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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    December 22nd

    1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
    1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.
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    GOLDFINGER
    By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964
    Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.

    In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.

    That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.

    But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.

    Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.

    So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.

    It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.

    Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.

    As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.

    In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.

    Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.

    1965: Thunderball released in the US. 1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.
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    Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'
    By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965
    THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."

    Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.

    This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.

    I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.

    That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.

    "Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.

    Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"

    In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.

    The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.

    So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.

    Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.

    The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.
    1965: Tony Mastroianni reviews Thunderball in the Cleveland Press.
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    Thunderball Improves on Bond's Technique
    Cleveland Press December 22, 1965

    By now the James Bond films are pure formula and Bond fans wouldn't want them any other way. It is the fantasy world in which the super-hero finds all villains beatable, all women willing, and no situation hopeless.

    This latest Bond film, "Thunderball," is better than "Goldfinger" and though sex still is a major part, it is not nearly so vulgar.

    Again there is an attempt at humor but in this respect, "From Russia With Love," number two in the series, remains the best.

    Bond's dryly-delivered cliches at the end of an escapade, the purely Bondsian flourish (stopping to toss flowers on the body of a man he has just killed while his pursuers are breaking in a door), the Bond elegance (ordering the right wine at dinner) -- all are still there but are growing thin.

    Where "Thunderball" triumphs is in its special effects, its gadgets, its underwater scenes. The lengthiest of these is an underwater battle in which two armies -- the forces of SPECTRE in black, American aqua-paratroopers in orange -- advance and meet head-on.

    THERE ARE underwater sleds that pull a man through water, the front of it armed with spear guns. There is a two-man sub that can carry an H-bomb, a yacht that breaks apart into a speedy hydrofoil.

    In a prologue, Bond seems hopelessly trapped on the balcony of a building, but escapes by going straight up -- thanks to a jet power pack he has strapped to his back.

    In "Thunderball'' the international crime syndicate known as SPECTRE has hijacked a NATO plane carrying two atom bombs, demands a ransom from the Western world with the threat of destroying two major cities unless paid $2,800,000.

    BOND AND ALL the other agents with a double-0 prefix on their number (it indicates a license to kill) spread out around the world to find the bombs. Bond, agent 007, ends up in the Bahamas where there are villains, girls in bikinis, sharks, girls in bikinis, the bombs and girls in bikinis.

    It's not much of a plot for two hours and 10 minutes but the writers and producers pad it out with alternating fights and love scenes.

    One of the latter occurs underwater and where fireworks once indicated this sort of thing, it's now done with a burst of bubbles rushing to the surface.

    SEAN CONNERY plays Bond with a greater air of detachment than ever, as though his conquests -- amorous and otherwise -- were all in a day's work. It's the proper spirit for the part.

    The movie publicity doesn't say so but the man who did all the underwater scenes in the Bond role is a fellow whose name is Frank Cousins. He deserves plenty of credit.

    Adolfo Celi is sinister as the heavy, the number two man in SPECTRE. The newest Bond girl is Claudine Auger and lesser Bond girls are Luciana Paluzzi and Molly Peters, all of whom seem to have the proper dimensions.
    Short Subjects... Ursula Andress, who appeared in the first James Bond film, will be in another. She has been cast in "Casino Royale," a Bond film being made by a rival company. In it Peter Sellers is Bond.

    1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
    1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.
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    1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.
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    1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.
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    1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)
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    1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece. 1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.
    1982: Octopussy films OO7 hunted and hissing off.
    1983: Jamais plus Jamais; Never Again Never) released in Belgium.
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    1985: 007 뷰 투 어 킬 (byoo too uh keel; 007 View to a Kill) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.

    2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.

    2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England.
    (Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)
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    Richard Graydon - obituary
    Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
    feats in 10 James Bond films made audiences gasp
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    Richard Graydon at home in Surrey in 2000 Photo: REX FEATURES
    5:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2014
    Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.

    Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”

    The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.

    Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.

    Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”
    Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.

    Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.

    By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.
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    Graydon on top of a cable-car above Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (REX FEATURES)
    Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.
    His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
    Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).

    He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.

    In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.

    Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014
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    Richard Graydon (1922–2014)
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    Filmography
    Stunts (44 credits)

    1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
    1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
    - The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
    1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
    1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
    - Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
    1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
    - Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)

    1989 Batman (stunts)
    1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
    1988 Willow (stunts)
    1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
    1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
    1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
    1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
    1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
    1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
    1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
    1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)

    1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
    1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

    1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
    1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
    1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
    1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
    1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
    1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
    1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
    1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
    1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
    1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
    1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
    1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
    1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)

    1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)

    Actor (24 credits)

    1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
    1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
    - Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
    1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame

    1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
    - Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
    1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
    1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
    1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
    - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
    1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
    1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen

    1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
    1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
    1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
    1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
    1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
    - Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
    1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
    1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
    1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
    - Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
    1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

    1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
    1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
    1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man

    Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

    1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
    1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
    1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
    1984 Champions (horse master)
    1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)

    Self (12 credits)

    2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (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

    1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
    1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

    Archive footage (1 credit)

    2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself
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    Thunderball
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    You Only Live Twice
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    On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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    Moonraker
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    Octopussy
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    2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.
    2021: MI6 share their Christmas Card in The Times.
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    From MI6 with love, a Bond-style
    Christmas card with a licence to
    chill
    George Sandeman | Wednesday December 22 2021, The Times
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    The MI6 Christmas card parodies the James Bond opening sequence
    The head of MI6 said this year that the legend of James Bond was a double-edged sword. His attitude seems to have softened, however, with a nod to the fictional spy in the secret service’s Christmas card.

    It adopts the image featured in the opening sequences of the 007 films where Bond, dressed in dinner jacket and bow tie, turns and shoots towards the camera. Instead of the dapper spy, a tubby Father Christmas points a red and white striped candy cane skywards.

    The card was produced by one of the overseas intelligence agency’s officers.

    Richard Moore, who was appointed chief of the service last year, told The Times in April that he enjoyed the films depicting Ian Fleming’s character but they were a far...
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    2023: Ian Fleming Publications shares Season's Greetings.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    December 23rd

    1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.
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    Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.
    As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
    with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
    officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
    later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
    lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
    has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
    much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
    he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
    thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
    Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
    have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
    right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
    more glamorous..."

    Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
    He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
    Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
    plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
    white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
    with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
    ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
    marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
    right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
    Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
    materials and such things."

