NAMES IN THE NEWS : Connery ‘Sexiest Man’ for 1989
NEW YORK — From People magazine with love, soon-to-be-sexagenarian Sean Connery is the “Sexiest Man Alive, 1989.”
“For once, I’m speechless,” Connery said after being informed of the honor. “It’ll all be downhill from here.”
He joins the ranks of John F. Kennedy Jr., 1988; Harry Hamlin, 1987; Mark Harmon, 1986; and Mel Gibson, 1985.
“He was sexy at 26, and at 60 even more so,” actress Shelley Winters said of Connery, whom she dated during the 1950s.
“He makes a woman feel sexual chemistry. To be his leading lady, I’d lose 50 pounds and get my face lifted. As a matter of fact, I’d get everything lifted.”
Connery’s movie roles include James Bond. More recently, he starred in “The Untouchables,” for which he won an Oscar; in the summer hit, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and in the new release, “Family Business.”
Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1930.
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