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From University of Toronto, the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Program, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Acknowledgments: The authors thank Susan Campbell for data entry; Robert Tibshirani and Jerry Lawless for statistical insights; and Peter Austin, Ahmed Bayoumi, Chaim Bell, Victor Fuchs, David Juurlink, David Naylor, Miriam Shuchman, Leonard Syme, and John-Paul Szalai for commenting on drafts of this manuscript.
Grant Support: Dr. Redelmeier was supported by a career scientist award from the Ontario Ministry of Health, the de Souza Chair in Clinical Trauma Research of the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Institute for Health Research. Mr. Singh was supported by the Jane and Howard Jones Bursary at the University of Toronto.
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Author Contributions: Conception and design: D.A. Redelmeier, S.M. Singh.
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Social status is a consistent, powerful, and widespread determinant of death rates. The association between high status and low mortality has appeared throughout the world, has persisted for more than a century, and extends to diverse illnesses (1–4). Uncovering the mechanisms by which external factors (such as income and level of education) influence biological processes (such as the endocrine and immune systems) represents a major challenge for health scientists and a core issue for public policy. Research is difficult because many determinants of social status are closely interrelated, such as education with income. Animal models are unrealistic, aside from some primate studies, and randomized trials are impractical, aside from a few lottery winners.
Analysis is based on log-rank test comparing 235 winners (99 deaths) with 887 controls (452 deaths). The total numbers of performers available for analysis were 1122 at 0 years, 1056 at 40 years, 762 at 60 years, and 240 at 80 years. = 0.003 for winners vs. controls.
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To the Editor,
The large survival advantage "" almost 4 years -- for Academy Award""winning actors and actresses over their less successful peers [1] continues to receive attention. We write to point out that the statistical method used to derive the statistically significant survival difference gave the Oscar winners an unfair advantage, and to help readers recognize or avoid similar artifacts in other research reports.
The report was based on 235 Oscar winners; 527 other nominees who never won; and 887 "controls" who were never nominated, selected from performers of the same sex and approximately same age who played in the movies for which the nominees were nominated. In the primary analysis, survival was measured from birth, but other definitions of "time-zero" were also used. In all but one of the Kaplan-Meier, Log-Rank and Cox proportional hazards analyses reported, each performer was classified as a "winner" or "not a winner" One reported analysis employed "winner" as a time-dependent covariate, to reflect the fact that all started out as "non -winners", but that some changed status over time.
In the (more emphasized) authors' principal comparison, the Kaplan- Meier curves showed a 3.9 year advantage for the winners. The Cox model, with "winner" as a fixed-in-time covariate , yielded mortality rate reductions ranging from 28% (no adjustment) to 23% (adjustment for seven other covariates), all with 95% confidence limits above 0%. The one reported set of analyses that treated each performer's status (as winner or loser) as dynamic (time-dependent) yielded a reduction of 20%; the lower limit of the CI was 0%, i.e., the reduction was "just significant" at the conventional P=0.05 level. The abstract and the Figure focused on the 3.9 years and the 28% reduction in death rates, which were obtained without adjustment, and without taking into account that a performer's status changed with time.
The analyses that classified those who ultimately won as "winners from the outset" gave them an inbuilt survival advantage, by crediting the years prior to winning towards survival subsequent to winning an Oscar. These "˜immortal' years [2,3] were in fact a requirement for membership in the winners' group: winners had to survive long enough to win (more than 79 years in the two most extreme cases: see Figure). Conversely, actors who did not win had no minimum survival requirement, and some died even before some winners had won, i.e., before some "longevity contests" could begin. For example, 145 "non-winners" had already died by age 65, before 15 of the winners had even won; these unfair pairings (e.g., Burton vs. Burns) were implicitly included in the overall longevity contest between the two groups, and contributed to the apparent survival advantage of the winners, even if winning brought no survival benefit.
To estimate the longevity benefits of winning an Oscar, the comparison should begin at the time that each actor first won, and the "˜remaining-longevity' contest should only include those alive at the same age as the winner was when the winner won. A winner may legitimately be included in comparisons (risksets) prior to winning, but as a "non- winner".
An analysis where the status of a performer who ultimately won is treated as a winner throughout, even in the risksets prior to winning, produces "˜immortal time' bias. As the figure illustrates, a longevity that is measured from a time-zero that precedes the performer's Oscar win (e.g., an individualized one such as the day each performer's first film was released, or a common one such as each performer's 0th or 50th birthday, as in [1]) will necessarily contain some immortal time; there is no such immortality guarantee for those who do not win. Similarly, the matching process, involving a performer "who played opposite" a nominee, ensured that a "control" was alive when a person who ultimately won was nominated, but not necessarily at the time that winner won (the comparison of the 235 nominees who won vs. the 527 other nominees did not involve a matching process).
The authors did report one analysis where each performer's status was updated in each risk set. Annals plans to publish Our methods are described more fully in a technical appendix and our results are presented in a table that will be published by Annals. All of our analyses treat each performer's status as dynamic.
In our re-analyses, which take the immortal time, as well as the covariates sex and year of birth, into account, the point estimate of the actuarial advantage is approximately 1 year, and not statistically significantly different from 0 (the 95% CI is compatible with 0). The estimated percentage mortality reduction is also correspondingly smaller.
