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Brosnan, wife launch whale research vessel
YARMOUTH
PORT, Mass., June 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- International film star and environmentalist
Pierce Brosnan yesterday teamed up with IFAW (International Fund for Animal
Welfare, http://www.ifaw.org) to launch its
new research and education vessel, uniquely designed for its mission to protect
marine mammals.
Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Brosnan are committed environmentalists and
IFAW supporters. Brosnan serves as honorary spokesman for IFAW's global whale
campaign. Shaye Brosnan has recently been appointed to the organization's Board
of Directors.
Pierce Brosnan said: "I congratulate IFAW and its tireless fight to save
whales around the world. This unique sailing ship will contribute much to IFAW's
heroic work. There is no cause I feel more passionately about than the health
of our environment and I am enormously proud to launch IFAW's flagship, Song
of the Whale."
The Brosnans launched IFAW's Song of the Whale at St Katharine's Dock
in London yesterday, Sunday, 6 June 2004, and wished her well on her maiden
voyage to Iceland, where IFAW is campaigning against a recent resumption of
whaling and working to promote responsible whale watching.
Keely Shaye Brosnan said, "Pierce and I joined forces with IFAW half a
decade ago, during a campaign to save the last pristine breeding ground of the
pacific grey whale from industrial development. Together with the help of the
NRDC we were successful in protecting the world heritage site of Laguna San
Ignacio, and we continue to support IFAW's noble work to protect whales worldwide.
IFAW President Fred O'Regan said, "Song of the Whale is a unique
vessel with a unique mission. She will dramatically increase IFAW's ability
to protect whales through state-of-the-art research, education, and public awareness
activities. We are thrilled Pierce and Keely could be with us to launch this
new flagship in the fight to protect marine mammals from extinction."
IFAW's Song of the Whale has been ten years in the planning and replaces
an older, smaller IFAW vessel which traveled more than 250,000 miles around
the globe over 17 years, developing cutting- edge techniques for studying whales
and other marine animals without harming or disturbing them. Song of the
Whale's research team has pioneered floating classrooms for schoolchildren,
conducted baseline surveys of critical habitats, contributed to the establishment
of whale sanctuaries and promoted responsible whale watching as a humane and
sustainable alternative to whaling.
Paging Dr. Brosnan — Pierce gets honorary degree
The Irish Examiner
James Bond star Pierce Brosnan was today left feeling happily shaken and stirred
after receiving an honorary degree from University College Cork.
The 49-year-old actor said he was delighted and proud to be made a doctor of
law.
“This is a huge honour, not only for myself but also for my family. I
never thought I’d get this far in life, but so far so good.”
The actor arrived in a Mercedes, followed by a Volkswagen van with 007 included
in the number plate.
LOS ANGELES - Women in Film presents 25th
annual Crystal Awards, honoring actresses Glenn Close and Whoopi Goldberg, Columbia
Pictures president Amy Pascal, veteran casting director Juliet Taylor, director
Betty Thomas, actor Pierce Brosnan and cinematographer Amy Vincent at the Century
Plaza Hotel.
NOTE: Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Brosnan were recognized for their
work on behalf of the environment and received The Dramatically Different Award
presented by Clinique/clinique.com, a Humanitarian Award created in honor of
Norma Zarky.
Oval office: Who would play you in a NASCAR movie?
By Bob Margolis
The Sporting News
Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Probably Matt Damon, but he'd have to scruff up a bit. I'll
teach him how to drive the car if he introduces me to some of his girlfriends.
Tony Stewart: I don't think anybody would believe that Samuel L. Jackson would
be me, but we'll make it work.
Dave Blaney: Gilbert Gottfried, or maybe Carrot Top. That's a scary question
to ask me.
Bobby Labonte: Mel Gibson. If he's not available, then you can get the guy who
plays James Bond. No, not the older guy (Sean Connery). The new guy (Pierce
Brosnan).
