Former James Bond actor George Lazenby pulled from remainder of theatre run after unspecified homophobic comments

[quote] Former James Bond actor pulled after unspecified homophobic comments

‘Back in the day, you bunch of ‘mos would be in an alley smoking my 007 fag.’

r1 Just clarifying is this what he said or is this datalounge humour?

We don’t know what homophobic means anymore.

r3 That's why I want to know what the comments are rather than just accepting they were homophobic because some have claimed they are.

I thought he died several years ago

J'accuse!

They won't even say what his supposedly horrible comments were. Could they possibly be any worse than the contents of the film series itself (especially in the '60s and '70s)? I doubt it.

Are we going to castigate everybody who lives long enough for their views to become "problematic"?

They could easily have been of the “women are women” variety and not really homophobic.

Any more sexist and homophobic and literally violent than Fleming's novels?

There's homophobic and then Twitter homophobic. I need to know what he said.

That’s funny because I’ve always thought that George Lazenby was a FAIRY 🧚‍♂️ himself.

What does his ex wife, notorious heterosexual Pamela Howard Shriver have to say?

Whatever he said you can be sure it was;

Literal violence!

r11 Oh?? What made you think that?!

George Lazenby has always been a colossal train wreck drunk or sober, but he's usually drunk.

[Quote] I thought he died several years ago

He did but he's a trouper.

R14- He just seems/seemed like a gay male to me especially as James Bond. In fact I think ALL of the actors who have ever portrayed James Bond were of the HOMOSEXUAL persuasion.

r17 Even Sean Connery??!!😮

“Fuck the Enby crowd. I’m the original lazy enby!”

That's why he beat women!

As suspected, much ado about a few women being easily offended.

r21 So what homophobic comments did he allegedly make?

Oof. Bad nose job.

He’s like The DLers who don’t live in their mom’s basements. He has slept with a thousand women by his reckoning.

Much Ado About Nothing

Whenever you hear Gen Z and Millennial girls screeching “creepy” and “disgusting”, “I froze in my tracks”, you know that some misandrist bullshit is at play. Battle of the sexes. Straight people are tiring.

R18- Sorry, but yes. Including Sean Connery.

He's 83. He's still living in the 1970's. What the fuck did they expect?

I think it's a tragedy that people like him are being escorted off the stage for saying something the audience didn't approve of. We're more and ore living in a fascism of the left.

R28- He’s not heterosexual.

He basically said he had sex with a thousand women because he could.

Because he didn't include any men, gays called him homophobic.

Holy hell. I'm a woman but I'm too busy to take offence at every shit. This trend is so tedious. We should all stop apologizing.

r30 If that's correct then it is not homophobic in my opinion. What a load of nonsense.

[quote]Even Sean Connery??!!

You don't understand, R18. EVERY good looking actor is gay on the Datalounge.

Has Pam Howard Shriver Shapiro Lazenby commented yet?

So nobody has revealed those fucking comments yet? Then don't report on it. Don't tell me "Something has happened and you should be offended by it, but we're not going to say what it was."

r35 Precisely.The tyranny of self appointed moral matrons.

[quote] There's homophobic and then Twitter homophobic.

And there's Guardian hysteria version of homophobic because they really want to sell to propaganda rag.

[quote] I'm a woman but I'm too busy to take offence at every shit

Yes, R31, I just put it in the toilet and flush!

It couldn’t possibly be as icky when I attended a senior center talk and heard 90 something Lee Grant talk about giving Warren Beatty a blowjob while shooting Shampoo.

Lazenby should have read his audience better. But did no one record this?

“According to one audience member, Lazenby spent Saturday's interview "talking about basically his sexual conquests.”

"He was homophobic, he swore, he certainly wasn't talking about his Bond movies," she told Perth radio station 6PR. "He downplayed the Queen a day after she died," she added.

"It was absolutely unbelievable… At one point he named an Australian cricketer whose daughter he was chasing, and he said he dragged the daughter out of a pub and put her in a car in London, which again is of course horrific.

"It wasn't even charming, it wasn't even funny. It was creepy, it was offensive... He was disgusting, there's no two ways about it."

Another attendee described the interview as the "self-interested misogynistic stories of George Lazenby's sexual prowess, intimate details of diarrhoea and objectification of women."

