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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:19 AM
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Daniel Craig Unveiled As New James Bond
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 07:21 AM by Fighting Irish
Daniel Craig was introduced Friday as the first blond James Bond and only the second Englishman to star as Agent 007 in the movie series.

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Craig, 37, is the first blond actor to play agent 007. Relatively unknown outside Britain, he has had a busy career that includes roles in the landmark 1990s British TV drama "Our Friends in the North" and films including "The Mother," "Enduring Love" and "Layer Cake."

He played Paul Newman's sinister son in "Road to Perdition," was poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow's Sylvia Plath in "Sylvia" and appeared in this year's thriller "The Jacket" with Adrien Brody.

Craig is also the tabloids' dream Bond. He once dated headline-grabbing model Kate Moss and has been linked to Sienna Miller, his "Layer Cake" co-star and on-off fiancee of Jude Law.



Yahoo! News
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:21 AM
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1. I wonder if he'll use hair dye or wear a wig...
Not that I care; just so long they make the movies closer to Fleming's book style (ala "For Your Eyes Only" and the two Dalton films)...
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Ivan Sputnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 08:40 AM
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15. He had very dark hair in the movie "Sylvia"
But so did Ted Hughes. Hard to imagine a blond Bond.

I was hoping for Clive Owen, but he turned down the part. Craig is a good actor, though. Could be interesting.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:25 AM
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2. Whelp, I'm done with James Bond movies
I'll be the first to admit that I have never ever seen an entire James Bond movie before Pierce Brosnan was Bond. Brosnan had an appeal that brought new people into the Bond Series like myself because Brosnan has a sex appeal that personally I feel that no other Bond has ever had





So go ahead and replace Pierce because I'm willing to pay $10 to see him in a movie but not for this new guy!
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:27 AM
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3. Sean Connery WAS James Bond
Brosnan was good, though. Timothy Dalton was boring, and Roger Moore was often ridiculous. George Lazenby did one movie, and he just didn't seem right for it.

I was hoping for Clive Owen. He would have been very good.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:29 AM
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6. I'll give you that - I would have definately gone with Clive Owens
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:58 AM
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26. Clive Owens!
I'm with you there. :thumbsup:

This was a very unexciting choice.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:28 AM
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4. Ding! Ding! See? Another thing we agree on! I love Pierce Brosnan
as James Bond....I also love how he so obviously loves his wife...despite her size. :hi:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:29 AM
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8. Despite her being normal size and not anorexic?
Yeah - I think it's great too!!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:36 AM
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11. Exactly...She had gained quite a bit of weight with the last baby and
he still looks at her with so much adoration. I love men that love women for their real beauty. :hi:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 08:22 AM
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13. Like I said - she's normal size
when you're size 10-16 - well that's pretty much American Women!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 08:32 AM
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14. I don't know if you have seen her lately. She was on a British talk
show speaking about her troubles with weight gain. She is what I would guess (because I was there after James was born) about a size 20-22. She looks terrific still.

My point was that beauty truly comes from the inside. She is a gorgeous woman.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:13 AM
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19. Doesn't tv make you look bigger? Also - who is his wife?
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:22 AM
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22. googled
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 11:23 AM by Lisa0825
This was from last November. She's gorgeous.
Keely Shaye Smith


bad link. Go here: ?path=pgallery&path_key=Smith,%20Keely%20Shaye

and here: ?path=pgallery&path_key=Smith,%20Keely%20Shaye
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:58 AM
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25. It's from February. These were shots they showed on the program.
I agree, she IS and always WILL be gorgeous...no matter what her size. Somehow, point got lost. Thanks.
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 12:58 PM
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28. Yeah, first I found the November one, and then the February one after
I realized I had to edit it.

I get your point. In a society and especially an industry in which thinness is such an obsession, it is beautiful that he adores her for herself :loveya:
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 02:27 PM
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29. Size? What size? That isn't size; those are CURVES.
Women are supposed to have them. I love women with curves. Gives you something to hold onto. I don't like stick-women. They're so flat, you'd slide right off them. What fun is that?

She is drop-dead gorgeous. The "drop dead" is for anyone who thinks she is a "person of size".

B-)
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:28 AM
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5. Meh.
I hope he's a good actor cause he doesen't look the part.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:29 AM
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7. Agreed
Looks like kind of a dork.
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:32 AM
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10. He does indeed.
I mean I got nothing against dorks, but James Bond is not supposed to be one.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:39 AM
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12. More about Craig
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/bonds/craig.php3?t=&s=
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:14 AM
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20. Really? I always thought James Bond was a bit dorky.
Should be interesting, though.

Check the new guy out in Layer Cake.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:10 AM
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16. He is a good actor, but that's not necessarily what Bond films need
Dalton was a good actor too, but realism isn't what's needed when surrounded with fantastic gadgets and contrived plotlines. I thought he was very good in 'Archangel', in which he played a professor caught up in an investigation into Stalin's private life, but it was a 'gritty' thriller rather than a 'flashy' one.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 07:30 AM
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9. The next 007 film? "Casino Royale"
Forgot to add that to the post.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:12 AM
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17. He so cute. I loved Layer Cake.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:13 AM
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18. Hey, but wait a freakin' minute? James Bond is now MY age?
How did it happen? When? Why? Where?
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:36 AM
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23. Bond has perpertually been in his
late thirties to early forties. Except for Roger Moore, who looked like he was in his sixties in the last few films he did.

Dalton was the best post-Connery Bond IMO. Certainly the most believable and complex.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:40 AM
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24. Yeah. But late 30s/early 40s used to seem so much older!
I just had this conversation with my mom recently - "old age" seems to get older and older!
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:19 AM
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21. and this article doesn't even mention that he was in...
Tomb Raider? - ok, not a great movie, but the only movie I (and probably lots of other Americans) have seen him in.

There's an article on this at BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4337224.stm

Talks about Craig and about changes the filmmakers want to make to the Bond series...more realistic and gritty, no gadgets (and no Q)...

I've never read the books, but I've seen all the movies (including the Casino Royale with Niven and Sellers) - and I'm not sure I like the direction they're planning to take. Bond without gadgets? Without Q?

I don't know about that...
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 11:59 AM
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27. I think he's pretty hot
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 11:59 AM by gollygee
so I'll watch the movies :D

Finally, movies my husband and I can agree upon.
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