    He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
    Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
    way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
    investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
    he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
    did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
    beginning to take shape.
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    Live and Let Die.
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    Item Number: 123461

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    London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.
    First edition of the second James Bond novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An exceptional association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To Clare who sheds much light. With love Ian 1954.” The recipient was Clare Blanshard, a WRNS Wren who Fleming met and romanced in 1944 when he visited Ceylon to review the intelligence arm of the British Pacific Fleet. Blanshard was the trusted assistant of Alan Hillgarth, Chief of Naval Intelligence Eastern Theatre, who as naval attaché in Madrid had worked with Fleming on Operation Golden Eye, plans for subversion and sabotage in Spain should it fall to the Fascists, and played a prominent role in Operation Mincemeat, the famous “Man who never was”. Mutually attracted, Fleming and Blanshard spent time together in Colombo and on a trip to Sydney where “Ian and Clare enjoyed the good life, staying at Petty’s Hotel, frequenting the nightclubs and taking trips to Whale Beach for swimming”, when he returned to London Fleming sent his “best love to the angel Clare” via a letter to Hillgarth, “she is a jewel and will miss her protective wing very much” (Simmons, Ian Fleming’s War). For her part Clare told her brother “it doesn’t make any difference that I don’t mean anything to him he’s so awfully nice” (Macintyre, p. 218). Clearly a well-matched pair, they remained good friends and perhaps occasional lovers. After the war both worked for the Kemsley Group of newspapers, Fleming as foreign manager for The Sunday Times, and Blanshard, based on Fleming’s “fulsome [sic.] commendations”, became the “highly-accomplished secretary” of Robert Harling the ground-breaking typographer and designer of the Sunday Times and House & Garden (Harling, Ian Fleming). Harling had been recruited by Fleming for the Inter-Service Topographical Department on the basis of his visual acuity and ended up assigned to 30AU [Assault Unit] landing in France soon after D-Day, embroiled in the heavy action around Cherbourg. It has been noted that Harling, in his “sardonic elegance of manner and cool sexual expertise” (ODNB) bore a distinct resemblance to his good friend’s immortal creation. Famously Blanshard was one the earliest readers of Fleming’s manuscript for Casino Royale, his first essay at fiction; advising him not to publish it, or at least to publish it under a pseudonym, to avoid the “mill-stone round his neck”. On that occasion he refused her advice, but in his inscription here Fleming is expressing his gratitude for her skill in researching and proof-reading the present work, professional advice he had no problem in accepting. A wonderfully allusive association, blending Fleming’s very real wartime exploits and loyalties with his legendarily, sometimes darkly, fanciful amours in the creation of the inimitable Bond. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco solander box, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, compartments elaborately gilt, front panel with black morocco roundel gilt after the original front panel of jacket.
    "Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. Almost single-handedly, he revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional reactions Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Reilly, 571). The inspiration for these changes came from Fleming's experiences of travel in the U.S. and his knowledge of Jamaica itself, where Live and Let Die was written at Fleming's 'Goldeneye' estate. The novel's innovations were positively noted by The Sunday Times when they wrote "[h]ow wincingly well Mr. Fleming writes." And the Times thought Live and Let Die "is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills - of slightly sadistic excitements also - though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor."
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    1964: Variety reports Goldfinger breaking US records in New York at the DeMille and Coronet theaters. The New York Times says as a result, the Coronet plans midnight screenings. The DeMille says it will run the film 24 hours through year's end to meet demand.
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    Theater Open 24 Hours For
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    December 23, 1964, Page 22

    The DeMille Theater at Broadway and 47th Street will remain open 24 hours a day through the end of the year to meet the public demand for showings of “Goldfinger.” The theater hopes to show the new film about Ian Fleming's fictional agent, James Bond, at least 12 times during each 24‐hour period.

    The policy starts today and it is believed to be the first time that it has been employed to meet ticket demands at a midtown movie house. At the smaller Coronet Theater, regular midnight performances of “Goldfinger” also will begin today.

    Walter Reade‐Sterling Theaters yesterday predicted record first‐day grosses at both theatres. By 4 P.M. yesterday boxoffice returns at the 1,496‐seat DeMille had reached $6,200. The previous champion, “The Night of the Iguana,” grossed: $8,539 for the entire day last year. At the 599‐seat Coronet, where “Lilith” set a record of $3,957, that figure was being‐surpassed by late afternoon attendance.
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    1965: Thunderball released in Australia.
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    1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)
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    1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography filming Ninjas.

    1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
    1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia and the Netherlands.
    Australian Daybill,
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    1971: 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò zuànshí dǎng; Iron King Kong broke the Diamond Party) released in Hong Kong.
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    1972: 007 ドクター・ノオ (Dokutā nō) re-release in Japan.

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    1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Pistol of Gold) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)
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    1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Nay-buh say-ee nay-buh uh-gay-een) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
    1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.
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    2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.
    Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo
    https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
    December 23, 2013 by David Leigh

    Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.

    There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.
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    2020: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a Star Trek episode inspired by Bond.
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    How James Bond Inspired This Underrated ‘Star Trek’
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    'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' writer Ron Moore looks back at "Our Man Bashir," which earned
    a stern letter from 007 studio MGM 25 years ago.
    December 23, 2020 11:39am
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    Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek helped introduce James Bond to the Final Frontier. Well, kind of.

    Writer Ronald D. Moore’s Deep Space Nine episode, “Our Man Bashir,” served as a nod to 1960s spy films like Goldfinger and Our Man Flint as a transporter accident (naturally) swaps out all of the main characters in Doctor Bashir’s (Alexander Siddig) secret agent holosuite program with those that look like Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the rest of the main crew. Soon, Bashir — sporting a very Bondian look and tuxedo — must complete the mission and save the day, 007-style, in order to return order to the station.

    To celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of this underrated episode of Trek, Ron Moore shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he and the rest of the production pulled off one of DS9’s best episodes — and irked the makers of the Bond movie in the process.

    “I remember it being a very fun episode to write,” Moore says of the season four putting, which aired at the end of November 1995. “It was one of our more challenging shoots, too, if I recall. I had always loved the classic James Bond movies, I grew up with the Sean Connery films, so it was a great opportunity to combine a version of them with another thing I loved, which was Star Trek.”

    “Our Man Bashir” originated as a freelance pitch from Bob Gillan, but it almost didn’t happen. At the time, DS9 producers were leery of doing yet another episode centered on the “malfunctioning holodeck” trope, since it was used very often on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what eventually won producers over, Moore recalls, is Gillan’s unique way into the story by using the holosuite as means to store the crew’s transporter patterns during a tech glitch while beaming.

    “Once we had that [narrative] device locked down, we were able to break the story in a way that was relatively easy, if I recall, because we had years of Bond movies to rely on and borrow from,” Moore says.

    And like the Bond movies that inspired the episode, “Our Man Bashir” also set out to capture the action-y feel of those classic films. The extensive approach to the episode’s set pieces led to “Our Man Bashir” being the longest shoot in the history of Deep Space Nine. Most DS9 episodes took seven, sometimes eight, days to make. The production filmed “Bashir” in nine.

    “It was a very ambitious episode, and the sets were amazing,” Moore recalls. “Especially the evil villain’s lair set. It was great to see the production value put into what was our version of, an homage to the classic volcanic lair-type sets that [the late Bond production designer] Ken Adams made back in the day. I mean, it was the closest thing you got to making a Bond movie.”

    At the time, it was rare for Trek writers to be on set, but “Our Man Bashir” marked one of the few times Moore was able to visit the production and watch the filming of a key action scene.

    “There’s this sequence with Bashir’s spy and one of the bad guys, you know, our version of an Odd Job-type character [Falcon, played by Colm Meany]. And there was this explosion and, we rarely got to go on set back in the TNG days. But I was able to see this and I have to say it was such a cool thing to be on set for because — we were really, essentially, trying to make a James Bond movie,” says Moore. “It was hard, very hard work. The shoot was a bear for the crew. But there was an energy to it because everyone was so excited to be pulling it off and doing something different, with the period, Bond-era costumes, too. One of my favorite memories from my time working on the show.”
    Another notable memory Moore has from the episode was MGM’s reaction to it. Even though Moore’s script avoids any direct lifts or references to its inspiration, the studio that holds the rights to Bond deemed what references were in “Our Man Bashir” hit too close to home.

