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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 13th
  
  1923: Linda Christian is born--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
  (She dies 25 July 2011 at age 87--Palm Desert, California.)
  1952: Art Malik is born--Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
  1969: Gerard Butler is born--Paisley, Scotland.
  1995: GoldenEye world premiere at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2001: Electronic Arts publishes video game Agent Under Fire for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube.

  
  
  

  2006: A&M releases the Chris Cornell single "You Know My Name" from his album Carry On.

  
  
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Ecuador and Cambodia.
  2008: A Quantum csendje released in Hungary.
  2015: 幽灵 released in China in an edited form.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 14th
  
  1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428)

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3
  
  
  
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  1966: Sophie Marceau is born--Paris, France.
  1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
  (Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
  1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack. :
  2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
  2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, Vietnam, and the US.
  2008: 007 Quantum released in Canada and Mexico.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 15th
  
  1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
  1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

  

  2005: From Russia with Love video game published by Electronic Arts in the US for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation Portable.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in the Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.
  2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

  

  2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper

  2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
  2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full copyrights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.
  2018: Mitchell Beazley publishes Shaken – Drinking with James Bond & Ian Fleming, by bar entrepreneurs Mia Johansson, Bobby Hiddleston and Edmund Weil. In coordination with the Ian Fleming Estate and Ian Fleming Publications.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 16th
  
  1968: Yildirim Harekati (Thunderball) released in Turkey.

  
  Apparently there was also a sequel.

  

  1995: L'oeil de feu released in Canada.
  1999: Electronic Arts releases Tomorrow Never Dies video game in North America for Sony PlayStation.

  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia.
  2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, Slovakia, and Syria.
  2006: Казино Рояль released in Russia.
  2006: 007: Казино Рояль released in Ukraine.
  2012: Skyfall premieres in Sydney, Australia, at the State Theatre.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: The International Spy Museum in Washington DC opens its Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains exhibit.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 17th
  
  1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan. (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)
  1966: Sophie Marceau is born--Paris, France.
  1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, Taiwan, and the US.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
  2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 18th
  
  1926: Mickey Mouse is born as a comic strip. (Known as Topolino in Italy.)
  1988: Principal photography finishes for Licence to Kill. (Started 18 July.)
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  2002: Die Another Day world premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Electronic Arts publishes Nightfire in North America for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Daniel Craig visits British troops at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and screens Skyfall with 800 soldiers.

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 19th
  
  1962: Sports Illustrated publishes Fleming's article "The Guns of James Bond."

  
  
  
  
  

  1963: Ian Fleming is photographed by the Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

  

  1963: As related to the content of the 1961 novel Thunderball, Kevin McClory sues Fleming for plagiarism from the Chancery Division of the High Court in the case of McClory v Fleming.
  1965: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle (From Russia With Love) released in Turkey.

  
  
  

  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Australia.

  

  1981: Sólo para sus ojos released in Argentina.

  
  

  1987: The Living Daylights released in Australia.

  
  
  
  

  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in Canada.

  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough US general release, plus Iceland premiere.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Australia, Peru, and South Africa.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 20th
  
  1926: John Edmund Gardner is born--Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England.
  (He dies 2 August 2007 at age 80--Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.)
  1930: Bernard Horsfall is born--Bishop's Stortford, Herfordshire England.
  (He dies 28 January 2013 at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.)
  1943: Mie Hama is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  2000: Electronic Arts publishes 007 Racing for PlayStation.

  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland.

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in France.

  
  
  
  

  2006: Kevin O'Donovan McClory dies at age 80--Dublin, Ireland. (Born 8 June 1926--Dublin Ireland.)
  2015: Spectre released in India (edited for duration of kissing).

  

  2017: La La Land Records releases an expanded Die Another Day soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 21st
  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Australia.

  

  1995: Royal premiere of GoldenEye at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Spain.

  

  2011: Syd Cain dies at age 93--London, England. (Born 16 April 1918--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.)

  
  Syd Cain obituary
  Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes
  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain
  Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST
  
  
  Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com
  
  The production designer Syd Cain, who has died aged 93, was one of many behind-the-scenes professionals elevated to something like prominence by the worldwide interest in the James Bond films. An industry veteran who began work in British cinema as a draughtsman in 1947, contributing to the look of the gothic melodrama Uncle Silas, Cain is credited on a range of film and television projects, but remains best known for his work in various design capacities on the 007 series, from Dr No in 1962 to GoldenEye in 1995.
  
  Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Cain served in the armed forces in the second world war, surviving a plane crash and recovering from a broken back. Working at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire in the 1940s and 50s, he moved up from uncredited draughtsman (on Adam and Evelyne, The Interrupted Journey, You Know What Sailors Are and Up to His Neck) to assistant art director (for The Gamma People, Fire Down Below, Interpol, How to Murder a Rich Uncle and The World of Suzie Wong). During this time, he developed a habit of slipping his name on to the screen among documents provided as props. In Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959), where the blueprints for a vacuum cleaner are mistaken for rocket secrets, he is listed on the papers as the designer of the device. His first credit as art director was on The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the British-produced last gasp of the series of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comedies. Cain also worked on the Hope vehicle Call Me Bwana (1963), best remembered because of an in-joke reference to it in From Russia With Love, where a sniper is concealed behind a billboard advertising the film.
  
  Having worked as a draughtsman on Hell Below Zero (1954) and assistant art director on The Cockleshell Heroes (1956), both produced by Albert R Broccoli, he was chosen by Broccoli to work on the Bond films. Though uncredited, he worked with the production designer Ken Adam – in whose shadow he modestly remained for much of his career – on Dr No, taking over as art director when Adam was not available for the immediate follow-up, From Russia With Love (1963). This was the film that introduced the character of Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Cain was responsible for the design of the gadgets issued to Sean Connery's Bond, notably the briefcase with concealed sniper rifle and tear-gas talcum tin. For the villains, Cain also provided Rosa Klebb's shoes, with poison-tipped blade, and the chess-themed decor of Blofeld's lair.
  
  Later, he was production designer for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). With a new Bond (George Lazenby) and a move away from the gadgets and vast sets of Connery and Adam's later work, Thunderball and Goldfinger, this tried to seem less fantastical – the only contraption issued to Bond is a photocopier. Cain was the supervising art director on Roger Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die (1973), then left the series, eventually returning as a storyboard artist for Pierce Brosnan's 007 debut, GoldenEye.
  
  Arguably more impressive than his Bond associations, Cain worked with a number of notable film-makers throughout the 1960s and 70s, as assistant art director for Stanley Kubrick (Lolita, 1962), art director for Ronald Neame (Mister Moses, 1965) and François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), executive art director for Richard Lester (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966) and production designer for Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967), Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972) and Jack Gold (Aces High, 1976).
  
  Contributing to lasting British pop-culture artefacts, he was also art director on the Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday (1963) and production designer of the revival series The New Avengers (1976). After the popular, action-oriented Alistair Maclean adventure Fear Is the Key (1973), Cain became associated with a brand of high adventure that grew out of the Bond films, working with Peter R Hunt (director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service) on the Moore movies Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976), both set in Africa, and with the producer Euan Lloyd on a series of boozy, British macho epics – The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982).
  
  Cain retired as a production designer after Tusks (1988), but contributed storyboards to a select run of high-profile films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). His final credit was on the Michael Caine boxing movie Shiner (2000). In retirement, he illustrated children's books, wrote an autobiography (Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain, 2002) and was a well-liked guest at Bond-themed fan events.
  
  Cain was married twice. His five sons and three daughters survive him.
  
  • Sidney Cain, production designer, art director and illustrator, born 16 April 1918; died 21 November 2011

  
  
  
  

  2012: The University of Hertfordshire awards an honorary Doctorate of Arts degree to Roger Moore, for outstanding contribution to UK film and television industry for over 50 years.
  2017: "The next" Aston Martin Vantage (based on the DB10) ise revealed.
  More than 500 horse power and 505 foot pounds of torque.
  https://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2018-aston-martin-vantage-confirmed-more-500hp
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 22nd
  
  1899: Hoagy Carmichael is born--Bloomington, Indiana.
  (He dies 27 December 1981 at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.)
  1961: Broccoli & Saltzman announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role and kick off a big publicity campaign.

  

  1965: Mads Mikkelsen is born--Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  1980: Leonard Barr dies at age 77--West Hollywood, California. (Born 27 September 1903--West Virginia.)
  1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough European Charity London premiere at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the US and Puerto Rico.
  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

  
  

  2002: Muere otro día released in Spain. (Catalan: Mor un altre dia.)

  

  2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her premieres in Israel. (premiere)
  2002: Smierc nadejdzie jutro released in Poland.

  
  

  2004: Electronic Arts publishes GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for PlayStation 2, Xbox,Nintendo GameCube, and Nintendo DS.

  
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  2006: "You Know My Name" (the grittier version) charts at #20 as a UK Single Download.

  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 23rd
  
  1930: Ricou Browning is born--Fort Pierce, Florida.
  1990: Roald Dahl dies at age 74--Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
  (Born 13 September 1916--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.)

  

  Wednesday 12 September 2018
  Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
  scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
  But his magical characters are more alive than ever
  
  
  Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965, with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.
  
  Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM
  
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.
  
  His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.
  
  Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
  
  Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."
  
  
  Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.
  
