31-08-2009, 10:54 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:...I note that George Lazenby also disappeared with out trace after that time. Surely his acting couldn't have been any worse than the Roger Moore James Bond that followed?
He didn't entirely disappear, Magda, he was just a tad unlucky, as this potted history of his career makes clear:
http://www.answers.com/topic/george-lazenby
Note the abortive project with Bruce Lee.
As for his acting abilities, I merely note that the post-WWII era offers many examples of attempts to utilise improbable substances in unexpected ways: It took Roger Moore to prove conclusively that cardboard is best confined in films to scenery.
Myra Bronstein Wrote:I'm surprised that the obit gave the detail you put in bold. Why would they do that?
It's Grauniad-speak, M., for "this man was a paranoid nut who deserved his fate." All part of the paper's richly ethical approach to world history, and the ideological policing of what's left of the British Left.
That London was among the most paranoid capitals in the world in the late 1960s - you may recall the small matter of the attempted coup "of all the talents" (1968) against our then-PM, Harold Wilson - and Dee entirely correct when he insisted that his phone was bugged, is of no consequence or interest to the voice of Britain's progressives.