    “MGM sent us a letter,” Moore remembers. “I don’t recall [Bond producers] the Broccolis being on it or having signed it, but I remember after the episode aired, the studio sent us a very stern letter. And it even got back to some of the higher-ups at Paramount. It seems [MGM was] not very flattered by our ‘homage,’ but it wasn’t like we got in any serious trouble or anything.”

    As a result, when Deep Space Nine revisited Bashir’s espionage holonovel in season five’s “A Simple Investigation,” the production made a very concentrated effort to dial back and water down any references to Bond iconography.

    Despite the objection from Bond’s home studio, “Our Man Bashir” proved to be somewhat of a popular episode among the staff and the fans.
    “It was an important episode for Siddig’s character,” Moore says. “At the time, we were still trying to figure out how best to use Bashir and give him agency, because we cast such a talented and versatile actor to play this character. You want to service those talents and the character the best way you can. And I remember there was this sort of change in how Bashir was treated and perceived by the fans, at least in our experience, from that point on. And I think Siddig said as much in interviews at the time or whatever. It was really a key moment for the character, a fun turning point for him, that helped us as writers when it came to find more stories for [Bashir] to do.”

    Unlike Bond, Bashir’s holosuite exploits as a secret agent were short-lived — fans only got two episodes featuring Bashir’s suave alter ego. But like Bond, the missions we did get made for very rewatchable hours of escapist entertainment. Something both Trek and Ian Fleming’s iconic character have in common.
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    2022: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.
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    December 24th

    1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
    (She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)
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    Jill Bennett (British actress)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)
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    Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
    Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
    Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
    Cause of death Suicide
    Years active 1951–1990
    Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)
    Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

    Early life
    She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
    Career
    Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).
    She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

    She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

    Personal life
    She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

    Death
    She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

    In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).
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    Jill Bennett (I) (1931–1990)
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071824/

    Filmography
    Actress (62 credits)

    1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

    1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
    1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
    1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
    - The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
    1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
    - The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
    1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
    - The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
    1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
    - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
    1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
    1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
    - Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
    1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
    - Jane (1980) ... Jane

    1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
    1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
    1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
    1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
    - Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
    1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
    1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
    - The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
    1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
    - Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
    1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
    1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
    1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
    - The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
    1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
    1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
    1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
    1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
    - Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
    1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
    1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
    - The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
    1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
    - Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
    1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
    - Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
    1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
    1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
    1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
    - We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
    - A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
    - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
    - Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
    - The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
    1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
    - How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
    - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
    1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
    - Foolish Wives (1963)
    1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
    - The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
    - Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
    1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
    - The Book Bag (1962)
    - The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
    1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
    - Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
    1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
    1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
    - Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
    - Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
    - The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
    - Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
    1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
    1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
    - Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

    1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
    1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
    - Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
    - The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
    - Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
    - Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
    - Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
    1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
    - Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
    1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
    1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
    1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
    1956 The Extra Day - Susan
    1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
    1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
    1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
    1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
    1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
    1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
    1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
    1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
    1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

    Writer (1 credit)

    1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
    - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
    - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
    - Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
    - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
    - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)
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    1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
    (He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)
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    Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
    David McGillivray | Tue 28 Jun 2005 19.02 EDT
    The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".

    His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.
    Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.

    A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.

    Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.

    His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

    Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).
    Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.
    Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.
    After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.
    · Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005
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    Filmography
    Actor (34 credits)

    1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
    - Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar

    1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
    - Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
    1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
    1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
    - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
    1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
    1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
    1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
    - The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
    1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
    - King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
    1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
    - R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
    - Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
    1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
    - Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
    1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
    - It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov

    1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
    - Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
    1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
    - The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
    1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
    - Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
    1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
    - Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    - The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    - The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
    1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
    - Intruder (1974) ... John
    1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
    - The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
    - The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
    1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
    Lt. Berg / Lieut. Berg
    - A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
    1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
    - Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
    - Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton

    1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
    1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
    - A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
    1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
    1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
    1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.5 (1964)

    Writer (2 credits)

    1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)

    1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
    - Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)

    Soundtrack (2 credits)

    1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
    1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")

    Archive footage (3 credits)

    2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi
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    1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
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    1969: Gene Siskel"s "Bond and de Sade" reviews On Her Majesty's Secret Service in the Chicago Tribune
    1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title) released in Belgium.
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    1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
    1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
    1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.
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    1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.
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    2019: yahoo!movies reports on Empire Magazine's interview with Daniel Craig and why he returned for No Time To Die.
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    Daniel Craig says unfinished business with James Bond prevented him from quitting the role after the release of Spectre in 2015.

    The 51-year-old actor is returning as Ian Fleming’s super spy for the fifth and final time in 2020’s No Time To Die but, for a while, it looked like he’d had enough after his second 007 film with Sam Mendes.

    When asked about making a fifth outing by Time Out in 2015, Craig infamously responded: “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”

    Now, talking to Empire Magazine for its February 2020 issue, Craig says he had “a secret idea” for his swan song that Spectre failed to achieve.

    “If Spectre had been [my last Bond film], the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine,” he says.

    “But somehow it felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more.’”

    “I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that,” he adds. “But this feels like it is.”

    Craig’s comments suggest No Time To Die may offer closure for his incarnation of 007 which was first introduced to the world in 2006’s Casino Royale.

    Craig’s tenure is the first time a Bond actor’s films have enjoyed a loose narrative connection to form a canon of sorts. Casino Royale was an origin film, while 2008’s Quantum of Solace followed Bond as he sought revenge for the death of Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd.

    2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre also shared narrative threads, including the return of the mysterious Mr White (Jesper Christensen) in Spectre. White is the father of Léa Seydoux’s Dr. Madeleine Swann, also returning in No Time To Die.

    Empire’s new issue – which promises new interviews with Craig, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli, and Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek – is on newsstands from Friday 27 December.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    December 25th

    1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, California.
    (That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
    1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen, The Thunderbolt, Swedish title) released in Finland.

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    1969: 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò xuěshān bǎo; Iron King Kong Breaks Through the Snow Mountain Fort) released in Hong Kong. 1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.
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    1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.
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    1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.
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    1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007 / Diayamondo wa eien ni; Diamonds Forever) released in Japan.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
    1999: Само един свят не стига (Only One World Is Not Enough) released in Bulgaria.
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    2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
    2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
    2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.

    2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.
    Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!
    http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
    Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Radiohead just released a new song!

    “Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”

    He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”

    Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!
    FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.

    2022: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema and IMAX Theatre at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, remain closed for renovations and the Christmas holiday.
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    CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA
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    Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.

    Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.

    About the cinema
    Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.

    Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.

    In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.

    Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.

    2024: BBC2 airs documentary From Roger Moore With Love at 9PM local.

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    2024, 1h 18m
    FROM ROGER MOORE WITH LOVE is an exclusive behind the scenes look at the charismatic actor who redefined the role of James Bond.
    Directed by
    Jack Cocker ... (directed by)
    Cast
    Annette Andre ... Self
    Steven Berkoff ... Self
    Pierce Brosnan ... Self
    Dick Cavett ... Self
    Joan Collins ... Self
    Gloria Hendry ... Self
    Roger Moore ... Self (archive footage)
    Jane Seymour ... Self
    Christopher Walken ... Self
    David Walliams ... Self

    Produced by
    Gabriel Jagger ... executive producer
    Janet Lee ... executive producer
    Karen Steyn ... producer
    Cinematography by Jack Cocker
    Editing by David G. Hill, Noel Nelis
    Editorial Department
    Jon Bruce ... colorist
    Sean Ewins ... Post Producer

    From Roger Moore With Love (2024) | Official Trailer (3:08)

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    December 26th

    1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.
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    Spies, affairs and James Bond... The secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime mistress
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    17 March 2017 • 9:00am
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    Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
    Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell
    Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.

