On This Day

RichardTheBruce

September 23rd

1968: David Picker of United Artist flies to London but fails to green light Connery's return as Bond.
1974: Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 18 February 1975. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tpp.php3
https://popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-008-the-phoenix-project/

1977: 007 - älskade spion released in Finland.

1977: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Η κατάσκοπος που με αγάπησε released in Greece.
1999: The two-day filming of the music video for The World Is Not Enough by Philipp Stölzl for Oil Factory Films commences on a London sound stage. Day one: android shots in the laboratory, kissing, driving. Day two: pyrotechnics.

RichardTheBruce

September 24th

1931: Anthony Newley is born--Hackney, London, England. (He dies 14 April 1999 at age 67--Jensen Beach, Florida.)
1944: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

https://telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Sunday 24 September, 1944

Yesterday I. came to lunch. The flat is a sort of home or refuge from
the war for him. He urges me to make plans for myself for after the
war but I can’t and don’t want to. Any thought of my future makes
me very unhappy.

1950: Kristina Wayborn is born--Nybro, Kalmar län, Sweden.
1961: John Logan is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1981: 007 - Missão Ultra-Secreta released in Portugal.
2006: Tetsurô Tanba dies at age 84--Tokyo, Japan. (Born 17 July 1922--Tokyo, Japan.)
2012: Raritania publishes Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.

https://mi6-hq.com/media/other/Man%20Who%20Saved%20Britain%20-%20Introduction.pdf

RichardTheBruce

September 25th

1957: Michael Madsen is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1959: Ian Fleming's short story "James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast" ("From a View to a Kill") finishes a five-day serialization in The Daily Express.
1964: Goldfinger released in Ireland.
2011: Plans for filming in India drop off the table, leading to speculation for South Africa locations.
2015: Capital releases the single "Writing's on the Wall" written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Naples, sung by Smith.

RichardTheBruce

September 26th

1941: Martine Beswick is born--Port Antonio, Jamaica.
2013: William Boyd's Bond novel Solo published by Jonathan Cape.

2016: Artist Robert Hack's cover for Dynamite Comics Hammerhead #1, exclusive to CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) Retailer Membership, revealed. One per store distribution, instantly rare.

RichardTheBruce

September 27

1903: Leonard Barr is born--West Virginia. (He dies 22 November 1980 at age 77--West Hollywood, California.)
1979: Agente 007, Moonraker: operazione spazio released in Italy.

1982: Never Say Never Again filming begins on the French Riviera.
1985: 007 – Alvo em Movimento released in Portugal.
2017: Hugh Hefner dies at age 91--Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. (Born 9 April 1926--Chicago, Illinois.)

RichardTheBruce

September 28th

1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Spain. (Catalan title Des de Russia amb Amor.)

1994: Harry Saltzman 28 September 1994 at age 78--Paris, France.
(Born 27 October 1915--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.)

Obituaries
Harry Saltzman, 78, Bond-Film Producer
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html
SEPT. 29, 1994

Harry Saltzman, who with Albert R. Broccoli produced early James Bond films like "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," died yesterday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. He was 78 and lived in a village near Versailles.

The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Adriana.

He was born on Oct. 27, 1915, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was brought to the United States as an infant. He entered the film business in the mid-1940's and made his name in Britain with hard-hitting social dramas, including "Look Back in Anger" in 1958 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960.

Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Broccoli rounded up the screen rights to practically all of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and began the film series in the early 1960's. The two struck it rich with the highly profitable movies, most of which starred Sean Connery as Agent 007. Their Bond films included "From Russia With Love," "Thunderball," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man With the Golden Gun." The partnership ended in the mid-1970's.

Among Mr. Saltzman's other productions were "The Entertainer," "The Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Battle of Britain."

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Steven, of Paris; two daughters, Hilary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Merry, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and a sister, Mina Reizes of Reseda, Calif.

September 29, 1994, Page 00012 The New York Times Archives

2008: "Another Way to Die" enters the UK Singles Chart at twenty-six, later peaking at number nine.
2012: Promotional materials for the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 become available, anticipating its 5 October premiere on EPIX.

Thunderfinger

That A 007, Dalla Russia Con Amore poster is excellent.

