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Looking for Remington Steele icons (without success), I found this community and was reminded that Pierce Brosnan really was/is an incredibly sexy James Bond. And that I'm exactly the kind of woman who'd fall for James Bond, with the flirting and the cars and the deadliness. I know it's shallow, but at least I'd have a good time. And probably end up dead.

I was a Pierce Brosnan fan from a very young age on. I must have been about 7 or 8 when I started watching Remington Steele, and he was one of the guys who featured prominently in my completely innocent, please let me be Laura's cool, little sister, daydreams, right behind the A-Team and Simon&Simon and definitely in front of the Riptide guys. I was thrilled when he became James Bond, because that role was so obviously written for him. The only other Pierce Brosnan movies I had seen were Hydrotoxin, a movie so bad that even the many close-ups of his face couldn't save it, and the one where he steals art and has a lot of sex with Mel Gibson's wife from Lethal Weapon. Which was nice, only not somuch if you know the original. So I can honestly say that I don't consider him a good actor, but as James Bond he is perfect.

Anyway, the new James Bond. I don't really care much about the rumours that appear in the papers every few weeks, not believing in any of them and therefore not caring much. I will watch the new JamesBond movie anyway, no matter who play the bond. I won't enjoy it as much if it is Ewan McGregor, but there'll be cars and guns and men in tuxedos, and that's all I really need. Ewan McGregor I can actually imagine as James Bond, even though I don't particularly like the actor. Robbie Williams on the other hand (the singer, yes, there was a rumour about him being the successor once), I find sexy (have you seen him in a suit?), but as James Bond? Not so much. He doesn't seem like someone who knows how to be serious, and James Bond is, if not serious, never "silly". When he is flirting, he flirts as if he means it, always. There is no teasing. It's part of his charm.

One actor I can really see as James Bond (I know I'm a bit prejudiced), is Michael Weatherly. He's got the looks, he's got the charm. Give him another five or ten years and he'll stop looking like he is only the accessory of the beautiful woman he is driving around in that big car of his. Which leads me to a different James Bond issue: cars.

Remember the good old times? Remember the DB 5? Now that was a car. Then that little bavarian car producer made the most successful advertising deal ever and James had to drive a BMW Z3. You know, that little thing with the pampers rear that pretends to be a roadster, but can only do so because it has more PS than the mazda mx-5, which is still the better car? The Z3, which trust me, you do't want to drive if you are taller than 1,90 meters, which just proves that it was made for small men, but not for deadly secret agents? The Z8 was fine with me, small, but stylish, but when he drove the Z3 I actually felt sorry for him.

Of course, in the next movie they gave him the Aston Martin V-12 Vanquish, and that made up for everything they ever did to him, even for the christmas quote.

But now I've read somewhere that the next James Bond is supposed to drive a Fiat! Now, don't get me wrong, a Fiat is (probably) a nice car (notice how I don't say reliable), I had a boyfriend with a Fiat once, and it almost drive 125 km/h (downhill, having to hold the door shut so they wouldn't open). They CANNOT let James Bond drive that kind of car!

I don't car which actor play James Bond, but if he drives a Fiat, I won' watch the next James Bond movie. I'll just sit down with my DVDs and enjoy the Vanquish on ice a few times in a row.

Unless it's Michael Weatherly in the Fiat...