We also directly estimated the magnitude of the "immortal time" bias. In the winners vs. nominated comparison, we estimated that not accounting for "˜immortal time' produced an artifactual longevity advantage of 0.8 years (mortality rate ratio 0.94). In the winners vs. controls, not accounting for the immortal time "" now more substantial -- between the year of a winning actor's first film and the year (s)he first won produced an artificial longevity advantage of 1.7 years and a mortality rate ratio of 0.87. In 1843, William Farr (4) described the statistical artifact created by classifying persons by their status at the end of follow-up, and analyzing them as if they had been in these categories from the outset. He used as examples the greater longevity of persons who reached higher ranks within their professions (bishops vs. curates; judges vs. barristers; generals vs. lieutenants). Despite textbook warnings (2,5,6), analyses that overlook this subtle bias are still common today.
In some longevity comparisons, e.g., (1,7,8), the consequences of an incorrect conclusion are minor. In the evaluation of the time-extension benefits of therapy (3,9,10), the consequences are more serious. How therefore to detect potential immortal time bias? We suggest that when reports compare two "groups", such as winners vs. nominees, one should carefully examine when and how persons entered a "group". Did being in (or moving to) a group have a time-related requirement? Was the classification based on the status at time-zero, or later? If later, was this accounted for? Is the term "status", which implies it could change, more appropriate than the term "group", where, as in a clinical trial, membership is fixed from the outset? Is it sufficient to classify the person just once, or do we need to re-classify the person-moments (the person at different times)? Showing the timelines may help. And, of course, readers and commentators should be doubly cautious whenever they encounter statistics that seem too extreme to be true.
1. Redelmeier DA, Singh SM. Survival in Academy Award-winning actors and actresses. Ann Intern Med. 2001 May 15;134(10):955-62.
2. Walker AM. Observation and Inference: An Introduction to the Methods of Epidemiology. Chestnut Hill, MA : Epidemiology Resources Inc., 1991. pp 59-60, and p161.
3. Suissa S. Effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: immortal time bias in observational studies. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 Jul 1;168(1):49-53. Epub 2003 Mar 27.
4. Farr W. Vital statistics : a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr / with an introduction by Mervyn Susser and Abraham Adelstein. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1975.
5. Colton, T. Statistics in Medicine. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1974.
6. Hill A.B. A short textbook of medical statistics. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977, p278.
7. Rothman KJ. Longevity of jazz musicians: flawed analysis. Am J Public Health. 1992 May;82(5):761.
8. Hanley JA, Carrieri MP, Serraino D. Statistical fallibility and the longevity of popes: William Farr meets Wilhelm Lexis. Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Mar 16; [Epub ahead of print]
9. Gail MH. Does cardiac transplantation prolong life? A reassessment. Ann Intern Med. 1972 May; 76(5):815-7.
10. Glesby MJ, Hoover DR. Survivor treatment selection bias in observational studies: examples from the AIDS literature. Ann Intern Med. 1996;124:999-1005.
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To the editor,
Sylvestre et al. correctly comment that survival statistics are fallible. Our primary analysis was based on the Kaplan-Meier method because life expectancy is the preferred metric in medical decision analysis [1]. Our article also provided 40 other secondary analyses to explore different models since no one statistic is ideal. Sylvestre et al. argue that the multivariate-adjusted Cox proportional hazards model with a time-varying step function is preferred over our primary analysis approach, do not discuss the limitations of such models, and intimate that other models give an unfair advantage. This position disagrees with us and with other reviews involving our work [2, 3].
We agree that time-varying functions are valuable for addressing a change in status from winning. One drawback with such models can be in assuming the same hazard for all winners following first win; for example, Jodi Foster (first win age 25) and Judi Dench (first win age 62) are assigned identical hazards from age 63 until death. However, we found earlier wins were associated with greater advantages, contrary to this assumption. Adding fixed covariates that additionally model age (linear or quadratic) is no simple solution because the likelihood of winning is no simple function of age. The models also have limited power on small datasets, assume no unmeasured heterogeneity, and rarely capture complex trajectories (eg, multiple films, nominations, and wins) [4, 5, 6, 7].
We thank many scientists for analyses of our database. We have also done an update to March 29, 2006 and observed 122 more individuals and 144 more deaths since first publication. Our primary unadjusted analysis shows a smaller survival advantage of 3.6 years (79.7 vs 76.1, p = 0.005). Applying Model 1 of the Sylvestre technical appendix so that winners are treated in a time-varying manner yielded a 8% mortality reduction (95% confidence interval: -14 to +26, p = 0.455). Modifying Model 1 so that both winners and non-winners are treated in a time-varying manner yielded a 15% mortality reduction (95% confidence interval: -6 to +31, p = 0.140). These estimates overlap earlier results. Apparently, the survival advantage depends on the analytic method chosen.
The statistical debate concerns inbuilt survival advantages that yield an immortality bias. We provided methods for addressing this bias, observed multiple findings suggesting this bias was not large in our cohort, and estimated the hidden confounding that would need to be postulated. We found no survival advantage comparing individuals with many nominations to individuals with no nominations, for example, contrary to estimates of a large immortality bias. Moreover, we presumed individuals not reported dead were alive, which is a different type of immortality bias that causes almost all of our analyses and Sylvestre et al.'s analyses to underestimate survival differences.
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1. Sox HC, Blatt MA, Higins MC, Marton KI. Medical decision making. Toronto: Butterworths 1988, p 182-4.
2.Redelmeier DA, Singh SM. Longevity of screenwriters who win an academy award: longitudinal study. BMJ. 2001;323:1491-6.
