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August 30

Sir Roger Moore "The Saint" and "Connemara Days" delayed. In a recent Q&A ar Roger-Moore.com, the actor explains the delay in filming "Connemara Days". "Most of the funding for 'Connemara' was in place," he says, "and the final chunk was due in early July to get it all away - but that failed to come in. So the producers are running around to replace it, and it's in with some potential new best friends right now. If we can't lock everything down very, very soon we'll be losing the summer and will need to push back to Spring. It's all too common a story in the film business I'm afraid. If only it were easy..." Asked about the role he is set to play in the film, Moore answers, "I can't tell you about my part as it'd spoil it. You'll just have to be patient".
Speaking of delays, the new "Saint" series also seem to be in trouble at the moment. According to Dougray Scott, who in the meantime confirmed he will be the new Simon Templar, the producers "have been trying to get it done and I thought we were going to do it this year. But there were problems with the script and the studio, so it's on hold for a bit. That would be for American TV. With these things, even the slightest thing can go wrong. I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. But it's a great script".

August 29

Sir Roger Moore Help Pakistan. As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Sir Roger Moore is appealing for people to support UNICEF's Pakistan Flood Children's Appeal. Severe flooding in Pakistan has left over three million people in need of urgent help, including one and a half million children. UNICEF is already on the ground with its partners, providing emergency healthcare and safe drinking water to affected families. Read more at Roger-Moore.com.

August 13

Private signing with Sir Roger Moore. Due to an overwhelming demand, Sir Roger Moore has kindly agreed to a further private signing in early November 2010. All orders must be received by 10:00am on the 20th October 2010. Worldwide postage and packaging is included in the price. Your item(s) will be shipped week beginning 8th November 2010. BondStars.com ask that if you would keep your dedications short and simple e.g. "To Chris, Best Wishes" etc. Sir Roger Moore will only sign his name, he will not sign character names such as "The Saint" or "007". There is an excellent range of Roger Moore stills from his days as James Bond, The Saint and The Persuaders to choose from. Details at BondStars.com. MI6.co.uk

August 7

Moore pays tribute to Tom Mankiewicz. Sir Roger Moore has paid tribute to Tom Mankiewicz, calling the 007 screenwriter a "wonderful man" and a "great friend". Mankiewicz passed away aged 68 at his home in Los Angeles on Friday after a brief illness, and actor Moore admits the tragedy came as a "huge shock" for him. The writer penned the screenplay for Moore's first two outings as Bond - "Live And Let Die" (1973) and "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), and the two became close friends. Moore told WENN, "Tom was a wonderful man, a brilliant writer and a great friend... His written lines were brilliant. My favourite is from 'The Man with the Golden Gun' when Jimmy (Bond) points a gun at a gun-maker's crotch - 'Speak now or forever hold your piece' he says. Sheer bloody brilliance. The news of his death was a huge shock to me. At 68 it was a tragedy." The actor also paid tribute to Mankiewicz's skill at teasing viewers with his plot developments: "He was without doubt one of the most innovative, clever and inspirational writers of the Bond films. He and director Guy Hamilton would lock themselves away working out 'snake pit' scenarios for 007, and then plan inventive escapes whilst leading the audience up one or two wrong turns. Like in 'Live and Let Die' when Jimmy Bond is stranded on an island in a lake full of alligators. Jimmy sees a boat nearby and switches on his magnetic watch to attract the metal oar rests - aha, say the audience, that's how he does it. But then we see the boat is tethered. Aha, says Tom! Think again, dear audience."

In addition, a highly recommended Tom Mankiewicz obiutuary in "The Guardian" penned by Ronald Bergan.

July 27

Sir Roger Moore is Tab Lazenby. On July 30, "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore", an action-packed Bond-like comedy, premieres in the USA (the UK premiere will follow on August 4). As it was finally confirmed it features former James Bond in a voice-role of Tab Lazenby, a character that is in fact a reference to another Bond, George Lazenby. Brad Peyton, who directed the film, says: "We were lucky enough to get Roger Moore to do a cameo as the voice of Tab Lazenby, which I was freaked out over. It was weird directing him: 'Can you scream like a cat that's just been thrown across the room... a little higher?' It was really odd asking Sir Roger Moore to scream like a cat. I had no idea how he was gonna take it but he was really game. He didn't bat an eyelash and did ridiculous cat sounds." Go to the official website which has now been vastly updated and features a lot of interesting information about the film and a trailer.

July 14

Sir Roger Moore, June 2, 2010, photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Recent activities. On June 2, Sir Roger Moore was in Berlin, where he took part in the presentation of a UNICEF 2009 report on global child sexual exploitation. Few days later, on June 7, Moore attended "An Evening for Africa" (Ein Abend Fuer Afrika) at the Burda Medien Park in Offenburg. His appearance at the gala was also connected with the actor's work as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was there to promote an UNICEF aid project to build schools in Africa. Prior to the gala, Moore took part in the press conference alongside Greek singer Nana Mouskouri talking about the project. Three days later Moore was back in Monaco guesting at the 50th Monte Carlo TV Festival.

