death at age 90 was announced by family on Saturday; numerous obits have paid tribute to his career as James Bond and other roles, and to his humble beginnings in Scotland.“You used to do nude modeling as a young man, is that true?” Jay Leno asked Connery in a 1999 interview.When the audience whooping simmered down, Connery raised one eyebrow wryly and acknowledged it was.“At the Edinbugh College of Art, to make ends meet if you know what I mean,” he quipped.“There was three of us, actually,” he told Leno.“There was an old guy who’d done it for years and years, and a quite an attractive young woman and myself.
And we were the three models.”The class was “mostly women,” Connery told Leno.“We used to get six and eight pence an hour for.
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