"It wasn't until a brave member of the public shouted, 'Excuse me, this is offensive', that the tension was released and George was jeered off stage and music saved the day," they told The West Australian newspaper.

Concertgoer Joseph McCormack said on Twitter that at least one audience member "called out the offence that Lazenby was causing" during the show.

A second caller to 6PR defended the actor, saying his stories were a deliberate "exaggeration" for comedic effect.

"He didn't kidnap [anyone], there was no rape. People were just getting so woke. [The show] was very entertaining until people were yelling out and booing."

The BBC has not been able to independently verify the nature of Lazenby's comments.”

[quote] Lee Grant talk about giving Warren Beatty a blowjob while shooting Shampoo.

But it was Julie Christie who gave him the blowjob.

[quote] Lazenby should have read his audience better

He couldn't. They were invisible. He was talking to a radio microphone.

R34, Pam Shriver is a Reagan loving Republican. If she has advanced enough to have an opinion, she'll keep it to herself. .

[quote]It couldn’t possibly be as icky when I attended a senior center talk and heard 90 something Lee Grant talk about giving Warren Beatty a blowjob while shooting Shampoo.

THAT NEVER HAPPENED

^ Julie did it!

R40 She was talking about irl. I felt like she was fibbing because she thought it made her seem cooler. And no one in the audience even asked her if she had a thing with him, just “what was he like to work with,” she’s the one who took it there!

From R39 it sounds like his homophobia was the least of it. No one wants to hear all that skeeviness, much less pay to hear it.

[quote] No one wants to hear all that skeeviness, much less pay to hear it.

Have you read Christopher Plummer's tedious memoir? David Niven blurted out two smutty, unbelievable gossipy memoirs which I'm told were 'bestsellers'.

Calling Lazenby an actor is a stretch.

He's said things about Jews as well. I think his ex-wife spoke about this. I can't remember where I heard it. Something about no wanting to send his child to a particular school in Bev. Hills because of. But this was ages ago, so I can't remember exactly.

You usually get about 3 for the price of 1 with people like him.

[quote] He's said things about Jews…

But they're the one's who aren't hiring him. Lazenby is unemployed.

The minor actress, Serena Scott Thomas (who I used to know) has posted:

"Oh George, don’t you remember the time in Norway, you and group of fabulous bond girls giving an interview? You regaled us with tales of how you bedded most of the actresses you worked with. Even my husband, @VinnieTortorich was horrified. We were just too polite to say anything!"

I'm glad she's spoken out.

Serena is Me Too.

Crystal from RHOBH was in the audience, she said: “He said really bad things, but I can’t say what he said.”

He’s 83 fucking years old! Who gives a fuck?!

Just wait until Gen Z gets Alzheimer’s and the crazy shit that will come from their internet porn-addled brains.

What the hell did he say? None of the articles repeats what he said. R39 gives a hint, but not his actual words.

Everyone is a maiden aunt or an uptight vicar these days. Stop getting so easily offended over little.

It was probably boorish and loutish. It's coming from a model who couldn't act his way out of a wet, brown paper bag. He had one starring role in a film. He's an Australian man of a certain age. What did people expect from him? A critique of the swinging sixties?

At the end of The Guardian article he said that in his heyday he had sex with countless women and could have sex with them in a dy as long as he could get it up. It's earthy, off color humor from an Australian man in his 80s from a working class background. He's boorish. Until we learn what he said, that's all he is.

Because, R54, nobody wants to sit in the audience and listen to his crap.

R57 then walk out. Did he hold them hostage?

Yeah, his comments were off-color, but seriously, people need to get a grip and step being traumatized, or in this case dickmatized, by every little thing.

People lack resilience. These soft bitches would have stayed in the closet and been emotional basket cases back in the actual Stonewall days.

These marys need to grow a pair.

R59 they’re not MARYS! they’re aqua-haired non-binary FAIRIES!

"I fucked her right in her pussy."

According to witnesses, it was the bigotry of his presumptive association of female genitalia with female pronouns.

Literal violence.

He wouldn’t give his geriatric cock to the Trans Womyn in the audience. Literal violence.

This tiny incident occurred in a tiny place called 'Perth'.

Not the British Perth but a town down at the end of the world on the way down to the South Pole.

This tiny incident occurred in front of people of no consequence.

