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RichardTheBruce

December 15th

1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.)

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39 [correction: she was 43].

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/07/



http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2014/09/15/Live-and-Let-Die-newspaper-comic-strip-1958


https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1414401

214 https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=116429


Swedish Semic Comic 1970-71 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3
Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1971 | Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1986

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 3:
“Live and Let Die” (1965)
"Leve og lade dø"

1965: Agente 007 - Operazione Tuono (Operation Thunder) released in Italy.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Tiger and Kissy at the volcano.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Netherlands.
1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)

1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.

1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.

1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.

1995: 007 ja kultainen silmä (007 and a Golden Eye) released in Finland.

1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.

2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.

2006: ప్రపంచానికి ఒక్కడు (Prapanchaniki Okkadu; One to the World--Telugu title) released in India.

2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.

Belvedere Is Making Sure That James Bond Will Actually Drink
A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie

businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM

Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.

Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.

Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.

To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)

The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.

Here's the MI6 bottle:

The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."

Here's the 007 Silver Saber:

Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)

The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."

The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.

LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."

2014: Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear are spotted on a boat on the Thames sans life jackets, Spectre filming.

James Bond boat spotted in Spectre filming on Thames

See the complete article here:

https://www.mby.com/news/james-bond-boat-spotted-spectre-filming-thames-43822

Chris Jefferies December 16, 2014

Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear were spotted in London yesterday when the
latest James Bond boat was filmed cruising up the Thames

The latest James Bond boat has been caught on camera as filming for the new 007 movie Spectre got underway on the Thames yesterday (15 December).

Daniel Craig, playing her Majesty’s most famous fictional spy, was seen riding a black and grey RIB near Vauxhall.

Holding onto a handrail on the bow, the star of Skyfall and Casino Royale cut a stark figure all in black. Presumably the producers decided that a luminous lifejacket would somewhat ruin the look.

Accompanied by Rory Kinnear, who plays Mi6 chief of staff Bill Tanner, the James Bond actor made his way up the Thames in the bright December sunshine.

Both men were flanked by a pair of armoured guards – seemingly members of the Marine Policing Unit who had landed a cameo role in the film.

The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is due out on 6 November 2015 and also stars Christoph Waltz as the chief villain.

Previous Bond outings have seen starring roles for a Fairey Huntress (From Russia With Love), a Glastron GT150 (Live and Let Die) and a Sunseeker XS2000 (Casino Royale).

For more James Bond boat action, read our list of the Top 5 James Bond boat chase scenes.
https://www.mby.com/news/top-5-classic-james-bond-boat-chase-scenes/

2015: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood exhibits six James Bonds in wax. George Lazenby headlines.

2020: Dicebreaker reports on James Bond role-playing games.

d007: How the all-but-forgotten
James Bond RPG
changed roleplaying

Tomorrow Never Dice.

See the complete article here:

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg/feature/james-bond-rpg-changed-roleplaying

Feature by Rob Wieland Contributor
Published on 15 Dec, 2020

Perhaps it's wishful thinking that, were he real, James Bond could have stopped the wild ride that 2020 has been. Every day features a headline that feels like it could like it came out of one of his big action blockbusters, containing the potent mix of doomsday potent and ridiculous on-the-nose circumstances that can only be appreciated after a shaken, not stirred martini or two. With Bond’s next adventure, No Time To Die, delayed until next spring (or perhaps longer) due to the coronavirus, most fans will have to take solace in his previous adventures. But a lucky few can not only be Bond, but see how he changed the way game designers thought of creating RPGs.

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About James Bond 007:
Role Playing In Her
Majesty’s Secret Service
Released: 1983
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg

James Bond RPG - Character Creation (25:37)

2021: No Time To Die released in the Philippines.

2022: Michael Reed dies at age 93--United Kingdom.
(Born 7 July 1929--Canada. Also reported as born Wandsworth, London, England.)

Michael Reed

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)

Michael Reed (cinematographer)
Born 7 July 1929
Canada
Died 15 December 2022 (aged 93)
Occupation Cinematography
Years active 1947–1990

Michael Reed, BSC (7 July 1929 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films from the 1950s to 1980s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1]

Career
Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry before becoming the director of photography on Hammer's The Ugly Duckling (1959) and several Hammer horror films. He acted as director of photography on several ITC television series such as Sword of Freedom, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Saint. At the same time he was 2nd unit Director of Photography on the James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2]

Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Reed worked on such British television series as The New Avengers, Press Gang and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.

Personal life and death
Reed died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4]

Selected filmography
Devil's Bait (1959)
The Ugly Duckling (1959)
The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
The Gorgon (1964)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
Prehistoric Women (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Hireling (1973)
Galileo (1975)
The Stick Up (1977)
Leopard in the Snow (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Loophole (1981)
John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
Wild Geese II (1985)
God's Outlaw (1986)

References
"Michael Reed | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
"Michael Reed". BFI.
"In Memoriam of Cinematographer Michael Reed BSC 1929–2022". From Sweden with Love. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-michael-reed?id=05162

2022: Skyball - James Bond inspired Christmas Party & Musical Tribute Show at Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge, London, England.

Skyball: James Bond
inspired Christmas Party
& Musical Tribute Show,
London 2022

See the complete article here:

https://westendevents.co.uk/james-bond-inspired-skyball-shared-christmas-party-2022-leonardo-royal-hotel-london-tower-bridge/

02, 08, 09, 15 & 16 Dec 2022
7.30pm – 1am
£100+VAT

Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge
45 Prescot Street
London, E1 8GP

What to expect from our James Bond inspired Christmas party nights…

About the venue
Join us once again for a suave and sophisticated, James Bond themed Christmas party night at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge. This 4 star venue is perfectly situated in the City of London, just around the corner from Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. Nearby transport links include Tower Hill and Aldgate tube stations, Tower Gateway DLR and London Fenchurch Street overground station. For party-goers looking for an overnight stay the hotel offers 370 bedrooms as well as a spa and swimming pool. 

About the entertainment
Over dinner entertainment – Q The Music are the world’s leading tribute to James Bond music. The band have wowed audiences across the globe in countries such as the UK, Maldives, Monte Carlo, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Gibraltar and Majorca. In 2017 the band were honoured to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event and in 2019 won praise in The Times for their sell-out show at the Adelphi Theatre. In December 2022, West End Events is pleased to be working with Q The Music for the 9th time. Prepare yourself for an unforgettable night!

Casino tables – Blackjack and roulette tables are included in the ticket price and are a great way to compete against your colleagues. The “gambling” is only for fun, with paper money and casino chips provided.

Photo booth – Your ticket price includes unlimited trips to the photo booth. Each visit includes double prints for guests to take home as a souvenir.

Glitter face painters – The perfect addition to the glitz and glam of a secret agent night. Our face painters will be open after dinner with their sophisticated, sparkly designs. Glitter beard anyone?

After dinner dancing with our live party band – After dinner, Q The Music return in their party-wear as their alter ego, the sensational London Showband. Despite all of the other entertainment, you’ll struggle to leave the dance floor as these guys churn out the party hits. The playlist will contain something for everyone with a variety of popular classics from across the decades.

Skyball tickets include…
Glass of Prosecco on arrival
Three course Christmas dinner
Half bottle of wine per guest
007 tribute band over dinner
Live party band after dinner
Secret agent theme
Glitter face painting
Photo booth
Casino tables
Spectacular 4* venue

2022 MENU
STANDARD MENU
Home-cured beetroot salmon gravadlax with horseradish crème fraiche, pickled cucumbers, crispy capers and micro cress
Roast turkey roulade with sage & onion stuffing, bacon-wrapped chipolatas, vegetables and roast gravy
Chocolate & cherry bombe

VEGETARIAN / VEGAN MENU
Hummus-stuffed piquillo pepper with olive tapenade and petite cress salad-artisanal toast
Slow-baked jackfruit steak (GF) with ratatouille of peppers, aubergine, courgette & tomatoes and sundried tomato coulis
New York vanilla cheesecake (GF)

Menus subject to change if certain ingredients are unavailable due to supply chain issues

DRINKS
TIMINGS
DRESS CODE
KEY INFO

DRINKS
A glass of Prosecco is included on arrival.
Half bottle of wine is included in package.
Pre-order a set of 3 standard drink tokens for £16.50+VAT or 5 tokens for £27.50+VAT. (Redeem each standard token for a small house wine, beer or soft drink).
Pre-order a set of 3 premium drink tokens for £21+VAT or 5 tokens for £35+VAT. (Redeem each premium token for a single house spirit & mixer, small house wine, beer or soft drink).
Pre-order a 4 hour unlimited beer, wine & soft drink wristband for £30+VAT (must be purchased for whole group).
Jugs of iced water are provided on each table.

A full cash bar is available throughout the night should you require any drinks outside of the standard package.

Contact us to discuss your drinks package now.
Check out our fabulous live band…

Video: Q The Music Show play the theme from Skyfall
https://westendevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Skyfall-Cover-by-James-Bond-Tribute-Band-Concert-Q-The-Music-Show.mp4

The UK’s no. 1 James Bond tribute band, Q The Music Show, shake up the house with this stunning cover of the Oscar-winning theme to Skyfall, made famous by Adele.

Video: Q The Music Show play Another Way To Die
https://westendevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Just-Another-Way-to-Die-Q-The-Music-Show.mp4

The UK’s no. 1 James Bond tribute band, Q The Music Show, perform Another Way to Die – the theme to the 2008 movie Quantum of Solace.
*Note – live band set up in the videos is a thirteen piece function band. Skyball will have a six piece set up

RichardTheBruce

December 16th

1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 29 May 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

https://www.slideshare.net/luisnarbona/james-bond-007-the-hildebrand-rarity-mu








India Star Comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/


Swedish Semic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1) | Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 2)

Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Ubåt Saknas (Submarine Missing; The Hildebrand Rarity)

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
"U-båd savnes" ("Submarine missing")

1967: 007/カジノ・ロワイヤル (007/ Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in Ireland and Sweden.
1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny It Twice--Swedish title) released in Finland.

1988: People Magazine votes Sean Connery the "Sexiest Man Alive".

1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: 007 ゴールデンアイ (007 Gōruden'ai; 007 Golden Eye) released in Japan

Japan

1995: 007 골든 아이 (007 goal-deun ah-ee; 007 Golden Eye) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies US premiere in Los Angeles, California.

http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere3.html

1997: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Spain.
(Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).

1999: 新鐵金剛之黑日危機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī hēi rì wéijī; New Iron King Kong's Black Sun Crisis) released in Hong Kong.

1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.

2002: New York Times article "North Korea Denounces Bond Film" reports North Korea denounces Bond film.

North Korea Denounces James Bond Film

nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/north-korea-denounces-james-bond-film.html
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002

North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day, for ''insulting the Korean nation.''

''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.

The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''

2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.

2020: That 1969 Mercury Cougar goes to auction at Bonhams.

1969 Mercury Cougar from James Bond 007
film ready to shake up the auction block

See the complete article here:

https://granthshala.com/1969-mercury-cougar-from-james-bond-007-film-ready-to-shake-up-the-auction-block/

Entertainment Hollywood | December 8, 2020

The car was used in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, which featured George Lazenby as Bond

Replica ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin DB5S will have smoke screen and machine gun

The automaker is working with Aston Martin James Bond film franchise special effects supervisors to develop 25 entertainments of the iconic DB5 as seen in the 007 film ‘Goldfinger’. The coupes will be equipped with functional smoke screen generators, simulated oil slick spreaders, recoiling machine gun barrels that emanate from the front corner lights and allow lighted devices to be destroyed as well as other gadgets.

When most people think that “James Bond”, George Lazenby is the last actor to play the role to come to mind. Likewise, the phrase “Bond car” probably does not cause the philosophy of the Mercury Cougar to dance in your head.

But if by chance you are an outsider and you have some money, then we have good news.

(Bonhams)

Used in “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” by the 1969 Merger Cougar XR7, the only film to feature Lazenby as Bond is coming up for auction. Bonhams.

The red convertible was not one of the 007 gadget-filled rides from the Q branch, but the property of Countess Tracy di Vicenzo of Diana Rigg, who (SPOILER ALERT) would become Mrs. Bond and complete an untimely end before the credit roll. .

The “Avengers” chairman of Diana RIGG helped the Lotus Allen family

According to Bonhams, four cars were used during production, it was driven in the snow during a memorabilia “Barn scene. “The car has had more than eight owners since the 1969 film was completed, but belongs to the same person since 1990 and was fully restored this year. Another cougar was damaged during a car chase. Gaya and later separated, while the other two are currently owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and a private owner.

(Bonhams)

It is equipped with a 428-4V Cobra Jet Ram Air V-8 engine with Ram Air Induction, automatic transmission, screen-corrected French floating license plate and trunk rack fitted with classic Kneel skis.

(Bonhams)

The cougar is being offered appropriately at Bonham’s Bond Street event in London on 16 December, but bids can be submitted remotely. Pre-auction estimates for the car are $ 130,000 to $ 200,000.

2021: Bloomsbury Publishing releases Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

Fashioning James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/

Description
Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.

Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1: 'My tailor… Savile Row': Sean Connery (1962)
• 2: 'Fitting Fleming's hero': Sean Connery (1963-1967)
• 3: The Man with the Midas touch: Lifestyle, fashion and marketing in the 1960s
• 4: 'Coming out of Burton's short of credit': George Lazenby (1969)
• 5: 'Provided the collars and the cuffs match': Sean Connery (1971)
• 6: 'Licence to frill': Roger Moore (1971-1975)
• 7: Breaking his tailor's heart: Roger Moore (1976-1980)
• 8: 'You can always spot a Hayward': Roger Moore (1980-1985)
• 9: Licence to tailor revoked: Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)
• 10: Cool Brioni: Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)
• 11: Slick trigger suits: Daniel Craig (2005-2008)
• 12.You travel with a tuxedo? Daniel Craig (2010 – 2015)
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

Product details
Published 16 Dec 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9781350145481
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 8 colour and 46 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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2021: Funko POP! Movies tentative release date for James Bond S2 - Pierce Brosnan (Golden Eye) Vinyl Figure.

2021: The Dallas String Quartet plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, Colorado.

Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/39973637-dallas-string-quartet-at-vilar-performing-arts-center

Thursday 16 December 2021
Dallas String Quartet
Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, CO, US

Dallas String Quartet live review
We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme …

Venue
Vilar Performing Arts Center
68 Avondale Ln. 81620 Beaver Creek, CO, US
www.vilarpac.org

Additional details
Price: US $15.00
Doors open: 12:30

Tour name: Where Bach Meets Bon Jovi

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric

2022: James Bond 007 Launch Party at Tilt Studio AZ Mills, Tempe, Arizona.

James Bond 007 Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://playmorepinball.wordpress.com/tournaments/

James Bond 007 Launch Party, Friday, December 16, 2022, 6:30pm

Location: Tilt Studio AZ Mills
Cost: $1 IFPA entry fee and cost of games
Format: 5 Fair Strikes, once 4 or fewer players remain, all games will be on 007.
Prizes: Stern official launch champion plaque to the winner, 007 banner, and translite, given in random drawing among all players present after round 3

2022: James Bond Shared Christmas Party at the Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge, London, England.

James Bond Shared Christmas Party

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https://ccevents.org.uk/venue/james-bond-shared-christmas-party/

Details:
Address: Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge. 45 Prescot Street. London

About the venue
Join us once again for a suave and sophisticated, James Bond themed Christmas party night at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge. This 4 star venue is perfectly situated in the City of London, just around the corner from Tower Bridge and the Tower of London.

About the entertainment
Over dinner entertainment – Q The Music are the world’s leading tribute to James Bond music. Prepare yourself for an unforgettable night!
Casino tables
– Blackjack and roulette tables are included in the ticket price and are a great way to compete against your colleagues. The “gambling” is only for fun, with paper money and casino chips provided.
Photo booth
– Your ticket price includes unlimited trips to the photo booth. Each visit includes double prints for guests to take home as a souvenir.
Glitter face painters
– The perfect addition to the glitz and glam of a secret agent night. Our face painters will be open after dinner with their sophisticated, sparkly designs. Glitter beard anyone?
After dinner dancing with our live party band
– After dinner, Q The Music return in their party-wear as their alter ego, the sensational London Showband. Despite all of the other entertainment, you’ll struggle to leave the dance floor as these guys churn out the party hits. The playlist will contain something for everyone with a variety of popular classics from across the decades.

Packages
James Bond Shared Christmas Party
02, 08, 09, 15 & 16 Dec 2022
7.30pm – 1am
£100+VAT

Skyball tickets include…
Glass of Prosecco on arrival
Three course Christmas dinner
Half bottle of wine per guest
007 tribute band over dinner
Live party band after dinner
Secret agent theme
Glitter face painting
Photo booth
Casino tables
Spectacular 4* venue

DRINKS
A glass of Prosecco is included on arrival.
Half bottle of wine is included in package.
Pre-order a set of 3 standard drink tokens for £16.50+VAT or 5 tokens for £27.50+VAT. (Redeem each standard token for a small house wine, beer or soft drink).
Pre-order a set of 3 premium drink tokens for £21+VAT or 5 tokens for £35+VAT. (Redeem each premium token for a single house spirit & mixer, small house wine, beer or soft drink).
Pre-order a 4 hour unlimited beer, wine & soft drink wristband for £30+VAT (must be purchased for whole group).
Jugs of iced water are provided on each table.
A full cash bar is available throughout the night should you require any drinks outside of the standard package

CONTACT [email protected]

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December 17th

1964: London premiere of Goldfinger.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling.htm

1965: James Bond 007 - Feuerball (Jame Bond 007 - Fireball) released in West Germany.

1965: Agent 007 i ilden (Agent 007 In the Fire) released in Denmark.

1965: Åskbollen (The Thunderbolt) released in Sweden.

1965: Opération Tonnerre (Operation Thunder) released in France.

1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.

1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993.)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US and Canada.

1971: Diamanter varer evigt (Diamonds Last Forever) released in Denmark.

1971: Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (Agent 007 - A Cascade of Diamonds) released in Italy.

1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/lald-dk-pressemateriale-1973/

1973: Vive y deja morir released in Spain. (Catalan title Viu i deixa morir.)

1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.

1997: Mary Fanning Wickham Bond dies at age 89.
(Born 8 Jun 1898.)

Mary Wickham Bond

See the complete article here:

https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Bond__Mary_Fanning_Wickham

Mary Wickham Bond
6/8/1898 - 12/17/1997

Primary Vocation: Literary
Geographic Connection to Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

Novelist and memoirist Mary Wickham Fanning Bond was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Awards: Philadelphia Browning Society Gold Medal

Abstract:
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born in 1898 into a well-to-do family in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. In the early 1950s she wrote her first bestseller, Device and Desire: a Novel of Bad Manners. While an accomplished writer, she is also known for her second marriage to James Bond, the namesake of the famous spy character. Bond passed away in 1997.

Biography
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born on June 8, 1898, the daughter of Samuel and Maria Porcher. Her father Samuel made a good living as the chief purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She was born into a life of privilege and was educated at a local private school. As a youth, she enjoyed such pastimes as horseback riding and attending debutante balls. Although born into this lifestyle, she never felt it dictated her behavior. Much to her father's dismay, her first job was selling at Wanamaker's. She was accepted to Bryn Mawr College around the time of World War I but chose instead to be an emergency aide, someone who volunteered as a nurse or air raid warden.

Her first marriage was in 1930 to a man by the name of Shippen Lewis, a prominent lawyer in the region. This marriage lasted until 1952, when Lewis died. Two years later she married a man whose name would inspire one of the most wellknown fictional characters in history: James Bond.

Author of spy novels, Ian Fleming, read James Bond's book Birds of the West Indies and gave his international spy the name James Bond. What was to Mary Bond the "dullest name in the world" would become one of the most wellknown, much to the chagrin of the real life James Bond and his wife. She didn't mind the attention much during the day, but her husband would get calls at 2 and 3 a.m. from women looking for James Bond. She would answer these calls irritably, saying "Yes, James is here, but this is Pussy Galore and he's busy now." Eventually, she set a meeting up between her husband and Ian Fleming, which led to them becoming friends and also inspired her 1966 book How 007 Got His Name (1966).

Bond's writing career actually began in the 1920s and, although none of her seven novels were published, she did receive the Philadelphia Browning Society's gold medal in 1926 for her sonnet entitled "The Gift." She took a hiatus from writing novels but continued to write poetry, magazine articles, and short stories. Then, in the 1940s she found inspiration at a local library in the form of a book titled Unusual and Eccentric Wills. The book was about a rich Viennese man who left nine of his relatives $25,000 but with one condition: they all had to stay away from his funeral. The real twist was that anyone who did show up would receive his entire fortune. Bond transplanted this story into 1950s Philadelphia, and it resulted in her bestseller: Device and Desire (1949).

In 1980, her book To James Bond with Love was published. In this book she chronicled her life married to James Bond. She accompanied her husband on his frequent trips to the Bahamas to gather information on birds. On one of these trips in February of 1964 they dropped in unannounced at Ian Fleming's Jamaica residence, an event she describes in comical detail. Apparently Mr. Fleming first thought that the Bonds may have dropped in unannounced to slap him with a libel suit for the theft of the name James Bond. This was not the case, and all went well with their meeting. Upon their departure, Fleming even presented them with a copy of his then latest novel, You Only Live Twice. On the fly cover Fleming had signed it "To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his Identity." The remainder of Bond's book describes their other adventures in the Caribbean, everything from traveling between islands on small boats and sleeping in less than desirable conditions, to how James proved through his work that birds in the West Indies originated in North America. She also wrote of these experiences in Far Afield in the Caribbean (1971).

Mary Bond released her autobiography Ninety Years At Home In Philadelphia in 1988. Just one year later, James died in February of 1989.

In 1997, Mary Bond died of congestive heart failure at the age of 99 in her home in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.

Selected Works:

• Device and Desire: A Novel of Bad Manners. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1949.
• The Petrified Gesture: A Novel. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951.
• How 007 Got His Name. London: Collins, 1966.
• Far Afield in the Caribbean: Migratory Flights of a Naturalist's Wife. Wynnewood, PA: Livingston, Publishing, 1971.
• To James Bond with Love. Lititz, PA: Sutter House, 1980.
• White Swallow and Other Poems. Bar Harbor, ME: Bar Harbor Times Press, 1983.
• Ninety Years At Home in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1988.

Sources:

• Capuzzo, Michael. "A Philadelphia Lady Takes a Stroll Through the Century Mary Bond's New Book Coincides With Her 90th Birthday." Philadelphia Inquirer 5 June 1988: J01.
• Contosta, David R. Suburb in the City. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
• "Mary Fanning Wickham Bond." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale 2002. 25 Sept. 2011.
• Wallace, Andy."Mary Fanning Bond, 99." Philadelphia Inquirer 17 Dec. 1997: B06.

Photo Credit: rjschatz. "Photograph of Mary Wickham Bond." Photograph. Cropped to 4x3. Source: Online Resource.
Rob Lutz
Written by Rob Lutz, 2011; updated 2018

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.

1999: 007: Liiga kitsas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.

2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications

2020: Artists involved in creating the title theme "No Time To Die" discuss their experience during Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival.

Bond on the Box
James Bond Film, TV and Radio Alerts

Music for Screens: The
Making of ‘No Time To Die’ at
Variety FYC Festival

See the complete article here:

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

On 12 Dec, 2020 | By Bond on the Box | In Events

Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Johnny Marr
and Hans Zimmer will take part in the
Music for Screens panel discussion
exploring the creation of the James
Bond theme, ‘No Time To Die’, at
Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival on
Thursday, 17 December, 2020 from
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT).

No Time To Die by Billie Eilish Smoke Vinyl

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337517606153162755

2020: Jeremy Bulloch dies at age 75--St George's Hospital, London, England.
(Born 16 February 1945--Market Harborough, England.)

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
aged 75

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/star-wars-actor-jeremy-bulloch-dies-aged-75

English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
trilogy
PA Media || Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.20 EST

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
aged 75.

The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.

Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.

“He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.

“Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

“He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.

Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

“A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

“I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:

“Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”

Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-original-boba-fett-and-the-empire-strikes-back-star-jeremy-bulloch-passes-away-aged-75-a181030#gs.odi7zx

Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.

"In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

2022: Foreverland 007 Golden Ball - James Bond Style! at Landmark Hall 156 Landmark Drive Taylors, SC

Foreverland 007 Golden Ball
- James Bond Style!

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foreverland-007-golden-ball-james-bond-style-tickets-243958866537

Dec 17
Join us Every 3rd Saturday monthly for our Foreverland Ballroom Dance! 7-8p: Dance Lesson/ 8-11pm: Ballroom Dance/ NO PARTNER REQUIRED!
By Natalie Foreverland

When and where
Date and time
Sat, December 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST

Location
Landmark Hall 156 Landmark Drive Taylors, SC 29687

Let’s get together
and Dance!!!

Ladies, we're gonna have a room full of James Bonds! MEN IT'S YOUR NIGHT TO SHINE in your black undercover agent persona!

FRI. Oct. 27. 7-11pm @Foreverland's 007 Golden Ball @Landmark Hall, 156 Landmark Dr. Taylors, SC
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From 7-8pm we will have a group dance lesson and we will be learning Bachata. Natalie Foreverland will be your dance instructor for the night.
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Then we will dance from 8-11pm. Hor d'oeuvres will be provided. 
Dress is Black & or Gold... casual or dress to impress! Your choice! OR COME AS YOU ARE!
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Our music selections will be all of your Ballroom, Swing and Salsa Favorites.... and a few songs that fit just right with our theme. All dance genres: WCS, ECS, Waltz, Foxtrot, Salsa, Tango, Rumba, Viennese Waltz, Two Step, NC2, Shag, Bachata!
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$10 - Members
$12 - Online
$15 @ The Door
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Although not required, we encourage you to share with us some of your best recipes, and contribute to our smorgasbord of dishes-desserts. We love to tempt those tastebuds!
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Feel free to bring your beautiful children. We want the whole family on the dance floor!

Natalie Foreverland
Organizer of Foreverland 007 Golden Ball - James Bond Style!

Natalie Foreverland is Dance Coach and Dance Event coordinator. Please see her website for more details.

natalieforeverland.com
Ticket sales end soon
$10 – $12

Previous Event

2022: Stern Pinball James Bond 007 Launch Party! at RLM Amusements, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Stern Pinball James Bond 007 Launch Party!

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https://hunthalloween.com/event/stern-pinball-james-bond-007-launch-party-eid4a7brjvtmp

Date & Time
Sat Dec 17 2022 at 12:00 pm
UTC-05:00
Location
RLM Amusements | Grand Rapids, MI
Stern Pinball James Bond 007 Launch Party!

Details
This is an official Stern Army launch party for the release of Stern Pinball's latest pinball machine - James Bond 007! All ages and skill levels are welcome.
Players will have unlimited qualifying attempts to put up their best score on James Bond 007 from 12pm-5pm. At 5pm the top 4 (or 8 if we have at least 16 players who put up scores) will face off in the finals.

We will have a Stern Pinball James Bond 007 grand champion plaque for the winner along with a James Bond 007 translite that will be given away at random to anyone who puts up a score. Players must be on-site at 5pm to be eligible for the drawing.

The only cost is the $10 entry fee and all the games are on free play. Outside food and beverages are allowed.

Hope to see you here!

Event Location
RLM Amusements, 4318 Plainfield Ave Suite K,Grand Rapids,MI,United States, Grand Rapids, United States
Event Host
RLM Amusements

2022: 007 Launch Party at Morgantown, West Virginia.

007 James Bond Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/morgantown/007-james-bond-launch-party/200023698748747

Come to Starport Arcade and Pub in Morgantown, WV to celebrate the release of Stern Pinball's newest game, James Bond!

This will be a three-strike tournament.

Entry is FREE!

All rounds will be random assignment of groups of 4 as best as possible, with balanced opponents after the first round.

Starport gift cards and Stern Swag will be up for grabs.

IFPA fee will be covered by the tournament director.

Hosted by Brian Dye

Date & Time
Sat Dec 17 2022 at 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Starport Arcade and Pub, 228 Walnut Street,Morgantown,WV,United States, Morgantown, United States

2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party at Quasars Arcade, Corpus Christi, Texas.

James Bond Pinball Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/corpus christi/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023674086645

James Bond Pinball Launch Party Sat Dec 17, 2022

The official Stern Launch Party to celebrate the release of James Bond. The new pin will be guaranteed in the first 3 rounds and the final round. Cash prizes, 007 trophy and translite up for grabs!

