This year has been horrible. Just heard famous James Bond actor Sean Connery passed away yesterday-
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Sadly so....I posted a short obit yesterday. He and I were both Scots, who were born and raised in Edinburgh.
Great actor, apparently a very nice man too. He was on the cover of the first edition of The Big Issue that I ever brought, up in Scotland [en.m.wikipedia.org]
He was a great ambassador for Scotland and at the forefront of the Scottish Independence movement. For that reason the Blair Labour government opposed his knighthood...until it couldn’t be denied him any longer and he was knighted by the Queen in 2000.
And so the icons of our childhoods thus pass away ...
Sean Connery
Roger Moore
Spike Milligan
Peter Sellers
Sid James
Kenneth Williams
Charles Hawtrey
John Lennon
I am grateful for what they gave to the world.