  It is difficult to judge and condemn the products of a previous era by our own much-changed standards. But even so, Spielberg's defence seems weak and Dahl's words far less the act of a provocateur than the musings of a bigot.
  
  Probably the best defence - if one is to be admitted - is Dahl's own life; the many tragedies he faced, the strange mixture of courage and cruelty he displayed. Bad things happen in Roald Dahl books - James's parents die, Mr Fox gets his tail shot off, the child (never named) from The Witches spends his life as a mouse - and they are full of disgusting, terrible people, such as James's aunts, Matilda's father, George's grandmother. These people and events are faithfully rendered, with no glossing-over or soothing euphemisms, and the reason for it becomes very obvious with even a passing knowledge of Dahl's life.
  
  He may have been dashing, handsome, brilliant - his second wife, Felicity Crosland, described him as the "sexiest seducer in Washington" - but Dahl was also known as 'Roald The Rotten'; domineering, inconsistent and driven by his memories of tragedy. Granddaughter Sophie described him as "a very difficult man - very strong, very dominant".
  
  The little girl with the big eyes in The BFG is based on Sophie, but the book is dedicated to Olivia, Dahl's eldest daughter, who he adored and who died of measles encephalitis when she was just seven. It was a terrible loss, one that had heart-breaking echoes of the death from appendicitis, also at the age of seven, of Roald's elder sister, Astri.
  
  A month after her death, Roald's father, who never recovered from the blow, died of pneumonia.
  
  Roald was just three at the time. From the age of eight, he was sent off to a series of boarding schools, where he was mostly miserable and homesick. That may have been the experience of most small boys dispatched in that particularly English tradition; the difference with Roald is that he never forgot. Nor, perhaps, did he ever recover.
  
  Reviewer Kathryn Hughes once said: "No matter how you spin it, Roald Dahl was an absolute sod. Crashing through life like a big, bad child, he managed to alienate pretty much everyone he ever met."
  
  His nickname when young was 'Apple' because he was his mother's favourite. He wrote to her every day from boarding school, but never confessed the depths of his loneliness and misery. Instead, he put a brave face on the regular bouts of violence and ritual humiliation that were so much part of the boarding-school experience then and this daily exercise in glossing over the wretched truth may very well have been the early training in storytelling he needed.
  
  After school, Dahl travelled the world, working for Shell oil, then joined the RAF when the Second World War broke out. A dashing, daring pilot, he spent much of the war in the US, sleeping with society beauties and passing on whatever bits of intelligence he gleaned from pillow talk. Felicity Crosland described Dahl, 6ft 6ins and a fine sportsman, as "wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot - completely seductive. And he was charming and intelligent. A lot of women fell for him."
  
  Dahl, in turn, fell for the actress Patricia Neal, who he met at a dinner party hosted by playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. Neal's career had started in a blaze of glory - before she was 21, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut. Then she moved to Hollywood, where she started in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling, ground-breaking novel The Fountainhead, and fell passionately in love with Gary Cooper.
  
  The affair lasted three years, during which time Neal got pregnant and had an abortion.
  
  Later, she wrote: "If I had only one thing to do over in my life, I would have that baby" - but Cooper refused ultimately to leave his wife.
  
  The Fountainhead was a disaster, followed by a couple more turkeys, and by the age of 27, Neal was back in New York, heartbroken, barely over a nervous breakdown, with her career in tatters. This was the point at which she met Dahl.
  
  Years later, in her autobiography As I Am, Neal wrote that she knew she didn't love Dahl from the moment they married in 1953 but she wanted to have "beautiful children" with him. And initially, the marriage seemed to be working. Neal's career revived and she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1963 for Hud. Meantime, the couple were indeed having "beautiful children", five in all: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.
  
  Seven years after their marriage, the couple's baby son, Theo, four months old, was crushed between a bus and a taxi while out with a nanny and left brain-damaged. The accident was witnessed by Tessa.
  
  Theo had eight brain operations and Dahl, unhappy with the shunt put in to drain the fluid that clogged his brain, spent two years designing and manufacturing a better version. He decided to move the family back home to England, settling in Gypsy House in the village of Great Missenden. But just a few years later, seven-year-old Olivia, the eldest, died of measles encephalitis, a tragedy that left Dahl "limp with despair".
  
  Patricia Neal did some of her best work in this period, then suffered a series of strokes when she was 39 and pregnant with her fifth child.
  
  After a lengthy operation on her brain, Patricia couldn't talk or walk and was largely paralysed.
  
  Here, Dahl showed himself to be a man of complete determination and a certain vision, but touched with coldness, even sadism.
  
  He essentially forced Patricia to get well. If she wanted something, he held it out of reach until she asked for it. He badgered her to walk, to move, to read and memorize and forced her to do hours of painful physical and speech therapy.
  