? All skill levels welcome
? $1 entry fee for new players*
? $6 entry fee for veteran players
? 3-4 players are paired up each round
✅ Low scores each round gets a strike
✅ 3 strikes and you're out!
✅ IFPA sanctioned tournament
✅ Quasars donates $20 to the pot

*New players have a global IFPA rank over 10,000. Pinball games still require coin drop per play.
**Tourney format may change based off attendance.

Date & Time
Sat Dec 17 2022 at 9:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Quasars arcade, 5301 Everhart rd, Corpus Christi, United States

2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/licence-to-kill/

PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

Movie Showtimes

December 17, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 18, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 19, 2022
12:45 4:00
December 20, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 21, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 22, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45

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December 18th

1914: James Marne Kumar Maitland is born--Kolkata, India.
(He dies March 1992 at age 77--Rome, Italy.)

Marne Maitland (1914–1992)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1959: Ivar Bryce questions whether he will continue with the Bond project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

The Boy and the Bridge was dead in the water.

Fearing its poor box office was going to hit him hard financially,
Bryce was now having grave thoughts about the Bond project. On 18
December he wrote a letter to McClory that must have sent the Irishman's
spirits crashing. Bryce had decided that he no longer wished to proceed any
further with Bond. Already his personal outlay on the film's pre-production
was considerable, and set to rise. With the hope for cash bonanza from Boy
and the Bridge non-existent, the 007 project's only chance of redemption was
through financial backing from outside sources.

Chapter 21 - The Court Case that Killed Ian Fleming

[In court] McClory's counsel pointed out
that the agreement with Fleming was signed on 8 July 1959 and Bryce's letter
of 18 December was only five months later, and so certainly within the
reasonable period in which the company might have been incorporated.

1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
The 18th and final Bond comic for them.

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





Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Operation Spökflyg (Part 1) | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)

Swedish Semic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1)
[Operation Ghost Flight]

https://www.comics.org/issue/73996/

Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
[The Night of Horror]

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 18: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. I” (1969)
"Operation spøgelsesfly ..." [Operation Ghost Plane)

Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-20-1970/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
"Rædslernes nat" [Night of Terrors]

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the start of the ski chase with OO7 and Blofeld.
1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling2.htm

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the Netherlands.
1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/ohmss-dk-filmprogram-1969/

1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.

1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.

1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.

1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.

1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.

1984: Mai Dire Mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland, Lebanon and the Netherlands.
1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.

1997: A holnap markában (Tomorrow's Mark) released in Hungary.

1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.

1999: 007 언리미티드 (007 Un-lee-mee-tee-deu; 007 Unlimited) released in the Republic of Korea.

2001: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is born--Los Angeles, California.
2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.

2019: Claudine Oger (Auger) dies at age 78--Paris France.
(Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)

Claudine Auger, James Bond’s First
French Co-Star, Dies at 78

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/movies/claudine-auger-dead.html

“Thunderball” was her breakthrough, and she went on to appear
in movies with Alain Delon and Giancarlo Giannini. But
Hollywood stardom eluded her.

Claudine Auger in London in 1968. She was a star in Europe,
but her American projects were few and far between.
Credit...Dove/Daily Express, via Getty Images

By Anita Gates | Published Dec. 22, 2019 | Updated Dec. 23, 2019

Claudine Auger, Sean Connery’s co-star in Thunderball and the first French actress to play James Bond’s love interest, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 78.

Her death was confirmed by the Parisian agency Time Art, which represented her.

Ms. Auger (pronounced oh-JHAY) was 24 when Thunderball, the fourth film in the long-running Bond franchise, was released in 1965. Her character, Domino, is the mistress of an evil mastermind who has stolen two nuclear warheads — and killed her brother. Domino does not hold back when exacting revenge on her former lover. (A harpoon gun is involved.)

Because she spoke English with a heavy accent, Ms. Auger’s voice was dubbed by another actress. But because she was an excellent swimmer, she did her own underwater scenes in the film, which was shot largely in the Bahamas.

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When, during a 1965 interview, the American gossip columnist Dorothy Manners announced, “Hollywood could use you,” Ms. Auger answered cheerfully, “Not as much as I can use Hollywood.” But a couple of decades later, she had reconsidered.

“French actresses have never had much success in Hollywood,” she observed in a 1986 Los Angeles Times interview, adding that Germans and Swedes had done better but that “it’s hard to explain why.”

Still, she was fond of Southern California. In the same interview, she said, “I always go to the end of Santa Monica Pier and throw a coin in the Pacific” at the end of a visit — to ensure her return.

She was born Claudine Oger in Paris on April 26, 1941, the daughter of an architect. At 17, she was crowned Miss France Monde and was first runner-up in the Miss World competition.

She had a modeling career and played an uncredited role in a 1959 Jean Cocteau film, “Le Testament d’Orphée” (“The Testament of Orpheus”). (Almost everyone in the film, with the exception of Cocteau himself, was uncredited.) After that experience, she studied drama at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Ms. Auger’s first credited film role was in Marcel Carné’s “Terrain Vague” (1960), or “Wasteland,” about a teenage street gang in Paris. Her final screen appearance was in a 1997 television movie version of Stendhal’s “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”), playing Madame de Fervaques, an elegant widow who receives love letters from a younger man.

She and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, a director and writer 25 years her senior — he had cast her in her first uncredited film role, in the romance “Christine” (1958) — were married in 1959, when she was 18. They divorced a decade later. In 1984 she married Peter Brent, a British businessman, who died in 2008. They had a daughter, Jessica Claudine Brent, who survives her.

In a 1965 television interview, Ms. Auger spoke the words that became her most famous quotation. Asked the difference between acting in a James Bond movie and in classic theater by Molière, she insisted there was none. Acting was “un jeu,” and the two forms were “la même chose,” she said. A game. The same thing.

Claudine Auger (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000805/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2020: Peter Curtis Lamont dies at age 91.
(Born 12 November 1929--London, England.)

Peter Lamont, Legendary
Production Designer on Bond
Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91

11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes

GOLDFINGER, from left: Sean Connery, Harold Sakata, 1964
Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'

An Oscar winner and four-
time nominee, he also
worked on 'The Seven-Per-
Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
the Roof' and 'Aliens.'

Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

"Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."

Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.

Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).

Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).

Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.

"I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."

In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.

Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).

After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.

His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.

Peter Lamont (I) (1929–2020)

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2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party! at the North End Pub, Lafayette, Indiana.

James Bond Pinball Launch Party!

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We will be running a James Bond Launch Tournament to go along with all of our other events of the day! Best game format for qualifying, unlimited attempts during the day, and at 11:30 PM we will have a finals game on James Bond between the top 4 qualifiers.

Hosted by North End Pub Pinball

Date & Time
Sun Dec 18 2022 at 12:00 pm to 11:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time)

Location
North End Pub, 2100 Elmwood Ave, Lafayette, IN,United States

2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

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PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

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1937: Albert Moses is born--Kandy, Sri Lanka.
(He dies 15 September 2017 at age --London, England.)

Albert Moses: End of ‘A thousand apologies…’

Sunday, 15 Dec 2019

Albert Moses, the Sri Lankan born actor, who went on to achieve international stardom, gained popularity over his acting in the ITV comedy television series, Mind Your Language, where he was cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India. Indeed he was better known among the populace as Ranjeet Singh, rather than as Albert Moses.

Born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Albert Moses passed away on September 15, 2017 in London, and was put to rest at St. Andrew's Church in Gampola yesterday (9). As per his obituary, he has passed away peacefully.

IMDb lists Moses as an actor and producer, known for the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Octopussy (1983). Both, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy were James Bond movies.

Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.

It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.

At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.

Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.

He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.

Albert Moses with Roger Moore

Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.

He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.

He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.

Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.

He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.

Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.

He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.

The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.

- D A

Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)

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Filmography

Actor (77 credits)

2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient

1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
- Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
- A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
- Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
- Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
- Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
- Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
- Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
- House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
- Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
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1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
- Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
- Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
1996 The Knock (TV Series)- Mr. Malhorta
- Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
- The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
- Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
- Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
- The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
- Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
- Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
- The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
- Episode #9.7 (1989)
- Episode #8.5 (1988)
- Episode #6.1 (1986)
1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
- Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
- Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh -42 episodes
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
- Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
- Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
- Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
- What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
- The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
- Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
- Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
- Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
- Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
- Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
- The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
- Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
- The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
- Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
- The Garland (1981) ... Huq
- Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
- Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series)
Postman
- Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
- Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
- The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
- All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
- The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
- Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
- The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
- El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
- Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
- Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
- El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
- Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
- Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
- Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
- Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series)
- Episode #3.3 (1973)
1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
- Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
- Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
- Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
- Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
- The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
- Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
- Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
- Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan

Producer (1 credit)

1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)

Self (1 credit)

1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series) - Himself - Reader
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.

1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.

1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.

1969: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times

Screen: New James Bond George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern

December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER

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http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print

A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.

Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.

For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.

What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.

First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."

But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.

It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?

Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.

A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:

"I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."

It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

1973: James Bond 007 - Leben und sterben lassen released in West Germany

1973: 007 - Vivi e lascia morire released in Italy.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun premieres Leicester Square Odeon, HRH Prince Philip in attendance.

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun released in the US and the Netherlands.

1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tmwtgg-dk-adsheet-1974/

1985: 007: En la mira de los asesinos (007: In the Sights of the Murderers) released in Mexico.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the US, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel.

Danish Teaser

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).

1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.

1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.

1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,

1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.

1997: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times
FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260

By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997

No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.

This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.

This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.

The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.

''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.

The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.

Tomorrow Never Dies is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.

1999: Desmond Llewelyn dies at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.
(Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)

Culture

Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html
Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
The Independent Culture

DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.

When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."

The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.

As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".

While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.

The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.

He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.

Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)

Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.

Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."

Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."

After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"

Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."

The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.

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Filmography

Actor (122 credits)

1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q
1997 Taboo (Short) -
1995 GoldenEye - Q
1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft

1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
1987 The Living Daylights - Q
1985 A View to a Kill - Q
1983 Octopussy - Q
1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
- Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
- No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
- The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
- Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew

1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
1979 Moonraker - Q
1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
- Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
- The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
- Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
- The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
- Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
- Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
- Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
- Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
- Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
- The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
- Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
- Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
- The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
- Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
- Something Big (1971) ... Somers
1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
- Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
- A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins
1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
- The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
- The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
- Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
- Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
- Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
- The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q
1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
- Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
- Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
- Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
- The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
- Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
- The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
- State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
- A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
- A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
- A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
- Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
- Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
- The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
- The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
- The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
- Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
- Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
- A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
- Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
- Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans

1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
- The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
- Episode #1.5 (1959)
1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
- Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
- Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
- The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
- The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
- Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
- Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
- For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
- The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
- A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
1953 Stryker of the Yard
1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
- The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
- Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
- A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
- The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)

1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke

1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman

Thanks (4 credits)

2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)

2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.

2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.

2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.

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2013: Raymond Benson talks The James Bond Phenomenon with PBS Wisconsin.

The James Bond Phenomenon

See the complete article here:

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/university-place/university-place-james-bond-phenomenon/

University Place
December 19, 2013 | Rating: TV-G | Length: 01:01:05

Video (1:01:05)

Raymond Benson, Author, Film Historian, Musician, joins University Place Presents host Norman Gilliland to discuss the life of Ian Fleming and the history of the James Bond novels. Upon Fleming’s passing, his estate chose authors to continue writing new Bond adventures. Benson was tapped to write James Bond novels from 1997 through 2003.

2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications-2/

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2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party at Surprise, Arizona.

James Bond Pinball Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/surprise/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023664308757?ref=eventlist-cat#

19 December | Event in Surprise | AllEvents.in James Bond Pinball Launch Party

Location
Surprise, Arizona, United States

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cap Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

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Theatre On The Bay
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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
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2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/licence-to-kill/

PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

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December 20th

1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.

Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:

"Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."

But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.

1959: As arranged by producer Kevin McClory, writer Jack Whittingham begins working with Ian Fleming in New York on the "Longitude 78 West" screenplay.

1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/


Re-release

1966: You Only Live Twice films the underground war room with Secretary of Defence, military chiefs.
1966: Paul Ritter is born--Kent, Engand.
(He dies 5 April 2021 at age 54--Faversham, Kent, England.)

Paul Ritter: Friday Night Dinner star dies
of brain tumour at 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/06/friday-night-dinner-star-paul-ritter-dies-of-brain-tumour-at-54

Ritter, who also appeared in films including Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, died at home beside his wife and two sons

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Paul Ritter at a Friday Night Dinner launch in 2020. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
Toby Moses
@tobymoses | Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.12 EDT

The actor Paul Ritter has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54, his agent has told the Guardian. Ritter, who starred as the family patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner alongside Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, died on Monday.

In a statement, his agent said that the actor, who also appeared in numerous films including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, died at home with his family by his side.

Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom for which Ritter is best known, shared his thoughts saying: “Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”

In 2019, Ritter displayed his range with a terrifying performance as Anatoly Dyatlov in the multi-award winning Chernobyl. Toby Whithouse, who wrote spy thriller The Game in which Ritter starred in 2014, said: “This is terrible devastating news. Paul was a stunning actor, a lovely lovely guy. How utterly dreadful.”

Ritter was also a talented stage actor, and was nominated for an Olivier award in 2006 for his performance in Coram Boy and for a Tony award for his 2009 starring role in the Norman Conquests.

“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” said his agent. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.

“Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”

Ritter is due to appear in the Friday Night Dinner 10th anniversary retrospective, which will air on Channel 4 later this year.

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1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.

1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.

1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.

1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.

1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.

1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.

1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Norway.

1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.

1974: Daily Variety reports The Man With the Golden Gun's budget under $7 million. Product placement (free) includes Nikon, Sony, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunlop, American Motors Corporation, and Colibri (lighter, fountain pen, cuff link).
1975: William Lundigan dies at age --Duarte, California.
(Born 12 June 1914, Syracuse, New York.)

William Lundigan

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Lundigan in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

Born June 12, 1914, Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died December 20, 1975 (aged 61), Duarte, California, U.S.
Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Occupation Actor
Years active 1937–1971
Spouse(s) Rena Morgan (1945–1975; his death) 1 child

William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) and Inferno (1953).

Biography
Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons. His father, Michael F. Lundigan, owned a shoe store (at which Lundigan worked) in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at 16.

A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer at WFBL. He graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.

Universal
He was in Armored Car (1937) billed as "Larry Parker". Then his name was changed to "William Lundigan" for West Bound Limited (1937).

Lundigan was billed third in The Lady Fights Back (1937) then promoted to male lead for That's My Story! (1937). He was back down the cast list for The Black Doll (1938) and Reckless Living (1938) but was the male lead for State Police (1938). He had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion (1938) directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air (1938), The Missing Guest (1938), and Freshman Year (1938).

Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939). He was borrowed by Warners for a support part in Dodge City (1939).

Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It (1939) then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman (1939). He supported in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). He said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.

Warner Bros
Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940), The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940), Young America Flies (1940, a short), The Sea Hawk (1940), Service with the Colors (1940, a short), East of the River (1940), and Santa Fe Trail (1940).

Lundigan later described this period as "I was always turning up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut - that old bugaboo, type casting - and made one quickie after another."

Warners promoted him to the lead of some "B"s, The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) and A Shot in the Dark (1941); he was support in The Great Mr. Nobody (1941), Highway West (1941) and International Squadron (1941).

Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave (1941) for Republic Pictures.

MGM
Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds (1942) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch (1942) and had the second lead in Apache Trail (1942) and Northwest Rangers (1942).

He reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and supported in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) and Salute to the Marines (1943). Republic asked him back to play the lead in Headin' for God's Country (1943).

World War Two
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a Corporal. He was wounded on Okinawa.

Post War
Lundigan returned to Hollywood and tried freelancing. He had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and Dishonored Lady (1947). He was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story (1948) and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico (1948), State Department: File 649 (1949) and Follow Me Quietly (1949). He decided to try acting on stage and was cast by John Ford in a revival of What Price Glory?.

20th Century Fox
Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky (1949) at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford (Elia Kazan took over). The movie was a huge hit and the studio signed him to a long term contract. He went on to be leading man to Dorothy McGuire in Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), June Haver in I'll Get By (1950) and Love Nest (1951), Susan Hayward in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951).

He was also in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) and Elopement (1951), and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) and Serpent of the Nile (1953). The New York Times called him "the male counterpart to the girl next door".

He had a good part in Inferno (1953).

Television
In an episode of Desilu Playhouse, "K.O. Kitty", L-R: William Lundigan, Aldo Ray, and Lucille Ball (1958).

Lundigan began appearing on TV shows like Lux Video Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, and The Star and the Story and was host for Climax! and Shower of Stars.

He had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars (1954), Terror Ship (1954) and The White Orchid (1954), the latter for Reginald Le Borg. He mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles.

From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space.

In 1961, Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on religious settlers who encounter outlaws operating an illegal tollgate.

He had the lead in The Underwater City (1962) and guest starred on The Dick Powell Theatre , Run for Your Life, Medical Center and Marcus Welby, M.D.. His last film was The Way West (1967).

Politics
In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

Family
Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.[2]

Death
Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.

Radio appearances

1951 Screen Guild Players ("Apartment for Peggy")
1952 Stars in the Air ("Deep Waters")[20]

William Lundigan (1914–1975)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526485/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND (51:49)

Climax! is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958, hosted by William Lundigan.

"Casino Royale" is a live 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.

1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.

2002: ప్రపంచ హీరో (Prapan̄ca vīruḍu 007; World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.

2006: 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 (xīn tiě jīngāng zhì pò huángjiā dǔchǎng; New Iron King Kong Breaks the Royal Casino) released in Hong Kong.

2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--

The death of M.

2011: Hodder & Stoughton publish a special limited holiday James Bond Edition of Jeffery Deaver's novel Carte Blanche, designed by Bentley Motors.

Bentley Celebrates James Bond in Style!

See the complete article here:

https://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/bentley-celebrates-james-bond-in-style/8297/#leadform

by Vikram Gour | Apr 27, 2011

In order to commemorate the latest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, Bentley Motors was roped in to create an exclusive edition. Judging a book by its cover just got a whole new meaning!

Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book, penned by Jeffery Deaver, and published by, Hodder & Stoughton, has partnered with Bentley Motors for a rather unique promotion which involves creating 500 limited edition copies of the novel in an ultimate luxury edition package.

James Bond, the super MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming has always had a penchant for expensive cars and even in the original 14 novels written by Fleming himself, James Bond owned three Bentleys over the course of the original stories. With Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver has taken the inspiration from Fleming and has reunited Bond with a fully loaded new ‘Bond Spec’ Bentley Continental GT as part of this much anticipated super spy thriller.

A lot of work has gone into creating these special edition books. A team from Bentley worked closely with the publishers in order to capture the essence of Bond and Bentley. In fact the agenda was to work with the book in such a manner that reading this exclusive edition works as an experience in itself. Luckily, the nuances of Bond and Bentley allow for such radical concepts and therefore it was a task of taking exclusive book ownership to the next level.

Each copy of the book arrives in a exquisitely crafted polished aluminium case which has been inspired by the deserts of Dubai as Dubai happens to be one of the major exotic locations that form a part of this latest Bond adventure as well as the new Continental GT. The end result is a sculpture that is reminiscent of the GT’s signature silhouette and the effect is as though the car has risen from the desert sand. That is just the cover.

The book itself comes wrapped in Nappa leather, which incidentally is what Bentley uses on the interiors of their cars. Further similarities to the interior of a Bentley exist in the fact that the white leather is contrasted by the stark red Pillar Box edging. The title, author’s name and Bentley logo have been carefully embossed into the front. The text is printed in two colors, namely black and red and the paper used is high quality ivory paper.

As mentioned earlier, the book boasts of being an experience and taking that to a whole new level is the little ‘twist’ that has been incorporated. Playing on the idea of an agent being given Carte Blanche, is one of the most dramatic features of the design: a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy, making the edition truly bespoke!

The special edition is strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide at a price of £1,000 each. Incidentally, over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film! If in today’s day and age there is anything more popular than Facebook, it’s James Bond, and an association with this brand is always bound to garner enough eyeballs. For Bentley however, this is just being part of the 007 family.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Kill_Chain
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130260178 06011
ON SALE DATE: 12/20

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.

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cap Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

2022: Dallas String Quartet performance expects a mashup of "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and The James Bond theme at Marshall, Texas.

Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/artists/5482893-dallas-string-quartet#review-334477

On tour: yes

On tour Dallas String Quartet live.

Dec
20
Marshall, TX, US
Memorial City Hall Performance Center

Live reviews

We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme music!

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric (4:10)

2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/licence-to-kill/

PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

Movie Showtimes

December 20, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 21, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 22, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45

818 SE Stark Street
Portland OR, 97215
[email protected]
503-252-0500

RichardTheBruce

December 21st

1961: Dr. No screen tests for the role of Miss Taro.

Liha Margo
???

Zena Marshall
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


Violette Marceau
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


Talitha Pol (Talitha Dina Getty)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688751/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.

“From Russia With Love”: Aktuelt’s film review (1963)

[Source: http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-aktuelt-film-review-1963/ ]
Film review, 21 December 1963

Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".

When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:

”Agent 007” returns
Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment

With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.

This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.

In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.

Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk

1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
(Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
Then US general release 9 January 1965.)

1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
(Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)

1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
1969: Ilse Steppat dies at age 51--West Berlin, Germany.
(Born 30 November 1917--Barmen, Germany.)

Ilse Paula Steppat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Steppat

Born Ilse Paula Steppat, 30 November 1917, Wuppertal, Germany
Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52), West Berlin, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1969

Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (60 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
- Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
- Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
- Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
- Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
- Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
1951 Die Tat des Anderen
1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.

French and Dutch

1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.

1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.

1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.

1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.

1995: 新鐵金剛之金眼睛 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī jīn yǎnjīng; Golden Eyes of New Iron King Kong) released in Hong Kong.

2006: 007 카지노 로얄 (007 kah-gee-no low-yal; 007 Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #12 (Eidolon Chapter 6).
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #12

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/21

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161465?Prevue=1

2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.

http://www.ianfleming.com/merry-christmas-ian-fleming-publications/


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2021: No Time To Die released on DVD and Bluray.

No Time to Die (2021)

See the complete article here:

https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/6031/No-Time-to-Die-2021.html

No Time to Die DVD and Blu-ray release date is set for December 21, 2021 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on December 7, 2021.

Rating: 4.2/5 (205 users) *Please help rate
Rating: PG-13
imdb: 7.6
Runtime: 163
Theater date | October 8, 2021
Theater gross | $160.5 mil
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller

Actor(s)
Daniel Craig
Rami Malek
Lea Seydoux
Ralph Fiennes
Ben Whishaw
Lashana Lynch
Naomie Harris
Jeffrey Wright
Christoph Waltz
Billy Magnussen

Director(s)
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Producer(s)
Barbara Broccoli
Michael G. Wilson

Overview
Years after James Bond has decided to leave his work behind and retire, he is contacted by a friend of his working in the CIA, Felix Leiter, to help him search for a scientist that has turned up missing. James Bond quickly leaves retirement after meeting up with Felix as they both find out that the missing scientist may have fallen into the arms of dangerous criminals that are looking to use emerging technology for evil.

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

2022: James Bond 007 Stern Army Pinball Launch Party at One Well Brewing, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

James Bond 007 Stern Army Pinball Launch Party

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/kalamazoo/james-bond-007-stern-army-pinball-launch-party/200023666984555

James Bond 007 Stern Army Pinball Launch Party Wed Dec 21, 2022

Stern Army Launch Party for James Bond 007 pro pinball

• 6 strike fair strikes format
• 1 group every round will be randomly chosen to play James Bond via random # generator
• Should have a few giveaway items and a plaque for the winner
• This is a free open IFPA sanctioned event $1 fee is covered by the Flip Well Pinball League
• We will most likely be streaming the games of 007 on twitch

Also check out other Parties in Kalamazoo, Entertainment Events in Kalamazoo, Festivals in Kalamazoo.

Date & Time
Wed Dec 21 2022 at 6:00 pm
(Eastern Standard Time)

Location
One Well Brewing, 4213 Portage St, Kalamazoo, United States

Event Photos
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2022: Stern Army's 007 Launch Party! at the Superelectric Pinball Parlor, Cleveland, Ohio.

Stern Army's 007 Launch Party!

See the complete article here:

https://hunthalloween.com/event/stern-armys-007-launch-party-eid4a7bted4el

Date & Time
Wed Dec 21 2022 at 07:00 pm to 10:30 pm UTC-05:00

Location
Superelectric Pinball Parlor | Cleveland, OH
Stern Army's 007 Launch Party!

Details
Join us in celebrating the launch of Stern Pinball's latest game, James Bond 007!
To celebrate, we're gonna host a Fair Strikes knockout tournament!

The deets:

• Starts at 7pm!
• Free entry! (with purchase of $6 all-day pass at the bar)
• IFPA Sanctioned! (more about IFPA at ifpapinball.com)
• Fair strikes knockout style! (0 strikes for first, 2 strikes for last, 1 strike for anything in between! 0/1/1/2, 0/1/2 or 0/2)
• When the tournament gets down to the last 4 players, all remaining games will take place on 007! Who will take the grand champ trophy?!

Event Location
Superelectric Pinball Parlor, 6500 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH, United States, Cleveland, United States

Event Host
Superelectric Pinball Parlor

2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/licence-to-kill/

PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

Movie Showtimes

December 21, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45
December 22, 2022
12:45 4:00 9:45

818 SE Stark Street
Portland OR, 97215
[email protected]
503-252-0500

RichardTheBruce

December 22nd

1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.

GOLDFINGER

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173DE464BC4A51DFB467838F679EDE

By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964

Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.

In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.

That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.

But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.

Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.

So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.

It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.

Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.

As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.

In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.

Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.

1965: Thunderball released in the US.

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1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.

Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'

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By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965

THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."

Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.

This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.

I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.

That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.

"Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.

Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"

In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.

The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.

So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.

Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.

The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.

1965: Tony Mastroianni reviews Thunderball in the Cleveland Press.

Thunderball Improves on Bond's Technique

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http://www.clevelandmemory.org/mastroianni/tm364.html

Cleveland Press December 22, 1965

By now the James Bond films are pure formula and Bond fans wouldn't want them any other way. It is the fantasy world in which the super-hero finds all villains beatable, all women willing, and no situation hopeless.

This latest Bond film, "Thunderball," is better than "Goldfinger" and though sex still is a major part, it is not nearly so vulgar.

Again there is an attempt at humor but in this respect, "From Russia With Love," number two in the series, remains the best.

Bond's dryly-delivered cliches at the end of an escapade, the purely Bondsian flourish (stopping to toss flowers on the body of a man he has just killed while his pursuers are breaking in a door), the Bond elegance (ordering the right wine at dinner) -- all are still there but are growing thin.

Where "Thunderball" triumphs is in its special effects, its gadgets, its underwater scenes. The lengthiest of these is an underwater battle in which two armies -- the forces of SPECTRE in black, American aqua-paratroopers in orange -- advance and meet head-on.

THERE ARE underwater sleds that pull a man through water, the front of it armed with spear guns. There is a two-man sub that can carry an H-bomb, a yacht that breaks apart into a speedy hydrofoil.

In a prologue, Bond seems hopelessly trapped on the balcony of a building, but escapes by going straight up -- thanks to a jet power pack he has strapped to his back.

In "Thunderball'' the international crime syndicate known as SPECTRE has hijacked a NATO plane carrying two atom bombs, demands a ransom from the Western world with the threat of destroying two major cities unless paid $2,800,000.

BOND AND ALL the other agents with a double-0 prefix on their number (it indicates a license to kill) spread out around the world to find the bombs. Bond, agent 007, ends up in the Bahamas where there are villains, girls in bikinis, sharks, girls in bikinis, the bombs and girls in bikinis.

It's not much of a plot for two hours and 10 minutes but the writers and producers pad it out with alternating fights and love scenes.

One of the latter occurs underwater and where fireworks once indicated this sort of thing, it's now done with a burst of bubbles rushing to the surface.

SEAN CONNERY plays Bond with a greater air of detachment than ever, as though his conquests -- amorous and otherwise -- were all in a day's work. It's the proper spirit for the part.

The movie publicity doesn't say so but the man who did all the underwater scenes in the Bond role is a fellow whose name is Frank Cousins. He deserves plenty of credit.

Adolfo Celi is sinister as the heavy, the number two man in SPECTRE. The newest Bond girl is Claudine Auger and lesser Bond girls are Luciana Paluzzi and Molly Peters, all of whom seem to have the proper dimensions.

