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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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'

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E4DE1430E33ABC4A51DFB467838E679EDE

  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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.

  http://www.jamesbond-shop.com/Live_and_Let_Die.htm
  
  
  

  
  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337040/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  
  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

  
  
  Thunderball

  

  You Only Live Twice
  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  Moonraker
  
  
  Octopussy
  
  
  

  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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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  2023: Ian Fleming Publications shares Season's Greetings.

  

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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.
  FLEMING, Ian.
  Item Number: 123461
  https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/live-and-let-die-ian-fleming-first-edition-signed-rare/
  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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  See the article in its original context from
  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

  
  Paramount Pictures/Photofest

  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/
  

  
  2022: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

  

  
  
  
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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.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
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  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 and IMAX Theatre at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, remain closed for renovations and 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.

  
  2024: BBC2 airs documentary From Roger Moore With Love at 9PM local.

  
  

  

  From Roger Moore with Love

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34899963/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st#cast
  2024, 1h 18m

  FROM ROGER MOORE WITH LOVE is an exclusive behind the scenes look at the charismatic actor who redefined the role of James Bond.

  Directed by
  Jack Cocker ... (directed by)
  Cast
  Annette Andre ... Self
  Steven Berkoff ... Self
  Pierce Brosnan ... Self
  Dick Cavett ... Self
  Joan Collins ... Self
  Gloria Hendry ... Self
  Roger Moore ... Self (archive footage)
  Jane Seymour ... Self
  Christopher Walken ... Self
  David Walliams ... Self
  
  Produced by
  Gabriel Jagger ... executive producer
  Janet Lee ... executive producer
  Karen Steyn ... producer
  Cinematography by Jack Cocker
  Editing by David G. Hill, Noel Nelis
  Editorial Department
  Jon Bruce ... colorist
  Sean Ewins ... Post Producer

  
  From Roger Moore With Love (2024) | Official Trailer (3:08)
  
  

  
  
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  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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.
  
  2024: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.
  
  2024: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas resumes tonight through New Year's Day January 1, 2025, and the summer festival happens every Saturday through July and August.

  

  

  Junkanoo Bahamas

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.carnivaland.net/junkanoo-carnival/

  
  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!
  
  Information
  Location: Bahamas, Nassau
  Date: December 26, 2024 · January 1, 2025
  
  When is Junkanoo?
  Junkanoo is a four-day celebration that always runs between Boxing Day, 26th December and New Year’s Day 1st January.

  UPDATED
  When is Junkanoo 2024? The 2024 Junkanoo Carnival takes place between Thursday 26 December 2024 and Wednesday 1 January, 2025.

  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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  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  December 27th
  
  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.

  
  
  
  Later video marketing.
  
  
  
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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
  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hoagy-Carmichael
  Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
  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.
  Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  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)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  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

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Year_Honours

  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

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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.

  

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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).

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 edited December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520437/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  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.

  
  

  
  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.

  http://h2.khan.co.kr/arrange/201511121438401
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  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.

  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: New Year's Honours announced for 2024 include Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey named by His Majesty King Charles the Third for Order of the Companions of Honour.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  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 talking to violence towards women with 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.

  https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?isHttpsRedirect=true&blogId=weapon1234&logNo=220951611845
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: Donald Edwin Westlake dies at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.
  (Born 12 July 1933--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

  

  DONALD WESTLAKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

  

  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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

  See the complete article here:
  

  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.

  
  2024: Bond-related New Year's Eve celebrations abound.

  
  
  Manai Australia
  
  Casino Royale NYE Party! 🎉
  https://www.instagram.com/mums_of_the_shire/p/DDq5mjSuxtQ/?locale=it_IT&img_index=1
  
  
  London, United Kingdom
  
  Secret Agents Party - James Bond theme - Views over London
  The Secret Agents party. NEW YEARS EVE 2024/25 STUNNING ROOFTOP VENUE Views of 20 miles over London and Fireworks Dress up and party like its NYE
  https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/Secret-London-Location/Secret-Agents-Party---James-Bond-theme---Views-over-London/37128592/
  
  
  Kington Langley, United Kingdom
  
  007 NYE
  https://allevents.in/chippenham/new-years-eve-party-james-bond-theme/200027067237800
  
  
  Ledbury, United Kingdom
  
  *** SOLD OUT ***Team Oak’s NEW YEARS EVE PARTY with James Bond themed Casino & Disco until 1:00am
  https://theoakinnstaplow.co.uk/event/team-oaks-new-years-eve-party-with-james-bond-themed-casino-disco-until-100am/
  
  
  
  New Year's Eve Bond Marathon Idea
  https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/18nzzti/new_years_eve_bond_marathon_idea/
  
  
  Clifton, Virginia
  
  007 New Year’s Eve
  https://www.fxva.com/event/007-new-year’s-eve/43110/
  
  
  Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  
  Ring In 2025 In Casino Royale Fashion!
  https://www.visitlauderdale.com/event/007-nye/43096/
  
  
  Mineral Wells, Texas
  
  Mineral Wells’ New Year’s Eve Gala – Casino Royale
  Ring in the New Year in style at Mineral Wells’ New Year’s Eve Gala Casino Royale at The Crazy Water Hotel presented by Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce, Crazy Water and Clear Fork Bank- Mineral Wells Office! Enjoy a night of excitement featuring a live concert by The Tejas Brothers.[/b]
  https://visitmineralwells.org/event/mineral-wells-new-years-eve-gala-casino-royale/
  
  
  Peoria, Arizona
  
  Step into the world of 007 this New Year’s Eve at Arizona Broadway Theatre! 🎭
  Dress to kill as your favorite Secret Agent, Bond Girl, or Bond Villain and prepare for an unforgettable night filled with sophistication, suspense, and celebration.
  https://www.instagram.com/arizonabroadway/p/DC2vd5_SoUL/
  
  
  Kirkland, Washington
  
  A James Bond New Year's Eve Soirée
  https://www.facebook.com/events/8544-122nd-ave-ne-kirkland-wa-united-states-washington-98033/a-james-bond-new-years-eve-soirée/480517815022772/
  

  
  
  
  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 I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2024 Posts: 13,981

  Annual recognition and thanks to @SirHilaryBray for originally starting this thread.
  
  
  
  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.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  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

  
  
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  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.

  

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  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.

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  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)

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  2003: Die Another Day released in Egypt and Panama.
  2003: Πέθανε μια άλλη μέρα (He Died Another Day) released in Greece.

  
  

  
  2025: The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry continues its 007 Science exhibition, schedule extended through April.

  

  now through spring 2025!

  007 Science:
  Inventing the World of
  James Bond

  Open Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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  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

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  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

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  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)

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  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

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  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.

  

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  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.

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  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

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  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
  Adam Sweeting | Wed 9 Mar 2016 01.25 EST | Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2017 12.58 EST
  
  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552326/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
  
  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
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  
  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158374/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  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 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.)