3. Redelmeier DA, Singh SM. Association between mortality and occupation among movie directors and actors. Am J Med. 2003;115:400-3.
4. Fisher LD, Lin DY. Time-dependent covariates in the Cox proportional-hazards regression model. Annu Rev Public Health. 1999;20:145 -57.
5. Therneau TM, Grambsch PM. Modeling survival data: extending the Cox model. New York: Springer, 2000, p 231-2.
6. Kalbfleisch JD, Prentice RL. The statistical analysis of failure time data. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2nd Edition 2002, p 196-208.
7. Allison PD, Survival analysis using SAS: A practical guide. Cary NC: The SAS Institute Inc, 2004, p 111-84.
Social Status and Life Expectancy in an Advantaged Population: A Study of Academy Award–Winning Actors
The summary below is from the full report titled "Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses." It is in the 15 May 2001 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 134, pages 955-962). The authors are DA Redelmeier and SM Singh.
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Part of the equation for my belief of this taking many years to get healthy again is how long it took the Great Depression to sort itself out. It is probably now generally accepted that the crisis of 2008 did not have anywhere near the societal consequence as the Great Depression but one point just as true but getting less attention is that the crisis of 2008 was/is far more complicated than the Great Depression.
The complexities of the businesses of investment banks and derivatives were/are monumental and I believe the totality of the recent event is far less likely to be fully understood by the people who lived through it than with the Great Depression. If this line of thinking resonates with you then you might agree about it taking years to sort out, correct and fundamentally recover.
I found a very interesting commentary via Barry Ritholtz about how the mentality of picking up nickels in front of steamrollers is alive and well and will destroy Wall Street firms. While it is less clear that Wall Street firms will be destroyed the business with the Whale of JP Morgan losing $2 billion on a hedge creates doubt about what was actually learned from crisis about thinks like risk limits, VaR and other aspects of running a prop desk.
Legislating this would not be the right thing to do for at least two reasons. As a practical matter these institutions always figure out what restrictions will allow them to do an then pile it on. From a philosophical standpoint the only ones that should be protected are the depositors; let equity holders and bond holders eat it if it gets to that point. Having a suitable framework is appropriate but changing that framework in reaction to every big news story that comes along will have very poor results with many unintended outcomes. The financial system is smarter than those who will try to legislate it.
The investment implication here should be to tread very lightly in this sector. We continue to use an individual bank stock from Canada and Chile, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASXFF) and an index provider. The broad sector ETFs are generally heavy in Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and JP Morgan (JPM) all of which we prefer to avoid. There is a bullish case to be made for JPM that I concede is plausible but we prefer to avoid it. I have been working on finding a couple of very small domestic banks to buy and I think I have found a couple that appear to be very well capitalized, have very good (sustainable) dividends and relatively few moving parts. If I add this type of exposure in I will disclose the name we buy.
One point about the JP Morgan loss to clear up is the notion of losing money on a hedge. Many have noted that if the hedge failed then the underlying asset must have done well so how could it be a net loss. This is pretty easy to explain with an admittedly simplistic example. Let's say you load up on some stock and you hedge the entire position with puts that are 10% out of the money at a cost of 2% of the long position. The stock then drops 8% and the puts are allowed to expire worthless. Money was lost on the hedge and the position is now down 8%.
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- Anonymous said...
I am no longer in milan. Noticed that no post. Complacency.
Jeff from milan italy
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- Anonymous said...
so let me get this, a bank in Chile is an undervalued, safe investment? From the generational lows of 3 years ago BAC has appreciated 250%, YTD 35%. Same story for many other US banks.
- Roger Nusbaum said...
The bank in Chile has the same forward PE as BAC but lower trailing PE because BAC's trailing PE appears to be negative. The bank in Chile paid a 3.3% dividend this year while BAC looks like it is still paying a penny.
I would submit that a big reason for the bounce in BAC stems from it having dropped by more than 80 five years ago.
Anyone disagreeing with my thesis of more shoes to drop might very well think BAC looks more appealing. - 5:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
More shoes to drop is such a common opinion that don't you think it is somewhat priced in, and that anything less than that will move the shares higher?
If another shoe to drop is due to a further leg down in residential real estate prices, I don't see it in my city, PHX. Replacement cost and rental rates, combined with affordability seem to be putting a floor on prices. Inventory is also very thin. Banks are well enough capitalized not to be blowing out inventory like they were a few years ago, when they were forced to dump. They have become smarter, more patient sellers.
What types of assets prop up the economy in Chile? Natural resources perhaps? Is a slowing China, and slowing advisor led I want exposure to commodities at any cost due to the non-correlation of natural resources to other asset classes going to have a negative effect on a Chilean bank? I don't think many investors that own shares in overseas financial businesses understand the important roll that commodity prices have had in propping up shares. I guess we will see.
OT: Stay safe, and good luck during the fire season. You guys have your work cut out for you. - 11:47 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
JPM dropped 8 or 9% in the face of a bad trade which I believe supports not priced in.
Thanks for the kind word on the fire season - 1:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think the JPM beatdown was the patron saint of banking, Jamie Dimon, turning into a mere mortal. I was always wary of the sainted status of Dimon, and the premium that JPM got because of it. I guess my rant is more directed to BAC, and other banks, not JPM.