Short Subjects... Ursula Andress, who appeared in the first James Bond film, will be in another. She has been cast in "Casino Royale," a Bond film being made by a rival company. In it Peter Sellers is Bond.

1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.

1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.

1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)

1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece.

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1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.

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1982: Octopussy films OO7 hunted and hissing off.
1983: Jamais plus Jamais; Never Again Never) released in Belgium.

1985: 007 뷰 투 어 킬 (byoo too uh keel; 007 View to a Kill) released in the Republic of Korea.

1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.

2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.

2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England.
(Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)

Richard Graydon - obituary

Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
feats in 10 James Bond films made audiences gasp

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11316314/Richard-Graydon-obituary.html

Richard Graydon at home in Surrey in 2000 Photo: REX FEATURES

5:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2014

Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.

Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”

The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.

Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.

Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”

Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.

Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.

By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.

Graydon on top of a cable-car above Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (REX FEATURES)

Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.

His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).

He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.

In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.

Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014

Richard Graydon (1922–2014)

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Filmography

Stunts (44 credits)

1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
- Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)

1989 Batman (stunts)
1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (24 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
- Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame

1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
- Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen

1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
- Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
- Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
1984 Champions (horse master)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)

Self (12 credits)

2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself

2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

http://www.jamesbondthesecretagent.com/2016/12/christmas-card-from-ian-fleming.html

James Bond hunts Santa

2021: MI6 share their Christmas Card in The Times.

From MI6 with love, a Bond-style
Christmas card with a licence to
chill

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-mi6-with-love-a-bond-style-christmas-card-with-a-licence-to-chill-6w8vzkxjc

George Sandeman | Wednesday December 22 2021, The Times

The MI6 Christmas card parodies the James Bond opening sequence

The head of MI6 said this year that the legend of James Bond was a double-edged sword. His attitude seems to have softened, however, with a nod to the fictional spy in the secret service’s Christmas card.

It adopts the image featured in the opening sequences of the 007 films where Bond, dressed in dinner jacket and bow tie, turns and shoots towards the camera. Instead of the dapper spy, a tubby Father Christmas points a red and white striped candy cane skywards.

The card was produced by one of the overseas intelligence agency’s officers.

Richard Moore, who was appointed chief of the service last year, told The Times in April that he enjoyed the films depicting Ian Fleming’s character but they were a far...

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2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

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"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

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2022: The Academy Theater screens Licence to Kill at Portland, Oregon.

Licence to Kill

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PG-13 133 minutes
Cast: Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Timothy Dalton
Director: John Glen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: July 14, 1989

Movie Synopsis
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond’s good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aid of one of Leiter’s friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez owns. Will Bond be able to keep his identity secret, or will Sanchez see Bond’s true intentions?

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December 23rd

1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.

As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
more glamorous..."

Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
materials and such things."

He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
beginning to take shape.

Live and Let Die.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.

First edition of the second James Bond novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An exceptional association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To Clare who sheds much light. With love Ian 1954.” The recipient was Clare Blanshard, a WRNS Wren who Fleming met and romanced in 1944 when he visited Ceylon to review the intelligence arm of the British Pacific Fleet. Blanshard was the trusted assistant of Alan Hillgarth, Chief of Naval Intelligence Eastern Theatre, who as naval attaché in Madrid had worked with Fleming on Operation Golden Eye, plans for subversion and sabotage in Spain should it fall to the Fascists, and played a prominent role in Operation Mincemeat, the famous “Man who never was”. Mutually attracted, Fleming and Blanshard spent time together in Colombo and on a trip to Sydney where “Ian and Clare enjoyed the good life, staying at Petty’s Hotel, frequenting the nightclubs and taking trips to Whale Beach for swimming”, when he returned to London Fleming sent his “best love to the angel Clare” via a letter to Hillgarth, “she is a jewel and will miss her protective wing very much” (Simmons, Ian Fleming’s War). For her part Clare told her brother “it doesn’t make any difference that I don’t mean anything to him he’s so awfully nice” (Macintyre, p. 218). Clearly a well-matched pair, they remained good friends and perhaps occasional lovers. After the war both worked for the Kemsley Group of newspapers, Fleming as foreign manager for The Sunday Times, and Blanshard, based on Fleming’s “fulsome [sic.] commendations”, became the “highly-accomplished secretary” of Robert Harling the ground-breaking typographer and designer of the Sunday Times and House & Garden (Harling, Ian Fleming). Harling had been recruited by Fleming for the Inter-Service Topographical Department on the basis of his visual acuity and ended up assigned to 30AU [Assault Unit] landing in France soon after D-Day, embroiled in the heavy action around Cherbourg. It has been noted that Harling, in his “sardonic elegance of manner and cool sexual expertise” (ODNB) bore a distinct resemblance to his good friend’s immortal creation. Famously Blanshard was one the earliest readers of Fleming’s manuscript for Casino Royale, his first essay at fiction; advising him not to publish it, or at least to publish it under a pseudonym, to avoid the “mill-stone round his neck”. On that occasion he refused her advice, but in his inscription here Fleming is expressing his gratitude for her skill in researching and proof-reading the present work, professional advice he had no problem in accepting. A wonderfully allusive association, blending Fleming’s very real wartime exploits and loyalties with his legendarily, sometimes darkly, fanciful amours in the creation of the inimitable Bond. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco solander box, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, compartments elaborately gilt, front panel with black morocco roundel gilt after the original front panel of jacket.

"Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. Almost single-handedly, he revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional reactions Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Reilly, 571). The inspiration for these changes came from Fleming's experiences of travel in the U.S. and his knowledge of Jamaica itself, where Live and Let Die was written at Fleming's 'Goldeneye' estate. The novel's innovations were positively noted by The Sunday Times when they wrote "[h]ow wincingly well Mr. Fleming writes." And the Times thought Live and Let Die "is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills - of slightly sadistic excitements also - though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor."

1964: Variety reports Goldfinger breaking US records in New York at the DeMille and Coronet theaters. The New York Times says as a result, the Coronet plans midnight screenings. The DeMille says it will run the film 24 hours through year's end to meet demand.

Theater Open 24 Hours For
‘Goldfinger’ Showings

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https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/23/archives/theater-open-24-hours-for-goldfinger-showings.html

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December 23, 1964, Page 22

The DeMille Theater at Broadway and 47th Street will remain open 24 hours a day through the end of the year to meet the public demand for showings of “Goldfinger.” The theater hopes to show the new film about Ian Fleming's fictional agent, James Bond, at least 12 times during each 24‐hour period.

The policy starts today and it is believed to be the first time that it has been employed to meet ticket demands at a midtown movie house. At the smaller Coronet Theater, regular midnight performances of “Goldfinger” also will begin today.

Walter Reade‐Sterling Theaters yesterday predicted record first‐day grosses at both theatres. By 4 P.M. yesterday boxoffice returns at the 1,496‐seat DeMille had reached $6,200. The previous champion, “The Night of the Iguana,” grossed: $8,539 for the entire day last year. At the 599‐seat Coronet, where “Lilith” set a record of $3,957, that figure was being‐surpassed by late afternoon attendance.

1965: Thunderball released in Australia.

1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)

1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography filming Ninjas.

1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia and the Netherlands.

Australian Daybill,

1971: 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò zuànshí dǎng; Iron King Kong broke the Diamond Party) released in Hong Kong.

1972: 007 ドクター・ノオ (Dokutā nō) re-release in Japan.

1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Pistol of Gold) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)

Disclaimer: not this one.

1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Nay-buh say-ee nay-buh uh-gay-een) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.

2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.

Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo

https://www.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.

2015: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

2020: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a Star Trek episode inspired by Bond.

How James Bond Inspired This Underrated ‘Star Trek’
Episode
'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' writer Ron Moore looks back at "Our Man Bashir," which earned
a stern letter from 007 studio MGM 25 years ago.

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/how-james-bond-inspired-this-underrated-star-trek-episode-4108416/

December 23, 2020 11:39am

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Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek helped introduce James Bond to the Final Frontier. Well, kind of.

Writer Ronald D. Moore’s Deep Space Nine episode, “Our Man Bashir,” served as a nod to 1960s spy films like Goldfinger and Our Man Flint as a transporter accident (naturally) swaps out all of the main characters in Doctor Bashir’s (Alexander Siddig) secret agent holosuite program with those that look like Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the rest of the main crew. Soon, Bashir — sporting a very Bondian look and tuxedo — must complete the mission and save the day, 007-style, in order to return order to the station.

To celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of this underrated episode of Trek, Ron Moore shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he and the rest of the production pulled off one of DS9’s best episodes — and irked the makers of the Bond movie in the process.

“I remember it being a very fun episode to write,” Moore says of the season four putting, which aired at the end of November 1995. “It was one of our more challenging shoots, too, if I recall. I had always loved the classic James Bond movies, I grew up with the Sean Connery films, so it was a great opportunity to combine a version of them with another thing I loved, which was Star Trek.”

“Our Man Bashir” originated as a freelance pitch from Bob Gillan, but it almost didn’t happen. At the time, DS9 producers were leery of doing yet another episode centered on the “malfunctioning holodeck” trope, since it was used very often on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what eventually won producers over, Moore recalls, is Gillan’s unique way into the story by using the holosuite as means to store the crew’s transporter patterns during a tech glitch while beaming.

“Once we had that [narrative] device locked down, we were able to break the story in a way that was relatively easy, if I recall, because we had years of Bond movies to rely on and borrow from,” Moore says.

And like the Bond movies that inspired the episode, “Our Man Bashir” also set out to capture the action-y feel of those classic films. The extensive approach to the episode’s set pieces led to “Our Man Bashir” being the longest shoot in the history of Deep Space Nine. Most DS9 episodes took seven, sometimes eight, days to make. The production filmed “Bashir” in nine.

“It was a very ambitious episode, and the sets were amazing,” Moore recalls. “Especially the evil villain’s lair set. It was great to see the production value put into what was our version of, an homage to the classic volcanic lair-type sets that [the late Bond production designer] Ken Adams made back in the day. I mean, it was the closest thing you got to making a Bond movie.”

At the time, it was rare for Trek writers to be on set, but “Our Man Bashir” marked one of the few times Moore was able to visit the production and watch the filming of a key action scene.

“There’s this sequence with Bashir’s spy and one of the bad guys, you know, our version of an Odd Job-type character [Falcon, played by Colm Meany]. And there was this explosion and, we rarely got to go on set back in the TNG days. But I was able to see this and I have to say it was such a cool thing to be on set for because — we were really, essentially, trying to make a James Bond movie,” says Moore. “It was hard, very hard work. The shoot was a bear for the crew. But there was an energy to it because everyone was so excited to be pulling it off and doing something different, with the period, Bond-era costumes, too. One of my favorite memories from my time working on the show.”

Another notable memory Moore has from the episode was MGM’s reaction to it. Even though Moore’s script avoids any direct lifts or references to its inspiration, the studio that holds the rights to Bond deemed what references were in “Our Man Bashir” hit too close to home.

“MGM sent us a letter,” Moore remembers. “I don’t recall [Bond producers] the Broccolis being on it or having signed it, but I remember after the episode aired, the studio sent us a very stern letter. And it even got back to some of the higher-ups at Paramount. It seems [MGM was] not very flattered by our ‘homage,’ but it wasn’t like we got in any serious trouble or anything.”

As a result, when Deep Space Nine revisited Bashir’s espionage holonovel in season five’s “A Simple Investigation,” the production made a very concentrated effort to dial back and water down any references to Bond iconography.

Despite the objection from Bond’s home studio, “Our Man Bashir” proved to be somewhat of a popular episode among the staff and the fans.

“It was an important episode for Siddig’s character,” Moore says. “At the time, we were still trying to figure out how best to use Bashir and give him agency, because we cast such a talented and versatile actor to play this character. You want to service those talents and the character the best way you can. And I remember there was this sort of change in how Bashir was treated and perceived by the fans, at least in our experience, from that point on. And I think Siddig said as much in interviews at the time or whatever. It was really a key moment for the character, a fun turning point for him, that helped us as writers when it came to find more stories for [Bashir] to do.”

Unlike Bond, Bashir’s holosuite exploits as a secret agent were short-lived — fans only got two episodes featuring Bashir’s suave alter ego. But like Bond, the missions we did get made for very rewatchable hours of escapist entertainment. Something both Trek and Ian Fleming’s iconic character have in common.

Our Man Bashir - A James Bond style trailer


DS9 Garak the wingman (Our Man Bashir)

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSpaceNine/comments/qe6qan/our_man_bashir/

"Our Man Bashir Suite", Jay Chattaway Star Trek DS9

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

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https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

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"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

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The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

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2022: Story Television airs Modern Marvels - James Bond Gadgets.
US Eastern Standard Time 3:00 pm, 11:00 pm, 7:00 am.

Modern Marvels
James Bond Gadgets

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https://www.storytelevision.com/marvel-fridays/

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His movies are legend, his women beautiful, and his toys the best in the world. Whether James Bond is foiling villains in space-age flying machines or eavesdropping on his enemies with ultra-sophisticated spy gear, British Secret Agent 007 is always guaranteed to have the most outrageous and wonderfully creative gadgets ever to grace the silver screen. Bond had it all. But as we see in this exclusive look at his gadgets, it takes a lot to save the world!

2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

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https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/goldeneye/

PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

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December 24th

1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
(She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)

Jill Bennett (British actress)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)

Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death Suicide
Years active 1951–1990
Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)

Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

Early life
She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
Career

Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).

She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Personal life
She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

Death
She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).

Jill Bennett (I) (1931–1990)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071824/

Filmography

Actress (62 credits)

1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
- The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
- The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
- The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
- Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
- Jane (1980) ... Jane

1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
- Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
- The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
- Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
- The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
- Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
- The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
- Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
- We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
- Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
- The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
- How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
- Foolish Wives (1963)
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
- The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
- Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
- The Book Bag (1962)
- The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
- Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
- Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
- Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
- The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
- Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
- Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
- Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
- The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
- Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
- Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
- Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
- Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
1956 The Extra Day - Susan
1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

Writer (1 credit)

1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)

1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
(He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)

Michael Billington

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
David McGillivray | Tue 28 Jun 2005 19.02 EDT

The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".

His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.

Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.

A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.

His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).

Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.

Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.

After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.

· Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005

Michael Billington (I) (1941–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082545/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (34 credits)

1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
- Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar

1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
- Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
- Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
- King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
- R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
- Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
- Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
- It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov

1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
- Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
- The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
- Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
- Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
- Intruder (1974) ... John
1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
- The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
- Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
Lt. Berg / Lieut. Berg
- A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
- Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
- Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton

1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
- A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1964)

Writer (2 credits)

1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)

1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi

1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
(Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005




Not Found:
Swedish Semic Comic 1989 #6 - Stjärnornas Herre (Starfire)

Danish 1973 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
"Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]

1969: Gene Siskel"s "Bond and de Sade" reviews On Her Majesty's Secret Service in the Chicago Tribune

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41872982/gene-siskel-movie-reviewson-her/

1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.

1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.

2019: yahoo!movies reports on Empire Magazine's interview with Daniel Craig and why he returned for No Time To Die.

Daniel Craig says 'secret idea' prevented him from quitting
Bond after 'Spectre'

See the complete article here:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/daniel-craig-couldnt-quit-bond-after-spectre-121222836.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS91cmw_c2E9dCZyY3Q9aiZxPSZlc3JjPXMmc291cmNlPXdlYiZjZD0mdmVkPTJhaFVLRXdqSTR2R2d4LVh0QWhXQnpsa0tIVEpFQkRzUUZqQVJlZ1FJSkJBQyZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ1ay5tb3ZpZXMueWFob28uY29tJTJGZGFuaWVsLWNyYWlnLWNvdWxkbnQtcXVpdC1ib25kLWFmdGVyLXNwZWN0cmUtMTIxMjIyODM2Lmh0bWwmdXNnPUFPdlZhdzBQRlZ5aDlzUTVvcTM3YXVoVk9VNjQ&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHpHG4UkemPHlqt14ae4Y2coZLTmTDdPW7sfqEalZkor5OzHrBRUmCR_F1Zs9qZEHiyipWs0d-HjHCEdck6k6Y-eTJSciqSuX5B0J3TSFLv7SsJ8ByLE-1jXj9lWmL8Wq-_rWqu1dCrMPA3kNK_6wiXs44Mf3byLa962cTdipaPc

Tom Butler·Senior Editor | 24 December 2019

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3nATuinmTPvcHN7dRX00Xw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-12/f3625070-169b-11ea-bbfc-fefc9a10c2a0
James Bond (Daniel Craig) prepares to shoot in NO TIME TO DIE,
a DANJAQ and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.
(Credit: Nicola Dove. © 2019 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

Daniel Craig says unfinished business with James Bond prevented him from quitting the role after the release of Spectre in 2015.

The 51-year-old actor is returning as Ian Fleming’s super spy for the fifth and final time in 2020’s No Time To Die but, for a while, it looked like he’d had enough after his second 007 film with Sam Mendes.

When asked about making a fifth outing by Time Out in 2015, Craig infamously responded: “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”

Now, talking to Empire Magazine for its February 2020 issue, Craig says he had “a secret idea” for his swan song that Spectre failed to achieve.

“If Spectre had been [my last Bond film], the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine,” he says.

“But somehow it felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more.’”

“I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that,” he adds. “But this feels like it is.”

Craig’s comments suggest No Time To Die may offer closure for his incarnation of 007 which was first introduced to the world in 2006’s Casino Royale.

Craig’s tenure is the first time a Bond actor’s films have enjoyed a loose narrative connection to form a canon of sorts. Casino Royale was an origin film, while 2008’s Quantum of Solace followed Bond as he sought revenge for the death of Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd.

2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre also shared narrative threads, including the return of the mysterious Mr White (Jesper Christensen) in Spectre. White is the father of Léa Seydoux’s Dr. Madeleine Swann, also returning in No Time To Die.

Empire’s new issue – which promises new interviews with Craig, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli, and Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek – is on newsstands from Friday 27 December.

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/goldeneye/

PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

Movie Showtimes

December 24, 2022
2:45
December 25, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 26, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 27, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 28, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 29, 2022
2:45
9:45

Contact Us
7818 SE Stark Street
Portland OR, 97215
[email protected]
503-252-0500

RichardTheBruce

December 25th

1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, California.
(That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen, The Thunderbolt, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1969: 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò xuěshān bǎo; Iron King Kong Breaks Through the Snow Mountain Fort) released in Hong Kong.

http://playitagain.info/site/1969/on-her-majesty-secret-service/

1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.

1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.

1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007 / Diayamondo wa eien ni; Diamonds Forever) released in Japan.

1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
1999: Само един свят не стига (Only One World Is Not Enough) released in Bulgaria.

2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.

2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.

Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!

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“.

2022: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, is closed for the Christmas Holiday.

CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA

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.

2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/goldeneye/

PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

Movie Showtimes

December 25, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 26, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 27, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 28, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 29, 2022
2:45
9:45

Contact Us
7818 SE Stark Street
Portland OR, 97215
[email protected]
503-252-0500

2022: Kundura Cinema screens From Russia With Love at Istanbul, Turkey.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

See the complete article here:

https://www.beykozkundura.com/event-detail/fromrussiawithlove2512

25 December 2022 | Sunday 15:00

From Russia with Love
1963 / UNITED KINGDOM / Color / 115’
English; with Turkish subtitles

Director: Terence Young| Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood (based on Ian Fleming’s book) | Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee | Cinematography: Ted Moore| Edited by: Peter R. Hunt | Music: John Barry
Awards: British Society of Cinematographers award for Best Cinematography, 1963 | BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, 1963

James Bond is sent to Istanbul to retrieve a Soviet encryption device stolen by SPECTRE. While trying to prevent a violent assassination plot with a woman named Tatiana Romanova, our hero also tries to avoid being the target of the vicious assassin Donald 'Red' Grant. “From Russia with Love”, which was also the first James Bond film shot in Turkey, takes the audience on a gripping tour in 1960’s Istanbul, stopping by landmarks such as the Grand Bazaar, Sultanahmet, Basilica Cistern and Hagia Sophia. Bond even goes to the Sirkeci Station where he gets on the Orient Express, which served between Paris and Istanbul between 1883 and 1977. Sean Connery once again plays Bond and Robert Shaw, whom we may recognize from “Jaws”, plays the villain of the film.

RichardTheBruce

December 26th

1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime mistress

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-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.]

Sunday 26 December, 1943

Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.

When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.

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

1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.

1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/goldfinger-1964/

1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.

1965: Agent 007 operasjon Tordensky (Agent 007 Operation Thundercloud) released in Norway.

http://www.jamesbond.no/visBoker.asp?ID=18

1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-adsheet-1971/




http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-souvenir-programme-1971/

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia .

Australian Daybill.

1974: 鐵金剛大戰金槍客 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn jīn qiāng kè; Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner) released in Hong Kong.

http://playitagain.info/site/1975/man-with-the-golden-gun-the/

1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.

Later video marketing.

Not to be confused with.

1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.

RichardTheBruce

2002: The Washington Post reports the Republic of Korea expects Bond protests as release date 31 December approaches.

In Koreas, Latest Bond Movie Provokes
Outcry, Calls for Boycott

See the complete article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/26/in-koreas-latest-bond-movie-provokes-outcry-calls-for-boycott/b095bdcf-b0ed-4650-9f6d-b6d414905a24/

By Joohee Cho | December 26, 2002

James Bond dodges bullets in the Demilitarized Zone in his latest movie, but "Die Another Day" is already getting zinged by protests from both North and South Korea.

The movie is a "dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander [North Korea] and insult the Korean nation," North Korea said huffily through its propaganda channels. In South Korea, the film faces calls for a boycott when it opens Dec. 31.

Protesters contend that the movie portrays South Korean soldiers as inferior to the U.S. military, depicts the country as third-world and underdeveloped, and is offensive to Korean culture. Buddhists here have joined the fray because of a sex scene set in a Buddhist temple.

"You don't see a Hollywood hit movie where you have a hero like James Bond having sex in a Christian church," said Chung Han-Shin, in charge of public relations at Jogye Buddhist order, the largest in South Korea.

In the latest adventure, Bond is taken hostage and tortured in North Korea before being released in a hostage exchange. He later chases an illegal arms deal from Hong Kong to Cuba to London in a quest for revenge against North Korean renegade Zao, played by Korean American actor Rick Yune, and also manages to prevent a catastrophic war.

Criticism here started in Internet chat rooms and e-mail early this month by viewers who had seen the movie in the United States or heard about it. The online buzz came at a time of rising anti-American sentiment in South Korea. The acquittal of two U.S. soldiers whose armored vehicle killed two teenage girls in June sparked large protests throughout the country.

South Korean actor Cha In Pyo became a hero of sorts for turning down a role in the movie as one of the villains. The Hollywood role, a coveted ticket to stardom for most actors here, "distorts Korea's image, portrays North Korea as a group of evil forces, and [its] contents were too demeaning of South Korea," Cha told reporters.

In an effort to head off the boycott campaign, 20th Century Fox, which distributes MGM films, previewed the film in Seoul last week a few days earlier than scheduled.

"It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction," said Lee Joo Sung , president of 20th Century Fox Korea. Lee said the controversial contents of the movie had been misquoted and exaggerated as word spread.

"North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies," complained newspaper JoongAng Ilbo in Seoul.

Technically, North and South Korea have been at war since 1950, but a mood of reconciliation has swept the country in recent years.

Critics also say the movie portrays South Korea as a U.S. colony. "The scene where U.S. intelligence agency orders South Korean army to mobilize immediately, that didn't sit well with me," said Kim Hyun Jin, 33, a Korean American living in Atlanta. "It made me embarrassed as a Korean."

2005: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli dies at age 57--Polizzi Generosa, Italy.
(Born 11 November 1948--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

Vincent Schiavelli

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Schiavelli

Vincent Schiavelli

Schiavelli and then-wife actress Allyce Beasley on September 20, 1987

Born - Vincent Andrew Schiavelli, November 11, 1948 - Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died - December 26, 2005 (aged 57), Polizzi Generosa, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Other names Vince Schiavelli
Education New York University (MFA)
Occupation Actor, food writer
Years active 1971–2005
1993−2005 (writing)
Spouse(s) Allyce Beasley, (m. 1985; div. 1988)​; Carol Mukhalian (m. 1992; his death 2005)​
Children 1

Vincent Andrew Schiavelli (/ˌskiːəˈvɛli/; November 11, 1948 – December 26, 2005) was an American character actor and food writer noted for his work on stage, screen, and television. Described as an "instantly recognizable sad-faced actor", Schiavelli was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome in childhood.

Schiavelli gained fame as a character actor, mainly in supporting roles. His best-known roles include Fredrickson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), the Subway Ghost in Ghost (1990), Organ Grinder in Batman Returns (1992), Chester in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and ABC executive Maynard Smith in Man on the Moon (1999).

Before his death in 2005, Schiavelli was considered by many as one of Hollywood's best character actors. Roger Ebert stated Schiavelli "had a way of slipping into films without people knowing his name, but they remembered his great performances as unique characters."

Early life
Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn to a Sicilian-American family, the son of John Schiavelli and Katherine Coco. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. He studied acting through the theatre program at New York University and began performing on stage in the 1960s.

Career
Schiavelli's first film role occurred in Miloš Forman's 1971 production Taking Off,[1] in which he played a counselor who taught parents of runaway teens to smoke marijuana in order to better understand their children's experiences. Schiavelli's aptitude and distinctive appearance soon provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Forman's films, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont, and the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon.

He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times. He was cast in a similar role in Better Off Dead in which he played Mr. Kerber, a geometry teacher.

In 1987, he starred alongside Tim Conway in the short film comedy Dorf on Golf, and then Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus in 1988. In 1990, he played the Subway Ghost in Ghost and in 1992, he played in Tim Burton's Batman Returns as the "Organ Grinder", one of the Penguin's henchmen. He appeared as another villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as a silent monk in The Frisco Kid (1979), and as John O'Connor, one of the evil Red Lectroids in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. In 1994 he appeared in the music video for ZZ Top's "Breakaway", alongside Fairuza Balk and in 1997, was named one of America's best character actors by Vanity Fair magazine. He also made several voice appearances in the animated television show Hey Arnold!. In 2002, he played a children's television show host turned heroin addict named Buggy Ding Dong in Death to Smoochy.

His first television role came in 1972 as Peter Panama in The Corner Bar, the first sustained portrayal of a gay character on American television. His other television credits include The Moneychangers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, WKRP in Cincinnati and Taxi as the priest who marries Latka and Simka. He appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" as a holographic salesman, on Miami Vice as a research scientist who conspires to steal a top-secret prototype weapon from his employer, and in an uncredited role in an episode of Punky Brewster. In 1987 he appeared as Lyle, a gangster, in the MacGyver season 2 episode "Soft Touch". In Highlander: The Series, he played Leo Atkins, a homeless Vietnam War veteran accused of murder in the Season 1 episode "Innocent Man". In The X-Files, he played Lanny, man with an underdeveloped conjoined twin in the Season 2 episode "Humbug".

He wrote a number of cookbooks and food articles for various magazines and newspapers, notably Gourmet, Saveur, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, Schiavelli starred in a 26-episode Italian cooking show called Chefs of Cucina Amore that aired on PBS periodically for the next couple of years. He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2001 and was nominated on several other occasions.

Schiavelli's three cookbooks are memoirs, with recipes related to personal history and anecdotes:

• Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table: Recipes from a Sicilian Chef As Remembered by His Grandson, 1993
• Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and Recipes, 1998
• Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa, 2002

Vincent Schiavelli's tombstone in Polizzi Generosa graveyard

Schiavelli served as honorary co-chair of the National Marfan Foundation, an organization which serves those affected by Marfan syndrome, from which Schiavelli suffered.

Schiavelli also performed in a few video games, including Emperor: Battle for Dune (as Harkonnen Mentat Yanich Kobal) and as Dr. Hellman in the video game Corpse Killer.
Personal life

Schiavelli was married to actress Allyce Beasley from 1985 until their 1988 divorce. He guest-starred as the love interest of Beasley's character on one episode of Moonlighting. Their son, Andrea Schiavelli, was born in 1987.

In 1992, Schiavelli married American harpist Carol Mukhalian.

Death
Schiavelli died of lung cancer on December 26, 2005, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town where his grandfather, Andrea Coco, was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa (ISBN 0-7432-1528-1).[5] Schiavelli was buried at Polizzi Generosa Cemetery, near Palermo, Sicily.

