Diana Rigg, was S8 in Ronin

[Tom Nas]

"Michael S. Williams" <mike at borderlinemotorsports.com> wrote:

>I like Lazenby.  Everyone considers it such a flop, but i think that
>most of that is because he had to follow connery.  Im trying to
>remember what the story was with that, but basically he bluffed his
>way into the character.  But he really was pompous and egotistical
>enough in real life to be bond.  I liked the movie, i was impressed.
>It went much more into the detail of how things worked and the
>processes that allowed the tricks that bond does to actaully succeed.
>I think that it is just highly overlooked, and that most people just
>dont like the idea of bond getting married.

The reason for Lazenby vanishing into obscurity was that his manager 
advised him not to do any more Bond movies, as they would typecast him and 
hurt his reputation as a 'serious actor'. The producers of 007 movies 
leaned on him to do another one, but he sternly refused and was blacklisted 
as a result. He never played in anything much after that.
Great advice.

MAC: after I was through cleaning the rear screen of my 'new' acquisition, 
the first 'customisation' was a q-list decal.

Tom

PS After two years of working on the I5, I'd almost forgotten about the 
simplicity and accessibility of the early I4 Audis. Here in Europe the cars 
didn't get fuel injection until the '90s and the result is that you can 
dance the lambada around the engine block. No electronics to deal with, 
either. The shade-tree mechanic's dream... I'll do a side-by side shot of 
the 80's and 90q's engine bays for my site soon.