Seriously? It's uncouth to talk about sex but it doesn't warrant firing from a stage play. Especially for a guy THIS fucking old. What is he going to do? Molest you with his dentures?

The supposedly homophobic comments may have been something to do with a story he frequently tells about the Bond producers "testing" his sexuality by sending hookers up to his hotel room (which he dutifully enjoyed). They didn't want a Nancy boy playing 007 back in 1969.

The real question is: who goes to a concert of James Bond music? I mean get Shirley Bassey and Sheena Easton and Paul McCartney together and yea…but this was a symphony! It sounds like something Muriel’s parents in Muriel’s Wedding would consider high culture.

Did they perform Die Another Day? Has Madonna weighed in yet?

[quote]who goes to a concert of James Bond music?

People of culture, that's who.

R67 That music in that clip is all about SEX. Punchy, scintillating, rhythmic, slithering sex.

Lazenby had to provide sexy talk to match that sexy music.

"He's 83. He's still living in the 1970's. What the fuck did they expect?"

Oh, puhlease, even in the 70s there were tons of gay people in showbusiness.

"People lack resilience. These soft bitches would have stayed in the closet and been emotional basket cases back in the actual Stonewall days."

The soft bitches are the ones like you who defend homophobes. And I notice the conservatives who accuse others of being easily offended are now being offended by vegan sausage at Cracker Barrel

"The tyranny of self appointed moral matrons."

Homophobes are the real "moral matrons"

They're uptight prudes

None of you even know what he said but the conservative trolls here are defending him so they can repeat some talking points about "cancel culture"

I bet you all wanted to cancel the Dixie Chicks, Colin Kaepernick, and Walt Disney

"Yeah, his comments were off-color, but seriously, people need to get a grip and step being traumatized, or in this case dickmatized, by every little thing."

Weird, I don't remember anyone defending Jonah Hill when he made homophobic comments. I guess you guys are giving Lazenby a free pass because you jerked off to him back in the day but won't defend the homophobes who happen to be ugly

I assume he said "I hate faggots" because that is not being said. Surely he said he detests faggots because what else could be so awful that it can't be said. It's not possibly a young upstart who was sexually rejected by him. I'm sure he said something like "fuck off, young faggot, begone" or something like that.

[quote] fuck off, young faggot, begone

Is that a quote from Shakespeare?

The Australian, star-struck fools who hired him obviously didn't do their homework.

He told all these so-called 'shocking', 'disgusting', 'sinful' and 'homophobic' anecdotes already in his TV show which was shown five years ago,

[quote] "It wasn't until a brave member of the public shouted, 'Excuse me, this is offensive', that the tension was released and George was jeered off stage and music saved the day,"

That's what passes for 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 in 21st century Australia, the land down under where women used to glow and men plunder

[quote] a brave member of the public shouted, 'Excuse me, this is offensive',

A more honest woman would have stood up and shouted 'You have offended ME'. How dare YOU offend ME!

Just open Lizzie's lid and toss him in.

That was more than a hint, r56. It was a whole list of comments from bragging that he kidnapped a woman to talking about his diarrhea. Don't give us an essay about the evils of woke when the premise -- that we don't know what he said -- is a lie.

[quote]He didn't kidnap [anyone], there was no rape. People were just getting so woke.

It's true that Lazenby is a notorious liar. It gets mentioned in shows and documentaries about Bond movies all the time. Lazenby was interviewed extensively for a documentary a few years ago, and it was clear most of his stories were exaggerations, if not outright lies. However, they were passed off as either true, or hilarious anecdotes that captured the spirit of the event, as well as Lazenby's allegedly winning personality.

Time has moved on, and people in 2022 aren't generally old enough to know that Lazenby's reputation is that of a liar and raconteur. You could see this in the reviews for the documentary in 2017, as people reported his stories as being true, unaware that Lazenby has made a living by being a liar.

It's also the professional raconteur's job to know his audience, and if he hasn't figured out that stories about kidnapping and raping girls aren't seen as cool and funny anymore, then he's not doing his job right.

R79, points taken. Talking about his sexual, conquests, diarrhea, and chasing then forcing a young woman is disgusting, vulgar, and, indeed, offensive.

[quote] Don't give us an essay about the evils of woke when the premise -- that we don't know what he said -- is a lie.

