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Show The Three Lives of ‘James Bond’ Sean Connery swears that indestructible agent 007 ‘has interfered with his life for the last time—maybe ZAN CONNERYis not fond of the press. ToS day, except for a few reporters with whom hefeels comfortable, Sean is either unavailable, brusque, or given to cursory five- By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER four-story building in a lower-middle-class district nea dry-cleaning shops, pubs, gasoline stations, and factorie: Although it is on a dead-end street, 100 feet awayis main thoroughfare where trucks and buses rumble pag 24 hours a day. It has a tiny front yard, but in the rea there is a good-sized garden surrounded by a high fend to provide some semblance of privacy. There is no wall-to-wall carpeting the living roo! just a few throw rugs. The furniture is simple and ine: minute interviews between “takes.” He is terrified of the press because they interfere so much with his private life. He says, “The more mypri- pensive. The Connerys have a middle-aged houseman w vate life gets into the papers, the more burglaries there are and the more my family is molested.” Twice recently helps with the yard and a woman to take care of t his home in England has been burglarized; and in Japan, wherehe recently finished his newest James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice,” a special security detail kept cooking. Sean's wife, actress Diane Cilento, looks aft their children: teen-aged daughter, Jean, from Diane previous. marriage, and their son, Jason, 4. It is not unusual when one phones the Connerys near him wherever he went. Fortunately, when Sean. and I first met through a have Dianeyell into the instrument, “Call backlater,I’ got the kid in the bath!” and slam downthe receiver. mutual friend, we happened to hit it off well. During the five or six times we have gotten together since, he has Sean will probably earn $3 million from his latest Bor film. He made about half that much“last year. Yet tl only reason he is looking-for-another place to live is lat of privacy. “People constantly crawl over the fence ti always seemed relaxed and willing to talk. Nevertheless, I didn't really get to know the man until I saw him for the first time at home in England, In Hollywood, he had described his English home as a former convent, a four-story structure that used to ac- commodate 25 nuns. I had visualized a picturesque building in the lovely green English countryside. WhatI found whenI visited Sean at home was a drab, (ou Only Live Twice,” Connery runs into all sorts of trouble—but he gets along well with the pretty Japanesegirls. ing to get into the house,” he says. He doesn’t mind the environment. On the contrary, feels more at home there than on the fashionable es' he rented in North Hollywood last year. One of his q workers told me, “The same holds true at the studi FLORSHEIM VALUE! STa \ —~ |