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Sean Connery kicks ass

July 21st, 2008Respond

Sean Connery grew up in a two-bedroom, no bathroom house, pushed barrows for $2 a week at age 13 and at one point worked as a milkman before landing a breakout role as James Bond in 1962’s Dr. No. Because of this, Sean made it clear that his son, Jason, that he will not inherit …

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Johnny Depp has a big wiener

May 16th, 20081 comment

Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter have published a book titled Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back. In it, they unleash a horde of information you thought you never cared about and lace their tome with full frontal shots of Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, John Malkovich, James Woods, Richard Gere and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Basically, stuff you …

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Sean Connery missed out on $433 million

November 27th, 2006Respond

Before Sir Ian McKellen took the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sir Sean Connery was sought for the part. New Line Cinema even offered him 10 to 15 percent of the worldwide box office earnings to get him aboard. However, Sean Connery declined the offer because he didn’t understand the …

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Sean Connery is still winning stuff

June 10th, 2006Respond

On Thursday, AFI honored 007 himself, Sean Connery, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. As he went up to the stage, he did a little jig. A jig that I would imagine could only be rivaled by the one Ashlee Simpson did on SNL. When Mike Myers went up to speak he said that his thick …

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