    They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.

    To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.
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    Credit: Courtesy of Emily Russell/A Constant Heart
    These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.

    [See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]
    Sunday 26 December, 1943

    Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.

    When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.
    Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.

    A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
    1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.

    1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark. 1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.
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    1965: Agent 007 operasjon Tordensky (Agent 007 Operation Thundercloud) released in Norway.
    1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway. 1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia .
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    1974: 鐵金剛大戰金槍客 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn jīn qiāng kè; Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner) released in Hong Kong.
    1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
    1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
    1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.

    2024: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.

    2024: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas resumes tonight through New Year's Day January 1, 2025, and the summer festival happens every Saturday through July and August.
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    See the complete article here:

    Junkanoo Carnival is held every Boxing Day & New Year’s Day. Junkanoo is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture & the most anticipated event of the year! Here is everything you need to know about Junkanoo!

    Information
    Location: Bahamas, Nassau
    Date: December 26, 2024 · January 1, 2025

    When is Junkanoo?
    Junkanoo
    is a four-day celebration that always runs between Boxing Day, 26th December and New Year’s Day 1st January.
    UPDATED
    When is Junkanoo 2024
    ? The 2024 Junkanoo Carnival takes place between Thursday 26 December 2024 and Wednesday 1 January, 2025.
    Where to experience Junkanoo?
    Junkanoo
    celebrations today occur only on the Islands of The Bahamas. The street parades are held in downtown Nassau on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. However smaller celebrations occur on other islands including the Abacos, the Exumas, Harbour Island, and Grand Bahama.

    Carnivaland recommends tours, events and accommodation based on our extensive experience and knowledge of them. We may earn affiliate commission from affiliate links in this article. Read more about our policy.

    What is Junkanoo?
    Junkanoo
    is an exciting four-day carnival celebration that occurs around the Christmas/New Year period and showcases Bahamian culture and traditions with music, costumes and street parades. For the Bahamian peopleJunkanoo is more than just a parade, it is a representation of what makes the Bahamas such a special place. Junkanoo is so revered by the locals because it is the ultimate celebration of everything Bahamian, it is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture. The essence of Junkanoo is joy and happiness. Junkanoo is all about enjoying life and embracing your heritage through food, dance, music, family, friends and joy.

    Junkanoo attracts visitors from all over the world who descend on the Bahamas to have a great time and get immersed in the Bahamian Culture.
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    How is Junkanoo celebrated?
    Originally Junkanoo began as a small street celebration but today into something that can rival any Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration around the world!

    Junkanoo has two street parades held annually on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. So on these days you can expect large street celebrations full of music, dancing, costumes and spirited revelers. Expect an amazing display of local arts, crafts and delicious local cuisine for sale.

    There are also some other carnival events including JunkaMania, Music Masters, Midnight Rush, and Road Fever. Junk Mania is a 3-night music festival that showcases Junkanoo Music, and other Junkanoo art forms like drumming and dance.

    What is the Difference Between Bahamas Carnival & Junkanoo?
    Junkanoo and Bahamas Carnival are two widely popular carnivals that are both held in the Bahamas. Both of them are beloved by the locals and attract tourists from all over. While they are both similar carnival celebrations that involve parades, costumes, competition, music and of course partying, there are some big differences between them. One of the main differences is that Bahamas Carnival is held in April/early May and Junkanooalways takes place between the Christmas and New Year period.

    Junkanoo is also a more traditional carnival with more traditional music, dances and costumes. Junkanoo is about showing off the island’s rich culture and history. Where the Bahamas Carnival is more like the typical carnival celebration you will find throughout the Caribbean with a heavy emphasis on soca music. Both celebrations are amazing and worth attending!

    What is the History of Junkanoo
    What are the origins of Junkanoo? Junkanoo is a party that has been occurring in The Bahamas for well over 500 years! The history of Junkanoo dates back to the Bahamas colonial days, when there were still slaves working on plantations.

    During the Christmas season slaves were given three days off and would spend those days throwing large celebrations. The celebrations were filled with dance, music, costumes, colorful masks and see participants travel from house to house on stilts.

    Others believed that The Bahamas Junkanoostarted from the French ‘gens inconnus,’ which translates to ‘masked people’.
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    Junkanoo Carnival Man jumping open legs
    The Legend of John Canoe
    Who is John Canoe? There is a local folk legend that believes that The Bahamas Junkanoo celebrations actually began because of a West African Prince named John Canoe who is revered for outwitting the English to become a local hero.

    Rumor has it that John Canoe demanded the right along with the rights for his people to be able to celebrate even after they were captured and brought to the West Indies as a slave.

    Humble Beginnings of Junkanoo
    Historically Junkanoo was a more spontaneous celebration that consisted of simple costumes and hand-made instruments. In the early parades participants work masks made from flour paste. By the 1920’s costumes were made from paper, cloth and facial painting or natural material like sea sponges.

    By the 1940s anything and everything was used to make Junkanoo costumes material, crepe paper, newspaper and wires. The original Junkanoo musical instruments were home-made. created from conch shells, horns, and poinciana pods.

    Junkanoo Groups
    What are Junkanoo groups? Junkanoo Groups are organizations created and organized by members of the community that participate in the parades. Junkanoo is an intense competition between seven groups on the island. The different Junkanoo groups include the Saxons, Roots, One Family and The Valley Boys, the Prodigal Sons and the Music Makers.

    The Junkanoo groups have around 500-1000 members who are divided into three different categories that include musicians, dancers and costumed performers. Each of these three different categories is used as criteria for judging.

    Each Junkanoogroup competes for cash prizes and bragging rights that comes with winning the title of Best JunkanooGroup. Junkanoo Groups spend an entire year preparing and coordinating the parade with their chosen themes.

    Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce the competition is in Junkanoo.

    Scrap Groups
    The Junkanoo Parade
    also features smaller groups that are called Scrap Groups who aren’t as well organized but represent broad sections of the community.

    Anyone who wants is allowed to participate in Junkanoo so long as they follow a clear set of rules established by the National Junkanoo Association. Even tourists can join in the Junkanoo Parade.

    Junkanoo Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Street Parade
    Junkanoo
    has been recognized as having one of the most entertaining street parades in the world! Junkanoo has two street parades that are held on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The Parades are held in downtown Nassau on Bay and Shirley streets.

    In fact, the Junkanoo parade that takes place on Boxing Day is actually completely different to the Junkanoo parade that takes place on New Year’s Day! Each of the different Junkanoo Groups will come up with an entirely separate theme for each parade. That means that each parade will have different costumes, different dances and different music. Both parades are always equally spectacular, and it cannot be said which parade is considered the better parade to attend.

    Junkanoo Street Parades contain different groups in each of the parades so you won’t feel like you’re watching the same parade again. The Parades actually begin in the early hours of the morning before the sun comes up and it gets too hot, so from around 2am-10am.

