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The MI6 Snopes: Debunking/confirming Bond myths.
This post has no other purpose than debunking or confirming some stories read on Bond-related material, from every kind of source.
For instance, these are some statements I read in a Spanish book and have never seen anywhere else:
- George Lazenby had friends in left-wing circles which were partially culprits of his leaving of the part of Bond (as a leftist myself, I find hard to pictura George as a raging anarchist. He was kinda hippie, though).
- Still talking about George, the book goes on ranting about how Saltzman and Broccoli boycotted Lazenby's promising career.
- The shooting of LALD was convulted: Yaphet Kotto tried to pose in all photos doing the Black Power salute, and this resulted in a division between the cast and crew.
These are the main ones I consider to be not entirely close to the truth. Do you have yours?
For instance, these are some statements I read in a Spanish book and have never seen anywhere else:
- George Lazenby had friends in left-wing circles which were partially culprits of his leaving of the part of Bond (as a leftist myself, I find hard to pictura George as a raging anarchist. He was kinda hippie, though).
- Still talking about George, the book goes on ranting about how Saltzman and Broccoli boycotted Lazenby's promising career.
- The shooting of LALD was convulted: Yaphet Kotto tried to pose in all photos doing the Black Power salute, and this resulted in a division between the cast and crew.
These are the main ones I consider to be not entirely close to the truth. Do you have yours?
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Daniel Craig wouldn't wear a dinner jacket/tux in Casino Royale (http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=3258&t=mi6&s=news)
Man, real or not, these stories... They didn't stop at anything to discredit Dan back then, didn't they? :(
Don't forget that a loose tooth cap became two teeth being knocked out in a fight scene - http://hub.contactmusic.com/news-article/craigs-teeth-knocked-out_19_02_2006
On March 5, 1966, after scouting locations for YOLT, Broccoli and Salzburg, along with Terence Young and Ken Adam, were supposed to be on a flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong. But they skipped the flight to stay and take in more local culture. The flight crashed over Mount Fuji, one of the few instances where turbulence caused a plane to go down. All 125 passengers were killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/5/newsid_2515000/2515321.stm
City in Austria :P
But good call on the 'crash' story, hadn't heard that one yet.
Another one from a Spanish book: The wedding scene on YOLT was to be cut in the editing room, but was kept due to the instistence of Donald Pleasance.
That part I may have screwed up too
But that whole incident needs to be a bigger part of Bond lore. It was not even mentioned in Everything or Nothing, briefly touched upon on the DVD extras
The book puts it as simple as that. Mr. Juan Tejero, the author, did make a lot of mistakes. Fortunately, a second edition fixed some of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7uQRDpfQ8
Is it proved or he's just theorizing?
But here are some Snopes articles about Bond. And yes, the totally debunked Shirley Eaton story is there :
snopes.com/movies/films/goldfinger.asp
snopes.com/movies/actors/astonmartin.asp
snopes.com/movies/films/bondgirl.asp
snopes.com/radiotv/tv/deadman.asp
Wow, great find here! I knew Snopes had the Shirley Eaton story, but didn't know about the rest of articles.
Well, back then he said something like "I've done things even Bond would have run away from", didn't he? ;))
One you can find with a simple Google search: Blofeld's Cat has an actual name. It's a Turkish Angora male called... Solomon. How can we confirm it? Maybe from the novels? (I haven't read them all: I stopped in the middle of YOLT to read other things and now I started over).
Search for "ernst stavro blofeld cat solomon".
As a side note, on ajb007 they said one of the cat actors was called "Tiddes". Such a raaaaare and original name... [-(
We don t know that. There is no mention of it, but there is no mention of him owning toilet paper either. There is no way to tell.
:)) yes, reminds me I have to watch that movie again soon, it's been ages.
you can be calm and composed in such a moment but later go insane about it nonetheless.