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  August 8th
  
  1917: Earl Cameron is born--Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.
  (He dies 3 July 2020 at age 102--Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.)

  

  Earl Cameron (actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Earl Cameron
  CBE
  
  
  Cameron in 2017

  Born Earlston J. Cameron, 8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
  Died 3 July 2020 (aged 102)
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1951–2013
  Spouse(s) Audrey J. P. Godowski
  (m. 1959; died 1994)
  [1][2]
  Barbara Cameron (m. 1994)

  Earlston J. Cameron, CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a British actor, born in Bermuda and a long-time resident in England. Along with Cy Grant, he is known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom.
  
  With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.
  
  According to Screenonline, "Earl Cameron brought a breath of fresh air to the British film industry's stuffy depictions of race relations. Often cast as a sensitive outsider, Cameron gave his characters a grace and moral authority that often surpassed the films' compromised liberal agendas." He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and The Andromeda Breakthrough.
  
  Early career
  Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda. As a young man, he joined the British Merchant Navy, and sailed mostly between New York and South America.
  
  When the Second World War broke out he found himself stranded in London, arriving on the ship The Eastern Prince on 29 October 1939. As he himself put it in an interview: "I arrived in London on 29 October 1939. I got involved with a young lady and you know the rest. The ship left without me, and the girl walked out too."
  
  In 1941, a friend named Harry Crossman gave Cameron a ticket to see a revival of Chu Chin Chow at the Palace Theatre. Crossman and five other black actors had bit parts in the West End production. Cameron, who was working at the kitchen of the Strand Corner House at the time, was fed up with menial jobs and asked Crossman if he could get him on the show. At first he told Cameron that all of the parts were cast, but two or three weeks later, when one of the actors did not show up, Crossman arranged a meeting with the director Robert Atkins, who cast Cameron on the spot.
  
  According to Cameron, he had a less difficult time than other black actors because his Bermudian accent sounded American to British ears. For example, the following year, he landed a speaking role as Joseph, the chauffeur in the American play The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood.
  
  In 1945 and 1946 he took on the role of one of the Dukes in the singing trio "The Duchess and Two Dukes", which toured with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) to play to British armed forces personnel in India in 1945, and the Netherlands in 1946. In 1946 Cameron returned to Bermuda for five months but decided to return to work as an actor in the UK. He then took a job on the London stage as an understudy in the play Deep Are the Roots. Written by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow, this play was staged at the Wyndham's Theatre in London for six months (featuring Gordon Heath) and then went on tour. It was during this tour that Cameron first met, and worked alongside, Patrick McGoohan during a production of that play in Coventry. (In 2012, Cameron participated alongside local actors in Bermuda in a reading of Deep Are the Roots, which the Bermuda Sun described as a play "dear to Earl's heart, for it not only gave him his first break in the West End as Britain's first black actor, but he also met his first wife when he travelled on tour with the production."
  
  He understudied in Deep are the Roots with fellow understudy Ida Shepley, a well known singer. As Cameron was having problems with his diction at the time she introduced him to a very good voice coach named Amanda Ira Aldridge. Miss Aldridge was the daughter of Ira Aldridge, a legendary black Shakespearian American actor of the 19th century. Cameron's breakthrough acting role was in Pool of London, a 1951 film directed by Basil Dearden, set in post-war London involving racial prejudice, romance and a diamond robbery. He won much critical acclaim for his role in the film, which is considered "the first major role for a black actor in a British mainstream film".
  
  Film career
  His next major film role following his work in Pool of London was in the 1955 film Simba. In this drama about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, Cameron played the role of Peter Karanja, a doctor trying to reconcile his admiration for Western civilisation with his Kikuyu heritage. That same year Cameron played the Mau Mau general Jeroge in Safari.
  
  From the 1950s to the present day, Cameron has had major parts in many films, including: The Heart Within (1957), in which he played a character Victor Conway in a crime movie again set in the London docklands; and Sapphire (1959) in which he played Dr Robbins, the brother of a murdered girl; and The Message (1976) – the story of the Prophet Muhammad, where he played the King of Abyssinia.
  
  Other film appearances have included: Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), in which he played Tate; Flame in the Streets (1961), in which he played Gabriel Gomez; Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963), in which he played Mang; Guns at Batasi (1964), in which he played Captain Abraham; and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), in which he played Sergeant Seth Hawkins; A Warm December (1973), in which he acted with Sidney Poitier and played the part of an African ambassador to the UK.

  Cameron was strongly considered for the role of Quarrel in Dr. No (1962) by both director Terence Young and co-producer Albert R. Broccoli, whom he knew from his Warwick Films work; however, Harry Saltzman did not think him suitable for the role and cast American John Kitzmiller. They asked Cameron back to the James Bond series for Thunderball (1965), in which he played Bond's Caribbean assistant Pinder. Cameron also acted alongside Thunderball lead Sean Connery in Cuba, in which he played Colonel Levya.

  His most recent film appearances include a major role in The Interpreter (2005), playing the fictitious dictator Edmond Zuwanie. Cameron's performance was universally praised. The Baltimore Sun wrote: "Earl Cameron is magnificent as the slimy old fraud of a dictator..." and Rolling Stone described his appearance as "subtle and menacing". Philip French in The Observer referred to "that fine Caribbean actor Earl Cameron". In 2006 he appeared in a cameo as a portrait artist in the film The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears), alongside Helen Mirren. In 2010 he appeared as "Elderly Bald Man" in the film Inception. In 2013 he appeared as "Grandad" in the short film Up on the Roof.
  
  TV career
  Cameron has had roles in a wide range of TV shows but one of his earliest major roles was a starring part in the BBC 1960 TV drama The Dark Man, in which he played a West Indian cab driver in the UK. The show examined the reactions and prejudices he faced in his work. In 1956 he had a smaller part in another BBC drama exploring racism in the workplace, A Man From The Sun, in which he appeared as community leader Joseph Brent, the cast also featuring Errol John, Cy Grant, Colin Douglas and Nadia Cattouse.
  
  Cameron appeared in a range of popular television shows including series Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) alongside series star Patrick McGoohan. Cameron worked with McGoohan again in 1967 when he appeared in the TV series The Prisoner as the Haitian supervisor in the episode "The Schizoid Man".
  
  His other television work includes Emergency – Ward 10, The Zoo Gang, Crown Court (two different stories, each three episodes long, in 1973), Jackanory (a BBC children's series in which he read five of the Brer Rabbit stories in 1971), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who – The Tenth Planet (the first Black Actor to portray an astronaut on any film or TV series in the world), Neverwhere, Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, Babyfather, EastEnders (a small role as a Mr Lambert), Dalziel and Pascoe, and Lovejoy.
  
  He also appeared in a number of other one-off TV dramas, including: Television Playhouse (1957); A World Inside BBC (1962); ITV Play of the Week (two stories – The Gentle Assassin (1962) and I Can Walk Where I Like Can't I? (1964); the BBC's Wind Versus Polygamy (1968); ITV's A Fear of Strangers (1964), in which he played Ramsay, a black saxophonist and small-time criminal who is detained by the police on suspicion of murder and is also racially abused by a Chief Inspector Dyke (played by Stanley Baker); Festival: the Respectful Prostitute (1964); ITV Play of the Week – The Death of Bessie Smith (1965); Theatre 625: The Minister (1965); The Great Kandinsky (1994); and two episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre (Anything You Say 1969 and another in 1971). In 1996 he appeared on BBC2 as The Abbott in Neverwhere, an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman.
  
  Following the death of Olaf Pooley on 14 July 2015, Cameron became the oldest living actor to have appeared in Doctor Who, and on 8 August 2017 he became the third "Doctor Who" actor to reach the age of 100 (after Zohra Sehgal and Olaf Pooley).
  
  Personal life
  Since 1963[14] Cameron has been a practitioner of Baháʼí, joining the faith at the time of the first Baháʼí World Congress, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Baháʼí community held a reception in London in 2007 to honour his 90th birthday. He currently lives in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in England.[20] He is married to Barbara Cameron. His first wife, Audrey Cameron, died in 1994. He has six children.
  
  Cameron died on 3 July 2020, at the age of 102.[22]
  
  Honours

  • He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
  • The Earl Cameron Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda was named in his honour at a ceremony he attended there in December 2012.
  • The University of Warwick awarded Cameron an honorary doctorate in January 2013.

  
  Filmography
  1951 Pool of London - Johnny Lambert
  1951 There Is Another Sun - Ginger Jones
  1952 Emergency Call - George Robinson
  1955 Simba - Karanja
  1955 The Woman for Joe - Lemmie
  1955 Safari Jeroge (Njoroge)
  1956 Odongo Hassan -
  1957 The Heart Within - Victor Conway
  1957 The Mark of the Hawk - Prosecutor
  1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro
  1959 Sapphire - Dr. Robbins
  
  1960 Tarzan the Magnificent - Tate
  1961 No Kidding - Black father
  1961 Flame in the Streets - Gabriel Gomez
  1963 Tarzan's Three Challenges - Mang
  1964 Guns at Batasi - Captain Abraham
  1965 Thunderball - Pinder
  1966 The Sandwich Man - Bus Conductor
  1967 Battle Beneath the Earth - Sgt. Seth Hawkins
  1968 Two a Penny - Verger
  1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing - Jane's father
  
  1972 Six Days of Justice - Maynard
  1973 A Warm December -
  1976 Mohammad, Messenger of God - Najashi
  1979 Cuba - Col. Leyva
  
  2001 Revelation - Cardinal Chisamba
  2005 The Interpreter - Edmond Zuwanie
  2006 The Queen - Portrait Artist
  
  2010 Inception - Elderly Bald Man

  

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  1925: Robert Brownjohn is born--Newark, New Jersey.
  (He dies 1 August 1970 at age 44--London, England.)

  

  Robert Brownjohn
  American, 1925–1970

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.moma.org/artists/816?locale=en

  

  While best known for his title sequences for the James Bond films From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, Robert Brownjohn had a short but influential career, which integrated design, advertising, film, photography, and music. A major figure in the New York advertising and design scene of the late 1950s, he later moved to London, where he was at the epicenter of the burgeoning music, art, and fashion scene of London’s “swinging ’60s.”

  Born in New Jersey to British parents, Brownjohn later moved to Chicago, where during the mid-1940s he studied under former Bauhaus teacher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago Institute of Design. He quickly caught the attention of his teachers, who later brought him on as an instructor at the school. After moving to New York in 1951, he spent five years as a freelance designer for clients including George Nelson and Bob Cato. In 1956, he formed a partnership with Ivan Chermayeff, a designer and son of the modernist architect Serge Chermayeff (with designer Tom Geismar joining a year later). Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar quickly grew into one of the most innovative design and advertising firms in New York. Brownjohn’s many personal problems, caused primarily by the heroin addiction that later claimed his life, ultimately soured his New York relationships, precipitating his move to London in 1960.

  In London, Brownjohn rapidly established himself as a designer of note. While working for the firm McCann Erickson, he designed the opening credits for the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, his first foray into film. The following year he directed the film titles for Goldfinger. For both title sequences, he employed a surprising and attention-grabbing approach in which the credit texts and scenes from the films were projected onto scantily clad women, initiating the long-running Bond film tradition of elaborate title sequences featuring seductive women. Brownjohn’s treatment of type as dynamic, abstract forms in the title sequences illustrated both his mastery of graphic design and the enduring influence of Moholy-Nagy’s use of type and photography. His combination of sexually suggestive images and wry humor was a fitting accompaniment to the James Bond mythos. The broad acclaim he received for the Bond film titles led to more film and commercial work for clients ranging from Pirelli to Midland Bank to the Rolling Stones. Though he continued to produce original and challenging work, in the latter half of the 1960s, his life became increasingly unstable. He was moving from one partnership to another until he died in 1970, at the untimely age of 44.

  Introduction by Paul Galloway, Collection Specialist, Department of Architecture and Design, 2016

  
  Robert Brownjohn (1925–1970)
  Miscellaneous Crew | Actor | Art Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115226/
  Filmography

  Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)
  
  1969 Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell (titles)
  1967 The Night of the Generals (title sequence designer)
  1966 The Tortoise and the Hare (Short) (title designer)
  1966 Where the Spies Are (title designer)
  1964 Goldfinger (titles designed by)
  1963 From Russia with Love (titles designed by)
  
  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1969 Otley - Paul
  
  Art director (1 credit)
  
  1963 A... is for Apple (Short)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: The Moonraker comic strip ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 30 March 1959. 226-339 ) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
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  Swedish Semic Comic 1979
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3?s=comics&id=02181

  Moonraker
  (Moonraker)
  

  Swedish Semic Comic 1974
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

  Moonraker Betyder Döden
  (Moonraker)
  

  
  Danish 1975 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no31-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 31: “Moonraker” (1975)

  
  
  
  
  Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-7-1966/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 7: “Moonraker” (1966)
  "Moonraker - den dødbringende raket"
  [Moonraker - the deadly rocket]

  
  
  

  
  1977: Christopher Porterfield reviews The Spy Who Loved Me in Time magazine.

  

  Cinema: Giggles, Wiggles, Bubbles and Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,915224,00.html

  By Christopher Porterfield - Monday, Aug. 08, 1977

  THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
  Directed by LEWIS GILBERT Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER WOOD and RICHARD MAIBAUM
  
  Jottings found on the screening-room floor after a critics' viewing of the new James Bond film:
  
  They'll never top first stunt: skier hurtles off precipice. Long breathtaking plunge. Shucks off skis in midair, free-falls for a while, then opens parachute and floats earthward. Wow.
  
  Does anybody know this flick has nothing to do with 1962 novel of same name, since Ian Fleming nixed sale of anything but title to movies? Does anybody care? All that's left of Bond formula here is 007 character, sexy starlets and gee-whiz gadgets. (Question: What else did it ever consist of?)
  
  Plot seems snipped from previous installments. Bond tangles with female Russian spy: From Russia with Love. They team up against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this?)
  
  Amphibian Bondmobile. Series getting awfully ingrown. Sexual innuendo coarser. In London HQ, Bond reported to be on assignment in Austria, meaning he's doing you-know-what in front of fireplace in Alpine hideaway. Thunders M: "Tell him to pull out—immediately!" Only moment of real wit: amphibian Bondmobile drives into sea and becomes two-seater submarine; it veers to elude underwater pursuers, but only after flashing turn signal—for the wrong direction.
  
  New Bond girl, Barbara Bach. Very pretty, especially as seen in cushioned escape bubble. But dewy as a debutante ("Oh! James!"). Hard to believe her as dangerous spy. Where are the Honor Blackmans and Diana Riggs of yesteryear? Roger Moore, as Bond, a road-company Sean Connery. At least he's improvement on that instant-trivia question, George Lazenby.
  
  Good gadgets: wristwatch radio with tape printout of messages received. Hollow cigarette that blows knockout gas. Flying tea tray that decapitates human target.
  
  Best gadget of all is human one —seven-foot thug with preternatural strength and steel teeth, which he uses to snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched—trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed—Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back.
  
  (Nope. Never did top that first Stunt.)

  

  
  1984: Variety reports A View to a Kill filming will include the Musee Vivant Du Cheval in Chantilly, France (Zorin’s stud farm). Also in San Francisco: Fisherman’s Wharf, Potrero Hill, the China Basin Landing, the Civic Center, and City Hall.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the showdown between OO7 and Carver.
  
  2007: Ian Fleming Publications honors the passing of John Gardner.

  

  All at Ian Fleming Publications Limited were saddened
  and shocked to hear of the death of John Gardner
  on Friday 3rd August.
  
  John was a highly respected and admired member of the
  Bond family and he will be great missed.
  
  Our thoughts at this time are with his family.

  Ian Fleming Publications, 8 August

  

  
  2014: The Sun proposes Sam Smith is in talks to write and perform the title song for BOND 24, a film scheduled to be released October-November 2015. (Sam Smith denies it 13 August 2014. And again 3 July 2015, 6 July 2015, 28 July 2015, and as late as 3 September 2015.)

  

  Sam Smith: The Many, Many Times He Lied
  About Singing The New Bond Theme

  https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/sam-smith-the-many-many-times-he-lied-about-singing-the-new-bond-theme-764351
  Larry Bartleet | Sep 8, 2015 3:18 pm

  

  Did any of us see it coming? Er, not exactly. There have definitely been significant signposts since August 2014 that Sam Smith would be singing the theme for the latest James Bond film, Spectre, but his brilliant and kinda shameless lying skills have consistently made it difficult to trust what we’ve seen. Why? Well, because there were more mischievous misdirection devices in Smith’s year of flat-out denial than you’d expect from your average politician. He is singing the theme for Spectre, and it’s called ‘Writing’s On The Wall’. But for a long time we were all fooled, in the face of information from ultimately trustworthy ‘insider sources’ and the like. This is how…

  

  August 8, 2014: The Sun publishes an article claiming Smith is in negotiations with MGM movie bosses to record the new Bond theme. We are curious; we have no reason to disbelieve. It is the start of a tumultuous, nerve-frazzling, 13-month journey.
  
  August 13, 2014: NME is naturally very happy to be able to exclusively break the news that this is false. We ask Smith if he’s singing the new Bond theme, and he tells us, as if what he’s saying is true or something: “No, I have no idea what that was about and I know as much as you do. You probably know more than me; I didn’t even read the article. I think it’s something everyone would love to do, but yeah, it was all news to me. I won’t say any more on it.”
  
  November 4, 2014: The New York Post reveals a secret weapon: an insider source! An insider source that cattily reveals to everyone that Lana Del Rey “had lobbied hard” for the opportunity, but lost out to Smith, who had met with Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and been labelled a “clear winner”. So, it is on?
  
  December 4, 2014: We begin to think Smith might have been lying to us when the betting odds indicate he’ll be singing the theme. But odds are lowest not just for Smith, but also for Adele and Rihanna (all are 4/1), so we’re still not really sure.
  
  June 9, 2015: Speculation is reignited, fuelled by gossip sites. But who believes gossip sites, man?
  
  July 3, 2015: Smith continues to parrot his ‘not me’ line, here to Capital FM: “People seem to think I’m doing it but I have no idea what’s going on. I’m being deadly serious. I think I would know by now.” But then he says something else, something a little bit worse. “I heard Ellie Goulding was going to do it. It’s definitely not me.” Ellie Goulding, he says, like a tattletale. And we still kind of believe him.
  
  July 3, 2015: Later that day, The Mirror reports that Ellie’s management have said it is a “wind up” and that there’s no truth to the claims. It’s a pretty humourless move, considering they could have had some fun with it.
  
  July 6, 2015: Just three days later, Smith denies it again on Absolute Radio. “It’s the funniest thing just to sit back and watch everyone confirming something I know nothing about,” he says. “I’ve heard loads of rumours. I would have loved to have done it. But definitely not.” So… who is doing it, then? He looks away, shamefaced. “I’ve no idea.” He pauses. “Ellie Goulding?” And then his lip quivers slightly – just slightly – with the merest hint of mirth. You can see the moment below. We should have known. We should have known!

  

  July 28, 2015: Ellie Goulding appears either to be in on the joke or to have been woefully misinterpreted, when she posts this Instagram photo at London’s Abbey Road – where Adele recorded ‘Skyfall’. We’re convinced that Smith was telling the truth – that Goulding is in fact singing the theme – and if this is her going along with the ruse, good on her. Good work. If she’s just recorded something else there, well, we don’t really care so much about that.

  

  September 3, 2015: Five days ago. Just five days before he makes the announcement, and he’s still lying, still on camera, and to Jo Whiley of all people. How do you lie to Jo Whiley? There’s something inhuman about that.
  
  If we’ve learned one thing from all this, it’s that Sam Smith is not to be trusted. If you encounter a Sam Smith in your local area, your best chance of survival is to run or hide, and tell the police. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

  
  2017: Blanche Lindo Blackwell dies at age 95--London, England.
  (Born 9 December 1912--San José, Costa Rica.)

  
  Jamaica

  Blanche Blackwell obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/blanche-blackwell-obituary
  Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian
  Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy
  Galore
  Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT

  

  Blanche Blackwell and Ian Fleming.
  Photograph: Taken from the biography of Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett

  Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.

  Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.

  Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).
  
  Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”

  Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.
  
  In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.
  
  By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.
  
  Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”
  
  When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.
  
  Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”
  
  She is survived by her son.
  • Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017
  
  This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.

  See also

  
  Blanche Blackwell, mistress and muse of
  James Bond's creator
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/blanche-blackwell-mistress-and-muse-of-james-bonds-creator-a7893731.html
  Descended from a wealthy Jamaican family, she also enchanted Errol Flynn and inspired Noel Coward
  Matt Schudel | Tuesday 15 August 2017 11:27

  

  Vivacious and outdoorsy, Blackwell said she had lived a ‘marvelous life’

  
  2020: Matt Sherman's Playing Games With James Bond is independently published.

  https://literary007.com/2020/10/05/playing-games-with-james-bond-and-matt-sherman/
  
  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/playing-games-with-james-bond-by-matt-sherman/
  

  
  
  
  

  
  2021: The Golden Gate Park Band plays Video Game Music plus Music from Stage & Screen at the Golden Gate Park Shell, San Francisco.

  

  

  Video Game Music plus Music from Stage & Screen

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://goldengateparkband.org/calendar/?mc_id=6

  Calendar
  Video Game Music plus Music from Stage & Screen
  August 8, 2021 1:00 pm – 2:45 pm
  Golden Gate Park Bandshell
  San Francisco, CA

  Program will be selected from the following:
  El Caballero---Joseph Olivadoti
  Beguine for Band--Glenn Osser
  Minecraft---Daniel Rosenfeld/arr Ralph Ford
  Spirited Away---Joe Hisaishi & Yumi Kimura/arr Kazuhiro Morita
  Video Games Live--Part I---Marty O'Donnell/arr Ralph Ford
  Waltz no 2 and March from Jazz Suite---Dmitri Shostakovich/arr Johan De Meij
  Lincoln--John Williams/arr Jay Bocook
  Bond...James Bond---arr Stephen Bulla
  Symphonic Dances from Fiddler on the Roof---Jerry Bock/arr Ira Hearshen

  Donations to the GGPB fund are tax-deductible.
  
  The GGP Band is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Recreation & Park Department of San Francisco.

  
  
  

  
  2024: International Cat Day.

  2022
  

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1292128442343809025

  
  
  2018
  https://www.facebook.com/JamesBond007/videos/international-cat-day/2205076872840545/
  

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 8 Posts: 13,803

  September 9th
  
  1924: Ian Fleming shoots his first stag at Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland.

  
  

  
  1935: Topol is born--Tel Aviv, Palestine.
  1935: Nadim Joakim Sawalha is born--Madaba, Jordan.
  
  1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  

  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

  

  Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
  Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell
  

  Thursday 9 September, 1943
  
  Last Friday, mainland Italy was invaded by the Eighth Army. There
  was great suppressed excitement and whisperings in the office. I.
  was speaking on the BBC German Naval Programme. His voice is
  excellent – firm, vigorous and dignified. I was pleased with the
  performance and told him so later when he came to dinner. I. was
  exhausted with the week’s excitements. He was satisfied but not the
  least bit exuberant.

  
  1951: Steven Jay Ruben is born--Chicago, Illinois.
  1959: Éric Serra is born--Paris, France.
  
  1961: Neal Purvis is born--United Kingdom.
  
  1961: James Bond comic strip From A View A Kill ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 26 June 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

  Dödligt Uppdrag
  ("Fatal Commission" - From A View To A Kill)
  

  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 43: “From a View to a Kill” (1978)
  "Dødelig opgave" [= Deadly Assignment]

  
  
  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 13: “From a View to a Kill” (1968)
  Dødelig mission [Deadly Mission]
  

  1966: James Bond comic The Man with the Golden Gun ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 10 January 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3?s=comics&id=01820

  Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
  (The Man With The Golden Gun)
  

  
  Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 40: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1)
  + “The Living Daylights” (1977)
  "Hjernevasket" [Brainwashed] + "Spionen fra Øst"
  
  
  

  
  Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
  "Manden med den gyldne pistol"
  

  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
  "Manden med den gyldne pistol"
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1979: Moonraker released in Spain.

  
  
  

  
  1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez terminating Krest in the decompression chamber.
  
  2011: Public announcements reveal the Turkish Culture Minister grants permission to film in Istanbul.
  2012: Ruth Kempf dies at age 97--Opelousas, Louisiana.
  (Born 9 March 1915.)

  

  Ruth Kempf

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447448/

  Ruth Kempf was born on March 9, 1915 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Live and Let Die (1973) and J.D.'s Revenge (1976). She died on September 9, 2012 in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA.

  Born: March 9, 1915 in USA
  Died: September 9, 2012 (age 97) in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
  
  Filmography

  Actress (2 credits)
  
  1976 J.D.'s Revenge - Woman Passenger
  1973 Live and Let Die - Mrs. Bell
  

  
  
  

  
  2019: No Time To Die cast photographed in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Variety reports on Halle Berry and a Jinx spinoff.

  

  James Bond: Halle Berry Says Failed Jinx
  Spinoff Was "Ahead of Its Time"

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://comicbook.com/movies/news/james-bond-halle-berry-jinx-spinoff/

  By Aaron Perine - September 9, 2020
  
  Halle Berry says that the failed James Bond Jinx spinoff was way ahead of its time in a new interview. Filmgoers of a certain age will remember her character from Die Another Day. She was immediately one of the reasons to go see the film in theaters. In a new conversation with Variety, Berry says that the movie's producers had big plans in mind for Jinx. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were pushing for a spinoff and all that came with that. But, in the end, MGM wasn't feeling like paying the $80 million to get the Jinx movie rolling. It would be hard to argue with Berry now that this would have been a smart move. She was one of the most recognizable stars of the era and a massive draw. From here in the future, signing her up for her own spinoff series sounds like a no-brainer. But things were different back in 2002.

  "It was very disappointing," Berry explained. "It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren't sure of its value. That's where we were then."

  Filming Die Another Day proved to be enough excitement for the actress. Berry visited The Tonight Show earlier this year and told Jimmy Fallon that her co-star actually ended up saving her life.

  "I was doing a scene with Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, and I was supposed to be all sexy and, like, trying to seduce him with a fig, and then I end up choking on it. He had to get up and do the Heimlich," she recalled. "So not sexy, so not sexy…You should've seen it. James Bond knows how to Heimlich. He was there for me, and he will always be one of my favorite people in the whole world."

  Would you have been first in line to see a Jinx spinoff? Let us know in the comments!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Safin promotes mask keyrings and magnets.

  https://twitter.com/i/status/1303724857272578049

  
  
  

  2021: CarBuzz reports on James Bond's Vintage Land Rover from John Brown 4x4.

  

  James Bond's Vintage Land Rover Is
  For Sale

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://carbuzz.com/news/james-bonds-vintage-land-rover-is-for-sale

  Sep 5, 2021 | by Sebastian Cenizo | Movies & TV
  This custom beauty will fetch a pretty penny.
  
  Time and time again, the latest James Bond film, titled No Time To Die, has been delayed. The producers are aiming to maximize returns with full cinemas, something that the pandemic has made nearly impossible. But there is a silver lining to this. With the numerous teaser trailers, we've seen more and more of the cars that will be featured in the film, which have only served to whet our appetites even further.
  
  These include the Aston Martin Valhalla before its recent redesign and a new Land Rover Defender that we got to drive. But you may have also noticed an old Landy finished in a light blue, and now a Land Rover specialist has recreated that exact car, and is putting it up for sale.

  
  John Brown 4x4

  It's unsurprisingly named the Bond Edition Land Rover and will be offered as part of Sotheby's luxury auction 'Life Is Beautiful'. It hasn't been listed just yet, but we do have the details on this limited-edition Series 3. It's been rebuilt by the specialists at John Brown 4x4 and features some modern upgrades "for easier handling and a smooth drive." But it still retains the vintage elements that make these old Land Rovers so beloved.
  
  The special edition includes overdrive for better top speed and fuel efficiency, a galvanized chassis for better longevity, and other aesthetic enhancements like "flared wheel arches, new cappings, vintage plates, and Defender mirrors."
  
  As you can tell from the fact that we've been referring to this build as a limited edition and not a one-off, there are other examples out there. John Brown 4x4 has been producing the Bond edition cars "in very limited numbers since the first clips of No Time To Die aired."
  
  If you're interested in getting your hands on this example, the auction is accessible online or at Sotheby's (coincidentally named) Bond Street address on September 9. It is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £25,000, or roughly between $27,600 and $34,500. We think that's a pretty reasonable price for a silver screen star.
  
  Source Credits: Sotheby's

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 9 Posts: 13,803

  August 10th
  
  1918: Martin Benson is born--London, England.
  (He dies 28 February 2010 at age 91--Markyate, Hetfordshire, England.)

  

  Martin Benson obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/06/martin-benson-obituary

  Often cast as villains, he appeared in Goldfinger and The King and I
  Gavin Gaughan
  Thu 6 May 2010 13.49 EDT

  
  Martin Benson in the 1985 TV wartime drama Arch of Triumph Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

  The actor Martin Benson, who has died aged 91, occupied a screen category filled in its time by Herbert Lom, with whom he acted on several occasions, and previously Conrad Veidt – that of the worldly, sophisticated, foreign villain. With jet-black hair, dark colouring and pronounced eyebrows on a thin face, he never seemed properly dressed without a tuxedo. As well as remaining furiously busy during six decades as an actor, he pursued several artistic disciplines.
  
  Born into a Jewish family in London, he seemed briefly destined to become a pharmacist. As a gunner in the army during the second world war, he organised entertainment for the troops, and produced a tour of Gaslight in aid of a fund to replace HMS Dorsetshire. By 1944, he had been promoted to captain and was posted to Alexandria, Egypt, where he built a theatre from scratch, assisted by his sergeant-major, another aspiring actor – Arthur Lowe.
  
  Among Benson's earliest screen roles was an unbilled part for Alfred Hitchcock in Under Capricorn (1949). The King and I had its British stage premiere at Drury Lane in October 1953, with Lom as the King, and Benson as his court chancellor, Kralahome. Benson played the part again opposite Yul Brynner in the Hollywood film version in 1956. He also played the King himself in February 1955, when Lom was ill. Benson later asserted that "despite the reputation which Yul Brynner continues to enjoy, the more intelligent as well as intelligible performance came from Herbert Lom, notwithstanding a good deal less swagger".
  
  Back in Britain and in modestly budgeted monochrome thrillers, he was on characteristic form in Soho Incident (1956) as a "big boss" running crooked boxing and horse-racing schemes. Venturing into television, Benson was among a repertory company of actors in the half-hour anthology Douglas Fairbanks Presents (1953-57), aimed at US television, shown in Britain as cinema shorts and as schedule-fillers in ITV's early days. Benson also worked on the scripts, where as many foreign settings were included as possible. Another rep company member was Christopher Lee, who called it a valuable training ground. He and Benson made up a comic double act for one segment, The Death of Michael Turbin (1953), as slow-witted east Europeans.
  
  He was a regular, as the villainous Duke de Medici, in Sword of Freedom (1957-58). In 1958 and 1959, he played a barrister in the unscripted courtroom series The Verdict Is Yours and, in On Trial (1960), which recreated celebrated cases, Micheal MacLiammoir played Oscar Wilde, with Benson as his prosecutor, Edward Carson.

  After a role in Cleopatra (1963), he was an American gangster coerced into taking a doomed car ride with the henchman Oddjob, in Goldfinger (1964). He was among a houseful of suspects in Peter Sellers's second outing as Clouseau, A Shot in the Dark (1964).

  From 1960 to 1985, Martin Benson Films, based in Radlett in Hertfordshire, made more then 100 educational and training films, which Benson directed, wrote and occasionally narrated. Some were for Save the Children.
  
  For Lew Grade's ITC series, the logical successors to the Fairbanks shows, he variously played corrupt South American ministers, Algerian majors, ruthless Turkish policemen and cigar-smoking gamblers. Submerged under green makeup, Benson played the Vogon Captain, an excruciatingly bad poet, in Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981).
  
  Benson began painting in his stage dressing room, and in 1993 he staged an exhibition of his Shakespearean paintings at the Shakespeare Globe Centre, the subjects including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Alec Guinness.
  
  His later credits included Alan Parker's adaptation of Angela's Ashes (1999) and a 2005 episode of Casualty.
  
  His wife Joy, son and three daughters, two stepdaughters and one stepson survive him.
  
  • Martin Benson, actor, born 10 August 1918; died 28 February 2010

  
  Martin Benson
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Benson_(actor)
  
  Filmography

  Suspected Person (1942) as minor role (uncredited)[citation needed]
  The Blind Goddess (1948) as Count Stephan Mikla
  But Not in Vain (1948) as Mark Meyer
  Trapped by the Terror (1949) as Prison Governor[citation needed]
  Under Capricorn (1949) as Man Carrying Shrunken Head (uncredited)[citation needed]
  The Adventures of PC 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel (1949) as Skinny Ellis
  
  I'll Get You for This (1951) as Frankie Sperazza
  Assassin for Hire (1951) as Catesby
  Night Without Stars (1951) as White Cap
  The Dark Light (1951) as Luigi
  Hotel Sahara (1951) as Minor Role (uncredited)[citation needed]
  Mystery Junction (1951) as Steve Harding
  Judgment Deferred (1952) as Pierre Desportes
  The Frightened Man (1952) as Alec Stone
  Wide Boy (1952) as Rocco
  Ivanhoe (1952) as Minor Role (uncredited)[citation needed]
  The Gambler and the Lady (1952) as Tony - Pat's Dance Partner
  Top of the Form (1953) as Cliquot
  Wheel of Fate (1953) as Riscoe
  Recoil (1953) as Farnborough
  Always a Bride (1953) as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)[citation needed]
  Black 13 (1953) as Bruno
  Escape by Night (1953) as Guillio
  You Know What Sailors Are (1954) as Agrarian Officer (uncredited)[citation needed]
  West of Zanzibar (1954) as Dhofar
  Knave of Hearts (1954) as Art (uncredited)[citation needed]
  Passage Home (1955) as Gutierres
  Doctor at Sea (1955) as Head Waiter (uncredited)[citation needed]
  Soho Incident (aka Spin a Dark Web) (1956) as Rico Francesi
  23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) as Pillings
  The King and I (1956) as Kralahome
  Istanbul (1957) as Mr. Darius
  Doctor at Large (1957) as Maharajah of Rhanda
  Interpol (1957) as Captain Varolli
  The Flesh Is Weak (1957) as Angelo Giani
  Man from Tangier (1957) as Voss
  Windom's Way (1957) as Samcar, Rebel Commander (uncredited)[citation needed]
  The Strange World of Planet X (1958) as Smith
  Sea of Sand (1958) as German Half-track Officer (uncredited)[citation needed]
  The Two-Headed Spy (1958) as Gen. Wagner
  Make Mine a Million (1959) as Chairman
  Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) as Ali
  
  Once More, with Feeling! (1960) as Luigi Bardini
  Oscar Wilde (1960) as George Alexander
  Sands of the Desert (1960) as Selim
  The Gentle Trap (1960) as Ricky Barnes[citation needed]
  The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) as Flimnap
  Exodus (1960) as Mordekai
  Gorgo (1961) as Dorkin
  Five Golden Hours (1961) as Enrico
  A Matter of WHO (1961) as Rahman
  The Silent Invasion (1962) as Borge
  Satan Never Sleeps (1962) as Kuznietsky
  Village of Daughters (1962) as 1st Pickpocket
  Captain Clegg (1962) as Mr. Rash (innkeeper)
  I tre nemic (1962) as Prof. Otto Kreutz[citation needed]
  The Fur Collar (1962) as Martin Benson
  Cleopatra (1963) as Ramos
  Mozambique (1964) as Da Silva
  The Secret Door (1964) as Edmundo Vara
  A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Maurice
  Behold a Pale Horse (1964) as Priest
  Goldfinger (1964) as Mr. Solo
  The Secret of My Success (1965) as Rex Mansard
  A Man Could Get Killed (1966) as Politanu
  The Magnificent Two (1967) as President Diaz
  Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) as Gen. Chan Lu
  
  Pope Joan (1972) as Lothair
  Tiffany Jones (1973) as Petcek
  The Omen (1976) as Father Spiletto
  Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) as Abu-Jahal
  Al-risâlah (1976) as Kisra[citation needed]
  Jesus of Nazareth (1977, TV mini-series) as Pharisee
  Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) as Dr. Ivanov
  The Human Factor (1979) as Boris
  The Sea Wolves (1980) as Mr. Montero
  Sphinx (1981) as Muhammed
  Young Toscanini (1988) as Comparsa (uncredited)[citation needed]
  
  The Camomile Lawn (1992) as Pauli Erstweiler
  Angela's Ashes (1999) as Christian brother

  
  
  

  
  1928: Jimmy Dean is born--Plainview, Texas.
  (He dies 13 June 2010 at age 81--Varina, Virginia.)

  

  Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jimmy-dean-20100615-story.html

  By Dennis McLellan
  | Los Angeles Times | Jun 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

  
  Jimmy Dean helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s. (CBS TV)

  When the Country Music Assn. announced in February that Jimmy Dean would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, Dean joked, "I thought I was already in there."
  
  "Seriously, it brought a huge grin to my face," he said in a news release. "I am honored."
  
  Dean already had been inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
  
  That's not to mention his 2009 induction into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame.
  
  Indeed, Dean, who died Sunday evening at his home in Henrico County, Va., at age 81, may be better known by some today as "the sausage king" of TV commercial fame than a hit-making country music star and one-time TV show host who helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s.
  
  The Texas-born entertainer and businessman, who began his recording career in the 1950s, scored a No. 1 hit on both the country and pop singles charts in 1961 with his spoken-narrative song about a coal miner — "a giant of a man" — who saves fellow workers from "a would-be grave" after their mine collapses.
  
  "Big Bad John," which Dean said he wrote in an hour and a half on a flight from New York to Tennessee, earned a Grammy Award for best country and western recording.
  
  The 1960s were the down-home entertainer's heyday.
  
  He went on to record hits including "Dear Ivan," "Little Black Book," "P.T. 109" (inspired by the Naval vessel commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II) and "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)."
  
  From 1963 to '66, he hosted "The Jimmy Dean Show," an hourlong TV musical variety show that ran on ABC and featured singers including Roger Miller, George Jones and Buck Owens. The show also regularly featured Dean's humorous banter with a "dog" named Rowlf, the first of Jim Henson's Muppets to attract national attention.

  Along with headlining in Las Vegas and performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the London Palladium, Dean played fur trapper Josh Clements on Fess Parker's "Daniel Boone" series in the late '60s and had the supporting role of a reclusive billionaire in the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."

  He launched the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in the late '60s, after previously buying a hog farm in his native Texas.
  
  "Everything was fine and dandy until hog prices dropped out," he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2004. "One morning I was having breakfast at a little old diner in Plainview — sausages and eggs — and reached up and plucked a [large] piece of gristle out of my teeth."
  
  It was then, he said, that he became determined to produce a quality sausage.
  
  "It was not something I just put my name on," he said. "It was my money and my sausage and my work — and those commercials that they think are so funny."
  
  After selling his meat company to what later became known as the Sara Lee Corp. in 1984, he remained as chairman of the board and TV spokesman. After he was dropped as spokesman in 2003, Dean reportedly stopped eating the products that bear his name and changed his license plates that read SSG KING.
  
  Dean was born Aug. 10, 1928, in Olton, Texas, and grew up in Plainview. He and his brother Don were raised on a farm by their mother after their father left when Dean was still a child. They were so poor, he once said, he wore shirts that his mother made out of sugar sacks.
  
  Poverty, Dean told the Times-Dispatch, "was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
  
  He began singing early on, and his mother taught him to play his first chord on the piano when he was 10. He later taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and accordion.
  
  Dropping out of high school at 16, he joined the Merchant Marines and later served in the Air Force. While stationed at a base in Washington, D.C., Dean and three other airmen formed a country music quartet that played local honkytonks.
  
  After his discharge in 1948, Dean formed the Texas Wildcats. He began developing a following with a show on an Arlington, Va., radio station and had his first country top 10 hit, "Bumming Around," in 1953.
  
  Dean and the Texas Wildcats moved to local television in 1955, and from 1957 to 1959 he hosted the first version of "The Jimmy Dean Show," a half-hour daily variety series on CBS.
  
  Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story, a 2004 autobiography, was co-written with his second wife, Donna Meade Dean, a singer and songwriter he married in 1991.
  
  In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children from his first marriage, Garry Dean, Connie Dean Taylor and Robert Dean; and two granddaughters.
  
  [email protected]

  

  Jimmy Dean (I) (1928–2010)

  Soundtrack | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212818/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  

  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Diamonds Are Forever comic strip begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 30 January 1960. 340-487) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic 1972
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

  Diamantfeber
  (Diamond Fever - Diamonds Are Forever)
  

  
  Swedish Semic 1988
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3?s=comics&id=02331

  Diamantfeber
  (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 1) (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 2)
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Danish 1967 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no9-1967/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 9: “Diamonds are Forever” (1967)
  "Død og diamanter" [Death and diamonds]
  
  
  

  
  1962: Life prints Tim Green's article “Bon Vivant and the Scourge of Smersh: The Master of Agent 007.”

  
  

  1963: Sean Connery finishes all From Russia With Love filming, ending in Rhoda’s truck.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/895676125904478210

  1966: Stars and Stripes reports on You Only Live Twice filming.

  

  '007' takes Japanese village by storm

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.stripes.com/news/007-takes-japanese-village-by-storm-1.20205

  by Al Ricketts • • August 10, 1966

  
  Sean Connery with actresses Mie Hama, left, and Akiko Wakabayashi at a press conference
  during the filming of the James Bond movie, ''You Only Live Twice,'' in July, 1966.
  (Hideyuki Mihashi/Stars and Stripes)

  The tiny fishing village of Akime, on the southernmost tip of Japan, will never be the same.
  
  James Bond and company have descended upon it via helicopters, buses and air-conditioned cars. They have a mobile snack bar (sandwiches, lime juice, tea and water) and a built-in-a-bus restroom on the set at all times.
  
  And when superstar Sean Connery, sans trench coat, tricky attache case and made up to look like a Japanese fisherman, strides unsmilingly toward the camera, he is besieged by a battalion of Japanese photographers.
  
  The film, loosely based on Ian Fleming's Japan-laid You Only Live Twice, is creating more controversy among the Japanese press than any flick ever filmed in the land of cherry blossoms and automatic bows.
  
  Although Tetsuro Tanba (as detective Tiger Tanaka), Mie Hama (as Kissy Suzuki) and Akiko Wakabayashi (filling a write-in role as a sort of female Bond counterpart) all have received their share of attention, it's the rugged Connery--the biggest boxoffice attraction in the world today--who has caused the most excitement.
  
  The Japanese press--en masse--has submitted formal complaints to publicity people and co-producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli because they don't feel they are getting enough photographs or personal interviews with the star.
  
  Although the straw hat sales and the amount of beer peddled across the counter in Akime's only hotel have skyrocketed, the villagers are only mildly impressed.
  
  Fishing nets them several million yen a year and on weekends they always attract at least 300 fishermen and swimmers a day.
  
  But there's one thing they all have in common. Just say "007" to any Japanese in the vicinity and he's bound to break into a great big grin of acknowledgment.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Agent 007 – Strengt fortroligt (Agent 007 - Strictly Confidential) released in Denmark.

  "Agent 007 - strictly confidential" or "Agent 007: Strict Confidence"
  
  
  
  
  

  1982: Octopussy first unit filming begins at the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie. As watched closely by Stasi.

  

  How Communist spies tracked James
  Bond in real life: East Germany's
  feared Stasi were poised to arrest
  Roger Moore on set of Octopussy for
  crossing into East Berlin at Checkpoint
  Charlie, files reveal
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9730769/How-Communist-spies-tracked-James-Bond-set-Octopussy-crossing-East-Berlin.html

  • East Germany's secret police were spying on Roger Moore on set of Octopussy
  • A Stasi report states that James Bond film crew 'violated' border of Berlin Wall
  • In scene filmed at Checkpoint Charlie, 007s car crossed the line while turning

  By Clare Mccarthy For Mailonline | Published: 27 June 2021
  
  East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, were poised to arrest Roger Moore on set of James Bond movie, Octopussy, uncovered files have revealed.
  
  The documents, published yesterday in German newspaper, Bild, revealed that the Stasi were closely tracking the movements of James Bond film crew while filming in Berlin on August 10, 1982.
  
  A Stasi report stated that the crew had 'violated' the border of the Berlin Wall by about '4 to 5 metres' while they shot a scene at Checkpoint Charlie, the most famous of the seven border crossings into East Berlin.

  
  East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, were poised to arrest Roger Moore
  (pictured at Checkpoint Charlie) while filming James Bond movie, Octopussy,
  in Berlin in 1982

  In the classic movie scene, Roger Moore, as 007, was ­chauffeured in a dark Mercedes 200 to Checkpoint Charlie to meet 'M', the head of British intelligence, played by Robert Brown.
  
  The same scene was reshot a number of times at the request of Octopussy director John Glen, with the Mercedes driving up to the East-West German border during each take before turning around.
  
  However, the crew did not realise that while turning, the car was crossing into East Germany.
  
  It is now known that the feared and brutal intelligence and secret police agency who ran the communist state of East Germany were tracking the car's every movement.
  
  The documents, published yesterday, revealed that the Stasi were closely tracking the movements of James Bond film crew while filming in Berlin and noted the incident in detail

  The Stasi officers' report said: 'When turning, the vehicle violated the state border four times by about 4 to 5 metres.

  'Report on filming of a 'James Bond' movie, in the western apron of the border crossing point Friedrich/Zimmerstrasse on August 10, 1982, between 7:30am and 1:33 pm.

  '12 vehicles appeared in the western apron of the border crossing point... most of them parked in the parking lot behind the house Zimmerstrasse 19 a.'

  The Stasi was the official secret police agency of the former East Germany which was established in 1950 and had up to 100,000 employees by 1989 but was disbanded when Germany reunified in 1990.
  
  One of the Stasi's main tasks was spying on the population, primarily through a vast network of citizens turned informants, who spied on and denounced colleagues, friends, neighbours, and even family members.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1987: The Living Daylights released in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
  1989: Lizenz zum Töten released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2003: The Washington Post proposes literary Bond can "Live or Let Die".

  

  Live or Let Die? A Midlife Crisis for the James Bond Novels

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  By Bob Bryant August 10, 2003
  
  -- For seven years, Raymond Benson was James Bond's boss. Benson planned the secret missions, scoped out the death traps, plumbed the dark hearts of 007's enemies from 1996 through 2002.
  
  Bond went where Benson willed, did as Benson wished, took lives or spared them as Benson saw fit. Such is the power of a James Bond novelist.
  
  Benson, who lives in the Chicago suburbs, was only the fourth man -- and the first American -- to write a series of Bond novels since Britain's Ian Fleming created the character. "It was terrifying and exciting, all at the same time," Benson, 47, says of his six original Bonds and three movie novelizations. "It was a roller coaster."
  
  But as Bond celebrates his 50th year in literature -- half a century since Fleming published "Casino Royale" in the spring of 1953 -- the 007 series is at a small crossroads.
  
  Benson has left the series to write his own novels, and no new Bond novelist has been named. After five decades and 35 original Bond books (not counting movie novelizations) that have sold nearly 100 million copies in all, where do the Bond books go from here?
  
  Whoever writes the Bond novels "is going to be in the hot seat," Benson said in a telephone interview. "Whoever is in this spot is going to be under a microscope."
  
  One reason for that is the passion of Bond fans, many of whom have built sharply opinionated Internet sites about 007. Another is the small number of people in the Bond Novelists Club.
  
  Fleming wrote 14 "Bonds" before he died in 1964 at age 56. There was a one-shot 1968 Bond novel by Kingsley Amis. It was more than a decade after that when Fleming's heirs authorized another British novelist, John Gardner, to write a new Bond series, and Gardner did 14 novels. Then came Benson and six more original Bonds.
  
  Benson said he had no idea who might be in line to be the next Bond novelist or in what direction the books might go. The novelists typically have set the books in the present day, whenever that might be -- the '60s through the '90s -- but Benson's wish is that the novels "stay in the Cold War. I'd like to see Bond frozen in time."
  
  It's unlikely the literary series can again explode as it did in the 1960s, when Fleming paperbacks, fueled by the Bond movies' success, sprouted bold covers on every drugstore rack. And no one should expect that, says Los Angeles writer-producer John Cork, co-author of "James Bond: The Legacy," a coffee-table book published last year.
  
  Fleming -- ex-reporter, ex-British Naval Intelligence officer, world traveler, unabashed womanizer -- started it all with a slim, grim novel called "Casino Royale."
  
  No spectacular action scenes here -- it's about one spy trying to bankrupt another at the gambling tables. Fleming wrote the book in about six weeks at his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, then casually offered "this miserable piece of work . . . this dreadful oafish opus" to a novelist friend with publishing connections. It sold.
  
  Fleming kept going back, year after year, to his main character, James Bond, 007, licensed to kill in the name of Her Majesty the Queen.
  
  Bond was Fleming's "dream self," a Fleming biographer said. Bond shared Fleming's tastes, smoked Fleming's cigarettes (70 a day for both agent and author).
  
  The Bond movies always kept Fleming's titles -- those titles were gold. But ever since Fleming's heirs resurrected the Bond novels in 1981, the books and the films have run on separate tracks. None of the 20 "modern" Bond novels by Benson or Gardner has been made into a film; all of Fleming's were.
  
  Partly because of that, none of the new novels has enjoyed a fraction of the fame Fleming's work has.
  
  Gardner's first Bond novel, restarting the series in 1981, updated the politics by abolishing the Double-O branch of the Secret Service -- the spies licensed to kill -- except for Bond, who stayed on as a global "troubleshooter."
  
  Gardner gave up the series in 1996.
  
  "His early novels were on the New York Times bestseller list," said Bryan Krofchok, who runs a Bond site on the Internet (www.bondian.com) and teaches computer science at Sacramento (Calif.) City College. "[But] the general public's interest in new Bond novels seems to have petered out midway through Gardner's series, at least here in the United States."
  
  Gardner, already an established novelist when he took the Bond job, remembers his time as "the most difficult years of my professional life."
  
  In an e-mail interview from his home in Hampshire, England, the author, now 76, said it was a struggle to find the right style while trying to satisfy the Fleming heirs and to quell the "strange hostility and mistrust" of Bond fans. "My consistent nightmare," Gardner said, "is that I shall be remembered only as the author who took James Bond through the '80s and into the '90s. Yet I am proud of my work on the Bonds and believe that the books did the job."
  
  Benson's Bond books, starting in 1997, brought a faster pace and a more fallible 007.
  
  "Sometimes I wonder why I bother," a beat-up Bond muses in "High Time to Kill" (1999). "In the old days, the enemy was clear cut. Communism was a worldwide threat. . . . Today it's different. I feel as if I've become a glorified policeman. There must be a better way to die."
  
  Benson, who got the Bond job after writing a book called "The James Bond Bedside Companion" in the 1980s, said he never pictured his 007 as one of the movie Bonds but instead as "a shadowy, non-specific guy."
  
  Benson said he would look at a map of the world and ask, "What locales would Britain have an interest in?" That might lead to a story. Then he would submit a detailed outline to Glidrose Publications, which holds the Bond copyrights: "I never had one rejected."
  
  Then Benson would travel to the locations on Bond's itinerary -- "Walk in Bond's footsteps." (Fleming did the same, laden with small notebooks.) Benson's travel phase might take one to four weeks. The actual writing might take four to five months, Benson said. Then editing by the publishers and the Fleming interests. Bond essentially was a full-time job, he said.
  