RichardTheBruce

It's beautiful, @Thunderfinger. But you just called attention to the fact it's an Italian poster placed by mistake with the Spanish posters. I'll make the correction but see if there's a Spanish equivalent.

[UPDATE: that turned out to be a teaser, @Thunderfinger. Watch for it to appear on the Italian release date for A 007 dalla Russia con amore: 31 January.]

RichardTheBruce

September 29th

1933: James Villiers is born--London, England. (He dies 18 January 1998 at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.)
1939: British Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey issues a document, later credited to his assistant Ian Fleming, that compares deception in war to the sport of fishing.

https://bond-vivant.com/2017/12/13/the-blunt-instrument/

1986: Principal photography begins at Pinewood Studios for The Living Daylights.
1990: Molly Peters and Desmond Llewelyn appear for the first James Bond 007 Fan Convention, Pinewood.
2007: Lois Maxwell dies at age 80--Fremantle, Australia. (Born 14 February 1927--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html


Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

12:01AM BST 01 Oct 2007

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.

She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.

But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin. You look as though you smell of soap."

Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities."

Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).

Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes.

"Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy.

"It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this.

"That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths."

Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."

Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.

While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V.

At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine. Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too.

She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947).

Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.

In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.

In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.

Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.

Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.

Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

Lois Hooker in the Life Magazine photo, upper left. Norma Jean, front and center.

Thunderfinger

Lois Maxwell, adventurer. Quite a life she led.

RichardTheBruce

September 30th

1952: Dennis Muldowney is executed for the murder of Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville. She was active in espionage during World War II, an acquaintance of Ian Fleming, and possibly the model for his character Vesper Lynd.

https://eotd.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/30-september-1952-dennis-muldowney /

30 September 1952 – Dennis Muldowney

James Bond creator, Ian Fleming was inspired by the exotic Polish victim slain by today’s deadly desperado’s date with death.

Dennis Muldowney was executed on this day in 1952 for the murder of a Cold-War countess.

Marine steward, Muldowney was jailed and sentenced to death for killing Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, who was known for her forays into espionage.

The infamous World War II spy was a key player, passing secrets to the Brits while serving in Germany, Hungary and France. After the war, she came across Ian Fleming and they embarked on a year-long affair.

That’s why she is said to have been the basis for Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd in his first James Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale’, written in 1953 and played by Eva Green in the consequent Bond movie of the same name, as well as Ursula Andress in the spoof version of 1967.

Muldowney was similarly drawn to her and eventually became obsessed, which drove him to stab the 44-year-old to death on 15 June 1952.

He was hanged for his crime at Pentonville prison, aged 41.

1963: Arms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd writes his last letter to Ian Fleming. (The first was 31 May 1956.)
1964: Monica Bellucci is born--Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy .
1976: Paul Dehn dies at age 63. (Born 5 November 1912--Manchester, England.)
1989: Licence to Kill released in Japan.

1991: Syndicated animated television series James Bond Jr, produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and MGM Animation, airs Episode 01 - The Beginning. (Final Episode 65 - Thor's Thunder airs 2 March 1992.)

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a single in the US.

2013: William Boyd's Bond novel Solo begins a 10-episode run on Books at Bedtime. BBC Radio 4. Read by Paterson Joseph,adapted by Libby Spurrier.

jobo

Your level of knowledge is impressive, @RichardTheBruce

RichardTheBruce

Thanks, @jobo, it's more research than anything else. And interesting to me to discover new items I wasn't aware of.

RichardTheBruce

October 1st

1903: Richard Loo is born--Maui, Hawaii. (He dies 30 November 1983 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)
1959: Ian Fleming sends nephews Christopher, David, and Valentine Fleming ‎£100 for their 21st birthdays (late for David and Valentine). With conditions.

"Until now I had not got enough money to get people presents
that were really presents, but now I send each of you ‎£100 on one
condition--that at least ‎£75 must be spent within a month on one
single object, or two or three objects, which you would really
like to have."

1959: Kinematograph Weekly announces pre-production on the film project James Bond of the Secret Service, with Ian Fleming writing an original script for producer Kevin McClory. Filming planned to start February 1960.
1960: James Bond comic strip Dr. No ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 23 May 1960. 584-697)
John McLusky, artist. Peter O'Donnell , writer.

