George Lazenby bluffed his way into being James Bond, then bumbled it

NY Post ^ | December 13, 2015 | 6:00am

[Perdogg]

George Lazenby certainly looked the part. But could the 28 year old, who had no acting experience and was more himbo than sophisticate, really play James Bond?

Producers ran him through a series of tests to make sure the model could play the role. His acting was reviewed. His fighting ability was judged. Then, in another important consideration for the times, they made sure their hero wasn’t gay.

[PAR35]

It certainly had the best Bond girl.

[rbg81]

I still think “Skyfall” is the best Bond movie. The motorcycle chase scene at the beginning is nothing short of spectacular.

[wally_bert]

As a kid I didn’t get or like OHMSS but after growing up much later, I appreciate it a lot. One of the best of the series.

SPECTRE was actually good too.

[GOPsterinMA]

“Himbo”: A mindless, male slut who gets by on his looks.

See also, “Seamus, DJ”

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[minnesota_bound]

What a fool to have listen to that Ronan O’Rahilly.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe the local studio didn’t get the first reels of the film and they aired what they’d advertised in the tv schedule. Or someone misloaded the film out of sequence.

I’ve heard that Ernie Anderson/Ghoulardi would pack too much non-movie content into some of their late night broadcasts some weeks that he’d show the ends of the films next time or even bundled up a number of the ending (this was Cleveland in the 1960s).

In the 1980s in Boston I saw a channel (55 or 56, it’s been decades) that would show cartoons (like Loony Tunes or Tom & Jerry) that had been trimmed, they were putting in more ads and to make up for it, they’d trim one 7 minute cartoon down to about 4 minutes by removing the first 3 minutes after the opening title. They’d also just omit the end credits from movies from the 1970s and 80s. I don’t recall if they did that with tv reruns as well.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Oh yeah I noticed the same thing as a kid. I also noticed that by the 1980s the networks were trimming movies for more commercials. I especially remember GOLDFINGER in the 1980s was trimmed of the first scenes, opening instead with the Miami scene and not the scuba and explosions or the “shocking!” scene.

As for OHMSS, the network purposely started in the middle, then reverted to the first scenes for some reason I never understood.

A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS, when shown on network TV had a fake five minute introduction of the man with no name getting government instructions to investigate the border towns, that was not in the movie. They even gave it a dialog to lip sinc mismatch to make it look “Italian”.