Two documentaries were made about Schiavelli's Sicilian life. The first, Once Upon a Time in Polizzi, was released on October 11, 2005 (two months before his death), and the second, Many Beautiful Things (Tanti Beddi Cosi is the Sicilian title), was produced by Aurelio Gambadoro and released in 2014. The film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is dedicated to his memory. (Schiavelli provided a guest voice appearance as the Pigeon Man in the original series.)

Vincent Schiavelli (1948–2005)

Actor
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2006: A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but released 26 December 2006.

Fan-made computer game remake

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_fandom

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion mod in development using the Source engine developed by Valve for the computer game, Half-Life 2. GoldenEye: Source is based on the award-winning Nintendo 64 video game, GoldenEye 007, featuring Bond. An alpha release was distributed on 25 December 2005 receiving more than 65,000 downloads in 2 weeks. A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but was released on 26 December 2006.

In January 2007 it was awarded twice in the 2006 annual Moddb awards, a win in Editor's Choice[12] for the Reinvention category, and was player-voted 3rd place in the overall category Mod of the year. A significant rise from the 2005 awards, which earned GoldenEye: Source 4th place in the unreleased category.

On 5 December 2007 one of the developers released an unofficial patch. This patch fixes some of the bugs there are present in the first beta version. The developer team will not support this patch, and support is only available in a topic in the GoldenEye: Source forum.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Uruguay.

2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. dies at age 71--New York City, New York.
(Born 6 April 1940--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)

Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
By James Young

Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., a near constant presence on screens big and small for more than four decades, died Monday of eye cancer in New York City. He was 71.

Armendariz, the son of Mexico “golden age” movie star Pedro Armendariz and actress Carmelita Pardo, appeared in some 140 films and dozens of Televisa skeins, mostly sudsers. The actor played Gov. Riley in the 2005 movie “The Legend of Zorro”; the president of Mexico in Robert Rodriguez’s “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”; and the corrupt cop who stole the gun from Brad Pitt in “The Mexican.” He also appeared in 1989’s “Old Gringo” and in some of the top-grossing Mexican films in recent history, including all-time domestic B.O. champ “The Crime of Father Amaro” as well as action hit “Matando Cabos” and acclaimed political satire “Herod’s Law.”

Armendariz also played a key role in expanding the voice of a new generation of filmmakers and actors as president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) from 2006-10.

The sturdily framed thesp was instantly recognizable for bristly beards and mustaches that framed passionate, often wildly sparkling eyes, forming a countenance that could transform alarmingly from menacing to tender in the blink of an eye.

At risk of living his life in the shadow of his father, who was known as Mexico’s Clark Gable, Armendariz Jr. followed in his footsteps, taking his first film role on locations in Mexico for Westerns like “El cachorro” in 1965 and appearing in an episode of “Daniel Boone” in 1966.

Coming into his own during a dark period for the Mexican box office, when local production slowed to a trickle in the 1970s and ’80s, the actor worked with local auteurs like Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, while bringing home a steady paycheck with roles in telenovelas and character-actor bits in numerous Stateside pics, in which he was often cast as a Mexican tough guys, graying statesmen and Latin military types.

He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

Aside from some nods and wins at AMACC’s Ariel awards, Armendariz really only began to win widespread respect in the last decade or so, as he worked on multiple projects every year, even through most of 2011, and the industry began to look back at his sizable body of work.

Hitting the boards, Armendariz won further kudos for recent work in leading stage roles for Mexican productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Producers.”

In 2010, reacting to harsh industry criticism, Armendariz Jr., as president of the academy, led the transformation of the AMACC, opening voting privileges that previously belonged to an aging 25-person body that only evolved through attrition to more than 625 industry members, including producers, who until that time were barred from official voting status.

He also became a vocal political agent, fighting for industry support from Congress in heated budget battles over the last few years.

Armendariz will appear in several films posthumously, including Spanish-language Will Ferrell laffer “Casa de mi padre,” which opens March 16 and stars Mexican thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Luna, speaking on Twitter, said of the actor, “Just seeing him made you smile. He had time for everyone.”

As news of the death spread Monday afternoon, condolences to the family mounted, even coming from Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Televisa’s CEO Emilio Azcarraga Jean, among other officials and members of Mexico’s media elite.

Armendariz was married and divorced twice, from former Televisa spokesmodel Lucia Gomez de Parada and actress-turned-activist Ofelia Medina. He is survived by several children.

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography

Actor (222 credits)

Desde dentro (announced) - Domingo Altamirano
2012 Freelancers - Gabriel Baez
2012 Casa de mi Padre - Miguel Ernesto
2011 The Snitch Cartel - Don Modesto
2011 The Power of Destiny (TV Series) - Anthony - 95 episodes
2011 Mamitas - Ramon 'Tata' Donicio
2011/I Despertar (Short) (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2010 El baile de San Juan - Marqués de la Villa
2010 Hilos y cables (Short)
2010 Outlaw (TV Series) - Francisco Garza
- Pilot (2010) ... Francisco Garza (as Pedro Armendariz)
2010 Sin memoria - Benitez

2009 Dare to Dream (TV Series) - Max Williams
- Promesa de amor (2009) ... Max Williams
2009 Nikté - Kaas
2008 X-mas, Inc. - Santa Claus
2008 Divina confusión - Melesio
2008 Purgatorio - Don Julio
2008 Looking for Palladin - Police Chief
2007 El último justo - Padre del Toro
2007 Distilling Love (TV Series) - Mr. Thomas
- Gran final (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Episode #1.2 (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Destilando amor (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
2007 One Long Night - Don Ricardo
2006 Guadalupe - Simon
2006 Un mundo maravilloso - Director del Periódico
2005 Después de la muerte - Don Julio
2005 The Legend of Zorro - Governor Riley (as Pedro Armendariz)
2005 Barrera de amor (TV Series) - Don Pedro Valladolid
- Barrera de amor (2005) ... Don Pedro Valladolid
2004 Matando Cabos - Oscar Cabos
2004 El segundo - El Mayor
2004 Amy, the Girl with the Blue Schoolbag (TV Series) - Captain Matías Granados
- Episode #1.15 (2004) ... Captain Matías Granados
2003 Bajo la misma piel (TV Series) - Joaquín Vidaurri
- Episode #1.1 (2003) ... Joaquín Vidaurri
2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV Movie) - Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Casa de los babys - Ernesto (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico - El Presidente (as Pedro Armendariz)
2002 The Crime of Padre Amaro - Presidente Municipal Gordo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Entre los dioses del desprecio
2001 In the Time of the Butterflies (TV Movie) - Captain Pena (as Pedro Armendariz Marquez)
2001 Asesinato en el Meneo - Don Manuel
2001 Original Sin - Jorge Cortés (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Serafín: La película - Thinker (voice)
2001 His Most Serene Highness
2001 The Mexican - Mexican Policeman
2000 El grito - Duarte
2000 Furcio (TV Series)
- Episode #1.1 (2000)
2000 Before Night Falls - Reinaldo's Grandfather (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1999-2000 Labyrinths of Passion (TV Series) - Padre Mateo Valencia - 80 episodes

1999 A Christmas Carol (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.4 (1999)
- Episode #1.3 (1999)
- Episode #1.2 (1999)
- Episode #1.1 (1999)
1999 Serafín (TV Series) - Thinker
- Episode #1.3 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
1999 Tres mujeres (TV Series) - Federico Méndez - 280 episodes
1999 Herod's Law - López (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1998 Derbez en cuando (TV Series) - Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
- Telenovela Mari (1998) ... Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
1998 Al Borde - Don Gabino
1998 On the Border (TV Movie) - Herman
1998 The Mask of Zorro - Don Pedro (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Amistad - General Espatero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Reclusorio - Abogado defensor (segment "Sangre entre mujeres")
1997 Esmeralda Comes by Night - Rossellini, tenor husband
1997 A Corner of Paradise - Minister (as Pedro Armendariz)
1996 La culpa (TV Series) - Tomás Mendizábal
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1996 La sombra del otro (TV Series) - Comandante Tello
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1994 Agujetas de color de rosa (TV Series) - Aarón - 299 episodes
1994 Dos crímenes - Alfonso
1994 Una luz en la escalera - Capt. Fonseca
1994 Ámbar - Comisario
1994 Guerrero negro
1994 Novia que te vea
1993-1994 Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV Series) - Colonel Rodriguez
- Code Name: Assassin (1994) ... Colonel Rodriguez (uncredited)
- Code Name: Honeymoon Lost (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 2 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 1 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1994 Tramp - Pedro Riel
1994 The Cisco Kid (TV Movie) - General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 Code... Death: Frontera Sur
Dragon (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 La última esperanza (TV Series) - Alejandro Burana - - Episode #1.149 (1993) ... Alejandro Burana - 150 episodes
1993 Tombstone - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1993 Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (TV Movie)
1993 Extraños caminos
1992 Sonata de luna - Raúl
1991-1992 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Lt. Carillo - 29 episodes
1992 Los años de Greta - Gustavo
1992 Cuentos de Borges (TV Series) - Blot
- Death and the Compass (1992) ... Blot
1992 Diplomatic Immunity - Oswaldo Delgado
1991 Corrupción y placer - Augusto Alarcon
1991 Highway Patrolman - Sargento Barreras
1991 Bandits - Cura
1991 The Legend of the Mask - López
1990 La secta del sargon
1990 Formula I (TV Series)
- Episode #1.9 ... (as Pedro Armendariz)
1990 ¡Maten a Chinto! - Don Chinto

1989 Ke arteko egunak
1989 Old Gringo - Pancho Villa (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1989 The Cost of Living
1988-1989 Un nuevo amanecer (TV Series) - Gerardo - 80 episodes
1988 Diana, René, y El Tíbiri
1988 Tony Tijuana (TV Series) - Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
1988 El placer de la venganza
1988 Camino largo a Tijuana - Juan
1988 El secreto de Romelia - Widower Roman
1988 Lovers, Partners & Spies - Duke
1988 Hora Marcada (TV Series)
- Concierto para mano izquierda (1988)
1988 Les pyramides bleues - Perez-Valdez
1987 Herencia maldita
1987 Mariana, Mariana - Carlos (adult)
1987 Walker - Muñoz (as Pedro Armendariz)
1987 Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere' - Pagano
1987 A Walk on the Moon - Doctor
1986-1987 El camino secreto (TV Series) - Alejandro - 120 episodes
1986 El puente II
1986 El tres de copas
1986 La gloria y el infierno (TV Series) - Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
1986 Murder in Three Acts (TV Movie) - Col. Mateo (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 On Wings of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Dobuti
- Part II (1986) ... Mr. Dobuti (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Maine Ocean - Pedro De La Moccorra (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Airwolf (TV Series) - Captain Mendez
- Break-In at Santa Paula (1986) ... Captain Mendez
1985 Secuestro sangriento
1985 Treasure Island - Mendoza (as Pedro Armendariz Jnr.)
1985 Wandering Lives - El ingeniero
1985 Historias violentas - Hombre rico (segment 3 "Reflejos")
1985 Treasure of Doom - Pablo / Zapata (as Pedro Armendariz)
1985 Sangre en el Caribe - Mario
1984 Matar o morir - Tony Collins (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El billetero
1984 Extraño matrimonio
1984 La silla vacía
1984 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Eduardo O'Brian
- Mouth of the Snake (1984) ... Eduardo O'Brian (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El corazón de la noche - El Ciego; Domingo
1983 Los dos carnales - Don Cristóbal
1983 Remington Steele (TV Series) - Captain Rios
- Steele Away with Me: Part 2 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
- Steele Away with Me: Part 1 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1983 Las musiqueras - Alejandro del Río
1982 El día que murió Pedro Infante (as Pedro Armendariz)
1982 Cosa fácil - Hector Belascoaran Shayne
1982 Huevos rancheros (segment: La virginidad en el rio)
1982 Días de combate - Héctor Belascoarán Shayne
1982 En el país de los pies ligeros
1981 La Chevre - The Captain
1981 Rastro de muerte - Alberto Villamosa
1981 La mujer del ministro - Inspector Romero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1981 Novia, esposa y amante - Esteban Ampudia (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1981 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Ricardo
- Sally's Paradise/I Love You, Too, Smith/Mamma and Me (1981) ... Ricardo (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1981 Evita Peron (TV Movie) - Cypriano Reyes (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Ni solteros, ni cazados (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 The Dogs of War - The Captain (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Mamá solita (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 Me olvidé de vivir - Pedro

1979 Julia (TV Series) - 17 episodes
1979 La ilegal - Felipe Leyva
1979 El vuelo de la cigüeña
1979 These Ruins That You See - Raymundo Rocafuerte
1979 Life Sentence - Javier Lira; El Tarzan
1979 Spree - Paco
1979 Crónica íntima
1978 El hijo es mío
1978 Rosario de amor (TV Series) - Pablo - 20 episodes
1978 El complot mongol - Filiberto
1978 Los pequeños privilegios - Pedro
1978 La plaza de Puerto Santo - Ernesto
1978 Carroña - El Rengo
1977 La casta divina - Abel Ortiz Argumedo
1977 Mina, Wind of Freedom
1977 The Rhinemann Exchange (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Fuentes
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Lt. Fuentes (as Pedro Armendariz)
1976 Longitud de guerra - Manuel Chávez
1976 The Passion of Berenice - Rodrigo Robles
1976 El pacto - Raúl Mateos
1976 The Great Adventure of Zorro - Emilio Walter
1976 Columbo (TV Series) - Commandante Sanchez
- A Matter of Honor (1976) ... Commandante Sanchez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1975 Ven conmigo (TV Series) - Eduardo
- Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.1 (1975) ... Eduardo
1975 Darker Than Night - Roberto
1975 A Home of Our Own (TV Movie) - Police Captain
1975 Los caciques - Arrieta
1975 The Log of the Black Pearl (TV Movie) - Archie Hector (as Pedro Armendariz)
1974 Earthquake - Chavez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Traiganlos vivos o muertos
1974 Guns and Guts - Esposo abandonado
1974 Chosen Survivors - Luis Cabral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Cinco mil dolares de recompensa - William Law
1973 The Deadly Trackers - Herrero
1973 Police Story (TV Series) - Joe Gaitan
- The Violent Homecoming (1973) ... Joe Gaitan (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (TV Movie) - Francisco Perez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 The Soul of Nigger Charley - Sandoval (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Los hermanos Coraje (TV Series) - 15 episodes
1972 Me llaman Martina Sola (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
- Episode #1.1 (1972)
1972 Los indomables
1972 Indio - Jesse James
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride! - Pepe Carral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Trio y cuarteto (segment "Cuarteto")
1972 Sucedió en Jalisco - Muñoz
1972 Ni solteros, ni casados
1972 Hardcase (TV Movie) - Simon Fuegus
1972 Killer by Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Carlos Madera
1972 Primero el dólar
1971 Siete muertes para el texano
1971 Una vez, un hombre... - Suárez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1971 Vuelo 701 - Máximo
1971 River of Gold (TV Movie) - Angel (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 La belleza (Short)
1970 Su precio... unos dólares - Sam
1970 Macho Callahan - Juan
1970 Los juniors - Rafael Segura Jr.
1970 Chisum - Ben (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 The Phantom Gunslinger - Algernon
1970 Como enfriar a mi marido

1969 Honor y orgullo (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1969)
- Episode #1.2 (1969)
- Episode #1.1 (1969)
1969 Las impuras
1969 Patsy, mi amor
1969 The Undefeated - Escalante (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1969 Super Colt 38 - Morton (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 La marcha de Zacatecas - Mayor González
1969 Memories of the Future - Capitán Flores
1969 The Vampires - Carlos Mayer (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 Todo por nada - Pedro
1969 El golfo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1968 Los asesinos - Talbot
1968 El corrido del hijo desobediente - Ramiro
1968 No hay cruces en el mar - Sergio
1968 Amor perdoname
1968 4 contra el crimen - Gustavo
1968 Guns for San Sebastian - Father Lucas
1967 The Bandits - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1967 Los tres mosqueteros de Dios - Manuel
1966 To Kill Is Easy - Gustavo de la Rosa
1966 The Female Soldier - Isidro
1966 El temerario
1966 Los gavilanes negros
1966 El cachorro
1966 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - First Horseman
- The High Cumberland: Part 2 (1966) ... First Horseman (as Pedro Armandarez Jr.)
1966 Outside the Law - Willy

Producer (5 credits)

1994 Dos crímenes (associate producer)
1991 Sólo con Tu Pareja (associate producer)

1985 Un retrato del indio (Documentary short) (producer)
1982 Aprendamos juntos (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... (producer)
1980 El qué sabe, sabe (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... (producer)

Archive footage (2 credits)

2006 Licence to Kill: Deleted Scenes with Director John Glen (Video documentary short) - President Hector Lopez
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short)
Presidient Lopez

RichardTheBruce

2022: Stern Army James Bond 007 Launch Party Tournament at The Pinball Garage, Hamilton, Ohio.

Stern Army James Bond 007 Launch Party Tournament
at The Pinball Garage

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/hamilton/stern-army-james-bond-007-launch-party-tournament-at-the-pinball-garage/200023663910948

26 December | Event in Hamilton | AllEvents.in

Our regular monthly pinball tournament at The Pinball Garage for December will be the 007 Launch Party event! The format for this one will be qualifying for 7 rounds into a ladder finals. Top 8 to the ladder. Lowest score drops each round until we get to the final three. Highest score wins in that round. The first and last round of the ladder will be on Bond.

Entry is $15 and that includes free play on all tournament games all evening. Start time is 7pm. Doors open at 6pm for practice.

Hosted by Jesse Baker

Date & Time
Mon Dec 26 2022 at 7:00 pm
(Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Pinball Garage, 113 N. 3rd Street, Hamilton, OH, United States, Hamilton, United States

2022: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.

2022: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas resumes tonight through New Year's Day.

Junkanoo Bahamas

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Junkanoo Carnival is held every Boxing Day & New Year’s Day. Junkanoo is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture & the most anticipated event of the year! Here is everything you need to know about Junkanoo!

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When is Junkanoo?
Junkanoo is a four-day celebration that always runs between Boxing Day, 26th December and New Year’s Day 1st January.

When is Junkanoo 2022? The 2022 Junkanoo Carnival takes place between Monday 26 December 2022 and Sunday 1 January, 2023.
Where to experience Junkanoo?

Junkanoo celebrations today occur only on the Islands of The Bahamas. The street parades are held in downtown Nassau on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. However smaller celebrations occur on other islands including the Abacos, the Exumas, Harbour Island, and Grand Bahama.

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What is Junkanoo?
Junkanoo is an exciting four-day carnival celebration that occurs around the Christmas/New Year period and showcases Bahamian culture and traditions with music, costumes and street parades. For the Bahamian peopleJunkanoo is more than just a parade, it is a representation of what makes the Bahamas such a special place. Junkanoo is so revered by the locals because it is the ultimate celebration of everything Bahamian, it is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture. The essence of Junkanoo is joy and happiness. Junkanoo is all about enjoying life and embracing your heritage through food, dance, music, family, friends and joy.

Junkanoo attracts visitors from all over the world who descend on the Bahamas to have a great time and get immersed in the Bahamian Culture.

Junkanoo Carnival Crowd parade

How is Junkanoo celebrated?
Originally Junkanoo began as a small street celebration but today into something that can rival any Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration around the world!

Junkanoo has two street parades held annually on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. So on these days you can expect large street celebrations full of music, dancing, costumes and spirited revelers. Expect an amazing display of local arts, crafts and delicious local cuisine for sale.

There are also some other carnival events including JunkaMania, Music Masters, Midnight Rush, and Road Fever. Junk Mania is a 3-night music festival that showcases Junkanoo Music, and other Junkanoo art forms like drumming and dance.

What is the Difference Between Bahamas Carnival & Junkanoo?
Junkanoo and Bahamas Carnival are two widely popular carnivals that are both held in the Bahamas. Both of them are beloved by the locals and attract tourists from all over. While they are both similar carnival celebrations that involve parades, costumes, competition, music and of course partying, there are some big differences between them. One of the main differences is that Bahamas Carnival is held in April/early May and Junkanooalways takes place between the Christmas and New Year period.

Junkanoo is also a more traditional carnival with more traditional music, dances and costumes. Junkanoo is about showing off the island’s rich culture and history. Where the Bahamas Carnival is more like the typical carnival celebration you will find throughout the Caribbean with a heavy emphasis on soca music. Both celebrations are amazing and worth attending!

What is the History of Junkanoo
What are the origins of Junkanoo? Junkanoo is a party that has been occurring in The Bahamas for well over 500 years! The history of Junkanoo dates back to the Bahamas colonial days, when there were still slaves working on plantations.

During the Christmas season slaves were given three days off and would spend those days throwing large celebrations. The celebrations were filled with dance, music, costumes, colorful masks and see participants travel from house to house on stilts.

Others believed that The Bahamas Junkanoostarted from the French ‘gens inconnus,’ which translates to ‘masked people’.

Junkanoo Carnival Man jumping open legs

The Legend of John Canoe
Who is John Canoe? There is a local folk legend that believes that The Bahamas Junkanoo celebrations actually began because of a West African Prince named John Canoe who is revered for outwitting the English to become a local hero.

Rumor has it that John Canoe demanded the right along with the rights for his people to be able to celebrate even after they were captured and brought to the West Indies as a slave.

Humble Beginnings of Junkanoo
Historically Junkanoo was a more spontaneous celebration that consisted of simple costumes and hand-made instruments. In the early parades participants work masks made from flour paste. By the 1920’s costumes were made from paper, cloth and facial painting or natural material like sea sponges.

By the 1940s anything and everything was used to make Junkanoo costumes material, crepe paper, newspaper and wires. The original Junkanoo musical instruments were home-made. created from conch shells, horns, and poinciana pods.

Junkanoo Groups
What are Junkanoo groups? Junkanoo Groups are organizations created and organized by members of the community that participate in the parades. Junkanoo is an intense competition between seven groups on the island. The different Junkanoo groups include the Saxons, Roots, One Family and The Valley Boys, the Prodigal Sons and the Music Makers.

The Junkanoo groups have around 500-1000 members who are divided into three different categories that include musicians, dancers and costumed performers. Each of these three different categories is used as criteria for judging.

Each Junkanoogroup competes for cash prizes and bragging rights that comes with winning the title of Best JunkanooGroup. Junkanoo Groups spend an entire year preparing and coordinating the parade with their chosen themes.

Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce the competition is in Junkanoo.

Scrap Groups
The Junkanoo Parade also features smaller groups that are called Scrap Groups who aren’t as well organized but represent broad sections of the community.

Anyone who wants is allowed to participate in Junkanoo so long as they follow a clear set of rules established by the National Junkanoo Association. Even tourists can join in the Junkanoo Parade.

Junkanoo Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Street Parade
Junkanoo has been recognized as having one of the most entertaining street parades in the world! Junkanoo has two street parades that are held on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The Parades are held in downtown Nassau on Bay and Shirley streets.

In fact, the Junkanoo parade that takes place on Boxing Day is actually completely different to the Junkanoo parade that takes place on New Year’s Day! Each of the different Junkanoo Groups will come up with an entirely separate theme for each parade. That means that each parade will have different costumes, different dances and different music. Both parades are always equally spectacular, and it cannot be said which parade is considered the better parade to attend.

Junkanoo Street Parades contain different groups in each of the parades so you won’t feel like you’re watching the same parade again. The Parades actually begin in the early hours of the morning before the sun comes up and it gets too hot, so from around 2am-10am.

Junkanoo Parades are a visual delight full of colors and sound. Everywhere you look you will see bright colorful costumes. Rhythmic sounds fill the air made by the drums, cowbells or whistles that accompany an array of brass instruments.

The Junkanoo Groups have spent months perfecting their dance routines and perform with vast amounts of energy and enthusiasm. The musicians bang out pop songs on cowbells and the goat skin drums. The elaborate costumes are on full display wowing the audience.

Both sides of the street are full with large crowds of spectators and die-hard fans that you can barely move. People climb atop trees and street lights and fill balconies to get a good view. The atmosphere is electric, everyone is dancing and everyone is having a good time.

All this is being done under the intense scrutiny of the judges who mark the groups on who has the best music, costume and overall best group. At the end of the procession is when the judges announce the winners and hand out cash prizes and bragging rights for the next year.

Where to Watch the Junkanoo Street Parade
The great thing about the JunkanooStreet Parade is that it is free to watch! You can just find a spot on the street along the parade route and enjoy the show. However, if you want to avoid the crowds and get great views of the parade, you can pay to sit in one of the grandstands that are set up along the way. Or you can watch from one of the few private balconies along the parade route.

Grandstand Seating at Junkanoo
There are many grandstands that are set up along the parade route in Bay Street. You can purchase tickets to sit in one of these which not only get you a great view over the parade but means that you can avoid the crowds. You can also leave the grandstands and re-enter when you would like.

Rawson Square also has a giant grandstand which is a great option. This is where the judges are located, so all the groups save their best dances and performances for when they pass the judges and the energy is heightened. The seats in this area are more expensive than in the other areas.

Private Balconies on Bay Street
One of the best ways to view Junkanoo is from one of the many balconies that overlook Bay Street. Several restaurants, bars and hotels that line the parade route will host private parties where you can view the parade from their balconies. This is a more expensive option than the bleachers, and some of the venues will sell Junkanoo packages that also include drinks and food. Others just sell access to their balconies and you will have to purchase your own food. This is a great option if you want to avoid the crowds, get great views over the parades and have quick access to a bathroom.

Junkanoo at Street Level
If you don’t want to spend money then you can always join the crowds and find a spot along the parade route. It is free to watch the parades along Bay and Shirley Streets, Bethel Avenue, Blue Hill Road and Poinciana Drive. However, you will be fighting with thousands of others for a good view so we highly recommend arriving early. Rawson Square is a great place to go watch the parades because that is where the judges are set up so everyone puts on their best show when walking past. They also hand out awards afterwards.

Bay Street is the most popular option to watch the parades. If you want to get a good view you will have to get there early as Bay Street can be packed with 4 or 5 lines of people in front of you, so it will be hard to see unless you are tall. However, it is a lot of fun watching on the street, because the crowd energy is high. It can be difficult finding access to a bathroom, there are public port-o-potties but it is extremely crowded.

Another good option is to watch along Shirley Street that runs parallel to Bay Street. The parade also runs down here and it is a lot less crowded than Bay Street, but the performances are not as energetic because they save their energy for the Bay Street Crowds and grandstands. But it is a good option if you want a more relaxing Junkanoo experience and you can still admire the beautiful costumes.

Where to stay for Junkanoo Bahamas?
There are hundreds of options for accommodations. From luxurious resorts and hotels, to guesthouses there is something for all budgets. Most tourists stay in the Paradise Island area of Nassau, and just take a taxi to the carnival parade.

Most of the action takes place in downtown Nassau and there are plenty of hotels and guest houses in this area if you want to be close to the action.

Beach Hotels close to the parade route include:

• Grand Hyatt Baha Mar
• SLS Baha Mar
• Sandals Royal Bahamian All Inclusive – Couples Only
• Breezes Resort & Spa All Inclusive, Bahamas

Check out Booking.com for some great accommodation options close to Junkanoo Carnival.

Junkanoo Carnival Man in traditional costume

Junkanoo Costumes
One of the things that make Junkanoo Festival so spectacular are the Junkanoo Costumes! There is no limit to what a Junkanoocostume can be, or can be made of. Junkanoo costuming is an incredibly creative and tedious process that demands thousands of man hours. The Junkanoocostume designers are required to have tremendous skill and creativity. The Junkanoo costume ideas always stem from the chosen Junkanoo group’s chosen theme.

Junkanoo Junkanoo Costumes DIY – Junkanoo Groups spend months creating carnival costumes out of not much more than Styrofoam, cardboard and crepe paper.

The Junkanoo Costume designers create intricate patterns using the selected theme as inspiration onto cardboard. This is then used as the base for the Junkanoo costumes. Once the structure is complete, hundreds of brilliantly colored layers of fringed crepe paper are pasted on.

This fringe effect is what gives the Junkanoo costumes the Bahamas so much texture and dimension! Truly you will spend your time at the Junkanoo Festival wandering around admiring the JunkanooCostumes. 

Cultural expression
Cultural expression is highly revered in Junkanooand the chosen Junkanoo themes are always incredibly creative depictions of fantasy and reality. Often you will see visual representations of The Bahamas past and present, or satirical or political themes.

Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce this competition is in Junkanoo. 

Junkanoo Bahamas Music
The unique Junkanoo music is equally as lively as the costumes are beautiful. The music makes everyone want to get up and dance. Junkanoo music was heavily influenced by West African drum rhythms, the blues, and other Caribbean musical sounds.