  For those watching, there were many pitiful moments, but in the end, Dahl's strange, stubborn insistence came good. Six months after the brain operation Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy. Shortly after that, he decided she was ready to give a speech to a charity dinner for brain-damaged children. Although terrified, she did, to thunderous applause. "I knew at that moment that Roald the slave driver, Roald the bastard, with his relentless scourge, Roald the Rotten, as I had called him more than once, had thrown me back into the deep water. Where I belonged," she later said.
  
  He may have forced Neal to get well again, but there didn't seem any way of saving the marriage. Dahl began an affair with one of Neal's best friends, Felicity Crosland, and in 1983 the couple divorced and he remarried. To Patricia's fury, their children mostly knew of and condoned the affair. Ophelia Dahl, who was 14 when her parents divorced, later said: "All of us realised that he had found the love of his life with Liccy (Felicity) and there's always a sense of relief when that happens."
  
  Throughout, Dahl had been writing, finding early and considerable success with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, published in 1964 and a classic ever since.
  
  At the same time, he was also writing adult fiction, including pornography for Playboy - friend and fellow writer Noel Coward once said of his adult fiction: "The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex" - and was often very dismissive of children's literature and his own role within it.
  
  Of course, the streak of "cruelty and macabre unpleasantness" that Coward detected was very much present in his children's books too.
  
  It seemed also to be present in his life. As a father, Dahl was irascible and inconsistent; protective and manipulative, controlling and kind; a tough combination. Tessa, the daughter next to Olivia in age, was frequently compared with the child her father mourned so obviously - "my older sister Olivia had been the love of Daddy's life . . . both of us contracted measles, but she had died" - and always unfavourably.
  
  "In our family, you got attention only if you were brain-damaged or dead or terribly ill. There was no reward for being normal," she once said. And so Tessa gave up on being 'normal', instead becoming wild, precocious and deeply unhappy.
  
  In a piece written in 2012, she talks of being brought to see psychiatrist Anna Freud after Theo's accident. Freud recommended therapy for the whole family, but Dahl had a mistrust of something that he believed had left various friends unable to write because they "had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes", so he insisted on medication instead. Freud refused, so Dahl found another doctor, less scrupulous, to prescribe, and Tessa, from the age of four, was medicated.
  
  By her teenage years, Tessa was given Quaaludes, a sedative, by her father, who brought them home from America, and regularly drank alcohol with him. She had developed, she says "narcissistic character disorders" and was "the problem child who became the scapegoat." But she insists: "My parents did their best."
  
  Tessa, like her mother, was a beauty. By her teenage years, she had become a gossip-column fixture, for dating Peter Sellers and Brian de Palma, among others. Sophie was her first child, from a short affair with actor Julian Holloway when Tessa was 19. Later, she married twice, and had three more children.
  
  She battled drug addiction and crippling depression and began a long search for meaning, visiting ashrams, falling under the spell of various gurus.
  
  She also began to write - articles, children's books and one novel. Dahl, although publicly supportive, was privately competitive: "After I sold my first children's book, he had struggled up to his hut with agonised hips to fetch his royalty statements - to prove to me that I would never make as much money as him, however successful I became."
  
  And yet despite, or more likely because of, Dahl's emotional distance, he was the great focus of Tessa's life.
  
  "I loved him with an undiluted and unmet passion. He was my major motivation as my whole life consisted of proving to him that, although my sister died, I was still worthy of life and love."
  
  Someone once said that all siblings have different parents. Dahl was perhaps a different kind of father to his other children.
  
  Ophelia is a social justice and healthcare advocate, while Lucy, the youngest and a screenwriter in Hollywood - she wrote Wild Child, made into a film with Natasha Richardson - remembers a generous, magical kind of parent.
  
  "He absolutely hated children being bored. He used to say boredom was death," she recalls, and so he bought a Morris Minor for them to drive around a track he had created.
  
  As a grandfather, Dahl seems to have hit his stride. For Tessa's daughter, Sophie, whose young life was spent trailing along on her mother's search for happiness, peace and enlightenment, he was a fixed and stable point.
  
  "Wonderful, really wonderful," is how she describes him.
  
  He had an old gypsy caravan in his garden, which Sophie and her friends used as a playhouse.
  
  "It was brutally uncomfortable and really cold, but I would stay in there with my friends and so we'd have midnight feasts of chocolate in bed. Then, in the morning, we'd appear in the house and he'd make us all breakfast."
  
  Sophie now lives in Gipsy House with her husband, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, and their two children.
  
  By the time Dahl died in 1990, aged 74, 4,000 letters a week were arriving to the local post office for him. Last year, 80,000 people visited the museum dedicated to him in Great Missenden.
  
  They don't go despite the core of darkness in his books, but because of it. The enduring magic of Dahl's world is the way it acknowledges the nasty side of life, has irresistible fun with it, then allows good to triumph.

