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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 15 edited June 30 Posts: 13,812

  June 16th
  
  1920: Geoffrey Jenkins is born--Pretoria, South Africa.
  (He dies 7 November 2001--Durban, South Africa.)

  

  Geoffrey Jenkins

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Geoffrey Ernest Jenkins[1] (16 June 1920 – 7 November 2001) was a South African journalist, novelist and screenwriter. His wife Eve Palmer, with whom he collaborated on several works, wrote numerous non-fiction works about Southern Africa.
  
  Early life
  Jenkins was either born in Port Elizabeth South Africa or Pretoria to Ernest Jenkins, an editor, and Daisy Jenkins. At age 17, he wrote and had published A Century of History, which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the Potchefstroom centenary celebrations. Smuts also wrote the book's introduction.
  
  Jenkins subsequently won the Lord Kemsley Commonwealth Journalistic Scholarship, which took him to Fleet Street, where he spent World War II as a war correspondent.

  While working for the Sunday Times, he became friends with author Ian Fleming, creator of the British secret agent James Bond. Fleming later praised Jenkins' writing, saying "Geoffrey Jenkins has the supreme gift of originality... A Twist of Sand is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure".

  After the war Jenkins settled in Rhodesia, where he met his wife, author Eve Palmer (1916–1998). They married on 17 March 1950. They had a son named David (born c. 1953).
  
  Jenkins was briefly editor of the newspaper The Umtali Advertiser then became a reporter at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.
  
  Writing
  Early novels
  While working for The Star, he wrote his first novel, A Twist of Sand (1959), which was subsequently translated into 23 languages and became a motion picture in 1968 starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman. He kept his newspaper job until he had published his third novel.
  
  Jenkins' 1966 novel Hunter-Killer was a sequel to A Twist of Sand. Hunter-Killer opens with the protagonist, Geoffrey Peace RN, faking his own death and funeral at sea, only to clamber aboard a submarine.

  James Bond
  After Ian Fleming's death, Glidrose Productions commissioned Jenkins to write a James Bond novel in 1966. Jenkins claimed that he and Fleming together developed a diamond-smuggling storyline in 1957. After a long period of negotiation, during which Ann Fleming (Ian's widow) raised several objections to the idea of a continuation novel, Jenkins finished the manuscript for Glidrose entitled Per Fine Ounce, but it was rejected. The novel is believed lost, except for 18 pages now in the hands of Jenkins' son David. Two pages have been released to the public and were exclusively published by the James Bond website MI6-HQ.com. Ian Fleming Publications (formerly Glidrose) allegedly returned their copies of the manuscript after rejecting it.

  Later works
  Jenkins did colour photography for his wife's non-fiction work Trees of Southern Africa (1972). The couple travelled over 100,000 miles to research this three volume work. They subsequently collaborated on the 1978 travel book The Companion Guide to South Africa. Helene Moore of the Knight Ridder syndicate believed that it was "impossible to cram everything pertinent into one guidebook and do a thorough job of it," but felt that the authors have chosen "the right solution." Moore claimed that the over four-hundred page book gave the authors sufficient space "for single-minded reporting on what to see at the bottom of this exotic continent - plus plenty of space for history, legend and all the personal commentary that enriches any travel book. Good reading even if you're not headed that way."
  
  Later years and death
  Jenkins published his final novel A Daystar of Fear in 1993. Jenkins moved from Pretoria to his son David's home in Durban. According to an obituary, he was planning to write a sequel to Scend of the Sea shortly before his death in 2001.
  
  Film adaptations
  Three of his novels have been filmed. A Twist of Sand (1968) co-starred Honor Blackman and Richard Johnson, director Terence Young's original choice for James Bond. Dirty Games (1989), based on In Harm's Way, co-starred Jan-Michael Vincent.
  
  The River of Diamonds (1990) had been set for production in the 1960s. During the 1980s Brian Clemens wrote a script. Sylvester Stallone - who asked for US$9M and a share of the profits - and Tom Selleck - who asked for US$1.5M and a share of the profits - were approached to star, but asked too much money which the production couldn't afford. A journal describes this as South Africa's "most ambitious film project" with what was at the time to have been the biggest budget financed by a South African producer estimated to have been between two and three million Rand.
  
  Works
  
  Novels
  A Twist of Sand (1959)
  The Watering-Place of Good Peace (1960; revised 1974)
  A Grue of Ice (1962) published in the U.S. as The Disappearing Island
  The River of Diamonds (1964)
  Hunter-Killer (1966)
  Scend of the Sea (1971) published in the U.S. as The Hollow Sea
  A Cleft of Stars (1973)
  A Bridge of Magpies (1974)
  South Trap (1979) published in paperback as Southtrap
  A Ravel of Waters (1981)
  The Unripe Gold (1983)
  Fireprint (1984)
  In Harm's Way (1986)
  Hold Down a Shadow (1989)
  A Hive of Dead Men (1991)
  A Daystar of Fear (1993)
  
  Unpublished
  Per Fine Ounce (circa 1966)
  A Kiss of Thorns
  Disquietly to His Grave
  A Gate of Blood
  A Knot of Fire
  
  Non-fiction
  A Century of History: The Story of Potchefstroom (1939; 2nd edition 1971)
  The Companion Guide to South Africa (1978), with Eve Palmer
  
  Photography only
  Palmer, Eve; Pitman, Norah (1972). Trees of Southern Africa. colour photography by Geoffrey Jenkins and others. A. A. Balkema. (3 vols.)
  
  Unproduced screenplay
  Fifth Paw of the Lion (1966, Columbia Pictures, Charles H. Schneer Productions)

  
  
  Real and imagined.
  

  
  1942: William P. Cartlidge is born--England.
  (He dies 3 March 2021 at age 78--Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, England.)

  

  William P. Cartlidge

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Cartlidge

  William P. Cartlidge (June 16, 1942 – March 3, 2021) was an English film and television producer.
  
  Life and career
  William P. Cartlidge was born on June 16, 1942.
  
  Cartlidge worked on three James Bond films, each of which was directed by Lewis Gilbert. He was the first assistant director for the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, the associate producer for the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, and the associate producer for the 1979 film Moonraker.
  
  In 2002, Cartlidge was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as the producer of Dinotopia.
  
  Cartlidge died on March 3, 2021. He was 78 years old.
  
  Filmography
  1960s
  The Young Ones (1962), second assistant director
  The Punch and Judy Man (1963), second assistant director
  Summer Holiday (1963), second assistant director
  Girl in the Headlines (1963), assistant director
  The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), assistant director
  Strictly for the Birds (1964), assistant director
  Success Machine (1965), assistant director
  Wild Goose Chase (1965), assistant director
  Struggle for a Mind (1965), assistant director
  Dual Control (1965), producer
  Alfie (1966)
  The Reptile (1966), assistant director
  Born Free (1966), assistant director
  The Double Man (1967), assistant director
  You Only Live Twice (1967), assistant director
  Duffy (1968), production manager
  
  1970s
  The Adventurers (1970), assistant director
  Fragment of Fear (1970), assistant director
  The Last Valley (1971), assistant director
  Friends (1971), assistant director
  Nearest and Dearest (1972), assistant director
  Young Winston (1972), assistant director
  Phase IV (1974), assistant director
  That's Your Funeral (1974), assistant director
  Paul and Michelle (1974), associate producer
  Seven Nights in Japan (1976), associate producer
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), associate producer
  Moonraker (1979), associate producer
  
  1980s
  Educating Rita (1983), co-producer
  Not Quite Jerusalem (1984), co-producer
  Consuming Passions (1988), producer
  Dealers (1989), producer
  
  1990s
  The Playboys (1992), producer
  Haunted (1995), co-producer
  Incognito (1997), co-producer
  The Scarlet Tunic (1997), executive producer
  
  2000s
  Dinotopia Part 1 (2002), producer
  Dinotopia Part 2 (2002), producer
  Dinotopia Part 3 (2002), producer
  
  2010s
  Everything or Nothing 007 (2012), cast member
  

  

  William P. Cartlidge (1942–2021)

  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Producer | Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142081/
  

  
  
  

  1942: Billy Mitchell is born.
  (He dies 1999--Hertfordshire, England).

  

  Billy J. Mitchell

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_J._Mitchell

  Born June 16, 1942
  Died 1999 (aged 56–57)
  Hertfordshire, U.K.
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1976–1999

  Billy J. Mitchell (June 16, 1942 – 1999) was an American character actor based in the United Kingdom. He was known for portraying North American characters in British-based productions like Superman (1978), Top Secret! (1984), and GoldenEye (1995).
  
  Mitchell died in 1999 aged 56 or 57 in England. He never married and had no children.

  Filmography
  Carry On England (1976) – Gunner Childs
  Superman (1978) – 1st Editor (Daily Planet)
  Ragtime (1981) – Delmas' Assistant No. 2
  Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) – Keir Santage (Red Seven) (uncredited)
  The Lonely Lady (1983) – Gross
  Never Say Never Again (1983) – Captain Pederson
  Top Secret! (1984) – Martin
  Morons from Outer Space (1985) – Alaska Space Monitoring Unit Commander (uncredited)
  Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) – Town Doctor
  Death Wish 3 (1985) – Fraker's Lawyer
  Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Cop No. 1
  Bird (1988) – Prince
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – Forensic No. 2
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – Dr. Mulbray
  Bullseye! (1990) – Elmer, Tourist
  Malcolm X (1992) – Man No. 1
  GoldenEye (1995) – Admiral Chuck Farrell
  What Rats Won't Do (1998) – Diner on Boat
  A Year and a Day (2005) – Band Leader (final film role)

  

  Billy J. Mitchell (1942–1999)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593165/
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  1989: Premiere of Licence to Kill in Dublin, Ireland.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the fight scene in the bicycle shop.
  
  2009: Aaron Westgate shares a tutorial for how to create the traditional James Bond gunbarrel.

  

  Bond… James Bond
  Aaron Westgate | March 20, 2009
  https://planetphotoshop.com/bond-james-bond.html
  Corey reproduces the famous Bond logo in this tutorial.
  

  2013: ITV Granada broadcasts A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode) with appearances by Ian Fleming and James Bond via contributions from writer Charlie Higson.

  

  A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode)

  https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/A_Caribbean_Mystery_(Agatha_Christie%27s_Marple_episode)
  Directed by: Charles Palmer
  Written by: Charlie Higson
  Adapted from: A Caribbean Mystery
  Starring: Julia McKenzie
  Production Company: ITV
  Network: ITV
  Aired: 16 June 2013
  Country of Origin: United Kingdom
  Preceded by: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  Followed by: Greenshaw's Folly

  A Caribbean Mystery is the first episode of the sixth series of Agatha Christie's Marple. It was broadcast on ITV by Granada Television on 16 June 2013. The screenplay was written by Charlie Higson and the episode was directed by Charles Palmer. It was an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

  Synopsis
  After a period of ill health, Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for the tropical Caribbean paradise of St Honoré, where an English couple - Tim and Molly Kendall - run a quaint little resort called the Golden Palms. Among the many guests, which include the innocuous Hillingdons, their unseemly American friends the Dysons, and gruff business tycoon Jason Rafiel, is garrulous Major Palgrave, who is friendly to all - much to everyone's chagrin. When Palgrave launches into his infamous storytelling routine one evening, only Miss Marple takes enough interest to listen. Talk quickly turns to murder, and Palgrave coyly asks her if she'd like to see a photograph of a serial killer. But before he can pull it out, he sees something - or someone - and quickly changes the subject. After a night of excessive drink and entertainment, including a voodoo show, Palgrave is found dead in his room the next morning - the cause of death being a heart attack. Sensing his death is no coincidence, Miss Marple takes it upon herself to unravel the secrets of the guests of St. Honoré, intent on finding the one person with a secret worth killing for. But more victims will be claimed, and one suspect will slowly lose their grip on sanity altogether before this Caribbean mystery will be solved.

  Cast
  Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
  Pippa Bennett-Warner as Victoria
  Charity Wakefield as Molly Kendall
  Robert Webb as Tim Kendall
  Warren Brown as Jackson
  Alastair Mackenzie as Colonel Hillingdon
  Hermione Norris as Evelyn Hillingdon
  Charles Mesure as Greg Dyson
  MyAnna Buring as Lucky Dyson
  Kingsley Ben-Adir as Errol
  Antony Sher as Rafiel
  Montserrat Lombard as Esther Walters
  Oliver Ford Davies as Major Palgrave
  Daniel Rigby as Canon Prescott
  Andrea Dondolo as Mama Zogbe
  Joe Vaz as Sergeant Weston
  Anele Matoti as Inspector Daventry
  Jeremy Crutchley as Ian Fleming
  Charlie Higson as James Bond

  Filming Locations
  Rather than filming in the Caribbean the episode was made in Cape Town, South Africa.

  

  Charlie Higson's licence to
  rewrite Agatha Christie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/407947/Charlie-Higson-s-licence-to-rewrite-Agatha-Christie

  JAMES BOND and Miss Marple don’t seem like natural bedfellows until you meet Charlie Higson. The Fast Show comedian, children’s author and actor was intent, he says, in “bringing together two great literary families”, which is exactly what he has done in adapting Agatha’s Christie’s Caribbean Mystery.
  By David Stephenson | Sun, Jun 16, 2013

  
  Charlie Higson as James Bond and Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple

  Higson has put the superspy – or rather, his real-life inspiration – into this episode. He plays an American birdwatcher called called James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming chose for 007.
  
  He says: “One of the first things the production wanted when they approached me was to put historical figures into Marple, to root them in time.
  
  “Because it was set in the Caribbean they thought it would be interesting to have our two great literary estates come together in the form of Ian Fleming, who had his house Golden Eye out there, where he wrote all the James Bond books, and Christie.”
  
  Higson, the author of the Young Bond books wasn’t daunted: “No, not in that way. I think people go to Christie for the plots, those very intricately worked out mysteries, for the sleight of hand of hiding things from you and how she pulls off those tricks.

  You tinker with Christie
  at your peril. She has
  sold billions of books.
  The people who tune
  into these shows know
  what they want to watch.
  Charlie Higson

  “The simple characterisation in that respect supplies a need, which is why she remains so popular today. It is a closed world with very rigid structures and her vocabulary is fairly simple. It’s all there to function the plot. Agatha Christie was always one of those books that children started reading when they gave up on children’s books.”
  
  SO BOND... how was that achieved? “As we know Fleming got the name of Bond from the American ornithologist of the same name. It was on Fleming’s bookshelf at the time. He simply looked up. So I came up with the idea of putting Ian Fleming there and him meeting James Bond doing a talk on birds to people at the resort and that’s where we see him. So we made it that everyone who was at the ornithology lecture had a cast-iron alibi.”
  
  Did the Christie estate demand any changes? “No, all they wanted was that I keep the murder or murderers and that the victims remain the same as they do in the Caribbean Mystery book. You can play around with the rest of it.
  
  “You tinker with Christie at your peril. She has sold billions of books. The people who tune into these shows know what they want to watch.”
  
  He added: “What you do know when you read the book is that no one says anything unless there’s a reason for it. It’s that mechanical.”
  
  He agrees the adaptation is blessed with a strikingly good cast. “I couldn’t believe that I got Antony Sher. I thought this is going to make my terrible lines really good!” Joining Sher are Julia McKenzie’s Miss Marple, Warren Brown, Oliver Ford Davies, Myanna Buring and Hermione Norris. I defy you to pick out the killer in the first 10 minutes, it’s that good.
  
  In a trick of television the Caribbean was actually South Africa. “The problem with shooting in the Caribbean is that there’s no infrastructure. There’s really no film and TV industry there so you have to take all your equipment and crew with you.”
  
  He adds: “There was even CGI in there. Did you know there are no palm trees in South Africa?” You will be comforted to know however that it rained the whole time he was there. “It hammered it down for those three days I was there. We had to build an emergency roof over the area where I made my speech as James Bond. There was thunder, lightning, the whole thing.
  
  “At one point the set nearly collapsed. We were shooting with Antony and Julia and one of them said: ‘This is about to collapse!’ Up went the scaffolding poles to save it. You see none of it in the finished product.”
  
  HIS CAMEO was well received. “Well, apart from everyone trying to prop up the roof in this gale. I’m standing there at the back, trying to do my lines and then I realised that no one was paying attention to me at all.
  
  “It’s always the way in the filming. It’s incredibly stressful. I was sitting at home hoping everything is going well then they say: ‘Come and do this James Bond thing.’ You arrive and they say: ‘Rewrite this, change that.’ The marvels of filming. Hopefully it will all look like a wonderful tropical evening.”
  
  Agatha Christie’s Marple, ITV, tonight, 9pm

  
  

  
  2022: Potter & Potter Auctions auctions Pop Culture, Disneyana, & Collectibles & Bond.

  

  

  Pop Culture, Disneyana & Collectibles

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://potterauctions.com/auctions/upcoming

  June 16, 2022 • 10:00 AM
  
  A cornucopia of American pop culture memorabilia is represented in this nearly 700 lot sale from rock & roll memorabilia, movie posters, and autographs, to an extensive collection of James Bond and spy toys, vintage toy guns, comics, cards, and games. Disneyana and Steiff are also featured.

  PDF Catalog
  https://potterauctions.com/pdf/CatalogWeb_119.pdf
  

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  2022: DMD Digital publishes Filming James Bond in the Bahamas by Simon Firth.

  

  Filming James
  Bond in the
  Bahamas |
  STANDARD
  HARDCOVER

  See the complete article here:
  

  PUBLICATION DATE: JUNE 16, 2022 | All pre-orders will be dispatched after June 16

  “The Bahamas was just terrific. Bloody hard work, but terrific”, says Martin Campbell, the director of Casino Royale. Not only did the 2006 James Bond film rejuvenate the franchise, it also marked the return of His Majesty’s most loyal secret agent to The Bahamas.
  
  Whether the country and its islands provides by way of glamorous location, transcendent beaches or the exalted blues of it clear waters, The Bahamas has seen cinematic James Bond visit no less than 007 times! Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, Casino Royale, and underwater in You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and The World Is Not Enough; indication enough for The Bahamas to be considered 007’s favourite destination, as this book will prove.
  
  Speaking to more than 30 people on both sides of the Productions, location owners and those who helped prepare the locations for filming, Simon Firth answers every question imaginable.Illustrated with images from both the archives of On The Tracks Of 007 and those interviewed from the films’ productions, Filming James Bond in The Bahamas is the definitive work charting James Bond in film and book as his adventures take you through the beauty and romance of this stunning country.
  
  Featuring a Foreword by Casino Royale’s director Martin Campbell and an Afterword by production manager Anthony Waye.

  Specifications:
  Written by Simon Firth
  Edited and designed by Martijn Mulder
  Cover by Jeffrey Marshall
  Full colour - hardcover w/ dustjacket - 282 pages
  ISBN: 9789081329484
  Published by: DMD DIGITAL - The Netherlands

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 17 Posts: 13,812

  June 17th
  
  1950: Lee Tamahori is born--Wellington, New Zealand.
  
  1965: The London Evening Standard reports CBS television in the US and $30 million fails to buy the Bond franchise from EON. Maybe due to tax issues and tax problems and division of ownership between the producers.
  
  1966: Roald Dahl finishes his script for You Only Live Twice.

  https://www.lotsearch.net/lot/james-bond-you-only-live-twice-an-original-screenplay-script-dated-17-44221558?page=11&orderBy=lot-title&order=ASC
  
  
  
  https://www.danielmartineckhart.com/2012/05/few-james-bond-script-pages-from-roald.html
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: You Only Live Twice released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films the pre-credit sequence.

  

  
  1993: Corgi Toys sponsors The World's Biggest Little Motor Show, its second tour of full-scale/model Bond vehicles.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: George Daniel Leech dies at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.
  (Born 6 December 1921--London, England.)

  

  George Leech: Stuntman and actor
  best known for his work on the Bond
  films franchise

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
  Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

  The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".
  
  Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.
  
  Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

  George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.
  
  When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.
  
  Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.
  
  His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

  After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).
  
  When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."
  
  One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.
  
  Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

  Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

  Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.
  
  George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

  

  George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (34)
  
  1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
  1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
  1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
  1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
  - When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (36 credits)
  
  1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
  - Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes - Magnussen
  
  1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
  1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
  - Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
  1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
  - Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
  - The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
  - Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
  1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
  - Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
  1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
  - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
  - Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
  1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
  1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
  - I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
  1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
  1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
  1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
  1964 Mozambique - Carl
  1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
  1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
  1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
  1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
  1960 And the Same to You - Jake
  1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)
  
  1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
  1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
  1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
  1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
  - Teddy Gang (1956)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
  
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)
  
  1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)
  
  Self (5 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35
  

  
  2020: The Independent prints Jacob Stolworthy's piece "Batman Begins at 15: How Christopher Nolan’s superhero film changed the fate of James Bond."

  

  Batman Begins at 15: How Christopher Nolan’s superhero
  film changed the fate of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  Daniel Craig's 007 would have been very different without it
  Jacob Stolworthy | @Jacob_Stol | Wednesday 17 June 2020
  
  Batman Begins not only ushered in a change for the DC superhero franchise, but for another film series entirely.
  
  Since its release in June 2005 – 15 years ago this week – the Christopher Nolan film has been hailed as one of the best superhero origin films in history, and is often cited as the film that kickstarted the wave of much darker comic book adaptations that followed.
  
  But, Nolan not only inspired a change in how Bruce Wayne would go on to be immortalised on screen, but also James Bond.
  
  When Batman Begins was released, the Bond series was in the process of being revamped with new star Daniel Craig.

  Nolan’s film – co-written by the director and David S Goyer – was such a success that it inspired the writers of Casino Royale to take a leaf from its book.
  
  “We’re trying to do for Bond what Batman Begins did for Batman,” said Casino Royal [sic] co-writer Paul Haggis while offering an update of the film to Canadian site CJAD four months after Nolan’s film came out.
  
  One year later, on 16 November 2006, the new Bond film was released, and received praise for its “tougher” and ”brutal” version of 007.
  
  Reviewing the film for The Times, Wendy Ide wrote: “Casino Royale takes us back to basics. To a leaner production and to a Bond who looks like he can do serious damage.”

  It certainly seems the film might not have succeeded so well if it wasn’t for Batman Begins.

  

  Nolan’s new film, Tenet, will be released on 31 July. Delayed Bond film No Time to Die is released on 12 November. [Delayed to 2021.]
  

  
  
  
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  1942: Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE is born--Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
  
  1959: Lord Ridley writes to Ian Fleming suggesting the Seychelles as a location for adventure.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

  For all the build-up, the CBS programmes were never produced. When
  Ship Kelly discovered that Ian was negotiating another television series
  with CBS through Hubell Robinson, he took umbrage. He imagined Paley
  was going behind his back to deal with Ian. Although Paley appeared to
  be unaware of Robinson’s initiative, he immediately put a stop to it.
  According to Ship’s wife, Kay-Kay, now remarried as Mrs Douglas Auch-
  incloss, Paley considered his friendship with Ship more important than
  any television series. In the mutual relationships the casino project was
  abandoned. Only the omnibus edition of James Bond’s adventures sur-
  vived.
  
  It was all rather anticlimactic when Ian began to edit his Seychelles
  pieces. A search for photographs took him to the North of England where
  Lord Richard Percy, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, was professor
  of zoology at Newcastle University. Percy had visited the Seychelles with
  his friend Lord Ridley in 1955 and had taken some photographs. (Percy
  and Ridley had been near contemporaries at Eton, though of a slightly
  later vintage than Ian.) Ridley wrote to Ian on 18 June suggesting that the
  Seychelles might provide an interesting backdrop for a James Bond novel.
  Ian had already thought of that, replying, “I have mentioned your
  suggestion to James Bond. He was in fact sent there briefly during Mak-
  arlo’s exile. He was sent to fix up the security arrangements and to foil a
  Greek commando attempt at rescue. While he was there he was involved
  in a subsidiary adventure featuring a bizarre fish called the Hildebrand
  Rarity; and I hope that one day M. will allow me to have access to the
  relevant files.
  
  Ian was referring to the fact that on his travels he had started to write a
  series of five short stories which he completed in Jamaica the following
  spring and which were published as a collected in April 1960. In ‘The
  Hildebrand Rarity’ James Bond enjoys the usual luxury of a week’s leave
  in the Seychelles, where he meets a boorish American millionaire called
  Milton Krest who is cruising through the islands collecting rare species of
  animals and fish for his tax-dodge charity, the Krest Foundation. Ian drew
  on his own recent experiences in Jamaica as well as the Seychelles to flesh out
  the detail. For example, in order to capture the Hildebrand Rarity, an
  unusual striped fish, Krest is prepared to poison the sea. Reflecting Ian’s
  own love of the ocean, Bond shows an ecological awareness ahead of his
  time in seeking to halt this unequal struggle between the evil of technology
  and the beauty of nature.

  

  
  1960: Barbara Broccoli is born--Los Angeles, California.
  1963: Pedro Armendáriz dies at age 51--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 9 May 1912--Mexico City, Mexico.)

  

  Pedro Armendáriz

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, May 9, 1912 - Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

  Died June 18, 1963 (age 51) - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Cause of death Suicide by gunshot
  Burial place Panteón Jardín, Mexico City
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1935–1963
  Spouse(s) Carmelita Bohr
  (m. 1938; his death 1963)
  Children 2, including Pedro Jr.

  
  Pedro Armendáriz (born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings; May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s.
  
  Early life
  Armendáriz was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García Conde (Mexican) and Adela Hastings (American). He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín. Armendáriz and his younger brother Francisco lived with their uncle Henry Hastings, Sr. in Laredo, Texas after their mother died. He later studied in California. He started in the world of acting by participating in the stage plays performed by the theater group at the University of California, where he continued a career in law. He graduated with an engineering degree from the California Polytechnic State University.
  
  

  
  Armendáriz with Harry Carey Jr. and John Wayne in 3 Godfathers in 1949.

  Career
  When Armendáriz finished his studies, he moved to Mexico where he worked for the railroad, as a tour guide and as a journalist for the bilingual magazine México Real. He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz recited a soliloquy from Hamlet to an American tourist. His meeting with the director Emilio Fernández was providential, whereupon the actor and director began working in numerous films: Soy puro mexicano (1942), Flor silvestre (1942) and specially María Candelaria (1943) were the first films of intense common path. Under the guidance of Emilio Fernández, Pedro Armendáriz developed the film personality traits of strong nationalist; often, he played tough and manly men, indigenous, peasants and revolutionaries. Amendáriz repeatedly portrayed Pancho Villa and played opposite actresses such as Dolores del Río and María Félix.
  
  With Dolores del Río, Amendáriz formed one of the most legendary couples of the Mexican cinema. María Candelaria provided Armendáriz with international visibility. The film was awarded the Palm d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Other prominent titles where Armendáriz appeared with Dolores del Río were Las Abandonadas (1944), Bugambilia (1944) and La Malquerida (1949). Maria Felix was his other partner in such films as Enamorada (1946) or Maclovia (1948).[1]
  
  In the late 40s, he made the jump to Hollywood by the hand of John Ford. Armendáriz was a favorite of Ford, appearing in three of his films: The Fugitive (1947), Fort Apache and 3 Godfathers (both 1948).

  
  Armendáriz with Lana Turner in Diane in 1956.

  Besides his career in the Mexican cinema, Armendáriz made a remarkable career in Hollywood and Europe. His other prominent films in Hollywood were: We Were Strangers (1949, directed by John Huston), The Torch (1950), Border River (1954), The Conqueror (1956) and Diane (1956), among others. In Europe, highlighted his participation in the film Lucrèce Borgia (1953), filmed in France. In Mexico, his participation highlighted such notable films such as El Bruto (1953, directed by Luis Buñuel), La Cucaracha (1959) and La Bandida (1962).

  Armendáriz's last appearance was in the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963), as Bond's ally, Kerim Bey. Armendáriz was terminally ill with cancer during the filming of From Russia with Love, and towards the end of shooting he was too ill to perform his part; his final scenes were performed by his double, director Terence Young. Armendáriz died four months before the release of the film.

  Personal life

  Armendáriz was married to actress Carmelita Bohr (née Pardo) by whom he had one son and daughter. Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. also became an actor and appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989); his daughter Carmen Armendáriz became a TV producer.

  Illness and death
  In 1956, Armendáriz had a role in the film The Conqueror produced by Howard Hughes. Filmed in the state of Utah at the time when the US government was doing above-ground nuclear testing in neighboring Nevada, within 25 years 91 of the 220 people involved in the production were afflicted with cancer, 46 of whom died.
  
  Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hips; years later it was discovered that he had neck cancer. He learned his condition was terminal while at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and, reportedly, endured great pain to film From Russia with Love (he visibly limps in most scenes) in order to assure his family financial resources.
  
  On June 18, 1963, Armendáriz committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a gun he had smuggled into the hospital. He was 51 years old. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.

  

  Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)

  Actor | Producer
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  1964: Goldfinger films Oddjob and Kisch and Bond and the bomb.
  
  1973: Apple Records releases the single "Live and Let Die" in the US. (B-side: "I Lie Around".)

  
  

  1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 1 March 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1009
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/dwmbo.php3
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/die-with-my-boots-on/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Press 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  Droghandlarna (Die With My Boots On)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-30-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 30: “Die With My Boots On” (1974)
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens dies at age 66--Vienna, Austria.
  (Born 13 December 1915--Solin, Munich, Germany.)

  

  CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
  UPI | JUNE 19, 1982
  
  Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.
  
  Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.
  
  His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

  Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

  Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners
  
  Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.
  
  A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.
  
  With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''
  
  Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

  

  Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (169 credits)
  
  1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
  1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
  1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
  1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
  1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander
  
  1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
  1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
  1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
  1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
  1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
  1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
  1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
  1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
  - Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
  1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
  1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
  1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
  1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
  - Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
  1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
  1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
  1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
  1975 Second Spring - Fox
  1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
  - Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
  1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
  1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
  1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
  1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
  1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
  1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
  - The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  - The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
  1973 Occupation (TV Series)
  1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
  1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
  Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
  - Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
  - Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
  1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
  1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
  1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
  1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
  1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
  1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
  1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
  - Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  - Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
  1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
  1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
  1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
  1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks
  
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
  1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
  1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
  1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
  1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
  1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
  1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
  1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
  1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
  1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
  1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
  1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
  1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
  1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
  1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
  1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
  1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
  1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
  1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
  1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
  1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
  - The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
  1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
  1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
  1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
  - Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
  1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
  1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
  - The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
  1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
  1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
  1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
  1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
  1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
  1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun
  
  1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
  1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
  1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
  1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
  1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
  1957 Les espions - Alex
  1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
  1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
  1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
  1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
  1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
  1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
  1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
  1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
  1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
  1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
  1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
  1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
  1954 Orient Express - Bate
  1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
  1954 Circus of Love - Toni
  1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
  1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
  1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
  1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
  1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
  1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
  1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
  1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
  1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
  1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
  1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
  1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
  1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
  1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
  1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
  1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
  1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
  1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
  1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor
  
  1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
  1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
  1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
  1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
  1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
  1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
  1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
  1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
  1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
  1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
  1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
  1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
  1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
  1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
  1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
  1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
  1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
  1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
  1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
  1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
  1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
  1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
  1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
  1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
  1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
  1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
  1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
  1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)
  
  Director (6 credits)
  
  1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
  - Immer die Bigelows (1966)
  - Flug nach Ankara (1966)
  - Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
  - Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
  1951 Gangsterpremiere
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
  1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
  1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
  1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
  Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 19 Posts: 13,812

  June 19th
  
  1913: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) is born--London, England.
  (She dies 12 July 1981 at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.)

  

  Ann Fleming

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  Fleming in 1957

  Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
  Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
  Nationality British
  Known for Hostess

  Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.
  
  Life
  Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.
  
  She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.
  
  Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

  The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.
  
  In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

  The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.
  
  Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

  

  1916: George Pravda is born--Prague, Czechia.
  (He dies 1 May 1985 at age 68--London, England.)

  

  George Pravda (1918–1985)
  Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695590/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1921: Louis Jourdan is born--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
  (He dies 14 February 2015 at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Louis Jourdan obituary

  French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
  Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
  James Bond movie Octopussy

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan

  Michael Freedland | Sun 15 Feb 2015 18.15 EST

  
  Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron in Gigi, 1958. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

  For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.
  
  When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.
  
  He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.
  
  Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.
  
  His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.
  
  In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.
  
  In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.
  
  He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).
  
  He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.

  He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”

  Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.
  
  His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.
  
  • Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
  • This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.

  

  Louis Jourdan (1921–2015)

  Actor | Soundtrack | Production Manager
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431139/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Actor Louis Jourdan Decorated with the Légion d'Honneur July 2010
  

  
  1952: Virginia Hey is born--Coogee, New South Wales, Australia.
  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the Orient Express train fight.
  1967: Roger Ebert reviews You Only Live Twice.

  

  You Only Live Twice

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/you-only-live-twice-1967

  | Roger Ebert June 19, 1967 |
  Remember those neat gadgets M was always dreaming up for James Bond? Their beauty was that they were well designed and terribly complicated, like Swiss astronomical watches, and they had a great many functions. Probably the best two were the briefcase in "From Russia with Love" and that custom car in "Goldfinger."
  
  The great thing about these gadgets was that after M explained them to 007, they just sat around for a long time looking like briefcases and cars. Their tricks were spread through the film, and always came as a surprise when they finally were sprung. Suspense! Timing! Humor! As when the Chinese spy ejected himself from the driver's seat.
  
  The gadgets were symptomatic of what made the first three Bond films such perfect representatives of the sex-and-sadism spy genre. It was as if the director had gone over every line of the script with a design engineer at his elbow and lovingly worked all the functions of the gadgetry into all the folds of the plot so that everything held together in a subtle way.
  
  A great deal of money was spent on the fifth Bond epic in an attempt to duplicate this mystique, but in "You Only Live Twice" the formula fails to work its magic. Like its predecessor "Thunderball," another below-par entry, this one is top-heavy with gadgets but weak on plotting and getting everything to work at the same time.
  
  For example, we're given another of those delicious scenes we've grown to love, in which Bond has a new gadget explained, to him. This time it's a lightweight one-man helicopter that can fire machine-gun bullets, missiles, rockets and flames. So far, so good. But instead of working the helicopter into the plot, the film immediately demonstrates all these goodies.
  
  Bond takes off. Four helicopters attack him, naturally. He shoots one down with the machine-gun, one with the rockets, one with the missiles, and he incinerates the fourth with his flame-thrower. Just like that.
  
  Same goes for the other stock ingredients. The girls (breathtaking Japanese lovelies) are beautiful and sexy as always, but they don't really emerge as characters the way Pussy Galore did. They're just there, decorating the place, running around in bikinis and, worst of all, not presenting much of a threat to old 007 most of the time.
  
  Connery labors mightily. There is still the same Bond grin, still the cool humor under fire, still the slight element of satire. But when he puts on his cute little helmet and is strapped into his helicopter, somehow the whole illusion falls apart and what we're left with is a million-dollar playpen in which everything works but nothing does anything.

  
  1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 3 December 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/
  
  
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010
  
  
  http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-by-jim.html
  
  
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  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

  Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
  ("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)
  

  
  Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
  "Jagten på det sorte guld" [The Hunt for the Black Gold]
  
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_tgm.php3?s=comics&id=02182
  

  
  1983: Aiden Turner is born--Clondalkin, Ireland.
  1988: Teru Shimada dies at age 83--Encino, California.
  (Born 17 November 1905--Mito, Japan.)

  

  Teru Shimada

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
  Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

  Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

  During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793574/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (74 credits)
  
  1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
  - The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
  1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
  - The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
  1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
  - Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
  1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
  - The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
  1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
  - Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
  1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
  1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
  - Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki
  
  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Mr. Namura
  - Hostage (1968) ... Mr. Namura
  1968 Mannix (TV Series) - Gardener
  - The Need of a Friend (1968) ... Gardener
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Judge Hara
  - Transplant (1968) ... Judge Hara
  1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Mr. Tsu
  - When Good Friends Get Together (1968) ... Mr. Tsu
  1967 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk - Mr. Pan
  1967 Savage Justice - Tom Hirata
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Mr. Osato
  1966 Batman: The Movie
  Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
  1966 Walk Don't Run - Mr. Kurawa
  1965 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Capt. Osama
  - I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus (1965) ... Capt. Osama
  1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Okura
  - Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Mr. Okura
  1962-1965 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Dr. Maseo Tachikawa / Ito Kumagi
  - The Case of the Baffling Bug (1965) ... Dr. Maseo Tachikawa
  - The Case of the Capricious Corpse (1962) ... Ito Kumagi
  1965 King Rat - The Japanese General
  1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Nakamura
  - ...And Five of Us Are Left (1965) ... Nakamura
  1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - President Sing-Mok
  - Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two (1965) ... President Sing-Mok
  1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Japanese Captain
  - A Time for Killing (1965) ... Japanese Captain
  1963 The Prize - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
  1963 Sunday in New York - Maitre 'd (uncredited)
  1963 Hazel (TV Series) - Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  - A Good Example for Harold (1963) ... Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ling Chow
  - In a Foreign Quarter (1962) ... Ling Chow
  1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
  1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Takara - Board Game Opponent
  - Coming of the Tiger (1962) ... Takara - Board Game Opponent
  1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - Captain Suma
  - The Longest Crap Game in History (1961) ... Captain Suma
  1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Kami
  - Dragon at the Door (1961) ... Kami
  1960-1961 The Islanders (TV Series) - Kam Chuh / Regas
  - The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo (1961) ... Kam Chuh
  - The Terrified Blonde (1960) ... Regas
  1961 Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) - - Affair in Tokyo (1961)
  1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Maj. Samada
  1960 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Colonel Okumara
  - Colonel Cat (1960) ... Colonel Okumara
  1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - Noburu
  - Sword of the Samurai (1960) ... Noburu
  1960 The Detectives (TV Series) - Mr. Harada
  - Karate (1960) ... Mr. Harada
  
  1959 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series) - Osato
  - The Ricardos Go to Japan (1959) ... Osato
  1959 Battle of the Coral Sea - Comm. Mori
  1959 Tokyo After Dark - Sen-Sei
  1959 Steve Canyon (TV Series) - Major Fukuda
  - The Prisoner (1959) ... Major Fukuda
  1958 The Geisha Boy - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
  1958 Run Silent Run Deep - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
  1956-1957 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Kiyoshi Arikawa / Kiyoshi
  - Innocent Conspiracy (1957) ... Kiyoshi Arikawa
  - The Pearl (1956) ... Kiyoshi
  1956-1957 Navy Log (TV Series) - Patriarch / Judge Toyama
  - The Commander and the Kid (1957) ... Patriarch
  - A Guy Called Mickey (1956) ... Judge Toyama
  1957 The Delicate Delinquent - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
  1957 Battle Hymn - Korean Official
  1956 Navy Wife - Mayor Yoshida
  1956 Telephone Time (TV Series)
  - Time Bomb (1956)
  1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series)
  - Call Home the Heart (1956)
  1955 House of Bamboo - Nagaya (uncredited)
  1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Japanese Father (uncredited)
  1954 The Snow Creature - Subra
  1953 The War of the Worlds - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
  1950 Emergency Wedding - Ho (uncredited)
  
  1949 Tokyo Joe - Ito
  1944 Dragon Seed - Villager (uncredited)
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
  
  1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
  1936 White Legion - Dr. Nogi (as Teru Shumada)
  1936 Revolt of the Zombies - Buna
  1935 The Affair of Susan - Spieler (uncredited)
  1935 Oil for the Lamps of China - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
  1935 Public Hero Number 1 - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Let 'em Have It - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Bordertown - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
  1934 Imitation of Life - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
  1934 Charlie Chan's Courage - Jiu Jitsu Man
  1934 Murder at the Vanities - Koto (uncredited)
  1934 Four Frightened People - Native (uncredited)
  1933 Midnight Club - Nishi (uncredited)
  1933 Gabriel Over the White House - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
  1932 The Night Club Lady - Ito Mura (uncredited)
  1932 The Washington Masquerade - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Mr. Osato
  1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - The World of James Bond (1967) ... Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2007: EON and Sony Pictures announce Marc Forster to direct BOND 22.

  

  Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony,
  MGM

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.screendaily.com/marc-forster-set-to-direct-bond-22-for-eon-sony-mgm/4033198.article

  By Jeremy Kay19 June 2007
  
  Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.
  
  Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start work imminently on the screenplay with Paul Haggis from a draft by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade.

  Bond 22 will begin filming at Pinewood Studios in London in December in time for a worldwide release through Sony on Nov 7, 2008.
  
  Daniel Craig is set to reprise the role of 007 following his acclaimed performance in last year's global hit Casino Royale, which grossed nearly $600m worldwide to become the most successful release in the 45-year franchise.

  'We are delighted that Marc Forster, with his exceptional talent and unique vision, has agreed to direct our next James Bond film,' Wilson and Broccoli said.
  
  'I have always been drawn to different kinds of stories and I have also always been a Bond fan, so it is very exciting to take on this challenge,' Forster said. 'The new direction that the Bond character has taken offers a director a host of new possibilities and I look forward to working with Daniel Craig, Barbara Broccoli, and Michael Wilson, as well as the team at Sony and MGM on this new film.'

  'We had a great experience working with Marc on Stranger than Fiction and we are excited to be working with him again,' SPE co-chairman Amy Pascal said. 'He's an actor's director - he approaches material with intelligence and taste. What makes him the perfect choice for Bond 22 is that he will bring to this film all the elements Bond audiences expect - action, humour, suspense, and thrills.'
  
  'The Bond franchise is one of MGM's most treasured legacies,' Harry Sloan, chairman and chief executive officer of MGM, added. 'We share Michael and Barbara's confidence in Marc Forster's directing talents and support him in his efforts to continue the evolution of the Bond story for today's filmgoers.'

  Forster's credits include Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball and he is represented by CAA and Management 360.
  

  
  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #8.
  Eric Gapstur, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #8

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532508011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: Khoi Pham
  Cover C: Steve Lieber
  Cover D: Eric Gapstur
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Eric Gapstur
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: June 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/19/2019

  You think you know Goldfinger. But you don't know THIS Goldfinger. Go inside the mind of the most ruthless sociopath in the world, courtesy of GREG PAK (World War Hulk, Weapon X) and ERIC GAPSTUR (Batman Beyond, The Flash: Year Zero).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: Dynamite Entertainment release James Bond 007 #6. Finale for "Your Cold, Cold Heart" and marks a decade of Bond comics delivered.
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Dave Johnson, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: 007 #6

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513033924906011
  
  SKU: C72513033924906011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  UPC: 72513033924906011
  Writer: Garth Ennis
  Artist: Rapha Lobosco
  Genre: Spy Fiction/Action Adventure
  Publication Date: June, 2024
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 6/19/2024

  As time runs out for 007 to stop the deployment of the STALVODA compound, he does what any good agent would do when faced with hopeless odds - he calls in an airstrike! Unfortunately, there is still the small matter of being stuck at ground zero when it arrives... Meanwhile, the snake in the grass at MI6 finally reveals himself - but is it too late for Bond to do anything about it?
  
  Featuring a suitably steely cover by DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) and iconic interiors by RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box), the finale of "Your Cold, Cold Heart" marks a milestone for first-time Bond author GARTH ENNIS and caps off a decade of James Bond comics at Dynamite!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2024: National Martini Day in the US.

  

  

  National Martini Day –
  June 19, 2021 [and every year]
  U.S.

  https://nationaltoday.com/national-martini-day/

  Do you prefer it dry, dirty, shaken, or not stirred? That’s the question we’re all asking on National Martini Day, a special occasion to enjoy your favorite version of the classic martini cocktail. The martini was originally called “The Martinez,” named after the California Gold Rush for the town of Martinez, where it was invented. Early martinis were made with wine, gin, and an olive. But since have expanded to many exciting flavors! So this June 19 take a moment to relax while sipping on a new type of martini after your long day and start feeling like the international spy of mystery that you are.

  Timeline

  First Published
  A recipe for the sweet drink is first published in the “Bartender’s Manual.”
  1882
  
  The Manhattan
  The martini begins with the Manhattan, which combines spirits and vermouth.
  1951
  
  Vodka Martini
  The vodka martini is first referred to in a cocktail recipe book titled Bottoms Up.
  1960s
  
  Three-Martini Lunch
  The three-martini lunch becomes a common practice for cosmopolitan executives and businessmen
  

  National Martini Day Activities

  Try making a martini (for the first time) at home
  If you haven't made your self a martini at home ever try one of our recipes to test out the classic martini. If you already are a cocktail master, take today to try out a new one you've never tasted. Espresso martini, gin martini, cranberry martini, lemon martini, grapefruit martini: the possibilities are endless.
  
  Go out a martini at a bar
  Text your friends for an after work meet-up. Bonus points if you can find a cocktail bar with a piano and a lounge singer, because the only thing that makes drinking a martini better, is drinking it in the proper lounge setting.
  
  Buy yourself or a friend a martini related gift
  Do you need a mixer set to get started in your mixology adventure? Buy cocktails ingredients and bring them over to a friends house. Because, in reality, the enjoyment of drinking cocktails is truly about the company you keep.

  
  Why We Love National Martini Day

  Martinis highlight the flavor of gin
  If you're not a gin fan you might have some trouble loving a martini, but if you do like gin, the martini is the essential drink to highlight the flavor of juniper berries and complement it with new and interesting flavors such as grapefruit or even espresso.
  
  Martinis are easy to make
  You only need eight things on hand to make a perfect martini: ice, a martini glass, a shot glass, a shaker, a strainer, vermouth, gin, and a garnish. Its so simple you can make them at home: try it out this National Martini Day.
  
  Martinis are fun
  Martinis conjure up all sorts of images of high class ladies, James bond spies and adventure. You can take advantage of this and have a martini party or outing themed specifically towards the fun that automatically arrives when you order a Martini.

  National Martini Day dates

  2023 - June 19 - Monday
  2024 - June 19 - Wednesday
  2025 - June 19 - Thursday

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1915: Terence Young is born--Shanghai, China.
  (He dies 7 September 1994 at age 79--Cannes, France.)

  

  Obituary: Terence Young

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html

  David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994 00:02
  
  Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.
  
  THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.
  
  Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.
  
  Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.
  
  Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.
  
  In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

  Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

  He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.
  
  Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

  By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

  When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.
  
  Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.
  
  Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.
  
  Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.
  
  This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

  
  Terence Young
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Director (40 credits)
  
  1988 Run for Your Life
  1983 The Jigsaw Man
  1981 Inchon
  1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1975 Jackpot
  1974 The Klansman
  1973 The Amazons
  1972 The Valachi Papers
  1971 Red Sun
  1970 Cold Sweat
  
  1969 The Christmas Tree
  1968 Mayerling
  1967 Wait Until Dark
  1967 The Rover
  1966 Triple Cross
  1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
  1965 Thunderball
  1965 The Secret Agents
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  1963 From Russia with Love
  1962 Dr. No
  1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
  1961 Black Tights
  1960 Playgirl After Dark
  
  1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Dark as the Night (1959)
  1959 Serious Charge
  1958 Tank Force
  1957 Action of the Tiger
  1956 Zarak
  1956 Safari
  1955 Storm Over the Nile
  1955 That Lady
  1953 Paratrooper
  1952 The Frightened Bride
  1951 Valley of the Eagles
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1948 Woman Hater
  1948 One Night with You
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors
  
  Writer (17 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
  1973 The Amazons
  1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
  1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
  1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
  1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
  
  1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
  1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
  1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
  1944 On Approval (uncredited)
  1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
  1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)
  
  1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
  1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
  1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
  1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
  Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)
  
  Editorial department (1 credit)
  
  1980 Long Days (supervising editor)
  
  Thanks (2 credits)
  
  2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)
  
  Self (13 credits)
  
  2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
  1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
  1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
  - L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
  1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
  - On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
  1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
  1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
  - Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
  1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
  1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (14 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
  2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
  1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
  1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
  - Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1961: On the advice of Arthur Krim, Broccoli and Saltzman give their Bond movie pitch to David Picker in New York. They get a six-picture deal with United Artists, the first is bankrolled for $1 million.
  (Compare to Columbia's offer of $400,000.)
  1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington.
  (He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)

  

  Chris Cornell obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-obituary

  Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of
  the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge scene
  Adam Sweeting | Thu 18 May 2017 13.29 EDT

  
  Chris Cornell on stage just hours before his death - video report

  As the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, who has been found dead at the age of 52, had been one of the trailblazers of the city’s grunge movement in the late 1980s and 90s. Having achieved stardom with that band, he went on to further great success with Audioslave in the new millennium, while also developing a flourishing solo career. At the time of his death, Cornell was in the middle of a tour with Soundgarden, who had re-formed in 2010 after a 13-year hiatus, and had just performed at the Fox theatre in Detroit.

  Chris Cornell:
  rock star who
  kicked down the
  boundaries of sound
  Alexis Petridis

  The group was started in 1984 by Cornell, along with guitarist Kim Thayil and bass player Hiro Yamamoto, with Matt Cameron becoming their full-time drummer in 1986. After releasing a single, Hunted Down (1987) on the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, and a debut album, Ultramega OK (1988), for the independent SST, Yamamoto left the band, and was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, before Ben Shepherd joined on bass. Soundgarden signed to A&M records, and their second release for that label, Badmotorfinger (1991), became a multi-platinum seller in the US, also reaching the Top 40 in the UK. The singles from that album, Outshined and Rusty Cage, received heavy play on alternative radio stations and MTV, and Badmotorfinger earned a Grammy nomination in 1992.
  
  An invitation to open for Guns N’ Roses on their Use Your Illusion tour (1991-93) introduced Soundgarden to huge new audiences in both the US and Europe, as did an opening slot with the heavy metal band Skid Row in 1992. “Our big moment of truth was when we were offered a slot opening up for Skid Row and we didn’t know what to do with that,” Cornell told the music journalist Pete Makowski in 2011. “Was that good or bad? And what happened was we toured with them and their audience all bought Soundgarden records.”
  
  A berth on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour alongside Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam framed Soundgarden as one of the rising names in American alternative rock. (In 1990 Cornell had joined with members of Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, in tribute to the late Andy Wood of another Seattle band, Mother Love Bone. They released an eponymous album in 1991, and last year reunited for a 25th-anniversary tour.) Cornell also had a solo cameo performance in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 Seattle-based romcom Singles, with his gentle acoustic track Seasons.
  
  Soundgarden’s next album, Superunknown (1994), duly topped the US chart (and reached No 4 in the UK), and went on to sell 5m copies in the States alone. After extensive international touring, Soundgarden started work on their fifth album, Down on the Upside, though Cornell’s desire to lighten the group’s dark, metallic sound with acoustic instruments triggered arguments with his bandmates. When it was released in 1996, it was acclaimed by reviewers but sales fell far short of its predecessor’s. After a further marathon bout of touring, the group announced they were splitting in April 1997.
  
  Cornell released his first solo album, Euphoria Morning, in 1999. This found him exploring a mix of rock, pop and psychedelia, allowing him to use different facets of his impressive vocal range beyond a heavy-rock roar, though again critical enthusiasm did not translate into huge sales. But his solo career was put on hold when he formed Audioslave in 2001, with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, who had been recommended Cornell by the producer Rick Rubin.
  
  Over the next five years they recorded three albums, Audioslave (2002), Out of Exile (2005) and Revelations (2006). The first of these was by far the most successful, selling 3m albums in the States and spinning off five hit singles including Cochise, Like a Stone and I Am the Highway. The release of Revelations (which reached No 2 on the US charts and 12 in Britain) was preceded by the appearance of two of its tracks, Wide Awake and Shape of Things to Come, in Michael Mann’s film Miami Vice (2006).
  
  Cornell quit Audioslave in early 2007. This was a significant period in his career, since he had been suffering from problems with drug and alcohol abuse during his later years with Soundgarden, and had made a strenuous effort to overcome them. “It was really hard to recover from, just mentally,” he recalled. “I think Audioslave suffered from that because my feet hadn’t hit the ground yet. I was sober but I don’t think my brain was clear … It took me five years of sobriety to even get certain memories back.”
  
  Born Christopher Boyle in Seattle, to Ed Boyle, a pharmacist, and Karen (nee Cornell), an accountant, Chris had three younger sisters and two older brothers. After his parents’ divorce, when Chris was a teenager, he and his siblings took their mother’s maiden name. He attended a Catholic elementary school, Christ the King, then Shorewood high school, but left education at 16, and worked various jobs (including sous-chef at Ray’s Boathouse restaurant).
  
  In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview he said: “I went from being a daily drug user at 13 to having bad drug experiences and quitting drugs by the time I was 14 and then not having any friends until the time I was 16.” He eventually found his feet as a musician, and it was while performing with the Shemps, a covers band, that he met Thayil and Yamamoto, with whom he subsequently formed Soundgarden.

  In 2006, Cornell composed and recorded "You Know My Name", the theme song for the James Bond movie Casino Royale. He put out his second solo effort, Carry On, in 2007, and promoted it with a campaign of touring, both in his own right and as a support act to Aerosmith.

  In 2009 he released his next album, Scream, on which he collaborated with the producer Timbaland. It reached No 10 on the US album chart, Cornell’s highest solo chart placing. In 2011 he released the live album Songbook, a document of his solo acoustic Songbook tour on which he played songs from all phases of his career as well as versions of Led Zeppelin’s Thank You and John Lennon’s Imagine. “I felt like I can’t really call myself a musician or entertainer if I can’t pick up a guitar by myself and hold someone’s attention,” he explained of his decision to perform solo.
  
  By now he was working with the reformed Soundgarden, who released the compilation Telephantasm: A Retrospective (2010). Their first new song to go public was Live to Rise, which featured in the 2012 movie The Avengers, and later that year they followed up with an album of new material, King Animal (it reached No 5 in the US and 21 in Britain). Cornell’s most recent solo album was Higher Truth (2015), a mellow, melodic work, which entered the US Top 20.
  
  He is survived by his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, whom he married in 2004, their son, Christopher Nicholas, their daughter, Toni, and by a daughter, Lillian, from his first marriage, to Susan Silver, which ended in divorce.
  
  • Chris Cornell (Christopher John Boyle), singer, songwriter and musician, born 20 July 1964; died 17 May 2017

  Note: most sources confirm his death as on 18 May 2017.

  

  Chris Cornell(I) (1964–2017)

  Soundtrack | Actor | Composer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180225/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  

  1969: George Lazenby completes his last day of filming as James Bond.
  
  1984: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson finish their A View to a Kill screenplay. Eleven revisions follow.

  

  Entertainment & Memorabilia, 3rd October 2019, 9:30am
  
  Lot 2560
  James Bond View To A Kill - An original Screenplay script dated 20 June 1984

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  James Bond View To A Kill - An original Screenplay script dated 20 June 1984, Screenplay by Richard Maibum and Michael G. Wilson, pencil name 'Walter' top right and numbered 123 to inside page. With revision pages, 150 pages in total.
  
  Provenance: Consigned by the family of Walter Gotell (1924-1997) - German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love. He also appeared as Gogol in the final part of The Living Daylights (1987), Timothy Dalton's first Bond film.
  
  Hammer Price: £1,200

  
  
  
  

  1985: 鐵金剛勇破 爆炸黨 (Iron King Breaking Through) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  
  

  
  1992: James Bond Jr's action video game released by Eurocom for Super Nintendo. The original Nintendo Entertainment System variant had released in September 1991. The only Bond game published by T·HQ.

  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Press report Martin Campbell disparaging BOND 22.

  

  Martin Campbell says director Forster messed
  up 'Quantum of Solace'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/20/green-lantern-director-james-bond

  By IB Times Staff Reporter | 06/19/11

  
  Director Martin Campbell and his wife Sol E. Romero pose at the premiere of his movie "Green Lantern" at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California June 15, 2011. The movie opens in the U.S. on June 17. Reuters

  Hollywood director Martin Campbell said he was unhappy with the making of the 2008 blockbuster movie Quantum of Solace.
  
  Campbell, who was appreciated for giving James Bond series a reboot that it needed in 2006 with Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig, said the movie Quantum of Solace directed by Marc Forster did not keep up with his or the audience expectations.
  
  Oh, I thought it was lousy. And hopefully this next one will be terrific. Sam Mendes is directing it and I'm sure it'll be terrific, Campbell was quoted as saying in Crave.
  
  I just thought the story was pretty uninteresting. I didn't think the action was related to the characters. I just thought overall it was a bit of a mess really, he said.
  
  Now, Campbell sounds outright about the nature of these films to the media and about what Forster did with his franchise on Quantum of Solace, and he doesn't sound any happier about the results than the audience.
  
  Martin Campbell's much-awaited Green Lantern opened on Friday. The film is a superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds. The film is scripted by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which has been subsequently rewritten by Michael Goldenberg.
  