Today most of the original home-made instruments have been replaced by modern musical instruments with most Junkanoo Bahamas groups featuring a brass band and brass instruments to create the melody.

Pulsating music is produced from the goat-skin drums. However, you will still see some original home-made musical instruments such as the conch shell, horns, cowbells and poinciana pods.

Junkanoo Bahamas New Year’s Day
Before the Junkanoo New Year’s Day Parade kicks off, take to the streets and watch all the firework celebrations occurring across the islands. Immediately following the fireworks all the Junkanoo groups start setting up for their parade.

Most of the locals are in church so you can see behind the scenes and feel the frenzy and excitement as the groups prepare. When church finishes thousands start to fill up the streets for the start of the next parade.

Junior Junkanoo Festival
Junior Junkanoo is all about getting the next generation excited about Junkanoo. The kids get their very own chance to join groups and perform in a children’s parade. The children’s parade is full of color and very cute to watch.

Junkanoo Summer Festival
Junkanoo has become so popular that they now celebrate it twice a year! Junkanoo is also held again in the middle of Summer, every Saturday of July, to allow more people to experience this cultural phenomenon. July is when lots of tourist’s flock to the Bahamas to enjoy their summer holidays. In addition to the parades they also have live entertainment, competitions and food and drink vendors set up.

Things to do in the Bahamas
The Bahamas is the ideal destination for a memorable vacation, especially for those who enjoy spending time outside in the warm weather, relaxing in a tropical location. There is so much to do here like visit the infamous Atlantis Resort, where you can splash around and enjoy the waterslides. The Island also offers amazing Scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming with stingrays and/or sharks, deep-sea fishing excursions, beautiful beaches, parasailing, horseback riding, sailing, jet skiing and more. There are a few museums where you can go to enjoy the beautiful culture and history.

Some fun activities to do in the Bahamas:

• Pearl Island: Pigs Beach with Lunch
• Parasail Over Cabbage Beach
• Nassau: Jet Ski Ride, Parasailing & Banana Boat Tour
• Paradise Island Sunset Catamaran Dinner Cruise
• Nassau: Jet Ski Adventure
• Rose Island Boat Tour with Snorkeling

Junkanoo Carnival Dancing with confetti

If you were impressed by the costumes in the parade then check out the Junkanoo Expo. It is a museum dedicated to Junkanoo. It showcases some of the best costumes from the previous parades. Looking up-close lets you appreciate just how beautiful and intricate these costumes are.

Junkanoo Festival Tickets
The best way to watch the parade is to buy a ticket for one of the many grandstands that align the parade route. Tickets can be purchased from the official website bahamasjunkanoocarnival.com.

How to get to Junkanoo Bahamas?
The best way to get to the Bahamas is to fly. The airport is connected to many international airports. You can also arrive by boat from another island or the USA. Once you are on the island it is very easy to take a taxi around.

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2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

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PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

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1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.

1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugging devices. Also the last day of filming in Jamaica includes Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.

1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.

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1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
(Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)

Hoagy Carmichael

American composer, musician, and actor
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Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.

Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.

After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).

Hoagy Carmichael.
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Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”

As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.

Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.

Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

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Filmography

Actor (23 credits)

1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
- Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
- Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker

1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
- Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
- Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
- Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
- Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
- Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
- Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
- Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
- Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
- Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
- Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
- Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
- Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
- Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
- Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
- Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
- Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
- Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
- Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy

1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
- Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
- The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Frazier
- Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
- Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
1955 Timberjack - Jingles
1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
- The Whale on the Beach (1952)
1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
1947 Night Song - Chick
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

Soundtrack (376 credits)
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Music department (5 credits)

2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)

1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)

1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
- C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)

1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)

Composer (1 credit)

1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters

'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'

Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.

Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers

Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.

"Stardust", Hoagy Carmichael.


To Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.


To Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.

2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.

2020 New Year Honours

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Order of the British Empire
Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

The riband and badge of the
"Companions of Honour"

Order of the Companions of Honour

Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
• Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History

Knight Bachelor

• David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
• Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
• Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
• Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
• Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
• Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
• Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
• Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
• Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
• Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
• Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
• Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
• Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
• Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
• William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
• Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
• Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

• Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film

2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

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PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

Movie Showtimes

December 27, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 28, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 29, 2022
2:45
9:45

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December 28th

1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."

The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.

TO WREN HOWARD

Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:

‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/



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


http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html

Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3

Dödligt Budskap
(Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Dödligt Budskap
(Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

Dödligt Budskap
(Trouble Spot)

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 27:
“Trouble Spot” (1974)
"Dræbende budskab"
[= Lethal Message]

1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and a close shave with an asp.

1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.

2002: BBC airs James Bond - A BAFTA Tribute celebrating 40 years of the film series.

James Bond: A BAFTA
Tribute (2002)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347268/
1h 25min | TV Special 28 December 2002

Director: Stuart McDonald
Writer: Steve Punt
Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, many others

James Bond 40th Anniversary BAFTA Tribute (1:24:23)

2002: Pierce Brosnan in the Irish Examiner proposes who the next Bond actor could be.

Pierce Brosnan reveals who he
thinks should be next Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30082189.html

Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.
Sat, 28 Dec, 2002 - 08:51

Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.

Brosnan says he thinks the next 007 should be Colin Salmon.

Salmon has already appeared in three Bond films as Charles Robinson.

Brosnan says he thinks Salmon is a "great actor".

"It'll be interesting to see how I really kind of deal with it, letting go" he says.

"You become a bit possessive of the role. Especially when you've had the success like you do with Die Another Day, and each one has gotten better and better," Brosnan says.

2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.

女王陛下の007



黄金の銃を持つ男


1981 reprint.

2015: The Guardian remembers an interview with Sean Connery from 28 December 1971.

Sean Connery, back in Bondage -
interview

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/28/james-bond-sean-connery-interview-1971-archive

28 December 1971: Tom Hutchinson talks to Sean Connery about his
love/hate affair with James Bond
Tom Hutchinson - Mon 28 Dec 2015 00.30 EST

Sean Connery, December 1971. Photograph: Don Morley/The Guardian

Sean Connery ordered a Perrier water because he had been drinking heavily the night before and, mortal, had not been able to make a James Bond-like with one leap he was free escape from the clutches of the resulting hangover. He watched the elegant back of Kenneth Tynan disappearing into the further recesses of the restaurant. “K-k-kenneth (sic) f-f-fucking T-t-tynan,” he mimicked. “Spends his life criticising plays from a position of lofty principle and then dives into a show like “Oh, Calcutta!” which isn’t half so well presented as Raymond’s Revuebar where I was the other night. Even though the Revuebar champagne is so bloody pricey…

‘Of course the
films will go on, but
who’ll play me?’
Sean Connery

“I’ll give Tynan one thing, though: I was once at a party and he was there and there was this fight between two men over a girl and he helped separate the men and do you know what he said? ‘Stop behaving like people,’ he said. He must have been waiting all his life for a situation where he could make a remark like that.”

He ordered a dozen oysters and consumed them with the avid rapidity of a man who is now aged forty-one and knows he needs the vitamins to make him feel human again. For the actor who has so often assumed the myth of snobbish thuggery that is Bond he is very human indeed: he does not evade or avoid; talks with a fine growl of voice that, when relaxed, occasionally lapses into the dour vowels inherited from a working-class background in the tougher areas of Edinburgh (milkman, lorry driver, cement mixer, bricklayer, steel bender, coffin-polisher, and other grinding etceteras). He uses four-letter words like a dramatic technician: to freeze what you might pass off as a casual remark into a statement of import.

His new Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” is to be released on Thursday (Odeon, Leicester Square) and he had, he said, been put through the necessary mill of interviews to promote that event. “At least you converse. Usually I hate interviews because I end up boring myself listening to me talking all the time.” He managed, though, to talk without self-inflicting too much pain.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS

His love-hate affair with the character of Bond began ten years ago, when producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli signed him up for “Dr No[.” He is not exactly in sympathy with the character (“I’ve only read two Bond books; I found Ian Fleming himself much more interesting than his writing”), but realises that without Bond he would not be the rich man he is today. He is a director of a Pall Mall bank and was able to donate a lot of the money to his self-founded Scottish International Educational Trust from the deal he made on “Diamonds Are Forever.”

The role of Bond was taken over for the last film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” by George Lazenby, an actor whose most eloquent claim to previous fame was as Big Fry in the TV commercial. The result was a Big Drag. The lure that trapped Connery back again in the part was the chance to produce two further films of his own choice for United Artists, a large percentage of the profits and a start-stop clause in his contract which meant that if shooting over-ran 18 weeks he would be paid $10,000 a week. The film finished on time.

“It can be done, you see, if there’s money at stake. I’d been frigged about too much on other Bond pictures. There’s so much bullshit that comes from bad decisions being made at the top. I admire efficiency: like watching a good racehorse or the way Picasso works: where everything functions perfectly within its capacity. But talking to some of these moguls about it is like trying to describe to someone who has never taken exercise what it is like to feel fit when you do exercise. They don’t understand.”

He is notably overt in his opinions of producers Saltzman and Broccoli (“for every good idea Harry has had he’s gone on to eight flops”) and said: “They’re not exactly enamoured of each other. Probably because they’re both sitting on fifty million dollars or pounds and looking across the desk at each other and thinking: that bugger’s got half of what should be all mine.”

He revealed his lack of Bond’s culinary conceit by saying he couldn’t remember what lobster thermidor was, settled for cold lobster instead, and maintained yet again that “Diamonds Are Forever” would be the last Bond film he would ever make. “Of course the films will go on, but who’ll play me I just don’t know and can’t guess.”

This is an edited extract, read the full article
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/12/21/1450699711519/Connery-28-December-1971-001.jpg

2022: TechiAzi reports on Monica Bellucci's two Bond auditions prior to Spectre.

The Two James Bond Movies Monica Bellucci Auditioned For (And
Didn’t Get) Before Landing Spectre

See the complete article here:

https://techiazi.com/the-two-james-bond-movies-monica-bellucci-auditioned-for-and-didnt-get-before-landing-spectre/

By Rahul Kumar On Dec 28, 2022

Part of the reason the James Bond movies have such good behind-the-scenes stories to share is the fact that there are so many who’ve auditioned to be a part of that world who either didn’t get in or found their way in later. That’s not only true with the men who could have been Bond, but also some of the supporting characters in 007’s adventures. 

No one knows that better than series vet Colin Salmon, who played the role of Robinson during the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond. What’s even more interesting is in a recent interview with the Spyhards Podcast (opens in new tab), Salmon revealed that was also the case with Bond Woman Monica Bellucci. Before ultimately landing the role of Lucia Sciarra in Spectre with Daniel Craig, the actor had unsuccessfully auditioned for two consecutive films in the Pierce Brosnan era.

Colin Salmon was there for both occasions, and he had some exciting stories from both instances. Here’s how he revealed those experiences, starting with his answer to the question of who he was most disappointed didn’t stick the landing after their James Bond audition: 

It’s Monica. Monica Bellucci came in twice actually. She came in once for Tomorrow Never Dies, and again for The World is Not Enough. She strapped me to the chair, I was strapped to the chair, and she straddled me and licked my face. And I was like … and she still didn’t get it. I said ‘Give her anything she wants, please.’

As you can see in Colin Salmon’s wild story from The World is Not Enough audition, Monica Bellucci was clearly auditioning for the role of Elektra King. The surprise villainess who masterminded the evil scheme driving the 19th James Bond film, it was a role that eventually went to French actor Sophie Marceau. 

Though the casting was absolutely perfect, with Marceau’s Bond Woman standing as an equal to 007, it’s kind of hard not to see how good of a fit Bellucci would have been for this role. The prospect is especially tempting when just a couple of years later, she’d play the morally grey Persephone in 2003’s sequels to The Matrix.

Colin Salmon had noted that this was the second time he’d helped Monica Bellucci test to be a female lead in the James Bond franchise. Both instances came about as the actor was tapped to help test the Bond Women for Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as The World is Not Enough. That experience entrenched Salmon in the franchise’s machinery, and eventually helped Pierce Brosnan champion his candidacy to succeed him as 007. 

In the case of Monica Bellucci, her first time trying out for a James Bond movie was a bit harder than that more confident incident described above. Continuing his story about how he and the Italian actress bonded over their previous meeting, Colin Salmon divulged this sweet tale: 

In all honesty on Tomorrow Never Dies, I went and had lunch with her, because I’d spotted she was struggling. Her English was not up to clarity, so I went and I just asked if she’d wanted to run the lines, and we did. Genuinely, because I know that one, I could feel the strain. And then, like I said, she came back for The World is Not Enough, which Sophie [Marceau] did. Then she was there, like you said, in Spectre. I was so happy to see that, especially in a role like that. It was a great role, and Sophie was amazing in The World is Not Enough.

Whether it’s actors, story ideas or anything else that’s up for grabs in the world of 007, the first or even second time around isn’t always the charm. Several former James Bonds were named on their second tries, as even Pierce Brosnan had to wait his turn. 

Fortune did smile on Monica Bellucci, and the results were well deserved. Through the stories that Colin Salmon told above, the James Bond franchise’s history of never saying never only rings truer than ever, and who knows where that lesson will be taught next.

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

See the complete article here:

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EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/goldeneye/

PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

Movie Showtimes

December 28, 2022
2:45
9:45
December 29, 2022
2:45
9:45

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Portland OR, 97215
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2022: The Richmond Public Library Midweek Matinees @ Your Library screens No Time To Die at Richmond, Virginia.

Midweek Matinees @ Your Library: No Time
to Die (2021)

See the complete article here:

https://rvalibrary.libcal.com/event/8957976

Enjoy a movie with us that you may have missed at the theater.

Snacks provided - Please bring a beverage.

All films show at 2pm each Wednesday.
 

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Rated R; 2h 43m
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Show more dates
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: West End Meeting Room A
Categories: Movies

Event Organizer
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2022: The Prince Charles Theatre screens Dr No at Leicester Square, London, England.

DR. NO

See the complete article here:

https://princecharlescinema.com/PrinceCharlesCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=3645101

Directed by Terence Young
Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
1962 | 109mins | UK | (PG)

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Wednesday 28 Dec 2022
Book3:30pm

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December 29th

1959: A letter from Ian Fleming to friend and partner Ivar Bryce considers possibilities. Including diminishing Kevin McClory's involvement in the Bond film project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

When rumours reached Fleming that Bryce was having second thoughts he
wrote to his old friend on 29 December: "Having heard nothing from you for so
long, I presume you are not dead," he began. "I have no idea what your plans are for the whole project, but the frost-bitten right toe which I suffered at my
delicious Thanksgiving weekend is pulsating that you may have gone a bit cold on
the whole business. If so, I shall perfectly understand. The idea of a $3 million
budget with Kevin [McClory] at the helm dismays me, although I'm sure he could help to
make a James Bond film that would please us both and bring in the cash
customers. But I'm in the dark about all this and it may be that the jelly has jelled
since I last saw you."

At the start of the project, Fleming had led McClory to believe that he
was the only person whom he would like to produce the Bond film, and
realized too that it would be a very costly enterprise. Now he seemed
to be using the very size of the project to undermine McClory's authority as
producer and suggesting to Bryce that he be merely an assistant of some
kind who could "help" with the picture. Also if Fleming's sums were correct
the intended budget was now $3 million, and astronomical sum, and three
times the eventual budget of 1962's Dr. No. Little wonder that Bryce was
stepping back from the prospect of having to foot most that bill himself.
"Showbiz is a ghastly biz," Fleming concluded in his letter. "And the last thing
I want is for your to lose your pin-striped trousers in its grisly maw, however
much fun you may have in the process. Nor do I want the first James Bond
film to be botched, but the first consideration is primary. If you decide to
skip the whole thing, don't forget that you have, or should have, a good
saleable property in the script, so all is not completely lost." In other words,
if Bryce wasn't going to make the film, maybe they could find somebody else
that would. But where would that leave McClory?

Most of all it left the vexed question of who exactly owned the Bond film
project. McClory made it clear that as a partner in Xanadu he believed he owned
a share in it and was unwilling to let it go...

1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion and Rialto theaters. At the Pavilion, includes a midnight gala benefiting the British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association.

1965: Variety reports Thunderball out-grosses Goldfinger to date. For the next film, a shorter filming schedule and budget are expected.
1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.

1966: You Only Live Twice films 12 days at Pinewood's Stage E.

1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.

1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.

2016: South China Morning Post reports on 2D game I Expect You To Die from Schell Games.

Game review: I Expect You To Die – 007-
inspired puzzle game revels in the spy genre’s
thrills and clichés

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2057642/game-review-i-expect-you-die-007-inspired-puzzle-game

Even playing in standard 2D format, this short but sweet game offers challenging escape-room-type puzzles
Pavan Shamdasani | Published: 7:46am, 29 Dec, 2016

A still from I Expect You to Die. The James Bond theme is evident.

I Expect You To Die
Schell Games
4 stars

“Do you expect me to talk?,” asks the tuxedoed spy, strapped down and facing a comically oversized laser. “No, Mr Bond,” replies the slightly pudgy German villain. “I expect you to die!”

I love that scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger. It’s my favourite part of an otherwise average Bond flick – and appropriately it provides the title of this cool little spy game.

Full disclosure, though: most critics are harping on about its virtual-reality capabilities, but my low budget meant we were forced to play it on a standard PC. That didn’t detract much from the overall gameplay, but we imagine complete immersion is a decidedly different experience.

I Expect You To Die - Launch Trailer (1:07)

The concept is simple, taking 1960s-style spy film clichés and transporting them into escape-room puzzle environments. But what could have been yet another set of stealthy situations poorly put together, are instead clever, crafty and often comical takes on being an overly curious video game spy.

Let’s say you have to steal a car off a cargo ship. You’ve sneaked into the driver’s seat and maybe you want to start it up. Simply enough, right? Nope, the retina eye-scan immediately goes off and you’re quickly burned to a crisp.

A still from the game I Expect You To Die.

Most games take death a little too seriously, but Die takes its name seriously (if little else), and you really are expected to croak it numerous times before finding the not-too-obvious solution. Submarine escapes, serum concoctions – there’s a whole lot of classic espionage love in this package, everything from its British-tinged voiceover to the overly obvious quips and one-liners. We can’t say we loved every single one of them, but we did appreciate the exactitude.

Sadly, there aren’t enough levels here to sustain a proper experience, although that might change with add-ons and patches.

Die takes its “super-spy” concept a little too far, giving your character strange telekinesis powers. I mean, we’re all for a bit of outlandish Moonraker-style escapades, but superpowers, really? Nevertheless, I Expect You to Die is a clever game, one of the smartest we’ve played all year. There’s a little bit too much that’s silly to make it one of our favourite spy games of all time, but in full-frontal VR we imagine it’s an experience worth dying for.

'I Expect You To Die' Opening Credits (2:37)


I Expect You To Die VR FULL WALKTHROUGH [NO COMMENTARY] 1080P 60FPS (1:11:17)

2020: CineFix offers YouTube watchalong of GoldenEye with Martin Campbell and Famke Janssen in attendance.

Watch ‘GoldenEye’ Live with
Martin Campbell and
Famke Janssen

See the complete article here:

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

On 24 Dec, 2020 By Bond on the Box | In Film Screenings

GoldenEye Live Watch Along w/ Famke Janssen and Martin Campbell (2:55:40)

CineFix will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘GoldenEye’ (1995) by hosting a watchalong with actress Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp) and director Martin Campbell, on Tuesday, 29 December, 2020.

Hosted by CineFix, the event is a ‘Watch From Home’ special encouraging viewers to stay safe, and stay home, during the pandemic.

The event will stream live on YouTube from 7:00 PM (GMT).

2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

See the complete article here:

https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

PG10
Select Venue
Western Cape
Theatre On The Bay
Western Cape
Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
R180 - R275

2022: James Bond Themed XNY (Xmas & New Year Party) for fundraiser at Hounslow, London, England.

Dec 29
James Bond Themed XNY
(Xmas & New Year Party)

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-bond-themed-xny-xmas-new-year-party-tickets-491335546847

James Bond Themed XNY (Xmas & New Year) Party. Celebrating Xmas and New Year, Calling Dons & Divas to have one hell of a Dashing Night in Bond St
By Chilli Vibes

When and where
Date and time
Thu, December 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:30 PM GMT

Location
Twentynine hounslow 29-31 Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 1JA United Kingdom

About this event
4 hours 30 minutes
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After a victorious Diwali'22 Party, this Xmas Chilli Vibes brings you another dashing Black-Tie event with Fun, Food, Dance, Raffle and much More.
Dashing Ambience, 3 Course Meal, Welcome Drink, BYOB, DJ & Dhol and FUN.UNLIMITED.
Dress Code: Black Tie (Gents) & Evening Gown (Ladies).
Connect with High net worth individuals, Network and Grow.
Please do your full support to make it a huge success. 🙏

Q&A:
1. What's this thing about BYOB ?
There is a welcome drink and the venue have a bar. You don't need to Bring your Own Boose (BYOB), if you don't want. You can hand around the bar and chill there. BYOB rule is buy beer and softdrinks - you can get your own whiskey, wine, champagne for table. We are also arranging a sponser for drinks as well.
2. What is the Gender balance ?
Its a call for Dons and Divas - so ideally 50/50, but I would expect around 60/40.
3. This a proper sit down black tie event with good service and all.
The starters will be served on the table and the mains will be served on the buffet.
The dress code is Black-tie for gents and dressing gown for ladies, the venue is a dashing bar and restaurant, so you will get an excellent ambience.
4. How busy is it?
We expecting it to be full house - max capacity 60 people. We are focusing on quality by inviting High Net Profile people for networking.
5. Who is the DJ.
DJ Sunny - He has been known for his DJing and Dhol, he creates great ambience and comes highly recommended.
6. What are the expectations on fund raising.
All the proceeds will go the conservatives from tickets, any sponsorships etc.
Donations can also be directly made to the party.
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2022 The Academy Theater screens GoldenEye at Portland, Oregon.

GoldenEye

See the complete article here:

https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/goldeneye/

PG-13 130 minutes

Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: November 17, 1995

Movie Synopsis
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a Russian crime syndicate steals a secret space-based weapons program known as “GoldenEye” and James Bond has to stop them from using it.

Movie Showtimes

December 29, 2022
2:45
9:45

Contact Us
7818 SE Stark Street
Portland OR, 97215
[email protected]
503-252-0500

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I don't think Eon got the memo from Variety claiming a shorter shooting schedule and budget considering the next two films. Maybe by 1971.

RichardTheBruce

December 30th

1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
(He dies 18 January 1936 at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)

The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
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.

The Day's Work, Rudyard Kipling, 1898.
"·007."

A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

Complete story linked here.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

1920: John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord) is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 21 January 1998 at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

Obituary: Jack Lord

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-jack-lord-1140283.html
Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.

The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.

Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.

Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.

He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.

He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.

In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.

Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.

Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

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Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson

1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
- Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
...
- Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
- The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
- The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
- Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
- Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
- Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
- Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
- The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
- High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
- Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
- Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
- Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
- Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
- The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
- The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
- The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
- The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
- How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
- Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
- A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
- The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
- Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
- Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
- Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
- The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
- House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
- The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
- Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
- Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
- The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
- The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton

1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
- Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
- The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
- The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
- Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
- Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
- Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
1958 Man of the West - Coaley
1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
- Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
- The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
- The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
- Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
- Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
- Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
1957 Conflict (TV Series)
- Pattern for Violence (1957)
1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
- Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
- Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
- A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
- An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
- The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
- One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
- Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
- Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Buckskin (1955)
1955 Danger (TV Series)
- Season for Murder (1955)
1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- String (1954)
1954 The Web (TV Series)
- Grand Finale (1954)
1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dolls (1954)
- The Midnight Express (1953)
1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
- Criminal at Large (1953)
1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
- The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)

1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
- Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
- The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
- Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
- How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
- Death with Father (1974)

1965: Thunderball premieres in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (UK general release follows 13 March 1966.)

1970: The San Francisco Examiner reports John Gavin and Burt Reynolds tested for the Bond role.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.

Concept art

1974: Yasamak Için Öldür (Kill to Live) released in Turkey.

VCD

1983: (007 - Never Again) released in Brazil.

Later video marketing.

1989: 007 살 인 면 허 (Sahl-een myun-huh; Murder Licence) released in the Republic of Korea.

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1998: The New Year Honours List recognizes Roger Moore to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his UNICEF work.

1999 New Year Honours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_New_Year_Honours

Order of the British Empire
Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

Grand Cross's star of the
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry comprising five classes in civil and military divisions. It is the junior of the British orders of chivalry, and the largest, with over 100,000 living members worldwide. The highest two ranks of the order, the Knight/Dame Grand Cross and Knight/Dame Commander, admit an individual into knighthood or damehood allowing the recipient to use the title Sir or Dame.[6]

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
Diplomatic and Overseas

• The Honourable Ernest David Decouto, J.P., Speaker, House of Assembly, Bermuda.
• Dr. Samuel Wilson Hynd. For services to medical missionary work in Africa.
• Roger George Moore. For charitable services, especially to UNICEF.

2012: Skyfall reaches £100 million ($161.6 million) in the UK (a first for a film there), plus the landmark $1 billion point for worldwide box-office.
2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.

2022: James Bond Themed XNY (Xmas & New Year Party) for fundraiser at Hounslow, London, England.

Dec 29
James Bond Themed XNY
(Xmas & New Year Party)

See the complete article here:

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James Bond Themed XNY (Xmas & New Year) Party. Celebrating Xmas and New Year, Calling Dons & Divas to have one hell of a Dashing Night in Bond St
By Chilli Vibes

When and where
Date and time
Thu, December 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:30 PM GMT

Location
Twentynine hounslow 29-31 Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 1JA United Kingdom

About this event
4 hours 30 minutes
Mobile eTicket

After a victorious Diwali'22 Party, this Xmas Chilli Vibes brings you another dashing Black-Tie event with Fun, Food, Dance, Raffle and much More.
Dashing Ambience, 3 Course Meal, Welcome Drink, BYOB, DJ & Dhol and FUN.UNLIMITED.
Dress Code: Black Tie (Gents) & Evening Gown (Ladies).
Connect with High net worth individuals, Network and Grow.
Please do your full support to make it a huge success. 🙏

Q&A:
1. What's this thing about BYOB ?
There is a welcome drink and the venue have a bar. You don't need to Bring your Own Boose (BYOB), if you don't want. You can hand around the bar and chill there. BYOB rule is buy beer and softdrinks - you can get your own whiskey, wine, champagne for table. We are also arranging a sponser for drinks as well.
2. What is the Gender balance ?
Its a call for Dons and Divas - so ideally 50/50, but I would expect around 60/40.
3. This a proper sit down black tie event with good service and all.
The starters will be served on the table and the mains will be served on the buffet.
The dress code is Black-tie for gents and dressing gown for ladies, the venue is a dashing bar and restaurant, so you will get an excellent ambience.
4. How busy is it?
We expecting it to be full house - max capacity 60 people. We are focusing on quality by inviting High Net Profile people for networking.
5. Who is the DJ.
DJ Sunny - He has been known for his DJing and Dhol, he creates great ambience and comes highly recommended.
6. What are the expectations on fund raising.
All the proceeds will go the conservatives from tickets, any sponsorships etc.
Donations can also be directly made to the party.
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2022: New Year's Eve Eve Bond, James Bond Trivia at Hi-Wire Brewing’s RAD Beer Garden, Asheville, North Carolina.

Bond, James Bond Trivia
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2022, 4:00 P.M.
HI-WIRE BREWING’S RAD BEER GARDEN

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Can you recognize your favorite Bond villains? Can you name 007’s best cars and gadgets? Are you ready to rattle off some James Bond knowledge? Join your trivia host Music Director Darko Butorac for Bond, James Bond Trivia at 4:00 p.m. on December 30 ahead of our New Year’s Eve with 007 performance. Hosted by our friend’s at Hi-Wire Brewing’s RAD Beer Garden, enjoy a beverage or two and take a deep dive into sixty years of Bond with a few rounds of trivia. Plus, prizes await the top three teams!

Free general admission. Arrive at 4:00 p.m. to check in and register yourself or your team (up to six members). Trivia begins at 4:15. 

2022: James Bond 007 Release Party at BearMoose Brewing Company, Everett, Massachusetts.

James Bond 007 Release Party!
Fri Dec 30, 2022

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/revere/james-bond-007-release-party/200023757812400

James Bond 007 Release Party!, 30 December

We are doing our James Bond Release Party a little bit differently! The game will be setup and active in the brewery this coming week, and we will be running a high score, unlimited qualifying event via Matchplay all month, culminating in a high stakes playoff between the top 8 players!

