Happy birthday to the hottest Bond of them all: Sean Connery turns 90

So he was 4 years younger than Honor Blackman, who recently died aged 94? I thought there was only a year or two between them.

Truly a great. I do wonder about these icons who go into "retirement". Is that just code for "they have early signs of dementia/alzheimer's"? In addition to Connery, I'm thinking Gene Hackman and Jack Nicholson.

Could be. But in Connery's case, I think he is seen pottering around outside, looking as well as any other 90 year old. He has given a couple of interviews where he states that he doesn't enjoy acting any more, and doesn't "get" modern cinema. After "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was panned, he basically said "fuck it, I'm too old and too rich for this", and walked away.

It amuses me that he played non-Scots but could or would never used an accent other than his own.

He's now the longest lived Bond, Roger Moore died at 89. I wonder what shape he is in these days.

Skeletal, I should think, R5.

R2 It's code for "I'm bloody shick of thish crap!"

R2 Jack Nicholson was photographed at a Lakers Game last year. Probably not senile but he had put on weight.

Here in the UK, one of the main TV channels (either BBC or ITV) did a program for his 80th birthday. It was interesting to see some of his now-forgotten non-Bond early films where he tried to challenge himself as an actor. In one scene he had to break down and cry, a very rare sight. I wonder if there'll be a program on tonight, must check the schedules.

When he dies I think it'll be quite a big thing in Britain, most of all in Scotland. There'll be lots of tributes.

Connery was in some movie that took place in the Amazon when I was a kid. I can't remember anything about the movie except that I that he was the sexiest man I'd ever seen. The accent, the crazy high octane masculinity mixed with humor and a touch of vulnerability. Total perfection.

I turned 90 back in May, and nobody noticed. Where's the love for ME?!

I have love for you, C.

The best 007. Handsome with hairy chest. The man.

GROSS. Daniel Craig is the hottest.

R14 Bitch, please.

Who could have imagined that "stirred, not shaken" would now refer to the glass his teeth soak in at night.

The hottest? I beg to differ.

I met an ex girlfriend of his about twenty years ago. They were struggling young actors in love in the 50s, and planned to marry. However, huge success beckoned him and he dumped her. She would not hear his name spoken. I was warned not to mention him. She became pretty well known (in the UK) herself, but nowhere near his level of fame. She was a bitter woman.

What was her name?

I believe he turned down the role of Gandalf.

R21, Adrienne Corri. She’s dead now so I’m not breaking any confidences.

He was so hot ..definitely an early spank bank memory

Definitely the best looking guy in the room for years and years.

Connery and Corri both recount the loss of their virginity at the link. I wonder if they're talking about each other.

Adrienne Corri was the woman that Malcolm McDowell bludgeons to death with a phallic sculpture in A Clockwork Orange.

Sorry, no, she was the wife of the old man in the wheelchair, who gets raped by the droogs at the beginning of the film.

Corri has two children in the 1950s. I wonder when she expected Connery to marry her. She went on to marry Daniel Massey, who said they were spectaculatly mismatched outside of the bedroom.

*spectacularly

R20 How did she cope with the rest of the world mentioning him and his films being shown on TV frequently?

Does he have a big penis?

[Quote] Does he have a big penis?

I didn't look back.

I was inspired to spritz on some Jicky in his honor. Any excuse will do.

I saw his house in the Bahamas (New Providence Island).

'The Chicago Way'.

Happy Birthday to the one and only.

He thinks women need to be slapped, what does he think gays need?

Smashing when he was young.

The world's most beloved spouse abuser!