Quote:DHBirr wrote:That was the Sterling automotive company, at the time a division of Land Rover. I remember it too. It actually got me looking into who this elegant fellow was and what "The Avengers" were all about.
About twenty years ago, I saw him in a clever ad for some sports car or other -- the commercial was too cool for me to pay the damned car any attention, even though the auto was most of what was shown throughout. It was racing along a cliffside road, somewhere tropical, while music that sounded appropriate for a Bond movie played. No voiceover; just the car zooming along, and the music. Then it pulled into the driveway of an elegant manor, stopped, and MacNee got out. He smiled directly into the camera and asked, "You were expecting someone else?" One line; maybe ten seconds at most ... and he completely upstaged the automobile.
And Horner -- reading the list of all the scores he wrote ... talk about the day the music died (ouch, and the same way, too).
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