  And the reaction from readers? The hard-core Bond fans, the Internet fans, were the loudest voices Benson heard. "They either loved me or hated me," he said. "It was a challenge dealing with the fans. They're so opinionated."
  
  Bond fans such as Krofchok acknowledge that the series is serving "a niche market" of longtime 007 fans -- and at the same time facing competition from mainstream thrillers. "There are now many other authors writing 'Bondian'-style novels -- but without James Bond," Krofchok said. (Who is Tom Clancy's hero, Jack Ryan, but an American Bond?)
  
  The new Bond books also are competing with the very similar, but very different, new Bond movies, Cork noted. One solution, he said, could be along the lines of Benson's suggestion -- to permanently put the literary Bond in a Cold War setting.
  
  The books' future seems wide open. There's no announced heir to the Fleming throne -- Fleming's family has announced no successor to Benson. Representatives of Ian Fleming Publications couldn't be reached for comment. Cork said his impression was that in this 50th-anniversary year, they preferred to put the focus back on Fleming's novels, which are being reissued as trade paperbacks with 1950s-style pulp-art covers.
  
  Gardner, who has written more Bond books than any other living man, thinks the bell has tolled for the Bond novels. Don't "play games" with Cold War flashbacks, he said -- the new novels "should end now."
  
  And if the literary Bond heads into more happy decades of martinis, girls and guns? In that case, Gardner said, "I pray that they find a Brit who is a professional novelist with a track record."
  
  "The sad thing today," he said, "is that people talking of Bond usually talk of the films and not the books. And the films, alas, seem to have gone down the road to Dumbville."
  
  American Raymond Benson is the latest official James Bond novelist, but after six books with 007, he's giving up the job. Ian Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, "Casino Royale," in 1953. Kingsley Amis, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, took up the Bond series for one novel.

  2004: MI6 reports that Dark Horizons proposes longtime stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director Vic Armstrong is a candidate to direct BOND 21.

  

  Vic Armstrong
  rumoured as James
  Bond 21 director

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=1592

  10-Aug-2004 • Casino Royale
  

  
  
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  2006: Daniel Craig comments to Entertainment Weekly on expectations for the Bond role.

  

  Daniel Craig says James Bond fans
  'don't think I'm right for the role'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/daniel-craig-says-james-bond-fans-dont-think-im-right-for-the-role/73-344468547

  NEW YORK (AP) - Daniel Craig, the new James Bond, wants critics to give him a chance.
  Author: Jeffrey Wolf | Published: 8/10/2006
  
  "If I went onto the Internet and started looking at what some people were saying about me -- which, sadly, I have done -- it would drive me insane," the British actor says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly magazine, on newsstands Friday. "They hate me. They don't think I'm right for the role. It's as simple as that. They're passionate about it, which I understand, but I do wish they'd reserve judgment." A group of James Bond fans have launched a Web site, www.craignotbond.com, to protest Craig replacing Pierce Brosnan in the 007 film franchise, and to boycott "Casino Royale," slated for release Nov. 17. The fair-haired Craig, whose screen credits include roles in "Munich" and "Layer Cake," was tapped last October to play the secret-agent icon. While filming "Casino Royale," the 38-year-old actor was uneasy about uttering those famous words, "The name is Bond, James Bond."

  "People kept asking, `Have you done the line yet?"' Craig tells the magazine. "But honestly, I didn't rehearse it at all. I didn't practice it in the mirror every morning or anything like that. I didn't want to even think about saying it because I didn't want it to be this weight around my neck. I just wanted to get on with it and not blow it." Craig decided to take Bond in a new direction. "I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past; then threw all that away once I started doing the role," Craig says. "There's no point in making this movie unless it's different. It'd be a waste of time unless we took Bond to a place he'd never been before."

  

  
  2012: Five new posters advertise Skyfall.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: A cable suspending the Arecibo space telescope in Puerto Rico breaks. (Another follows November this year.)

  

  Arecibo space telescope where James Bond film
  GoldenEye and Jodie Foster movie Contact filmed
  to close down over collapse fears

  • The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico is one of the largest in the world
  • Two cables supporting the 900-tonne structure are broken

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3110623/brink-collapse-famed-arecibo-space-telescope-close-down

  Published: 10:17am, 20 Nov, 2020

  
  Engineers are concerned other cables could also break at any time,
  making any attempt at repair excessively dangerous. Photo: Reuters

  The US National Science Foundation on Thursday announced it will close down the massive space telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries after suffering two destructive mishaps in recent months.

  Operations at the observatory, one of the largest in the world, were halted in August when one of its supportive cables slipped loose from its socket, falling and gashing a 30-metre hole in its 305-metre-wide reflector dish.
  
  Another cable then broke earlier this month, tearing a new hole in the dish and damaging nearby cables as engineers scrambled to devise a plan to preserve the crippled structure.
  
  “NSF has concluded that this recent damage to the 305-metre telescope cannot be addressed without risking the lives and safety of work crews and staff,” Sean Jones, assistant director of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at NSF, said on Thursday.
  
  “NSF has decided to begin the process of planning for a controlled decommissioning of the 305-meter telescope,” Jones said.
  
  Engineers have not yet determined the cause of the initial cable’s failure, a NSF spokesperson said.
  
  The telescope was built in the 1960s with money from the Defence Department amid a push to develop anti-ballistic missile defences. Over decades, it endured hurricanes, endless humidity and a recent string of strong earthquakes.

  
  Two cables broke on August 10 and November 6. Photo: AFP

  The observatory’s vast reflector dish and a 900-tonne structure hanging 137 metres above it, nestled in the humid forests of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has featured in the Jodie Foster film Contact and the James Bond movie GoldenEye.
  
  It had been used by scientists and astronomers around the world for decades to analyse distant planets, find potentially hazardous asteroids and hunt for signatures of extraterrestrial life.
  
  The telescope was instrumental in detecting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 1999, which laid the groundwork for Nasa to send a robotic probe there to collect and eventually return its first asteroid dirt sample some two decades later.
  
  An engineering firm hired by the University of Central Florida, which manages the observatory for NSF under a five-year US$20 million agreement, concluded in a report to the university last week “that if an additional main cable fails, a catastrophic collapse of the entire structure will soon follow.”
  
  Citing safety concerns, the firm ruled out efforts to repair the observatory and recommended a controlled demolition.

  
  A large gash to the radio telescope's reflector dish. Photo: AP

  The announcement saddened many beyond the scientific world as well, with the hashtag #WhatAreciboMeansToMe popping up on Twitter along with pictures of people working, visiting and even getting married or celebrating a birthday at the telescope.
  
  Alex Wolszczan, a Polish-born astronomer and professor at Pennsylvania State University who helped discover the first extrasolar and pulsar planets, said that while the news wasn’t surprising, it was disappointing. He worked at the telescope in the 1980s and early 1990s.

  “I was hoping against hope that they would come up with some kind of solution to keep it open,” he said. “For a person who has had a lot of his scientific life associated with that telescope, this is a rather interesting and sadly emotional moment.”

  Additional reporting by Associated Press
  

  

  2020: Halle Berry is photographed in an orange bikini and separately recalls the Heimlich maneuver.

  

  Halle Berry sizzles in beach bikini
  photo, gives off James Bond vibes
  Berry famously played Bond girl Jinx Johnson in 'Die Another Day'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/halle-berry-sizzles-beach-bikini-photo-james-bond

  By Julius Young | Fox News
  
  Halle Berry never wastes a moment to shine for social media.
  
  The former Bond girl -- who famously played Jinx Johnson, James Bond’s American muse in the 2002 film installment “Die Another Day" -- channeled her innermost spy when she donned a similar swimsuit to the one she wore in the iconic film.
  
  “Never been a shady beach. 😂,” the 53-year old actress captioned an Instagram photo on Sunday in which she matches Jinx’s orange bikini – the only articles missing are the knife and the white accent belt it hangs from. She also tagged the clothing brand, boohoo.

  The memorable scene from the film showed Jinx, also a spy, as she emerges from the waters in Cuba where she discovers Bond, played by Pierce Brosnan, sipping a mojito.
  
  The mother of two's svelte physique in her latest beach flex is hardly distinguished from the fit stature showcased in 2002. Berry even added a little extra sizzle in her Instagram picture while letting her luscious locks flow underneath a beige straw sunhat from Hat Attack pulled lower over her eyes for dramatic effect.

  
  Halle Berry in 'Die Another Day.' (Eon Productions, MGM, 20th Century Fox)

  The Oscar-winner also places her hand on her hat, likely to keep it from flying off her head.
  
  In April, the “Monster’s Ball” standout revealed that Brosnan, 67, had actually saved her life while the two were filming “Die Another Day” when Berry began choking.

  
  Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)

  “I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig,” Berry quipped to late-night host Jimmy Fallon of her Bond girl character. “I end up choking on it and he had to get up and do the Heimlich.”

  "That was so not sexy,” added Berry. “James Bond knows how to Heimlich! He was there for me, he will always be one of my favorite people in the whole world.”

  
  
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  August 11th
  
  1948: Harold Sakata wins the silver medal in the light-heavyweight division of the weightlifting competition at the Summer Olympic Games, London, England.

  
  1948 Summer Olympic awards for light-heavyweight weightlifting competition:
  Harold Sakata of the USA (silver), Stanley Stanczyk of the USA (gold) and Gosta Magnusson of Sweden (bronze).
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming's letter to Ivar Bryce on seeking a screenwriter also declares...
  "Richard Burton would be by far the best James Bond!"

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 6 - Looking for a Writer

  So McClory took it upon himself to hire a screenwriter, satisfied that
  Fleming, while an established and experienced novelist, would be quite unable
  to produce a satisfactory film script. The man he chose was Paul Dehn whose
  first screenplay, Seven Days to Noon, back in 1950, had earned him an Oscar.
  At first Dehn was interested and met with Fleming, but that enthusiasm
  ultimately dissipated and he turned the assignment down, much to Fleming's
  disappointment as he expressed in a letter to Bryce dated 11 August: "Alas,
  Dehn can't take the job on for two excellent reasons. Firstly, he wrote a film
  script called something like "Seven Hours to Midnight' (Fleming almost got it
  right), in which London was held up by an atomic bomb. And, secondly, he
  says that he is really only interested in the development of character in
  murderers, etc, and this bang, bang, kiss, kiss stuff is not for him. On the other
  hand, he greatly like the treatment and thinks it will be a terrific success." Just
  five years later Dehn, with Richard Maibaum, would write arguably the greatest
  Bond script of all - Goldfinger.

  Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

  Earlier, during Fleming's meetings with Paul Dehn, the subject of who to
  cast as Bond had arisen. In his letter of 11 August to Bryce, Fleming
  announce, "Both Dehn and I think that Richard Burton would be by far the
  best James Bond!" It's a fascinating suggestion, and possibly the first
  recorded statement by Fleming about who should play his hero. Years later
  Fleming would champion David Niven as Bond, a very traditional English
  actor and a million miles away from the wild Celtic image and brooding
  manner of Burton. But what a Bond pre-Celopatra/pre-Elizabeth Taylor
  Burton would have been!
  
  Interestingly at this time the makers of the proposed American TV
  version of From Russia With Love had already cast James Mason as Bond.
  "So if the worst comes to the worst, we might have to settle for him,"
  Fleming wrote Bruce, sounding not entirely won over by the idea. But he
  must have later warned to it as Christopher Lee, who was Fleming's cousin,
  informed this author that Fleming told him that Mason was his preferred
  choice as Bond.

  
  1964: After dining with friends at a hotel in Canterbury, Ian Fleming suffers a heart attack.

  

  A gentleman’s game: Like his Bond
  character, writer Ian Fleming had a love
  affair with golf

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://golf.com/news/features/james-bond-writer-ian-fleming-love-affair-golf/

  By: Chris Nashawaty | June 3, 2020

  Ian Fleming at his home office.
  
  The author of the Bond novels had a love for the links as well, and golf played a major role in some of his books.

  The James Bond franchise’s newest addition, No Time To Die, was scheduled for release in April but was pushed to November due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  Fleming never came out and said that he was the model for James Bond, but he never exactly denied it either. The British author, who first introduced the dangerously debonair secret agent in his 1953 novel Casino Royale, had worked in naval intelligence during World War II. And while he’d mostly been stationed behind a desk, in his off-hours he played cards, drank and swapped stories with the real-life cloak-and-dagger spies who would provide the globe-trotting exploits of his best-selling 007 novels.
  
  Like his fictional, licensed-to-kill creation, Fleming had a hedonist’s sweet tooth for fast cars and even faster women. But they also shared another passion — golf. Both Fleming and his alter ego had dog-eared copies of Tommy Armour’s How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time and Ben Hogan’s The Modern Fundamentals of Golf on his bookshelf. The two characters also shared a flat swing, a weak grip and a nine handicap — traits that are laid out in Fleming’s 1959 novel Goldfinger, which five years later would be turned into the third and best of all the Bond films thanks to its climactic golf match with the bullion-hoarding gold magnate (and flagrant golf cheat), Auric Goldfinger.

  
  In 1964’s Goldfinger, Bond memorably one-upped the baddie.
  Entertainment Pictures/Zuma Press

  When it came to the sport, Fleming certainly knew what he was writing about. His first brush with the game came while attending prep school in Dorset. And shortly after his father — a well-to-do member of Parliament — died on the Western Front in World War I, he would spend his weekend afternoons with his grandmother at Huntercombe Golf Club, not far from Henley-on-Thames, where they would drive in her Rolls-Royce to play 18. She was a low handicapper with the decidedly eccentric habit of tipping her caddies with toothbrushes instead of cash.
  
  In the years following World War II, Fleming would regularly play the courses at Gleneagles and Cooden in Sussex. But in 1948, while still in his pre-Bond bachelor years, when he was working as a journalist at the London Times, Fleming became a member at Royal St. George’s, in Sandwich, Kent. After dictating the last of his newspaper columns for the week, he’d hop in his black Ford Thunderbird convertible with a set of American clubs in the backseat and drive to his weekend house in Sandwich, which was once owned by his close friend, playwright Noel Coward. But Fleming’s interest in golf was hardly for relaxation.
  
  Although his swing off the tee wasn’t easy on the eyes, what Fleming lacked in grace and form he made up for in enthusiasm. Like one of his most famous fans, John F. Kennedy — another golfer playboy who often had a 007 novel on his White House nightstand and who would name From Russia With Love one of his 10 favorite novels — Fleming enjoyed the clubby male companionship of the game, often wagering 50 pounds per match. Said Albert Whiting, then the head pro at St. George’s, “He was a great one to gamble on his games. He used to squeeze the last stroke out of his handicap. He made matches tough — the game would be deadly serious after the handicaps and bets had been fixed. He hated to lose. Everybody had to play like hell.”

  
  On August 11, 1964, [Fleming] had his last lunch at his beloved Royal St. George’s,
  where he’d by then become the club’s captain-elect.

  Established in 1887, the 7,204-yard sweep of wild duneland at Royal St. George’s was once named “the greatest seaside golf course in the world” by the Financial Times. The private club has hosted the Open Championship 14 times — most recently in 2011. And it’s there that Fleming set one of the greatest fictional golf matches of all time.
  
  In the 1964 film, Sean Connery’s Bond (driving a gadget-festooned Aston Martin DB5 instead of a black Thunderbird) squares off with Gert Frobe’s nefarious Goldfinger at a golf club called “St. Mark’s.” Although filmed at Stoke Park, just a stone’s throw from the 007 set at Pinewood Studios, the course in the movie is, for all intents and purposes, a thinly veiled version of Royal St. George’s. The club pro in the film is named Albert Blacking (instead of Albert Whiting, the St. George’s pro). And Bond’s caddie, his wily coconspirator against Goldfinger’s cheating, is named Hawker after the club’s most sought-after bag carrier at the time, Alf Hawkes.
  
  Fleming was a strict believer in golf’s gentleman’s code and the rules of the game. Which is what makes Goldfinger’s under-handed tendency to improve an awful lie or substitute a lost ball with the assistance of his hulking, bowler-hatted man servant Oddjob all the more galling to Bond. It was an outward symbol of his immoral villainy. The wager may be a bar of Nazi gold valued at 5,000 pounds, but for 007 there is more at stake in his match with Goldfinger than just money. It’s about honor — a battle between right and wrong, the values of the West triumphing over the corruption of SMERSH and the wickedness that lay on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Outwitting Goldfinger by switching his Slazenger 1 with a Slazenger 7 (Bond plays a Penfold Hearts) is the ultimate Cold War comeuppance.
  
  In the film version of Goldfinger, the entire golf sequence is over and done with in a brisk nine minutes of screen time. But in Fleming’s novel, the match stretches out for 37 white- knuckle-tense pages, which also happens to be some of the best hole-by-hole golf writing ever to come pouring out of a typewriter — the “brassie lies,” the “spoon,” the “blaster” and “old hickory Calamity Jane” in Bond’s bag.
  
  And also some of the most colorful…

  
  On the set of Goldfinger, Fleming and producer Harry Saltzman had a swinging time with Connery.

  Goldfinger had made an attempt to look smart at golf and that is the only way of dressing that is incongruous on a links. Everything matched in a blaze of rust-coloured tweed from the buttoned “golfer’s cap” centred on the huge, flaming red hair to the brilliantly polished, almost orange shoes. The plus-four suit was too well cut and the plus-fours themselves had been pressed down the sides. The stockings were of a matching heather mixture and had green garter tabs. It was as if Goldfinger had gone to his tailor and said, “Dress me for golf — you know, like they wear in Scotland.”

  To readers who actually knew and had played Royal St. George’s, the book’s level of detail would have been strikingly familiar. The layout of each hole syncs up seamlessly with the layout of Fleming’s home course, something that would later become apparent to Connery when he finally played St. George’s years after the film was released.
  
  Although Connery certainly looked the part of a respectable golfer in the film — the jaunty, straw porkpie hat, the natty V-neck sweater and the smooth, fluid backswing — he was anything but at the time that Goldfinger was shot. Although he’d grown up in Scotland, the son of a factory worker was not a golfer. That would come later. Connery had been given lessons before the cameras rolled. “I never had a hankering to play golf,” he later said. “It wasn’t until I was taught enough golf to look as though I could outwit the accomplished Gert Frobe in Goldfinger that I got the bug.”
  
  Fleming’s love affair with the game would continue until his premature death. Like the 007 of the novels, he smoked up to 80 custom-made Morland cigarettes a day. And a golf course is where he first felt the icy threat of an adversary more lethal than any of the iconic villains that 007 ever faced. During a golf getaway with his old Eton schoolmates at Rye, Fleming was taken ill with heart palpitations. Soon after, on August 11, 1964, he had his last lunch at his beloved Royal St. George’s, where he’d by then become the club’s captain-elect. In the early hours of the morning after, Fleming said goodbye — to Bond and to the game both of them adored.

  http://jamesbondmemes.blogspot.com/2017/09/improve-your-golf-with-ian-fleming.html

  

  
  1976: The Hollywood Reporter reports the withdrawal of McClory's injunction against The Spy Who Loved Me.
  1978: Principal photography kicks off for Moonraker at Château Vaux-Le-Vicomte in France.

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  1986: People magazine showcases Pierce Brosnan as "The Spy Who's Loved Too Much".

  

  The Spy Who's Loved Too Much

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-spy-whos-loved-too-much-vol-26-no-6/

  Laura Sanderson Healy and Mary Ann Norbom - August 11, 1986 12:00 PM

  “It was,” says Pierce Brosnan, “too much like a job.” Admittedly a good job, with more than good pay. In a series that made an obscure Irish actor into an American TV star. With a role that painted him debonair and slightly devilish. And an image that made him the perfect, obvious, only choice to become the next Bond, James Bond. Although Brosnan had prospered as the roguish title character on NBC’s detective series Remington Steele, “I had just had enough,” he says. In fact, “I’d had enough after two years, but I’d signed a seven-year contract.” Brosnan was relieved—”really relieved”—when Remington Steele was cancelled last May.

  But wait. Put the emphasis on the past tense: was cancelled, was relieved. For just when it seemed that Brosnan, 35, had snagged one of the most sought-after and profitable roles in movie history, he now finds himself once again tied to Remington Steele, and he is not pleased.

  For most of the last two months, Brosnan thought he had fulfilled an ambition of long standing, to replace Roger Moore as 007. He had settled in London. Thinking he had closed a chapter of his career, he had taken to occasionally trashing Remington Steele and the high life in L.A. He had all but signed for The Living Daylights, the $40 million Bond film originally scheduled to begin shooting this month. Then, ironically, the prospect of Brosnan as Bond revived NBC’s interest in its show. The network saw a promotional windfall in beaming the man who would be Bond into America’s living rooms—particularly so after more than 1000 furious fans phoned and wrote NBC protesting the cancellation. This summer, Remington has greatly improved its ratings during reruns. In the halls of NBC, programming chief Brandon Tartikoff joked about his booboo, “Anybody can cancel a show in 59th place. It takes real guts to cancel one in ninth place.” Consequently, just last month, three days before options on the Remington cast expired, NBC made it official: The show was renewed for six episodes as a midseason replacement.
  
  Since then, the legendary producer and protector of the James Bond film properties, Cubby Broccoli, has been making like Dr. No. Although he had been negotiating a three-picture deal with Brosnan, Broccoli didn’t want his 007 tainted by television. “He’s not going to have another company riding on our publicity,” says a Broccoli aide. To accommodate the movie’s schedule, MTM, the production company responsible for Steele, even suggested shooting the season’s first episode in Europe. “Obviously it would be to our benefit to have Pierce playing Bond, and we’re not giving up on the idea,” says Steele executive producer Michael Gleason. “Anything we can do, we are more than willing to do.” But Broccoli has remained decidedly cool to stopgap measures. The net result for Brosnan is a career catch-22: Because Remington was cancelled, Brosnan could do Bond. But because he might be Bond, Remington was uncancelled. And because Remington was uncancelled, Brosnan may not be able to be 007. The choice for Brosnan seems clear: Bond or bondage.
  
  The network’s decision has started a worldwide scramble for another Bond, while shooting on The Living Daylights has been postponed to late September. The producers talked to 60 aspirants in one recent week alone. Earlier Mel Gibson and Bryan Brown were considered but not screen-tested. Australian model Finlay Light was tested and so was Sam (Kane & Abel) Neill, who was a front runner at last check. But the players change constantly. After Broccoli saw The Taming of the Shrew in London, new rumors surfaced last week that actor Timothy Dalton was the first choice. If you are a handsome, breathing male with a British accent, you are a candidate.

  Brosnan has not talked publicly about his dilemma since Remington’s revival created it. But he was positively voluble when last interviewed in London, basking in the afterglow of what he considered a pro forma screen test for Bond—and in the midst of filming a kind of warm-up for the part, Frederick Forsyth’s thriller The Fourth Protocol, in which Brosnan plays a KGB bad guy. Had Steele been renewed, he said, “I would have risen to the occasion, but I would have gone back to work reluctantly, just gritting my teeth…. Under the circumstances [of the Bond offer], if it had gone a fifth [season], I would have been pissed off…. No risks were being taken. I wanted the show to get a little more hard-edged, but they wanted to keep it like it was.” He was particularly distressed by Moonlighting, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Remington. In fact that show was created by Glenn Gordon Caron, a former Remington writer. “Moonlighting [is] a direct steal which has just done it in a different, much fresher way,” Brosnan said. “At least they take risks.” Co-star Stephanie Zimbalist apparently agrees. “Now those people are doing at Moonlighting exactly what we’re supposed to be doing at Remington Steele.”
  
  Brosnan’s trouble on Remington apparently involved more than creative differences: Almost from the start, stories of discord between Brosnan and Zimbalist were common. Although the series was conceived primarily as a vehicle for her, he got more mail and publicity. To create the character, Brosnan said, “I’d look at old Cary Grant movies, steal a little bit from him and mix in my own personality. In some respects, it was a cross between John Cleese, Cary Grant and James Bond.” Zimbalist was clearly dissatisfied with the show’s shifting focus. “I have to do something,” she told one interviewer in 1983, “or when this show goes off the air, all anybody is going to remember is that Pierce Brosnan starred in it.” If her relations with Brosnan were occasionally frosty, they were positively frigid with his wife, actress Cassandra Harris, who reportedly saw Steele as a stepping-stone to superstardom for her husband.
  
  In a show that relies on character chemistry, there was little combustion. As Brosnan put it, they “were never progressing in the relationship…. There was all this kind of cat and mouse, old movie rubbish…. The people who were behind it were never courageous enough to say, ‘Well, let’s just throw it up in the air, what we can do next, how we can keep it alive.’ ” On that he and Zimbalist were agreed, and the producers’ notable idea for invigorating the show—having them get married—infuriated both of them. During production earlier this year, Zimbalist said: “If they decide to marry Remington and Laura, they can find themselves someone else to play Laura. That is not the character I signed to play.” And, of course, in the season’s last episode, Laura and Steele were married. Brosnan recalls, “There was a lot of tension about that.” Exec producer Gleason observes: “Pierce and Stephanie are both quite vocal when it comes to their characters.” Although weddings are usually Nielsen bonanzas, the union did nothing for Remington ratings.
  
  For Brosnan, television was no longer the most becoming medium. “You learn bad habits as an actor [on TV]. As the season goes on, you take short cuts, fatigue sets in. Then your confidence goes.” With it goes some measure of esteem. “The word ‘star’ doesn’t mean an awful lot to me. ‘Good actor’ and having the respect of one’s peers means more. You don’t really get much of that doing a show like Remington Steele.”
  
  By the end of last season, Brosnan wanted to leave Los Angeles as well as the show. Despite the comforts of a home in the hills, “I was becoming so Hollywood. All it became was money—get as much as you possibly can. I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous, terribly fake.” So he particularly liked the prospect of shooting back-to-back features in London: “It’s extremely civilized working here.”

  Brosnan has long considered playing Bond a career goal, but only recently has he pursued that prospect with passion. In fact, when he was first mentioned as a candidate he was reticent. “I said, ‘Why do I want to do it? It’s become an institution.’ ” But the idea kept coming back. Roger Moore told a newspaper that Pierce was his hand-picked successor. The mushrooming attention made Brosnan reconsider. So, no doubt, did the lack of attention given Brosnan’s feature Nomads, a quick fizzle released last March. Finally, he said, “I thought, if I don’t do Bond and some other guy gets it and I’ve been such a strong contender, I’m going to be really pissed off.”
  
  Brosnan had begun to feel almost as if fate had assigned him the role. Bond, he said, was “part of my upbringing.” Among the first films he saw when he moved from Ireland to England in the early ’60s were Bond flicks. “For an Irish boy, age of 11, really green, very naive, sheltered Catholic upbringing, it was just mindblowing.” Some 20 years later, he would meet the maker of those movies face-to-face. It was 1981, and Brosnan’s miniseries, The Manions of America, was set to premiere in America. He and wife Cassie had had to borrow $3,500 to pay for their trip to L.A., but soon he was cast as Remington Steele (after Anthony Andrews turned down the role). Cassie, it so happened, was playing one of Bond’s girls in the 1981 flick For Your Eyes Only—and they were invited to dinner at Broccoli’s estate. “I remember turning to Cassie that night in this old Rent-a-Wreck car, and I was joking the whole way home saying, ‘My name’s Bond, James Bond.’ I said, ‘This is it, darling, there’s no looking back now’—little knowing that five years on, one would be stepping into the role. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one’s life.”

  So there are. A few weeks ago, Brosnan returned to L.A., and there, barring strikes or other acts of a merciful God, he will begin shooting Remington Steele next October.

  

  1989: Licença Para Matar released in Portugal.

  
  

  
  1999: A federal appeals court for MGM Inc. v. 007 Safety Products Inc. finds the manufacturer of a pepper spray violated use of the “007” trademark.

  2021: Made in China.

  
  
  
  

  
  2010: 24/7 reviews a book proposing writer Roald Dahl was a real-life James Bond.

  

  Roald Dahl was real-life James Bond: Book

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.emirates247.com/roald-dahl-was-real-life-james-bond-book-2010-08-11-1.277710

  Children's author Dahl was a dashing, bed-hopping spy, according to a new book (FILE)
  By Staff - Published Wednesday, August 11, 2010
  
  He may be best-known as the author of chaste children's books, but Roald Dahl was a secret service agent with a "whole stable" of women and a license to kill, in the manner of fictional spy James Bond, according to an explosive new book.
  
  The British author slept with countless high society women while gathering intelligence in the US in the 1940s, says Donald Sturcock in his new book "Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl".
  
  Dahl's life as a young, handsome and dashing RAF officer in the early 1940s is recreated in the book through interviews with many associates and lovers, reported the UK's The Telegraph newspaper.
  
  Antoinette Haskell, a wealthy friend of Dahl's who looked up to him as a brother even thought he was "drop dead gorgeous", said the Charlie And The Chocolate Factory author was a relentless womaniser. "He was very arrogant with his women, but he got away with it. The uniform didn't hurt one bit and he was an ace pilot. I think he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that had more than USD 50,000 a year," Haskell is quoted as saying in the book.
  
  Dahl had fought as a fighter pilot earlier in the war, until injuries grounded him. He then worked for a secret service network based in the United States called British Security Coordination (BSC).
  
  It was during this time that he worked with such other well known agents as Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and David Ogilvy.
  
  It is not known exactly how Dahl was recruited as a British agent, but it is thought he was working loosely for BSC by the first four months of 1944 when, officially, he had a public relations role at the British Embassy in Washington DC.
  
  Yet Dahl's secretive role too ended soon as it went against the grain because he was a terrible gossip who frequently betrayed confidence, according to his family and friends.
  
  Dahl, who died in 1990 aged 74, remains one of the world's bestselling fiction authors, with sales estimated at 100 million and counting.

  

  
  2020: Funko Pop! releases figures of Bond, Safin, Nomi, and Paloma.

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  2020: The GoldenEye 25 project redirects to non-007 content.

  

  After years of development, the
  GoldenEye 25 fan remake just
  got lawyered
  No time to die.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-11-after-years-of-development-the-goldeneye-25-fan-remake-just-got-lawyered

  News by Tom Phillips, News Editor | 11 August 2020
  
  Back in 2018, we reported on one fan's ambitious project to remake the entire N64 GoldenEye 007 campaign in Unreal Engine 4. The aim was to release a polished version of the ancient single-player mode in time for the game's 25th anniversary in 2022.
  
  It seemed like a lot of work but, a year later, GoldenEye 25 creator Ben Colcough seemed to be making good progress. Now, two years in, the project should have been halfway to the finish line.
  
  Step up 2020. Last night, the game's Twitter account posted to say it had been "kindly asked by the IP holder (MGM/Danjaq) to cease development of GoldenEye 25.
  
  "This was always in the back of our heads as a possibility but we've tried our best to keep going. Of course we will comply and want to thank you for your ongoing support.
  
  "We cannot do a Bond game but we can still do a great game with all the beloved aspects of our favourite 90's action shooter. If you are still interested in following us, please come over to @projectianus where we will share development of our new game.
  
  "This account will be deleted by Friday at the latest."
  
  So, GoldenEye 25 is dead, but the project lives on. Writing on the new Project Ianus account, Colcough confirmed development will continue on this "original game" without using the names or likenesses of James Bond characters.
  
  On the upside, stripping the game of its Bond references means the project can now release on Steam, as well as potentially on consoles.
  
  We'll keep a golden eye on any future updates - and while it lasts, here's a look at the project in action from a year ago:
  
  

  https://twitter.com/spies_game/status/1293024792866689025

  
  
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  August 12th
  
  1959: Fleming expresses doubts for McClory in a letter to Bryce.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 6 - Looking for a Writer

  It seemed like the question of McClory's shortcomings stayed with Fleming
  as the following day he had lunch with Laurence Evans and asked his opinion on
  the matter. Evans didn't mince his words. Of course he thought McClory had
  talent and potential, but his first stab at movies with The Boy and the Bridge had
  not really come off, if the first batch of negative reviews were to be believed.
  Fleming wrote to Bryce on 12 August about Evans' misgivings: "What he is
  alarmed about is that, while we may all want big stars to feature in the Bond film,
  he thinks it very possible that people of the calibre we have been discussing may
  not wish to be produced and directed by a young man with only one film to his
  name and a film that has not found favour with the critics. He advises more or
  less on the lines of what I suggested my last letter - that Kevin should be
  number 2 to a bigger man; say Asquith or Hitchcock for instance."
  
  McClory later believed this letter showed, "the first seeds of distrust being
  planted in Bryce's mind by Fleming suggesting that I might not necessarily
  have teh experience and should take second place to someone else." This was
  in direct contradiction to a Fleming letter of just four months previous when
  he'd told McClory, "There is no one who I would prefer to produce James
  Bond for the screen."

  
  1964: Ian Lancaster Fleming dies at age 56--Canterbury, Kent, England.
  (Born 28 May 1908--Mayfair, London, England.)

  

  Ian Fleming Dead; Created James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/13/archives/ian-fleming-dead-created-james-bond.html[/center]

  AUG. 13, 1964

  LONDON, Aug. 12 — Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service, died early today in a hospital at Canterbury after suffering a heart attack. He was 56 years old.
  
  Mr. Fleming was stricken last night at his hotel in Sandwich, where he was spending a golfing vacation with his wife, Anne Geraldine Fleming, and their son, Caspar, who became 12 years old today.
  
  The novelist suffered a coronary thrombosis three years ago. It forced him to curtail his activities and reduce his daily quota of gold‐tipped cigarettes, which Bond also smoked incessantly, from 60 to 20.
  
  In little more than a decade James Bond became the world's best known secret agent.
  
  Countless readers avidly followed his undercover war against .Soviet master spies and terrorists and later against a mysterious international crime syndicate.
  
  Mr. Fleming equipped his hero with an impeccable social background, good looks, bravery, toughness and a disillusional sort of patriotism.
  
  More important, the double‐O identification number, carried by only three men in the British Secret Service, authorized him to kill in the line of duty. It was a privilege Bond exercised frequently and sometimes reluctantly, most often with a .25‐caliber Beretta automatic that he carried in a chamois shoulder holster.
  
  President Kennedy and Allen Dulles, while he was the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, said that they enjoyed Mr. Fleming's books. In fact, it was probably the President's praise in 1961 that was largely responsible for their enormous popularity here. In Britain, Prince Philip led the cheering section.
  
  Mr. Fleming wrote 12 books, all but two about Bond, and was working on the 13th when he died. All told, they sold more than 18 million copies, mostly in paperback editions, and were translated into 10 languages.
  
  Two highly profitable films. “Doctor No” and “From Russia With Love,” were made from his novels, a third, “Goldfinger,” was recently completed and is awaiting release and others are planned.
  
  Mr. Fleming had made $2.8 million from his books, according to his agent, Peter Janson Smith. In March, in a complex transaction for tax purposes, he sold a 51 per cent interest in his future income to a British holding company for $280,000.
  
  Critics differed on the merits of his works. Some said he was an aristocratic Mickey Spillane, pandering to the public's taste for sadism and sex. A critic in London's New Statesman called “Doctor No,” which tells of how Bond destroys a missile‐sabotage center in the Caribbean, “the nastiest book” he had ever read.
  
  “There are three basic ingredients in ‘Doctor No,‘” he said, “all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a schoolboy bully, the mechanical, two‐dimensional sex‐longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude snob‐cravings of a suburban adult.
  
  “Mr. Fleming has no literary skill. But the three ingredients are manufactured and blended with deliberate, professional precision.”
  
  On the other hand, the contemporary novelist Kingsley Amis, in a 40,000‐word study, described Bond as tender rather than sadistic, classless rather than snobbish and a moderate Tory rather than a Fascist.
  
  On the whole, American critics did not take Mr. Fleming quite so seriously, regarding his books as thrillers that had tended to become less thrilling in recent years.
  
  Mr. Fleming said he thought of them as entertainment of no special significance. He attributed their popularity to a hunger for larger‐than‐life heroes that was left unsatisfied by most contemporary fiction.
  
  At the same time Bond's adventures slaked a public thirst for information about espionage that had been whetted by such events as the trial of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the Burgess‐McLean case, the U‐2 incident and the growing awareness of the work of the C.I.A.
  
  The first of the novels, “Casino Royale,” published in London without fanfare in 1953, described Bond's destruction of Le Chiffre, the head of the French branch of Smersh, the Soviet espionage and terror ring, Bond's nearly fatal torture and his discovery that the woman he had fallen in love with was a Soviet agent.
  
  Mr. Fleming later said he wrote the book because he needed to keep his mind off his impending marriage, marking the end of his bachelor days.
  
  “Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, he said, “‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.”
  
  Other novels followed rapidly. In “Goldfinger” Bond foils a plot to rob Fort Knox; in “Moonraker” he prevents the firing of a missile into the heart of London; in “Live and Let Die” he destroys Smersh's chief agent in the United States, a Negro dabbler in voodoo and racketeering known as Mr. Big.
  
  In “From Russia With Love,” Bond escapes from Smersh's plot to destroy him but appears to be dying of poison as the book ends. Concern over his fate mounted among the public. His publishers finally stated, “After a period of anxiety the condition of No. 007 shows definite improvement.”
  
  Mr. Fleming liked to point out that Smersh, although often thought to be a fictional organization, existed as a Soviet counterespionage organization during and after World War II Its name is the combined form of the Russian words “smyert spionam,” meaning death to spies.
  
  When Smersh was disbanded, Mr. Fleming set up SPECTRE, as Bond's opponent. It was unquestionably fictional, the word being formed from the initials of Special Executive for Counter‐intelligence Terror, Revenge and Extortion.
  
  Under the leadership of Ernest Stavro Blofeld, whose career began as a double or triple agent in prewar Warsaw, SPECTRE has enlisted the services of former Gestapo agents, disenchanted Smersh operatives, members of the Mafia, the Red Lightning Tong and other Master criminals.
  
  In “Thunderball” Bond balks the organization's plot to extort millions of dollars from the United States with a stolen nuclear bomb. He continues his pursuit of Blofeld in “On His Majesty's Secret Service” [sic] and appears to have destroyed him in his most recent adventure, “You Only Live Twice,” both of which were serialized in the magazine Playboy.
  
  Mr. Fleming was often accused of making Bond a thinly disguised projection of himself. In their love of fast cars, golf, gambling and gourmet cooking, in their skill with firearms and cards, the two men were indeed similar, but Mr. Fleming once said, “Apart from the fact that he wears the same clothes that I wear, he and I really have little in common. I do rather envy him his blondes and his efficiency, but I can't say I much like the chap.”
  
  Mr. Fleming said he had conceived Bond as “a hero without any characteristics who was simply the blunt instrument in the hands of his government.”

  However, as with most authors, Fleming's experiences largely shaped those of his creation.
  
  Mr. Fleming was born on May 28, 1908. His father, Major Valentine Fleming, at one time a Conservative member of Parliament, was killed while fighting on the Somme in 1916. His obituary in The Times of London was written by Winston Churchill.
  
  The boy was educated at Eton, Britain's most exclusive school, and Sandhurst, the military academy. While there he was a member of the rifle team and competed in a match against the United States Military Academy.
  
  He earned a commission, but resigned before beginning active service in the largely inactive British Army of the 1820's. He also said later that he regarded tanks and trucks as a step downward from horses and sabers.
  
  Planning to enter the diplomatic service, he learned excellent French and German at the Universities of Munich and Geneva. He stood seventh on the service's entrance examinations, but since there were only five vacancies he decided to try journalism.
  
  He joined Reuters, the international news agency, and in 1929 was appointed its Moscow correspondent.
  
  “Reuters was great fun in those days,” he said. “The training there gives you a good straightforward style. Above all, I have to thank Reuters for getting my facts right.”
  
  There was a difference of opinion about this among Bond fans. They delighted in finding errors in the novels, such as the sending of a woman gang leader to Sing Sing, a men's prison.
  
  After four years he was offered the post of assistant general manager of Reuters in the Far East, but feeling the need for money, he decided to join a private bank in London. In 1935 he became a stockbroker and remained one until the outbreak of war in 1939.
  
  Mr. Fleming was commissioned in the Royal Navy and became in time personal assistant to Rear Admiral T. H. Godfrey, director of naval intelligence. The admiral was the prototype of “M,” the retired seadog who heads Bond's secret service.
  
  More important, it was Mr. Fleming's wartime service, from which he emerged as a commander, that provided the insights into the technique and practice of intelligence work that his readers found enthralling.
  
  After the war, he became foreign manager of The Sunday Times of London. His contract provided for two months of vacation a year, which he spent at Goldeneye, his home near Oracabessa in Jamaica. Mr. Fleming did most of his writing there and the island provided the background for many of his novels.
  
  Like Bond, Mr. Fleming was , tall (6‐foot‐1) and slender (168 pounds). His curly hair was graying, his complexion was ruddy and his nose had been broken.
  
  The novelist was a collector of first editions and rare books and published The Book Collector, the bibliophilic magazine.
  
  Besides his widow, whose marriage to Viscount Bothermere ended in divorce in 1952, and his son, Mr. Fleming is survived by two brothers, Peter, the explorer and writer, and Richard, a banker.

  
  
  

  1964: Pierce Brosnan leaves Ireland to join his mother May and new husband William Carmichael in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland.
  
  1974: Agente 007 contra el Dr. No re-released in Spain.

  

  1977: Spionen der elskede mig released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Octopussy – mustekala (Octopussy - Soft-bodied Cephalopods Squid/Octopus/Cuttlefish) released in Finland.

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  2013: Halle Berry talks to Total Film about filming Die Another Day.

  

  Halle Berry had to be sexier as Bond girl

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2013/0812/467674-halle-berry-had-to-be-sexier-as-bond-girl/

  Monday, 12 Aug 2013

  
  Halle Berry was told by James Bond bosses that she had to be sexier

  Halle Berry has admitted that she was told by James Bond bosses to ''be sexier'' while filming her classic scene in 2002's Die Another Day.
  
  Speaking to Total Film, the 46-year-old actress, who was pictured emerging from the water in an orange bikini for a classic scene in 2002' s Die Another Day, was urged to up her sex appeal for the shots.
  
  Speaking to Total Film, Berry said: ''The sea was freezing! I had to do it quite a few times too. I went in the water and I went out the water. Then I had to walk up the beach in a 'certain way'.
  
  ''They kept saying, 'Can you be sexier?', and I was like shouting back at them, 'this is all the sexy I got! I'm gonna get hip dysplasia if I try and make it any sexier!' ''
  
  When asked whether she thought she would be a Bond girl when she was growing up, she explained: ''My mother thought the Bond films were too adult for me to watch when I was growing up, so I never really had a chance to think about it.
  
  ''It was only as I got older I became aware of Bond.''

  
  2018: Tweets from Idris Elba spark more Bond rumours.

  Idris Elba offers cheeky tweets amid latest James Bond rumors

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://pressfrom.info/us/news/entertainment/-175973-idris-elba-offers-cheeky-tweets-amid-latest-james-bond-rumors.html

  12 august 2018 | Source: ew.com
  
  Idris Elba appears to have caught wind of the latest round of rumors that he might one day play James Bond, and he’s having some fun with the buzz on social media.
  
  Early Sunday morning, the Luther star tweeted a heavily filtered selfie and wrote, “my name’s Elba, Idris Elba” — an obvious nod to 007’s signature “Bond, James Bond” line.
  
  But while some fans might have taken that as a hint that Elba, 45, would someday don Bond’s tuxedo, he followed up hours later with a photo of Public Enemy and another tweet name-checking one of the group’s most well-known songs. “Don’t believe the HYPE…” he wrote.

  
  
  

  
  
  2034: Where the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 is applied, the Fleming books could enter the public domain in the EU and US.
  
  
  
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  August 13th
  
  1961: The East German government starts construction of the Berlin Wall.

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  ...today the East German government, with probably a slight prodding from their big brothers in Moscow, started building the Berlin Wall, in effect the centerpiece of the Iron Curtain, separating East and West for the next 28 years and about three months, not to mention being sort of prominently displayed in OCTOPUSSY. Famous quote from then Chairman of the East German Communists, Walter Ulbricht, in June 1961: "No one has the intention of erecting a wall." Two months later, it was there.

  
  
  
  

  
  
  https://www.ianfleming.com/50-years-of-octopussy-the-living-daylights/
  
  
  
  
  
  https://huntingbond.com/checkpoint-charlie-from-james-bond-octopussy-in-berlin/
  
  
  

  https://twitter.com/007/status/469094559171878912

  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Sean Connery's last scene with OO7 in a crematorium.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1029049380064641025

  
  1979: People magazine features Moonraker.

  
  
  MOONRAKER IS THE LEAST SEXIST,
  MOST LOVABLE 007 THANKS TO
  ROGER MOORE, LOIS CHILES & JAWS
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1987: Su nombre es peligro (His Name Is Danger) released in Argentina.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1987: James Bond 007 – Der Hauch des Todes (The Breeze Of The Death) released in West Germany.

  
  
  

  
  1999: Eon select Michael Apted to direct The World Is Not Enough.

  

  

  Michael Apted: The Director That Set
  the Future of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ultimateactionmovies.com/michael-apted-james-bond/

  By Nicolás Suszczyk - January 10, 2021
  RIP to an ultimate 007 legend…

  

  After the release of Tomorrow Never Dies in December 1997, Pierce Brosnan frequently observed that the film was overloaded with action sequences and he hoped for something more subdued for his third adventure as James Bond. This sentiment was also shared by producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who decided to take their first step in what would be their imprint in their Bond saga after the death of legendary producer Albert R Broccoli in 1996: an emotionally complex and romantic Bond film where nothing was so obvious that we immediately knew who the good and the baddies were and what they were up to.
  
  On August 13, 1998, the director for the upcoming Bond film was chosen: Michael Apted, known mostly for dramas or psychological thrillers like Blink (1993), Gorillas in The Mist (1988) and Agatha (1979), all a world apart of the style of the first eighteen James Bond movies. It wasn’t the first time a drama director joined the Bond team: Lewis Gilbert, known for Alfie (1966), was hired to direct You Only Live Twice (1967) and would return for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), but all of these adventures were famous for being big action extravaganzas where the emotional side of Bond and Gilbert’s drama experience were pretty much cast aside. The same wouldn’t happen with Apted: his drama background was purposely chosen for this upcoming Bond movie, with a story (the first by regulars Neal Purvis & Robert Wade) that would show us a more fallible action hero that the one we knew before. By November of the same year, Pierce Brosnan revealed on an interview that the film’s title was The World Is Not Enough, which was none other than the Bond family motto as featured in Ian Fleming’s 1963 novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the novel and the film adaptation from 1969.

  

  The World Is Not Enough took much more from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service than its title: both stories place James Bond in a situation where he has to directly or indirectly protect the defiant and adventurous daughter of a wealthy and powerful man to reach the antagonist, and in both occasions, the secret agent has soft feelings for the woman in question: one becomes the short-lived Mrs Bond, the other turns out to be the mastermind behind it all and it’s Bond himself who kills her in cold blood right after she gives her accomplice the order to dive the submarine which will be used to provoke a nuclear meltdown below the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
  
  While Martin Campbell and Roger Spottiswoode donned GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies with an accelerated, somewhat urgent and bombastic pace, Michael Apted opted for a much slower pace. The nineteenth Bond isn’t devoid of explosions, chases, stunts and shootouts –some very imaginative as the moment where the secret agent is stalked by helicopters attached with big buzz-saws that cut the walkways of a caviar factory over the Caspian Sea like butter– but the viewer will feel that the moments preceding every action piece will develop in a sweet, romantic manner: the romance between Bond and Elektra adorned with a calm and mellow post-sex scene where he inquires about her kidnapping, the conversation between M and Bond where she admits that convinced Elektra’s father Sir Robert King not to pay the ransom so that she can get to Renard, the terrorist that kidnapped her; and a brief moment where 007 investigates video archives of the woman’s ordeal, freeze-framing the recording just as she sheds a tear after escaping and being rescued by the police. There is also a tender moment with the “good girl” Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) minutes before the end credits roll as both celebrate Christmas day in Istanbul, clinking glasses as fireworks can be seen in the background – quite fitting for the last James Bond film of the millennium in a season where the world was excited for the arrival of the year 2000.
  
  Apted’s choice wasn’t an exception made by Barbara Broccoli: not counting Martin Campbell’s return in Casino Royale (2006), every other Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig movie was characterized by the choice of drama directors like Lee Tamahori, Marc Forster, Sam Mendes and Cary Joji Fukunaga, which has helmed the yet-unreleased No Time To Die. Without doubt, a director like Michael Apted and a film like The World Is Not Enough is much closer to Barbara Broccoli’s idea of a Bond film than GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, which were much more in line with Cubby Broccoli’s action-oriented style of Bond flick.

  

  Introducing the First Female Bond Villain
  The World Is Not Enough features the first female villain in the series, something the audience discovers on par with James Bond as the story progresses: Apted observed on the DVD audio commentary that people would get impatient with the hero if they’d see him flail around in his ignorance long before he discovered who the real enemy was. The director took Elektra’s development seriously, taking advantage of his experience of directing female-lead productions and with the unaccredited collaboration of his then-wife screenwriter Dana Stevens, who added more dimensions to this important character. Sophie Marceau’s character appears before our eyes as a victim whose father dies on an attack inside the MI6 headquarters and both Bond and particularly M (Judi Dench) see her as a victim in need of protection. In reality, Elektra turned her once kidnapper, Renard, into her psychological slave by using her sexuality appealing to the man’s biggest weakness. He uses the terrorist to provoke an attack that would increase King Industries’ oil supply by eradicating the competence and the patriarchal figure of her deceased father, whom she took a disliking for when the man refused to pay the ransom money for her.
  
  Simultaneously, the man we are meant to believe is the main villain, this terrorist Renard, is also shown as a victim of sorts: he’s slowly dying as a consequence of a bullet fired on his head by agent 009 following M’s orders, and he is now willing to kill or die for the only woman that has apparently loved him. The character development is so important in this movie that we not only have a romantic post-coital moment between Bond and Elektra but a de-romanticized post-sex moment between Elektra and Renard, where the woman doesn’t feel sexually pleased by her accomplice as he asks her if Bond was a good lover. Her answer: “What do you think? I wouldn’t feel anything?”
  
  The World Is Not Enough presents us with a smart woman who plays with the emotions of people around her, a villain who is terminal and his biggest cause is the love he feels for that woman, and M making the story move along. Whatever Bond does here is more of a favour to M than an officially-sanctioned mission, from recovering Sir Robert’s money from a murky Swiss banker’s office in Bilbao to protecting Elektra King to reach Renard. During the third act, rescuing M becomes the mission when Elektra and Renard kidnap her before launching their attack to Istanbul, too. The relevance of Elektra and M in the story was so huge at one point that GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies screenwriter Bruce Feirstein had to be brought again to give James Bond more relevance in a story where he seemed to be overshadowed by these female personalities.
  
  Not surprisingly, most of the aforementioned dynamics were resurfaced in 2012’s Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s third James Bond film directed by Sam Mendes and the most lucrative EON production to date: it is M’s past the one that sets the main conflict and she becomes the important woman influencing 007 throughout the story, as MI6 is also under attack and he has to protect her from a villain whom she considered death or missing, someone who has also endured big suffering on his own.

