Sir Roger Moore RIP

fallowfield said:
Seen this anecdote in the Independent today, from someone's Facebook post.


"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"

As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.

I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.

Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.

And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."

I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."
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What an absolute class memory to have fella...
 
mac said:
I watched live and let die a week last Sunday with my 2 kids. They loved it. Here's a top quote after bond has been chased by a load of baddies in speedboats




Sheriff J.W.: There's that son of a woman. I got him. What are you? Some kinda doomsday machine boy? Well we got a cage strong enough to hold an animal like you here!
Felix Leiter: Captain, would you enlighten the Sheriff please?
Trooper: Yessir. J.W, let me have a word with ya. J.W, now this fellow's from London, England. He's an Englishman working in cooperation with our boys, sorta a.. secret agent.
Sheriff J.W.: Secret Agent?? On whose side?
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Great memories mac. My favourite Bond in my favourite Bond film.
 
big phil said:
Great memories mac. My favourite Bond in my favourite Bond film.
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I grew up with Connery and it took a while to get into Moore's bond. I remember going to the Apollo 2 little cinema to see live and let die , I was 8 at the time and it was a late showing with another bond film . I went with my older brother who got me in as I think it was a 12. His humour and couldn't care less smirks after trashing stuff was hilarious.The one liners and humour in his bonds have never been beaten imo. Such a great actor and a true gent who will be sadly missed.
 
mac said:
I grew up with Connery and it took a while to get into Moore's bond. I remember going to the Apollo 2 little cinema to see live and let die , I was 8 at the time and it was a late showing with another bond film . I went with my older brother who got me in as I think it was a 12. His humour and couldn't care less smirks after trashing stuff was hilarious.The one liners and humour in his bonds have never been beaten imo. Such a great actor and a true gent who will be sadly missed.
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Jane Seymour as Solitaire, many a wank after that movie
 
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