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Sir Sean Connery has died aged 90. The multi-award-winning Scots actor was best known for defining James Bond, and was the first to bring the role to the big screen. He appeared in seven of the spy movies, and was knighted by the Queen at Holyrood Palace in 2000.

007 Star George Lazenby has posted a moving tribute to the late Dame Diana Rigg. The British actress has died at the age of 82 following a private battle with cancer. Lazenby and Rigg appeared alongside each other in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with Rigg playing the feisty Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo Draco. In the film, Diana played the first on-screen 'Bond girl' to win Bond's heart and become his wife, Tracy Bond. Tragically, the character was killed-off in a drive-by shooting at the film's conclusion. Now, one-time Bond actor George Lazenby, 81,...

This November, the Dallas Independent School District will ask voters to approve a shocking $3.7 billion bond—on top of their outstanding $2.5 billion debt, which they haven’t finished using yet. They propose spending $40 million of this not in the classroom, but to support Democrat policies like “immigration services.” "It is our responsibility to use the 2020 bond funding to right the wrongs of our past,” said Michelle Prudhome-Coleman, director of Dallas ISD’s Racial Equity Office. The district’s presentation mentioned “unfair distribution of financial, educational, and material resources” in the past. This bond is unique because, unlike other bonds, the...

NEW YORK - Investors expect robust demand for the Treasury Department’s new $20 billion issue of 20-year bonds, set to launch Wednesday, from U.S. institutions, foreign investors and other market participants. The government’s borrowing needs have jumped dramatically in recent weeks, after Congress authorized trillions in spending to fend off an economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic, which has slammed U.S. growth. The U.S. plans to sell a total of $54 billion of the 20-year bonds over the next three months. The Treasury said earlier this month it intends to increase auction sizes across all nominal coupon tenors over the...

Halle Berry spilled the beans on a secret she’d been keeping since her time on the 2002 James Bond installment of “Die Another Day.” The actress spoke with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s edition of “The Tonight Show” and revealed that while filming the movie alongside Pierce Brosnan, he once saved her life on the set after she began choking — and for that, she’s eternally grateful to the Bond star. “I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig,” Berry said of her Bond girl character Jinx Johnson. “I end up choking on it and...

On Oct. 5, 1962, Eon Productions released a project called Dr. No—a spy flick that screened the very first depiction of James Bond on screen. Starring Sean Connery as the British secret agent, the box office smash would go on to gross $59.6 million worldwide and $16.1 million domestically—which amounts to a whopping $215.1 million after inflation. Thus, the 007 series was born. And the success of that original film has continued through 2020, as last weekend was scheduled to premiere the 27th installment of the franchise with No Time to Die.

Casino Royale has been crowned the best James Bond movie of all time. Daniel Craig's first role in the tux, from 2006, scooped the most votes in a poll set up by IMDb, beating Pierce Brosnan's GoldenEye. In fact, with Casino Royale and GoldenEye as the two finalists, Royale won by a convincing 70.8% to 29.2%, with nearly 4,500 votes being cast. Classic Bond instalments Goldfinger and Dr. No were beaten to the final by the more recent movies in the polling.

Honor Blackman, best known for playing Bond girl Pussy Galore, has died aged 94, her family has said. The actress shot to international stardom as Pussy Galore at the age of 38, starring alongside Sean Connery, in 1964's Goldfinger. In a statement her family said: "It's with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman aged 94. "She died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family. "She was much loved and will be greatly missed by her two adopted children Barnaby and Lottie, and her four grandchildren Daisy, Oscar, Olive...

George Lazenby washed his hands and car windows Sunday as the former James Bond star stopped at a gas station in Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 80-year-old Australian actor donned a red sweater over a grey shirt along with dark blue jeans and blue sneakers while making a pit stop in the Brentwood area. George was spotted using a squeegee to clean his windows and drying his hands with a paper towel after cleaning them.

Olga Kurylenko is sharing an update with the world on her coronavirus diagnosis just one day after revealing she was denied a hospital bed in London in the wake of overcrowding in the area’s hospitals. "Hello everyone! I'm feeling better today. My fever is gone!," she wrote to her Instagram followers on Wednesday. "I hear people can't figure out where I currently am. I'm in London! How do I know it's coronavirus and not just a flu? I did a test for coronavirus which came back positive.” “What are the medicines that doctors prescribed as treatment? NONE! I was told...

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James Bond is having trouble with his cell phone. “I seem to be having a bloody problem with this. It was acting up earlier this morning.” Turns out 007, or actually the actor who famously played the dashing spy just once, isn’t as tech savvy as his on-screen counterpart. George Lazenby is speaking from his home in Santa Monica, 50 years to the day since the release of his one and only James Bond film, 1969’s “On Her Majesty's Secret Service.” Once considered the forgotten Bond film, the movie is now viewed as one of the strongest entries in the...

The French-born actress played Domino opposite Sean Connery in the 1965 movie. Claudine Auger, the French actress who played Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in 1965's Thunderball, died Wednesday in Paris, her talent agency announced. She was 78.

by Sheri Urban Hollywood celebrities have routinely attacked Donald Trump using the most vile and profane names imaginable, since the very day he announced for office. But one famous actor, who once joined others in claiming he would leave the country if Trump got elected, has reportedly been won over by the President's performance in office. Pierce Brosnan, who most famously played James Bond in 4 films mainly in the 1990s had high praise for the businessman-turned-president when it comes to the economy. TheHill reports: Brosnan once suggested he might leave the United States because of President Trump, but he now...

And we thought Christmas only came once a year. The first full-length trailer for No Time To Die has been released, giving fans a flavour of what to expect from Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond. The promo, which launched on Wednesday and can be seen below, shows Rami Malek in character as the latest villain for the first time, as well as a new female agent with a licence to kill.

Naomie Harris has revealed that the female characters 'drive the plot' in the upcoming James Bond instalment, No Time To Die. Speaking to The Guardian, the British actress, 43, revealed that she, and the other three female leads, Lea Seydoux, Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch, have incredibly prominent roles in the movie alongside Daniel Craig. 'In Bond 25 you have four strong, intelligent women who are responsible for driving the plot forward,' the star - who reprises her role of Eve Moneypenny - said. 'They've never had that in Bond before.'

Though millions around the world continue to enjoy the James Bond films, some believe that Ian Fleming's famous, womanizing MI6 agent has not aged well. A number of people, including former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, believe that it is time for the franchise to introduce a female James Bond to reflect the fact that times have changed. Of course, not everyone agrees. Valerie Leon starred as a Bond girl twice: once in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me with Roger Moore and again in 1983's Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery. She recently appeared on Good Morning Britain to...

Pierce Brosnan saved the world four times as James Bond, a career milestone he cites as his biggest achievement. The actor says now is the time to pass the legendary role onto a woman, as Lashana Lynch is rumored to take over as the next 007 from Daniel Craig in the upcoming No Time to Die installment. “Yes!' Brosnan said of the prospect of a female Bond. "I think we've watched the guys do it for the last 40 years, get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there. I think it would be exhilarating, it would...

ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million appeal bond before he stays execution of the multimillion-dollar judgment recently won against the college by Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family. Attorneys for the Gibsons had requested the college post a bond worth $36,367,711.56, representing the total amount of judgments against the college, plus interest, awarded by a jury and Miraldi following a six-week trial that lasted from late May into early June.