  

  An Ultimate Bond Legacy Remembered
  Michael Apted’s recent death strongly affects those who grew up with the Pierce Brosnan movies, since he is the first director of this era to depart and in such a sudden manner. Many critics expressed concern on dwelling on the emotional side of James Bond back in 1999, however in this time and age, many seemed to celebrate every attempt to approach Bond’s human side under the scope of men like Sam Mendes or Marc Forster. While most people seem to regard these recent Bond movies as the real beginning of what we could call “Barbara Broccoli’s stamp on Bond”, the truth is that this drama-oriented change showed its roots two decades ago in The World Is Not Enough, the cradle of most of the topics we saw onwards in the series. And the late Michael Apted was indeed the man chosen to lead the way.

  Nicolás Suszczyk
  https://ns-writings.blogspot.com/
  Nicolás Suszczyk has been a James Bond enthusiast since 1998, when he watched GoldenEye on TV and Tomorrow Never Dies on the big screen in his native Buenos Aires. He manages The GoldenEye Dossier, a site dedicated to the 17th James Bond film, and has collaborated for web sites and magazines related to 007 and other films of his liking. In 2019 he wrote the books The World of GoldenEye and The Bond of The Millennium.

  
  

  
  2012: A Coca-Cola ad campaign related to Skyfall is revealed in the press. Slogan: "Unlock the 007 in You".

  

  Coca-Cola Zero releases Skyfall
  campaign continuing its
  partnership with the James
  Bond franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thedrum.com/news/2012/08/13/coca-cola-zero-releases-skyfall-campaign-continuing-its-partnership-james-bond

  By Staff Writer-13 August 2012 11:57am

  
  Coca-Cola Zero products will undergo a Bond themed makeover

  The Coca-Cola Company has announced its Coca-Cola Zero brand is to team up with the 23rd installment of the James Bond series, Skyfall, as part of promotions for the films worldwide release this autumn.
  
  The announcement continues Coca-Cola and James Bond’s successful partnership, which began in 2008 through the brand’s association with Quantum of Solace. This time the campaign will be asking fans to “Unlock the 007 In You.”
  
  The association will see all Coke Zero products undergoing a special Bond themed makeover. The limited edition designs will feature across multiple pack formats, including cans, PET bottles and an aluminum bottle, all of which will showcase the famous Bond ‘gun barrel’ design.
  
  Marketing Director for Coca-Cola Great Britain, Zoe Howorth, commented: “Skyfall is without a doubt one of this year’s most anticipated film releases, and we are very excited to be a part of it and to continue our relationship with the world’s favourite movie franchise.
  
  “James Bond is a global cultural icon who consistently takes action to create what’s possible, making this the perfect partnership for Coca-Cola Zero.”
  
  The campaign is set to roll out across TV, cinema, PR and outdoor advertising. Digital and social media campaigns, as well as on-pack promotions are also planned.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: The Telegraph reports that The Guardian reports that David Oyelowo will be Bond.

  
  Telegraph Culture Books What to Read

  David Oyelowo to be James Bond (sort of)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/david-oyelowo-james-bond/

  

  David Oyelowo to play James Bond in 'Trigger Mortis'
  Credit: Rex/Richard Saker - Catherine Gee
  13 August 2015 • 10:04am
  
  British actor David Oyelowo is to play James Bond – though in voice only. The Guardian reports that the 39-year-old is set to read the audio edition of Trigger Mortis, a new novel commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate and written by Anthony Horowitz.
  
  It’s set during the space race in 1957, two weeks after the events in Goldfinger. It will also contain previously unpublished material written by Fleming for Murder on Wheels, a television series that was never made. Oyelowo’s invitation to play Bond came directly from the Fleming estate.

  “I am officially the only person on planet Earth who can legitimately say: ‘I am the new James Bond’ — even saying that name is the cinematic equivalent of doing the ‘to be or not to be’ speech,” he said. “I was asked specifically by the Fleming estate, which is really special.”

  Oyelowo was born in Oxford and began his career on the stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became the first black actor to portray the title role in Henry VI in 2001. Last year he was a regular screen presence with roles in the HBO TV film Nightingale, Interstellar and A Most Violent Year.
  
  The Bafta, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor was also widely acclaimed for his role as Martin Luther King in Selma.
  
  In a statement, Horowitz said: “What an honour to have an actor as talented as David to read my take on Bond. He has a brilliant voice and talent for bringing out the nuances of dialogue and characters.”
  
  Oyelowo is not the first black actor to play the role of Bond in audio form. In 2012, Hugh Quarshie read the audiobook of Dr No as part of a box set.
  
  The casting of cinema's next 007 is still yet to be announced, although rumours continue to circulate that Idris Elba will become the first black Bond – despite Elba ruling himself out. Daniel Craig is contractually obliged to play Bond in one more film after Spectre, which is released in November, but reports suggest he may be released from his contract early.
  
  Trigger Mortis will be released on 8 September.

  
  
  

  
  2020: Steidl publishes The Goldfinger Files: The Making of the Iconic Alpine Sequence in the James Bond Movie “Goldfinger” by Steffen Appel and Peter Waelty.

  
  
  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 13 Posts: 13,803

  August 14th
  
  1962: The Thames Ditton factory delivers a 1962 AC Aceca Coupe to Ian Fleming.

  

  Ian Fleming sports car under hammer at Goodwood Revival

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-11340815

  17 September 2010

  
  The car was delivered in the same year that
  the writer finished The Spy Who Loved Me

  A sports car once owned by James
  Bond creator Ian Fleming is being
  auctioned at the Goodwood Revival
  in West Sussex.

  The 1962 AC Aceca Coupe is said to be one of six surviving Ford-powered Acecas in the world.
  
  Bonhams which is running the auction said the car had a pre-sale estimate of £100,000 to 130,000.
  
  The two-seater, which is dark blue with a red leather interior, is recorded as having left the factory in Surrey in 1962 for delivery to Ian Fleming.
  
  The car was delivered from the Thames Ditton factory to the writer on 14 August. It was the same year that he completed The Spy Who Loved Me.
  
  According to Bonhams, Fleming kept the car for a year before selling it in 1963. Since then, it has changed hands several times.
  
  Another car in the auction, with a sale estimate of £20,000 to £24,000, is a 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 soft-top convertible that once belonged to the Duchess of York.
  
  And a 1953 Jaguar C-Type, the same make and model that won the Le Mans 24-Hours race twice in 1951 and 1953, will also be auctioned with a guide price of between £800,000 and £1m.
  
  The auction is being held at the racing festival near Chichester on Friday evening.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1964: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 Hunted) re-released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  

  1964: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa (Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul; also Swedish Den hemliga agenten 007 i Istanbul/The Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul) released in Finland.

  
  

  1966: Halle Berry is born--Cleveland, Ohio.
  
  1978: Moonraker filming begins in Paris, France.
  
  1987: Spioner der ved daggry (Spies Die at Dawn) released in Denmark.

  
  

  1987: The Living Daylights released in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
  
  1993: Domark publishes video game James Bond 007: The Duel--developed by The Kremlin, for use with Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System and Game Gear consoles. Timothy Dalton's last appearance in the role.

  

  James Bond 007: The Duel (1993)

  James Bond: The Duel (original title)
  Action, Adventure, Thriller | Video game released 14 August 1993
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483987/

  In James Bond 007: The Duel, you must infiltrate a Caribbean island base where a mad professor is holding people hostage.
  Writer: Ian Fleming (characters and universe)

  
  
  
  

  
  https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1346813209?playlistId=tt0483987
  
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483987/videoplayer/vi1346813209
  

  
  2002: Peter Roger Hunt dies at age 77--Santa Monica, California.
  (Born 11 March 1925--London, England.)

  

  Peter Hunt
  The man who cut down 007

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/16/guardianobituaries.filmnews[/center]

  Ronald Bergan - Thu 15 Aug 2002 20.16 EDT

  The film editor and director Peter Hunt, who has died aged 77, was associated with the huge success of the James Bond movies, the longest-running series in the history of the cinema. He edited the first five Bond films - generally considered the best - creating a style of sharp cutting that has been emulated by many editors and directors of action movies.
  
  He also directed one, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), mistakenly thought of as the worst of the Bond films because of George Lazenby's forgettable 007. The inexperienced Australian model carried the can for the film's comparative box-office failure, but Hunt was praised for his pacy, and seemingly effortless, direction.
  
  Already with a decade of editing behind him, Hunt only reluctantly agreed to edit the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). "I was really not interested in doing it at all," he recalled. "But, then I thought, well, if the director is Terence Young, and I know him well enough, and I find him rather nice, maybe it will be alright." Previously, Hunt had suggested to Harry Saltzman that, in his search for an actor to portray James Bond, the producer look at the film he had just edited, the feeble army comedy On The Fiddle (1961), in which Sean Connery played a Gypsy pedlar.
  
  The editing style of the Bond movies was established because, "if we kept the thing moving fast enough, people won't see the plot holes," what editors call "chets", or cheated editing tricks. "On Dr No, for example, there was a great deal missing from the film when we got back from shooting in Jamaica, and I had to cut it and revoice it in such a way as to make sense."
  
  It was from then that Hunt decided to use jump cuts and quick cutting, and very few fade-ins, fade-outs and dissolves, which "destroy the tension of the film". The fight between Connery and Robert Shaw on board the Orient Express, in From Russia With Love (1963), took a total of 59 cuts in 115 seconds of film.

  Born in London, Hunt learned his craft from an uncle who made government training and educational films. His first claim to fame was, in fact, appearing on a recruiting poster for the Boy Scouts Association when he was 16, and he read the lesson at Lord Baden-Powell's funeral. At 17, he joined the army, and was almost immediately shipped off to Italy, where he took part in the battle of Cassino.
  
  After the war, he returned to work with his uncle, before becoming assistant cutter for Alexander Korda, and a fully fledged editor with Hill In Korea (1956). He worked with both Terence Young and Lewis Gilbert on a number of films prior to editing their Bond efforts.

  Besides editing, Hunt directed some second-unit work on the Bond films, as well as the title sequence for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). "I had a terrible time in the cutting room on You Only Live Twice (1967), with Donald Pleasance as Blofeld. Lewis [Gilbert] had made him into a camp, mini sort of villain. If you look at the film very carefully, Pleasance doesn't walk anywhere, because he had this mincing stride. He was so short that he looked like a little elf beside Connery. I used every bit of editing imagination I could so that he could be taken seriously as a villain."
  
  Many purist Bond fans regret that Hunt never directed another 007 movie. His determination to be more faithful to the Ian Fleming original, even down to the death of the heroine (Diana Rigg) and the scaling down of gadgetry, puts On Her Majesty's Secret Service above many subsequent films in the series. It also happened to be the best picture he directed.

  There followed two overlong adventure yarns set in Africa with Roger Moore, Gold (1974) and Shout At The Devil (1976); a couple of macho movies with Charles Bronson, Death Hunt (1981) and Assassination (1986); and the dispensable Wild Geese II (1985). But the work began to dry up, a situation that depressed the normally ebullient and energetic Hunt. In 1975, he settled in southern California with his partner Nicos Kourtis, who survives him.
  
  Peter Roger Hunt, film editor and director, born March 11 1925; died August 14 2002

  

  Peter R. Hunt (I) (1925–2002)

  Editor | Director | Editorial Department
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402597/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: Heineken renews its product placement in the Bond film franchise.

  

  Heineken beer in James Bond movie Quantum of Solace

  http://www.007museum.com/HeinekenQOS.htm"]007museum.com/HeinekenQOS.htm
  Amsterdam, 14 August 2008 - Heineken International today announced that it will launch a worldwide promotional campaign for the 22nd James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’/Columbia Pictures’ release of EON Productions. The film, which will be released in movie theatres worldwide in November 2008, is Heineken’s 5th consecutive global partnership with one of the most successful and longest running movie franchises in history.
  
  Stefan Orlowski, Group Commerce Director, Heineken N.V., said of the partnership: “Our long association with James Bond has helped enhance the profile of the Heineken brand across the world. The partnership supports our commitment to extend the brand’s leadership position within the international premium beer segment. Our global campaign offers a great opportunity to drive sales growth and to help build the value of Heineken's brand equity."
  
  The new marketing campaign provides the opportunity for consumers to experience the premium, stylish and international world of James Bond. The campaign features leading lady Olga Kurylenko and was shot using actual film sets and scenes from the film. It includes TV and print advertising and on- and off-premise promotions, interactive and digital activities, radio promotions, consumer competitions and tie-ins with local premiere events. The campaign will be launched globally across an estimated 40 countries in October in conjunction with the worldwide release of the film.
  
  Olga Kurylenko, who plays the role of Camille in the upcoming film, commented: “I am delighted to support Heineken’s global “Quantum of Solace” marketing campaign. Heineken has done a great job in making James Bond, Camille and the world of Bond connect with their iconic international brand.”
  
  Melinda Eskell, Manager Heineken Brand Communication said: “We worked in close partnership with Eon and Columbia Pictures to ensure the global campaign remained authentic to the film and the James Bond franchise. The involvement of Olga Kurylenko combined with the use of other authentic Bond assets provides Heineken the unique opportunity to allow our consumers worldwide to experience the world of Bond.”
  
  In “Quantum of Solace,” Daniel Craig reprises his role as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007. The film is directed by Marc Forster, the screenplay is by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Paul Haggis and Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli producer.

  
  
  
  

  2008: Reuters reports on the Ford Ka and James Bond.

  

  License to economize: Ford Ka gets Bond debut

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ford-bond/license-to-economize-ford-ka-gets-bond-debut-idINN1442055020080815

  By Reuters Staff | 2 Min Read
  
  DETROIT (Reuters) - James Bond has outrun evildoers in a BMW with rocket launchers, a high-performance Mustang and an Aston Martin with an ejector seat.

  
  The Ford Ka in an undated image courtesy of Ford. The company said on Thursday its
  redesigned Ka city car would debut in the upcoming Bond film "Quantum of Solace".
  REUTERS/Handout

  But now, at a time of record gas prices, is the super-spy ready for a minicar?
  
  Ford Motor Co said on Thursday its redesigned Ka city car would debut in the upcoming Bond film “Quantum of Solace,” scheduled for release in North America on November 7.
  
  The movie is the 22nd in the long-running franchise based on the books by author Ian Fleming about a secret agent who saves the world from villains, often after a high-speed chase in a gadget-heavy supercar.
  
  Ford struck a three-movie contract with Bond producers, starting with “Die Another Day” in 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed.
  
  In his 2006 debut as 007, British actor Daniel Craig appeared behind the wheel of a Ford Mondeo sedan and was flipped at high-speed in an Aston Martin, a legendary Bond ride and a luxury brand then-owned by Ford.
  
  Pictures from the “Quantum [of] Solace” set show actress Olga Kurylenk, the latest Bond girl, behind the wheel of a golden Ford Ka.
  
  Ford declined to say whether Bond would take a ride in its upcoming minicar, which will go on sale in Europe and other markets outside the United States.
  
  Action sequences involving sports cars in the latest Bond movie have caused several mishaps.
  
  In April, a stuntman was hospitalized with serious injuries suffered in an accident behind the wheel of an Alfa Romeo sports car in northern Italy.
  
  Days before, British media reported that another car to be used in the production, an Aston Martin DBS, skidded off the road into a lake, but the driver escaped with minor injuries.
  
  Aston Martin is 50 percent owned by Kuwait’s Investment Dar, part of a group that bought the brand from Ford last year for $956 million.
  
  Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, is the distributor of the film.
  
  Reporting by David Bailey, editing by Richard Chang

  
  
  
  

  
  2013: Mark Sutton dies at age 42--Mont Blanc, France.
  (Born 13 April 1971--UK.)

  

  Mark Sutton Dies in Wingsuit Accident in Switzerland

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.chamonix.net/english/news/mark-sutton-dies-in-wingsuit-accident

  
  ChamonixNews's picture Submitted by ChamonixNews on Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 09:57
  
  Mark Sutton, 42, was staying in Chamonix with his girlfriend, Victoria Homewood, 39. On Wed 14 Aug 2013 he travelled to Switzerland and took a helicopter flight with Tony Uragallo. They were participating in an event organised by Epic Tv, the French extreme sports online channel, which featured the astonishing Alexander Polli Batman Cave Flight.
  
  At an altitude of 3,300m Mark and Tony Uragallo both exited the helicopter at about 11am. This was a rehearsal to check out their equipment and the flight path. Each pilot was wearing three cameras so that they could film each other and their own trajectory. The anticipated duration of the rehearsal flight was about 60 seconds.
  
  Shortly after exiting the helicopter, Mark appeared to lose control as he deviated from the planned route. He impacted on the mountain side at an estimated 150mph (240km/h) beside the Trient Glacier close to the border with France.
  
  Wednesday's accident was the first involving a wingsuit pilot in the Swiss canton of Valais. On 25 Jul 2013 a 24 year old German male died after jumping from the Brevent (2525m).

  Mark Sutton became particularly well known for the parachute jump he and Gary Connery made from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympics. Mark played the role of James Bond, while Gary played the role of the HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #12.
  Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #12 (OF 12)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244712011
  Cover A: Dan Panosian
  Cover B: Dean Kotz
  Cover C: Vasco Georgiev
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker, Ibrahim Moustafa
  Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: August 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/14/2019

  "The Debt: Finale"
  
  In 1941, Lieutenant Bond finally learns the truth of his deceased mentor, Commander Weldon. But truth comes at a cost. The conclusion of Bond's adventures in 1941, by JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (James Bond: Solstice, Mother Panic).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Metro reports on Gerard Butler recalling a meeting with Eon twenty years prior.

  

  Gerard Butler met with James Bond bosses
  20 years ago but is now too old to play 007

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/14/gerard-butler-met-james-bond-bosses-20-years-ago-now-old-play-007-10570630/

  Mel Evans | Wednesday 14 Aug 2019
  
  https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-1127323698.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644,452
  We won’t be seeing Gerard as Bond (Picture: Getty Images)
  
  Gerard Butler has poured cold water on any hopes he would be donning the famous James Bond tuxedo and getting his martini all shaken, not stirred.
  
  Seems he’s been asked before to play the suave spy and turned it down. Now? Well, he believes he’s just too old.
  
  The Angel Has Fallen star was in London chatting about his new movie when he was quizzed on radio about taking on the famous spy.
  
  His name has been thrown about for a long time and with Daniel Craig about to hang up his 007 badge following the next instalment, Bond 25, next year it begs the question of who will take over.
  
  Everyone from Gerard to Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston and James Norton has been mentioned.
  
  But Gerard thinks time is no longer on his side.

  
  Daniel Craig in Quantum Of Solace
  It’s thought Bond 25 will be Daniel’s last film as the spy (Picture: Rex Features)

  ‘No. I had a meeting for it like 20 years ago,’ he said on Capital FM’s Breakfast show with Roman Kemp on Wednesday.
  
  ‘Now I think I’m at a nice ripe old age where they won’t be coming back my way which is fine.’
  
  Gerard is pretty happy working on his own franchise with Fallen (first it was Olympus, then London, now Angel).
  
  ‘Listen, here’s the thing, you know what I love is – and I love Bond, I grew up on Bond – but the cool thing with this is that we created our own franchise,’ he continued.
  
  ‘We created our own Bond and that’s more fun than to have to play Bond and be compared to the others.’
  
  That’s not to say he hasn’t had his own brush with Bond in the past, as Gerard recounted a rather thrilling moment on set with former 007 star Pierce Brosnan.
  
  Speaking about the injuries he’s sustained living the life of an action man, he said: ‘Yeah, in Chasing Mavericks I ended up in hospital.
  
  ‘I’ve been in car crashes, in fact, Pierce Brosnan – James Bond himself – drove me right into a wall. That was 10 years ago.’
  
  Fun times!

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  Interesting, that section on Peter Hunt. I didn't know that about what he had to do in editing on YOLT, to get Pleasance to look more like a villain! Regarding him returning as a Bond director, his work outside of OHMSS was not that at all impressive. 'Shout at the Devil' was on T.V. the other night, and it's pretty awful, though I do have 'Death Hunt' in my collection, it's actually not bad thriller with tough guys Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin facing off against each other!
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  August 15th
  
  1944: Barbara Bouchet is born--Liberec, Czechia.

  
  
  

  1947: Jenny Hanley is born--Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England.

  

  Jenny Hanley about her work on On Her
  Majesty’s Secret Service

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://iluminar.tv/jenny-hanley-about-her-work-on-on-her-majestys-secret-service/

  March 16, 2019

  This interview originally appeared on From Sweden with Love
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/intervjuer/jenny_hanley_on_her_majestys_secret_service_interview

  By Mark Cerulli
  

  FSWL contributor and LA correspondent Mark Cerulli talks to English actress
  Jenny Hanley,
  the Irish girl in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) starring
  George Lazenby
  as Ian Fleming’s 007 that celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year.

  
  A Girl On The Mountain
  One of my first questions for the wonderful British actress Jenny Hanley was “When did you get bit by the acting bug?” Her answer was a total surprise – no “acting bug” bit, instead, she was born into show business…
  
  “Both my parents were actors and my grandparents were professional photographers,” Jenny states. (One of their clients was none other than future-Bond, Sir Roger Moore) She studied child psychology and had her sights on a quiet career as a nanny. It was her brother who wanted to be an actor, and yet she got all the breaks – being sent to modeling school, being spotted and suddenly finding herself in front of the camera in commercials and on magazine covers. Not the easiest transition for the painfully shy young woman.
  
  “I wasn’t a wall flower, I was lichen!” the actress remembers with a laugh.
  
  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was Jenny’s second film. (Her first was a one scene walk on in 1968’s hedonistic British drama Joanna) None other than Harry Saltzman spotted her in a commercial and wanted to include her in the stable of young women he was building for use in films. (During Hollywood’s “Golden” era, studios groomed young talent, giving them acting and voice lessons along with other training. The UK’s Rank Organization had a similar “charm school”.) Saltzman, as always thinking ahead, envisioned building a similar talent pool for Bond films and other projects.
  
  Harry offered her a movie straight away, “But the part had a nude scene which I wouldn’t do…” Jenny recalled. Instead Saltzman suggested she “… go off to Switzerland [Schilthorn Piz Gloria] and have fun for a few weeks.” And just like that Jenny had a role in the next Bond film! The producer also told her that she had to wear a red wig as they already had several blondes in the cast.
  
  Jenny felt right at home on the set as she had worked with many members of OHMSS’s female cast – including Joanna Lumley, Anouska Hempel (now one of the most successful interior designers in Europe) and her London neighbor, Catherine Schnell.
  
  When asked about her memories of Harry Saltzman, Jenny mentioned going into his office, off London’s ritzy Park Lane: “It was a very masculine office, with dark furniture and a leather sofa that was so deep if you sat on it and leaned back, your feet were up off the floor like a child.” And if that weren’t intimidating enough, “Harry was behind an enormous desk up on a plinth, so he was definitely the King!” Of course he was – as half of the most successful producing team in movie history. The Bond films literally coined money and Saltzman and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli wielded immense power, yet both men treated her royally – “Harry was very sweet,” Jenny recalls, adding, “And Cubby was just as his name suggests, ‘Cuddly Cubby’.”
  
  She also called director Peter Hunt “a gentle soul” although, “Peter didn’t have much to do with us because we didn’t have much to do.”
  
  While she said Hunt wasn’t a “strong” director, “He made a really good film and he knew what he wanted. By gosh, the fight scenes, the skiing and car chases were brilliantly done!” Jenny also recalled an incident that shows how the Bond production team would let nothing stand in the way of getting a great shot: “There was a scene up on the mountain, and there wasn’t enough snow, so Peter sent a helicopter to another mountain and they filled up a huge upside-down parachute with snow and made several trips so we had enough snow! In a Bond movie, it was all possible to do…”
  
  In terms of “character development”, there wasn’t a lot for Jenny’s Irish Girl – “I sat around and practiced my Irish accent and wound up not saying anything at all,” Jenny remembers with a chuckle. “I always say that a standard lamp could have done what I did in the film.” (A very beautiful standard lamp!)
  
  For the Bond girls on location – every day began the same: “We were picked up in a horse drawn carriage, bundled in furs just to take us to the cable car to go up the mountain…. it was slightly surreal,” she marvels. Light workload or not, her memories of the set were nothing but positive… “Cubby wanted everything to be a family, which was sweet. And while we were out in Switzerland, his son was going to have his first haircut, which was to be a celebration and everyone was invited. It was great!”
  
  Jenny also had a connection to the new Bond – George Lazenby – having met him when she was modeling. While he was friendly and fun to be around, Jenny recalled a bit of his strong personality coming out when he visited a local restaurant without a reservation. When told it was booked, he came back with, “Don’t you know who I am?” One hopes he got that table!
  
  Of course, the pressure George was under was enormous, with the future of one of Cinema’s most valuable franchises riding on his relatively inexperienced shoulders. Fortunately, Lazenby had enough self-confidence for five men, so he was able to shrug the stress off and do the work.
  
  “He carried the film and he did it beautifully… he had a good sense of humor and we got on well,” Jenny remembers.
  
  The actress is also full of admiration for George’s famous independent streak.
  
  “I remember his coming back for the premiere with long sideburns and facial fur (!) and being told, ‘That’s not Bond, got to a barber and get yourself shaved so you look like Bond’ and George said ‘No, I won’t.’ That was George!”
  
  Looking back on On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Jenny has nothing but good feelings about the film. “It was good fun to do, ” she said, “And being a part of such an extraordinary franchise, Cubby made it like family and we are a family because we still meet up [at conventions] and EON [Productions] is very keen on keeping that family together.”
  
  As On Her Majesty’s Secret Service turns 50 this year the film will be celebrated with two unique events in Portugal and Switzerland, the latter co-hosted by Schilthornbahn AG and Martijn Mulder’s On The Tracks of 007, in May and June.

  

  
  1964: England buries Ian Lancaster Fleming at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, England.

  
  
  Omnia perfunctus vitae praemia, marces, meaning
  "Having enjoyed all life's prizes, you now decay."
  On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura)

  
  1983: Octopussy released in Denmark.

  https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/op-dk-poster-1983/

  
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  1987: “If There Was a Man” by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders charts in the U.K., eventually reaching #49.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films OO7 firing rockets at the bad guys.
  
  2007: Horsetalk New Zealand reports on protests for Quantum of Solace filming the Palio horse race in Italy.

  

  Protest at James Bond's Palio horse race plan

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/archives/2007/08/111.shtml

  August 15 2007
  
  James Bond may finally have met his match in the form of angry animal-rights activists.
  
  The fictional British Secret Service agent intends involving horses in the climax of his latest adventure. The end of his latest movie centres on the Palio, an ancient bareback horse race around the tight streets of the Tuscan hill town of Siena.
  
  Animal rights activists have long protested against the cruelty of the race, which is estimated to have claimed the lives of 50 horses in the last 35 years, as well as scores more injured.
  
  They argue that Agent 007's involvement will glamourise the race.
  
  The six-monthly race is run in August, and it is understood camera crews will be filming it for the as-yet unnamed 22nd movie in the James Bond series.
  
  It is unclear whether Bond, played by Daniel Craig, will ride in the movie. Insiders have suggested Bond will be chasing a villain around the town as the race unfolds around them.
  
  Opponents of the race include PETA and the the Italian AntiVivisection League. The Italian Federation of Equestrian Sport has also voiced concern, pointing to horses being exposed to "unacceptable risks".
  
  The race is renowned for not having many rules. Riders are allowed to knock other riders off their horses, but are not allowed to grab their reins.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Ford Motor Company puts out a press release on its latest Ka and Bond connections.

  

  BOND MOVIE ROLE FOR NEW FORD KA

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://ophelia.sdsu.edu:8080/ford/01-24-2009/about-ford/news-announcements/press-releases/press-releases-detail/pr-bond-movie-role-for-new-ford-ka-28874.html

  Brentwood, Essex, August 15, 2008 – The highly-anticipated new James Bond adventure, ‘Quantum of Solace’, will feature a cameo appearance from Ford’s fresh-faced new model, the all-new Ford Ka.
  
  Ford’s cheeky new small car will make its screen debut alongside the film's beautiful but feisty leading lady, Olga Kurylenko. Kurylenko plays Camille, a woman with her own personal mission and who quickly becomes an unlikely ally for Bond.
  
  The 'Quantum of Solace' Ka is unique with metallic gold paint and an exclusive exterior graphics and interior trim combination.
  
  “The new Ka is the perfect match for the character of Camille – adventurous, individual and thoroughly modern,” says Ford of Europe’s Chief Operating Officer, Stephen Odell. “We are delighted that the launch of the film coincides with the launch of such a significant new model for Ford of Europe.”
  
  The special ‘Quantum of Solace’ Ka was created by Ford of Europe’s Design team, in collaboration with the movie’s Oscar ® award-winning production designer, Dennis Gassner. The Ka’s cameo continues Ford of Europe's relationship with the James Bond films, following the debut appearance of the latest Ford Mondeo, in the 2006 blockbuster, ‘Casino Royale’.
  
  Twelve years after the original Ford Ka wowed customers with its modern spirit and what has proved to be a remarkably age-less design, its successor looks set to repeat its impact.
  
  The new model retains all the qualities which made the Ka so popular – compact size, great looks, lively dynamics and fun personality – but presents them in a fresh new package. Further technical details of the new Ford Ka will be revealed closer to launch later in 2008.
  
  ‘Quantum of Solace’ is produced for EON Productions by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
  
  Directed by Marc Forster, the film stars Daniel Craig as the legendary secret agent, James Bond and opens in the UK and France on October 31st, then across the rest of Europe during November 2008.
  
  The all-new Ka enjoys the spotlight of its own at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, on October 2.
  # # #

  ABOUT EON PRODUCTIONS
  EON Productions/Danjaq, LLC, is owned by the Broccoli family and has produced twenty two James Bond films since 1962, including QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The James Bond films, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, make up the longest running franchise in film history and include the recent blockbuster films GOLDENEYE, TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, DIE ANOTHER DAY and CASINO ROYALE. EON Productions and Danjaq LLC, are affiliate companies and control all worldwide merchandising of the James Bond franchise.

  ABOUT COLUMBIA PICTURES
  Columbia Pictures, part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sonypictures.com.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: An official James Bond scent becomes available at Harrod's.

  

  For your nose only: James Bond gets his first fragrance

  By Oliver Franklin-Wallis
  Friday 27 July 2012

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/james-bond-007-official-fragrance

  
  Whether in Ian Fleming's novels or the film outings, 007 has never been subtle about his preference for particular brands of car, drink or tailor - but Bond was never particularly forthcoming about his choice of cologne. (The closest we get is Fleming's own preference for Floris No.89.) That's all set to change with the unveiling of the first official James Bond fragrance, arriving in September from P&G to mark the franchise's 50th anniversary. Thankfully, the scent eschews hints of Aston Martin leather and martini top notes for a modern take on classic Sixties fragrances, with hints of fresh apple, cardamom, sandalwood and vetiver. Because given what we've seen of Daniel Craig's motorcycle-riding, Bérénice-seducing, Heineken-swigging hero in Skyfall, he's going to need to freshen up...
  
  £25 for 50ml. Available exclusively at Harrods from 15 August 15. Available nationwide from 19 September. 007.com

  
  
  

  2017: Daniel Craig confirms his return for BOND 25. Also confirmed on Instagram.

  
  
  

  Daniel Craig will return as 007 in Bond 25. The actor confirmed he would play James Bond for the fifth time to host Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. Bond 25 will be released in US cinemas on November 8, 2019 with a traditional early release in the UK and the rest of the world.

  
  2019: Sotheby's auctions an Aston Martin DB5.

  
  
  

  Calling All Secret Agents: James Bond’s 1965 Aston
  Martin DB5 Is Up for Auction
  By Sotheby's

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/james-bonds-1965-aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-rm-monterey-auction

  Automobiles | RM Sotheby's | Jun 12, 2019
  
  RM Sotheby’s, the official auction house of Aston Martin, is offering perhaps the most iconic Aston Martin of all time to lead ‘An Evening with Aston Martin,’ a special single-marque sale session at the 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. Featuring thirteen functioning Bond modifications, the James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 is one of just three surviving examples commissioned in period by Eon Productions and fitted with MI6 Q Branch specifications as pictured in Goldfinger.
  
  No one could have predicted the fabulously successful multi-decade synergy that would develop when production designer Ken Adam and special effects man John Stears visited Aston Martin’s Newport-Pagnell plant in late 1963. The two men were on a mission to source a pair of the latest Aston Martin models for use in Eon Productions’ third adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, again about the MI6 superspy with a license to kill, James Bond. The film was called Goldfinger.

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/james-bonds-1965-aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-rm-monterey-auction
  Monterey 2019: The Most Famous Car in the World

  Two near-identical cars were built and loaned to Eon Productions for filming, with each fulfilling various roles; one for stunt driving and chase sequences and therefore needing to be lightweight and fast, and the other for interior shots and close-ups, to be equipped with functional modifications created by Stears. As Desmond Llewelyn’s legendary weapons-master Q would go on to explain to Sean Connery’s 007, the Snow Shadow Gray-painted DB5 was equipped with front and rear hydraulic over-rider rams on the bumpers, a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, a raising rear bullet-proof screen, an in-dash radar tracking scope, oil, caltrop and smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and a passenger-seat ejection system. Although never used during the film, the car was also equipped with a telephone in the driver’s door to communicate with MI6 headquarters and a hidden compartment under the driver’s seat containing several weapons.

  https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo19/monterey/lots/r0050-1965-aston-martin-db5-bond-car/778818
  The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Bond Car to be offered at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale.
  Estimate $4,000,000–6,000,000. (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

  The smash success of Goldfinger was also a success for Aston Martin, which saw DB5 sales surge to fuel an unprecedented level of production. The producers at Eon also took notice of the enormous appeal and potential marketing opportunities. In preparation for Thunderball’s release, the company ordered two more DB5 saloons, receiving chassis nos. DB5/2008/R, the example on offer at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale, and DB5/2017/R. The two cars were fitted with all of Stears’ Goldfinger modifications and were shipped to the United States for promotional duties for Thunderball.

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  A look at the interior gadgets in the Bond DB5
  (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

  Following the tour, the two cars were no longer required as the next two Bond films debuted with different, more current automobiles in the hero roles and, accordingly, they were quietly offered for sale in 1969. The cars were soon purchased as a pair by well-known collector Anthony (now Lord) Bamford, whose British registration for chassis no. 2008/R remains on file. The Aston Martin build record lists Eon Productions as the original purchaser, with the important designation of being a “(Bond Car)” noted. Bamford then sold DB5/2008/R to B.H. Atchley, the owner of the Smokey Mountain Car Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Aston Martin was featured as the museum’s centerpiece, remaining in a pristine state of display for 35 years, receiving regular start-ups for exercise. In 2006, RM Sotheby’s (previously RM Auctions) was privileged to offer this very Bond DB5 for public sale, in a largely unrestored state.

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  The smoke screen dispenser on the DB5 is engaged
  (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)

  Since that time, a well-documented, no-expense spared restoration by Switzerland’s esteemed Roos Engineering was completed. Roos Engineering is one of 13 specialist facilities whom Aston Martin have appointed as official Heritage Specialists. Not only were the chassis and body completely refinished to proper standards, but all thirteen of the John Stears-designed Bond modifications were properly refurbished to function as originally built.
  
  The Bond DB5 will be on view at Sotheby's New York from 28 June through 31 July.

  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Esquire reports on an auction of James Bond's Rolex.

  

  James Bond's rarest Rolex is going up for auction

  It was worn by Sean Connery in James Bond's first proper film outing 'Dr. No'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.esquireme.com/content/37926-james-bonds-rarest-rolex-is-going-up-for-auction

  15 August 2019 | Esquire Editors

  
  Rolex, James Bond, Sotheby's, Auction

  Along with extrajudicial killings and flagrant affairs, James Bond liked his watches.
  
  Very much so. From Ian Fleming's original imagining to the Roger Moore of Octopussy, 007 has enjoyed multiple watches including (but not limited to) Omega, Hamilton and Rolex. And a key Bond memento from the latter is now up for grabs at Sotheby's.
  
  As per the oral history of Dr. No, the Big Crown Submariner ref. 6538 was loaned to Sean Connery by producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli: the closest relative to the Rolex Oyster Perpetual of Fleming's novels which, in fact, did not actually exist. The 6538 - a piece that ceased production in 1959 - has been considered something of a rarity ever since its starring role, and although Connery's specific wristwear isn't on auction, the model is still a highly desirable piece due to the big Bond connection.
  
  The vintage Rolex bit helps, too.

  

  The piece in question boasts several features that'd send an ardent horologist into self-destruct mode. First, there's the tropical dial, which has evolved into a chocolate brown shade over time. Once thought of as a ball drop on Rolex's part, it's since become a prized attribute by collectors. Moreover, text to the dial that proves the watch's COSC accreditation (that's the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres to non-watch folk - a sign of rigorous testing and accuracy) separates this particular piece from the first Big Crown Submariners. Hallmarks of collectability are in the detail, of which the the ref. 6538 has many.
  
  Fancy your chances? Well, you're not alone. With the piece expected to fetch between £149,000 to £232,000 at auction, there'll be serious competition to own a cousin of Bond's celluloid history. And if that wasn't enough, final prices regularly exceed estimates in lots of great rarity. Hurrah!

  
  2020: James Bond@007 recommends Relaxation Day.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1294559453841424385

  
  

  
  
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  August 16th
  
  1944: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  

  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/p/center]

  

  Wednesday 16 August, 1944
  
  Ian dined on Monday and did he breathe a word of the invasion of
  the Riviera which happened the next day? No, not a word, the beast.

  
  1952: Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming's service in the RNVR (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) Special Branch ends with his removal from the active list.
  1952: Ian Fleming types out a letter to wife Ann.

  "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter
  and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold."

  
  
  

  
  1958: Madonna Louise Ciccone is born--Bay City, Michigan.
  
  1965: Daily Variety reports the filmmakers now consider filming one of eight Fleming novels, including On Her Majesty's Secret Service with an existing screenplay by Richard Maibaum.
  1966: The Times of London prints “Bulldog Drummond Was a Gentleman: Moral Decline Illustrated by James Bond.”
  
  1973: 鐵金剛勇破 黑魔黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò hēi mó dǎng; Iron King Mafia, or Iron King Kong Breaks the Black Devil) released in Hong Kong.

  
  

  1977: Spionen som elsket meg released in Norway.

  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy filming begins with Moneypenny at MI6.

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  1984: Roger Moore and the cast of A View to a Kill are photographed at Chantilly, France.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1985: Med doden i sikte (With Death in Sight) released in Norway.

  

  1989: Permis de tuer released in France.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1995: Roger Moore comments on Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye.

  "Both Sean Connery and I will be forgotten after everybody sees Pierce."

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2007: Fourteen cameras film the Palio di Siena horse race, Siena, Italy.
  
  2017: The press continue to overwhelmingly report Daniel Craig committing to BOND 25.
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Kill Chain #2.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #2 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017802011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: August 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/16

  As tensions rise between MI6 and CIA, James Bond investigates the death of a fellow agent. Someone is smuggling military-grade weapons to European neo-Nazis, an arms pipeline stretching from the gutters of Munich to the upper echelons of Swiss high society. The trail will lead 007 to an old friend, a deadly betrayal, and an enigmatic art connoisseur named Chantal Chevalier.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: The Physics of James Bond at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

  

  The Physics of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/wihch?lidx=1#aaaaaaaaaawihdl

  08/08/2022
  
  RWTH to Host Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
  
  The 92. Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics is scheduled to take place from August 15 to 19, 2022, at RWTH Aachen University. About 1,000 engineering researchers and applied mathematicians from all over the world are expected to attend the conference.

  As part of the conference, on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, there will be a public lecture by Professor Metin Tolan, President of the University of Göttingen (7:30 pm, H01, C.A.R.L. Lecture Hall Complex). Tolan will put the physics of James Bond to the test and provide you with insights into how X-ray glasses and magnetic watches work. He will also determine whether you can really drive across a frozen lake in a burning car and let you know whether the British Secret Service is prone to cheating.
  
  Aside from his research, Tolan is best known for his lectures as a science comedian and book author. For 13 years, the professor of experimental physics has been getting to the bottom of the engineering prowess of Bond’s gadget designer Q.

  Admission is free of charge and registration is not required.
  
  Further information: 92nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

  
  

  
  
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  August 16 Posts: 13,803

  August 17th
  
  1923: Julius Harris is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  (He dies 17 October 2004 at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Julius Harris, 81; Broke Stereotypes of Movie Roles for Black Actors

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-22-me-harris22-story.html

  By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
  Oct. 22, 2004

  Julius Harris, the deep-voiced stage and screen actor who played the villainous Tee Hee in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and Ugandan President Idi Amin in the TV movie “Victory at Entebbe,” has died. He was 81.

  Harris, a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, died of heart failure Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
  
  In an acting career that spanned four decades, Harris appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.
  
  He played such diverse roles as a preacher who headed a slave group in the 1982 Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray” and a gangster in the 1972 blaxploitation film classic “Superfly.”
  
  “Even today, if I am walking in a black neighborhood, people call me by my ‘Superfly’ name -- Scatter,” Harris told The Times last October before being honored with a tribute by the Next Generation Council of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Legacy Film Series at the Directors Guild of America Theatre.
  
  “His work helped African Americans break out of stereotypical movie roles and be seen as dynamic heroes and fully realized human beings,” actress Halle Berry said in a taped introduction to Harris’ film work.
  
  A Philadelphia native whose mother was a Cotton Club dancer and whose father was a musician, Harris served as an Army medic during World War II. After leaving the service in 1950, he found work as an orderly and eventually became a nurse before moving to New York City.
  
  As a regular at a Greenwich Village bar, he became friends with James Earl Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Al Freeman, Louis Gossett Jr. and other actors, whom he teased for being out of work.
  
  “I would say to them, ‘You bums. You are always broke. What kind of actors are you? ... I can do your job with my arms tied behind my back,’ ” he recalled in The Times interview.
  
  To back up his claim, he landed the small role of Ivan Dixon’s drunk, defeated father in “Nothing but a Man,” a critically acclaimed 1964 film about black life in the South starring Dixon and Abbey Lincoln.
  
  “Not knowing the business, feeling I had to be in character, I got me a pint of bourbon, some of the worst rotgut stuff I could get,” Harris said.
  
  When he arrived on the set, the producer and director took one look at him and said, “We can’t do anything with you today, Julius, but if you are the man we think you are, you’ll come back tomorrow.”
  
  Harris said: “I was so embarrassed. So I went back home, sobered up and came back the next day and did the master [shot] in [one] take and close-ups in two [takes] and went home.”
  
  In his review of the film, The Times’s Kevin Thomas deemed Harris’ performance superb.
  
  He is survived by his children, Kimberly and Gideon.
  
  A private memorial service will be held.

  

  Julius Harris (1923–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364918/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (92 credits)
  
  1997 ER (TV Series) - Gramps
  - Random Acts (1997) ... Gramps
  1996 The Burning Zone (TV Series) - Tribal Shaman
  - The Silent Tower (1996) ... Tribal Shaman
  1994 Shrunken Heads - Mr. Sumatra
  1993 The Gifted
  1993 Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence - Houngan
  1992 The Boys (TV Movie) - Doc
  1992 Eerie, Indiana (TV Series) - Prop Man
  - Reality Takes a Holiday (1992) ... Prop Man
  1992 Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) - James Allan Chester
  - Pennies from Heaven (1992) ... James Allan Chester
  1992 Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (TV Movie) - Elderly Farmer
  1991 Last Breeze of Summer (Short) - The Reverend
  1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Judge Adams
  - Pilot (1991) ... Judge Adams
  1991 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Jack Lee Johnson
  - Judge Not (1991) ... Jack Lee Johnson
  1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man - Old Man
  1991 The Golden Girls (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
  - Older and Wiser (1991) ... Mr. Lewis
  1990 Prayer of the Rollerboys - Speedbagger
  1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Mr. Leyland
  - Living Victim (1990) ... Mr. Leyland
  1990 Darkman - Gravedigger
  1990 To Sleep with Anger - Herman
  
  1989 1st & Ten (TV Series) - Willie Buck Newton
  - The Irreducible Bottom Line (1989) ... Willie Buck Newton
  1989 Friday the 13th: The Series (TV Series) - Simpson
  - The Butcher (1989) ... Simpson
  1988 Split Decisions - Tony Leone
  1987 Frank's Place (TV Series) - Mr. Kicks
  - Cool and the Gang: Part 2 (1987) ... Mr. Kicks
  - Cool and the Gang: Part 1 (1987) ... Mr. Kicks
  1987 A Gathering of Old Men (TV Movie) - Coot
  1987 Outlaws (TV Series) - Butch
  - Primer (1987) ... Butch
  1986 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Minister
  - The Shipshape Cruise (1986) ... Minister
  1986 Capitol (TV Series) - Papa Nebo
  - Episode dated 6 October 1986 (1986) ... Papa Nebo
  1986 Hollywood Vice Squad - Jesse
  1983-1986 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - Sgt. Major Brennan / Bardo
  - Post Partum (1986) ... Sgt. Major Brennan
  - The Grandest Jewel Thief of Them All (1983) ... Bardo
  1986 My Chauffeur - Johnson
  1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Joe
  - Mr. Magic (1985) ... Joe
  1985 Crimewave - Hardened Convict
  1985 Hollywood Wives (TV Mini-Series) - Reverend Daniel
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Reverend Daniel
  1984 The Jeffersons (TV Series) - Rev. Taylor
  - They Don't Make Preachers Like Him Anymore (1984) ... Rev. Taylor
  1984 Benson (TV Series) - Uncle Buster
  - The Reunion (1984) ... Uncle Buster
  1984 Booker (TV Movie) - Lee
  1984 Gone Are the Dayes (TV Movie) - Man #1
  1984 The Enchanted - Booker T
  1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Krohn
  - Slam Dunk (1984) ... Krohn
  1983 Going Berserk - Judge
  1983 Missing Pieces (TV Movie) - Spencer Harris
  1983 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Earl
  - Graveyard (1983) ... Earl
  1981-1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Jules / Montgomery
  - Thin Air (1982) ... Jules
  - The Least Dangerous Game (1981) ... Montgomery (as Julius W. Harris)
  1982 Voyagers! (TV Series) - Auctioneer
  - The Travels of Marco... and Friends (1982) ... Auctioneer
  1982 The Blue and the Gray (TV Mini-Series) - Preacher / Swamp Preacher
  - Part 3 (1982) ... Preacher (credit only)
  - Part 2 (1982) ... Preacher
  - Part 1 (1982) ... Swamp Preacher (credit only)
  1981 Full Moon High - Hijacker (uncredited)
  1981 Circle of Power - B.B.
  1981 Thornwell (TV Movie) - Frisco
  1980 First Family - Ambassador Longo
  1980 Gorp - Fred the Chef
  
  1979 Uptown Saturday Night (TV Movie) - Geechie Dan
  1979 Delta Fox
  Tiny (as Julius W. Harris)
  1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - Doc Alden
  - The Slam (1979) ... Doc Alden
  1978-1979 Insight (TV Series) - Baggott / Avry
  - Plus Time Served (1979) ... Baggott
  - The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Avry
  1979 Vega$ (TV Series) - Yancy
  - Kill Dan Tanna! (1979) ... Yancy
  1978 B.J. and the Bear (TV Series) - Colonel Whitmore
  - The Foundlings (1978) ... Colonel Whitmore
  1978 To Kill a Cop (TV Movie) - Detective Baker
  1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Mr. Dove
  - Voodoo Doll, Part II (1978) ... Mr. Dove
  - Voodoo Doll: Part 1 (1978) ... Mr. Dove
  1978 Ring of Passion (TV Movie) - Chappie Jackson
  1977 The Fat Albert Christmas Special (TV Short) - Mr. Tyrone (voice)
  1977 Kojak (TV Series) - Joe Addison
  - Once More from Birdland (1977) ... Joe Addison
  1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar - Black Cat
  1977 Alambrista! - 2nd Drunk
  1977 Visions (TV Series) - Second Drunk
  - Alambrista! (1977) ... Second Drunk
  1977 Islands in the Stream - Joseph
  1977 Sanford and Son (TV Series) - Doctor
  - The Will (1977) ... Doctor
  1976 Good Times (TV Series) - Ben Foster
  - Florida's Night Out (1976) ... Ben Foster
  1976 Victory at Entebbe (TV Movie) - President Idi Amin (as Julius W. Harris)
  1976 King Kong - Boan
  1976 Rich Man, Poor Man (TV Mini-Series) - Augie
  - Part II: Chapters 3 and 4 (1976) ... Augie
  1975 Friday Foster - Monk Riley
  1975 Ellery Queen (TV Series) - Doyle the Butler
  - The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party (1975) ... Doyle the Butler
  1975 Let's Do It Again - Bubbletop Woodson
  1975 Doctors' Hospital (TV Series) - Tolan
  - Knives of Chance (1975) ... Tolan
  1975 Cannon (TV Series) - Millner
  - Search and Destroy (1975) ... Millner
  1975 A Cry for Help (TV Movie) - George Rigney (as Julius W. Harris)
  1975 Harry O (TV Series) - Arthur 'Art Sully' Daniels
  - Sound of Trumpets (1975) ... Arthur 'Art Sully' Daniels
  1974-1975 Salty (TV Series) - Clancy
  - The Vigil (1975) ... Clancy
  - To Taylor from Salty with Love (1975) ... Clancy
  - Sentimental Value (1975) ... Clancy
  - A Sense of Worth (1975) ... Clancy
  - Scape Goat (1974) ... Clancy
  ... 20 episodes
  1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - Inspector Daniels
  1973 Blade - Card Player
  1973 Hell Up in Harlem - Papa Gibbs (as Julius W. Harris)
  1973 Shock-a-bye, Baby (TV Movie)
  1973 The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) - Mr. Billings
  - Blues for Mr. Borden (1973) ... Mr. Billings
  1973 Salty - Clancy Ames (as Julius W. Harris)
  1973 Live and Let Die - Tee Hee (as Julius W. Harris)
  1973 Black Caesar - Mr. Gibbs (as Julius W. Harris)
  1972 Trouble Man - Big
  1972 Super Fly - Scatter (as Julius W. Harris)
  1972 Shaft's Big Score! - Capt. Bollin (as Julius W. Harris)
  1971 Incident in San Francisco (TV Movie) - Henry Carter
  
  1969 Slaves - Shadrach
  1968-1969 N.Y.P.D. (TV Series) - Hector / Banks
  - Candy Man: Part 2 (1969) ... Hector
  - Candy Man: Part 1 (1969) ... Hector
  - Which Side Are You On? (1968) ... Banks
  1964 Nothing But a Man - Will Anderson

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1964: CBC-TV Explorations airs Ian Fleming: The Brain Behind Bond, the author's last recorded interview.

  

  Ian Fleming: the brain behind Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1856624190

  56 years ago Archives 27:16
  
  Explorations airs an intimate chat with James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
  

  See it here:
  

  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1856624190/

  

  
  

  

  Ian Fleming: The Brain
  Behind Bond

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327351/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2
  27min | Documentary | Episode aired 17 August 1964
  
  Trivia

  This interview was first broadcast by CBC-TV's Explorations five days after Ian Fleming passed away.

  1968: Helen Elizabeth McCrory is born--Paddington, London, England.
  (She dies at 16 April 2021 at age 52--London, England.)

  

  Helen McCrory, British ‘Skyfall’ and
  ‘Harry Potter’ Actress, Dies at Age 52

  ‘GO NOW, LITTLE ONE’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thedailybeast.com/helen-mccrory-british-skyfall-and-harry-potter-actress-dies-at-age-52

  Cheyenne Roundtree | Entertainment Reporter
  Published Apr. 16, 2021 12:18PM ET

  
  Photo: Stuart C. Wilson

  British actress Helen McCrory has died of cancer at age 52 surrounded by family, her husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced Friday. “I’m heartbroken to announce that after a heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family,” he wrote on Twitter. “She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.” Lewis and McCrory had been married for 14 years, with 14-year-old daughter Manon and 13-year-old son Gulliver.