    Junkanoo Parades are a visual delight full of colors and sound. Everywhere you look you will see bright colorful costumes. Rhythmic sounds fill the air made by the drums, cowbells or whistles that accompany an array of brass instruments.

    The Junkanoo Groups have spent months perfecting their dance routines and perform with vast amounts of energy and enthusiasm. The musicians bang out pop songs on cowbells and the goat skin drums. The elaborate costumes are on full display wowing the audience.

    Both sides of the street are full with large crowds of spectators and die-hard fans that you can barely move. People climb atop trees and street lights and fill balconies to get a good view. The atmosphere is electric, everyone is dancing and everyone is having a good time.

    All this is being done under the intense scrutiny of the judges who mark the groups on who has the best music, costume and overall best group. At the end of the procession is when the judges announce the winners and hand out cash prizes and bragging rights for the next year.

    Where to Watch the Junkanoo Street Parade
    The great thing about the JunkanooStreet Parade is that it is free to watch! You can just find a spot on the street along the parade route and enjoy the show. However, if you want to avoid the crowds and get great views of the parade, you can pay to sit in one of the grandstands that are set up along the way. Or you can watch from one of the few private balconies along the parade route.

    Grandstand Seating at Junkanoo
    There are many grandstands that are set up along the parade route in Bay Street. You can purchase tickets to sit in one of these which not only get you a great view over the parade but means that you can avoid the crowds. You can also leave the grandstands and re-enter when you would like.

    Rawson Square also has a giant grandstand which is a great option. This is where the judges are located, so all the groups save their best dances and performances for when they pass the judges and the energy is heightened. The seats in this area are more expensive than in the other areas.

    Private Balconies on Bay Street
    One of the best ways to view Junkanoo is from one of the many balconies that overlook Bay Street. Several restaurants, bars and hotels that line the parade route will host private parties where you can view the parade from their balconies. This is a more expensive option than the bleachers, and some of the venues will sell Junkanoo packages that also include drinks and food. Others just sell access to their balconies and you will have to purchase your own food. This is a great option if you want to avoid the crowds, get great views over the parades and have quick access to a bathroom.

    Junkanoo at Street Level
    If you don’t want to spend money then you can always join the crowds and find a spot along the parade route. It is free to watch the parades along Bay and Shirley Streets, Bethel Avenue, Blue Hill Road and Poinciana Drive. However, you will be fighting with thousands of others for a good view so we highly recommend arriving early. Rawson Square is a great place to go watch the parades because that is where the judges are set up so everyone puts on their best show when walking past. They also hand out awards afterwards.

    Bay Street is the most popular option to watch the parades. If you want to get a good view you will have to get there early as Bay Street can be packed with 4 or 5 lines of people in front of you, so it will be hard to see unless you are tall. However, it is a lot of fun watching on the street, because the crowd energy is high. It can be difficult finding access to a bathroom, there are public port-o-potties but it is extremely crowded.

    Another good option is to watch along Shirley Street that runs parallel to Bay Street. The parade also runs down here and it is a lot less crowded than Bay Street, but the performances are not as energetic because they save their energy for the Bay Street Crowds and grandstands. But it is a good option if you want a more relaxing Junkanoo experience and you can still admire the beautiful costumes.

    Where to stay for Junkanoo Bahamas?
    There are hundreds of options for accommodations. From luxurious resorts and hotels, to guesthouses there is something for all budgets. Most tourists stay in the Paradise Island area of Nassau, and just take a taxi to the carnival parade.

    Most of the action takes place in downtown Nassau and there are plenty of hotels and guest houses in this area if you want to be close to the action.

    Beach Hotels close to the parade route include:
    • Grand Hyatt Baha Mar
    • SLS Baha Mar
    • Sandals Royal Bahamian All Inclusive – Couples Only
    • Breezes Resort & Spa All Inclusive, Bahamas

    Check out Booking.com for some great accommodation options close to Junkanoo Carnival.
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    Junkanoo Carnival Man in traditional costume
    Junkanoo Costumes
    One of the things that make Junkanoo Festival so spectacular are the Junkanoo Costumes! There is no limit to what a Junkanoocostume can be, or can be made of. Junkanoo costuming is an incredibly creative and tedious process that demands thousands of man hours. The Junkanoocostume designers are required to have tremendous skill and creativity. The Junkanoo costume ideas always stem from the chosen Junkanoo group’s chosen theme.

    Junkanoo Junkanoo Costumes DIY – Junkanoo Groups spend months creating carnival costumes out of not much more than Styrofoam, cardboard and crepe paper.

    The Junkanoo Costume designers create intricate patterns using the selected theme as inspiration onto cardboard. This is then used as the base for the Junkanoo costumes. Once the structure is complete, hundreds of brilliantly colored layers of fringed crepe paper are pasted on.

    This fringe effect is what gives the Junkanoo costumes the Bahamas so much texture and dimension! Truly you will spend your time at the Junkanoo Festival wandering around admiring the JunkanooCostumes. 

    Cultural expression
    Cultural expression is highly revered in Junkanooand the chosen Junkanoo themes are always incredibly creative depictions of fantasy and reality. Often you will see visual representations of The Bahamas past and present, or satirical or political themes.

    Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce this competition is in Junkanoo. 

    Junkanoo Bahamas Music
    The unique Junkanoo music is equally as lively as the costumes are beautiful. The music makes everyone want to get up and dance. Junkanoo music was heavily influenced by West African drum rhythms, the blues, and other Caribbean musical sounds.

    Today most of the original home-made instruments have been replaced by modern musical instruments with most Junkanoo Bahamas groups featuring a brass band and brass instruments to create the melody.

    Pulsating music is produced from the goat-skin drums. However, you will still see some original home-made musical instruments such as the conch shell, horns, cowbells and poinciana pods.

    Junkanoo Bahamas New Year’s Day
    Before the Junkanoo New Year’s Day Parade kicks off, take to the streets and watch all the firework celebrations occurring across the islands. Immediately following the fireworks all the Junkanoo groups start setting up for their parade.

    Most of the locals are in church so you can see behind the scenes and feel the frenzy and excitement as the groups prepare. When church finishes thousands start to fill up the streets for the start of the next parade.

    Junior Junkanoo Festival
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    is all about getting the next generation excited about Junkanoo. The kids get their very own chance to join groups and perform in a children’s parade. The children’s parade is full of color and very cute to watch.

    Junkanoo Summer Festival
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    has become so popular that they now celebrate it twice a year! Junkanoo is also held again in the middle of Summer, every Saturday of July, to allow more people to experience this cultural phenomenon. July is when lots of tourist’s flock to the Bahamas to enjoy their summer holidays. In addition to the parades they also have live entertainment, competitions and food and drink vendors set up.

    Things to do in the Bahamas
    The Bahamas is the ideal destination for a memorable vacation, especially for those who enjoy spending time outside in the warm weather, relaxing in a tropical location. There is so much to do here like visit the infamous Atlantis Resort, where you can splash around and enjoy the waterslides. The Island also offers amazing Scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming with stingrays and/or sharks, deep-sea fishing excursions, beautiful beaches, parasailing, horseback riding, sailing, jet skiing and more. There are a few museums where you can go to enjoy the beautiful culture and history.