1964: Dr. No re-released in the UK.
1965: From Russia With Love released in Belgium.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Belgium.
2012: Adele is confirmed as the singer of the title song "Skyfall".
2012: Quantum of Solace promotional items from Bollinger become available.

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/09/bollinger-gets-pistol-shaped-packaging-in-time-for-bond-movie/

2015: Sony's Made for Bond advertisement with Moneypenny and the Xperia Z5 premieres in the UK.

RichardTheBruce

October 2nd

1926: Tom Pevsner is born--Dresden, Germany. (He dies 18 August 2014 at age 80--United Kingdom.)
1962: Dr. No previewed to the British press at the London Pavilion.
1967: You Only Live Twice released in Brazil.
2008 Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Silverfin released as a graphic novel by Puffin.
Kev Walker, artist. Charlie Higson, writer.

2012: Adele's Bond title theme is leaked online.

RichardTheBruce

October 3rd

1960: Bond comic strip Goldfinger begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 1 April 1961. 698-849)
John McClusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/gf.php3

1968: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 18 December 1967. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3

1968: EON announce model George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery in the Bond role.
1977: La espía que me amó released in Spain. Catalan L'espia que em va estimar.

1985: 007 En la mira de los asesinos released in Peru.

1987: 007 Marcado para a Morte released in Brazil.

1992: ITV from London airs The Living Daylights plus a 50 minute special 30 Years of James Bond.

2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on BBC's Channel 4.

RichardTheBruce

October 4th

1956: Christoph Waltz is born--Vienna, Austria.
1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
1962: Roger Moore first appears as Leslie Charteris' The Saint in the UK television series of the same name. Episode 1 "The Talented Husband" starred Shirley Eaton.

1967: Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte released in Italy.

1984: Rachel McDowall is born--Whiston, Merseyside, England.
1990: Jill Bennett dies at age 58--Kensington, London, England.(Born 24 December 1931--Penang, Malaysia.)
1999: "The World Is Not Enough" released as a single. B side "Ice Bandits".

RichardTheBruce

October 5th: Global James Bond Day

1919: Donald Pleasence is born--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
(He dies 2 February 1995 at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.)
1930: John Pearson is born--Epsom, Surrey, England.
1946: Vic Armstrong is born--Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England.
1961: Kinematograph Weekly announced the Dr No film production will begin 1962. (Broccoli and Saltzman don't yet have an actor for the Bond role.)
1962: Dr. No premieres at the London Palladium.

1973: Com 007 Viva e Deixe Morrer released in Brazil.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Venezuela.

1983: Octopussy released in France.
1983: Newly discovered asteroid is named in honor of Ian Fleming: 9007 James Bond.

https://www.universeguide.com/asteroid/9007jamesbond

9007 James Bond Asteroid

James Bond is an asteroid, a large rock that orbits the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They tend to be an irregular shaped but Ceres asteroid is known to be spherical in shape but because it doesn't clear its path round the Sun, it is only a dwarf planet.

James Bond was discovered on Oct 5 1983 by Anton Mrkos. Its orbit takes 3.89 years to travel round the Sun.

The absolute magnitude of the object is 13.9 which is the brightness of the object. A higher absolute magnitude means that the object is faint whereas a very low number means it is very bright.

The Aphelion of the object is 2.84994 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is furthest from the object that it is orbit. At this point, it will then return back to the orbit target. The Perihelion of the object is 2.09805 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is closest to the object that it is orbit around.

The Semi-Major Axis of the orbit is 2.47399, which is the furthest point from the centre to the edge of an elliptical point.

The orbital inclination, the angle at which James Bond orbits in relation to the orbital plane is 5.859 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.15196, it is the degree at which James Bond orbits close to a circular (0) orbit as opposed to an elliptical (1) orbit.

Agent James Bond, 007, not 9007

The asteroid is named after the world's most famous and popular M.I.6. secret agent, James Bond. It was chosen to honour the spy after the ID of the asteroid ended in 007, the agent's code number. It was not sponsored by EON Productions or M.G.M., the distributors.

