1

Do you think so?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thru thick & thin, we'll support you evermore
Someone shared this story on-line
"As an seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"
As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.
I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.
Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.
And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man."
LEGEND
Your mum.
He was great as both Bond and the Saint He was a great actorThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Lovely warm story @BrianWade4
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
a true great gone.
RIP 007
Saturday = Football...Deal with it
That'sgreatThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
“FROM the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most. . . . Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.”
Lovely stuff. RIP Roger.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality.
Nobody did it half as good as Sir Rodge.
"The only true wisdom lies in knowing that NSC knows nothing." - Socrates
My favourite TV theme.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He could ham it up as well as the Bond thing.
Another passes.
Jimmy Melia's shoes.
Lord Brett Sinclair. Love the Persuaders, they are playing re-runs on one of the satellite channels in recent days/weeks. Watched this one at the weekend.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bookmarks