But don't call me a liar, buddy. And "the essay about the evil if woke" stands.

These "night at the movies" concerts (or live film accompaniments) keep a lot of symphony orchestras in the black. Such is the state of culture today.

Fags are so fucking sensitive these days.

R65 is correct.

He actually said. "Fags deserve monkeypox because they like taking stuff up the bum!"

r67 It's just not the same without a massive backdrop screen of undulating female silhouettes. Perhaps that's why Lazenby was on hand to chatter about all the pussy he ate.

Him having to constantly talk about what an amazing stud he is does seem like he's overcompensating. Bragging about it is generally a turn off to women as well - they don't generally want to be another one in a long line.

Though I find the habit of denouncing people in the press, without actually telling us what was exactly said more than annoying; I think they had their right to remove him from the stage. The spokesperson for the venue said this was meant to be "family friendly", and there were children present, so it's perfectly within their rights to make such decisions. If you say outrageous things the audience heckles you for, saying it is offensive, you must take ownership for your words. I suppose he did by his apology.

Perhaps he isn't a homophobe... we shall not be able to make our own decisions about that until we know what was said. But absolutely they're within their rights.

[quote] No one wants to hear all that skeeviness, much less pay to hear it.

I do. I want to hear everything, not filtered through wokeness but raw, the way they experienced it in that generation, not regurgitated to please modern audiences. We won't get anywhere by trying to erase what happened and avoiding how they felt about it.

R89 I think there is a time and a place for everything, and I personally wouldn't be offended by his bawdy reminiscing, but his spontaneous recollections were not planned as part of the programme. If there are elegantly turned out families, at an evening marketed like that, he's made a faux pas.

Can't you concede that? ( and that certain older people sometimes get carried away with impromptu storytelling.) How does this need to become a woke-v-you moment? They were not at a cabaret, or adults only venue.

As we don't know the alleged homophobic remark, and you were not there, how can you be so confident it is a modern thing? My folks were not prudes, but if they had taken us somewhere to enjoy some jazzy orchestral music, and it was considered a special evening out, I can't see them revelling in tales about diarrhoea, sexual conquests, etc. especially with three children in tow.

Now I suspect Lazenby is the OP of the surprisingly popular Datalounge diarrhea thread.

R39 he just sounds like a charmless, dirty, demented, entitled old man, a product of his vile age and era. Which is sad and gross, but not exactly pinpoint bigoted monstrosity worthy of cancellation--that's giving the withered bastard too much credit. He probably didn't even know what he was blathering about or who he was talking to. Most females today probably cross the road to avoid him, except his poor nurses.

He's a laughing-stock now (good), and he'll be dead pretty soon, so who gives a fuck if he told an off-colour tone-deaf story about a conquest decades ago. It's not worth clickbait outrage, a waste of bandwidth.

r92 He might live to 100.

[quote] If there are elegantly turned out families, at an evening marketed like that

Ooooh, we must protect the "elegantly turned out families".

James Bond is nothing but Sex And Violence, Licensed to Kill, He treats women like playing cards. Use them and throw them away.

I love George Lazyboy.

SEXISM IS LIKE, TOTALLY GROSS YOU GUYS!!

[quote] James Bond is nothing but Sex And Violence,

Fleming's early novels gave Bond more substance. Then ramped up Robo-Killer as Connery's version took over the character.

R92 If you are "an actual gay feminist woman" I daresay—

1. you loathe 'James Bond'.

2. you have avoided James Bond movies for the last 60 years.

3. you sensibly avoided paying money to be trapped in a room being talked-at by a superannuated James Bond-wannabe (which is very sensible of you).

That doesn't mean much without dates, R97

Are you saying Connery is to blame?

He was the hottest Bond of all, George.

I guarantee that in forty years those "elegantly turned out families" with all their outraged Karens will be reminiscing with pleasure about their 'brush with fame' with James Bond.

Just like the eldergays I know glow when reminiscing about the time they saw Marlene Dietrich fall off the stage into the orchestra pit.

Lots of people admire drunkenness; they admire the late Robert Newtown and that other man with the initials B.B.

R101 You have misspelled his surname

[quote] Just like the eldergays I know glow when reminiscing about the time they saw Marlene Dietrich fall off the stage into the orchestra pit.

Would love to hear about that!