James Bond Facts

Type - Asteroid
Date of Discovery Oct 5 1983
Discoverer Anton Mrkos
Orbital Period 3.89
Absolute Magnitude 13.9
Aphelion (Furthest) 2.84994 A.U.
Perihelion (Nearest) 2.09805 A.U.
Semi-Major Axis 2.47399
Orbital Inclination 5.859
Orbital Eccentricity 0.15196

1986: Two weeks of filming in Vienna begin for The Living Daylights.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Peru.
2011: MI6 readers notice Sony fielding domain names indicating the title of BOND 23 as Skyfall.
2012: "Skyfall" single released.
2012: Global James Bond Day recognizes 50 years of the film franchise.
2014: Geoffrey Holder dies at age 84--New York City, New York. (Born 1 August 1930--Port of Spain, Trinidad.)
2018: Aston Martin celebrates Global James Bond Day times seven.

https://www.motor1.com/news/268490/aston-martin-james-bond-day/

Thunderfinger

So Geoffrey Holder died only to come back as an undead?

RichardTheBruce

Point taken, correction made @Thunderfinger. RIP, Mr. Holder.

RichardTheBruce

October 6th

1942: Britt Ekland is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
1967: Casino Royale released in Yugoslavia.
1983: Never Say Never Again premieres in Los Angeles, California.

1984: John Richardson starts fourth unit work on the Golden Gate Bridge fight.
2011: Casting of Bérénice Marlohe and Helen McCrory announced.
2012: The Skyfall soundtrack detail for track names and times revealed.

RichardTheBruce

October 7th

1947: John Brosnan is born--Perth, Australia. (He dies 11 April 2005--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.)
1962: Dr. No's general release in the UK.

1966: Ian Fleming's biography published in LIFE Magazine.

1968: George Lazenby is announced as the new Bond actor.
2014: Dynamite Comics receives licence for James Bond material.
2015: Daniel Craig jokingly tells Timeout magazine "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists" than do another Bond film. And that if he did, it "would only be for the money."

RichardTheBruce

October 8th

1963: From Russia with Love press screening at the Leicester Square Odeon, London.

1965: A five-day serialization of Octopussy finishes in The Daily Express.
1972: Roger Moore travels to New Orleans, Louisiana.
1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Colombia.
1983: Author Steven Jay Rubin hosts the 007 Master Trivia Marathon near Los Angeles.
2011: Duntrune Castle's owners confirm the filmmakers pursued it as a possible location for the final action sequence at the Bond family estate.

2012: Christie's of London hosts an online charity auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise, ending this date closes after 11 days.
2012: "Skyfall" enters the UK Singles Chart at #8.
2015: "Writing's on the Wall" reaches #1 on the UK charts, a James Bond title film first.
2016: Daniel Craig on the Bond role: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world. I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a810428/daniel-craig-not-quitting-bond-best-job-in-the-world/

RichardTheBruce

October 9th

1902: Freddie Young is born--London, England. (He dies 1 December 1998 at age 96--London , England.)
1959: Ian Fleming's article "If I Were Prime Minister" published in The Spectator.
1966: The Sunday Times of London quotes the late Ian Fleming.

''A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.''

1972: The Gleaner reports the Hanover Parish Council agrees to filming in Lucea, Lousiana. Involves closure of the new road at Johnson Town assurance local labour will support the filming. (The bus chase.)
2008: Audio Book My Word Is My Bond published by BBC Audiobooks. Read By Sir Roger Moore himself.

2012: Skyfall: Bond On Set published in the UK by DK Books.

jobo

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Thanks, @jobo, it's more research than anything else. And interesting to me to discover new items I wasn't aware of.

I wouldn't know how to even research this kind of information... ;)

RichardTheBruce

October 10th

1945: Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming is discharged from the Royal Navy.
1946: Charles Dance is born--Redditch, Worcestershire, England.
1956: Fiona Fullerton is born--Kaduna, Nigeria.
1963: London premiere of From Russia With Love at the Odeon Leicester Square.

