James Bond, Ian Fleming and – to the best of my knowledge – all of the actors who have performed the role over the years – are right wing. Maybe, conditioned as I am by my childhood, youth and young adulthood in the UK, I would feel – were it to be new – like it had always been there something dependable, something… right. I don’t know if, were I to engage with the James Bond franchise fresh, I would enjoy it at all. I don’t know why my interest in James Bond persists, given that the ideologies espoused by these books and films are antithetical to anything else I stand for. Also, while I was reading this book Bernie Sanders dropped out of the American presidential election which basically means Donald Trump is guaranteed another four years in office and Americans are guaranteed another four years (at least!) with their insane, gun-rich, healthcare-poor dystopia that sounds like an unliveable nightmare to anyone who hasn’t been brainwashed by propaganda (or affluence) into thinking that it’s an acceptable way for a country to be.īut, hey, I don’t live there so what do I care? I’ve never read a celebrity autobiography before – and of course I never will again – because though this frothy, throwaway, book-shaped ITV content was everything I should have anticipated it being, spending a couple of days reading this led me to spend hours and hours and hours sat, hiding in bed, weeping beneath my bespoke face-mask and feeling nothing but utter fucking despair about myself, the future, the world and this pandemic. What I forgot, though, is that my general mood isn’t tied to the emotional content of the book that I’m reading, but rather to its literary merit. Roger Moore at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival with wife Luisa Mattioli.I was still feeling a little literarily sore after reading that affecting, though unrealistic, dystopian novel ( Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy), so I decided to read something as frothy as the milk no one is drinking in cafés any more: Roger Moore’s 2008 autobiography, My Word Is My Bond. His autobiography My Word is My Bond was published the same year. In 2008, the French Government appointed Moore a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. It is appropriately located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard. On 11 October 2007, three days before he turned 80, Moore was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was proud the honor was for his charity work rather than his acting. In 1999, Moore was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) on 14 June 2003. When Moore married Kiki Tholstrup, he began spending winters in Crans-Montana, Valais (Switzerland) and summers at his apartment in Monaco. His current marriage is to the Danish-Swedish multi-millionaire Kristina 'Kiki' Tholstrup. Moore has a daughter and two sons with Mattioli. ![]() While making a movie in Italy in 1961, Moore left Squires for Italian actress Luisa Mattioli. They lived together for a short time in Dafen, Llanelli, South Wales. She was also, at that time, much more famous than he was. Moore left his first wife, skater Doorn Van Steyn, for singer Dorothy Squires.
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