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[Ace]

I can't think of a specific suit and character that matched that well and beautifully together either.

I hope that Campagna is retained and the gig isn't given to another design house just for product placement money.

That is a beautiful suit in Steele Your Heart Away. It really is remarkable how many beautiful suits he wore in RS, that still hold up as elegant and stylish 20 years later, and also that they're different kinds of styles from his first to 5th season. In fact the 5th season blue pin stripe he wears in the Steele Hanging In There episodes is such a glorious suit that it makes those episodes much easier to watch. The cashmere overcoat helps too.

[Lauryn]

I hope that Campagna is retained and the gig isn't given to another design house just for product placement money.

Money-making opportunities aside, they could still go with Campagna if, as in the first TCA, they keep the action in the film within certain economies of scale since the weave makes the wardrobe a bit temperamental as regards wear and tear.

That is a beautiful suit in Steele Your Heart Away. It really is remarkable how many beautiful suits he wore in RS, that still hold up as elegant and stylish 20 years later, and also that they're different kinds of styles from his first to 5th season.

It helps, too, that Brosnan has the ability to wear both single or double breasted suits equally well. On film, and in life, that doesn't happen as often as you think.

In fact the 5th season blue pin stripe he wears in the Steele Hanging In There episodes is such a glorious suit that it makes those episodes much easier to watch.

Even looks good on the archery range. I might take issue with some of the tie choices. There was a stripe / floral combo I wasn't fond of. I think it was with that suit.

The cashmere overcoat helps too.

And his posture gives it such a beautiful line. As far as verisimilitudinous spy tradecraft goes, he should probably slump more. At least that's what the Daniel Craig aficionados say.<wink>

[Ace]

lauryn said:

I hope that Campagna is retained and the gig isn't given to another design house just for product placement money.

Money-making opportunities aside, they could still go with Campagna if, as in the first TCA, they keep the action in the film within certain economies of scale since the weave makes the wardrobe a bit temperamental as regards wear and tear.

MGM is under new management, but aren't they always, so I wonder if they'll be keeping an even tighter hold on the pursestrings (though the first was under budget and only $48m) . They seem to have taken the reigns of this film again from Sony who's have more dough to splash. I really want to see some more movement on the film though. MGM has announced again it's on their slate but a diretcor, co-star, cast and starting date would be nice.

It helps, too, that Brosnan has the ability to wear both single or double breasted suits equally well. On film, and in life, that doesn't happen as often as you think.

This is very true, single, double, 3 button, 2 button, 1 button -- he does justice to them all. That long V shape is made for a suit and he has perfect posture -- that not everyone likes as discussed below.

Even looks good on the archery range. I might take issue with some of the tie choices. There was a stripe / floral combo I wasn't fond of. I think it was with that suit.

I didn't mind the tie, mostly because it was far more subtle than many of the ties he was wearing during the 4th season which seemed to have gone over the top a few tines -- I'm still shaking my head over that red polka dot one he wears at least twice. Yuck.

If you notice though in the 5th season his dress shirts seem much more form fitting than usual. I'm wondering if they were from his previous wardrobe when he didn't have that Fourth Protocl/Bond muscle or was the wardrobe person really trying to show off his chest even in a dress shirt (see Steele and Laura on the plane)

The cashmere overcoat helps too.

And his posture gives it such a beautiful line. As far as verisimilitudinous spy tradecraft goes, he should probably slump more. At least that's what the Daniel Craig aficionados say.<wink>

Yes, very poor acting there. Why isn't he more schlubby when playing Steele, Crown or Bond -- they are the personification of the everyman and they should all stoop.

I watched the 5th Season over the weekend and quel contrast with Tonys very 80s wardobe by down to almost Hammeresque pants and Members Only like Jacket -- even in Ireland, and the clothes Steele wears which are so immaculate -- even his lord of the manor tweeds. I won't even mention that afro-mullet Tony was sporting which still didn't make him as tall as Steele, because that would be petty.

Ace

[Lauryn]

MGM is under new management, but aren't they always, so I wonder if they'll be keeping an even tighter hold on the pursestrings (though the first was under budget and only $48m) . They seem to have taken the reigns of this film again from Sony who's have more dough to splash. I really want to see some more movement on the film though. MGM has announced again it's on their slate but a diretcor, co-star, cast and starting date would be nice.

Well, at least from what you hear in the trades the new management at MGM is supposed to be heading towards a tentpole mentality with TCA2 and The Hobbit, etc. and taking on more co-financial partners in aid of same. Of course, they always talk a good game, but their legs have so often been shaky.

I didn't mind the tie, mostly because it was far more subtle than many of the ties he was wearing during the 4th season which seemed to have gone over the top a few tines -- I'm still shaking my head over that red polka dot one he wears at least twice. Yuck.