1963: The Kinematograph Weekly grudgingly admits crowds had been gathered at the theatre since mid-day and opening day records would be bettered by From Russia With Love. It was just the beginning for that type of thing and the film triggered outright spy mania through the 60s. (Later reports say Soviet premier Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev got a copy of the film from the British embassy. And screened it. At least three times.)
1968: Comic strip The Harpies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 June 1969. 816-1037)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

harpiesbond.jpg

1979: Moonraker released in France.
2002: Planned release date for the "Die Another Day " single. (Leaks of the song to radio stations a week prior led to a delay until later in October. Website Hollywood.com: "Madonna and members of her camp were beside themselves when the song—which they claim wasn't even finished—aired on a pop station in New York City.")
2005: Secret Servant--The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg) published by John Murray.

RichardTheBruce

October 11th

1963: From Russia With Love general release in the UK.

1968: LIFE magazine identifies finalists for the Bond role as Hans DeVries, Robert Campbell, John Richardson, Anthony Rogers and George Lazenby.

1979: 007: Misión espacial released in Mexico.

2006: The Casino Royale soundtrack is completed this day, for a November release.
2007: Roger Moore receives the 2,350th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California.

2011: Javier Bardem confirms his casting in BOND 23.
2018: Sony Centre Toronto presents Casino Royale in Concert--the film accompanied by orchestra. Don't miss the Behind The Curtain pre-show talk with Richard Crouse 6:30 to 7:00 PM, Lower Lobby.
Same schedule Friday 12 October.

http://www.richardcrouse.ca/sony-centre-for-the-performing-arts-casino-royale-in-concert-october-11-and-october-12-2018/
Casino Royale in Concert, the first installment in the James Bond Concert Series, produced by Film Concerts Live! in association with EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM). For the first time ever in Canada, audiences will be able to experience Bond on the big screen accompanied by the power of a full symphony orchestra performing composer David Arnold’s thrilling musical score live and in sync to the picture!

RichardTheBruce

October 12th

1962: Dr. No released in Ireland.

1965: The Daily Gleaner in Kingston reports another author may continue to write Bond novels post-Fleming.

https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner-oct-12-1965-p-7/
To continue Bond series
By LONDONER

LONDON:
ON the day that the very
last lames Bond story writ-
ten by the late Ian Fleming
begins to appear in the Daily
Express, there is word that a
new author is being consider-
ed to carry on the Bond saga.

He is none other that Mr.
Kingsley Amis, author of
Lucky Jim, That Uncertain
Feeling, and also more recent-
ly of The James Bond Dos-
sier, a detailed study of Flem-
ing's creation.

Negotiations are still in a
relatively early stage, says
Ian Fleming's agent,
Peter Janson-Smith: decision
has been made yet. The es-
tate is a very complex busi-
ness and there are. Lots of peo-
pie involved."

And Kingsley Amis himself
will only say: "I was ap-
proached three or four
months ago but have heard
nothing about the plan since.
I suppose it would be a rather
frightening thing to do. One
would have a great sense of
responsibility to the readers,
but I think it would be great
fun all the same."

One intriguing aspect of
this proposal is that the new
Bond series should be written
under a pseudonym! Someone
who has heard a whisper of
the royalties being offered
for this work suggests that
the best pseudonym would be
"Lucky Jim."

But I doubt if Mr. Amis
would agree. So I offer a fiver
for the best suggestions on a
postcard that I receive by
first post on Wednesday.

--Express

1977: L'espion qui m'aimait released in France.

2006: AOL Music says Chris Cornell was inspired by Tom Jones and "Thunderball".

CHRIS CORNELL Inspired By TOM JONES For JAMES BOND Theme
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornell-inspired-by-tom-jones-for-james-bond-theme/
October 12, 2006

AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell recently told AOL Music that being asked to do the theme song for a James Bond movie is both a great honor and responsibility. "The Bond soundtrack song is different than any other movie you're going to write a song for, because it's steeped in lore," explained Cornell. "It's part of the tradition of the franchise."

Cornell, who has the distinction of doing "You Know My Name", the main song from the upcoming "Casino Royale", told AOL Music he understood the significance in large part because of Paul McCartney. "If you would've told me when I was 10, the first time I heard 'Live and Let Die', being a huge BEATLES and Paul McCartney fan, that I would be doing the song for the 21st James Bond film — imagining that is a fantasy," he said.