Prizes for the top four will be awarded! Come on down and put up some monster scored whydontcha!

Matchplay Link: https://matchplay.live/7rjqr

Date & Time
Fri Dec 30 2022 at 12:00 pm to 11:00 pm
(Eastern Standard Time)

Location
BearMoose Brewing Company, 1934 Revere Beach Parkway, Everett, MA, United States, Revere, United States

2022: Bond in Motion at Saratoga Automobile Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Bond In Motion

See the complete article here:

https://www.tiqets.com/en/saratoga-automobile-museum-tickets-l199001/bond-in-motion-e35964/

Six decades of 007 are celebrated as Bond in Motion brings a collection of iconic James Bond vehicles to the Saratoga Automobile Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.

The multimedia exhibition features vehicles, props and clips covering all 25 films. Vehicles include the iconic 1964 Aston Martin DB5, the 1977 Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me, the 2007 Casino Royale Aston Martin DBS that made movie history with a record-breaking seven rotation roll, and one of the ten Aston Martin DB10s built specifically for 2015’s Spectre.

https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/an-exclusive-first-look-bond-vehicles-on-display-at-saratoga-auto-museum/

RichardTheBruce

December 31st

1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.

1961: The Susan Barnes Sunday Express interview "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" ends on violence towards women and Barnes abruptly exiting actor Sean Connery's apartment.

1963: Deed of Assignment executed this date states Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, and publisher Jonathan Cape assign rights to Kevin McClory for "all the copyright in the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel Thunderball in films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." And specifically from Fleming, "the exclusive right to the character James Bond as a character in any such scripts or film of Thunderball."

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 21 - The Court Case That Killed Ian Fleming

But most probably the reason for the rushed settlement was the fact that
McClory's case was incontrovertible. [Peter] Carter-Ruck felt victory was in large
measure due to William Mars-Jones' opening speech, which lasted a total of
28 hours and 8 minutes, and placed all the evidence before the court.
Concluding his brief, Mars-Jones felt it pertinent, in relation to the conduct
of Fleming and Bryce towards McClory, to quote Macmillan, then Prime
Minister, " What greater moral crime can there be than to deceive those
naturally inclined to trust you, those who work with you, serve with ou and
are your colleagues?"

If Bryce and Fleming were hoping McClory would fall down in the
witness box, they were sadly mistaken. With all of Fleming's connections--
Eton, Sandhurst, naval intelligence, everyone figured McClory, an Irishman
in an English court, didn't stand a chance. But he showed incredible
command of the hundreds of letters in the case, which he'd committed to
memory, and was indeed able to demonstrate that his partnership with Bryce
in Xanadu had endured to include the Bond film. Fleming and Bryce had
underestimated their foe. As Whittingham's son Jonathan later observed,
"Fleming et al never believed that Kevin had either the nerve or the financial
muscle to dare go the whole course. They were dead wrong." Now they were
to pay the consequences.

McClory's victory and revenge over the men who had sidelined him was
considerable. Fleming would keep ownership of the Thunderball novel, but
his publishers were to add the message: "Based on a screen treatment by
Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author" to the title page of all
future editions. It's there still today, McClory, in return was awarded the film
and television rights to the book, as well as the copyright to all existing
related scripts and treatments.

The wording of the Deed of Assignment, executed on 31 December
1963, is worthy of note and would prove highly significant in years to come.
Fleming, Bryce and Jonathan Cape assigned to McClory "all the copyright in
the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel in
films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." Fleming also
granted McClory "the exclusive right to use the character James Bond as a
character in any such scripts or films of Thunderball.

In addition McClory got his own court costs paid (thought to be in the
region of £17,500) was awarded damages. In his book, You Only Live
Once: Memories of Ian Fleming, Bryce explained how he forfeited a
murderous slice of his personal assets to pay all the court costs.

After the trial, McClory celebrated his victory at a nearby pub with Bobo
and friend and fellow Irishman Peter O'Toole. "Now I can look forward to
making the best james Bond film ever produced," he told reporters. he also
revealed the main reason why he brought the court action: "To wipe out the
thought of anyone in the profession that I was trying to cash-in on the name
of James Bond.

1965: For Thunderball the Los Angeles Times reports on 24 hour schedules at the Paramount Theater. Plus midnight and 2:30 midnight showtimes at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.

1994: Chivers North America publishes a large print version of John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers.

2002: 007 어나더데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

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2008: Donald Edwin Westlake dies at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.
(Born 12 July 1933--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

DONALD WESTLAKE

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Autobiography

Don (center) doing the interrogating.

I think I’d best treat this as an interrogation, in which I am not certain of the intent or attitude of the interrogator.

I was born Donald Edwin Westlake on July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother, Lillian, maiden name Bounds, mother’s maiden name Fitzgerald, was all Irish. My father, Albert, his mother’s maiden name being Tyrrell, was half Irish. (The English snuck in, as they will.) They were all green, and I was born on Orangeman’s Day, which led to my first awareness of comedy as a consumer. I got over the unfortunate element of my birth long before my uncles did.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. One of her beliefs was that people whose initials spelled something would be successful in life. That’s why I went through grammar school as Dewdrip. However, my mother forgot Confirmation, when the obedient Catholic is burdened with yet another name. So she stuck Edmond in there, and told me that E was behind the E of Edwin, so I wasn’t DEEW, I was DEW. Perhaps it helped.

I attended three colleges, all in New York State, none to much effect. Interposed amid this schooling was two and a half years in the United States Air Force, during which I also learned very little, except a few words in German. I was a sophomore in three colleges, finally made junior in Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, and left academe forever. However, I was eventually contacted by SUNY Binghamton, the big university that Harpur College had grown up to become. It was their theory that their ex-students who did not graduate were at times interesting, and worthy to be claimed as alumni. Among those she mentioned were cartoonist Art Spiegelman and dancer Bill T. Jones, a grandfaloon I was very happy to join, which I did when SUNY Binghamton gave me a doctorate in letters in June 1996. As a doctor, I accept no co-pay.

I have one sister, one wife and two ex-wives. (You can’t have ex-sisters, but that’s all right, I’m pleased with the one I have.) The sister was named by my mother Virginia, but my mother had doped out the question of Confirmation by then–Virigina’s two and half years younger than me, still–and didn’t give here a middle name. Her Confirmation name was Olga, the only thing my mother could find that would make VOW. The usual mother-daughter dynamic being in play, my sister immediately went out and married a man whose name started with B.

My wife, severally Abigail Westlake, Abby Adams Westlake and Abby Adams, which makes her three wives right there, is a writer, of non-fiction, frequently gardening, sometimes family history. Her two published books are An Uncommon Scold and The Gardener’s Gripe Book.

Seven children lay parental claims on us. They have all reached drinking age, so they’re on their own.

Having been born in Brooklyn, I was raised first in Yonkers and then in Albany, schooled in Platttsburgh and Troy and Binghamton, and at last found Manhattan. (At least I was looking in the right state.) Abby was born in Manhattan, which makes it easier. We retain a rope looped over a butt there, but for the last decade have spent most of our time on an ex-farm upstate. It is near nothing, which is the point. Our nearest neighbor on two sides is Coach Farm, producer of a fine goat cheese I’ve eaten as far away as San Francisco. They have 750 goats up there on their side of the hill. More importantly, they have put 770 acres abutting our land into the State Land Conservancy, so it cannot be built on. I recommend everybody have Miles and Lillian Cann and Coach Farm as their neighbors.

[Below is an excerpt from Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Vol. 13]
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New York City, 1959

I knew I was a writer when I was eleven; it took the rest of the world about ten years to begin to agree. Up till then, my audience was mainly limited to my father, who was encouraging and helpful, and ultimately influential in an important way.

Neophyte writers are always told, “write what you know,” but the fact is, kids don’t know anything. A beginning writer doesn’t write what he knows, he writes what he read in books or saw in movies. And that’s the way it was with me. I wrote gangster stories, I wrote stories about cowboys, I wrote poems about prospecting–in Alaska, so I could rhyme with “cold”–I wrote the first chapters of all kinds of novels. The short stories I mailed off to magazines, and they mailed them back in the self-addressed, stamped envelopes I had provided. And in the middle of it all, my father asked me a question which, probably more than any other single thing, decided what kind of writer I was going to be.

I was about fourteen. I’d written a science-fiction about aliens from another planet who come to Earth and hire a husband-wife team of big-game hunters to help them collect examples of every animal on Earth for their zoo back on Alpha Centauri or wherever. At the end of the story, they kidnap the hero and heroine and take them away in the spaceship because they want examples of every animal on Earth.

Now, this was a perfectly usable story. It has been written and published dozens of times, frequently with Noah’s Ark somewhere in the title, and my version was simply that story again, done with my sentences. I probably even thought I’d made it up.

So I showed it to my father. He read it and said one or two nice things about the dialogue or whatever, and then he said, “why did you write this story?”

I didn’t know what he meant. The true answer was that science-fiction magazines published that story with gonglike regularity and I wanted a story published somewhere. This truth was so implicit I didn’t even have words to describe it, and therefore there was no way to understand the question.

So he asked it a different way: “What’s the story about?” Well, it’s about these people that get taken to be in a zoo on Alpha Centauri. “No, what’s it about?” he said. “The old fairy tales that you read when you were a little boy, they all had a moral at the end. If you put a moral at the end of this story, what would it be?”

I didn’t know. I didn’t know what the moral was. I didn’t know what the story was about.

The truth was, of course, that the story wasn’t about anything. It was a very modest little trick, like a connect-the-dots thing on a restaurant place mat. There’s nothing particularly wrong with connect-the-dots things, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with this constructivist kind of writing, a little story or a great big fat novel with nothing and nobody in it except this machine that turns over and at the end this jack-in-the-box pops out. There’s nothing wrong with that.

But it isn’t what I thought I wanted to be. So that question of my father’s wriggled right down into my brain like a worm, and for quite a while it took the fun out of things. I’d be sitting there writing a story about mobsters having a shootout in a nightclub office–straight out of some recent movie–and the worm would whisper: Why are you writing this story?

Naturally, I didn’t want to listen, but I had no real choice in the matter. The question kept coming, and I had to try to figure out some way to answer it, and so, slowly and gradually, I began to find out what I was doing. And ultimately I refined the question itself down to this: What does this story mean to me that I should spend my valuable time creating it?

And that’s how I began to become a writer.

Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

Writer | Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

FOREVER AND A DEATH

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http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake
June 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7

Cover art by Paul Mann

A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

Read a sample chapter
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive.

Now, nearly a decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

First publication ever!
A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed

Acclaim for DONALD E. WESTLAKE...

"One of the great writers of the 20th Century."
— Newsweek

"Westlake’s ability to construct an action story filled with unforeseen twists and quadruple-crosses is unparalleled."
— San Francisco Chronicle

"The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."
— USA Today

2011: Reports say Craig almost quit the Bond role after Quantum of Solace.

James Bond star almost quit as 007

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https://britmovietours.com/movie-tv-news/james-bond-star-almost-quit-as-007/

Post by lewis. Posted in James Bond, News on December 31, 2011.

In a recent interview, James Bond star Daniel Craig admitted he almost quit as James Bond. The actor who also stars in the remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ says he considered walking away due to lengthy delays due to MGM suffering from financial problems.

However fortunes changed for both MGM and Daniel Craig as he has now restarted work on Bond 23 ‘Skyfall’ with director Sam Mendes. He said “There was that long period where Bond maybe wasn’t happening. I’d got it into my head that if it went another two years on top of the two-year gap we’d already had, then they should probably find someone else. And I should think about getting on with things.

However, Craig also said he had “no desire to escape the role” now and said that Bond fans awaiting the release of Skyfall will be in for a real spectacular.

2020: CinemaBlend reports why Steven Soderbergh turned down directing a Bond movie.

Why Steven Soderbergh Turned Down
Directing A James Bond Movie

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https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2560814/why-steven-soderbergh-turned-down-directing-a-bond-movie

By Adreon Patterson published December 31, 2020

Daniel Craig in No Time to Die

For any director, getting asked to direct a James Bond film is a career highlight. There’s been the legendary run of John Glen to Sam Mendes’ gritty reinterpretation to Cary Joji Fukunaga overseeing Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie. At some point, Eon Productions and MGM were courting celebrated filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to enter the Bond pantheon, and now the acclaimed director discussed why his vision of Bond never made it to the silver screen.

Steven Soderbergh recently spoke with the podcast Happy Sad Confused to discuss his latest film Let Them All Talk. He spoke on a variety of subjects, including his take on film’s future and the importance of 2011’s Contagion in today’s climate. The conversation eventually turned to the director’s brief brush with the iconic spy franchise. Soderbergh explained to the podcast how his vision of 007 didn’t match up with MGM and Eon Production.

Absolutely. Yeah. I love that world. I
think we were at odds about some
things that were important. We had
some great conversations, and it
was fun to think about. But we just
couldn't...the last ten yards were,
we just couldn't do it. We just
couldn't figure it out.

Given how experimental Soderbergh’s work tends to be, I could see where MGM and he might have clashed over Bond’s portrayal. He might have wanted to take Bond in directions Eon may have seen as going against the Bond brand. Soderbergh’s timeline did line up with the Daniel Craig era – Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. The same thing happened with fellow Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle after being chosen to direct Daniel Craig’s final Bond film. His clash with the production company eventually led to him leaving the project and Fukunaga stepping in.

Around the time Soderbergh was being vetted for a Bond film, he had decided to take a brief hiatus from filmmaking due to the current Hollywood system. The filmmaker in him didn’t die as he directed and produced more projects during his “hiatus” than any other time in his career.

But Soderbergh’s career hasn’t suffered from not doing a Bond film, to say the least. He went on to direct films such as the Magic Mike series, Side Effects and Haywire. The celebrated director even delved into television as the driving force behind the acclaimed Emmy-winning HBO television film Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

In recent years, Steven Soderbergh has returned to being behind the camera with critically acclaimed films such as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and The Laundromat. He just wrapped filming No Sudden Moves with an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm and Ray Liotta. It’s nice to see someone as prolific as Soderbergh not let one film stop him from doing his craft even after taking some time away from the film industry.

If you want more Steven Soderbergh, check out his latest film Let Them All Talk on HBO Max.

2022: New Year's Eve With 007 performed by the Asheville Symphony at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, North Carolina.

New Year’s Eve with 007

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https://ashevillesymphony.org/event/new-years-eve-with-007/

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2022, 8:00 P.M.

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM
Darko Butorac, conductor
Mikki Sodergren, vocalist
Jonathan Christopher, vocalist

It’s Bond, James Bond, and your Asheville Symphony! Ring in the New Year with powerhouse vocalists backed by your Symphony and dreams of martinis (shaken, not stirred), Aston Martins, custom watches from Q, and the beloved MI6 agent. With hits from Bond movie favorites like Goldfinger, Skyfall, and more, start the new year in style by unleashing your inner Bond (or Bond girl). 

James Bond Theme
007 Theme
Diamonds are Forever
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
We Have All the Time in the World
Moonraker
Goldeneye
Nobody Does It Better
Thunderball
Casino Royale
Writing’s on the Wall
Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus — Cum Dederit
No Time to Die
Soul Bossa Nova
What the World Needs Now
Goldfinger
Live and Let Die 
Skyfall

2022: New Year's Eve Concert & Party - Casino Royale performed by Cleveland Pops Orchestra at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland Pops Orchestra
New Year’s
Eve Concert &
Party: Casino
Royale

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https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2223/cpo/12-31-2022/

Event Information
Dates: December 31, 2022 Tickets Available
Who: Cleveland Pops Orchestra Morgan James, vocalist
Venue: Mandel Concert Hall Severance Music Center

About the Performance
James Bond returns! Music from your favorite James Bond movies, from Goldfinger to Skyfall, with Broadway stars Morgan James and Hugh Panaro.

Performing Artists
Cleveland Pops Orchestra
Morgan James, vocalist
Hugh Panaro, vocalist

Event Dates and Tickets
Saturday, December 31, 2022 9:00PM

2022: James Bond Casino Royale New Year's Gala at Automotive Addition, Provo, Utah.

Dec 31
Casino Royale - James Bond - New Years Gala

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Casino Royal - James Bond New Year Gala *DJ, *Dancing,*Bond Girls, *Super Cars, *Casino, *Bar
By Felicia Kelson, Brian Adair, Laila Grigley, Chase Gabbitas, Robby McGovern

When and where
Date and time
Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 9:00 PM – Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 1:00 AM MST

Location
Automotive Addiction 1200 Towne Centre Boulevard #Spc C Provo, UT 84601

About this event
4 hours
Mobile eTicket

Casino Royal - James Bond - New Years Gala
When: December 31, 2022
Where: Automotive Addiction Museum
1200 Towne Centre Blvd, Provo, UT 84601
What Time: 9:00 pm - 1:00 am

Felicia Kelson, Brian Adair, Laila Grigley, Chase Gabbitas, Robby McGovern
Organizer of Casino Royal - James Bond - New Years Gala

Ticket sales end soon
$45 – $95

2022: New Year's Eve - For Your Eyes Only at Maggie's Inception, London, England.

New Year’s Eve - James Bond: For your eyes only

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https://www.sevenrooms.com/events/maggiesinception/XMAS-TB-FB

Saturday, December 31, 2022  ·  10:00 PM - 4:00 AM
This event is sold out.

 Standing Bar Tickets (guestlist) £20 per person

Welcome cocktail for arrivals before 11.30pm
James Bond theming
Fancy dress
The best of 80s classics
No entry between 11.30pm and 12.30am for pre-bought tickets
A limited number of tickets available for post-midnight entry. Tickets OTD £30
For any cancellations we require at least 7 days notice otherwise the ticket is non-refundable

A physical ID is required for all guests as a condition of entry. NO ID = NO ENTRY!

The only forms of identification that we can accept are photo driving licence, passport, UK armed forces card, and the PASS card

VENUE DETAILS
Maggie's
329 Fulham Road
London SW10 9QL

2022: Bond. James Bond NYE Extravaganza - From Bisbee With Love - at Bisbee, Arizona.

Dec 31
Bond. James Bond NYE Extravaganza

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Nye 2022 From Bisbee With Love. Come dressed as your favorite Bond charater..007, Bond Girl, Villain, Casino show girl. Anything!
By Gretchen Bonaduce

When and where
Date and time
Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 8:00 PM – Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 12:30 AM MST

Location
Kilimanjarho Old Bisbee 33 E Subway Street Bisbee, AZ 85603

Refund Policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event
4 hours 30 minutes

Any Bond will do. A VIEW TO A KILL, OCTOPUSSY, LIVE AND LET DIE...EVEN AUSTIN POWERS IS ACCEPTABLE. See the band Brea burns and the Boleros and also DJ Gidzilla. You won't find that plus...all your drinks until we run out of alcohol for 65 bucks!!

Gretchen Bonaduce
Organizer of Bond. James Bond NYE Extravaganza

Ticket sales end soon
$65

2022: Diamonds Are Forever New Year's Eve Gala at Plant Riverside District - Salzburg Ballroom, Savannah, Georgia.

"Diamonds are Forever" New Year's Eve Gala

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https://www.exploregeorgia.org/savannah/events/culinary-food-wine-beer/diamonds-are-forever-new-years-eve-gala

Event Date
Saturday, December 31, 2022
7:30pm - 12:00am

Venue
Plant Riverside District - Salzburg Ballroom
400 W. River Street
Savannah GA 31401

Rates
All-Inclusive Tickets: $750.00

Phone
(912) 373-9100

Plant Riverside District will host Savannah’s most exclusive New Year’s Eve celebration with an elaborate themed gala inspired by the iconic 1971 James Bond film Diamonds are Forever. This extravagant celebration will take place on Saturday, December 31 from 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Plant Riverside District’s Salzburg Ballroom, located at 400 W. River St. All-inclusive tickets are $750 per person and are currently available for purchase online. 

The New Year’s Eve Gala at Plant Riverside District will be hosted by The Kessler Collection’s Chairman and CEO Richard C. Kessler and will feature a lavish welcome reception with dazzling James Bond stunt reenactments, ultra-premium open bar, exquisite passed hors d’oeuvres and stations, inspiring art installations, a private terrace to view the fireworks display over the Savannah River, luxury party favors and more.  

This exclusive event will feature a four-course gourmet dinner curated by Savannah’s top-rated culinary team led by Executive Chef Kyle Lipetzky, featuring special LVMH Premium selections from Veuve Clicquot, Cloudy Bay, Newton and other ultra-premium wines and spirits. Menu highlights include Wagyu Beef with Crab and Chive Butter, Duck Confit, Fennel-Cured Faroe Island Salmon, Roasted Beausoleil Oysters with Calabrian Chiles, Fois Gras and Ahi Tuna with Sesame Wantons and Smoked Trout Roe. Guests will also have the opportunity to sample rare selections from the Veuve Clicquot collection, including a celebratory Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Champagne toast at midnight. 

This special New Year’s Eve celebration will feature an intimate live performance by internationally acclaimed concert pianist and composer Alexander Peskanov, who has been described by The Washington Post as a “brilliant pianist [who] can create incredible excitement and know how to please a crowd.” In addition, Daniel LeClaire and the Little Big Band will deliver a high-energy performance of jazz and soul music, which will be perfect for dancing the night away and ringing in the New Year. LeClaire has been featured on “The Book of Mormon” national tour and has shared the stage with performers ranging from Carol Burnett and Wayne Newton to Nick Jonas and Amy Poehler. 

A portion of the proceeds from the New Year’s Eve Gala ticket sales will benefit The Treutlen House and New Ebenezer Retreat Center in Rincon, Ga. 

Special NYE room packages are available at the award-winning JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District. Attendees are encouraged to make their reservations now for this exclusive New Year’s Eve Gala and to secure accommodations at the luxurious JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District. 

For more information about the "Diamonds Are Forever" New Year’s Eve Gala at Plant Riverside District or to purchase tickets, please visit www.plantriverside.com.

Facility Amenities
Parking off Site
Parking on Site
Concessions
Party Facilities
Public Restrooms
Restaurant on Site

Suitable for Ages
Adults (21+)
Seniors (55+)

Group Amenities
Group-Friendly

2022: James Bond New Year's Eve Party at Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida.

Holiday
Special Event
James Bond New Year’s Eve Party

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https://enzian.org/film/james-bond-new-years-eve-party/?mc_cid=0b92746cc2&mc_eid=032b652fc0

Enzian’s Annual James Bond New Year’s Party is back! Come dressed to impress in your best James Bond or Bond Girl outfit and you could win a prize. Enjoy some bubbly or a signature NYE cocktail and then tango your way into the new year!
21 & up only 

Event Date & Timeline:
December 31st, 2022

8PM Doors open
9PM-1AM Open Bar and Light Hors d ’Oeuvres (Top Shelf Liquors will be available for purchase)
Balloon Drop at Midnight!

Event Ticket Prices:
GENERAL ADMISSION: $99
·         Open Bar
·         Light Hors d’Oeuvres
·         Enjoy live music from Soul Reply!

ENZIAN’S V.I.P. SECTION:
Includes all of the above, plus…
·         Reserved Tables in Private Section
·         Exclusive V.I.P. bar
·         Plated Hors d ’Oeuvres
·         Party Favors
·         Complimentary champagne (1 bottle for Table for 2, and 2 bottles for Table for 4)

V.I.P. TABLE FOR 2: $330
V.I.P. TABLE FOR 4: $660

TICKETS
Regular Ticket Pricing $12.50
Student/Senior/Military (with ID) $11.00
Matinees $11.00
Film Society Members $10.00

CONTACT
1300 South Orlando Avenue
Maitland, FL 32751
Info Line: (407) 629-0054
Theater Offices: (407) 629-1088

2034: With the end of the 70th year following author Ian Fleming's death, in theory his books and stories enter the public domain. (Though remedied by Danjaq LLC's registered trademarks for James Bond and 007.)

RichardTheBruce

Annual thanks to @SirHilaryBray for starting this thread. And to any corrections and additions from @Thunderfinger and @j_w_pepper and @BT3366 and others.

RichardTheBruce

January 1st

1925: Zena Marshall is born--Nairobi, Kenya.
(She dies 10 July 2009 at age 84--London, England.)

Zena Marshall
Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT

Marshall with Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No (1962)
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/UNITED ARTISTS

Zena Marshall, who has died aged 83, played a small but pivotal part in establishing the formula of the James Bond series. As the Eurasian secretary, Miss Taro, revealed to be working for the title character in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), while dallying with 007 (Sean Connery), she was the first of those unscrupulous, exotic beauties who, in the service of the villain, would try but fail to entrap Bond.

For more than a decade beforehand, she had lent a hint of the exotic to monochrome, domestic British cinema. With her dark hair and colouring, the Rank Organisation may have signed her due to a similarity to Ava Gardner.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, she was raised in Leicestershire, and described her ancestry as "part French" (her mother), "part English and part Irish". She attended St Mary's school, Ascot, but had already undertaken theatre tours for the Entertainments National Service Association by the time she was in her late teens. Her first film was the misguided epic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) as a lady in waiting; her fellow super- numeraries included her friend Kay Kendall, and another Bond, Roger Moore.

By 1946, she was part of Rank's Company of Youth, often dubbed the Charm School, where fellow conscripts includ- ed Sir Christopher Lee, Diana Dors and the broadcaster Pete Murray. The studio, and affiliates such as Gainsborough, cast her in The End of the River (1947), produced by Powell and Pressburger, and as a passenger in the compact thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).

Good-Time Girl (1948), Snowbound (1948) and The Lost People (1949) all teamed her with Dennis Price, then a suave leading man. Unfortunately, both were also in the much-derided The Bad Lord Byron (1949); fortunately for her, Dr No's director, Terence Young, was among the screenwriters.

At London's New Torch Theatre, she was in the poorly received Snow (1953), by the novelist Diana Marr-Johnson, niece of Somerset Maugham. With John Ringham in late 1959, she toured Germany and Holland in The Late Edwina Black. She played a determined doctor in Men Against the Sun (1952), a Kenyan-British co-production starring the august John Bentley, in much the same mode as his later television series African Patrol (1958), in which she also appeared. August 1952 saw her small-screen debut in The Portugal Lady, a live BBC costume drama that was part of its Sunday Night Theatre series, as Charles II's bride Catherine of Braganza.

During ITV's opening weeks Marshall appeared in a shampoo commercial, assuring female viewers it was fine to use the product before going to a party. For the new channel, she did The Bob Hope Show (1956), pre-sold by Lew Grade to NBC, then played a scientist "from behind that Curtain" in The Invisible Man (1958), enduring a very silly ending in which she hugs and kisses the unseen hero goodbye.

Marshall appeared three times, between 1960 and 1964, in the series Danger Man, starring Patrick McGoohan, who had declined the Bond role: twice Marshall played fellow agents who needed to be rescued. She also guested in the now-forgotten shows Man of the World (1962), The Sentimental Agent (1963) and The Human Jungle (1963).

After several of the Edgar Wallace thrillers, she was glimpsed waving off Alberto Sordi in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Her last film was The Terrornauts (1967), with the unlikely presence of Charles Hawtrey.

Her marriage to the bandleader Paul Adam ended in divorce, as did a brief second marriage. In 1991, she married the producer Ivan Foxwell, whose credits included The Colditz Story. He predeceased her in 2002.

