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From what I've heard Maurice Binder was a gentleman--if he'd gotten up to anything wrong we'd probably have heard about it by now (as in the case of Terence Young). The use of nudes in the Bond titles was as professional and tasteful as the use of n…
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And here's my other favorite, Elvis's version of "Any Day Now," described by Greil Marcus as "a Burt Bachrach-Bob Hilliard composition Elvis sang with a naked passion—a naked piety, really—that cannot be found in any of his other recordings."
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Here's one of my favorite Bacharach compositions, "Message to Michael." It inspired the Temptations song "I Wish It Would Rain":
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j_w_pepper wrote: » I'm sorry, but the John Cleese of today is not the John Cleese I loved on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers and all those projects connected with both. I didn't even like him as the cartoonish "R" in TWINE and DAD, which however …
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Turns out Carl Davis also conducted a version of Licence to Kill that has an actual vocal. The singer is not on the level of Gladys Knight but the recording has a less sterile sound than the movie version:
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Another instrumental of Licence to Kill, this time conducted by the great Carl Davis: More Davis/Bond recordings here.
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You're very welcome, and just remember, folks are aging today much better than in Fleming's time, so there's still a chance for you to nab some beautiful ladies by posing as an international man of mystery!
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Ian Fleming’s Last Interview: How to Take Any Woman…James Bond Style! By Alain Ayache (Saga: The Magazine for Men, July 1965) You don't have to be a spy—or look like Sean Connery—to make love to the woman you want. Here, the creator of James B…
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Sean211 wrote: » And good luck on getting anything 007 from Iowa's Special Collections Library. You need to get permission from both EON Productions and Richard Maibaum's son. I asked about getting "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No." As you can imagine EON…
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The Grand Tour hasn't actually been axed. Variety ran an article claiming that Amazon "would likely cut ties with Clarkson" after 2024. Notice the "likely" and the lack of official confirmation by Amazon. And today James May "dismissed suggestions t…
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Herr_Stockmann wrote: » ...overall these scripts seem far from Fleming and the lack of Las Vegas is quite surprising and regrettable in my opinion considering it's such a big part of DAF's identity (both the novel and the movie). Tonally the id…
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ggl007 wrote: » And, if I'm not mistaken, the Playboy interview is in the Taschen book too. Yes, I'd forgotten completely about that, despite having a copy of the 2012 edition on the shelf. The complete interview is reproduced there.
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You're correct! The Fleming interview was collected twice in hardcover. First in Playboy Interviews (Playboy Press, Chicago, 1967), and then in The Playboy interview II, edited by G. Barry Golson (Perigee Books, New York, N.Y., 1983). There's a good…
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Denbigh wrote: » I actually kinda like the idea of the tiger killing Blofeld. Me too. It's a suitably colorful way of dispatching a supervillain. 007HallY wrote: » Revelator wrote: » In the third treatment Blofeld is killed by six …
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Some exceedingly interesting information on the script history of Diamonds Are Forever... A fellow named Tom Mason managed to read Richard Maibaum's early treatments of the film and has discussed them on the Licence to Queer podcast: For t…
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Ian Fleming By Ken Purdy (Playboy, Dec. 1964) Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” expert practitioners of the form have known huge audiences and heavy material rewards. In this proces…
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Broker (2022). The great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with a story about a pair of men who sell abandoned babies and a new mother who needs to dispose of her child. Along the way there's an orphanage, a pair of social workers, mobster…
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Delighted you enjoyed it, and thanks always for your feedback! Yes, Fleming's mourning for Kennedy was one of my favorite parts too. I suspect Dulles was less enamored of JFK, who had fired him after the Bay of Pigs disaster. Incidentally, Flemin…
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A Redbook Dialogue: Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming (Redbook, June 1964) Allen Dulles has served in diplomatic, legal and intelligence posts under eight presidents, beginning with Woodrow Wilson. Now retired, his last post was Director of the United…
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Yes, I remember coming across the character in the Knightfall crossover many years ago. But I figure that movies audience wouldn't be familiar with the character, and while DC has copyrighted the character it can't copyright the name, which is also …
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As Bill Finger noted: "I will say this for National Periodicals [aka DC], they had a code all along...so that when the Code Authority came along it was nothing very new to us." The Comic Code's negative effect was "not too much because, frankly, Nat…
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You're very welcome! Perhaps the reporter caught Fleming in a cheerful mood. I hope we'll get to see a Bond villain named Mr. Szasz one day. I believe this was the last interview with Fleming published during his lifetime. The final paragraphs ha…
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I think you're right--a fourth season might have been as much of a disappointment as the third, especially if the budget had remained so low. The series also didn't adjust well in going from two-part stories to one-parters. This might have improved …
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You can’t ask for more! By Rene MacColl (Daily Express, February 24, 1964) When I met Raymond Burr in Hollywood, I kept almost calling him Perry Mason. And when I met Ian Fleming at Oracabessa today it was difficult not to address him as Jame…
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MaxCasino wrote: » There was plans for a 4th season for NBC. But the Batcave was bulldozed and cost a million dollars to get a new one. So NBC passed. Sadly this seems to be an urban legend. No one has been able to find documentation of NBC…
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Semi-recent news item: the Dec. 15 edition of the Daily Express has a celebrity-authors-pick-the-best-books-of-2022 feature. Charlie Higson wrote, "Of all the big-name authors who have borrowed Ian Fleming's typewriter, I've enjoyed Anthony Horowitz…
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For Cannon fans, the Cannon diet:
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Here's what Hunt said about Never Say Never Again in his Retro Vision interview: "I would have offended Cubby if I had done it. That whole situation was very poor in their thinking, and I think if I had done it, they would have thought that I was…
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If anyone would like to read the script of Warhead, you can find it here (along with many other goodies!).
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You're absolutely correct. As John Pearson wrote, Bond was Fleming daydreaming about himself in the third person. But Fleming was so stung by criticism of the books and Bond that he wanted to distance himself from the character--hence his insistence…
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