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- From: rjtapp@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Riston Tapp)
- Subject: Re: New movie in works?
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- References: <1992Nov18.173849.17702@b8.b8.ingr.com> <1992Nov19.132248.29045@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.154420.26140@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:33:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.154420.26140@b8.b8.ingr.com> anthony@panzer.b17b.ingr.com (Anthony Shipman) writes:
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- >|>
- >|> What is required I think is a fairly unknown, preferably British, actor to take
- >|> the role, just as Connery, Moore and Dalton were.
- >
- >Of these three, only Connery was fairly unknown when he was chosen for the part.
- >But he was hand-picked by Ian Fleming. Roger Moore was already famous as The
- >Saint. Timothy Dalton had been on the hoyty-toyty Shakespeare scene for years.
- >You can check a young Dalton out in "The Lion in Winter" and in "Mary, Queen of
- >Scots." The former movie is really hilarious because you get to see Dalton and a
- >young Anthony Hopkins talk about having sex with each other.
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- No. Fleming wanted someone like David Niven to be Bond, and was dissapointed
- (at least at first) with the choosing of Connery.
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- Riston
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