Roger Moore isn’t my favourite Bond. Hell, he isn’t even my third favourite Bond. To me, he will always The Saint: Simon Templar, and Lord Brett Sinclair: Tony Curtis’s buddy from The Persuaders. We have boxed sets of both those shows and when I read he was coming out to Australia to promote his autobiography, I scrambled to snaffle tickets to the Dymocks/Herald literary lunch, even though it meant joining their blasted program.In Bond movies, casinos are glamorous places filled with bejeweled heiresses and shady gangsters in dark suits. Star City casino is full of pensioners. We followed a tide of them up the stairs and into a massive ballroom where seventy-five odd tables were laid out neatly for lunch. Drinks were being served in the lobby. I eyed off the rest of the crowd, thinking that not only was I the youngest person there, Rob was probably the second…
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I have fallen completely in love with Roger Moore’s Simon Templar character in The Saint. Actually, he’s Sir Roger Moore these days, bestowed an OBE for his charity work. He’s not my favourite Bond, although Live and Let Die is one of my favourite Bond movies. I also adore him alongside Tony Curtis in The Persuaders. Last night we watched him play a sinister villain in an episode of Alias (ta Sean). I would love to see him play a Bond villain — surely some studio hack must have had the same idea?(photo pinched from this awesome fan site)