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  2011: Dame Shirley Bassey performs a James Bond tribute at the BAFTAs.

  Dame Shirley Bassey - The 2011 Classic Brit Awards (starts 2:15)
  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic The Body #6.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Ale? Kot, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: THE BODY #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419006011
  Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
  Writer: Ale? Kot
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action
  Publication Date: June 2018
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/20/2018

  A pub. A meeting between old friends. But is it just what it seems? All threads of The Body converge, and Bond has to face the consequence of his actions.

  
  
  

  
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  2018: A screen-used brooch worn by Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny goes to auction at Surrey.

  Screen-used Moneypenny brooch on auction
  14 June, 2018
  http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/screen-used-moneypenny-brooch-auction
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Prince Charles tours the No Time To Die set.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2019: The Guardian celebrates 10 "best smells".

  

  Ten of the best smells

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview32

  Fri 20 Jun 2008 19.09 EDT

  Paradise Lost by John Milton
  
  Nothing smells nicer than Paradise. As Satan approaches Eden, he gets a whiff of "balmy spoils". He is compared to a sailor off the coast of Mozambique, who catches at "Sabean odours from the spicy shore / Of Araby the blest". And for a little while, the fiend pauses and sniffs the beneficial air.

  "The Odour" by George Herbert
  
  The conceit of "The Odour" is that religious consolation is like a pomander. The poet hankers for the "spiciness" of holy perfume. Religious devotion is "as Amber-greese" (a richly smelling secretion of the sperm whale), which "leaves a rich scent / Unto the taster".

  Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  
  In beautiful Georgian Bath, one of the fashionable doctors assures Smollett's protagonist, Matthew Bramble, of the benefits of "the stercoraceous flavour" of the whiff in the Pump-room and describes with delight his "uncommon satisfaction from hanging over the stale contents of a close-stool, while his servant stirred it about under his nose".

  The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  
  In the "Mutabilitie Cantos" of this great poem we enter the Temple of Venus, which swims with perfume, with frankincense, and "odours rising from the altar's flame . . . And all the ground was strewed with flowers as fresh as May." No wonder you feel giddy with "joy and amorous desire".

  Justine by Lawrence Durrell
  
  The colours and smells of Alexandria (often combined) produce a kind of sensual rapture in the narrator. "Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet-smelling brick-dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water . . . The smell of the sweat-lathered Berberinis ... " You may not have smelled this yourself, but you think that he has.

  Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
  
  This could also compete as one of the 10 best opening sentences of a novel. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three o'clock in the morning." In 1953, British readers of Fleming's first Bond novel had not escaped austerity and had no idea what a casino smelt like. But the reek of sin and glamour comes right off the page.

  A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
  
  It was Proust who most memorably recorded how a smell can detonate a hidden memory. We all remember the taste of that madeleine, but its slight perfume matters just as much. "The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls," Proust wrote, "bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

  Flush by Virginia Woolf
  
  A story about Elizabeth Barrett Browning told from the point of view of her dog: "He smelt the swooning smells that lie in the gutters; the bitter smells that corrode iron railings; the fuming, heady smells that rise from basements ... smells that lay far beyond the range of the human nose."

  "The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes
  
  Here smell stands for inspiration, something wild and undeniable. "With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox / It enters the dark hole of the head." When this poem was first published, few readers knew what this smell was. Nowadays, any city resident with a garden will have caught this "sharp hot stink".

  Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  
  A man with super-sensitive smell who grows up in 18th-century Paris, a super-smelly city: "The stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets . . . and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots." No wonder he becomes a perfume-maker.

  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 21 Posts: 13,812

  June 21st
  
  1938: Don Black, future OBE, is born--London, England.
  
  1959: Albert Romolo Broccoli marries Dana Notol Wilson. Cary Grant as best man.

  
  

  
  1962: Ian Fleming types a letter to twelve-year-old Terry Wing.

  

  FLEMING (IAN)

  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20753/lot/322/
  Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Terry Wing, replying to a fan letter from a twelve-year-old schoolboy and answering some of his questions ("...you are right in thinking that Dr. No is the sequel to From Russia With Love..."): confirming that he does indeed do a lot of travelling ("...one can't really write truthfully about places one hasn't seen for one's self, having been in Naval Intelligence during the war, I do know something about spies and spying..."), telling him about his car ("...I am at present driving a Ford Thunderbird which I have had for two years, but I am in the process of changing to a very new model, the Studebaker Avanti, with a top speed of 174 and acceleration from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds..."), complimenting him on his pluck ("...So far as your future is concerned I shouldn't bother to try and emulate James Bond. You are already an adventurous chap with plenty of guts or you wouldn't be writing to authors out of the blue at the age of 12 and a bit!..."), and "As a prize for your enterprise (bad English that!)" sending a signed copy of his last but one book, 1 page, engraved heading, light coffee-staining on the reverse just showing through, but overall in sound and attractive condition, 4to, 4 Old Mitre Court, Fleet Street, 21 June 1962
  Footnotes
  
  'I SHOULDN'T BOTHER TO TRY AND EMULATE JAMES BOND. YOU ARE ALREADY AN ADVENTUROUS CHAP' – a delightfully revealing letter in which Ian Fleming compliments a schoolboy admirer and gives him details of his own glamorous lifestyle of travel and fast cars, letting slip the admission that he does "know something about spies and spying". The first of the Bond films, Dr No, was to appear that autumn.
  

  
  

  1962: The first recording of The James Bond Theme--Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios, Kensington Gardens Square, London's Baywater District.

  

  1965: Thunderball films Bond chased by Lippe and Fiona Volpe. Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire, England.
  
  1980: Casino Royale re-released in Finland.
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Ireland.
  
  2005: The American Film Institute declares the 22nd greatest film quote of all time as "Bond. James Bond."
  Plus the 90th: "A martini. Shaken, not stirred" .

  

  AFI'S 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME

  afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx
  
  AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is a list of the 100 top film quotes of all time.
  
  A jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists, critics and historians. Selection criteria included choosing quotes from American films which circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.
  
  The television special AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes originally aired on CBS on June 21, 2005.

  1 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."
  Rhett Butler Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
  2 "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
  Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972
  3 "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
  Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
  4 "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
  Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
  5 "Here's looking at you, kid."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  
  6 "Go ahead, make my day."
  Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact 1983
  7 "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
  Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
  8 "May the Force be with you."
  Han Solo Harrison Ford Star Wars 1977
  9 "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
  Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
  10 "You talkin' to me?"
  Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver 1976
  
  11 "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
  Captain Strother Martin Cool Hand Luke 1967
  12 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
  Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
  13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
  Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal Love Story 1970
  14 "The stuff that dreams are made of."
  Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
  15 "E.T. phone home."
  E.T. Pat Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
  
  16 "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
  Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night 1967
  17 "Rosebud."
  Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
  18 "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
  Arthur "Cody" Jarrett James Cagney White Heat 1949
  19 "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
  Howard Beale Peter Finch Network 1976
  20 "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  
  21 "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
  Dr. Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 1991
  22 "Bond. James Bond."
  James Bond Sean Connery Dr. No 1962[/u]
  23 "There's no place like home."
  Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
  24 "I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
  Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
  25 "Show me the money!"
  Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr. Jerry Maguire 1996
  
  26 "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
  Lady Lou Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
  27 "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
  "Ratso" Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy 1969
  28 "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
  Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
  29 "You can't handle the truth!"
  Col. Nathan R. Jessup Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men 1992
  30 "I want to be alone."
  Grusinskaya Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932
  
  31 "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
  Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
  32 "Round up the usual suspects."
  Capt. Louis Renault Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
  33 "I'll have what she's having."
  Customer Estelle Reiner When Harry Met Sally... 1989
  34 "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
  Marie "Slim" Browning Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
  35 "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
  Martin Brody Roy Scheider Jaws 1975
  
  36 "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
  "Gold Hat" Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
  37 "I'll be back."
  The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator 1984
  38 "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
  Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
  39 "If you build it, he will come."
  Shoeless Joe Jackson Ray Liotta (voice) Field of Dreams 1989
  40 "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
  Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994
  
  41 "We rob banks."
  Clyde Barrow Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde 1967
  42 "Plastics."
  Mr. Maguire Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
  43 "We'll always have Paris."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  44 "I see dead people."
  Cole Sear Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense 1999
  45 "Stella! Hey, Stella!"
  Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  
  46 "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
  Charlotte Vale Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
  47 "Shane. Shane. Come back!"
  Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Shane 1953
  48 "Well, nobody's perfect."
  Osgood Fielding III Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
  49 "It's alive! It's alive!"
  Henry Frankenstein Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
  50 "Houston, we have a problem."
  Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995
  
  51 "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
  Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry 1971
  52 "You had me at 'hello.'"
  Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Jerry Maguire 1996
  53 "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
  Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
  54 "There's no crying in baseball!"
  Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks A League of Their Own 1992
  55 "La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
  Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall 1977
  
  56 "A boy's best friend is his mother."
  Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
  57 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
  Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street 1987
  58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
  Michael Corleone Al Pacino The Godfather Part II 1974
  59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
  Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
  60 "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
  Oliver Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933
  
  61 "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
  Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface 1983
  62 "What a dump."
  Rosa Moline Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
  63 "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
  Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman The Graduate 1967
  64 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
  President Merkin Muffley Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
  65 "Elementary, my dear Watson."
  Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
  
  66 "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."
  George Taylor Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes 1968
  67 "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  68 "Here's Johnny!"
  Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining 1980
  69 "They're here!"
  Carol Anne Freeling Heather O'Rourke Poltergeist 1982
  70 "Is it safe?"
  Dr. Christian Szell Laurence Olivier Marathon Man 1976
  
  71 "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
  Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
  72 "No wire hangers, ever!"
  Joan Crawford Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest 1981
  73 "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
  Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1931
  74 "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
  Lawrence Walsh Joe Mantell Chinatown 1974
  75 "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
  Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  
  76 "Hasta la vista, baby."
  The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
  77 "Soylent Green is people!"
  Det. Robert Thorn Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
  78 "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
  Dave Bowman Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
  79 Striker: "Surely you can't be serious."
  Rumack: "I am serious … and don't call me Shirley."
  Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen Airplane! 1980
  80 "Yo, Adrian!"
  Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky 1976
  
  81 "Hello, gorgeous."
  Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 1968
  82 "Toga! Toga!"
  John "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi National Lampoon's Animal House 1978
  83 "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
  Count Dracula Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
  84 "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
  Carl Denham Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
  85 "My precious."
  Gollum Andy Serkis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
  
  86 "Attica! Attica!"
  Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon 1975
  87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
  Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
  88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"
  Ethel Thayer Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 1981
  89 "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."
  Knute Rockne Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
  90 "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."
  James Bond Sean Connery Goldfinger 1964[/u]
  
  91 "Who's on first?"
  Dexter Bud Abbott The Naughty Nineties 1945
  92 "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
  Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980
  93 "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
  Mame Dennis Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
  94 "I feel the need—the need for speed!"
  Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt.jg Nick "Goose"
  Bradshaw Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards Top Gun 1986
  95 "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
  John Keating Robin Williams Dead Poets Society 1989
  
  96 "Snap out of it!"
  Loretta Castorini Cher Moonstruck 1987
  97 "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
  George M. Cohan James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
  98 "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
  Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing 1987
  99 "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"
  Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939
  100 "I'm the King of the World!"
  Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997

  
  2015: Spectre begins Tangier filming.
  2016: Dynamite publishes the hardcover collection of Vargr (Issues #1 to 6).
  Jason Masters, artist/cover. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #6.
  Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458006011
  Cover A: Mike Perkins
  Writer: James Robinson
  Art: Aaron Campbell
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: June 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  UPC: 725130254580 06011
  ON SALE DATE: 6/21

  The thrilling series conclusion! Tiger and Felix have cornered their prey, the North Korean agent responsible for the bio-weapons - but Alena Davoff, Felix's former lover, is still at large, and Felix is dead-set on investigating!
  
  He must figure out if Alena is still working for her former Russian handlers... or if she's gone rogue?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2018: Shinmoedake volcano erupts in Kyushu, Japan.

  
  

  

  Japan volcano featured in 'James Bond' movie
  erupts, ejecting smoke and rocks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-volcano/japan-volcano-featured-in-james-bond-movie-erupts-ejecting-smoke-and-rocks-idUSKBN1JI0EA

  Environment
  June 22, 2018
  By Reuters Staff
  
  TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country’s west.
  
  Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 985 km (616 miles) from Tokyo on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, had quietened down since the earlier eruption, although admission to the 1,421-metre- (4,662-ft-) high peak remained restricted.
  
  Television images showed smoke and ash billowing into the air above the peak, which featured in the 1967 spy film, “You Only Live Twice”. TBS television said rock was thrown as far as 1,100 meters (3,609 ft) from the mountain.
  
  Japan has 110 active volcanoes and monitors 47 constantly. When 63 people were killed in the volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake in September 2014, it was the country’s worst such toll for nearly 90 years.
  
  In January, a member of Japan’s military was struck and killed when rocks from a volcanic eruption rained down on skiers at a central mountain resort.
  
  On Monday, an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck Osaka, Japan’s second largest city, killing five, including a nine-year-old schoolgirl, and injuring hundreds.
  
  Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Clarence Fernandez

  
  

  
  2019: The Independent repeats some opinions for the worst male writing about women.

  [

  Bad fiction: The worst
  male writing about
  women, according to
  Reddit

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.indy100.com/article/sexism-male-writing-women-novels-books-sex-erotica-8965871

  Posted Friday 21 June 2019 07:00 by Joe Sommerlad in ents

  
  Ian Fleming was a popular choice for his descriptions of Bond girls in his many 007 novels
  BEN STANSALL/AFP/GETTY

  A thread on Reddit has asked readers for their favourite examples of bad male writing about women - and the results are pretty cringeworthy indeed.
  
  Some of the 20th century's most acclaimed and widely read novelists came off badly in the excerpts chosen, with the science fiction genre found to be a repeat offender when it comes to the queasy objectification of space age femme fatales.
  
  The great Philip K Dick was damned for the phrase "her breasts pulsed with resentment" while Frank Herbert's suggestion in Heretics of Dune (1984) that "not even the stiffest robe" could conceal a character's "ample breasts" fell foul of the internet literati.
  
  Here are the best (or rather, most appalling) quotes from their selections.
  1. Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796)

  She had torn open her habit, and her bosom was half exposed. The weapon's point rested upon her left breast: And Oh! that was such a breast! The Moonbeams darting full upon it enabled the Monk to observe its dazzling whiteness. His eye dwelt with insatiable avidity upon the beauteous orb.

  2. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

  'Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic,' said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.
  
  'Awfully.' But there was an expression of pain in Bernard's eyes. 'Like meat,' he was thinking.

  3. Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (1954)

  Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable.

  4. Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959)

  For my own amusement sometimes I like to think of her part by part... One breast is smaller than the other, like junior and senior; her pelvic bones are not well covered, she is a little gaunt there. But her body looks gentle and pretty.

  5. John Updike, Rabbit, Run (1960)

  Standing there trying to get the waist of the skirt suit to link at her side, the tops of her breasts, swollen with untaken milk, pushing above her bra, she does have a plumpness, a fullness that call to him...
  
  She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There’s that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men’s dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry.

  6. Stephen King, The Dark Tower: Gunslinger (1982)

  A full-grown one, blond, dirty, and sensual, watched with a speculative curiosity as she drew water from the groaning pump beside the building. She caught the gunslinger's eye, pinched her nipples between her fingers, dropped him a wink, and then went back to pumping.

  7. Michel Houellebecq, Platform (2001)

  She turned on the overhead light and contemplated her body in the mirror. Her breasts were as firm as ever, they hadn't changed since she was seventeen. Her arse was amazingly round too, without a trace of fat; unquestionably she had a beautiful body.

  8. George RR Martin, A Dance with Dragons (2011)

  'F*** yourself, you beardless boy.'
  
  'I'd sooner f*** you.' One quick slash unlaced her jerkin...
  

  She was sopping wet when he entered her. 'Damn you,' she said. 'Damn you damn you damn you.' He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure.

  9. Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers (2015)

  Her mouth was intensely ovoid, an almond mouth, of citrus crescents. And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop – Psalms were about to pour out of me.

  10. Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

  His eyes ran over the robe, resting a moment on the slight prominence of her breasts, dropping then to the bronzed carves and ankles, up to the smooth kneecaps. She had a body like a young girl's. She certainly didn't look like the mother of two.

  2019: The Guardian interviews Danny Boyle on Yesterday, Bond, and the 2012 Olympics.

  

  Interview
  Danny Boyle: 'They should get Robert
  Pattinson to be the next James Bond'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/21/danny-boyle-they-should-get-robert-pattinson-to-be-the-next-james-bond

  Xan Brooks | @XanBrooks| Fri 21 Jun 2019

  
  ‘In a time of complete uncertainty, people latch on to the things they can depend on’ … Boyle.
  Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

  The director’s new film imagines a world without the Beatles. He
  talks about bailing on the latest 007 venture, being a national
  treasure and why he naively believes in the goodness of human
  beings
  
  Danny Boyle’s new film, Yesterday, is a spry piece of speculative fiction set in a land that has never heard Sgt Pepper, Hey Jude or Tomorrow Never Knows. On a superficial level, this alternative UK is not so different from our own. The Lowestoft bus still runs on time, friends gather on summer evenings in the beer garden and Ed Sheeran is on the umpteenth leg of his latest tour. But something vital is missing – and only a handful of people realise what has been lost. As one character puts it: “A world without the Beatles is a world that’s infinitely worse.”
  
  Fittingly, Boyle’s film resembles a three-minute pop song itself – so simply structured as to feel skimpy and disposable until it snags in your brain like an infernal ear-worm and you find yourself pondering its implications for days. On the surface, the story is bright and perky. Underneath, it is desolate: a high-concept comedy about cultural amnesia and a wonderful Britain that might have been. I tell Boyle I think it might be a Brexit movie in disguise and he guffaws in embarrassment and reaches for his cup of coffee. “Yeah, well,” he says. “You could certainly make a case for that.”
  
  Seeing as we are in the business of making grand and sweeping claims, let’s go one further. Boyle, it could be argued, is part of the same parallel cool-Britannia that Yesterday is longing for. He is the man who galvanised 90s cinema with Trainspotting, won an Oscar in the 00s for directing Slumdog Millionaire and presided over the all-embracing splendour of the opening ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics. If he is not quite at Paul McCartney level, he is surely within shouting distance. A few weeks ago he rocked up as a guest on BBC’s Top Gear and the producer bellowed: “National treasure coming through!” Boyle laughs at the memory. “So yeah, you do get a little of that, the ‘national treasure’ thing. And that’s all right, it’s not so bad. I’m happy to be a good ambassador.”
  
  He pours more coffee and talks about Yesterday, which stars Himesh Patel as Jack, a callow young busker who is knocked off his bike and regains consciousness in a Beatles-free universe that is ripe for the taking. Before long, Jack is fixing a hole, passing off classic songs as his own – all the while terrified that he is about to be found out. Boyle accepts that it is a nostalgic film – or, rather, a film that examines the power of nostalgia. He likens it to Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, two other crowd-pleasing pictures about Britain’s musical past. “It’s an interesting trend. In a time of complete uncertainty – politically, economically – people latch on to the things they can depend on.”

  
  Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis filming Yesterday with Himesh Patel and Lily James.
  Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures

  Boyle admits that he was always more of a Bowie and Led Zeppelin fan, but that is by the by: the Beatles influenced pretty much everything. Yesterday concentrates solely on the music, but their social and political impact extended well beyond that. “If you took them out of the equation, the ripple effect would be enormous. We’d probably be living in this massive dystopian universe. It would take a novel to track just how much everything changed.”
  
  Boyle is 62: a whippy live-wire, with thick-framed glasses and a shocking pink jumper, like an amiable geography teacher who moonlights as a seaside entertainer. Perhaps he is mellowing with age. Yesterday, for instance, is scripted by Richard Curtis, the saccharine McCartney to Boyle’s acerbic Lennon. Back in the 90s, they were viewed as natural enemies. Wasn’t Trainspotting (which Boyle made in collaboration with producer Andrew Macdonald, writer John Hodge and actor Ewan McGregor) seen as the gritty corrective to Four Weddings and a Funeral?
  
  Boyle chuckles and says he never saw it that way, that he always liked Curtis’s work. “The truth is, after making Trainspotting, we were very cock-a-hoop and we thought: ‘Now let’s do a romantic comedy.’ So we set off for Utah and made a film called A Life Less Ordinary. Then we came back and over the Christmas period I got sent this script called Notting Hill. And I read Notting Hill and thought: ‘Well, that’s a romantic-comedy. I don’t know what the fuck it is we’ve just shot in Utah – but it certainly isn’t that.’”
  
  Boyle, for his part, spent the bulk of Beatlemania squirrelled away in Radcliffe, north of Manchester. He spent eight years as an altar boy and briefly considered the priesthood before working in theatre, TV and finally film, which he feels is not a dissimilar calling. As a young man, he thrilled to the work of the 1970s film-makers who seemed intent on pushing themselves and their congregation to the limits. Apocalypse Now, he has suggested, was his Damascene conversion. So if he were to wake up in a world in which Coppola had never made it … “Oh, absolutely,” he says. “Yes, of course I’d remake it, 100%, shot-for-shot, I’m obsessed with that film. I’d probably do Nic Roeg’s films as well, because there’s no one else like him, he was our Picasso. That extraordinary 10-year period, Performance to Bad Timing. I’d remake all of those.”

  
  Trainspotting, 1996. Photograph: Allstar/CHANNEL FOUR FILMS

  If Boyle’s work has yet to hit Roeg’s peaks of wildness, it compensates with a bold, buzzing energy of its own. It also has a brightness of vision that is sometimes at odds with the subject matter. Whether he is tackling heroin addiction, zombie apocalypse or life in the Dharavi slums, Boyle runs at the material with a bounce in his step. He rarely allows himself to be burdened by fatalism or misery. “Well, I’m a positive person,” he explains. “And I suppose that makes me a positive film-maker. I feel an obligation to lift people somewhere else with my films. And I believe in the inherent goodness of human beings. That’s naive – I recognise that. But it’s what keeps me going through the bad times.”

  Professionally, at least, Boyle hasn’t suffered many knockdowns. He says he has learned that he is more comfortable on smaller productions, where he has room to manoeuvre and faces less pressure from upstairs. The Beach – a Hollywood behemoth starring Leonardo DiCaprio – remains a rare leaden misstep, while he and John Hodge recently bailed out of the next James Bond picture, citing creative differences with the franchise’s producers. I would like to get the full story on what happened, but his lips are sealed and his hands tied; there is not much he can say. “I was with John and they didn’t really like what we were doing and so it’s far better to part company.” He shrugs. “What we were doing was good. But it was obviously not what they wanted.”

  
  Himesh Patel plays the Beatles in Yesterday.
  Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures

  Why did he want to get involved with Bond anyway? They’re movies for producers, not directors; he must have known that. Boyle grins. “You should be my agent,” he says. “And, yeah, you’re right. That’s ultimately what you learn. But you’ve got to go into that stuff optimistically. It’s like falling in love. You can’t go in guarded and trying to protect yourself. You have to be open-hearted and prepared to be hurt – and so what if you get a bit of bruising? You get well-paid and well looked after. So at the end of the day these are champagne problems.”
  
  He insists he has put Bond behind him and no doubt that is true. But every now and then he is reminded of the bruising. Last month he went to see Claire Denis’s High Life and was especially taken by Robert Pattinson’s performance. “And it was so bizarre, because I was sitting there thinking: ‘Oh my God, they should get him to be the next Bond.’” Isn’t Pattinson a bit too young for the role? “No, no,” he scoffs. “He must be in his 30s. How old was Connery? He’s ready now.”

  Ironically, Boyle’s greatest achievement may not be a movie at all, but his four-hour Olympic opening ceremony in 2012. Isles of Wonder was a joyous salute to British culture and history that commanded a TV audience of 900 million. The event bounded from England’s green and pleasant land, through the industrial revolution to the present day. It found room for Windrush immigrants and NHS nurses, Shakespeare and the Beatles, James Bond and the Queen. Tory MP Aidan Burley dismissed the show as “leftie multicultural crap”, while the Mail’s Stephen Glover labelled it “Marxist propaganda”, but these were voices in the darkness. Even in the moment, Isles of Wonder felt special. It was a celebration of the best of British liberalism, maybe the culmination of it, too.

  
  The NHS section of Boyle’s 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
  Photograph: Jae C. Hong/AP

  At the time, Boyle said directing the ceremony had turned him into a patriot – or possibly made him realise that he had been one all along. He met with so many international Olympic workers who regarded the UK as a model society – a nation at ease with itself and its history – that he came away convinced. He saw his country afresh through the eyes of the world.
  
  I read back to him what he once said about those international workers: “They see us as a beacon – as a modern, progressive country.”
  
  “Yes, they did,” he groans. He clamps a hand to his brow. “And, oh my God, I wonder what they think about us now. Would they even own up to saying that in the first place? You’d have to ask them. But probably not.”
  
  It is nice to think back on that Olympic opening ceremony. The further it recedes into the past, the more brightly it shines: the nation’s golden last hurrah, before the days of Brexit and backstops; societal confusion and the burgeoning bad times. Boyle hasn’t sat down to watch it since and says it would feel a bit weird. But he has a painting by his youngest daughter, who was 20 at the time, and was inspired by the industrial section of the show. It is very impressionistic; his one souvenir. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever had in my life,” he says.
  
  By this point I fear that we have become hopelessly lost down memory lane. We started the interview pining for the Beatles; now, we’re coming over all nostalgic about the London Olympics. Boyle shakes his head and stares at the wall. “Oh my God,” he says. “You might be right.”
  
  Still, he is at pains to remain positive; it is how he is geared. The times have gone bad and the country is in a mess. But he has faith in its people, its art and its industry. Its ideals are a bedrock, or perhaps a guiding light through the gloom.
  
  “I believe that culture lives within us,” he explains. “It’s in our DNA and I really believe that, I can’t stress that enough. So when you hear a great song for the first time, it’s actually something you’ve heard before. It’s the culture that’s within us and that’s why it will survive what is going on at the moment. I’m not talking about culture as a last bastion, but as something that survives and endures and that we’ll eventually come back to.” He’s struggling for words and says he wishes he was more articulate. “It’s progress we’ll come back to,” he says. “Because I don’t think we’re heading towards progress at the moment. But it’s still there, it’s not gone. It’s progress we can return to whenever we want.”
  
  Yesterday is released in the UK on 28 June

  
  2022: Gladys Knight performs at Windsor Hall, Nottingham, England.

  

  

  Gladys Knight Tickets
  Windsor Hall (BIC), Bournemouth. Tuesday 21 Jun 2022

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  Gladys Knight
  Windsor Hall (BIC), Bournemouth
  Tuesday 21 Jun 2022 at 19:30.
  
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  Gladys Knight
  
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  The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight has long been one of the greatest. Very few singers over the last 50 years have matched her unassailable artistry.
  
  Today, Gladys Knight - The Empress Of Soul and seven time Grammy winner - announces a series of special UK dates for June 2022. Starting June 18th in Manchester, the 9-city tour concludes with two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall on June 29th and 30th.

  Gladys comments: "UK I have missed you! I can't wait to be back in 2022 and very much look forward to seeing you all soon!'

  Since she began her career in the 1950s performing with The Pips, the award-winning singer has recorded more than 40 albums and enjoyed No.1 hits on the Pop, Gospel, R&B and Contemporary charts.
  
  Known for her collection of classic hits such as Midnight Train To Georgia (which remains one of the most famous Motown records to date and was honoured as one of 'The Greatest Songs Of All Time' by Rolling Stone Magazine), Help Me Make It Through The Night, Licence To Kill (the official theme song to the James Bond film), The Way We Were, Baby Don't' Change Your Mind, and You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Gladys Knight is one of music's icons, and her contribution to pop culture unparalleled.

  Gladys Knight has been honoured with the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame; a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has dozens of TV, film and theatre credits.

  
  Another performance on the 30th.
  
  Gladys Knight - Licence to Kill (Live) - Royal Albert Hall, London - 30th June 2022 (4:49)
  

  2022: Helicopter Pilot Chuck Aaron presents a GE Aviation lecture at Chantilly, Virginia and online.

  

  

  GE Aviation Lecture
  Flying Upside Down: How
  Chuck Aaron Created
  Helicopter Aerobatics

  Presenter: Helicopter Pilot Chuck Aaron
  June 21, 2022 | 8 - 9pm
  At the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and Online
  
  Free, reservations required
  
  Discover what it takes to fly a helicopter upside down

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://airandspace.si.edu/events/flying-upside-down

  Register for:

  • In-Person https://s.si.edu/gecaip
  • Online https://s.si.edu/gecaol

  
  Since 1972, helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron has had an amazingly diverse career. He is best known as a pioneer of helicopter aerobatic demonstrations and for his work as a stunt pilot, including in the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre. In 21,000 hours of flying, he has piloted an astounding array of helicopter types in challenging operations around the world. In 2006, after extensively modifying a BO.105 helicopter and working closely with the FAA and sponsor Red Bull, Aaron debuted the first approved helicopter aerobatic demonstration in the United States. Hear stories from his accomplished life and career including how his father inspired him to become a pilot, his time with NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and his gravity-defying aerobatics.
  
  This program will be presented in-person at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and will be streamed on YouTube with live closed captioning. Registration is required for in person attendance and encouraged for online viewing.
  
  Register to attend in person at the Udvar-Hazy Center.
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  The GE Aviation Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of GE Aviation.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron performs an aerobatic routine during the California International Airshow.

  
  Stunning helicopter acrobatics - Chuck Aaron (3:31)
  

  
  
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  1906: Billy Wilder is born--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland.
  (He dies 27 March 2002--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
  6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php

  By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

  
  Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as
  "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia
  Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

  One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.
  
  Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.
  
  Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.
  
  "There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book Conversations with Billy Wilder. "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."
  
  One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").
  
  INTERVIEWED FREUD
  Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.
  
  "People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.
  
  LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
  Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").
  
  Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."
  
  CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
  He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.
  
  Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.
  
  Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."
  
  TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
  Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.
  
  "If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."
  
  And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.
  
  "His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."
  
  When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said:

  I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.
  
  "I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."

  Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

  BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
  . -- AS WRITER

  -- "People on Sunday," 1929
  -- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
  -- "Adorable," 1933
  -- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
  -- "Music in the Air," 1934
  -- "Lottery Lover," 1935
  -- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
  -- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
  -- "Midnight," 1939
  -- "What a Life," 1939
  -- "Ninotchka," 1939
  -- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
  -- "Arise My Love," 1940
  -- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
  -- "Ball of Fire," 1942
  -- "A Song Is Born," 1948

  "Casino Royale," 1967.

  
  -- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

  -- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
  -- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
  -- "Double Indemnity," 1944
  -- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
  -- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
  -- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
  -- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
  -- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
  -- "Stalag 17," 1953
  -- "Sabrina," 1954
  -- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
  -- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
  -- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
  -- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
  -- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
  -- "The Apartment," 1960
  -- "One, Two, Three," 1961
  -- "Irma la Douce," 1963
  -- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
  -- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
  -- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
  -- "Avanti! "1972
  -- "The Front Page," 1974
  -- "Fedora," 1978
  -- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.

  Source: Associated Press

  

  Billy Wilder) (I) (1906–2002

  Writer | Director | Producer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  
  1937: Chris Blackwell is born--Westminster, London, England.
  
  1943: Klaus Maria Brandauer is born--Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria.
  
  1961: Fleming writes to Richard Chopping to commission his cover artwork for The Spy Who Loved Me.

  

  FLEMING, Ian.
  The Spy Who Loved Me.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-spy-who-loved-me-138042.html

  Jonathan Cape, London, 1962 Stock Code: 138042
  £35,000.00

  Notes
  Presentation copy to the designer of the dust jacket, with the original letter commissioning the design
  
  First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ian Fleming to the designer of the dust jacket, Richard Chopping, on the front free endpaper: "To Dickie In admiration! from Ian". Chopping has signed the jacket on the front flap.
  
  Together with the original typed letter Fleming sent to Chopping on 22 June 1961, commissioning the jacket: "The jacket season has come round again and I and the Capes do pray that you will once again be the artist... The title of the book is The Spy Who Loved Me and so what suggests itself of course is a juxtaposition between a dagger or a gun and an emblem representing love, rather on the lines of your gun with a rose... Anyway, first of all, will you please do the jacket and, secondly, will you please have a brilliant idea?" Fleming has headed the letter in blue ink "My dear Dickie" and signed off "Yours ever Ian". He has made two corrections, of "garden" to "gun", and hyphenating "its self".
  
  Fleming was introduced to Chopping, then a young artist specializing in tromp-l'oeil paintings, by his wife Ann in 1956. Chopping designed almost all the James Bond jackets From Russia With Love onwards; he afterwards also designed the covers of the Amis and Gardner continuations. The designs have become an iconic component of the Bond cultural phenomenon.
  
  Description
  Octavo. Original black cloth, decorated in blind and silver, red endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Custom red morocco-backed folding case by the Heritage Bindery. With original typed letter.
  
  Condition
  A fine copy in the very good, bright jacket, patch of tape residue to each flap which has peeled away part of the paper on the front flap (without loss).
  
  Bibliography
  Gilbert A10a (1.1).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1963: The Saturday Evening Post publishes Geoffrey Bocca's article “The Spectacular Cult of Ian Fleming".

  
  

  1964: Denmark re-release of Dr. No.

  

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny as an immigration official.

  

  
  1987: Warner Brothers Records releases the single "The Living Daylights" performed by the Norwegian group A-ha, their collaboration with composer John Barry.

  

  1987: Thames Television airs James Bond Licence to Thrill hosted by Nick Owen.

  

  James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987)

  51min | Documentary | TV Movie 29 June 1987

  Promotional documentary television special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James Bond and release of the then new James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' (1987).

  Director: Mike Ward
  Writer: George Perry
  Stars: Nick Owen, Lois Maxwell, Ursula Andress
  

  
  22 June 1987 Thames - James Bond Licence to Thrill trail & Imaginary Friends (TV Spot)
  
  
  Licence To Thrill - 25 Years Of James Bond
  

  
  2007: Encore airs television documentary True Bond.

  

  True Bond (2007)

  52min | Documentary | TV Movie 22 June 2007
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193533/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

  James Bond is a worldwide icon, but is Ian Fleming's creation based on a real character? This documentary profiles the wartime exploits of Dusko Popov, a double-agent who worked for Britain and the U.S. against Germany, and reveals how Fleming used his imagination to weave the adventures of Popov and others into Casino Royale and subsequent James Bond stories. Includes clips from Bond films and classified wartime footage, plus interviews with MI6 figures, Popov's son, Hilary Saltzman (daughter of James Bond producer Harry Saltzman), David Giammarco (actor and author of the best-selling book For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films), Andrew Lycett (Ian Fleming biographer), and other experts on the clandestine world of Ian Fleming and the James Bond films.
  —True Bond Productions

  Director: Jane Armstrong
  Writers: Michael LaVoie, Gary Lang
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Graeme Cornies ... Narrator (voice)
  Nick Abraham ... Dusko Popov
  Michael Lomenda ... Ian Fleming
  Eugene Oleksiuk ... Gambler
  Conor O'Hegarty ... Johnny Jebsen
  James Luke ... Von Karsthoff
  Tom Saunders ... Ian Wilson
  Ava Himmel ... Elizabeth Sahrbach
  Howard Pressburger ... Ewan Montagu
  Natalie Roy ... Simone Simon
  Glen Koppen ... Wilhelm Canaris
  Emma Basque ... Terry Richardson (as Emina Basic)
  Frank Fitzgibbon ... FBI Agent
  Willie Fahnestock ... Menzies
  Peter Mehren ... Additional Voices (voice)

  

  
  2011: Daniel Craig at 43 weds Rachel Weisz, 41, in New York.

  

  2014: David Beckham advertises Sky Sports inspired by James Bond.

  David Beckham helps make Sky Sports even better
  

  
  2015: Spectre finishes filming at Vauxhall Bridge, the River Thames and Westminster Bridge.

  http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptlondon/vauxhallbridge.htm
  
  
  https://londonist.com/2016/08/secrets-of-westminster-bridge
  
  
  

  2017: David Beckham and James Corden compete for the Bond role.

  The Next James Bond - David Beckham v James Corden
  

  
  2018: Kirishima volcano, famous for appearing in You Only Live Twice, erupts in Japan.

  

  Japan volcano featured in 'James Bond' movie erupts, ejecting
  smoke and rocks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japan-volcano-featured-james-bond-movie-erupts-ejecting-051527073.html

  22 June 2018

  
  Smoke rises from a volcano of Shinmoedake, in Miyazaki, Japan, June 22, 2018
  in this picture obtained from social media. Yamayuu/via REUTERS

  TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country's west.
  
  Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 985 km (616 miles) from Tokyo on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, had quietened down since the earlier eruption, although admission to the 1,421-metre- (4,662-ft-) high peak remained restricted.

  Television images showed smoke and ash billowing into the air above the peak, which featured in the 1967 spy film, "You Only Live Twice". TBS television said rock was thrown as far as 1,100 meters (3,609 ft) from the mountain.

  Japan has 110 active volcanoes and monitors 47 constantly. When 63 people were killed in the volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake in September 2014, it was the country's worst such toll for nearly 90 years.
  
  In January, a member of Japan’s military was struck and killed when rocks from a volcanic eruption rained down on skiers at a central mountain resort.
  
  On Monday, an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck Osaka, Japan's second largest city, killing five, including a nine-year-old schoolgirl, and injuring hundreds.
  
  (Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

  

  Kirishima Vulkan: Nachrichten

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/de/kirishima/nachrichten/69551/Shinmoedake-Kirishima-volcano-group-Japan-2-eruptions-over-the-past-week-maintaining-explosive-activ.html

  
  Shinmoedake (Kirishima volcano group, Japan): 2 eruptions over the past week, maintaining explosive activity which suddenly started early March
  Mi, 27. Jun 2018 | IS

  
  A plume of smoke billows from Mount Shinmoe, in Kobayashi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on June 22, 2018.
  (Photo courtesy of an unknown reader of The Mainichi)

  
  Graph showing the thermal anomalies recorded at Shinmoedake volcano over the past months,
  clearly showing the sudden intense activity from early March to early April, followed by
  isolated events in May and June 2018. (MIROVA)
  
  
  The tall ash plume billowing above Mt Shinmoe during its explosive activity on 6 March 2018
  (aerial photograph taken by The Mainichi)
  
  
  View into Shinmoedake’s crater where the fresh lava ejected in the 6 March explosions
  is still red hot (aerial photograph taken by The Mainichi)

  Shinmoedake volcano, located on the Japanese island of Kyushu, erupted explosively on Wednesday 27 June, 2018 after a previous explosion that occurred 5 days before. Both eruptions produced ash plumes that are 2000 meter tall and seem to represent that aftermath of the volcano's intense phase of explosive activity that occurred in early March 2018.

  Shinmoedake is one of 18 young, small stratovolcanoes that make up what is known as the Kirishima volcano group which straddles the boundary between the Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures. This 1421 m tall Japanese volcano, famous for its feature in James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice', erupted on Wednesday 27 June, 2018, at 15h34 local time, sending a plume of ash and gas 2200 m into the air. A similar event occurred on Friday 22 June, 2018, when at 9h09 local time an explosion spewed ash and smoke up to 2,600 meters in the air. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reports that large cinders were flung up to 1,100 meters from the center of the crater rim, flying in a ballistic path, and that resulting ash plume was blown east, carrying small cinders a long way by the wind.

  The 22 June explosion was the first explosive eruption since a month of increased volcanic activity ended on April 5, 2018. After 7 years of inactivity, the volcano suddenly came back to live and produced 18 violent explosions on 6 March 2018. The volcano thereby hurled rocks measuring 50 centimeters in a radius of 900 m around the vent and created an eruption plume that reached a height of about 3000 meters. This intense eruptive activity continued into March 7 when 11 more explosions were registered by JMA and the presence of red hot lava in the vent was confirmed. After this intense first phase activity died down to irregular explosions during the next couple of weeks, 1 eruption in May and now two more in late June.
  
  The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) maintains the volcano alert level at 3 - restricted entry to the mountain – on a scale of 5. No evacuations were carried out, but they call on the public to exercise caution around the volcano as large chunks of debris could fall within a 3-kilometer radius of the vent, while pyroclastic flows could reach as far as 2 kilometers.

  A three minute video of the entire 22 June 2018 explosion was shared on the YouTube channel of VolcanoYT':
  
  
  
  

  2018: Zurich helicopters evacuate Piz Gloria after a cable car malfunction.

  NEWS IN BRIEF

  Tourists airlifted from James Bond mountain

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk"]https://thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk

  June 22 2018, 12:01am, The Times

  
  Piz Gloria, on the 2,970m summit of the Schilthorn in the Bernese Oberland,
  was the setting for Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

  Zurich Helicopters had to airlift about 400 people off the Swiss mountain that featured in the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service after a cable car broke down. The tourists were on the 2,970m (9,744ft) Schilthorn, home of the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, which was Blofeld’s lair in the George Lazenby film. A technical fault disabled a gondola below where they were, the Schilthorn AG company, which operates the cable car, said. The guests were taken in another cable car to a nearby ridge, where four helicopters ferried them down the mountain to the ski station of Mürren.
  (Reuters)

  
  2022: The Other Fellow red carpet arrival and premiere at Aukland, New Zealand.

  

  The Other Fellow

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/the-other-fellow

  22 Jun 2022
  $17.00 - $21.00
  
  Te Civic, The Civic
  
  The Other Fellow
  Doc Edge Festival 2022

  Bond, James Bonds. Can anyone ever live up to that name?
  
  An energetic exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name - James Bond.
  
  1952. Jamaica. When author Ian Fleming needs a name for his suave, sophisticated secret agent, he steals one from an unaware birdwatcher and creates a pop-culture phenomenon about the ultimate fictional alpha male.
  
  2022. It is the year of 007’s sixtieth anniversary onscreen and Australian filmmaker Matthew Bauer is on a global mission to discover the lasting, contrasting and very personal impacts of sharing such an identity with James Bond.
  
  From a Swedish 007 super-fan with a Nazi past, a gay New York theatre director, an African American Bond accused of murder, and two resilient women caught up in it all, Bauer’s cinematic mission is an audacious, poignant, and insightful examination of masculinity, gender, and race in the very real shadows of a movie icon

  OPENING NIGHT FILM
  
  The Civic, Auckland, Wed 22 June
  7 pm | Red Carpet arrival, official welcome and introductions
  8 pm | The Other Fellow screening, followed by live Q&A session with director Matthew Bauer
  
  * Note: Every person who purchases a ticket to The Other Fellow (Auckland screening at The Civic) is invited to attend the official Doc Edge Awards Ceremony between 6 and 7 pm.
  
  United Kingdom | 2022 | World Premiere | documentary | 80 min | English / Swedish | Matthew Bauer
  
  Meet the Team Behind The Other Fellow
  WED 22 Jun 2022
  After screening (screening at 8 pm)
  
  Duration: 20 min
  Buy tickets to The Other Fellow and join the live Q&A session with Director Matthew Bauer.
  
  The Other Fellow is the Opening Night of Doc Edge Festival 2022 at The Civic. Every person who purchases a ticket is invited to attend the official Doc Edge Awards Ceremony at 6pm and walk the Red Carpet at 7pm.
  
  Dress code: 007-inpsired – Prize for The Best Dressed will be given live from the red carpet.
  
  More screening information and buy tickets: https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/the-other-fellow
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  80 min
  Accessible seating available
  Hearing aid loop performances
  Rating (E) Exempt

  
  
  THE OTHER FELLOW Trailer - James Bond documentary (2:29)
  

  
  2023: Live & Let Thai – The Play at the Junkyard Theatre, Phuket Town, Phuket, Thailand.

  

  LIVE & LET THAI – THE PLAY

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://junkyardtheatre.com/shows/live-and-let-thai-the-play/

  DATES:
  22nd, 23rd of June 2023
  
  IMPORTANT
  INFORMATION:
  Age: PG
  Run Time: 2 Hours
  Tickets:
  800THB – 1,200THB
  PROGRAMME:
  6:30 PM ARRIVAL
  7:00 PM SHOW STARTS
  9:00 PM SHOW FINISHES

  LIVE & LET THAI – THE PLAY
  DESCRIPTION:
  Showing at the Junkyard Theatre, is a hilarious stage play called, “Live and Let Thai,” a murder mystery featuring a Hollywood crew filming a James Bond movie in Phuket.
  
  As their lives unravel at the shabby Palm Village Hotel, a slew of quirky characters and jilted lovers lead to murder.
  
  Can the Andaman Thespic Society save the play?
  
  Find out in a night of mayhem and fun!

  PRICE:
  ฿800 – ฿1,200

  Original showing
  
  

  
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  June 23rd
  
  1945: Q-Day is the rehearsal for the atomic bomb demonstration.

  Topical Tens

  23 June: Q Day

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/06/23-june-q-day.html

  
  Q-Day was 23 June 1945, the day of the dress rehearsal of the first atom bomb test. Nowadays it is sometimes used informally to mean "Quality Day", or the first day of the calendar quarter. 10 things you might not know about the letter Q:

  

  1. It’s the 17th letter in the English alphabet, and the second least frequently used, after Z.
  2. The earliest forms of the letter may have been a symbol representing a knot, a threaded Needle, or a monkey with its tail hanging down.
  3. It was common up until the 19th century for some capital Qs to have longer tails. This is thought to have originated in Latin texts, where Q is much more likely to be the first letter of a word. They still used shorter tailed Qs, however, for shorter words. The long tailed Q fell out of use with the advent of digital fonts. One person who would have been glad to see the back of them was the American typographer D.B. Ukdike, who claimed that printers would use them simply to “outdo each other”.
  4. The letter Q is usually followed by a letter U in the English language, but there are exceptions – according to Wikipedia, 4,422 of them to be exact. They are often obscure words which have been assimilated into the English language from other tongues such as Arabic, Chinese or French. For example, qigong (Chinese exercise system), qi (the Chinese word for the life force), qat (a shrub with narcotic properties) and cinq (the number five in a pack of cards.
  5. The Estonian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian, Turkish, Welsh and Cornish alphabets do not include the letter Q.
  6. Q is the symbol for the Guatemalan quetzal, the currency of Guatemala.
  7. In Medieval times, Q was sometimes included in the Roman numeral system and was used to represent 90, 500 or 500,000.
  8. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, “Quebec” is Q. In Morse Code - –.- represents Q.
  9. In Star Trek, Q is not only a character (played by John de Lancie) but the name of the race he belongs to, who all refer to each other as Q. They are the only race which can access the Q Continuum. Gene Roddenberry chose the letter Q for this character/race in honour of a friend, Janet Quarton.

     10. Q is also a character in the James Bond novels and films. Q in this case stands for “Quartermaster” and is therefore a job title. In military usage a quartermaster is a senior officer who co-ordinates the distribution of supplies. In the James Bond universe, he’s the one who issues Bond with gadgets.

  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes a letter of thanks to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, Leicester, in response to an invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club.

  

  FLEMING (IAN)

  Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, of Leicester, thanking him for his "splendid letter" and invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club: "Since neither Bond nor his biographer are owners of an Aston Martin, I can do no more than pass your invitation on to the head of Admin. at the Secret Service from whose transport pool the DB III was drawn"; and disagreeing with his penultimate paragraph "couched though it is in such graphic language" ("...Pussy only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady..."); and telling him that he has in mind a story with motor racing as its background, although not quite along the lines he suggests ("...I will try and get around to it in due course and shall not be surprised if I then receive a sheaf of acid complaints from experts such as yourself..."); he ends by thanking him again "for cheering up my morning at the office"; with autograph salutation and subscription, 1 page, printed heading, 4to, Kemsley House, London, 23 June 1959
  
  Footnotes
  ʻPUSSY ONLY NEEDED THE RIGHT MAN TO COME ALONG' – FLEMING ON JAMES BOND'S ASTON MARTIN AND PUSSY GALORE, AS FEATURED IN GOLDFINGER. The novel had come out on 23 March 1959. In the book, Bond drives what Fleming describes as an Aston Martin DB III, but which the purist Dr Gibson thinks should be called the "Mark III". The unrepentant Fleming however thinks this "reads a bit too stuffily". When the film came out in 1964, the DB III was to be updated to a DB5.
  
  Fleming did indeed sketch a story with motor racing as its background. This was a treatment for an unfilmed episode of a television series, Murder on Wheels and is set in the Nürburgring, with Bond fighting a Russian plot to kill Stirling Moss. The Fleming estate has recently granted Anthony Horowitz access to the script. He has used it as the basis for his Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, published on 8 September this year. By coincidence, or otherwise, the book is set two weeks after the events described in Goldfinger and features Pussy Galore.

  
  
  

  
  1963: Ian Fleming walks on location in Turkey during the filming of From Russia With Love.

  https://jakemcmillan.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/ian-flemings-secret-cameo-in-from-russia-with-love/
  
  
  
  
  

  1966: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Octopussy and The Living Daylights, with stories "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights". Later editions add "The Property of a Lady" and still later "007 in New York".

  OCTOPUSSY
  AND
  THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
  
  From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine
  and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim
  city of stealth, James Bond pursues
  two strangely heroic enemies of the
  Secret Service. The first is a dying
  major whose dwindling hoard of gold
  conceals an act of treachery, and the
  second an assassin whose identity
  disturbs Bond's deadly aim.
  
  These two stories, written in I96I and
  I962, were among those composed by
  Ian Fleming while he was writing the
  incomparable series of James Bond
  thrillers. The first collection of stories
  appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes
  Only; a further collection which he
  had planned to publish was never
  completed.

  
  
  
  

  
  1969: Comic strip The Harpies ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 10 October 1968. 816-1037)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54569
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comics 1978
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

  Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  

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

  Fågelkvinnorna
  ("Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  (Part 1) - (Part 2)
  
  

  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 19: “The Harpies” (1970)
  "Fuglekvinderne" [= The Bird Women]
  
  

  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service wraps up production, 58 days over schedule.
  
  1984: A View to a Kill begins Second Unit filming in Iceland.
  
  2016: The Guardian asks 007 questions. Ten, actually.

  
  Ian Fleming

  007 questions: how well do you know the James Bond books? – quiz

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/23/007-how-well-do-you-know-the-james-bond-books-quiz-ian-fleming

  On this day 50 years ago, Ian Fleming’s 14th and final Bond book, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, was published. How much do you know about Ian Fleming in print?
  
  Thu 23 Jun 2016 07.00 EDT

  
  Guns and girls ... Michael Gillette‘s Bond girl book covers, from Penguin’s James Bond centenary collection. Composite: Penguin Books

  1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

  "Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

  "Three measures of Bombay, one of vodka, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add an olive."

  "Three measures of vodka, one of gin, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of orange peel."

  "Three measures of Beefeater, one of vodka, half a measure of Pimms. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large chunk of onion."

  2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

  Scottish and English

  English and French

  Scottish and French

  Scottish and Swiss

  3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

  183

  279

  352

  469

  4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

  Gala Bland

  Viv Michel

  Domino Vitali

  Mary Goodnight

  5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

  An enchanting femme fatale

  An octopus, named Pussy

  A ship

  A particularly odd curse word

  6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

  Diamonds Are Forever - Fleming's fourth Bond book

  From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

  Dr No - Fleming's sixth Bond book

  Thunderball - Fleming's ninth Bond book

  7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

  Thunderball

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  You Only Live Twice

  Quantum of Solace

  8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  You Only Live Twice

  The Hildebrand Rarity

  The Spy Who Loved Me

  9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

  Boothroyd

  Bigby

  Blanche

  B

  10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

  Ernst Stavro Blofeld

  Francisco Scaramanga

  Le Chiffre

  Sir Hugo Drax

  
  Answers

  
  1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

  "Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

  2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

  Scottish and Swiss

  3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

  352

  4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

  Gala Brand

  There is a Gala Brand, however, in Moonraker.
  5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

  An octopus, named Pussy

  6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

  From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

  7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

  "Quantum of Solace"

  8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

  The Spy Who Loved Me

  9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

  Boothroyd

  10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

  Francisco Scaramanga

  
  
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  September 17th
  
  1929: Formula One racing driver Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE is born--West Kensington, London, England.
  (He dies 12 April 2020 at age 90--Mayfair, London,England.)

  

  James Bond's secret mission: to save Stirling Moss

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11133873/James-Bonds-secret-mission-to-save-Stirling-Moss.html

  Anthony Horowitz is to write a new James Bond novel based on a previously
  unseen Ian Fleming story about a secret Russian plot to sabotage a Stirling
  Moss race

  
  British racing driver Stirling Moss in his vehicle at Silverstone Photo: Getty Images

  By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor |
  6:00AM BST 02 Oct 2014
  
  James Bond villains are usually bent on destroying the world order, but a newly unearthed Ian Fleming story reveals a more surprising target: Sir Stirling Moss.
  
  Murder on Wheels finds 007 attempting to foil a Russian plot to sabotage the British racing driver by forcing his car off the track at the Nürburgring.
  
  Fleming wrote the story as a synopsis for a US television episode. It was one of several commissioned by the US network CBS in the 1950s.
  
  They had already screened Fleming’s early story, Casino Royale, in 1954 – albeit an Americanised version in which the spy was re-named “Jimmy Bond”.
  
  Murder on Wheels never made it to the screen because the television episodes were discarded when the Bond films became hits.
  
  But the story will be used as a starting point for a new Bond novel, to be written by Anthony Horowitz, details of which were announced yesterday.
  
  The novel has been commissioned by the Fleming estate, and Horowitz follows Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Deaver and William Boyd in attempting to produce a story faithful to Fleming’s vision.
  
  Horowitz is creator of the television series Foyle’s War and author of the Alex Rider books about a teenage spy. He recently wrote a Sherlock Holmes novel at the behest of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, but said taking on 007 presented a bigger challenge.
  
  “It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse?” he said yesterday.
  
  “It’s a huge challenge – more difficult even than Sherlock Holmes in some ways – but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.”
  
  Horowitz will use the motor racing theme but it is understood he will remove references to Sir Stirling, who is now 85.
  
  Lucy Fleming, the author’s niece, said of the unseen source material: “There are various scripts and things that Ian wrote in the 1950s, commissioned by an American broadcasting company. But, of course, once the films took off they never got made.
  
  “It is a ‘treatment’ for a television episode and quite short, not a full script. James Bond gets called into M’s office and his mission is to make sure that a Russian plot to sabotage Stirling Moss’s race by forcing him to crash is intercepted.
  
  “It is 50 years this year since Ian died and we thought it would be really nice if we could use some of his original imagination and storytelling.”
  
  Miss Fleming said she believed it was the only instance of her uncle using a real-life character in one of his books, although they were occasionally included in the films: Janet Brown made a comic appearance as Baroness Thatcher in the closing scenes of For Your Eyes Only.

  

  Stirling Moss

  (1929–2020)
  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609090/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Stirling Moss in the 1967 Casino Royale, far right
  
  
  
  
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/1948_Maserati_4CLT
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  1941: Philip Méheux, BSC is born--Kent, South East England.
  
  1951: Ian Fleming writes a letter to journalist-spy Antony Terry.

  

  James Bond 007: Ian
  Fleming Signed
  Typewritten Letter
  (Beckett/BAS LOA)

  https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot/james-bond-007-ian-fleming-signed-typewritten-letter-beckett-bas-loa-5sR5eg-QCp
  ABOUT THE ITEM

  Ian Fleming could never have guessed the impact his creation would have on British culture, cinema, or the world's perception of British espionage. The enduring adoration for James Bond is something which could never had been conceived as Fleming sat down in Jamaica in January 1952, and succeeded in his quest to write the spy story to end all spy stories. Offered here is an ultra-rare letter written from Fleming to journalist and spy Antony Terry, dated September 17, 1951 - clearly, Fleming's interest in espionage had already begun at this point! Antony Terry was a giant of Cold War journalism, a Nazi-hunter, a spy, and a master manipulator - Fleming himself called Terry "by far the best correspondent in Germany". In this particular letter, Fleming praises Terry for his work on a certain assignment in Germany, naming it "as the most important politically of any of our correspondents". He finishes the letter hoping that Terry's "shoulders now feel strong enough to assume the mantle which [he was] intent on thrusting upon them". The typewritten letter on Kemsley House letterhead is signed in black steel tip, "Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming". Fleming has also handwritten at the top "Dear Antony Terry". In good condition with two horizontal folds and minor handling wear. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services (BAS).

  
  

  1958: Ian Fleming responds to Miss Joanne Russell's letter from San Francisco complimenting his books.

