{"id":242488,"date":"2006-06-10T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T03:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/06\/bahamas-resident-collects-cinemas-top-honour"},"modified":"2006-06-10T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T03:32:40","slug":"bahamas-resident-collects-cinemas-top-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/06\/bahamas-resident-collects-cinemas-top-honour","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Resident Collects Cinema&#8217;s Top Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Scottish star Sir Sean Connery was thrilled to be honoured with The American Film Institute&#8217;s lifetime achievement award last night (08-JUN-06), especially when comedian Mike Myers appeared sporting a kilt as a tribute.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The legendary James Bond actor arrived at Hollywood&#8217;s Kodak Theatre to collect the gong as a galaxy of stars, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford cheered him on.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Connery told the crowd, &#8220;I got my big break when I was five years old, and it&#8217;s taken more than 70 years to realise it.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;At five I learned to read, and I would not be standing here without the books, plays and scripts.&#8221; Myers quipped, &#8220;Men want to be him, women want him, and in my case I both want to be him and want him.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: www.wenn.com<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Connery was awarded the film industry&#8217;s highest honor in a ceremony last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}