  With more than 72 acting credits to her name, McCrory was best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders, the Harry Potter franchise, and the James Bond movie Skyfall.

  

  Helen McCrory (1968–2021)

  Actress
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567031/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Live and Let Die released in Ireland.
  1979: Kuuraketti (Swedish: Månraketen, Moon Rocket) released in Finland.

  

  
  Not to be confused with:

  
  
  

  1979: Måneraketten released in Norway.

  
  
  

  
  1984: Albert R. Broccoli is photographed with Bond Girls, Bond.

  
  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough films OO7 leaping from a Swiss banker's office to ground level.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/898212835951390720

  1999: Desmond Llewelyn launches the James Bond 007: A License To Thrill motion simulator, Trocadero, London.

  

  License to Thrill (1999)

  4min | Short, Action | 1999 (USA)
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853249/

  Motion Simulator Ride Film. POV James Bond as he rides a motorcycle, shoots it out with bad guys, leaps onto the trailing ladder of a helicopter from a moving train, dodges bullets and explosions, finally landing on a jet ski and saving the kidnapped girl. The most complex live action ride film ever made.
  —Keith Melton (original work)

  Full Cast & Crew
  Directed by Keith Melton
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Gary Goddard ... (writer)
  Ty Granoroli ... (writer)
  Cast
  Judi Dench ... M (Barbara Mawdsley)
  Desmond Llewelyn ... Q
  Sonny Surowiec ... Lead
  Brian Rogers ... producer
  Cinematography by Suki Medencevic
  Film Editing by Harry B. Miller III
  Art Direction by Andrew Max Cahn
  Sound Department
  James Fielden ... re-recording mixer / supervising sound editor
  Stunts
  Laura Albert ... stunts
  Sonny Surowiec ... stunt performer
  Camera and Electrical Department
  Pat O'Mara ... grip
  Max Penner ... camera operator
  Music Department
  James Fielden ... music editor
  Gary Guttman ... composer: additional music
  Script and Continuity Department
  Katalin Rogers ... script supervisor (as Katalin Kovacs Rogers)
  Other crew
  Curtis DeMartini ... production assistant

  

  James Bond 007: A License To Thrill
  (partially found motion simulator ride;
  1998-2002)

  https://lostmediawiki.com/James_Bond_007:_A_License_To_Thrill_(partially_found_motion_simulator_ride;_1998-2002)
  

  
  
  
  

  
  2005: The Denver Post reports on Pierce Brosnan talking to Entertainment Weekly about leaving the Bond role.

  

  “Bond” days over for Brosnan
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.denverpost.com/2005/08/17/bond-days-over-for-brosnan/

  
  Pierce Brosnan takes aim as James Bond in Die Another Day.
  By The Associated Press

  PUBLISHED: August 17, 2005
  
  New York – A single, surprising phone call and it was over.
  
  That’s how Pierce Brosnan says he learned that his services as James Bond would no longer be required.

  “One phone call, that’s all it took!” the 52-year-old actor tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug. 19 issue.

  Brosnan starred in four Bond films. He says that before they stopped negotiations, the producers had invited him back for a fifth time.

  “You know, the movie career for me really started with Bond,” says Brosnan, acknowledging that by the time GoldenEye premiered in 1995, he was already 42.

  He then starred as 007 in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).

  His departure from the role was a “titanic jolt to the system,” says Brosnan, followed by “a great sense of calm.” “I thought. … I can do anything I want to do now. I’m not beholden to them or anyone. I’m not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation.” Brosnan says he’s grateful to have had the role, but adds: “It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you’d have these stupid one-liners – which I loathed – and I always felt phony doing them.” He plays a foulmouthed, skirt-chasing hit man in the upcoming film The Matador. “(For this) to come on the heels of my departure from the world of Bond is sweet grace, to play this one as a farewell to that chapter in time – it certainly wasn’t planned.”

  

  
  2010: Pegasus Books releases James Bond: Choice of Weapons: Three 007 Novels collecting Raymond Benson's Zero Minus Ten, The Facts of Death and The Man With The Red Tattoo. Plus short stories "Live at Five" and "Midsummer Night's Doom."

  
  
  

  2015: Premiere of the OMEGA Seamaster 300 Spectre Limited Edition wristwatch.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #9 Eidolon Part Three.
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #9

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181809011
  Cover A: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: August 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/17

  EIDOLON, Part Three: Bond is sent to breach a secret base in the depths of England, alone, without back-up, and fully deniable: a place from Cold War history, with only one way in and one way out, while the forces of security services all over the world are seemingly ranged against MI6, and all Bond has is his gun and a few pieces of a bloody, dark puzzle...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: James Bond @007 promotes two new Aston Martins.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1295344634303057921

  
  
  
  
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  2022: Pelorus offers tailored Bond travel packages.

  

  This New 007-Inspired Travel Package Lets You Go
  on James Bond ‘Missions’ Around the Globe
  From disarming explosives in Greenland to sipping martinis in Venice.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/travel-experience-james-bond-fantasy-1234738720/

  By Dana Givens

  

  If you’ve ever fantasized about playing the world’s most famous spy, Pelorus wants to make your dreams come true.
  
  The travel company has unveiled a collection of James Bond-inspired packages promising to give travelers their very own James Bond adventure. The experiences, tailored to emulate 007’s greatest cinematic missions, were created in honor of the latest Bond flick, No Time To Die.
  
  The collection offers four 007 “missions”—should you choose to accept them. One adventure will have you disarming “explosives” while traveling across frozen waters in Greenland for 12 days. On another you’ll sail on a 10-day excursion from the Andaman Sea to the Surin Islands in Thailand. You can also embark on a high-speed supercar race in the Scottish highlands for an extended weekend, or you can head to the Dolomites and Venice to sip martinis, Bond style.

  “Pelorus can craft bespoke experiences from the luxurious to the high octane to bring out your inner Bond,” Elise Ciappara, Pelorus’s head of yacht expeditions, wrote in an email Robb Report. “We can tailor experiences to allow you to step into the shoes of Bond anywhere in the world.”

  Experiences include traveling Greenland’s frozen tundra to disarm “explosives” with your own team.

  
  Giuseppe Ghedina/Pelorus

  After your spy work is done for the day, you’ll be able to relax in comfort. All experiences include five-star accommodations, ranging from private buy-outs at a lavish hotel to a private chateau. And when it comes time to eat, you’ll be treated to the services of a personal chef, who will create a custom menu based on your rarified preferences.
  
  Rates for the trips vary, depending on the expedition you choose. Greenland’s frozen tundra costs $500,000 for a group of 12 people, while the voyage to the Surin Islands start at $12,000 per person. (Neither experience includes the cost of your yacht charter.) For supercar driving in Scotland, rates start at $15,000 for two people, and the voyage to the Dolomites and Venice starts at $10,000 per night.
  
  Your move, Mr. Bond.

  
  
  

  
  
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  August 17 Posts: 13,803

  August 18th
  
  1934: Rafer Lewis Johnson is born--Hillsboro, Texas.
  (He dies 2 December 2020 at age 86--Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Rafer Johnson

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Rafer Johnson
  
  Johnson at the 1960 Olympics

  Personal | information
  Full name | Rafer Lewis Johnson
  Born | August 18, 1934 | Hillsboro, Texas, U.S.
  Died | December 2, 2020 (aged 86) | Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
  Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
  Weight 91 kg (201 lb)
  Spouse(s) Elizabeth Thorsen (m. 1971)​

  Sport
  Sport | Athletics
  Event(s) | Decathlon
  Club | Southern California Striders, Anaheim

  Achievements and titles - Personal Bests
  100 m – 10.3 (1957)
  220 yd – 21.0 (1956)
  400 m – 47.9 (1956)
  110 mH – 13.8 (1956)
  HJ – 1.89 m (1955)
  PV – 4.09 m (1960)
  LJ – 7.76 m (1956)
  SP – 16.75 m (1958)
  DT – 52.50 m (1960)
  JT – 76.73 m (1960)
  Decathlon – 8392 (1960)

  Medal record | Representing United States
  Olympic Games
  Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Decathlon
  Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Decathlon
  Pan American Games
  Gold medal – first place 1955 Mexico City Decathlon

  Rafer Lewis Johnson (August 18, 1934 – December 2, 2020) was an American decathlete and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold in the 1955 Pan American Games. He was the USA team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic cauldron at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.

  In 1968, Johnson, football player Rosey Grier, and journalist George Plimpton tackled Sirhan Sirhan moments after he had fatally shot Robert F. Kennedy.
  
  After he retired from athletics, Johnson turned to acting, sportscasting, and public service and was instrumental in creating the California Special Olympics. His acting career included appearances in The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), the Elvis Presley film Wild in the Country (1961), Pirates of Tortuga (1961), None but the Brave (1965), two Tarzan films with Mike Henry, The Last Grenade (1970), Soul Soldier (1970), Roots: The Next Generations (1979), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), and Think Big (1990).

  Biography
  Johnson was born in Hillsboro, Texas on August 18, 1934. His family moved to Kingsburg, California, when he was aged nine. For a while, they were the only black family in the town. A versatile athlete, he played on Kingsburg High School's football, baseball and basketball teams. He was also elected class president in both junior high and high school. The summer between his sophomore and junior years in high school (age 16), his coach Murl Dodson drove Johnson 24 miles (40 km) to Tulare and watched Bob Mathias compete in the 1952 U.S. Olympic decathlon trials. Johnson told his coach, "I could have beaten most of those guys." Dodson and Johnson drove back a month later to watch Mathias's victory parade. Weeks later, Johnson competed in a high school invitational decathlon and won the event. He also won the 1953 and 1954 California state high school decathlon meets.
  
  In 1954 as a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), his progress in the event was impressive; he broke the world record in his fourth competition. He pledged Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, America's first non-sectarian fraternity, and was class president[6] at UCLA. In 1955, in Mexico City, he won the title at the Pan American Games.
  
  Johnson qualified for both the decathlon and the long jump events for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. However, he was hampered by an injury and forfeited his place in the long jump. Despite this handicap, he managed to take second place in the decathlon behind compatriot Milt Campbell. It would turn out to be his last defeat in the event.
  
  Due to injury, Johnson missed the 1957 and 1959 seasons (the latter due to a car accident), but he broke the world record in 1958 and again in 1960. The crown to his career came at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. His most serious rival was Yang Chuan-Kwang (C. K. Yang) of Taiwan. Yang also studied at UCLA; the two trained together under UCLA track coach Elvin C. "Ducky" Drake and had become friends. In the decathlon, the lead swung back and forth between them. Finally, after nine events, Johnson led Yang by a small margin, but Yang was known to be better in the final event, the 1500 m. According to The Telegraph (UK), "legend has it" that Drake gave coaching to both men, with him advising Johnson to stay close to Yang and be ready for "a hellish sprint" at the end, and advising Yang to put as much distance between himself and Johnson before the final sprint as possible.
  
  Johnson ran his personal best at 4:49.7 and finished just 1.2 sec slower than Yang, winning the gold by 58 points with an Olympic record total of 8,392 points. Both athletes were exhausted and drained and came to a stop a few paces past the finish line leaning against each other for support. With this victory, Johnson ended his athletic career.
  
  At UCLA, Johnson also played basketball under legendary coach John Wooden and was a starter for the Bruins on their 1958–59 team. Wooden considered Johnson a great defensive player, but sometimes regretted holding back his teams early in his coaching career, remarking, "imagine Rafer Johnson on the [fast] break."
  
  Johnson was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the 28th round (333rd overall) of the 1959 NFL Draft as a running back.
  
  While training for the 1960 Olympics, his friend Kirk Douglas told him about a part in Spartacus that Douglas thought might make him a star: the Ethiopian gladiator Draba, who refuses to kill Spartacus (played by Douglas) after defeating him in a duel. Johnson read for and got the role, but was forced to turn it down because the Amateur Athletic Union told him it would make him a professional and therefore ineligible for the Olympics. The role eventually went to another UCLA great, Woody Strode. In 1960, Johnson began acting in motion pictures and working as a sportscaster. He made several film appearances, mostly in the 1960s. Johnson worked full-time as a sportscaster in the early 1970s. He was a weekend sports anchor on the local NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, KNBC, but seemed uncomfortable in that position and eventually moved on to other things.

  Johnson worked on the presidential election campaign of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and on June 5, 1968 with the help of Rosey Grier, he apprehended Sirhan Sirhan immediately after Sirhan had assassinated Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy died the following day at Good Samaritan Hospital. Johnson discussed the experience in his autobiography, The Best That I Can Be (published in 1999 by Galilee Trade Publishing and co-authored with Philip Goldberg).

  
  Johnson at the 1972 Special Olympics

  Johnson served on the organizing committee for the first Special Olympics competition in Chicago in 1968, hosted by Special Olympics founder, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the next year he led the founding of the California Special Olympics. Johnson, along with a small group of volunteers, founded California Special Olympics in 1969 by conducting a competition at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for 900 individuals with intellectual disabilities. Following the first California Games in 1969, Johnson became one of the original members of the Board of Directors. The board worked together to raise funds and offer a modest program of swimming and track and field. In 1983, Rafer ran for President of the Board to increase Board participation, reorganize the staff to most effectively use each person's talents, and expand fundraising efforts. He was elected president and served in the capacity until 1992, when he was named Chairman of the Board of Governors.
  
  Family
  Johnson married Elizabeth Thorsen in 1971. They had two children and four grandchildren.
  
  Johnson's brother Jimmy is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and his daughter Jennifer competed in beach volleyball at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney following her collegiate career at UCLA. His son Joshua Johnson followed his father into track and field and had a podium finish in the javelin throw at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
  
  Johnson participated in the Art of the Olympians program.
  
  Rafer Johnson died after suffering a stroke on December 2, 2020 at Sherman Oaks, California. He was 86.

  
  Johnson at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
  
  
  Johnson in 2016.

  Achievements
  Johnson was named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 1958 and won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States in 1960, breaking that award's color barrier. In 1962, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He was chosen to ignite the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1994, he was elected into the first class of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.
  
  In 1998, Johnson was named one of ESPN's 100 Greatest North American Athletes of the 20th Century. In 2006, the NCAA named him one of the 100 Most Influential Student Athletes of the past 100 years. On August 25, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Johnson would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit. The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009, in Sacramento, California. Johnson was a member of The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C. National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.
  
  Rafer Johnson Junior High School in Kingsburg, California is named after Johnson, as are Rafer Johnson Community Day School and Rafer Johnson Children's Center, both in Bakersfield, California. The latter school, which has classes for special education students from the ages of birth-5, also puts on an annual Rafer Johnson Day. Every year Johnson himself spoke at the event and cheered on hundreds of students with special needs as they participated in a variety of track and field events.
  
  In 2010, Johnson received the Fernando Award for Civic Accomplishment from the Fernando Foundation and in 2011, he was inducted into the Bakersfield City School District Hall of Fame. Additionally, Rafer acted as the athletic advisor to Dan Guerrero, Director of Athletics at UCLA. He was Inducted into the Texas Track and Field Coaches Hall of Fame, Class of 2016.
  
  In November 2014, Johnson received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development, in recognition of his community service efforts and work with youth.
  
  In 2005, Johnson was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Whittier College.
  
  Encounter with Vitray Tamás
  Tamás Vitray [hu], a known personality of the Hungarian television profession, conducted the first interview of his career with Rafer Johnson on August 5, 1958 at an athletics competition. Due to Tamás' smaller height, the cameraman was unable to include him in the frame. They solved this problem by having Vitray stand on a stool during the interview, negating the height difference. In 1960, Johnson won a gold medal in ten trials at the Rome Olympics. His victory was mediated by Tamás Vitray in Hungary.
  
  Filmography
  
  Actor
  The Sins of Rachel Cade (1960) – Kosongo
  Wild in the Country (1961) – Davis
  Pirates of Tortuga (1961) – John Gammel
  None but the Brave (1965) – Pvt. Johnson
  Tarzan and the Great River (1967) – Barcuma, Afro-Brazilian leader of the Jaguar Cult
  Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968) – Nagambi, villain who hinders Tarzan's search for the Jungle Boy
  The Last Grenade (1970) – Joe Jackson
  Soul Soldier (1970) – Pvt. Armstrong
  The Games (1970) – Commentator
  Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
  Licence to Kill (1989) – Mullens
  Think Big (1990) – Johnson
  
  Production roles
  Billie (1965, technical advisor)
  The Black Six (1973, associate producer)

  1958 Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year
  
  
  1960 Summer Olympics, Rome
  
  
  
  
  1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles
  
  
  
  
  
  1989 Licence to Kill
  
  
  
  

  
  1957: Carole Bouquet is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, France.
  
  1960: Ian Fleming's letter to Richard Chopping instructs the design of the Thunderball book cover.

  "Two cards will definitely be better than one,
  and the second card should be an ace —
  perhaps the Ace of Spades — if you can bear
  the additional labour.
  
  "Secondly, I think the Queen of Diamonds
  would be better than the Queen of Hearts
  as money is a keynote of the book."

  
  
  

  
  1971: Robert Peter Fleming dies 18 August 1971 at age 64--Black Mount, Scotland.
  (Born 31 May 1907--Mayfair, London, England.)

  

  Peter Fleming

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fleming_(writer)
  Lieutenant Colonel Robert Peter Fleming OBE DL (31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, soldier and travel writer. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

  
  Peter Fleming OBE DL

  Born Robert Peter Fleming, 31 May 1907, Mayfair, London, England
  Died 18 August 1971 (aged 64), Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland
  Resting place St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Nettlebed
  Education Eton College
  Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford
  Occupation Writer, adventurer
  Spouse(s) Celia Johnson (m. 1935)
  Children 3
  Relatives Ian Fleming (brother)

  Early life
  Peter Fleming was one of four sons of the barrister and MP Valentine Fleming, who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910. Fleming was educated at Eton, where he edited the Eton College Chronicle. The Peter Fleming Owl (the English meaning of "Strix", the name under which he later wrote for The Spectator) is still awarded every year to the best contributor to the Chronicle. He went on from Eton to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in English.
  
  Fleming was a member of the Bullingdon Club during his time at Oxford. On 10 December 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson (1908–1982), best known for her roles in the films Brief Encounter and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
  
  Travels
  In Brazil
  In April 1932 Fleming replied to an advertisement in the personal columns of The Times: "Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy Fawcett; abundant game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns; highest references expected and given." He then joined the expedition, organised by Robert Churchward, to São Paulo, then overland to the rivers Araguaia and Tapirapé, heading towards the last-known position of the Fawcett expedition.
  
  During the inward journey the expedition was riven by increasing disagreements as to its objectives and plans, centred particularly on its local leader, whom Fleming disguised as "Major Pingle" when he wrote about the expedition. Fleming and Roger Pettiward (a school and university friend recruited onto the expedition as a result of a chance encounter with Fleming) led a breakaway group.
  
  This group continued for several days up the Tapirapé to São Domingo, from where Fleming, Pettiward, Neville Priestley and one of the Brazilians hired by the expedition set out to find evidence of Fawcett's fate on their own. After acquiring two Tapirapé guides the party began a march to the area where Fawcett was reported to have last been seen. They made slow progress for several days, losing the Indian guides and Neville to foot infection, before admitting defeat.
  
  The expedition's return journey was made down the River Araguaia to Belém. It became a closely fought race between Fleming's party and "Major Pingle", the prize being to be the first to report home, and thus to gain the upper hand in the battles over blame and finances that were to come. Fleming's party narrowly won. The expedition returned to England in November 1932.
  
  Fleming's book about the expedition, Brazilian Adventure, has sold well ever since it was first published in 1933, and is still in print.
  
  In Asia
  Fleming travelled from Moscow to Peking via the Caucasus, the Caspian, Samarkand, Tashkent, the Turksib Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway to Peking as a special correspondent of The Times. His experiences were written up in One's Company (1934). He then went overland in company of Ella Maillart from China via Tunganistan to India on a journey written up in News from Tartary (1936). These two books were combined as Travels in Tartary: One's Company and News from Tartary (1941). All three volumes were published by Jonathan Cape.
  
  According to Nicolas Clifford, for Fleming China “had the aspect of a comic opera land whose quirks and oddities became grist for the writer, rather than deserving any respect or sympathy in themselves”. In One's Company, for example, Fleming reports that Beijing was “lacking in charm”, Harbin was a city of “no easily definable character”. Changchun was “entirely characterless”, and Shenyang was “non-descript and suburban". However, Fleming also provides insights into Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, which helped contemporary readers to understand Chinese resentment and resistance, and the aftermath of the Kumul Rebellion. In the course of these travels Fleming met and interviewed many prominent figures in Central Asia and China, including the Chinese Muslim General Ma Hushan, the Chinese Muslim Taoyin of Kashgar, Ma Shaowu, and Pu Yi.
  
  Of Travels in Tartary, Owen Lattimore remarked that Fleming, who "passes for an easy-going amateur, is in fact an inspired amateur whose quick appreciation, especially of people, and original turn of phrase, echoing P. G. Wodehouse in only a very distant and cultured way, have created a unique kind of travel book". Lattimore added that it "is only in the political news from Tartary that there is a disappointment," as, in his view, Fleming offers "a simplified explanation, in terms of Red intrigue and Bolshevik villains, which does not make sense."
  
  Stuart Stevens retraced Peter Fleming's route and wrote his own travel book.
  
  World War II
  Just before war was declared, Peter Fleming, then a reserve officer in the Grenadier Guards, was recruited by the War Office research section investigating the potential of irregular warfare (MIR). His initial task was to develop ideas to assist the Chinese guerrillas fighting the Japanese. He served in the Norwegian campaign with the prototype commando units – Independent Companies – but in May 1940 he was tasked with research into the potential use of the new Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) as guerrilla troops. His ideas were first incorporated into General Thorne's XII Corps Observation Unit, forerunner of the GHQ Auxiliary Units. Fleming recruited his brother, Richard, then serving in the Faroe Islands, to provide a core of Lovat Scout instructors to his teams of LDV volunteers.
  
  When Colin Gubbins was appointed to head the new Auxiliary Units, he incorporated many of Peter's ideas, which aimed to create secret commando teams of Home Guard in the coastal districts most liable to the risk of invasion. Their role was to launch sabotage raids on the flanks and rear of any invading army, in support of regular troops, but they were never intended as a post-occupation 'resistance' force, having a life expectancy of only two weeks. Peter Fleming later served in Greece, but his principal service, from 1942 to the end of the war, was as head of D Division, in charge of military deception operations in Southeast Asia, based in New Delhi, India.
  
  Fleming was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1945 Birthday Honours and in 1948 he was awarded the Order of the Cloud and Banner with Special Rosette by the Republic of China.
  
  Later life
  After the war Peter Fleming retired to squiredom at Nettlebed, Oxfordshire and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire on 31 July 1970.[14]
  
  Death
  Fleming died on 18 August 1971 from a heart attack while on a shooting expedition near Glen Coe in Scotland. His body was buried in Nettlebed Churchyard, where a stained glass window was later installed in the church dedicated to his memory. The gravestone reads:

  He travelled widely in far places;
  Wrote, and was widely read.
  Soldiered, saw some of danger's faces,
  Came home to Nettlebed.
  
  The squire lies here, his journeys ended –
  Dust, and a name on a stone –
  Content, amid the lands he tended,
  To keep this rendezvous alone.

  Family
  After the death of his brother Ian, Peter Fleming served on the board of Glidrose, Ltd, the company purchased by Ian to hold the literary rights to his professional writing, particularly the James Bond novels and short stories. Peter also tried to become a substitute father for Ian's surviving son, Caspar, who overdosed on narcotics in his twenties.
  
  Peter and Celia Fleming remained married until his death in 1971. He was survived by their three children:

  Nicholas Peter Val Fleming (1939–1995), writer and squire of Nettlebed. He deposited Peter Fleming's papers for public access at the University of Reading in 1975. These include several unpublished works, as well as the manuscripts of several of his books that are now out of print. Nichol Fleming's partner for many years was the merchant banker Christopher Roxburghe Balfour (b. 1941), brother of Neil Balfour, second husband (1969–78) of Princess Jelizaveta of Yugoslavia. Nettlebed is now jointly owned by his sisters.

  (Roberta) Katherine Fleming (b. 1946), writer and publisher, is now Kate Grimond, wife of Johnny Grimond, foreign editor of The Economist. Johnny is the elder surviving son of the late British Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, and grandson maternally of Violet Bonham-Carter, herself daughter of the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Kate and John have three children, Jessie (a journalist), Rose (an actress turned organic foods entrepreneur) and Georgia (a journalist at The Economist online).

  Lucy Fleming (born 1947), now Lucy Williams, is an actress. In the 1970s she starred as Jenny in the BBC's apocalyptic fiction series Survivors. She was first married in 1971 to Joseph "Joe" Laycock (d. 1980), son of a family friend Robert Laycock and his wife Angela Dudley Ward, and was on honeymoon at the time of her father's sudden death in Argyllshire. Lucy and Joe had two sons and a daughter, Flora. Flora and her father, Joe, were drowned in a boating accident in 1980. At the time of their deaths Lucy and Joe were separated on good terms. Lucy later married the actor and writer Simon Williams. Her sons are Diggory and Robert Laycock.

  Peter Fleming was the godfather of the British author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, who wrote Peter Fleming: A Biography (published by Jonathan Cape in 1974). Duff's father Rupert Hart-Davis, a publisher, was good friends with Peter, who gave him a home on the Nettlebed estate for many years and gave financial backing to his publishing ventures.
  
  Legacy
  The Peter Fleming Award, worth £9,000, is given by the Royal Geographical Society for a "research project that seeks to advance geographical science".
  
  Fleming's book about the British military expedition to Tibet in 1903 to 1904 is credited in the Chinese film Red River Valley (1997).
  
  Quotations

  "São Paulo is like Reading, only much farther away."
  – Brazilian Adventure

  "Public opinion in England is sharply divided on the subject of Russia. On the one hand you have the crusty majority, who believe it to be a hell on earth; on the other you have the half-baked minority who believe it to be a terrestrial paradise in the making. Both cling to their opinions with the tenacity, respectively, of the die-hard and the fanatic. Both are hopelessly wrong." – One's Company

  The recorded history of Chinese civilisation covers a period of four thousand years.
  The Population of China is estimated at 450 million.
  China is larger than Europe.
  The author of this book is twenty-six years old.
  He has spent, altogether, about seven months in China.
  He does not speak Chinese.
  - Preface, One's Company

  Fleming's works
  Fleming was a special correspondent for The Times and often wrote under the pen-name "Strix" (Latin for "screech owl") an essayist for The Spectator.
  
  Non-fiction

  1933 Brazilian Adventure – Exploring the Brazilian jungle in search of the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett.
  1934 One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 – Travels through the USSR, Manchuria and China. Later reissued as half of Travels in Tartary.
  1936 News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir – Journey from Peking to Srinagar via Sinkiang. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini). Later reissued as half of Travels in Tartary.
  1952 A Forgotten Journey – A diary Fleming kept during a journey through Russia and Manchuria in 1934. Reprinted as To Peking: A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria (2009, ISBN 978-1-84511-996-6)
  1953 Introduction to Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London
  1955 Tibetan Marches – A translation from French of Caravane vers Bouddha by André Migot
  1956 My Aunt's Rhinoceros: And Other Reflections — A collection of essays written (as "Strix") for The Spectator.
  1957 Invasion 1940 — an account of the planned Nazi invasion of Britain and British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War. Published in the United States as Operation Sea Lion
  1957 With the Guards to Mexico: And Other Excursions — A collection of essays written for The Spectator.
  1958 The Gower Street Poltergeist — A collection of essays written for The Spectator.
  1959 The Siege at Peking — An account of the Boxer Rebellion and the European-led siege of the Imperial capital.
  1961 Bayonets to Lhasa: The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904
  1961 Goodbye to the Bombay Bowler — A collection of essays written for The Spectator as 'Strix'.
  1963 The Fate of Admiral Kolchak — a study of the White Army leader Admiral Kolchak who attempted to save the Imperial Russian family at Ekaterinburg in 1918.

  Fiction

  Books
  1940 The Flying Visit – A humorous novel about an unintended visit to Britain by Adolf Hitler. Illustrated by David Low.
  1942 A Story to Tell: And Other Tales — A collection of short stories.
  1952 The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale of Our Times
  The Sett (unfinished, unpublished)
  
  Short fiction
  "The Kill" (1931)
  "Felipe" (1937)

  
  
  

  
  1973: John Barry conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl--"The James Bond Suite".
  1979: Moonraker released in Sweden.

  

  1979: The Moonraker soundtrack long play (LP) record makes the music charts.

  
  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films the auctioning of The Property of a Lady.

  
  
  
  
  

  1988: The Licence to Kill production relocates from Mexico City to Key West, Florida.
  
  2014: Tom Pevsner dies at age 87--Fife, Scotland.
  (Born 2 October 1926--Dresden, Germany.)

  

  Tom Pevsner

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

  Born Thomas C. Pevsner, 2 October 1926, Dresden, Germany
  Died 18 August 2014 (aged 87), Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
  Nationality British
  Alma mater University of Cambridge
  Occupation Assistant film director and producer
  Years active 1953–95
  Parent(s) Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lola Pevsner

  Tom Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.
  
  He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.
  
  He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society. He was editor of The Cambridge Review; after graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.

  Tom Pevsner's s notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula. He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

  He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.

  

  Tom Pevsner (1926–2014)

  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Producer | Production Manager
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678932/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  

  
  
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  1940: Jill Arlyn Oppenheim (Jill St. John) is born--Los Angeles, California.
  1942: The Dieppe Raid in Northern France targeting cipher codes and Enigma repair parts, as planned by Ian Fleming and Admiral John Godfrey, plays out as an unnecessary (but still valuable) failure.

  

  Ian Fleming, Real-Life Secret Agent and World War II Commando

  By Neely Simpson. Jan 21, 2015

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/ian-fleming-real-life-secret-agent-and-world-war-ii-commando

  
  Before he was Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, he was Commander Fleming, an intelligence officer in the Royal Navy and right-hand man to Admiral John Godfrey, Director of British Naval Intelligence. As such, Fleming was responsible for the creation of what came to be known as Assault Unit 30 (AU 30), a top-secret British commando unit specifically formed to gather intelligence. Fleming proposed the concept of AU 30 to Admiral Godfrey in a March 10, 1942 memo titled, "Proposal for Naval Intelligence Commando Unit."

  

  The idea for AU 30 came out of a British intelligence crisis happening in 1942 for which Fleming sought a solution. Code-breaking specialists working in a secret location in Buckinghamshire called Bletchley Park had had - until 1942 - great success breaking coded messages sent by German Enigma Code machines. The Enigma machines had been invented by a German scientist, and the Germans wrongly believed the codes from Enigma machines were unbreakable. Essential to the war effort, the intelligence from the code-breakers of Bletchley Park kept British forces informed about the latest German military tactics. However, in 1942 the Germans advanced their technology, upgrading the Enigma machine to a 4-rotor wheel and leaving Bletchley Park code-breakers in the dark.

  

  On August 19, 1942 Allied forces launched an attack on a German-occupied port in Northern France called Dieppe. Over 6,000 troops, predominantly Canadian, were deployed, and nearly 60 percent of those troops were killed, wounded, or captured. The Dieppe Raid, as it would come to be known, was considered a spectacular failure. Critics through the years said it was badly planned and of weak military strategy, leading to needless loss of life. The official objectives of the raid were to boost morale and to demonstrate to their allies Britain's commitment to opening a western front. However, new details brought to light by military historian, David O'Keefe, reveal that the primary and top-secret objective of the raid was to provide a diversion for Ian Fleming and Admiral Godfrey's newly formed 30 Assault Unit to steal cipher code books and spare parts of the German Enigma machine for the code-breakers of Bletchley Park.
  
  A hotel in the town of Dieppe had been serving as the base for Nazi operations, and a German radar station was located in the cliffs around the port. The Dieppe Raid was 30 Assault Unit's very first mission; the hotel and the radar station were their primary targets. However, they were unsuccessful. Ironically, and perhaps tragically, a mere two weeks following the raid, the Bletchley Park code-breakers were able to break the new German Enigma codes without the cipher code books and spare parts housed in Dieppe.

  

  Despite the nonsuccess of the Dieppe Raid, both Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten defended the raid years later saying that the lessons learned at Dieppe ultimately led to the victory of D-Day. Even though their first mission failed, Assault Unit 30 had great success throughout the rest of World War II, participating in both the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Paris.

  

  Lot 461
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  Naval jacket worn by Fleming during the Dieppe Raid of 1942, whilst he was serving in the Naval Intelligence Division
  Sold for £ 13,750 (US$ 17,983) inc. premium
  
  22 Nov 2011, 10:30 GMT
  
  London, New Bond Street

  FLEMING (IAN)
  Naval jacket worn by Fleming during the Dieppe Raid of 1942, whilst he was serving in the Naval Intelligence Division, a double-breasted navy blue jacket with deep red lining, eight buttons, stretched fabric collar and pocket trims; together with the accreditation card of John F.C. Bryce, as a foreign correspondent on the North American Newspaper Alliance, SIGNED BY FLEMING in his capacity as European Vice-President (2)
  
  Footnotes
  COMMANDER FLEMING'S NAVAL JACKET. At the outbreak of war Ian Fleming joined the Naval Intelligence Division, where he was "quickly promoted from lieutenant to commander. He liaised on behalf of the director of naval intelligence with the other secret services. One of few people given access to Ultra intelligence, he was responsible for the navy's input into anti-German black propaganda" (ODNB). Primarily based at the Admiralty's Room 39, Fleming accompanied the allied troops as an observer on the "Dieppe Raid", an assault on the German held port carried out on 19 August, 1942.
  
  Provenance: Gifted by Ian Fleming to Ivar Bryce, a friend since his school days at Eton. Fleming dedicated Diamonds Are Forever to him and borrowed his middle name (Felix) for James Bond's best friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter. The dust-jacket of Diamonds featured an illustration of a diamond known as "Afghanistan" which belonged to Ivar's third wife Jo Bryce, and many of the local names in the book are based on Bryce's farm in Vermont where Fleming was a regular visitor; Bryce's niece Janet married David Mountbatten, third Marquess of Milford Haven, and the jacket is being sold by his great nephew, Lord Ivar Mountbatten.
  
  Exhibited: For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond Exhibition, Imperial War Museum, April 2008-March 2009.

  

  
  1967: The You Only Live Twice soundtrack debuts on the top 40 Billboard 200 album chart, eventually reaching 27.
  
  1981: James Bond comic strip Doomcrack ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 2 February 1981. 1-174)
  Harry North, artist (known for Mad magazine parodies). Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  
  Tamil Comic
  https://tamilcomicsulagam.blogspot.com/2010/01/?m=1
  

  1983: Octopussy released in Norway.
  1988: Licence to Kill films OO7 and Felix chasing Sanchez by chopper.
  
  2014: Jimmy Fallon challenges Pierce Brosnan to a game of GoldenEye 007, N64 style.

  

  2015: Pierce Brosnan comes clean about the knife in his luggage discovered by airport security.

  

  Pierce Brosnan on knife incident: 'It wasn't for hunting, it
  was for my art supply'
  The Irish actor was at the premiere of his new movie No Escape when he was asked about the controversy

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  By Keeley Ryan | 19 AUG 2015

  
  Pierce Brosnan (Image: XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM)

  
  Pierce Brosnan insists the knife he tried to bring on a plane wasn't for hunting - it was for his art.
  
  The Irish actor was at the premiere of his new flick No Escape earlier this week when he was asked about the customs controversy.
  
  The former James Bond star told news show Extra that he wasn't trying to smuggle a weapon onto a plane - but that the knife was for his art, not hunting.
  
  He said: "I'm a painter. I'm an artist, so I had my pencils.
  
  "The knife just went into the bag - you want to keep your pencils sharpened."

  
  
  Pierce Brosnan was searched by TSA after finding a knife with him while with son Paris Beckett
  at Burlington Airport, Vermont. TSA stopped him for a second scan of his carry on briefcase (Image: INF)

  Reports suggested that the 62-year-old star tried to board a flight with a 10-inch hunting knife in his carry-on luggage earlier this month.
  
  Pierce Brosnan is best known for playing James Bond in the films GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.
  
  Since then, he has starred in films such as The Thomas Crown Affair, The Ghost Writer and Mamma Mia.

  
  2021: Orion Books releases a 40th anniversary edition of John Gardner's Licence Renewed.

  
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  August 20th
  
  1963: Ian Fleming writes "OO7 in New York" (original title "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac").

  

  
  

  "OO7 in New York", Ian Fleming.

  The Carey Cadillac, as a message had told him, was already waiting. James Bond always used the firm. They had fine cars and superb drivers, rigid discipline and total discretion, and they didn't smell of stale cigar smoke. Bond ever wondered if Commander Carey's organization, supposing it had equated David Barlow with James Bond, would have betrayed their standards by informing CIA. Well, no doubt the United States had to come first, and anyway, did Commander Carey know who James Bond was? The Immigration people certainly did. In the great black bible with the thickly printed yellow pages the officer had consulted when he took Bond's passport, Bond knew that there were three Bonds and that one of them was 'James, British, Passport 391354. Inform Chief Officer.' How closely did Careys work with these people? Probably only if it was police business. Anyway, James Bond felt pretty confident that he could spend twenty-four hours in New York, make the contact and get out again without embarrassing explanations having to be given to Messrs Hoover or McCone. For this was an embarrassing, unattractive business that M had sent Bond anonymously to New York to undertake. It was to warn a nice girl, who had once worked for the Secret Service, an English girl now earning her living in New York, that she was cohabiting with a Soviet agent of the KGB attached to the UN and very close to learning her identity. It was doing the dirt on two friendly organizations, of course, and it would be highly embarrassing if Bond were found out, but the girl had been a first-class staff officer, and when he could, M looked after his own. So Bond had been instructed to make contact and he had arranged to do so, that afternoon at three o'clock, outside (the rendezvous had seemed appropriate to Bond) the Reptile House at the Central Park Zoo.
  
  Bond pressed the button that let down the glass partition and leaned forward. 'The Astor, please.'
  
  'Yes, sir.' The big black car weaved through the curves and out of the airport enclave on to the Van Wick Expressway, now being majestically torn to pieces and rebuilt for the 1964-1965 World's Fair.
  
  James Bond sat back and lit one of his last Morland Specials. By lunchtime it would be king-size Chesterfields.

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  1964: Singer Shirley Bassey, guitarist Vic Flick, and songwriter John Barry record the title song for Goldfinger at London's CTS Studios in an overnight session. Note the EMI producer for the recording is George Martin.

  

  

  1964: Dr. No released in Belgium.

  1970s Re-release
  

  
  1973: Roger Moore, performing on Broadway in 'The Play What I Wrote', is photographed with Yvonne Elliman of the Jesus Christ Superstar cast.

  
  
  

  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films OO7 and Saida's magnificent abdomen.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: James Bond comic strip The Paradise Plot begins in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 4 June 1982. 175-378) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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  Swedish Semic Comic 1982
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  007 På Nytt, Laddat Uppdrag
  (007 In New Assignment - The Paradise Plot)
  [Part 1] [Part 2]
  
  [Part 3]
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_tpp2.php3?s=comics&id=01748

  
  

  1982: An Indian Airlines flight from Mumbai to New Delhi is hijacked by a militant Sikh. Among the 69 passengers is production designer Peter Lamont, set to work on Octopussy.

  

  Commandos kill hijacker of Air India Jet

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/20/Commandos-kill-hijacker-of-Air-India-Jet/9528398664000/

  By STEWART SLAVIN
  
  NEW DELHI, India -- A pistol-waving religious zealot hijacked an Indian Airlines jet carrying 69 people Friday but was shot and killed by commandos moments before he had threatened to begin killing his hostages.
  
  The frantic, six-hour drama ended about 350 miles north of New Delhi at Amritsar airport when two commandos and two policemen disguised as 'sweepers' entered the Boeing 737 and killed the hijacker during a brief gun battle. Police said the hijacker was armed with a .32-caliber pistol.
  
  The hijacker, who also wielded what appeared to be a grenade, had promised to begin 'shooting one passenger every hour' unless his demands were met in the sixth hour of the hijacking.
  
  There were no injuries reported among the 63 passengers. Among the crew of six, a stewardess was hurt when she jumped out of the plane as the shooting began, the Press Trust of India said.
  
  An Indian Airlines officials said all those on board were 'perfectly safe.'
  
  The body of the hijacker, identified as Museebat Singh, tumbled out of the hot and steamy aircraft three hours after the jet touched down in Amritsar, police said. Two hijacking dramas by Sikh extremists have ended in Amritsar in the last 16 days.
  
  Singh identified himself as a member of the Sikh religious sect, which is fighting for independence in the northern Punjab state.
  
  The hijacker stormed the cockpit of the plane, headed from New Delhi to Bombay, moments after it took off from a scheduled stop in Jodhpur, 350 miles southwest of New Delhi. He ordered the plane to Lahore, Pakistan, and presented a list of six demands, his gun trained to the head of Capt. Surendra Mohan throughout much of the ordeal.
  
  Authorities in Lahore refused permission for the jet to land, forcing the jet to land at Amritsar.
  
  A woman and her infant daughter, who later told police the hijacker ordered passengers to 'sit calmly,' were released. Moments later, the hijacker ordered the plane to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  
  Included in the hijacker's demands was a meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, $84,000 in West German currency, and the transfer of power of the chief minister of Punjab State, Darbara Singh, to the former chief minister of state, Prakash Singh Badal, an opposition leader.

  
  

  
  2018: Aston Martin announces they'll produce 25 Aston Martin DB5s. With gadgets, not street legal.

  

  Aston Martin to produce 25 Bond replica Goldfinger DB5s
  Cars to have gadgets seen in films, but will not be road legal; they'll cost £3.3 million in the UK

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-produce-25-bond-replica-goldfinger-db5s

  Jimi Beckwith - 20 August 2018

  

  Aston Martin will create 25 Goldfinger DB5s as part of its continuation projects, with these cars featuring working gadgets as seen in its six James Bond film appearances.

  Three more cars in addition to the 25 will be created, with one being kept by Aston, one to go to Eon Productions (the firm behind the Bond film franchise) and another being auctioned for charity.
  
  The gadgetry is being developed by Bond special effects supervisor Chris Corbould in collaboration with Aston’s Q bespoke department, having been officially sanctioned by Eon. They’ll be produced at Aston’s Newport Pagnell plant — the facility where the original DB5 was built.
  
  The cars will be built to a specification true to that of the film car, including features such as revolving numberplates. Modifications over the original Bond DB5 are said to boost reliability and quality compared with the film props used on the original car.
  
  Delivery of the 25 cars starts at the end of 2019, with each going for £2.75 million plus tax, putting the UK price of the car at £3.3 million.
  
  Aston boss Andy Palmer said: "To own an Aston Martin has long been an aspiration for James Bond fans, but to own a Silver Birch DB5, complete with gadgets and built to the highest standards in the very same factory as the original James Bond cars? Well, that is surely the ultimate collectors’ fantasy. The skilled craftspeople at Aston Martin Works and the expert special effects team from the James Bond films are about to make this fantasy real for 25 very lucky customers.”
  
  Previously, Aston produced a DB4 continuation run of 25 cars, each sold for £1.5 million before local taxes. Jaguar Land Rover's Classics division has also carried out continuation projects, starting with a run of Jaguar D-Types built in 2014, while Lister built continuation series of its Knobbly and Costin racers.

  Aston produced a car in 2014 specifically for use in the Bond film Spectre but, despite wearing the DB10 moniker, it was never released to the public. That said, the car's look influenced the new Vantage.

  2019: BOND 25 title reveal.

  

  
  

  
  
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  1916: Geoffrey Keen is born--Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.
  (He dies 3 November 2005 at age 89--Denville Hall, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England.)

  

  Geoffrey Keen
  Mogul oil chief in 'The Troubleshooters' and a prolific actor in professional and authority-figure roles

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geoffrey-keen-518287.html

  Tuesday 6 December 2005 01:00

  Geoffrey Ian Knee (Geoffrey Keen), actor: born London 21 August 1916;
  married first Hazel Terry (marriage dissolved), second Madeleine Howell
  (marriage dissolved), third Doris Groves (died 1989; one daughter); died
  Watford, Hertfordshire 3 November 2005.

  One of the screen's leading character actors for four decades, Geoffrey Keen was forever typecast as dour authority figures. After 20 years perfecting the type in British films, he landed a starring role on television in Mogul (1965), a topical drama about an oil conglomerate, at a time when drilling was just beginning in the North Sea.
  
  Keen played the shrewd and ruthless Brian Stead, one of the company's bosses, in a 13-part series that gained increasing popularity - and sales to more than 60 countries, as well as many awards - after it was retitled The Troubleshooters (1966-72) and ran for a further 123 episodes. The BBC's initial publicity hailed:

  Exciting stories about oilmen and the world they work in. The oilmen are everywhere. They walk in the corridors of power, drill wells in the desert, serve on the motorways. They sustain governments, dominate the Exchange, alter the face of the Earth, and keep most of the human race on the move. Oilmen are prospectors, tearing across rugged country in huge trucks; they also work in offices and have pension schemes. Some are scientists, some politicians, some are engineers, and some are very rich - and every oilman with a major company like the Mogul corporation is a subject of a vast feudal kingdom.

  Over seven years, filming took place in glamorous locations as far-flung as Venezuela, Antarctica and New Zealand. Although Keen did some location shooting, he was often stuck at Mogul's head office in London, where he would be seen stepping in and out of his Rolls-Royce.
  
  Stead, a widower who had to battle health problems - including two heart attacks - rose from his position as the company's deputy managing director and director of operations to become managing director, but the actor was frustrated at playing what he considered to be a dictator. So merciless was Stead that Keen's own daughter, Mary, refused to watch her father on television and would sit on the stairs with her hands over her ears. The actor also found the grind of making a weekly programme very hard. "At present, I have no domestic life at all - you have to give yourself completely to a series," he said at the time.

  Keen soon switched back to films to play his most enduring screen role, as the Minister of Defence, Sir Frederick Gray, in six James Bond pictures. At the end of the first one, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), set at the Polaris submarine base in Scotland, he is seen peering into an escape pod to discover 007 under the sheets with a naked "Bond girl", Barbara Bach. "Bond, what do you think you're doing?" he asks. "Keeping the British end up, sir," Roger Moore retorts.
  
  The sight of an embarrassed minister occurred several times over the following 10 years, as the dignified, by-the-book, upper-class Sir Frederick wrestled with Bond's playful attitude to his job and refusal to take missions seriously, in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987, in which Timothy Dalton took over as Ian Fleming's secret agent).

  Born Geoffrey Knee in London in 1916, he had a difficult childhood. His mother and father, Malcolm - a stage actor also seen in films as doctors, detectives and aristocrats - split up before his birth. (Father and son both changed their surname to Keen by deed poll.)
  
  He and his mother moved to Bristol, where he attended the city's grammar school and worked briefly in a paint factory, before joining the Little Theatre there and spending a year in repertory productions, making his stage début as Trip in Sheridan's The School for Scandal (1932) at the age of 16.
  
  Briefly unsure about acting as a career, Keen started studying at the London School of Economics but left after two months and was awarded a scholarship to Rada, where his father was teaching, and won the prestigious Bancroft Gold Medal (1936).
  
  He then joined the Old Vic Theatre, playing Florizel in The Winter's Tale (1936) and Edgar in King Lear (1936), and continued on stage until fighting with the Royal Army Medical Corps as a corporal during the Second World War and performing with the Stars in Battledress concert party. During that time, he made his film début, directed by the legendary Carol Reed, as a corporal in The New Lot (1943), an army training film that starred Bernard Lee (later to play 007's boss, M, in the Bond films).
  
  After the war, Reed cast Keen in two thrillers, as a soldier in Odd Man Out (starring James Mason, 1947) and a detective in The Fallen Idol (written by Graham Greene and featuring Ralph Richardson, 1948). Once he played an MP in The Third Man (another Reed-Greene collaboration), the actor was on the way to becoming typecast.
  
  "It got around the studios that I only played the type of character who scowled and thumped tables," he explained, adding:
  
  I accepted any role that came my way. This is a tough profession. You can't be too choosy - you may never get another chance.
  
  As a result, he was seen as policemen in The Clouded Yellow (1950), Hunted (1952), Genevieve (1953), Portrait of Alison (1955), The Long Arm (1956), Nowhere to Go (1958), Deadly Record (1959), Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) and Lisa (1962), soldiers of all ranks in Angels One Five(1952), Malta Story (1953), Carrington V.C. (1954) and The Man Who Never Was (1955), the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in Sink the Bismarck! (1959), a doctor in Storm Over the Nile (1955), priests in Yield to the Night (1956) and Sailor Beware!(1956), a solicitor in A Town Like Alice (1956), headmasters in The Scamp (1957) and Spare the Rod (1961), a prison governor in Beyond This Place (1959), the Prime Minister in No Love for Johnnie (1961), a magistrate in The Cracksman (1963) and a British ambassador in The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1980).
  
  So prolific was Keen as a character actor, at the height of British film- making, that in one year, 1956, he appeared in 12 pictures. The following year, he and his father both acted together in Fortune Ii a Woman, playing the Young and Old Abercrombie in the crime drama starring Jack Hawkins.

  Keen's starring role on television in Mogul and The Troubleshooters came as British cinema was passing its heyday. He had already acted many character parts on the small screen, including a short run as Detective Superintendent Harvey in Dixon of Dock Green during 1966, and later took the role of Gerald Lang, the managing director of a merchant bank, in The Venturers (1975). But he was less happy acting on television and, by the 1980s, was working little except for in the Bond films. He retired in 1987, after making The Living Daylights.

  His first wife was the actress Hazel Terry and his third the actress Doris Groves, who died in 1989.
  