However, JPM just got more interesting after shedding $10 per share, at $35, yielding 3.4%. - 1:39 PM


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A day after his return from Delhi, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had to taste the wrath of the Congress leadership for throwing his weight behind the ongoing Samaikyandhra movement. AICC state affairs incharge Digvijay Singh, who had been critical of him behind closed doors till the other day, almost reprimanded him in public on Wednesday.
While speaking to reporters in Delhi, Digvijay said: "Kiran Reddy is the Chief Minister of entire Andhra Pradesh. So, his responsibility is not confined to only one region. He is responsible for the entire state."
Interestingly, the comment came minutes after he met party president Sonia Gandhi. According to sources, the AICC leadership is angry at Kiran as he has been repeatedly assuring party leaders from Seemandhra that the state would not be bifurcated till 2014 polls. When Kiran met some ministers and Congress MPs from Seemandhra on Tuesday, he is learnt to have told them that he would personally meet and urge President Pranab Mukherjee to reject the Telangana Bill, if the T-resolution was defeated in the State Assembly.
Sources said a section of leaders in the AICC believe the Chief Minister is further fuelling the stir in Seemandhra with his pro-Samaikyandhra stand. In fact, Digvijay had also expressed his displeasure over the attitude of Kiran, when wives of Seemandhra ministers called on him recently saying, "Your Chief Minister has come in the way of announcing a good financial package for Seemandhra with his opposition to our party's decision to bifurcate AP."
Digvijay also made light of the APNGOs' strike. "Private establishments and shops are open and private transport services are running in Seemandhra. Then how could government offices alone be closed? When private schools are functioning, how could government-run schools alone be shut?" he wondered.
He appealed to the APNGOs to call off their strike. "We will ensure that all employees of the undivided Andhra got their due while dividing the state," he said.
Asked about the T-note, Digvijay said: "The Telangana note is being drafted by the Union Home Ministry. As soon as it is presented to the Union Cabinet, it will be sent to the AP Assembly."
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Despite the warning issued by the Congress leadership, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday assured his peers from Seemandhra that he would ensure that Andhra Pradesh remained intact till 2014 polls, if the T-resolution was defeated in the Assembly.
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At a time when TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is alleging that there is a tacit understanding between the YSRC and Congress in Seemandhra in the run-up to the 2014 polls, Union Minister M Veerappa Moily has not ruled out the possibility of an electoral alliance between his party and the YSRC. When asked about the possibility of the Congress forging an electoral pact with Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's party, Moily replied, "Anything is possible in politics."
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Being the C.M. of AP, it is the duty of Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy to resist bifurcation of his State, which has been conceded by the corrupt Congress leadership in New Delhi with an eye to the coming Loksabha election. The Congress Party is solely responsible for the current state of affairs in Andhra and Telengana regions. It was the same Congress Party, which promised Telengana to the TRS chief Mr. C.S. Rao in 2004 for the sake of power without taking the people of Seemandhra into confidence. Now a situation has come that people of two regions have started fighting each other for and against creation of Telengana. Even if the new State is created, the common man will not be benefited much but leaders like CSR will get lucrative job as CM and naturally some of his top supporters can become MLAs, MPs, Ministers etc. under the new set up and live lavishly for their life time.
Posted by MKN Kurup at 09/26/2013 11:58 Reply to this Report abuse
kiran kumar reddy is cm to telangana also he have to understand problemd of those people and have to find solution to resolve those problems, but it is not correct to resist bifurcation, if state had solved those problems and satisfied public the present scenario wouldn't be there, people of telangana also be happy with united andhra pradesh...
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Yes. Kiran kumar is the CM of the state and when there is no value given for his opinion, then what kind of behavior is Diggy expecting from Kiran.
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Throwing dog biscuits of power and position to the hungry and drooling dogs of politicians in A.P is a permanent feature of the Congress from the time of post independence period. Now getting Jagan Reddy out of the prison with the sole aim of getting his cooperation for the impending elections is a game too transparent even for the lay man to see thru. Now probably all the serious charges against him, his folks and supporters disappear like the 'coal gate files'??. In Telugu, there is a saying "if you know the server, you can sit any where for a meal"
Posted by emkay at 09/26/2013 12:56 Reply to this Report abuse
If Kiran kumar is CM of entire state....where were he when Telangana people doing sakala janula samme......where were he when telangana students suicides on road.......during that time he was telling only thing that whatever decision central govt take...i will accept it......Now what happen?....... Anyhow SOnia gandhi knows how to handle leaders like kiran who go against her decision......we have seen in the case of Jagan.....
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We are not in monarchy; we are in democracy! The will of the majority should prevail! The CM of the state represents democracy!
