JAMES BOND producer Cubby Broccoli yesterday accepted undisclosed
libel damages and costs from the Sunday Times Magazine over an article
which said 007 star Sean Connery was accusing him of cheating him out of
profits in the films.
Times Newspapers, publishers of the magazine, and journalist Russell
Miller apologised in the High Court for the November 1989 article
headlined No One Says No to Sean.
They accepted that the accusations and other disparaging comments made
by Mr Connery in the article were ''untrue and unfounded''.
Mr Lawrence Abramson, Mr Broccoli's solicitor, told Mr Justice Drake
the article contained an attack on production arrangements for the film
Never Say Never Again, prompting a comment by Mr Connery that he would
never again appear in a Bond film.
It referred to Mr Broccoli as producer of the Bond films -- he
produced or co-produced all the Bond films from Dr No in 1962 to Licence
to Kill in 1989 -- but it did not explain that he had played no part in
the production of Never Say Never Again.
Mr Broccoli, who accepted substantial damages from the Sun a year ago
over a similar article by the same journalist, has decided to donate
yesterday's damages to the National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
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