    Some fun activities to do in the Bahamas:
    • Pearl Island: Pigs Beach with Lunch
    • Parasail Over Cabbage Beach
    • Nassau: Jet Ski Ride, Parasailing & Banana Boat Tour
    • Paradise Island Sunset Catamaran Dinner Cruise
    • Nassau: Jet Ski Adventure
    • Rose Island Boat Tour with Snorkeling
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    Junkanoo Carnival Dancing with confetti
    If you were impressed by the costumes in the parade then check out the Junkanoo Expo. It is a museum dedicated to Junkanoo. It showcases some of the best costumes from the previous parades. Looking up-close lets you appreciate just how beautiful and intricate these costumes are.

    Junkanoo Festival Tickets
    The best way to watch the parade is to buy a ticket for one of the many grandstands that align the parade route. Tickets can be purchased from the official website bahamasjunkanoocarnival.com.

    How to get to Junkanoo Bahamas?
    The best way to get to the Bahamas is to fly. The airport is connected to many international airports. You can also arrive by boat from another island or the USA. Once you are on the island it is very easy to take a taxi around.

    Carnivaland recommends tours, events and accommodation based on our extensive experience and knowledge of them. We may earn affiliate commission from affiliate links in this article. Read more about our policy.

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 27th

    1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.

    1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugging devices. Also the last day of filming in Jamaica includes Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.
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    1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.
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    1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
    (Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)
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    Hoagy Carmichael
    American composer, musician, and actor
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    Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
    Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael

    Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.

    Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.

    After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).
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    Hoagy Carmichael.
    Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
    Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”

    As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.

    Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.
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    Filmography
    Actor (23 credits)

    1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
    - Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
    1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
    - Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker

    1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
    - Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
    1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
    1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
    - Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
    - Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
    1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
    - Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
    1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
    - Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
    - The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
    - The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy

    1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
    - Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
    1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
    - The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
    1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Frazier
    - Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
    1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
    - Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
    1955 Timberjack - Jingles
    1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
    - The Whale on the Beach (1952)
    1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
    1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
    1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

    1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
    1947 Night Song - Chick
    1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
    1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
    1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
    1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
    1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

    Soundtrack (376 credits)
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    Music department (5 credits)

    2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)

    1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
    1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)

    1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
    - C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)

    1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)

    Composer (1 credit)

    1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)
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    Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
    Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters
    'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'
    Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne
    As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.
    Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
    Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers
    Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.
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    To Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.


    To Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.

    2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.
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    • Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
    • Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History
    Knight Bachelor
    • David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
    • Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
    • Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
    • Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
    • Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
    • Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
    • Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
    • Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
    • Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
    • Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
    • Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
    • Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
    • Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
    • Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
    • William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
    • Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
    • Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity
    Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
    • Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 28th

    1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."
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    The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.
    TO WREN HOWARD

    Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:
    ‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

    1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
    (Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Trouble Spot)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 27:
    “Trouble Spot” (1974)
    "Dræbende budskab"
    [= Lethal Message]
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    1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and a close shave with an asp.

    1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)
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    Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress
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    Dec. 30, 1991

    Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

    Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.
    She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
    The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

    Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

    In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

    In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.
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    Filmography
    Actress (9 credits)

    1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
    1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
    Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
    - Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
    - Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
    1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
    1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
    - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

    1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
    1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
    - The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
    1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
    1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
    - Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
    1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
    1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
    1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

    Archive footage (4 credits)

    2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
    2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
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    1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.
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    2002: BBC airs James Bond - A BAFTA Tribute celebrating 40 years of the film series.
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    James Bond: A BAFTA
    Tribute
    (2002)
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    1h 25min | TV Special 28 December 2002

    Director: Stuart McDonald
    Writer: Steve Punt
    Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, many others
    James Bond 40th Anniversary BAFTA Tribute (1:24:23)
    2002: Pierce Brosnan in the Irish Examiner proposes who the next Bond actor could be.
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    Pierce Brosnan reveals who he
    thinks should be next Bond
    Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.
    Sat, 28 Dec, 2002 - 08:51

    Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.

    Brosnan says he thinks the next 007 should be Colin Salmon.

    Salmon has already appeared in three Bond films as Charles Robinson.

    Brosnan says he thinks Salmon is a "great actor".
    "It'll be interesting to see how I really kind of deal with it, letting go" he says.

    "You become a bit possessive of the role. Especially when you've had the success like you do with Die Another Day, and each one has gotten better and better," Brosnan says.
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    2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.
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    黄金の銃を持つ男

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    1981 reprint.
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    2015: The Guardian remembers an interview with Sean Connery from 28 December 1971.
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    Sean Connery, back in Bondage -
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    28 December 1971: Tom Hutchinson talks to Sean Connery about his
    love/hate affair with James Bond

    Tom Hutchinson - Mon 28 Dec 2015 00.30 EST
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    Sean Connery ordered a Perrier water because he had been drinking heavily the night before and, mortal, had not been able to make a James Bond-like with one leap he was free escape from the clutches of the resulting hangover. He watched the elegant back of Kenneth Tynan disappearing into the further recesses of the restaurant. “K-k-kenneth (sic) f-f-fucking T-t-tynan,” he mimicked. “Spends his life criticising plays from a position of lofty principle and then dives into a show like “Oh, Calcutta!” which isn’t half so well presented as Raymond’s Revuebar where I was the other night. Even though the Revuebar champagne is so bloody pricey…
    ‘Of course the
    films will go on, but
    who’ll play me?’
    Sean Connery
    “I’ll give Tynan one thing, though: I was once at a party and he was there and there was this fight between two men over a girl and he helped separate the men and do you know what he said? ‘Stop behaving like people,’ he said. He must have been waiting all his life for a situation where he could make a remark like that.”

    He ordered a dozen oysters and consumed them with the avid rapidity of a man who is now aged forty-one and knows he needs the vitamins to make him feel human again. For the actor who has so often assumed the myth of snobbish thuggery that is Bond he is very human indeed: he does not evade or avoid; talks with a fine growl of voice that, when relaxed, occasionally lapses into the dour vowels inherited from a working-class background in the tougher areas of Edinburgh (milkman, lorry driver, cement mixer, bricklayer, steel bender, coffin-polisher, and other grinding etceteras). He uses four-letter words like a dramatic technician: to freeze what you might pass off as a casual remark into a statement of import.

    His new Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” is to be released on Thursday (Odeon, Leicester Square) and he had, he said, been put through the necessary mill of interviews to promote that event. “At least you converse. Usually I hate interviews because I end up boring myself listening to me talking all the time.” He managed, though, to talk without self-inflicting too much pain.
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    His love-hate affair with the character of Bond began ten years ago, when producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli signed him up for “Dr No[.” He is not exactly in sympathy with the character (“I’ve only read two Bond books; I found Ian Fleming himself much more interesting than his writing”), but realises that without Bond he would not be the rich man he is today. He is a director of a Pall Mall bank and was able to donate a lot of the money to his self-founded Scottish International Educational Trust from the deal he made on “Diamonds Are Forever.”

    The role of Bond was taken over for the last film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” by George Lazenby, an actor whose most eloquent claim to previous fame was as Big Fry in the TV commercial. The result was a Big Drag. The lure that trapped Connery back again in the part was the chance to produce two further films of his own choice for United Artists, a large percentage of the profits and a start-stop clause in his contract which meant that if shooting over-ran 18 weeks he would be paid $10,000 a week. The film finished on time.