  2002: Madonna’s Die Another Day single peaks at #1, Canadian Soundscan Singles Sales chart.
  Stays there (on and off) 7 weeks.
  2006: Casino Royale released in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Netherlands.
  2006: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Germany and Portugal.
  2006: 007 - Casino Royale released in Slovenia.
  2006: 007: Kajino rowaiyaru opens the Tokyo International Cine City Festival.

  
  

  2006: Kazino rojal released in Serbia.
  
  
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  November 24th
  
  1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.
  1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Man with the Golden Gun) released in Turkey.

  
  
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  1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

  Australian Daybill
  

  1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.
  1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway. Romania, and Sweden.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
  2006: Казино Pоял (Casino Pojal) released in Bulgaria.
  2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)
  
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  1997: Filmtracks.com publishes Christian Clemmensen's review of the Tomorrow Never Dies score.
  (Revised 3 March 2008.)

  
  EDITORIAL REVIEW
  FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47
  WRITTEN 11/25/97, REVISED 3/3/08
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies: (David Arnold) If one thing is certain about Pierce Brosnan's tenure as British agent James Bond, it's the superiority of Tomorrow Never Dies. Everything clicked in this, the second of his films as 007. His performance reached back to the confidence of Sean Connery, the love interest came packaged as Michelle Yeoh (who is more Bond's equal than just another conquest), a previous flame's death provokes a malice in Bond loyal to the books' original intent, the villain is charmingly enthusiastic and has a cool new stealth weapon as a toy, and David Arnold's score combined the best of the John Barry years with the younger composer's techno-saavy sensibilities. While Goldeneye had revived the series by becoming the first $100 million grossing Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies was far better packaged and drew greater interest from hardcore fans of the franchise's classics. With John Barry now out of the picture (despite his seeming renewed interest in scoring another Bond film during the Brosnan years), Arnold was a perfect successor. His love of the franchise and knack for imitating the expansive style of Barry in his early scores, not to mention his British heritage, made him the logical choice. And fans weren't disappointed. The score than Arnold assembled for Tomorrow Never Dies is a sophisticated and intelligent tribute to the classic Barry scores while pushing the envelope with synthetic rhythms and drum pads to aide the traditional orchestra in joining Bond in a rapidly evolving technological age. The trademark action style that Arnold established in Stargate and Independence Day is combined with a distinct return to the flamboyant style of the jazzy Bond scores of the 1960's, and with the presence of the synthetic elements native to Arnold's roots in the rock genre, every variety of Arnold fan had something to look forward. Arnold would become the franchise's regular voice, allowing the subsequent films to really define his career (with very few notable scores for non-Bond films mixed in between). He would continue pushing the synthetic side of his music for the franchise until a somewhat dissatisfying score for Die Another Day would pull Arnold back to the combo style of Tomorrow Never Dies in the outstanding Casino Royale.
  
  Arnold was obviously keenly aware that the Bond frachise's scores had their own unique formula while Barry was in charge, and that formula would continue here. The franchise theme by Monty Norman is quoted liberally in Tomorrow Never Dies, with its incorporation ranging from full-blown three-minute tributes to clever counterpoint against the new themes for the film. Arnold's full expressions of the Norman theme are extremely astute in an instrumental sense. Even the opening fifteen seconds of the score offers brass and cymbal accents true to Barry's introductions. The muted trumpets, solo flute, and electric guitar performances in "Company Car" provide the most true and entertaining modern performance of the Norman concept available. This three-minute cue establishes a standard by which fans and students of the franchise can worship and study. Acoustically, the recording is flawless. Aside from the statements of Norman's theme throughout the score, Arnold wrote one of the franchise's best title songs and integrated its theme extremely well throughout the entire score. With all the wailing brass flair of Goldfinger, his title theme is both seductively alluring and strikingly defiant, an easily memorable aspect of the film. In the opening action sequence before the credits ("White Knight"), Arnold introduces the theme with nobility at the 7:10 mark (in between ample development of Norman's theme). This theme punctuates many of the action sequences and is given an Eastern personality in "Kowloon Bay" before a last monumental statement for strings and bold brass counterpoint at the resolution of the film. A theme for Teri Hatcher's role as the villain's wife and former Bond lover is provided twice in Tomorrow Never Dies. As they reunite, Arnold allows the Barry-like idea to flourish with the full ensemble (once again in layered strings under brass counterpoint) before a solo woodwind echos accompany her demise. A deliberate, pounding motif for the villain Elliot Carver and his stealth ship is sparsely utilized throughout the score (its fullest appearance is at 3:55 into "The Sinking of the Devonshire"), though it receives some intriguing, less obvious exploration in "Underwater Discovery." If the score for Tomorrow Never Dies has a weakness, it's in the largely understated musical representation for Carver, as well as other "badguy" elements such as in "Doctor Kaufman."
  
