Sean Connery’s estate Picasso expected to raise £15m at auction for charity trust
Stephane Connery, his stepson and an art advisor, told The Sunday Post: “All of the artworks he collected he was very invested in both emotionally and financially….
‘Why is a children’s film so keen on smut?’ The sad saga of Sir Billi, Sean Connery’s final film
Sir Billi, he said, was “woefully anaemic”. He hated its “convoluted series of silly set-pieces”, its “simplistic story and non-sequitur style”. He went on: “Sir Billi lacks…
Overblown, daft and Americanised, Diamonds Are Forever made a fool of Sean Connery
Diamonds Are Forever marked a return to what felt like proper Bond: the glimmering title and Shirley Bassey theme tune, Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton, and – of…
The Ipcress File: how a bespectacled ‘anti-Bond’ changed Michael Caine’s life
In 1964, a 31-year-old Michael Caine was having dinner with his roommate Terence Stamp at the Pickwick Club in Soho, when the big-cheese producer Harry Saltzman sent…