Connery and Cohen Returning to the Big Screen

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Never say never...

Sean Connery fans have reason to come out of hibernation. According to published reports, the former James Bond star is reportedly considering returning to the 007 franchise... as a villain.

The news comes as a shock to most Connery fans who assumed the 77-year-old actor was content living his life out of the public eye and away from the big screen.

To most Bond fans Connery will always be the one and only true super spy. The legendary actor was the first to play the role and starred in seven Bond films, his last being 1983's "Never Say Never Again."

So what will it take for Connery to lend his mug to a future Bond project?

Cold hard cash--and lots of it.

"I wouldn't mind coming back as a Bond villain," Connery recently told reporters. "But I don't think they would pay me enough."

Another big name prepping to return to the big screen is British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen.

The actor is reportedly filming his latest movie "Bruno" in an unlikely location--rural Kansas. And let's just say the locals are not exactly embracing him.

According to news reports, residents in the conservative Kansas town are outraged by Cohen's antics, including his latest move of stripping down to a pair of hotpants and terrorizing unsuspecting locals.

In Cohen's defense his jaw-dropping stunts are part of his latest film project. "Bruno" is a mockumentary about a homosexual Austrian TV presenter. Only it seems no one from Cohen's production team notified authorities that they would be filming in the city. A local newspaper recently reported that a "European man" was "putting security on red alert" by "stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport." And that was after Cohen and his crew reportedly disrupted an Easter play at a Kansas church by turning up in "chains."

YIKES!

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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