bad or that you like to make us "laugh." CBn has a search feature. Use it.

[danslittlefinger]

http://permanentstyl...e-magazine.html

The piece, which tells the tale of how Daniel Craig had to get his Turnbull & Asser shirts entirely remade, appears in the April issue.

Turnbull & Asser believes 'anything is possible'. Daniel Craig, looking for a whole new set of bespoke shirts in a day, put that to the test.

The phone rang. It was Daniel Craig’s stylist. They were running out of shirts.

Craig had been doing five to six TV interviews a day promoting the new James Bond film, and he was changing shirts almost as often. Turnbull & Asser made all the shirts for Craig (indeed has made the shirts for every Bond going back to Sean Connery in 1962). The stylist wanted a set of new shirts the next day.

Bespoke, handmade shirts in 24 hours.

PR liaison Rowland Lowe-McKenzie took the call. “I had to phone our seamstresses in Gloucester and plead with them,” he remembers. “They were wonderful about it. They stopped all other production, all the machines, and worked furiously on Mr Craig’s order. They were there into the night.”

Eventually it was done. Lowe-McKenzie admits he wasn’t popular for a while up in Gloucester, but at least the panic was over. He put the shirts in a bag and ran over to Bond HQ, with a little note for the stylist (a personal friend) explaining in no uncertain terms that she owed him a favour. A big one.

Unfortunately, the delivery was picked up by Daniel Craig himself. “He was so sweet about it,” says Lowe-McKenzie. “He wrote a delightful note back saying how grateful he was for all the effort we had gone to, and sent hand-signed photos to the ladies in the factory. But it was so embarrassing knowing he had picked up my note instead!”

We need butch shirts.

This was not the first time there had been problems with the new James Bond’s shirts.

Craig came in the Turnbull & Asser bespoke offices to be measured even before it had been announced that he was the new Bond. The tailors at 23 Bury Street measured him up for the shirts he would wear, primarily in the initial scenes on the beach and then the casino confrontation, but had to keep the secret.

Thirty shirts were made for the casino scene alone, plus 30 for Craig’s double. Some of that 30 were specifically designed for the action scenes, cut on a block that allowed a little more room to manoeuvre. But then the others “were pretty much sprayed on,” remembers Lowe-McKenzie. “Though if you’ve got the body, you might as well flaunt it.”

It was that famous body that caused the problems. Between the initial measuring session in London and starting to shoot the film, Craig put on a huge amount of muscle. So part way into filming in the Bahamas Turnbull & Asser got a distressed call from the director – the shirts didn’t fit!

Cue panic in London. The measurements had been perfect, the shirts had been perfect; but the man himself had changed. So two tailors from the Turnbull & Asser office in New York were dispatched to the Bahamas. They measured him in an hour and quickly sent the new, butch measurements to London so a whole new set of shirts could be made.

Being the official supplier of shirts (and ties, and accessories) to the Bond franchise is not cheap.

But it does have history: it began with Sean Connery and the first Bond film – Dr No. Producer Albert Broccoli and director Terence Young shopped at Turnbull & Asser, so when they found Connery they brought him to the store to show him where a real gentleman shopped. The relationship has kept going over the years, through the Broccoli family.

Growing your own umbrellas.

Turnbull & Asser purposefully places special (and necessarily costly) restrictions on its shirt-making process. All the shirts are made in the UK, in factories owned by the firm. All the cotton cloths are designed in Jermyn Street and are unique to T&A (all 900 of them). Indeed the bespoke shirts are still made on Jermyn Street – the firm is one of the last, if not the last, to produce shirts on the famous London street.

For Turnbull & Asser, there are distinct advantages to owning your own production process. Without that, there’s no way Daniel Craig’s orders could have been fulfilled. You can’t stop the production process easily if it is offshore – you don’t know the people, they’re not driving distance away, they may even be in a different time zone.

“Our motto is, anything’s possible,” says Lowe-McKenzie.

“And we can put a label in our produce knowing exactly how it has been put together, which is easier with local and integrated production. We have complete control of the process. So many companies have lost that.”

The production process is part of an over-arching ethos at Turnbull & Asser, of ethical employment and sustainability. Which brings us onto another of the firm’s demanding clients: Prince Charles.

T&A holds the royal warrant to supply shirts to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and is justly proud of it. But the Prince’s passion for ecological production does have an influence on the firm. All the mother-of-pearl buttons, for instance, are organically grown and harvested from renewable sources.

In fact, there is one item that is entirely organic – the umbrellas. A journalist once enquired whether anything at Turnbull & Asser was completely organic. A hasty survey of the staff finally turned up a positive response from the umbrellas guy. The shaft of each is a single stick, grown without fertiliser and tenderly managed for four to seven years.

How to have a shirt like Bond.

If you have the time and money to have a bespoke shirt made at Turnbull & Asser (and happen to be near Jermyn Street one day), the prices start at £165. Cost rapidly increases with the type of material used – the firm is about to put into production a Super 240s cotton, which would be so thin you could barely feel it on. It’s thinner than tissue paper.

Master Shirt Maker David Gale (who began his career with T&A in the seventies and recently rejoined from Savile Row) will take 28 individual measurements. These include collar (some 200 different collar shapes and styles), cuff width (including the difference between left and right cuff to include the diameter of a watch), shoulders, chest, mid rift and seat.

