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I think we'd all like to know what you know JamesPage.
You imply here (and in your 'bitter' comment in the thread you just closed suspiciously quickly) that Nikki is at fault and trying in some way to cash in on her fleeting fame whereas it seems to those of us reading the article and her letter to Rog that not only has she been treated shabbily but there also dark forces working against her for some unfathomable reason.
You can't really toss in comments like that without backing them up in some way.
My position is that Nikki contributed to EONs success by allowing them to get away with hiring cheap unknowns rather than actresses who could actually speak English so is worthy of recognition. The dubbing and revoicing in the early Bond films is particularly impressive and it seems a shame that some people appear to want to airbrush Nikki and the sound editors who worked with her out of history. It may be an unglamourous part of filmmaking but without it GF would have been an absolute farce and we probably wouldn't have made it to 50 years.
Unless someone can tell me shes a total bitch who is just drumming up publicity for her book then I say justice for Nikki!
She did important work for the Bond films.
One or two individuals seem to resent that she is naming whom she dubbed. She is having a book published, but it's hardly the first book to be published this year written by someone connected to the Bond films, is it?
It does seem odd that such an affable chap as Rog would pull his foreword and as you say the whole publishing thing seems a bit dodgy. So what exactly has she done wrong then?
She can hardly be doing a Monty Norman and claiming she alone is responsible for the success surely and can she really have anything that controversial to say unless shes claiming she had Cubbys lovechild or something?!
I'm wondering if I should buy one of the limited edition copies of her book as it could well be a sought after collectable one day.
Come on dish the dirt!
In fact they should be thanking Nikki van der Zyl rather than having tantrums. I suspect they earned much more money than she did
Sad that this thread is frowned upon by the moderators here.
Indeed.
She seems to me like a perfectly nice lady who put in a lot of work on the Bond series and who has been royally stitched up and is just trying to provide for herself in old age whilst 'golden girl' Shirley Eaton continues to cash in on her 5 mins of lying around in a bikini.
Of course I might have it totally about face (if certain barbed comments from others are anything to go by) but if its common knowledge how awful she is then why cant we be told instead of this rather sinister character assassination?
Publisher properly saw the cover art and dropped it.
I'll have one of those WWII tin hats, no foil, please. They're quite hard to come by. Or, if you have, an old colonial style one.