re: Sean Connery's Life an Open Book

Austin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:29:06 GMT

Ha! I guess if Connery insists on behaving like a caricature of himself he has no grounds on which to object when a caricature is used to illustrate an article about him. Nice.

re: Sean Connery's Life an Open Book

T-Blo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:38:39 GMT

Who knows what goes on between two people, but Connery's always been a bit of a head case.

"As for being mean to him when he was a lad, I sent him to Millfield, which is Britain’s most expensive public school, and I sent him after that to Gordonstoun when it became clear to me that Millfield was rubbish. Long before I divorced Diane, I actually set up a trust fund worth £85,000 for his education and the education of Diane’s daughter which of course would be worth a lot more today. I did everything any father could reasonably be expected to do."

I mean, that tone alone is fairly fucked up: "I did everything any father could..." somehow lacks the ring of "I desperately love my son, and always have, and I would never ever do anything to hurt him," the same way "He has talent" sounds like textbook damning with faint praise. Also, bragging about sending Jason to the most expensive public school doesn't sound any better when you consider that the old man didn't bother to find out it was "rubbish" until it was too late. I'd so love to know what his idea of "rubbish" is, anyway--if it means "Didn't bend over far enough to suit Sean Connery," it wouldn't surprise me a bit.