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  Geoffrey Keen
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Keen
  Filmography

  The New Lot (1943) as Corporal (uncredited)
  Odd Man Out (1947) as Soldier (uncredited)
  Riders of the New Forest (1948) as Mr. Rivers
  The Fallen Idol (1948) as Detective Davis
  It's Hard to Be Good (1948) as Sergeant Todd
  The Small Back Room (1949) as Pinker
  The Third Man (1949) as British Military Policeman (uncredited)
  
  Chance of a Lifetime (1950) as Bolger
  Treasure Island (1950) as Israel Hands
  Seven Days to Noon (1950) as Alf
  The Clouded Yellow (1950) as Police Inspector
  Cheer the Brave (1951) as Wilson
  Green Grow the Rushes (1951) as Spencer Prudhoe
  High Treason (1951) as Morgan Williams
  Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) as Father Vincent
  His Excellency (1952) as Morellos
  Hunted (1952) as Detective Inspector Deakin
  Angels One Five (1952) as Station Personnel: Company Sergeant Major
  Lady in the Fog (1952) as Christopher Hampden
  The Long Memory (1953) as Craig
  Genevieve (1953) as Policeman
  Turn the Key Softly (1953) as Mr. Gregory
  Malta Story (1953) as British Soldier (uncredited)
  Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) as Killeran
  Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) as Mr. Lucifer (voice)
  Face the Music (1954) as Maurie Green
  The Maggie (1954) as Campbell
  Doctor in the House (1954) as Dean
  The Divided Heart (1954) as Marks
  Carrington V.C. (1954) as President
  The Awakening (1954) as The Supervisor
  The Glass Cage (1955) as Harry Stanton
  Passage Home (1955) as Ike the bosun
  Doctor at Sea (1955) as Hornbean
  Storm Over the Nile (1955) as Dr. Sutton
  Portrait of Alison (1955) as Inspector Colby
  A Town Like Alice (1956) as Noel Strachan
  The Man Who Never Was (1956) as Gen. Archibald Nye
  The Long Arm (1956) as Chief Superintendent Malcolm
  Yield to the Night (1956) as Prison Chaplain
  Loser Takes All (1956) as Reception Clerk
  Sailor Beware! (1956) as Rev. Mr. Purefoy
  House of Secrets (1956) as Col. Burleigh, CIA
  Zarak (1956) as Carruthers (uncredited)
  The Spanish Gardener (1956) as Dr. Harvey
  Town on Trial (1957) as Charles Dixon
  The Secret Place (1957) as Mr. Haywood
  Fortune Is a Woman (1957) as Michael Abercrombie aka Young Abercrombie
  Doctor at Large (1957) as Second Examiner
  The Scamp (1957) as Headmaster
  The Birthday Present (1957) as Col. Wilson
  The Scamp (1957) as Headmaster
  Nowhere to Go (1958) as Inspector Scott
  Web of Evidence (1959) as Prison Governor
  Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) as Supt. Graham
  Deadly Record (1959) as Supt. Ambrose
  The Boy and the Bridge (1959) as Bridge Master
  The Scapegoat (1959) as Gaston
  Devil's Bait (1959) as Joe Frisby
  
  The Dover Road Mystery (1960) as Superintendent Graham
  Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff
  The Angry Silence (1960) as Davis
  The Silent Weapon (1961) as Superintendent Carter
  No Love for Johnnie (1961) as The Prime Minister – Reginald Stevens
  Spare the Rod (1961) as Arthur Gregory
  Raising the Wind (1961) as Sir John
  A Matter of WHO (1961) as Foster
  The Inspector (1962) as Commissioner Bartels
  The Spiral Road (1962) as Willem Wattereus
  Live Now, Pay Later (1962) as Reggie Corby
  Return to Sender (1962) as Robert Lindley
  The Mind Benders (1963) as Calder
  Torpedo Bay (1963) as Hodges
  The Cracksman (1963) as Magistrate
  Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) as General Pugh
  The Heroes of Telemark (1965) as General Bolt
  Doctor Zhivago (1965) as Prof. Boris Kurt
  Born Free (1966) as Kendall
  Berserk! (1967) as Commissioner Dalby
  Thunderbird 6 (1968) as James Glenn (voice)
  Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) as William Hargood
  Cromwell (1970) as John Pym
  Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) as Judge Webster Thayer
  Doomwatch (1972) as Sir Henry Leyton
  Living Free (1972) as Kendall
  QB VII (1974) as Magistrate Griffin
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Sir Frederick Gray
  No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977) as Rockwell
  Holocaust 2000 (1977) as Gynecologist
  Moonraker (1979) as Sir Frederick Gray
  Licensed to Love and Kill (1979) as Stockwell
  
  For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Sir Frederick Gray
  Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) as British Ambassador
  Octopussy (1983) as Sir Frederick Gray
  A View to a Kill (1985) as Sir Frederick Gray
  The Living Daylights (1987) as Sir Frederick Gray (final film role)

  

  Geoffrey Keen (1916–2005)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444584/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1940: Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico. Likely by SMERSH.

  

  The Kremlin’s long reach

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thearticle.com/the-kremlins-long-reach

  Nigel West | Thursday February 27, 2020

  Ian Fleming did not create Smersh out of his imagination. While he was gathering material for his fifth 007 novel, From Russia With Love, which was released in March 1957, the author attended a classified briefing in Whitehall where one of the lectures was given by Colonel Grigori Tokaev, a senior Red Army military intelligence (GRU) officer who had defected to London in November 1947. Codenamed STORK, Tokaev was the first Soviet to reveal the existence of an organised “liquidation” programme intended to eliminate Stalin’s opponents and eradicate those suspected of having collaborated with the Nazis in the German-occupied territories. According to Tokaev, Smersh had been conceived in April 1943 to combat counter-revolutionaries,

  News of Smersh’s murderous activities was received with some scepticism by the western media until a series of defections in 1954, following Stalin’s death. In particular, Nikolai Khokhlov described how he had been employed to kill Ukrainian nationalists and betrayed two fellow-assassins deployed by the KGB whom he persuaded to seek political asylum. Thus the west learned of the existence of the Thirteenth Department and was able to inspect some ingenious equipment designed to make the art of what was termed “west affairs” more efficient.
  
  Embarrassed by Khokhlov’s disclosures, the KGB pretended to disband Department 13, but in 1961 one of his former subordinates, Bogdan Stashinsky, defected to the CIA and confirmed that the Kremlin, prompted by unwelcome publicity, had reorganised the KGB, but instead of abolishing Smersh, had simply given it a new innocuous designation, Department V, headed by Nikolai Rodin. Alias Korovin, Rodin had been the KGB rezident in London, and had gathered a staff of about sixty specialists, some of them deployed to the Soviet zones in Germany and Austria.
  
  One failed attempt was on the life of Lisa Stein, a radio broadcaster in West Germany who in March 1955 only narrowly survived a dose of the lethal toxin scopolamine concealed in a box of chocolates. In June 1962, a defector from the Hungarian AVH, Lieutenant Bela Lapusnyik, died from a mysterious bacteriological infection while in protective custody in the maximum security wing of Rossauerlande prison. Four years later another AVH defector, Laszlo Szabo, who applied for political asylum in London, revealed that an Austrian official had been bribed to gain access to the victim. Similarly, in April 1982, a Bulgarian DIE illegal, Matei Haiducu, defected and claimed that he was assigned to murder two expatriate writers, Paul Goma and Virgil Tanase.
  
  The origins of the Thirteenth Department lay in the creation in 1936 of the Department for Special Tasks, headed by Pavel Sudoplatov, which had been responsible for the assassination of the NKVD illegal Ignace Reiss, who was shot in Lausanne in September 1937, and the death of Leon Trotsky in Mexico in August 1940. Reiss’s widow, Elizabeth Poretsky, was also a target, but was saved when her intended assassin, Gertrude Schildbach, at the last moment lost her nerve and snatched back a box of chocolates laced with strychnine.
  
  Several of Trotsky’s supporters met mysterious deaths, including his son Leon Sedov who died in February 1938 in a Paris clinic run by White Russians. One of Sedov’s assistants, Rudolf Klement, was a young German who disappeared while en route to Brussels carrying important papers, and his headless body was found in the Seine. When Trotsky had taken refuge in Prinkipo, in Turkey, he had been visited by Jacob Blumkin, a veteran revolutionary who had been implicated in the murder in 1918 of Count Mirbach, the German ambassador to Moscow, and later had joined the OGPU. When Stalin was informed that Blumkin was in touch with Trotsky, he was sentenced to death, and he was lured back over the Soviet border by his former lover, Lisa Zarubin, and shot.
  
  The KGB was also implicated in the murder in Paris in 1960 of the Polish illegal Wladyslaw Mroz who had defected to the DST and was shot dead in Paris. The full details only emerged following the defection of the UB officer Janusz Kochanski, to the CIA in February 1967. However, although the KGB learned the resettlement details of the defectors Igor Gouzenko in Canada and Vladimir Petrov in Australia, no action was taken against either.
  
  Department V adopted a wider role encompassing sabotage, and was placed within Directorate S under the personal authority of the KGB chairman, Yuri Andropov. Its principal function was to plan disruption in target countries so that in the event of hostilities a fifth column of agents could be mobilised by radio to strike at the heart of government and create chaos.
  
  The west’s knowledge of Department V was to be enhanced in 1972 by a Canadian-born Czech, Anton Sabotka, who had been placed under surveillance by the RCMP several years earlier, and the defector Oleg Lyalin, the Department V representative in the London rezidentura. His defection in August 1971 in London embarrassed the Kremlin, and as part of a programme of counter-measures to mitigate the damage, all Department V personnel were withdrawn from the field. Created in its place was the Eighth Department of Directorate S, which was henceforth restricted to a planning and training role, with the officers with operational experience dispersed between the Directorate’s four geographical departments.
  
  According to Lyalin, the KGB had closed down the Thirteenth Department after Stashinsky’s unwelcome revelations, but had retained a combined sabotage and assassination capability. He also revealed a wartime contingency plan prepared by his rezidentura to infiltrate agents disguised as official messengers into Whitehall’s system of underground tunnels to distribute poison gas capsules.
  
  In the modern era, marked by the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006, the Kremlin appears to have abandoned any concerns about western public opinion and exploited a law passed by the Duma four months earlier which authorised the extra-territorial execution of “terrorists” (a category defined so widely as to include critics of the regime). The target had been administered a dose of radio-active polonium-210, an exceptionally rare toxin associated with Russian nuclear reactors, by a pair of ex-KGB colleagues, and had died soon afterwards.
  
  Unquestionably Litvinenko, a former FSB officer who had been granted asylum in England, was a victim of state-sponsored murder, and a public inquiry conducted by a High Court judge, Sir Robert Owen, in 2014, directly implicated Vladimir Putin and his ministers. The attempt on the life of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018 also bore the hallmarks of an operation conducted by his former GRU brother officers. Three of those directly involved and implicated were serving GRU personnel, and their weapon of choice, Novochok, is a nerve agent developed during the Soviet era. Though not strictly a defector, Skripal had been released prematurely from his prison sentence, having been convicted of espionage. His freedom had been negotiated by the CIA in July 2010, in a spy-swap involving ten confessed Russian spies in American jails.
  
  But do these two acts of retribution, reprehensible though they are, amount to a change in Putin’s policy, an escalation in the east-west conflict, or even a return to the Cold War? Some would have us believe that Moscow has reacted recklessly to the economic sanctions imposed after the invasion of Crimea in 2014 by these murderous interventions. Others suggest that these events are manifestations of a chronically dysfunctional administration seeking to preserve an almost ungovernable country that boasts a GDP comparable to that of Spain.
  
  Those who interpret Putin’s behaviour as evidence that his government is controlled by a dangerous clique of cronies, who exercise power by killing journalists and other dissidents, cite numerous examples of what they term “mysterious deaths” that, for reasons of political expediency, have been deliberately overlooked by the British authorities. In 2017, the academic Amy Knight took this viewpoint in Orders to Kill, and last year the journalist Heidi Blake published From Russia With Blood, in which she claims to have uncovered fifteen examples of suspected assassinations.
  
  In her list are some familiar cases, such as Sergei Skripal (who actually survived his attack) the controversial émigré businessman Boris Berezovsky, and a flamboyant lawyer described as having been Berezovsky’s bagman, Scot Young. Other suspicious deaths include Gareth Williams, the GCHQ cryptanalyst found asphyxiated in a locked holdall in his Pimlico flat in August 2010; the Georgian politician Badri Patarkatsishvili, who died at his home in Surrey in February 2008; and Alexander Perepilichnny, a Russian financier who died while exercising near his Surrey home in November 2012.
  
  However, upon closer examination the catalogue of supposed mystery deaths is not quite what it seems. Skripal’s wife Ludmilla died, not unexpectedly, but following a lengthy battle with uterine cancer in November 2012, and her son Sasha succumbed to liver failure in July 2016 after years of alcoholism. Berezovsky, recently bankrupted, was found hanged in his own locked bathroom after he had threatened suicide. His lawyer, Stephen Moss, dropped dead from a heart attack. Young fell from his London flat, having threatened minutes earlier to take his own life. The former Aeroflot executive Nikolai Glushkov was found dead at his home in New Malden in “unexplained circumstances”, and may have been strangled. An oligarch’s lawyer, Stephen Curtis, was killed when his helicopter crashed near Bournemouth airport. Russia’s representative on the International Maritime Organisation, Igor Ponomarev, aged forty-one, had died suddenly while on a visit to London. A Times journalist, Daniel McGrory, died unexpectedly (of a brain haemorrhage) after he had remarked about Litvinenko’s assassination.
  
  For good measure, Blake has added two American cases, those of Paul Joyal, a self-styled security consultant who was wounded, having been shot twice outside his home in Adelphi, Maryland, in March 2007 by unknown assailants; and that of Mikhail Lesin, the founder of the Russia Today TV network, whose battered corpse was discovered in his hotel suite in Washington DC, in November 2015 after days of binge drinking.
  
  Whether the incident outside Joyal’s house was a car-jacking or robbery that went wrong, or a bungled attempt on his life remains moot, but the Lesin case illustrates the way reporting can be skewed and even deliberately manipulated by ostensibly credible individuals. An investigation lasting eleven months by the police and FBI agreed the media mogul and chronic alcoholic had died accidentally, having blundered drunkenly into furniture “after days of excessive alcohol consumption”.
  
  Blake’s version of Lesin’s demise, that he was bludgeoned to death by over-zealous thugs who had been hired to give him a beating, but not kill him, apparently originated from Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer who would achieve notoriety in 2016 with his now-discredited dossier on Donald Trump’s supposed links to the Kremlin. A detailed analysis of Steele’s controversial document, released in December 2019 by the FBI Inspector-General Michael Horowitz, dismissed the central charges as worthless. Horowitz had traced Steele’s purported informants, described by Blake as a “network of high-level Russian sources” and found them to have been largely invented. Indeed, the person Steele acknowledged as having been his principal (but unwitting) source he condemned as an exaggerating boaster who subsequently denounced Steele for misrepresenting his remarks which were intended to be taken with “a grain of salt”. Furthermore, Horowitz revealed that Steele had been terminated as a confidential FBI source in September 2016 ‘for cause”. He had been caught red-handed trying to dupe his Bureau contacts while simultaneously giving detailed off-the-record to newspaper reporters.
  
  According to BuzzFeed News, Steele’s report on Lesin was drawn from “intelligence gathered from high-level sources in Moscow”, yet Horowitz disclosed that Steele’s principal source was Sergei Millian, who was not even Russian, but was a self-aggrandising real-estate broker from Atlanta.
  
  Is Blake’s series of deaths linked by a common denominator, perhaps all victims of Putin’s assassination squads? Or were they in stressful, high-risk occupations where middle-age mortality is not especially unusual? In assessing the reliability of the list one should weed out the declared natural deaths (Ponomarev, McGrory, the Skripals, Moss, Perepilichnny and Patarkatsishvili), the likely suicides (Berezovsky and Young), and the explainable accidents. The Air Accidents Investigation Board examined the crash in which Curtis died and, having excluded sabotage and mechanical failure, concluded that his pilot had become disorientated and flown into the ground. Similarly, the inconclusive inquest into the bizarre circumstances of Williams’ death had led to a further police investigation which found Williams had probably died alone, having locked himself inside the bag. A weird death, but the coroner sought to protect the Williams family from some of the more strange aspects of his bondage-obsessed life.
  
  Undoubtedly, the Russian state sponsored and participated in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, and attempted to kill Sergei Skripal, and has been caught red-handed in other similar incidents, such as in February 2004 when the former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed with his two bodyguards by a bomb which detonated under his SUV in Doha as they drove home from a local mosque. On that occasion both his killers, serving GRU officers, were caught and convicted of the crime. Similarly, an FSB gun-for-hire, Oleg Smorodinov was arrested in Kiev in September 2016, having undertaken a mission to kill six names on a Kremlin hit-list.

  Paradoxically, it is the fabricators and their eager consumers at the sensationalist end of the media spectrum that unwittingly have served the Kremlin’s purpose by attributing to Putin’s puppet-masters a Macchiavellian role that is far beyond their rather simple brief, of regime survival. To over-analyse the jockeying for position in the emperor’s court, or the sheer opportunism of Moscow’s uncoordinated foreign policy, is to reinvent Fleming’s Smersh.

  
  

  
  1955: Novelist Mary F. Wickham marries James Bond in Philadelphia.

  

  NOVELIST WED TO AUTHOR;
  Mary F. Wickham Married to I James
  Bond in Philadelphia

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/21/archives/novelist-wed-to-author-mary-f-wickham-married-to-i-james-bond-in.html

  Aug. 21, 1953

  
  
  
  

  
  1961: Francisco Goya’s Duke of Wellington is stolen from the National Gallery, London, England.

  

  Days of Infamy: August 21 and
  22 and Major Art Heists

  Over a year ago - by Bob Duggan
  https://bigthink.com/Picture-This/days-of-infamy-august-21-and-22-and-major-art-heists
  

  In 1961, the British government purchased Goya’s The Duke of Wellington for the National Gallery to keep it on British soil and out of the hands of an American collector. To pay for the Duke, the British government increased the tax levied on all persons owning a television. Not liking higher taxes (or anyone trying to take away his television programs), 61-year-old pensioner Kempton Bunton sprang into action. Climbing through an open bathroom window of the National Gallery one morning, Bunton grabbed the painting and nimbly scampered back through with Goya’s portrait of the Hero of Waterloo. Reuters soon received a letter offering the return of the painting in exchange for a decrease in the television tax, which the government refused. Police were baffled. The Duke of Wellington “appeared” ever so briefly in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No hanging on wall of the title supervillain’s lair and drawing a double-take from the superspy. Four years later, the press received another letter saying where the painting could be recovered, safe and sound. Bunton surrendered voluntarily six months later and received only three months of prison time. The moral: NEVER get between an old man and his television!

  
  
  

  
  1970: James Bond comic strip The Golden Ghost starts in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 16 January 1971. 1394–1519) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tgg.php3
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1002

  

  
  https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Golden-Ghost-by-James-Duncan-Lawrence-Yaroslav-Horak-Ian-Fleming/9781845762612

  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1971
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728

  Det Gyllene Spöket
  (The Golden Ghost)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978

  

  
  Danish 1972 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no23-1972/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 23: “The Golden Ghost” (1972)
  "Det gyldne spøgelse"
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Erittäin salainen (Top Secret; Swedish Topphemligt) released in Finland.

  

  1981: Kun for dine øyne (Only For Your Eyes) released in Norway.

  
  

  
  1995: The Washington Post comments on "Bond's Fall Guise" and Brioni suits.

  

  JAMES BOND'S FALL GUISE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/08/21/james-bonds-fall-guise/c52c2847-3669-404e-bc5d-63d4f39a05f0/

  By Jill Hudson | August 21, 1995
  
  James Bond's gone Italian.
  
  When "Goldeneye," the latest installment in the 007 series, premieres in November, star Pierce Brosnan will be dressed to kill by a 50-year-old Italian clothing company called Brioni.

  "I wanted to re-create a very sort of Savile Row look for this Bond, more like the one Sean Connery had," says Lindy Hemming, the film's costume designer, whose other credits include "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "My Beautiful Laundrette." But it turns out that tailoring impeccable enough for Her Majesty's Secret Service is to be found only in Italy. "Everyone is of the opinion that Connery's Bond films never look dated. I wanted to get back to a classic, classic look, and Brioni is a respected company who dresses a special kind of gentleman."

  Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Donald Trump have all worn Brioni suits, as did old Hollywood royalty like Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and John Wayne. Nelson Mandela wore a navy single-breasted Brioni suit when he was inaugurated as president of South Africa.

  "The fit, the style, the fabric and the tailoring are why I wear Brioni suits," says Willie Brown, former speaker of the California State Assembly who is now running for mayor of San Francisco. "It's perhaps the only suit you can wear with a Beretta beneath your jacket, and no one would know you have it," Brown says, referring to 007's handgun.
  
  "Brioni suits are in a very different league than {Ermenegildo} Zegna Boss or even Armani," says Derrill Osburn, director of men's clothing for Neiman Marcus. "They are the very best hand-tailored suits in the world."
  
  J.D. Murphy, president of Computech, a Bethesda-based software development company, says: "A lot of men don't want to stick out. Brioni makes classic business suits with classic tailoring. . . .
  
  "When you want to look your best, you put on your best suit. When I want to look my best, I put on a Brioni suit."

  Elegance does have its price, of course. On average, a Brioni suit retails for $2,500, though a few are priced as high as $7,000.
  
  Retailers and clients alike cite Brioni's attention to detail and the 120-thread-count fabrics as major draws. "Besides the fine-quality fabric, the time it takes to make the garment, the expert tailors, you get a hefty price tag," says Mike Colen, co-owner of James, Ltd., a McLean-based chain of menswear stores. "It's like asking why a Mercedes is different from an American car. Some people would say, It rides, doesn't it?' Well, the discriminating customer knows the difference."
  
  Hemming looked at the work of Armani, Hugo Boss and Canali, who have designed for films in the past. But then she went to the Brioni factory in Penne, Italy, where she recalls seeing "these units of people sewing buttonholes, pockets, flaps, seams, everything by hand. I thought that this was absolutely the perfect solution. The suits were lightweight and modern in a way that felt perfect."

  Brosnan was presented with 50 handmade suits, most of which didn't survive the rigors of filming. "Of the 50 original suits," Hemming says, "only five remained unscathed. The rest were worn, and had rips and tears. They were absolutely ruined."

  Brioni caters, predictably, to an exclusive, moneyed clientele. "I think they're one of the best-kept secrets in the world," says Neiman's Osburn, whose Tysons Corner and Mazza Gallerie stores have been selling Brioni for five years and count the company as one of their top vendors.
  
  Jeanne Rose, public relations manager for Neiman Marcus at Tysons Corner, says that the Washingtonian who buys Brioni is typically "a highly successful and cleanly tailored professional man who is focused on his image and appearance."

  "What I think is really interesting," says Osburn, "is that in this time, when the world is talking about the workplace becoming more casual, one of our folk heroes is going the opposite way -- back to being well dressed."
  
  "Before this film, the Bond movies were never really about fashion; they were action-adventure pieces," says Joseph Barrato, CEO of Brioni in this country. "Now, through their association with us, Bond has a very mature, elegant wardrobe."

  In the end, Barrato hopes the partnership between Bond and Brioni will make a lasting impression on the public. "We just hope that this film will make men more aware of how to dress like a gentleman again."
  
  CAPTION: Sean Connery in "From Russia With Love": The last Bond with a classic look?
  
  CAPTION: Pierce Brosnan, who stars as James Bond in the upcoming movie "Goldeneye," in a Brioni suit.
  
  CAPTION: For his new role as James Bond in "Goldeneye," Pierce Brosnan was outfitted by Italy's Brioni tailors, whose suits average $2,500.

  
  
  
  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films Carver's death by his own sea drill.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2018: Director Danny Boyle walks out on the No Time To Die production citing creative differences.

  

  Danny Boyle Has Has Walked Out
  On Filming For Bond 25
  Brad Nash | 21 Aug 2018

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/film-tv/danny-boyle-has-has-walked-out-on-filming-for-bond-25/news-story/1b5c87bd0eb2f1d49d64f0dcbb3437ae

  
  Photo: Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images

  'Creative differences' strike again.
  
  For the last year or so, the world has wondered just what a Danny Boyle-direccted James Bond film would look like. Now, it turns out, neither Danny Boyle or the people in charge of production on the upcoming Bond 25 project could figure it out either.
  
  News has emerged today that the Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire director, many of whom regard as one of the directors best suited to nailing the quintessential modern British style that James Bond films hope to capture, has walked out on the project before filming has even started, citing 'creative differences'. The news was announced on the Bond franchise's official twitter account, with word of the walkout being made public by producers Michael J. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, along with the film's star Daniel Craig.
  
  While the news has surprised some, previous statements from Boyle himself have indicated that he may not have been the right choice for the job in the first place. When asked by BBC news back in 2013 about his interest in making a 007 film, he said he "wouldn't be the right kind of person" for the job. He's also previously stated that he's not particularly good at making 'big budget' films, saying he wouldn't be good at making a Bond flick because he's "not very good with huge amounts of money." It seems this conflict largely got the best of the project, with Boyle and EON's approach to making the film vastly different. According fan Paul Ferrer, a fan of the franchise, "Usual 'creative differences' is he wanted to make his own movie but Bond producers wanted to do as they have done for the last 50+ years."
  
  This leaves the film's production company, EON, in the rather unenviable position of bringing possibly the most-anticipated Bond film ever onto the screen in a little over a year, now without a director. ...
  
  Filming was due to begin on the film, which is Craig's fifth stint as the secret agent in December, ahead of an October 25, 2019 release. Boyle and Craig had previously worked together on a skit for the 2012 London Olympics Opening ceremony, while Boyle was also set to work with Trainspotting writer John Hodge on an original screenplay for the film.
  
  "The screenplay had originally been written by frequent Bond collaborators Neal Purvis and Robert Wade," wrote BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba, however "Boyle coming on board for Bond 25 meant that that story was replaced with a script from his close friend John Hodge.
  
  "If the film goes ahead with Hodge's script, then much of the planning of the last few months won't have been wasted."
  
  A replacement is yet to be announced.

  
  

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1031951674544476160

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #10.
  Robert Carey, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #10

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532510011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: Khoi Pham
  Cover C: Phil Hester
  Cover D: Robert Carey
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Robert Carey
  Publication Date: August 2019
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/21/2019

  "Goldfinger" continues. Final stakes are revealed. Thousands could die. And Bond...disappears. From GREG PAK (Hulkverines, Batman/Superman) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens Resistance).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1925: Honor Blackman is born--Plaistow, London, England.
  (She dies 5 April 2020 at age 94--Lewes, East Sussex, England.)

  

  Obituary: Honor Blackman

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.memoiresdeguerre.com/2020/04/obituary-honor-blackman.html

  Publié le 6 avril 2020 par BBC
  Honor Blackman was the original feisty, black-clad female agent in The Avengers.

  

  It made her a role model for an emerging generation of women and an object of desire for their men.
  
  Her characters were both sexy and intelligent and more than a match for their male co-stars.
  
  She was often compared to Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, although one cannot imagine them throwing villains around like her Avengers character, Cathy Gale.
  
  Honor Blackman was born into a lower middle class family in Plaistow, east London, on 22 August 1925.
  
  Her father offered her a choice of presents for her 16th birthday; a bicycle or elocution lessons. She chose the latter.
  
  She described her elocution teacher as an inspirational woman who introduced her to poetry and the theatre and who advised her father to enrol her in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

  
  She served as a dispatch rider during World War Two

  She studied part time while holding down a clerical job in the Home Office, and, with war raging, also worked as a motor cycle dispatch rider.
  
  Her first acting job was as an understudy in a West End play called The Guinea Pig, and, when the lead actress became ill, she was asked to step in.
  
  Further theatre roles followed before she made her film debut in Fame is the Spur, starring Michael Redgrave. Her character dies following a riding accident, a fate she narrowly avoided in real life when, during filming, her horse stepped on her hair as she lay on the ground.
  
  In the early 1950s, British cinema was dominated by the Rank Organisation and Blackman joined their Company of Youth, set up to promote up-and-coming actors and actresses.
  
  Icon
  Dubbed The Charm School by the press, it nurtured the careers of, among others, Diana Dors, Joan Collins, Christopher Lee and Anthony Steele.
  
  Over the next 10 years she appeared in a string of British films including A Night to Remember, which told the story of the Titanic disaster, and So Long at the Fair, with Dirk Bogarde.
  
  She moved into television with a role in ITV's The Four Just Men which was transmitted in 1959.

  
  Cathy Gale became something of a role model for a new generation of women - Ronald Grant Archive

  In 1961 the producers of the TV series, The Avengers, were looking for a new partner for Patrick Macnee, to replace his original co-star, Ian Hendry, who had decided to quit the series.
  
  Blackman's new character, Cathy Gale, became something of an icon for the growing numbers of women who were taking advantage of social changes to assert their rights to equality in British life.
  
  Cathy Gale showed that women could have it all. She was intelligent and witty, had her own life and career and, with her skills in unarmed combat, was capable of holding her own in a melee.
  
  As the series developed, Blackman skilfully used flirting and innuendo to create an unspoken sexual tension between Mrs Gale and Steed, although they were never intimate.
  
  Seduced
  During her time with The Avengers, Blackman and Macnee recorded a single, Kinky Boots, which became a surprise hit when it was re-released in 1990, leading to an appearance on Top of the Pops.

  Blackman stayed with The Avengers for two series but quit when she was offered the part of Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in a new James Bond film, Goldfinger.
  
  The legendary Bond producer, Albert R Broccoli, cast her on the basis of her appearance in The Avengers, despite the fact the series had not aired in the US.

  
  The role of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger brought her to a world-wide audience - Ronald Grant Archive

  "The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs Gale," he said. "The Yanks would like her because she was so good, it was a perfect combination".
  
  The film watered down Ian Fleming's original character but, nevertheless, Blackman's Pussy Galore combined all the best characteristics of Cathy Gale, although she was eventually seduced by the womanising Bond in the final scenes.
  
  At 39, Blackman was actually five years older than Sean Connery and, at the time, the oldest actress ever to play a Bond girl.
  
  "Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos," she once said. "I have never been a bimbo."
  
  Rave reviews
  While Goldfinger made her internationally known, it failed to provide a springboard for her film career. By now, she was 40, and producers tended to overlook her undoubted skills in favour of younger actresses.

  In an interview in 2009, she deplored the lack of good roles for older women.
  
  "We have all these older men with their guts hanging out still acting - they can barely put their belts round their stomach so have to belt up round their crotch - and they all carry on getting roles and are accepted and praised, whereas older women are given rather boring parts or are cut off at their prime."

  
  The BBC's Hotel Babylon provided her with one of many cameo appearances

  She appeared in a number of films, including the western Shalako, again with Connery, and the DH Lawrence tale, The Virgin and the Gypsy but none of them achieved major success.
  
  She did, however, do better in the theatre, particularly in musicals. She was in the 1981 stage revival of The Sound of Music, which starred Petula Clark and opened to rave reviews. She also appeared in A Little Night Music, On Your Toes and Nunsense.
  
  In 2005 she toured as Mrs Higgins, in a production of My Fair Lady, before taking over from Sheila Hancock in a West End production of Cabaret.
  
  Blackman also returned to television including a part in the 1986 Doctor Who series, The Trial of a Time Lord, alongside Colin Baker. She also won a new generation of fans when she played Laura West in the long running ITV sitcom, The Upper Hand.
  
  She had a brief spell as the glamorous Rula Romanoff in Coronation Street in 2004 and made a number of cameo appearances including a part in John Malkovich's black comedy film Colour Me Kubrick in 2005 and the glitzy BBC series, Hotel Babylon, in 2009.
  
  She also toured a number of one-woman shows entitled, Honor Blackman as Herself.
  
  Away from the set Blackman was a supporter of Republic, an anti-monarchy pressure group and was alleged to have turned down the offer of a CBE in 2002. She was also active in politics as a high profile member of the Liberal Democrats.
  
  She was married and divorced twice, to Bill Sankey and Maurice Kaufmann and had two children with the latter.
  
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  Patrick MacNee & Honor Blackman ("The Avengers") - Kinky Boots (1964)
  

  
  1950: Toshirô Suga is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  1959: Ivar Bryce writes partner Ian Fleming.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 7 - Hitchcock for Bond

  Maybe it was his own paranoia
  working on overdrive, but McClory came to believe that these
  communications, which it was morally and legally wrong to have withheld
  from him, denoted a stronger business relationship between Fleming and
  Bryce. They also indicated that both men were considering forming their own
  partnership in connection with the Bond film, one quite separatne and to the
  exclusion of McClory. Indeed Bryce's letter to Fleming on 22 August implied
  that such a partnership already existed. Here Bryce talked of "our joint
  venture" and "as partners in this new venture." Whereas in letters to
  McClory, Bryce described Fleming as no more than a shareholder. What was
  the truth?

  
  1962: Johanna Harwood submits the first draft of the From Russia With Love script.

  http://filmdope.com/forums/119005-russia-love-british-board-film-censors.html

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1965: Tabet's artwork highlights the Diamonds Are Forever serial in Domenica Del Corriere.

  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2010/09/

  

  
  1971: Rick Yune is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  
  1981: Rien que pour vos yeux (Just For Your Eyes) released in France.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1981: Ur dödlig synvinkel (From a Deadly Point of View) released in Sweden.

  
  
  

  1985: In the Chicago Tribune Marilyn Beck writes "James Bond Is An Invisible Man For Now", questioning the future of the franchise.

  

  James Bond Is An Invisible Man For Now

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-22-8502240979-story.html

  August 22, 1985 | By Marilyn Beck.
  
  HOLLYWOOD — The future of secret agent 007 is very much in limbo.

  "We haven`t decided if there will be another James Bond picture,"

  says Michael Wilson, associate of producer Cubby Broccoli and coproducer of this summer's A View to a Kill.
  
  In response to reports out of London that preparations are being made for the next Bond production, Wilson insists, "We have no title, no script, no writer or director. In other words, absolutely nothing has been resolved, and we`re not sure when or if it will be."
  
  Although A View (Roger Moore`s seventh starring stint as the dashing British secret agent) is doing spectacularly in some overseas markets, it has not set any records domestically. And I am told that Broccoli is agreeing privately with reviewers who believe that Moore, at 57, has become too long in the tooth for the part.
  
  The name of dashing Remington Steele leading man Pierce Brosnan has popped up as Moore's Bond successor. But Wilson insists that at this point, the casting of another Bond picture isn't even being considered. And Brosnan is taking a laid-back attitude: "I want to make movies, but I don't see what I could bring to the role that Roger Moore and Sean Connery haven't already brought."

  
  2001: The Register reports on a leaked script for BOND 20.

  

  Leaked James Bond script is kosher
  But it is only the first treatment

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theregister.com/2001/08/22/leaked_james_bond_script/

  Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco | Wed 22 Aug 2001
  
  A script for the upcoming James Bond film - the super-spy's twentieth - leaked to Web site www.Bond20.com is the real thing. It is however only the first treatment and changes are likely to happen between now and the final shoot.
  
  We spoke to the man behind the Web site, Frenchman Nicholas Drapier, who told us the script had been given to him by a scriptwriter friend working on the film. "This is the first draft given to production," he told us. "Not all the details will be in the final movie, although some elements will be." The script dates from the beginning of the year.
  
  Mr Drapier said that the film's production company, Eon Productions, had not been in touch with him but he had contacted them when he received the script to ask whether it was real. "They seemed annoyed but they didn't officially deny the script was real," he told us. Eon Productions has made no legal threats against the site or Mr Drapier.

  According to the script, 007 will find out that his father was also a secret agent - with the moniker 007 - and that he may still be alive. Apparently Bond will also drown in an enclosed water tank but be revived with some life-giving drug by a Japanese enemy. The big baddie will be called David Saten, played by Nigel Havers, who is abducting various secret agents.
  
  Totty will come courtesy of Catherine McCallister (who we have never heard of - who is she?) as secret agent 008 - whose father was another agent gone wrong, who Bond has to kill. Apparently Billy Connolly will also appear and get killed after a helicopter battle through New York's skyscrapers with Bond. There will also be an England World Cup scene. And the climax is a battle on the Statue of Liberty.
  
  The threat to the world will also come from the Internet apparently. David Saten hacks into massive corporates' computer systems and uses cyber-terrorism to destroy the free world. Broahahahahahaha.

  The film, currently called Bond 20 - hence the Web site - may be called Beyond the Ice. And James Bond will be driving the new Aston Martin DB7 (a good choice - see below).

  
  The Aston Martin DB7 what Pierce Brosnan will be driving in the new Bond movie

  Despite details from the script being posted on the Web site since the end of July, it was only picked up yesterday by the BBC. Since then, the newspapers have gone ballistic, with the receptionist at the film's production company, Eon Productions, telling us grumpily that there were already three people waiting to talk to its press officer.

  2002: Swede Traktor begins the first of six days filming the "Die Another Day" music video in Hollywood. Eventual cost, $6.1 million.

  

  
  2010 Raymond John "Ray" Hawkey dies at age --Kensington, London, England.
  (Born 2 February 1930--Plymouth, Devon, England.)

  

  Raymond Hawkey obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/aug/30/raymond-hawkey-obituary

  Top graphic designer who revolutionised the look of newspapers and book covers
  Peter Evans | Mon 30 Aug 2010 13.25 EDT
  
  Raymond Hawkey, who has died aged 80, was one of the most innovative, influential and imitated graphic designers of the second half of the 20th century. As design director at the Daily Express in its prime in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later at the Observer until the mid-70s, with his introduction of banner headlines, using a simple photographic line technique and sans serif fonts, he not only revolutionised the look of newspapers but also changed the course of the visual culture in Britain.
  
  In 1962, while at the Daily Express, Hawkey was asked by the writer Len Deighton, an old friend from Royal College of Art days, to design the cover for The Ipcress File, his first thriller about Harry Palmer, working-class antihero – who was still unnamed. The book's publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, were appalled when they saw Hawkey's Ipcress design – a photograph of a Smith & Wesson revolver, bullets, a cracked War Office canteen teacup and a stubbed-out cigarette. They refused to pay him more than 15 of his 50-guinea fee for his "disgusting" illustration. Deighton made up the rest. Shot with a technique known as "high-key", the cover would later be regarded as one of the key moments in design history.
  
  The book became a huge success, and Hawkey went on to create some of Deighton's most memorable covers, including Horse Under Water (1963), Funeral in Berlin (1964) and Close-Up (1972, about a fading Hollywood star). Hawkey spotted Deighton's scribbled recipes in his kitchen, "tidied them up, advised me about the graphics and took them to the Observer/," Deighton recalled. They became a popular "cookstrip" feature for many years; and for Hawkey's cover of Deighton's The Action Cookbook (1964), the Ipcress revolver reappeared with a sprig of parsley in the barrel. He later designed covers for Kingsley Amis, Frederick Forsyth and others.
  

  His cover for the 1963 Pan paperback edition of Ian Fleming's Thunderball – with bullet holes cut into the Brian Duffy photograph of a girl's back – anticipated a phenomenon in which movies became a key element in the marketing and success of the Bond books. Not only did Hawkey decide that "James Bond" should be emblazoned across the top of every cover but also made the type twice the size of the title and Fleming's name. It remained that way for almost four decades.

  Born in Plymouth, Devon, Hawkey was an only child; his father was a commercial traveller who wanted his son to be an accountant. At 11, he won a scholarship to the city's grammar school and developed a natural gift for drawing; at 16, he joined the Plymouth School of Art. In 1950, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London, to study illustration. After a year, he switched to the graphics course and became an assistant director on the RCA magazine ARK, supplementing his small grant with illustration commissions from the Central Office of Information, and shifts for the picture department at the now-defunct Sunday Graphic.
  
  While still at the RCA, he won a Vogue design competition; offered a job at Condé Nast, he quickly made his mark as an art director. Following a brief period with the ad agency Colman Prentis and Varley, he joined the Daily Express. Later, in 1986, he was consultant designer at the launch of the Independent newspaper.
  
  Because he was naturally shy, Hawkey was often considered difficult to know. "Ray had a way of diverting questions about himself, often turning the conversation back on to you," says Edward Milward-Oliver, a friend for several years. In fact, he was the best company amid small groups of friends.
  
  Always impeccably dressed – he didn't own jeans or trainers – he took no exercise, except for a rare walk on the beach in his beloved Cornwall, where he had spent his childhood. His 18th-floor apartment in Notting Hill, west London, reflected his interest in the sea, with paintings and photographs of tall ships, Victorian figureheads and a ship's brass compass (contrasting with a small Eero Saarinen tulip dining table and chairs from the late 1950s).
  
  But in spite of his gentle voice and manner, once engaged in an assignment he was indefatigable, working 16 hours at a stretch, before sleeping briefly and putting in another 16-hour day in the flat where he lived for five decades. He was wonderfully generous, especially with his time, to young people who sought his advice, whether it was on design or writing – he wrote four very fine thrillers, including It (1983), regarded by many as the first truly modern ghost story.
  
  A fastidious and private man, he had a dread of dying in hospital; and after a long illness he died in his own bed – with his beloved wife, Mary, reading his favourite poem to him.
  
  • Raymond John Hawkey, graphic designer, born 2 February 1930; died 22 August 2010

  

  Raymond Hawkey

  Miscellaneous Crew
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7306740/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

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  2011: Skyfall filmmakers officially shift their interest from India to South Africa, after delayed approvals to film.
  
  2018: After the departure of Danny Boyle from BOND 25, Martha Gill in The Guardian suggests game over for OO7.

  

  Finally, an enemy James Bond can’t escape – the
  21st century
  Martha Gill

  See the complete article here:
  

  Danny Boyle quitting is the least of 007’s problems. It’s time to retire the spy’s dodgy values and dodgier exploding stationery

  
  ‘His body count must be in the thousands in grocers alone.’ Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall.
  Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex/Shutterstock

  Wed 22 Aug 2018
  
  The new James Bond film is in trouble, again. First there was Daniel Craig’s diva-ish remark that he’d “rather slash [his] wrists” than play Bond again (before for some reason being dragged miserably back to the franchise), and now Oscar winner and director Danny Boyle has quit, owing to “creative differences” with the rest of the team.
  
  I’m not surprised. Can you imagine trying to make a Bond film work in 2018? A film where your hero is a casually sexist, violent government employee who is oddly fussy about his suits and his cocktails? At this, the moment of #MeToo, the sharing economy, charity shops and recycling? You simply can’t – there’s just nothing to work with. In fact I’d go so far as to say there hasn’t been a time more hostile to James Bond since the first film came out.
  
  A new film just has too many things to do. First, it must prevent Bond coming across as an ageing baby boomer trying disastrously to chat up millennials (“Would you like a spin in my car? I have a very important job you know”), who can surely find someone better to shag. It must somehow shift his image away from one of those people on Instagram who are always taking selfies in business-class lounges at airports. And it must avoid portraying him as an emblem of state-sponsored violence every time he drives dramatically through a market (his body count must be in the thousands in grocers alone).
  
  The trouble is the films are deeply rooted in the ideals of the 1950s: the era of imperial pride, owning a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch and sleeping with your secretary. In the decades that followed, Britishness, materialism and sex with employees have all lapsed in and out of fashion. Right now all three could not be more definitely out.
  
  Could the franchise be rescued by casting a woman as Bond? No – I’m afraid we’ve already missed that moment. The female James Bond – materialistic, campy, disdainful, having as much casual sex as possible – is of course a woman of the 1990s, the natural counterpart of the 1950s male. In fact, we’ve had a female James Bond already, we just didn’t notice. The female James Bond was Samantha Jones from Sex and the City: she had the corresponding priorities (“clothes, compliments and cocks”), the approach to formal introductions (“Hello, my name is Fabulous”), and even the terrible puns (“I’m a try-sexual, I’ll try anything once”).
  
  But we’ve moved on from that now – there’s no group that aspires to James’s dodgy values and dodgier exploding stationery. He just doesn’t fit anywhere any more. After all those narrow escapes, it is finally time for James Bond to die.
  
  - Martha Gill is a freelance political journalist and former lobby correspondent

  
  2021: The MCU Times reports on Martin Campbell's views on introducing new actors in the Bond role.

  

  Casino Royale and GoldenEye Director
  of What’s Next for James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://mcutimes.com/casino-royale-and-goldeneye-director-of-whats-next-for-james-bond/

  August 22, 2021 by Editorial staff

  “I would definitely consider it if they ever asked me,” Campbell says. “But whatever direction it takes, I just think it would be a continuation of what Daniel has done. He’s a much more cerebral Bond now, if you can see what I mean. He’s a thinking Bond. He’s somehow a tortured Bond. Although I sometimes miss the humor in the last few versions of Bond, he has brought a kind of depth to it. ”

  Campbell adds that he thinks the world has changed too much for either the next actor to play Bond or the next adventure he headlines to return to the campier antics of many of the previous films.

  “Whoever takes over the role next, I think will continue in this rather realistic, cruel kind of tone that we have really set from Casino Royale on, ”he explains. “I think they will have to because I do not see them going back to Pierce or Roger Moore [style], the mad men who take over the world. It’s likely to be based much more on world events and what’s happening now – I think that’s where it’s going. ”

  Right now, there are only endless rumors and no official word on which lucky actor will wear the famous tuxedo and drive Aston Martin after Craig; we do not expect to get hints before No time to die runs its course. But with two successful relaunches of Bond under his belt, Martin Campbell may seem like an obvious candidate to restart 007 for the third time – the one who gets that license to kill next time.
  
  The Protected arrives in theaters this Friday (August 20).
  

  2021: Bond producers respond to the Amazon purchase of MGM and suggestions of Bond television products.

  

  James Bond producers shoot down Amazon TV series rumors
  following MGM acquisition

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://granthshala.com/james-bond-producers-shoot-down-amazon-tv-series-rumors-following-mgm-acquisition/

  
  

  August 22, 2021
  
  Amazon reached terms in May to buy MGM in a deal valued at $8.45 billion
  
  The longtime producer of the James Bond film franchise appeared this week to shut down rumors about a possible Amazon TV series based on the famous character, following the e-commerce giant’s recent acquisition of MGM Studios.
  
  By purchasing MGM, Amazon acquired 50% of the bond franchise.
  
  Amazon laid out the terms in May to buy MGM in a deal worth $8.45 billion, sparking rumors that Jeff Bezos’s company might try to expand the franchise to its streaming platform Prime Video in the size of the series. But longtime producer Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli shrugged off the idea during an interview total movie.

  When asked about the possibility of a Bond spinoff series, Broccoli said, “We make movies. We make movies for the sake of cinema. That’s what we do.”
  
  Wilson said that the producers of the franchise “have resisted that call for 60 years.”

  Wilson and Broccoli are owned by Eon Productions, which has a 50% ownership stake in the Bond franchise. The production firm has creative control, which means it has the final say over almost every aspect of the franchise, including film and TV releases.
  
  Amazon has taken steps to strengthen its Prime Video streaming platform in recent years, spending $250 million in 2018 for the rights to make the “Lord of the Rings” series. The acquisition of MGM by the company is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.

  John Logan, who co-wrote the screenplays for the Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, expressed concerns about Amazon’s acquisition of 50% of the franchise in an op-ed in May, the New York Times, writing that the deal gave him “chills.”

  
  2022: Anthony Horowitz - Shaken Not Stirred at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  

  Anthony Horowitz:
  Shaken, Not Stirred

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.stagetext.org/whats-on/anthony-horowitz-shaken-not-stirred/

  Mon 22 Aug 2022
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
  Subtitles
  Provided By Stagetext
  
  Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022
  This event is part of a festival. To see other live subtitled events at this festival, click here.

  
  Anthony Horowitz: Shaken, Not Stirred image

  Synopsis:

  Hugely loved author Anthony Horowitz brings us his third James Bond thriller, With a Mind to Kill.
  
  This high-octane tale presents 007 as we have never known him: accused of M’s murder, in custody and smeared as a traitor. His rescue depends on a group of former agents who want to change the balance of world power.
  
  But will he turn his back on the country that made him?

  Book
  https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/anthony-horowitz-shaken-not-stirred
  
  Venue Location
  Edinburgh International Book Festival
  Central Hall
  2 West Tollcross
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9BP

  
  
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  August 22 edited August 22 Posts: 13,803

  August 23rd
  
  1963: Last day of principal photography for From Russia With Love.
  1966: The New York Times reports the Japanese Cultural Assets Protection Committee suspended filming of You Only Live Twice due to damage caused by Japanese actors to Himeji Castle.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1978: Variety reports the change from Pinewood to Paris sound stages, based on financial benefits.
  
  1988: Licence to Kill films Bond's first scene riding in a limousine with Felix Leiter and Sharkey.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: First-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007, developed by Rare/published by Nintendo, released in Japan for Nintendo 64.

  
  

  
  
  

  
  2006: The New York Times crossword. 57 Across. _ _ _ _ _ _ Largo. James Bond villain.

  E M I L I O

  2006: Casino Royale films Bond ordering that martini.

  

  2007: Seven days of Quantum of Solace second unit filming begins in Madrid, Spain.
  
  2008: Six to Start releases the browser-based game The Shadow War, based on By Royal Command.

  
  jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shadow_War
  
  
  

  
  2017: A patch comes available for unofficial Nightfire play.

  

  New Dedicated Server Files for Nightfire

  http://nightfirepc.com/
  August 23, 2017
  
  We've released a new patch for dedicated server users.
  
  Go to the downloads page to get it.
  http://nightfirepc.com/downloads/

  
  
  

  
  2022: Cinedigm premieres GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 documentary GoldenEra.

  

  

  'GoldenEye 007' Nintendo 64 Documentary
  'GoldenEra' Acquired by Cinedigm [Exclusive]

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://collider.com/goldeneye-007-nintendo-64-documentary-goldenera-cinedigm-acquisition/

  By Erick Massoto | Published Aug 11, 2022
  
  The documentary is set to premiere on August 23.

  
  Image via Cinedigm

  Ask any video game enthusiast to list the best titles from the late 90s and you’re bound to hear GoldenEye 007 ten times out of ten. The James Bond-inspired game defined a whole generation of players and game designers while also showcasing the potential of future releases for the next two decades. This is all documented in GoldenEra, a film that takes an in-depth look at the rise and fall of the innovative team behind the landmark game. Today, Cinedigm revealed exclusively to Collider that it has acquired the title and shared with us when you will be able to watch the documentary: It arrives on Digital and On Demand in just about two weeks, on August 23.
  
  GoldenEye is, of course, based on the James Bond 1995 movie starring Pierce Brosnan, who played the iconic British spy before Daniel Craig took over the role. However, the Nintendo 64 video game became popular even among people who didn’t follow the film series. The title catapulted the popularity of 3D gaming and the first-person shooter style, not to mention its revolutionary graphics (for the time).
  
  GoldenEra brings front and center the people who helped shape and lived through this cultural change in the gaming world. The documentary features interviews with Peer Schneider, Chief Content Officer at IGN, Robert Bowling, FMR Creative Strategist at Infinity Ward and face of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Mick Gordon, Music Composer on DOOM Eternal, Wolfenstein, and Prey – all of which are also huge titles in the first-person shooter genre.
  
  In an official statement, Chief Content Officer at Cinedigm Yolanda Macias commented on the video game legacy of GoldenEye and why GoldenEra is such an important title for their catalog:

  
  “Even two decades after its release, 'GoldenEye' still has a massive impact on modern-day gaming. There is so much for fans to love about this documentary. Whether you’re a fan of gaming, CONs, the 90s or James Bond, this film encapsulates that era so precisely and it brings on a nostalgia factor.”
  

  Cinedigm premieres GoldenEra on August 23 on Digital and On Demand.
  
  You can check out the official synopsis here:

  
  

  'GoldenEra' seeks to celebrate a watershed moment in gaming history. To reconnect players and fans of the original game with a time and place, when gaming was social, communal and awe-inspiring. The documentary also explores the creative process behind the game, the culture in which innovation thrived, and the team from countryside England whose ambition, innovation and ingenuity, resulted in countless hours of joy for players around the world. Told by academics, journalists, celebrities and the game’s designers, 'GoldenEra' reconnects fans with this one-of-a-kind game.

  

  GoldenEra (2022)

  2022 | 1h 39m
  

  Tells the story of the creation and legacy of the video gameGoldenEye 007 (1997) for the Nintendo 64.

  Director - Drew Roller
  Writers - Brok Power (story by), Drew Roller (story by), Jim Miskell (story by).
  Stars - Ben Potter (voice), Robert Bowling, Tristan Ogilvie.
  

  GoldenEra (GoldenEye Documentary) - Official Trailer (1:29)
  
  

  
  

  
  
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  August 23 Posts: 13,803

  August 24th
  
  1937: Connie Mason is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  
  1967: Casino Royale released in Uruguay.
  
