Moore has a knack for picking just the right story to tell, and giving it just the right amount of coverage. Some of course are contemporary or still around. Many of the famous names are from before my time, or half-heard names vaguely recalled. The story is a wonderful one, filled within incident and starry name-dropping, and endless anecdotes and asides that still manage to string together as a coherent chronological 'life'.

It's his story, in his words, in his 'voice' as it were, and that's half the pleasure and delight of it. It reads like he dictated the whole thing to someone (a ghost-writer quite likely) and then later went over and edited and rewrote bits.Īnd it's all the better for it! Because this is not one of those star biographies posing as the 'real truth' about so-and-so or claiming to be a serious piece of non-fiction. This book is exactly like Roger Moore's onscreen persona - kind, gentle, witty, naughty.and just a tad bitchy at times (well, forthright, if you prefer). As much as it is Moore's own exceptional story, My Word is My Bond is a treasure trove of Hollywood history.

Included are stories of a foul-mouthed Milton Berle, a surly Richard Burton, and a kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous as Bond enemy Jaws. Throughout his career, Moore hobnobbed with the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his contemporaries and friends. The 'special effects' by which James Bond unzipped a dress with a magnet the spectacular risks in The Spy Who Loved Me's opening scene and Moore's preparation for facing down villains (he would imagine they all have halitosis): the stories in My Word is My Bond are priceless.

Nothing is left out-especially the naughty bits. From the dying days of the studio system and the birth of television, to the quips of Noël Coward and David Niven, to the bedroom scenes and outtakes from the Bond movies, Moore has seen and heard it all. From The Saint to Maverick, Warner Brothers to MGM, Hollywood to London to extreme locations the world over, Roger Moore's story is one of the last of the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.

Still, James Bond was only one in a lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywood's studio era, and encompassing stardom in theater and television on both sides of the Atlantic. Beginning with the classic Live and Let Die, running through Moonraker and A View to a Kill, Moore brought his finely honed wit and wry charm to one of Hollywood's most beloved and long-lasting characters. One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore played the role of James Bond longer than any other actor.

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