• Zena Marshall, actor, born 1 January 1926; died 10 July 2009

Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (59 credits)

1967 The Terrornauts - Sandy Lund
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Mara
- Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Mara
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Countess Sofia Ponticelli
1965 Public Eye (TV Series) - Jean Lawford
- You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (1965) ... Jean Lawford
1965 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Carol Wright
- Find the Lady (1965) ... Carol Wright
1964 The Verdict - Carola
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Nadia
- Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Nadia
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Yvonne
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Yvonne
1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Carola / Pauline Logan
- The Verdict (1964) ... Carola
- Backfire! (1962) ... Pauline Logan
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Rita / Melina
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Rita
- A Little Sweetness and Light (1963) ... Melina
1963 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Vera Barclay
- Over and Out (1963) ... Vera Barclay
1963 The Switch - Caroline Markham
1962 Backfire! - Pauline Logan
1962 The Scales of Justice (TV Series) - Thelma Sinclair
- The Guilty Party (1962) ... Thelma Sinclair
1962 Dr. No - Miss Taro
1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Madame Thiboeuf
- Death of a Conference (1962) ... Madame Thiboeuf
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Zara
- The Challenge (1962) ... Zara
1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Maria
- The Bridge (1962) ... Maria
1962 Crosstrap - Rina
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Mrs. Ramfi / Doctor Leclair
- Find and Return (1961) ... Mrs. Ramfi
- The Leak (1960) ... Doctor Leclair
1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Naomi
1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Louise
- The Dudley Case (1960) ... Louise

1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Tania
- The Locked Room (1958) ... Tania
1958 African Patrol (TV Series) - Stella Stevens
- No Place to Hide (1958) ... Stella Stevens
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Lucille Genet
- Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Lucille Genet
1957 Let's Be Happy - Helene
1956 My Wife's Family - Hilda
1956 Bermuda Affair - Chris Walters
1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Madeleine
- The Silent Vow (1956) ... Madeleine
1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Audrey Lipton
- The Serpent Beneath (1955) ... Audrey Lipton
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Beautiful Blonde (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
1954 The Embezzler - Mrs. Forrest
1954 The Scarlet Web - Laura Vane
1954 Liebelei (TV Movie) - Mitzi Schlager
1953 Men Against the Sun - Elizabeth
1953 Deadly Nightshade - Ann Farrington
1953 Your Favorite Story (TV Series)
- Work of Art (1953)
1952 The Caretaker's Daughter - Fritzi Villiers
1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Catherine
- The Portugal Lady (1952) ... Catherine
1952 Blind Man's Bluff - Christine Stevens
1952 The Inch Man (TV Series) - Helen Anastiadi
- The Quiet Voice (1952) ... Helen Anastiadi
1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Honey Child
1950 Dark Interval - Sonia Jordan
1950 The Adventures of Sir Percy Howsey (TV Short) - Margueritte
1950 Soho Conspiracy - Dora Scala
1950 So Long at the Fair - Nina
1950 Operation Disaster - The Wren

1949 Meet Simon Cherry - Lisa Colville
1949 The Lost People - Anna
1949 Helter Skelter - Giselle
1949 Marry Me - Marcelle Duclos
1949 The Bad Lord Byron - An Italian Woman (uncredited)
1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Suzanne
1948 Good-Time Girl - Annie Farrell
1948 Miranda - Secretary
1948 Snowbound - Italian Girl
1948 So Evil My Love - Lisette
1947 The End of the River - Sante
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)

Self (3 credits)

1961 Juke Box Jury (TV Series) - Herself - Panellist
- Episode #1.89 (1961) ... Herself - Panellist

1956 Film Fanfare (TV Series) - Herself / Herself - Quiz Contestant
- Episode #1.30 (1956) ... Herself
- Episode #1.23 (1956) ... Herself - Quiz Contestant
- Episode #1.1 (1956) ... Herself
1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Fernandel, Diana Dors (1956) ... Herself

Archive footage (9 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Herself
1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
1990 The Prisoner Video Companion (Video documentary)
1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) -Miss Taro
- OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Miss Taro (uncredited)
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1963 Dr. No Featurette (Documentary short) - Miss Taro

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Silent Vow (1956) ... (performer: "Ce n'etait Rien")

1937: Suzy Kendall is born--Belper, Derbyshire, England.

1941: Simón Andreu is born--Sa Pobla, Balearic Islands, Spain.

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.
1962: The Dr. No production hands out a draft shooting schedule to the crew.
1965: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (Agent 007 - Goldfinger Mission) released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1968: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

1968: This month Marvel Comics publishes Strange Tales Vol 1 #164 with the first of an eventual three appearances by James Bond.

Strange Tales Vol 1 164

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Strange Tales Vol 1 #164

Published January, 1968
Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee
Cover Artist Dan Adkins
"Nightmare" Writer Jim Lawrence
Penciler Dan Adkins
Letterer Al Kurzrok
Editor Stan Lee
"When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
Writer Jim Steranko
Penciler Jim Steranko
Inker Bill Everett
Letterer Art Simek
Editor Stan Lee

"Ain't you heard... Nick Fury's got more lives
than a cat! "
-- Nick Fury

Appearing in "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

Featured Characters: Nick Fury Nick Fury
Supporting Characters: S.H.I.E.L.D., Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Sam
Antagonists: Yellow Claw (robot), Fritz Voltzman (robot)
Other Characters: Suwan (robot), Slim, James Bond (First appearance)
Locations: New York City, Manhattan, S.H.I.E.L.D. Barbershop Headquarters
Items: Ultimate Annihilator, Revive Chamber and the Self-Regenerating Cell, Amplifier, Code-a-Graph key, Transparent Car, Spectre-Suit, Image Distorter, Frigi-Wep (First appearance), Voltzman's cane
Vehicles: Sky Dragon (First appearance), Transparent Car

Synopsis for "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

At the instant the Claw fired The Ultimate Annihilator at Fury, Suwan teleports him thru "Hyper-Dimensional Space" to the underground lair. She then teleports him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. barber shop, where he collapses. In his lair, The Claw tests the Ultimate Annihilator by destroying a satellite in orbit. Mad with power, he plots "the dawn of a new age...and age of vengeance...of darkness and death". S.H.I.E.L.D. medics give Fury the once-over in a "Revive Chamber", then warn him that any further stimulation could cause blackouts, blindness or death! Telling them to keep it confidential, Fury follows a tip, using the transparent car and a "Spectre-Suit" (to make him invisible) to trail a Claw agent. During a faked traffic accident, Fury sneaks into the trunk of the agent's car, getting out at their destination and getting the drop on The Claw & Von Voltzmann. But he discovers he's onboard "The Sky Dragon", a huge airship miles above the city! Captured, Fury is tied underneath the Ultimate Annihilator, as The Claw prepares to use it to destroy New York City!

James Bond (Earth-616)

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History

By most opinions the very definition of a modern day spy and counter-espionage agent, James Bond has been mentioned more often than seen in the Marvel Universe, often in comparison -- at times disparagingly, at other times complimentary -- to the likes of Nick Fury and other elite members of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its various counterparts around the world.

He was briefly seen in New York City, attempting to enter a barber shop that was actually the secret entrance to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s then-operative New York headquarters. Nick Fury had moments earlier unexpectedly materialized inside the shop, and so the agents on guard as barbers rather hastily told the agent that they were closed. Bond's response to their brisk dismissal was remarking that they were treating him like he was an enemy spy.

Years later, James Bond and his date were among a large group of odd characters gathered at the Laughing Horse saloon, standing at the bar beside an off-duty police detective in a yellow trench coat.

Trivia

Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #3 implies that James Bond may be the father of Clive Reston ("an MI-6 agent with a 00 license to kill, and Clive took after his father's [...] love of terrible puns") and descendant of Sherlock Holmes ("a private detective, from whom Clive inherited deductive reasoning talent and a habit for smoking a meerschaum pipe"). However, it wasn't explicitly stated, due to licensing right.

Master of Kung Fu #3


Captain America Vol 1 #401 (second appearance)

1972: Diamenty sa wieczne (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Poland.

Video marketing.

1976: Daily Variety reports on Kevin McClory and the agreement he signed in 1965 for his involvement in the Thunderball production that returned film and television rights to the property after ten years. And that he can produce Bond films, starting today.
1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

1981: For Your Eyes Only films at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from today through February. Delivery of snow is needed for the street scenes.

1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr #1 "The Beginning", sourced from the first episode of the cartoon series with Scumlord and Jaws.
Mario Capaldi, artist. T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton, writers (adaptation).
Colin Fawcett, ink. Mario Capaldi and Colin Fawcett, cover.

James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) #1

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James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) 1
Published Jan 1992 by Marvel.
Cover pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett. The Beginning, script by T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton (adaptation), pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett.

007's nephew arrives at Warfield Academy where he becomes the target of S.C.U.M. agents after his Aston Martin. Based on the TV episode of the same title aired 09-30-1991.

36 pgs

James Bond Jr Issue 1 The Beginning
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-001/

1995: Dark Horse Comics publishes James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1.
Gary Caldwell. artist. Don McGregor, writer. Christopher Moeller, cover.

James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1

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In the tropical paradise of Jamaica, things are not as picturesque as the travel brochures would suggest. Sent to stop a notorious arms dealer called Rifle, James Bond once again finds more than he bargained for. Rifle's clients turn out to be Elias Hazlewood and the Disciples of the Heavenly Way, a successful televangelist operation. Among the Way's membership is Maximillian "Quasimodo" Steel, a reformed mercenary. He's got a plan to stop the Beast and further God's cause. That is, unless James Bond can stop him first.

Creators
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Gary Caldwell
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Editor: Edward Martin III
Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 01, 1995

https://www.comicsroyale.com/dark-horse/ahm32p61rdhoqun5o2e7zkzfkgx9t3


https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-23008-BD-James-Bond-007-The-Quasimodo-Gambit-Dark-Horse-1995.html

1996: This month Topps Comics publishes James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 (Special Limited Convention Preview Edition, black and white), and #1 of three where #2 and #3 remain unpublished.
Claude St. Aubin, pencils. Rick Magyar, ink. Don McGregor, writer. Brian Stelfreeze, cover.

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=135691


https://steemit.com/comics/@cryplectibles/adapted-into-comic-books-goldeneye-from-1996

1997: This month Playboy magazine publishes an abridged version of the Raymond Benson short story "Blast From the Past". The complete story is later included in The Union Trilogy anthology.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/review-blast-from-the-past?id=04353

1998: Zítrek nikdy neumírá (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in the Czech Republic.

Video marketing.

1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.

Video marketing.

1999: This month Playboy magazine publishes Raymond Benson's short story "Midsummer Night's Doom".

https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2016/01/raymond-bensons-james-bond.html?m=0

2000: 縱橫天下 (Zònghéng tiānxià; Across the World) released in Taiwan.

2003: Cyril Shaps dies at age 79--Harrow, London, England.
(Born 13 October 1923--London, England.)

Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788670/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2003: Die Another Day released in Egypt and Panama.
2003: Πέθανε μια άλλη μέρα (He Died Another Day) released in Greece.

RichardTheBruce

2010: The original date Ian Fleming material would have entered the Public Domain (based on Casino Royale's 1953 publish date, plus 28 years for the copyright period, plus another 28 year renewal). [But the US law changed 1976 and went into effect 1978.]
2015: James Bond becomes public domain in Canada. (The books and stories, not the films. Based on the Berne Convention allowing a copyright for 50 years after Fleming's death.)

2022: In New Year's Honours, Daniel Craig is set to receive the same title as James Bond.

New Year’s honors 2022: Daniel Craig
receives the same title as James Bond

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January 1, 2022 by admin987

Daniel Craig was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is the same honor bestowed on James Bond in the 007 franchise.

The 53-year-old – who has played Bond since 2006 – received the honor for his services to film and theater. He is one of many public figures to appear on the 2022 New Year’s Honors list, published Friday, December 31.

The honor bestowed on Craig recognizes service in a foreign country, or in connection with foreign and Commonwealth affairs, such as the work of diplomats abroad.

The Fictional Spy has a CMG in Ian Fleming’s books as well as their film adaptations.

Craig made his last outing in 007 earlier this year with the highly anticipated No time to die.

Prior to the film’s release, the actor was named Honorary Commander of the Royal Navy, another rank held by James Bond.

Following multiple delays related to Covid, No time to die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September.

The event was attended by British Royalty, with The Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all in attendance.

2023: Prices on prior Stern pinball cornerstone models will increase to the James Bond 007 level on January 1, 2023.

STERN OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES JAMES BOND

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By Pinball News. Posted on 22nd September, 2022

After cancelling their earlier launch due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Stern Pinball today officially announced details of their latest James Bond 007 cornerstone title.

The George Gomez-designed game will initially come in three versions – the traditional Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models – with the Limited Edition restricted to 1,000 machines. There will also be an even more super-limited 60th anniversary model designed by Keith Elwin featuring all the actors who have played James Bond and including all 25 films. This will be limited to 500 machines with details released shortly.

Each of the three versions announced today is based on one of the classic Sean Connery-era James Bond movies. The Pro is Dr. No, the Premium is You Only Live Twice, while the Limited Edition is themed around Thunderball.

Here’s Stern’s promo video:

Pictures of two of the models leaked earlier this month when the Pro and Premium machines were being set up at the IAPPA Europe trade show in London ahead of the opening. The death of Queen Elizabeth II caused the launch and public reveal to be postponed, with the suggestion that it was the licensor who pushed for the delay in co-operation with Stern Pinball. Pinball News is based in the UK and so we chose not to publish any leaked pictures in solidarity with that mark of respect.

The two machines at IAAPA Europe were subsequently packed up and the show went ahead without them publicly appearing on the Stern distributor’s stand.

As well as being available from Stern Pinball distributors worldwide, a number of machines could also be purchased directly through Stern’s web shop, although paid membership of the company’s All Access loyalty scheme was required.

The game will receive its first public outing on 26th September in London at a special event at Christie’s celebrating the 60th Anniversary of James Bond films.

Our tickets to the premiere of Stern's new 007 titles

Here are the initial pictures of the Pro, Premium and Limited Edition model. We’ll add many more pictures and much more detail shortly, so check back for the latest updates.

Pro
The left side of the Pro model

The right side of the Pro model

The front of the Pro model

The playfield in the Pro model


The Pro model lacks the ball lock at the Little Bird rocket, the jetpack ball mover and the under-playfield scuba battle, amongst other things.

Here’s a look at the Pro’s playfield:

There is a flat plastic on the Pro versus a window to an underground scene on the Premium/LE

The DB5 car ejector works the same though

The flat plastic in place of the jetpack mech

The top part of the Pro's playfield

The centre of the playfield with the movie and villain inserts

The Pro model's plaque

The Pro model's cabinet artwork

Is it "Dr. No" with a space or "Dr.No" without one? Who Nos?

The rules card


Here’s a video of the features found in the Pro model:



Premium

The left side of the Premium model

The right side of the Premium model

The front of the Premium model

The playfield in the Premium model

Because the Premium and Limited Edition playfield features are identical (minus some cosmetic differences), we’ll save our close-up playfield pictures until after we’ve examined the Limited Edition’s cabinet.

Limited Edition

The left side of the Limited Edition model

The right side of the Limited Edition model

The front of the Limited Edition model

The playfield in the Limited Edition model

Here’s a video showing the playfield features in the Premium and Limited Edition models:

Here are some additional photos of the Limited Edition playfield’s features. As with all our pictures, you can click any to display a larger, higher-resolution version.

The flipper area

An up-post in the right inlane stops the ball when a mode begins

The bottom half of the playfield

George Gomez's signature on the Limited Edition model

The upper flipper and hench’men’ inserts

The henchmen and villain ramps

The villain inserts

The weapons inserts


The Aston Martin DB5 eject
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The jetpack ball transporter

Use the jetpack to drop the ball on the tank target

The top of the playfield

The Osato Chemicals drop targets

Once past the drop targets, the ball enters the Bird One target area

The top rollovers and pop bumpers

The top-right of the playfield

The Limited Edition plaque

The Limited Edition cabinet

And here is the matrix of all the features found in each of the Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models.

The James Bond feature matrix

Here’s how Gary Stern presented his company’s newest title:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

A dream come true – pinball based on a fantastic theme with movie history, including 25 films which were released generation after generation. Today we introduce Stern’s latest games, James Bond 007. With Bond movies and licensed products having grossed over $15 Billion worldwide, this movie franchise, the franchise that created the spy genre, reaches its 60th anniversary this year.

Stern EVP/CCO George Gomez took the lead and designed our 3 cornerstone games – James Bond 007 Pro Edition, Premium Edition and Limited Edition. George has based his Bond games on the six genre defining Sean Connery films:

• Dr. No
  
• From Russia With Love
• Goldfinger
• Thunderball
• You Only Live Twice
• Diamonds Are Forever

An enthusiast Bond fan since early childhood, George has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Bond.  The opportunity to bring to pinball the mechanical action of gadgets created by “Q” and action scenes included in these Bond movies energized his creativity. James Bond 007 is a passion project for George. That passion shows in the games he has created.

I hope you have watched Seth’s and my webinar and our game play videos to see all the memorable action and features straight from James Bond that our games capture. All Cornerstone Editions have, of course, an Aston Martin DB5 ejecting a ball thru its opening roof. A 3 bank drop target protects the custom molded SPECTRE “Bird One” rocket that senses and moves when hit. The underwater Thunderball fight scene is illuminated on the playfield. And much more.

The James Bond 007 Premium Edition adds more action and features. The ball is shot up the “Bird One” rocket gantry to be captured for multiball. The underwater fight scene utilizes molded characters under the playfield. A magnet on a sculpted moving James Bond JetPack captures the ball. The Premium has Dr. No’s Dragon Tank, illuminated and with 2 targets for players to attempt hitting by releasing the ball from the JetPack magnet.

Each movie’s titles, villains, henchmen, SPECTRE weapons and Bond women are symbolized in strings of light up inserts. Progressions through each and through the SPECTRE spellout are visually exhibited to great and novice players.

I could add a detailed list of all the other mechanical devices – 3rd flipper, wire ramps, stainless ramps, up posts, vuks, control gates. It’s better that you watch the videos and play the games.

James Bond 007 play excitement is enhanced with film clips, plus Stern created animation so detailed it has been mistaken for film. Voices from the six movies are carefully integrated into the game. Leading with the iconic John Barry’s Bond theme music from Dr. No, other compositions from each movie are utilized in that movie’s game play sequences and modes. Included are performances by Matt Monro, Nancy Sinatra and Shirley Bassey.
                                   
The James Bond 007 games feature art adapted from famous Bond illustrators & designers Frank McCarthy, Robert McGinnis and Ken Adam.  The Pro, Premium and Limited Editions each highlight a different movie. The movie’s poster has been adapted for each edition’s backglass. The cabinet right sides, different for each edition, have Bond movie posters from the 5 Connery movies not featured in that game’s backglass. The left side has art themed around the edition’s highlighted movie. The playfield art includes all six of the Connery movies.

The 1,000 James Bond 007 Limited Edition are numbered 001 to 1000. Each has:

• High gloss metallic armor and legs
• Mirrored backglass
• Upgraded audio system
• Shaker motor
• Non-glare playfield glass
• Certificate of authenticity signed by President Seth Davis and me
• Designer George Gomez autograph
• Sequentially numbered (001 to 1000) plate

And there is more.

Keith Elwin has designed a retro inspired James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition, capturing all James Bonds and their films. It’s a classic drop target game with 10 drop targets, Oddjob kinetic spinning disc, and many fast flowing spinners. In addition to traditional score reels, an LCD display is mounted in the playfield. This highly collectible limited model will be numbered 001-500. A full reveal will be coming soon.

All James Bond 007 ship Insider Connected™ capable. Utilizing the power of the internet, we will issue special Bond “Assignments” only possible on connected games.

James Bond 007 games will be available in November. We will begin with Pro Editions, followed by Limited Edition games, and then Premium Editions. The 60th Anniversary Limited Edition production will be in December. Information on accessories is coming soon.

We are all aware that inflation has caused parts and labor cost increases. Supply chain difficulties have resulted in additional cost increases. We annually have increased our wholesale sales prices, and new prices will be set for James Bond 007. Our sales reps will be able to give you prices for all games (cornerstone, 60th, studio & home editions) and also for requests of specific Limited Edition numbers. 

Prices on prior cornerstone models will increase to the James Bond 007 level on January 1, 2023. A new UMRP, MAP and MSRP list will be sent to USA customers. The list will indicate these prices for James Bond 007 games. For other models it will indicate current prices and the prices at January 1, 2023. For models that are reaching end of life in 2022, the UMRP/MAP/MSRP will not increase on January 1, 2023. Included are Guardians of the Galaxy, Led Zeppelin, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We will accept cancellations, should you so desire

Jack Danger will stream James Bond 007 Premium/LE Editions. For updated information, please check https://facebook.com/sternpinball

I will end where I started. These James Bond 007 games are a dream come true.
                                                                                                                                   
Best regards,

Gary

Here’s how Stern Pinball announced their latest release:

CHICAGO, IL – September 22, 2022 – Stern Pinball, Inc. launches a new line of pinball machines celebrating the iconic, genre-defining James Bond films. The James Bond 007 cornerstone series features the original 007 actor, Sean Connery, available in Pro Edition, Premium Edition, and Limited Edition (LE). Stern Pinball will also release a special James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine featuring all six James Bond actors.

In Dr. No (1962) Sean Connery propelled 007 into the cultural zeitgeist, bringing the legendary literary figure to life through adrenalized action sequences, ground-breaking gadgets and effects, memorable characters, and timeless villains.

Stern’s James Bond 007 cornerstone pinball machine will highlight film footage and iconic music from the films that built the 007 legend: Dr. No, From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Players are immersed into the world of espionage in this action-packed pinball experience, tackling assignments, teaming up with key allies, and stopping SPECTRE’s villainous schemes.

Gather gadgets from Q Branch as pinballs get ejected through the roof of a custom sculpted Aston Martin DB5. Break through the Osato Chemicals drop targets to battle SPECTRE at the Bird 1 rocket base. And hold your breath on the gravity defying, magnetic jetpack as it transports pinballs across the playfield.

James Bond 007 pinball machines include Stern’s award-winning Insider Connected™ system, which enables players to interact with the game and a global network of players in a variety of ways. Through Insider Connected, players can track progress, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. Insider Connected also provides an operator-focused toolset to drive location play through Location Leaderboards, build player loyalty, analyze performance, make adjustments remotely, and maintain the machines. Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/.

Limited to 1,000 machines globally, the highly collectible cornerstone Limited Edition includes an exclusive full-color mirrored backglass inspired by Thunderball, masterfully adapted cabinet artwork, custom high gloss and powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, exclusive inside art blades, upgraded audio system, anti-reflection pinball playfield glass, shaker motor, a sequentially numbered plaque, and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Stern Chairman Gary Stern and President Seth Davis.

Stern’s James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machines will immerse players in the history of 007. Limited to 500 machines globally, the highly collectible 60th Anniversary Limited Edition offers players a retro-inspired playfield packed with exciting mechanical action. Control the chaos from Oddjob’s kinetic spinning disc hat, survive tactical precision shots against 10 drop targets, escape SPECTRE’s evil henchmen navigating pinballs through 4 fast-flowing optical spinners, learn assignments through an in-playfield LCD screen, and rack up high scores on classic-style score reels.

“James Bond is as timeless as pinball. Partnering with EON Productions/Danjaq, MGM Studios and Aston Martin, we created a pinball adventure capturing the suspense, action, and humor from this beloved film series.” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO. “Get connected today and become a legend.”

Fittingly, the new James Bond 007 pinball machines will be on show for the first time to media and public in London. On September 26th the games will be on display and available to play as part of the Bond-themed Christie’s Late, a public event celebrating the forthcoming Christie’s Sixty Years of James Bond Charity Auction. 

Shortly after, they will be a part of the James Bond at 60 weekend at the British Film Institute on the South Bank, September 30th-October 2nd.

Pricing and Availability:
Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (“MSRP”)*:
*MSRP for sales to USA end-users, before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes.

• Pro Edition: $US 6,999
• Premium Edition: $US 9,699
• Limited Edition: $US 12,999
• 60th Anniversary Limited Edition: CALL FOR PRICE

James Bond 007 pinball machines and accessories are available now through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world. Pro and Premium Editions will also be available at 007Store.com

About Stern Pinball, Inc.
Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.
Recent Stern Pinball titles include Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira’s House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball’s games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.

About EON Productions/Danjaq
EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/ Wilson family. Danjaq is the US based company that co-owns, with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, the copyright in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company that has made the James Bond films since 1962 and together with Danjaq controls all worldwide merchandising. For more information, visit 007.com & 007Store.com

Danjaq is the US based company that, with MGM, co-owns the copyrights in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company which makes the James Bond films. Danjaq and EON control the rights to all worldwide traditional Bond merchandising, and with MGM control the rights in other areas of Bond licensing such as location based entertainment.

About Aston Martin
Aston Martin’s vision is to be the world’s most desirable, ultra-luxury British brand, creating the most exquisitely addictive performance cars.

Founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, Aston Martin is acknowledged as an iconic global brand synonymous with style, luxury, performance, and exclusivity. Aston Martin fuses the latest technology, time honoured craftsmanship and beautiful styling to produce a range of critically acclaimed luxury models including the Vantage, DB11, DBS and DBX and its first hypercar, the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Based in Gaydon, England, Aston Martin Lagonda designs, creates and exports cars which are sold in 55 countries around the world. Its sports cars are manufactured in Gaydon with its luxury DBX SUV range proudly manufactured in St Athan, Wales.
Lagonda was founded in 1899 and Aston Martin in 1913. The two brands came together in 1947 when both were purchased by the late Sir David Brown, and the company is now listed on the London Stock Exchange as Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc.
2020 saw Lawrence Stroll become the company’s Executive Chairman, alongside significant new investment, a move that led to Aston Martin’s return to the pinnacle of motorsport with the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team and commenced new era for the iconic British marque.

About MGM Studios
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and distribution of film and television content globally. The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television content. In addition, MGM has investments in domestic and international television channels, including MGM-branded channels.

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2035: Under the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 (applying the year of the author's death plus 70 years), Fleming books and stories enter the public domain.

2049: Under US copyright law in effect from 1978 (applied to products published 1950-1964), the copyright period lasting 95 years from the author's death ended the previous day. So it's public domain for Fleming books and stories everywhere. [Legal commentary welcome.]

RichardTheBruce

January 2nd

1937: Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby is born in Erdington, Birmingham, England.

1964: In The Daily Express, Fleming proposes to interviewer John Creusemann that "Bond is Scottish. On both sides."

1975: Roger Moore is photographed at London's Gerrick Club with wife Luisa and co-star Susanna York from their film Heaven Save Us From Our Friends.

1991: Untitled screenplay for a third Dalton mission dated this day. Credited to William Osborne, William Davies, Al Ruggerio, Michael G. Wilson. OO7 investigates a stolen British stealth fighter traveling to Vancouver, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, China, Libya.

2003: Die Another Day released in New Zealand.
2003: Dnes neumírej (Today Do Not Die) released in the Czech Republic.

2003: Dnes neumíeraj (Today Do Not Die) released in Slovakia.

2003: The New York Times publishes Seoul Journal's article "The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans".

Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/world/seoul-journal-the-power-of-film-a-bond-that-unites-koreans.html

By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003

In real life, President Bush wrestles with policies to force North Korea to stop selling missiles and making atom bombs.

On the big screen, at movie theaters here today, James Bond wrestled with a crazed North Korean colonel who was using a space-based laser to burn a massive hole in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

''The U.S. put North Korea in 'the axis of evil' and then the director merely followed the plot,'' said Kim So Won, a 19-year-old student taking a break from a New Year's Eve anti-American rally.

As her girlfriends nodded, she added, ''We won't go see the movie.''

The new 007 movie, ''Die Another Day,'' opened here on New Year's Eve to a fledgling boycott. But reflecting the love-hate relationship with the United States -- the fact that James Bond is British is a fine point lost on many people here -- there were long lines of people waiting to see the film at the Seoul Theater.

Min Kyung Woo, a 28-year-old pacifist, lined up too, but on a picket line. ''This is Hollywood's strategy toward Northeast Asia,'' said Mr. Min, who had not been converted by a pre-release showing of the movie intended by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to head off a boycott here.

''The movie industry is related to politics,'' he said.

Indeed, the boycott has been fueled by rising anti-American sentiment and the feeling among many here that North Koreans are replacing Colombians as Hollywood's current international bad guys.

''North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies,'' the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo said in apparent surprise at the Bondian depiction of state-sponsored torture in North Korea, a nation that ranks high atop many ''worst'' lists compiled by international human rights groups.

While North and South Korea remain bitterly divided, judging by such reviews and those of some moviegoers here, the two sides have finally found common ground when confronting 007.

''I think there is plenty for Koreans to complain about in this movie,'' Doug E. Shin, a Korean-American pastor from Los Angeles, said as he walked in a jostling, and largely merry, flood of young South Koreans leaving a showing tonight. ''Half the North Koreans were speaking with South Korean accents. That ox looked like it was from the Philippines. That shack at the end looked like it was from Japan.''

''I guess the director didn't care,'' he continued. ''But if the movie was about Japan, would they have treated the Japanese that way?''

A recurring complaint here is about a final scene where befuddled Korean farmers, goading an ox, look at luxury cars that James Bond has dropped, upended, in a rice paddy. While North Korean agriculture plods along on ox power, South Koreans say the only ox carts seen here are in museums.

The correct image of South Korea, people say, is a nation with among the world's highest rates of cellphone ownership, high-speed Internet access and college-educated youth.