Jerry Nadeau: Charles Bronson. You know, the guy who made all those vigilante
movies.
Michael Waltrip: Tom Cruise. Wait, he already did that, didn't he? Jack Nicholson.
He'll play an old Michael Waltrip.
Steve Park: I hope Tom Cruise because he seems to get all the girls.
Ron Hornaday: Frankenstein, probably. Could they find someone who looks like
me?
Back to the Beginning: Scotsman Eyed as New Bond
The
next James Bond may be a lot like the first James Bond, Sean Connery. A Scotsman
reportedly is interviewing for the job.
A Scottish newspaper, The Daily Record, reports 31-year-old Gerard Butler
is set to meet with Bond producers to discuss the role Connery made famous.
Pierce Brosnan begins work on his fourth Bond film in January. But it's been
rumored that he has grown weary of playing Agent 007.
The 6-foot, 2-inch Butler was last seen as in the USA Network miniseries Attila
and played Count Dracula in last year's movie, Wes Craven's Dracula 2000.
He is currently in Ireland with Matthew McConaughey shooting Reign of Fire.
The Oscar-annointed Russell Crowe has also been considered a possible Bond.
Debbie McWilliams, who has cast six Bond movies, says the Gladiator star
could easily step into Brosnan's shoes and take over the role of the world's
greatest secret agent.
Unknown Scot Could Be Next James Bond, Paper Says
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Little-known Scottish actor Gerard Butler is being wooed
to play the next James Bond when Pierce Brosnan gives up the role, the Daily
Record newspaper said on Monday.
The tabloid said series producer Barbara Broccoli was determined to have another
Scottish Bond -- following in the footsteps of screen legend Sean Connery. It
said she had fixed up a summer meeting with 32-year-old Butler to discuss the
role.
"``Gerard is one of the two people Barbara has appointments with,"
a source told the paper. "They are meeting to discuss replacing Pierce
after his final movie."
Irish-born Brosnan's contract expires after his fourth Bond movie which goes
into production in January, the Scottish paper said. It added that Broccoli
was also meeting Colin Wells, who had served as a stand-in Bond for Brosnan
during screen tests for other actors.
Butler only took up acting after a law degree from Glasgow University, but
at six feet two inches, the dark-haired actor has the looks to slip into the
007 role. He [made]his big screen debut in a leading role in June, playing Dracula
in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000, the paper said.
Connery, a fiercely proud Scot who carries a "Scotland forever"
tattoo on his shoulder, last played Bond in the 1983 hit Never Say Never
Again. The 007 role has been played by two other British actors, Roger Moore
and Timothy Dalton, as well as George Lazenby of Australia.
Brosnan Enjoys Life On Top Of The World
He's Bond. James Bond.
Agent 007, aka actor Pierce Brosnan, has everything going for him these days:
a beautiful fiancˇe, Keely Shaye-Smith, a new baby boy named Paris Beckett and
a new movie.
In Thursday's [April 19] Showbiz Beat, NewsChannel5's Danita Harris
reports that Brosnan took some time to share the details of the new movie, as
well as how he struggles to stay close to his new family.
Brosnan is still in the spy business in his new film, The Tailor of Panama.
Caught up in a high-stakes game of espionage, Brosnan plays a British spy who's
banished to the beautiful city of Panama. His goal is to find out who's trying
to sell the Panama Canal, just recently turned over to Panama from the United
States.
Hmm ... Brosnan as a secret agent? Haven't we seen this before?
"Andy Osnard is no James Bond," Brosnan said. "The real spy game is pretty
tedious and fraught with boredom and self-doubt and self-loathing, and so you
have a character like Andy Osnard who has all the ego of a spy, but knows he's
no good at the game."
But Brosnan's new character is good at a few things, such as lying to get
what he wants and seducing beautiful women, like the character played by Jamie
Lee Curtis.
Filming a movie in a place like Panama comes with a price: not being able
to see your family for nearly two months. Brosnan said that part is difficult
for him, especially with a newborn son, but that he always tries to keep his
family close by.
