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1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.
https://thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
December 23, 2013 by David Leigh
Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.
There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.
1931: Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia. (She passes 4 October 1990--Kensington, London, England.)
1971: Daily Press Starfire comic finishes its run (30 August start). Illustrator Yaroslav Horak, writer Jim Lawrence.
1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, CA.
(That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release,)
2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.
http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm
Radiohead just released a new song!
“Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”
He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”
Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!
FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/cubby-broccoli
Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.
Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
About the cinema
Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.
Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.
In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.
Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.
1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.
telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/
Spies, affairs and James Bond... The secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime mistress
17 March 2017 • 9:00am
Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell
Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.
They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.
To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.
Ian Fleming in his Naval Uniform during the war Credit: Courtesy of Emily Russell/A Constant Heart
These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.
[See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]
Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. passes at age 71--New York City, NY.
(Born 6 April 1940 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)
2017: London Film Museum and the Bond in Motion exhibit remains closed for the holiday.
To reopen Wednesday 27 December.
London Film Museum: Bond in Motion
https://senior-railcard.co.uk/travel-inspiration/days-out/london-film-museum-bond-in-motion/
Bond in Motion is the largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles. It displays both the adrenalin-pumping high performance machinery and the unique 007 defining inventions that are essential to the continuing James Bond story. The exhibition features vehicles from Dr No right up to Spectre.
Admission: £14.50
Opening times:
OFFER TIMES:
Daily 10.00-18.00 Last admission 17.00
Saturday 10.00-19.00 Last admission 18.00
Closed 25 - 26 December.
Opening times may vary. Please check website for details.
Phone number: 0207 836 4913
1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.
1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, CA.
(Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.) American composer, pianist, singer, actor.
2017: Dynamite Bond comic Kill Chain available for purchase.
https://www.cbr.com/james-bond-kill-chain-6/
12.25.2017 -
by CBR Staff in Comic Previews Comment
Story by Andy Diggle
Art by Luca Casalanguida
Cover by Greg Smallwood
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia’s grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.
1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."
Artist Yaroslav Horak. Writer Jim Lawrence.
Artist Jason Masters. Writer Warren Ellis.
https://www.comixology.com/James-Bond-12/digital-comic/438054
1965: Thunderball is released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion Cinema. And Greece!
(Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)
1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
(Dies 18 January 1936 at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)
http://www.007museum.com/rudyard_kipling.htm
...
Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.
Complete story linked here.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.
2016: Glu Mobile shuts down the James Bond: World of Espionage servers. Game over.
1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.
2015: James Bond becomes public domain in Canada. The books, not the films.
Rumor has it Justin Bieber is being viewed as a possible 007 in the near future. In Canada only, naturally.
and a look into the future:
2049: On that day James Bond will latest be public domain everywhere.
1961: Ian Fleming returns to his Goldeneye Estate and begins writing the ninth Bond novel. In failing health, he uses a screenplay from a 1958 project as its basis.
1968: Dr. No re-release in the UK.
1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.
2008: George MacDonald Fraser dies age 82--Strang, Isle of Man, UK.
(Born 2 April 1925--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.)
2008: Filming starts for Quantum of Solace.
1922: Dana Wilson (originally Dana Natol; the future Mrs. Broccoli) is born--New York City, NY.
(Dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, CA.)
1926: George Martin is born--Holloway, London. (Dies 8 March 2016 at age 90--Colesshill, Oxfordshire, England.
1988: Joie Chitwood dies at age 75--Tampa, FL. (Born 14 April 1912--Denison, TX.)
2003: "Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film", so reports The Associated Press and multiple news outlets.
The Koreans have taste.
1900: Ornithologist James Bond is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Dies 14 February 1989--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)
1962: Michael France is born--St. Petersburg, Florida.
(Dies 12 April 2013 at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.)
1990: John Cleese spoofs James Bond in a Schweppes soft drinks commercial.
2013: Activision and Steam's online stores quietly remove online copies and pages for Quantum of Solace, Blood Stone, 007 Legends.
1945: Roger Spottiswoode is born--Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Reports say Sam Mendes is connected with Bond 23. (MGM at the time denies he's signed as director. EON later confirms he was hired as a consultant until MGM worked out its financial issues.)
1955: Rowan Atkinson is born--Consett, County Durham, England.
2016: Dynamite's Vargr #3 comic is published.
https://pagesix.com/2018/01/06/james-bond-is-about-to-be-a-brooklynite/
By Oli Coleman and Emily Smith
January 6, 2018 | 4:59pm
James Bond is Brooklyn bound.
Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond star Daniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise.
The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday.
Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home).
Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).”
Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.”
Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, Colonel Sun — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called The James Bond Dossier, analyzing Fleming’s novels.
1966: Sean Connery on the cover of Life magazine.
January 1985.
2015: Spectre cast members Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista pose on Gaislachkogl's peak, Sölden, Austria prior to filming there.
1966: Henry Francis Gammidge's last of 11 Bond stories finishes in the Daily Express. Mike McClusky, illustrator.
2008: Norvic FDC (First Day Cover) issues James Bond commemorative stamps for the Fleming Centenary.
1972: the RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
Which in turn ends plans to use it as "the Floating College".
2012: Producers announce Thomas Newman to score Skyfall.
Development
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on 9 January 2012 that Thomas Newman, frequent collaborator of Skyfall director Sam Mendes, would score Skyfall.[1] On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous. He emailed me back, saying I was just about to call you, let’s meet for lunch!"[2] Newman took over musical duties for the film from David Arnold who was busy directing the musical aspects of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies. However, Arnold later commented that the reason behind the selection of Newman had been because of his past work with Mendes.[3] Newman's collaborator J. A. C. Redford did the orchestration.[4]
On 6 October 2012, the album's track list was revealed featuring the running times of each track.[5] The first preview of the score was released a few days later on 9 October 2012,[6] while the soundtrack itself was released less than a month later by Sony Classical.[7] This was the second time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album.
Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to Skyfall does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.[8][9]
The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman. Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the Casino Royale soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over Skyfall's end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs."
1908: Bernard Lee is born--London, England. (Dies at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.)
1966: The Man with the Golden Gun comic strip begins its run in the Daily Express, from writer Jim Lawrence and artist Yaroslav Horak. They go on to adapt five more Fleming titles, plus Colonel Sun and 20 original Bond adventures.
2000: A second soundtrack album for Tomorrow Never Dies is released. (The original soundtrack release occurred before the actual score of the film was completed.) Chapter III Records removed the theme songs, Moby's Bond theme remake, "Station Break". Added: new music tracks plus an interview with composer David Arnold.
2002: Die Another Day begins filming at Pinewood Studios.
2012 – MGM and EON Productions officially announce Bond 23 release date as 9 November 2012. Sam Mendes directing. John Logan assisting with the script.
1937: Shirley Eaton is born--Edgware, Middlesex, England.
1996: GoldenEye released in Greece and Italy.
2011: Ian Fleming International Airport (formerly Boscobel Aerodrome) in Jamaica, a $300 million renovation, is officially re-opened by Prime Minister Bruce Golding plus Ian Lucy Fleming, Fleming's niece. And a 10 minute drive from Golden Eye (sic) Resort.
2018 : I sat at my desk not being arsed to do any work,and contemplating eating my sausage sandwich I made for lunch.