Roger Moore said something the press caught on to today. I did not like Farenheit 9/11. Just kidding. I am showcasing Mr. Moore today for several reasons.
- I liked what he did to the James Bond character.
- Not many of you may know his philantrophy.
- Give you some James Bond trivia specially if you only know Brosnan and Craig as Bond.
Interesting to note that the Man with the Golden Gun, feared guns. He finds the current installment too violent. I also like what he says about a glass of water. His voice is unmistakable and that for me is part of his charm. In the article he talks about Bond using his charm as a weapon, I instantly thought of the scene I edited for you below.
Ed
At a UNICEF charity luncheon Roger Moore had this to say
"When I am asked, 'What do you remember about the things you've seen?' I say I remember the smells -- poverty has a smell -- and it's not just because people are unwashed. There is a real smell of poverty you find when you're traveling in the Third World".
"There is a smell that is not with us -- and I'm sorry to bring it up at lunch -- and that is the smell of burning flesh."
He said he remembers the gruesome smell when he visited children in hospital wards and looked into their sad young faces.
"I was not prepared for the sight of a child without limbs on a bed who was a victim of a landmine."
Mr. Moore became interested in working with UNICEF through his friend, actress Audrey Hepburn, and for the last eight years he has devoted his time to worldwide humanitarian causes. In May he went to Macedonia on an advocacy mission, visiting various UNICEF projects in refugee camps.
Mr. Moore said we often take for granted the most basic things in life, such as a simple glass of water.
"On our tables," Mr. Moore said, "we have glasses and they (waiters) just pour water into them. Think of the millions of people who have no access to water and those who will not even drink out of a glass. So we come to the injustices of the world, and in order to get water many families have to send off their children or the women to bring back water."
"About 40,000 children die every day from starvation or abuse, he said. UNICEF is trying to stamp out the exploitation and abuse of children around the world and restore some dignity so they can build a life for themselves"
In December of 1998 he was honored by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth with the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) Award, in recognition of his many humanitarian achievements.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20081111/122643635200.html
Roger Moore dislikes the more violent James Bond
Tuesday November 11 12:45 PM ET
Movie audiences nowadays expect scenes of graphic violence in James Bond movies, unlike when Roger Moore played the super spy with a tongue-in-cheek humor, the actor believes.
"I am happy to have done it, but I'm sad that it has turned so violent," Moore said before "Quantum of Solace," starring Daniel Craig as a darker Agent 007, opens in North America on Friday.
"That's keeping up with the times, it's what cinema-goers seem to want and it's proved by the box-office figures," Moore told Reuters in an interview about his memoir, "My Word is My Bond."
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The new Bond film opened in London on Oct 31, breaking the British weekend box-office record with a gross of $25 million. It has taken in more than $106 million worldwide so far.
Moore, 81, recalled being appalled at the violence in "A View to a Kill," the 1985 movie which was the last of the seven in which he played Bond. "That wasn't Bond," he said.
In his book, Moore writes of his distaste for guns, ever since he was shot in the leg by a friend with a BB gun as a teenager.
While making "The Man With the Golden Gun," director Guy Hamilton wanted Bond to be tougher and had him threaten to break Maud Adams' character's arm to get information, he writes. "That sort of characterization didn't sit well with me, but Guy was keen to make my Bond a little more ruthless.
"I suggested my Bond would have charmed the information out of her by bedding her first. My Bond was a lover and a giggler, but I went along with Guy," the British actor wrote.
Moore has not yet seen "Quantum of Solace," but based on Craig's first Bond film, "Casino Royale," believes it will be a success in North America too.
"Daniel has done one Bond and he was in 'Munich' and ... he's done a lot of stuff, but his face, after one Bond film, that's all he needs. He is Bond."
Asked about his own legacy as an actor known mostly for playing Bond and in TV series such as "The Saint," and "The Persuaders," with Tony Curtis, Moore said: "I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets. But as that's not going to happen I'm quite happy I did Bond."
His memoir is full of anecdotes about Hollywood and the stars he worked with such as Vivien Leigh, Mae West and Lana Turner. He also tells of his bust-up with Grace Jones during the filming of "A View to a Kill," when he forcibly pulled the plug on her stereo and flung a chair against the wall because she was playing loud rock music.
The only child of a south London policeman, Moore also writes about growing up before and during World War Two, of evacuation to the country and air raids and getting -- and being fired from -- his first job with a cartoon film company.
By the time he was called up, the war was over, but he served as an officer in Allied occupied Germany, where he ended up in the Army's entertainment regiment.
That was his entree into show business, along with his marriage to British singer Dorothy Squires.
"You're not that good, so smile a lot when you come on!" his first repertory theater manager told him. His first wife, who was a professional ice skater, was no less encouraging: "You'll never be an actor, your face is too weak, your jaw is too big and your mouth's too small."
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/trivia
- Around the time Roger Moore got the part of James Bond, his home telephone number ended in the digits OO7.
- Roger Moore was 45 when he made his debut as 007, making him the oldest actor to do so. The youngest was George Lazenby who made his debut at age 29.
- The first Bond film in which 007 has a liaison with an African American woman, Rosie Carver, played by Gloria Hendry. This meant that when the film was released in South Africa, all Hendry's love scenes were removed because of the apartheid policies of the South African government.
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