Isn't the Mail the equivalent to the Daily Inquirer? In other words, a tabloid?
It likes to think it's a bit better than a tabloid, but essentially the Mail is a middle-class version. Any article on a celebrity that appears in their pages is usually of the snidey putting the celeb in their place. Note how the article focuses on how poor Connery was. He didn't even have a toilet! But this looks like someting about nothing. It's come from an interview with Diane Cilento about events that took place just prior to when Jason Connery got his big break on Robin of Sherwood. That's 23 years ago! It sounds like Sean was just telling his son to get out there and earn his keep. A smart thing for a rich man to do for his sons, or you end up with the kind of a**eholes Rod Stewart has for children.
I'm not going to pass judgement on whether Connery leaves money to his son (it's none of my business what other people do with their money) other than to quote the great Warren Buffet; to him the right amount of money to leave to his children is 'enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.' In all honesty, I think he's probably right.
"He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
Old Big Tam, being rich and all will probably never satisfy his critics no matter what he does with his money.
At least - according to that article - he and his son have congenial golf games together, and in the end that's probably worth more to Jason than any amount of money he could inherit.
Shaken that his former wife Diane Cilento should have dragged their son, Jason, into her increasingly acrimonious feud with him, Sir Sean Connery has told Mandrake that she is an “insane woman” who is prepared to “stoop to the level of the gutter” in her attempts to tarnish his reputation.
“I haven’t seen the woman in 37 years and she knows nothing about me or my life now,” says Sir Sean who has been married for the past 33 years to his French wife Micheline.
“Diane can’t move on from the break up of our marriage and I have already had to contend with her accusations about me being violent towards her. Now the lies seem to be getting even more vicious, and, what is worse, she is dragging our son into it.
“I have just come off the phone to Jason and I know he will be making his own statement but I never told him I wasn’t going to leave him a penny in my will or that I said he only had the career he has as an actor and director because of his family name. He happens to have talent of his own.
I saw him in Scotland only last year and we speak constantly on the phone. As for being mean to him when he was a lad, I sent him to Millfield, which is Britain’s most expensive public school, and I sent him after that to Gordonstoun when it became clear to me that Millfield was rubbish.
Long before I divorced Diane, I actually set up a trust fund worth £85,000 for his education and the education of Diane’s daughter which of course would be worth a lot more today. I did everything any father could reasonably be expected to do.
“It seems to me a shame that whatever garbage Diane comes out with about me is reported as the gospel truth, but of course a lot of people have their own agenda about me because of my support for the SNP.”
Miss Cilento, 74, gave an insight into her feelings for Sir Sean, 77, when she said in an interview: “I do feel there’s unfinished business between us. I loved the old Sean, I still do.
Sometimes when I see him today on some talk show, I catch a fleeting glimpse of my old love in the turn of his head or a well-remembered phrase, and it still makes my heart turn over.”
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It likes to think it's a bit better than a tabloid, but essentially the Mail is a middle-class version. Any article on a celebrity that appears in their pages is usually of the snidey putting the celeb in their place. Note how the article focuses on how poor Connery was. He didn't even have a toilet!
At least - according to that article - he and his son have congenial golf games together, and in the end that's probably worth more to Jason than any amount of money he could inherit.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/2440776/Connerys-fury-at-former-wifes-claim.html
Connery's fury at former wife's claim
Shaken that his former wife Diane Cilento should have dragged their son, Jason, into her increasingly acrimonious feud with him, Sir Sean Connery has told Mandrake that she is an “insane woman” who is prepared to “stoop to the level of the gutter” in her attempts to tarnish his reputation.
“I haven’t seen the woman in 37 years and she knows nothing about me or my life now,” says Sir Sean who has been married for the past 33 years to his French wife Micheline.
“Diane can’t move on from the break up of our marriage and I have already had to contend with her accusations about me being violent towards her. Now the lies seem to be getting even more vicious, and, what is worse, she is dragging our son into it.
“I have just come off the phone to Jason and I know he will be making his own statement but I never told him I wasn’t going to leave him a penny in my will or that I said he only had the career he has as an actor and director because of his family name. He happens to have talent of his own.
I saw him in Scotland only last year and we speak constantly on the phone. As for being mean to him when he was a lad, I sent him to Millfield, which is Britain’s most expensive public school, and I sent him after that to Gordonstoun when it became clear to me that Millfield was rubbish.
Long before I divorced Diane, I actually set up a trust fund worth £85,000 for his education and the education of Diane’s daughter which of course would be worth a lot more today. I did everything any father could reasonably be expected to do.
“It seems to me a shame that whatever garbage Diane comes out with about me is reported as the gospel truth, but of course a lot of people have their own agenda about me because of my support for the SNP.”
Miss Cilento, 74, gave an insight into her feelings for Sir Sean, 77, when she said in an interview: “I do feel there’s unfinished business between us. I loved the old Sean, I still do.
Sometimes when I see him today on some talk show, I catch a fleeting glimpse of my old love in the turn of his head or a well-remembered phrase, and it still makes my heart turn over.”
Stupid, stupid gossip.