  

  549 Ian Fleming

  https://www.icollector.com/Ian-Fleming_i9360965
  Item Description

  TLS, one page, 5 x 8, Kemsley House letterhead, September 17, 1958. Letter of thanks to an admirer. In part, “How very kind of you to have taken the trouble to write to me and I am delighted that the rather harum-scarum of James Bond entertain you. They seem to entertain most people with the vivid and adventurous spirit which I expect you have.” Fleming has also handwritten the greeting and the closing sentiment, “Yours ever.” In very good to fine condition, with some scattered light creasing and mounting remnants to the reverse lightly showing through at each corner.
  
  To be sure, Fleming’s creation has not only entertained people, but spawned a franchise that has spanned more than 50 years and infiltrated not only the literary world but, of course, motion pictures. Not bad for the reckless “harum-scarum” promulgated by the title character and his license to kill. Fleming’s sixth Bond book, Dr. No, had been published just six months before this friendly letter, with eight more books yet to come. A highly desirable Bond reference.
  
  Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.

  

  
  1964: London premiere of Goldfinger at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London. Kinematograph Weekly later reports it as chaotic with 5,000 fans creating near-riot conditions drawing police reinforcements. In fact police rescue Honor Blackman from the surging crowds.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: BBC airs The Guns of James Bond with Sean Connery and the real Geoffrey Boothroyd.

  

  The Guns of James Bond

  1964 | 5min

  Short 1964 black-and-white documentary featurette hosted by Sean Connery and featuring the real-life inspiration for the character of Q, Major Geoffrey Boothroyd with a discussion of the gun weaponry used by James Bond.

  Stars
  Geoffrey Boothroyd
  Sean Connery

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0143mf5
  
  
  

  1966: CBS-TV premieres Mission: Impossible.
  
  1972: ABC-TV airs the first televised Bond film with the network premiere of Goldfinger. Its 49-point share and 31.1 rating remains one of the most-watched television programs ever.

  Goldfinger at 10:10
  

  1977: Älskade spion (Beloved Spy) released in Sweden.

  
  

  
  1982: Kingsley Amis reviews John Gardner's For Special Services in The Times Literary Supplement.

  

  Kingsley Amis,
  licence to kill

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kingsley-amis-licence-to-kill/

  We revisit a review by Kingsley Amis of For
  Special Services, a James Bond novel by John
  Gardner, published in the TLS of September 17,
  1982.

  Ian Fleming’s last novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, appeared in 1965, the year after its author’s death. I published Colonel Sun: a James Bond adventure under the pseudonym of Robert Markham in 1968. The next Bond novel, Licence Renewed, by John Gardner, did not come along till 1981. Here now is For Special Services, by the same author.
  
  Quite likely it ill becomes a man placed as I am to say that, whereas its predecessor was bad enough by any reasonable standard, the present offering is an unrelieved disaster all the way from its aptly forgettable title to the photograph of the author – surely an unflattering likeness – on the back of the jacket. If so that is just my bad luck. On the other hand, perhaps I can claim the privilege of at least a momentary venting of indignation at the disrepute into which this publication brings the name and works of Ian Fleming. Let me get something like that said before I have to start being funny and clever and risk letting the thing escape through underkill.
  
  Over the last dozen years the Bond of the books must have been largely overlaid in the popular mind by the Bond of the films, a comic character with a lot of gadgets and witty remarks at his disposal. The temptation to let this Bond go the same way must have been considerable, but it has been resisted. Only once is he called upon to round off an action sequence with a yobbo-tickling throwaway of the sort that Sean Connery used to be so good at dropping out of the side of his mouth. No ridiculous feats are required of him. His personal armament seems plausible, his car seems capable of neither flight nor underwater locomotion, his cigarettes in the gunmetal case have the three gold rings as always and M calls him 007.
  
  Nobody else does, though. The designation is a pure honorific like Warden of the Cinque Ports; some ruling from Brussels or The Hague has put paid to the pristine Double-O Section and its licence to kill long ago. Even the cigarettes are low-tar. But these and similar changes would hardly show if he had been allowed to keep some other interests and bits of himself, or find new ones. Does he still drink champagne with scrambled eggs and sausages? Wear a lightweight black-and-white dog-tooth check suit in the country? Do twenty slow press-ups each morning? Read Country Life? Ski, play baccarat and golf for high stakes, dive in scuba gear? What happened to that elegant international scene with its grand hotels and yachts? No information.
  
  One thing Bond still does is have girls. There are three in this book, not counting a glimpse of Miss Moneypenny outside M’s door. The first is there just for local colour, around at the start, to be dropped as soon as the wheels start turning. She is called Q’ute because she comes from Q Branch. (Q himself is never mentioned, lives only in the films, belongs body and soul to Cubby Broccoli, the producer.) Q’ute is liberated and a champion of feminism. Luckily she only has two lines, but one of these contains a jovial mild obscenity, and a moment later there comes a terrifically subtle reference to the famous moment in the film of Dr No when Bond said, “Something big’s come up” in ambiguous circumstances and got the hoped-for laugh from the first audiences, thus, legend says, turning the subsequent films on to their giggly course. When you consider how much the original Bond would have hated these small manifestations of what the world has become since 1960 or so, you might be led to suspect a furtive taking of the piss, but nothing like it occurs again, as if Gardner, not the most self-assured of writers, had repented of his daring.
  
  Bond’s second girl has the cacophonous and uncertainly suggestive name of Cedar Leiter – yes, kin to that Felix Leiter of the CIA whom sharks deprived of an arm and half a leg in Live and Let Die (1954). Cedar is his daughter, a superfluous and unprofitable device that raises that thorniest of all questions, Bond’s age in 1982. Bond keeps his hands off her throughout, perhaps out of scruple but more likely because only a satyromaniac would find her appealing. She is described as short – a deadly word. An attractive girl may be small, tiny, petite, pocket-sized and such, but never short. Poor Cedar has no style or presence, no skills or accessories, no colour, no shape. And it is this wan creature whom Bond instantly accepts as his partner for the whole enterprise. In a Fleming novel – I nearly wrote “in real life” – Bond would have outrun sound getting away from her. To be accurate, of course, he would have done that even if she had been Pussy Galore or Domino Vitali all over again. He knew all about the way women “hang on your gun-arm” and “fog things up with sex and hurt feelings”. But then that was 1953.
  
  Bond scores all right with the third of the present trio, Nena Bismaquer, née Blofeld and the revengeful daughter of his old enemy, a detail meant to be a stunning revelation near the end but you guess it instantly. Nena – let me find the place – Nena looks fantastic and has incredible black eyes. Her voice is low and clear, with a tantalizing trace of accent. She wears exceptionally well-cut jeans and has that special poise which combines all the attributes Bond most admires in a woman. When she sees him first she gives him a smile calculated to make even the most misogynistic male buckle at the knees. As she comes closer, he feels a charge, an unmistakable chemistry passing between them. From expressions like these you can estimate the amount of trouble Gardner has taken with the figure of Nena and indeed the general level of his performance. It remains to be said about her that she has a long, slender nose and – by nature, not surgery – only one breast, an arresting combination of defects. Nobody really cares when she gets thrown among the pythons on the bayou. Well, there are pythons on this bayou.
  
  There are two other villains round the place about whose villainy no bones are made from the beginning, Nena’s husband Markus and his boyfriend Walter Luxor. One is fat and cherubic, the other of corpse-like appearance, but neither exudes a particle of menace or looks for a moment as if he would be any trouble to kill, and Nena casually knocks them off one after the other on a late page. The three had schemed to steal the computer tapes governing America’s military space-satellites, having fed drugged ice-cream to the personnel in charge of them. Bond, brainwashed by other drugs into believing himself to be a US general, is at the head of the party of infiltrators, but a third set of drugs, administered by a suddenly renegade Bisma­quer, brings him to himself just in time. This sounds, I know, like a renewed and more radical bid to take the piss, but seen in the context of the whole book and its genesis the absurdity, however gross, is contingent, mere blundering.
  
  I have suggested that For Special Services has little to do with the Bond films. In one sense this is its misfortune. Those films cover up any old implausibility or inconsistency by piling one outrage on another. You start to say to yourself “But he wouldn’t –” or “But they couldn’t –” and before you can finish Bond is crossing the sunward side of the planet Mercury in a tropical suit or sinking a Soviet aircraft-carrier with his teeth. Hardly a page in the book would not have gone the smoother for a diversion of this sort. Why, for instance, does the New York gang boss set his hoods on Bond when all he has to do is ask him nicely? Echo answers why. The reader is offered no relief from his bafflement.
  
  What makes Mr Gardner’s book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth. Ian Fleming himself would have conceded that he was not the greatest delineator of character; even so his people have genuine life and substance and many of them both experience and inspire feeling. So far from being “the man who is only a silhouette” Bond is shown to be fully capable of indignation, compunction, remorse, tenderness and a protective instinct towards defenceless creatures. His girls have a liveliness, a tenacity and sometimes a claim on affection beyond the requirements of formula. Most of the Fleming books also have a more or less flamboyant figure assisting Bond and acting as a foil to him, such as Darko Kerim, the Turkish agent in From Russia, with Love, and Enrico Colombo, the virtuous black-marketeer and smuggler in “Risico”. By a kind of tradition, however, perhaps started by Buchan with Dominick Medina in The Three Hostages, the main character-interest in this type of novel attaches to the villain. Mr Big, Hugo Drax, Dr No and their like are persons of some size and power. They are made to seem to exist in their own right, to have been operating since long before Bond crossed their paths, rather than to have been run up on the spot for him to practise on. But then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material.

  

  1986: The Living Daylights second unit films the pre-title action sequence in Gibraltar.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 2 of 65 - "Earthcracker." [Also "Earth Cracker"; "Earth-Cracker"]

  

  

  James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
  Earth Cracker (1991)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

  Bond, I.Q. and Tracy travel to find El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold. They are met by Oddjob and Goldfinger and their deadly weapon, Earth Cracker.

  
  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Mel Gilden ... (written by)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr 02 Earth Cracker
  
  

  
  
  

  
  2007: The Irish Examiner reports the Sunday Express reports Bond producers pass on Amy Winehouse

  

  Winehouse rejected by
  Bond producers?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30328182.html

  Mon, 17 Sep, 2007
  
  British singer Amy Winehouse has been dumped by 'James Bond' producers over her recent 'bad behaviour', according to reports.
  
  The Rehab star was rumoured to be in talks with bosses from the superspy franchise to record the theme tune to the next Bond movie, but her hospitalisation last month after three days of hard partying has allegedly place the deal in jeopardy.
  
  Composer David Arnold - who penned the soundtrack to the last four Bond movies - was on the verge of asking Winehouse to sing the theme tune after praising the star for having "the best record of last year", but the film's producers have now had second thoughts.
  
  A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express: "A month ago Amy was thought to be a shoo-in for the theme tune to Bond 22. Her voice and musical style was in perfect sync with what Bond is all about.
  
  "There was even talk of her having a cameo by performing the theme tune in a smoky club Bond visits - but that's out of the window now.
  
  "After all the reports of hard drug use, self-injury and domestic violence, it's fair to say the bosses here aren't keen on the idea."

  
  2010: Former Fleming sports car 1962 AC Aceca Coupé goes to auction at Bonhams.

  

  Bond Creator Ian Fleming’s Sports Car Sells For Record
  Price

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.elitetraveler.com/travel/travel-news/bond-creator-ian-flemings-sports-car-sells-for-record-price

  By webadmin | September 24 2010
  London, UK – Reported by Elite Traveler, the Private Jet Lifestyle Magazine
  
  A 1962 AC Aceca Coupé once owned by the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, sold for a believed record £80,000 on Friday 17 September at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale. Dark blue with a red leather interior, the car is one of only six surviving Ford-powered Acecas in the world.
  
  The Goodwood Revival sale, which realised over £3 million with 70% sold by lot, was the culmination of an excellent week for Bonhams UK Motoring Department. Within the space of six days, it has sold £5,000,000 worth of motor cars, motorcycles and automobilia. (Beaulieu Autojumble on Saturday 11 September totalled £2 million).
  
  Another motor car once owned by a high-profile figure, a 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 Convertible that belonged to Sarah, Duchess of York, also featured in the Goodwood Revival sale, and sold for £23,000.
  
  Meanwhile top prices were paid for a 1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Cabriolet, at £188,500; a 1938 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupé, which sold for £186,300; and a 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Series 1 Sports Saloon, the 26th ever produced, which made £145,600.
  
  A collection of motor cars, the property of a titled gentleman, performed exceptionally well. A 1956 Jaguar XK140 Drophead Coupé sold for £131,300, against an estimate of £80,000 – 100,000 and ’67 ARX’ an ex-works 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 MKII Rally car fetched £113,700 having been estimated at £70,000 – 100,000.
  
  In the automobilia sale, children’s cars proved extremely popular: a child’s Mercedes-Benz W125 smashed its pre-sale estimate of £3,000 – 5,000, selling for a remarkable £23,000, and a Jaguar D-Type children’s car sold for £19,550 against an estimate of £10,000 – 12,000.
  
  Although bidding for the top lot in the sale, a 1953 Jaguar C-Type, fell short of its reserve on Friday, Bonhams is currently involved in on-going discussions to conclude a sale.
  
  The replica Supermarine Spitfire owned by The Royal British Legion, which was due to be sold at Goodwood Revival, sold ahead of the auction – to a buyer who magnanimously will continue to make the aircraft available to the charity – in excess of its estimate (£50,000 – 60,000).
  
  James Knight, the Group Head and Managing Director of Bonhams’ Motoring Department, comments: “The UK motoring team have experienced an incredibly busy period and emerged with very positive statistics. Only Bonhams could handle this type of sale schedule and it is a testament to the calibre and enthusiasm of my team and our support departments to deliver these results.”

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Monica Belucci says she's a Bond Lady, a Bond woman.

  

  Monica Bellucci: ‘I’m not a Bond girl,
  I’m a Bond woman’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/17/monica-bellucci-james-bond-spectre-bond-woman

  The actor, soon to be seen in the new James Bond movie Spectre, on why 007 is the perfect man – and what draws her to roles in ‘violent and unwatchable’ films

  
  Monica Bellucci … 'Bond is the most amazing man'. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

  Nigel M Smith | @nigelmfs | Thu 17 Sep 2015
  
  Hi Monica! You’re about to become the oldest James Bond love interest in history (1). Why do you think your casting struck such a nerve?
  Because the world is a man’s world. Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they’re not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true – they are still amazing! That’s why I think that Sam Mendes [director of the new James Bond film, Spectre], in choosing me, an adult woman, created a big revolution.
  
  I don’t know Hollywood very well. I’ve never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they’re not 20.
  
  Some people take offence at the term Bond girl. Do you?
  I can’t say I’m a Bond girl because I’m too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; Bond woman. But I’m proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man. You know why?
  
  Why?
  Because he doesn’t exist.
  
  I’ve just seen your new film, Ville-Marie, at the Toronto film festival. You play an actress in it. How was that?
  First of all she’s a woman – with so many problems. She uses the fact that she’s an actress in the way a solider protects himself with a weapon. Because when she goes out in public, the people look for an image, not who she is. People think she’s beautiful, famous and special. And actually she feels like less than nothing.

  
  Bellucci and Daniel Craig on the set of Spectre. Photograph: Getty Images.

  Could you relate to that?
  I hope not! But if you ask me why I’m an actress – I don’t know why. There is one beautiful sentence that Humphrey Bogart used to say ... not Humphrey Bogart! Richard Burton! Richard Burton used to say: “An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.” (2) I don’t know what that’s about. But it’s just something that I need to do right now. Maybe in 10 years I won’t be an actress any more. But right now, to play is something I need. It’s one way of learning something about myself.
  
  I hope that I’m a better mother to my children. But I have two girls (3); if I had a boy maybe it would be more difficult. The relationship with my girls is very beautiful. But I think I can understand the pain for a mother who doesn’t have a good relation with her son. I don’t think there’s bigger pain than that.

  
  Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux on the set of Spectre.

  What draws you to more extreme films like Irréversible? (4)
  My body is an object of work. That’s why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you’re a pianist, you have your piano. If you’re a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you’re a dancer, or you’re an actor – your instrument is your body.
  
  For example, when we see dancers while they’re dancing, it’s like they fly up in the air. The most touching moment of my life was when I went to the Bolshoi in Moscow: I’ve never seen such elevation of art. But I’m sure that when the dancers got back into their little room, their feet were full of blood. While they’re dancing, they don’t feel the blood. It’s more of a high than pain. I think actors can do things with their body – it’s like they forget they are inside. They can do things without being ashamed.
  
  Do you ever feel you go too far?
  Sometimes I ask why directors ask that I do things that are so violent. I don’t know. Beauty is like a mask, and people think that when you’re beautiful, some things can be easier. For example, I was very shy early in my life. When I started to be pretty I was less shy because people would come to me, instead of me coming to them. But even though the problems are still the same, there’s a moment in your life where the beauty of youth goes away. Even though you say I’m pretty, I’m 50 years old, not 20. There is a moment in your life when you have to deal, because time goes by. All I can say is that I’m ready for it.
  
  Footnotes
  (1) In Spectre, out in late October. Bellucci is … 51.
  (2) The quotation appears on various websites as “An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman”. It was Richard Burton, though.
  (3) Bellucci has two children with actor Vincent Cassel, from whom she separated in 2013.
  (4) Gaspar Noé’s 2002 hardcore drama, co-starring Cassel. The critic Roger Ebert called it “so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable”.

  
  2020: Rosamund Pike says she'd love to return to her Bond film role.

  

  James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to
  return to 007 franchise – despite
  character death

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.truehollywoodtalk.com/james-bond-star-would-love-to-return-to-007-franchise-despite-character-death/

  By True Hollywood Talk - September 17, 2020
  
  James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to return to 007 franchise – despite character death
  
  During this, the star was asked about her character, Frost, and if she would make her way back to the franchise.

  “I would love to tackle that character again,” she answered without skipping a beat.

  She then went on to give her hopes for what Frost could do in another film.

  Pike continued: “I’d like her to have the experience that I now have, not just as an actress but as a woman."

  
  
  
  

  
  2022: John Higgs in The Spectator proposes James Bond and the Beatles at war for Britain's Soul.

  

  James Bond and the Beatles at war
  for Britain’s soul

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/james-bond-and-the-beatles-at-war-for-britain-s-soul

  The two post-war British phenomena, one representing Death,
  the other Love, are contrasted in many other ingenious ways
  by John Higgs
  
  From magazine issue: 17 September 2022

  
  Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (1962).
  The agent, a professional killer, represents Death, according to John Higgs,
  whereas the Beatles represent Love. [Shutterstock]

  Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
  John Higgs
  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 516, £20
  
  ‘Better use your sense,’ advised Bob Dylan: ‘take what you have gathered from coincidence.’ John Higgs is a master of taking what he can gather from coincidence – or, as he would insist, synchronicity. From the filigree of connections and echoes in the KLF (Discordianism through the lens of 1990s pop provocateurs) to the psychogeography of Watling Street to more recent deep dives into William Blake, he confronts the modern Matter of Britain: who wields power, and who resists it?
  
  Love and Let Die starts with another perfect coincidence, namely that it was 60 years ago – to be precise, 5 October 1962 – that saw the first Beatles single appear in shops and the first James Bond film appear in cinemas. From this, Higgs conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades, as the parallel stories of Bond and the Beatles cross over, contrast with, quarrel with and occasionally enhance each other.
  
  From the dual release of ‘Love Me Do’ and Dr. No, the protagonists keep rubbing up against each other. Help!, the Beatles’ second film, is essentially a Bond homage. Paul McCartney resurrected a dead-in-the-water solo career with a Bond theme. Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach, The Spy Who Loved Me’s Major Anya Amasova. The agent, for his part, was snootier. ‘My dear girl,’ Bond tells Jill Masterson in Goldfinger, ‘there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.’ But, as Higgs notes, the character

  “knew exactly which restaurant, tailor or brand of vermouth was the finest,
  and always insisted on having the very best for himself. But his mastery only
  extends to the material world, and music, along with the emotions it
  generates, are [sic] immaterial. Bond no more has good taste in music than he
  has an understanding of empathy or intimacy.
  

  For Higgs, the Beatles represent Love: Love Me Do. She Loves You. Can’t Buy Me Love. All You Need is Love. Bond, a professional killer, represents Death: Die Another Day. Live and Let Die. No Time to Die. Eros and Thanatos are at war for the soul of post-war Britain. The contrasts are everywhere. The Beatles are northern; Bond southern. Boys like Bond; girls like the Beatles. The Beatles liked football; Bond is interested only in single-player sports. The dualities extend to minute matters of taste: the Beatles floated on a sea of tea, as anyone who has watched Get Back can attest; Bond (‘be a good girl and make me some coffee’) considered it ‘one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire’.
  
  This is a pointer to the key distinction: Bond represents a version of England that Higgs dubs the Norman Continuity Empire, the England of received pronunciation and private schooling and inherited wealth. Not only Bond, but Ian Fleming gets a rough ride from Higgs, who takes a lot of semi-aristocratic teasing perhaps too much at face value.
  
  In his account, Fleming was a child of privilege who repeatedly failed: expelled from Eton and from Sandhurst; his role in naval intelligence ‘a cushy job handed to him by family contacts’. Jonathan Cape had to be leant on to publish Casino Royale and its first admiring reviews were all from friends. (Later, vituperative reviews were often also from friends, at least notional ones.) The novels, shot through with wish-fulfilment, were ‘rushed and barely edited’: Higgs has a particular disdain for Thunderball’s sentence ‘It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture’, which in context is a perfectly fine example of Chandlerian laconic. The dark power of the novels is conceded through gritted teeth.
  
  The two worlds collided most recently at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. For Higgs, the section where Daniel Craig, in character, escorted the Queen by helicopter and the two appeared to parachute down to the stadium both acknowledged the Norman Continuity Empire and defanged it. ‘Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell-Boyce had used the banishing power of laughter to protect their ceremony from being claimed by the powers that be through mild ridicule.’ Then the stage was clear for a people’s version of Britain – the NHS, suffragettes and, inevitably, the Beatles, from giant yellow submarines to the Arctic Monkeys singing ‘Come Together’ to Paul McCartney leading a mass singalong of ‘Hey Jude’.
  
  The Beatles and Bond remain the only two post-war UK cultural colossi with multi-generational and global reach: Higgs notes that Doctor Who (whose lead has regenerated more often even than Bond) is largely an Anglophone phenomenon and that today’s teenagers are tiring of Harry Potter. But No Time to Die was the most successful western film since the pandemic. Get Back was watercooler TV and (since the book went to press) a new deluxe edition of Revolver has been announced.
  
  Higgs’s central thesis has an overarching explanatory power and he marshals a wide range of details. The duality may not be quite as sharp as he insists. The Kiss-Kiss is as central to Bond’s glamour as the Bang-Bang. The Beatles were no strangers to occasional cruelty and even violence (in Get Back, John jokes about having beaten and hospitalised a friend at Paul’s 21st birthday party six years earlier). And even if the lyrics celebrate love, rock music’s energy often contains a thrill of aggression. But Higgs’s final verdict, on how James Bond will return, is inarguable. ‘There is no reason why you can’t be emotionally intelligent behind the wheel of a really fast sports car.’ Indeed.
  
  Written by David Honigmann

  In The Beatles and Bond
  Eros and Thanatos are at
  war for the soul of
  post-war Britain

  
  2022: The Music of James Bond Without George Lazenby at Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

  

  

  Concertworks presents
  The Music of
  James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2022/contemporary-music/music-of-james-bond-with-george-lazenby

  17 September | Hamer Hall
  $79.90 - $189.90
  
  Performance dates & times
  Saturday 17 Sep
  7:30 PM
  
  Running Time
  2 hours 30 minutes (20 minute interval)
  Price range
  Premium
  Standard
  $189.90
  Senior
  $170.90
  
  Reserve
  Standard
  $79.90 - $159.90
  Senior
  $71.90 - $143.90

  The Music of James Bond will now proceed without George Lazenby in attendance.

  Come hear the evolution of the last 60 years of pop music through the world of 007.

  From the sassy brass of Shirley Bassey’s 'Goldfinger' to the haunting intimacy of Billie Eilish’s 'No Time To Die', the concert will take listeners on a musical journey covering every decade of the iconic film franchise. Featuring songs from legendary composers and songwriters including John Barry, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul McCartney, Bill Conti, David Arnold and Adele, this is set to be an unforgettable night of Bond music and the ultimate celebration on the 60th anniversary of the series.
  
  Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra will provide an unforgettable night of music, joined on stage by sensational vocalists Bonnie Anderson (Neighbours, SAS, winner Masked Singer and winner Australia’s Got Talent) and Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Jesus Christ Superstar, Swing On This), who prefer their martinis shaken not stirred.

  Please Note: Arts Centre Melbourne fully supports the decision of promoter Concertworks to remove Mr Lazenby from The Music of James Bond in light of Mr Lazenby’s language, comments and recollections during a recent performance at the Perth Concert Hall. The concert will now proceed without Mr Lazenby in attendance. If you are an existing ticket holder and no longer wish to attend please contact our team at least 2 hours prior to the commencement of the event on 1300 182 183 between 9:00am-4:30pm or email [email protected].
  
  Your safety and wellbeing
  Face masks are recommended indoors. Venue safety measures include high-grade air filtration, hand sanitiser stations, card-only payments and frequent venue cleaning. Read more about our COVIDSafe measures.
  Book with confidence
  
  For tickets booked through Arts Centre Melbourne, if a performance is cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19, you can receive a full refund. Tickets can also be exchanged for another performance date, subject to availability.

  I am beyond excited to be a part of this
  spectacular show. I still remember hearing
  the powerful Adele song ‘Skyfall’ for the
  first time, which is my all-time favourite
  musical moment of the James Bond
  cosmos.
  Bonnie Anderson

  I am thrilled to perform the iconic 007
  songbook with breathtaking orchestras
  across Australia, especially in this very
  special anniversary year.
  Luke Kennedy

  Featured Songs
  Program
  
  From Russia With Love
  Goldfinger
  Thunderball
  You Only Live Twice
  Diamonds Are Forever
  Live and Let Die
  The Man With The Golden Gun
  Nobody Does It Better
  Moonraker
  For Your Eyes Only
  A View To A Kill
  The Living Daylights
  Licence To Kill
  Goldeneye
  Tomorrow Never Dies
  You Know My Name
  Skyfall
  The Writings On The Wall
  No Time To Die

  
  
  
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  June 24 Posts: 13,812

  June 25th
  
  1945: Carly Simon is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
  
  1950: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea moves south and invades the Republic of Korea, beginning 3 years of combat followed by an armistice that continues today.

  S.Korea airs gratitude clip at N.Y. for Korean War UN veterans in 22 countries (2:10)
  
  
  Michael Caine on his Experience in the Army and Fighting in the Korean War (7:48)
  
  
  The Korean War and Michael Caine (6:17) [Stronger language here]
  

  
  1963: Norman Felton meets Fleming in London and learns that due to health issues, pressure from producers Broccoli and Saltzman, plus the Thunderball McClory legal suit he is leaving the "Solo" project.
  1965: Thunderball films Blofeld electrocuting SPECTRE #11.

  Or #9.
  

  
  1976: The Hollywood Reporter reports on Kevin McClory's suit delaying filming for The Spy Who Loved me.
  1979: The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a James Bond exhibit ending 30 June.
  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the UK.

  

  
  2015: Daniel Patrick Macnee dies at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.
  (Born 6 February 1922--Paddington, London, England.)

  

  Patrick Macnee’s Biography

  http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio/
  

  Details of Patrick Macnee’s Life
  Patrick Macnee was born into an aristocratic English family — his Father was a successful racehorse trainer and his mother was the lovely Dorothea Hastings, a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon (descendants of Robin Hood!). His parents divorced after his father ran off to India and his mother moved into Rooksnest, a bizarre household in Wiltshire, dominated by his mother’s lady lover, the formidable “Uncle” Evelyn. At age three, he was bundled off to Summer Fields Prep School near Oxford. Patrick then entered Eton College, where apart from an active role with the school’s dramatic society, he distinguished himself as the leading bookie and pornographer on campus — and was promptly expelled.
  
  Macnee went on to win a scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start in show business in 1941 with a small role in a stage production of Little Women. One year later he made his debut in films as an extra in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
  
  After serving as an officer in His Majesty’s Royal Britannic Navy (1942-46), Patrick resumed his career in stage and film roles. Commuting between Britain, America and Canada, where he helped to pioneer Canadian TV, Macnee starred in over 30 television plays and more than a dozen feature films during the busy post-war years. Patrick was in Hollywood from 1957-1959 for Les Girls and Mission of Danger for MGM; his TV credits during this time included various Playhouse 90’s, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and numerous stage appearances across the country.
  
  In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.

  His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.

  Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.
  
  One of his great pleasures these days is recording books on tape. Recent recordings include the Bible, eight of Jack Higgins’ thrillers and Peter Mayle’s Toujours Provence. Patrick’s entertaining autobiography, Blind In One Ear, was published in 1992.
  
  His latest book is a memoir, The Avengers: The Inside Story, which was re-published by Titan Books in January 2008, and is a companion to the digitally remastered home videos of the The Avengers and The New Avengers. Since their original release in 1998, the home videos, with episodes starring Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt have all ranked high on the Billboard Top 40 charts.
  
  After nearly 40 years on television, The Avengers came to the big screen with Ralph Fiennes in the role of John Steed. Carrying on the suave style created by Patrick Macnee, the new Steed continued to wear a bowler hat and carry a furled umbrella, but did not — to Macnee’s delight — carry a gun.
  
  In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.

  

  Patrick Macnee (1922–2015)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (174 credits)
  
  2003 The Low Budget Time Machine - Dr. Ballard
  2001 Frasier (TV Series) - Cecil Hedley
  - The Show Must Go Off (2001) ... Cecil Hedley
  2000 Family Law (TV Series) - Sir Thomas Matthews
  - Second Chance (2000) ... Sir Thomas Matthews
  
  1999 Nancherrow (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Awliscombe
  - Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
  - Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
  1997-1998 Spy Game (TV Series) - Dr. Quentin / Mr. Black
  - How Diplomatic of You (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
  - Go, Girl (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
  - Why Spy? (1997) ... Mr. Black
  1998 The Avengers - Invisible Jones (voice)
  1997-1998 NightMan (TV Series) - Dr. Walton - 6 episodes
  1997 NightMan (TV Movie) - Dr. Walton
  1997 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) - John Garrison
  - Discards (1997) ... John Garrison
  1996 Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (Video short) - Chauffeur
  1995 Thunder in Paradise 3 (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1994 Thunder in Paradise II (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1994 Thunder in Paradise (TV Series) - Edward Whitaker - 22 episodes
  1993-1994 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Steadman
  - Dragonswing II (1994) ... Steadman
  - Dragonswing (1993) ... Steadman
  1993 Thunder in Paradise (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1993 The Hound of London (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
  1993 Jack's Place (TV Series) - Henry
  - Faithful Henry (1993) ... Henry
  1992 Twenty-Four Robbers (Short) - Narrator (segment "Big Hungry Bear") (voice)
  1992 Coach (TV Series) - Mr. Thind
  - Dresswreckers (1992) ... Mr. Thind
  1985-1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull
  - The Dead File (1992) ... Dayton Whiting (as Patrick MacNee)
  - Sing a Song of Murder (1985) ... Oliver Trumbull
  1992 Dream On (TV Series) - Elliot Sterns
  - B.S. Elliot (1992) ... Elliot Sterns
  1990-1992 Super Force (TV Series) - E.B. Hungerford / E. B. Hungerford - 48 episodes
  1992 Waxwork II: Lost in Time - Sir Wilfred
  1992 Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (TV Movie) - Dr. John Watson
  1991 P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series) - Uncle Ray Bailey
  - I'd Kill to Direct (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Friend (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Smile, You're Dead (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Pilot (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey (as Patrick MacNee)
  1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
  1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (TV Movie) - Sir Colin
  1991 Eye of the Widow - Andrew Marcus
  1990 Super Force (TV Movie) - E.B. Hungerford
  1990 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Stendahl
  - Usher II (1990) ... Stendahl
  
  1989 Chill Factor - Carl Lawton
  1989 Dick Francis: Twice Shy (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
  1989 The Return of Sam McCloud (TV Movie) - Tom Jamison
  1989 Masque of the Red Death - Machiavel
  1989 Dick Francis: Blood Sport (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
  1989 Sorry, Wrong Number (TV Movie) - Nigel Evans
  1989 Where There's a Will (TV Movie) - Charles Crow-Finch
  1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  1989 Lobster Man from Mars - Professor Plocostomos
  1989 War of the Worlds (TV Series) - Valery Kedrov
  - Epiphany (1989) ... Valery Kedrov
  1988 Murphy's Law (TV Series) - Frank Houlighan
  - Do Someone a Favor and It Becomes Your Job (1988) ... Frank Houlighan
  1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Thaddeus
  - Survival of the Fittest (1988) ... Thaddeus
  1988 Transformations - Father Christopher
  1988 Waxwork - Sir Wilfred
  1985-1986 Lime Street (TV Series)
  Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Three Million Dollar Spirit (1986) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Wayward Train (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Mystery of Flight 401 (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  1986 Blacke's Magic (TV Series) - Beechum
  - It's a Jungle Out There (1986) ... Beechum
  1986 Mary (TV Series) - Burke
  - Beans (1986) ... Burke
  1986 Club Med (TV Movie) - Gilbert Anthony Paige
  1985 Shadey - Sir Cyril Landau
  1985 Hotel (TV Series) - Edmund Bradshaw
  - Hearts and Minds (1985) ... Edmund Bradshaw
  1985 A View to a Kill - Tibbett
  1984 The Love Boat (TV Series) - David Blake
  - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master (1984) ... David Blake
  1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Matthew Grade
  - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1984) ... Matthew Grade
  1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
  - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
  1984 This Is Spinal Tap - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg (as Patrick MacNee)
  1984 Empire (TV Series) - Calvin Cromwell - 6 episodes
  1983 For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-Series) - Major Vickers
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Major Vickers
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Major Vickers
  1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (TV Movie) - Doctor Bloom (segment "School, Girls & You!")
  1983 Automan (TV Series) - Lydell Hamilton
  - Automan (1983) ... Lydell Hamilton
  1983 The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (TV Movie) - Sir John Raleigh
  1982-1983 Gavilan (TV Series) - Milo Bentley - 9 episodes
  1983 Sweet Sixteen - Dr. John Morgan
  1982 Young Doctors in Love - Jacobs
  1982 Rehearsal for Murder (TV Movie) - David Mathews
  1981 House Calls (TV Series) - Uncle Digby
  - Uncle Digby (1981) ... Uncle Digby
  1981 The Creature Wasn't Nice - Dr. Stark
  1981 The Hot Touch - Vincent Reyblack
  1981 Comedy of Horrors (TV Movie) - Host
  1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Melford
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 5 (1981) ... Lord Melford
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Lord Melford
  1981 The Howling - Dr. George Waggner
  1981 Vega$ (TV Series) - Lyle Jeffries
  - Murder by Mirrors (1981) ... Lyle Jeffries
  1980 The Sea Wolves - Major Yogi Crossley
  1980 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Elmer
  - Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend (1980) ... Elmer
  
  1979 King Solomon's Treasure - Capt. Good R.N.
  1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Boudreau
  1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Horatio Black
  1979 Sweepstakes (TV Series) - Rodney
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Rodney
  1978-1979 Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Imperious Leader / Count Iblis / Opening Credit Announcer
  - War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979) ... Count Iblis
  - War of the Gods: Part 1 (1979) ... Count Iblis
  - The Living Legend: Part 2 (1978) ... Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  - Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 1 (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  - Saga of a Star World (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - S
  - Assault on the Tower (1978) ... S
  1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Ian Waldeigh
  - Part II (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
  - Part I (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
  1978 Battlestar Galactica - Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  1976-1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed - 26 episodes
  1977 Dead of Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Gheria (segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire") (as Patrick MacNee)
  1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
  1975 Matt Helm (TV Series) - Shawcross
  - Matt Helm (1975) ... Shawcross
  1975 Caribe (TV Series) - Hendy
  - The Patriots (1975) ... Hendy
  1975 Khan! (TV Series) - Marcus Graham
  - A Game of Terror (1975) ... Marcus Graham
  1975 Columbo (TV Series) - Capt. Gibbon
  - Troubled Waters (1975) ... Capt. Gibbon
  1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Wag Frazer
  - Frame (1974) ... Wag Frazer
  1974 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Charles Foster
  - A Time to Remember (1974) ... Charles Foster
  1973 Diana (TV Series) - Bryan Harris
  - You Can't Go Back (1973) ... Bryan Harris
  1972 The Woman I Love (TV Movie) - Lord Brownlow
  1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
  - The Different Ones/Tell David.../Logoda's Heads (1971) ... Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
  1971 Incense for the Damned - Derek Longbow
  1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Norman Alexander
  - The Man Who Murdered Himself (1971) ... Norman Alexander
  1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) - Dudley
  1970 The Virginian (TV Series) - Connor
  - A King's Ransom (1970) ... Connor
  
  1961-1969 The Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed / Basil - 161 episodes
  1960-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
  Arthur / Algernon Moncrieff / David Manning
  - The Long Nightmare (1966) ... Arthur
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Innocent (1960) ... David Manning
  1966 Conflict (TV Series) - Thomas Mendip
  - The Lady's Not for Burning (1966) ... Thomas Mendip
  1964-1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Richard Page / Crawford / Alan
  - The Small Hours (1966) ... Richard Page
  - I Love, You Love, We Love (1964) ... Crawford
  - Divorce, Divorce (1964) ... Alan
  1964 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Captain Carvallo
  - Captain Carvallo (1964) ... Captain Carvallo
  1962 The Winter's Tale (TV Movie) - Polixenes
  1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Keith Salesby
  - Lucky Strike (1960) ... Keith Salesby
  1952-1960 Encounter (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Pine / Kesson / Mr. Darcy / ... - 29 episodes
  1960 The Hill (TV Movie) - Centurion
  1960 Startime (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff / Frank Hunter
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1960) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Browning Version (1960) ... Frank Hunter
  1960 The Unforeseen (TV Series) - Cyrus
  - The Tintype (1960) ... Cyrus
  1960/I Shadow of a Pale Horse (TV Movie) - Kirk
  
  1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Colonel O'Neill
  - The Bamboo Curtain (1959) ... Colonel O'Neill
  1959 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - First Officer McLeod
  - Judgment Night (1959) ... First Officer McLeod
  1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Johnny / An attorney
  - Misalliance (1959) ... Johnny
  - Verdict of Three (1958) ... An attorney
  1959 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - British Captain
  - The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother (1959) ... British Captain (as Patrick MacNee)
  - The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox (1959) ... British Captain
  1959 Rawhide (TV Series) - Henry Watkins
  - Incident of the 13th Man (1959) ... Henry Watkins
  1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Professor Kersley / Sgt. John Theron
  - The Crystal Trench (1959) ... Professor Kersley
  - Arthur (1959) ... Sgt. John Theron
  1959 Markham (TV Series) - John White
  - The Counterfeit Stamps (1959) ... John White
  1959 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Gilbert Burns
  - Robbie and His Mary (1959) ... Gilbert Burns
  1955-1959 Folio (TV Series) - Captain John Tregarthen / Macduff
  - Iron Harp (1959) ... Captain John Tregarthen
  - Macbeth (1955) ... Macduff
  1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Eric Farley
  - Night of April 14th (1959) ... Eric Farley
  1959 Black Saddle (TV Series) - Michael Kent
  - Client: McQueen (1959) ... Michael Kent (as Patrick MacNee)
  1959 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Gilbert Farleigh
  - Dangerous Interlude (1959) ... Gilbert Farleigh
  1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable Hawton
  - Vision of Crime (1958) ... Constable Hawton
  1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Shaw
  - Strange Occurrence at Rokesay (1958) ... Sergeant Shaw
  1958 Northwest Passage (TV Series) - Colonel Trent
  - The Red Coat (1958) ... Colonel Trent
  1958 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Bill Cheever
  - Man Under Glass (1958) ... Bill Cheever
  1956-1958 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Mr. Andrews / Wealthy Playboy / Reginald Urquart - 6 episodes
  1956-1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) Don Pedro / Duke of Winterset / John Smith / ... - 9 episodes
  1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Captain John Biersdorf
  - Voice in the Night (1958) ... Captain John Biersdorf
  1955-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Lieutenant Honeywell / George / Henty / ... - 9 episodes
  1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Charles Daurigny
  - No Boat for Four Months (1958) ... Lt. Charles Daurigny
  1957 Until They Sail - Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
  1957 First Performance (TV Series) - Julian Shaw
  - Seeds of Power (1957) ... Julian Shaw
  1957 Les Girls - Sir Percy
  1957 Pacific 13 (TV Series) - Famous Young Writer
  - Child Wife (1957) ... Famous Young Writer
  - The Transient Guest (1957)
  1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Lieutenant Commander Medley R.N.
  1956 The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) - Charlie
  - The Piper of St. James (1956) ... Charlie
  1956 Playwrights '56 (TV Series) - Guy Cartwright
  - Keyhole (1956) ... Guy Cartwright
  1956 Star Tonight (TV Series) - - The Girl (1956)
  1956 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Quayle
  - The Case of Colonel Petrov (1956) ... Quayle
  1956 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Lucius Septimus
  - Caesar and Cleopatra (1956) ... Lucius Septimus
  1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Don Juan / Captain Carvallo
  - The Return of Don Juan (1955) ... Don Juan
  - Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Captain Carvallo
  1955 Scope (TV Series) - Horatio
  - Hamlet (1955) ... Horatio
  - The Verdict Was Treason (1955)
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Guard Subaltern (uncredited)
  1953/II The Affair at Assino (TV Movie)
  1950-1953 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
  Lodovico / Captain Marchant / Peter / ... - 6 episodes
  1952-1953 Tales of Adventure (TV Series) - Roger Sudden - 12 episodes
  1951 Nocturne in Scotland (TV Movie) - Duke of Argyll
  1951 A Christmas Carol - Young Jacob Marley (as Patrick MacNee)
  1951 Flesh and Blood - Sutherland
  1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie)
  1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Hon. John Bristow
  1950 Dick Barton at Bay - Phillips (as Patrick McNee)
  1950 Seven Days to Noon - Bit Part (uncredited)
  1950 The Girl Is Mine - Hugh Hurcombe
  1950 Ten Minute Alibi (TV Movie) - Colin Derwent
  
  1949 Myself a Stranger (TV Movie) - Dick Tumbull
  1949 All Over the Town - Mr. Vince (uncredited)
  1949 Macbeth/II (TV Movie) - Malcolm
  1949 Macbeth (TV Movie) - Malcolm
  1949 Hour of Glory - Man at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
  1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
  1948 The Fatal Night - Tony
  1948 Wuthering Heights (TV Movie) - Edgar Linton
  1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 The Brontes (TV Movie) - Rev. William Weightman
  1947 A Month in the Country (TV Movie) - Beliaev
  1946 Arms and the Man (TV Movie) - An officer
  1946 Morning Departure (TV Movie) - Stoker Marks (credit only)
  1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Extra (uncredited)
  1938 Pygmalion - Extra (uncredited)
  
  Costume and Wardrobe Department (1 credit)
  
  The Avengers (TV Series) (wardrobe designer - 23 episodes, 1968 - 1969) (wardrobe - 1 episode, 1968) - 24 episodes
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1990 The ITV Chart Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 1 December 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
  1990 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 29 November 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
  
  1970 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Treppen (1970) ... (performer: "Mit Schirm und mit Charme und Melone" - uncredited)
  
  1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Too Many Christmas Trees (1965) ... (performer: "The Grand Old Duke of York", "Green Grow the Rushes, O" - uncredited)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1960-1961)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Bryan Marshall dies at age 81--Australia.
  (Born 19 May 1938--Battersea, London, England.)

  

  Bryan Marshall obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/bryan-marshall-obituary

  Character actor admired for his role in the London gangster film
  The Long Good Friday

  
  Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, 1971.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  Anthony Hayward | Published on Thu 4 Jul 2019 12.56 EDT
  
  The actor Bryan Marshall, who has died aged 81, was a solid character actor who brought integrity and realism to the parts he played on screen in Britain throughout the 1960s and 70s. Many will remember him best for his pivotal role as the duplicitous Councillor Harris in the classic film The Long Good Friday (1979), which made a massive impact at the box office with its brutal tale of a London gangland boss, Harold Shand, played by Bob Hoskins, seeing his empire being threatened by rivals from the IRA.
  
  The drama, written by Barrie Keeffe and directed by John Mackenzie, brilliantly captures the dreary London of the 70s as it approaches a new decade of aspiration and docklands regeneration. Shand sees the development opportunities and Harris is on his payroll. For much of the film, Marshall is a silent presence, but that changes when his character gets drunk at a dinner with potential American mafia investors.
  
  Describing himself as a self-made man who rose from the gutter, he tries to sell the idea of developing “a magnificent, high in the sky hotel, something to be proud of”, but is too loud for their liking. When it emerges that he had a hand in the IRA’s attempt to take Shand’s empire, Harris ends up being shot and killed.

  Earlier, Marshall had put himself on the radar of James Bond fans when he was seen in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Commander Talbot, captain of a British nuclear submarine captured by a supertanker. It brought another grisly end for the actor when Talbot was killed by a grenade while storming the ship’s control room after Roger Moore’s 007 freed him and his crew.

  
  Bryan Marshall, right, and Andrew Keir in the film Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.
  Photograph: Hammer Film/Allstar/Studiocanal

  Marshall’s talent was largely lost to British film and TV producers and directors after he moved to Australia in 1983, although he made a few returns to his homeland and was seen in Australian soaps broadcast in Britain.
  
  He was born in Battersea, south London, and on leaving the local Salesian college went through jobs in an insurance office and as a sales rep while acting with amateur companies. His ambition to act full-time was realised after he trained at Rada (1961-63). He found work in repertory theatres before coming to the attention of a nationwide audience during a six-month run as the fictional Brentwich United’s awkward club captain Jack Birkett in the BBC football soap United!, from its first episode in 1965 until 1966.
  
  Marshall returned to soap in 1971 with a one-off role in Coronation Street as Trevor Parkin, who attended a horticultural lecture given by Albert Tatlock and upstaged the host by showing greater knowledge of the subject. In between, on television he played Captain Dobbin in Vanity Fair (1967), Detective Sergeant Peach in Spindoe (1968), Gilbert Markham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968), Dr John Graham Bretton in Villette (1970) and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion (1971).
  
  He showed that he could carry a drama himself when he starred in two 1972 Play for Today productions – as the striking Cornish clay miner Manuel Stocker in Stocker’s Copper and Bill Huntley in Better Than the Movies – as well as Commander Alan Glenn in the third series (1976) of Warship, the property developer Ray Campion in the thriller serial The Mourning Brooch (1979) and the air freight business’s chief pilot Tony Blair (before the future prime minister found fame) in Buccaneer (1980). He was back in soap as Clive Lawson for the first two runs (1974-75) of the afternoon serial Rooms, in which he and Sylvia Kay played the owners renting out bedsits in their London house.

  
  Bryan Marshall, left, in The Long Good Friday, 1980, the role for which he is most remembered.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  Another pivotal role for Marshall came in the film Quatermass and the Pit (1967), a big-screen remake of the writer Nigel Kneale’s third sci-fi serial for TV about a scientist confronting alien forces. He played Potter, a bomb squad captain identifying an unexploded device unearthed during an archaeological dig as a German V-missile. It was his fourth appearance in a Hammer Films production. Earlier he was the Russian villager Vasily in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), played Tom in The Witches (1966) and was Dominic in The Viking Queen (1967).
  
  After moving to Australia in 1983, Marshall remained a prolific screen actor. Among many appearances in television dramas, he starred in Golden Pennies (1985) as a pioneering Englishman seeking his fortune in an 1850s gold-rush mining area, and played Duncan Stewart, Australian ambassador to a fictional south-east Asian country, in the first two series of Embassy (1990-91).
  
  His soap roles included Piet Koonig in A Country Practice (1983), Dr Jonathan Edmonds in Prisoner (retitled Prisoner: Cell Block H in Britain, 1984), Gerard Singer in Neighbours (1987) and Ron Hawkins in The Flying Doctors (1988), and he took two parts in Home and Away – John Simpson (1998) and Trevor Bardwell (2003). In 1989 Marshall hosted the first series of Australia’s Most Wanted, featuring real-life unsolved crimes.
  
  There were occasional returns to Britain for roles that included DSI Don Roberts in two 1997 episodes of Thief Takers and a vet with a drink problem in Heartbeat in 1998.
  
  Marshall is survived by his wife, Vicki, and their three sons, Sean, Paul and Joshua.
  
  • Bryan Marshall, actor, born 19 May 1938; died 25 June 2019

  

  Bryan Marshall (I) (1938–2019)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550789/
  

  
  
  
  

  2019: 007.com posts a video of No Time To Die content. Features the song "Boom Shot Dis" by Kully B & Gussy G.

  https://twitter.com/i/status/1143489018946031616

  
  
  On set with Bond 25: Jamaica (1:00)
  
  
  Kully B & Gussy G - Boom Shot Dis (3:42)
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  1904: László Löwenstein (Peter Lorre) is born-- Ružomberok, Slovakia.
  (He dies 23 March 1964--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  
  Peter Lorre Dies in Hollywood; Symbol of Film Horror Was 59; Actor Who Made Debut in ‘M’ Also Portrayed ‘Mr. Moto’ —Movie Favorite 30 Years
  https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/24/peter-lorre-dies-in-hollywood.html
  MARCH 24, 1964
  March 24, 1964, Page 35 The New York Times Archives
  
  HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UPI) —Peter Lorre, whose mild manner and sinister voice sent shivers up the spines of moviegoers for three decades, died of a stroke today. His age was 59.
  
  When Peter Lorre squinted his baleful brown eyes and took a slow sinister puff on a cigarette, moviegoers throughout the world squirmed in their seats.
  
  On the screen, the actor seemed to be the image of subsurface malevolence, and his pale, almost pasty, moonface seemed to conceal a homicidal maniac with a temporary but firm grip on himself.
  
  From the time of his debut in the German produced “M” in 1931, through scores of Hollywood and television films, Mr. Lorre, a short (5 foot 5 inches), pudgy man, was able to dominate the screen with his own particular brand of evil.
  
  Occasionally, he varied his roles and played humorous parts, but he was never at his best in those parts, and he always returned to the role of the sinister and smart bad man.
  
  As one critic put it, Mr. Lorre made a reputation “by being as mean and as murderous as the Hays office [then the industry's censorship panel] would permit.” Others described him as “one of the cinema's most versatile murderers,” the “gentle‐fiend,” and a “homicidal virtuoso.”
  
  After the terror years of Lon Chaney, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff became Hollywood's stalwarts of horror movies.
  
  Mr. Lorre was born in Rosenburg, Hungary, on June 26, 1904. He went to school in Vienna for a while but ran away at 17 to join a touring German theatrical troupe. With the exception of a short period as a clerk in a bank, he remained an actor for the rest of his life.
  
  After the usual tour in bit parts on the German stage, the producer Fritz Lang saw him as the perfect actor for the role of a pathological killer of little girls in “M.”
  
  Mr. Lorre's portrayal in the film is ranked among the greatest criminal characterizations on the screen, and the film made Mr. Lorre and Mr. Lang famous.
  
  Although he was fluent in several European languages and had made a number of films on the Continent, Mr. Lorre spoke no English when he went to Britain for a role in a film.
  
  However, when he encountered Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. Lorre let the director do all the talking, and by smiling and nodding, convinced him that his English was adequate.
  
  Mr. Hitchcock gave the actor a role in “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” after the one‐way interview, and Mr. Lorre later commented that it was two weeks before Mr. Hitchcock learned that he spoke no English.
  
  By the time the film was completed, Mr. Lorre's English was nearly perfect, and in 1934 he went to Hollywood.
  
  In his first years in Hollywood, Mr. Lorre was cast in the type of roles that had already made him famous. He was an insane doctor in “Mad Love,” and played the seriously disturbed student in Dostoevski's “Crime and Punishment.”
  
  One of his most distinctive features was the soft, nasal quality of his voice, tinged with a European accent, which he used with chilling effectiveness.
  
  In many of the roles, Mr. Lorre seemed to be a man of two sides, a quiet gentle man and a raving maniac.
  
  In one film, “Island of Doomed Men,” which is not considered among his best, Mr. Lorre played a prison warden who equally enjoyed listening to Chopin and flogging prisoners.
  
  In a series of movies, Mr. Lorre appeared as the larcenous sidekick of the late Sydney Greenstreet, a film bad man with a booming laugh that neatly complemented Mr. Lorre's nervous giggle.
  
  Together with Humphrey Bogart, they appeared in “The Maltese Falcon,” and “Casablanca,” screen classics of the early nineteen‐forties.
  
  Mr. Lorre also portrayed the Japanese detective “Mr. Moto” in a series of movies, but soon returned to more sinister roles.
  
  In Hollywood, Mr, Lorre was known as a quiet, almost shy man, with a deadpan sense of humor. He had been . bothered with heart trouble in recent years, but managed to keep up a fairly busy working schedule.
  
  Most recently, he had appeared in a number of “humorous” horror pictures. His latest film was “Muscle Beach Party,” and he recently completed a Jerry Lewis picture, “The Patsy.”
  
  Among his other films were “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Confidential Agent,” “Mask of Dimitrios,” “Beat the Devil” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”
  
  During the nineteen‐fifties and sixties he made frequent television appearances. He also sought more comic performances after the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1949 had warned parents to send children to bed before he appeared on a late variety show.
  
  But Mr. Lorre had a thoroughly professional attitude toward his career.
  
  “What do I care if I'm a villain?” he once asked. “I’ll be anything they want me to be—ghoul, goon or clown—as long as it's necessary.”
  
  With only a few exceptions, Hollywood found it necessary—and Mr. Lorre found it profitable—for him to remain sinister.
  
  Early in his career, Mr. Lorre worked with Bertolt. Brecht and later was considered an expert on the works of the German playwright.
  
  An avid reader of books in several languages, Mr. Lorre was also a fan of Los Angeles's professional baseball and football teams.
  
  The actor married three times; Cecilia Lvovsky in 1934, Karen Verne in 1945 and Annemaire Stoldt in 1953: The first two marriages ended in divorce.
  
  A spokesman for his studio, American International Pictures, said that Mr. Lorre and his wife were separated. They have a 10‐year‐old daughter, Kathryn.

