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For Conservative Movie Lovers: Ian Fleming, Sean Connery, and ‘Goldfinger’ Part 2
Big Holloywood ^ | 03.20.10 | Leo Grin

Posted on 03/20/2010 11:05:06 AM PDT by Perdogg

The name was Fleming, Valentine Fleming. But to his four young boys, Bond creator Ian Fleming among them, he was “Mokie” — a baby-talk bastardization of “Smokie,” so called because he always had a pipe dangling from his lips, the same way Sean Connery would one day sport a cigarette in his debut appearance as James Bond in Dr. No. Curiously, no one in turn-of-the-century England thought to arrest Mr. Fleming for smoking in the presence of his children, nor did social services batter down his door to cart the poor cancer-threatened kids away. He was their Pop, and they adored him, smoke and all.

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To: HarleyD; blue-duncan; Perdogg; Alex Murphy; 1000 silverlings
lol. Go for it. It's never too late to teach old dogs new tricks. Here's one on a stake-out...

And I bet you look great in a bowler hat...


21 posted on 03/21/2010 7:29:35 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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I would love to have a workable “golden gun” like in the movie.


22 posted on 03/21/2010 7:31:11 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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To: blue-duncan; HarleyD; Perdogg; Alex Murphy; 1000 silverlings
lolol.

"Do you 'ave a woom?"

Tell Kay she can be Jamie Lee Curtis to your Arnold Schwarzenegger. "True Lies" looked like a lot of fun.

23 posted on 03/21/2010 7:42:45 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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