I have, on occasion, had the pleasure of watching all the color run out of fellow collectors' faces when confronted with this photo of Sean Connery he autographed to me in 1994. I never did meet Connery; The autograph was arranged through kind consideration of one Ms. Rosa Reeve, (assistant to avid Bond fan and Qwest Records V.P. Michael Stradford) who is a friend of Connery's personal assistant in L.A. Rosa was talking to Connery's liaison one afternoon and asked if it would one day be possible to get the man's autograph. She replied yes, in fact, he was there in his L.A. office at that moment. "Is he busy", Rosa asked? "No, he's just sitting at his desk, playing with his hands." The rest is as you see it. The photograph itself is from a week I spent in Las Vegas researching the roots of the Diamonds are Forever shoot. I was able to obtain about 10 prints from the original negatives of the photographer who covered the shoot for the Las Vegas paper. In this one, Connery is standing outside the foyer of the Tropicana, shooting a scene that was eventually cut from the film.

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