  

  Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (111 credits)
  
  1964 The Patsy - Morgan Heywood
  1964 Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour
  1963 The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie
  1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Frederick Bergen
  - The End of the World, Baby (1963) ... Frederick Bergen
  1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - The Gypsy
  - 5: Part 1 (1963) ... The Gypsy
  1963 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Archie Lefferts
  - Diamond Fever (1963) ... Archie Lefferts
  1963 The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
  1962 Route 66 (TV Series) - Peter Lorre
  - Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962) ... Peter Lorre
  1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed
  1962 Tales of Terror - Montresor (segment "The Black Cat")
  1961 The Gertrude Berg Show (TV Series) - Professor Kestner
  - The Trouble with Crayton (1961) ... Professor Kestner
  - First Test (1961) ... Professor Kestner
  1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery
  1961 The Best of the Post (TV Series) - Baron
  - The Baron Loved His Wife (1961) ... Baron
  1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Alonzo Pace Graham
  - The Human Touch (1961) ... Alonzo Pace Graham
  1960 Rawhide (TV Series) - Victor Laurier
  - Incident of the Slavemaster (1960) ... Victor Laurier
  1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - King Zurium / Boris - Chief Spy / Mad Scientist / ... - 7 episodes
  1960 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Alexander Portlass
  - The Alexander Portlass Story (1960) ... Alexander Portlass
  1956-1960 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Café Owner / Tenzing / Dr. Ostrow / ...
  1960 Scent of Mystery - Smiley
  1957-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Carlos / Tomas Salgado
  - Man from the South (1960) ... Carlos
  - The Diplomatic Corpse (1957) ... Tomas Salgado
  
  1959 Five Fingers (TV Series) - The Colonel
  - Thin Ice (1959) ... The Colonel
  1959 The Big Circus - Skeeter
  1958 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) - Guest
  - Episode #1.11 (1958) ... Guest
  1955-1958 Studio 57 (TV Series)
  Heitzer / Mr. Grover
  - The Queen's Bracelet (1958)
  - The Finishers (1956) ... Heitzer
  - Young Couples Only (1955) ... Mr. Grover
  1957 Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (TV Movie) - Mr. Munsey
  1957 Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret
  1957 The Sad Sack - Abdul
  1957 The Story of Mankind - Nero
  1957 Silk Stockings - Brankov
  1954-1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Benny Kellerman / Mr. Ho / Normie / ...
  - A Taste for Crime (1957) ... Benny Kellerman
  - The Man Who Lost His Head (1956) ... Mr. Ho
  - The Fifth Wheel (1956) ... Normie
  - A Promise to Murder (1955) ... Mr. Vorhees
  - Casino Royale (1954) ... Le Chiffre
  1957 The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner
  1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) - Moyzisch
  - Operation Cicero (1956) ... Moyzisch
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic
  1956 Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
  1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas - Peter Lorre (uncredited)
  1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) - Willy
  - No. 5 Checked Out (1956) ... Willy
  1955 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Inspector Andre Mondeau
  - The Blue Landscape (1955) ... Inspector Andre Mondeau
  1955 The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (TV Series) - Ambrose Dodson
  - The Sure Cure (1955) ... Ambrose Dodson
  1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Poffy
  - Reunion in Vienna (1955) ... Poffy
  1955 The Best of Broadway (TV Series) - Dr. Herman Einstein
  - Arsenic and Old Lace (1955) ... Dr. Herman Einstein
  1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Conseil
  1954 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
  - The Pipe (1954)
  1953 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
  - The Vanishing Point (1953)
  1953 Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara
  1952 Suspense (TV Series)
  - The Tortured Hand (1952)
  1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pratt
  - The Taste (1952) ... Richard Pratt
  1951 Der Verlorene - Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
  1950 Double Confession - Paynter
  1950 Quicksand - Nick
  
  1949 Rope of Sand - Toady
  1948 Casbah - Slimane
  1947 My Favorite Brunette - Kismet
  1946 The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins
  1946 The Chase - Gino
  1946 The Verdict - Victor Emmric
  1946 Black Angel - Marko
  1946 Three Strangers - Johnny West
  1945 Confidential Agent - Contreras
  1945 Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig
  1944 Hollywood Canteen - Peter Lorre
  1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky
  1944 Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein
  1944 The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden
  1944 Passage to Marseille - Marius
  1943 The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger
  1943 Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff
  1943 The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy
  1942 Casablanca - Ugarte
  1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz
  1942 Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito
  1942 All Through the Night - Pepi
  1941 The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Captain Chang
  1941 Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde
  1941 The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
  1940 You'll Find Out - Karl Fenninger
  1940 Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger
  1940 Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel
  1940 I Was an Adventuress - Polo
  1940 Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig
  
  1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation - Mr. Moto
  1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island - Mr. Moto
  1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Mr. Moto
  1938 Mysterious Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1938 I'll Give a Million - Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
  1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Chance - Mr. Moto
  1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble - Mr. Moto
  1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1937 Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning
  1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm
  1936 Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy
  1936 Secret Agent - The General
  1935 Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov
  1935 Mad Love - Doctor Gogol
  1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott
  1933 High and Low - Le mendiant
  1933 Unsichtbare Gegner - Henry Pless
  1933 Les requins du pétrole - Henry Pless
  1933 Was Frauen träumen - Otto Fuessli
  1932 F.P.1 Doesn't Answer - Bildreporter Johnny
  1932 Stupéfiants - Le bossu
  1932 Dope - Hunchback
  1932 Schuß im Morgengrauen - Klotz
  1932 Fünf von der Jazzband - Car thief
  1931 A Man's a Man - Galy Gay - a packer
  1931 Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix
  1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek
  1931 M - Hans Beckert
  1930 The White Devil
  1929 Die verschwundene Frau - Patient of a Dentist (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (5 credits)
  
  1963 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - The Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show (1963) ... (performer: "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Murdered Dear Old Dad)" - uncredited)
  1957 Silk Stockings (performer: "Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)", "Red Blues", "Siberia" - uncredited)
  1936 One in a Million ("Horror Boys of Hollywood" (1936))
  1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo (performer: "Jawohl, Herr Kapitän")
  1931 M (performer: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1951 Der Verlorene
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1995 49/95: Tausendjahrekino (Documentary short) (voice)

  Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in the 1954 television version of Casino Royale
  

  
  1950: Corinne Cléry is born--Paris, France.
  1951: Robert Davi is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
  1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

  
  

  1959: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's seventh Bond novel Goldfinger. Richard Chopping cover.

  'Gilt-edged Bond.' SUNDAY TIMES
  'In a class of its own.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
  'Mr. Fleming is the best thriller writer since
  Buchan.' EVENING STANDARD

  'Sound writing and a sophisticated mind.'
  THE TIMES

  'James Bond is having it good again.'
  THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

  'With his forked tongue sticking right
  through his cheeek, he remains maniacally
  readable.' OBSERVER

  'Only Fleming could have got away with it
  . . . . outrageously improbably, wickedly
  funny, wildly exciting.'
  MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

  'Mr. Fleming is still in a class by himself.'
  OXFORD MAIL

  and, for the two million citizens who play
  golf, this acclamation from Henry Longhurst
  in the SUNDAY TIMES:
  'As a rabid fan of Ian Fleming and the
  adventures of his Secret Service hero, I am
  delighted to find that the second of the
  latter's skirmishes with villainous Mr.
  Goldfinger takes place on the golf course
  . . . The account of the match add materially
  to the fictional literature of golf.'

  
  James Bond's most recent adventure was
  DOCTOR NO
  'Ian Fleming first attracted me for three
  qualities which I thought, perhaps wrongly,
  almost unique in English writers . . escape
  from the mandarin English . . daring . . an
  acute sense of place.' Raymond Chandler in
  THE SUNDAY TIMES
  'Fleming, by reason of his cool and analyti-
  cal intelligence, his informed use of technical
  facts, his plausibility, sense of pace, brilliant
  descriptive powers and superb imagination,
  provides sheer entertainment such as I, who
  must read many novels, am seldom lucky
  enough to find.' SPECTATOR
  'Sex, sadism and snobbery. NEW STATESMAN
  'Absolutely compelling.' TABLET
  
  Jacket design by Richard Chopping

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1961: Comic strip From A View To A Kill begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 9 September 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3
  
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=989
  
  
  https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1976
  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 1978 http://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 1968 http://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]
  

  1962: Bert Rhodes finishes orchestrating the remainder of Monty Norman's score for Dr No at CTS Studios, London. Norman splits his £500 fee. (None of it is included in the released soundtrack album.)
  1963: Terence Young films Rosa Klebb inspecting Red Grant for fitness.
  
  1979: ITV airs the My Name is Bond… James Bond – Moonraker TV Special in the UK.
  1979: London Royal Premiere of Moonraker at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the US.

  Title cards, 11x14 inch displayed in sets of eight.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1982: Charles Joseph Russhon, United States Air Force retired, Lieutenant Colonel, dies at age 71--Manhattan, New York.
  (Born 23 March 1911--New York, New York.)

  

  Through Airmen's Eyes: The
  Airman and James Bond

  https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/109829/through-airmens-eyes-the-airman-and-james-bond/
  By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013

  
  (U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)
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  Sean Connery feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon was the military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Sean Connery’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Claudine Auger, a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and former Miss France Monde, during the production of “Thunderball.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Claire Russhon, wife of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses in the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in the films. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Martine Beswick, an English actress cast as a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and “From Russia With Love,” during the production of “Thunderball.” Sean Connery sits in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Sean Connery is welcomed to the TWA Ambassadors Club during the production of “Thunderball.” Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and friend of Sean Connery’s, is to his right. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  This photograph from a 1945 article published in the “San Francisco Examiner” features Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon as a captain (center) after his return from Japan in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russhon was one of the first Americans on the ground in both locations within 24 hours of the bombs being dropped on both. One of the original Air Commandos, Russhon worked as a military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. (Photo by the "San Francisco Examiner" courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  American cartoonist Milton Caniff poses with his “Steve Canyon” comic strip featuring “Charlie Vanilla,” a character inspired by his friend Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The signed photograph features a circled “Charlie Vanilla,” aka Russhon, and says “this guy keeps turning up!” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon (left), military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the original Air Commandos, chats with Major General (ret) Johnny Alison, one of the fathers of Air Force special operations, and Brigadier General J. Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses with Sean Connery during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon took Connery in tow when he arrived in New York, and they remained friends until Russhon passed away in 1982, Russhon’s wife, Claire Russhon, said. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

  
  HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- (Editor's Note:This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)

  Quartermaster "Q" supplied Skyfall's 50-year anniversary James Bond with a radio and a Walther PPK handgun, but Sean Connery's 007 relied on an Special Operations Airman for some of the bigger stuff.

  Retired Lt. Col. Charles Russhon, one of the founding air commandos assigned to the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was a military adviser to the Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s.
  
  Among the gadgets Russhon procured for filmmakers were the Bell-Textron Jet Pack and the Fulton Skyhook, both featured in the 1965 "Thunderball," as well as the explosives that were used to blow up the Disco Volante ship.
  
  He arranged for exterior access to Fort Knox, Ky., coordinated filming locations in Istanbul, Turkey, and facilitated film participation by Air Force pararescuemen in "Thunderball."
  
  "Roger Moore called him 'Mr. Fixit' because he seemed to be able to do or get anything in New York City," Russhon's wife, Claire, wrote in an email. "For example, suspending traffic on FDR Drive for a Bond chase scene (and that isn't done in one take)."
  
  As special associate to the producers, Russhon, a native New Yorker, researched new technologies, locations and permissions for whatever the scripts required, she said.
  
  Russhon, who passed away in 1982, worked on "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," and "Live and Let Die."
  
  "Mr. Fix-It"
  Christian Russhon remembers his father's business card read "catalyst -- agent that brings others together."
  
  For him, there was never a dull moment, he said.
  
  "He was larger than life," Christian said.
  
  The film crew commemorated the colonel's penchant for life on the set of "Goldfinger" in which they promoted him to the rank of general. In the film, a banner hung on the Fort Knox airplane hangar reads "Welcome, General Russhon."
  
  Christian Russhon said he also remembers seeing his dad on film in "Thunderball" in which he appeared as an Air Force officer at a conference with other agents. According to the International Movie Database, Russhon is sitting to the right of "M" in the scene.
  
  Russhon's connections with movers and shakers made him the right man for the Bond job after his retirement from active-duty service in the Air Force. His acquaintance with film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli predated Broccoli's work on the Bond films, Claire Russhon said. He was available when Broccoli needed a man stateside to work on the films.
  
  Russhon relied on his acquaintance with President John F. Kennedy's press secretary Pierre Salinger for access to film at Fort Knox in "Goldfinger."
  
  He worked with his military connections to get approval for filming in Turkey in "From Russia with Love" and to arrange for pararescuemen conducting a water training jump to be featured in "Thunderball."
  
  He was also there for a young Sean Connery when he arrived in New York City, Claire Russhon said.
  
  "Connery was a stranger in New York, and Charles took him in tow."
  
  When Connery was at odds with the producers, Russhon would serve as the go-between, she said.
  
  "Despite his reputation with the girls, Sean was a man's man," she said. "They kept in touch long after working together, and Sean called me when Charles died."
  
  Christian Russhon, who has also worked in the film industry for 30 years, remembers Sean Connery stopping by their New York apartment all the time.
  
  "I called him Uncle Sean," he said.
  
  The BSA Lightning motorcycle from "Thunderball," complete with rockets, also left an impression on young Christian Russhon. The motorcycle was gifted to his dad who gave it to his godson. Christian was not old enough to drive yet, so he missed out on the BSA Lightning, he recalled.

  Some real spy work
  
  Russhon not only had the connections, but he had the credentials to advise Bond filmmakers. He conducted his own top secret special operations work with the 1st Air Commando Group during World War II.
  
  The group, led by co-commanders and then lieutenant colonels John Alison and Philip Cochran, assisted one of the fathers of irregular warfare, British Army Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, and his ground forces, the "Chindits," as they penetrated the Burmese jungles in the fight against the Japanese.
  
  Their mission was to provide air support to British ground forces through infiltration and exfiltration, combat resupply and medical evacuations in hostile territory using a wide variety of aircraft flying low-level, long-range missions.
  
  Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Russhon worked as a sound engineer for NBC in New York City and for Hollywood-based Republic Pictures, which specialized in Westerns.
  
  Claire Russhon said her husband's deep patriotism and education at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N.Y., motivated him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps following the attack.
  
  As a young lieutenant, he was sent to Burma where he led the 10th Combat Camera Unit, a small group of cameramen supporting the 1st Air Commando Group.
  
  Alison and Cochran built a rapport with Russhon based on his exemplary work as a cameraman. He later became permanently attached to the Group, said Air Force Special Operations Command historian William Landau.
  
  "They became fast friends," Claire Russhon said. "Gen. John Alison was later best man at our wedding."
  
  Russhon became critical to mission success in the days leading up to Operation Thursday when he was cleared by Cochran to defy Wingate's orders and conduct last minute photo reconnaissance of the three landing strips Allied forces were to use during the mission, Landau said.
  
  Operation Thursday, a mission in which gliders were used to drop the Chindits deep behind Japanese enemy lines, marks the first time in military history that airpower was the backbone of an invasion, Landau said.
  
  "The photo reconnaissance was used to survey and select the landing sights," he said. "By cutting it off, Wingate basically left himself open to the possibility of a nasty surprise upon landing."
  
  Russhon got in the air with his camera. The first airstrip, Broadway, was clear. Chowringhee airstrip was clear. Piccadilly, which was to be used in the first night of operations, was strewn with teak logs locals had dragged out to the clearing to dry, he said.
  
  "Russhon was so taken aback, he actually forgot to photograph the area," Landau said. The pilot doubled back.
  
  He rushed to develop about 30 photographs at the nearest base of operations and had them delivered to Cochran, Alison and Wingate.
  
  "(Russhon's photo reconnaissance) not only saved many lives. It saved the operation itself," Landau said. "If they had landed with logs and debris at Piccadilly, the mission had the potential of being a catastrophic failure."
  
  Russhon received the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in August 1945. An excerpt from the citation reads: "This officer has displayed exemplary keenness and devotion to duty and was personally commended by General Wingate for his courageous action."
  
  Russhon continued to serve as a photographer through the end of World War II.
  
  After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was among the first Americans on location documenting the destruction.
  
  A 1945 article from the San Francisco Examiner interviewed Russhon about being on the ground in both cities within 24 hours after each bomb dropped.
  
  "A strange, rusty-looking haze hung over Nagasaki when I flew above the city at 3,000 feet the day after it was hit by the atomic bomb," Charles Russhon told the Examiner. "It was unlike anything I've ever run into before or since. I got out of there in one hell of a hurry."
  
  Following his active-duty career with the Air Force, Russhon entered the Air Force Reserve and began his work bringing life to Ian Fleming's Bond on the big screen.

  Claire Russhon said her husband enjoyed working on all of the Bond films but that one of the most interesting was "You Only Live Twice," because it required him to return to Japan where he recalled some of his World War II experiences.
  
  "In preparing for the Bond filming, there was a reception for the Japanese officials at which a gentleman greeted Charles and said 'you have gained weight,'" she said. "It was a Japanese general who explained that he was on the welcoming committee at Atsugi Air Base, (Japan,) when that first plane arrived (after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Charles stepped off."

  Russhon's legacy is extensive. Not only has he been immortalized on screen in the Bond films, but friend and celebrated American cartoonist Milton Caniff crafted "Charlie Vanilla" from his "Steve Canyon" comic strip after his person.
  
  The "Charlie Vanilla" character was a mister fix-it with an affinity for vanilla ice cream who always managed to save the day, Claire Russhon said.
  
  "The ice cream cone was fashioned after Charles's addiction to chocolate ice cream, but Caniff decided that 'Vanilla,' with the dangling vowel sounded more ominous," she said.
  
  Beyond the life he breathed into Bond by supplying filmmakers with the cool gadgets and locations viewers remember when they watch classic movies like "Goldfinger," Russhon is immortalized in Air Commando history through his photos and his leadership.
  
  "I get a sense of adventure. I get a sense of cunning," the AFSOC historian said. "To me, he embodied what an Air Commando more or less should be. He was fearless."
  
  (Editor's note: This article was completed with research assistance from the Air Force Special Operations Command Historian)

  

  1986: Jonathan Cape publishes the John Gardner Bond novel Nobody Lives For Ever.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 25 Posts: 13,812

  2013: Christie's auctions the Breitling watch worn by Bond in Thunderball.

  

  RELEASE: James Bond’s
  Breitling Top Time Discovered at
  Car Boot Sale for £25
  
  Christie’s is pleased to present the first ever watch specially
  adapted for James Bond in the Pop Culture sale on 26 June
  2013.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=6414&lid=1&mob-is-app=false

  Christie’s is pleased to present the first ever watch specially adapted for James Bond in the Pop Culture sale on 26 June 2013. The Breitling Top Time, worn by Sean Connery during 007’s mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE in the 1965 movie Thunderball, was recently bought for £25 at a car boot sale and is estimated to realise between £40,000 and £60,000 (illustrated above). It was the first watch to be modified by the famous Q Branch and is equipped with a ‘Geiger counter’ which in the film detects the emission of nuclear radiation. Made by Breitling in 1962 it was adapted by the James Bond art department and was the only example produced for the movie. This is a great opportunity for collectors to acquire a unique piece of James Bond memorabilia.

  
  
  
  
  Modified Breitling Top Time, issued by Q, equipped with a Geiger counter
  https://www.watchfreeks.com/threads/watches-in-thunderball-1965.101306/
  

  
  2018: Richard Jay Potash (Ricky Jay) is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
  (He dies 24 November 2018--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
  Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
  Nights,’ Dies at 72

  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
  https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS
  
  Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
  CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter
  
  Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.
  
  Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
  
  His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”
  
  A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.
  
  He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”
  
  Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”
  
  In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

  In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

  He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.
  
  With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”
  
  Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”
  
  A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.
  
  A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

  

  Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Trivia
  Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk
  
  Filmography

  Actor (41 credits)
  
  2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
  - The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
  - The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
  2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
  - Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
  2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
  2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
  - Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
  2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
  2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
  2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
  - Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
  2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
  - Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock
  
  2009 Intense - John
  2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
  - Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
  - Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
  2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
  2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
  2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
  2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
  - Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
  - Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
  2006 The Prestige - Milton
  2005 Last Days - Detective
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
  - Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
  2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
  2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
  2000 State and Main - Jack
  2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  
  1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
  1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
  1997/I Hacks - The Hat
  1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
  1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
  1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
  
  1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
  1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
  1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
  - Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
  1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
  1991 Homicide - Aaron
  
  1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
  1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
  - Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)
  
  2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
  2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
  2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
  2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
  2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
  2001 Heist (technical consultant)
  2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)
  
  1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
  1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
  1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
  1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
  1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
  1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
  1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
  1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)
  
  1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
  1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
  1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
  1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
  1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
  Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
  2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
  1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)
  
  1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)
  
  Music department (1 credit)
  
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

  
  
  

  2018: Daniel Craig visits U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters.

  

  

  Daniel Craig visits CIA in run-up to
  shooting new James Bond film

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/06/daniel-craig-cia-visit-bond-007

  US intelligence agency entertains 007 star as it attempts to engagewith public and increase understanding of how it operates

  
  I, spy … Daniel Craig was reportedly told that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’
  and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented on screen. Photograph: CIA

  Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Fri 6 Jul 2018
  
  Daniel Craig has visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, as part of the CIA’s attempt to engage with the public and increase understanding of how intelligence work operates in the real world.
  
  Craig is currently preparing to shoot the 25th James Bond film, his fifth and apparently final time in the role, and the CIA hosted his visit on 26 June as an adjunct to its recent Reel vs. Real seminar.

  In a statement on its website the CIA said: “Mr Craig met with our leadership and workforce, who explained that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’ and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented in the entertainment world of spy v spy.” The statement also added: “Mr Craig remarked about the teamwork that goes into the intelligence cycle and how impressed he was with the commitment and dedication of CIA officers.”
  
  The agency said its motivation was “to combat misrepresentations and assist in balanced and accurate portrayals” of the intelligence community.

  Production on Bond 25 is due to start in December; Danny Boyle will be the director and is writing a script with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge. No details of the plot or title have been released, but rumours have suggested the film may be called Shatterhand (after a Blofeld alias used in You Only Live Twice) and that Boyle and Hodge will depart from the customary portrayal of female Bond characters to better reflect the #MeToo era. The series is also expected to continue its attempt to construct a “universe”, but Christoph Waltz will not return as Blofeld.
  
  Bond 25 is due to be released on 25 October 2019 in the UK and on 8 November in the US. [Later changes include different director, dates delayed due to pandemic, plus

  Blofeld returns.]

  

  
  
  
  
  
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  June 27th
  
  1922: Peter Bayliss is born--Kingston upon Thames, London, England.
  (He dies 29 July 2002 at age 80--London, England.)

  

  Peter Bayliss

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Peter Bayliss (27 June 1922 – 29 July 2002) was an English actor. Bayliss was born in Kingston upon Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company. More than six feet tall, with a voice to match, he supplemented it with a barrage of wheezings, croakings, mutterings and, as the opera singer in Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic, 1977), garglings. In 1956 he appeared on stage in "The Matchmaker" at the Royale Theatre in New York and in 1960 he appeared in "Ross" at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London. His 20 films ranged from The Red Shoes (1948) to Darling (1965). He acted in more than 40 television productions including Please Sir! (he played the part of Mr Dunstable, Dennis Dunstable's father), The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy and The Bill, plus dramas like Bye, Bye Columbus (1990), Merlin (1998) and The Arabian Nights (1999). On radio he was particularly good in Jacobean adaptations, playing characters with names such as Sir Moth-Interest and Walter Whorehound. He appeared in more than 100 theatre productions. He made several films for the Children's Film Unit in his later years.
  
  Selected filmography
  Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) - Aide to Mithridates (uncredited)
  The Red Shoes (1948) - Evans - Lord Oldham's Chauffuer (uncredited)
  The Frightened Man (1952) - Bilton
  Jet Storm (1959) - Bentley
  
  From Russia with Love (1963) - Commissar Benz
  Darling (1965) - Lord Grant
  The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) - Professor (uncredited)
  Pretty Polly (1967) - Critch
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968) - Victor
  House of Cards (1968) - Edmond Rosier
  Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) - Mr. Justice Squeezum
  Arthur? Arthur! (1969) - Dr. Hubble
  The Magic Christian (1969) - Pompous Toff
  
  Please Sir! (1971) - Mr. Dunstable
  Vampira (1974) - Maltravers
  Mr. Selkie (1979) - Mr. Selkie
  
  Bullshot (1983) - Chairman of the Institute
  Mister Skeeter (1984) - title role
  School for Vandals (1986) - Sir Oswald Kane
  Hard Road (1988) - Hitch-Hiker
  
  Emily's Ghost (1992) - Rev. Dodsworth
  Don't Get Me Started (1994) - Father (voice, uncredited)
  The Ugly Duckling (1997) - The Actor Manager (voice)
  Merlin (1998) - 2nd Physician
  Alice in Wonderland (1999) - Mr. Dodo

  

  Peter Bayliss (I) (1922–2002)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063101/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1963: Dr. No released in Toronto, Canada.
  
  1973: Live and Let Die released in the US.

  
  
  
  http://www.the007dossier.com/page/Live-and-Let-Die-Movie-Posters

  1974: The Man with the Golden Gun cast and crew return to London for interiors. That's after location filming at Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau (China).
  1979: Moonraker general release in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Look-In magazine covers Bond and Wimbledon and Lotus.

  https://twitter.com/Thunderballs007/status/913127310055878657

  1984: A fire on the set of the Ridley Scott film Legend severely damages the 007 Stage.

  
  
  
  
  

  1985: 007 - Na Mira dos Assassinos (007 - The Assassins' Sight) released in Brazil.

  Eventual DVD release.
  
  
  

  1987: TV Times has a James Bond 25th anniversary cover suggesting Monepenny's assessment of 007s to date.

  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye films the destruction of the satellite.

  

  1996: Alberto Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli dies at age 87-- Beverly Hills, California.
  (Born 5 April 1909--Queens, New York.)

  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.html

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.
  2:36 PM BST 29 Jun 1996

  
  Photo: REUTERS

  A vast, unhurried man with the deeply shadowed eyes of a perpetual jet-setter, Broccoli, ensconced in the calm of his Mayfair office, could remind visitors of one of James Bond's sensual, cat-stroking adversaries.
  
  But he was noted by the profession for his geniality, and for the fatherly interest he took in his productions. Despite the enormous riches he accumulated from putting Ian Fleming's books on screen, Broccoli was almost believed when he said: "I have always felt that Bond is bigger than all of us."
  
  In 1960 he formed Eon (standing for "Everything or Nothing") Film Productions in London with the Canadian Harry Saltzman, who held an expiring option on the film rights to all Fleming's Bond books except Casino Royale.

  Broccoli and Saltzman agreed that the film industry should be international in scope, but their working methods were contrasting. While Saltzman revelled in his tough image, Broccoli became known as one of the industry's nice guys. As Michael Caine said, "Cubby is Harry's sense of proportion. They're like two policemen: Cubby gives you a cigarette and Harry knocks it out of your mouth."

  Their break came in 1962 when they persuaded United Artists to provide backing for Dr No, and made the inspired casting of Sean Connery - who, they thought, had the right walk - as Bond. An immediate hit, the film was followed by From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
  
  By then the partners were pounds 4 million the richer. Their partnership, which was always combative, endured until 1975, when Saltzman sold his share and Broccoli became the undisputed chief of the Bond industry. As such he took an unusually involved approach, embroiling himself in every stage of a film's development.
  
  "Bond is the only script written by a committee," he said. "I sit down with the writer, director and executive producer and we decide what we want in the script. The final decision," he added, "is made by me."

  Albert Romolo Broccoli, always known as "Cubby", was born in New York on April 5 1909, the son of Italian immigrants. His father was a bricklayer. With no idea what he would do with his life, young Cubby helped an uncle who ran a market garden in Long Island. He would later claim that this uncle brought the first broccoli seeds to America and gave his name to the well-known vegetable. Etymologists think otherwise.
  
  After a spell managing a coffin-factory, Broccoli was alerted by a holiday in Hollywood to his desire for a career in films and he moved out to the west. Not an immediate success, he worked as a street-corner Christmas tree hawker and as a salesman of hairdressing products in San Francisco, where he lived in one room with only a rat for company.
  
  "I really looked forward to seeing that rat. I fed him. He became a friend. Then one day I won a few dollars at the races. That was it: I said goodbye to the rat and made for LA." He became a teaboy at 20th Century Fox studios and soon progressed to the post of assistant director.
  
  During the Second World War, Broccoli served in the navy. Afterwards he worked in Hollywood as an agent and then settled in London. In 1951 he formed Warwick Film Productions with Irving Allen and produced a large number of competent pictures with tough characters and lots of action. These include The Red Beret (1953), Safari (1956) and The Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959).

  Although generally jovial and given to dishing up spaghetti for cast and crew, Broccoli could be stern. In 1970 he explained why the contract of George Lazenby, who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), had not been renewed. "Our parting was not by mutual desire," he said, "but by our desire. I wouldn't use him again. He's a pain in the arse."
  
  Broccoli returned to Hollywood in 1977, for tax reasons. In 1982 he was honoured at the Oscar ceremony with the prestigious Irving G Thalberg award. He was appointed OBE in 1987.
  
  Extremely skilful at negotiating a fair share for himself from the Bond films, Broccoli amassed an estimated pounds 100 million.

  He married, in 1959, Dana Wilson; Cary Grant was best man. They had two daughters.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2014: Harrod's offers its special edition Ocean Royale (50ml). Comes with 007 playing cards.

  https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/harrods-launches-ocean-royale-and-quantum-fragrance-007-playing-cards

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Inspiration?

  
  
  

  2018: Wanda's Book Reviews notes an Agatha Christie connection from 1934.

  

  Wanda's Book Reviews

  Did Agatha Christie influence
  Ian Fleming?

  http://wandapedersen39.booklikes.com/post/1769680/did-agatha-christie-influence-ian-fleming
  2:47 pm 27 June 2018
  
  This is a frequent enough question that Google filled it in for me when I asked! Here is a quote from a website that provides some info:

  A character by the name of James Bond appeared in a 1934 short story, "Rajah's Emerald", which was published in the Agatha Christie anthology, The Listerdale Mystery. The Bond character from this short story is not a spy or action hero, but he does deal with an adventure that has to do with a stolen emerald, hence the title, and pines for the heart of a young woman named Grace. Was 007 creator Ian Fleming humoring readers when he named his classic protagonist, James Bond? According to the www.007magazine.co.uk:

  "Ian Fleming's wry sense of humor has been well-documented over the years, making it highly possible that he may very well have hoaxed everyone and have also been influenced by Agatha Christie's writings, as her books were bestsellers during his formative years."

  It's point five on this web page:
  https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/five-rare-things-about-james-bond-007-you-most-likelyfe20ae95eb
  
  Interesting, yes?
  
  BTW, the link in the actual article is misspelled and doesn't work. Even when you spell it correctly, it only goes to a generic page for the magazine, nothing specific to this question. WP

  
  
  

  
  2022: Altitude Films releases documentary GoldenEra.

  

  BOND’s GOLDEN EGG – New
  documentary GOLDENERA
  celebrates a 007 gaming classic
  on its silver anniversary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/bonds-golden-egg-new-documentary-goldenera-celebrates-a-007-gaming-classic-on-its-silver-anniversary/

  June 22, 2022 / Mark O'Connell

  

  “There was a movie license done by a small team of inexperienced developers which
  somehow ended up being the greatest first person shooter of its era.”
  – GoldenEra

  When Steven Spielberg and writer Ernest Cline cite GoldenEye 007 in their pop-culture fest Ready Player One as being the best game ever designed it only confirmed what players already knew…it was!
  
  From Altitude Films this month loads up a brand new documentary looking at the creation, design, happenstance and fortune of a Bond minded computer game that became one of THE best remembered and played games of all time.

  “There is before GoldenEye and there is after GoldenEye.“

  

  GoldenEra tells the incredible inside story of the creation and legacy of GoldenEye 007, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. From a tough genesis of many hardcore design hours, sleepless nights and dogged persistence GoldenEra saves and uploads the story of what happened when a bunch of designers from Warwickshire changed the future of computer game, laid a golden egg for Nintendo and demonstrated the love for a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie classic.

  

  GOLDENERA / screener link
  https://www.altitude.film/page/goldenera?country=united-kingdom
  
  GOLDENERA Homepage
  https://goldenerafilm.com/
  
  GoldenEra is released digitally on June 27 2022.

  

  
  
  
  
  
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  June 28th
  
  1961: Variety comments on Broccoli and Saltzman.

  
  Variety declares:

  "A.R. (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman have joined forces in a production setup. As a start, they have acquired screen rights to all the Ian Fleming yarns on James Bond, and plan to put the first into production in Britain this fall. Initial one will be ‘From Russia With Love.’”

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films a cheeky scene with Tiffany Case.

  
  
  
  

  1973: Roger Greenspun reviews Live and Let Die in The New York Times.

  

  The Screen: 'Live and Let Die'
  Opens:The Latest James Bond Fights
  Heroin Ring

  See the complete article here:
  

  By Roger Greenspun | June 28, 1973

  Torchlight, Voodoo drums. Dark bodies writhe in the mounting frenzy of some unspeakable tropical rite. Suddenly a door is flung open and framed within it stands a beautiful white girl held captive by two monstrous black men. Her filmy white gown scarcely covering the soft contours of her body, she is dragged — protesting — to a crude scaffold and there is tied fast. As if by signal, the ranks of jeering celebrants open and there advances an executioner, laughing, stomping, hideously costumed. He holds a poisonous snake in his outstretched hands, a snake whose bite is destined for the smooth young bosom. . . . Whatever the quality of this little scenario, you must admit that to stick it into a movie these days takes nerve. Merely to make a new adventure movie in which all the bad guys are black and almost all the good guys are white, and which includes in its climax the (near) sacrifice of a (recent) virgin—takes nerve.Nerve, and certain insolence toward public pieties, and a lot of canniness about just what level of sophistication its audience is up to—all of them qualities that have characterized the James Bond movies since the beginning, 10 years ago, and that abundantly characterize the latest, Guy Hamilton's "Live and Let Die. "There are now eight Bond movies, and though they are the work of many different talents (Hamilton has directed two previously: "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever") they do represent a recognizable tradition in which the whole—or the memory of the whole — seems to be greater than the sum of the parts. The plots tend to flow into each other—one scheme after another for controlling all the money in the world—changing their elements to fit changing anxieties (in "Live and Let Die" the evil is a heroin monopoly operating out of some Caribbean island kingdom with pipelines into New York City and New Orleans), but remaining the same in essence.And always there is a woman waiting to be converted by the power of sex. In "Live and Let Die" she reads the Tarot pack to tell fortunes for the enemy. James Bond's card keeps coming up "Lovers," though she thinks she is hoping for "Death." There are three chases (four, if you stretch a point), including one by car and motorboat that gets so complicated it allows for character development. One actor, Clifton James, who appears only during the chase, gets fourth billing in the cast list.The names above Mr. James's do not seem so impressive. Roger Moore is a handsome, suave, somewhat phlegmatic James Bond—with a tendency to throw away his throwaway quips as the minor embarrassments that, alas, they usually are. As Solitaire, to whom the cards speak truth only so long as she remains a virgin, Jane Seymour is beautiful enough, but too submissive even for this scale of fantasy. Yaphet Kotto (Dr. Kananha), a most agreeable actor, simply does not project evil. However, I could list compensating virtues by the score. There is a marvelous escape from an alligator farm (deadly reptiles are rather a motif in this movie), a superb collection of grotesque ways of killing, and a fine sense of pace and rhythm. "Live and Let Die" has been especially well photographed and edited, and it makes clever and extensive use of its good title song, by Paul and Linda McCartney."Live and Let Die" opened yesterday at several local theaters.

  The Cast
  LIVE AND LET DIE, directed by Guy Hamilton, screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz; camera, Ted Moore; editors, Bert Bates, Raymond Poulton and John Shirley; music, George Martin; produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman; presented by United Artists Corporation. At the United Artists East Theater, First Avenue and 85th Street; the Rivoli Theater, Broadway and 49th Street and the 49th Street East Theater at Third Avenue. Running time: 121 minutes. Rating: PG.
  James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
  Doctor Kananga . . . . . Yaphet Kotto
  Solitaire . . . . . Jane Seymour
  Sheriff Pepper . . . . . Clifton James
  Tee Hee . . . . . Julius W. Harris
  Baron Samedl . . . . . Geoffrey Holder
  Leiter . . . . . David Hedison
  Rosie . . . . . Gloria Hendry
  "M" . . . . . Bernard Lee

  1973: Charles Champlin reviews Live and Let Die in the Los Angeles Times.

  

  MOORE TAKES OVER AS 007

  

  
  1984: 深入虎穴 勇闖龍潭 (Deep Into the Tiger's Den) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  
  
  Later DVD.
  

  
  2012: Phaedros (Paul) Stassinos dies--Limassol, Cyprus.
  (Born: 1930--Pano Platres, Cyprus.)

  

  Paul Stassino

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Phaedros Stassinos (1930 – 28 June 2012) was a Greek Cypriot actor whose international stage name was Paul Stassino.

  
  Paul Stassino in Thunderball
  (1965)

  Early life
  Stassino was born in Platres and grew up in nearby Limassol, but spent most of his acting career in England. He had moved there at the age of 18 to study law. Without telling his parents, he got a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
  
  Career
  He appeared in many British films, in British TV dramas such as Danger Man and The Saint. He appeared in Coronation Street in 1968, as Hungarian demolition contractor Miklos Zadic who had a brief relationship with Emily Nugent (played by Eileen Derbyshire).

  Possibly his best known performance was when he played two parts, Major François Derval and Angelo Palazzi, in the James Bond film Thunderball.

  Other roles include "Le Pirate" in That Riviera Touch, and the first officer of the Colombian ship Paloma in Tiger Bay.
  
  In 1972 he moved to Athens, where he worked as a director in the casino in Athens, and then because of his great love for his island, he moved to his birthplace in Cyprus where he worked in the Public Theatre in Nicosia as an actor and as a director, where after he retired he moved to his beloved Limassol. He died on 28 June 2012 in Limassol and was buried in the cemetery of Limassol Sfalagiotisa.
  
  Personal life
  He was married twice and had three children Julian Stassino, Alex Stassino, and Elvi Stassinou.
  
  Filmography
  Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) - Yani Katsias
  Interpol (1957) - Customs Inspector
  Miracle in Soho (1957) - Paulo
  Ice Cold in Alex (1958) - Barman
  The Great Van Robbery (1959) - Toni
  The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Nick Morelli
  Tiger Bay (1959) - 'POLOMA' 1st. Officer
  The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) - Hatti
  
  The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) - Lt. Silver
  Moment of Danger (1960) - Juan Montoya
  Sands of the Desert (1960) - Pilot
  The Criminal (1960) - Alfredo Fanucci
  Exodus (1960) - Driver-guide on Cyprus
  Man Detained (1961) - James Helder
  The Secret Partner (1961) - Man in Soho Street
  The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) - Stefano - The Barber
  Echo of Barbara (1961) - Caledonia
  Sammy Going South (1963) - Spyros Dracandopolous
  Stolen Hours (1963) - Dalporto
  The Long Ships (1964) - Raschid
  The Moon-Spinners (1964) - Lambis
  The High Bright Sun (1965) - Alkis
  Thunderball (1965) - François Derval / Angelo Palazzi
  Where the Spies Are (1965) - Simmias
  That Riviera Touch (1966) - Le Pirate
  Sands of Beersheba (1966) - Salim
  The Magus (1968) - Meli
  
  You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) - Gunner major (uncredited)
  A Touch of the Other (1970) - Connelly
  Die Screaming, Marianne (1971) - Portuguese Police Detective
  Escape to Athena (1979) - Zeno's Man (final film role)

  

  Paul Stassino (1930–2012)

  Actor | Writer
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  2013: Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville returns to Stoke Park for its first James Bond Golf Day.

  

  
  2015: Spectre films at the Millennium Bridge, Southbank, London.

  
  
  
  

  2019: Sotheby's New York opens viewing on an Aston Martin DB5 prior to auction.

  

  

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

  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.
  
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  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.
  
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  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.
  

  
  Monterey 2019: ‘The Most Famous Car in the World’ (Full Length Film)
  

  
  2020: Sky News reports Brosnan recalls saving Halle Berry from choking. Sort of.

  

  Pierce Brosnan 'vaguely' remembers
  saving Halle Berry from choking during
  love scene in James Bond film

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://news.sky.com/story/pierce-brosnan-vaguely-remembers-saving-halle-berry-from-choking-during-love-scene-in-james-bond-film-12015805

  Berry said Brosnan performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on her when she started choking during filming.
  Sunday 28 June 2020 04:29, UK

  
  The incident happened during a love scene

  Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has said he
  "vaguely" remembers saving Halle Berry from choking on the set of Die
  Another Day.
  
  According to Berry, Brosnan performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on her when she started choking while they were filming a love scene.
  
  Brosnan said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that he was "not sure" what happened during filming for the 2002 movie.
  
  He said: "I vaguely remember it, I've seen little quotes in the press recently. We were on the set, I'm not quite sure what I did, I might have Heimliched her, I'm not sure."
  
  A laughing Brosnan added: "I just patted her on the back."
  
  Oscar-winning actress Berry, 53, told Fallon in April that Brosnan came to the rescue when a fig got stuck in her throat.
  
  She said: "I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig. I end up choking on it and he had to get up and do the Heimlich. So not sexy."
  
  Berry added: "James Bond knows how to Heimlich! He was there for me, he will always be one of my favourite people in the whole world."
  
  Die Another Day was the final Bond movie featuring Brosnan.
  

  

  
  2022: The British Film Institute bestows its highest honours to Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson: BFI Fellowships.

  

  James Bond Producers Barbara Broccoli,
  Michael G. Wilson Accorded BFI
  Fellowships

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2022/film/global/james-bond-producers-bfi-fellowships-1235297188/

  
  Barbara Broccoli Michael G. Wilson
  Jeff Spicer

  James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are being accorded BFI Fellowships, the highest honor bestowed by the British Film Institute.
  
  The fellowships will be presented at the BFI chair’s dinner, hosted by BFI chair Tim Richards, on June 28.

  For Eon Productions, Broccoli and Wilson have overseen the Bond franchise for nearly 30 years and together produced nine of the 25 Bond films, the first of which was Goldeneye (1995) and includes Skyfall (2012), which went on to win the BAFTA for outstanding British Film. Wilson was screenwriter on five films in the 1980s (with Richard Maibaum) and producer of three Bonds with his stepfather and original Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. The franchise turns 60 this year and the BFI will be marking this anniversary with James Bond 60th celebration weekend of screenings and events in London at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX on Oct. 1 and 2.
  
  Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said: “We are so proud to be awarded the BFI Fellowship on behalf of all of those who have been a part of the James Bond series over 60 years and feel honored to join such an esteemed group of distinguished industry fellows. We are very grateful to so many members of the British film industry who we have worked with over the course of our careers and thank the British Film Institute for their tremendous support and leadership for the creative industries in the U.K.”
  
  Richards added: “I am honored and excited to be awarding Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with the prestigious BFI Fellowship. I can think of no-one else more deserving particularly as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the incredibly successful James Bond franchise. With amazing insight and vision Michael and Barbara have not only re-invented Bond for today’s audiences, but No Time to Die arrived at exactly the right moment to welcome those audiences back to the big screen experience as never before. As equally, if not more, important is their commitment to our industry away from the spotlight, where they work tirelessly to open doors for others by playing a huge part in educating, supporting and inspiring the next generation of film makers.”

  Broccoli and Wilson have also produced and executive produced several films outside the Bond franchise including “Radiator” (2014), “The Silent Storm” (2014), “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” 2017), “Nancy” (2018) and “The Rhythm Section” (2020).
  
  Broccoli is VP for film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, president of the National Youth Theatre, director of Time’s Up U.K. and a Trustee of Into Film, a film education youth charity. Wilson is honorary VP of the Science Museum Foundation and a Fellow of the Science Museum London. Both Wilson and Broccoli are directors of the Dana and Albert R. Broccoli Foundation and co-founders of the London Screen Academy.
  
  In 2008, they were appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and in 2014 they were honored by the Producers Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. In 2022, they were appointed Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for services to film, drama, philanthropy and skills (CBE).
  
  BFI Fellows include Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, Tilda Swinton, David Lean, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Nicholas Roeg, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, Judi Dench, Ousmane Sembène, Bernardo Bertolucci and Steve McQueen.
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  THE BFI WHO LOVED ME –
  London’s BFI & IMAX to celebrate
  Bond’s 60th anniversary
  weekend

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/the-bfi-who-loved-me-londons-bfi-imax-to-celebrate-bonds-60th-anniversary-weekend/

  June 17, 2022 / Mark O'Connell

  
  

  From the BFI with love this fall as London’s BFI and IMAX will mark sixty cinematic years of Bond, James Bond. Over two days (October 1st and 2nd 2022), the capital’s movie hub will celebrate six decades of 007 with a series of screenings and events. To mark the celebrations the BFI are also giving Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson the valued BFI Fellowship. This honour marks the decades of support, employment and support that Wilson and Broccoli have brought to British film production and exhibition. The Fellowship will be given to the producing pair at a special reception at London’s Claridge’s on June 28 2022.

  “I am honoured and excited to be awarding Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with the prestigious BFI Fellowship. I can think of no-one else more deserving particularly as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the incredibly successful James Bond franchise. With amazing insight and vision Michael and Barbara have not only re-invented Bond for today’s audiences, but No Time to Die arrived at exactly the right moment to welcome those audiences back to the big screen experience as never before. As equally, if not more, important is their commitment to our industry away from the spotlight, where they work tirelessly to open doors for others by playing a huge part in educating, supporting and inspiring the next generation of film makers.”
  Tim Richards, BFI Chair

  Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are deeply proud of the accolade and subsequent celebrations. The BFI has been a perfectly located and celebratory hub of James Bond over the years. In 2009 the Southbank centre of cinema held a rich season marking the centenary of Bond legend Albert R. Broccoli (including a quite memorable screening of 1962’s Dr. No to a room full of Bond legends hosted by Roger Moore in April 2009). Countless Bond film screenings and Q & A sessions have sold out there and a September 2019 Bond Day event included three classic 007 adventures back on the big screen and with Bond director John Glen and OHMSS star George Lazenby in attendance.

  
  Photo / Mark O’Connell

  ‘We are so proud to be awarded the BFI Fellowship on behalf of all of those who have been a part of the James Bond series over 60 years and feel honoured to join such an esteemed group of distinguished industry fellows. We are very grateful to so many members of the British film industry who we have worked with over the course of our careers and thank the British Film Institute for their tremendous support and leadership for the creative industries in the UK.’
  – Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli

  The BFI will be marking this anniversary year of the franchise with a special James Bond Sixtieth celebration weekend events in London at the BFI Southbank and the neighbouring BFI IMAX on October 1st and 2nd 2022 – including screenings of some classic Bond movies back on the big screen where they belong.

  

  
  
  
  
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  June 29th
  
  1943: Soon-Tek Oh is born--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.
  (He dies 4 April 2018 at age 85--Los Angeles, California.)

  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary
  
  Short obit from a Korean source.

  
  https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619

  Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85

  

  Apr 07,2018
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  Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
  
  Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.
  

  Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film “The Man with the Golden Gun,” which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

  In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.
  
  By Sung Ji-eun

  

  Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

  Actor | Soundtrack
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  1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb briefing Tatiana Romanova.
  1964: Comic strip On Her Majesty's Secret Service debuts in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 15 May 1965. 1-274) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ohmss.php3
  
  http://rooschristoph.blogspot.com/2018/06/james-bond-comics.html
  
  
  
  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bloodysnow/snow03.htm
  
  
  https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870830
  
  
  
  http://jamesbondcomicart.co.uk/james-bond-originals-for-sale/
  
  
  1988 Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3?s=comics&id=02331

  I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst Del
  (O.H.M.S.S. - Part 1)
  
  

  
  Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no33-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 33: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1975)
  "I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"
  
  

  
  Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no11-1967/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 11: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1967)
  "I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1979: Moonraker general release in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1979: The New York Times prints Vincent Canby's positive review of Moonraker.

  

  Screen: 'Moonraker' Puts Bond in
  Orbit: Old, Old Friends

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/29/archives/screen-moonraker-puts-bond-in-orbitold-old-friends.html

  By Vincent Canby | June 29, 1979

  AT a time when everything is being either inflated or devalued it's comforting to know that at least one commodity maintains its hard currency. That's James Bond, who, by all rights, should be an antique, as emblematic of the 60's as the Beatles and flowerpower, but who goes blithely on as if time has had a stop.
  
  Moonraker which opens today at the Rivoli and other theaters, is the 11th in the remarkable series that began in 1963 [correction: 1962] with Dr. No and it's one of the most bouyant Bond films of all. It looks as if it cost an unconscionable amount of money to make, though it has nothing on its mind except dizzying entertainment, which is not something to dismiss quickly in such a dreary, disappointing movie season.
  
  What's it about? That's a silly question, though I suppose one might answer that it's about sleight of hands—those of all the people who worked on it. They include the indefatigable producer, Albert R. Broccoli (also known as Cubby), Lewis Gilbert, who directed it, Christopher Wood, who wrote the screenplay, Ken Adam, the production designer, and all of those far from little people who are responsible for the extraordinary tricks that persuade us to suspend our disbelief.
  
  Mr. Wood's screenplay begins when a United States space-shuttle craft mysteriously disappears as it's being ferried to England on the back of a Boeing 747. The fiend behind this remarkable theft is a French-accented American aeronautics tycoon named Drax (Michael Lonsdale), an eccentric fellow who lives in California in a transplanted French chateau and who surrounds himself with astronauts, all of whom are between the ages of 18 and 25, beautiful and female.
  
  The space-shuttle craft, called Moonraker, was actually built by Drax's company, so the mystery that James Bond (Roger Moore) must solve is why Drax would feel the need to hijack his own product. The trail leads from London to California to Venice to Rio de Janeiro and, after that, to Drax's jungle hideaway that takes in bits and pieces of settings filmed in Guatemala and Argentina as well as Brazil. Among other things Moonraker deals in creative geography. The climactic duel occurs in the only location left—outer space.
  
  Moonraker, like all of the better Bond pictures, returns us to a kind of film making that I most closely associate with the 15-part serials of my youth. Our astonishment depends on the ingenuity by which the writers and directors disentangle Bond from the impossible situations into which he seems to fall every seven minutes.
  
  Moonraker begins with one of the funniest and most dangerous (as well as most beautifully photographed and edited) sequences Bond has ever faced. He's booted out of an airplane without a parachute and must do mortal combat, during a swooping, soaring free-fall, with an adversary who, luckily, does have a parachute. There are also a high-speed chase through Venetian canals (with one gondola a disguised Hovercraft), another chase on the Amazon, a fight on the roof of the funicular that goes to the top of Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain, and a final confrontation in space that is as handsome as anything in "Star Wars."
  
  What's it about? It's about movie making of the kind Georges Méliès pioneered in films like "Voyage to the Moon" (1902) and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" (1907). It's the unimaginable most satisfactorily imagined.
  
  Almost everyone connected with the movie is in top form, even Mr. Moore who has a tendency to facetiousness when left to his own devices. Here he's as ageless, resourceful and graceful as the character he inhabits. Mr. Lonsdale is sometimes uncomfortably wooden and square, but then he's not supposed to be a barrel of laughs. Lois Chiles is lovely as Bond's Central Intelligence Agency vis-à-vis, who's just one of the sexually tireless Bond's conquests. Richard Kiel reappears as Bond's thug-enemy, the gigantic Jaws, who, you may be happy to learn, undergoes the kind of character transformation that means he'll probably turn up in yet another Bond film. Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, as, respectively, "M" and Miss Moneypenny, also are on hand.
  
  Welcome back to old friends. Moonraker, which has been rated PG ("parental guidance suggested"), includes some suggestive situations and comically overstated violence.
  
  Old, Old Friends

  MOONRAKER, directed by Lewis Gilbert; screenplay by Christopher Wood; director of photography, Jean Tournier; film editor, John Glen; music by John Barry; lyrics by Hal David; produced by Albert R. Broccoli; released by United Artists; at the Rivoli, Gemini I, 86th Street East, Bay Cinema and other theaters. Running time: 126 minutes. This film is rated PG.
  James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
  Holly Goodhead . . . . . Lois Chiles
  Drax . . . . . Michael Lonsdale
  Jaws . . . . . Richard
  Dufour . . . . . Corinne Clery
  "M" . . . . . Bernard Lee
  Frederick Gray . . . . . Geoffrey Keen
  "Q" . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
  Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
  Manuela . . . . . Emily Bolton
  Chang . . . . . Toshiro Suga
  Dolly . . . . . Blanche Ravalec

  
  

  1979: Gene Siskel reviews Moonraker in the Chicago Tribune.

  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43601776/gene-siskel-movie-reviewmoonraker/
  Roger Moore, as James Bond, goes to space, and Gene believes the results go nowhere interesting.
  
  

  

  General mediocrity, sorry
  story mar ‘Moonraker’

  TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW:
  Cheesey
  **
  “MOONRAKER”

  THE MOST HONEST thing I can say about
  the James Bond series of films is that I haven’t
  really enjoyed one since Sean Connery stopped
  playing agent 007. That’s eight years and four
  films ago. Connery’s replacement have been
  embarrassing (model George Lazenby in “On
  Her Majesty’s Secret Service”) and merely
  acceptable (Roger Moore in now his fourth
  Bond film, “Moonraker.”)
  
  In the beginning of the Bond series, before
  they were thought of as a series, each film was
  a good action picture with a colorful, entertain-
  ing hero.
  
  Today, they come off as conglomerate busi-
  ness enterprises rather than movies. How else
  does one explain the intrusive commercial
  plugs in “Moonraker” for Christian Dior per-
  fume, British Airways, Bollinger champagne,
  Glaston [sic] boats, and Seiko watches?
  
  Truly, money derived from these plugs can’t
  be worth the loss of story continuity when the
  products are flashed in front of the camera.
  Someone is being awfully cheap about the
  plugs, which borders on incredibility because
  the James Bond series is one of the surest
  moneymakers in the film business. Maybe the
  producers of “Moonraker” are blind to story
  construction?
  
  That certainly would explain the film’s
  failure.
  
  AFTER A TRULY exciting opening
  sequence—a fight between Bond and a thug as
  they fre-fall from an airplane—”Moonraker”
  degenerates into a tired yarn about a modern-
  day Hitler who wants to create a super race in
  space after spraying the Earth with poison gas.
  
  French actor Michael Lonsdale plays the evil
  billionaire Hugo Drax, and frankly, Lonsdale
  is a big bore. He looks as though he has just
  been sucked dry by a vampire. His only
  slightly menacing characteristic is a goatee
  that makes him look like he spends most of his
  time in a dirty book store. He might make a
  credible henchman, but as the major villain
  Lonsdale is a flop.
  
  And that’s an important flop, because 007 and
  his villain are the two most important charac-
  ters in Bond film. To watch “Moonraker” is
  to long for the good old days when James
  Bond’s enemies stroked white cats, threw leth-
  al derbies, fed people to sharks, aimed lasers
  at groins, and carried poison-tipped knives in
  their shoes. By comparison, the evil Hugo Drax
  is a wimp.
  
  In an attempt to bolster an obviously weak
  villain, “Moonraker” gives Drax a familiar
  henchman, a giant named “Jaws” (7 foot 2
  inch Richard Kiel, who played the same
  character in the last Bond picture). The last
  time we met “Jaws” he was a rousing villain
  with a steel vice for a mouth. This time he has
  the same set of metal braces, but his character
  has been turned into a big pussycat. “Jaws”
  walks around the various locations smiling. It
  looks as though Richard Kiel is trying to act.
  He can’t.
  
  AFTER THE VILLAIN, the next most impor-
  tant elements of the Bond picture are the women
  and the gadgets. “Moonraker” comes up short
  on both counts. The women look as thought they
  stepped out f one of those kinky lingerie ads
  featuring bored women staring into space.
  
  Lois Chiles, Roger Moore’s principal love
  interest in the picture, plays an American
  agent assigned to track down Hugo Drax. The
  script gives Chiles nothing to do. Her brightest
  moment comes when she appears in Venice in
  a beautiful shirtwaist dress fleck with Lurex.
  And that’s a pity, because Chiles proved she
  could act when she played Jordan Baker in the
  Robert Redford version of “The Great
  Gatsby.”
  
  As for the gadgets, they’re nothing special.
  Bond’s principal weapons this time is a dart gun
  concealed in a watch. Big deal. He also uses a
  boat that can travel on land. But when the boat
  takes a spin around St. Mark’s Square in
  Venice, the stunt is simply vulgar.
  
  Also annoying is the film’s preference for
  bigness rather than taut story. “Moonraker”
  features a series of exotic locations—Guatemala,
  Brazil, a chateau in France—but forgets to place
  any importance on script. And the film’s outer
  space special effects seem rather tame when
  compared to the hardware of “Star Wars”.
  
  “Moonraker” may do well at the box office,
  but what people will be buying is not a good
  movie, but nostalgic for the time when the
  James Bond films guaranteed good stories and
  not just a catalog of James Bond memorabilia.
  
  Gene Siskel
  Gene Siskel regularly reviews the movie
  Scene at 5 and 10 p.m. on Channel 2 News.

  
  1982: Michael Brennan dies at age 69--Chichester, East Sussex, England.
  (Born 25 September 1912--London, England.)

  

  Michael Brennan (Actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brennan_(actor)

  
  in Ambush in Leopard Street (1962)

  Born Bernard O'Leary, 25 September 1912, London, England
  Died 29 June 1982 (aged 69), Chichester, Sussex, England
  Occupation Actor
  Spouse Mary Hignett
  
  Michael Brennan (25 September 1912 – 29 June 1982) was an English film and television actor.

  Born in London, Brennan was married to actress Mary Hignett. He appeared in such films as Tom Brown's Schooldays, Ivanhoe, Thunderball, Tom Jones, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders and Doomwatch. On television, he made guest appearances on All Creatures Great and Small (which featured his wife) and Dixon of Dock Green.