  1982: Octopussy's first day of circus filming.
  1989: A magányos ügynök (The Lone Agent) released in Hungary.

  
  
  

  
  1991: BBC Radio 2 broadcasts a two-part special on John Barry. (Concludes 31 August.)
  
  2020: Heineken Vietnam starts a No Time To Die promotion for residents of Ho Chi Mihn City anticipating a 13 November premiere (later delayed).

  

  HEINEKEN reveals limited edition James Bond packs
  with over one million exclusive prizes and Epic 007
  experiences for Vietnamese fans

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/en/news-events/press-release/heineken-reveals-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-with-over-one-million-exclusive-prizes-and-epic-007-experiences-for-vietnamese-fans.html

  Ho Chi Minh City, August 28, 2020 – Heineken® has been the proud partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies. This year, Heineken® continues its long-standing global partnership with the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die
  
  To celebrate the release of No Time To Die in Vietnam on November 13 2020, Heineken® has launched its limited edition Heineken® James Bond. The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette on Heineken®’s iconic green and red star. Heineken® James Bond packaging will be available in 330ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).
  
  Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Ms. Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of HEINEKEN Vietnam, said: “James Bond and Heineken® are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken® James Bond packs. Special Heineken® James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure.”
  
  From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including: 250 prizes which is one tael of gold for each prize; 2,500 Heineken® power banks; 25,000 Heineken® umbrellas and over one million Heineken® Silver cans. The promotion is only available on special Heineken® James Bond cans with the text “Open the can to win 007 prizes” on the packaging. Redemption period starts from 24 August to 7 December 2020 and products are distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.

  
  “Open the can to win 007 prizes” with over one million prizes

  For consumers outside Ho Chi Minh City, from 14 September, Heineken® will present them with the Heineken® James Bond packaging with a special QR code. Using mobile phone, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Heineken agents. Leading Vietnamese influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond inspired challenges. The QR code is available only on Heineken® James Bond cans with the text “Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes” on the packaging.
  
  Both campaigns are only open for consumers from 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook Fanpage of Heineken® at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/

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  About HEINEKEN Vietnam
  HEINEKEN Vietnam is a subsidiary of HEINEKEN, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.
  
  HEINEKEN Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vung Tau, Tien Giang and ten offices across Vietnam.
  
  From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, HEINEKEN Vietnam is now the second largest brewer in Vietnam with more than 3,500 employees. HEINEKEN Vietnam makes a significant annual economic contribution to Vietnam, amounting to approximately 0.95% of the nation’s total GDP.
  
  In Vietnam, HEINEKEN produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem and Strongbow cider.
  
  In 2017, 2018 and 2019, HEINEKEN Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies in Vietnam by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of Asia’s leading publications for HR professionals.
  
  More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on HEINEKEN Vietnam’s website: http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/

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  For more information, please contact:
  Ms. Nguyen Huong Mai
  Head of Communications
  HEINEKEN Vietnam Brewery Limited Company
  Telephone: +84 28 3822 2755
  Email: [email protected]

  

  Heineken debuts limited edition
  James Bond packs

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/heineken-debuts-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-4158581.html

  By Anh Nguyen September 8, 2020 | 11:00 am GMT+7
  Heineken has launched its limited edition Heineken James Bond packaging in Vietnam ahead of the premiere of No Time To Die, scheduled on November 13, 2020.
  
  This year, Heineken continues its long-standing global partnership with James Bond, one of the most iconic characters in cinematic history, in the latest James Bond film. The firm has been a partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.
  
  The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette prominently displayed on Heineken’s iconic green and red star. Heineken James Bond packaging will be available in 330 ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).
  
  Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of Heineken Vietnam, said: "James Bond and Heineken are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans exclusive access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken James Bond packs."
  
  Special Heineken James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure to discover this iconic character, showing how Bond lives beyond the film.
  
  From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including 250 prizes including one tael of gold each; 2,500 Heineken power banks; 25,000 Heineken umbrellas and over one million Heineken Silver cans.
  
  The promotion is only available on special Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Open the can to win 007 prizes" on the packaging. The redemption period starts from August 24 to December 7, 2020, with products only distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.

  
  "Open the can to win 007 prizes".

  For consumers outside HCMC, from September 14, Heineken will present them with the Heineken James Bond packaging with a special QR code to discover the extraordinary world of secret agents.
  
  Using their mobile phones, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Bond’s secret agents.
  
  Leading Vietnamese artists and influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond missions. The QR code is available only on Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes" on the packaging.
  
  Both campaigns are only open for consumers 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook fanpage of Heineken at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/.
  
  Heineken Vietnam is a subsidiary of Heineken, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.
  
  Heineken Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, HCMC, Vung Tau, Tien Giang, and ten offices across Vietnam.
  
  From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, Heineken Vietnam is now the second largest brewer nationally with more than 3,500 employees. The company makes a significant annual economic contribution to the country, amounting to approximately 0.95 percent of the nation’s total GDP, according to its data.
  
  In Vietnam, Heineken produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem, and Strongbow cider.
  
  In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Heineken Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies locally by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of the continent’s leading human resources publications.
  
  More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on Heineken Vietnam’s website:
  
  http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/
  

  
  

  
  
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  August 25th
  
  1925: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 9 April 1991 at age 65--London, England.)

  

  Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html

  APRIL 15, 1991

  Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

  He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

  Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.
  
  In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

  Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.
  
  He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.
  
  Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.
  
  A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.
  
  Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

  
  Maurice Binder (1925–1991)
  Miscellaneous Crew | Art Department | Visual Effects
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/
  
  Filmography

  Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)
  1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
  - Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
  1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
  1990 Hamlet (title designer)
  1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
  1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)
  
  1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
  1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
  1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
  1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
  1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
  1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
  1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
  1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
  1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
  1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
  1980 The Awakening (titles)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)
  
  1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
  1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
  1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
  1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
  1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
  1974 Gold (title designer)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
  1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
  1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
  1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
  1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)
  
  1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
  1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
  1969 Staircase (title designer)
  1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
  1968 The Magus (title designer)
  1967 Bedazzled (main title)
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
  1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
  1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
  1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
  1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
  1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
  1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
  1966 After the Fox (title designer)
  1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
  1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
  1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
  1966 The Chase (main title)
  1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
  1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
  1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
  1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
  Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
  - A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
  - A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
  - Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
  - Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
  1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
  1963 Charade (main title designed by)
  1963 Summer Flight (title designer: main titles)
  1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
  1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
  1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
  1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
  1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
  1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
  1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
  1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
  
  1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
  - Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
  1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
  1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)
  1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
  1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
  - Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
  1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
  1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
  1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
  1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
  1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)
  
  Art department (9 credits)
  1985 King David (graphic designer)
  1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
  1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
  1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)
  1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
  1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
  1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
  
  Visual effects (2 credits)
  1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
  1979 Dracula (visual consultant)
  Hide Hide Director (1 credit)
  1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)
  Hide Hide Art director (1 credit)
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
  Hide Hide Producer (1 credit)
  1979 The Passage (associate producer)
  Hide Hide Self (2 credits)
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary)
  Himself
  - Producing (1977) ... Himself
  1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie)
  Himself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary)
  Himself
  2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary)
  Himself

  

  
  1930: Sir Thomas Sean Connery is born--Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  (He dies 31 October 2020 at age 90--Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, The Bahamas.)

  2008
  

  

  Sean Connery recalls 'first big break'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.modernghana.com/music/7892/3/sean-connery-recalls-first-big-break.html

  26 August 2008 | General News - Tonight
  
  Movie star, Bond icon, philanthropist, proud Scot, political activist - now Sean Connery can also call himself an author.
  
  Connery, who shot to international fame as Ian Fleming's fictional spy James Bond, unveiled his new autobiography, Being a Scot, in his hometown of Edinburgh yesterday - his 78th birthday.
  
  He told the audience that it wasn't the blockbuster Dr No that changed his life the most, but his schooling during his impoverished childhood.
  
  "My first big break was when I was five because I had learned to read and write. I am sure prisons and asylums are full of people who cannot read or write," Connery said. "It took me more than 70 years to realise that.
  
  "It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at 13 and had no formal education (beyond that). When I realised I wanted to become an actor and not a football player, I went out and got myself an education, I read and I went to the theatre."
  
  His frame is not as sturdy as it was when he ordered his martinis shaken, not stirred, or when he entered a Mr Universe competition, and Connery needed help hearing questions at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
  
  But he spoke clearly of Scottish nationalism, his life as an actor, his love of soccer and golf, and Donald Trump's proposed golf resort in Scotland.
  
  Being a Scot describes Connery's early life as a milkman in the city's Fountainbridge neighbourhood, then takes a broad look at Scottish culture, including the work of poet Robert Burns and novelist Walter Scott.
  
  Connery is a vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party. He lives in the Bahamas and has said he would not live in Scotland again until it gains independence from the UK.
  
  "There is a lack of Scottish history in our schools," he said. "It was always about English kings and queens, Scotland just didn't figure, it was just about all things English."
  
  He was the first and, many say, the best Bond. Connery also starred in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and The Untouchables, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  
  Director Steven Spielberg's once said Connery was one of seven genuine movie stars - a claim that seemed to embarrass the actor.
  
  "I didn't pay much attention to that. I was more interested in how much money I made," he said. "The status was not something I was generally interested in or thought about."
  
  ...
  
  The actor quit acting in 2004 and turned down a role in the latest Indiana Jones movie, but he hinted that he would continue to work.
  
  "I have come into a different cycle in my life since I decided not to do any more films. I have a feeling that something is cooking, something is afoot. I don't quite know what it is yet."
  
  Source:Tonight

  
  
  
  

  
  1934: John Stears is born--Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.
  (He dies 28 April 1999 at age 64--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Obituary: John Stears

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-stears-1107368.html

  Tom Vallance | Monday 19 July 1999 00:02

  WINNER OF two Academy Awards, for his work on Thunderball and Star Wars, John Stears was one of the film industry's top men for special visual effects and many of his innovations are incorporated into the work of today's film-makers.
  
  For the early James Bond films, he served as the real-life incarnation of the ingenious "Q", creating such gadgets and vehicles as the Aston Martin of Goldfinger which has been described as "the most famous car in the world". For Star Wars he worked with the production designer John Barry to conceive the unforgettable robots C3PO and R2-D2, and among his other memorable achievements were the flying car of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the model work for the British film about the Titanic, A Night to Remember, and the explosive demolition work in The Guns of Navarone.

  Born in 1934, Stears studied at Harrow College of Art and Southall Technical School before working as a draughtsman with the Air Ministry. He served as a dispatch rider during his National Service, then joined a firm of architects where he was able to utilise his passion for model-making by constructing scale models of building projects for clients.
  
  The firm also specialised in model aircraft, and when Rank's special effects expert Bill Warrington saw some of Stears's work he commissioned him to build model aircraft for Lewis Gilbert's screen version of the life of the pilot Douglas Bader, Reach for the Sky (1956).
  
  Signed to a contract by the Rank Organisation, Stears worked with Warrington and Gilbert on three more true-life stories, creating model boats and planes for A Night to Remember (1958), in which Kenneth More, who had played Bader, was Second Officer Lightoller of the Titanic, Carve Her Name With Pride (1958), which starred Virginia McKenna as the British shop assistant Violette Szabo who became a resistance heroine, and Sink the Bismarck! (1960), with Kenneth More as an Admiralty captain intent on destroying Germany's prize battleship. Other Rank films included The One That Got Away (1957), Sea Fury (1958) and Gilbert's HMS Defiant (1962).
  
  Having acquired a reputation impressive enough for him to freelance, Stears was hired to both build and destroy gun miniatures for J. Lee Thompson's exciting transcription of the Alistair MacLean adventure tale The Guns of Navarone (1961), then he created effects for two Disney films, In Search of the Castaways (1962) and the fantasy Three Lives of Thomasina (1962).

  The producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman then asked Stears to work with them on a production which was to prove momentous in starting one of the most successful series in cinema history. It was the team's first adaptation of one of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, Dr No (1962), and Stears's work on the film's finale, the destruction of Dr No's Jamaican hideout, still impresses today.
  
  Aware of the importance of Stears's contribution to the film's success, Broccoli and Saltzman made him head of their special effects department for their next Bond production, From Russia With Love (1963), for which he both created and flew the first remote- controlled helicopter used in a film, and constructed the bizarre knife- toed boots for the Soviet spy Rosa Klebb. Still only 29 years old, Stears confessed later that he was having the time of his life and he described his job as "not really work but the chance to play . . . using other people's money!"
  
  The next Bond film, Goldfinger (1964), included three of Stears's favourite creations, the lethal laser ray which nearly bisects Bond, the steel-rimmed bowler employed as a deadly frisbee by the villain Oddjob, and the famous Aston Martin. In the book, Fleming's hero drives a DB3, but Stears wanted to use the not yet available DB5, a sleekly photogenic model, and he persuaded the manufacturers to provide him with a prototype, which the effects wizard fitted with bullet-proof glass, a fog maker, revolving number plates, road slicker, machine guns and a passenger ejector seat. "I was never certain we would make the seat work," said Stears, "but in the end we did the stunt in one take."
  
  The fourth Bond film Thunderball (1965) was one of the weaker dramatically but Stears did not disappoint, his effects including a rocket-firing motor cycle, an underwater flying saucer, large-scale models of a Vulcan bomber which he then sank in the waters of the Bahamas, and a life-size replica of the villain's yacht which he blew to pieces.
  
  His work on the film brought him his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects. His old friend Lewis Gilbert directed the next Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967), which included a flying machine that gobbles up a space capsule in outer space, after which Stears had a break from Bond when he worked on Broccoli's production Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) with its flying car.
  
  If asked to pick a favourite Bond film, Stears used to say that the one he most enjoyed working on was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), partly because he admired its star George Lazenby, who insisted on performing many of his own stunts. It was the start of a lifelong friendship between the two men, both mechanically minded motor bike enthusiasts. For the film, the most challenging moment came when Stears had to set off an avalanche on cue.
  
  In 1970 Stears set up his own company, and worked on such films as Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Douglas Hickox's Theatre of Blood (1973) in which a ham actor (Vincent Price) murders hostile critics by recreating death scenes from Shakespeare's plays. He returned to Bond for a final time to create effects including Scaramanga's flying car in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), which featured Roger Moore as Bond.

  In 1976 Stears had a call from George Lucas, who had been a great admirer of the Bond films and wanted to know if he was interested in creating mechanical and electrical effects for a film he had written, Star Wars. It was the opportunity to create things that had never been attempted before and Stears enthusiastically accepted.
  
  The phenomenal hit that resulted brought Stears his second Oscar and featured such innovations as Luke Skywalker's Land-speeder, ostensibly a hover-car but actually a four-wheeled vehicle to which Stears had fitted mirrors angled to reflect the Tunisian desert and thus create the illusion that the craft was skimming over the ground. The Lightsabers, the Death Star with its threatening cannons, the robots both manually and remote- controlled, and the metallic suit for C3PO were other Stears creations, along with countless explosions, including the final destruction of the Death Star.

  Stears worked again with the first Bond, Sean Connery, on Peter Hyams's Outland (1981), set on a 21st-century planet where space marshal Connery finds himself fighting a lone battle against wholesale corruption.

  Subsequent films included The Bounty (1984), an intriguingly unconventional depiction of the famous mutiny, with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, and a thriller for which Stears was aptly called in as a special consultant since it featured a special effects expert as its hero, F/X: murder by illusion, in which Bryan Brown played an effects man hired to make a faked assassination appear real, only to find that he is himself the victim of a Mafia plot and has to bring all his ingenuity into play to defend himself. A modest success at the time of its release, it is now considered a cult movie.
  
  In 1988 Stears hoped to produce a film but was unable to obtain sufficient financial backing, and in 1993, after producing effects for the Charlie Sheen vehicle Navy SEALS, he retired to California with his wife Brenda, whom he married in 1960, and two daughters. For most of his life he had lived on an estate in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where he reared cattle and where his wife ran the Livy Borzoi Kennels, breeding Borzoi show dogs.

  In California he continued to indulge his passion for building and flying model aircraft - his wife stated that at the time of his death there were a dozen aircraft in their garage, the latest a Fiat on which Stears had worked for three years and which had a 15-foot wing span. A supremely fit man until suffering a stroke two days before his death, he would ride his 1927 McEvoy motor bike, complete with sidecar built by himself, down to Malibu every Sunday along with his neighbour George Lazenby where they would join around 200 other bike enthusiasts at a beach-front cafe.

  He returned to films with last year's The Mask of Zorro, staging the explosions for the film's early action sequences, but left midway through production after artistic disagreements, and at the time of his death was working on a screenplay set in the First World War and seen from the point of view of German aircraft designers.
  
  John Stears, special effects designer: born 25 August 1934; married 1960 Brenda Livy (two daughters); died Malibu, California 28 April 1999.

  

  John Stears (1934–1999)

  Special Effects | Visual Effects | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824210/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Special effects (35 credits)
  1998 The Mask of Zorro (special effects coordinator)
  1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) (special effects coordinator - 1 episode)
  - Infection (1994) ... (special effects coordinator)
  1993 The Gathering (TV Movie) (special effects coordinator)
  1990 Navy Seals (special effects)
  1986 Haunted Honeymoon (special effects consultant)
  1986 Miracles (special effects supervisor)
  1986 F/X (special effects consultant)
  1984 The Bounty (special effects supervisor)
  1983 Sahara (special effects supervisor)
  1982 Turkey Shoot (special effects)
  1981 Outland (special effects)
  1980 Hopscotch (special effects)
  1980 The Awakening (special effects)
  1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (special effects supervisor - 3 episodes)
  - The Martians (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  - The Settlers (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  - The Expeditions (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  
  1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste (special effects supervisor)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (special production & mechanical effects supervisor)
  1976 Sky Riders (special effects)
  1975 That Lucky Touch (special effects supervisor)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (special effects)
  1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun (special effects)
  1973 O Lucky Man! (special effects)
  1973 Theater of Blood (special effects)
  1972 Sitting Target (special effects)
  1972 The Pied Piper (special effects)
  1971 Fiddler on the Roof (special effects - uncredited)
  1971 Catch Me a Spy (special effects)
  1970 Toomorrow (special effects)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (special effects)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (special effects)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (special effects) / (special effects supervisor - uncredited)
  1965 Court Martial (TV Series) (special effects supervisor)
  1965 Thunderball (special effects)
  1964 Goldfinger (special effects)
  1963 From Russia with Love (special effects)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (special effects)
  
  Visual effects (6 credits)
  1982 Megaforce (visual effects: Introvision)
  1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) (magic carpet)
  1975 One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (special photographic effects)
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! (model ships - uncredited)
  1957 The One That Got Away (special processes - uncredited)
  1956 Reach for the Sky (model aircraft - uncredited)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (second unit director - 3 episodes)
  - The Martians (1980) ... (second unit director)
  - The Settlers (1980) ... (second unit director)
  - The Expeditions (1980) ... (second unit director)
  
  Self (11 credits)
  2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  
  1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself - Winner
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) - Himself

  
  
  
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  1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's wedding.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1977: James Bond 007 – Der Spion, der mich liebte released in Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: First-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007, developed by Rare/published by Nintendo, released in North America for Nintendo 64.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: The Spy Who Loved Me re-released at the Empire Leicester Square Cinema for one week.
  
  2017: From Russia With Love re-released in Chile.
  2017: Entertainment Weekly proposes no better Bond film since GoldenEye 007.

  

  What the James Bond
  movies can learn from
  the GoldenEye video
  game

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ew.com/gaming/2017/08/25/james-bond-goldeneye-nintendo-64/

  By Darren Franich | August 25, 2017

  
  Goldeneye007 Nintendo 64 James Bond
  Credit: Nintendo; Stephen Vaughan

  It’s been 20 years since the release of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64. No James Bond video game has ever been better, not even close. Has any James Bond movie been better since then?
  
  A question worth pondering, even if any answer is intangible. Ridiculous, maybe, to compare the franchise across the media. Developed by Rare, GoldenEye 007 is a game with a good single-player story mode and a good multiplayer mode, thus representing hours of entertainment for moody teen loners and raucous sleepover friend-groups. Any singular feature film can only be shorter, time-wise, but it also features actual humans, and the uncontrollable nature of un-interactive art demands your attention and your empathy and the fundamental denial of your own importance. (A single second from a great movie can loom larger in memory than fifty hours of multiplayer battles through well-traveled digital landscapes.)
  
  The two decades post-GoldenEye have seen two acclaimed 007 films: Poker-Parkourist Casino Royale and Freudian-fantastical Skyfall. The video game ranks higher in cultural history than any of then-Bond Pierce Brosnan’s actual movies, but maybe that’s an unfair comparison, too. The movie GoldenEye has to at least pretend to take seriously the ridiculous story. (Renegade Cold War revenants bank-rob all England via EMP pulse, because Cossacks!) The game GoldenEye gets to make the movie’s plot more ridiculous, because anything dumb looks purposefully silly in 64-bit pixels.
  
  The miracle of GoldenEye‘s creation comes up all the time in gamer circles. It remains the best licensed video game of all time, and most licensed video games aren’t even halfway decent. (The second Arkham game comes closest, and probably tops your list if you think more story is good story.) But it holds a strange, separate place in Bond history. The 007 movies under Craig get credit, sometimes undeserved, for reboot-y throat-clearing. But the films have trended self-referential since the millennium, becoming more laden with callbacks, the Goldfinger car, the bikini knife, SPECTRE, Blofeld.
  
  Blofeld! [shakes fist at the vogue for unnecessary continuity and incoherent third-act twists]We know now that current star Daniel Craig will return for one last go-round as James Bond. There will be much hand-wringing over how this final film can improve or fix the previous film – as there was with Skyfall after Quantum of Solace, with Casino Royale after Die Another Day, with GoldenEye after Licence to Kill, with For Your Eyes Only after Moonraker, so on ever backwards. Are there things the Bond movies can learn from the single best Bond non-film thing of the last half-century? Consider this a fond list of the unusual successes of GoldenEye 007, some of them suggested playfully but all of them quite serious:
  
  1. Have a sense of humor
  Like many projects considered violent or intense upon release, GoldenEye 007 looks endearingly cartoonish in hindsight. Some of that is the natural evolution of video game aesthetics towards greater “realism,” but the game was always more lighthearted than contemporaneous shooters in the post-Doom era. The production team, led by director Martin Hollis, had a puckish anti-cool sensibility when it came to building the multiplayer modes – this was the game where you could literally select SLAPPERS ONLY as an option for weapons-free showdowns.
  
  I’m not saying the Bond movies should, like, consider filling the agent’s weapons with paintballs, or film some scenes in Big Head mode. But the last few films have trended self-serious beyond absurdity – recall how Spectre featured a somber conversation about a meteorite. The Kingsman movies and the underrated (and wholly unnecessary) Man from U.N.C.L.E. remake are fine counterexamples of espionage thrillers with wit. And we know Craig’s funny – look at Logan Lucky!
  
  2. Bring back the energetic music!
  GoldenEye 007 composers Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, and Robin Beanland reimagined the die-hardiest of Bond anthems into infini-jazz technotronica. The music’s ardently goofy – the orchestra hits on the Frigate mission sound like a ten-year-old running wild with her big brother’s keyboard. It also has the kind of junk-rock swagger that the movie franchise’s music mostly lost years ago. Remember always that the original Bond theme depends on a surf-rock guitar played by a low-paid twentysomething.
  
  Speaking as the lunatic who kind of likes Madonna’s “Die Another Day” song, I’m willing to admit that the only barely beloved Bond theme in the modern age is the one sung by your friend Adele. But beyond the “Skyfall” theme, the recent soundtracks have trended same-y, not particularly memorable, un-hummably “intense.” Thomas Newman’s percussive Day of the Dead theme from Spectre is a step in the right direction, but that direction points unmissably towards the funny-scary chorus hymns in Severnaya.
  
  3. Unabashedly adore the character’s history…
  Like most long-running franchises, the Bond movie saga has struggled a bit with its perspective on its own history. There are teasing references backwards – and Sean Connery was almost cast as a paternal-ish figure in Skyfall. But there’s also a general, very Dark Knight-y concern about paying homage to some of the character’s goofier traits. They brought back Q but the gadgets remain dull-y functional – a sign of realism, maybe, or to product-place wristwatches rather than jetpacks.
  
  Say this for the GoldenEye game: It embraces all of Bond’s history. The final two secret levels sequelize Moonraker and The Man With the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die, three flavors of ’70s goofery. Unlockable characters from Bond myth assured that millennials probably know more about Jaws and Oddjob than any bad guy from an actual ’90s Bond movie. Maybe Craig’s version of going out strong is returning his version of the character back to grimdark zero, but you wonder if the franchise would benefit just as much from a touch of Doctor Whoification. (Consider: A Council of Bonds.)
  
  4. …or at least root the character in actual history
  The GoldenEye movie kicks off with a Soviet-era prologue before flashing forward to the then-“modern” day. One of the niftier narrative ideas added to the GoldenEye game is to extend that prologue into a complete Act One, following Bond on a mission to Perestroika-era Severnaya and Iron Curtain-era Kyrgyzstan.
  
  Some of this was probably just a nifty shorthand towards more content; Bond returns to Severnaya in later levels, which means the developers could use the same map (with different post-Soviet colors!). But that decision builds up the idea of Bond as a character with a long-running history, who exists in some recognizable version of the real political world.
  
  The Craig-era Bond movies have cycled a couple times through the notion of the character having an origin story: Fine. But that decision – mixed with the idea to continui-tize the villains into a collective cabal in Spectre – has also cut Bond off from all recent real-life geopolitical history. The character doesn’t need to be openly political, of course, but part of the fundamental appeal of the original Ian Fleming character was the suggestion that he’d been involved in real-world espionage events. Let’s give Craig’s Bond some real history, a sense of involvement in espionage activities that don’t involve Illuminati-ish conspiracies with acronymic names.
  
  5. Get young, hungry talent
  The GoldenEye 007 team was composed of wildly imaginative programmers, many of them essentially rookies. A programmer named David Doak recalled the experience of working on the game as “joyful naivete.” And, full credit to the Rare higher-ups, that team was given plenty of time to develop their end-product: The game hit stores two full years after the movie.
  
  Recently, the Bond franchise has depended on old pros and established creators, hiring hot screenwriters like John Logan and Paul Haggis (and keeping Neal Purvis and Robert Wade around for rewrites.) Sam Mendes was a well-established director before he joined the Bond franchise. Experience is great until it isn’t: It either produces Skyfall or Spectre. While the producers plot a sendoff for the long-serving Craig, perhaps they should giving a younger director a turn behind the camera.
  
  6. Think hard about how important objectification is
  One of the best things about the Daniel Craig films is how willing the actor has been to turn his own body into an impressive special effect. There is no comparison in earlier incarnations of the franchise; where Craig goes shirtless, Moore went with turtlenecks. This is a happy evolution, I think, for a franchise that turned “psychedelic hot-chick dreamscapes” into a title-sequence trope. Equal-opportunity objectification beats the alternative!
  
  Then again, worth remembering that the best James Bond thing of the ’90s ends with a chaste forest make-out between two androgynous pixel-wax figures. In the Deadpool era, what’s bolder than a G rating?

  Goldeneye N64 End Credits
  

  
  2019: Special announcement for BOND 25, as filmed at the Goldeneye estate, Jamaica.

  BOND 25 Live Reveal (20:26)
  

  2019: BOND 25 films at Matera, Italy.

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  August 26th
  
  1941: Akiko Wakabayashi is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  
  1966: Shirley Manson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
  
  1978: Charles Boyer dies at age 78--Phoenix, Arizona.
  (Born 28 August 1899--Figeac, France.)

  

  Charles Boyer

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

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  Boyer in 1942

  Born 28 August 1899, Figeac, France
  Died 26 August 1978 (aged 78), Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
  Cause of death - Severe secobarbital overdose
  Burial place - Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, U.S.
  Occupation - Actor
  Years active - 1920–1976
  Spouse(s) - Pat Paterson (m. 1934; died 1978)
  Children 1
  Awards Academy Honorary Award (1943)

  Charles Boyer (French: [bwaje]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.[1] After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as The Garden of Allah (1936), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939), as well as the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). He received four Oscar nominations for Best Actor.
  
  Biography
  Early years
  Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France, the son of Augustine Louise Durand and Maurice Boyer, a merchant. Boyer (which means "cowherd" in the Occitan language) was a shy, small town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven.
  
  Early acting career
  Boyer performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly during World War I. He began studies briefly at the Sorbonne, and was waiting for a chance to study acting at the Paris Conservatory.
  
  He went to the capital city to finish his education, but spent most of his time pursuing a theatrical career. In 1920, his quick memory won him a chance to replace the leading man in a stage production, Aux jardins de Murcie. He was successful. Then he appeared in a play La Bataille and Boyer became a theatre star overnight.
  
  In the 1920s, he not only played a suave and sophisticated ladies' man on the stage but also appeared in several silent films.
  
  Early French films
  Boyer's first film was L'homme du large (1920), directed by Marcel L'Herbier. He had roles in Chantelouve (1921), Le grillon du foyer (1922), and Esclave (1922).
  
  At first, he performed film roles only for the money and found that supporting roles were unsatisfying. However, with the coming of sound, his deep voice made him a romantic star.
  
  Boyer focused on theatre work for a number of years. He returned to the screen with Infernal Circle (1928), Captain Fracasse (1929), and La barcarolle d'amour (1930).
  Early trips to Hollywood
  
  Boyer was first brought to Hollywood by MGM who wanted him to play the Chester Morris part in a French version of The Big House (1930), Révolte dans la prison (1931).
  
  Boyer had an offer from Paramount to appear in a small role in The Magnificent Lie (1931) with Ruth Chatterton, directed by Berthold Viertel. It was his first English speaking role.
  
  He went back to MGM to make Le procès de Mary Dugan (1931), the French version of The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929). He did Tumultes (1931) for director Robert Siodmak.
  
  Then he did the English-language The Man from Yesterday (1932) with Claudette Colbert at Paramount again directed by Viertel. He had a choice small role in Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman (1932) at MGM.
  
  Return to France
  Boyer went back to France where he starred in F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932), Moi et l'impératrice (1933), Les Amoureux (1933) (The Sparrowhawk), and La bataille (1933) with Anabella. The latter was also filmed in an English-language version called The Battle with Merle Oberon replacing Anabella and Boyer reprising his role.
  
  He did The Only Girl (1933) with Lilian Harvey and performed on the Paris stage in Le Bonheur which was another success. It would be the last time he appeared on the Parisian stage.[6]
  
  He returned to Hollywood for Caravan (1934) with Loretta Young at Fox. He was also in the French-language version Caravane, again with Annabella.[9]
  
  Then in France he starred in Liliom (1934), directed by Fritz Lang, his first classic.[10]
  
  Boyer starred in some English language movies: Thunder in the East (1934) and The Only Girl (1934).
  
  In France he was in Le bonheur (1934), reprising his stage performance for director Marcel L'Herbier.
  
  Walter Wanger
  Boyer co-starred with Claudette Colbert in the psychiatric drama Private Worlds (1935) for Walter Wanger at Paramount. He signed a five-year contract with Wanger.[11]
  
  Then he romanced Katharine Hepburn in Break of Hearts (1935) for RKO, and Loretta Young in Shanghai (1935) for Wanger.
  
  Boyer became an international star with Mayerling (1936), co-starring Danielle Darrieux and directed by Anatole Litvak. Boyer played Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.
  
  Back in Hollywood he was teamed with Marlene Dietrich in The Garden of Allah (1936) for David O. Selznick. He and Dietrich were reunited on I Loved a Soldier (1936) for director Henry Hathaway at Paramount but the film was abandoned.
  
  Boyer paired with Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night (1937) for Wanger, and Greta Garbo in Conquest (1937) at MGM (where he played Napoleon Bonaparte). Boyer's fee for the latter was $150,000 but with all the re-takes he wound up earning $450,000.
  
  Boyer returned to France briefly to make Orage (1938), opposite Michèle Morgan for director Marc Allégret.
  
  Back in Hollywood he had the lead in Tovarich (1937) with Claudette Colbert, directed by Litvak.

  
  With Sigrid Gurie and Hedy Lamarr in Algiers (1938)

  In 1938, he landed his famous role as Pepe le Moko, the thief on the run in Algiers, an English-language remake of the classic French film Pepe le Moko with Jean Gabin, produced by Wanger. Although in the movie Boyer never said to costar Hedy Lamarr "Come with me to the Casbah," this line was in the movie trailer. The line would stick with him, thanks to generations of impressionists and Looney Tunes parodies.Boyer's role as Pepe Le Moko was already world-famous when animator Chuck Jones based the character of Pepé Le Pew, the romantic skunk introduced in 1945's Odor-able Kitty, on Boyer and his most well-known performance. Boyer's vocal style was also parodied on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, most notably when Tom was trying to woo a female cat. (See The Zoot Cat).
  
  Boyer made two films with Irene Dunne: Love Affair (1939) at RKO and When Tomorrow Comes (1939) at Universal.
  
  World War II
  He went back to France to make Le corsaire (1939) for Marc Allégret. He was making the movie in Nice when France declared war on Germany in September 1939. Production ceased on the declaration of war. Boyer joined the French army. The film was never completed, although some footage of it was later released.
  
  By November, Boyer was discharged from the army and back in Hollywood as the French government thought he would be of more service making films.
  
  Boyer played in three classic film love stories: All This, and Heaven Too (1940) with Bette Davis, directed by Litvak at Warners; as the ruthless cad in Back Street (1941) with Margaret Sullavan, at Universal; and Hold Back the Dawn (1941) with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard, at Paramount.
  
  In contrast to his glamorous image, Boyer began losing his hair early, had a pronounced paunch, and was noticeably shorter than leading ladies like Ingrid Bergman. When Bette Davis first saw him on the set of All This, and Heaven Too, she did not recognize him and tried to have him removed.
  
  Universal
  In January 1942 Boyer signed a three-year contract with Universal to act and produce. The contract would cover nine films.
  
  Before he started the contract he finished a film at Warners, The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine.
  
  Boyer was reunited with Sullavan in Appointment for Love (1942) at Universal and was one of many stars in Tales of Manhattan (1942), directed by Julien Duvivier and Immortal France (1942). He became a US citizen in 1942.
  
  He was one of many stars in Flesh and Fantasy (1943) which he also produced with Julien Duvivier at Universal. He was an uncredited producer on Duvivier's Destiny (1944).
  
  In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for "progressive cultural achievement" in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference (certificate).
  
  Boyer had one of his biggest hits with Gaslight (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten. He followed it with Together Again (1944) with Dunne; Congo (1944), a short; and Confidential Agent (1945) with Lauren Bacall, at Warners.

  
  Charles Boyer in 1955

  Boyer began his post war career with Cluny Brown (1946) with Jennifer Jones directed by Ernst Lubitsch. He was Warners highest paid actor at this stage earning $205,000 in 1945.
  
  In 1947, he was the voice of Capt. Daniel Gregg in the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,[23] played in the film by Rex Harrison. In 1948, he was made a chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur. That year he did a thriller A Woman's Vengeance (1948).
  
  Another film he did with Bergman, Arch of Triumph (1948), failed at the box office and Boyer was no longer the box office star he had been. "If you are in a big flop, nobody wants you," he said later.
  
  Broadway
  Boyer went to Broadway, where he made his first appearance in Red Gloves (1948–49), based on Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre,[24] which went for 113 performances.
  
  In 1951, he appeared on the Broadway stage in one of his most notable roles, that of Don Juan, in a dramatic reading of the third act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. This is the act popularly known as Don Juan in Hell. In 1952, he won Broadway's 1951 Special Tony Award for Don Juan in Hell. It was directed by actor Charles Laughton. Laughton co-starred as the Devil, with Cedric Hardwicke as the statue of the military commander slain by Don Juan, and Agnes Moorehead as Dona Anna, the commander's daughter, one of Juan's former conquests. The production was a critical success, and was subsequently recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks, one of the first complete recordings of a non-musical stage production ever made. As of 2006, however, it has never been released on CD, but in 2009 it became available as an MP3 download.
  
  Boyer did not abandon cinema: he had leading roles in The 13th Letter (1951), The First Legion (1952), and The Happy Time (1952). He had a character role in Thunder in the East (filmed 1951, released 1953) an Alan Ladd film.
  
  Four Star Playhouse
  Boyer moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of the anthology show Four Star Playhouse (1952–56). It was made by Four Star Productions which would make Boyer and partners David Niven and Dick Powell rich.
  
  Boyer returned to France to star in The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) for Max Ophüls alongside Darrieux. While there he was one of many names in Boum sur Paris (1953).
  
  He returned to Broadway for Norman Krasna's Kind Sir (1953–54) directed by Joshua Logan which ran for 166 performances. (In the film version, Indiscreet (1958), Boyer's role was taken by Cary Grant.)
  
  Back in Hollywood, Boyer had a support role in MGM's The Cobweb (1955).
  
  He went back to France to star in Nana (1955) with Martine Carol and then to Italy for What a Woman! (1956) with Sophia Loren.
  
  In 1956, Boyer was a guest star on I Love Lucy and had a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days (1956). In France he had the lead in Paris, Palace Hôtel (1956).
  
  He appeared as the mystery guest on the 10 March 1957 episode of What's My Line?[30]
  
  On 17 March 1957, Boyer starred in an adaptation for TV of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood. The performance starred Katharine Cornell, and was broadcast on NBC as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
  
  He appeared several times in Goodyear Theatre and Alcoa Theatre on TV.
  
  In France, Boyer was one of several stars in It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) and he co-starred with Brigitte Bardot in La Parisienne (1957) and Michele Morgan in Maxime (1958), the latter directed by Henri Verneuil.
  
  In Hollywood Boyer had a support role in The Buccaneer (1958).
  
  Boyer co-starred again with Claudette Colbert in the Broadway comedy The Marriage-Go-Round (1958–1960), but said to the producer, "Keep that woman away from me".[32] The production was a hit and ran for 431 performances. Boyer did not reprise his performance in the film version. He kept busy doing work for Four Star.[33]
  
  1960s

  
  Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd.
  
  
  With Elsa Martinelli in The Rogues (1964)

  Onscreen, he continued in older roles: in Fanny (1961) starring Leslie Caron; Demons at Midnight (1961), in France, the lead; MGM's remake of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); Adorable Julia (1962) with Lilli Palmer; several episodes of The Dick Powell Theatre; and Love Is a Ball (1963).
  
  He was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) in the 1963 Broadway production of Lord Pengo, which ran for 175 performances.
  
  Later that same year Boyer performed in Man and Boy on the London and New York stage. The Broadway run only went for 54 performances.
  
  Boyer was reunited with David Niven in The Rogues (1964–65), a television series also starring Gig Young. Niven, Boyer and Young revolved from week to week as the episode's leading man, sometimes appearing together.

  He had good support roles in A Very Special Favor (1965) with Rock Hudson; How to Steal a Million (1966) with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole; Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. He had cameos in Is Paris Burning? (1966) and Casino Royale (1967) and was top billed in The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968).

  His career had lasted longer than that of other romantic actors, winning him the nickname "the last of the cinema's great lovers."[19] He recorded a laid-back album called Where Does Love Go in 1966. The album consisted of famous love songs sung (or rather spoken) with Boyer's distinctive deep voice and French accent. The record was reportedly Elvis Presley's favorite album for the last 11 years of his life, the one he most listened to.
  
  Boyer supported in The April Fools (1969) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) and guest starred on The Name of the Game.
  
  1970s
  Boyer's son had died in 1965 and Boyer was finding it traumatic to continue living in Los Angeles so in March 1970 he decided to relocate to Europe.
  
  Boyer's final credits included the musical remake of Lost Horizon (1973) and the French film Stavisky (1974), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, the latter winning him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also received the Special Tribute at Cannes Film Festival.
  
  Boyer's final performance was in A Matter of Time (1976) with Liza Minnelli and Ingrid Bergman, directed by Vincente Minnelli.
  
  Radio
  Boyer was the star of Hollywood Playhouse on NBC in the 1930s, but he left in 1939 "for war service in France," returning on the 3 January 1940, broadcast. When he went on vacation in the summer of 1940, an item in a trade publication reported: "It is an open secret that he doesn't like the present policy of a different story and characters each week. Boyer would prefer a program in which he could develop a permanent characterization." Boyer would later star in his own radio show entitled "Presenting Charles Boyer" during 1950 over NBC.
  
  Personal life and death
  Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942.
  
  In addition to French and English, Boyer spoke Italian, German, and Spanish.
  
  Boyer was the husband of British actress Pat Paterson, whom he met at a dinner party in 1934. The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later. Later, they would move from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona. The marriage lasted 44 years until her death.
  
  Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer (9 December 1943 – 21 September 1965), committed suicide at age 21. He was playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.
  
  On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale. He was taken to the hospital in Phoenix, where he died. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.
  
  Awards
  Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944) and Fanny (1961), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance. He is particularly well known for Gaslight in which he played a thief/murderer who tries to convince his newlywed wife that she is going insane.
  
  He was nominated for the Golden Globe as Best Actor for the 1952 film The Happy Time; and also nominated for the Emmy for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series for his work in Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956).
  
  In 1960, Boyer was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star and a television star. Both stars are located at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard.

  

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  1988: Licence to Kill films the final scenes with Robert Brown & Caroline Bliss, their final appearances in the franchise.
  
  2005: Titan Classics Re-Issues publishes The Spy Who Loved Me (includes The Harpies).
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  

  2006: Earl "Jolly" Brown dies at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.
  (Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

  

  Earl Jolly Brown

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  Earl Jolly Brown
  Born Edwin Earl Brown - October 18, 1939 - Houston, Texas
  Died August 26, 2006 (aged 66) - Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1973-1990

  Edwin Earl "Jolly" Brown (October 18, 1939 – August 26, 2006) was an American actor.
  
  Brown's best known role was as Whisper, a henchman in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. Other film appearances include Black Belt Jones (1974), Truck Turner (1974) and Linda Lovelace for President (1975). He was also active on television, with credits including Perry Mason, The Odd Couple, and Laverne and Shirley.
  
  Filmography
  Year Title Role Notes
  1973 Live and Let Die - Whisper
  1974 Black Belt Jones - Jelly
  1974 Truck Turner - Overweight Bar Patron Uncredited
  1975 Linda Lovelace for President - Polmes
  1984 Beverly Hills Cop - Bar Patron Uncredited

  

  Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

  Actor
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  2008: Penguin publishes Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories in North America.

  
  
  
  
  
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  2022: James Bond Wore the Quartz Revolution at The National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pennsylvania.

  

  

  James Bond Wore
  the Quartz
  Revolution-The
  National Watch & Clock
  Museum
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.yorkpa.org/event/james-bond-wore-the-quartz-revolution-the-national-watch-&-clock-museum/21290/

  514 Poplar St, Columbia, PA 17512
  717-684-8261
  
  Tues-Sat. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
  Adults- $9, Seniors $8, Kids 5-16 $5, under 5 free
  
  Recurrence: Recurring daily
  Location: National Watch & Clock Museum

  Expanded exhibit of watches worn by James Bond. On going new exhibit included with museum admission.

  James Bond Wore the Quartz Revolution on Fox43 News (2015, 9:27)
  
  

  
  
  https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/james-bond-wore-the-quartz-revolution.4870311/
  
  

  
  2022: Colorado Snowsports Museum has James Bond's snowboard on permanent display at Vail Village, Colorado.

  

  James Bond’s snowboard is at the
  Colorado Snowsports Museum in Vail

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.postindependent.com/news/james-bonds-snowboard-is-at-the-colorado-snowsports-museum-in-vail/

  Tom Sims rode the Sims snowboard in 1985's 'A View to a Kill'
  News News | Tricia Swenson
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  The snowboard chase scene in the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” exposed millions of viewers to the sport of snowboarding when the movie came out in 1985. Snowboarding wasn’t even allowed on Vail Mountain until 1989.

  Colorado Snowsports Museum
  There is a piece of pop culture at the Colorado Snowsports Museum.
  
  If you know your James Bond movies, how could you forget the exciting chase on a snowboard in “A View to A Kill,” which came out on May 24, 1985.
  
  The snowboard found its way to the Colorado Snowsports Museum recently.

  “I was down at our resource center in Denver talking to Dana Mathios, director of collections and our museum curator, and I see this snowboard leaning up against the wall and I said, ‘What’s that thing?’ and she said, ‘Oh, that’s a snowboard from a James Bond movie’ and I was like, ‘What? We’ve got to get this on display at the museum,” Mason said.
  
  In order to give context for the snowboard that became the “getaway vehicle” in the movie, Mason wanted to have a video screen airing that segment of “A View to a Kill” so people could see the snowboard in action.
  
  “It’s just a cool, short video clip from the movie that you can watch while you are in here and then look at the Sims board and see how it was incorporated into the getaway scene,” Mason said. “Yesterday, we had a 9-year-old boy who watched it 10 times. He was completely enamored by it.”

  In the movie, James Bond, who was played by Roger Moore, is being chased by the Russians who are on skis, driving a snowmobile and in a helicopter. Bond eventually takes the snowmobile and is trying to escape but the crew in the helicopter blows up the snowmobile and parts go everywhere, including one of the blades on the snowmobile. Bond takes the blade, hops on it like it’s a snowboard and cruises out of there.

  

  The person doing the stunt riding is none other than one of the godfathers of snowboarding, Tom Sims. The riding is impressive, and Sims even makes it across the pond while the bad guys only make it halfway across the pond on skis. The makeshift snowboard helps Bond survive the chase in the plot.
  
  Although Sims did the majority of the snowboarding, he had another rider, Steve Link, there to do any big airs. John Eaves doubled for Roger Moore in the skiing shots. The scenes were filmed on the Pers Glacier at the base of the Piz Palü in the Alps in Eastern Switzerland near the Diavolezza ski resort.

  “Snowboarding wasn’t even allowed on Vail Mountain until 1989, so it really shows you that it was far ahead of its time,” Mason said.

  This new exhibit is part of the Tom Sims Collection at the museum.

  “It’s really incredible that we have so many of his boards. Tom Sims is a California guy, but his family loves the Colorado Snowsports Museum, and we actually have several of his most precious artifacts,” Mason said. “We have his first snowboard that he made in shop class when he was a teenager, it is on permanent display. And this James Bond board is now on permanent display in the museum.”

  To see this piece of pop culture and watch the movie scene, stop by the Colorado Snowsports Museum, , which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Vail Village parking structure.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1947: Barbara Goldbach (Barbara Bach) is born--Queens, New York City, New York.
  
  1967: Tom Ford is born--Austin, Texas.
  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me LP (Long Play Album) soundtrack makes US music charts, later reaching #40.

  
  
  

  
  1989: TV movie Goldeneye premieres starring Charles Dance as Ian Fleming. Also Christoph Waltz, Deborah Moore, Julian Fellows.

  

  Goldeneye (1989)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097446/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4
  1h 45min | Biography | TV Movie 27 August 1989

  Fact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy.

  Director: Don Boyd
  Writers: Reg Gadney, John Pearson (novel)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  

  Charles Dance ... Ian Fleming
  Phyllis Logan ... Ann Fleming
  Patrick Ryecart ... Ivar Bryce
  Marsha Fitzalan ... Loelia
  Ed Devereaux ... Sir William Stephenson
  Richard Griffiths ... Second admiral
  Lynsey Baxter ... Wren Lieutenant
  Julian Fellowes ... Noel Coward
  David Forman ... Ernie Chang
  Joseph Long ... Lucky Luciano
  Donald Douglas ... Lord Kemsley
  David Quilter ... Lord Rothermere
  Donald Hewlett ... Adm. Godfrey
  Kim Kindersley ... Naval lieutenant
  Lisa Daniely ... Wren Captain
  Freda Dowie ... Harley Street doctor
  Ivana Lowell ... Harley Street Nurse
  Philip O'Brien ... CBS interviewer
  Reg Gadney ... James Bond
  Steve Plytas ... Dragoumis
  John Lawrence ... Police inspector
  Christoph Waltz ... German spy
  Stephan Grothgar ... German spy
  Carl Bradshaw ... Magistrate
  Adrian Hough ... Male companion
  Millie Gervasi ... Myra Hess
  Peter Gale ... Head waiter
  Denise Thompson ... Suzanne
  Deborah Moore ... Secretary (as Deborah Barrymore)
  Tony Hendriks ... Assistant director
  Pat Gorman ... Warder
  Dwan Kastelle ... Dancer in gambling club
  Angelie Walker ... Dancer in gambling club
  Jacqueline Boatswain ... Dancer in gambling club (as Jacqui Botswain)
  Stacey Haynes Stacey Haynes ... Dancer in gambling club
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Winston Churchill ... Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  Tina Simmons ... Telephonist (uncredited)

  
  
  
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  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the closing scene--Bond and Wai Lin kissing.

  

  
  2012: Swedish security service Säpo become agents under fire regarding a James Bond themed party.

  

  Säpo spent millions on 'James Bond'
  party

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thelocal.se/20120827/42840

  

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  27 August 2012

  Swedish security service Säpo has come under fire after revelations that a James
  Bond themed party in 2011 cost 5.3 million kronor ($802,500), a contract that was
  never put out to tender.

  The party, which took place in June 2011, had a guest list of around 1,000 people and cost over 5 million kronor. The contract for the event was never put out to tender, revealed the Dagens Nyheter newspaper (DN) on Monday.
  
  Furthermore, Säpo erroneously asked for almost one million kronor back in value added tax (moms), a claim that the Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) noticed in February, demanding that the security service repaid 114,500 kronor in compensation.
  
  The head of Säpo since July this year, Anders Thornberg, explained to the paper that the James Bond party was an exception - a relief for staff members after the pressure from 2011's terror threats, suicide bombing and a company reorganization.
  
  “This was a unique and extraordinary time and we'd been subjected to extreme pressure. We thought that we needed a special gathering for the whole security police team,” he told the paper.
  
  The party was organized by former Säpo head Anders Danielsson, who is now the Director General of the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket).
  
  “I take responsibility for everything, if it's wrong then it is wrong, and it will be sorted out in due course," he told DN.
  
  Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has not yet commented on the revelations, but said that a spokesperson will make a statement later on Monday morning.
  
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  2018: Screen Crush asks 'Is James Bond Going to Die in BOND 25?'

  

  Is James Bond Going to Die in ‘Bond 25’?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://screencrush.com/james-bond-dying-danny-boyle-creative-differences/

  Matt Singer | Published: August 27, 2018
  
  James Bond is used to operating in the midst of chaos, but the story behind the scenes of Bond 25 is intense even by his standards.
  
  Just a few short months after officially signing on to direct the 25th James Bond film, Danny Boyle abruptly left the production citing “creative differences.” Different rumors have since emerged over the exact reason behind Boyle’s departure. There are some reports that he disagreed with Bond star Daniel Craig over the casting of his main antagonist in the film. And now The Sun claims that the real reason he left was his refusal to participate in a highly unconventional ending for a 007 adventure. Apparently, Bond 25 could have ended with the death of Bond:

  An insider said: ‘There were discussions about killing off Bond in dramatic fashion at the end. It would be a final hurrah for Daniel, and leave fans hanging. It would also leave it open for a twist in the next installment — either Bond hadn’t died or there could be a Doctor Who-esque regeneration with a new actor.’

  As already noted, there’s a lot of rumors floating around about Bond 25, and this is just one of them. But it’s an interesting one that probably would have made some film fans happy; I’ve seen a lot of people reacting to the news that Bond 25 was in creative turmoil, and likely missing its intended November 2019 release date with relief. Their argument is that James Bond belongs to another era, his time has passed, and it’s time to move on.
  
