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Pierce Brosnan To Become American 

IFAW Honors Pierce Brosnan for Efforts to Protect Wildlife.

Pierce Brosnan To Become American 

LONDON (AP) - Agent 007 is defecting: Pierce Brosnan, best known for portraying British agent James Bond, said he has started the process of becoming an American citizen.
Brosnan, 47, recently bought a beachfront house in Malibu, Calif., leaving his native Ireland and England, where he spent most of his adult life.
``I would like to be an American. I've enjoyed my time here. It's a very, very fine country,'' he told London's Sunday Express.
Brosnan also said he plans to marry longtime girlfriend Keely Shaye Smith, 35, next year. Smith is seven months pregnant and the couple has a three-year-old son, Dylan.
The couple postponed their wedding after Brosnan's 16-year-old son, Sean, was seriously injured in a car accident.
``You see, I want my boy to be able to dance at our wedding, and he would have found that rather difficult,'' Brosnan said. 

IFAW Honors Pierce Brosnan for Efforts to Protect Wildlife.
Issue: Nov 15, 2000

Celebrities Gather for Evening of Awards and Launch of New Environmental Awareness Campaign

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ 

Actor Pierce Brosnan was today honored at a Los Angeles, celebrity-event by the Massachusetts-based International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org ) for his involvement with IFAW's "Campaign to Protect Laguna San Ignacio," the last pristine breeding ground of the Pacific gray whale.

IFAW's Campaign to Protect Laguna San Ignacio met with victory in March of this year when the Mitsubishi Corporation and the Mexican Government abandoned plans to build the world's largest salt processing factory on the shores of Baja, Mexico.

Brosnan received his award at the launch of the joint IFAW and Earth Communications Office (ECO) environmental awareness broadcast spot, "Why Are We Here?" which tonight premiered at Universal City's IMAX theater, with more than 400 well-known celebrities, environmentalists and scientists in attendance. Brosnan joined fellow actors Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges and Alfre Woodard in providing his voice for the inspiring spots.

"IFAW is deeply grateful to Pierce for his long-term commitment to protect the world's great whales," said IFAW President Fred O'Regan. "Ironically, as we gather here today to celebrate recent victories, Japan's whaling fleet is preparing to set out to hunt protected whales in the internationally recognized Southern Ocean Sanctuary."

O'Regan's remarks follow an announcement by the Japanese government that its whaling fleet will depart on Friday, 17 November to kill hundreds of whales. Global opposition to Japanese whaling continues to grow. US President Bill Clinton is expected to discuss the issue with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshira Mori this week at a meeting in Brunei.

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