On This Day In History ..... 2020 ... Shorley Shome Mishtake!

[ToraToraTora]

The great Sean Connery died aged 90.

[andy-hughes]

A titanically one-dimensional non-character actor playing Irish cops and Russian submarine captains with the same accent, and a wife beater.

No loss.

[naomi24]

I liked him.   One of those men whose looks improved with age.

[douglas9401]

Once again someone is out of step with the rest of the world.

[andy-hughes]

Wow, that's put a real crimp in my afternoon Douglas!!

[douglas9401]

Easy, Teasie.

[Canary42]

Scotland's answer to John Wayne.

[ToraToraTora]

11:49, didn't know he was a wife beater, another John Lennon then.

[Hazlinny]

Thought his 40 year marriage was idyllic/romantic - can you explain further, Andy?

[andy-hughes]

He was quite proud of beating his first wife Diane Cilento - he used to boast in interviews that a woman "needed a good slap."

[david small]

Contradiction in terms? A slapper is not a good woman.

I would never hit my wife...she can run faster than me;-0

[naomi24]

Andy-Hughes.  What happened to your usual boast of separating the art from the personal - as you do with Gary Glitter?

[ToraToraTora]

Ok andy, can I assume you also have similar contempt for John Lennon?

[andy-hughes]

Art from the artist?

Certainly. 

He was a boorish misogynist, and the success of any films he appeared in was in spite of his range less acting, rather than because of it.

[ToraToraTora]

....and John Lennon?

[ToraToraTora]

....the silence is deafening from Andy! It seems only some wife beaters are "no loss".

[douglas9401]

I feel a head of steam building, could be a long night. 🙄

[andy-hughes]

TTT - No 'silence' deafening or otherwise,  Halloween is in full swing here, house full.

John Lennon was, by his own admission, a dreadful human being as a younger man, but he didn't boast about it in interviews.

[andy-hughes]

I don't think there is a 'deafening silence' on this thread, I put it down to everyone having, like me, a life away from the AB.