Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best gag: the audience is permitted to inspect a top-secret cable just long enough to glimpse the code words QWERT YUIOP-the top line on the typewriter. Best performance: Actor Taylor's. He plays a rather subtly caricatured Sean Corny who looks so much like the man who plays Bond that he even seems to be wearing the same Charles of the Ritz chest...
Religious antagonisms have long been strong in Ireland, especially since 1690, when Britain's "Glorious Revolution" secured Protestant ascendancy to Ulster. To try to ease the old hatreds, Protestant O'Neill broke all precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley...
...roughneck Greenwich Village poet, Joanne belts out her best lines with actressy intensity and proves only that she is too bright a blonde to play dumb. Somewhat more at home with his role-a poet with a sex life as breezy as James Bond's-is Sean Connery, who displays some proof of his versatility by shouting a lot. While earning a buck on the payroll of Athena Carpet Cleaners, Connery seduces a private secretary in a private office that slowly fills up with suds. Sent away to a mental rest camp where Lady Psychiatrist Colleen Dewhurst spoils...
COURT-MARTIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sexy Diane Cilento, who busted onto the scene a couple of seasons ago as both Tom Jones's black-eyed slattern and Sean Connery's real-life wife, plays a French schoolteacher-Resistance heroine accused of embezzlement...
...Sean Connery's new casino on the Isle of Man was nearly deserted for lack of tourists, who normally come over by boat from Britain at this time of year...