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RIP Sean Connery, the greatest of the Bonds and the role model to a generation. In addition to his extraordinarily handsome face and intimidating physique, Sean had a wicked sense of humour.
When I was first introduced to him in Lyford Cay many years ago, it was on the front step of his home and neither he nor I knew we were about to be introduced. He came to the door wearing a sarong and was obviously in the middle of his lunch -- and therefore mildly annoyed.
I couldn't think what on earth to say. After an agonizing pause, I blurted out, embarrassingly: "Mr. Connery, it's a huge honour to meet you. Everything I know about how to be a man I learned from watching you in the Ayr Odeon as a boy." He gave me a searing look.
"Oh, that's funny," he said. "Don't you know I'm a homosexual?" (At least I had the wit to reply, "Is that why you're wearing a skirt?") Ayaan and I loved our times with him and his lovely wife Micheline and were deeply sad when we heard of his increasing frailty.
