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The actor handpicked to play Miss Moneypenny in ‘rogue’ Bond picture Source:SMH PAMELA SALEM: 1944 – 2024 Pamela Salem, who died at her home in Florida aged 80, was a British actress who worked busily on both sides of the Atlantic; in 1983, she played Miss Moneypenny opposite Sean Connery’s ageing James Bond in the “rogue” Bond picture Never Say Never Again. Connery engineered her casting after they worked well together in Michael Crichton’s period crime caper The First Great Train Robbery (1979). Salem found Connery ever genial and thoroughly unvain: she recalled that he would immediately remove his toupee when filming ended. ...

Mar 5, 2024 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Dr Harold Gunatillake’s impromptu Speech at his 90th B’day celebrations – Brought to you by eLanka This brief note from my reminiscence forming part of my impromptu speech I will deliver on my 90th birthday is forwarded to share and bring back and rekindle memories of your readers. “When I was 15, a man of thirty I would call ‘Uncle” because he was old to me and through a mark of traditional respect. When I became fifty, a man of ninety was very old to me. But on the 7th of December this year, I would be ninety and I don’t feel old. Joan Collins said, ”Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine”. Some of my friends say, ”I am only 18 and the rest 72 is experience”. I was born in a little hamlet called “Hapugala” in the Galle district, ...

Oct 3, 2020 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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  Reminiscing – By Harold Gunatillake   “When I was 15, a man of thirty I would call ‘Uncle” because he was old to me and through a mark of traditional respect. When I became fifty, a man of ninety was very old to me. But on the 7th of December this year, I would be ninety and I don’t feel old. Joan Collins said, ”Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine”. Some of my friends say, ”I am only 18 and the rest 72 is experience”. I was born in a little hamlet called “Hapugala” in the Galle district, and at the age of 4, my family migrated to the hill capital-Kandy 1,700 ft above sea level. That’s we are still, except my second life in Sydney, Australia. Dec. 7th 1929, happened to be a Saturday, and this year ...

Nov 22, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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