    “It can be done, you see, if there’s money at stake. I’d been frigged about too much on other Bond pictures. There’s so much bullshit that comes from bad decisions being made at the top. I admire efficiency: like watching a good racehorse or the way Picasso works: where everything functions perfectly within its capacity. But talking to some of these moguls about it is like trying to describe to someone who has never taken exercise what it is like to feel fit when you do exercise. They don’t understand.”

    He is notably overt in his opinions of producers Saltzman and Broccoli (“for every good idea Harry has had he’s gone on to eight flops”) and said: “They’re not exactly enamoured of each other. Probably because they’re both sitting on fifty million dollars or pounds and looking across the desk at each other and thinking: that bugger’s got half of what should be all mine.”

    He revealed his lack of Bond’s culinary conceit by saying he couldn’t remember what lobster thermidor was, settled for cold lobster instead, and maintained yet again that “Diamonds Are Forever” would be the last Bond film he would ever make. “Of course the films will go on, but who’ll play me I just don’t know and can’t guess.”

    This is an edited extract, read the full article
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    2022: TechiAzi reports on Monica Bellucci's two Bond auditions prior to Spectre.
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    The Two James Bond Movies Monica Bellucci Auditioned For (And
    Didn’t Get) Before Landing Spectre
    By Rahul Kumar On Dec 28, 2022

    Part of the reason the James Bond movies have such good behind-the-scenes stories to share is the fact that there are so many who’ve auditioned to be a part of that world who either didn’t get in or found their way in later. That’s not only true with the men who could have been Bond, but also some of the supporting characters in 007’s adventures. 

    No one knows that better than series vet Colin Salmon, who played the role of Robinson during the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond. What’s even more interesting is in a recent interview with the Spyhards Podcast (opens in new tab), Salmon revealed that was also the case with Bond Woman Monica Bellucci. Before ultimately landing the role of Lucia Sciarra in Spectre with Daniel Craig, the actor had unsuccessfully auditioned for two consecutive films in the Pierce Brosnan era.

    Colin Salmon was there for both occasions, and he had some exciting stories from both instances. Here’s how he revealed those experiences, starting with his answer to the question of who he was most disappointed didn’t stick the landing after their James Bond audition: 
    It’s Monica. Monica Bellucci came in twice actually. She came in once for Tomorrow Never Dies, and again for The World is Not Enough. She strapped me to the chair, I was strapped to the chair, and she straddled me and licked my face. And I was like … and she still didn’t get it. I said ‘Give her anything she wants, please.’
    As you can see in Colin Salmon’s wild story from The World is Not Enough audition, Monica Bellucci was clearly auditioning for the role of Elektra King. The surprise villainess who masterminded the evil scheme driving the 19th James Bond film, it was a role that eventually went to French actor Sophie Marceau. 

    Though the casting was absolutely perfect, with Marceau’s Bond Woman standing as an equal to 007, it’s kind of hard not to see how good of a fit Bellucci would have been for this role. The prospect is especially tempting when just a couple of years later, she’d play the morally grey Persephone in 2003’s sequels to The Matrix.

    Colin Salmon had noted that this was the second time he’d helped Monica Bellucci test to be a female lead in the James Bond franchise. Both instances came about as the actor was tapped to help test the Bond Women for Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as The World is Not Enough. That experience entrenched Salmon in the franchise’s machinery, and eventually helped Pierce Brosnan champion his candidacy to succeed him as 007. 

    In the case of Monica Bellucci, her first time trying out for a James Bond movie was a bit harder than that more confident incident described above. Continuing his story about how he and the Italian actress bonded over their previous meeting, Colin Salmon divulged this sweet tale: 
    In all honesty on Tomorrow Never Dies, I went and had lunch with her, because I’d spotted she was struggling. Her English was not up to clarity, so I went and I just asked if she’d wanted to run the lines, and we did. Genuinely, because I know that one, I could feel the strain. And then, like I said, she came back for The World is Not Enough, which Sophie [Marceau] did. Then she was there, like you said, in Spectre. I was so happy to see that, especially in a role like that. It was a great role, and Sophie was amazing in The World is Not Enough.
    Whether it’s actors, story ideas or anything else that’s up for grabs in the world of 007, the first or even second time around isn’t always the charm. Several former James Bonds were named on their second tries, as even Pierce Brosnan had to wait his turn. 

    Fortune did smile on Monica Bellucci, and the results were well deserved. Through the stories that Colin Salmon told above, the James Bond franchise’s history of never saying never only rings truer than ever, and who knows where that lesson will be taught next.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    December 29th

    1959: A letter from Ian Fleming to friend and partner Ivar Bryce considers possibilities. Including diminishing Kevin McClory's involvement in the Bond film project.
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    The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
    Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes
    When rumours reached Fleming that Bryce was having second thoughts he
    wrote to his old friend on 29 December: "Having heard nothing from you for so
    long, I presume you are not dead," he began. "I have no idea what your plans are for the whole project, but the frost-bitten right toe which I suffered at my
    delicious Thanksgiving weekend is pulsating that you may have gone a bit cold on
    the whole business. If so, I shall perfectly understand. The idea of a $3 million
    budget with Kevin [McClory] at the helm dismays me, although I'm sure he could help to
    make a James Bond film that would please us both and bring in the cash
    customers. But I'm in the dark about all this and it may be that the jelly has jelled
    since I last saw you."

    At the start of the project, Fleming had led McClory to believe that he
    was the only person whom he would like to produce the Bond film, and
    realized too that it would be a very costly enterprise. Now he seemed
    to be using the very size of the project to undermine McClory's authority as
    producer and suggesting to Bryce that he be merely an assistant of some
    kind who could "help" with the picture. Also if Fleming's sums were correct
    the intended budget was now $3 million, and astronomical sum, and three
    times the eventual budget of 1962's Dr. No. Little wonder that Bryce was
    stepping back from the prospect of having to foot most that bill himself.
    "Showbiz is a ghastly biz," Fleming concluded in his letter. "And the last thing
    I want is for your to lose your pin-striped trousers in its grisly maw, however
    much fun you may have in the process. Nor do I want the first James Bond
    film to be botched, but the first consideration is primary. If you decide to
    skip the whole thing, don't forget that you have, or should have, a good
    saleable property in the script, so all is not completely lost." In other words,
    if Bryce wasn't going to make the film, maybe they could find somebody else
    that would. But where would that leave McClory?

    Most of all it left the vexed question of who exactly owned the Bond film
    project. McClory made it clear that as a partner in Xanadu he believed he
    owned a share in it and was unwilling to let it go...

    1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion and Rialto theaters. At the Pavilion, includes a midnight gala benefiting the British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association.
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    1965: Variety reports Thunderball out-grosses Goldfinger to date. For the next film, a shorter filming schedule and budget are expected.
    1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.
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    1966: You Only Live Twice films 12 days at Pinewood's Stage E.

    1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.

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    1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.

    2016: South China Morning Post reports on 2D game I Expect You To Die from Schell Games.
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    Game review: I Expect You To Die – 007-
    inspired puzzle game revels in the spy genre’s
    thrills and clichés
    Even playing in standard 2D format, this short but sweet game offers challenging escape-room-type puzzles
    Pavan Shamdasani | Published: 7:46am, 29 Dec, 2016
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    I Expect You To Die
    Schell Games
    4 stars
    “Do you expect me to talk?,” asks the tuxedoed spy, strapped down and facing a comically oversized laser. “No, Mr Bond,” replies the slightly pudgy German villain. “I expect you to die!”

