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Yikes. Isn't Davi a bit crazy Trump-y these days?
Davi's a Republican who supports Trump so I imagine any portrait of Joe Biden's son by him won't be overly flattering!
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Alexander Cockburn blamed Ian Fleming for the creation of the CIA. Without Fleming, Cockburn wrote on the fiftieth anniversary of the first James Bond novel, ‘the Cold War would have ended in the early 1960s. We would have had no Vietnam, no Nixon, no Reagan and no Star Wars.’ As adjutant to Britain’s chief of naval intelligence, Lieutenant Commander Fleming undertook a secret mission to Washington in May 1941. He was ‘whisked off to a room in the new annexe of the embassy, locked in with a pen and paper and the necessities of life’, a colleague recalled, and there he wrote, ‘under armed guard around the clock, a document of some seventy pages covering every aspect of a giant secret intelligence and secret operational organisation’. This, the CIA’s official history reports, was the genesis of ‘the nation’s first peacetime, non-departmental intelligence organisation’.
Fleming delivered the report to William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, a much decorated First World War veteran who had been lobbying Roosevelt to establish an American spy agency separate from the Navy, War and State Departments. A month later Donovan submitted his ‘Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information’ to the president. It recommended an organisation that would collect and analyse information and make it available to the president as commander-in-chief, and would also disseminate propaganda. It made no mention of covert operations. Donovan acknowledged his debt to Fleming by presenting him with a .38 Police Positive Colt revolver engraved ‘For Special Services’.
...Fleming urged Donovan to employ agents between the ages of forty and fifty who possessed ‘absolute discretion, sobriety, devotion to duty, languages and wide experience’. Donovan ignored him. His operatives were young and anything but discreet, sober or, for the most part, fluent in languages other than English.
I suppose they would make better judgements sober but it is admittedly pretty ironic advice coming from Fleming!
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-least-intelligent-villains/
Yes, it's a case of "do as I say not as I do"! ;)
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1472787/james-bond-goldfinger-oddjob-olympic-games-weightlifting
Teesside Live: 'A licence to Phil': Meet Teesside James Bond mega-fan whose bedroom is piled high with 007 memorabilia.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/a-license-phil-meet-teesside-21222480
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/henry-cavill-would-play-james-bond-after-daniel-craig.html/
Extra.ie: Pierce Brosnan shares gushing tribute as he celebrates 20th wedding anniversary with Keely Shaye Smith.
https://extra.ie/2021/08/05/entertainment/celebrity/pierce-brosnan-wife-20-years-anniversary
Showbiz Cheat Sheet: 'Lord of the Rings': Gandalf Role Offered to Sean Connery, But He Ghosted Director Peter Jackson.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-gandalf-role-offered-to-sean-connery-ghosted-director-peter-jackson.html/
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1472478/James-Bond-No-Time-To-Die-box-office-profits-Daniel-Craig-No-Time-To-Die-delay
Good old George Simpson. He does seem to source all Bond articles from these forums.
I wonder which one of us he is 👀
It seems we have a mole. We better check our seals.
Yes, Navy SEALS are particularly useful with these sorts of problems I find. 🦭
It's all gone a bit Tinker Tailor in here.
https://collider.com/diamonds-are-forever-worst-bond-movies/
Just an opinion piece obviously.
Looper: The Dumbest Line In Every James Bond Movie.
https://www.looper.com/480404/the-dumbest-line-in-every-james-bond-movie/?mode=gn
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-26-needs-craig-canon-continuity-why-explained/
Express: James Bond Dr No: Sean Connery improvised 007's legendary catchphrase.
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1473927/james-bond-dr-no-sean-connery-007-ursula-andress-itv
Well this one sounds made up! Can you imagine?
BOND: I admire your courage, Miss...?
TRENCH: Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mister...?
BOND: I am James Bond.
:))
Yeah, I don't think so!
Yes, most accept he was simply
Mirroring her delivery.
https://outsider.com/news/entertainment/ncis-los-angeles-sean-connery-grandson-guest-starring-season-13/
GQ India: 7 IMDb’s highest-rated spy movies of all time on Hungama, Amazon Prime Video & YouTube that’ll grab your attention.
https://www.gqindia.com/binge-watch/collection/imdb-highest-rated-spy-movies-all-time-hungama-amazon-prime-video-youtube-grab-your-attention/
Doesn't NTTD have a budget very similar to that of Spectre? And Spectre earned less than $900m. Something seems cranky here.
So I guess given the times we're in Bond will also have a hard time to reach something close to Spectre figures ?
Yeah, I'd imagine so. But what I meant was that if that article is giving a full and complete picture of this stuff, it would seem Spectre also lost money, which doesn't sound right....