  I’m not sure I agree. Remember: you only live twice. Bond should get at least one more crack at it. As of this writing, there is still no replacement for Boyle, or news on when Bond 25 will now hit theaters.

  

  
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  2020: SPYSCAPE HQ reopens in New York City.

  

  

  SPYSCAPE HQ (NYC’s Spy
  Museum Reopens)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://lesdudis.com/tag/james-bond/

  Let’s take a look inside NYC’s spy museum & exhibition re-opening on Friday, August 28! All content in this article was collected prior to the pandemic, and new ‘COVID-secure‘ guidelines have been set for all visitors and staff. SPYSCAPE is a spy museum that opened in early 2018 in NYC. Guests navigate through the exhibit

  

  SPYSCAPE is a spy museum that opened in early 2018 in NYC. Guests navigate through the exhibit with a scannable RFID wristband that activates various stations throughout the museum. Your performance & skills are assessed and by the end of the exhibit you are debriefed using a system developed by a former British Intelligence training officer, and you will be assigned one spy role (out of 10) that you’re best suited for like Agent Handler, Hacker, Special Ops, or Spycatcher.
  
  Some of the abilities you’ll be tested on include brain power, agility, and attention to detail. There was training on lie detection, code breaking, and agility… Yes, there was a laser maze!

  
  Be sure to check out the video at the end of this article to see even more like the Briefing Lift (the world’s largest passenger elevator fitted with wall-to-wall screens for your mission briefing)!

  When you’re not busy completing missions, SPYSCAPE gives you a closer look at spy-related facts and memorabilia like historical attire, gadgets, and other tools. As much as it’s interactive, the museum is also very informative and full of interesting content, even pulling props from popular spy movies like Benedict Cumberbatch’s “The Imitation Game” and the James Bond franchise.

  

  And now the museum offers a dedicated 007xSPYSCAPE Driven portion that features 007’s Aston Martin DB5 and other behind the scenes peeks. Fans of the James Bond films are sure to enjoy it!

  

  Taking your time through the entire museum took about 2 hours and there were plenty of displays for photo opportunities, perfect for all espionage enthusiasts! Compared to some other spy museums we’ve visited, SPYSCAPE seems to be geared towards an older demographic but children will still enjoy the exhibition and learn a lot more historical context too.
  
  But whether it’s learning about Anonymous, participating in a surveillance exercise, or narrowing down a suspect list, SPYSCAPE is bound to keep you on your toes! And what’s an exhibit without a gift shop? Tons of merchandise is available for sale on your way out so be sure to check out the apparel, gadgets, books, and so much more!

  

  SPYSCAPE HQ is a must visit in NYC if you’re into espionage, mysteries, or interactive exhibits in general. There are a lot of cool takeaways and the RFID wristband is an included souvenir that you can take home!
  
  For a limited time, SPYSCAPE is offering a special reopening Buy One Get “Bond” Free admission deal to their 007 exhibit. Visit their official site for booking and more information regarding their August 28 reopening.

  

  
  
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  August 28th
  
  1970: Comic strip Colonel Sun ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 1 December 1969. 1175–1393)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1971
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728

  Dödligt Toppmöte
  (Mortal Top Rendezvous - Colonel Sun)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1989
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

  Dödligt Toppmöte
  (Colonel Sun - Part 1) (Colonel Sun - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish 1971 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_cs_review.php3?t=&s=main&id=01086
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_cs.php3?s=comics&id=0883
  
  

  1971: Comic strip Double Jeopardy ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 21 April 1971. 1597–1708)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/dj.php3
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

  Dödens Dubbelgångare
  (Dead Doppelganger- Double Jeopardy)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

  Farligt Uppdrag: Dödens Dubbelgångare
  ("Dangerous Commission" - Double Jeopardy)
  

  
  Danish 1972 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no24-1972/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 24: “Double Jeopardy” (1972)
  "Mysteriet om dobbeltgængerne" [The mystery of the doubles]
  
  

  
  1977: Following its West End run, The Spy Who Loved Me begins 2 weeks at North London cinemas.
  1978: Robert Shaw dies at age 51--Tourmakeady, County Mayo, England.
  (Born 9 August 1927--Westhoughton, Lancashire, England.)

  

  Actor Robert Shaw, Known for Menacing
  Roles, Dies in Ireland

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/08/29/actor-robert-shaw-known-for-menacing-roles-dies-in-ireland/10011e2d-0410-4cb0-a10b-90457d2f89a5/
  By Gary Arnold
  August 29, 1978

  Robert Shaw, 52, one of the most forceful and successful character actors on the contemporary English speaking screen, died Sunday near his home in Ireland.

  According to a police spokesman, Mr. Shaw became ill while driving with his third wife, Virginia, and their 20-month-old son, Thomas, near the family's home in Tourmakeady, County Mayo. Mr. Shaw reportedly stopped the car, got out and died on the roadside.

  Mr. Shaw first achieved movie prominence in 1964 as the sinister assassin with granite physique and short platinum haircut who stalked Sean Connery's James Bond in "From Russia With Love." Later, he made imposing invaluable contributions to a pair of Academy award-winning films-the 1966 "A Man for All Seasons" in which he won an Oscar nomination for his supporting portrayal of Henry VIII, and the 1973 "The Sting," in which he played a menacing Irish gangster-and to one of the greatest box-office sensations, "Jaws," in which he appeared as the fanatical shark-hunter Quint.

  While pursuing a notable acting career in the theater and motion pictures. Mr. Shaw also wrote five novels and three plays. He was working on a sixth novel at the time of his death. In a recent interview he remarked. "I find acting much easier than writing, but writing is more important to me. I think as I get older I'd rather write, but acting is so much more profitable." Mr. Shaw's best-known literary effort was The Man in the Glass Booth, a novel the author himself later dramatized successfully.
  
  Born in the Lancashire town of Westhoughton on Aug. 9, 1927. Mr. Shaw grew up in Cornwall and the Orkney Islands. His father, a doctor, committed suicide with an overdose of opium when Robert Shaw was 12.
  
  As a youth, Mr. Shaw excelled at sports, especially rugby, squash and track where his specialty was the 400-meter dash. He spurned a scholarship to Cambridge and a career in the family profession of medicine to apply at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1945. He later recalled RADA with fond horror as a hotbed of competition for aspiring actors in the post-war period, "closer to a concentration camp than a school."
  
  After graduation from RADA, Mr. Shaw spent several years as a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic. He made his professional debut at Stratford-on-Avon as Angus in "Macbeth." His most noteworthy West End credits were "Tiger at the Gates" in 1956 and "The Long and Short and the Tall" in 1959, the same year his first novel, "The Hiding Place," was published.
  
  Mr. Shaw made his film debut in the 1955 British war melodrama "The Dam Busters." Ironically, he will star as the chief dam-buster in "Force 10 from Navarrone" an adventure melodrama about World War II commandoes scheduled for release at Christmas. He also had completed a starring role as a defecting KGB agent in "Avalance Express" at the time of his death. This spy thriller, which costars Lee Marvin, is tentatively scheduled for release in the spring of 1979.
  
  Alert moviegoers might have spotted Mr. Shaw early in 1964 as one of the fascinating misfits in "The Guest" the movie version of Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker." With in a few months the success of "From Russia With Love" brought mass audience recognition to Mr. Shaw, and fame soon caught up with his costars from "The Caretaker," Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates.
  
  Mr. Shaw's theatrical career has been linked closely with Pleasence and Pinter. He made his Broadway debut in a production of Pinter's "The Physicists" and later costarred in Pinter's "Old Times." Pleasense enjoyed a Broadway triumph in the title role of "The Man in the Glass Booth," which was directed by Pinter.
  
  In an interview with Clarke Taylor that appeared in the Washington Post two years ago, Mr. Shaw stated, "My time is real development, both personally and professionally, came in working with Harold Pinter. He's the most interesting talent working in the theater today. It was a great creative, happy period for me."
  
  A prolific actor and author, Mr. Shaw also extended himself as a paterfamilias. He had four daughters by his first marriage, to Jennifer Bourke, then two sons and two daughters by his second marriage, to actress Mary Ure, who died in 1975 from a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturate poisoning. Mr. Shaw's third wife, the former Virginia Jansen, had worked as the secretary to the actor and Miss Ure for many tears. Mr. Shaw adopted Jansen's son by a previous marriage, and their own son was born in December 1976.
  
  Mr Shaw frequently cited this brood as a spur to his creative or merly mercenary activity. Discussing his choice of certain film roles with Taylor, Mr. Shaw confided, "Money isn't the sole reason. But I do seem to spend more than I earn. And it takes a lot of money to raise these children of mine.
  
  "I don't spend much on myself, maybe a drink. And I like to travel and stay at really fine hotels. I have an interest in fast cars, and I now have a Mercedes 450SL, but it's not like before, when I woned Rolls Royce convertibles and Astin Martins [sic]. Of course, the tax situation in Britain is impossible.
  
  "I wake up in the middle of the night, frequently, with pain and humiliation and a great deal of shame at some of the work I've done in films. And I would do a good movie any day, regardless of the money. Unfortunately, there aren't many, and . . . if you are not successful now and again, nobody asks you to be in any movies at all. For years the studios would say 'Shaw's pictures make no money, he's not an international star.'"
  
  Despite his vital participation in such hits as "The Sting" and "Jaws," Mr. Shaw never quite established credibility as a bankable star. Usually at his best as a menace, he may have had too much authority for conventional heroic leads. At any rate, he failed to bring a satisfying heroic or romantic presence to such starring vehicles as "Custer of the West," "Swashbuckler" and "Black Sunday." His physically and technique had a rather intimidating potency. He was frequently an impressive performer but rarely an ingratiating one.
  
  Assessing his work, Mr. Shaw remarked. "Most of the time, in movies, I'm about 50 times larger than the part." While justified by the evidence, self-criticism like this was no doubt instrumental in earning the rugged, outspoken actor a reputation for insufferable vanity from some segments of the press.
  
  Moviegoers and film-makers can attest to the authenticity of that larger-than-life quality. Mr Shaw's most gripping sustained scene on film is probably Quint's description of the shark attack on survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that anticipates the thrilling finale of "Jaws."
  
  Director Steven Spielberg has recalled that Mr. Shaw's first reading of Quint's speech, which the actor had helped rewrite, "devastated the set." Ironically, "the effect was so overwhelming that it threatened to capsize everyone prematurely. We had to do it again, with more restraint. In terms of the finished film, the reading was even better because Bob was imposing more controls on his emotions."
  
  The larger-than-life identity seems certain to endure, but Mr. Shaw did submerge himself in the role of a victimized man in "The Caretaker" and a frustrated man in "The Luck of Ginger Coffrey." Irvin Kershner's fine, unjustly neglected movie version of Brian Moore's novel. Mr. Shaw also was prominently, if indecisively, featured in such movies as "Young Winston" (where he played Lord Randolph Churchill). "The Battle of Britain," "The Birthday Party." "Robin and Marian" (as the Sheriff of Nottingham) and "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3."
  
  He achieved considerable success in England as the lead in a television series called "The Buccaneers." He made a brief, unsuccessful attempt at the Broadway musical stage in 1970 as a singing Elmer Gantry in a failed song-and-dance adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.
  
  Three years ago, Mr. Shaw bought a 150-year-old mansion near a troutfilled lake in Tourmakeady and moved in with his wife and most of the Shaw progeny. According to friends, he described the location as "the nearest point on earth to heaven" and added. "When I go, I hope it will be from here."

  

  Robert Shaw

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shaw_(actor)
  
  Work

  Stage
  The Caretaker (1962)
  The Physicists (1964)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1968)
  Gantry (1970)
  Old Times (1971)
  The Dance of Death (1974)
  
  Filmography
  The Cherry Orchard (1947)
  
  The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) – Chemist at Police Exhibition (uncredited)
  The Dam Busters (1954) – Flight Sgt. J. Pulford
  Double Cross (1956) – Ernest
  A Hill in Korea (1956) – Lance Corporal Hodge
  The Buccaneers (1956–1957, TV Series) – Captain Dan Tempest
  Rupert of Hentzau (TV, 1957) – Rupert of Hentzau
  Sea Fury (1958) – Gorman
  Libel (1959) – First Photographer
  
  The Four Just Men (1960, TV Series) – Stuart
  The Dark Man (TV, 1960) – Alan Regan
  Danger Man (1961) – TV episode – Bury The Dead – Tony Costello
  The Winter's Tale (1961) – Leontes
  The Valiant (1962) – Lieutenant Field
  The Father (1962) – The Captain
  Tomorrow at Ten (1962) – Marlowe
  The Caretaker (1963) – Aston
  The Cracksman (1963) – Moke
  From Russia with Love (1963) – Donald 'Red' Grant
  Hamlet (1964) – Claudius, King of Denmark
  The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) – Ginger Coffey
  Carol for Another Christmas (1964) – Ghost of Christmas Future
  Battle of the Bulge (1965) – Col. Martin Hessler
  A Man for All Seasons (1966) – King Henry VIII
  Custer of the West (1967) – Gen. George Armstrong Custer
  Luther (TV, 1968) – Martin Luther
  The Birthday Party (1968) – Stanley Webber
  Battle of Britain (1969) – Squadron Leader "Skipper"
  The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) – Francisco Pizarro
  
  Figures in a Landscape (1970) – MacConnachie (also adapted for the screen)
  A Town Called Bastard (a.k.a. A Town Called Hell) (1971) – The Priest
  Young Winston (1972) – Lord Randolph Churchill
  A Reflection of Fear (a.k.a. Labyrinth) (1973) – Michael
  The Hireling (1973) – Steven Ledbetter
  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) – The Oracle of All Knowledge (uncredited)
  The Sting (1973) – Doyle Lonnegan
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Mr. Blue – Bernard Ryder
  Jaws (1975) – Quint
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) – Writer only
  End of the Game (a.k.a. Der Richter und sein Henker, Murder on the Bridge, Deception, and Getting Away with Murder) (1975) – Richard Gastmann
  Diamonds (a.k.a. Diamond Shaft) (1975) – Charles / Earl Hodgson
  Robin and Marian (1976) – Sheriff of Nottingham
  Swashbuckler (a.k.a. Scarlet Buccaneer) (1976) – Ned Lynch
  Black Sunday (1977) – Major David Kabokov
  The Deep (1977) – Romer Treece
  Force 10 from Navarone (1978) – Major Keith Mallory
  Avalanche Express (1979) – General Marenkov (final film role)
  
  Writing
  The Hiding Place (1960)
  The Sun Doctor (1961)
  The Flag (1965)
  Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (screenplay adaptation of The Hiding Place, 1965)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1967)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (play adaptation, 1968)
  A Card from Morocco (1969)
  Figures in a Landscape (1970) (screenplay adaptation of novel)
  Cato Street (play, 1971)
  
  Awards
  He became the second actor to be nominated to the 39th Academy Awards for playing Henry VIII of England in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966). He was also nominated to the 24th Golden Globe Awards for the same role.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films Zorin sparring with May Day.
  1987: John Marcellus Huston dies at age 81 as an Irish citizen--Middletown, Rhode Island.
  (Born 5 August 1906--Nevada, Missouri.)

  

  John Huston
  American director, writer, and actor

  https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Huston
  Written By: Michael Barson
  Last Updated: Aug 1, 2019 See Article History
  
  John Huston, in full John Marcellus Huston, (born August 5, 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S—died August 28, 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island), American motion-picture director, writer, and actor whose taut dramas were among the most popular Hollywood films from the early 1940s to the mid-1980s. Many of his films were literary adaptations or tough action tales with an existential spin. Indeed, his own life—in which Huston starred as a boxer, painter, horseman, gadabout, rebel, and international ladies’ man (who married six times)—was at least as engaging as many of his movies.
  
  Early work
  Huston was born in a small town in Missouri that his grandfather claimed to have won in a poker game. Huston’s father, Walter Huston, had given up stage acting for work as a civil engineer that took his family to Texas and Indiana before he decided to return to acting in 1909. Within a few years Huston’s parents were divorced, and he spent his childhood moving between his father, who initially returned to vaudeville, and his mother, Reah, who worked as a journalist and taught him to both ride and bet on horses. Although he suffered from kidney disease and an enlarged heart, Huston overcame a frail, often bedridden youth to become so robust a teenager that he was the amateur lightweight boxing champion of California (with a distinctive broken nose to show for it). After briefly studying painting in Los Angeles, Huston moved to New York City in 1924 to become an actor and performed with the Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village. In 1925, while vacationing in Mexico, he became an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry.
  
  Returning to New York in 1929, Huston took a job as a reporter at the New York Graphic, where his mother was then working. He also began writing and publishing short stories, most notably “Fool,” which appeared in the literary magazine The American Mercury. In 1931 Huston went to Hollywood. After a false start as a contract writer with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), he moved to Universal, contributing to the screenplays of a pair of films starring his father, A House Divided (1931) and Law and Order (1932). During this period of hard drinking and carousing, a car that Huston was driving hit and killed a pedestrian. Consumed with guilt, he moved to London, where he intended to write for the British studio Gaumont but instead lived a ne’er-do-well existence. After a stint in Paris painting, he returned to the United States.
  
  In 1934 Huston played the lead in the Chicago Works Progress Administration production of Robert E. Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. By 1937 Huston was back in Hollywood, where Warner Brothers signed him to a screenwriting contract. This time his career was on track. Huston collaborated on the scripts for William Wyler’s Jezebel (1938), Anatole Litvak’s The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juárez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.
  
  Films of the 1940s
  Huston then cowrote three exceptional films: Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940) for Dieterle, High Sierra (1941) for Raoul Walsh, and Sergeant York for Howard Hawks, the last of which earned Huston his first Academy Award nomination, for best original screenplay in 1941.
  
  That year Huston was also nominated for an Academy Award in another screenwriting category for his adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s detective mystery The Maltese Falcon (1941), which was Huston’s first film as a director—perhaps the most-impressive debut in Hollywood during the 1940s. The Maltese Falcon had already been filmed by Warner Brothers in 1931 and 1936, but Huston’s proto-film noir had the advantage of Huston as the screenwriter, Humphrey Bogart as the amoral private eye Sam Spade, Mary Astor as the immoral Brigid O’Shaughnessey, and Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as a pair of lovable cutthroats. It was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture.
  
  After directing the melodrama In This Our Life (1942), Huston was unable to complete his next project, the high-seas espionage tale Across the Pacific (1942), because he was drafted. For the U.S. Army’s Pictorial Service, Huston directed and narrated the renowned World War II documentaries Report from the Aleutians (1943), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), and Let There Be Light, the last a disturbing study of emotionally unstable veterans in a Long Island hospital that was so powerful that it was not given a public release until the early 1980s. Huston was discharged from the army in 1945 with the rank of major and awarded the Legion of Merit for making his films under perilous battle conditions.
  
  Back in the United States, he worked on the scripts for Robert Siodmak’s The Killers and Orson Welles’s The Stranger (both 1946). Huston also directed Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit on Broadway in 1946. In 1947, as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) geared up for its initial wave of hearings into the Hollywood community’s past or present communist affiliations, Huston joined with director William Wyler and screenwriter Philip Dunne in establishing the Committee for the First Amendment. Huston was part of a delegation of industry liberals—including Bogart and Lauren Bacall—who flew to Washington, D.C., to support those witnesses who had taken a confrontational stand when called to testify before the HUAC. Like other members of the delegation, however, Huston was put off by the aggressive belligerence of the “unfriendly” witnesses who would become known as the Hollywood Ten, though he remained disgusted by the proceedings as a whole.
  
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) was Huston’s return to motion-picture directing in Hollywood. Adapted by Huston from an obscure novel by the mysterious, reclusive writer B. Traven and shot on location in Mexico, it starred Bogart in the decidedly unheroic role of a paranoid prospector, Fred C. Dobbs. As good as Bogart was in depicting Dobbs’s descent into madness, most critics believed that he was out-acted by Walter Huston as the grizzled, sagacious Howard, who tries in vain to keep greed from consuming the little treasure-seeking band. (This was the first time that Huston had cast his father in a major role, though he had appeared in unbilled cameos in The Maltese Falcon and In This Our Life.) Although The Treasure of the Sierra Madre would become one of Huston’s greatest critical triumphs and continues to be widely considered one of the best films of its time, it was a box-office disaster, perhaps because of its grim ending and the daring casting of Bogart against type. Still, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, Huston won the awards for best director and best screenplay, and his father was named best supporting actor.

  
  Humphrey Bogart (centre) and Walter Huston (right) in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
  Courtesy of Warner Brothers, Inc.

  Bogart, Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor starred in Huston’s next film, Key Largo (1948), a suspenseful adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play that is regarded as a classic film noir. With a screenplay by Huston and Richard Brooks, it is set in a small hotel in the Florida Keys that is taken over by a gangster (Robinson) who has made a clandestine return from deportation to Cuba. Trevor won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the gangster’s mistress. Cuba was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.
  
  Films of the 1950s
  Huston thought of himself as a writer-director and almost always had a hand in the screenplays for his films, though he preferred working in collaboration with other writers. A lover of literature from the time he learned to read at age three, he drew the stories for his films primarily from novels and plays. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) was based on the hard-boiled crime novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett, who had provided the source novels for High Sierra and Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931). Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, and James Whitmore starred in that caper film noir as a gang plotting the multimillion-dollar robbery of a jewelry exchange. A thrilling exercise in fatalism, The Asphalt Jungle was one of Huston’s most expertly structured films and earned him and cowriter Ben Maddow an Academy Award nomination for their screenplay.
  
  Huston was less fortunate with his 1951 adaptation of Stephen Crane’s literary classic The Red Badge of Courage. Real-life World War II hero Audie Murphy starred in this story of a young Union soldier who deserts his company during the American Civil War. With the Korean War raging, MGM executives felt that the film’s antiwar message was too blatant and cut The Red Badge of Courage down to 69 minutes. (The undoctored version was among Huston’s favourites of his films.) Nevertheless, what remained, including some magnificently staged battle scenes, was impressive enough to have been called a minor masterpiece by Lillian Ross of The New Yorker magazine; she published the book Picture (1952), which chronicled the film’s making.
  
  Much of Huston’s next film, The African Queen (1951), was shot on location in Uganda and Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Novelist and pioneering film critic James Agee worked with Huston on the adaptation of C.S. Forester’s popular novel (as did the uncredited John Collier and Peter Viertel). The performances delivered by Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were among their most memorable, as drunken boat captain Charlie Allnut and as Rosie Sayer, the impossibly prim spinster who convinces him to take her on his rattletrap steamer down the Congo River to civilization at the outset of World War I. This splendid romance-comedy-adventure has remained one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time. Huston was again nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best screenplay; Bogart won the award for best actor.

  

  In 1952 Huston traveled to France to shoot Moulin Rouge (1952), a gorgeously mounted, sentimental biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (played José Ferrer), the crippled artist who became the toast of Montmartre for his lively artworks. Moulin Rouge was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, and Huston was nominated for best director, the fourth time in five years that he had been nominated for that award. He would have to wait 33 years before the Academy nominated him again, as he entered the extended hit-or-miss phase of his career.
  
  Written with Truman Capote and cofinanced by Bogart’s Santana production company, Beat the Devil (1954) was filmed in Italy. A delightful spoof of The Maltese Falcon, it featured Bogart, Lorre, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, and Gina Lollobrigida as a motley shipboard assembly of adventurers, frauds, and con artists trying to locate a uranium mine while enduring a variety of comic disasters. Capote later said that they made up the story as they went along, an irreverent approach perhaps better suited to sensibilities in the 21st century than to those of the 1950s. Beat the Devil was a box-office disaster and precipitated a split between Bogart (who called the film “a mess”) and Huston after many years of fruitful collaboration.
  
  Moby Dick (1956), Huston’s epic adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, was shot in Ireland, where Huston had gone to live in 1952, largely because he had become disgusted by the political climate of the United States during the McCarthy era. Although some critics found the stolid Gregory Peck badly suited to the role of the fiery, obsessed Captain Ahab, Huston and Ray Bradbury captured much of the poetry of Melville in their script, and the sea storm and whaling sequences were impressively staged. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), a much quieter affair, starred Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as a marine and a nun stranded on a Pacific island during World War II. Kerr received an Academy Award nomination for best actress, and Huston’s and John Lee Mahin’s screenplay was also nominated.
  
  Huston began working on David O. Selznick’s remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957) but departed the production to instead direct the undistinguished period film The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). Filmed in French Equatorial Africa with Errol Flynn and Trevor Howard, The Roots of Heaven (1958) followed and drew mixed reviews.
  
  Films of the 1960s
  Something of a return to form for Huston, The Unforgiven (1960) starred Audrey Hepburn in the only western role of her career, as a Native American who has been raised by a Texas settler family. The troubled history of the making of Huston’s next film, The Misfits (1961), became a staple of Hollywood lore. Playwright Arthur Miller adapted his own short story for that very different kind of western as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe (his wife, though their marriage was collapsing). Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach portrayed aging modern-day cowboys who capture wild horses and sell them to be slaughtered for dog food. Monroe played a divorced former stripper who questions the wranglers’ morality as she falls for one of them (Gable). With her personal life in a tailspin, Monroe reportedly drove Huston to distraction during the filming, showing up on the set late, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and blowing her lines. This was her last completed role before her death in August 1962. Moreover, eight days after shooting was completed on the film, Gable died of a heart attack.
  
  Huston himself narrated the somber Freud (1962), in which Clift (in one his last roles) played the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The playful mystery The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) featured a roster of big-name stars (including Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Tony Curtis) who were all but unrecognizable under layers of makeup. Their performances were less memorable, however, than Huston’s portrayal the same year of a Roman Catholic cardinal in another film, Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal. That performance earned Huston an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor and started a new parallel career for him as an actor.
  
  Huston’s The Night of the Iguana (1964), shot in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, offered another all-star cast (Kerr, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Sue Lyon) in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play of the same name that was steeped in psychoses, thwarted desires, and carnal confusion. Huston then decided to make The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966); however, the nearly three hours of Old Testament melodramatics he offered were little appreciated by audiences and critics (though Huston himself turned in an estimable performance as Noah). Huston’s 1967 film version of Carson McCullers’s 1941 novella Reflections in a Golden Eye was a commercial failure but has come to be more widely appreciated with the passage of time. Marlon Brando gave one of his uniquely odd performances as a repressed homosexual army officer whose Southern belle wife (Elizabeth Taylor) becomes involved with another officer (Brian Keith).

  In 1967 Huston acted in and was one of five directors who had a hand in guiding Casino Royale, a parody of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond thriller. His string of lacklustre films continued with A Walk with Love and Death (1969), a forgettable medieval drama that is most-notable today for having provided daughter Anjelica Huston with her first lead role in a movie; Sinful Davey (1969), with John Hurt; and the Cold War thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970).

  Last films
  Fat City, an adaptation of Leonard Gardner’s novel about small-time boxers, significantly reversed Huston’s fortunes as a director and was one of 1972’s most-acclaimed motion pictures. Here Huston had a chance to draw upon his experiences as a boxer in California five decades earlier, and he deftly teased out the downbeat story’s essence. Stacy Keach played a washed-up boxer in Stockton, Susan Tryrell earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her portrayal of his drink-besotted girlfriend, and Jeff Bridges was terrific as a younger fighter with a less-than-promising future.
  
  Huston’s follow-up was the revisionist western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973), a loose biography of the notorious self-appointed hanging judge Roy Bean, which featured Paul Newman in the title role, an irreverent screenplay by John Milius, and a supporting cast that included Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, and Huston himself. Newman starred again in the Walter Hill-scripted espionage thriller The Mackintosh Man (1973). Then Huston managed to set a new acting standard for himself in Roman Polanski’s classic film noir Chinatown (1974) as the loathsome, evil Noah Cross.
  
  For decades Huston had thought about making The Man Who Would Be King (1975). In the 1950s he had wanted Bogart and Gable to play the intrepid explorers at the centre of Rudyard Kipling’s short story; in the 1960s he had envisioned Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole as the leads. In the event, Sean Connery and Michael Caine, two of the biggest stars of the 1970s, got the roles and traveled to Morocco, which stood in for the story’s Afghanistan locale. Both Connery, as the swaggering Danny, who is taken for a god and comes to believe it himself, and Caine, as his slightly dim sidekick Peachy, gave marvelous performances. Although the film was not particularly successful at the box office and received respectful but restrained reviews, it proved to be a morality tale of unusual resonance and came to be regarded as among Huston’s finest films.
  
  Four years passed before Huston was able to bring to the screen another favourite project, Wise Blood (1979). Brad Dourif played a fanatical Southern evangelist in this adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s darkly comic novel of the same name. Huston’s next film, the low-budget Hitchcockian thriller Phobia (1981), was arguably the nadir of his directorial career. Much better received was the World War II drama Victory (1981), which featured Caine, Sylvester Stallone, and football (soccer) great Pelé as Allied prisoners of war who engineer an escape from the Parisian stadium in which their team of prisoners is playing a German all-star team. Huston’s uneven big-budget adaptation of the Broadway hit Annie (1982) was his one and only musical. Filmed in Mexico, Under the Volcano (1984) was a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to capture Malcolm Lowry’s difficult novel.
  
  Far more satisfying was Prizzi’s Honor (1985), a stylized version of Richard Condon’s novel (adapted by Condon and Janet Roach) about the Mafia. Jack Nicholson delivered what many critics considered to be among his best performances as mob hit man Charley Partanna. He falls for a woman (Kathleen Turner) who turns out not only to share his profession but to become his target. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, Huston for best director, and Nicholson for best actor, while Anjelica Huston won the award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Charley’s mistress. Throughout the 1970s and early ’80s Huston continued to act periodically in others’ films, perhaps most notably in Winter Kills (1979), a thriller based on another Condon novel.
  
  In 1987 Huston joined Anjelica and his oldest son, Tony Huston, to make what would be his final movie, The Dead (Anjelica acted in it, and Tony was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay). Based on the short story “The Dead” from James Joyce’s Dubliners, the film focused on a holiday party hosted by a pair of elderly sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin. Poignant, stately, and expertly acted, The Dead was just completed when the ailing Huston (who directed the film from a wheelchair, breathing from an oxygen tank) died at age 81. More than a few critics saw The Dead as a fitting epitaph for this prodigiously gifted storyteller.
  
  Michael Barson

  

  John Huston (I) (1906–1987)

  Actor | Director | Writer
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  Casino Royale (1967)
  
  
  

  1987: 007 - Risco Imediato (Immediate Risk) released in Portugal.

  
  

  
  1988: The Los Angeles Hollywood Examiner reports on 24 year old dance teacher Sandy Sentell from Knoxville, Tennessee, winning a contest first prize of a walk-on part in Licence to Kill at Key West, Florida.
  
  1994: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Seafire.

  A new Double-O Section has risen
  from the ashes of the old British Secret
  Service. Now, the entire organization
  has been split up and the Double-O
  Section reports to a small government
  committee called MicroGlobe One.
  Gone are the days when James Bond
  was answerable only to M. Gone also
  is the old licence to kill, for the new
  section's targets are not individuals but
  large corporations. Gone is the
  automatic pistol, replaced by the
  pocket calculator.
  
  But weapons are reinstated when Bond
  is put on the trail of the self-made
  billionaire, Sir Maxwell Tarn, whose
  business empuie spans the globe, and
  whose activities appear to include
  illegal dealings in weapons, on a grand
  global scale.
  
  With the shrewd assistance of Flicka
  von Grüsse, Bond's stunning partner
  introduced in Never Send Flowers, 007
  follows a maze of trails from London
  to Spain, Israel and Germany. But
  they are on board Tarn's floating
  laboratory off the coast of Puerto Rico
  when their own prey becomes their
  captor. There, Bond and Flicka realize
  their missstep has placed them squarely
  in the audience to a deadly experiment
  that will trigger and ecological disaster
  of global proportions.
  
  The fate of the oceans, not to mention
  their own lives, lies in stopping Tarn
  before his cache of deadly weapons
  destroys much more than a few
  pristine islands in the Caribbean.
  
  John Gardner proves once again his
  skills as a master story-teller in this
  latest 007 superadventure.

  JOHN GARDNER was educated in
  Berkshire and at St. John's College,
  Cambridge. He has had many fascinating
  occupations and was, variously, a Royal
  Marine officer, a stage magician, theatre
  critic, reviewer and journalist.
  
  As well as his James Bond novels, most
  recently Death is Forever and Never Send
  Flowers, Gardner's other fiction includes
  the acclaimed Secret Generations trilogy
  and, most recently, Maestro.

  
  
  

  
  2001: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena rejects Kevin McClory's claims on Bond.

  

  

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1512950.stm
  Tuesday, 28 August, 2001, 09:40 GMT 10:40 UK

  
  The World is Not Enough was the most recent Bond movie

  American writer Kevin McClory has lost his legal battle over the rights to the James Bond film character.
  
  Mr McClory claimed Danjaq Productions LLC - distributor of the Bond films - owed him for creating the onscreen image of Britain's world famous fictional super spy.
  
  Danjaq is owned by the family of Bond movie producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli.
  
  But on Monday a federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed his case, saying Mr McClory had waited too long to make a claim.
  
  Mr McClory, who worked with Bond author Ian Fleming in the 50s to adapt his agent for the cinema, sought royalties in 1998 from a number of Bond movies from 1962-1977.
  
  Presiding Judge Margaret McKeown upheld an earlier decision made by a lower court that Mr McClory had waited too long to bring his case.
  
  Rights
  "We conclude that Mr McClory's claims are barred in their entirety (and) affirm the district court's dismissal of his suit," said Judge McKeown.
  
  Mr McClory, who owns Spectre Associates Inc, alleged he owned the rights to the Bond novel Thunderball and to parts of the script for the movie version.
  
  Thunderball, released in 1965, was the first Bond movie to introduce the Spectre organisation [incorrect statement] run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, 007's arch enemy.
  
  And it was originally going to be the first Bond movie -19 have been made so far - but Dr No was made instead in 1962.
  
  Mr McClory then claimed that Dr No had used material from his Thunderball scripts and Fleming settled the row by giving Mr McClory some rights to Thunderball.
  
  Broccoli
  In 1976, Mr McClory again went to court, this time supported by the first Bond star, Sean Connery.
  
  The pair tried to stop production of The Spy Who Loved Me, which they said had elements of a script they were writing together.
  
  Mr McClory's 1998 case was spurred by events from 1997.
  
  That was the year Sony acquired Mr McClory's rights to make James Bond movies.
  
  But Danjaq Productions then sued Sony, its Columbia pictures subsidiary and Mr McClory.
  
  Sony and Mr McClory then filed legal battles of their own, which included Mr McClory's current claim.
  
  Sony later dropped its plans - and therefore its case - to make the Bond movies, leaving only Mr McClory fighting Danjaq.

  2005: BBC One airs Ian Fleming--Bondmaker starring Ben Daniels.

  

  Ian Fleming: Bondmaker

  TV Movie | 2005 | 1h
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479931/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  A look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in Naval Intelligence as a Commander until his death in 1964. This docudrama gives an insight into what Fleming was really like and how he wrote the Bond novels.

  Ben Daniels ... Ian Fleming
  Emily Woof ... Ann Fleming
  Pip Torrens ... Noel Coward
  Nickolas Grace ... William Plomer
  Emma Darwall-Smith ... Muriel Wright
  Annabel Leventon ... Eve Fleming
  Peter Penry-Jones ... Admiral Godfrey
  William Scott-Masson ... Esmond Rothermere (as William Scott Masson)

  
  

  
  2012: MGM and partners announce a new documentary, Everything or Nothing--The Untold Story of 007, to come available 5 October with the 50th anniversary of Bond films.

  
  
  

  
  2024: National Bow Tie Day in the U.S.

  
  
  

  
  
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  1928: Charles Gray is born--Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
  (He dies 7 March 2000 at age 71--Brompton, London.)

  

  Charles Gray
  Actor who played a series of elegant cads - and a memorable opponent for James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/09/guardianobituaries2

  Eric Shorter | Wed 8 Mar 2000 21.16 EST

  The actor Charles Gray, who has died aged 71, never wanted to be loved, but he won plenty of applause for his portraits of silken arrogance, self-importance, oily malice and egotism. Among his film parts were the wily Blofeld, James Bond's antagonist in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and the chief apostle of evil in Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out (1967).

  Gray endowed toffs, cads, crooks, and braggarts with hauteur and elegance. What gave them authenticity was his belief in them. The voice was commanding, though it rarely needed raising, and its tone belonged to high society.
  
  Gray learned his powers of spoken speech as a young Shakespearian in Regent's Park, at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic in the post-war heyday of Richard Burton, John Neville and Paul Rogers. The actor cut an imposing figure; and the voice and its inflections were under such control that together they served undetectably as Jack Hawkins's when that even better actor lost his voice from throat cancer.
  
  Gray's shamelessly affected persona, which could be arrestingly camp or plain overbearing, sometimes spilled over into his private life in Kensington. Not as private as some neighbours, Gray used to entertain friends into the small hours on his apartment balcony. When asked why he cut such a self-important dash, he would protest: "I'm not in the least aristocratic in real life, old boy. I much prefer a pint at the local."
  
  Born in Bournemouth, he spent his early adult years in an estate agent's office. By his mid-20s he felt the call of the stage; and under his real name, Donald Gray, made his first professional appearance in As You Like It (1952) for Robert Atkins in Regent's Park, playing Charles the Wrestler.
  
  Changing his name to Charles for the next production, Cymbeline, Gray then moved to Stratford-on-Avon in walk-on parts and in 1954 joined the Old Vic. Almost immediately he created a stir as the messenger Mercadé, coming on at the end of Frith Banbury's revival of Love's Labour's Lost, with decor and costumes by Cecil Beaton.
  
  By 1956 Gray was taking leads. One of his best was Achilles in Tyrone Guthrie's Edwardian revival of Troilus And Cressida. "Looking like a prize-fighter gone to seed, with muscle turning to flesh, a puffy, dissipated monster, alternately petting and tormenting his favourite orderly Patroclus," as Ivor Brown wrote in the Observer. Other Old Vic credits included Macduff to Paul Rogers's Macbeth, Lodovico to Richard Burton's and John Neville's Othellos, Escalus to Neville's Romeo, and Bolingbroke to Neville's Richard II. If neither his Bolingbroke nor Macduff could stir the audience, that would remain part of Gray's dramatic problem: however much we might admire his acting, he could never touch our feelings.
  
  After a north American tour in those roles and as Achilles, Gray returned to the West End in 1958. In Wolf Mankowitz's musical Expresso Bongo (Saville 1958) he played Capt Cyril Mavors, condescending restaurateur.
  
  In 1961 Gray was back on Broadway, this time as the Prince of Wales, later William IV, in Kean, Sartre's sardonic revision of the Alexandre Dumas play about the 19th century actor. When Peter Hall's newly formed Royal Shakespeare Company launched its contemporary season in 1962, Giles Cooper's black comedy Everything In The Garden did so well that it transferred to the West End; and Gray then took over as the aghast suburban husband who discovers in sundry pots and jars hundreds of pound notes, his wife's illicit earnings in Wimpole Street.
  
  Back at the Old Vic later that year Gray revelled in the role of the voluptuous glutton, Sir Epicure Mammon, in Tyrone Guthrie's modern-dress revival of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist; and in 1964 he won the Clarence Derwent Award for the year's best supporting actor as the land-owning host of a party given to taunt the hero of Anouilh's Poor Bitos (Arts, Duke of York's and Broadway). Staying on in New York, Gray took the title-role in The Right Honourable Gentle man (1965), a Victorian politician and sexual hypocrite. Plenty of other stage credits followed.
  
  Among small screen credits were Strickland in The Moon And Sixpence, rated as rivalling George Sanders in the film, the bland brother-in-law in Pinter's The Tea Party, the amorous TV personality in Fay Weldon's The Three Wives Of Felix Hull, an overbearing Randolph Churchill in Hugo Charteris's Asquith, the trouble-making judge in Blind Justice, the acerbic Sir Cathcart in Porterhouse Blue, an impoverished peer in The Upper Crust series and an imperious old buffer in Longitude.
  
  Among film credits were Narrator in Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the satanic priest who duelled with Christopher Lee in The Devil Rides Out, the sinister butler in The Mirror Crack'd and Judge in Shock Treatment.
  
  Charles Gray never married.
  
  • Charles (Donald Marshall) Gray, actor, born August 29 1928; died March 7 2000

  
  Charles Gray
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gray_(actor)
  
  Filmography

  Selected filmography
  
  I Accuse! (1958) as Capt. Brossard
  Heart of a Child (1958) as Fritz Heiss
  Official Detective (1958) Episode: "Extortion" as King
  The Desperate Man (1959) as Dawson
  Follow a Star (1959) as Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited)
  Tommy the Toreador (1959) as Gomez
  The Entertainer (1960) as Columnist
  Man in the Moon (1960) as Leo
  Masquerade (1965) as Benson
  The Night of the Generals (1967) as General Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler
  You Only Live Twice (1967) as Dikko Henderson
  The Man Outside (1967) as Charles Griddon
  The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts
  The Devil Rides Out (1968) as Mocata
  The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) as Narrator (voice)
  The File of the Golden Goose (1969) as The Owl
  Mosquito Squadron (1969) as Air Commodore Hufford
  
  The Executioner (1970) as Vaughan Jones
  Cromwell (1970) as The Earl of Essex
  When Eight Bells Toll (1971) as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice, uncredited)
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  Theatre of Blood (1973) as Solomon Psaltery (voice, uncredited)
  Tales That Witness Madness (1973) as Jack Hawkins Voice Double (voice, uncredited)
  On the Game (1974) as Narrator (voice)
  The Beast Must Die (1974) as Bennington
  Fall of Eagles (1974) as Mikhail Rodzianko
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) as The Criminologist - An Expert
  Seven Nights in Japan (1976) as Henry Hollander
  The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Mycroft Holmes
  Silver Bears (1978) as Charles Cook
  Richard II (1978) as Duke of York
  The Legacy (1978) as Karl Liebnecht
  
  The Mirror Crack'd (1980) as Bates, The Butler
  Ticket to Heaven (1981) as Musician
  Shock Treatment (1981) as Judge Oliver Wright
  The Jigsaw Man (1983) as Sir James Chorley
  The Gourmet (1984) as Manley Kingston
  Eine Frau namens Harry (1990) as Satan
  Firestar: First Contact (1991) as Commodore Vandross
  The Tichborne Claimant (1998) as Arundell

  

  Charles Gray (I) (1928–2000)

  Actor | Soundtrack
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  1942: Gottfried John is born--Berlin, Germany.
  (He dies 1 September 2014 at age 72--Utting, Germany.)

  

  Gottfried John obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john

  German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
  villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
  Ronald Bergan
  Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT

  
  Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
  Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

  It was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low cheekbones, raspy voice and boxer's flattened nose, would play villains. In commercial terms, the culmination of his 20-year stage, cinema and television career came when John was cast as the perfidious Russian general Arkady Ourumov, James Bond's nemesis, in GoldenEye (1995), the highest-earning Bond film since Moonraker, 16 years previously.

  However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.
  
  John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.
  
  Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.
  
  In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.
  
  He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).
  
  John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

  After Fassbinder's death in 1984, John embarked on an international career generally playing shady German characters in spy dramas, such as the British TV series Game, Set and Match (1988), based on books by Len Deighton. In GoldenEye, in keeping with the Hollywood tradition of casting any old nationality as a foreigner, John was General Ourumov, the corrupt and ruthless head of the Russian Space Division, secretly planning to take control of the world's satellites. In the exhilarating climax, Ourumov is in a black sedan, drinking from a hip flask and holding a woman hostage, followed by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) driving a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg. At one stage, he tells his driver, when faced with a group of people blocking the way, "Use the bumper! That's what it's for!"

  In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).
  
  John is survived by his wife, Barbara.
  
  • Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

  
  Gottfried John
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_John
  
  Filmography

  Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
  Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)
  
  Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
  Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
  Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
  World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
  Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
  Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
  Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
  Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
  In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
  Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
  The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze
  
  Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
  Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
  Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
  Ente oder Trente (1983)
  Super (1984) .... Hilpert
  Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
  Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
  Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
  Die Mitläufer (1985)
  Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
  Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
  Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
  Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
  Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann
  
  Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
  Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
  Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
  Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
  Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
  Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
  Die Zeit danach (1992)
  Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
  Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
  Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
  Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
  Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
  Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
  GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
  The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
  Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
  Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
  Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
  Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski
  
  Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
  Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
  The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
  Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
  Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
  Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
  Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
  Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
  The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
  Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
  Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
  Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
  Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
  John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
  Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
  Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
  Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl
  
  Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

  

  Gottfried John (1942–2014)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: Sean Connery photographed on his way to a golf game. Or maybe it was 31 August.

  

  19th Hole
  Bond, Golf and Me - Sean
  Connery
  Landing the role of 007 lit his passion for golf

  https://golftoday.co.uk/bond-golf-and-me-sean-connery/
  by GT Editor
  Tuesday 27th of August 2020
  
  

  
  
  

  
  1978: Moonraker films OO7 and the centrifuge.

  https://www.facebook.com/JamesBond007/videos/315179823137903/
  
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Kenya.

  

  
  1984: Diamantes para la eternidad re-released in Spain.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1987: Roger Moore hosts the television documentary Happy Anniversary 007--25 Years of James Bond.

  

  

  Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223426/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  49min | Documentary | TV Movie 13 May 1987
  

  An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.

  Director: Mel Stuart
  Writer: Richard Schickel
  Stars: Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton

  JAMES BOND movies at 25 1987 Entertainment Tonight Roger Moore interview (2:43)
  
  http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2013/06/12/Happy-Anniversary-007";
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  2017: Sir Sean Connery smiles for the James Bond Theme and receives a standing ovation at the U.S. Open.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1963: Time magazine reviews the latest Fleming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  

  Fate Worse Than Death

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://footenotes.net/Pages/Bond.htm

  Time, August 30, 1963
  
  ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
  by Ian Fleming
  299 pages. New American Library. $4.50.
  
  SOME TIME BACK, when sober-sided Britons belabored Author Ian Fleming for the consumer snobbery of his caddish hero (James Bond's car is a Bentley, his girls invariably smell of Guerlain), Fleming was unrepentant. He was sorry, he said, only for having once permitted Bond the unforgivable gaffe of ordering asparagus with bearnaise instead of mousseline sauce. But in Fleming's latest Bond bombshell, there are disquieting signs that he took the critics to heart. On page 152, sophisticated Secret Agent 007 cozies up to a blonde who smells of nothing more aristocratic than Mennen's baby powder.
  
  For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope—as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony.
  
  The lady is a countess named Tracy. She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But —horrors—she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid cliché it was!"
  
  When Bond actually marries Tracy all seems lost. Author Fleming, however, has never been without resources. He appears deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) on page 299 and saves James Bond from his better self.

  
  

  
  1971: James Bond comic strip Starfire begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 24 December 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/sf.php3
  
  
  Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
  "Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]
  
  

  
  1983: Octopussy released in the Philippines.
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Pegasus in the stables.
  
  2010: SNS Publishing releases Joseph Darlington's Being James Bond, as related to his podcast.

  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Being-James-Bond-One-Pocket-ebook/dp/B0041HXPDW
  

  2014: The Guardian reports on Roger Moore proposing being known as James Bond has no down side.

  

  Interview
  Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known
  as James Bond has no downside’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/30/roger-moore-being-known-as-james-bond-has-no-down-side

  Ruth Huntman | Sat 30 Aug 2014
  The actor, 86, on the women in his life, his humanitarian work – and Daniel Craig’s trunks

  
  'I'm one lucky bastard': Roger Moore.
  Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/Corbis

  • I’m one lucky bastard. During my early acting years I was told that to succeed you needed personality, talent and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me it’s been 99% luck. It’s no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
  • The saddest thing about ageing is that most of my friends are now “in the other room”. I miss David Niven the most. I still can’t watch his films without shedding a tear. There’s a bronze bust of him in my study, given to me by his son, David Jr.
  • Women have played a big part in my life on and off-screen [Moore has been married to fourth wife, Swedish socialite Kristina Tholstrup, for 12 years] and I think I’ve finally worked them out. I always make sure I have the last word. That word is “yes”.
  • Intelligence is my most endearing quality, according to Kristina. That’s her Swedish sense of humour.
  • Being eternally known as Bond has no downside. People often call me “Mr Bond” when we’re out and I don’t mind a bit. Why would I?
  • The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting. I’m sure some people would say, “What does an actor know about world issues?” But [working for Unicef] I’ve become an expert on things from the causes of dwarfism to the benefits of breastfeeding. I feel very privileged.
  • Some of the things I’ve done in my life I’m ashamed of. We don’t talk about those though. If I could give my younger self some advice it would be: “Grow up!”
  • Friends gave me the heads-up on Steve Coogan’s version of me on The Trip. It did make me laugh. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. It’s difficult to find anything different about me to impersonate though – unlike Michael Caine or Jimmy Stewart, I just have a negative, neutral voice.
  • I still have some of Bond’s suits in my wardrobe but they don’t fit me now. During the 007 days I was so thin that if I turned sideways you could mark me absent. Thankfully I never had to squeeze into the trunks that Daniel Craig wore – it takes a lot of hard work to look like that.
  • My mum instilled in me the proverb: “I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” Those words are always with me and I’m a believer in showing kindness to others and not expecting repayment.
  • On-set pranks should always be done while the cameras are rolling so that victims can’t retaliate.
  • Not being offered Peter O’Toole’s role in Lawrence of Arabia is the biggest regret of my life. Other than that, I wouldn’t change a thing.
  • Medicine has always fascinated me and I’m a hypochondriac. It’s not that I wake up every morning and think I’m dying. At my age, I know I am.

  
  Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown is out now (£20, Michael O’Mara Books)
  

  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Moneypenny.
  Jacob Edgar, artist. Jody Houser, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: MONEYPENNY
  ONE-SHOT

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026074101011
  Cover A: Tula Lotay
  Writer: Jody Houser
  Art: Jacob Edgar
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: August 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 40 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/30

  By writer JODY HOUSER (Mother Panic, Faith) and new artist JACOB EDGAR, a never-before-told mission starring MONEYPENNY, friend of JAMES BOND, former MI6 field agent and bodyguard of M! On a 'routine' protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Can she call upon her secret agent skills to stop the plot...?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Autoevolution reports on Aston Martin DB5s showing up for filming in Italy. And damage.

  

  James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Shows Up
  for Filming in Italy, Gets Banged Up

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.autoevolution.com/news/james-bonds-aston-martin-db5-shows-up-for-filming-in-italy-gets-banged-up-137133.html

  30 Aug 2019 · by Elena Gorgan
  
  Aston Martin is to James Bond what Martinis are to the same 007 agent: the three are inseparable. As such, it was only to be expected to see an iconic car show up again for duty on the set of the upcoming installment.
  
  “No Time to Die,” the 25th Bond movie and leading man Daniel Craig’s last one, is set for an April 2020 release. Under the original plans, it should have been out this fall, but Danny Boyle’s departure as director left a mark on the production, which translated into the inevitable delay.
  
  The movie is now heavily underway, with several reports of action scenes being shot in various Italian cities. Daniel Craig hasn’t arrived in the country just yet, leaving all the experienced stunt work to the actual stuntmen. An intense action scene was also shot with his stunt double, Express notes.
  
  However, that’s the least interesting part about this. The most interesting one is that Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 was featured in the car chase scene and that it got pretty banged up in the process. Well, the damage was mostly scratches to the side of the car and those too were probably not real, but they still make for a painful sight.
  