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One of the few movie "superstars" truly worthy of the designation, actor
Sean Connery
was born to a middle-class Scottish family in the first year of the worldwide Depression. Dissatisfied with his austere surroundings,
quit school at 15 to join the navy (he still bears his requisite tattoos, one reading "Scotland Forever" and the other "Mum and Dad"). Holding down several minor jobs, not the least of which was as a coffin polisher,
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's first important movie role was as
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Dr. No
; he was far from the first choice, but the producers were impressed by
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From Russia With Love
(1963), but it wasn't until the third Bond picture,
(1964), that both
and his secret-agent alter ego became a major box-office attraction. While the money steadily improved,
was already weary of Bond at the time of the fourth
(1965). He tried to prove to audiences and critics that there was more to his talents than James Bond by playing a villain in
Woman of Straw
(1964), an enigmatic
hero in
(1964), a cockney POW in
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(1965), and a loony Greenwich Village poet in
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Despite the excellence of his characterizations, audiences preferred the Bond films, while critics always qualified their comments with references to the secret agent. With
You Only Live Twice
swore he was through with James Bond; with Diamonds Are Forever (1971), he really meant what he said. Rather than coast on his celebrity, the actor sought out the most challenging movie assignments possible, including
La Tenda Rossa
The Red Tent
The Molly Maguires
(1970), and
(1973). This time audiences were more responsive, though
was still most successful with action films like
The Wind and the Lion
The Man Who Would Be King
(1975), and
The Great Train Robbery
(1979). With his patented glamorous worldliness,
was also ideal in films about international political intrigue like
The Next Man
The Hunt for Red October
(1990), and
The Russia House
(1990). One of
's personal favorite performances was also one of his least typical: In
The Offence
(1973), he played a troubled police detective whose emotions -- and hidden demons -- are agitated by his pursuit of a child molester.
In 1981,
briefly returned to the Bond fold with
Never Say Never Again
, but his difficulties with the production staff turned what should have been a fond throwback to his salad days into a nightmarish experience for the actor. At this point, he hardly needed Bond to sustain his career;
had not only the affection of his fans but the respect of his industry peers, who honored him with the British Film Academy award for
The Name of the Rose
(1986) and an American Oscar for
The Untouchables
(1987) (which also helped make a star of
Kevin Costner
, who repaid the favor by casting
as Richard the Lionhearted in
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[1991] -- the most highly publicized "surprise" cameo of that year).
's star had risen to new heights, he also continued his habit of alternating crowd-pleasing action films with smaller, more contemplative projects that allowed him to stretch his legs as an actor, such as
Time Bandits
Five Days One Summer
(1982), A Good Man in Africa (1994), and Playing by Heart (1998). Although his mercurial temperament and occasionally overbearing nature is well known,
is nonetheless widely sought out by actors and directors who crave the thrill of working with him, among them
Harrison Ford
Steven Spielberg
, and
George Lucas
, who collaborated with
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(1989), where the actor played Jones' father.
served as executive producer on his 1992 vehicle
Medicine Man
(1992), and continued to take on greater behind-the-camera responsibilities on his films, serving as both star and executive producer on
Rising Sun
Just Cause
(1995), and
The Rock
(1996). He graduated to full producer on
(1999), and, like a true Scot, he brought the project in under budget; the film was a massive commercial success and paired
in a credible onscreen romance with
Catherine Zeta-Jones
, a beauty 40 years his junior. He also received a unusual hipster accolade in
(1996), in which one of the film's Gen-X dropouts (from Scotland, significantly enough) frequently discusses the relative merits of
's body of work. Appearing as Allan Quartermain in 2003's comic-to-screen adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the seventy-three year old screen legend proved that he still had stamina to spare and that despite his age he could still appear entirely believeable as a comic-book superhero. Still a megastar in the 1990s,
Sean Connery
commanded one of moviedom's highest salaries -- not so much for his own ego-massaging as for the good of his native Scotland, to which he continued to donate a sizable chunk of his earnings. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Based on the comic book miniseries by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place in an alternate universe where the characters of several literary classics exist in reality. As if that weren't enough, they've been assembled together in 1900 by Queen Victoria as a team of evil-fighting heroes. Among them are Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; Mina Harker (Peta Wilson) from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Tom Sawyer (Shane West) from several works by Mark Twain; Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend) from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah) from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Invisible Man (Tony Curran) from H.G. Wells book of the same name; and several others. Working together, the odd assortment of characters must combine their powers to defeat a mysterious villain and save the world from certain destruction. Directed by Stephen Norrington (Blade), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also stars Jason Flemyng, Tom Goodman-Hill, and David Hemmings. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a 16-year-old with a hidden desire to be a writer. When Jamal is cited for his athleticism in basketball by an elite Manhattan prep school, he is forced to adapt to an environment far from his South Bronx upbringing, and a small mishap leads him to the eccentric, uneasy Forrester. After their initial apprehension of each other, they begin to fuel each other's fire for writing, and become unlikely friends despite their ages and backgrounds. Forrester's devotion to Jamal becomes enhanced when he must defend allegations of plagiarism enforced by Professor Crawford (F. Murray Abraham), jeopardizing Jamal's future. The film also features Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, and Zane Copeland, Jr.. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi
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The James Bond Story
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First shown amid the publicity surrounding The World is Not Enough, this documentary highlights the career of the fabulously successful James Bond film series. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton are interviewed for this work. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