July 8

Sir Roger Moore "Summer Night, Winter Moon". Imperial Film Productions has announced a new film planned called "Summer Night, Winter Moon" based upon the novel by Jane Huxley. This "story of passion, deceit and death" is set in 1935 and tells a story of an art dealer Trevor and his best friend Dante, an Italian/American fashion photographer, who are visiting Capri where they both fall for Antonia, a local beauty. The film will be shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome (interiors) and in Capri (exteriors). The cast and crew has yet to be confirmed. As for the moment, both Sir Roger Moore ans Stephen Fry have agreed to play cameo roles. The film has now also an entry at IMDbPro where it is set for a release in 2012.

July 2

Sir Roger Moore Moore laments the demise of the Queen's English. The Telegraph reports: Few, if any, actors speak the Queen's English as beautifully as Sir Roger Moore, but the former James Bond star believes that if he were starting out now in his profession it would prove a handicap rather than a help. "You have to have a regional dialect to get anywhere these days," says Sir Roger, 82. "Deborah, my daughter, complains she is always being turned down for parts because she is not regional in her speech, which is a great pity. "I think it is probably the fault of television. You don't hear what we used to call 'West End actors' voices' on series like "Holby City", "Casualty" and "The Bill". I notice, too, on the children's programmes they are all talking 'a bit like that,' and that's encouraging the next generation to talk in this so-called 'estuary English' we have now. "I think it is sad that proper English is disappearing. I don't see why it went out of fashion." Moore was in London to host the launch of Masterpiece London, a collectibles fair at the former Chelsea Barracks which ended on June 28. It included an auction in aid of UNICEF, which Sir Roger represents as a special ambassador.
UPDATE "Why I'm gunning for people don't talk proper", Moore writes for "The Daily Mail"

June 20

Sir Roger Moore in Dubrovnik, 2009 Julian Rachlin & Friends 2010. CroatianVillas.com reports that Sir Roger Moore is set to take part in this years' "Julian Rachlin & Friends" festival. According to Meri Matesic, director at the Croatia National Tourist Office in London, former James Bond will be in the country in September. Moore has become a frequent visitor to the Dalmatian coast in recent years. Ms Matesic explains his visit, saying: "Traditionally at the beginning of September, the Julian Rachlin and Friends concert takes place and this year there is going to be Roger Moore there, who [has] become [a] regular guest." Other attendees of the Julian Rachlin and Friends concert include star of the screen John Malkovich.

June 14

The Saint - original soundtrack More Saintly music. Never previously released and compiled from the original master tapes, this four-CD set comprises the varied themes and incidental scores for the colour editions of The Saint, containing over 200 pieces of music and songs which were especially composed for the series. Composer Edwin Astley's distinctive take on Leslie Charteris famous literary character – and his familiar musical motif – leads into danger across the world for gentleman adventurer Simon Templar. Added to this are songs and tunes to fit the flamenco dances and calypsos of bars in South American and the West Indies, as well as the night clubs, hippy parties and pop scene of swinging Sixties London. Including extensive liner notes from archive television historian Andrew Pixley, this set is an essential purchase for all ITC aficionados. The set can be purchased at Networkdvd.net.

June 11

"The Saint on TV". Ian Dickerson's highly recommended "The Saint on TV", the ultimate guide to three Saint TV series (plus a failed pilot), is due for release in October. The book documents, for the first time, the very roots of the Saint's TV adventures in 1940s Hollywood and follows them through American TV's formative years in the 1950s to the boom years of the 1960s ITC programme factory. Moving onwards "The Saint on TV" shows the full evolution and production of the 1970s series "Return of the Saint", and takes an in depth look at why the character faltered in the 1980s, going on to document the various attempts made to revive the character on TV in subsequent decades after Val Kilmer had tried to murder him in the movies. The book reveals, for the first time, how plans were for David Niven to be the first TV Saint, in a show written and directed by the Saint's creator, Leslie Charteris and reveals just who was being lined up to play Simon Templar. It tells the story of how Oliver Reed planned to become blood brothers with the Saint's creator, Leslie Charteris and how David Hasselhoff desperately wanted a halo. It also reveals just what Simon Cowell was doing on "Return of the Saint". Using exclusive interviews with the cast and crew on all of the Saint's TV adventures including the forthcoming TV pilot (a new TV series of "The Saint" is currently in development), "The Saint on TV" is the ultimate guide to well, the Saint on TV. The book can be pre-ordered via Hirst Publishing.

June 7

The Music of ITC, 2009 "The Music of ITC". A brand new anthology of the music from the TV series produced by ITC was published last November. The 2-disc compilation, titled simply "The Music of ITC", features a 160 minutes of music: main themes and incidental cues from the cream of Sir Lew Grade's ITC Company, such as "Danger Man", "The Baron", "The Saint", "Randall and Hopkirks (Deceased)" and many more. The Saint fans will be happy to find out that the album also features music from "The Return of the Saint" which had not been released on CD before.
Also on The Saint news front we hear that Burl Barer, author of the splendid "Capture The Saint", is currently working on the new Simon Templar novel titled familiary "Return of The Saint". Read more about Burl Barer's work at adoraburl.typepad.com.

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