Roald Dahl: Gone but not forgotten

07 August 2016 - 02:00
By Robbie Collin

The author of children's classics fought with Hollywood and found 007 to be mean, writes Robbie Collin What annoyed Roald Dahl about Sean Connery was that he never bought a round. During 1966 Dahl was in Japan for the filming of You Only Live Twice, the new James Bond movie he had adapted - very loosely - from Ian Fleming's novel.

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