European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Sean Connery bonded for life my Milmet he s rugged and handsome but 007 in real life is no move sophisticated gourmet. Ursula Andress Here in or. No says Connery is Oil by Norman Moss Nana staff writer he was christened Tomun and his friends Call him if Hia real name were James band they would Call him lie s that tort of he was in the Royal Nuvy he was an Able Seaman not a commander like Bond and no one would Ever mis take him for relationship Between scum con Nery and James Bond is purely a professional one albeit fantastically lucrative. Off the film set they have nothing to Dewith each other. If James Bond were living in Londo today he and scan gunnery would prob ably never lunches and dines at Smull restaurants known to gourmets fur their cuisine. Connery dines at a Showbiz place on Steak and Trench Fries us Likeas not or else at Home. Bond drinks at the Ellz bar. Canner drinks at a pub. Bond is known to a few Small but fashionable stores that Cater to his tastes in Silks and toiletries. Connery like most scots thinks that tort of thing is just English play Bridge in the evening or some other game for High stakes at Lade a his exclusive dub on pall mall. Cannery does t Gamble and probably would not be allowed into Blade s. About the Only place they might pos Sibly meet is at the Golf course. Con Nery like Bond is a keen s athletic Frame his hand some virile features and his sardonic mile Are so identified with the 007 Fig ure created by Ian Fleming that an account of Connery must Start by Dlf Iho is an Edinburgh truck sunday March 13, 1966 Driver s son and one time bricklayer who became an actor originally because he was rugged handsome my needed Jot. Now he takes acting seriously and is Good at it. Lie docs not have fastidious tastes. In is never concerned about whether his Martini is stirred or shaken he will not drink it anyway if there is scotch or Beer available lie drives a Jaguar with no supercharger und no special attachments though he drives it very fast. He thinks guns Are unpleasant and dangerous things find would not dream of having one in the House. Basically. Connery is u Nice Friendly sort of a Guy you might meet in u Bur or Bowling Alley who happens to have made u mint of Money. Though he was a successful actor be fore i stepped into James Lennil s hand stitched shoes the Bond phenomenon grew up uru und him. Connery is constantly pictured in the Magazine of the world with arcu Tontak singly gorgeous girls wearing bikinis trimmed in the oddest places and Evi Dently panting with frustration that this shred of garment should remain be tween them and Connery s manliness. Small wonder that some elements of male resentment should attach them selves to Connery. A Little while ago when lie dropped into a pub near lib Home a slightly drunk Little Man started badgering Nim arc you really so Lough und suave und irresistible As All that quietly and rather crudely Cannery Tola the Man where to the Man had gone an onlooker remarked about Connery Well any Way he s not suave Connery has usually had women around him but to has never been a full time charmer. Three and a half years ago lie mar ried Diane i Lynlo a talented actress who somehow never became quite the top line Star that Many thou fit she would be. When they arc apart he Tele plumes her every evening. They have a 3-year-old son Jason und Diane s 7-year-old daughter by a previous marriage Giovonna. They liven a Large House in Acton a London sub Urb that used to be u nunnery. If there have been a lot of Jukes about this none have come from Sean. Among friends he can be conversational an t witty with u Quick some times Bawdy humor lie talks Earnest Yani intelligently about films und the thute. But he did not grow up in very sophisticated circles and at a party for movie und theater Folk he is Likely Tobe. On Edge sometimes answering in Little More than monosyllables when people gush us him. 11e is worse with the press. He nor Mally refuses to be interviewed and can turn brusquely on his Heel when asked some vapid questions about the Jam Esbond life. People who do get to know him usually like him. Suys Sydney Tumcl who directed the Hill he s a Superb technical actor. Lie knows his Andress perhaps his Best known leading lady says he s a Nice person to work with. And he s All an English Secretary of the film production company he s very male und you Don t see a lot of that around info Leland today. Everyone s looking Dan defied und the with it Ihl it now is Tobe rather Cump. Sean s totally Masc the stars and stripes on the other hand someone mentioned him recently to Francois Rosay the French Star who played in a British television play with him. He s very Sweet and a very Good actor. But find to lacks sex Appeal like most eng. Lish Thomas Sean Connery comes from tha kind of background that is about As Likely to produce an International film Star As it is to produce an elegant dash ing naval commander turned secret agent with the code designation 007. He was raised in an Edinburgh Tene ment in a world that was crowded com pact proud boisterous and Tough. Helices it and goes Back often to Sec his parents and is i come from there were the leavers and Tho stayers " he said once. I was one of the at 16, he joined the Royal Nuvy an served As an Able a Eumann. But travel was about the Only thing he did like about her majesty s Navy. At 19, to was discharged with stomach ulcers. Hosay this was the effect on him of the constrictions and discipline of Navy he took a number of jobs re Quiring brawn truck Driver bricklayer lifeguard. He tried out for a professional soccer team but did not make it. He did some modelling for a men sportswear firm. Connery began his acting career in at Raveling musical culled the glorious a cavalcade of womanhood. The show hired a chorus of six men in each town it was in. The Only requirement were that they were bit and handsome Imd looked Good in kills. Connery Goethe Job for six weeks when the show hit became one of the sailors. In Tom chorus of South Pacific in London Ciconti Hiick on t Arjo i Page 11
