[George W. Bush]

I was waiting for someone to point that out! OF COURSE Connery was a dandy

Look at the photo. It was carefully posed and the makeup done in the style associated with female fashion models of the Sixties. In particular, the slightly pouting vacant motionless lips and the tweaked and plucked eyebrows/lashes, the eyes posed widely open to accent the cheekbones and underlying skull shape (observe the lines in the forehead the show the effort in the pose). Well, at any rate, they groomed Connery superbly for the posing. He also modeled the metrosexual by being knowledgable in wines and other matters of taste and fussing over his clothes and tailor. A British metrosexual but still within that group. Connery also modeled some rather daring male fashion/attire for the period. His native charm and masculinity covered it all adequately for movie fare.

Though he might not have gotten away with it in real life in a blue-collar bar in a working-class town, in either Britain or America. But those movies, like many others, weren't about wanting to know or be friends with James Bond. They were about wanting to be James Bond, the sophisticated man about town and spy and ladykiller.

Still, there is a bit of difference between a Hollywood man about town and a flaming metrosexual.

[dennisw]

Also it's a languid pose for Sean Connery where he is the object rather than the initiator, the agent of doing.