Well, I didn't mention that one because everyone knows it's a fright! Why was the fourth season the one for badly misjudged ties? But, to be fair to the one I was talking about, I've never really liked any of the floral ties Steele's worn, and that combo one I felt was still too fussy / busy. Matter of my own taste, I guess.

If you notice though in the 5th season his dress shirts seem much more form fitting than usual. I'm wondering if they were from his previous wardrobe when he didn't have that Fourth Protocl/Bond muscle or was the wardrobe person really trying to show off his chest even in a dress shirt (see Steele and Laura on the plane)

Interesting point. I tend to think they did have an eye on his more pumped physique and fitting to it.

Yes, very poor acting there. Why isn't he more schlubby when playing Steele, Crown or Bond -- they are the personification of the everyman and they should all stoop.

Well, if Danny's a success with CR, the headline will just write itself. "He Stoops to Conquer."

I watched the 5th Season over the weekend and quel contrast with Tonys very 80s wardobe by down to almost Hammeresque pants and Members Only like Jacket -- even in Ireland, and the clothes Steele wears which are so immaculate -- even his lord of the manor tweeds. I won't even mention that afro-mullet Tony was sporting which still didn't make him as tall as Steele, because that would be petty.

Ace

Poor Jack Scalia. He should have sued wardrobe for non-support. And whose mullet-headed idea was it that an international spy guy should wear a newsboy cap? And with a Members Only jacket, etc. etc. Even undercover some ensembles should be beyond the pale.

[Ace]

The 4th Season seemed to have an overall concerted effort to make the show more modern, from the kinds of cases they covered (Wrestling, Gyms, Triatholons etc) down to their wardrobe.

Poor SZ was stuck not only with towering tresses (htough that started in the 3rd season) but put in hideous boxy unconstructured big shouldered suits that didn't flatter her in the least. She was much better served by the 5th season except for the bangs. She had some nice clean lined pant suits and that nice long coat she had in Hanging.

PB got off very lightly with the ties and a couple of suits where the kind of cloth and pattern in the cloth seemed busier than usual. For the most part he still wore classically beautiful suits that were impeccably tailored and "modernization" be damned, the man had a pocket chain!

Tonys stuff was just urghh -- as misconceived as his character. And yes even his Newsies cap was dorky. Rather unfair since Steele's Irish cap actually worked for him. Oh the injustice.

[londonstreet]

Ace, this is the article in The Sun we talked about some time ago. I'm so sorry I can't scan it.

The Sun, 1 August 1984

I'M NOT RANDY REMINGTON!
Why TV's sexbomb hates the Hollywood star girls

It was a close shave when Remington Steele star Pierce Brosnan decided to mone in on Hollywood.
Fot the heart-throb actor left Britain for Tinseltown with just £2,000 borrowed from his bank and dreams of stardom.
From Ireland, where he is filming the opening episode of next season's Remington Steele TV series, Brosnan laughs when he recalls that momentous decision.
"It was a risk I had to take," he says. "Either I stayed in England and worked as a mini-cab driver between the few acting jobs I was offered or I took the plunge in America."
That was three years ago. Today Brosnan, 32, owns magnificent homes in London and Los Angeles.
He earns an estimated £30,000 a week for his role as ace investigator on the hit show. And he is demanding a Rolls-Royce as part of his fee for a Guinness TV commercial.
SEXY
Brosnan has been labelled a sex symbol in America but he insists that is not how he sees himself.
He says: "The only woman I want to consider me sexy is my wife Cassandra."
Meanwhile he has developed an intense dislike for Hollywood's leading ladies--including his own beautiful co-star Stephanie Zimbalist.
The pair might look the perfect couple on the box but in reality daggers are drawn.
When we asked him to put his arm around Stephanie for a photograph, Brosnan refused.
"I've got no time to be dealing with awkward leading ladies," he says. "Life is too short for that.
BLISS
"Stephanie is a product of California, brought up in the business with a father, Efrem, who starred in TV shows like FBI and Sunset Strip. We are not alike.
"Women can be so difficult to work with. The next project i work on I'd like to do with men only. I think I'd like to do a war film, something where leading ladies don't exist.
What a bliss that would be. Actually though, I don't take my part of Remmie too seriously. You can't really.
"It was more of a stepping stone than a life's ambition. It has brought me wealth and success and at the end of the day that's what life is all about--surviving."
In fact slippin into the Hollywood superstar mould was ridiculously easy for Irish-born Brosnan.
"I was just doing small roles on stage and any TV work in England," he says. "One of those roles was a part in an American series about Irish immigrants.
"It was my work on that which convinced producers to take me on to Remington Steele.
"I heard they were auditioning so I just turned up. I knew I wasn't first choice but I got the part.
"Call it the luchy of the Irish if you like, but it's nice work if you can get it. You can only get it if you try."
But Brosnan's spctacular leap to millionaire hasn't, he says, changed him a bit.
"I'm richer and wiser," he says, "but I'm the same Irish lad at heart.
"I might be regarded as a sex symbol but sometimes I'd just like to sit back, get fat and enjoy myself. Instead I've got to spend my life watching my weight and working out in a gym. It's no fun.
"In California people treat their bodies like gods. There's a constant pressure to look wonderful.
"As soon as we bought our home in America we had a sauna, jacuzzi and gym built in. It's just the way you're expected to live.
"As soon as you're out of shape over there, you're out of work.
"But at least Cassandra and I can sit back and laugh about it. It isn't an obsession with us.
"If we were both enormous, we'd still love one another. I never stop counting my luck when I think about Cassie. She has been my inspiration and my support.
"I can remember the day we met ten years ago at a party in London. Cassandra was suntanned and glowing with blonde hair. I thought she was the loveliest woman I'd ever seen. I still do."
Cassandra, former girlfriend of Dermot Harris, the record producer brother of actor Richard, feels the same way.ù
"Pierce and I have stayed together for one simple reason--we're still in love," she says.
"I already had two children when we met, but there was never any doubt in Pierce's mind about taking the children on.
FANCY
"We had our own child, Sean, last year, and that has just made everything complete.
"Of course other women fancy him. They have no scruples about stopping us in the street and swooning all over him.
"Women in Hollywood are like man-eating monsters when they see a handsome man."
Beautiful Brosnan and Cassandra might look the part, but they say they would trade the jet-set life any day for the tranquillity of the Irish hills.
"I was 11 when I went to live in London," he says. "So while I love England, Ireland is what I call home. Eventually, we'd like to buy a house in Wicklow."