  Partial filmography
  "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) - Camp Guard with Lantern (uncredited)
  They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) - Jim
  Captain Boycott (1947) - Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)
  Brighton Rock (1947) - Crabbe (uncredited)
  Blanche Fury (1948) - Farmer
  Escape (1948) - Truck Driver (uncredited)
  My Brother's Keeper (1948) - Police Constable at Roadblock (uncredited)
  Noose (1948) - Ropey (uncredited)
  The Brass Monkey (1948) - Wilks
  Cardboard Cavalier (1949) - Brother Barebones
  For Them That Trespass (1949) - Det. Insp. Benstead
  The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) - Sergeant
  
  Morning Departure (1950) - C.P.O. Barlow
  They Were Not Divided (1950) - Smoke O'Connor
  Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) - (uncredited)
  Waterfront (1950) - Engineer
  Blackout (1950) - Mickey Garston
  No Trace (1950) - Mike Fenton
  The Clouded Yellow (1950) - Superintendent Ross
  Circle of Danger (1951) - Bert Oakshott
  The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
  Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) - Black Bart
  Emergency Call (1952) - Police Constable
  Ivanhoe (1952) - Baldwin
  Something Money Can't Buy (1952) - Fairground boss
  Made in Heaven (1952) - Sgt. Marne
  Personal Affair (1953) - Police Officer (uncredited)
  It's a Grand Life (1953) - Sgt. Maj. O'Reilly
  Trouble in Store (1953) - Davis
  Up to His Neck (1954) - CPO Brazier
  See How They Run (1955) - Sgt. Maj. Towers
  Up in the World (1956) - Prison Warder
  Not Wanted on Voyage (1957) - Chief Steward
  Just My Luck (1957) - Masseur
  The Naked Truth (1957) - 2nd Irishman (uncredited)
  A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - Tom - Coach Driver (uncredited)
  Law and Disorder (1958) - Bent - Warder Ext. Prison
  The Big Money (1958) - Bluey
  The 39 Steps (1959) - Detective on Train (uncredited)
  
  The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) - Walters (uncredited)
  Watch Your Stern (1960) - Security guard
  Johnny Nobody (1961) - Supt. Lynch
  On the Fiddle (1961) - Soldier at Army Meat Van (uncredited)
  Ambush in Leopard Street (1962) - Harry
  The Devil's Agent (1962) - Horvat
  Live Now, Pay Later (1963) - Bailiff
  The Girl Hunters (1963) - Policeman
  Tom Jones (1963) - Jailer at Newgate (uncredited)
  The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) - The Turnkey
  Thunderball (1965) - Janni
  Death Is a Woman (1966) - Bonelli
  The Deadly Affair (1966) - Wolfe the Barman (uncredited)
  Three Hats for Lisa (1966) - Police Sergeant
  Just like a Woman (1967) - Commissionaire
  Woman Times Seven (1967) - (segment "At The Opera")
  Cuckoo Patrol (1967) - Superman No.1
  The Great Pony Raid (1968) - Butch
  
  Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Landlord
  Fright (1971) - Sergeant
  Doomwatch (1972) - Tom Straker
  Up the Front (1972) - M.P.
  Nothing But the Night (1972) - Deck Hand

  

  Michael Brennan(I) (1912–1982)

  Actor | Stunts
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107357/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  

  1985: The soundtrack for A View to a Kill composed by John Barry charts in the US. Eventually reaches #33.
  1985: 鐵金剛勇戰 大狂魔 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn dà kuáng mó; Iron King Fighting Madman) released in Taiwan.

  Later video releases.

  
  
  

  
  1987: ITV airs documentary James Bond - Licence to Thrill.

  

  James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987)

  51min | Documentary | TV Movie 29 June 1987
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt00918535/
  Promotional documentary television special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James Bond and release of the then new James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' (1987).
  
  Director: Mike Ward
  Writer: George Perry
  Stars: Nick Owen (presenter).

  
  

  1987: The London Royal Premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall confirms Danny Kleinman as titles designer.
  2013: Bond World 007 Grand Opening in Switzerland.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_bond_world_preview.php3

  
  
  
  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/news_bond_world_007.htm
  

  
  2015: Spectre films a world record explosion in Erfoud, Morocco.

  https://www.news24.com/Channel/new-james-bond-movie-sets-guinness-world-record-20151111
  
  SPECTRE BREAKS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
  

  
  2024: Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom.

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 29 Posts: 13,812

  June 30th
  
  1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary entry.

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

  Wednesday 30 June, 1943
  
  I. dined yesterday, well and in good spirits and questioning me about the office. [After the death of Russell’s husband, Gilbert, in 1942, Fleming got her a job in the Admiralty’s propaganda division.] He says: you mustn’t do too much – and pities and admonishes me. But I tell him not to pity me, that he has saved my life, or given me a new one, that I am engrossed in the work and as happy as I could be under the circumstances.
  
  We talked a lot about the Admiralty. He has various very significant jobs and is an important person. The work is the work that would suit him. I knew him first when he was 23, a clerk at Reuters and starting out – or dashing out – into the world, a life. That is more than 11 years ago.

  
  1978: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa (Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul) re-released in Finland.
  (Swedish title Den hemliga agenten 007 i Istanbul, or The Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul.)

  Original 1963 poster.
  

  
  1987: "The Living Daylights" single released.
  
  2009: The Court of First Instance dismisses the action of the owner of the rights to the James Bond films.

  

  THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE DISMISSES THE ACTION
  OF THE OWNER OF THE RIGHTS TO THE ‘JAMES BOND'
  FILMS AGAINST REGISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY
  TRADE MARK ‘DR. NO' BY ANOTHER COMPANY

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/CJE_09_57

  CJE30 June 2009
  
  Press and Information
  
  PRESS RELEASE No 57/09
  
  30 June 2009
  
  Judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-435/05
  
  Danjaq LLC v OHIM

  THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE DISMISSES THE ACTION OF THE
  OWNER OF THE RIGHTS TO THE ‘JAMES BOND' FILMS AGAINST
  REGISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY TRADE MARK ‘DR. NO' BY
  ANOTHER COMPANY
  

  The proprietor, Danjaq, has failed to establish either that the signs ‘Dr.
  No' and ‘Dr. NO' were used as trade marks or that the title of the film Dr.
  No was used in the course of trade, which might have enabled it to
  oppose registration of the mark.

  
  On 13 June 2001, Mission Productions, a German media company, applied for registration of the word sign ‘Dr. No' as a Community trade mark.
  
  Danjaq, the American company which manages the intellectual property rights to the ‘James Bond' series of films, opposed that registration, claiming that there was a likelihood of confusion with its earlier well-known marks ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' and relying on its non-registered marks and the earlier signs used in the course of trade ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO'.
  
  OHIM rejected the opposition, holding that Danjaq had not proved either that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' had been used as trade marks or that they had previously been used in the course of trade as signs other than trade marks. 1
  
  Danjaq brought an action against the OHIM decision before the Court of First Instance.
  
  First of all, the Court of First Instance points out that the essential function of a trade mark is to identify the commercial origin of the goods or services in question. It notes that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' used by Danjaq do not indicate the commercial origin of the films, but rather their artistic origin. Those signs, affixed to the covers of the video cassettes or to the DVDs, help to distinguish that film from other films in the ‘James Bond' series. The commercial origin of the film is indicated by other signs, such as ‘007' or ‘James Bond'. In those circumstances, the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' cannot be regarded as well known trade marks or non-registered trade marks that could be relied on in order to oppose the registration of a Community trade mark.

  1 Following that decision, Danjaq applied for registration as a Community trade mark of the other James Bond film titles. 18 of those 21 titles were registered. The registrations of the remaining three, Casino Royale, Octopussy and Goldeneye, were the subject of opposition proceedings brought by other companies, and the applications are still pending.

  Next the Court of First Instance recalls that the protection provided for by copyright cannot be relied on in opposition proceedings, but only in proceedings for a declaration of invalidity of a Community trade mark after it has been registered.
  
  However, the titles of artistic works are protected by certain national laws against the use of a subsequent mark, as distinctive signs outside the area of copyright. Thus, German and Swedish law afford protection against a subsequent trade mark which gives rise to a likelihood of confusion with the titles in question, provided that such titles have distinctive character and are used in the course of trade. Nevertheless, since the documents submitted by Danjaq were too general, not objective, and irrelevant to the countries concerned, they are not sufficient to establish that the title Dr. No was used in the course of trade in the territories in question, even though the extent of use of that title could have been established without too much difficulty, for example by providing programming details of the film, either for cinemas or television.
  
  Consequently, the Court of First Instance dismisses the action, since Danjaq has failed to establish either that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' were used as trade marks or that the title of the film Dr. No was used in the course of trade.
  
  REMINDER: An appeal, limited to points of law only, may be brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities against a decision of the Court of First Instance, within two months of its notification.
  

  Unofficial document for media use, not binding on the Court of First Instance.
  Languages available: EN, FR, DE
  
  The full text of the judgment may be found on the Court's internet site
  http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=rechercher&numaff=T-435/05
  
  It can usually be consulted after midday (CET) on the day judgment is delivered.
  
  For further information, please contact Christopher Fretwell
  Tel: (00352) 4303 3355 Fax: (00352) 4303 2731
  

  
  2016: Joe Powell dies at age 94--London England.
  (Born 21 March 1922--Shepherd's Bush, London, England.)

  

  Joe Powell, stuntman – obituary

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/27/joe-powell-stuntman--obituary/

  
  Joe Powell, doubling for Sean Connery on the set of The Man Who Would be King
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Joe Powell, who has died aged 94, was known as the “daddy of British stuntmen” for the gut-wrenchingly high-risk feats he performed in classic adventure films such as Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone.
  
  For The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story filmed in the Atlas mountains, Powell, “doubling” for Sean Connery, had to plunge 100 ft from a collapsed rope bridge into a perilous ravine: if he had missed the target area covered with boxes to cushion his fall, he would have plummeted a further 2,000 ft. The co-star Michael Caine walked away saying: “I’m not going to watch this one.” Huston was delighted, saying it was “the darnedest stunt I ever saw”.

  
  Joe Powell falls through the air in The Man who Would be King
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  During the course of his career Powell suffered a few broken ribs, and a broken hip after a horse fell on him, but he did not allow himself to be unduly troubled by nerves. “The thing is,” he explained, “you don’t have time to be scared – if you stop to think about what you are doing you wouldn’t do it… I didn’t have any training so when I performed a stunt the audience were literally seeing someone fall off a cliff – it made it more realistic.”

  
  Joe Powell in the 1950s
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Joseph Augustus Powell was born on March 21 1922 at the Shepherd and Flock public house, Shepherd’s Bush, where his father, Joseph, a former quartermaster sergeant in the Life Guards, was the landlord. Joe was brought up in Camden where his father had the tenancy of a pub called the Camden Head, then in Chelsea where, after the death of his father, his mother Ada (neé Blunt) ran the Prince of Wales in Dover Street.
  
  Joe was one of five siblings; his only brother, Eddie, also became a stuntman. Whiling away his spare time while his parents were running the pub, he joined first the Cubs and then the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cadet Corps. He enjoyed soldiering, and soon after the outbreak of war, when he was still only 17, he joined the Grenadier Guards. To break the monotony of drill and PT he took up boxing with the regimental team, but as the war progressed he was selected for No 4 Special Service (Commando) unit, taking part in the 1942 raid on Dieppe, during which he was briefly knocked out, and in the D-Day invasion.

  
  No 4 Commando: Joe Powell is on the far left Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  With the war in Europe over, Powell was sent to Germany, where he learnt to ride. He had little idea of what he was going to do apart from vague thoughts of becoming a professional boxer. But in 1946 a chance meeting at a bus stop with the actor Dennis Price led to Powell visiting the studios where Price was filming a Napoleonic-era musical with Stewart Granger called The Magic Bow.
  
  Powell was struck by how comically unrealistic Napoleon’s “crack soldiers” were and determined that here might be an opening. “I’m going into the film industry,” he told his friends, “to bring realism into action films.”
  
  Demobbed in the rank of sergeant, he managed to get a job as an extra at Pinewood. He was sparring at the Polytechnic Boxing Club in Regent Street and through a friendship there he ended up as a founding partner in a stunt team set up by Captain Jock Easton MC, who was just out of the SAS.
  
  For Powell’s first big stunt, in The Small Voice, filmed at Ealing Studios, he played a motorcycle policeman pursuing a criminal gang in a car. He had to simulate being shot at, swerving off the road at 40 mph and crashing into a tree. The stunt was so lifelike that the prop man assumed Powell really had been injured.

  
  Joe Powell takes to the air in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Powell appeared in nearly 100 films, including Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Moby Dick (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). It was not unusual for him to be blown up, machine-gunned or otherwise “killed” multiple times in one picture, as when he played German soldiers in Where Eagles Dare (1968). He always insisted that he had not trained to be a stuntman, though one special skill he had was falling from heights.
  
  As well as the rope bridge fall in The Man Who Would Be King, there was a dramatic plunge 90 ft down from the side of a sinking ship (Titanic) in A Night to Remember in 1958, filmed in Glasgow docks. Then in 1961 for The Guns of Navarone he took the role of a German shot by Gregory Peck and dropping 90 ft from a cave into the sea by the island of Rhodes. It went without a hitch, though he was heavily bruised.

  
  Joe Powell during the filming of Zulu
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Living through a golden age of films with military themes, Powell applied his own Army experience to his projects. In 1964 he took on a rare acting role in one such film, as Sgt Windridge, in Cy Endfield’s Zulu. The film contained some unusual stunts; Powell also trained the Zulus and helped choreograph the battle scenes.
  
  In 1962 he worked on The Longest Day, the film based on Cornelius Ryan’s book about D-Day, which depicted events in which he had been involved. Visiting the set one day with the producer Darryl Zanuck, Lord Lovat was heard to say: “There’s Powell, one of my sergeants.”

  Powell appeared in three Bond films and the spoof Casino Royale. In 1969, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he stood in for Telly Savalas as the criminal mastermind Blofeld in a terrifying bobsleigh chase.

  
  Joe Powell playing chess with Anthony Quinn Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  In retirement Powell kept up his keep-fit enthusiasm. Looking back on his career he was particularly proud of the fact that he had helped stunt performers to gain acceptance into Equity, the actors’ union. He had a lifelong love of the sea and was in the crew of the replica ship Mayflower II when it sailed to America in 1957.
  
  He was twice married, first to Marguerite, known as “Clem”; she died of cancer. His second wife, Juliet, also died, and he is survived by four sons and a daughter; another daughter predeceased him.
  
  Joe Powell, born March 21 1922, died June 30 2016

  
  Filmography

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694170/
  Stunts (60 credits)
  1986 Half Moon Street (stunt arranger)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt arranger - uncredited)
  1984 Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce (fight arranger)
  1984 Top Secret! (stunt arranger)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 Flash Gordon (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 The Passage (stunt arranger)
  1978 Caravans (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Death on the Nile (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Golden Rendezvous (stunt arranger)
  1977 Van der Valk (TV Series) (stunt arranger - 2 episodes)
  - In Hazard (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
  - Man of Iron (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
  1977 Valentino (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 The Squeeze (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 At the Earth's Core (stunt arranger - uncredited)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1974 The Odessa File (stunts - uncredited)
  1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunt adviser) / (stunt arranger)
  1973 The MacKintosh Man (stunts - uncredited)
  1973 A Warm December (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Fear Is the Key (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Young Winston (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 The Last Grenade (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Hell Boats (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: Blofeld - uncredited)
  1969 Mosquito Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Great Catherine (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Attack on the Iron Coast (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 The Dirty Dozen (stunts)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunt rigger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Africa: Texas Style (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
  1966 Khartoum (stunts - uncredited)
  1966 Cast a Giant Shadow (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 The Heroes of Telemark (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited)
  1965 Mister Moses (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 633 Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Zulu (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1963 Cleopatra (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 The Longest Day (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Billy Budd (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1957 The Steel Bayonet (stunts - uncredited)
  1957 Tarzan and the Lost Safari (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1956 Zarak (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Moby Dick (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Alexander the Great (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
  1953 The Master of Ballantrae (stunts - uncredited)
  1952 The Crimson Pirate (stunts - uncredited)
  1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (stunts - uncredited)
  1950 Waterfront Women (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1949 The Spider and the Fly (stunt performer - uncredited)
  1948 The Hideout (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (14 credits)
  1977 Golden Rendezvous - Male Nurse
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Taxi Passenger
  1975 Oil Strike North (TV Series) - Mate
  - The Floating Bomb (1975) ... Mate
  1974 11 Harrowhouse - Hickey
  1971 The Last Valley - Kaas (uncredited)
  
  1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Martin
  - From Venus with Love (1967) ... Martin (uncredited)
  1965 The Heroes of Telemark - Quisling (uncredited)
  1965 The Brigand of Kandahar - Colour Sergeant
  1964 Zulu - Sgt. Windridge
  1963 Captain Sindbad
  1962 The World's Greatest Sinner - Follower
  
  1957 The Abominable Snowman - Yeti (uncredited)
  1953 Laughing Anne - Pierre
  1949 Cardboard Cavalier - Rider (uncredited)
  
  Casting department (4 credits)
  1965 Genghis Khan (extras casting - uncredited)
  1963 55 Days at Peking (extras casting - uncredited)
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong (extras casting - uncredited)
  
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (extras casting - uncredited)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1984 Top Secret! (second unit director)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  2002 The Making of 'Zulu': Roll of Honour (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2002 The Making of 'Zulu':...and Snappeth the Spear in Sunder (Video documentary short) - Himself

  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale films Vesper dunked underwater. Bond follows.

  

  
  2022: Producer Barbara Broccoli says BOND 26 won't shoot sooner than two years' time.

  

  
  Next Bond film will be ‘complete reinvention’
  but won’t shoot for ‘at least two years’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://dailynewser.com/movies/next-bond-film-will-be-complete-reinvention-but-wont-shoot-for-at-least-two-years

  Barbara Broccoli has revealed details about the future of the 007 franchise after the departure of Daniel Craig
  
  The 26th official James Bond movie is not going to be in cinemas earlier than 2025, in step with the series’ producer, Barbara Broccoli.
  
  Speaking at a dinner to honour Broccoli and her 1/2-brother Michael G Wilson after the presentation of their BFI Fellowships, the gatekeeper of all matters 007 (and daughter of Cubby Broccoli) stated they had no longer but forged the actor who will update Daniel Craig in the tux.

  “Nobody’s in the jogging,” she stated in a speech first pronounced by Deadline. “We’re running out where to go together with him, we’re talking that via. There isn’t a script and we can’t provide you with one until we decide how we’re going to technique the subsequent film due to the fact, clearly, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he's and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at the least two years away.”

  Craig departed the collection after 5 films, bowing out with closing year’s No Time to Die. That movie concluded Craig’s run with a finality unusual for the film, some thing which fuelled speculation over the likely destiny of the franchise, with a few suspecting the movies would ought to go back to Bond’s youth or early secret agent years for greater testimonies.
  
  The sale of studio MGM to Amazon has additionally meant the highbrow belongings rights over Ian Fleming’s character exert a looser grip than in previous years. Broccoli and Wilson are producing a brand new fact series, 007’s Road to a Million, for you to be Amazon Prime Video’s debut TV show.
  
  The siblings were provided with their fellowships by way of Bond regulars Ralph Fiennes and Naomie Harris, who play M and Moneypenny. Noting the destiny of Bond in the most latest film, Fiennes joked:

  “Naomie and I are the humans to repair it. You locate him and we’ll teach him.”

  Broccoli has previously confirmed that the brand new Bond could be male, after calls for the man or woman to undergo a Doctor Who-fashion reinvention. Key runners and riders remain Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Richard Madden.

  
  
  
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  1920: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) is born--Holualoa, Hawaii.
  (He dies 29 July 1982 at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

  
  Archives | 1982

  HAROLD T. SAKATA

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/31/obituaries/harold-t-sakata.html

  AP JULY 31, 1982

  Harold T. Sakata, an actor best known for his sinister characterization of the killer bodyguard Oddjob in the James Bond movie ''Goldfinger,'' died Thursday. He was 62 years old.[/b]
  Mr. Sakata, who won an Olympic silver medal in London in 1948 for weightlifting, was a top-card professional wrestler under the name Tosh Togo before achieving fame as an actor.
  
  The eldest of 10 children born on Hawaii Island, Mr. Sakata worked in the plantation fields and as a stevedore when he was young. He never finished high school.

  In the early 1960's, the producer Harry Saltzman and the director Guy Hamilton discovered Mr. Sakata when they saw him wrestling on television in London.

  Mr. Sakata also appeared in a series of cold-remedy commercials for national television, in the television series ''Sarge,'' and as a guest on such shows as ''Hawaii Five-O'' and ''Police Woman.''

  
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757138/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (32 credits)
  
  1982 Invaders of the Lost Gold - Tobachi
  1982 Ninja Strikes Back - Sakata
  1981 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series) - Ku Long
  - The Roller Disco Karate Kaper (1981) ... Ku Long
  
  1979 Highcliffe Manor (TV Series) - Cheng
  - Stark Terror (1979) ... Cheng
  - Sex & Violence (1979) ... Cheng
  - The Blacke Death (1979) ... Cheng
  1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Oriental Man
  1978 Goin' Coconuts - Ito
  1978 Death Dimension - The Pig (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
  1978 The Amazing Spider-Man (TV Series) - Matsu
  - Escort to Danger (1978) ... Matsu
  1978 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - John Doe
  - The Competitive Edge (1978) ... John Doe
  1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - Lee's Killer
  - The Human Rights of Tiki Kim (1978) ... Lee's Killer
  1977 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Master Sensei Tobi
  - Touch of Death (1977) ... Master Sensei Tobi
  1977 Record City - Gucci
  1977 The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington - Wong (as Harold Odd Job Sakata)
  1976 Broken House
  1976 Mako: The Jaws of Death - Pete (as Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata)
  1976 The Blue Knight (TV Series) - Car smasher
  - Everybody Needs a Little Attention (1976) ... Car smasher
  1974 The Wrestler - Odd Job
  1974 Impulse - Karate Pete
  1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shibata Hood
  - I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot! (1972) ... Shibata Hood
  1971-1972 Sarge (TV Series) - Takichi / Kenji Takichi / Kenji (9 episodes)
  1971 Jamison's Kids (TV Movie)
  1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
  - Episode #5.4 (1971) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
  1970 The Phynx - Oddjob (as Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata)
  1967 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV Series) - Assassin
  - Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Assassin
  1967 Gilligan's Island (TV Series) - Ramoo
  - The Hunter (1967) ... Ramoo
  1966 Dimension 5 - Big Buddha
  1966 Seventeenth Heaven (uncredited)
  1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower - Martin
  1966 Balearic Caper - Direttore del museo
  1966 4 Schlüssel - Odd Job (uncredited)
  1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ching
  - Jungle of Fear (1965) ... Ching
  1964 Goldfinger - Oddjob (as Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo})
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  1978 Flying High (TV Series) (thanks - 1 episode)
  - A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chairs Eagerly (1978) ... (thanks)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #5.7 (1971) ... Himself (uncredited)
  1969-1971 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) - Himself / Himself - Guest
  - Episode dated 16 February 1971 (1971) ... Himself
  - Episode dated 7 March 1969 (1969) ... Himself - Guest
  
  Archive footage (21 credits)
  
  2015 No Small Parts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - James Bond Henchmen Part 1: Harold Sakata (2015) ... Himself
  2015 Heineken's the Chase (Short) - Oddjob
  2012 Top Gear (TV Series) - Odd Job
  - 50 Years of Bond Cars (2012) ... Odd Job (uncredited)
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Odd Job (uncredited)
  
  2006 Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) - Oddjob
  - Wetten, dass..? aus Düsseldorf (2006) ... Oddjob
  2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself (uncredited)
  2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob (uncredited)
  2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob (uncredited)
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Oddjob
  1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1983 Bonds Are Forever (Video documentary) - Oddjob / Himself
  1983 James Bond: The First 21 Years (TV Movie documentary) - Oddjob
  1982 The 54th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Oddjob (For Your Eyes Only musical segment)
  
  1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Oddjob
  1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
  - Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself
  1964 Goldfinger Original Promotional Featurette (Video short) - Oddjob / Himself
  
  Personal Details

  Other Works: TV commercial for Vicks Formula 44 (1964)
  Publicity Listings: 1 Portrayal | 4 Articles | See more »
  Alternate Names: Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata | Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata | Harold Odd Job Sakata | Tosh Togo | Harold Sakata {Tosh Togo}
  Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)

  Trivia (6)

  Won a silver medal in light-heavyweight weight-lifting at the 1948 summer Olympics. He pursued a successful career as a professional wrestler before moving into acting.
  
  Weighed 284 lbs at the time of Goldfinger (1964).
  
  Sakata apparently liked his role in the movie Goldfinger (1964) so much that he took "Oddjob" as an informal middle name.
  
  In the rehearsals at the Golf Club where he is to throw his hat at the statue, with the head subsequently falling off, after three attempts the special effects crew could not "arrange" the head to fall off correctly. On the fourth take he told the special effects team to just stand still - then he threw his iron-brimmed hat at the statues neck and successful severed the head at the neck on the "first" attempt - to the amazement of all!.
  
  Father: Tamotsu Sakata.
  
  As a professional wrestler. he was one of the great heels in the ring. On screen he is best remembered for playing "Oddjob" in "Goldfinger" (1964) which is regarded as one of the great villains of the movies. Out of the ring, or off camera, he is remembered as being charming and friendly.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1932: Sonny Caldinez is born--Trinidad.
  (He dies 12 April 2022 at age 89-La Push, Washington.)

  

  Sonny Caldinez

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born 1 July 1932
  Trinidad, British West Indies
  Died 12 April 2022 (aged 89)
  La Push, Washington, U.S.
  Occupation(s) Actor, wrestler
  
  Sonny Caldinez (1 July 1932 – 12 April 2022) was a Trinidadian actor and professional wrestler.[1] He was often cast in television and films for his great height and muscular physique. He appeared as various Ice Warriors on the British programme Doctor Who and also in films such as The Man with the Golden Gun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ali G Indahouse, Arabian Adventure and The Fifth Element.[2]
  
  Caldinez played Ice Warriors in all four of the classic Doctor Who serials in which they appeared. His Ice Warrior roles include Turoc from The Ice Warriors, an unnamed Ice Warrior in The Seeds of Death, Ssorg in The Curse of Peladon and Sskel in The Monster of Peladon. He also appeared as Kemel in The Evil of the Daleks.[3][4][5] Other television roles include Abdullah on Sexton and Blake and the mulatto on The Return of Sherlock Holmes (episode "Wisteria Lodge").[2][6]
  
  Caldinez moved to the U.S. from Trinidad in 2011. He died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm in his personal campsite in La Push, Washington on 12 April 2022, at the age of 89.[6][7]
  
  Filmography
  A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) – Wrestler (uncredited)
  White Cargo (1973) – Bodyguard
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Kra (uncredited)
  The Fosters – Series 2, Episode 1: "The Nude" (1977) – Clyde Davies[8][9]
  Mind Your Language – (TV series) Season 1, episode 4 – Surinders' father (1977)
  Arabian Adventure (1979) – Nubian
  Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Mean Mongolian
  The Fifth Element (1997) – Emperor Kodar Japhet
  Ali G Indahouse (2002) – Ambassador (uncredited)
  
  References
  "WRESTLING HERITAGE". WRESTLING HERITAGE.
  "Sonny Caldinez". BFI.
  "BBC – Doctor Who – Classic Series – Photonovels – The Evil of the Daleks". www.bbc.co.uk.
  "Sonny Caldinez – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  "Doctor Who – The Ice Warriors". homepages.bw.edu.
  "Sonny Caldinez". Aveleyman. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  "Sonny Caldinez 1932–2022". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  "Anglia". Weekend Entertainment. Saffron Walden Weekly News. 14 April 1977. p. VI – via Newspapers.com.
  "London ITV". TV and radio. Reading Evening Post. 16 April 1977. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.

  
  
  
  
  Sonny Caldinez in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974) (2:58)
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: This month Fury magazine publishes an Ian Fleming novelette "A Nice View For Killing".

  

  "A Nice View For Killing" in Fury -
  July 1962 Ian Fleming contributor

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot/a-nice-view-for-killing-in-fury-july-1962-ian-fleming-yS-CxGZC6x-

  About the item
  IAN FLEMING'S James Bond story "A NICE VIEW FOR KILLING", in Fury magazine - July 1962 issue, includes artwork that appears nowhere else. VERY RARE AND MUST HAVE FOR THE IAN FLEMING/JAMES BOND COLLECTOR Magazine has almost no wear to spine, no cover tears, no creasing to front cover, no subscription label, no missing pages, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, slight color cover rubbing, no dust soiling to covers, hint of edge wear. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond magazine appearances up for sale.

  
  

  
  1981: Marvel Comics publishes Super Special Issue #19 For Your Eyes Only. Later it's reissued as a two-parter.
  Howard Chaykin and Vince Colletta, artists. Larry Hama, writer.

  

  Super Special Issue #19 For Your Eyes Only

  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/marvel-comics-super-special-19-for-your-eyes-only/4000-20924/
  Creators
  Christie Scheele colorist
  Dennis O'Neil editor
  Diana Albers letterer
  Howard Chaykin cover, inker, penciler
  Janice Chiang letterer
  Jean Simek letterer
  Larry Hama writer
  Vince Colletta artist

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Octopussy released in Ireland.
  1983: 鐵金剛勇破 爆炸黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò bàozhà dǎng; Iron King Explosion Party) released in Hong Kong.
  
  1985: Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonneis is born--Passy, Paris, France.
  
  1989: This month Eclipse Comics releases movie tie-in Licence to Kill.
  Mike Grell, artist. Richard Ashford, writer.

  

  James Bond 007: Licence to Kill

  https://totalec]lipse.blog/2018/08/03/1989-james-bond-007-licence-to-kill/
  [quote
  James Bond 007: Licence to Kill (1989) by Mike Grell, Richard Ashford, Chuck Austen, Tom Yeates, Stan Woch et al.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: This month Eclipse Comics releases Permission to Die #1.
  Mike Grell, Dameon Willich, artists.

  

  James Bond 007 Permission to Die #1

  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=135651
  Published Jul 1991 by Eclipse.

  Story and cover by Mike Grell. Part 1 of 3. Art by Mike Grell and Dameon Willich. A brilliant inventor has a way to get satellites into orbit at a fraction of the current cost. Hes willing to sell it to the British government, but only if they can free his niece from behind the Iron Curtain. The job of course falls to James Bond. Making his way through Hungary, his contact is head of a band of gypsies. Unfortunately, they have a traitor in their midst. 48 pages. Full color.

  Characters James Bond; Edaine Gayla
  Genre adventure
  Pencils Mike Grell; Dameon Willich
  Inks Mike Grell; Dameon Willich
  Colors Julia Lacquement
  Letters Wayne Truman
  Characters James Bond; Miss Moneypenny; M, Boothroyd; Vavra; Luludi; Janos
  Synopsis Bond is sent to Hungary for a scientist's niece, in exchange for plans to a satellite launch system.

  

  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #7 "Sure as Eggs Is Eggs".
  Featuring Scumlord and Jaws.
  Mario Capaldi, artist. Dan Abnett, writer.

  

  James Bond, Jr. Vol 1 #7 "Sure as Eggs is Eggs"

  https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond,_Jr._Vol_1_7
  Published July, 1992
  Cover Artist Mario Capaldi
  Writer Dan Abnett
  Penciler Mario Capaldi
  Inker Bambos Georgiou
  Colourist Sophie Heath
  Letterer Stuart Bartlett

  https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/2752981/james-bond-jr-7

  Sure as Eggs is Eggs
  The Scumlord uses a cat burglar to steal the Faberge Eggs, a key to Anglo-Russian relations.

  
  

  
  1992: Dark Horse Comics/acme release Serpent's Tooth #1.
  Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.

  

  James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #1

  https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-079/James-Bond-007-Serpents-Tooth-1

  The martinis will be shaken, not stirred, as Dark Horse proudly presents a spectacular new James Bond series based on the popular Ian Fleming characters! A nuclear arsenal disappears! Unexplained phenomena is South America! Dinosaurs! Bond! What more can we give you? Well, maybe the team born to do this book: Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy! Don't miss out on one of the books of the summer. First in a series of new James Bond books from Dark Horse Comics and Acme Press.

  Creators
  Writer: Doug Moench
  Artist: Paul Gulacy
  Letterer: Pat Brosseau
  Colorist: Steve Oliff
  Editor: Jerry Prosser
  Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 01, 1992
  Format: FC

  

  
  
  
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  1994: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Shattered Helix #2.
  David Jackson, artist. Simon Jowett, writer.

  

  James Bond 007: Shattered Helix #2

  https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/53-335/James-Bond-007-Shattered-Helix-2

  Cerberus has penetrated the secret laboratory in the heart of the Antarctic. Its goal -- the deadliest disease known to man, perfect for its goals of global blackmail and mayhem!
  
  James Bond is hot on its heels, aided by beautiful biologist Serena Mountjoy. But to stop Cerberus in this caper, he must make his way through Bullock, a murderous monster of a man with bulletproof body armor surgically grafted into his skin!

  Creators
  Writer: Simon Jowett
  Artist: David Jackson
  Letterer: Elitta Fell
  Colorist: David Lloyd
  Editor: Dick Hansom
  Designer: Scott Fuentes
  Cover Artist: David Lloyd
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 01, 1994
  Format: FC

  

  
  1997: James Bond Classic Library publishes the Fleming Bond novels.

  

  
  2014: The New York Times crossword puzzle. Crossword Clue: 48 across. Four letters.
  Movie that introduced the line "Bond, James Bond".

  Solution:

  
  https://nyxcrossword.com/2014/07/0701-14-new-york-times-crossword.html
  48. Movie that introduced the line “Bond, James Bond” :

  DR NO
  
  “Dr. No” may have been the first film in the wildly successful James Bond franchise, but it was the sixth novel in the series of books penned by Ian Fleming. Fleming was inspired to write the story after reading the Fu Manchu tales by Sax Rohmer. If you’ve read the Rohmer books or seen the films, you’ll recognize the similarities between the characters Dr. No and Fu Manchu.
  

  

  2019: Reports say Grace Jones quits BOND 25.

  

  

  Grace Jones 'QUITS' new James Bond
  film just moments after arriving on set
  The legendary star is said to have walked away from the movie after discovering how few lines she'd been given

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/grace-jones-quits-new-james-17291104

  By Vicki NewmanAssistant Showbiz Editor | 1 Jul 2019
  
  Grace Jones is said to have sensationally quit the new James Bond movie just moments after arriving on the set.
  
  The legendary star, 70, was reportedly so angry after discovering how few lines she'd been given that she walked out.
  
  Diva Grace played iconic villain May Day in 1985 Bond flick A View To A Kill, starring opposite Roger Moore.
  
  She was due to make a comeback to the franchise but was reportedly insulted at being given just a brief cameo.
  
  Bosses are said to be frustrated after wasting time and money securing her a luxury residence to stay in near Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
  
  Bond 25: Daniel Craig shoots new 007 film in London with Aston Martin V8
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  Grace is said to have walked out just moments after arriving on set
  (Image: Sygma via Getty Images)

  A source told The Sun]/i]: "Grace’s 007 homecoming was meant to be a real crowd-pleasing moment. Bosses were really excited about landing her.
  

  "Of course, she comes with a reputation, so they organised premium accommodation and rolled out the red carpet on set to make her feel welcome.
  
  "But it turns out Grace was expecting to play a bigger role in the movie and took her brief cameo as a slight."

  Grace's appearance in the movie was first rumoured in April, and it was thought she'd star in a scene alongside current Bond Daniel Craig.

  
  Grace starred alongside Roger Moore in A View To A Kill
  (Image: Corbis via Getty Images)

  Her reported walk-out is the latest setback to hit Bond 25.
  
  The film was delayed when star Daniel was injured on the set and needed surgery on his ankle.
  
  There was also an explosion on the set that was so bad it blew panels off the side of the building.
  
  The film had already been thrown off schedule when director Danny Boyle quit over a script dispute in August 2018.

  

  
  2022: Must-See Films at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival include The Other Fellow at Melbourne, Australia.

  

  

  Must-See Films at the Melbourne
  Documentary Film Festival 2022

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://melbournemumsgroup.com.au/mustsee-films-at-the-melbourne-documentary-film-festival-2022/

  1 Jul - 31 Jul
  Showcasing the hottest international & Aussie documentaries

  10. The Other Fellow
  Directed by Matthew Bauer
  
  Bond, James Bonds. Can anyone ever live up to that name? An energetic exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name – James Bond.

  1952. Jamaica. When author Ian Fleming needs a name for his suave, sophisticated secret agent, he steals one from an unaware birdwatcher and creates a pop-culture phenomenon about the ultimate fictional alpha male.

  2022. It is the year of 007's sixtieth anniversary onscreen and Australian filmmaker Matthew Bauer is on a global mission to discover the lasting, contrasting and very personal impacts of sharing such an identity with James Bond.

  From a Swedish 007 super-fan with a Nazi past, a gay New York theatre director, an African American Bond accused of murder, and two resilient women caught up in it all, Bauer's cinematic mission is an audacious, poignant, and insightful examination of masculinity, gender, and race in the very real shadows of a movie icon.

  

  
  2022: Reports say Jack White admits his James Bond theme is 'one of the most divisive things' he's ever done.

  

  Jack White admits his James Bond theme is
  'one of the most divisive things' he's ever done

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.lhindependent.com/lifestyles/entertainment/jack-white-admits-his-james-bond-theme-is-one-of-the-most-divisive-things-hes/article_045463a9-2313-59c0-b32b-4ffa61641bff.html

  Jack White admits his James Bond theme is 'one of the most divisive things' he's ever done
  By Celebretainment | July 2022
  
  Jack White says 'Another Way To Die' is "one of the most divisive things" he's ever done.

  

  The former White Stripes star wrote and produced the James Bond theme song - which also features Alicia Keys - for 2008's Quantum of Solace, and he admitted people still either love or hate the track.
  
  Appearing on the 'Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend' podcast, he said: "It’s one of the most divisive things I’ve been a part of.

  “To this day, it’s straight across the board. People always say you either love or you hate it.
  
  "That song is… there are people who hate it so much, and there are people who love it so much. Nowhere in the middle; it’s so strange.”

  The 46-year-old musician noted that Bond themes can be a contentious subject, with fans having their clear favourites.
  
  He added:

  "Bond themes – in Britain, for example… that’s consistent coffee/breakfast conversation.
  
  "Like, ‘What’s your favourite bond theme?’ It’s almost who you are as a person.”

  Jack landed the job after Amy Winehouse - who was originally set to record the movie's theme - didn't meet the bosses' criteria.

  He said: "So it was [like], ‘We were running out of time, we need somebody else… And I thought, ‘Oh, this was great, because now I’m gonna get away with murder; I’m gonna put things in this song, they would never approve of this…
  
  “And that happened… The music director was not down with anything. He was trying to convince me to turn it into a ballad or something like that...
  
  “It got interesting, I was like, ‘We’re going on tour, I can’t get in there’ – knowing full well I totally have time to fix it if I wanted to.”

  Originally published on celebretainment.com, part of the TownNews Content Exchange.

  

  
  Literally.
  
  Quantum of Solace • Another Way To Die • Alicia Keys & Jack White (4:26)
  

  
  2022: Film studies final day of CINE 3043 (3) – Topics in Critical Cinema Studies: Lives of 007 at the University of Colorado Boulder.

  

  CINE 3043 (3) – Topics in Critical Cinema Studies: Lives of 007

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  Explores the most successful brand name in film history. The “James Bond 007” movies created by Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli, provide an essential example of the reliability of formula and the adaptability of generic forms. The series offers a case study in the cultural politics of Western cinemas in general and genre in particular, and the cinema’s relation to historical and social contexts. Emphasis will be given to the films’ treatment, and re-invention of issues such as the Cold War, the sexual revolution, gender politics, feminism, racism, and technological developments. Amidst changing historical and cultural contexts, the improbable hero invented by Ian Fleming in 1953 remains extremely adaptable, an example of the capability of “classic” genre forms to evolve in order to address shifting social anxieties, changing historical contexts, and enewed social concerns and practices. Readings will include serious, scholarly works on the history and cultural politics of the “James Bond” brand, writings on genre theory and
  film history, contemporary reviews, memoirs, source stories, and other materials. The purpose of this course is to explore a popular cinema phenomenon from a theoretical and political perspective and to deconstruct its conventions, significance, and re-thinking of culture, history, narrative, ideology, and genre itself. Formerly FILM 3043. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Sec. 100 Acevedo-Muñoz M/W/F 1:00pm –5:00pm ATLAS 102 35 limit 1439

  
  
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  July 2nd
  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes a letter to Ivar Bryce pressing him to make an offer on Bond film rights.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 4 - The Deal Is Done

  Early in July 1959 much was beginning to happen in the world of James
  Bond. As Fleming described it to Bryce, "Conflicting bids for and interests
  in part or whole of the James Bond sausage have been coming thick and
  fast." American television executive Hubbell Robinson had made a firm bid
  of $10,000 for a 90-minute TV version of From Russia with Love, and also
  wanted an option on a television series with a maximum of 44 episodes, "for
  a fat fee," wrote Fleming. Another American producer had offered a similar
  proposal, plus movie rights. And there was an offer of £20,000 and 15% of
  the profits on a British TV series. In desperation Fleming appointed MCA
  as his agents for all film, television and dramatic rights. In charge of those
  was the highly influential Laurence Evans, who also represented Alec
  Guinness and Ingrid Bergman. "So I'm in good company," boasted Fleming.
  
  Fleming accepted the From Russia with Love bid (although the programme
  would never be made), but was deliberately stalling on everything else, only too
  acutely aware of Xanadu's Bond film proposal. In a letter to [Ivan] Bryce, dated 2 July,
  he urged his friend to hurry up and make a definite offer or he would be forced
  to accept the other bids. "Xanadu will of course get a most favoured treatment
  if and when they express a firm interest." Influence no doubt by the powerful
  MCA, Fleming was out to get the best possible deal. If the From Russia with
  Love TV spectacular and Xanadu's Bond film were successes all past and future
  Bond material would acquire a greatly enhanced value. "And I am urged by
  MCA not to mortgage the future, expect at a worthwhile price." Fleming then
  tempered his greed by saying, "I fear I must think of all these considerations
  since James Bond is my entire stock-in trade and I have not got the energy to
  create a new character."

  
  1967: Casino Royale released in Brazil.
  
  1973: United Artists Label releases the Live and Let Die soundtrack composed by George Martin.

  
  

  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films Andrea Anders seducing OO7.
  1979: Frank Rich reviews Moonraker in Time.

  

  Cinema: Agent 007 Goes into Orbit

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,916855,00.html

  By Frank Rich Monday, July 02, 1979

  MOONRAKER Directed by Lewis Gilbert; Screenplay by Christopher Wood
  
  Producer Albert R. Broccoli, the major-domo of the James Bond movies, is the proverbial Jewish mother of cinema: he is not about to let anyone go away hungry. In Moonraker, the eleventh 007 opus, Broccoli serves the audience a space-shuttle hijacking, a jumbo-jet explosion and a protracted wrestling match between two men who are falling from the sky without parachutes. All this happens before the opening credits. From there, it's on to gondola chases in Venice, funicular crashes in Rio and laser-gun shootouts and lovemaking in deep space. Meanwhile, beautiful women come and go, talking (ever so discreetly) about fellatio. When Broccoli lays out a feast, he makes sure that there is at least one course for every conceivable taste.
  
  The result is a film that is irresistibly entertaining as only truly mindless spectacle can be. Those who have held out on Bond movies over 17 years may not be convinced by Moonraker, but everyone else will be. With their rigid formulas and well-worn gags, these films have transcended fashion. Styles in Pop culture, sexual politics and international espionage have changed drastically since Ian Fleming invented his superhero, but the immaculately tailored, fun-loving British agent remains a jolly spokesman for the simple virtues of Western civilization. Not even Margaret Thatcher would dare consider slowing him down.
  
  For Moonraker, Screenwriter Christopher Wood has had to do little more than dream up new settings, a new heroine and a new villain with a novel dooms day plot. Everything else takes care of itself. This time around, the bad guy (Michael Lonsdale) is an aerospace conglomerateur who plans to wipe out the world's population with deadly Brazilian orchids before hatching a master race from an interstellar sanctuary. To stop him, Bond (the ever smooth Roger Moore) must team up with Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles), a CIA agent who picked up her astronaut's training at NASA and her judo expertise at Vassar. Such talents come in handy as the couple confront traditional nemeses: an Oriental thug (Toshiro Suga), attack dogs, and Jaws (Richard Kiel), the 7-ft. 2-in., steel-toothed goon introduced in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) .
  
  Wood pulls off some witty flourishes. There are funny references to other block buster movies (Close Encounters, Superman, Sergio Leone westerns), as well as amusing bursts of comic-book dialogue ("Look after Mr. Bond," whispers the villain to an aide. "See that some harm comes to him"). Rather than stage variations on Jaws' old fiendish gags, Wood has given the character some surprising twists, including a love interest. As always, there is no explicit gore or sex to jolt the audience back to reality.
  
  If Moonraker is not quite as satisfying as Spy, the best of the post-Sean Connery Bonds, the difference is in the casting. Lonsdale is a bit too tame; he seems to be doing a John Ehrlichman imitation. Chiles is all too sexless. The title song, the important kickoff for Bond movies, is no match for "Nobody Does It Better", the Carly Simon dazzler of Spy.
  
  Still, one does not tend to notice these failings as Moonraker unfolds. Broccoli just keeps piling on the goodies: lush Ken Adam sets, gadgetry and gams galore, super stunts and effects. It may be another two-year wait for the next Bond film, so you may as well just stuff yourself silly now .
  
  Frank Rich

  

  
  1981: Alleen voor je ogen (Only For Your Eyes; French Rien que pour vos yeux/Just For Your Eyes) released in Belgium.

  

  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in The Netherlands.
  
  1983: 007/オクトパシー (007/ Okutopashī) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: The Palio horse race in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Second race 15 August.

  

  The Palio in Siena

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  https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/palio-siena.html

  It's not just a race, it's a passion
  What is the Palio?
  The Palio is the most important event in Siena, taking place on July 2 and August 16 every year.
  
  In the Palio, the various Sienese "contrade", or areas in which the city is divided, challenge each other in a passionate horse race in the heart of the city in the Piazza del Campo.
  
  Originally, there were about fifty-nine "Contrade"; now only seventeen remain, ten of which take part in the historical pageant and in the race at each Palio (seven by right and three drawn by lots).
  
  The 17 Contrade which still exist today are: the Eagle, Snail, Wave, Panther, Forest, Tortoise, Owl, Unicorn, Shell, Tower, Ram, Caterpillar, Dragon, Giraffe, Porcupine, She-Wolf and the Goose.
  
  Each Contrada has its own unique emblem and colors and represents an area of the city. As one walks through the streets of Siena it is easy to know in which Contrada you currently are in by observing the flags and emblems displayed along the street. Much like street signs, corners often designate the entrance into a different Contrada with signs as the ones in the picture below.

  

  Contrada emblems in Siena
  The Palio horse race has its origins in the distant past, with historical records indicating horse races in Siena already taking place in the 6th century.
  
  The Palio is much more than a simple event for the Sienese, it actually is a large part of their lives since the time of their birth. Each person belongs to a Contrada, participates in the life of the Contrada and the organization of the Palio throughout the entire year. The Sienese live the Palio with great passion and you'll certainly be able to see this if you have the chance to attend one of the races.
  
  The Event
  The Palio is a pretty complex event that has gained additional rules through the centuries, as well as traditions and customs, many which only members of the contrada are aware of. Below is a highlight of some of the main rules and traditions of the Palio, which should be useful in better understanding the event.
  SPECIAL NOTE: There is no official box office for the tickets to the palio. Tickets are purchased directly from those who organize the stands, the private terraces or travel agencies that organize packages. Entrance to the center of the Piazza del Campi is free but it gets packed!!
  
  The Palio horse race takes place twice a year, one the 2nd of July (Palio of Provenzano, in honor of the Madonna of Provenzano) and on August 16th (Palio of the Assumption, in honor of the Virgin Mary's Assumption).
  
  During this special occasion, the main square in Siena, the Piazza del Campo, is prepared for the race as the ring around the square is covered with tuff clay.
  
  Ten out of the seventeen contrade take part in each race: seven are those that did not participate in the previous race on that day, while the other three are drawn by lots.
  
  The Palio actually takes place over 4 days, the race taking place on the fourth day. The first day is for the "Tratta", or the drawing of the lots and assignment of the horses to each of the Contrade. Therefore, each of the Contrade picks their jockey but not the horse; the horses are drawn and only known at this time, just 4 days before the race!

  

  Before the official race there are 6 trial runs or heats, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The fifth trial, the one run the evening prior to the official Palio, is called the "prova generale" or general trial, while the last which takes place the morning of the main race, is called "provaccia" or bad trial given the little effort the jockeys put into it in order to avoid tiring the horses too much. The jockeys always mount their horses without a saddle.
  
  The Palio prize is called "Drappellone" or large drape, a large painted canvas each year designed and created by a different artist and which the winning contrada displays in their contrada museum.

  

  The day of the Palio
  On the day of the Palio race the city is in full turmoil and the entire day is dedicated to the event.
  
  Around 8 a.m., in the chapel next to the Palazzo Comunale, the Bishop celebrates the "Messa del fantino" or mass for the horse jockeys. Shortly after the mass the last trial takes place in Piazza del Campo, the one called "provaccia".
  
  At 10.30 a.m. within the Palazzo Comunale and in the presence of the mayor, the "segnatura dei fantini" takes place. The name of the jockeys are confirmed and cannot be substituted from that point on.
  
  At around 3 p.m. each Contrada performs a blessing ceremony of its horse and afterwards joins in the large parade in historical costume, with over 600 participants, that winds through the city. The parade arrives around 5 p.m. at the Piazza del Campo, and ends by around 6.30-7 p.m. Shortly thereafter the explosion of a firecracker signals the entrance of the horses into the piazza. As the jockeys come out, each one receives a whip made out of ox sinew which they can use to prod their horse or to irrate the other opponents in the race.
  
  The Race: Il Palio
  The race starts off in the "Mossa", an area set up on the piazza delimited by two long pieces of thick rope. The "Mossiere" then calls the Contrade in the order in which they were drawn and checks that the assigned positions are respected. The first 9 Contrade take up their assigned positions in the area between the two ropes, while the last one, the tenth, enters this area at a running gallop thus signaling the start of the race. This only happens when this last Contrada decides to make the attempt to start off the race.
  
  If the start is not considered valid (this is the case if the jockeys are not in their assigned spots), a shot goes out to signal the jockeys to get back into place. This starting phase within the "Mossa" is more complicated than it seems, as the space is small and the horses are right next to each other. Rivalries run deep within the Contrade and competition is high and the worst result is to see the "enemy" Contrada win the race. The wait for the start of the race can thus be extremely long and last into twilight.
  
  If all goes well the start of the race can start at any time. The horses must run three laps around the Campo, overcoming dangerous points such as the very narrow curve of San Martino where collisions between the wall and between horses have led to many falls in the past (the main reason why many animal activists oppose the Palio).
  
  The first horse that crosses the finish line, even if he arrives without his jockey, wins the race. The winning Contrada receives the Drappellone, as the victorious Contrada members head towards the Church of Provenza (after the July race) or towards the Duomo (after the August race) for the "Te Deum" or prayer of thanks.

  

  Our suggestions and tips
  The Palio represents without a doubt a unique opportunity to live the warmth and passion of the city of Siena. If you have the opportunity of attending, do not pass up on this chance to experience such a passionate and special celebration.
  
  It is possible to attend the race for free from the center of the Piazza del Campo. We suggest you arrive at least by 4.30 p.m. if you want to try to find enough space to enter into the piazza but earlier is better (if you want a prime location along the side of the race track, these spots are taken by morning, particularly those near the Mossa and the Gaia Fountain and people stake out their spot all day!). Keep in mind: drinks are sold within the piazza but there are no public toilets. We recommend taking your own water bottles and drinks and at least a baseball cap to protect yourself from the sun and heat. Given the large amount of people that get packed into the piazza and the heat, we highly advise against taking small children into the piazza to attend the event, especially as having them on shoulders to let them see (and to avoid squashing them) is not appreciated by all those around you wanting to be able to see the race.
  
  More comfortable positions from which to watch the Palio exist around the Piazza and prices vary for those spots. To buy your tickets in the bleachers or on the balconies that face onto the Piazza, try contacting the APT in Siena to find out more information or try directly contacting the residents of the homes facing the piazza. These often also offer refreshments that include typical Sienese sweets. Lately, some agencies have organized packages to offer the Palio experience and include drinks and the view.
  
  Read here for some insider tips on how to best enjoy the entire Palio experience.
  
  If you're arriving to Siena with a car, check out our page on where to park in Siena; if you're arriving by train or bus, check out how to get to Siena without a car.
  
  Enjoy living the unique atmosphere that only the Palio of Siena offers!
  
  
  Author: Cristina Romeo
  Born in Florence at the end of the fabulous '70s, Cristina has always lived in the famous "cradle of the Renaissance". She's in love with her homeland, but also enjoys traveling and discovering new places. Cristina is mum to a lovely little girl, to whom she hopes to pass on all the passion and love of our precious, wonderful Tuscany.

  

  
  
  
  
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  July 2 Posts: 13,812

  July 3rd
  
  1958: Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson is born--Frome, Eastern Somerset, England.

  
  
  

  1959: Andreas Wisniewski is born--West Berlin, West Germany.
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films at Reguliersgracht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Jack Whittingham dies at age 61--Valletta, Malta.
  (Born 2 August 1910--Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.)

  
  Tuesday, July 01, 2008

  The Name’s Whittingham, Jack Whittingham

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2008/07/names-whittingham-jack-whittingham.html

  EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE
  
  With Sebastian Faulks’ Devil May Care sitting pretty atop British bestseller lists, espionage fiction seems to be all the rage. There is, however, another book, also featuring iconic British secret agent James Bond, that’s had an evolution almost as complex as one of Ian Fleming’s plots. That book is of course the revised second edition of Robert Sellers’ The Battle for Bond, a controversial work detailing the legal wrangling over the rights to Thunderball (1961).
  
  The first edition, which contained a foreword by Raymond Benson (who was the last Bond writer prior to Faulks), was withdrawn from sale shortly after its 2007 release due to legal action from the Fleming family and estate. There a few copies of this collector’s item knocking around, but you’ll need a big checkbook to secure one. If you haven’t done so yet, though, I am pleased to report that Sellers and the independent publisher Tomahawk Press have finally released the second edition, sans the sections that caused the Fleming estate to complain. This revision features a foreword Len Deighton, who concentrates in his essay on long-ago charges of plagiarism leveled against author Fleming. This is a topic that should be familiar those of you who pay attention to the Rap Sheet, since we recalled the case in an obituary of Kevin McClory, the Thunderball collaborator who died in 2006. That case’s resolution included a provision stipulating that all future editions of the novel Thunderball include the writing credit “based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.”
  
  Very little has been written about the relatively enigmatic Whittingham. But earlier this week the London Times carried a longish report focusing on his daughter, Sylvan Whittingham Mason, who apparently provided much of the background mosaic for Seller’s book. As writer Giles Hattersley explains:

  Like a latterday Ms. Moneypenny, she holds the secrets of James Bond. Her name is Whittingham. Sylvan Whittingham.
  
  Is she Ian Fleming’s daughter? God, no. Fleming’s name is anathema here. Her father was Jack Whittingham, a celebrated screenwriter of the 1950s and 1960s. It was Jack, she claims, who gave us Bond as we know him.
  
  In 1959, Whittingham’s father had been brought in by the film producer Kevin McClory to work on an original screenplay based on Fleming’s famous secret agent. (Fleming had had an earlier bash at writing his own, but forgot to put any action in it.)
  
  The problem of how to film Bond had rumbled on for years. What passed for steely cool in the books would come off as charmless froideur on screen. But man-about-town Jack turned out to be the fire to Fleming’s ice. In a tobacco-stained study at his Surrey home, the dashing, hard-drinking ladies’ man produced a thrilling tale called Thunderball. And he injected Fleming’s uptight gentleman spy with quippy humour, arch sexuality and plenty of action. Rather like Jack, in fact.
  
  “I always say that Daddy was an honourable man,” says Whittingham, now 64, in a voice that seems to come courtesy of Diana Rigg. “Except when it came to women, of course.” She smiles.
  
  “But he was a marvellous writer and they’d had real trouble with Fleming’s novels. The violent, sadistic, colder, misogynistic Bond of the books didn’t work on the big screen. The audience, back then, didn’t want it. There was no humour, no charm. Daddy turned Bond into the suave hero they needed.”

