James bond, an alcoholic....Really???

[walkin jack]

I stand corrected

I don't know how or why but for some reason I actually believed that Sean Connery was from Wales. Now I'm REALLY EMBARRASSED.

No tellin' what that cute little Welsh waitress thinks of me now...prolly just another confused Yank.

 

[arjay]

Glasgow,I think.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Extrapolation

I'm not sure which is sillier - that three doctors had time to do this 'study' or that it actually made it into a peer-reviewed medical journal.

But I'm sure it's pretty silly. "If statistics are any guide...", feh. Statistics do not directly apply to individual cases - - per my statistics texts!

I suspect by statistics what they meant was that if the evidence as written is representative of his behavior during periods which are not described then the total amount of consumption as extrapolated equals a serious problem.

Of course this ignores a couple of details such as whether or not he was able to consume any or all of the drinks ordered/served and whether or not his habits while actively working a case or uh "working out" are representative of his level of consumption at other times.

 

[buck460XVR]

Must be why it's called "fiction". If it were real, poor Bond would have died or suffered constantly from STDs, since the women he constantly bedded were sluts.....and if he really had the high morals and backbone we were told, paying support for the amount of besturd children he would have spawned, would have put him in the poor house.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't know how or why but for some reason I actually believed that Sean Connery was from Wales. Now I'm REALLY EMBARRASSED.

Glad in a way, to see you join the club I founded.

 

[walkin jack]

I don't know how or why but for some reason I actually believed that Sean Connery was from Wales. Now I'm REALLY EMBARRASSED.

Glad in a way, to see you join the club I founded.

I know you've heard the saying, "open mouth, insert foot" I was the inspiration for that one. Actually I'm working on getting them both in there at once. Since I have small feet and a big mouth all those that know me are confident that I'll make it...soon...and often.

 

[PALADIN85020]

The doctors were convinced that Bond was too shaky from alcoholism to stir his drinks? Poppycock, old man. It's well known that he favored a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred. Shakiness would have been an advantage. So much for professional opinion.

John

 

[the ringo kid]

I know you've heard the saying, "open mouth, insert foot" I was the inspiration for that one. Actually I'm working on getting them both in there at once. Since I have small feet and a big mouth all those that know me are confident that I'll make it...soon...and often.

Ill go one even further. You stop w. just your foot, I stop at the knee.

 

[the ringo kid]

The doctors were convinced that Bond was too shaky from alcoholism to stir his drinks? Poppycock, old man. It's well known that he favored a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred. Shakiness would have been an advantage. So much for professional opinion.

John

I thought them thar Doctors were wrong on that. They ought to go back to Dr school and take remedial classes. Apparently they only actually scanned those books.

 

[adwjc]

What happened to appreciating Bond as fictional character?

Anyway, Ringo Kid's original post with the pictures clearly shows no ill effects on Connery, Moore or Brosnan, but that last guy, Daniel Craig - he looks a little rough- rehab time for him!

 

[walkin jack]

Actually we have found something to like about all of the various Bonds. With one glaring exception. A twerp named George Lazenby played Bond in one movie only. I'm thinking the name of it was "In Her Majesty's Secret Service. What a GOOBER. The only thing that saved that movie for me was the Luscious Diana Rigg. I find it extremely ironic that the worst Bond was in the same movie with the best Bond-girl of all time.

But Lazenby wasn't the only problem with the movie I thought the story was lame and some of the girls were lousy actresses and unattractive. But that's just me.

I think the best opening bit in a Bond movie goes to has to go to Pierce Brosnan in Golden Eye (I think). He rides a motorcycle off a cliff to catch an airplane. He catches it and get off the motorcycle in mid air and into the plane and tosses the pilot out. I don't see how that one will ever be out done.

Still Miss Pam and I like good old Sean as the PERFECT bond.
. Roger Moore added a little humor to the character but still took are of business. But he played to the camera too much for my comfort with his little quips and sideways glances.
. Timothy Dalton was good but he was always wound up just a bit too tight. Not cool or swave and debonaire like Connery. He frequently over played his scenes.
. Pierce Brosnan. Good action but he too lacked Connery's cool demeanor. and he was a bit to much of a pretty boy to suit me but he had some good moments.
. Daniel Craig's version is just a stone cold killer. I think M (Judy Dench) was correct when she told him off in one scene calling him dead inside. It was a bit much for me to get used to but in a way I really like his version of Bond. No humor at all but he is tough and he is open for business. His opening scene in Casino Royal where they did the "free running" was almost as good as the one Brosnan did in Gloden Eye. He did his own stunts in that movie and that was pretty awesome.

By the way I think Judy Dench breathed some much needed life into the M character. We miss the original Moneypenny and Q a lot and these movies are just not the same without them.

We have all the bond movies and will occasionally watch them in order and I enjoy all of them but squirm a lot in the Lazenby one. Every time we go through them I'm always relieved when that one is over.

 

[the ringo kid]

I wonder why John Cleese quit being Q's replacement? (not that Desmond Llewellyn can be replaced) I thought he had loads of potential.