  To counter the theme for Carver's wife earlier in the film, Arnold writes a theme for Michelle Yeoh's agent and the Eastern locations of the story. It's only receives brief treatment, but it is quite gorgeous on solo guitar and piano in the early portions of "Bike Shop Fight" and "Kowloon Bay." A full rendition in the latter cue, merging with the title theme, is a highlight of the score. Faint hints of this theme come through in the very last minute of the score, though this progression seems to be a nod to Barry's You Only Live Twice. And that brings up another important point about Tomorrow Never Dies: the many references to previous scores in the franchise. In the opening battle, Arnold states a fragment of From Russia With Love. The following cue offers brass wails identical to later action sequences in Goldfinger. In both "White Knight" and more obviously at 0:45 into "Hamburg Break In," Arnold quotes the five-note bass sequence that preceded Tina Turner's song for Goldeneye, arguably the most memorable element from the soundtrack of that film. He would not make the same number of references in his scores for the subsequent Brosnan/Bond films, though he does make a clever reference to the title theme for Tomorrow Never Dies during a conversational cue after Bond's early rescue in Die Another Day. In retrospect, Tomorrow Never Dies is a much better score than many gave it credit for being at the time. Some listeners were turned off by the extensive synthetic percussion used in "Back Seat Driver" and "Hamburg Break Out," among a few others, and these cues are indeed less effective outside the context of the film (where they come in conflict with the better balance of the surrounding material). But the varied, slapping percussion of "Bike Chase" is a perfect combination of both worlds, and its highly effective sound would set the stage for cues like the one for the opening chase sequence in Casino Royale. For the most part, the balance in mixing in Tomorrow Never Dies is outstanding, and the gorgeous piano solos in several cues are testimony to this clarity. Subsequent Arnold scores tended to get muddy in their rowdy action cues, especially in Die Another Day, though a total lack of theme in that later score is the greater problem.
  
  As anyone can expect, not everything with Tomorrow Never Dies went well. First and foremost, the song situation would be very dissatisfying for both Arnold and Bond fans alike. While the recording of the title song by k.d. lang would match the style and theme of Arnold's score with incredible cohesion and effectiveness, the producers of the film saw fit to hire a bigger name to provide a replacement song for the traditional opening credits sequence. This move was unfortunate not only because of Arnold's song was superior and in spirit of the franchise, but also because of lang's sulty voice and spirited performance. The replacement song is performed by Sheryl Crow, whose popularity at the time was seen as an asset, but whose beach-bum voice and lazy performance was a disgrace to the film. The video game score for Tomorrow Never Dies would heavily favor the use of Arnold's song theme, retitled "Surrender," over the presence of Crow's song. With critics, fans, and producers all easily recognizing the superiority of the lang song, Arnold was rewarded with the opportunity to write his own song for The World is Not Enough two years later (before suffering from extraordinary frustration trying to adapt Madonna's non-thematic song into the score for Die Another Day). A more minor criticism of Tomorrow Never Dies responds to the fact that Arnold only used his trademark, beautiful choir for a short snippet of "The Sinking of the Devonshire," though given that this cue sounds awkward in its sudden shift to Stargate during the slow-motion sinking and death sequence, that's not necessarily a negative. A truly major problem with Tomorrow Never Dies, however, was its album release. Much to the angst of Arnold, a hectic and disorganized post-production schedule for the film caused the music to be recorded chronologically in small portions over a matter of many months. As a result, the original 1997 album release by A&M Records could only feature the score material that had been mixed and mastered from the first half of the film. The entire last third of the score was missing from this product, including all of the Eastern-flavored cues and the pivotal "Bike Chase" and "All in a Day's Work" music of over ten minutes. This omission, which didn't make sense to consumers at the time, combined with the replacement of lang's song from the title credits, caused Bond fans to go stir crazy immediately.
  