  This is a fascinating article, really, detailing the playboy similarities between Bond, Fleming, and Wittingham. In the Times, Mason quite clearly credits her father (who died in 1972) with molding 007 into the man who could support a successful long-running film franchise.

  ... Jack had been toughened by a Bond-like life of fast cars and faster women. Born the son of a Yorkshire wool merchant, he had oozed confidence as a young man and made a splash with the ladies when he went up to Oxford.
  
  “He met Betty Offield there, heir to the Wrigley’s gum fortune,” says Sylvan. “They fell in love and she invited him over to America to stay. They used to go shark-fishing off her island in California. Later, he bought a solitaire diamond ring and went to Chicago to propose--but by the time he got there, she’d fallen for somebody else.
  
  “In a bar, drowning his sorrows, he met a female gangster called Texas Guinan--a glamorous blonde--who took him on. She sent him all over town with deliveries for her, probably drugs. He became her pet for a while, before he sold the ring so he could afford to get home.”
  
  After a stint in Iceland during the war--where he was permanently sloshed and would often fall down on parade--Jack returned to England and his wife, Margot, whom he had married in 1942. He was never faithful. “My mother was stunningly beautiful, with a frightened-rabbit look in her eyes, which were violet. She was a lost soul: mental problems, breakdowns, depression,” Sylvan says.

  
  Posted by Ali Karim at 11:53 AM

  
  

  

  1977: The Sunday Times Magazine prints "Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again" about a golden gun.

  Background here.

  

  61
  ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES
  BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED
  BY DAVID COLLINS AND
  FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE
  FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING
  LTD., 1977
  
  Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 GBP

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/gold-the-midas-touch/enlarged-model-james-bonds-new-gun-designed-by

  Description

  ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED BY DAVID COLLINS AND FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING LTD., 1977
  
  painted wood, plastic laminated ply
  
  engraved COLLINS & BROECKE 9mm / ABIS, the grip with different coloured faux-mother of pearl to each side together with a group of sample book covers (some duplicates); a facsimile of the original design; a group of transparencies with repro-graphic work; an exhibition poster; copies of The Sunday Times Magazine featuring the gun and other related articles; six mounted blow-ups of contact sheets showing the gun in production, please see illustrated below
  
  210cm. long, 129cm. high; 6ft. 1¼in., 4ft. 3in.

  Condition Report
  Provenance
  Commissioned by Stephen Abis, Art Director at Granada Publishing as a prop for a series of paperback covers to be issued in 1977.
  
  Literature
  

  • 'Be a James Bond Cover Girl', Daily Mirror, 8 June 1977, p.26;
  • 'Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again', The Sunday Times Magazine, 3 July 1977, p.20-21;
  • 'Bond's New Birds: But the Gun's a Phoney', Sunday People, 17 July 1977, p.9.

  
  Exhibited

  • London, Middlesex Polytechnic, 'The Gun Job', 28 February 1977.

  
  Catalogue Note
  This extraordinary prop by graphic designer and lecturer David Collins was a commission from Granada Publishing. Collins, who worked with fellow designer Floris van den Broecke, was given a brief by the publisher, titled 'Girl and Gun', which detailed the need for a prop gun for use in photographic shoots for the covers of new editions of Bond titles. The ‘gun’ needed to be oversized, flexible and suitable for use with live models as well as appropriate for shop display and book promotion. The design was based on a hybrid of various guns which according to reportage at the time was deliberate. Ian Fleming's Estate had cover approval and insisted that it should not be based entirely on a particular weapon, to avoid specific endorsement, so the model incorporated details from both the 9mm Beretta and the Colt 45. The prop for 'Girl and Gun' was delivered to Granada on the 28th of March 1977 and this date is engraved on the piece (M28277). The total bill was £1590. ‘James Bond’s new gun’, with various glamorously dressed models, was used on nine separate covers, in photographic shoots by Beverley le Barrow, for paperbacks published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
  
  As advised, the sale proceeds of the present lot will go to Royal Trinity Hospice.
  
  Royal Trinity Hospice is the local hospice and the only dedicated provider of end of life care in south west and central London; providing skilled, compassionate care and support to people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses and those close to them.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Ireland.
  1987: The Living Daylights released in Ireland.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2 pursuing the BMW R 1200 through the Vietnam marketplace.

  
  http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Tomorrow_Never_Dies#Eurocopter_AS355_Ecureuil_2
  
  
  https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=7390
  

  
  

  
  2010: Reports say BOND 23 is officially axed due to studio troubles.

  

  23rd James Bond movie officially axed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.deccanherald.com/content/78977/23rd-james-bond-movie-officially.html

  

  In April, production on the 23rd movie on Bond, who was to be portrayed by Daniel Craig for the third time, had been postponed due to "financial problems" at movie studio MGM, but now it has been cancelled altogether, Daily Mirror online reported.
  
  "Members of the production crew have been told the Bond film has been canned. There is a lot of bad feeling as a lot of time, money and hard work has already gone into this," an insider told the newspaper.
  
  Sam Mendes had been lined up to direct the movie but now it could be years before 007 is back on the big screen. Production company EON said in a statement, "We do not know when development will resume and cannot comment further at this stage."
  
  MGM is said to be in USD 3.7 billion worth of debt and at the moment six years is the biggest gap between films, from 1989's 'Licence to Kill' and 'Goldeneye', which came out in 1995.
  
  The screenplay for 'Bond 23' was worked on by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who had previously scripted 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Casino Royale', and 'Frost/Nixon' writer Peter Morgan.
  
  Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/content/78977/23rd-james-bond-movie-officially.html

  2017: Joe Robinson dies at age 90--Brighton, East Sussex, England.
  (Born 31 May 1927--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.)

  

  Joe Robinson (actor)

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Robinson_(actor)

  
  Joe Robinson as Thor in Thor and the Amazon Women

  Born Joseph Robinson, 31 May 1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
  Died 3 July 2017 (aged 90), Brighton, East Sussex, England
  Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  Occupation Actor, stuntman
  Years active 1952–1971

  Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.
  
  Career
  Professional wrestling
  Robinson initially embarked on a career in wrestling as 'Tiger Joe Robinson' and won the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952. At the same time, he was also interested in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After injuring his back wrestling in Paris he decided to concentrate on acting. Joe Robinson's daughter Polly Robinson (Hardy-Stewart) has also continued the family's success in martial arts by winning the junior Judo championships in the 1980s.
  
  Acting
  Robinson's first role came in the keep-fit documentary Fit as a Fiddle and in the same year, 1952, he followed it up with a part as Harry 'Muscles' Green in the musical Wish You Were Here in the West End of London.

  He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner alongside appearances in The Saint and The Avengers in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom Pardon the Expression which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including Taur the Mighty (1963), Thor and the Amazon Women (1963) and Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961). Other notable big-screen appearances include 1961's Carry On Regardless, of the British institution the Carry Ons. According to the book Tarzan of the Movies by Gabe Essoe, Robinson played the role of Tarzan in obscure Italian-made films (Taur, il re della forza bruta and Le gladiatrici); the use of the Tarzan character, however, was unauthorised and the character's name had to be changed to Thaur before the film was allowed for public release. His final big-screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he plays diamond smuggler Peter Franks. Robinson claimed that he was a contender for the Red Grant role in From Russia with Love. Though he did not get it, Connery recommended him for the role in Diamonds are Forever. Robinson also claimed he turned down the role of the Rank Organisation's Gongman.

  Retirement
  He retired from acting, and lived in Brighton where he opened a martial arts centre. He conducted classes in Wadō-ryū style karate and Judo. In 1998 he hit the headlines after fighting off a gang of eight muggers single-handed. The 70-year-old was alighting from a bus in Cape Town when the gang struck with baseball bats and knives. 6 ft 2 ins Joe overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth - the rest fled.
  
  Reminiscing about his career in the Daily Mail recently, Robinson spoke on the subject of Laurence Olivier's alleged homosexuality saying 'my kids used to play with his kids at school and I taught him judo ... I have no idea if he was a homosexual... but he did once tell me I had lovely shoulders'.
  
  Death
  Robinson died at the age of 90 on 3 July 2017, in Brighton, East Sussex.
  Filmography

  Year Title Role Notes
  1955 A Kid for Two Farthings Sam Heppner
  1956 Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore Max, der Athlet
  1956 Pasaporte al infierno Pete Archer
  1957 Fighting Mad Muscles Tanner
  1957 The Flesh Is Weak Lofty
  1958 The Strange Awakening Sven
  1958 Sea Fury Hendrik
  1958 Murder Reported Jim
  
  1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Corinthian Uncredited
  1960 The Bulldog Breed Tall Sailor
  1961 Carry On Regardless Dynamite Dan
  1961 Erik the Conqueror Garian Uncredited
  1961 Barabbas Bearded Gladiator
  1961 Tartar Invasion Ursus
  1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Roach
  1963 Taur, il re della forza bruta Taur
  1963 Doctor in Distress Sonja's Boyfriend
  1963 Thor and the Amazon Women Thor
  
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks (final film role)

  
  
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  2019: mixmag reports Grace Jones quits the Bond 25 production.

  

  Grace Jones has quit her role in the upcoming James Bond film
  
  She reportedly quit the film just minutes after arriving on set
  
  Harrison Williams 3 July 2019

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  Grace Jones has reportedly quit her role in the upcoming James Bond film just minutes after arriving on set.
  
  The legendary disco artist and fashion icon is no stranger to James Bond films, having previously played the villain May Day in A View to A Kill in 1985. She was due to feature in the upcoming movie, simply titled Bond 25 at this stage, but was apparently angry with the number of lines she was given. It's now reported that just minutes after arriving on set she quit her role.
  
  A source told The Sun about Grace Jones' perspective of the James Bond situation:

  "Grace’s 007 homecoming was meant to be a real crowd-pleasing moment. Bosses were really excited about landing her. Of course, she comes with a reputation, so they organised premium accommodation and rolled out the red carpet on set to make her feel welcome. But it turns out Grace was expecting to play a bigger role in the movie and took her brief cameo as a slight."

  This is just the latest setback for Bond 25. Last year Trainspotting director Danny Boyle was set to helm the film, but left production due to disputes over the script. Cary Fukunaga took over directing duties. The earlier this year filming was halted after James Bond actor Daniel Craig was injured on set and needed surgery.
  
  Despite the setbacks, Bond 25 is still on schedule to be released April 8, 2020.

  
  2020: Earl Cameron dies at age 102--Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.
  (Born 8 August 1917--Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.)

  

  Earl Cameron (actor)

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  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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  1909: The Secret Service Bureau is founded, includes Home and Foreign sections. Foreign section later known as the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), from World War II called MI6.

  
  https://www.sis.gov.uk/our-history.html

  
  1963: Dr. No released in Australia.

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  1966: You Only Live Twice filming begins with Bond and Ling and the Murphy bed at Pinewood Studios.

  
  
  
  

  
  1966: The United States Army 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (the "Black Jack Brigade") executes Operation James Bond in Bình Định Province, Vietnam.

  Vietnam Combat Operations – 1966, A chronology of Allied combat operations in Vietnam, Stéphane Moutin-Luyat, 2009.
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  4 Jul. Operation: JAMES BOND
  Location: Binh Dinh Province. Type: intelligence gathering.
  Controlling headquarters: 2d Bde, 1st Cav Div

  
  
  

  Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis, 2017.
  Chapter 3 – Pacification without Peace
  The Travails of Nation Building

  Even major combat units became intricately involved with pacification
  efforts. Take, for instance, the 1st Cavalry Division, which won fame during
  the late 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley. Nearly a year before CORDS took
  shape, the division had launched Operation James Bond in early July 1966,
  the unit’s planners clearly enamored with Sean Connery’s most recent perfor-
  mance in Thunderball. While some troopers launched raids against suspected
  insurgent, others engaged in civic action activities “to show the Vietnamese
  people that the government of Vietnam, the US military forces, and the dis-
  trict officials were interested in their overall welfare as well as their security.”
  Hamlet chief concurrently distributed food to local farmers while emphasiz-
  ing “the interest that the South Vietnamese government had in their welfare.”
  A second James Bond operation, begun at the end of July, included counterin-
  telligence raids, medical team assistance, and the dissemination of agricultural
  pamphlets and toys. The division even helped organize a local Boy Scout troop.
  If such efforts seem quaint in retrospect, they at least illustrate the willingness
  of some commanders to incorporate pacification into their larger operational
  concepts.

  CORD: The Office of Civil Operations and Rural Support, organized 1967 under Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (COMUSMACV).

  
  

  
  

  
  1981: 007 ユア・アイズ・オンリー (Yua aizu onrī, or Your Eyes Only) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  

  1985: A View to a Kill released in The Netherlands.
  
  2005: Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records release the the first single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" from Kanye West's second album Late Registration. It heavily samples and mixes the song "Diamonds Are Forever". And wins a Grammy.

  Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone (5:02)
  
  
  Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix feat. Jay-Z) (3:34)
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale films at Black Park, Buckinghamshire, doubling for Mbale, Uganda.
  
  2015: Spectre filming is a wrap.
  2016: Yahoo! News reports Daniel Craig's gloves could have cost the Skyall production millions of dollars.

  
  International Business Times

  James Bond: Daniel Craig's leather gloves almost
  cost Skyfall 'millions upon millions'

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  Amy West \ 4 July 2016

  
  Daniel Craig in Skyfall

  Who would have thought that a single pair of leather gloves could almost cost a film studio millions of pounds? But that's exactly what could have happened, had it not been for the quick-thinking of an editor on Sam Mendes' hugely-successful James Bond outing, Skyfall.
  
  Filmmaker and film critic Charlie Lyne took to Twitter to share the story which he learned from someone who worked on the movie. Lyne explained that Daniel Craig liked to go shopping in his downtime, and returned to set one day with a pair of leather gloves that he thought would "be the kind of thing Bond would wear", and urged his director to let him wear them in a scene.
  
  Mendes replied 'yes' to, which subsequently led to Craig donning the gloves in the sequence set in a lavish Macanese casino, where Bond gets in a fight with a particularly formidable baddie and ends up in a pit with a Komodo dragon. The pair scuffle and the villain actually ends up with Bond's Walther PPK handgun, ready to fire it as his opponent. He seemingly hesitates however and the Komodo dragon ends up biting him.
  
  Now, as lovers of Skyfall will know, prior to that scene, Ben Whishaw's Q equips Bond with the gun set specifically to only work if Bond's fingerprints are on the trigger. That ties in with why the baddie couldn't operate the gun in the pit, but how on earth was Bond planning on firing it in the thick of the action if he was wearing leather gloves that obscured his prints?
  
  Fortunately, some eagerly-eyed individuals finishing up the movie noticed this in the film's post-production but it left Mendes and the studio weighing up their options as to how to rectify the problem. Lyne recounts how his insider said that they calculated just how much it would cost to get Craig, the other actor and everything together again to reshoot but realised it would be far too expensive – costing "millions and millions" – and instead opted to computer-generate Craig's skin into the scene.
  
  "The only solution becomes to digitally paint in Bond's hands," Lyne said. "If you watch the scene now ... you can see that Bond has these ridiculously podgy hands, because in every single frame he was wearing these thick leather gloves that have now been painted over with Craig-tone hands."
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: The Richard Nixon Library & Museum exhibition Cold War - Soviets, Spies, and Secrets features James Bond items as pop culture evidence at Yorba Linda, California.

  
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  COLD WAR: Soviets, Spies, and Secrets

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  June 30, 2022

  New Special Exhibition Opens July 4, 2022

  COLD WAR: Soviets, Spies, and Secrets is an all-new interactive special exhibit opening July 4, 2022 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
  
  The Cold War dominated every facet of postwar 20th century Western life. Bomb shelters, air raid drills, and draft cards were as American as apple pie. Spies infiltrated the highest levels of government, while the Soviet Union stockpiled nuclear missiles and funded Marxist regimes around the world.
  
  From Khrushchev and the KGB to Vietnam and the A-Bomb; from the Space Race to SDI, Cuban Missiles and the CIA, Détente to DEFCON1, Brezhnev to Bush, relive 50 years on the brink of nuclear war at the Nixon Library.
  
  This interactive exhibit experience takes visitors behind the Iron Curtain to:

  • Enter service as a TOP SECRET AGENT by attending a briefing in the White House Cabinet Room at the onset of the nuclear arms race
  • Walk into post-war East Berlin by passing through the Checkpoint Charlie guard station
  • Feel the apprehension of the nuclear era as you climb into a fallout shelter, stocked full of food and supplies for a nuclear winter
  • Operate a ballistic missile submarine and simulate a nuclear launch
  • Test your spycraft skills by using cameras to view reconnaissance satellite photos of Soviet weapons systems in Cuba
  • Witness the Berlin Wall come crashing down

  Artifacts featured in the exhibit and compiled together for the first time include a decommissioned nuclear bomb, scientific testing mannequins from the 1950s used at a nuclear test site, real tools used by KGB and CIA agents while deployed undercover, and iconic relics from the Soviet Union. These rare artifacts are on loan from the CIA Museum, International Spy Museum, National Atomic Testing Museum, Wende Museum, and other institutions across the country.

  The exhibit also explores the ongoing imprint of the Cold War on popular culture with recognized items from the James Bond film series.

  The Nixon presidency began at the height of Cold War tensions. By developing and implementing concurrent strategies of triangulation and détente, President Nixon successfully eased tensions between superpowers and achieved the first strategic arms control agreements with the Soviet Union.

  Cold War: Soviets, Spies, and Secrets will be included with admission to the Nixon Library. The Nixon Library is open seven days a week from 10 AM to 5 PM.

  Nixon Library admission is $25 for adults, $21 for seniors, $19 for high school and college students, $19 for retired military, active military are free, children 5-11 for $15, and children 4 and under are free during the exhibit duration.

  
  
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  2023: James Bond auction at Neuchatel, Switzerland.

  

  James Bond
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  1942: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming attends a course on espionage at Camp X (Special Training School No. 103) near Whitby, Lake Ontario, Canada. Possibly staying across the street from St. James-Bond United Church.
  
  1967: Title song "You Only Live Twice" enters UK charts later peaking at the 11 spot.
  
  1973: Live and Let Die Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Canada.
  1985: Daily Variety reports A View to a Kill filming contributed an estimated $4 million to San Francisco's economy.
  1986: Screen International reports Jeroen Krabbé drops Michael Cimino's The Sicilian to take the Koskov role in the next Bond film.
  
  2000: Elizabeth II knights Sir Thomas Sean Connery at the Palace of Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2008: Edinburgh’s City Arts Centre hosts a Fleming Centenary exhibition of Bond-Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design. Through 14 September.

  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design

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  https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/10974-bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

  David Pollock | 7 August 2008
  
  Of human bond-age
  Gentleman shpy David Pollock goesh undercover to inveshtigate the makings of an icon at touring
  exshibition Bond Bound
  
  It’s strange, considering how conservative a character James Bond is, that his presentation and marketing seems to fall so readily in step with the times. From Sean Connery throughout the smooth, swinging 60s, to the more cartoonishly lurid 70s and early-80s of Roger Moore, the smug, yuppified era of Timothy Dalton, the laddish yet indefinably metrosexual Pierce Brosnan and now Daniel Craig’s more broadly-defined revisionist take on the character, Bond remains the same, but always strikingly different.
  
  Of course, that’s the Bond we’re most familiar with; the movie icon. This cinematic character is one stage removed again from the original Bond, though – the rakish gentleman spy whom Ian Fleming defined over 12 novels and two short story collections between 1953 and 1966.
  
  As explicitly stated in the subtitle of the City Art Centre’s new Bond Bound exhibition (‘Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design’), this Bond is supposed to be the one we come to know more about here, but it’s still hard to end up leaving the show without an image of Connery’s sly grin plastered across the memory.
  
  Clearly aware that it’s not as engaging for a viewer to look at a book cover as it is to be dazzled by a large movie poster, the curators have chosen to show a broad spectrum of visual representations of the character. So the first images we see upon entering the exhibition are three international posters for the latest Casino Royale film, featuring Craig in his finest GQ Man pose, all unhooked bowtie, tousled hair and pout.
  
  Across from these hang a selection of posters from the clearly heavily trailed From Russia With Love (1963), the sequel to the character’s hugely successful cinematic debut Dr No. ‘James Bond est de retour,’ they blast over eye-catchingly bright colours and images of slinky girls. ‘James Bond is back.’
  
  And there’s that grin of Connery’s which remains hard to clear from the mind. This was the period when Bond stopped being a popular character in pulp novels and became an icon.
  
  Period artefacts fill out the show, including a manuscript of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which has been annotated by the late Fleming, and a rather wonderful letter to the author from Hugh Hefner. The Playboy publisher, in typical ‘one thing on his mind’ mode, asserts that, ‘Ursula Andress (Dr No’s original Bond girl) is going to be difficult to beat for sex interest.’
  
  Also featured are an extensive set of illustrations by John Burningham from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fleming’s only children’s book, and a couple of pages from the forthcoming comic adaptation of Charlie Higson’s Young Bond book Double or Die by Judge Dredd artist Kev Walker.
  
  After such a selection, the rear room’s rows of original book covers from editions printed around the world over the last five decades feel like something of an anticlimax, or at least a part of the show to be pored over rather than blown away by. In truth, Bond Bound itself doesn’t offer a wealth of new knowledge to even a casual fan of the character, but it does demonstrate how first impressions are important to the continued success of such a legend.
  
  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design is at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, until Sun 14 Sep.

  Published by Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation:
  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design,
  Bill Smith, Henry Chancellor, Alan Powers, Kate Grimond Selina S, 2008.
  
  https://literary007.com/2013/10/09/bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

  
  
  
  
  

  2009: The True Story episode "James Bond" takes a look at Fleming's real world influences.

  

  The Real Story (2003– )
  James Bond

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402999/
  TV-PG | 47min | Documentary, History | Episode aired 5 July 2009
  Season 1 | Episode 2

  Take a look at Ian Fleming and the real-life story behind James Bond.

  Director: Russell England
  Writer: Mark Radice
  Stars: Corey Johnson, Paul McGann, Jonathan Edwards |
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Corey Johnson ... Self - Narrator (voice)
  Paul McGann ... Self - Narrator (voice)
  Jonathan Edwards ... Reenactor
  Caroline Delisser ... Reenactor
  Brian Burnage ... Reenactor
  Paul Esser ... Reenactor
  (alphabetically:)
  Ken Adam ... Self - Production Designer for the James Bond Films, 1962-1979 (as Sir Ken Adam)
  Henry Chancellor ... Self - Author and Historian
  Paul Cornish ... Self - Senior Curator, Imperial War Museum
  Iain Dalzel-Job ... Self - Patrick Dalzel-Job's son
  Ian Fleming ... Self (archive footage)
  Lucy Fleming ... Self - Ian Fleming's Niece
  Kathleen Kinmonth Warren ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's daughter
  Margy Kinmonth ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's granddaughter
  Ben Macintyre ... Self - Author, 'For Your Eyes Only' and 'Agent ZigZag'
  John Pearson ... Self - Fleming's assistant at The Sunday Times
  K.H. Wallis ... Self - Gyrocopter Designer and Pilot (as Ken Wallis)

  James Bond: The True Story (44:43)
  
  
  

  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes its hardcover edition James Bond Volume 1 - VARGR collecting its 6 issues.

  

  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 (of 6) Black Box.
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

  
  

  JAMES BOND #5

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652205011
  Cover A: Dominic Reardon
  Cover B: Jason Masters
  Cover C: Patrick Zircher
  Writer: Benjamin Percy
  Art: Rapha Lobosco
  Publication Date: July 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/5

  James Bond #5, "The Suicide Forest"
  In the so-called "Suicide Forest" of Japan, near the base of Mt. Fuji, James Bond finds himself hunted by No Name, the nightmarish assassin. After narrowly escaping, 007 and Selah Sax find themselves on board a bullet train bound for the headquarters of Saga Genji -- in a race against Felix Leiter and the Americans for the "black box" of information that could compromise their nations.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2017: The Omega Seamaster Diver 300 M Co-Axial 41mm Commander's watch is introduced via the Tate Britain Museum, London. Production limited to 7007. Plus 7 of a Gold edition.

  
  https://omegawatches.com/news/the-commander-s-watch-is-launched-in-london
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1961: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman establish Eon Productions.

  
  
  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the boat chase. Earlier that day, a helicopter carrying director Terence Young, art director Michael White, and a cameraman crashes in Argyll, Scotland, and sinks into 40–50 feet (12–15 meters) of water. Director Young resumes filming the same day.

  

  1964: Goldfinger films in Switzerland.

  

  
  1971: Louis Armstrong dies at age 69--New York City, New York.
  (Born 4 August 1901--New Orleans, Louisiana.)

  

  Louis Armstrong
  Biography

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/

  

  Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.
  
  On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There, under the tutelage of Peter Davis, he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. Released from the Waif’s Home in 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician. Mentored by the city’s top cornetist, Joe “King” Oliver, Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats.
  
  In 1922, King Oliver sent for Armstrong to join his band in Chicago. Armstrong and Oliver became the talk of the town with their intricate two-cornet breaks and started making records together in 1923. By that point, Armstrong began dating the pianist in the band, Lillian Hardin. In 1924, Armstrong married Hardin, who urged Armstrong to leave Oliver and try to make it on his own. A year in New York with Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra proved unsatisfying so Armstrong returned to Chicago in 1925 and began making records under his own name for the first time.

  

  HOTTER THAN THAT
  The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz. Armstrong’s improvised solos transformed jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative bursts of scat singing and an underlying swing feel. By the end of the decade, the popularity of the Hot Fives and Sevens was enough to send Armstrong back to New York, where he appeared in the popular Broadway revue, “Hot Chocolates.” He soon began touring and never really stopped until his death in 1971.
  
  The 1930s also found Armstrong achieving great popularity on radio, in films, and with his recordings. He performed in Europe for the first time in 1932 and returned in 1933, staying for over a year because of a damaged lip. Back in America in 1935, Armstrong hired Joe Glaser as his manager and began fronting a big band, recording pop songs for Decca, and appearing regularly in movies. He began touring the country in the 1940s.

  "MY WHOLE
  LIFE, MY
  WHOLE SOUL,
  MY WHOLE
  SPIRIT IS TO
  BLOW THAT
  HORN."

  In 1947, the waning popularity of the big bands forced Armstrong to begin fronting a small group, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Personnel changed over the years but this remained Armstrong’s main performing vehicle for the rest of his career. He had a string of pop hits beginning in 1949 and started making regular overseas tours, where his popularity was so great, he was dubbed “Ambassador Satch.”
  
  In America, Armstrong had been a great Civil Rights pioneer for his race, breaking down numerous barriers as a young man. In the 1950s, he was sometimes criticized for his onstage persona and called an “Uncle Tom” but he silenced critics by speaking out against the government’s handling of the “Little Rock Nine” high school integration crisis in 1957.
  
  Armstrong continued touring the world and making records with songs like “Blueberry Hill” (1949), “Mack the Knife” (1955) and “Hello, Dolly! (1964),” the latter knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts at the height of Beatlemania.
  
  GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY
  The many years of constant touring eventually wore down Armstrong, who had his first heart attack in 1959 and returned to intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital for heart and kidney trouble in 1968. Doctors advised him not to play but Armstrong continued to practice every day in his Corona, Queens home, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Lucille, since 1943. He returned to performing in 1970 but it was too much, too soon and he passed away in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a few months after his final engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (first recording for Louis Armstrong), Gennett Studios, Richmond, Indiana, 1923.
  
  And his last. 1969.
  
  
  

  1973: Live and Let Die general release in the US.

  
  
  Lobby Card set of 8
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  1979: Moonraker released in Ireland.
  
  1980: Learning other actors were recently screen-tested, Roger Moore declares he's done with the Bond role.
  1980: Eva Green is born--Paris, France.
  1985: 007 美しき獲物たち (007 Utsukushikiemonotachi; 007 Beautiful Prey) released in Japan.

  
  

  
  2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style opens at the Barbican Centre, London, continues through 5 September. Following cities are Dubai, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Rotterdam, Moscow, Melbourne, Shanghai, Toronto.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Elle propose Five Fantasy Bond Girls.

  

  Five Fantasy Bond Girls
  --With the Barbican opening their new exhibition dedicated to James Bond, ELLE suggests five fantasy Bond girls.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/celebrity-style/articles/g6538/five-fantasy-bond-girls/

  By ELLE UK | 05/07/2012

  

  GALLERY

  Ursula Andress will forever be the most iconic Bond Girl thanks to her attention grabbing scene in Dr No with her famous white bikini - but who are ELLE's fantasy Bond Girls? Click through the gallery to discover.

  

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  Frieda Pinto – With those beautiful doe eyes, Frida could easily play the damsel in distress who Bond has to rescue. Gazing into her deep pupils, he surely wouldn’t be able to resist ‘reassuring’ her after their escape from danger?

  

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  Scarlett Johannson – Scarlett by name, sizzling by nature, Johannson has an ability to light up the screen and oozes sex appeal. Vital ingredients for any Bond lady. And she proved she can kick ass in recent Marvel films, Iron Man and Avengers Assemble. In a twist, could she be the one that comes to Bond’s rescue?

  

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  Beyonce – The singing sensation has already proved she can play the female side-kick well with a part in 2002’s ‘Austin Powers in Goldmember’. Beyonce would definitely be sassy enough to make Bond feel both shaken and stirred.

  

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  Heidi Klum – A beautiful woman, and as a judge on Project Catwalk, has shown she can ‘Auef’ contestants without emotion. Perhaps she could play a Bond Girl villain to give 007 a run for his money (penny)?

  

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  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – One of the most glamorous ladies around, and now that she’s taken to acting it’s surely only a matter of time before 007 is looking to recruit her.

  

  Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style is a retrospective of the last fifty years of James Bond design and style at London’s Barbican Centre from Dr No through to the upcoming Skyfall.
  
  There will be designs on display from major fashion names such as Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford, Frida Giannini and Miuccia Prada, but of course no Bond would be complete without some arm candy in the form of a Bond Girl.
  
  Iconic, glamorous and dressed to kill – although often the one who ends up disposed of by the end of the scene – the Bond Girl is synonymous with the movie franchise and ELLE have come up with a fantasy list.
  
  Click through the gallery above to see our top five Bond Girl suggestions – and let us know who you would have on your list.

  
  2020: AUTOCAR reports on the Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars.

  

  Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation makes public debut
  The £3.3m 007-themed limited edition, featuring machine guns, smoke screens and revolving
  numberplates, is being shown at the Salon Privé

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-continuation-makes-public-debut

  

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  News | by Mike Duff |6 July 2020
  
  Aston Martin has displayed its first DB5 Continuation model, built to celebrate the British marque's long-running connection with James Bond, for the first time in public at the Salon Privé.
  
  The first DB5 Aston Martin to built in more than 50 years, the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation was created in association with Bond filmmaker EON productions. Just 25 cars will be built to mark the release of Bond's 25th outing, No Time to Die, with each featuring replica versions of the gadgets seen in the 1964 film.
  
  Rotating numberplates, an oil spray system that deploys from behind the tail-lights and a smoke screen are joined by 'machine guns' that pop out from the front bumper, a 'bulletproof' rear deflector that raises from the boot, front and rear battering rams, and simulated tyre slashers. A removable roof panel representing the original DB5’s famous ejector seat, albeit one that isn't actually capable of firing passengers out of the car, is an optional inclusion.

  

  Inside, the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation is an exact match for the screen car, with an armrest that disguises the gadget switchgear, a simulated radar screen in the centre console, an under-seat weapons tray and a telephone in the driver's door, along with a flip-up gear knob.
  
  More than 4500 hours went into construction, with each car receiving original body panels and a 4.0-litre naturally aspirated in-line six-cylinder engine that produces 290bhp. It is mated to a five-speed transmission and the rear axle features a mechanical limited-slip differential, although the continuation cars aren't road-legal.
  
  “To see the first customer car finished, and realise that this is the first new DB5 we have built in more than half a century, really is quite a moment," Paul Spires, head of Aston Martin Works, said.

  

  When the company first announced that it was planning 25 continuation replicas of the DB5 used in the Goldfinger film, the big question was how it would deliver on the original car’s huge tally of gadgets. Ahead of production, the firm’s Works Division revealed several of the gadgets under development in the programme, led by Academy Award-winning special-effects creator and Bond film veteran Chris Corbould.
  
  Corbould said he had to think “for about a second and a half” when asked to work on the project, but admitted there have been serious challenges in making features that are both convincing and repeatable.
  
  “If we were doing an oil slick in a film, then we could fill the boot with equipment and put out about 50 litres in a couple of seconds,” he said. “Here, it has to fit into a much smaller space and it has to be able to work again and again.”
  
  There was also the need to consider health and safety. Although the Goldfinger DB5s aren't road legal, Spires said the company does have to make sure they won’t harm anyone. “We have had to make all of this work within the limitations of health and safety,” he said.

  

  Corbould has worked on every Bond film with the exception of Octopussy since The Spy Who Loved Me, including the forthcoming 25th outing of the franchise, where the DB5 will make its latest cinema appearance.
  
  All 25 of the Goldfinger cars – priced at £3.3 million including VAT – have reportedly been sold. Customer deliveries will continue through the second half of 2020.

  
  
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  July 7th (Double-O7)
  
  1929: Michael Reed is born--Canada. (Also reported as born Wandsworth, London, England.)
  (He dies 15 December 2022 at age 93--United Kingdom.)

  

  Michael Reed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)

  Michael Reed (cinematographer)
  Born 7 July 1929
  Canada
  Died 15 December 2022 (aged 93)
  Occupation Cinematography
  Years active 1947–1990
  
  Michael Reed, BSC (7 July 1929 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films from the 1950s to 1980s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1]
  
  Career
  Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry before becoming the director of photography on Hammer's The Ugly Duckling (1959) and several Hammer horror films. He acted as director of photography on several ITC television series such as Sword of Freedom, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Saint. At the same time he was 2nd unit Director of Photography on the James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2]
  
  Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
  
  Reed worked on such British television series as The New Avengers, Press Gang and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
  
  Personal life and death
  Reed died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4]
  
  Selected filmography
  Devil's Bait (1959)
  The Ugly Duckling (1959)
  The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
  The Gorgon (1964)
  Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)
  Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
  Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
  Prehistoric Women (1967)
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  The Hireling (1973)
  Galileo (1975)
  The Stick Up (1977)
  Leopard in the Snow (1978)
  The Passage (1979)
  Loophole (1981)
  John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
  Wild Geese II (1985)
  God's Outlaw (1986)
  
  References
  "Michael Reed | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  "Michael Reed". BFI.
  "In Memoriam of Cinematographer Michael Reed BSC 1929–2022". From Sweden with Love. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-michael-reed?id=05162

  
  

  
  1930: Peter Mckenzie Porteous is born--London, England.
  (He dies 12 August 2005 at age 75--Denville Hall, Northwood, England.)

  

  Peter Porteous (1930–2005)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692007/
  
  MiniBio
  Peter Porteous trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama which, when he was there in the 1950s, occupied premises in the Royal Albert Hall. He made his London theatre debut in 1960 at the Aldwich Theatre in Brouhaha, playing opposite Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries and Leo McKern. He played a pygmy, blacked up and wearing a kilt! He played numerous Shakespearian roles and major roles in plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Millar, Albert Camus,Harold Pinter and Tom Murphy. His professional film life started when he worked for the great German film director, Otto Preminger, in the film St Joan with Jean Seburg. Sadly, Peter died on 12th August 2005 at Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, the Retirement/Nursing Home for actors run by the Actors' Benevolent Fund.

  Octopussy
  
  
  The Living Daylights
  
  
  
  

  
  1944: Society hostess 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/

  Friday 7 July, 1944
  
  Sorted out clothes of I.’s that need cleaning, carrying them away in my arms. I. is off abroad for a few days. New uniforms and equipment lying about. He has a private army of 300 men. When I came home from the Admiralty the evening was lovely so, tired though I was, I went to the park.
  
  The grass smelt fresh, the trees were heavy with leaf and I walked to the bandstand and stood for a long time watching and listening. An alert was on as usual. Small clusters of people sat on iron chairs round the bandstand or outside the enclosure under the trees – people of all sorts and kinds, young and old, soldiers and civilians.
  
  The scene was so strange, moving and so unreal – the white bandstand, the charming civilised elegant waltzes, the Americans lolling about, the uniforms, the drone of the pilotless plane, the beauty of the evening, war and peace all mixed up inextricably.

  

  
  1958: The first James Bond comic strip Casino Royale begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 13 December 1958. 1-138 ) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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

  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
  (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
  Højt spil i Monte Carlo" [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1968: Test footage of Lazenby and Rigg prompts nervous United Artists executives to pursue a return of Connery.
  
  1973: Fawcett Gold Medal publishes Roger Moore's James Bond Diary in paperback.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1977: Roger Moore does a quick commercial for Nationwide Insurance.

  https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1147445081407815681

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me Royal Premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Variety reports potential Moore replacements as James Brolin and Michael Billington.
  1983: Octopussy released in The Netherlands.
  1983: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker.
  Cover by Bill Botten (in the style of Richard Chopping).

  JAMES BOND, like Sherlock Holmes before
  him, has become a myth of the twentieth
  century. Predictably, when John
  Gardner (under copyright licence) first
  brought Bond into the 1980s with a new
  consciousness of health and ecology, a
  change of car and a passing nod at femin-
  ism, his book, Licence Renewed, went straight
  to No. 1 on the bestseller lists on both sides
  of the Atlantic. Fleming himself 'would not
  be displeased', the Daily Telegraph said. A
  second updated Bond adventure, For Special
  Services, enjoyed an even greater success,
  remaining for months on end on bestseller
  lists in America.
  
  Now, indestructible as ever, Bond is back
  in a third assignment from John Gardner --
  a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort
  with Bond's opposite numbers from the
  United States, the Soviet Union and Israel
  in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland.
  Yet if resurgent fascism is the common
  enemy, who is really to be feared? Can
  SMERSH be trusted to resist the temptation
  to seek revenge on Bond? Is it the breezy
  American or the voluptuous Israeli who is
  acting as double agent? Are the Finns
  merely using Bond to break the K.G.B.'s
  stranglehold on their tenuous national
  autonomy?
  
  Never has Bond encountered such an
  unnervingly deceitful bunch of collabor-
  ators or been subject to such a bewildering
  series of potentially lethal shocks.

  James Bond adventures
  written under licence from Glidrose,
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders, by
  JOHN GARDNER.
  
  Licence Renewed

  Remarkably successful re-creation of
  everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
  Telegraph

  'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
  old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
  Times

  'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
  of the 1980s is not much different from the
  earlier Bond...his adventures are as capti-
  vating as ever.' BIRMINGHAM Post

  
  For Special Services

  'John Gardner has got the OO7 formula
  down pat. But not too pat...manages to
  create suspense and spring a few surprises.'
  Financial Times

  'Much better nonsense than the previous
  Gardner resurrection of James Bond.'
  Sunday Times

  'Almost as good as the bestselling first one.
  Great fun.' Scotsman

  
  
  
  

  
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/licence-to-kill-en/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-ad-sheet-1989/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-programme-1989/
  
  

  1989: James Bond med rett til å drepe (James Bond with the Right to Kill) released in Norway.

  
  
  
  

  1989: Tid för hämnd (Time for Revenge) released in Sweden.

  https://www.tradera.com/item/341511/330224852/james-bond-tid-for-hamnd
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Swordfish through Orion Publishing Group releases 30th anniversary hardcover editions of John Gardner’s Nobody Lives Forever and Role of Honour.

  That's following Licence Renewed, For Special Services, and Icebreaker released 23 June. They anticipate paperback editions of all the Gardner Bond novels in 2012.
  
  

  http://www.john-gardner.com/sites/default/files/New swordfish.png

  http://www.john-gardner.com/content/orion-publishing-group-celebrates-30th-anniversary-john-gardners-james-bond-titles
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: The Hollywood Reporter says a James Bond musical is in-the-works.

  

  

  James Bond Musical the Works

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-bond-musical-works-807085/

  James Bond Musical in the Works
  The stage show will open on Broadway or in Las Vegas as early as 2017.
  July 7, 2015 9:12am
  
  007.com
  
  James Bond has many skills, but can he sing?
  
  The superspy created by Ian Fleming is the subject of a developing stage musical, according to Playbill.

  Executive producer Merry Saltzman, whose father Harry produced nine of the early Bond films such as Goldfinger, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever and more, secured the rights to adapt 007’s adventures for James Bond: The Musical.
  
  The show aims to debut either on Broadway or in Las Vegas, with an opening tentatively scheduled for late 2017 or early 2018.
  
  Dave Clarke is set to pen the book, while its music and lyrics will come from country composer Jay Henry Weisz.
  
  The production will include an original storyline and “our own Bond girl,” said its producers, but still cater to the franchise’s fans by featuring “several Bond villains, plus some new ones.”

  The 24th Bond film, Spectre, starring Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz, hits theaters Nov. 6.
  
  Twitter: @cashleelee

  2015: Yahoo Entertainment says James Bond musical is a Dr. No-Go.

  

  

  UPDATE: James Bond Musical Is a Dr. No-Go

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/never-say-never-james-bond-to-become-a-musical-123463706997.html

  Gwynne Watkins·Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
  July 7, 2015

  Update July 8, 2015: James Bond has a license to kill, but not a license to sing. The producers of the current Bond movie franchise issued an official statement on July 7 saying that Merry Saltzman — the daughter of original Bond producer Harry Saltzman, who announced her plans to produce Bond: The Musical last week — has not obtained the rights to create a 007 stage show. “Danjaq LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc confirm they have not licensed any rights to Merry Saltzman or her production company to create a James Bond musical,” reads the statement. “Danjaq and MGM jointly control all live stage rights in the Bond franchise, and therefore no James Bond stage show may be produced without their permission.”

  Original story July 7:

  James Bond can escape from impossible traps, defeat ruthless villains, and seduce any woman — but can he sing? We’ll soon find out. Playbill reports that a James Bond stage musical is in the works, with plans to open on Broadway or in Las Vegas as early as 2017. Called — wait for it — James Bond: The Musical, the show is being produced by Merry Saltzman, daughter of the late Bond film producer Harry Saltzman. There’s no word yet on casting, characters or story, though Saltzman promised Playbill that the show will introduce “our own Bond girl.” (And we hope Odd Job makes an appearance, because a flying-bowler musical number seems too good to pass up.)
  
  The idea of a singing James Bond is a little nutty, but given that the film franchise has been around for more than fifty years, it’s surprising that no one has tried it before. After all, music does play a key role in the Bond films, many of which are inexorably linked with theme songs like Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger,” Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die,” and Adele’s “Skyfall.” Rather than borrowing these iconic tunes, however, the new musical will feature original songs by a country music composer, Jay Henry Weisz.
  
  Since the producers are eyeing a Las Vegas opening, it seems likely that James Bond: The Musical will be a big, action-packed spectacle, akin to the disaster-plagued 2011 musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. It is possible to turn a hyper-masculine movie hero into a viable musical character: 2012’s Rocky the Musical did an excellent job. However, neither Spider-Man nor Rocky managed a successful Broadway run. On the bright side, the work of James Bond creator Ian Fleming has been successfully adapted into a musical before: His novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car inspired the classic 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and became a hit stage musical in 2002.

  While Bond fans await hearing 007 sing the moving ballad “Shaken Not Stirred,” the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre, opens in theaters on November 6.
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2018: Reports for Daniel Craig's visit to Central Intelligence Agency headquarters 26 June also reveal detail for possible BOND 25 title, director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, and script focus.

  

  Daniel Craig visits CIA HQ in run-up to new
  Bond movie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0706/976892-daniel-craig-visits-cia-hq-in-run-up-to-new-bond-movie/

  7 Jul 2018 10:15

  
  Craig visited CIA HQ on June 26. Photo: CIA

  James Bond star Daniel Craig has visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia in the run up to the start of filming for the forthcoming Danny Boyle directed 007 movie.
  
  The Guardian reports that the visit was part of "the CIA’s attempt to engage with the public and increase understanding of how intelligence work operates in the real world."
  
  Craig made the visit on June 26 as part of the CIA's Reel vs. Real seminar. Craig is preparing to begin filming the as yet to be titled 25th James Bond film, in what will be his fifth and reportedly last time in the role.

  
  Craig in Spectre in 2015

  In a statement the CIA said: "Mr Craig met with our leadership and workforce, who explained that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’ and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented in the entertainment world of spy v spy."
  
  The statement added: "Mr Craig remarked about the teamwork that goes into the intelligence cycle and how impressed he was with the commitment and dedication of CIA officers."
  
  The agency said its motivation was "to combat misrepresentations and assist in balanced and accurate portrayals" of the intelligence community.

  Danny Boyle will begin directing the new Bond movie, the 25th in the series, on December 3 and is currently writing a script with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge.

  Boyle and Craig

  Rumours have suggested that the film will be titled Shatterhand, which was an alias used by Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.
  
  There has also been speculation that Boyle and Hodge will reflect the #MeToo era and depart from the usual portrayal of female Bond characters.
  
  Bond 25 is due to be released on October 25 2019 in Ireland and the UK.

  
  
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  July 8th
  
  1933: Jeff Nuttall is born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.
  (He dies 4 January 2004 at age 70--Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.)

  

  Jeff Nuttall

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  

  Born - Jeffrey Addison Nuttall - 8 July 1933 - Clitheroe, Lancashire, England
  Died - 4 January 2004 (aged 70) - Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Occupation
  Poet
  Publisher
  Actor
  Painter
  Sculptor
  Jazz trumpeter
  Anarchist sympathiser
  Social commentator

  Jeffrey Addison Nuttall (8 July 1933 – 4 January 2004) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist[1] and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.

  Life and work
  Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Orcop, a village in Herefordshire. He studied painting in the years after the Second World War and began publishing poetry in the early 1960s. Together with Bob Cobbing,[2] he founded the influential Writers Forum press and writers' workshop.[3]
  
  His Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2003.[4]
  Works
  Poems (1963), with Keith Musgrove
  The Limbless Virtuoso (1963), with Keith Musgrove
  The Change (1963), with Allen Ginsberg
  My Own Mag (1963–66)
  Poems I Want to Forget (1965)
  Come Back Sweet Prince: A Novelette (1966)
  Pieces of Poetry (1966)
  The Case of Isabel and the Bleeding Foetus (1967)
  Songs Sacred and Secular (1967)
  Bomb Culture (1968), cultural criticism
  Penguin Modern Poets 12 (1968), with Alan Jackson and William Wantling
  Journals (1968)
  Love Poems (1969)
  Mr. Watkins Got Drunk and Had to Be Carried Home: A Cut-up Piece (1969)
  Pig (1969)
  Jeff Nuttall: Poems 1962–1969 (1970)
  
  Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception (1970)
  George, Son of My Own Mag (1971)
  The Foxes' Lair (1972)
  Fatty Feedemall's Secret Self: A Dream (1975)
  The Anatomy of My Father's Corpse (1975)
  Man Not Man (1975)
  The House Party (1975)
  Snipe's Spinster (novel, 1975)
  Objects (1976)
  Common Factors, Vulgar Factions (1977), with Rodick Carmichael
  King Twist: a Portrait of Frank Randle (1978), biography of music hall comedian
  The Gold Hole (1978)
  What Happened to Jackson (1978)
  Grape Notes, Apple Music (1979)
  Performance Art (1979/80), memoirs and scripts, two volumes
  
  5X5 (1981), with Glen Baxter, Ian Breakwell, Ivor Cutler and Anthony Earnshaw (edited by Asa Benveniste)
  Muscle (1982)
  Visual Alchemy (1987), with Bohuslav Barlow
  The Bald Soprano. A Portrait of Lol Coxhill (1989)
  Art and the Degradation of Awareness (1999)
  
  Selected Poems (2003)
  
  Selected filmography
  Scandal (1989) – Percy Murray, Club Owner
  
  Robin Hood (1991) – Friar Tuck
  Just like a Woman (1992) – Vanessa
  Damage (1992) – Trevor Leigh Davies MP
  The Baby of Mâcon (1993) – The Major Domo
  The Browning Version (1994) – Lord Baxter
  Captives (1994) – Harold
  Paparazzo (1995) – Lionel
  Beaumarchais (1996) – Benjamin Franklin
  Crimetime (1996) – Doctor
  Monk Dawson (1998) – Sir Hugh Stanten
  Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lord Morris
  The World Is Not Enough (1999) – Dr. Mikhail Arkov, a Russian nuclear physicist whom Bond goes undercover as.
  
  Octopus (2000) – Henry Campbell

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Fleming writes a letter to Ivar (Felix) Bryce offering the rights to produce the first Bond film. In return he asks for $50,000 worth of shares in the film company. Then he will also provide a treatment, plus his ongoing services if they are desired.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 4 - The Deal Is Done

  Put simply, Fleming was offering Xanadu first refusal on the character of
  James Bond for movie exploitation. "And in him you have potentially a very
  valuable property if you can sign him up for several years." McClory was only too
  well aware of this. Why else were he and Bryce so intent on acquiring not just any
  old right to make a Bond film, but the rights to the first Bond film?
  
  Having acquired those rights, there was no reason, suggested Fleming,
  why the Bond character couldn't then be sub-leased, first to Bubbell
  Robinson's TV From Russia with Love, then back to Xanadu for the feature
  film or later to a television series. Another ingenious Fleming proposal was that
  the same thing could apply in lesser degree to various subsidiary characters like
  M, Felix Leiter, etc.
  
  One gets the impression reading this letter that Fleming was desperate for
  Bryce to buy into Bond; to have someone he knew and respected owning the
  film copyright to his character rather than some faceless conglomerate or
  Hollywood cowboy producer. The concluding paragraph strikes a particularly
  friendly note: "Sorry to send you all this food for thought but the whole thing
  is getting too big for me and, before MCA finally devours me, I thought
  I ought to give you a last clear think." He then added a PS: "If anything isn't
  clear to you in this letter, it isn't clear to me."
  
  Fleming's letter did the trick and within days Bryce got in touch to make
  a firm offer - Xanada wanted to go ahead with the Bond film...

  1963: Norman Felton writes Fleming a letter following the decision to leave the Solo television project.

  Norman Felton letter dated 8 July 1963:
  

  Dear Ian:
  
  May I thank you for meeting with me when I was in England recently. It was deeply appreciated in view of all of the pressures on you at that time. I am hoping, incidentally, that your move to the country has worked out satisfactorily.
  
  Your new book, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, is delightful. I am hoping that things will calm down for you in the months to come so that in due time you will be able to develop another novel to give further pleasure to your many readers throughout the world.
  
  They tell me that there are some islands in the Pacific where one can get away from it all. They are slightly radioactive, but for anyone with the spirit of adventure, this should be no problem.
  
  Warm regards,
  
  Norman Felton.

  
  
  
  

  1968: Spain presents its most prized Don Quixote Award to Roger Moore at the Spanish Embassy, London.

  

  
  1970: Richard Maibaum finishes his draft screenplay for Diamonds Are Forever.
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Bond's ordeal in a crematorium.

  

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me UK general release. Plus Ireland.

  
  

  
  1996: Trevor Leighton photographs Sean Connery.

  

  
  2003: Date on the script for a Jinx spin-off film as reported by CinemaBlend.

  

  James Bond: Halle Berry’s Scrapped Spinoff
  Script Has Made Its Way Online, And Wow

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2562820/james-bond-halle-berrys-scrapped-spinoff-script-has-made-its-way-online-and-wow

  By Mike Reyes published February 12, 2021

  

  Way back in simpler times, the blockbuster Die Another Day introduced Halle Berry’s Giacinta Johnson as a Bond woman who would help save the day in Pierce Brosnan’s final film as James Bond. Though the film was a bit of a disappointment, a spin-off was being developed for her character, better known to her friends/foes as Jinx. While it never happened, the scrapped script for the film has apparently made its way online; and oh man, do I need to read this now.
  
  User 007inLA apparently got his hands on the first draft, dated July 8, 2003, which was simply titled Jinx. Sharing the cover page on Twitter as proof of life, the story is credited to James Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the men who have provided the backbone of the 007 franchise’s stories since their hiring for Tomorrow Never Dies. While the commentary on the script is rather limited due to the misplacement of some pages to Jinx’s finished product, there’s some clues as to where it was all headed.

  Jinx sees Halle Berry’s NSA agent go through her origin story paces, with the death of her parents being the motivation for her joining up. Pushing to be recruited and proving that she’s a worthy candidate, we see this Die Another Day fixture interacting with another familiar face to achieve her mission: her handler Damian Falco, played by legendary hard case and Quentin Tarantino collaborator Michael Madsen. Should this film have happened, we’d have seen Jinx first meeting her co-worker, before they were both introduced during their assistance in Die Another Day’s big, diamond encrusted crisis.
  
  You can see why Berry was upset about this movie being scrapped, as Jinx sounds right at home in the world of 007. Her character would have even gotten to meet an MI6 agent in her travels, though it’s “no one [she’d] know,” so you can stop updating your theories of how James Bond is a codename for the time being. Though if you’re looking to expand your theory on how Sofia from John Wick 3: Parabellum is really Jinx from Die Another Day… let’s get that story going.
  
  Nerve gas, a global terrorist plot, and everything you’d expect from a James Bond adventure looks present and accounted for in Jinx. Only instead of merely rehashing the 007 formula, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade looked to expand the brand with a new point of view on the espionage business; and it’s something audiences could still use to this day. With further spinoffs for Naomie Harris’s Moneypenny and Lashawna Lynch’s Nomi creeping into the consciousness surrounding Skyfall and No Time To Die respectively, this isn’t an idea that’s died off just yet. Maybe with the right approach, Halle Berry’s Jinx could return after all, teaming up with either or both James Bond characters to forge a new path towards a cinematic universe.

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  2014: Youniverse Digital Limited releases a browser-based adventure game that promotes the Young Bond book Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole.

  
  
  
  Mission 3 Pilot the Zeppelin
  
  Mission 4 High Speed Chase
  

  
  2023: Ewbanks auctions 75 Bond movie posters from original designer Brian Bysouth's collection.

  

  James Bond Movie Poster Designer
  Selling Some Of His Collection

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.zenger.news/2023/07/05/james-bond-movie-poster-designer-selling-some-of-his-collection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=james-bond-movie-poster-designer-selling-some-of-his-collection

  Brain Bysouth, 86, also created artwork for blockbusters such as Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  Ashley Pemberton
  July 5, 2023

  
  Movie poster: The Living Daylights. (EWNANK’S/SWNS)

  One of Britain’s most successful film poster designers is putting some of the gems of his collection up for auction.
  
  Brian Bysouth, who made his name designing for the James Bond franchise, is selling 75 lots of his original artwork and signed posters.
  
  Among the highlights of the collection is his iconic artwork for the 1986 film Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986), which depicts school kids next to a nuclear reactor.

  
  Shadow. (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

  Signed by Bysouth, it is expected to fetch £4,000 ($5,078) when it goes under the hammer at Ewbank’s auctioneers on Saturday, July 8.
  
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  Bysouth, 86, devised the artwork for Hollywood blockbusters such as the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark and also video releases for the hit TV series Star Trek.
  
  He retired in 2002 but still paints occasionally and is now selling off some of his favorite pieces.

  
  Bad Dreams. (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

  Also up for sale is his artwork for the 1994 film The Shadow, showing Alec Baldwin as the title character Lamont Cranston, which is expected to fetch £800 ($1,015).
  
  Ewbank’s head of entertainment memorabilia Alastair McCrea said: “Brian Bysouth is a legend among his fellow artists, as well as film fans. Much of his work is iconic, highly decorative and perfect for any collector’s wall.

  
  Convoy. (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

  “To be able to offer original artwork as well is very exciting.”
  
  Born in London, Bysouth completed his National Service after attending Willesden School Of Art on a scholarship.
  
  Back in civvy street, he decided to make his living as a commercial artist and joined the Downtons agency.

  
  First Lady. (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

  There he designed his first poster, for the 1959 film Tiger Bay, starring John Mills.
  
  He then went on to work on the James Bond Franchise, including the first two films Dr. No and From Russia With Love.
  
  Bysouth’s involvement with Bond was to continue for decades, including as a freelancer from the 1970s.

  
  Class of Nuke ‘Em High. 1986 (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

  Films sporting his artwork include For Your Eyes Only and The Living Daylights, while the last Bond poster he worked on was for the 1999 release The World Is Not Enough. Non-film work included designing adverts for the launch of Capital Radio, a brewery and even Quaker.
  
  The sale also features an extensive array of film posters from other sources, including classic designs from the Carry On movies.

