To me, he encapsulated everything that was Bond. His razor-sharp looks in a dark suit, his cool demeanor, his cruel violence and his humour. To me, it seemed real.
SEAN Connery was the best Bond. Ninety-nine out of 100 women will tell you that. Most men would agree. Maybe he was even the best Scot of recent times. All right, stoap greetin’, all youse who’d nominate someone else and have a grievance about his pro-independence political views. For no one can deny that, in 2004, Sir Sean was deemed Greatest Living Scot, in a poll for that Sunday Herald. In 2011, a EuroMillions survey found him to be Scotland’s Greatest Living National Treasure. Even after a tragic diagnosis of chronic baldness, People magazine described him as the Sexiest Man Alive – in 1989, when he was 60 – while, in 1999, he was officially found to have been the Sexiest Man of the Century.