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  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Remembering @barryt007, such a kind and friendly forum member :(
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    As with everyone else I miss @barryt007.

    I seem to recall that we maintained a general Bond news tread in his honor, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone find it and link to it?
    Thanks.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    @barryt007 was a cool fellow indeed.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I really love the threads @barryt007 originated.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dead.amp.html
    R. I. P.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
    A rare good World leader.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    RIP Mr Gorbachev

    One of the few world leaders you’d actually believe to have had good intentions.

    Speaking strictly as a Bond fan, Gen. Gogol always reminded me of him.
  • ringfire211ringfire211
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    Everything undone by the maniac Putin what Gorbachev tried to accomplish. A crying shame.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited August 2022 Posts: 25,094
    ringfire211 wrote: »
    Everything undone by the maniac Putin what Gorbachev tried to accomplish. A crying shame.

    That did cross my mind, things have certainly gone backwards.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Sad to hear of the death of Bill Turnbull from prostate cancer, at the age of 66. He was a familiar face on TV as a reporter and presented the BBC Breakfast programme for 15 years up until 2016. I remember seeing his last Breakfast show at the time. What a lovely man he was and quite young to die.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Sad to hear of the death of Bill Turnbull from prostate cancer, at the age of 66. He was a familiar face on TV as a reporter and presented the BBC Breakfast programme for 15 years up until 2016. I remember seeing his last Breakfast show at the time. What a lovely man he was and quite young to die.

    Sad news indeed he was a regular on BBC Breakfast for some time, I was not aware of his battle with cancer. R.I.P.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    ringfire211 wrote: »
    Everything undone by the maniac Putin what Gorbachev tried to accomplish. A crying shame.
    You can say that again...endlessly!

  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    As with everyone else I miss @barryt007.

    I seem to recall that we maintained a general Bond news tread in his honor, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone find it and link to it?
    Thanks.

    Found it.
    https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/20364/barryt007s-news-sheet

    In tribute to @barryt007 lets be sure to use this thread for general information and news.
  • GerardGerard
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    Damn :

    https://www.cbr.com/peter-straub-obituary/
  • GerardGerard
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    And another one : French director Just Jaeckin, famous for Emmanuelle and other erotic movies, has passed away yesterday, aged 82 :

    https://time.news/emmanuelle-director-just-jaeckin-dies-aged-82/
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Gerard wrote: »
    And another one : French director Just Jaeckin, famous for Emmanuelle and other erotic movies, has passed away yesterday, aged 82 :

    https://time.news/emmanuelle-director-just-jaeckin-dies-aged-82/

    George Lazenby was also one of the cast of the film right? I've seen it in his filmography.
  • GerardGerard
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    No, George Lazenby was never in the original movie. But in the '90s, he played with Sylvia Kristel in a series of made-for-cable movies such as Emmanuelle's Perfume. He reprised the part of Mario, a character from the original movie who had been played by Alain Cuny in 1974. In that series, Emmanuelle had received a magic perfume which allowed her to become younger, and she told Mario some of her erotic adventures this had allowed her to have (to be fair, Mario also told her of some of his own erotic adventures as well). Seven movies were made using that format.
  • HildebrandRarityHildebrandRarity Centre international d'assistance aux personnes déplacées, Paris, France
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    Yep, Lazenby was just in the framing device that allowed the production to get Sylvia Kristel involved too, while younger versions of the characters were onscreen 95% of the time. They needed Kristel as evidence that it was the "real" thing, because there are dozens of bootleg Emmanuelle entries released in the 70s and 80s, as it just took a slight change of spelling on her name (Emanuelle, Emmanuele, Black Emmanuele, etc.) to circumvent copyright protection.

    Two pieces of trivia:
    - Alain Cuny is basically the opposite of Lazenby. He was an intense, sturdy stage actor, with a deep, lasting voice, as he was a specialist of drama writer Paul Claudel (brother to sculptor Camille), whose trademark was writing in very long blank verses that matched biblical cadences. He worked with Fellini (whom he couldn't stand), in La dolce vita (he plays the intellectual, pessimistic friend to Marcello, who eventually commits suicide), with Antonioni, and on Emmanuelle, where even if he did it for the money (the producer wanted someone prestigious in the cast), he managed to sneak in a long recitation of a text by French philosopher Georges Bataille on desire.
    - The blond woman from Emmanuelle is played by Swedish actress Marika Green, the aunt to Eva Green.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Thanks for the info.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Gerard wrote: »
    And another one : French director Just Jaeckin, famous for Emmanuelle and other erotic movies, has passed away yesterday, aged 82 :

    https://time.news/emmanuelle-director-just-jaeckin-dies-aged-82/

    As far as the genre is concerned, definitely one of the more elegant examples.