  
  Sky High. (EWBANK’S/SWNS)

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  July 7th (Double-O7)
  
  1929: Michael Reed is born--Canada. (Also reported as born Wandsworth, London, England.)
  (He dies 15 December 2022 at age 93--United Kingdom.)

  

  Michael Reed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)

  Michael Reed (cinematographer)
  Born 7 July 1929
  Canada
  Died 15 December 2022 (aged 93)
  Occupation Cinematography
  Years active 1947–1990
  
  Michael Reed, BSC (7 July 1929 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films from the 1950s to 1980s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1]
  
  Career
  Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry before becoming the director of photography on Hammer's The Ugly Duckling (1959) and several Hammer horror films. He acted as director of photography on several ITC television series such as Sword of Freedom, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Saint. At the same time he was 2nd unit Director of Photography on the James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2]
  
  Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
  
  Reed worked on such British television series as The New Avengers, Press Gang and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
  
  Personal life and death
  Reed died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4]
  
  Selected filmography
  Devil's Bait (1959)
  The Ugly Duckling (1959)
  The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
  The Gorgon (1964)
  Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)
  Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
  Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
  Prehistoric Women (1967)
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  The Hireling (1973)
  Galileo (1975)
  The Stick Up (1977)
  Leopard in the Snow (1978)
  The Passage (1979)
  Loophole (1981)
  John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
  Wild Geese II (1985)
  God's Outlaw (1986)
  
  References
  "Michael Reed | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  "Michael Reed". BFI.
  "In Memoriam of Cinematographer Michael Reed BSC 1929–2022". From Sweden with Love. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-michael-reed?id=05162

  
  

  
  1930: Peter Mckenzie Porteous is born--London, England.
  (He dies 12 August 2005 at age 75--Denville Hall, Northwood, England.)

  

  Peter Porteous (1930–2005)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692007/
  
  MiniBio
  Peter Porteous trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama which, when he was there in the 1950s, occupied premises in the Royal Albert Hall. He made his London theatre debut in 1960 at the Aldwich Theatre in Brouhaha, playing opposite Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries and Leo McKern. He played a pygmy, blacked up and wearing a kilt! He played numerous Shakespearian roles and major roles in plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Millar, Albert Camus,Harold Pinter and Tom Murphy. His professional film life started when he worked for the great German film director, Otto Preminger, in the film St Joan with Jean Seburg. Sadly, Peter died on 12th August 2005 at Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, the Retirement/Nursing Home for actors run by the Actors' Benevolent Fund.

  Octopussy
  
  
  The Living Daylights
  
  
  
  

  
  1944: Society hostess 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/

  Friday 7 July, 1944
  
  Sorted out clothes of I.’s that need cleaning, carrying them away in my arms. I. is off abroad for a few days. New uniforms and equipment lying about. He has a private army of 300 men. When I came home from the Admiralty the evening was lovely so, tired though I was, I went to the park.
  
  The grass smelt fresh, the trees were heavy with leaf and I walked to the bandstand and stood for a long time watching and listening. An alert was on as usual. Small clusters of people sat on iron chairs round the bandstand or outside the enclosure under the trees – people of all sorts and kinds, young and old, soldiers and civilians.
  
  The scene was so strange, moving and so unreal – the white bandstand, the charming civilised elegant waltzes, the Americans lolling about, the uniforms, the drone of the pilotless plane, the beauty of the evening, war and peace all mixed up inextricably.

  

  
  1958: The first James Bond comic strip Casino Royale begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 13 December 1958. 1-138 ) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/cr.php3
  
  
  
  58
  
  
  88
  
  
  135
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
  (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
  Højt spil i Monte Carlo" [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1968: Test footage of Lazenby and Rigg prompts nervous United Artists executives to pursue a return of Connery.
  
  1973: Fawcett Gold Medal publishes Roger Moore's James Bond Diary in paperback.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1977: Roger Moore does a quick commercial for Nationwide Insurance.

  https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1147445081407815681

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me Royal Premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Variety reports potential Moore replacements as James Brolin and Michael Billington.
  1983: Octopussy released in The Netherlands.
  1983: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker.
  Cover by Bill Botten (in the style of Richard Chopping).

  JAMES BOND, like Sherlock Holmes before
  him, has become a myth of the twentieth
  century. Predictably, when John
  Gardner (under copyright licence) first
  brought Bond into the 1980s with a new
  consciousness of health and ecology, a
  change of car and a passing nod at femin-
  ism, his book, Licence Renewed, went straight
  to No. 1 on the bestseller lists on both sides
  of the Atlantic. Fleming himself 'would not
  be displeased', the Daily Telegraph said. A
  second updated Bond adventure, For Special
  Services, enjoyed an even greater success,
  remaining for months on end on bestseller
  lists in America.
  
  Now, indestructible as ever, Bond is back
  in a third assignment from John Gardner --
  a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort
  with Bond's opposite numbers from the
  United States, the Soviet Union and Israel
  in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland.
  Yet if resurgent fascism is the common
  enemy, who is really to be feared? Can
  SMERSH be trusted to resist the temptation
  to seek revenge on Bond? Is it the breezy
  American or the voluptuous Israeli who is
  acting as double agent? Are the Finns
  merely using Bond to break the K.G.B.'s
  stranglehold on their tenuous national
  autonomy?
  
  Never has Bond encountered such an
  unnervingly deceitful bunch of collabor-
  ators or been subject to such a bewildering
  series of potentially lethal shocks.

  James Bond adventures
  written under licence from Glidrose,
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders, by
  JOHN GARDNER.
  
  Licence Renewed

  Remarkably successful re-creation of
  everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
  Telegraph

  'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
  old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
  Times

  'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
  of the 1980s is not much different from the
  earlier Bond...his adventures are as capti-
  vating as ever.' BIRMINGHAM Post

  
  For Special Services

  'John Gardner has got the OO7 formula
  down pat. But not too pat...manages to
  create suspense and spring a few surprises.'
  Financial Times

  'Much better nonsense than the previous
  Gardner resurrection of James Bond.'
  Sunday Times

  'Almost as good as the bestselling first one.
  Great fun.' Scotsman

  
  
  
  

  
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/licence-to-kill-en/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-ad-sheet-1989/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-programme-1989/
  
  

  1989: James Bond med rett til å drepe (James Bond with the Right to Kill) released in Norway.

  
  
  
  

  1989: Tid för hämnd (Time for Revenge) released in Sweden.

  https://www.tradera.com/item/341511/330224852/james-bond-tid-for-hamnd
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Swordfish through Orion Publishing Group releases 30th anniversary hardcover editions of John Gardner’s Nobody Lives Forever and Role of Honour.

  That's following Licence Renewed, For Special Services, and Icebreaker released 23 June. They anticipate paperback editions of all the Gardner Bond novels in 2012.
  
  

  http://www.john-gardner.com/sites/default/files/New swordfish.png

  http://www.john-gardner.com/content/orion-publishing-group-celebrates-30th-anniversary-john-gardners-james-bond-titles
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: The Hollywood Reporter says a James Bond musical is in-the-works.

  

  

  James Bond Musical the Works

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-bond-musical-works-807085/

  James Bond Musical in the Works
  The stage show will open on Broadway or in Las Vegas as early as 2017.
  July 7, 2015 9:12am
  
  007.com
  
  James Bond has many skills, but can he sing?
  
  The superspy created by Ian Fleming is the subject of a developing stage musical, according to Playbill.

  Executive producer Merry Saltzman, whose father Harry produced nine of the early Bond films such as Goldfinger, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever and more, secured the rights to adapt 007’s adventures for James Bond: The Musical.
  
  The show aims to debut either on Broadway or in Las Vegas, with an opening tentatively scheduled for late 2017 or early 2018.
  
  Dave Clarke is set to pen the book, while its music and lyrics will come from country composer Jay Henry Weisz.
  
  The production will include an original storyline and “our own Bond girl,” said its producers, but still cater to the franchise’s fans by featuring “several Bond villains, plus some new ones.”

  The 24th Bond film, Spectre, starring Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz, hits theaters Nov. 6.
  
  Twitter: @cashleelee

  2015: Yahoo Entertainment says James Bond musical is a Dr. No-Go.

  

  

  UPDATE: James Bond Musical Is a Dr. No-Go

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/never-say-never-james-bond-to-become-a-musical-123463706997.html

  Gwynne Watkins·Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
  July 7, 2015

  Update July 8, 2015: James Bond has a license to kill, but not a license to sing. The producers of the current Bond movie franchise issued an official statement on July 7 saying that Merry Saltzman — the daughter of original Bond producer Harry Saltzman, who announced her plans to produce Bond: The Musical last week — has not obtained the rights to create a 007 stage show. “Danjaq LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc confirm they have not licensed any rights to Merry Saltzman or her production company to create a James Bond musical,” reads the statement. “Danjaq and MGM jointly control all live stage rights in the Bond franchise, and therefore no James Bond stage show may be produced without their permission.”

  Original story July 7:

  James Bond can escape from impossible traps, defeat ruthless villains, and seduce any woman — but can he sing? We’ll soon find out. Playbill reports that a James Bond stage musical is in the works, with plans to open on Broadway or in Las Vegas as early as 2017. Called — wait for it — James Bond: The Musical, the show is being produced by Merry Saltzman, daughter of the late Bond film producer Harry Saltzman. There’s no word yet on casting, characters or story, though Saltzman promised Playbill that the show will introduce “our own Bond girl.” (And we hope Odd Job makes an appearance, because a flying-bowler musical number seems too good to pass up.)
  
  The idea of a singing James Bond is a little nutty, but given that the film franchise has been around for more than fifty years, it’s surprising that no one has tried it before. After all, music does play a key role in the Bond films, many of which are inexorably linked with theme songs like Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger,” Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die,” and Adele’s “Skyfall.” Rather than borrowing these iconic tunes, however, the new musical will feature original songs by a country music composer, Jay Henry Weisz.
  
  Since the producers are eyeing a Las Vegas opening, it seems likely that James Bond: The Musical will be a big, action-packed spectacle, akin to the disaster-plagued 2011 musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. It is possible to turn a hyper-masculine movie hero into a viable musical character: 2012’s Rocky the Musical did an excellent job. However, neither Spider-Man nor Rocky managed a successful Broadway run. On the bright side, the work of James Bond creator Ian Fleming has been successfully adapted into a musical before: His novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car inspired the classic 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and became a hit stage musical in 2002.

  While Bond fans await hearing 007 sing the moving ballad “Shaken Not Stirred,” the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre, opens in theaters on November 6.
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2018: Reports for Daniel Craig's visit to Central Intelligence Agency headquarters 26 June also reveal detail for possible BOND 25 title, director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, and script focus.

  

  Daniel Craig visits CIA HQ in run-up to new
  Bond movie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0706/976892-daniel-craig-visits-cia-hq-in-run-up-to-new-bond-movie/

  7 Jul 2018 10:15

  
  Craig visited CIA HQ on June 26. Photo: CIA

  James Bond star Daniel Craig has visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia in the run up to the start of filming for the forthcoming Danny Boyle directed 007 movie.
  
  The Guardian reports that the visit was part of "the CIA’s attempt to engage with the public and increase understanding of how intelligence work operates in the real world."
  
  Craig made the visit on June 26 as part of the CIA's Reel vs. Real seminar. Craig is preparing to begin filming the as yet to be titled 25th James Bond film, in what will be his fifth and reportedly last time in the role.

  
  Craig in Spectre in 2015

  In a statement the CIA said: "Mr Craig met with our leadership and workforce, who explained that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’ and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented in the entertainment world of spy v spy."
  
  The statement added: "Mr Craig remarked about the teamwork that goes into the intelligence cycle and how impressed he was with the commitment and dedication of CIA officers."
  
  The agency said its motivation was "to combat misrepresentations and assist in balanced and accurate portrayals" of the intelligence community.

  Danny Boyle will begin directing the new Bond movie, the 25th in the series, on December 3 and is currently writing a script with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge.

  Boyle and Craig

  Rumours have suggested that the film will be titled Shatterhand, which was an alias used by Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.
  
  There has also been speculation that Boyle and Hodge will reflect the #MeToo era and depart from the usual portrayal of female Bond characters.
  
  Bond 25 is due to be released on October 25 2019 in Ireland and the UK.

  
  
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  July 10th
  
  1958: BBC Home Service broadcasts Ian Fleming interviewing his friend Raymond Chandler.

  Interview with Raymond Chandler [1 of 4] (7:40)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6cc0T1z7I&list=PL42C705CF056C7F25
  
  Interview with Raymond Chandler [2 of 4] (7:38)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJJo79e00o
  
  Interview with Raymond Chandler [3 of 4] (7:39)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sS2DBBrOY8
  
  Interview with Raymond Chandler [4 of 4] (7:38)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9i00flBWuQ
  
  
  

  
  1967: The Los Angeles Times says Sean Connery has an invite to put his footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

  He doesn't until 13 April 1999.
  
  
  
  

  
  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films the car chase in Bangkok, Thailand.

  

  1977: Cary Joji Fukunaga is born--Oakland, California.
  
  1985: Royal premiere of A View to a Kill at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  Princess Diana | Royal Premier | View to a Kill | James Bond | 1985 (9:55)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1987: Iskallt uppdrag (Ice Cold Mission) released in Sweden.

  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/james_bond_filmerna_visas_i_hd_pa_tv4
  
  
  

  1989: US West Hollywood premiere of Licence to Kill.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2009: Zena Moyra Marshall dies at age 84--London, England.
  (Born 1 January 1925--Nairobi, Kenya.)

  

  Zena Marshall
  Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
  Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT

  
  Marshall with Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No (1962)
  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/UNITED ARTISTS

  Zena Marshall, who has died aged 83, played a small but pivotal part in establishing the formula of the James Bond series. As the Eurasian secretary, Miss Taro, revealed to be working for the title character in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), while dallying with 007 (Sean Connery), she was the first of those unscrupulous, exotic beauties who, in the service of the villain, would try but fail to entrap Bond.

  For more than a decade beforehand, she had lent a hint of the exotic to monochrome, domestic British cinema. With her dark hair and colouring, the Rank Organisation may have signed her due to a similarity to Ava Gardner.
  
  Born in Nairobi, Kenya, she was raised in Leicestershire, and described her ancestry as "part French" (her mother), "part English and part Irish". She attended St Mary's school, Ascot, but had already undertaken theatre tours for the Entertainments National Service Association by the time she was in her late teens. Her first film was the misguided epic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) as a lady in waiting; her fellow super- numeraries included her friend Kay Kendall, and another Bond, Roger Moore.
  
  By 1946, she was part of Rank's Company of Youth, often dubbed the Charm School, where fellow conscripts includ- ed Sir Christopher Lee, Diana Dors and the broadcaster Pete Murray. The studio, and affiliates such as Gainsborough, cast her in The End of the River (1947), produced by Powell and Pressburger, and as a passenger in the compact thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).

  Good-Time Girl (1948), Snowbound (1948) and The Lost People (1949) all teamed her with Dennis Price, then a suave leading man. Unfortunately, both were also in the much-derided The Bad Lord Byron (1949); fortunately for her, Dr No's director, Terence Young, was among the screenwriters.

  At London's New Torch Theatre, she was in the poorly received Snow (1953), by the novelist Diana Marr-Johnson, niece of Somerset Maugham. With John Ringham in late 1959, she toured Germany and Holland in The Late Edwina Black. She played a determined doctor in Men Against the Sun (1952), a Kenyan-British co-production starring the august John Bentley, in much the same mode as his later television series African Patrol (1958), in which she also appeared. August 1952 saw her small-screen debut in The Portugal Lady, a live BBC costume drama that was part of its Sunday Night Theatre series, as Charles II's bride Catherine of Braganza.
  
  During ITV's opening weeks Marshall appeared in a shampoo commercial, assuring female viewers it was fine to use the product before going to a party. For the new channel, she did The Bob Hope Show (1956), pre-sold by Lew Grade to NBC, then played a scientist "from behind that Curtain" in The Invisible Man (1958), enduring a very silly ending in which she hugs and kisses the unseen hero goodbye.

  Marshall appeared three times, between 1960 and 1964, in the series Danger Man, starring Patrick McGoohan, who had declined the Bond role: twice Marshall played fellow agents who needed to be rescued. She also guested in the now-forgotten shows Man of the World (1962), The Sentimental Agent (1963) and The Human Jungle (1963).

  After several of the Edgar Wallace thrillers, she was glimpsed waving off Alberto Sordi in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Her last film was The Terrornauts (1967), with the unlikely presence of Charles Hawtrey.
  
  Her marriage to the bandleader Paul Adam ended in divorce, as did a brief second marriage. In 1991, she married the producer Ivan Foxwell, whose credits included The Colditz Story. He predeceased her in 2002.
  
  • Zena Marshall, actor, born 1 January 1926; died 10 July 2009

  

  Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (59 credits)
  
  1967 The Terrornauts - Sandy Lund
  1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Mara
  - Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Mara
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Countess Sofia Ponticelli
  1965 Public Eye (TV Series) - Jean Lawford
  - You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (1965) ... Jean Lawford
  1965 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Carol Wright
  - Find the Lady (1965) ... Carol Wright
  1964 The Verdict - Carola
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Nadia
  - Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Nadia
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Yvonne
  - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Yvonne
  1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Carola / Pauline Logan
  - The Verdict (1964) ... Carola
  - Backfire! (1962) ... Pauline Logan
  1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Rita / Melina
  - A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Rita
  - A Little Sweetness and Light (1963) ... Melina
  1963 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Vera Barclay
  - Over and Out (1963) ... Vera Barclay
  1963 The Switch - Caroline Markham
  1962 Backfire! - Pauline Logan
  1962 The Scales of Justice (TV Series) - Thelma Sinclair
  - The Guilty Party (1962) ... Thelma Sinclair
  1962 Dr. No - Miss Taro
  1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Madame Thiboeuf
  - Death of a Conference (1962) ... Madame Thiboeuf
  1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Zara
  - The Challenge (1962) ... Zara
  1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Maria
  - The Bridge (1962) ... Maria
  1962 Crosstrap - Rina
  1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Mrs. Ramfi / Doctor Leclair
  - Find and Return (1961) ... Mrs. Ramfi
  - The Leak (1960) ... Doctor Leclair
  1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Naomi
  1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Louise
  - The Dudley Case (1960) ... Louise
  
  1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Tania
  - The Locked Room (1958) ... Tania
  1958 African Patrol (TV Series) - Stella Stevens
  - No Place to Hide (1958) ... Stella Stevens
  1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Lucille Genet
  - Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Lucille Genet
  1957 Let's Be Happy - Helene
  1956 My Wife's Family - Hilda
  1956 Bermuda Affair - Chris Walters
  1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Madeleine
  - The Silent Vow (1956) ... Madeleine
  1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Audrey Lipton
  - The Serpent Beneath (1955) ... Audrey Lipton
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Beautiful Blonde (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
  1954 The Embezzler - Mrs. Forrest
  1954 The Scarlet Web - Laura Vane
  1954 Liebelei (TV Movie) - Mitzi Schlager
  1953 Men Against the Sun - Elizabeth
  1953 Deadly Nightshade - Ann Farrington
  1953 Your Favorite Story (TV Series)
  - Work of Art (1953)
  1952 The Caretaker's Daughter - Fritzi Villiers
  1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Catherine
  - The Portugal Lady (1952) ... Catherine
  1952 Blind Man's Bluff - Christine Stevens
  1952 The Inch Man (TV Series) - Helen Anastiadi
  - The Quiet Voice (1952) ... Helen Anastiadi
  1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Honey Child
  1950 Dark Interval - Sonia Jordan
  1950 The Adventures of Sir Percy Howsey (TV Short) - Margueritte
  1950 Soho Conspiracy - Dora Scala
  1950 So Long at the Fair - Nina
  1950 Operation Disaster - The Wren
  
  1949 Meet Simon Cherry - Lisa Colville
  1949 The Lost People - Anna
  1949 Helter Skelter - Giselle
  1949 Marry Me - Marcelle Duclos
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron - An Italian Woman (uncredited)
  1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Suzanne
  1948 Good-Time Girl - Annie Farrell
  1948 Miranda - Secretary
  1948 Snowbound - Italian Girl
  1948 So Evil My Love - Lisette
  1947 The End of the River - Sante
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
  
  Self (3 credits)
  
  1961 Juke Box Jury (TV Series) - Herself - Panellist
  - Episode #1.89 (1961) ... Herself - Panellist
  
  1956 Film Fanfare (TV Series) - Herself / Herself - Quiz Contestant
  - Episode #1.30 (1956) ... Herself
  - Episode #1.23 (1956) ... Herself - Quiz Contestant
  - Episode #1.1 (1956) ... Herself
  1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) - Herself
  - Fernandel, Diana Dors (1956) ... Herself
  
  Archive footage (9 credits)
  
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1990 The Prisoner Video Companion (Video documentary)
  1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) -Miss Taro
  - OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
  1963 Dr. No Featurette (Documentary short) - Miss Taro
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - The Silent Vow (1956) ... (performer: "Ce n'etait Rien")
  

  
  
  

  
  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #11.
  Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #11

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244711011
  Cover A: Dan Panosian
  Cover B: Michael Dowling
  Cover C: Dean Kotz
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker, Ibrahim Moustafa
  Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/10/2019

  "The Debt" continues. Lieutenant James Bond learns a new skill. A former friend helps atone for the death of another. And Bond descends into a part of war-torn London that few fresh faces emerge from unscathed. By JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  July 10 edited July 10 Posts: 13,812

  July 11th
  
  1964: Goldfinger's nineteen-week production finishes after five final days in Andermatt, Switzerland.

  

  
  1985: Agente 007 - Bersaglio mobile (Agent 007 - Moving Target) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  https://italianpulpmovieposters.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/agente-007-bersaglio-mobile-1985/
  
  

  1987: 鐵金剛大戰 特務飛龍 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn tèwù fēilóng; Iron King Wars Agent Flying Dragon) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale completes filming for the falling house in Venice.
  2007: Through BBC News, Sebastien Faulks describes how he came to write a Bond novel to be published May 2008.

  

  Faulks pens new James Bond novel

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6289186.stm

  Wednesday, 11 July 2007

  
  Faulks said he found writing the book "thrilling"

  Sebastian Faulks has
  emerged as the author
  chosen to write a new officially
  endorsed James Bond novel.
  
  The British writer - whose books include Birdsong and Charlotte Gray - was commissioned by the Fleming estate last year but his identity kept secret.
  
  Devil May Care is set in "several of the world's most thrilling cities" during the Cold War.
  
  The book will be published on 28 May next year to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.
  
  The Fleming estate announced last year that it had commissioned a "well known and highly respected" writer for the task.
  
  Faulks, 54, said his new book is "about 80% Fleming" and admitted being "surprised" that he was the estate's choice.
  
  He said: "I was surprised but flattered to be asked by the Fleming estate last summer if I would write a one-off Bond book for the Ian Fleming Centenary.
  
  "I told them that I hadn't read the books since the age of 13, but if, when I re-read them, I still enjoyed them and could see how I might be able to do something in the same vein, then I would be happy to consider it.
  
  "On re-reading, I was surprised by how well the books stood up."
  
  He added: "I put this down to three things - the sense of jeopardy Fleming creates about his solitary hero, a certain playfulness in the narrative details, and a crisp, journalistic style that hasn't dated."

  
  Ian Fleming died in 1964

  Faulks said he attempted to "isolate the most essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books".
  
  He added: "I found writing this light-hearted book more thrilling than I had expected."
  
  The last of Fleming's 14 books about the secret agent was Octopussy and the Living Daylights, which was published in 1966 - two years after his death.
  
  The first was the 1953 book Casino Royale, made into a film last year with Daniel Craig.
  
  It is not yet known if the new book will be turned into a Bond film.
  
  Corinne Turner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications, said: "The Fleming family were delighted with the typescript when we received it.
  
  "Sebastian couldn't have written a better book to celebrate Ian's 100th birthday."
  
  Actor and author Charlie Higson was licensed to write books about James Bond's school days. He has so far written four books under the Young Bond banner aimed at younger readers.

  

  
  2017: y101FM reports that Christopher Nolan wants to do a Bond film.

  

  Christopher Nolan plans to direct and “reinvent” a James Bond movie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.y101fm.com/features/lifestyle/entertainment/5746-christopher-nolan-plans-to-direct-and-reinvent-a-james-bond-movie

  Details
  Written by Kevin Tocino | Published: 11 July 2017

  The director of Inception, Interstellar, and The Dark Knight Trilogy discusses the possibility of directing a future 007 film.
  
  Christopher Nolan, one of the most prolific directors working today, has spoken out about the possibility of directing a James Bond film in the near future.
  
  The English director, whose latest movie Dunkirk hits cinemas on July 20, has been linked to the spy franchise for a number of years. Speaking to Playboy recently, Nolan registered his interest in possibly taking the director’s chair on a future Bond film – but only if the series was in need of some “reinvention.”

  Asked if he’d be interested in taking on the job, Nolan said: “A Bond movie, definitely. I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it.
  
  “Maybe one day it would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they’re getting along very well.”

  2019: Red Bull teams with Formula 1 to promote James Bond.

  

  Red Bull to Celebrate Bond
  with Special Silverstone
  Livery

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.red-bull-to-celebrate-bond-with-special-silverstone-livery.7hRHuzgwGkcF9M543qfa0B.html

  

  Red Bull plan to leave Formula 1 fans shaken and stirred at this weekend’s British Grand Prix, as the team’s title sponsors Aston Martin and the world of James Bond celebrate F1’s 1007th race.

  Both Red Bull cars will feature special additions to their race liveries, including the iconic 007 logo, Bond number plates on the back of the rear wings, as well as pit garage graphics inspired by Q’s MI6 Lab.
  
  Max Verstappen’s car will run the number plate from the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) while Pierre Gasly’s RB15 will feature the Aston Martin V8 plate from The Living Daylights (1987).

  

  “Celebrating Bond at F1’s 1007th race was too good an opportunity to miss given our title partnership with Aston Martin,” said Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner. “Showcasing the world of James Bond here at the British Grand Prix, our second home race of the season, is really exciting. Aston Martin is inextricably linked to Bond and his cars have become truly iconic so we’re really looking forward to this weekend at Silverstone.”
  
  Aston Martin Lagonda President and Group CEO, Dr Andy Palmer, added: “Aston Martin is proud of its association with James Bond. This weekend, we look forward to celebrating this longstanding partnership at Formula 1’s 1007th Grand Prix.”
  
  Fans attending Silverstone this weekend will also be able to visit 007’s Bond In Motion exhibition in the F1 Fan Zone.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Monty Noserovitch (Monty Norman) dies 11 July 2022 at age 94--Slough, England.
  (Born 4 April 1928--London, England. )

  

  Monty Norman

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Monty Norman
  Birth name - Monty Noserovitch
  Born 4 April 1928
  London, England
  Died 11 July 2022 (aged 94)
  Genres Film scores
  Occupation(s) - Composer; Conductor; Music producer
  Instruments - Keyboards, Guitar
  Years active 1958–2022

  Monty Norman (born Monty Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was an English film composer and singer best known for composing the "James Bond Theme".

  Biography
  Norman was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney in the East End of London, the only child of Jewish parents, Annie (née Berlin) and Abraham Noserovitch, on the second night of Passover in 1928. When Norman's father was young, he travelled from Latvia to England with his mother (Norman's grandmother).
  
  As a child during World War II, Norman was evacuated from London but later returned during the Blitz. As a young man he did national service in the RAF, where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing.
  
  In the 1950s and early 1960s, Norman was a singer for big bands such as those of Cyril Stapleton, Stanley Black, Ted Heath, and Nat Temple. He also sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Worth, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy James, Tony Hancock, Jimmy Edwards, and Max Miller. One of his songs, "False Hearted Lover", was successful internationally.
  
  From the late 1950s, he moved from singing to composing, including songs for performers such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie, and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals Make Me an Offer, the English-language version of Irma la Douce (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award), and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo, written by Wolf Mankowitz was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard). Norman's later musicals include Songbook (aka The Moony Shapiro Songbook in New York), which was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards" in 1984) for "Best Musical". Norman's further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and the TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976).
  
  As of 2004, Norman was working on an autobiography, to be entitled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels, and musical versions of the 1954 Kingsley Amis novel Lucky Jim and his 1970s musical, Quick Quick Slow. [clarification needed]
  
  Norman was the first husband of actress Diana Coupland. He died on 11 July 2022, at the age of 94.

  James Bond Theme
  Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Norman received royalties for the theme from 1962 on. However, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two[citation needed] libel actions against publishers for claiming that Barry was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performs a music piece which he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr. Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles the melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places. Also of note, the "James Bond Theme" introduction is very similar to a portion of Celia Cruz's Plegaria a La Roye as recorded in Cuba with La Sonora Matancera in 1954.
  
  Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No.

  Musicals
  Make Me an Offer (1958)
  Expresso Bongo (1958)
  Irma La Douce (1958)
  The Art of Living (revue, 1960)
  Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (1961)
  The Perils of Scobie Prilt (1963)
  Pinkus (1967)
  Quick, Quick, Slow (1969)
  Stand and Deliver (1972)
  So Who Needs Marriage? (1975)
  Songbook (1979)
  Poppy (1982)
  Pinocchio (1988)
  
  References
  Green, Alex (11 July 2022). "Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies aged 94". Belfast Telegraph. Press Association. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  "Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies at 94". BBC News. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  "The John Barry Resource Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit". Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  Monty Norman v. The Sunday Times (The "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit)

  

  Monty Norman (1928–2022)

  Music Department | Composer | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635578/
  

  Good Sign, Bad Sign - Monty Norman (5:53)
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: National Mojito Day is best celebrated all month long in the United States.

  

  Mojito Day

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/mojito-day/

  Sat Jul 11th, 2020

  

  Celebrate with us!
  The Mojito is one of the most popular classic cocktails around the world! So, you will be pleased to know that you have the perfect excuse to enjoy a few Mojitos on Mojito Day!
  
  The Mojito is a conventional Cuban highball! It consists of white rum, mint, sparkling water, lime juice, and sugar. However, there have been a lot of different variations on the classic drink, with people adding different fruits, such as strawberry and mango mojitos. Some people also enjoy sparkling mojitos, finishing off their drink with a splash of champagne! You can certainly have a lot of fun experimenting.
  
  History Of Mojito Day
  A lot of people know the Mojito as being the favorite drink of famous author Ernest Hemingway. But, where did it all begin for this tasty cocktail? The birthplace of this refreshing drink is Havana, Cuba. Nevertheless, there has been a lot of debate about the exact origin of the drink! It’s known that local South American Indians had cures for several different tropical illnesses. So, a small boarding group went to Cuba, coming back with ingredients for medicine. They included local tropical ingredients – mint, sugarcane juice, and lime – as well as a crude form of rum, which was known as aguardiente de caña. That translates to burning water! While this drink was not known as a mojito at the time, it included a combination of the ingredients that we have come to associate with the drink.
  
  Some historians believe the cocktail’s origin owes a lot to African slaves who were working on the sugar cane fields in Cuba during the 19th century. The sugar cane juice called Guarapo is often found in mojitos, and this was popular amongst African slaves at the time.
  
  In terms of the name mojito, there is also a lot of confusion and theories about where it stemmed from! Some people believe that it is merely a derivative of the Spanish word for ‘a little wet’ – mojadito. There are then others who think that name relates to mojo, which is a Cuban seasoning that is made from lime and used to flavor dishes.
  
  How to celebrate Mojito Day
  Of course, the best way to observe Mojito Day is by making your own version of the cocktail. We’re going to take you through how to make a Mojito.
  
  Making your own Mojito
  First of all, let’s begin by giving you a shopping list of all the ingredients you will require if you wish to make a Mojito. These are as follows…

  Rum
  Limes
  Mint Leaves
  Club Soda
  Sugar
  Ice

  
  The first step of the Mojito recipe is to make a simple syrup. This is essentially sugar water, and it presents a great way of balancing out the limes’ sourness. So, how do you make it?

  • Place one cup of water and one cup sugar in a pan
  • Heat in order to dissolve the sugar
  • Once the sugar has dissolved, you can remove the pan from the heat
  • Add approximately 15 mint leaves and leave them to steep
  • Allow the simple syrup to cool

  So, now you have your simple syrup ready! The next thing you need to do is squeeze some limes. Fresh limes taste much better than lime juice. You can really tell the difference. Squeeze the limes to get the juice necessary. You will probably need to squeeze either one or two limes per Mojito.
  
  Once you have done this, the next thing you need to do is prepare your glasses. You should add a few mint leaves to the bottom of the glass. You should then muddle them. Don’t press too hard. Be gentle whilst breaking up the mint leaves. Why is this step important? Well, it will release the flavor and essence of the mint leaves, which, of course, adds to the cocktail. You should then finish off by adding several ice cubes to the glass.
  
  Now you have done all of the preparation. It is time to serve your Mojito. Getting the ratio of ingredients right is vital so that you have the right balance. We recommend mixing two ounces of rum with one and a half ounces of the mint-infused simple syrup you have created. You should then add one ounce of lime juice and a splash of club soda. Mix this all together and then pour it over the ice and mint leaves that you have already added to the glass. Now your cocktail is ready to serve!
  
  This is a cocktail that is incredibly refreshing with lots of delicate flavors. You can, of course, adjust the measurements to suit yourself. Perhaps you’d prefer your Mojito a bit stronger? If so, add a bit more rum until you are satisfied. Enjoy!
  
  Other suggestions for Mojito Day
  Of course, making your own Mojito is one of the best ways to observe this day, but we have plenty of other ideas as well…
  

  • Why not make mojito ice lollies? You can freeze the ingredients of a mojito to make refreshing cocktail lollies.
  • Bake some mojito inspired cakes and treats. If you do a bit of digging online, you will see that there are some fantastic mojito cake recipes. This includes mojito drizzle loaf cake and mojito cheesecakes. Wash these down with the classic cocktail and you’re going to be in mojito heaven!
  • Have a cocktail party with your friends. Mojito Day is the perfect excuse to get all of your friends around and enjoy a cocktail party!
  • Make your own version of a mojito. We have given you the classic recipe for a mojito, but why not spice things up with your own creation? There have been so many exciting and delicious variations of the Mojito, so you’re bound to have lots of fun experimenting with different ingredients and flavors.

  
  No matter how you decide to celebrate Mojito Day, make sure you drink responsibly! No getting in your car to tell your friends about your delicious creations!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  July 12th
  
  1933: Donald Edwin Westlake is born--Brooklyn, New York.
  (He dies 31 December 2008 at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.)

  

  DONALD WESTLAKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

  

  
  Autobiography

  
  Don (center) doing the interrogating.

  I think I’d best treat this as an interrogation, in which I am not certain of the intent or attitude of the interrogator.
  
  I was born Donald Edwin Westlake on July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother, Lillian, maiden name Bounds, mother’s maiden name Fitzgerald, was all Irish. My father, Albert, his mother’s maiden name being Tyrrell, was half Irish. (The English snuck in, as they will.) They were all green, and I was born on Orangeman’s Day, which led to my first awareness of comedy as a consumer. I got over the unfortunate element of my birth long before my uncles did.
  
  My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. One of her beliefs was that people whose initials spelled something would be successful in life. That’s why I went through grammar school as Dewdrip. However, my mother forgot Confirmation, when the obedient Catholic is burdened with yet another name. So she stuck Edmond in there, and told me that E was behind the E of Edwin, so I wasn’t DEEW, I was DEW. Perhaps it helped.
  
  I attended three colleges, all in New York State, none to much effect. Interposed amid this schooling was two and a half years in the United States Air Force, during which I also learned very little, except a few words in German. I was a sophomore in three colleges, finally made junior in Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, and left academe forever. However, I was eventually contacted by SUNY Binghamton, the big university that Harpur College had grown up to become. It was their theory that their ex-students who did not graduate were at times interesting, and worthy to be claimed as alumni. Among those she mentioned were cartoonist Art Spiegelman and dancer Bill T. Jones, a grandfaloon I was very happy to join, which I did when SUNY Binghamton gave me a doctorate in letters in June 1996. As a doctor, I accept no co-pay.
  
  I have one sister, one wife and two ex-wives. (You can’t have ex-sisters, but that’s all right, I’m pleased with the one I have.) The sister was named by my mother Virginia, but my mother had doped out the question of Confirmation by then–Virigina’s two and half years younger than me, still–and didn’t give here a middle name. Her Confirmation name was Olga, the only thing my mother could find that would make VOW. The usual mother-daughter dynamic being in play, my sister immediately went out and married a man whose name started with B.
  
  My wife, severally Abigail Westlake, Abby Adams Westlake and Abby Adams, which makes her three wives right there, is a writer, of non-fiction, frequently gardening, sometimes family history. Her two published books are An Uncommon Scold and The Gardener’s Gripe Book.
  
  Seven children lay parental claims on us. They have all reached drinking age, so they’re on their own.
  
  Having been born in Brooklyn, I was raised first in Yonkers and then in Albany, schooled in Platttsburgh and Troy and Binghamton, and at last found Manhattan. (At least I was looking in the right state.) Abby was born in Manhattan, which makes it easier. We retain a rope looped over a butt there, but for the last decade have spent most of our time on an ex-farm upstate. It is near nothing, which is the point. Our nearest neighbor on two sides is Coach Farm, producer of a fine goat cheese I’ve eaten as far away as San Francisco. They have 750 goats up there on their side of the hill. More importantly, they have put 770 acres abutting our land into the State Land Conservancy, so it cannot be built on. I recommend everybody have Miles and Lillian Cann and Coach Farm as their neighbors.
  
  [Below is an excerpt from Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Vol. 13]
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  New York City, 1959

  I knew I was a writer when I was eleven; it took the rest of the world about ten years to begin to agree. Up till then, my audience was mainly limited to my father, who was encouraging and helpful, and ultimately influential in an important way.
  
  Neophyte writers are always told, “write what you know,” but the fact is, kids don’t know anything. A beginning writer doesn’t write what he knows, he writes what he read in books or saw in movies. And that’s the way it was with me. I wrote gangster stories, I wrote stories about cowboys, I wrote poems about prospecting–in Alaska, so I could rhyme with “cold”–I wrote the first chapters of all kinds of novels. The short stories I mailed off to magazines, and they mailed them back in the self-addressed, stamped envelopes I had provided. And in the middle of it all, my father asked me a question which, probably more than any other single thing, decided what kind of writer I was going to be.
  
  I was about fourteen. I’d written a science-fiction about aliens from another planet who come to Earth and hire a husband-wife team of big-game hunters to help them collect examples of every animal on Earth for their zoo back on Alpha Centauri or wherever. At the end of the story, they kidnap the hero and heroine and take them away in the spaceship because they want examples of every animal on Earth.
  
  Now, this was a perfectly usable story. It has been written and published dozens of times, frequently with Noah’s Ark somewhere in the title, and my version was simply that story again, done with my sentences. I probably even thought I’d made it up.
  
  So I showed it to my father. He read it and said one or two nice things about the dialogue or whatever, and then he said, “why did you write this story?”
  
  I didn’t know what he meant. The true answer was that science-fiction magazines published that story with gonglike regularity and I wanted a story published somewhere. This truth was so implicit I didn’t even have words to describe it, and therefore there was no way to understand the question.
  
  So he asked it a different way: “What’s the story about?” Well, it’s about these people that get taken to be in a zoo on Alpha Centauri. “No, what’s it about?” he said. “The old fairy tales that you read when you were a little boy, they all had a moral at the end. If you put a moral at the end of this story, what would it be?”
  
  I didn’t know. I didn’t know what the moral was. I didn’t know what the story was about.
  
  The truth was, of course, that the story wasn’t about anything. It was a very modest little trick, like a connect-the-dots thing on a restaurant place mat. There’s nothing particularly wrong with connect-the-dots things, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with this constructivist kind of writing, a little story or a great big fat novel with nothing and nobody in it except this machine that turns over and at the end this jack-in-the-box pops out. There’s nothing wrong with that.
  
  But it isn’t what I thought I wanted to be. So that question of my father’s wriggled right down into my brain like a worm, and for quite a while it took the fun out of things. I’d be sitting there writing a story about mobsters having a shootout in a nightclub office–straight out of some recent movie–and the worm would whisper: Why are you writing this story?
  
  Naturally, I didn’t want to listen, but I had no real choice in the matter. The question kept coming, and I had to try to figure out some way to answer it, and so, slowly and gradually, I began to find out what I was doing. And ultimately I refined the question itself down to this: What does this story mean to me that I should spend my valuable time creating it?
  
  And that’s how I began to become a writer.

  
  Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
  Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

  

  Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

  Writer | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  

  FOREVER AND A DEATH

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

  Donald E. Westlake
  June 2017
  ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7

  
  Cover art by Paul Mann

  A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
  A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
  AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

  Read a sample chapter
  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt
  
  Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive.
  
  Now, nearly a decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

  First publication ever!
  A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
  Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed

  Acclaim for DONALD E. WESTLAKE...

  "One of the great writers of the 20th Century."
  — Newsweek

  "Westlake’s ability to construct an action story filled with unforeseen twists and quadruple-crosses is unparalleled."
  — San Francisco Chronicle

  "The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."
  — USA Today

  
  
  

  
  1961: Variety says the next likely Bond is Patrick Allen.

  
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  1961: Caroline Bliss is born--Hammersmith, London, England.
  1966: Tony Mockler writes in The Guardian: "How long will the spies last? ...Is the spy bubble about to burst?"
  1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 discovering Osato's connections to SPECTRE.
  
  1973: UK general release for Live and Let Die.

  
  

  1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports that the second unit for The Man With the Golden Gun relocated from planned Thailand locations, due to the collapse of the Thai government and political turmoil.
  1979: Moonraker released in The Netherlands.
  
  1981: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) dies at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.
  (Born 19 June 1913-–London, England.)

  
  Ann Fleming
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fleming

  
  Fleming in 1957

  Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
  Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
  Nationality British
  Known for Hostess

  Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.
  
  Life
  Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.
  
  She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.
  
  Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

  The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.
  
  In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

  The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.
  
  Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

  

  1985: Levande måltavla (Live Target; or Living Target) released in Sweden.

  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  
  2013: Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee dies at age 53--Seaford, East Sussex, England.
  (Born is born 4 May 1960--Harrow, London, England.)

  

  Paul Bhattacharjee obituary

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jul/18/paul-bhattacharjee

  Elegant and meticulous actor whose work ranged from
  Shakespeare to EastEnders

  
  Paul Bhattacharjee as Benedick with Meera Syal as Beatrice in the RSC's Much Ado About Nothing,
  directed by Iqbal Khan, at Stratford last year. Photograph: Nigel Norrington

  

  Paul Bhattacharjee (1960–2013)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080335/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2014: Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I, reported inspiration for Ian Fleming and Goldfinger, goes under the hammer.

  

  Aston Martin that inspired 'Goldfinger' goes up for auction

  https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-07-11-aston-martin-that-inspired-goldfinger-goes-up-for-auction/
  11 July 2014 - 12:08 By AFP Relaxnews

  
  This 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I Vantage inspired Ian Fleming
  as he was writing the James Bond novel Goldfinger.
  Image: AFP Relaxnews COYS

  This Saturday, July 12, the 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/5 Mk I that inspired Ian Fleming when writing his James Bond novel Goldfinger will be auctioned by Coys of Kensington at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England.

  The model going under the hammer belonged to a certain Lord Phillip Ingram Cunliffe-Lister, son of Lord Swinton, who once headed up the British Security Service (MI5) and was on close terms with Winston Churchill. The vehicle's owner, who was also Ian Fleming's boss, often visited Ian Fleming's next-door neighbors in Kent.
  
  Coys notes that the car is equipped with reinforced steel bumpers, secret hiding places, an anti-interference ignition system and a two-way radio -- exactly like the model described in Goldfinger. Long abandoned, the Aston Martin in question has now been thoroughly restored. Somewhat surprisingly, the official catalog does not list the estimated value of this unique vehicle.

  It is worth noting that the 1964 film adaptation of Goldfinger actually placed Sean Connery at the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5.

  The model is one of over 90 collector cars going under the hammer this Saturday, including several Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, Mercedes, Jaguars and even a 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Series I Ventoux. The latter model is expected to fetch between £275,000 and £320,000 ($470,600-$547,500).
  
  More information: www.coys.co.uk

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Skyfall re-release in the UK.
  2016: Sotheby's auctions an edited copy of You Only Live Twice.

  

  Ian Fleming’s Last Notes on ‘You
  Only Live Twice’ Before His Death

  http://www.realclearlife.com/auctions/ian-flemings-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-last-notes/
  Edited version of penultimate novel up for auction with Sotheby's on July 12

  
  Author Ian Fleming, circa 1960 (Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

  For James Bond fans, You Only Live Twice might be one of the best book-and-movie combinations in the series—and a piece of its history is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s London on July 12. The last novel Fleming published before his death, You Only Live Twice finds Bond a broken man after the death of his wife, Tracy. The spy ends up venturing to Japan for a final showdown with his arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Ironically, the book ends with an obituary of Bond written by his boss, M. With Fleming’s passing just months after the book’s publication, You Only Live Twice is a fitting tribute to the Bond creator.
  
  Sotheby’s is offering a complete, corrected typescript of the book—with proof markings in purple from Fleming’s copyeditor and blue pen from the author himself. Fleming’s typist produced just eight copies of the script for his publisher. Pre-auction estimates put it at $30,000–$40,000.
  
  For more on the Fleming typescript, click here.
  http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html
  
  Take a look at the first edited page of Bond’s obituary below.
  
  https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html

  Fleming, Ian
  'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE', CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT,
  with extensive corrections and proof markings by a copy-editor in purple ball-point, the corrected text then checked by the author in blue ball-point WITH SUBSTANTIVE AUTOGRAPH REVISIONS TO APPROXIMATELY 65 PAGES, mostly single words or short phrases but including one eight-line textual addition (p.228), further textual revisions added in a second editorial hand (presumably representing additional authorial revisions made in another typescript) in red ball-point, and also with occasional editorial queries in green ink (pp.26, 192, 197), the first four pages (contents, dedication, divisional title, and first page of text) supplied in contemporary photocopy from another copy of the typescript, the remainder being carbon copy typescript, 255 pages, post quarto (260 x 206mm), March-May 1963, punch holes, held together by a prong fastener in a blue folder labelled "You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming", lacking title page, some abrasion at punch holes, light marks, tears to folder

  
  Literature
  Gilbert A12a (pp.386-87)
  Catalogue Note
  WORKING TYPESCRIPT OF FLEMING'S TWELFTH BOND NOVEL, THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE 'BLOFELD TRILOGY'. It was also the first novel to be conceived and written after the beginning of the film franchise. Fleming had become fascinated with Japan on a 1959 visit. In 1962 he returned to the country, having decided that it would be the setting of his next Bond book (his research notes from the tip were sold at auction in 2002), and he began writing the novel shortly thereafter. By April 1963 the manuscript was completed and ready to be typed. His typist, Jean Frampton (who had typed all Fleming's manuscripts from For Your Eyes Only of 1959) produced eight copies for distribution to the editorial staff at Cape. The novel was printed in December 1963.

  
  

  
  2018: The National Forest Adventure Farm's James Bond theme presents a 10-acre maze with three miles of paths at Tatenhill, Staffordshire, England.

  

  Stunning video footage from the skies of the James Bond-
  themed maize maze near Burton

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/maze-james-bond-escape-rooms-1777059

  Visitors will face a series of challenges as they taken on the 10-acre maze which has three miles of paths
  By Ben Waldron | Trainee Reporter 13 JUL 2018

  [video]
  James Bond themed maize maze in Tatenhill seen from the skies

  These are the incredible views from high in the skies above Tatenhill, near Burton, which show the striking maize maze attraction from the air.
  
  The 10-acre maze has three miles of paths and is created each year on farmland at the National Forest Adventure Farm. The attraction always has a theme and this year it is fictional super spy James Bond meets the new craze of escape rooms.
  
  Visitors will have to find their way around the maze, which has been created by cutting the shape into a huge fields of maize and each year the maze attracts thousands of visitors.
  
  Escape rooms are hugely popular attractions up and down the country, where people have to solve a series of puzzles and challenges to find their way out of rooms.

  
  The maze from the sky (Image: Rod Kirkpatrick/ F Stop Press)

  The Burton Mail got the chance to get a bird's eye view of the creation with a trip over the site in a helicopter. From the air, as you can see from our video and pictures, the maze is very striking.
  
  For the first time this year the maze will have a twist to it - by incorporating puzzles and challenges that visitors have to complete before progressing through the creation - just like in an escape rooms.
  
  This year's maze is called "Agent Academy: Escape Maze", and the challenges visitors will face have been themed around the world's most famous super spy James Bond, with a giant image of the fictional 007 event carved into the centre of the maze.

  The James Bond-themed maize maze in pictures
  'James Bond' Daniel Craig look-alike with Ivor Robinson
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  Tasks involving Morse code is included in the maze (Image: Rod Kirkpatrick/ F Stop Press)

  

  The maize should grow to at least 8ft by the end of the summer, say the land-owners behind the maze.
  
  Visitors entering the maze will have to 'crack safe locks' and communicate through Morse Code to make their way through, taking on 10 interactive puzzles along the three miles of pathways which make up the maze at the Postern Road visitor attraction is open throughout the year with a petting farm and plenty of family fun.
  
  Ivor Robinson, is one of two brothers who owns the farmland which the maze is on. The brothers came up with the concept for the maze.

  Can you crack the code to the James Bond Maize Maze?
  https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/james-bond-maize-maze-1711322

  Ivor even travelled to America, alongside brother Tom, to research the idea of merging together the two concepts for the maze.

  He said: "The escape room concept within a maize maze has never been done before. Each year when we look at a theme for the maze we always want to make something that is a bit different and goes beyond just a normal maize maze.

  "It's been 65 years since the first James Bond novel - Casino Royale by Ian Fleming - was published in 1953.
  
  "It seemed fitting to find Bond a new agent so he could finally retire after 65 years. The Agent Academy is a great family fun activity that will need teamwork as you put your skills to the test with physical and mental challenges."
  
  Adventure farm event manager, Rosie Redvers-Jones was responsible for putting together the 10 physical and mental tests that visitors will take during the maze.
  
  Each puzzle will reward the challenger with a code, which must all be put together to escape the maze and "graduate" from the agent academy.
  
  Anybody who finishes the maze will also be in with the chance of winning an indoor family sky-dive experience.
  
  For the younger ones, a "mini maze" has been set up for children to collect stamps to 'free' farm animals that have been "kidnapped" by bad guy, Dr Von Steal.
  
  The maze officially opens tomorrow, Saturday, July 14 and will be open every day up to Monday, September 3. For more information visit www.adventurefarm.co.uk.

  What is the Maize Maze? http://www.adventurefarm.co.uk/
  The National Forest Adventure Farm started life as the National Forest Maize Maze back in 2004.
  
  Each year it has grown and grown until the adventure farm opened as an all-year-round attraction in May 2011.
  
  The maize maze has three-miles of paths, bridges and viewing towers through the 10-acre field. By the end of the summer the maize will have grown to a towering 2.4 metres (8ft).
  
  The Adventure Farm itself offers indoor fun, outdoor adventure and farm animals.
  
  It also hosts many events throughout the year including Easter activities, a huge summer Maize Maze, spooky Halloween daytime fun, scary night time Halloween Screamfest and Christmas celebrations.

  Who is James Bond?
  The character of James Bond has became a superhero to many young boys, and a first crush for many girls, having being played by various actors over the years including Sean Connery, Roger Moore and more recently Daniel Craig.
  
  The films are based on a fictional British Secret Service agent who was created by Ian Fleming in 1953.
  
  Bond has featured in 12 novels and two short-story collections. The Bond girls also have their place in history, with famous names such as Miss Moneypenny and Pussy Galore becoming big in their own right.
  
  The 007 films are the longest continually running film series of all time and have grossed more than $7,040 billion in total, making it the fourth highest grossing film series to date.
  
  Some of the famous films include Dr No, Moonraker, Spectre, Casino Royale, Dr No, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Goldfinger.

  2019: No Time To Die films OO7 and M near London’s Hammersmith Bridge.

  

  'No Time To Die': Bond and M have a clandestine encounter
  in new photo

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/no-time-to-die-james-bond-daniel-craig-ralph-fiennes-090922592.html

  Tom Butler·Senior Editor | July 13, 2020

  
  Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Craig as M and James Bond in No Time To Die. (@007/Instagram)

  A new photo from No Time To Die, the next James Bond film, has been shared online.
  
  It shows Ralph Fiennes as M and Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 having a conversation in front of London’s Hammersmith Bridge.
  
  According to the caption on the photo, which was shared on the official 007 Instagram account, the scene was filmed one year ago, on 12 July, 2019. The new picture comes amid rumours the film may face another delay after already being pushed back from April to November due to coronavirus.
  
  M is wearing an overcoat and clutching a newspaper in the new snap, while Bond wears a smart tailored suit, giving the impression of an unplanned or clandestine encounter.

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  The 25th James Bond film will find 007 retired from active service, but brought back into action by Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) who seeks his help in tracking down a missing scientist.
  
  Daniel Craig, who will play Bond for the fifth and final time in No Time To Die, seems to be wearing the same clothes he wears in the publicity photo of him in front of Timothy Dalton’s classic Aston Martin V8 (below).

  
  Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in a promotional still for No Time To Die. (Eon/Universal)

  No Time To Die marks Fiennes’ third appearance as Bond’s boss M – real name Gareth Mallory – after joining the long-running spy series in 2012’s Skyfall.
  
  The film, from Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM), and Universal Pictures International is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig. Written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade (Spectre, Skyfall), Cary Joji Fukunaga, Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Killing Eve, Fleabag).

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  No Time To Die also stars Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah with Jeffrey Wright and Ralph Fiennes and comes to cinemas on 12 November.
  

  
  2023: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 - For King and County #4.

  

  007: FOR KING AND COUNTRY
  #4

  SKU: C72513032953004011
  Cover A: Joseph Michael Linsner
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  Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
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  Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
  Publication Date: July, 2023
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  The former 007 and 002 are tired of running from Myrmidon - time to take the fight back to their home turf in England's green and pleasant land.

  
  Cover A: Joseph Michael Linsner
  
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  Cover C: Chuma Hill
  
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  July 13th
  
  1945: Society hostess 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

  Friday 13 July, 1945
  
  I. came to dinner. He is likely to be offered a new job he thinks he won’t be able to refuse. Goodbye then to Jamaica and the dreams that have sustained him during the hard work of these last years.

  

  
  1965: Sean Connery and Claudine Auger appear on the cover of Look Magazine.

  

  
  1977: During the blackout in New York City, Marvin Hamlisch seeks a cab. And candles.

  

  The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.

  Hamlisch: "...running on the streets of New York with everybody, trying, number one, to get a cab, and number two, more important, getting votive candles from a store so that we can set Carly up on her home with candles because New York is pitch black. I'll never forget it. Everything about Bond is over the top."

  
  Anatomy of a Song

  The Secret Agent in Carly Simon’s ‘Nobody Does It Better’
  The singer, the lyricist Carole Bayer Sager and others look back
  on the Bond theme for ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’—and the duality of James

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-agent-in-carly-simons-nobody-does-it-better-11589031471

  
  Carly Simon sang the 1977 hit theme for ‘The Spy Who Loved Me.’ Michael Putland/Getty Images
  By Marc Myers | May 9, 2020 9:37 am ET
  
  In the fall of 1977, Carly Simon’s sultry rendition of “Nobody Does It Better” rose to No. 2 on Billboard’s pop chart, casting James Bond in a new light.
  
  Written by Carole Bayer Sager (words) and Marvin Hamlisch (music) for “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the Bond theme was the first to be titled differently from the movie.
  
  As 007 fans await “No Time to Die”—delayed until November but already teased with a theme by Billie Eilish—Ms. Bayer Sager, Ms. Simon, pianist Michael Omartian and arranger Richard Hewson revisited their hit. Last year, Ms. Bayer Sager received the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Johnny Mercer Award; Ms. Simon’s most recent book is Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie. Edited from interviews:

  
  ‘The song had a stronger feel coming from the female perspective,’ says lyricist Carole Bayer Sager,
  here in 1977. Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images

  
  Carole Bayer Sager:

  In mid-1976, Marvin Hamlisch and I were at his New York apartment working on a song. It wasn’t going too well.
  
  At the end of our writing session, Marvin said, “I’m going to London to work on the next James Bond film—“The Spy Who Loved Me.” When I get back, let’s try again to write something.”
  
  The Bond title didn’t sound great for a song. I said, “Oh wow, James Bond, yeah. If I was going to write a Bond theme, I think I’d call it, ‘Nobody Does It Better.’ ” The title just popped into my head.
  
