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I never really gave the notion that I am now older than the current Bond actor much thought to be honest. Brosnan has 9 years on me, I've got I guess about 6 on Craig.
That said, I've tried to be like Bond as best as I can but I never wanted to pursue his line of work. I was always too much of a rebel to go into law enforcement, but at the same time I've always believed that the criminal lifestyle wasn't the right way either. However I've traveled to some exotic places, eaten quite a few gourmet meals, driven some classy automobiles, wore a tux in a casino, and bedded lots of women who could have easily been Bond girls, so I've tried to be like him as much as I could while living a normal sort of life.
That is very fulfilling. I used to watch re-runs of the original Star Trek when I was a kid and when I was in high school The Next Generation was popular with mainstream audiences - how very odd that the thing that people used to make fun of me for watching was now cool!
There was a tremendous amount of satisfaction that there is a, for lack of a better word, continuity in your life to follow something. The fact that Doctor Who and Bond reached new levels of popularity in recent years was mind-boggling to me (I started watching both when I was around 12). Your own personal history of following something for long really enriches the experience of following it now IMHO.
It's still just a summary of the plots of the movies. :/
It's a nice idea, but I think you had to little material. I understand that you interviewed these guys only once (except in the case of Brosnan), and boy do I envy you, but there simply wasn't enough content to extend it across 22 movies.
The blow by blow is just to grating. I've seen these movies hundreds of times. I know what happens. And that's the bulk of the book. This may be good for non-hardcore fans, but the thing is that non-hardcore fans aren't likely to buy :/
I would love to read Connery's commentary on QOS or Moore on TND. It's a dream book: the Bond's commentating on each other's movies. But this simply isn't that.
Not trying to knock you or your accomplishment. It's a fantastic achievement.
I'd like to ask Timothy Dalton how he thinks his 3rd film would've turned out.
I do envy you speaking to each of the actors! How cool and memorable that was, I'm sure.