LNER have no trains running north of Peterborough either. It looks like train services are out all over the place, most Avanti West Coast services are also cancelled.
I remember reading an article by someone who worked on The Wild Geese. They said all the talk was of what would happen when Richard Burton and Richard Harris got together for a session. One night the 3 stars sat down for a session with everyone discussing who would down the most, Burton or Harris? Roger Moore than proceeded to drink them under the table leaving them semi conscious before downing a final drink and wishing everyone a cheery good night. Next morning Sir Rog was first on the set, brighteyed and read to go whilst Burton and Harris looked like death warmed up. He found out as time went by from others that had worked with him that Sir Rog’s ability to consume vast amounts of alcohol with no apparent effects was legendary, Typical of him that in his self-depecratory way that he didn’t make a big deal of it, others would have shouted it from the roof tops.
I was going to put this in the 'now for something completely different' thread, but sadly, it isn't. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...-150m-precious-metal-7365102#comments-wrapper
As it was only a radio adaptation, broadcast in South Africa in 1957, it's unlikely anyone on here will have much of an opinion on his performance.
It was a light hearted remark. You didn’t need to Google it to try and diss it. I knew he had done it, the fact it was in a radio play in South Africa in 1957 I suspect will have not been know to yourself until you got on to Google. How about Barry Nelson?
Ah, but did you know that Bob Simmons, Terence Cooper, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress have all played James Bond?
I’ve played James Bond before - but not since I was a kid. Sometimes I also reprised the role of that bitey Jaws fella, and won a fair bit of admiration for it too down our street. Actually, tell a lie, my mate had it on the Nintendo which I went on a few times, but that must have been in the late 90s.
Yes. I remember going to see that awful Casino Royale. (Wasn’t David Niven in it? I always though a young Niven would have made a good Bond). We sat there thinking what a load of rubbish except for one lad who embarrassed us all by finding it all very funny and laughing loudly.
He was the first person to portray James Bond. Was a pilot for an American TV series. No one knew how to portray the character as no one involved had read a James Bond book. He was referred to as Jimmy Bond.
