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Saturday, October 31, 2020

entry arrow9:01 PM | Sean Connery, 1930-2020



My mother loves James Bond with a fever almost equal to her faith, and I think it's because of Sean Connery [1930-2020]. I'm sure it's an attraction to the image he presented with such virile vitality on screen—good looks and roguish charm, danger and class, suaveness and naughtiness all in one package. I don't think the actor himself managed to get out of that stereotype after breaking out of 007: all that we expected of his film persona was still there in abundance in his aging but still legendary and heroic outlaw in Robin and Marian, in his Prohibition era police officer in The Untouchables, even in his mankini-clad adventurer in the post-apocalyptic future of Zardoz. I enjoyed almost every measure of his star turns. He will be missed—by my mother especially.

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