Then there is a scene where an American officer orders a South Korea military mobilization, which prompted someone to write in an Internet chat room that ''Korea in the movie is viewed as America's colony.''

After watching the movie today, Kim Yu Min, a 24-year-old office worker, said, ''My girlfriends said, 'At least James Bond doesn't go to bed with a Korean girl.' ''

MGM, which distributes 20th Century Fox movies, has worked hard to try to smooth ruffled feathers here, a nation of 43 million people that is now the 10th-largest foreign box office territory for American movies.

Lee Joo Sung, president of 20th Century Fox Korea, told opinion makers at one showing here: ''It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction.''

The movie, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and is already expected to be the most lucrative Bond movie yet, ran into early controversy when a South Korean actor, Cha In Pyo, turned down the bad-guy role, normally a coveted ticket to Hollywood stardom. He became a local hero last fall when he told reporters that the script was ''demeaning.''

Rick Yune, the Korean-American actor who stars as the movie's crazed North Korean officer, has found himself at news conferences here parrying hostile questions from reporters concerned about South Korea's image. In one burst of patriotism, Lee Jung Hyun, a pop singer, declined an invitation to appear alongside Mr. Yune on a popular talk show, ''Happiness Channel.''

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency has obligingly given MGM free publicity by playing true to character.

Two weeks before the release here and well before pirated copies could have made their way to reviewers in North Korea, the news agency denounced the film as a ''dirty and cursed burlesque'' that clearly proved that the United States was ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation.''

A version of this article appears in print on January 2, 2003, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans.

2008: George MacDonald Fraser dies age 82--Strang, Isle of Man.
(Born 2 April 1925--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.)

George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html

By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.

The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.

Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.

The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.

In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.

In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)

Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.)

Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.

Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.

For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.

Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:

“So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”

The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.

In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.

The first Flashman novel.

After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.

Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.

“In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.

Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.

His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them “Mr. American” (Simon & Schuster, 1980); “The Pyrates” (Knopf, 1984); and “Black Ajax” (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Octopussy,” released in 1983.

Mr. Fraser’s latest book, “The Reavers,” a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.

For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Writer

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)
1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1985 Red Sonja (written by)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)

1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
- The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")

Self (1 credit)
1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself

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2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.

2022: A lost Aston Martin DB5 is reportedly found at an undisclosed Middle East location.

Missing James Bond Car Has Reportedly Been Found

See the complete article here:

https://thenewsmotion.com/missing-james-bond-car-has-reportedly-been-found/

By Paul Jackson On Jan 2, 2022

The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 used in the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger has reportedly been found. According to Motorious (via Yahoo!), the sportscar, Chassis NO. DP/216/1, had been missing since June 1997 when it was stolen from a secured hangar at the Boca Raton Airport where it had been stored. In the nearly 25 years since the theft, many have theorized about the car’s location but now, investigators believe that they have located the Aston Martin in the Middle East. The exact location has not been released.

Per the report, a witness spotted the car in a “private setting”, but Art Recovery International has only indicated that Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain are “particular areas of interest”. The report notes that someone was able to verify the car’s serial number and found it to be a match for the missing Aston Martin. The car is worth more than $25 million and investigators are hopeful it will be recovered soon.

“I’m hopeful that the possessor will come forward voluntarily before I have to make an announcement,” chief executive of Art Recovery International said. “It’s my policy to give the possessors of stolen and looted objects every opportunity to do the right thing. I don’t believe the current possessor knew the car was stolen when he or she acquired it. Now they do know, I think they should make every effort to have a discreet confidential discussion about how we clear the title to this iconic vehicle.”

The vehicle was driven by Sean Connery in the 1964 film Goldfinger. This specific vehicle is unique due to the number of gadgets that were installed in it for the purposes of making the movie, such as pop-out machine guns, water/oil sprayers, tire shredders, and more. At the time of the theft, the vehicle was owned by a businessman named Anthony Pugliese who had purchased the vehicle at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 1986 for $275,000. Since the theft, there have been numerous theories about the vehicle, including that the vehicle was stolen by a real-life Bond villain, though the real story about the car’s theft may have to wait until it’s been safely recovered.

The stolen Aston Martin isn’t the only car from the Goldfinger-era to remain in existence. An original 1965 Aston Martin DB85 built to Bond specifications — a vehicle that was built specifically for a tour promoting the film Thunderball — went up for auction in June 2019. There were a total of four DB5s created for Goldfinger-era of James Bond.

2022: TV24 airs Mythbusters Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1. Early morning.

Mythbusters Monday, January 2 Find out what's on TV.

See the complete article here:

https://tv24.co.uk/channel/mythbusters/2023-01-02

5:22am
MythBusters
Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1

The Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special. They are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways and guns.

Mythbusters Uncut: James Bond Trailer (1:10)

j_w_pepper

Thanks for mentioning my meagre contributions, @RichardTheBruce, and a Happy New Year to you. I just found something else to nag about :-):

January 1st

1925: Zena Marshall is born--Nairobi, Kenya.
(She dies 10 July 2009 at age 84--London, England.)
...
1938: Kenneth Tsang is born--Shanghai, China.

You have Jan. 1 as birth date of Kenneth Tsang in 1938. IMDb, however, gives Oct. 5, 1934 as his DOB. And since you mention Zena Marshall's date of death, Kenneth Tsang's was April 27, 2022.

I don't know if maybe there is another Kenneth Tsang around, but I do suppose you mean the one that played General Moon in DAD, and so do I.

RichardTheBruce

That is an errant and incorrect post @j_w_pepper, now removed.

Additionally I confirm Mr. Kenneth Tsang Kong is already properly represented on pages as born 2 September 1935 (using Asian sources like Hong Kong Movie Database; others report it as 1934 undated, still others including Wikipedia and IMDb report 5 October 1934) and passed 27 April 2022 (not in question).

To further address the two birth dates I can mention both with the September and April items.

j_w_pepper

Thank you, @RichardTheBruce. I only noticed this since I remembered that Kenneth Tsang died last year and meant to check his date of death, but then I stumbled across the other discrepancy.

RichardTheBruce

January 3rd

1922: Dana Natol (later Dana Wilson Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
(She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)

Dana Broccoli

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455828/Dana-Broccoli.html
12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.

Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".

In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."

Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.

"One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."

But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.

But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."

She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.

After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.

A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.

Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.

In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.

Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.

In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."

Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."

Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.

Dana Broccoli (1922–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110484/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

1979 Moonraker - Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
- The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
1951 Wild Women of Wongo - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)

Thanks (26 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) (special thanks)
2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)

1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

Self (19 credits)

2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself

1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
- Episode #1.63 ... Herself
1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself

HiArchive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself
2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

1926: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, is born--Holloway, London, England.
(He dies 8 March 2016 at age 90--Colesshill, Oxfordshire, England.)

Sir George Martin obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/09/george-martin-obituary[/center]

The ‘fifth Beatle’, a talented musician and producer who oversaw
landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries
of sound recording
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http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/producer-george-martin-beatles-yesterday-archive-video
Producer George Martin recalls making the Beatles’ classic Yesterday – archive video

The death of George Martin at the age of 90 is not only a sad blow to Beatles fans of all generations, but it also draws a line under a vanished age of the entertainment business. Martin’s work as the Beatles’ producer, overseeing such landmarks of popular music as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, has guaranteed that his reputation will live as long as that of his illustrious proteges.

Martin and the Beatles were stretching the known boundaries of sound recording almost every time they entered the studio. “When I started, there really weren’t more than a handful of producers,” Martin commented. “Now everyone thinks they’re a producer. Technology has been getting more sophisticated every day. You can make a tune that isn’t that great sound wonderful. This stifles creativity, because you don’t have to work for it, it’s already there.”

A trained musician, Martin possessed invaluable arranging skills. He helped the Beatles to find striking juxtapositions of sounds and electronic effects previously unheard outside the more freakish fringes of the avant garde, in the process helping to justify pop music’s claims to be something more than a cellarful of noise. But perhaps most important was his capacity for making his clients raise their game to levels they themselves hadn’t believed possible.

Martin sensed that it was more a matter of psychology than technology. “I realised I had the ability to get the best out of people,” he reflected. “A producer has to get inside the person. Each artist is very different, and there’s a lot of psychology in it.”

https://theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/beatles-producer-sir-george-martin-has-died-aged-90-video-obituary
Beatles producer Sir George Martin has died aged 90 – video obituary

After his groundbreaking work with the Beatles, Martin had earned his ticket to ride, and he worked with a spectrum of luminaries including Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jimmy Webb, Kenny Rogers, Ultravox and Elton John. He produced Shirley Bassey’s theme song for the Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), and composed the score for a further Bond, Live and Let Die (1973), as well as producing its title song, which was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Before rock’n’roll transformed his career, he had already been well known for his work with jazz and popular musicians such as Stan Getz, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Judy Garland, but what especially endeared him to the Beatles was his track record of producing comedy albums, particularly with the Goons and Peter Sellers. John Lennon and George Harrison were aficionados of Goon-humour, and they swiftly struck up a close rapport with Martin.

It has long been a part of Beatle mythology that Martin was the debonair toff who transformed the fortunes of four leather-clad scruffs from Liverpool, but the truth was not so cut and dried. “It’s a load of poppycock really, because our backgrounds were very similar,” Martin argued. “Paul and John went to quite good schools. I went to elementary school, and I went to Jesuit college. We didn’t pay to go to school, my parents were very poor. I wasn’t taught music and they weren’t, we taught ourselves.”
George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road.

George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road. Photograph: BBC/ Apple Corps Ltd/BBC

Born in Holloway, north London, George was the son of Henry, a carpenter, and Bertha (nee Simpson), a cleaner, and studied at St Ignatius college, Stamford Hill, and Bromley county school, in south-east London. Having taught himself to play the piano, he was running his own dance band at school by the time he was 16.

By way of second world war service, in 1944 Martin joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew as an observer and achieved the rank of sub-lieutenant. It was there that he acquired the patina of patrician lordliness that would become his trademark, an effect intensified by his aquiline profile topped by a swept-back mane of hair. No wonder the acerbic John Lennon referred to him as “Biggles”. Paul McCartney commented: “He’d dealt with navigators and pilots. He could deal with us when we got out of line.”

After being demobbed in 1947, Martin studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for three years, specialising in composition and orchestration. In 1950 he joined Parlophone Records, part of the EMI group of companies, and in 1955 was made head of the label. But it was not until 1962 that Martin was approached by the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, who, having had his group rejected by Phillips, Decca and Pye, was anxious to find a pair of sympathetic ears in the London-based record business.

Epstein almost failed to get anywhere with Martin as well, since the Parlophone boss considered that the Beatles’ demo tape “wasn’t very good... in fact it was awful”. But Martin recognised that the group had ambition and charisma, and once drummer Pete Best had been replaced by Ringo Starr, he could see that that the necessary ingredients were in place.

Nevertheless, even Martin had not foreseen the extraordinary blossoming of the songwriting talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Having started out writing shoddy, derivative tunes, they suddenly began churning out a goldmine of great pop songs, from I Want to Hold Your Hand and A Hard Day’s Night to Strawberry Fields Forever and Back in the USSR. Under Martin’s guidance, for the rest of the decade the band made advances in writing, arrangement and use of technology that transformed pop music. Strawberry Fields, in particular, is often cited by contemporary producers as a revolutionary achievement.

Though he will always be chiefly remembered for his Beatles work, Martin had numerous other achievements to his credit. Perhaps frustrated by being tied to the terms of his employment contract with EMI, in 1965 he formed his own independent production company, Associated Independent Recordings (AIR), which lent its name to the AIR studio complex on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in the decade till it was forced to close after a hurricane in 1989, and more recently to AIR studios in Hampstead, north London.

Besides being in steady demand as a producer, Martin participated in a TV documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Sgt Pepper album in 1987, and in 1993 published a book, Summer of Love – The Making of Sgt Pepper. He examined various aspects of music-making in the BBC TV series The Rhythm of Life (1997) and in his books All You Need Is Ears (1979) and Making Music (1983), and produced the Beatles Anthology double-CD sets in the 1990s. He was knighted in 1996, and in the following year produced Elton John’s reworking of Candle in the Wind, in memory of Princess Diana. It became the bestselling single of all time.

In 1998, he masterminded his own musical swansong with In My Life, an album of Beatles songs performed by an all-star assortment of actors and musicians including Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Celine Dion and Phil Collins. “I’ve had a bloody good innings,” said Martin. “Knowing that I would have to finish, I decided I would make my own last record. It’s a kind of tribute, too, to all the people that I’ve been lucky to work with over the years.”

However, there was still more to come. The six-CD set entitled Produced By George Martin: 50 Years in Recording (2001) was a survey of his entire studio career, and and it was followed by Martin’s illustrated memoir, Playback (2002). George and his son Giles were music directors of the Cirque du Soleil show Love (2006), a theatrical interpretation of the Beatles’ work featuring 80 minutes of their music remixed by the two Martins and staged in Las Vegas. In 2011 the BBC2 series Arena aired a 90-minute documentary, also called Produced By George Martin, tracing his life and career, with contributions from many of the artists he had worked with.

In 1948 he married Sheena Chisholm, with whom he had two children, Alexis and Gregory. That marriage ended in divorce, and in 1966 he married Judy Lockhart Smith, with whom he had two further children, Lucy and Giles. He is survived by Judy and his children.

• George Henry Martin, record producer, born 3 January 1926; died 9 March 2016

This article was amended on 10 March. The TV documentary from 1987 on the making of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked its 20th anniversary rather than its 25th.
Note: His death is recorded as 8 March, vice 9.

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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Filmography

Music department (31 credits)

2006 Live and Let Die: Conceptual Art (Video documentary short) (music)
2005 Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra Featuring Violet UK (Video documentary) (music arranger)

1999 Live and Let Die: On Set with Roger Moore (Video short) (music)
1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (incidental score) / (orchestrator)

1989 The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (TV Special) (musical director)
1985 Rupert and the Frog Song (Short) (music arranger)
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street (music arranger) / (musical director) / (orchestrator)

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (conductor) / (music arranger) / (musical director) / (original soundtrack album produced by)
1972 Pulp (conductor)
1970 Tales of Unease (TV Series) (composer - 6 episodes)
- The Old Banger (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Bad Bad Jo Jo (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Superstitious Ignorance (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- The Black Goddess (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Calculated Nightmare (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Ride, Ride (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)

1969 The Beatles: Something (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Get Back (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down (Video short) (record producer)
1968 The Beatles: Hey Jude (Video short) (record producer)
1968 Frost on Sunday (TV Series) (composer: theme "By George! It's the David Frost Theme")
1968 Yellow Submarine (musical director)
1967 The Beatles: A Day in the Life (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (record producer)
1967 Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie) (music producer - uncredited)
1967 The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Penny Lane (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Beatles: Rain (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Family Way (music adaptor - uncredited) / (music arranger) / (music supervisor)
1966 Cilla at the Savoy (TV Special) (orchestra)
1966 The Beatles: Paperback Writer (Video short) (record producer)
1965 The Beatles: We Can Work it Out (Video short) (record producer)
1965 Help! (music producer - uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey (musical director)
1964 A Hard Day's Night (composer: incidental music - uncredited) / (music arranger - uncredited) / (music producer - uncredited) / (musical director) / (performer: "This Boy: Ringo's Theme" - uncredited)
1963 Calculated Risk (music director)
1963 Take Me Over (arranger and conductor)

Soundtrack (31 credits)

2017/I My Generation (Documentary) (producer: "Strawberry Fields Forever")
2017 The Big Catch (TV Series) (producer: "A Hard Day's Night")
2016 Good Girls Revolt (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Puff Piece (2016) ... (performer: "My Baby Loves Me" - uncredited)
2016 Storm Chasing: The Anthology (Documentary) ("Elephants and Castles")
2016 Morfi, todos a la mesa (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 5 April 2016 (2016) ... (producer: "All You Need Is Love")
2016 Hola y adiós (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.11 (2016) ... (producer: "Blackbird")
2016 The Walking Dead: Michonne (Video Game) (writer: "Gun in my Hand")
2015/I Aloha (performer: "Pepperland") / (writer: "Pepperland")
2014 Tu cara me suena - Argentina (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.8 (2014) ... (producer: "Yesterday", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!")

2008 Frost/Nixon (writer: "By George It's David Frost" - as George Henry Martin)
2007 Across the Universe (performer: "A Day In The Life")
2003 The Alchemists of Sound (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Time Beat" - as Ray Cathode) / (writer: "Waltz in Orbit")

1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (arranger: "Tropic Island Hum")
1997 The Rhythm of Life (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Melody (1997) ... ("God Only Knows", uncredited) / (performer: "All By Myself" - uncredited)
1995 The Beatles Anthology (TV Mini-Series documentary) (writer: "Love in the Open Air", "By George! It's The David Frost Theme")
1994 EarthBound (Video Game) (arranger: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
1991 Ai monogatari (TV Mini-Series) (producer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand")

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway (writer: "Ticlaw Anthem", "Love Keeps Bringing Me Down")
1980 Roadie (producer: "Everything Works If You Let It")

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (producer: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole", "Getting Better", "Here Comes The Sun", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Reprise), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Finale))
1978 Ringo (TV Movie) (arranger: "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" (instrumental))
1975 Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death ("Trespassers Will Be Eaten")
1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) (music: "Mister Jerico")

1969 The Southern Star (arranger: "The Southern Star")
1967 The Bobo ("Girl from Barcelona", "The Bulls of Salamanca")
1966 The Family Way (performer: "Love In The Open Air" (main theme) - uncredited)
1966 Alfie (producer: "Alfie")
1962 Crooks Anonymous (music: "I Must Resist Temptation" - uncredited)
1961 V.D. (performer: "Lovers Blues") / (writer: "Lovers Blues")
1961 I Like Money (music: "I Like Money")

1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

Composer (10 credits)

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

1973 The Optimists of Nine Elms
1973 Live and Let Die (music score)
1972 Pulp

1969 With a Little Help from my Friends (TV Special) (music by)
1966 The Family Way (uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey
1963 Calculated Risk
1963 Take Me Over
1962 Crooks Anonymous

Actor (2 credits)

2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

Producer (2 credits)

2002 Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (TV Movie) (event producer - as Sir George Martin)

1997 Music for Montserrat (TV Special documentary) (producer)

1962: In a letter to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Ian Fleming sends greetings. "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731
Published: 23:58

THE expert behind the guns used by James Bond has been revealed as a Glaswegian whose world-class knowledge of firearms earned him the role of the Armourer in the 007 books.

Geoffrey Boothroyd, who worked for ICI in Glasgow, wrote to the author Ian Fleming shortly after reading Casino Royale in 1956, pointing out that the gun Bond used, a .25 Beretta, was inappropriate for the character.

The strength of his argument persuaded Fleming not only to incorporate his suggestions, but also to adopt Boothroyd as a paid adviser on arms-related matters in the Bond novels.

Fleming used Boothroyd’s persona as the Armourer in Dr No, describing him as Major Boothroyd, "a short slim man with sandy hair" with "very wide apart, clear, grey eyes that never seemed to flicker".

The character of Boothroyd makes a dramatic entry in Dr No: "M bent forward to the intercom. ‘Is the Armourer there? Send him in.’ M sat back. ‘You may not know it, 007, but Major Boothroyd’s the greatest small-arms expert in the world." Not surprisingly, the major had a rather acerbic view of Bond’s Beretta. When asked as to its use, Boothroyd replied in a clipped manner: "Ladies’ gun, sir."

Correspondence between Fleming and Boothroyd, which is to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions, the London specialist saleroom for books and manuscripts, reveal how far the author took on board the latter’s technical advice. Fleming frequently asked Boothroyd for more information on weapons and even borrowed his Smith & Wesson to be painted by Richard Chopping for the dust-jacket of From Russia with Love.

Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use it. Bloomsbury is to offer it as one lot with a pre-sale estimate of 15,000-20,000.

The collection of 30 previously unknown letters, written between 31 May, 1956, and 30 September, 1963, demonstrate Fleming’s passion for guns and attention to detail, coupled with Boothroyd’s intense knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject.

From that first letter on, Bond was never without the correct firearm and his enemies were suitably equipped in return.

Potential problems over legally holding guns arise in the letters. Fleming assures Boothroyd that, as the Deputy Commissioner of Scotland Yard is "a close personal friend, we should have no complications over firearms certificates."

The two men’s dry sense of humour often comes through in the correspondence. In a letter dated 3 January, 1962, Fleming writes: "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

Boothroyd was paid for his technical advice. In a letter to him, Fleming wrote: "I propose to pay you 25 per cent of all revenue I get from this piece and I suggest we needn’t draw up any legal contracts as my secretary, Miss Griffie-Williams, is an extremely honest person and will see that you get your due!" Fleming even signed himself in 1962 as "Comptroller of the Boothroyd Privy Purse".

Boothroyd, who was born in Lancashire but lived in Glasgow from the age of three, became one of the greatest authorities on the history and development of the sporting gun and was a regular contributor to the Shooting Times. He wrote several books, including A Guide to Guns in 1961 and The Handgun in 1988. He died in 2001. Stagecoach chief executive Martin Griffiths.

A series of first edition 007 books from Boothroyd’s library are also to be sold by Bloomsbury. Fleming signed very few books and, consequently, there is a large premium for signed and presentation copies. As Boothroyd played such a key role in shaping the character of Bond, two of the books are likely to fetch new world records.

A copy of From Russia with Love is dedicated by Fleming "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - herewith appointed Armourer to J. Bond from Ian Fleming." The inscription in Dr No reads, "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - alias The Armourer from Ian Fleming". Each is expected to make up to 5,000.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731

1971: The Palm Beach Post reports American John Gavin may be the next actor in the Bond role.
1972: 007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos released in Brazil.

1988: Joie Chitwood dies at age 75--Tampa, Florida.
(Born 14 April 1912--Denison, Texas.)

Joie Chitwood
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Joie Chitwood

Born April 14, 1912 | Denison, Texas
Died January 3, 1988 (aged 75) | Tampa Bay, Florida
Formula One World Championship career

Nationality United States American
Active years 1950
Teams Kurtis Kraft
...
First entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
Last entry 1950 Indianapolis 500

George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.

Born in Denison, Texas of Cherokee Indian ancestry, he was dubbed "Joie" by a track promoter and the name stuck.

Racing career
Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas. From there, he began racing sprint cars. In 1939 and 1940 he won the AAA East Coast Sprint car championship. He switched to the CSRA and won its title in 1942.[1] Between 1940 and 1950 he competed at the Indianapolis 500 seven times, finishing fifth on three different occasions. He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.

Joie Chitwood Thrill Show
Chitwood also operated the "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show", an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful he gave up racing. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.

His show was so popular, that in January 1967, the performance at the Islip Speedway, New York was broadcast on ABC television's Wide World of Sports.

On May 13, 1978, Joie Chitwood Jr.(b. Aug. 31, 1943) set a world record when he drove a Chevrolet Chevette for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) on just 2 wheels. His sons, Joie Jr. and Tim both joined the auto thrill show and continued to run the "Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show" after their father's retirement. The Chitwood show toured the US from 1945-98. His grandson, Joie Chitwood III, is the President of Daytona International Speedway and a former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The show was featured during season 3 of CHiPs in an episode entitled "Thrill Show". Joie Jr. did stunts for Miami Vice on several occasions. Joie Jr. (b. 1943) also appeared as a guest challenger on the TV game show To Tell The Truth. Joie Jr. worked in over 60 feature films and national commercials.

Chitwood's show was credited by Evel Knievel as being his inspiration to become a daredevil when his show appeared in his home town of Butte, Montana.

Stuntman
Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. On a few occasions he appeared in a minor role, notably with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1950 film about auto racing, To Please a Lady.

In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film Live and Let Die, where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.

Safety Consultant
Joie Chitwood Jr. also acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing vehicles for subsequent investigation. He had intentionally crashed more than 3000 vehicles by the time he appeared on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1965. Joie Jr. and Joie Sr. test-crashed guardrails and breakaway Interstate signs for US Steel and aluminum light poles for ALCOA. The highways are safer today because of these tests.

Retirement
When Chitwood retired, his sons took over the business. Joie Chitwood died in 1988, aged 75, in Tampa Bay, Florida.

He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2010 in the Historic category. Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.

Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

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Filmography

[bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (stunts - as Joie Chitwood Sr.)
1980 Phobia (stunts)

1978 Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (TV Movie) (stunts)
1977 Stunts (ski car and special stunt driving)
1976 A Small Town in Texas (stunts)

Actor (4 credits)

1980 CHiPs (TV Series) - Joie Chitwood
- Thrill Show (1980) ... Joie Chitwood (as Joie Chitwood Jr.)
1978 Mr. No Legs
1973 Live and Let Die - Charlie

1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1963 To Tell the Truth (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
- Episode dated 11 March 1963 (1963) ... Himself - Contestant

Live and Let Die 1973, Charlie Dart Scene 1040p (2:39)

2003: "Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film", so reports The Associated Press and multiple news outlets.

Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Two-Koreas-Blast-New-James-Bond-Film-7720206.php
SOO-JEONG LEE Published 6:00 pm CST, Thursday, January 2, 2003
Associated Press Writer

Some in South Korea are complaining that the latest James Bond movie unfairly depicts their communist neighbor to the north as a diabolically evil regime.

"Die Another Day" attracted crowds at its Seoul premiere on New Year's Eve. But in recent days some moviegoers have been siding with the communist North in condemning the film despite the nuclear standoff that has increased tensions between the nations.

"I don't want to see a movie where North Korea is depicted as a menace to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the United States is depicted as a hero that resolves the crisis," said Jin-young Park, a 22-year-old university student waiting for a different picture Friday. "It's really getting old."

In the movie, Bond is sent to North Korea to investigate a rogue communist officer who is planning an invasion of South Korea. The British spy is caught, imprisoned and subjected to extreme torture.

Later, the rogue North Korean officer uses a satellite-based laser to burn a swath through the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas. His plot is foiled by Bond and an American agent.

"I initially wanted to see the movie, but I decided not to because I heard some stuff from the media that the film is critical of North Korea and so I changed my mind," said Yi Hye-mi, a university student in Seoul.

On Friday, a South Korean civic group announced plans to boycott the film, which stars Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Critics say it's demeaning and distorts the situation between the two nations, which have been divided by a demilitarized zone since the Korean War of 1950-1953.

North Korea criticized the movie when it opened last year, calling it an example of the "corrupt sex culture," in the United States.

Despite calls for a boycott, however, many are still lining up for the movie.

"I want to see the movie just to see what the critics are complaining about," Lee Se-young, 27, said after buying his ticket.

Protests of the time.

2006: Casino Royale principle photography commences.
2008: Quantum of Solace main unit filming kicks off at Pinewood (originally scheduled for 10 December 2007).

2016: The Independent reports that Christoph Waltz is signed for two more Bond films. As long as Craig returns.

Christoph Waltz will appear in two
more James Bond films as long as
Daniel Craig returns as 007

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christoph-waltz-will-appear-in-two-more-james-bond-films-as-long-as-daniel-craig-returns-as-007-a6794351.html

'Christoph could make a brilliant ongoing man for Bond to battle like in the old days'
Jack Shepherd - @JackJShepherd - Sunday 3 January 2016 10:03

Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )

Christoph Waltz's appearance in the latest James Bond film was originally surrounded in mystery, with many wondering if the actor was playing the evil genius Blofeld.

On Spectre’s release, it was revealed that he was indeed the iconic villain, the film ending with Waltz’s character having been defeated by Bond and captured by the police.

Many expect the 59-year-old to return to the series to reprise the role, with it now being revealed he has signed on for two more films - but with a catch.

The Inglourious Basterds actor will only return if Daniel Craig returns as the titular MI6 agent.

2019: Planned production start date for BOND 25 with director Danny Boyle for a 25 October release date, same year. (Update: changed to a March production start; director Cary Fukunaga; 14 February 2020 release date. Then April 2020 release date. Then November 2020 release. Then April 2021 release. And finally an October 2021 release.)

2023: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY!

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EVENT DETAILS

"LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
He's BACK!

In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.

Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.

This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....

You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

The names Committie. Alan Committie.
Double Ho Ho.
Licence to laugh.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.

The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.

Interval: TBC
Duration: 90 minutes
Age restriction: PG10

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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
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I find it amusing that 52 years ago, a small paper put in John Gavin as Bond, which was likely met with a lot of disbelief and derision but turned out to be true. These days, any paper will put anything in regarding who could be Bond and some people are willing to eat it up.