The Scotsman

Sir Sean Connery is sitting in front of a stunning model. Of the architectural sort. The obverse of the glorious Technicolor through which we are most familiar with Scotland's greatest living movie star, it is white, starkly so. It is of the new Connery Filmhouse, the proposed new home of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and what Sir Sean himself calls a "beacon" for movie-goers. Not just for Edinburgh, we can safely surmise, but for movie fans all around the world. Suitably, the model bears Connery's name, and his picture - in the form of a miniature from The Name of the Rose. "It's very flattering," he says. But there's one thing wrong. "I think if it's using Connery, it's better with the whole name."