  The video below shows a scene of the car chase, which sees Craig’s stunt double at the wheel. In the passenger seat is a blonde woman believed to be the stunt double for Lea Seydoux. The footage doesn’t include the moment when the Aston Martin was scratched, only several takes of the same scene and one good look at this beautiful piece of machine.
  
  “No Time to Die” will also be shooting on location in Puglia, Italy, Norway, Jamaica and the U.K., so expect more sightings of beautiful, expensive or powerful cars being either destroyed or used to their maximum potential to catch or get away from the bad guys.
  
  Speaking of, Rami Malek stars as the yet unnamed villain in this installment. The rest of the cast includes Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw.
  

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  2020: Mark O'Connell reports on the Bloomsbury Publishing release of Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

  A BOND STITCH IN TIME as
  FASHIONING JAMES BOND
  opens the wardrobe on the
  costuming of a legend

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/a-bond-stitch-in-time-as-fashioning-james-bond-opens-the-wardrobe-on-the-costuming-of-a-legend/

  August 30, 2020 / Mark O'Connell

  

  The creative choices, acumen and outcomes of many artists who work on a film are so often ignored and misunderstood – and confused with off-the-peg labelling rather than deeper stitches into how fashions, zeitgeist, youth culture and cinema can echo or evolve all our costuming choices. Academic writer Llewella Chapman will now rectify this by opening the wardrobe and culture to an new examination on the costuming, suits and sense of gender and representation of the Bond films in a 2021 publication called Fashioning James Bond.

  ‘Fashioning James Bond provides the first full-length critical study of the costume and fashion evident in the James Bond films. Its methodological approach includes research generated from archives, close textual analysis of the costumes and fashion brands presented within the James Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the ‘look’ and fashion for the character of James Bond, and critical reception and the marketing strategies for the films, promoted to create a ‘James Bond lifestyle.’ – Bloomsbury

  Bond’s Savile Row era, marketing, 1990s Italian influences, the Tom Ford era, how a suit created both Connery and 007 and then had to do it all over again for the other fellas, the designers themselves and those that have made sartorial, marketing and retail choices for and around 007 are all part of the cut of this new interesting publication.

  

  Fashioning James Bond
  Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007
  Llewella Chapman (Author)

  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/
  
  Description
  Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.
  
  Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

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

  
  
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  1954: Caroline Cossey is born--Brooke, Norfolk, England.
  
  1962: Chris Ware photographs Sean Connery in his own basement flat.

  
  
  

  
  1972: The Daily Gleaner reports on Harry Saltzman's 26 August arrival in Jamaica.
  He promises filming in Montego Bay (the fishing boat), Falmouth (croc farm, caves), Ocho Rios (the hotel).
  1976: Filming of The Spy Who Loved Me begins with General Gogol's office in the Kremlin. (Ken Adams' set, Pinewood Studios.)

  
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Austria.
  1979: James Bond 007 – Moonraker – Streng geheim (James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret) released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: Guns N' Roses perform their live version of "Live and Let Die" at Wembley Stadium, London. Later used on the B-side of the single.

  
  
  

  1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash.
  
  2020: BBC airs its 9 minute documentary Inventing James Bond.

  

  Witness History
  Inventing James Bond
  How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszmkb

  Listen Now
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszmkb

  

  
  2021: Being James Bond trailer anticipates its release on Apple TV 7 September.

  BEING JAMES BOND | Trailer
  
  
  
  BEING JAMES BOND (46:38)
  In this special 45-minute retrospective, Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
  

  
  
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  1943: Don Stroud is born--Honolulu, Hawaii.
  
  1965: Variety reports the cancellation of the Thunderball world benefit premiere (dropped from 21 Oct 1965) at London’s Odeon, Leicester Square Theatre.
  
  1978: Moonraker model unit films space exteriors on Pinewood's F Stage.
  
  1982: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel For Special Services.

  AFTER a screen bonanza and a literary
  absence of more than a decade, the
  return of James Bond to the world
  of the 1980s a year ago raised some eye-
  brows but enticed the fans. In Licence
  Renewed (written under commission from
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders), John
  Gardner beguiled us with a Bond drinking
  less, smoking specially made low-tar
  cigarettes, his 00 status abolished but still
  unofficially sanctioned by M, a passing nod
  at feminism, his Mark II Continental
  Bentley gone in favour of the sprightly
  energy-conserving Saab Turbo 900. But
  here again, unmistakably, was the Bond of
  Fleming's books which have sold 91 million
  copies in 36 languages. John Gardner ex-
  plained his attitude to Bond at length on
  the front of the Sunday Times Review and on
  television and radio; Philip Larkin took a
  page in the TLS to review the whole Bond
  canon; and Licence Renewed went straight to
  No. 1 on the bestseller lists in Britain. A
  second Bond-of-the-1980s was promised
  and Mr Gardner has been as good as his
  word.
  
  In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to
  the United States Government, his partner
  non other than the tough and beautiful
  Cedar, daughter of 007's old friend Felix
  Leiter. Their enemy? An old adversary,
  the legendary SPECTRE (Special Executive
  for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Re-
  venge and Extortion), has reappeared.
  Bond and Cedar find themselves in some
  deadly and terrifying situations -- from
  skyjack to plunging elevator, from armies
  of killer ants in the Mid-West to horror on
  a private mono-rail -- before they come
  face to face with the heir to Blofeld's ini-
  quitous empire.

  JOHN GARDNER'S
  first James Bond adventure, written
  under licence from Glidrose, Ian
  Fleming's copyright holders
  LICENCE RENEWED

  'Remarkably successful recreation of
  everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
  Telegraph

  'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
  old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
  Times

  'No fan will fail to be caught up in the
  world-scale adventure of Licence Renewed.
  The dear old formula of the Mad Scientist
  is also renewed, with great success; and the
  Girl -- with a splendidly improbably name
  of course -- is a worthy addition to the
  famous gallery of Bond's beauties.' Finan-
  cial Times

  'Constructed, scrutinised and checked with
  immense care; the story moves effectively;
  it's enjoyable. Ian Fleming would not be
  displeased.' Daily Telegraph

  'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
  in the 1980s is not much different from the
  earlier Bond . . . his adventures are as cap-
  tivating as ever.' Birmingham Post

  
  Jacket painting and design
  by Bill Botten; author's photograph
  by Oliver Cheesman

  
  
  
  

  For Special Services, John Gardner, 1982.

  AFTERWARD
  
  In 1941 Fleming accompanied Admiral Godfrey to the
  United States for the purpose of establishing relations
  with the American secret service organisations. In New
  York Fleming met Sir William Stephenson, 'the quiet
  Canadian', who became a life-long friend. Stephenson
  allowed Fleming to take part in a clandestine operation
  against a Japanese cipher expert who had an office in
  Rockefeller Center. Fleming later embellished this story
  and used it in his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale
  (1953). Stephenson also introduced Fleming to General
  William Donovan, who had just been appointed Co-
  ordinator of Information, a post which eventually evolved
  into the chairmanship of the Office of Strategic Services
  and then of the Central Intelligence Agency. At Donovan's
  request Fleming wrote a lengthy memorandum describing
  the structure and functions of a secret service organisation.
  This memoranum later became part of the charter of the
  O.S.S. and, thus, of the C.I.A. In appreciation Donovan
  presented Fleming with a .38 Police Positive Colt revolver
  inscribed 'For Special Services'.
  
  JOAN DELFATTORE,
  University of Delaware
  (from a dictionary of
  literary biography)

  
  

  
  1991: This month Eclipse Comics releases James Bond Permission to Die #3.

  
  https://totaleclipse.blog/2018/07/24/1989-james-bond-permission-to-die/
  
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Permission_to_Die
  
  https://www.comicsroyale.com/cover-gallery#/eclipse/

  
  

  1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr. #9 "Absolute Zero", with Dr. No.

  

  James Bond Jr. #9
  Marvel, 1992 Series
  Absolute Zero!

  (September 1992)
  James Bond Jr. / comic story / 20 pages
  Script - Dan Abnett (story)
  Pencils - Mario Capaldi
  Inks - Bambos Georgioli
  Colors - Sophie Heath
  Letters - Stuart Bartlett
  
  Characters
  James Bond Jr.; Horace Boothroyd (I. Q.); Tracey Milbanks; Gordo Leiter; Phoebe Farragut; Coach Mitchell; Trevor Noseworthy III; Connie Fore; Doctor No (Villain)

  Synopsis
  S.C.U.M. plans to hold Switzerland ransom by encasing in glaciers created by Doctor No's Ice-Cap Machine.

  
  

  1994: This month Dark Horse Comics releases #25 James Bond Minute of Midnight.

  

  Dark Horse Comics (1992) #25

  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=125061

  Cover by Russ Heath, Paul Mendza and Jim Royal. We've got a double bill this issue that would sell out any movie house in the country! In "James Bond: Minute of Midnight," a saboteur holds the fate of the world in his hands, prepared to unleash a nuclear holocaust of unimaginable proportions. Can James Bond, the British Secret Service's agent extraordinaire, stop the madman? Catch the mile-a-minute excitement from Doug Moench and comics legend Russ Heath as they take you on Bond's most thrilling adventure yet! Also in this issue, Randy Stradley and Phill Norwood bring you "Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time," a violent glimpse into alien rites of passage. The price of failure is death! Cover price $2.50.

  
  
  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dark-horse-comics-25-james-bond-minute-of-midnight/4000-39588/
  

  
  2012: Hal David dies at age 91--West Hollywood, California.
  (Born 25 May 1921--Brooklyn, New York.)

  

  Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 9
  Legendary Lyricist Hal David
  Dies at 91

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-david-dies-obituary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-367366

  4:57 PM PDT 9/1/2012 by Mike Barnes

  

  The songwriter worked with
  Burt Bacharach on dozens of
  classic songs, including
  Oscar winner "Raindrops
  Keep Fallin' on My Head,"
  "(They Long to Be) Close to
  You" and Dionne Warwick's
  "I Say a Little Prayer."

  
  Hal David, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach to form one of the most sensational hitmaking teams in the history of popular music, has died. He was 91.
  
  David died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke, his wife Eunice said. He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again Tuesday, she said.
  
  "Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she told The Associated Press. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric.
  
  In the 1960s and beyond, David and Bacharach produced some of the most memorable songs for movies, television and recording artists. They received an Oscar in 1970 for “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,” recorded by B.J. Thomas for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and a Tony nomination and a Grammy for the score of Promises, Promises, which debuted in 1968 on Broadway.
  
  The team found their muse in a young Dionne Warwick, who rocketed to stardom singing such Bacharach-David tunes as "Don't Make Me Over," "Always Something There to Remind Me," "Alfie," "Walk on By," "Message to Michael," “I Say a Little Prayer" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"
  
  Their songs also have been recorded by the likes of The Carpenters, Herb Alpert, Marty Robbins, Perry Como, The 5th Dimension, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones and more recently by such contemporary acts as Alicia Keys, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips and the cast of Glee.
  
  The pair had No. 1 hits in the U.S. with Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You" in April 1968, with the famed trumpeter making in his vocal debut; Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which debuted in November 1969; and The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which bowed in June 1970.
  
  The 5th Dimension's heartfelt "One Less Bell to Answer" from 1970 reached No. 2, and "What's New, Pussycat?" from the sexy British singer Jones got as high as No. 3 in 1965.
  
  A native of New York, David started out penning songs to entertain GIs in the South Pacific during World War II. He worked as a copywriter at The New York Post, then wrote for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach. He told The Hollywood Reporter last year that he became a lyricist because his oldest brother, Mack -- also a lyricist and composer who came west from New York -- was his role model. (Mack David wrote “I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine” for Patti Page.)
  
  David and Bacharach scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Como in 1957. Five years later, they met Warwick.
  
  "In 1962, Dionne came into our office in the Brill Building in Manhattan to do some demos for us," he told THR. "She sang popular music with a gospel sound and rhythm and just blew us away. Her very first recording we produced, 'Don't Make Me Over,' was a hit.
  
  "We wrote just about every hit she sang. We were a trio, really. Burt and I worked together for 17 years. Eleven or 12 of those were with Dionne, too."
  
  David and Bacharach were a team from 1957 until their 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon, on which they had worked for two years, bombed at the box office.
  
  Bacharach and David sued each other, and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979, and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."

  After splitting with Bacharach, David collaborated with Albert Hammond on "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a 1984 hit for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson that reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100; with Henry Mancini on "The Greatest Gift" for The Return of the Pink Panther (1975); and with John Barry on the title song of the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

  David received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October, and in May, he and Bacharach, 83, were given the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington from President Obama. David was unable to attend because of his stroke.
  
  “Award-winning lyricist Hal David was an American songwriting treasure. His legacy of more than five decades of music has inspired fans, performers and other songwriters with its diversity and longevity," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "He will be missed, but his rich body of work will be with us forever.”
  
  David joined the board of ASCAP in 1974 and served as its president from 1980-86. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001-11 and chairman emeritus at his death.
  
  "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs ... the backdrop of our lives."
  
  In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Jim and Craig and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1987.
  
  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

  
  Songs written by Hal David
  https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3227

  Original songs
  Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by

  99 Miles from L.A. Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (13 artists)
  
  A House Is Not a Home Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brook Benton July 1964 Covered by (159 artists)
  Alfie Burt Bacharach, Hal David Cilla Black March 25, 1966 Covered by (254 artists)
  All Kinds of People Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (9 artists)
  Anonymous Phone Call Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vee with The Johnny Mann Singers November 1962 Covered by Jim O'Rourke
  Another Night Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Dusty Springfield
  Another Tear Falls Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels with The Johnny Mann Singers 1961 Covered by (4 artists)
  Any Old Time of the Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1964 Covered by (7 artists)
  Anyone Who Had a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1963 Covered by (94 artists)
  Are You There (With Another Girl) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (17 artists)
  As Long as There's an Apple Tree Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  A Whistling Tune Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley August 1991 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Balance of Nature Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by (2 artists)
  Bell Bottom Blues Hal David, Leon Carr Teresa Brewer December 1953 Covered by (4 artists)
  Blue on Blue Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vinton May 1963 Covered by (15 artists)
  Broken-Hearted Melody Hal David, Sherman Edwards Sarah Vaughan 1959 Covered by (12 artists)
  
  Call off the Wedding (Without a Groom There Can't Be a Bride) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino November 1962 Covered by Don Backy

  Casino Royale Burt Bacharach, Hal David Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass March 1967 Covered by (21 artists)

  Christmas Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Edward Winter, Kay Oslin, Rita O'Connor, Julane Stites and Neil Jones December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  Country Music Holiday Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bernie Nee with Eddie O'Conner and his Orchestra February 24, 1958 Covered by Adam Faith
  
  Donna Means Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (2 artists)
  Don't Go Breaking My Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (22 artists)
  Don't Let It Happen to Us Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Shirelles August 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  Don't Make Me Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1962 Covered by (51 artists)
  Don't Send Me Home Hal David, Leon Carr Harry James - Toni Harper February 22, 1952 Covered by (2 artists)
  Downhill and Shady Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1965 Covered by The Waistcoats

  Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? John Barry, Hal David John Barry, Nina van Pallandt 1969 Covered by (2 artists)

  Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (112 artists)
  
  Early Morning Strangers Barry Manilow, Hal David Barry Manilow October 1974 Covered by (3 artists)
  Everybody's Out of Town Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas April 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Go with Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  
  Half as Big as Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Hasbrook Heights Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (3 artists)
  Here I Am Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1965 Covered by (8 artists)
  Home Is Where the Heart Is Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires August 28, 1962 Covered by (11 artists)
  
  I Could Make You Mine Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Wanderers [US] September 1960 Covered by Patrick Logelin
  I Cry Alone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (4 artists)
  If I Could Go Back Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Whitman January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  If I Never Get to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson June 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  I Forgot What It Was Like Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ray Peterson July 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  If You Never Say Goodbye Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by Liliane Saint Pierre
  I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tommy Hunt August 1962 Covered by (67 artists)
  I'll Never Fall in Love Again Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (169 artists)
  I'm a Better Man Burt Bacharach, Hal David Engelbert Humperdinck 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  In Between the Heartaches Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (7 artists)
  In the Land of Make Believe Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] December 1963 Covered by (7 artists)
  In Times Like These Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels January 1960 Covered by (5 artists)
  I Say a Little Prayer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (188 artists)
  Is There Another Way to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1965 Covered by Anki
  Italian Fuzz Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1966 Covered by Fifty Foot Combo
  It Doesn't Matter Anymore Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ricky Nelson December 1966 Covered by (3 artists)
  It Only Took a Minute Hal David, Mort Garson Joe Brown and The Bruvvers October 1962 Covered by (3 artists)
  It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Shirelles August 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  It Was Almost Like a Song Hal David, Archie Jordan Ronnie Milsap 1977 Covered by (13 artists)
  I Wake Up Crying Burt Bacharach, Hal David Del Shannon June 1961 Covered by (19 artists)
  
  Johnny Get Angry Hal David, Sherman Edwards Joanie Sommers April 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Kaleidoscope Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1977 Covered by Kisu
  Knowing When to Leave Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Let Me Go to Him Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick March 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  Let the Music Play Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] March 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  Living Together, Growing Together Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tony Bennett December 1, 1972 Covered by (8 artists)
  Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets Burt Bacharach, Hal David Allison Durbin 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  Long After Tonight Is Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jimmy Radcliffe October 1964 Covered by (6 artists)
  Long Ago Tomorrow Burt Bacharach, Hal David B. J. Thomas October 1971 Covered by Burt Bacharach
  Looking With My Eyes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick September 1965 Covered by Mike Melvoin
  Look in My Eyes Maria Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans September 1963 Covered by Cliff Richard
  Lost Horizon Burt Bacharach, Hal David Shawn Phillips January 1973 Covered by (5 artists)
  Love Was Here Before the Stars Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brian Foley October 1967 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Magic Moments Burt Bacharach, Hal David Perry Como December 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  Magic Potion Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  Make It Easy on Yourself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler June 1962 Covered by (69 artists)
  Me Japanese Boy I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Goldsboro July 1964 Covered by (8 artists)
  
  Message to Martha Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler December 1963 Covered by (33 artists)

  Moonraker John Barry, Hal David Shirley Bassey 1979 Covered by (38 artists)

  My Heart Is an Open Book Hal David, Lee Pockriss Jimmy Dean with Ray Ellis and His Orch. September 1958 Covered by (6 artists)
  My Little Red Book Burt Bacharach, Hal David Manfred Mann 1965 Covered by (35 artists)
  
  No Walls, No Ceilings, No Floors Hal David, Archie Jordan Barbara Mandrell September 1978 Covered by (4 artists)
  Now While I Still Remember How Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Odds and Ends Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1969 Covered by (10 artists)
  One Less Bell to Answer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Keely Smith 1967 Covered by (40 artists)
  Only Love Can Break a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (12 artists)
  Outside My Window Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Fleetwoods January 1960 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Promise Her Anything Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones January 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas October 1969 Covered by (252 artists)
  Rain from the Skies Burt Bacharach, Hal David Adam Wade January 11, 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  Reach Out for Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (26 artists)
  Rivers Are for Boats Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Päivi Paunu
  
  Saturday Sunshine Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  Sea of Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Don Gibson May 1961 Covered by (61 artists)
  
  She Likes Basketball Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (3 artists)
  Something Big Burt Bacharach, Hal David Mark Lindsay December 17, 1971 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Take a Broken Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Rick Nelson December 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  The April Fools Burt Bacharach, Hal David Percy Faith His Orchestra and Chorus 1969 Covered by (27 artists)
  The Face Not the Image Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Euson
  The First Night of the Full Moon Hal David, Al Kealoha Perry Jack Jones May 1964 Covered by Ronnie Tober
  The Four Winds and the Seven Seas Hal David, Don Rodney Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians May 1949 Covered by (6 artists)
  The Good Times Are Coming John Barry, Hal David Mama Cass Elliot 1970 Covered by Henry Dee
  The Last One to Be Loved Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 31, 1964 Covered by (5 artists)

  The Look of Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Stan Getz 1968 Covered by (382 artists)

  The Love of a Boy Burt Bacharach, Hal David Timi Yuro November 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Fairmount Singers February 1962 Covered by (18 artists)
  (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1964 Covered by (120 artists)
  The Story of My Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra September 30, 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  The Things I Will Not Miss Burt Bacharach, Hal David Sally Kellerman and Andra Willis January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  The Windows of the World Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (33 artists)
  They Long to Be Close to You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Richard Chamberlain September 1963 Covered by (294 artists)
  This Empty Place Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (10 artists)
  This Guy's in Love with You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Danny Williams 1968 Covered by (249 artists)
  To All the Girls I've Loved Before Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (50 artists)
  Too Late to Worry Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino 1962 Covered by (9 artists)
  To Wait for Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans February 1964 Covered by (14 artists)
  Trains and Boats and Planes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (80 artists)
  True Love Never Runs Smooth Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Hal David Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
  and Margo Sappington December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1963 Covered by (30 artists)
  
  Upstairs Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Using Things and Loving People Hal David, Archie Jordan B.J. Thomas July 1979 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Walk on By Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick April 1964 Covered by (199 artists)
  Walk the Way You Talk Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1970 Covered by (3 artists)
  Wanting Things Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (7 artists)

  We Have All the Time in the World John Barry, Hal David Louis Armstrong 1969 Covered by (55 artists)

  What Am I Supposed to Do? Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by Iris Williams
  What Do You See in Her Hal David, Frank Weldon Helen Grayco with Orchestra Conducted by Harold Mooney August 1955 Covered by (7 artists)
  What's New Pussycat? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones 1965 Covered by (57 artists)
  What the World Needs Now Is Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jackie deShannon April 15, 1965 Covered by (240 artists)
  Where Would I Go Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  Whoever You Are, I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (15 artists)
  Who Is Gonna Love Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Wishin' and Hopin' Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (46 artists)
  With Open Arms Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jane Morgan 1959 Covered by Adam Faith with John Barry and His Orchestra
  Wives and Lovers Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jack Jones September 1963 Covered by (114 artists)
  
  You'll Answer to Me Hal David, Sherman Edwards Patti Page Featuring The Mike Stewart Singers May 1961 Covered by (3 artists)
  You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1964 Covered by (31 artists)
  You'll Think of Someone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  You You Darling Hal David, Lee Pockriss Eddie Williams 1959 Covered by Willy Hagara - Orchester Rolf Anders und Chor
  
  Adapted songs
  Title Written by Originals Originally by Covered by
  
  Baby Elephant Walk Hal David Baby Elephant Walk Pat Boone
  Dance Mama Dance Papa Dance Hal David Marriage, French Style Joanne and The Streamliners
  No Regrets Hal David Non, je ne regrette rien Edith Piaf Covered by (13 artists)
  Sole, Sole, Sole Hal David Sole, sole Covered by Sarah Vaughan
  Where There's a Heartache Hal David Come Touch the Sun Oliver Covered by (3 artists)
  Who Could Love Me Hal David Mi piaci come sei Shirley Bassey

  
  
  

  
  
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  2013: Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE dies at age 97--Reymerston, Norfolk, England.
  (Born 26 April 1916--Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.)

  

  

  Ken Wallis. Aviator 1916-2013 - A short
  film from the Into the Wind Archive (13:31)

  https://vimeo.com/electricegg/kenwallis

  Originally included on the DVD release of Into the Wind, this film has been released online in memory of Ken Wallis who recently passed away. Ken's career in British aviation is well known from his wartime career as a Wellington pilot with Bomber Command to autogyro creations post-war. Ken is known to many through his connection to the James Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice' in which his autogyro 'Little Nellie' is 'flown' by Sean Connery, Bond, in one of the key scenes.
  

  

  James Bond Pilot Ken Wallis Gets Lifetime Award

  See the complete article here:
  

  An autogyro pilot from Norfolk, who flew as James Bond's stunt double in You Only Live Twice, has been honoured for his lifetime contribution to aerospace.
  
  Retired Wing Cdr Ken Wallis, 96, who lives near Dereham, was given the award by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators on Tuesday.
  
  Mr Wallis said he was "privileged to be recognised by an organisation which celebrates professionalism and dedication in flying".
  
  24 October 2012 |Section | BBC News

  
  
  

  

  Kenneth Horatio Wallis, DSO MBE DEng CEng FRAeS PhD
  
  Autogyro Little Nellie with its creator and pilot, Ken Wallis

  Born 26 April 1916: Ely, Cambridgeshire
  Died 1 September 2013 (aged 97): Dereham, Norfolk
  Allegiance United Kingdom
  Service/branch Royal Air Force
  Years of service 1939–1964
  Rank Wing Commander
  Unit No. 268 Squadron RAF
  No. 103 Squadron RAF
  No. 37 Squadron RAF
  Battles/wars World War II
  Awards Distinguished Service Order
  Other work Leading exponent of autogyros

  Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS RAF (26 April 1916 – 1 September 2013) was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war, he moved on to research and development, before retiring in 1964. He later became one of the leading exponents of autogyros and earned 34 world records, still holding eight of them at the time of his death in 2013.
  
  Early life
  Born on 26 April 1916 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Wallis developed a practical interest in mechanics, building a motorcycle at the age of 11. In 1936, he was inspired by a demonstration by Henri Mignet of his Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea"). Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials required, and started to build his own Flying Flea. He abandoned construction because of widespread adverse publicity about fatal accidents that implied inadequate design of the type.
  
  Wallis took an interest in powerboats which he kept up until 1957, when he won the 56-mile (90 km) long Missouri Marathon.
  
  Military career
  Wallis was keen to join the RAF, and applied for their Volunteer Reserve Service, but he was turned down due to a defective right eye. Consequently, he obtained a private flying licence which required only a certificate signed by his GP. Wallis obtained his A Licence for dual and solo flying in a record 12 hours. In 1938, Wallis tried to join the RAF again, this time with the newly formed RAF Short Service Commission Scheme, but again failed the eye test. In 1939, he was called up to RAF Uxbridge, and again was sent for a medical. When it came to the eyesight test he managed to pass, as Wallis later recalled, "I did the first line with my good eye then they covered it up and asked me to read the bottom line with my bad eye, without them realising I just turned my head slightly so I could again see with my good eye – I passed it with Above Average Eye Sight!"
  
  Wallis's military career started with Westland Lysander patrols in the RAF. In 1942, he was transferred to RAF Bomber Command, flying Wellingtons near Grimsby. Wallis subsequently served in Italy and on secondment to the US Strategic Air Command, where he flew the massive Convair B-36, that had six piston engines and four auxiliary jet engines. Thereafter, he was involved in research and development, and was awarded a number of patents on his inventions. Wallis left the RAF in 1964, retiring to Norfolk.
  
  Autogyros
  Wallis produced autogyros for, in his own words, "reconnaissance, research & development, surveillance and military purposes", and his designs were not available for enthusiasts as he considered that although the design is simple it has to be built to the appropriate standards. His contribution to autogyro design included the "offset gimbal rotor head".

  Wallis worked as Sean Connery's stunt pilot in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where he flew one of his WA-116s named Little Nellie.

  Production was at Cambridge by "Wallis Autogyros Ltd." run by his cousin.
  
  In 1970, Wallis provided camera footage from one of his autogyros in a search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  
  In 1970 it was announced that Airmark would produce his autogyro design with a certificate of airworthiness (C of A), that being essential for commercial use of the autogyro. Expected price was around £3,000.
  
  Between 2006 and 2009, Wallis took part in filming for Into the Wind, a documentary by Steven Hatton featuring the experiences and memories of wartime members of Bomber Command. The film, released in 2012, features Wallis demonstrating several of his autogyro designs.
  
  Wallis was the President of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, and Patron of the Wolf Preservation Foundation.

  
  a 1:24 scale plastic model kit of Wallis' WA-116 Little Nellie autogyro as portrayed
  in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, was released
  by the Airfix company.

  Autogyros and aircraft
  Wallbro Monoplane Replica
  Wallis WA-116 Agile
  Wallis WA-117
  Wallis WA-118 Meteorite
  Wallis WA-119
  Wallis WA-120
  Wallis WA-121
  
  Recognition
  Wallis was the recognized world record holder for many categories of autogyro records over the years, and was also recognized as the oldest pilot to set a world flight record at the age of 89. Wallis held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying career. These include the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale time-to-climb, a speed record of 189 km/h (111.7 mph), and the straight-line distance record of 869.23 km (540.11 mi). On 16 November 2002, Wallis increased the speed record to 207.7 km/h (129.1 mph).
  
  Wallis received the MBE in 1996.
  
  In July 2013, Wallis received a campaign medal for his 28 bomber missions over Germany during World War II.
  
  Later life
  He was married to Peggy Stapley, a Women's Auxiliary Air Force veteran, from 1942 to her death in 2003. Wallis died on 1 September 2013, aged 97. Prior to his death, he was living in the quiet Norfolk village of Reymerston.
  
  Old Buckenham Airport held a memorial event on 29 September at the request of the Wallis family: "A Celebration of the Life of Wing Commander Ken Wallis". It had been expected that about 500 people would attend, but an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 attended the event.

  

  K.H. Wallis (1916–2013)

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  2014: Gottfried John dies at age 72--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
  (Born 29 August 1942--Berlin, Germany.)

  

  Gottfried John obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john

  German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
  villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
  Ronald Bergan
  Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT

  
  Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
  Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

  It was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low cheekbones, raspy voice and boxer's flattened nose, would play villains. In commercial terms, the culmination of his 20-year stage, cinema and television career came when John was cast as the perfidious Russian general Arkady Ourumov, James Bond's nemesis, in GoldenEye (1995), the highest-earning Bond film since Moonraker, 16 years previously.

  However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.
  
  John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.
  
  Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.
  
  In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.
  
  He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).
  
  John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

  After Fassbinder's death in 1984, John embarked on an international career generally playing shady German characters in spy dramas, such as the British TV series Game, Set and Match (1988), based on books by Len Deighton. In GoldenEye, in keeping with the Hollywood tradition of casting any old nationality as a foreigner, John was General Ourumov, the corrupt and ruthless head of the Russian Space Division, secretly planning to take control of the world's satellites. In the exhilarating climax, Ourumov is in a black sedan, drinking from a hip flask and holding a woman hostage, followed by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) driving a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg. At one stage, he tells his driver, when faced with a group of people blocking the way, "Use the bumper! That's what it's for!"

  In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).
  
  John is survived by his wife, Barbara.
  
  • Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

  

  Gottfried John

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_John
  
  Filmography

  Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
  Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)
  
  Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
  Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
  Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
  World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
  Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
  Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
  Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
  Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
  In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
  Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
  The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze
  
  Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
  Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
  Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
  Ente oder Trente (1983)
  Super (1984) .... Hilpert
  Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
  Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
  Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
  Die Mitläufer (1985)
  Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
  Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
  Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
  Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
  Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann
  
  Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
  Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
  Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
  Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
  Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
  Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
  Die Zeit danach (1992)
  Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
  Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
  Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
  Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
  Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
  Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
  GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
  The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
  Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
  Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
  Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
  Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski
  
  Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
  Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
  The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
  Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
  Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
  Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
  Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
  Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
  The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
  Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
  Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
  Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
  Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
  John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
  Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
  Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
  Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl
  
  Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

  

  Gottfried John (1942–2014)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Arthur Wooster dies at age 91.
  (Born 18 May 1929--London, England.)

  

  

  Arthur Wooster BSC

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://imago.org/news/arthur-wooster-bsc-passes-away-at-91/

  September 2, 2020

  It is with great sadness that we share the news that Arthur Wooster BSC has passed away this week at the age of 91.
  
  It’s safe to say that hundreds of millions of moviegoers around the world have admired and been excited by Arthur Wooster’s cinematography, more often than not without knowing Wooster was the artist behind those images. Hardly surprising, when you learn that among Arthur Wooster’s most widely seen work is the terrific second unit photography for such James Bond blockbusters as or Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights and Goldeneye.
  
  Arthur Wooster had an impressive career in cinematography and directing which spanned almost six decades.

  
  ARTHUR WOOSTER
  It is with deep regret that we report that Arthur Wooster BSC passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon. He was 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s in later years and his only pleasure had been visiting the cinema but when the pandemic struck all that changed. A stalwart of our industry and one of the most hard working and prolific DPs in our Society and a kind and thoughtful man as well. Our thoughts and condolences go to his wife of 56 years, Anne and his two sons David and Tim.
  
  He became a member of the BSC in 1972 and in 1983 was honoured by BAFTA with an award for "‘Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema” followed by a "BSC Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2007.
  
  Born in 1929, Arthur’s father ran a butcher’s shop opposite Wembley Film Studios (Britain's first purpose- built sound studios). Knowing Arthur was very interested in photography he arranged an interview at The Crown Film Unit in 1944 and Arthur became a clapper loader at Pinewood studios working with Chick Fowle BSC on a documentary The True Story of Lilly Marlene, directed by Humphrey Jennings.
  
  After his national service, he re-joined the Crown Film Unit and worked on Man of Africa as a focus puller, directed by Cyril Frankel and shot in Uganda. A year or so later, Crown were shooting in Malaya when the crew were ambushed and the cameraman, Teddy Catford, was injured. When no-one at the unit wanted to replace him, Arthur volunteered and was now a DP.
  
  When Crown disbanded in 1952, Arthur helped form Film Partnership and also shot newsreels for Pathe and Movietone including a 3D film about the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
  
  Arthur eventually left the company and by now, was directing and photographing numerous short films, commercials and documentaries around the world including Mekong: River of Asia (1964) and Pipeline Alaska (1977) both directed by John Armstrong and nominated for Oscars.
  
  Arthur’s reputation as a cameraman expanded into sports films that included Official Films of the 1966 World Cup, 1968, 1972 & 1976 Olympic Games and later at the 1990 World Cup.

  The first feature Arthur worked on was second unit on Downhill Racer (1969 d. Michael Ritchie), followed by films such as Le Mans (1971 d. Lee Katzin) and Gold (1974 d. Peter Hunt). John Glen often worked in the cutting rooms at Film Partnership often cutting films that Arthur had shot and directed, as well as several James Bond films. In 1980 Glen was going to direct For Your Eyes Only and asked if Arthur would be interested in doing the second unit. This was to be the start of a long relationship for Arthur with the Bond company where he would direct and shoot the second unit on titles such as Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, etc.

  Arthur had now established himself as one of the world’s top 2nd Unit Directors who could DP as well, a combination that made him highly sought after but naturally restricted his main unit DP opportunities although he photographed a number of his own films including Eat the Peach (d. Peter Ormerod) and the television series Sharpe, one episode of which Sharpe’s Company, directed by Tom Clegg, won an RTS award for cinematography.
  
  (David Wooster with Phil Méheux BSC)

  
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  Arthur Wooster

  Camera and Electrical Department | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Cinematographer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941331/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  

  
  2020: No Time To Die teaser poster released. Plus a trailer.

  
  
  
  NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2
  

  2021: Final trailer(s) for No Time To Die shared.

  JAMES BOND 007: NO TIME TO DIE Final Trailer (2021) - US, 2:44
  
  
  No Time to Die Final International Trailer (2021) | Movieclips Trailers - 2:34
  

  
  2022: The Royal Institution presents Superspy science - The World of James Bond with author Kathryn Harkup at London, England.

  

  

  Sep
  01
  Superspy science: The world of
  James Bond
  by The Royal Institution

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/superspy-science-the-world-of-james-bond-tickets-386882986427

  Discover the science, tech and deaths in the world of James Bond.
  
  About this event

  Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of James Bond.
  
  Join Kathryn Harkup as she explores the practicalities of building a volcano-based lair, whether being covered in gold paint really will kill you, and whether it’s better to use bacteria, bombs, or poison to take over the world.
  
  In this talk, Kathryn discusses plots, gadgets and the ludicrous ways that threatened Bond’s life. From the first book published in 1953 to now.

  By booking to attend events at the Royal Institution, you confirm that you have read and agree to the Ri's event terms and conditions.
  
  Date and time
  Thu, 1 September 2022
  19:00 – 20:30 BST
  
  Location
  The Royal Institution
  21 Albemarle Street
  London
  W1S 4BS
  United Kingdom

  

  
  2022: The British Library hosts Double or Nothing - James Bond and Beyond with Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood at London, England.

  

  Double or Nothing: James Bond and Beyond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bl.uk/events/double-or-nothing-james-bond-and-beyond

  Thu 1 Sep 2022, 19:00 - 20:30

  

  Book now
  Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546
  Email: [email protected]
  Full Price: £13.00 Member: £13.00 Other concessions available
  
  With Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood.
  
  Early bird offer: Get tickets for £10 for this event until 31 July. After this full-price tickets will be £13.
  
  This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
  
  The online version of this event will be live captioned.

  James Bond is missing… 007 has been captured – perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company and the future of humanity hangs in the balance. The fate of the world rests in the hands of a trio of MI6's finest Double O agents but time is running out.
  
  So begins the pulsating new spy thriller Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood, the first in an officially commissioned trilogy that promises to 'blow the world of Ian Fleming's James Bond wide open.'
  
  At this special launch event, Kim is joined by fellow Bond author Charlie Higson to celebrate the ever-thrilling and evolving world of 007.

  The event will be followed by a book signing. Early bird price £10 until 31 July (with additional concessions for students and under-26s) after which prices will be £13 full price, £11.50 over 60s, £6.50 other concessions.
  
  Online event bookers can buy a copy of Double or Nothing with a ticket at checkout for £23 (with UK postage) and watch the event for free. International postage will be higher. Books will be posted out within 7 days after the event. Please ensure your address is up to date on your British Library account.
  
  Charlie Higson created and starred in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is also author of the bestselling Young Bond books (Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, Silverfin and By Royal Command) and horror series The Enemy. His latest book Whatever Gets You Through The Night is his first adult crime novel in 25 years; a colourful thriller exposing dark truths lurking beneath the surface of a sunny Mediterranean idyll.
  
  Kim Sherwood won the Bath Novel Award for her debut novel Testament, published in 2018. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award, shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel, and won the Harpers’ Bazaar Big Book Award. She was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. Sherwood has a Bond connection: she is the granddaughter of the actor George Baker who made a number of appearances in the James Bond films - most famously playing Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Kim is a lifelong fan of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Double or Nothing (released September 1st 2022)is the first in Kim's trilogy of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.
  
  In association with Ian Fleming Publications and Harper Collins
  
  If you’re attending in person, please arrive no later than 15 minutes before the start time of this event. We are committed to the safety of our event bookers. Find out how we are welcoming you to the Library safely.
  
  The British Library is a charity. Your support helps us open up a world of knowledge and inspiration for everyone. Donate today.
  
  Details
  Name: Double or Nothing: James Bond and Beyond
  
  Where: Entrance Hall
  The British Library
  96 Euston Road
  London
  NW1 2DB
  
  When: Thu 1 Sep 2022, 19:00 - 20:30
  Price: Full Price: £13.00
  Member: £13.00
  Student: £6.50
  Registered Unemployed: £6.50
  Disabled: £6.50
  Senior (60+): £11.50
  Young Person (18-25): £6.50
  Online Full Price: £5.00
  Online Member: £5.00
  Online event w/book (Double or Nothing) UK postage: £23.00
  Online event w/book (Double or Nothing) Non-UK postage: £27.50
  Enquiries: +44 (0)1937 546546
  [email protected]

  2022: HarperCollins publishes Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood.

  

  Double or Nothing

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/double-or-nothing-kim-sherwood?variant=39706862616654

  By Kim Sherwood
  On Sale: September 1, 2022
  £20.00
  England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales shipping only
  
  Product Details
  reviews

  James Bond is missing. 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown.

  Meet the new generation of spies…

  Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. Together, they represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled, determined and with a licence to kill, they will do anything to protect their country.

  The fate of the world rests in their hands…

  Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. But can he really? The new spies must uncover the truth, because the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

  Time is running out.

  The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6’s agents with a licence to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open!

  What everyone is saying about DOUBLE OR NOTHING:

  ‘Filled with characters so real we feel we know them,
  the novel races through its surprising plot twists
  like an Aston Martin in high gear’
  Jeffery Deaver, author of
  Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel

  ‘Stylish, explosive, fresh and fun, Kim Sherwood
  takes one of the world’s most beloved series
  and makes it her own’ Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

  'Kim Sherwood has taken the world of James Bond
  and turned it on its head’
  Charles Cumming, author of BOX 88

  ‘A cleverly plotted and absorbing novel with a
  fantastic cast of fully rounded characters’
  Lisa Ballantyne, author of The Innocent One

  ‘Delivers everything you could want and more
  from a high-octane, high-stakes spy thriller’
  Tim Glister, author of Red Corona

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  2023: Yvonne Shima dies at age 88--British Columbia, Canada.
  (Born 1935--British Columbia, Canada.)

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  Yvonne Shima

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Shima
  
  Yvonne Shima
  Born 1935
  British Columbia, Canada
  Died 1 September 2023 (age 88)
  British Columbia, Canada
  Occupation(s) Actress, Singer
  Years active 1958–1965
  Spouse Barry Ransom
  
  Yvonne Shima (1935 – 1 September 2023)[1] was a Canadian-born British actress.
  
  Life and career
  Shima was born in British Columbia into a Japanese Canadian family and later settled in Toronto. Soon after arriving in the UK in 1958[2] she began playing the role of Lotus Blossom in the play The Teahouse of the August Moon on stage. To the general public, she was probably best known for playing receptionist Sister Lily in the very first James Bond film Dr. No in 1962. In the late 1960s, Yvonne decided to stop acting after suffering a car accident.
  
  Filmography
  Film
  Year Title Role Notes ref
  1960 The Savage Innocents Lulik
  The World of Suzie Wong - Minnie Ho
  Passport to China - Liong Ti Uncredited
  1961 The Sinister Man - Tamaya
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Poon Soon
  1962 Dr. No - Sister Lily
  1963 The Cool Mikado - Peep-Bo
  1965 Genghis Khan - Concubine
  
  Television
  Year Title Role Notes ref
  1958 Television Playwright - Episode: "The Commentator"
  1958 Armchair Theatre - Fujiko Maki - Episode: "The Deaf Heart"
  1963 The Avengers - Anna - Episode: "A Chorus of Frogs"
  
  References
  "In Memoriam Canadian-Japanese actress Yvonne Shima (1935-2023)". jamesbond007.se. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  "Lucky Lotus". Worthing Gazette. 10 September 1958. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/stars/yvonne-shima

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1935: Kenneth Tsang Kong is born--Shanghai, China. (Also reported as 5 October 1934.)
  (He dies 27 April 2022 at age 87--Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, China.)

  

  Kenneth Tsang Dies: Golden Age Hong Kong Film Actor
  Who Later Entered Hollywood Was 87

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://deadline.com/2022/04/kenneth-tsang-dead-hong-kong-film-actor-later-hollywood-was-87-obituary-1235011663/

  By Bruce Haring | April 27, 2022 4:45pm | AP

  

  Kenneth Tsang, who made his mark in Hong Kong’s golden age of film before coming to the US and scoring roles in several prominent movies, died at age 87 today. He was found after quarantining in a Hong Kong hotel after entering China from Singapore, per that country’s Covid-19 protocols.
  
  Tsang’s talent manager confirmed his death. “I’m deeply saddened by the news and will miss his laughter and his friendship,” Tsang’s manager, Andrew Ooi, said in a statement.

  “He was a pioneer and a legend of his time in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, who broke boundaries with his fearless performances not only there but in Hollywood too. His legacy will live on in the movies he’s made and my heart goes out to his family in this difficult time.”
  
  In addition to his Hong Kong films, Tsang appeared in Hollywood movies Rush Hour 2 (2001) and the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002). He made his Hollywood debut in 1998’s The Replacement Killers,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.

  Tsang won the Hong Kong Film Award for supporting actor in 2015. He was nominated for the same prize at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in Overheard 2, which won him the supporting actor trophy at the 2012 China Film Media Awards.
  
  Before his film career, Tsang graduated with a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, according to the South China Morning Post. He also appeared in dozens of TV series, including The Greed of Man, starring Tsang as Lung family patriarch Sing-bong.
  
  Tsang is survived by his wife of 28 years, Taiwanese film actor Chiao Chiao.
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  1939: An overworked Ian Fleming declines his duties as best man at the Gerald and Patricia Coke wedding.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 3 - "The world's worst stockbroker"

  [Admiral] Godfrey did not let on much about the job he had in mind. More
  interest in "having a good look at the fellow", he suggested Ian might
  like to come into the NID at the Admiralty on a part-time basis and get
  the feel of the place. Ian began attending for three or four afternoons a
  week in June. Within a fortnight, Fleming had mastered his limited brief
  and was asking Godfrey for something more challenging. Godfrey had
  already seen enough: as he recorded in his unpublished memoirs, "I
  quickly made up my mind that here was the man for the job." In late July
  Ian was appoint to the newly formed Special Branch (dealing with
  intelligence and meteorology) of the Wavy Navy, the Royal Navy Vol-
  unteer Reserve (RNVR). He joined NID full-time the following month and
  was firmly installed, with enough inside information to advise Percy Muir
  to move his book collection to the countryside, and enough work on his
  desk to have to cancel his engagement as best man at Gerald Coke's
  wedding on 2 September, the day before war began.

  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Bond's first scene--with Moneypenny.
  
  1980: For Your Eyes Only film production officially starts with three days North Sea filming of the St. Georges.

  
  Internet Movie Boat Database Wiki
  https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only

  St. Georges

  
  This trawler serves as a British spy ship. It is sunk by a WW2 sea mine, which was accidentally pushed against the hull when it got captured in one of the fishing nets. Bond and Melina later explore the wreckage of the ship. The St. Georges is a model ship.

  
  
  
  

  
  2013: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke comments on Daniel Craig as James Bond.

  

  Daniel Craig lacks the panache to be James Bond,
  says Dick Van Dyke

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newdelhitimes.com/daniel-craig-lacks-panache-james-bond-dick-van-dyke/

  By Editor | September 2, 2013
  
  Screen legend Dick Van Dyke has revealed that he doesn’t think Daniel Craig is right for the role of James Bond .
  
  The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star said that he considered Craig to be a ‘wonderful actor’ with ‘great physicality’, but he was missing a certain something required for the acclaimed part, Metro.co.uk reported.

  The 87-year-old actor also revealed that he was considered to play the spy.
  
  He said that when Sean Connery had talked about dropping out of Bond flick, Cubby Broccoli approached him and asked if he was interested in the role.
  
  Van Dyke however turned down the offer, saying that he didn’t have a proper British accent.

  
  
  
  

  
  

  2015: American Photography reports on the book Dying to Eat by Henry Hargreaves in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, focusing on Bond meals.

  

  

  Dept of Ideas: Photographing James Bond's Dinners

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/15063/dept-of-ideas-photographing-james-bonds-dinners.html

  By David Schonauer | Wednesday September 2, 2015
  
  He kissed and killed. And ate and drank.
  
  Best known for his consumption of cocktails in the movies, James Bond was also a gourmand in his literary incarnation. “I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from the habit of taking a lot of trouble over details,” he tells Vesper Lynd in 1953’s Casino Royale, the first of the Bond thrillers written by Ian Fleming.

  Reading about Bond’s dining habits from a modern perspective is akin to cultural archeology. His dinner with Vesper, for instance, is a remarkable example of post-war extravagance. She orders caviar, to be followed by “a plain grilled rognon de veau with pommes soufflés, and then fraises de bois, with a lot of cream.”
  
  “I myself will accompany Mademoiselle with the caviar, but then I would like a very small tournedos, underdone, with sauce Bearnaise and a coeur d’artichaut,” Bond tells the maitre d’hotel. “While Mademoiselle is enjoying the strawberries, I will have an avocado pear, with a little French dressing.”

  Today we don’t necessarily think of avocado as an exotic treat. But in the economically-ravaged Europe of the early 1950s, it could be used by Fleming as a symbol of almost unimaginable privilege. Like his creation, Fleming took trouble over such details, and it paid off. People read the books in part to be transported to a world where both danger and luxury could be found in abundance.
  
  That sense of history is what photographer Henry Hargreaves, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, sat out to capture in his book Dying to Eat, a depiction of the meals Bond enjoys during his adventures.

  “Ian Fleming wrote for 1950’s Englishman, whose everyday experience of the world was colored by the devastating consequences of war,” Hargreaves notes. “The 50s post-war man could read Fleming’s Bond books and dream not only of adventure and villains in far-off lands, but an exciting lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, finely tailored clothes, and exotic gourmet meals from around the world.”

  Ironically, a previous Hargreaves project, No Seconds, focused on the last meals ordered by death row inmates, from John Wayne Gacy (fried shrimp, a bucket of chicken from KFC) to Timothy McVeigh (two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream).
  
  By way of contrast, there are the decadent stone crabs swimming in butter that Bond eats in Miami Beach at the beginning of Goldfinger and the smoked ham and peaches he has in From Russia With Love.
  
  Hargreaves notes at his website that he worked as both a fashion model and in the food industry before becoming a professional photographer. “I was fascinated about people’s requests and [how] what they ordered [revealed] their character and personality. I try to bring this idea into my work by showing the connections visually,” he writes at his website.
  
  Bond’s meals reveal a man whose eyes are perhaps bigger than his stomach (For Bond, the world was not enough, after all). Like his famous cocktail creation, the Vesper (3 measure of Gordon’s gin, 1 measure of vodka, and 1/2 measure of Kina Lillet), Bond’s dinners are showy — and borderline absurd, if not deadly in their own right. (Fleming would later apologize for his Vesper recipe; having actually tried one, he found it “unpalatable,” notes David Leigh in The Complete Guide to The Drinks of James Bond.)
  
  Fleming used booze and food to create an illusion and give his famous character depth; but he had to go to increasingly greater heights of imagination to maintain the illusion, making Bond’s meals more and more bizarre throughout the series. In You Only Live Twice, the second-to-last novel, “Bond is mucking around with Japanese lobster eaten alive as it crawls around his table,” writes Simon Wender in The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.
  
  Hargreaves takes us on a journey through the Cold War, armed with knife and fork, but not a Walther PPK in sight.

  https://henryhargreaves.com/
  

  
  Casino Royale
  
  Live and Let Die
  
  Moonraker
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  Goldfinger
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  Thunderball
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  The Man With The Golden Gun
  
  
  

  
  2020: A No Time To Die ten-second teaser anticipates a new trailer on 3 September.

  

  2020: ET Online looks at 26 James Bond posters through the years.

  

  

  Movies
  James Bond Posters Through the
  Years

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.etonline.com/gallery/james-bond-posters-through-the-years-21694/spectre-2015-81456

  By ET Staff | September 2, 2020
  
  Take a look back at the legacy of all the
  different 007s, from Sean Connery to Daniel
  Craig, Roger Moore to Pierce Brosnan.
  

  No Time to Die (2020)
  
  United Artists Releasing
  Starring Daniel Craig as Bond.
  
  Spectre (2015)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Skyfall (2012)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  James Bond 50th Anniversary Poster
  
  MGM
  
  Quantum of Solace (2008)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Casino Royale (2006)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond.
  Die Another Day (2002)
  
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  
  The World Is Not Enough
  
  MGM
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  
  MGM
  
  GoldenEye (1995)
  
  MGM
  
  Starring Timothy Dalton as Bond.
  Licence to Kill (1989)
  
  MGM
  
  The Living Daylights (1987)
  
  MGM
  
  Starring Roger Moore as Bond.
  A View to a Kill (1985)
  
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  
  Octopussy (1983)
  
  United International Pictures
  
  For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  
  United Artists
  
  Moonraker (1979)
  
  United Artists
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  
  United Artists
  
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  
  United Artists
  
  Live and Let Die (1973)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring George Lazenby as Bond.
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
  You Only Live Twice (1967)
  
  United Artists
  
  Thunderball (1965)
  
  United Artists
  
  Goldfinger (1964)
  
  United Artists
  
  From Russia with Love (1963)
  
  United Artists
  
  Dr. No (1962)
  
  United Artists