As well as the aforementioned Daniel Craig and Prince Charles, Gale has made shirts for Frank Sinatra, David Niven and Jude Law. So a pretty good shirt and pretty good company.

[danslittlefinger]

Well I figured we could all do with a laugh..by the way, whre IS Tabloid Trash hiding nowadays?
I swear I couldn't find it. My eyesight.

It's okay, you don't have to make excuses for the fact that you enjoy posting a new thread for each tabloid trash story you come across. You do it daily so don't tell us your "eyesight" is bad or that you like to make us "laugh." CBn has a search feature. Use it.

Wow. That was rude.
I am asking. again, that you take your personal hatred of me off threads.
You have done this several times now and personally I find it unsettling that you are allowed to do so quite freely. Your atagonism towards me is quite childish.
Is that why you are not an admin anymore?
I hope my PM to the mods is listened too this time.
If you have any problem with me. Take it up with the admin and not 'stalk' every post I make.

[Righty007]

Well I figured we could all do with a laugh..by the way, whre IS Tabloid Trash hiding nowadays?
I swear I couldn't find it. My eyesight.

It's okay, you don't have to make excuses for the fact that you enjoy posting a new thread for each tabloid trash story you come across. You do it daily so don't tell us your "eyesight" is bad or that you like to make us "laugh." CBn has a search feature. Use it.

Wow. That was rude.

I forgot to say "use the CBn search feature, please." Forgive me.

[danslittlefinger]

Well I figured we could all do with a laugh..by the way, whre IS Tabloid Trash hiding nowadays?
I swear I couldn't find it. My eyesight.

It's okay, you don't have to make excuses for the fact that you enjoy posting a new thread for each tabloid trash story you come across. You do it daily so don't tell us your "eyesight" is bad or that you like to make us "laugh." CBn has a search feature. Use it.

Wow. That was rude.

I forgot to say "use the CBn search feature, please." Forgive me.

Read above, I hadn't finished.
I will not address you from now on, so waste your time. Go ahead.

[Jim]

Do stop this unseemly bickering.

Albeit it seems to be taking place in exactly the right thread for it, on reflection. Am a bit torn about whether the rubbish about the shirts is tabloid crap. Given that it's not technically out of a tabloid, albeit it is crap.

I get terribly confused sometimes.

Still, if either was seeking to try to lower the tone of an already pretty low thread, please be assured that you have and therefore deserve a nice badge, each.

[danslittlefinger]

Do stop this unseemly bickering.

Albeit it seems to be taking place in exactly the right thread for it, on reflection. Am a bit torn about whether the rubbish about the shirts is tabloid crap. Given that it's not technically out of a tabloid, albeit it is crap.

I get terribly confused sometimes.

Still, if either was seeking to try to lower the tone of an already pretty low thread, please be assured that you have and therefore deserve a nice badge, each.

Seriously? If you read my posts, I asked for it to be moved originally to the Trash Thread.
I was "attacked" first by someone who cant get over the fact that I refused to help in gather Leiter info. I have complained many times in the past and nothing has been done.
Since then he has not stopped on at me.

Thanks for your "fairness".

[Jim]

Do stop this unseemly bickering.

Albeit it seems to be taking place in exactly the right thread for it, on reflection. Am a bit torn about whether the rubbish about the shirts is tabloid crap. Given that it's not technically out of a tabloid, albeit it is crap.

I get terribly confused sometimes.

Still, if either was seeking to try to lower the tone of an already pretty low thread, please be assured that you have and therefore deserve a nice badge, each.

Seriously? If you read my posts, I asked for it to be moved originally to the Trash Thread.
I was "attacked" first by someone who cant get over the fact that I refused to help in gather Leiter info. I have complained many times in the past and nothing has been done.
Since then he has not stopped on at me.

Thanks for your "fairness".

I'm afraid that you're now reading the typing of someone who couldn't care less about refusals to gather Leiter info or whatever squabbling may ensue from whatever that may mean. The fairness lies in asking both to stop. There y'go.

You each got a badge out of it. Why complain?

[danslittlefinger]

Do stop this unseemly bickering.

Albeit it seems to be taking place in exactly the right thread for it, on reflection. Am a bit torn about whether the rubbish about the shirts is tabloid crap. Given that it's not technically out of a tabloid, albeit it is crap.

I get terribly confused sometimes.

Still, if either was seeking to try to lower the tone of an already pretty low thread, please be assured that you have and therefore deserve a nice badge, each.

Seriously? If you read my posts, I asked for it to be moved originally to the Trash Thread.
I was "attacked" first by someone who cant get over the fact that I refused to help in gather Leiter info. I have complained many times in the past and nothing has been done.
Since then he has not stopped on at me.

Thanks for your "fairness".

I'm afraid that you're now reading the typing of someone who couldn't care less about refusals to gather Leiter info or whatever squabbling may ensue from whatever that may mean. The fairness lies in asking both to stop. There y'go.

You each got a badge out of it. Why complain?

I will say what I posted to the team and you in a PM, I will not be harrassed in any way on this board no matter what you consider 'fair'.
Too many people get away with this as it is.

There ya go.
Thanks.