But it was another U.K. icon whom Cornell looked to for inspiration in recording "You Know My Name". He says he was thinking about Tom Jones' over-the-top singing style when someone mentioned that Jones actually did a Bond theme.

"So I heard his version of the song 'Thunderball'," Cornell said. "It's kind of a funny song. The words are about a secret agent. His voice is incredible. The band sounds small and thin, and it's Tom Jones singing, so his voice sounds enormous."

2012: Christie's reports the James Bond 50th anniversary combined online auction plus in-house party auction raised $2.6 million/€2,000,000 for charity.

James Bond auction raises $2.6 million
https://nation.com.pk/12-Oct-2012/james-bond-auction-raises-2-6-million

LONDON (AFP) - A London sale of James Bond souvenirs to mark the secret agent’s 50th silver-screen anniversary has raised over $2.6 million (two million euros), Christie’s auction house said Wednesday.

Buyers from 42 countries took part in the auction with all proceeds going to a charity.

The auction took place in two stages, firstly online from September 28 to October 8, and secondly during a party at Christie’s auction house on Friday.

Notable guests included actor Roger Moore, who played the famous agent on the big screen, and Judi Dench, who appears in Skyfall, the saga’s latest installment which is released on October 24. Many of the objects on offer were supplied by Eon Productions, the British company that has produced the Bond films.

The highlight of the collection was the Aston Martin DBS driven by Daniel Craig, the current Bond, in the opening scene of “Quantum of Solace” (2008), during an Italian car chase.

The car, estimated pre-auction at between $160,000 and $240,000, finally went under the hammer for $390,101.

The titanium Omega watch worn by Craig in Skyfall sold for $250,000 euros while his Tom Ford tuxedo was snapped up for $75,000.

2015: Daniel Craig visits Cyprus in his role as United Nations advocate against the use of land mines.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-entertainment-craig-landmines/uk-actor-craig-drops-bond-killer-role-to-see-mines-in-cyprus-idUSKCN0S71J620151013
British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.


Entertainment News October 13, 2015 / 10:31 AM / 3 years ago UK actor Craig drops Bond killer role to see mines in Cyprus 2 Min Read NICOSIA (Reuters) - His James Bond character might blow things up and kill for a living, but actor Daniel Craig was in Cyprus on Tuesday to see first hand the perils of unexploded ordnance littering the ethnically-split island. British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

RichardTheBruce

October 13th

1968: Diana Rigg is announced as the lead female role of Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
1972: Principal photography begins for a boat chase on the Irish Bayou, Louisiana.
1997: Sony Pictures Entertainment Company and partner Kevin McClory announce their plan to remake Thunderball. Again. Rumored title: Warhead 2000.
2009: Sir Ken Adam appears in In Conversation with Shumon Basar.

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1163
ADAM, Sir Ken
'In Conversation' with Sir Ken Adam
Series:
Date: Tuesday 13 October 2009
Time: 15:01
Venue:
Running time: 71 mins

Sir Ken Adam is one of the most important production designers of the 20th century. In this illustrated conversation with AACP Director Shumon Basar, Adam will discuss highlights from an extraordinary career stretching back over 60 years: the transition from architecture to film, the origins of his iconic James Bond sets and the unique relationship he developed with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.

Sir Ken Adam (b. 1921) originally trained in architecture and interior design. In 1962 he designed the first James Bond film, Dr No, and six subsequent Bonds until Moonraker in 1979. Adam’s design for the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1962) became an icon of Cold War paranoia, and his minutely detailed period sets for Barry Lyndon (1974) and The Madness of King George (1994) both earned him Academy Awards.

All lectures are open to members of the public, staff and students unless otherwise stated.

RichardTheBruce

October 14th

1927: Roger Moore is born--Stockwell, London.
(He dies 23 May 2017 at age 89--Crans-Montana, Mollens, Valais, Switzerland.)

1971: De Rusia Con Amour re-released in Argentina.

1975: James Bond comic strip Till Death Do Us Apart ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 7 July 1975 - October 14, 1975 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1980: Ben Whishaw is born--Clifton, Bedfordshire, England.
2005: A London press conference reveals Daniel Craig (arriving by speedboat) as the new James Bond.

2012: "Skyfall" rises to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, tying "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran for Bond theme success.