[Yuliya]

1984? I thought they wre still pretending they had all the children together.

Thanks for typing the article, LondonStreet.

[Ace]

If this interview was done in London then he couldn't claim that. It was very well known that Cassie had been with Dermot Harris and those were their children. They were a pretty well known couple and ran it pretty public circles. When Pierce first showed up in the society/entertainment gossip pages in London on the arm of Cassie I believe he was referred to Cassie's current boy toy during another split with Dermott.

It just goes to show that the world was much smaller back then and hardly anyone (at least in the US Entertainment press) asked any prying questions (or if they did they didn't follow up). When PB and Cassie just said all the kids were theirs when they moved to LA. that was that.

Thanks for typing out the article.

I still wonder about that never appearing Guinness Ad and the claim he wanted payment in a Rolls Royce (especially since he's always preferred sports cars). But this is the British press (and The Sun no less) and they like to cut and paste quotes stitched together with supposition disguised as fact. Not much has changed since then at least.

Ace

[Ace]

Info from Ebay:

"MALIBU TIMES MAGAZINE" WITH PIERCE BROSNAN ON THE COVER, THIS IS THE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 ISSUE WITH A FEATURE STORY "SAVING THE WORLD - THE BROSNANS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CRUSADE"

[fati]

That's very intersting! I've seen a couple of Envrionmental clips of him and I had no idea of how concerned he is to that issue! Great cover by the way

[donnamcg]

You can read the entire article for free on line!!!

www.malibutimes.com/special_section/26/

There's a very nice picture of Pierce in there too on pg 3!! (looks recent but I could be wrong)

Donna

[Ace]

Thanks Donna.

That family photo is fairly recent, from Italian Vanity Fair (I think Feb 2006) and the one in the gallery is from mid 2005.

Cover, Page One, Page Two, Page 3, Page 4

[Chayna]

I can't get it online from Dona's link :-( just the cover. Looks like there's a page missing between #68 and 70 (your pages 2 and 3 Ace) when you read the article.

Chayna

[Yuliya]

Yes, it does look like a page is missing, and yet, when I click on "Next" or "Previous", there is nothing else there. Too bad their URLs are too complicated to crack in a second.

Nice to see you, Chayna!

[donnamcg]

Hi Chayna,

Just go to Mallibu times.com or do a search in google. When you get to the site, he's right there on the first page.. there's a drop down menu for that issue's content .... you can navigate from there.

Click on the article pages themselves to enlarge them.

Donna

[Yuliya]

It works, but doesn't show the missing page, either. And the text at the beginning of page 3 doesn't continue the text at the end of page 2, so it's not an ad or a picture that's missing.

[Ace]

Yeah there's a missing page; the online article just has those pages and even lists them as 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. (I just skimmed the article and didn't see the missing stuff till now) There's also a PDF for download but I didn't attempt it since I assumed it would be the same -- but may be not.

[fati]

I've just ended reading the Malibu magazine. So intersting knowing he and his wife are so commited in turning our Earth into a better place.
Thanks, very nice pics and reading

[Barbara]

Thanks for putting this up...the pictures are great and the article is good reading.

Love...B

[Ace]

According to an Ebay sale Arena Homme + Plus magazine from the UK - (with Matt Dillon on the cover -- I think it only comes out twice a year so this is the Winter issue) has:

Pierce Brosnan models for Aquascutum with Lily Donaldson (not Julia Steinger?) -- Two pages.