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THE HOLY GRAIL

IF I’D WRITTEN a bucket list when I first joined Empire back in 2001, one of the things I would have scrawled near the very top would have been: “Interview Sean Connery”.

After all, he was one of the greats. The first Bond. A fellow Celt (even if I’d ignorantly pronounced his name as “seen”’ until I was about ten). My party piece was being able to say every, in a fair approximation of that usually unfairly approximated burr. I never was very popular at parties.

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