Sean Connery

[maggiebee]

Celebrity Sean Connery's Ashes to Be Scattered in His Beloved Scotland: 'That Was His Final Wish,' Says Widow

Sean Connery is making one last trip to the beloved land of his birth.

“We are going to bring Sean back to Scotland – that was his final wish,” Connery’s widow, Micheline Roquebrune, told the Scottish Mail on Sunday about the Bond legend, who passed away on Oct.31 at his home in the Bahamas. He was aged 90.

“He wanted his ashes to be scattered in the Bahamas and also in his homeland," she continued, adding that his family would like this to happen just as soon as the coronavirus restrictions allow.

“Whenever it is possible and safe to travel again, then it is the family’s intention to return to Scotland with him,”

I was happy to hear that he hadn't forgotten his homeland.

[andy-hughes]

Deskdiary - // I always think it’s important to separate the man from the job. //

I have always been a passionate advocate for that line of approach to art and the artists who create it.

I would never dream of boycotting Mr Connery's films because of his personal attitudes towards women, abhorrent as they are, because I think we should look at him as a person, and him as an actor separately.

As it happens, I don't like him as an actor anyway!

I always refer to Wagner as an example of the point - he created wonderful music which has lived on well after his death, and is enjoyed regularly by millions of people on record, and on stage.

That should not cease to be the case because his raving anti-Semitism made him a deeply horrible human being, and an idol for Adolf Hitler.

Art should be appreciated without undue reference to the personal attitudes of the artist(s) who created it, always abiding by the caveat that those same personal attitudes of the artist do not directly impinge on the finished result.

[douglas9401]

'Places a hand gently in the small of the back and returns ramblers to ashes 'n' scattering'

[bhg481]

I agree with A-H; I still have all my Gary Glitter/Rolf Harris tracks on my iplayer and have no plans to delete them. Just because the artist has turned out to be a nasty person doesn't make their music bad.

[pixie374]

I don't. I understand the principle, but can't literally separate them like that. Maybe after 100 years once all victims are dead... but for "entertainment", it does sour it. I used to like Lost Prophets and couldnt listen to them since.

[andy-hughes]

pixie - // I don't. I understand the principle, but can't literally separate them like that. Maybe after 100 years once all victims are dead... but for "entertainment", it does sour it. I used to like Lost Prophets and couldnt listen to them since. //

I do understand - it is entirely a matter of personal perspective.

I make the separation with no effort at all, my wife is unable to do so.

We watched The Who play live in Quebec a few years ago, and when we we were walking back to the hotel she said she had enjoyed the show, but she could never look at Pete Townsend without shuddering, and that did affect, if not actually ruin, her enjoyment of the band's performance.

[naomi24]

I wouldn't boycott his films. I too believe in separating the man from his art. That said, there is one well-known face I simply can't bear to look at - Jimmy Savile.

[retrocop]

Wooosh Naomi. Back of the net. Lol.

[pixie374]

Maybe it also depends when you find out... I didn't know about Sean Connery until a long time after I had seen some of his films. Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris, Jimmy Savile, we've known about as long as I can remember.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Wooosh Naomi. Back of the net. Lol. //

I don't understand, has Naomi - or someone else - missed a point?

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // I wouldn't boycott his films. I too believe in separating the man from his art. That said, there is one well-known face I simply can't bear to look at - Jimmy Savile. //

I see him as an exception, because he didn't actually 'create' anything that can be separated from him as a person, his personality was what made him famous in the first place.

I, and every other DJ, have cause to be grateful - he created the concept of playing records on two turntables, and the birth of disco as an entity.

That said, I don't give it a moment's thought if I can help it.

[agchristie]

Me dad used to go on abt Stuart Hall and how funny and stylish his radio football reporting was.He didnt change his views abt him wen he went to jail...

[naomi24]

I'd forgotten about him, ag.

[bhg481]

And what about Jerry Lee Lewis? Still one of my favourites.

[agchristie]

Naomi,he used to tell me abt 'Its a Knockout' which sounded dead funny but bit bfore me time :-(

[mushroom25]

yes!! Stuart Hall would spend most of his time laughing to the point of wetting himself - here's an example....

[iluvmargie]

If he was a wife beater, I've gone right off him - cowardly thug! Still
maggiebee is happy to hear he hasn't 'forgotten his homeland'.

[bhg481]

No, he didn't forget his homeland; he just forgot to pay tax there.

[agchristie]

Awww mush that was brill.Give me a gud laugh.Id loved to have seen it at the time haaaa!!

[retrocop]

//No, he didn't forget his homeland; he just forgot to pay tax there. //

Lol.
Whined because he never received a knighthood also.

[naomi24]

He was knighted, Retro.