I'm not even sure he has the charisma.

I'll give you that. I'm not the best judge on the type of man that would appeal to women....

unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?

In that book that Welles did with Peter Bogdonovich, IIRC, Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines. Although, now that I think about it, I may have read that somewhere else.

I'm a big fan of the original Manchurian Candidate. Y'all think it's worth seeing the remake?

Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines.

::makes note to be sure that all servants that know intimate details of my sex-life are gruntled::

I sent her a picture of Clive Owen from Croupier thinking that it ought to work. (He was in the tux -- but with dark rather than blond hair.)

Still -- thinks he looks too thuggish. Well, it doesn't really matter -- since he doesn't want to be Bond.

No, you're supposed to swoon and want to be him/do him.

I forget -- not everyone has the same swoon be/do criteria I do.

Any man that's been given official clearance to be able to kill at 25 -- I'm impressed.

I think it takes age and maturity to be worthy of a killing license. Like, what credentials can a 25 y.o. possibly have amassed to support his application, failing an outright war? Only the kind of killing that say "sociopath", which on the whole is not the way to go when you are thinking franchise.

A couple years older, he's had time to, like, go to college, gain some experience of the world, and then start killing people, work his way up the chain of command, you know.

Also, I suspect an assassin in his 30s would not be doing things like getting drunk and mooning people in a bar, whereas this does not strike me as atypical behavior in a 25 y.o. assassin. The nice thing about assassins is, because they kill for a living, nobody blinks twice at the impulse to kill them, especially when they are being boorishly obnoxious.

whereas this does not strike me as atypical behavior in a 25 y.o. assassin

You had rougher 20s than I did, I guess. I know as many moronic 30 and 40 odd year olds as I do 25 year olds.

You're not giving the average person a license to kill, ever.

I wonder about all the other unlicensed spies. So they're restricted to thrashing their opponents to within and inch of their lives? Much trickier than killing them, for sure.

Nutty -- I hope that the people making the "Young Bond" movie use some of your suggestions.

Because: Funny.

I rewatched Chopper last night. Bana, even 35 pounds heavier, is defintely charismatic. Don't know about the sophisiticated. That's a problem a lot of people have with my lovah Clive Owen, especially in England, I've read. He's not got a posh aura or accent. Me, I think he can do anything.

How posh was Connery when he took on the mantle?