Also--I read somewhere a few months ago that Lazenby regretted not doing more Bond films for fear of typecasting. Heck, if I were offered a pile of Platinum on a gold platter like that, id nab it in a heart beat. Id let they typecast me as it would be better working and making wheelbarrows full of money, than not working at all and becoming a has-been.

If I recall, Lazenby is an Aussie.

 

[shouldazagged]

. Daniel Craig's version is just a stone cold killer. I think M (Judy Dench) was correct when she told him off in one scene calling him dead inside. It was a bit much for me to get used to but in a way I really like his version of Bond. No humor at all but he is tough and he is open for business.

The bits of Craig's portrayal of Bond that I've seen were more intriguing to me than any of the others' work. A killer indeed; and in the latest film, dealing with the advance of age and cumulative wear and tear.

I really didn't like Moore as Bond, but I've not been all that delighted by any of his other work either.

I still like the complete spoof of medical research that was the basis for this whole thread.

 

[walkin jack]

The bits of Craig's portrayal of Bond that I've seen were more intriguing to me than any of the others' work. A killer indeed; and in the latest film, dealing with the advance of age and cumulative wear and tear.

I really didn't like Moore as Bond, but I've not been all that delighted by any of his other work either.

I still like the complete spoof of medical research that was the basis for this whole thread.

we used to watch Roger Moore in the old TV shows The Saint. I thought he was kind of prissy in those shows. He butched up a little for the Bond movies but not much.....He was basically the same character as he was in The Saint. A wise cracking hero with manicured nails and coiffed hair.

 

[walkin jack]

I wonder why John Cleese quit being Q's replacement? (not that Desmond Llewellyn can be replaced) I thought he had loads of potential.

Also--I read somewhere a few months ago that Lazenby regretted not doing more Bond films for fear of typecasting. Heck, if I were offered a pile of Platinum on a gold platter like that, id nab it in a heart beat. Id let they typecast me as it would be better working and making wheelbarrows full of money, than not working at all and becoming a has-been.

If I recall, Lazenby is an Aussie.

Well I was going to say he was from Wales but...oh, never mind.

 

[the ringo kid]

The bits of Craig's portrayal of Bond that I've seen were more intriguing to me than any of the others' work. A killer indeed; and in the latest film, dealing with the advance of age and cumulative wear and tear.

I really didn't like Moore as Bond, but I've not been all that delighted by any of his other work either.

I still like the complete spoof of medical research that was the basis for this whole thread.

Ive got two for you that might make you think differently of Sir Roger.

1) The Wild Geese. I thought him excellent as a Mercenary called Sean Finn.

2) Ffolkes (aka) North Sea Hijack. This role is a huge turnaround from his clean-shaven, handsome, suave, drinking, woman-chasing Bond image, to a rude, crude, socially unacceptable, cat-loving-woman-hating; terrorist-hunting leader of Ffolkes Ffusiliers. I loved how he used the double Ff.

I like cats, and I dont like people who don't.

PS, he especially hated, smokers--ESPECIALLY women smokers, and he also liked to knit images of cats. Whats there not to like?

 

[revolvergeek]

I remember growing up in the 60's and it seemed to me that people drank and smoked a lot more then than they do now. I think that we have morphed into a collective group of pantywaists. Those guys back then were tough-their livers could take it-their lungs could take it. Today a diet of Camels and Johnny Walker Black would kill most people, but not back then, And you know what? They had the Playboy Club too. What do we have today? We got Hooters. Men have been beat down to where they are almost unrecognizable from what they were in the late 50's early 60's.
It's time we got back to grey glenplaid suits, white shirts, thin black knit ties and a Fedora. Momma stayed home and took care of the kids, in exchange for which she got a nice house and an allowance. Men were even considerate enough to have a mistress so they wouldn't have to bother the wife. She got to go to the coast with the kids for the summer while dad stayed back in the city with the mistress and worked, getting over for the weekends.
A bucolic existence if you ask me.
Now we got a bunch of pantywaists who manscape, sip lattes and have a protein bar after work before going rollerblading with the wife.
Whew!!! Ya hit a nerve there.

I'll drink to that!

 

[Old TexMex]

Well, nobody could match my dad when it came to abusing alcohol and tobacco-he took a back seat to no one in that department and he lived to be 81. He shoulda died at age 59 when he had the stroke but he recovered completely. Go Figure....

Men were made from ore in them days. Now we're made of recycled stuff. Like cars.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Got to go with Cajun on this... man up!

Phil... ChattanoogaPhil.

 

[mstuhr]

Stir the pot a little

Howdy,
Not enough "disturbing" going on here.
Roger Moore? If they wanted a hard drinking clown to play the part W.C. Fields would have made a better Bond than Moore, that is had he been alive to play him.
Bad to the bone I tell you!
Connery/Craig tied for first
Brosnan a decent second.
Dalton? I think he suffered from bad writers but might have been a good one
Fields? You just have to have a little imagination.
I just love the Bond threads.
Thanks
Mike