Sir Roger answers your questions May 2009

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Hello Sir Roger

I trust you are well?

My question for May is this:

I was just remembering recently the woman at the lunch in Sydney in
November
who told you she knitted a vest I think it was, but it took her ages
because
she kept on looking at your picture.

She was really funny and got lots of laughs (as did your responses). My
question is, do you remember this lady and what did you think at the time?

By the way, did you know her question got into the newspaper when the SMH
wrote an article about the event? But I got to have a picture with you, so
I
feel even more blessed.

(I wish I'd had the courage to ask you a question there, but it didn't
matter, as I get to ask you one here).

Thanks again for taking time out of your valuable schedule to answer our
questions. Also happy birthday later this month to your granddaughter whose
birthdate I share.

Best wishes
Your Aussie fan always

Hi Noel

Oh yes I do remember her, I thought she was very funny.
You know, Kristina and I often reflect on how wonderful our trip to
Australia was. We had a wonderful team at our publishers, headed by
Christine, who took such good care of us. We ate in some fantastic
restaurants, saw some terrific scenery and met so many polite, funny and
kind people at the events.

I wish everywhere was as much fun.

 

Hello Sir.

I saw you in Helsinki on 5.5. and you also signed my book. Thank you very
much! I really enjoyed reading about your interesting story.

I'm applying to a Finnish film university to become a producer. After
reading your biography I know you have met many producers in your life,
both
good and bad. My question is the following. What qualities do you
appreciate
in a producer and what in your opinion makes a good producer?

Thank you very much and have a wonderful summer.

Sebastian

 

Hi Sebastian

Thanks for buying the book.
Helsinki was great fun and I enjoyed meeting the head of the Finnish Film
Archive there who told us about many of the films made in your country,
though I was surprised to hear that you don’t have a film studio facility
there. I think you’d lure many more productions over if you did, so bear
that in mind.

A good producer? One who isn’t a crook – that is to say one who puts the
money up on the screen and who pays his cast and crew on time. Someone who
actually cares about what they are doing, the script and who they are
working with; not placing them in any difficult situations or in danger.
I’d say if you took Cubby Broccoli then you’d have all that. He was a
wonderful man, and a terrific film producer.

 

Dear Mr. Moore, it's a thrill to be in touch with you this way! I am
originally from Germany but live in Atlanta in the US now. Next to growing
up with you as Bond, I am also a big fan of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin
(must be the tuxedo that ties it all together!) I know that you were a
friend of Frank Sinatra and also worked with Dino (amongst my collection I
have the personal Frank 80th Birthday CD which you contributed to and a
program of your Roast from the Friars Club with both). I was fortunate to
see Sinatra live in Stuttgart in 1993 on his Europe Farewell Tour - what a
thrill! I never got to see Dean Martin but always heard that he was one of
the warmest and nicest human beings. And naturally funny. How would you
describe Dino who you worked with on Cannonball and must have known closer?
Many thanks in advance & all my best! Markus

Hello Markus
Dean was such fun. I remember we shared a car to the locations on
Cannonball, as we lived very near each other and would spend the whole
journey laughing.
I was married to a different lady back then, and on the way back home one
evening Dean asked  “did that reporter who was on set come and talk to you
today?”
“Yeah, sure”
“Did he ask you odd questions … did he ask what you’d like on your
tombstone? He did me.”
“Yes he did. What did you reply Dean?”
“I said, Dean Martin, Dead. How about you?”
I said, “Luisa this should be you here”
We were naughty schoolboys! I miss him.

 

Dear Sir Roger, you played with some actress that were symbols in the
legendary company Hammer (the producer of horror, suspense and fantasy
films) like Veronica Carlson, Barbara Shelley, Valerie Leon, Caroline
Munro,
too you shared with the great actor Christopher Lee, famous because some
roles in this company.
I liked know your memories about these actress and the Hammer company. Do
you like performed characters like Dracula, the monster of Frankenstein or
another role of terror? Thanks a lot.

Dixon Acosta (Bogotá, Colombia).

Hello Dixon
I’m not really a big ‘horror movie’ fan. Though of course I saw all the old
Hammer films over the years. In fact I used to wind Christopher Lee up
something terrible on set, just as the director Guy Hamilton was about to
call action, I’d lean over to Christopher and say “go on, make your eyes go
red”.
The ladies you mention were, and are, beautiful and so gentile unlike many
of their characters.
Hammer was stylised. It wasn’t merely gruesome like many ‘horror’ films
nowadays. 

 

 

Dear Sir Roger,

I am writing this question spontaneously on 4 May while you are being in
Finland. The question – due to astonishment - is a bit personal and refers
to you answering people’s 6 questions every month:

To be honest your commitment to this task is quite unbelievable! I am
speechless! You really seem to be taking this very serious. There I see a
few videos in the internet of you in Finland, giving interviews in a hair
salon and talking about blue pills, etc… And STILL you manage to somehow
send your answers. Unimaginable! May I ask under which circumstances you
wrote them? I imagine you sitting by your laptop computer in your hotel
room
late at night or dictating them to Gareth in the hotel bar after everyone
else had gone to bed…

Thank you very much. Oh and if I were Dixon from Colombia I would now say
“Hasta Pronto”.
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Martin

 

 

Hi Martin
I’m wonderful aren’t I? Modest too…
When we’re on the move we grab every spare moment we can to attend to
letters, sign bits n pieces and answer questions. It’s a case of whenever
we can.

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Dear Sir Roger,

It's wonderful to see you in Helsinki 3-5.5.2009! I was waiting about 35
years to see you in a live and now it's true. I hope you have been a nice
time in Finland.

I was starting to read you book and I have to say it's a amazing story. How
can you remember so many details after many decades? Have you kept a diary?

I wish you and you family have many many happy and healthy years in future!

Your everlasting fan,

Timo

 

Hi Timo
It’s quite easy – I made it all up.

No! Actually I’ve never kept a diary. I wish I had have done now though, as
it would have made everything so much easier to recall. THough thankfully
once I started thinking about my childhood, it all came flooding back –
names, places, illnesses. And often I’d think about something and it would
trigger a memory about something else; another incident or adventure. Or
I’d wake up at 3am having thought of something in my sleep and scribble it
down.

Then I used my films as a timeline. It’s far easier to remember what I was
doing in 1973 by reminded myself that’s when I made Live And Let Die and so
on.

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