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R.I.P. Sean Connery

The original Bond, James Bond, bracketed our Cold War fantasies from the beginning to their end

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Nov 01, 2020
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Like every other teenager in the 1960s, I was thrilled by the James Bond flicks starring Sean Connery as British MI6 agent 007. Bond’s clever lines, white dinner jackets, sexual seductions and weapons-loaded sports cars were as much an entertainment sensation as the light sabers and black plastic helmets of Star Wars in later generations. Connery’s port…

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