    RIP Mr Jaeckin
    HildebrandRarity wrote: »
    Yep, Lazenby was just in the framing device that allowed the production to get Sylvia Kristel involved too, while younger versions of the characters were onscreen 95% of the time. They needed Kristel as evidence that it was the "real" thing, because there are dozens of bootleg Emmanuelle entries released in the 70s and 80s, as it just took a slight change of spelling on her name (Emanuelle, Emmanuele, Black Emmanuele, etc.) to circumvent copyright protection.

    Two pieces of trivia:
    - Alain Cuny is basically the opposite of Lazenby. He was an intense, sturdy stage actor, with a deep, lasting voice, as he was a specialist of drama writer Paul Claudel (brother to sculptor Camille), whose trademark was writing in very long blank verses that matched biblical cadences. He worked with Fellini (whom he couldn't stand), in La dolce vita (he plays the intellectual, pessimistic friend to Marcello, who eventually commits suicide), with Antonioni, and on Emmanuelle, where even if he did it for the money (the producer wanted someone prestigious in the cast), he managed to sneak in a long recitation of a text by French philosopher Georges Bataille on desire.
    - The blond woman from Emmanuelle is played by Swedish actress Marika Green, the aunt to Eva Green.

    Very interesting, I never realised La dolce vita featured an actor from Emmanuelle. I’ve never seen the one he made with Antonioni. Going through his filmography I also noticed a Louis Malle film.
  • HildebrandRarityHildebrandRarity Centre international d'assistance aux personnes déplacées, Paris, France
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    Alain Cuny was also in Fellini Satiricon, in a shorter part (the merchant/pirate married to Capucine). For Antonioni, he was both an actor (The Lady Without Camelias) and an assistant director (I Vinti, presumably on the French segment). Due to the Antonioni connections, he met with future director Francesco Rosi, and became a regular in his projects (Many Wars Ago, Illustrious Corpses, Christ Stopped at Eboli, etc.).
    Alain Cuny was infamous for sharing his opinions bluntly. As I've said, he regarded Fellini (a huge Bond fan, by the way) as just a clown, he explained that he did Emmanuelle (where he actually declaimed pages by Gaston Bachelard, not Bataille) to give a middle finger to the establishment. And he achieved being banned from the Cannes festival in 1960, as he was mad at L'Avventura being booed and vented on the same night against novelty singer Dario Moreno (Ya Mustafa) who was performing.

    And it reminds me that austere French director Robert Bresson (who was friends with Cuny, but they never worked together) was obsessed with For Your Eyes Only.
    He was amazed by the way the ski chase was edited. Previously, he had praised Goldfinger. He wouldn't shut up to his friends and assistants about how good FYEO was, he talked about it interviews shot at Cannes in 1983, and some people close to him were almost embarrassed by his admiration of the film, which was completely at odds with his own universe.

    https://a-bittersweet-life.tumblr.com/post/67479850277/filmmaking-with-robert-bresson-art-can-not-exist
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @HildebrandRarity, you're right, Cuny is in Fellini Satyricon, isn't he? I love that film so much.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Queen Elizabeth...RIP your Majesty
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    RIP Queen Elizabeth. A Legend.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
    edited September 2022 Posts: 3,566
    RIP the Queen. As an American, I'm not really big on the concept of royalty... but it was her job and she did it very well for a long. long time. Rest peacefully, your Majesty.
  • GerardGerard
    edited September 2022 Posts: 5,993
    The only Monarch of Great Britain most of us had ever known. She'll certainly be missed. Britain will survive, but in what state ? Anyway : "La Reine est morte. Vive le Roi !", as we said in France, once upon a time.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Very saddened to hear of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II. She devoted her life to public service to the very end, appointing her fifteenth prime minister only two days ago. May she rest well after a lifetime of service to the nation.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    She had been around (as Queen!) before I was born, and I feel really sad (in fact, shed a few tears) about her death. She was the person who kept the UK united during all this Brexit division and the scandals about "the Royals". While I'm definitely not a monarchist, the UK - and therefore also the world - will be a somewhat worse place without her.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    Not being a monarchist (we Germans abolished the monarchy in 1918), it was quite a shock to learn about the Queen's death. RIP, your majesty. She had been around for so long, that all the people here only knew her as queen. And whoever will succeed Daniel Craig, will not be working on her Majesty's secret service, but on his majesty's secret service...RIP Queen Elizabeth.
  • MakeshiftPythonMakeshiftPython “Baja?!”
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    DoctorKaufmann wrote: »
    Not being a monarchist (we Germans abolished the monarchy in 1918), it was quite a shock to learn about the Queen's death. RIP, your majesty. She had been around for so long, that all the people here only knew her as queen. And whoever will succeed Daniel Craig, will not be working on her Majesty's secret service, but on his majesty's secret service...RIP Queen Elizabeth.

    Heck, Casino Royale published just one year after her succession. The next guy will be the first Bond EVER to not serve Queen Elizabeth II.
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