"I try to bring the whole family with me, or I try to make sure I have two
weeks off or a week off, or conduct it in such a way that I can be with my family,
hence the sunglasses, with a newborn child who's only 7 weeks old," Brosnan
said. "He's a great little boy. You know, I'm a working actor."
Does Brosnan have any plans to again play the role for which he is most recognized?
"I am going to do another Bond, maybe two, I don't know," he said. "But then
it's the work in between and the character work."
Brosnan was born in Ireland. He recently became an American citizen and lives
in Malibu, Calif.
The Tailor of Panama will begin playing in the Cleveland area in a
few weeks, WEWS reports.
Brosnan Says 007 Should Display Fear to Look Real
LONDON (Reuters) - James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan said in an interview published
on Thursday that the big screen's action heroes should show fear and vulnerability
to look like real life characters.
Irish-born Brosnan has proved an elegant yet tough Bond since getting his
cinematic license to kill in 1995's Goldeneye.
"I just try to make the man real," he told the Times newspaper.
"I think it is necessary for an action hero to have fear and vulnerability
and accessibility. I don't think it demeans the character. I think it only enhances
it."
Brosnan recalled his disappointment at not landing the Bond role when Roger
Moore departed in 1986. His ambition was thwarted at the time by his contractual
obligations as the lead part in U.S. television series Remington
Steele, forcing him to relinquish the James Bond role to Timothy Dalton.
"I bore it philosophically for a while," Brosnan said. "Then
about six months later it got to me. I was driving down Pacific Coast Highway
and I had to pull over to the curb and get out of the car and bellow at the
ocean."
Credited by critics as being the best Bond since Sean Connery, Brosnan said
they never met until the Scottish actor visited the set of The
World Is Not Enough released in 2000.
"He was very gracious. I can't really remember what we said: I was so
in awe of meeting the fellow."
Brosnan, who has already said that his fourth Bond film, due in 2002, will
be his last, credits his late actress wife Cassandra Harris with having been
the driving force behind his career. Harris, who died of ovarian cancer in 1991,
urged him to remortgage their house in London's Wimbledon suburb in 1981 to
fund a trip to Los Angeles from where his career took off.
Brosnan From Bora Bora: Whitney Bond Girl Reports Are News to Him
Pierce Brosnan says that reports of Whitney Houston meeting with the 007 producers
about becoming the next Bond girl are "news to me."
"I don't know her. I think she's got a great voice. I think she's got talent
out there as an actress, but apart from that ... "
Brosnan's leaving Bora Bora today after spending the past couple of weeks
enjoying a quiet Polynesian holiday there with fiancee Keely Shaye Smith and
family. He's also been reveling in the raves he's been getting for his edgy
departure performance as an amoral, burnt-out spy in Tailor of Panama
with Geoffrey Rush, which widens its release next week.
Just before leaving Hollywood, Pierce turned down Basic Instinct 2
-- for a second time.
"I just didn't want to go there," he says.
Several other production entities were trying to woo him into starring in
their pre-strike projects. And now?
"I haven't said yes to anything. There hasn't been anything worth saying yes
to -- maybe two that had possibilities. There are times to risk and times not
to risk. With Tailor of Panama, I had an incredible director, John Boorman,
an intriguing John le Carre story, an impeccable player, Geoffrey Rush ...That
added up to good odds for me. But these other projects -- I wondered, 'Are the
odds against me?' It's a crazy time in town right now."
And out of town. Even in Bora Bora, a Hollywood company's emissary "just happened
to be on the beach," Pierce notes with a laugh, "and then just happened to be
at dinner -- and just happened to give me a script."
Nevertheless, he doesn't plan to squeeze in any projects before the anticipated
industry shutdown. Besides Sound of Thunder, his company has a romantic
comedy and a thriller in development for him as star and producer. And, of course,
there's the next Bond flick, which is planned for a January start.
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