  “I like that,” Marvin said, turning back to the keyboard. Within 10 minutes, he had a chorus melody written. I sat for another 10 minutes and came up with the lyrics:

  “Nobody does it better /
  Makes me feel sad for the rest /
  Nobody does it half as good as you /
  Baby, you’re the best.”

  Marvin wrote the music for two verses, but there wasn’t time to add lyrics. Marvin said he’d put the music on a cassette tape and leave it with me.
  
  “My biggest job will be to convince [Bond producer] Cubby Broccoli to take a chance on you,” he said.
  
  I wasn’t insulted. I knew they liked to stick to name brands. But I was hopeful. A few days later, Marvin called from London. I was given the go-ahead.
  
  
  
  While Marvin was there scoring the film, I began working on lyrics for the verses and remaining choruses in New York. Days later I relocated to Los Angeles. By then, many of the people I wrote with had moved West. Also, my marriage to Andrew [Sager] wasn’t working out. Space was a good thing.
  
  I rented a house in West Hollywood. Over the next few weeks, I finished the lyrics and sent them to Marvin in London.
  
  I used the movie title just once—in the first verse—just to get it out of the way:

  “But like heaven above me /
  The spy who loved me /
  Is keepin’ all my secrets safe tonight.”

  The song had a stronger feel coming from the female perspective. Instead of just being loved by a spy, she had an opinion about the quality of his performance and passion.
  
  I didn’t set out to make a statement. It was just me, as a woman, thinking about Bond. He was such a cool, sexy hero.
  
  I also wanted his sensuality and the captivating power of his sexuality to be mystifying, leaving the woman baffled about how she wound up in love.
  
  I did this by having the singer pose two questions to Bond in the lyrics:

  “And nobody does it better /
  Though sometimes I wish someone could /
  Nobody does it quite the way you do /
  Why’d you have to be so good?
  
  “The way that you hold me /
  Whenever you hold me /
  There’s some kind of magic inside you /
  That keeps me from runnin’ /
  But just keep it comin’ /
  How’d you learn to do the things you do?”

  Those questions reveal that she didn’t want to fall for him but did. The questions also introduce female vulnerability and sensuality, as if spoken in bed after.
  
  Carly Simon was my first choice to sing the theme. Marvin agreed. Carly was sexy in her demeanor and bedroom voice. She promoted that image on the covers of her albums.
  
  Her voice had a lot of texture. It’s smooth and strong, and yet it has a great pop sensibility—not too serious and yet intensely sensitive and revealing.
  
  I told Marvin that if Carly came aboard, he should encourage her to ad lib the line, “James, you’re the best.” I wanted the duality of James Bond and James Taylor, her husband at the time.
  
  Marvin flew back to New York to play Carly our song.

  
  
  Carly Simon:

  In late 1976, my manager, Arlyne Rothberg, told me I was being considered for the next Bond theme.
  
  I was excited. Ever since “Goldfinger” in ’64, I wanted to sing one. The theme always opened the film.
  
  I was pregnant with Ben at the time, and James Taylor and I were living on Central Park West.
  
  Arlyne told me who the songwriters were, but I didn’t personally know Carole or Marvin then.
  
  She said Marvin wanted to stop up the next day to play it for me. I said, “Sure.” But I goofed. I forgot that a new tax attorney was coming by with papers. I hadn’t met him yet.
  
  The next day, when the doorbell rang, it was the tax guy with heavy glasses in a black suit and tie. I went into the kitchen to make us tea.
  
  As the water boiled, I wondered why the tax guy was playing my piano. When I came out with the tea, the pianist turned out to be Marvin. I didn’t realize he looked like an accountant.
  
  Marvin sang and played “Nobody Does it Better.” Then I sang it back. I don’t read music, but I when I listen, the music sticks.
  
  Before Marvin left, I told him how great the song was and that I’d love to record it. Then Ben was born in January, so I needed a little time before recording.
  
  In April ’77, I had to be in L.A. While there, producer Richard Perry recorded my vocal for “Nobody Does It Better” with session musicians, including pianist Michael Omartian.

  
  Marvin Hamlisch, here in 1977, wrote the music for ‘Nobody Does It Better.’
  Photo: Keith Bernstein/Redferns/Getty Images

  
  Michael Omartian:

  Marvin was in the studio, too. He came up with the piano intro. I was on the Fender Rhodes electric piano.
  
  But Marvin’s sense of time was off slightly. After many takes, Richard called Marvin into the control booth. He suggested Marvin let me take a shot at the piano. Marvin agreed. He wrote out the intro on a sheet of paper. Then I sat down at the piano, and we nailed it in a take or two. Later, I overdubbed my Fender Rhodes part.
  
  We also created a lengthy ending so the orchestrator would have plenty of room to arrange strings around Carly’s vocal.
  
  During the recording of the outro, Carly ad-libbed and layered her vocal several times: “Bay-bee…you’re…the best, sweet baby, dar-ling… you’re…the best.” That’s where she worked in “James.”

  Ms. Simon:

  As I recorded my vocal, I imagined how the movie would start. Bond films always had plenty of action before the theme song came on.
  
  I also felt Carole’s female perspective in the lyrics. They fit me perfectly. Adding “James, you’re the best” was the perfect homage.
  
  Richard Hewson: By 1977, I had already worked with producer Richard Perry on a number of albums by American artists. I also had orchestrated the Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road” and “I Me Mine.”
  
  After I finished my arrangement, Marvin and I disagreed over the ending. I had added horns to the strings. It was a Bond theme and needed a brassy flourish.
  
  Marvin favored holding a single note until it faded. To his credit, Richard backed me up, and Marvin eventually agreed. I conducted the orchestra at Abbey Road’s Studio Two.

  
  Carly Simon and then-husband James Taylor in New York in 1977.
  Photo: Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images

  Ms. Simon:

  Marvin screened the film for us in New York on the evening of July 13—two weeks before the movie opened on July 27.
  
  Only a handful of us were there—Marvin and Carole, James and me, and our friends, drummer Russ Kunkel and his wife Leah, Cass Elliot’s sister, and their son, Nathaniel.
  
  The film began with Bond, played by Roger Moore, skiing down the Alps chased by bad guys with guns. To escape, Bond skied straight off a cliff.
  
  His Union Jack parachute opened and he descended. When the silhouette of a women’s hands came up to cradle him, my theme began. I was breathless.
  
  About five minutes after the end of my theme, the film and score began to slow and then stopped completely. We were in the dark.
  
  A woman with a flashlight arrived and told us there had been a citywide blackout. She led us out.
  
  Since we were on the West Side, we all headed up to my apartment. We lit candles, and I opened the windows.
  
  Everyone stayed overnight. Marvin played the piano and we all sang. I kept getting ice from the deli downstairs. I sang “Nobody Does It Better” any number of ways. James sang, too. He loved the song.
  
  It was wonderful and the only night like it in my life. There we were around the piano during the 1977 blackout. It was a thrill. My blackout just happened to include James Taylor and James Bond.

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me in limited US release.

  
  
  

  1977: In The Washington Post, Gary Arnold reviews The Spy Who Loved Me as "Bond Meets Barbie."

  

  Bond Meets Barbie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/07/13/bond-meets-barbie/24326f56-7119-4ad5-9089-54dd501db4a0/

  By Gary Arnold | July 13, 1977
  
  "The Spy Who Loved Me," opening today at area theaters, gets off to a promising start but proves seriously deficient in staying power. Several diverting gambits put one in a receptive mood at the outlet: a KGB music box tinkles the theme from "Dr. Zhivago"; a stuntman doubling for Roger Moore as James Bond culminates a chase sequence filmed on Baffin Island with a stupendous, heart-stopping ski jump off a precipice and potentially into eternity; Maurice Binder contributes yet another splendidly suggestive credit sequence, topping even himself with silhouettes of women gymnasts swinging and vaulting from the barrel of Bond's Walther automatic.
  
  It appears that the series may have recuperated promptly from the doldrums of the last Bond adventure, "The Man With the Golden Gun." Instead, Binder's credits turn out to be the high point of the show.
  
  There's a splashy climactic battle sequence, staged across the majestic length and breadth of one of Ken Adam's cavernous sets, representing the interior of a supertanker concealing British, Soviet and American nuclear submarines hijacked by the villain, and it would probably match up with the equivalent showdowns in "You Only Live Twice" or "Thunderball" if contemplated in the abstract. Unfortunately, the interventing explosition has grown so stale and tedious that one can't take as much gratuitous pleasure in the spectacle of choreographed mayhem. In contrast to "Star Wars," for example, there's no suspense to be resolved in the climactic action of "The Spy Who Loved Me." One is simply grateful to see a ponderous vehicle nearing a conclusion.
  
  While it never sags as alarmingly as its immediate predecessor, "Spy," the 10th film in the series, is at best a tolerable disappointment. The Bond movies have been so successful that it may be commercially impossible to terminate the series. However, it's been quite a while since a Bond adventure appeared to set fashions in escapist, glamorous entertainment. Once widely imitated and parodied by other producers, Bond films are now more likely to imitate themselves with decreasing effectiveness.
  
  To cite one of the most glaring misjudgments, who cast Barbara Bach as the leading lady, a Russian spy whose hatred for Bond is supposed to evaporate as they work and play together really does look indistinguishable from a Barbie doll. Pairing Bond with such a figure at this stage of the series can only make the hero and the filmmakers look ridiculous.
  
  It might be hilariously appropriate to cast a model-starlet as waxen as Barbara Bach if one were planning the final put-down of Bond and wanted to make the point that a life-size Barbie doll was the logical extension of his desires. Coming from people presumably trying to sustain a popular formula, such a casting choice must be considered foolish or unconsciously revealing. Could it be producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli or director Lewis Gilbert who has visions of Barbie dolls dancing around in his head?
  
  The damage wouldn't be quite as acute if the script hadn't been contrived to emphasize an ongoing romantic relationship between Bond and his Soviet colleague, assigned to neutralize a power-mad villain impersonated without much gusto by Curt Jurgens. The movie requires some rapport between the leads to keep from floundering. As cartoon hero figures go. Roger Moore himself is rather too stylized and overrefined. Expecting sparks to fly between him and a plastic leading lady is asking for the impossible.
  
  To his credit, Moore urged the producer to cast an actress in the role - Charlotte Rampling. According to Mrs. Moore, who accompanied her husband on a promotional swing through Washington yesterday, Broccoli disqualified Rampling on the grounds of insufficient bosom. As if there weren't enough over-endowed supernumerary starlets stationed on the perimeters of the movie already.
  
  The big hulking menace, nicknamed "Jaws" and played by Richard Kiel, is deployed as ineffectively as the heroine. Perhaps Broccoli & Co. should refer to "Goldfinger" and notice how the character of Oddjob was kept just out of range until his climactic showdown with Bond. "Jaws" who could probably kill with his bare hands but with his steel-plated bridgework, keeps reappearing for one indecisive encounter after another with Bond. At the end he's even spared in order to return in the next installment, if needed. What the Bond series desperately needs is a firmer grip and fresher outlook at the upper echelon.

  
  1985: Title song "A View to a Kill" released by EMI-Capitol tops the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1.

  
  
  
  

  1989: Permis de tuer released in Belgium.

  
  
  
  

  
  2010: Alan Hume dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.
  (Born 16 October 1924--London, England.)

  

  Alan Hume obituary
  Cinematographer known for his work on the Carry On films

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/17/alan-hume-obituary
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 17 Aug 2010 13.14 EDT

  
  Alan Hume started as a camera operator on Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
  Photograph: Bondstars.com

  Despite, or because of, the ancient, dirty jokes, schoolboy humour, double entendres, and a string of hammy actors tele-graphing each jest with pursed lips, rolling eyes or a snigger, the Carry On films have an army of devotees. Among the most regular actors were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor, and behind the camera, on almost all of the 30 Carry On movies, was the cinematographer Alan Hume, who has died aged 85.
  
  Hume started as camera operator on the very first, Carry On Sergeant (1958), soon becoming director of photography (DP) on Carry On Regardless (1961), and continuing as DP until Carry On Columbus (1992) ended the franchise. Though few would make any artistic claims for the films, they were competently shot, rapidly, on a shoestring. Because of the rapport Hume built up over a long period with the producer Peter Rogers and the director Gerald Thomas – he worked with them for years without a contract – he knew exactly what was required.

  In the foreword to Hume's autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: Memoirs of a Film Cameraman (2004), Rogers explained: "I have known Alan Hume almost as long as I know myself. I've known him as a giggling camera operator and as one of the film industry's foremost lighting cameramen. I say giggling operator because when we were working on the early Carry On films, he giggled so much … that he had to leave the stage to recover. I've also known him as a non-giggling operator as, for instance, when he was shooting a scene … hanging out of a doorless helicopter and holding a handheld camera."
  
  The latter referred to Hume's second-unit filming of the spectacular pre-credit sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), in which James Bond (the stuntman Rick Sylvester standing in for Roger Moore), chased by baddies on skis, leaps off a cliff and opens up a Union Jack parachute. It was shot high on a mountain on Baffin Island, north Canada, after weeks of waiting for the weather to clear, so it had to be done in one take. "After so many weeks of preparing and anticipating this jump, I suddenly felt the blood rush from my face," Hume wrote. "This was it, and it was a far cry from my working diet of comedy and modest-budget dramas back in London."
  
  Hume went on to be the daring cinematographer on three more Bonds, all starring Moore and directed by John Glen: For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), each offering the well-tried formula of gals, guns, villains and glossy locations.

  Hume, who was born in London, started in films as a clapper boy at Denham Studios, his first job being on Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942). A few films later, he was promoted to first assistant camera operator before being called up to serve in the Royal Navy during the second world war. "I was in the photographic unit. I learned more about photography in the navy than anywhere else." Hume returned to Denham, then Pinewood, where he was assistant to the cinematographer Guy Green on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). From 1953 to 1960, he was chief camera operator on dozens of British films, then DP mostly on the Carry Ons, with a couple of grisly horror films – Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and From Beyond the Grave (1973) – thrown in.
  
  In 1983, Hume was given the job of DP on the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, although he fell out with the producers when he protested about what he felt was their mistreatment of the director Richard Marquand and was replaced by his assistant Alec Mills. It was one of his very few Hollywood movies.
  
  Among Hume's best work was Andrei Konchalovsky's Runaway Train (1985), shot in freezing conditions in Canada and Iceland, on a real train. Also to be commended was his camerawork for two veteran directors of British cinema, Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, 1989; Stepping Out, 1991), and Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda, 1988).
  
  Hume was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1964, serving as president for three years. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and three children. His eldest son, Lindsey, a film editor, died in 1967. His other sons, Martin and Simon, and a grandson, Lewis, are camera operators, while his daughter Pauline is a titles designer.
  
  • George Alan Hume, cinematographer, born 16 October 1924; died 13 July 2010

  

  Alan Hume (I) (1924–2010)

  Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department | Director
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  2012: Chris Cornell performs "You Know My Name" the first day of Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park, London.

  2007 performance: Personal Festival Live, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  

  2018: 007 ELEMENTS opens in in Sölden, Austria.

  AUSTRIA JAMES BOND

  James Bond museum opens up on Alpine peak in Austria

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.efe.com/efe/english/entertainment/james-bond-museum-opens-up-on-alpine-peak-in-austria/50000264-3689264

  efe-epaSölden, Austria13 Jul 2018

  A strikingly modern mountaintop museum dedicated to the James Bond movies has opened with a license to thrill on an Alpine peak in Austria, offering visitors a chance to immerse themselves fully in the world of the famous English spy, an epa-efe photojournalist reported Friday.
  
  At over 3,000 meters (9,850 feet) above sea level and positioned inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Sölden, the museum's location was significant because it featured in the 2015 movie "Spectre," in which Daniel Craig played the role of Commander Bond.
  
  "The aim of 007 ELEMENTS is to tell the story of the making of 007 films through an ultra-modern, emotive and engaging experience while using the incredible location to place guests in Bond’s environment and bring the stories to life in a unique and unforgettable way," the town's tourism site said of the new attraction.
  
  While the museum, which calls itself "a cinematic installation," focuses heavily on "Spectre," there are echoes of other movies telling action-filled tales of the fearless secret agent whose license to kill was numbered double-oh-seven: 007.
  
  Visitors would be able to see vehicles that were used in Bond movies, including a 4x4 and a futuristic-looking aircraft, as well as interactive galleries, according to the epa-efe source.
  

  
  

  

  NAOMIE HARRIS OPENS 007 ELEMENTS
  
  13 July 2018

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  007 ELEMENTS, an exciting new James Bond experience built
  inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl mountain in Sölden, Austria,
  is now open to the public.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://media.jaguar.com/news/2018/07/naomie-harris-opens-007-elements

  • Spectre and Skyfall actress opens new 007 cinematic installation in the Alps
  • 007 ELEMENTS cinematic installation focuses on Spectre and celebrates the legacy of the James Bond films
  • Jaguar Land Rover is official partner of the experience with star cars from Spectre on display
  • Located over 3,000m above sea level, it is the highest visitor experience of its kind

  
  The cinematic installation was opened by actress Naomie Harris who plays Moneypenny (Spectre, Skyfall) and Jakob Falkner Managing Director of Bergbahnen Sölden.
  
  Visitors can learn how the thrilling action sequences in Spectre were filmed in Sölden and see interactive displays with Jaguar Land Rover technology. The iconic Land Rover Defender driven by villain Hinx’s henchmen is situated on the cliff edge and the Range Rover Sport SVR driven by Hinx (Dave Bautista) is also on display.
  
  The latest Jaguar Land Rover technology is on show with features from the all-new electric Jaguar I-PACE performance SUV and artificial intelligence systems.
  
  Jaguars and Land Rovers have appeared in nine Bond films since 1983, when Roger Moore’s Bond escaped in a Range Rover Classic convertible driven by Bianca (Tina Hudson).

  We are very excited to reach the 35th anniversary of the collaboration between
  Jaguar Land Rover and the Bond franchise.
  
  007 ELEMENTS showcases the long-standing unique partnership which is still
  demonstrated today, with more than 70 Jaguar Land Rover vehicles used in the most
  recent film, Spectre.
  
  Laura Wood
  Head of Brand and Partnerships at Jaguar Land Rover

  
  
  

  At more than 3,000m above sea level, 007 ELEMENTS is the highest experience of its kind taking visitors on a journey through nine galleries and a plaza with stunning Alpine views. The dramatic spaces complete with an immersive soundscape showcase the fundamental elements that define the James Bond films – placing visitors inside the world of 007 and revealing how that world is made.

  We are truly proud to be in partnership with Jakob Falkner and launching our latest
  experience, 007 ELEMENTS, on the very mountaintop in Sölden where we filmed
  Spectre. Architect Johann Obermoser, our Art Director Neal Callow and Tino
  Schaedler have created a Bondian lair worthy of a Ken Adam set in which visitors
  immediately become enveloped in the cinematic world of 007.
  
  Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
  EON Productions

  007 ELEMENTS is accessed via the Gaislachkoglbahn Gondola in the resort village of Sölden. Open daily from 09:00 to 15:30, tickets are available online or from the Bergbahnen Sölden ticket offices and cost €22 for adults, €12 for children. For further information or to book tickets, please visit: 007elements.com

  
  
  
  
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  1918: Fred Haggerty is born--Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
  (He dies 2002 at age 83.)

  
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  1939: Sid Haig is born--Fresno, California.
  (He dies 21 September 2019 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Sid Haig, Horror Actor
  and Cult Figure, Dies at 80

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/movies/sid-haig-dead-captain-spaulding.html

  Mr. Haig was a character actor with roles in more than 70
  movies, including the murderous clown Captain Spaulding in
  Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.”

  
  Sid Haig with the actors Devanny Pinn, left, and Alexis Iacono in 2013.
  Credit Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

  By Laura M. Holson
  Sept. 23, 2019
  
  Sid Haig, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.
  
  His wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced his death on the actor’s Instagram account on Monday, writing, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us.” No other details were given.

  Mr. Haig, who lived in Los Angeles, played bit parts in more than 350 television shows and 70 movies, notably “Jackie Brown” and the James Bond thriller “Diamonds Are Forever.” He had become a cult figure among horror fans, who reveled in his portrayal of the murderous clown who terrorized people in the 2003 Rob Zombie film “House of 1000 Corpses.” He would go on to play Captain Spaulding in two other films from the director.

  Rob Zombie, a musician turned filmmaker, wrote on his Instagram account Monday of Mr. Haig’s death, “Horray for Captain Spaulding. Gone but not forgotten.” Fans, too, expressed their grief on Twitter. Mr. Haig was the recipient of numerous awards for his acting in horror movies. In August, he was awarded the Vincent Price Award for excellence in the horror genre.
  
  “I had the greatest night of my career,” he wrote on Instagram then.

  https://twitter.com/TheRealElvira/status/1176202367668088837

  Mr. Haig was a hulk of a figure whose lanky, long body towered over fellow actors. He was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939, in Fresno, Calif., according to his official website. His parents were Armenian, and his father was an electrician. He took dancing lessons and acted in high school. And he loved music. In 1958, according to the website, he played drums on the song “Full House” by the T-Birds.
  
  Soon after, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater with a school for theater arts that trained actors including Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In his early roles in film and on television, Mr. Haig played thugs and heavies mostly. In the 1968 cult classic “Spider Baby” he played a brother who cooks a cat; he was in the 1974 blaxploitation film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier; and he had a small role in “Diamonds Are Forever” in 1971.
  
  Moviemakers delighted in his characters. Quentin Tarantino cast Mr. Haig in the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown,” a homage to the actor’s appearance in “Foxy Brown.” (Ms. Grier, too, starred in “Jackie Brown.”)

  
  From left: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood, Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding and
  Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby in “Devil’s Rejects,” directed by Rob Zombie.
  Credit Gene Page/Lions Gate Films

  But it was as Captain Spaulding, the psychotic clown featured in “House of 1000 Corpses,” that Mr. Haig became a cult figure among horror fans. Mr. Haig said in a 2015 interview with CryticRock.com: “When I first read the script, I knew that it had the potential to do something. I did not know that it was going to be as well accepted as it was. But I did know that it had something going for it.”
  
  In “House of 1000 Corpses,” Captain Spaulding runs the Museum of Monsters and Madmen housed in a run-down gas station on a barren stretch of Texas. There, the clown shoots a man after being attacked. Mr. Haig reprised the role two years later in “The Devil’s Rejects.” He also acted in a number of other horror films directed by Rob Zombie, including the 2007 remake of “Halloween.”
  
  He was back as Captain Spaulding in “3 From Hell,” a sequel to “The Devil’s Rejects,” which was released this month. “He was very cool,” Mr. Haig said of working with Rob Zombie in his interview with CrypticRock.com. “He was really laid back. He would just tell you what he was looking for and then leave you alone and let you do your job. Which is what most directors should do.”
  
  Cassandra Peterson, known by her stage name, Elvira, said she met Mr. Haig at Rob Zombie’s wedding in 2002. But it was on the road at horror fan conventions where they forged a friendship. “He played this horrible character in Rob’s movies, and it took fans by surprise when he was sweet and took time with them,” she said. “He may not have been a big star. But in our world, he was an icon.”
  
  Indeed Mr. Haig was a fan favorite. He made regular appearances at festivals to sign autographs or appear as Captain Spaulding, who became a recognizable villain among mainstream audiences. In June, he attended the Mad Monster Party in Phoenix where he signed autographs for fans. Earlier that month he was in Las Vegas for the Days of the Dead horror convention.
  
  Fans often dressed up like Captain Spaulding at conventions or had tattoos inked in homage to his famous character. The adulation surprised Mr. Haig. He said on Instagram in February, “The level of commitment to put my mug into your skin for life just blows me away.”

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  Laura M. Holson is an award-winning feature writer from New York. She joined The Times in 1998 and has written about Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. A movie producer once held a butter knife to her neck. @lauramholson

  
  Sid Haig (I) (1939–2019)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (149 credits)
  2020 Junction Murders (pre-production) - Bobby
  2019 Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors (pre-production) - Zeek
  Abruptio (filming) - Sal
  2020 Hanukkah (completed) - Judah Lazarus
  2019 3 from Hell - Captain Spaulding
  2019 High on the Hog - Big Daddy
  2018 Cynthia - Detective Edwards
  2018 Tigtone (TV Series) - Lord Festus
  - Tigtone and the Pilot (2018) ... Lord Festus (voice)
  2018 Suicide for Beginners - Barry
  2017/II Razor - Bartender Sam
  2017 Death House - Icicle Killer
  2016 Don't Do It! (Short) - Robert
  2015 Bone Tomahawk - Buddy
  2014 Twiztid: Sick Man (Video short) - The Overseer
  2013 Zombex - The Commander
  2013 The Penny Dreadful Picture Show - Shopkeeper
  2013 Devil in My Ride - Iggy
  2013 Holliston (TV Series) - Sid Haig
  - Farm Festival (2013) ... Sid Haig
  2013 Hatchet III - Abbott MacMullen
  2012 The Sacred - The Stranger
  2012 The Lords of Salem - Dean Magnus
  2012 The Inflicted - Dr. Gardner
  2011 Mimesis - Alfonso Betz
  2011 Creature - Chopper
  2010 Chadam (TV Series) - Simkin
  
  2009 Dark Moon Rising - Crazy Louis
  2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Video) - Captain Spaulding (voice)
  2009 Thirsty (Short) - Radio Evangelist (voice)
  2007 Brotherhood of Blood - Pashek
  2007 Halloween - Chester Chesterfield
  2007 The Haunted Casino - Roy 'The Word' Donahue
  2006 A Dead Calling (Video) - George
  2006 Little Big Top - Seymour
  2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D - Gerald Tovar, Jr.
  2005 House of the Dead 2 (TV Movie) - Professor Curien
  2005 The Devil's Rejects - Captain Spaulding
  2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Jay
  2003 House of 1000 Corpses - Captain Spaulding
  2001 Rob Zombie: Feel So Numb (Video short) - Pirate
  
  1997 Jackie Brown - Judge
  1992 Boris and Natasha (TV Movie) - Colonel Gorda
  1990 Genuine Risk - Curly
  1990 The Forbidden Dance - Joa
  
  1989-1990 Just the Ten of Us (TV Series) - Bob
  - Comedy Tonight (1990) ... Bob
  - St. Augie's Blues: Part 2 (1989) ... Bob
  - St. Augie's Blues: Part 1 (1989) ... Bob
  1989 The People Next Door (TV Series) - The Taskmaster
  - Dream Date (1989) ... The Taskmaster
  1989 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II - Donar
  1988 Warlords - The Warlord
  1988 Goddess of Love (TV Movie) - Hephaestus
  1988 Werewolf (TV Series) - Bud Topolski
  - King of the Road (1988) ... Bud Topolski
  1987 Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) - General Skull Fracture
  - Hammeroid (1987) ... General Skull Fracture
  1987 Ohara (TV Series) - Turk
  - Take the Money and Run (1987) ... Turk
  1987 Commando Squad - Iggy
  1985-1986 MacGyver (TV Series) - Khalil / Khan
  - To Be a Man (1986) ... Khalil
  - Thief of Budapest (1985) ... Khan
  1985 Amazing Stories (TV Series) - Thug
  - Remote Control Man (1985) ... Thug
  1985 Misfits of Science (TV Series) - Swarthy Man
  - Fumble on the One (1985) ... Swarthy Man
  1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Heath
  - An Oy for an Oy (1985) ... Heath
  1985 Wildside (TV Series) - Burnett
  - Don't Keep the Home Fires Burning (1985) ... Burnett
  1981-1985 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Yusef / Arnie / Mr. Fick / ...
  - Reel Trouble (1985) ... Yusef
  - Undersea Odyssey (1984) ... Arnie
  - Bail and Bond (1982) ... Mr. Fick
  - Colt's Angels (1981) ... Biker
  1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Gretz
  - Ship of Spies (1985) ... Gretz
  1983 Automan (TV Series) - 1st Gang Member
  - Automan (1983) ... 1st Gang Member
  1983 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sonny Jenko
  - Black Day at Bad Rock (1983) ... Sonny Jenko
  1978-1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Otto / Harlen / Hakeem
  - The Tallowed Image/Room and Bard (1983) ... Otto
  - My Late Lover/Sanctuary (1981) ... Harlen
  - Homecoming/The Sheikh (1978) ... Hakeem
  1982 Forty Days of Musa Dagh - General Hekemet
  1982 The Aftermath - Cutter
  1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Tagan
  - Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti Kid (1982) ... Tagan
  1982 Two Guys from Muck (TV Movie) - Thug
  1982 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Gang Leader
  - Hooker's War (1982) ... Gang Leader
  1982 Bret Maverick (TV Series) - The Mighty Sampson
  - The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur (1982) ... The Mighty Sampson
  1982 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Slocum
  - Miz Tisdale on the Lam (1982) ... Slocum
  1981 Galaxy of Terror - Quuhod
  1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash - Vince
  1981 Underground Aces - Faoud
  1980-1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Pratt / Spirot
  - Time of the Hawk (1981) ... Pratt
  - Flight of the War Witch (1980) ... Spirot
  1981 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Hatch
  - Stain of Guilt (1981) ... Hatch
  1980 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Gunther Maddox
  - Murder, Murder on the Wall (1980) ... Gunther Maddox
  
  1978-1979 Jason of Star Command (TV Series) - Dragos
  - Battle for Freedom (1979) ... Dragos
  - Mimi's Secret (1979) ... Dragos
  - Little Girl Lost (1979) ... Dragos
  - Phantom Force (1979) ... Dragos
  - Face to Face (1979) ... Dragos
  1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie) - Maurie
  1978 Tarzan and the Super 7 (TV Series) - Dragos
  1978 Coming Attractions - Lone Stranger
  1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Asted
  - Part II (1978) ... Asted
  - Part I (1978) ... Asted
  1976-1978 Switch (TV Series) - Farmer / Mahmud
  - Photo Finish (1978) ... Farmer
  - Round Up the Usual Suspects (1976) ... Mahmud
  1978 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Reza
  - Diamond in the Rough (1978) ... Reza
  1978 Police Woman (TV Series) - - Blind Terror (1978)
  1977/I McNamara's Band (TV Movie) - Zoltan
  1976-1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) - Texas
  - Episode #2.160 (1977) ... Texas (credit only)
  - Episode #2.159 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
  - Episode #2.157 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
  - Episode #2.156 (1977) ... Texas (uncredited)
  - Episode #2.155 (1977) ... Texas
  1974-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Reid / Dell
  - Spitfire (1977) ... Reid
  - Cop in the Middle (1974) ... Dell
  1976 Spencer's Pilots (TV Series) - Ron Sears
  - The Sailplane (1976) ... Ron Sears
  1976 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (TV Series) - The Genie
  - Ali Baba: Part 2 (1976) ... The Genie
  - Ali Baba: Part 1 (1976) ... The Genie
  1976 Monster Squad (TV Series) - Chief Running Nose
  - No Face (1976) ... Chief Running Nose
  1976 Delvecchio (TV Series) - George Borshak / Drug Addict
  - Contract for Harry (1976) ... George Borshak
  - The Avenger (1976) ... Drug Addict (uncredited)
  1976 Wonderbug (TV Series) - Fur Smuggler
  - Keep on Schleppin (1976) ... Fur Smuggler
  1976 Swashbuckler - Bald Pirate
  1976 The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (TV Movie) - Vince Cooley
  1975 Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) - Tolbert
  - The Htchhiker (1975) ... Tolbert
  1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? (TV Movie) - Tattoo Artist
  1975 Emergency! (TV Series) - Spike
  - Smoke Eater (1975) ... Spike
  1974 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - B.J.
  - Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune! (1974) ... B.J.
  1974 Get Christie Love! (TV Series) - Nick Varga
  - Pawn Ticket for Murder (1974) ... Nick Varga
  1974 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - 3rd Passenger
  - Nuclear Alert (1974) ... 3rd Passenger
  1974 Savage Sisters - Malavasi
  1974 Foxy Brown - Hays
  1974 Busting - Rizzo's Bouncer
  1974 Shaft (TV Series) - Higget's Bodyguard
  - The Murder Machine (1974) ... Higget's Bodyguard (uncredited)
  1973 The Don Is Dead - The Arab
  1973 Beyond Atlantis - East Eddie
  1973 Coffy - Omar
  1973 Emperor of the North - Grease Tail
  1973 Wonder Women - Gregorious
  1973 The No Mercy Man - Pill Box
  1973 Black Mama White Mama - Ruben
  1972 The Woman Hunt - Silas
  1972 McMillan & Wife (TV Series) - Traylor
  - Terror Times Two (1972) ... Traylor (uncredited)
  1972 The Big Bird Cage - Django
  1972 Beware! The Blob - Zed (uncredited)
  1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Ward
  - Operation: XW-1 (1972) ... Ward
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
  1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Charlie
  - New Faces (1971) ... Charlie
  1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Griffin / Merkle / Outlaw
  - The Day They Hanged Kid Curry (1971) ... Griffin
  - Return to Devil's Hole (1971) ... Merkle
  - Alias Smith and Jones (1971) ... Outlaw
  1971 The Big Doll House - Harry
  1971 Hitched (TV Movie) - Comstock
  1971 THX 1138 - NCH
  1970 Mannix (TV Series) - Harry Kellaway
  - Deja Vu (1970) ... Harry Kellaway
  1966-1970 Mission: Impossible (TV Series) - Musha / Agent #1 / Goujon / ...
  - Decoy (1970) ... Agent #1
  - The Choice (1970) ... Goujon
  - Commandante (1969) ... Major Carlos Martillo
  - Doomsday (1969) ... Marko
  - The Diplomat (1968) ... Grigor
  1970 C.C. & Company - Crow
  1970 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Peter Savage
  - Break the Bank of Tacoma (1970) ... Peter Savage
  
  1967-1970 Get Smart (TV Series) - Guard / Bruce / Turk
  - Moonlighting Becomes You (1970) ... Guard
  - Shock It to Me (1969) ... Bruce
  - That Old Gang of Mine (1967) ... Turk
  1966-1969 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Eli Crawford / Buffalo Hunter / Cawkins / ...
  - MacGraw (1969) ... Eli Crawford
  - A Man Called 'Smith' (1969) ... Buffalo Hunter
  - Time of the Jackals (1969) ... Cawkins
  - Stage Stop (1966) ... Wade Hansen
  1969 Che! - Antonio
  1969 Pit Stop - Hawk Sidney
  1969 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Kurt
  - Lucy and the Great Airport Chase (1969) ... Kurt
  1968 The Flying Nun (TV Series) - Señor Quesada
  - The Return of Father Lundigan (1968) ... Señor Quesada
  1968 The Hell with Heroes - Crespin
  1968 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Thief / Farber
  - The Indiana Girl (1968) ... Thief
  - The Saga of Sadie Orchard (1968) ... Farber
  1968 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Typhoon
  - The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (1968) ... Typhoon
  1967 Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told - Ralph
  1967 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) - Hood
  - The Royal Follies of 1933 (1967) ... Hood
  1966-1967 Iron Horse (TV Series) - Rias / Vega
  - The Return of Hode Avery (1967) ... Rias
  - Town Full of Fear (1966) ... Vega
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Alex / Vito
  - The Prince of Darkness Affair: Part I (1967) ... Alex
  - The When in Roma Affair (1967) ... Vito
  1967 Point Blank - 1st Penthouse Lobby Guard
  1967 It's a Bikini World - Daddy
  1967 Star Trek (TV Series) - First Lawgiver
  - The Return of the Archons (1967) ... First Lawgiver
  1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Brunning
  - The Last of the Caesars: Absolutely (1966) ... Brunning
  1966 Batman (TV Series) - Royal Apothecary
  - Tut's Case Is Shut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
  - The Spell of Tut (1966) ... Royal Apothecary
  1966 Blood Bath - Abdul the Arab
  1965 Beach Ball - Drummer for Righteous Brothers (uncredited)
  1965 The Lucy Show (TV Series) - The Mummy
  - Lucy and the Monsters (1965) ... The Mummy
  1962 The Firebrand - Diego
  1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Augie the Hood
  - The Case Against Eliot Ness (1962) ... Augie the Hood
  1960 The Host (Short) - The Fugitive
  
  Producer (3 credits)
  2020 Hanukkah (associate producer) (completed)
  2019 High on the Hog (producer)
  2009 Dark Moon Rising (co-producer)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)
  1988 Warlords (second unit director)
  1972 The Big Bird Cage (second unit director)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  2009 Dark Moon Rising (performer: "Trouble (Is Back in Town)")

  
  
  

  
  1964: Goldfinger films pre-titles action at night.
  
  1973: 007 死ぬのは奴らだ (Shinu no wa yatsurada; It's Those Who Die) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  Book cover.
  

  
  1982: Variety announces Roger Moore will return as James Bond. (A week earlier they reported James Brolin and Michael Billington as contenders.)
  1985: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is born--Ealing, London, England.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in the UK. Ireland. US.

  

  
  1989: The Washington Post prints Desson Howe's review of Licence to Kill.

  

  ‘License to Kill’ (PG-13)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/licensetokillpg13howe_a0b225.htm

  By Desson Howe | Washington Post Staff Writer | July 14, 1989
  
  Remember James Bond movies -- those airy escapes to exotic lands, where devilish Sean Connery sported human hair and saved the Western world from diabolical megalomaniacs while frolicking with girls, girls, girls?
  
  Remember Playboy magazine?
  
  "Licence to Kill," 007's latest Never-Say-ERA-Again voyage, heads nostalgically for Club Bond and other points Bunny, equipped with the requisite state-of-the-art gadgetry -- and scenery. Playboy subscribers and other flashlight owners will be glad to know the girls (cottontail rivals Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto) trip over each other's bikini strings to get to Bond, and opening-sequence meister Maurice Binder still favors smoking guns and lissome gals.
  
  Take the early "Jaws" assault that sets second-time Bond Timothy Dalton in vengeful motion: Drug henchmen throw his CIA buddy David Hedison into the shark pool, but instead of offing the guy, the "Bond" crew (including producer-for-life Albert R. Broccoli and regular cohorts, director John Glen and co-writers Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum) makes him survive. Later, the double amputee, whose new bride was recently blown away, cheerily suggests a fishing trip with Bond. What's a dead wife and a coupla flesh wounds between agent-pals?
  
  But this cruise is also a gruesome one. You may find yourself shaken -- not stirred -- by the screenwriting cruelty and cynicism behind the 16th "Bond."
  
  Then there's the diabolical drug czar, the facially ravaged Robert ("Die Hard") Davi, who cuts out the heart of his girlfriend Soto's lover. ("It's my fault," says the less-than-Thespian Soto later. "I did something wrong that made him angry.") Or how about the unfortunate fellow who finds out just how those automatic, slice-and-dice cocaine processors really work?
  
  With its license-to-crib mix of drug running, Uzi blowouts and 18-wheeler jockeying, all taking place between Key West and Isthmus City, "Licence" might appeal to those of you currently bored with your "Rambo," "Miami Vice" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" videotapes. There's also a checkoff list for Bond fans -- some "Dr. No" underwater action, casino games, aerial stunts (the most spectacular towing job you'll ever see), the requisite martini-preparation instruction and of course cameos from the alphabet people -- Robert Brown's "M" and Desmond Llewelyn's "Q."
  
  But don't be surprised if, at the end of this trip, you feel just a little queasy.
  

  1989: The Washington Post prints Hal Hinson's review of Licence to Kill.

  

  ‘License to Kill’ (PG-13)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/licensetokillpg13hinson_a0a94a.htm

  By Hal Hinson | Washington Post Staff Writer | July 14, 1989
  
  It's time to find a new Bond. This one is tuckered out, spent, his signature tuxedo in sore need of pressing.
  
  For "Licence to Kill," the 16th installment in the Cubby Broccoli-produced series, the filmmakers and their star, Timothy Dalton, have entered into a sort of grim collusion, building the film to the actor's stern specifications. As a result, Dalton plays a straight-faced, humorless, no-nonsense Bond -- all guns and no play -- and it makes for a very dull time.
  
  The blame falls as much to the creators' conception of their hero as to the actor playing him. It's not that Dalton, who's making his second appearance in the role, isn't actor enough for the job. It's that Bond himself now seems prosaic, earthbound, in serious need of a superhero transfusion. In making the picture, Cubby and company -- which includes director John Glen, who is making his fifth Bond movie, writer Richard Maibaum, who has contributed to 13 of the 007 films, and Michael G. Wilson, who has co-written five -- were achingly aware of just how fierce the superhero business has become and, in reaction, have attempted to create a Bond to stand tall beside caped crusaders and fedoraed archaeologists.
  
  Trying to bring a new relevance to the series, the producers have given their hero's adventures a more realistic context, one sprung from newspaper headlines and real-world tensions. In Bond-movie terms, this means creating a bad guy who, instead of trying to break into Fort Knox, is working to corner the market in cocaine. This time out Bond's enemy is a Noriega-like drug lord headquartered in the made-up Central American capital of Isthmus City, and with the lizard-skinned Robert Davi in the role, they've matched the Panamanian heavy-hitter acne scar for acne scar. A veteran heavy, Davi supplies the movie with a sort of strip joint sleaziness. Early in the film, he finds his sumptuous companion (Talisa Soto) in bed with another man, a transgression that earns her a vicious beating with a sawed-off bullwhip, plus a very special kind of valentine.
  
  A kinder, gentler Bond film? No way.
  
  Actually, what Broccoli and his team have created with "Licence to Kill" is a clunkier, squarer, far less stylish episode of "Miami Vice." As the product plugs flash on the screen, the filmmakers spin your average revenge scenario: Bond's best friends are messed with -- one critically, one fatally -- and Bond gets even. This time it's personal -- so personal, in fact, that Bond goes rogue and, refusing to follow orders, has his commission suspended and his license to kill revoked. But Glen and his writers have given only lip service to creating real emotional resonance in Bond's adventures. (It's a mistake, I think, even to try.) What they actually mean by realistic is more action, and to keep up with the summer demand for end-to-end thrills, the filmmakers rely more heavily than ever on explosions and brawls and less on characterization. As usual, there are large-scale stunts and grandiose sets, but aside from the extended duel between humongous gasoline tankers on a narrow mountain road, the daredevil routines are all workmanlike and unspectacular and the sets cheesy.
  
  Also, although there's grace and agility in Dalton's physical work, in repose he nearly ceases to exist. That Dalton hasn't emerged as a Bond to be reckoned with, a star to juice the character's EKG back onto the scale, is a shocking disappointment. With his deep-clefted, cruelly handsome features, Dalton held out the promise of a return to Connery form, to a time in Bond's movie life when both danger and wit were part of his secret agent accessory kit. But playing Bond doesn't seem to spark anything special in Dalton. Even though this is only his second shot at the role, there's nothing new to discover in him. Dalton plays the part as if it were an unpleasant chore -- he doesn't seem to be having any fun -- and there's an air of condescension in his performance, as if somehow his classical training made the character beneath him. He acts as if he's slumming.
  
  Dalton actually gets the dangerous part, it's the essential wit that's missing. (He seems to think the two are in opposition.) If the previous Bonds were champagne, this Bond is beer -- and flat beer at that. Gone are the sophisticated hedonism and the sexy pedantry about wines and guns and caviar. Watching Sean Connery in the role, and even, on occasion, Roger Moore, men could fantasize about being Bond and leading the life he led, even when the movies themselves weren't very good. But Dalton turns Agent 007 into a brooding blue-collar grunt. Who would want to jump into this Bond's shoes?
  
  With the injection of more and uglier violence, the filmmakers seem eager to put Bond in competition with other monosyllabic action movie heroes. They know where the real money is, and that it has nothing to do with their hero's ability to distinguish between Cristal '79 and Cordon Rouge. They want a Bond closer in spirit to Rambo, a killing machine to put the big summer numbers on the board. They want a lug, and Dalton gives them pretty much what they want.
  
  Connery used to make a joke out of having to sleep with beautiful women -- he was, after all, sacrificing himself for the crown. When this Bond sleeps with a woman, he seems to take no pleasure in it. In contrast to the safety-first sexual attitude in "The Living Daylights," 007 here is given a couple of frisky bedmates. Soto -- who has cracked up preview audiences with her line readings -- is the exotic, bad Bond girl, and Carey Lowell is his American beauty sidekick. Both are genuine knockouts -- actresses, no -- but Dalton doesn't seem to find any greater thrill in these erotic encounters than he does in Bond's other chores. It's all heavy lifting to him.
  
  Not all the film's problems can be blamed on Dalton; his presence merely brings them into focus. Perhaps the one original wrinkle is written into the role of a televangelist (Wayne Newton) who, speaking in code, acts as the on-air middleman in the deals being negotiated by the drug lords and their costumers. Squishing with unctuous sincerity and God-bless-you sentiments, Newton steals the show. He's perfect, and the role may immortalize him -- as what, I'm not exactly sure. But what does it say about a movie when Wayne Newton is the only performer with true star presence?

  "Licence to Kill" is rated PG-13 and contains mild violence and implied sex.

  1989: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel prints Candice Russell's review "Despite Extremely Slow Start, 'Licence' Pays Off."

  

  DESPITE EXTREMELY SLOW START,
  'LICENCE' PAYS OFF

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  CANDICE RUSSELL, Film Writer | SUN-SENTINEL
  
  The first 45 minutes of the new James Bond film Licence to Kill are imponderably bad. Unfortunately for the Florida film industry, those scenes were shot in and around Key West.
  
  Bond fans with a memory for spectacular film beginnings are bound to be let down by this one. Although Agent 007 finds himself airborne and waterlogged in the pursuit of an international drug smuggler, reruns of Flipper have more excitement and suspense. Happily then, the film switches gears.
  
  The action moves from a phony Florida marine laboratory and the interior of a yacht to an unnamed Latin American country. The cocaine kingpin Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) owns the biggest bank, the capital casino, even the country's wimp of a president. A sense of larger-than-life weirdness and wonder kicks in. Bond is back in the right groove.
  
  This is Timothy Dalton's second go-round in the legendary role. Although slighter in build than predecessors Roger Moore and Sean Connery, he acquits himself well. Blame screenwriters Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum, rather than Dalton, for the dramatic lassitude at the start. They also deserve the discredit of not having given Bond more droll commentary on the madness around him.
  
  Exoticism and spirit are qualities that the film eventually finds as Bond tracks Sanchez on home turf. He has the help of two young lovelies, Sanchez's reluctant girlfriend Lupe (Talisa Soto) and Pam (Carey Lowell), a former U.S. Army pilot with the grit of Oliver North and the curves of Miss Universe. This time, Bond isn't acting on behalf of the British government. Instead, his Dirty Harry-ish quest is personal.
  
  The eventual befriending of Bond by Sanchez, played with sinister cool by Davi, is the film's most devilish component. Sanchez's Moorish fantasy of a mansion on a beautiful cityside bay is the stuff of dreams. Befitting the stature of other classic villains from the pen of novelist Ian Fleming, Sanchez's disposition of enemies is appropriately nightmarish.
  
  With the past four Bond films to his credit, including the more consistent and superior The Living Daylights, director John Glen should be getting the hang of it. Yet, he should have his license revoked until he can account for the casting of David Hedison, who is terrible as CIA agent Felix Leiter.
  
  On the other hand, Glen did put Wayne Newton, who oozes insincerity in real life, in the role of Professor Joe Butcher. He's a TV huckster, begging for donations to support a meditation retreat in the mountains, which actually is a cover for Sanchez's operation.
  
  It takes too long for the beloved "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn) to appear with his briefcase of lethal gadgets, but when he does, the film picks up. "Q" is a delightful character who comes to the rescue more than once. His presence also provides a sense of continuity and tradition with past Bond films.
  
  Licence to Kill gets better as it unfolds for more than two hours. It just takes an insufferably long while to find the right pace.

  LICENCE TO KILL
  Agent 007 battles the head of an international drug cartel.
  Credits: With Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi. Directed by John Glen. Written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum.
  Rated PG13: Violence, coarse language, sexual implication.

  1989: The Chicago Tribune prints Dave Kehr's review "Licence to Kill--First-Rate Action With Fresh Touch."

  

  `LICENCE TO KILL` FIRST-RATE
  ACTION WITH FRESH TOUCH

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  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-07-14-8902170428-story.html

  Dave Kehr | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | July 14, 1989
  
  There are no friends like old friends, and James Bond, back for the 16th time in an Albert R. Broccoli production, proves to be every bit as reliable as ever. As directed by John Glen, ''Licence to Kill'' (the producers have retained the British spelling of ''license'') proves to be action entertainment of the first order-thrilling, impeccably paced and executed with high precision.
  
  The trick to making a Bond film lies in striking just the right balance of familiarity and innovation. There are rituals that must be observed, from the spectacular pre-credit stunt to the invocation of ''Bond . . . James Bond,'' and much of the pleasure in the later entries in the series is one of simple repetition. After 27 years, even the words ''shaken, not stirred'' (as Bond inevitably orders his martinis) take on a mythic resonance.
  
  ''Licence to Kill'' is properly respectful of tradition, beginning with an eye-popping stunt in which Bond lassoes a flying helicopter and proceeding through such comforting chestnuts as Q`s presentation of his latest gadgetry
  
  (Desmond Llewelyn remains the only member of the original cast still on the job) and the destruction of the villain`s huge secret lair, still decorated with the stainless steel panels that production designer Ken Adam installed in the `60s.
  
  But director Glen has also taken advantage of Bond`s new interpreter, Timothy Dalton, to introduce a fresh emotional angle. Very little trace of the cartoonishness of the Roger Moore years remains (and what does largely falls flat); this is an altogether darker, more brooding Bond, whose appearance so close to Michael Keaton`s revisionist ''Batman'' suggests that pop adventure films are now entering a ''noir'' phase, similar to the darkening of the western in the 1950s.
  
  There is even a bit of ''Batman`s'' mirroring of hero and villain, though it`s played out more efficiently and much less pretentiously. Bond`s opponent this time is South American drug lord Franz Sanchez (played by Robert Davi, an actor who physically resembles Dalton), and while he displays the sadistic tendencies proper to every Bond villain, Glen and his screenwriters (Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum) have also given him a redeeming gloss of honor and practical intelligence. He could be the first credible, psychologically complex heavy in the history of the series.
  
  When Sanchez cripples Bond`s old CIA pal Felix Leiter (David Hedison) and murders Leiter`s wife, Bond resigns from the service to pursue what his boss M (Robert Brown) calls his ''personal vendetta.'' Stripped of his ''licence to kill,'' Bond himself becomes an outlaw. He`ll use ''Sanchez`s way'' to bring him down.
  
  Dalton revives the cool, ironic detachment of the Connery years, but he also allows a touch of obsession to show through Bond`s surface aplomb. Though he`s hardly the raving neurotic of Keaton`s ''Batman,'' this Bond does have a loose screw or two, and the deepening of the character adds immeasurably to impact of the action scenes, as superbly filmed as they are. Unlike the Indiana Jones films, something more or less real is at stake--one might even go so far as to call it a moral point. Can Bond destroy the villain without destroying himself?
  
  If 'Licence to Kill'' has one of Bond`s best heavies, it also has one of his best heroines in Carey Lowell, a strapping brunet who plays an ex-Army pilot reluctantly enrolled on Bond`s side. Lowell`s line readings may be only adequate, but she moves with the grace and vigor an action movie needs. It would be too much to call her a feminist figure (Bond has not matured to that point), but in her no-nonsense, one-of-the-boys attitude, she`s at least a welcome revival of the proto-feminist heroine Howard Hawks celebrated in such classics as ''To Have and Have Not'' and ''Rio Bravo'' (the influence even comes with a pedigree-producer Broccoli worked for years as Hawks` assistant). ''Licence to Kill' may find Bond losing his sense of professionalism, but the creative members of the team have retained and reinforced their own. It may not be filmmaking on its most inspired level, but the amount of planning and know-how that has gone into the creation of the climactic action scene-a mountainside chase involving four oil tankers, a couple of jeeps, a golf cart and an airplane-inspires its own kind of respect. The sequence has logic, rhythmic variation and a dazzling clarity of line-and under such circumstances, one can do very well without genius.

  ''LICENCE TO KILL''
  *** 1/2
  Directed by John Glen; written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum; photographed by Alec Mills; production designed by Peter Lamont; edited by John Grover; music by Michael Kamen; produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. An MGM/UA release; opens July 14 at the Burnham Plaza, Water Tower, Webster Place and outlying theaters. Running time: 2:15. MPAA rating: PG-13. Violence, adult situations, mild vulgarity.
  THE CAST
  James Bond.........................................Timothy Dalton
  Pam Bouvier..........................................Carey Lowell
  Franz Sanchez.........................................Robert Davi
  Lupe Lamora...........................................Talisa Soto
  Milton Krest........................................Anthony Zerbe

  1989: Roger Ebert reviews Licence to Kill in the Chicago Sun-Times.

  

  Licence to Kill

  

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  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/licence-to-kill-1989

  | Roger Ebert | July 14, 1989 | 9
  
  The James Bond movies have by now taken on the discipline of a sonnet or a kabuki drama: Every film follows the same story outline so rigidly that we can predict almost to the minute such obligatory developments as

  1. the introduction of the villain's specialized hit man;
  2. the long shot that establishes the villain's incredibly luxurious secret hideout;
  3. the villain's fatal invitation to Bond to spend the night;
  4. the moment when the villain's mistress falls for Bond;
  5. the series of explosions destroying the secret fortress, and
  6. the final spectacular stunt sequence.

  Connoisseurs evaluate the elements in a Bond picture as if they were movements in a symphony, or courses in a meal. There are few surprises, and the changes are evolutionary, so that the latest Bond picture is recognizable as a successor to the first, "Dr. No," in 1962. Within this framework of tradition, "Licence to Kill" nevertheless manages to spring some interesting surprises. One is that the Bond character, as played now for the second time by Timothy Dalton, has become less of a British icon and more of an international action hero. The second is that the tempo has been picked up, possibly in response to the escalating pace of the Rambo and Indiana Jones movies. The third is that the villain has fairly modest aims, for a change; he doesn't want to rule the world, he only wants to be a cocaine billionaire.
  
  I've grown uneasy lately about the fashion of portraying drug smugglers in glamorous lifestyles; they're viewed with some of the same glamor as gangsters were, in films of the 1930s. Sure, they die in the end, but they have a lot of fun in the meantime. In "Licence to Kill," however, the use of a drug kingpin named Sanchez (Robert Davi) and his henchmen (Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae) is apparently part of an attempt to update the whole series and make it feel more contemporary.
  
  There are still, of course, the obligatory scenes. The film begins with a sensationally unbelievable stunt sequence (Bond and friend lasso a plane, then parachute to a wedding ceremony). But then the action switches to the recognizable modern world in and around Key West, Fla., where the British agent finds himself involved in an operation to capture Sanchez and cut his pipeline of cocaine.
  
  Like all Bond villains, Sanchez has unlimited resources and a beautiful mistress. His operation uses an underwater shark-nabbing company as its cover, and keeps a few sharks on hand so they can dine on federal agents. After Bond's friend, Felix Leiter, is mistreated by the bad guys, 007 begins a savage vendetta against Sanchez, which involves elaborate and violent stunt sequences in the air, on land, and underwater.
  
  He is aided in his campaign by the beautiful Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell, introduced as "Miss Kennedy, my executive secretary"), and saved more than once by Sanchez' beautiful mistress, Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto). Both women are as beautiful as the historical Bond standard, but more modern - more competent, intelligent and capable, and not simply sex objects. This is no doubt part of the plan, announced before Dalton's first Bond picture, to de-emphasize the character's promiscuous sex life. Compared to his previous films, 007 is practically chaste this time.
  
  My favorite moments in all the Bond pictures involve The Fallacy of the Talking Killer, in which the villain has Bond clearly in his power, and then, instead of killing him instantly, makes the mistake of talking just long enough for Bond to make a plan. The fallacy saves Bond's life two or three times in this movie - especially once when all that Davi has to do is slice his neck.
  
  "Licence to Kill" ends, as all the Bond films do, with an extended chase and stunt sequence. This one involves some truly amazing stunt work, as three giant gasoline trucks speed down a twisting mountain road, while a helicopter and a light aircraft also join in the chase. There were moments when I was straining to spot the trickery, as a big semi-rig spun along tilted to one side, to miss a missile aimed by the bad guys. But the stunts all look convincing, and the effect of the closing sequence is exhilarating.

  On the basis of this second performance as Bond, Dalton can have the role as long as he enjoys it. He makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary. The major difference between Dalton and the earlier Bonds is that he seems to prefer action to sex. But then so do movie audiences, these days. "Licence to Kill" is one of the best of the recent Bonds.

  

  
  1992: Putnam & Sons publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Death Is Forever in the US.