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After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from a New York skyscraper in a daring and technically sophisticated robbery, ace insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins looking into the matter and is soon convinced it's the work of master art thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery). Gin thinks the best way to get the goods on Mac (and perhaps recover the painting) is to work her way inside his operation, so she locates him in London and, posing as a fellow art thief, offers to work as his partner. While Mac is smart enough to not accept an offer like that from just anyone, most thieves don't look as good as Gin does in a leotard, and she soon proves an able assistant in a shakedown robbery where they pinch a rare Chinese mask from a British museum. After this success, Mac agrees to join forces with Gin for what is literally the heist of the millenium -- as Midnight rolls around in Kuala Lumpur on December 31, 1999, the security computers in a major multinational banking facility will be breached for a split second as the computers roll over to a new program for Y2K. Is that long enough for Gin and Mac to nab $8 billion in bank transfers? Is 14 days long enough to prepare for a robbery of this scale? And will Mac and Gin's professional relationship pave the way for some capers in the bedroom? In addition to playing the male lead, Sean Connery also co-produced this film; the supporting cast includes Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Jeremiah Chechick directed this $60 million adaptation of the whimsical 1961 British TV spy series, imported to the United States five years later for ABC airing (beginning 3/28/66), followed by The New Avengers (CBS, 1978-79). In the feature-length version, secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) face a meteorological menace as they track sinister super-villain Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery), threatening to blitz Britain with blizzards and other extreme weather. Vocal cameo by Patrick Macnee (the original TV Steed). ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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Playing by Heart
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Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is like "dancing about architecture" (the original title until the studio thought it would be confused with Dancing at Lughnasa), meaning speech is not the medium to adequately express the details of love. They all try, anyway. Others up for the dance include a TV cooking-show hostess (Gena Rowlands) and her husband (Sean Connery) who still fight over his one brief infidelity 25 years earlier; two lovers (Madeline Stowe, Anthony Edwards) who discuss their unhappy marriages; and a theater director (Gillian Anderson) and her architect, Mr. Right (Jon Stewart). Also searching are Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski and Patricia Clarkson. For a familial sort of love, there's Ellen Burstyn as the estranged mother to her son (Jay Mohr) dying of AIDS. ~ Ron Wells, Rovi
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The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Nicolas Cage stars as Stanley Goodspeed, an FBI chemical weapons expert handed a unique assignment. Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), an insane Marine Corps general, has taken 81 tourists hostage on the abandoned island prison of Alcatraz. He and his men are threatening to bomb San Francisco with deadly gas unless $100 million is paid in war reparations to the families of servicemen killed in covert operations. Goodspeed is teamed with former British spy John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), the only man ever to escape "The Rock," as well as a Navy SEAL team. When their military escorts are ambushed, it's up to odd couple Goodspeed and Mason to break into Alcatraz and stop Hummel. The Rock was the last film produced by Simpson, who died of a drug overdose before the film's release. Solo, his partner Bruckheimer continued making the sort of glossy, frenetic films for which the duo was famed. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times, is summoned by Aislinn the Queen (Julie Christie) to the bedside of her son, Einon, who is also Bowen's student. Einon has been wounded and is near death; with his heart about to give out, Bowen calls upon Draco (voice of Sean Connery), the mightiest dragon in the land, asking for a sliver of his mighty heart so that the boy might survive. Draco makes Bowen pledge that when Enion grows to adulthood and becomes king, he will rule with fairness and compassion before the beast will donate a piece of his heart. Einon agrees to the pledge, but years later, the adult Einon (David Thewlis) has become a cruel despot, in no way good on his promises. Bowen, angry at Einon's betrayal, is convinced that the dragon is somehow responsible and goes on a spree, killing the mammoth reptiles at a fevered pace. However, when Bowen once again encounters Draco, the dragon convinces him that a dragon-slayer who has killed the last dragon also puts himself out of a job; Draco and Bowen work out a business arrangement, where the monster "attacks" villages and Bowen is paid to "kill" him. In time, however, Draco and Bowen realize that they must set aside their lucrative business in order to challenge the authority of the evil ruler. Draco the Dragon was the first fully-computer animated character to have a speaking part along side flesh and blood actors in a film; Sean Connery's recording sessions as the voice of Draco were recorded on video as well as audio tape, so that his facial expressions and mouth movements could be adapted to the character. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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First Knight
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The tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is always ripe for retelling. In this rendition, the sexy Richard Gere is Sir Lancelot, threatening to supersede the aging King Arthur (Sean Connery) by winning the love of his young wife Guinivere (Julia Ormond). This update of the age-old legend succeeds on the strength of Gere's happy-go-lucky sex appeal, Ormond's gorgeous period costuming, and Connery's unbeatable wry nobility. The script focuses on the triangle of the three principals: the older man's reluctance to relinquish his love and power to the younger man destined to supplant him; the young woman torn between her loyalty to her aged husband and her love for his rival; the young man balancing the demands of loyalty to his sovereign with the rewards of true love. This beautiful production forgoes the legend's usual elements of magic and fantasy, leaving Merlin the Magician completely out of the picture. ~ Laura Abraham, Rovi
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The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It seems that the educated, upstanding Earl has been railroaded by an overeager sheriff (Laurence Fishburne) zealously trying to solve the kidnapping and murder of a little girl. Once Armstrong arrives in Florida, he is able to locate the murder weapon and cast doubt on Earl's innocence, even identifying a much more likely culprit in the homicidal genius Blair Sullivan (Ed Harris). All is not as it seems in the case of Bobby Earl, however, and Armstrong is going to end up regretting his interest in the case. Ruby Dee, Kate Capshaw, and Ned Beatty costar in this film from producer-turned-director Arne Glimcher. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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A Good Man in Africa
Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned to the British High Commission of Ninjana, an African nation slowly divesting itself of colonial rule. Leafy is an arrogant and frequently confused alcoholic romantically involved with an African woman named Hazel (Jackie Mofokeng). Arthur Fanshawe (John Lithgow), a new High Commission appointee who wants nothing more than to be promoted and moved out of Africa, brings some interesting news to Leafy: massive reserves of oil have been discovered in Ninjana, and if the British want to reap the full profits of this windfall, they will want to stay on the good side of Sam Adekunle (Louis Gossett Jr.), who in all likelihood will be the next president of Ninjana. However, something of a diplomatic crisis has come up; a native woman was struck by lightning in the courtyard of the High Commission's compound, and the locals insist that she cannot be moved until certain time-honored rituals have been performed. At a loss for advice, Leafy turns to Dr. Alex Murray (Sean Connery), a Scottish doctor who has been in Africa for 23 years and is one of the few people equally at ease with both the British colonials and the natives. However, Leafy doesn't seem so eager to seek out assistance in his romantic problems; while he's involved with Hazel, Leafy also finds himself dallying with Adekunle's wife Celia (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) and Fanshawe's wife Chloe (Diana Rigg). By the way, don't bother looking for Ninjana on a map -- it doesn't really exist. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Japanese culture. The story takes place in the towering office building of the Japanese Nakamoto Corporation in Los Angeles, who are negotiating a deal with Microcon, an American electronics firm. During a gala held one night in the Nakamoto offices, the body of a woman, Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found murdered in the main conference room. Arriving quickly on the scene is high-amped police lieutenant Tom Graham (Harvey Keitel), who oozes hatred for anything Japanese from every pore. When he has trouble getting cooperation from the Nakatomo executives, Graham calls in Web Smith (Wesley Snipes), a Special Services liaison, and John Connor (Connery), a man well-versed in Japanese culture and traditions. Together they form a team as they investigate the crime. Connor questions computer video expert Jingo (Tia Carrere), who works on a security system computer disc that captures the killer's identity. The only problem is that the image of the killer on the disc has been altered to conceal the murderer's face. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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The Amazon rain forest is a living laboratory for Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery), a reclusive research scientist living with a Brazilian native tribe. Campbell has accidentally discovered a flower extract that cures cancer, but has been unable to duplicate the formula. With the assistance of Dr. Crane (Lorraine Bracco), he explores every possible chemical derivative, but continues to fail. When a child in the village is near death from a tumor pressing against his trachea, Campbell and Crane stand against each other on the moral issue to use the last of the successful serum to save him or to keep it for further analysis. At the last moment, Crane reconsiders, and agrees to save the child. At the same time, commercial loggers begin to creep ever closer to the village, and government officials demand the tribe's relocation. With only yards remaining between the bulldozers and the tribe, Campbell discovers a vital clue to the elusive elixir he seeks. His attempt to stop the workmen results in violence and a raging forest fire which destroys his lab equipment and the natives' village. The story ends with Campbell, Crane, and the tribe pushing deeper into the jungle in search of new answers.
In a change of pace from his usual action film fare, the skilled work of director John McTiernan brings emotional depth to what would otherwise be just another pro-environmental propaganda film. Connery, who had starred in McTiernan's crowd-pleasing 1989 film The Hunt for Red October, gives a convincing performance as the determined and complex researcher haunted by mistakes of the past. Bracco's character adds the realistic humor of the city scientist adjusting to Spartan life in the trees, but she does so with both strength and dignity. The constant bickering of two equally obstinate scientists gives a mild "honeymooners in the jungle" quality. Filmed in the Mexican rain forest, the canopy is captured in breathtaking cinematography. ~ Lucinda Ramsey, Rovi
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At the end of Highlander, Juan Ramirez (Sean Connery) died and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) was rendered mortal. "Highlander 2: The Quickening begins in 1999 when Connor solves the problem of an ever-depleting ozone layer on the earth by devising a giant shield around the entire planet. The earth is saved, except for the fact that it is now a continual 99 degrees, and the earth is plunged into 24 hours of darkness. 40 years later, Connor is an elderly man with liver spots, heading out for the opera. Then there is a flashback of Connor recalling his halcyon days on the planet Zeist hundreds of years earlier. Back on Zeist, Connor and Ramirez led a futile coup against the ruling dictator, Katana (Michael Ironside), that caused them to be banished to Earth. Back in the future, Katana sends a pair of wacky goons to kill Connor. When Connor lops off their heads, he is now young again...and immortal. Just the right time to meet the attractive scientist Louise Marcus (Virginia Madsen), who has discovered that the shield around the earth is no longer needed since the ozone layer has repaired itself. But, unfortunately, the shield is in the clutches of an evil cartel who wants to control the earth's resources. Connor and Louise team up to battle the cartel while Katana sends out more emissaries to get Connor. Ramirez, although supposedly dead, also makes an appearance in the 21st century -- garbed in full Scottish regalia. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems that the CIA has through a book show intermediary received a package from a Russian book editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) containing amazingly detailed notebooks written by a cynical Russian physicist named "Dante" (Klaus-Maria Brandauer). The notebooks show that Russia's nuclear threat is a joke: Russian rockets "suck instead of blow...and can't hit Nevada on a clear day," in the acerbic words of CIA Agent Russell Sheridan (Roy Scheider). But why is Dante sending the notebooks to Blair? How shall the Western world respond to what could be the end of the nuclear arms race? Blair gets drafted by a British Secret Service agent (James Fox) to go to the new Russia to meet Katya. He must see whether the new Russia is still immersed in the old Cold War and whether the notebooks are genuine or another deadly chapter in the war of the spies. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi
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The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American waters, hoping to defect. The CIA, aware that the Red October was about to embark on an evasive mission to demonstrate its ability to avoid detection and fire its nuclear missiles upon U.S. installations, believes that Ramius is insane, and that he plans to start World War III. To cover their own behinds, the Russians back up the CIA's suspicion. Only Jack Ryan believes that Ramius' mission is not as apocalyptic as it seems -- and it is Ryan who is assigned to infiltrate the Red October to prove his theory. The sort of film that in an earlier era would have been called a "thinking man's thriller," The Hunt for Red October ushered in a new series of Hollywood-produced post-Cold War adventure films, including 1995's Crimson Tide. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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You've probably already guessed that the Family Business in this all-star melodrama is the business of crime. Adapted from a novel by Vincent Patrick, the film stars Sean Connery as Jessie McMullen, the patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his son Vito (Dustin Hoffman) and grandson Adam (Matthew Broderick). Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens. There's many a slip-up and betrayal before the three generations can find a common ground. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the hands of bad guys and into the museums in which they belong. A grown-up Indy (Harrison Ford) reveals himself shortly afterward in a familiar classroom scene, teaching archeology to a disproportionate number of starry-eyed female college students in 1938. Once again, however, Mr. Jones is drawn away from his day job after an art collector (Julian Glover) approaches him with a proposition to find the much sought after Holy Grail. Circumstances reveal that there was another avid archeologist in search of the famed cup -- Indiana Jones' father, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery) -- who had recently disappeared during his efforts. The junior and senior members of the Jones family find themselves in a series of tough situations in locales ranging from Venice to the most treacherous spots in the Middle East. Complicating the situation further is the presence of Elsa (Alison Doody), a beautiful and intelligent woman with one fatal flaw: she's an undercover Nazi agent. The search for the grail is a dangerous quest, and its discovery may prove fatal to those who seek it for personal gain. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade earned a then record-breaking $50 million in its first week of release. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own life. This proves well-nigh impossible; Abe, the self-described "king of the Hollywood extras," is not only a play-actor in Tinseltown but in life itself, refusing to take on any real responsibilities, least of all the responsibility of parenthood. So far as Abe is concerned, his only "family" consists of his fellow extras. Though Abbie is extremely judgmental of his father, he himself is no prize in the commitment department, especially when dealing with his longtime lady friend (JoBeth Williams). Star/co-writer Crystal, co-star/co-producer King, and director Henry Winkler lay on the sentiment in thick, juicy slices toward the end. The final sequence in Memories of Me, a Felliniesque funeral, is very clever but somewhat out of synch with what has gone before. One of the film's highlights is a brief celebrity cameo by one of Alan King's "close personal friends." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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San Francisco detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) is assigned to investigate the murder of a female MP at the 212-year-old Presidio army base in this crime drama. Jay must interview Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell (Sean Connery), his former commander from his military days. The two must overcome their past and present differences to track down the killer as they manage to stumble across a smuggling operation relating to the murder. Jay falls for Caldwell's pretty daughter Donna (Meg Ryan), who proves to be as forceful as her father. Highlights of the film are the chase scene through Chinatown and Connery's exceptional performance. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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La Rosa dei Nomi
This documentary attempts to create an interesting and profitable encounter between the filmmakers, award-winning writer Umberto Eco, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, the director of a film based on one of Eco's more popular books The Name of the Rose and starring Sean Connery. In the process, the author's contempt for anyone he does not see as his intellectual equal (arguably, everyone) is made manifest. The film's other attempt, to detail the story of the book and interest potential viewers in the film, gets lost in the story's labyrinthine plot. For those not familiar with it, the story follows a rationalistic ex-warrior and monk as he uses real-life clues and logic to solve a murder during the superstitious middle ages. Annaud and Connery have little insight to offer, and by all reports this attempt to create an interesting film about the making of Annaud's film is a complete failure. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart, whose previous subjects have ranged from JFK to Mao Tse-Tung, focuses his attention on everyone's favorite dinner-jacketed spy in Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond. Roger Moore, who'd played Bond from 1973 through 1985, hosts this roundup of filmclips and interviews. Scriptwriter Richard Schickel calls upon his film-history expertise to place Bond in context with his fellow cinematic secret agents. The best moments include a montage of 007 gadgetry and a pageant of such Bond girls as Ursula Andress, Honor Blackman and Barbara Bach. Happy Anniversary 007 closes with preview clips for the then-latest Bond flick The Living Daylights (1987), starring Timothy Dalton as the indomitable Bond...James Bond. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Apple slapped with Russian Railways trademark suit
It's not entirely clear what Russian Railways is alleging, with its press release simply saying it concerns infringement of the company's trademark No. 341333.
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Clarification of the lawsuit JSC "Russian Railways" company to Apple Inc.
JSC "Russian Railways" to the Arbitration Court of Moscow with a claim concerning infringement of the exclusive right to the trademark under the certificate No. 341333 by Apple Inc. We … Read more


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thats my 750gb backup drive. i only plug it up to backup the data from my 250gb wd when it is full. the less that hard drive powers up the more ease of mind i have cause i got too much important data on that drive
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huh? x2 on the one stick of RAM????? I guess you are the type who is certain that the dual channel architecture is over-rated. It does kind of look like an alienware case from the front.
i had 2x sticks of reapers before until i sold 1 and now waiting on the 1 at present to be sold. Upgrading to 1066!!http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227239
2.3V 5-5-5-15? I'm running my Kingston memory at 5-5-5-15 @ 1,066MHz and only pushing 2.175V to it. EDIT: I'm sorry.... I'm not trying to sound like my shXt smells sweeter than most. I just get a kick out of memory which runs at a low voltage and fast speed; it's more efficient and usually lasts longer.
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