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I once helped Mr. Connery print something. I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton in 2004 during Oscars week. I was in the business center on the Internet (
by kthejoker2 6y ago
I once helped Mr. Connery print something.
I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton in 2004 during Oscars week. I was in the business center on the Internet (this was the dark ages before ubiquitous hotel WiFi and personal devices.)
Someone comes in, and then a few minutes later says in a completely unmistakable voice
“Excuse me, do you know how to print this?”
I immediately jumped into parental IT support mode, it was a pretty easy thing to do, he said, Thanks, and (this is the awkward thing) continued to stay in there on the computer while I had to do the whole “pretend to be normal around Sean freaking Connery” for the next 20 minutes. I couldn’t even bring up the courage to mention my childhood favorite, Darby O’Gill and the Little People …
PS the reason I was there was to film an episode of Jeopardy, and I told Alex what had transpired (he loves those skits) and he was pretty pumped, he asked if I’d pop him in the mouth and tell him “that’s from Trebek” if I saw him again.
RIP Sean Connery, a great actor!
- vsnf 6y agoThat is a very fun story. It got me thinking about those SNL skits parodying Trebek and Connery on Jeopardy. Is there a known history between them?
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- sideshowb 6y agoYour story reminds me How did Sean Connery shave? ...same as the rest of us, ctrl-s
- arghwhat 6y agoWhy would he send XOFF to his terminal to when he wanted to s(h)ave...
- dylan604 6y agosome of us cmd-s, but point taken
- rkagerer 6y agoYou mean CTRL+ESH
- doodpants 6y agoI believe he did this in the movie "The Hunt-and-Peck for Red October".
- TheKarateKid 6y agoSurprised that being on friendly terms with Alex Trebek wasn't enough to make you feel somewhat courageous enough to speak to Sean Connery.
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