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Pierce Brosnan agrees with his successor Daniel Craig that Barack Obama would make a great James Bond. “But he’ll make a better president,” added the Irish-born actor who now makes his home in Hawaii, where Obama grew up.
Nevertheless, he didn’t profess much of an opinion on the man who now holds his job as 007. “I never saw the last [Bond] movie and I probably won’t see this one,” he said.
Brosnan spoke to the media Friday night before he and his wife, environmental activist Keely Shaye Brosnan, received an award at the annual Jane Goodall Institute Global Leadership Awards Celebration at the Ronald Reagan Building.
From an environmental perspective alone, the couple looked forward to the coming Obama administration. “He has the heart of the young people,” he told Yeas & Nays.
“It would be hard to pay less attention to the environment” than the Bush administration did, added Goodall, the renowned primatologist.
Also on hand at the $500/plate dinner: kid actors Spencer and Abigail Breslin, who presented the Youth Leadership Award; CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who emceed the event; and Dr. Patch Adams, famous for the film that bears his name, who sported the loudest pants we’ve ever seen, clashing mightily with one of the loudest shirts we’ve ever seen. (Photos: Gene Young)