  After much fuss and delay, controversy and discussion, most of the remaining music from the film was finally made available on a commercial release from Chapter III Records in 2000 (along with a concurrent release of Tommy Tallarico's score for the Tomorrow Never Dies video game). At the time, The World is Not Enough was failing to muster the same approval as its predecessor, and the latter film's release date forced Chapter III to hold back the expanded version of Tomorrow Never Dies by several weeks. Despite providing 26 minutes of score not available on the previous album, the Chapter III product does have its share of flaws. Although the packaging and press information advertised it as being "complete," it's actually missing several important pieces of music from the film. One major omission is the track "Station Break," the four-minute cue that plays as Bond takes Elliot Carver off the air and Arnold provides a darkly dramatic performance of the love theme that foreshadows an uncertain future for the Paris character. Ironically, this cue appeared in full on the 1997 album. Additionally, several very short snippets of music remain missing on album, including the film's ending to "White Knight." The second major drawback to the expanded album is the lack of the k.d. lang song. None of the songs on the original album appears on the expanded volume, likely due to financial reasons. The eleven-minute interview with Arnold at the end of the 2000 album is interesting; the questions are intelligent and the interview is mixed nicely with some of Arnold's cues. But it's not something you'll find yourself listening to a second time. A perfect album could have resulted if the interview were dumped in favor of "Station Break" and "Surrender," but failing that, fans of the film and franchise are forced to own both products. The sound quality on both albums is equally vibrant. For the most hardcore of fans, there do exist 2-CD bootlegs that are indeed complete, featuring the isolated DVD score, the two songs, and bonus material totalling over 140 minutes in length. Overall, Tomorrow Never Dies remains ahead of Casino Royale as the definitive David Arnold entry in the James Bond franchise. Perhaps it is no coicidence that the best film of the Brosnan era featured the best score during that period.

  1999: The World Is Not Enough preview screening in the UK.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Australia.
  1999: A világ nem elég released in Hungary.
  1999: Ha-Olam E'ino Maspik released in Israel.
  2011: English actor Ben Whishaw outed as "Q" for BOND 23.
  
  
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  1939: Tina Turner is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.
  1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.
  1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
  1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

  
  
  

  1965: NBC television airs David Wolper's documentary The Incredible World of James Bond.

  

  1982: John Glen films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
  1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to Cubby Broccoli he will not return.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.
  2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.
  2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
  
  
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  1961: Samantha Bond is born--Kensington, London, England.
  1981: Lotte Lenya dies at age 83--New York City, New York.

  

  (Born 18 October 1898--Vienna-Penzing Austria, Hungary.)
  1982: For Your Eyes Only released in the Republic of Korea.
  1989: Peter Burton dies at age 68--Chelsea, London, England. (Born 4 April 1921--Bromley, Kent, England.)
  1995: The documentary 007: The Return airs on British television.
  1997: A&M releases David Arnold's Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
  2005: Marc Lawrence dies at age 95--Palm Springs, California.
  (Born 17 February 1910--New York City, New York.)
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.
  2015: Spectre limited release in Japan.
  2015: Spectre released in South Africa.
  2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bond-is-great-british-embassy-hosts-private-screening-of-spectre-in-honduras

  
  
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  2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.
  2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag released in Austria and Germany.

  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the German-speaking region of Switzerland.
  2002: Umri drugi dan released in Croatia.
  2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her released in Israel.
  
  
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  1901: Swiss Gatekeeper Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
  (She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)
  1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. And additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.
  1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007".

  "Holmes Meets 007"
  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_uncollected_and_other_miscellaneous_short_stories
  
  Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window. "What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned."
  
  Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.
  
  Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.

  1969: Bond comic strip River of Death ends it run in The Daily Express. (Started 24 June 1969. 1038–1174)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
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  1972: The Live and Let Die production moves to Jamaica, doubling for San Monique.
  1973: 007: Vivir y dejar morir released in Argentina.

  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Iceland.
  2002: 007: Surra veel üks päev released in Estonia.
  2002: 007 - Döden får vänta (also: 007 - Kuolema saa odottaa) released in Finland.

  
  

  2002: Pasveikink mirti kitą dieną (Happy to Die the Next Day) released in Lithuania.
  2002: Mirsti Citu Dienu released in Latvia.
  2008: "Another Way to Die" charts at #81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (spends one week on the chart).
  2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh.
  2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California. (Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)
  2005: Joseph Fürst dies at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Born 13 February 1916--Vienna, Austria.)
  
  
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  1917: Ilse Steppat is born--Barmen, Germany. (She dies 21 December 1969 at age 52--West Berlin, Germany.)
  1933: Tsai Chin is born--Shanghai, China.
  1969: Marc Forster is born--Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany.
  1983: Richard Loo dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California. (Born 1 October 1903--Maui, Hawaii.)
  1983: Jamais plus jamais premieres in France, one of its filming locations. That's almost two months after the US premiere (October 5), but about two weeks before the UK premiere (14 December).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh and South Africa.
  
  
  
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  1930: Matt Munro is born--London, England. (He dies 7 February 1985 at age 54--Ealing, London, England.)
  1969: Bond comic strip Colonel Sun begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 28 August 1970. 1175–1393)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
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  1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.
  1998: Freddie Young dies at age 96--London, England. (Born 9 October 1902--London, England.)

  
  

  Gentleman Genius
  All Time Greats / Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/
  
  Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.
  
  At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.
  
  Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.
  
  For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”
  
  Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”
  
  During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”
  
  Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).
  
  Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.
  
  Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.
  
  In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.
  
  He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”
  
  The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.
  
  His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”
  
  His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”
  
  In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”
  

  "Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
  - Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  
  In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.
  
  Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.
  
  Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.
  
  Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.
  
  Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”
  
  Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.
  

  

  Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)

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  Filmography

  Cinematographer (130 credits)
  
  1985 Invitation to the Wedding
  1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
  1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
  1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
  1980 Rough Cut
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1978 Stevie (director of photography)
  1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
  1975 The Executioner
  1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
  1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
  1974 Luther
  1972 The Asphyx
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
  1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
  1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)
  
  1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
  1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
  1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
  1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
  1965 Rotten to the Core
  1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
  1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)
  
  1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
  1957 Island in the Sun
  1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
  1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
  1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
  1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
  1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1955 Bedevilled
  1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
  1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
  1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1952 Giselle (Short)
  1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
  1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)
  
  1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
  1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
  1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
  1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)
  
  1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1939 Suicide Legion
  1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
  1938 A Royal Divorce
  1937 Millions (uncredited)
  1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Backstage
  1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
  1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
  1936 This'll Make You Whistle
  1936 Two's Company
  1936 Fame
  1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
  1935 Come Out of the Pantry
  1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
  1934 The King of Paris
  1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
  1934 Girls Please!
  1934 Runaway Queen
  1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
  1933 Just My Luck
  1933 Night of the Garter
  1933 Up for the Derby
  1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
  1933 Trouble
  1933 That's a Good Girl
  1933 Summer Lightning
  1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
  1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
  1933 The Little Damozel
  1933 The King's Cup
  1932 Leap Year
  1932 The Love Contract
  1932 Thark
  1932 The Mayor's Nest
  1932 Magic Night
  1932 A Night Like This
  1932 The Blue Danube
  1931 Up for the Cup
  1931 Mischief
  1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Chance of a Night Time
  1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
  1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
  1930 Tons of Money
  1930 Plunder
  1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
  1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
  1930 On Approval
  1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
  1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
  1930 The W Plan
  1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)
  
  1929 White Cargo
  1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
  1929 The Bondman
  1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
  1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
  1928 The Tonic (Short)
  1928 Victory
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)
  
  1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
  - Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  - Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  
  1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
  1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)
  
  1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
  1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
  1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)
  
  1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

  

  1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Belgium and Switzerland (French speaking region).
  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in France.

  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
  2006: 007: Kajino rowaiyaru released in Japan.

  
  
  

  2006: Christie’s of London puts up for auction Fleming’s letters--in one, typist Margaret Anderson describes his "beastly machine".

  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" reaches top forty status in Australia, peaking at twenty-nine.
  2012: Skyfall released in Japan.

  
  

  
  
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  1931: Nadja Regin is born--Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
  1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England. (Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.
  2011: The Skyfall production films Bond swimming in Shanghai at the Four Seasons, Canary Wharf, London.
  2015: Gabriele Ferzetti dies at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy. (Born 17 March 1925--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)
  
  
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  1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck reaches a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).
  1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
  1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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  1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years in the role and 7 films.
  1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali, meaning With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.
  1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)

  

  1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente) released in Spain.
  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
  1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.
  
  
  
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  1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan. (He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)
  1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France. (He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)
  1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

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  1989: Licence to Kill released in Hong Kong.
  2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.

  
  
  
  

  2015: Spectre general release in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  Dec 3 , 1968 : Elvis comeback special
  Dec 4 , 1968 : WED world premiere
  
  
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  1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.
  1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California. (Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)
  2004: Jean Tournier dies at age 78--Paris, France. (Born 3 April 1926--Toulon, Var, France.)
  2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
  2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film of all time in the UK.
  2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch. Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  
  James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch
  https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch
  
  It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
  Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018
  
  Jeff Parker/Bob Q/Jordie Bellaire/Simon Bowland/Nate Cosby
  
  James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  December 6th
  
  1921: George Leech is born--London, England. (He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)
  1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.
  1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.
  2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.
  2011: Filming on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall. Moneypenny hands box to Bond.
  2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.
  2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.
  2018: Tickets for Secret Cinema Presents Casino Royale go on sale.

  
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  December 7th
  
  1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
  1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
  1959: Kevin McClory registers the title Thunderball anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Jack Whittingham.
  1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."

  
  https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/weekinreview/agent-007-license-to-shill.html

  2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, Peru, and Thailand.
  2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale nor Quantum of Solace story arc: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."
  
  
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  2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale nor Quantum of Solace story arc: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."
  

  
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  December 8th
  
  1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
  1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.
  1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
  1979: Moonraker released in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  1983: Never Say Never Again released in the Netherlands.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.
  1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
  1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.

  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
  2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming commences the next 7 months including in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.