    I love that scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger. It’s my favourite part of an otherwise average Bond flick – and appropriately it provides the title of this cool little spy game.

    Full disclosure, though: most critics are harping on about its virtual-reality capabilities, but my low budget meant we were forced to play it on a standard PC. That didn’t detract much from the overall gameplay, but we imagine complete immersion is a decidedly different experience.
    I Expect You To Die - Launch Trailer (1:07)
    The concept is simple, taking 1960s-style spy film clichés and transporting them into escape-room puzzle environments. But what could have been yet another set of stealthy situations poorly put together, are instead clever, crafty and often comical takes on being an overly curious video game spy.

    Let’s say you have to steal a car off a cargo ship. You’ve sneaked into the driver’s seat and maybe you want to start it up. Simply enough, right? Nope, the retina eye-scan immediately goes off and you’re quickly burned to a crisp.
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    A still from the game I Expect You To Die.
    Most games take death a little too seriously, but Die takes its name seriously (if little else), and you really are expected to croak it numerous times before finding the not-too-obvious solution. Submarine escapes, serum concoctions – there’s a whole lot of classic espionage love in this package, everything from its British-tinged voiceover to the overly obvious quips and one-liners. We can’t say we loved every single one of them, but we did appreciate the exactitude.

    Sadly, there aren’t enough levels here to sustain a proper experience, although that might change with add-ons and patches.

    Die takes its “super-spy” concept a little too far, giving your character strange telekinesis powers. I mean, we’re all for a bit of outlandish Moonraker-style escapades, but superpowers, really? Nevertheless, I Expect You to Die is a clever game, one of the smartest we’ve played all year. There’s a little bit too much that’s silly to make it one of our favourite spy games of all time, but in full-frontal VR we imagine it’s an experience worth dying for.
    'I Expect You To Die' Opening Credits (2:37)


    I Expect You To Die VR FULL WALKTHROUGH [NO COMMENTARY] 1080P 60FPS (1:11:17)

    2020: CineFix offers YouTube watchalong of GoldenEye with Martin Campbell and Famke Janssen in attendance.
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    Watch ‘GoldenEye’ Live with
    Martin Campbell and
    Famke Janssen
    See the complete article here:
    On 24 Dec, 2020 By Bond on the Box | In Film Screenings
    GoldenEye Live Watch Along w/ Famke Janssen and Martin Campbell (2:55:40)
    CineFix will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘GoldenEye’ (1995) by hosting a watchalong with actress Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp) and director Martin Campbell, on Tuesday, 29 December, 2020.

    Hosted by CineFix, the event is a ‘Watch From Home’ special encouraging viewers to stay safe, and stay home, during the pandemic.

    The event will stream live on YouTube from 7:00 PM (GMT).
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2024 Posts: 14,085
    December 30th

    1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.
    (He dies 18 January 1936 at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)
    The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
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    ...
    Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.
    The Day's Work, Rudyard Kipling, 1898.
    "·007
    ."

    A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...
    Complete story linked here.
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    1920: John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord) is born--New York City, New York.
    (He dies 21 January 1998 at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.)
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    Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

    John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.

    The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.
    Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.
    Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.

    He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.

    He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.

    In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.

    Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

    The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.

    Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.
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    Filmography
    Actor (75 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson

    1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
    - Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
    ...
    - Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
    1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
    1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
    1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
    - The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
    1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
    - The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
    1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
    - Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
    1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
    1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
    - Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
    1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
    - Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
    1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
    1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
    - Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
    - The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
    - The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
    1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
    - High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
    1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
    - Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
    1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
    - Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
    - Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
    1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
    - Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
    1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
    - The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
    1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
    - The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
    1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
    - The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
    1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
    - The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
    1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
    1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
    - How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
    1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
    - Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
    1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
    - A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
    1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
    1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
    1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
    - The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
    1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
    - Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
    1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
    - Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
    - Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
    1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
    - The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
    - House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
    1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
    1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
    - The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
    1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
    - Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
    1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
    - Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
    1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
    - The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
    1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
    1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
    - The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton

    1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
    - Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
    1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
    - The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
    1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
    - The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
    1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
    1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
    - Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
    1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
    1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
    - Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
    1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
    - Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
    1958 Man of the West - Coaley
    1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
    1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
    1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
    - Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
    - The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
    1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
    - The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
    1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
    - Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
    1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
    - Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
    1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
    1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
    - Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
    1957 Conflict (TV Series)
    - Pattern for Violence (1957)
    1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
    1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
    - Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
    - Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
    1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
    - A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
    - An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
    1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
    1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
    - The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
    - One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
    1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
    - This Land Is Mine (1956)
    1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
    - This Land Is Mine (1956)
    1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
    1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
    - Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
    1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
    - Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
    1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
    - Buckskin (1955)
    1955 Danger (TV Series)
    - Season for Murder (1955)
    1954 Suspense (TV Series)
    - String (1954)
    1954 The Web (TV Series)
    - Grand Finale (1954)
    1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
    - The Chinese Dolls (1954)
    - The Midnight Express (1953)
    1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
    - Criminal at Large (1953)
    1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
    - The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
    1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
    1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren

    1949 Project X - John Bates

    Producer (3 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)

    1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)

    1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

    Director (2 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

    1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
    - Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
    - Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
    - The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
    - Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
    - How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
    - Death with Father (1974)
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    1965: Thunderball premieres in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (UK general release follows 13 March 1966.)

    1970: The San Francisco Examiner reports John Gavin and Burt Reynolds tested for the Bond role.
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    1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.
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    Concept art
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    1974: Yasamak Için Öldür (Kill to Live) released in Turkey.
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    1983: 007 - Nunca Mais Outra Vez (007 - Never Again) released in Brazil.
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    1989: 007 살 인 면 허 (Sahl-een myun-huh; Murder Licence) released in the Republic of Korea.
    1998: The New Year Honours List recognizes Roger Moore to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his UNICEF work.
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    Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
    Diplomatic and Overseas
    • The Honourable Ernest David Decouto, J.P., Speaker, House of Assembly, Bermuda.
    • Dr. Samuel Wilson Hynd. For services to medical missionary work in Africa.
    • Roger George Moore. For charitable services, especially to UNICEF.
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    2012: Skyfall reaches £100 million ($161.6 million) in the UK (a first for a film there), plus the landmark $1 billion point for worldwide box-office.
    2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.
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    2023: New Year's Honours announced for 2024 include Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey named by His Majesty King Charles the Third for Order of the Companions of Honour.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 31st

    1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.

    1961: The Susan Barnes Sunday Express interview "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" ends talking to violence towards women with Barnes abruptly exiting actor Sean Connery's apartment.

    1963: Deed of Assignment executed this date states Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, and publisher Jonathan Cape assign rights to Kevin McClory for "all the copyright in the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel Thunderball in films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." And specifically from Fleming, "the exclusive right to the character James Bond as a character in any such scripts or film of Thunderball."
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    The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
    Chapter 21 - The Court Case That Killed Ian Fleming
    But most probably the reason for the rushed settlement was the fact that
    McClory's case was incontrovertible. [Peter] Carter-Ruck felt victory was in large
    measure due to William Mars-Jones' opening speech, which lasted a total of
    28 hours and 8 minutes, and placed all the evidence before the court.
    Concluding his brief, Mars-Jones felt it pertinent, in relation to the conduct
    of Fleming and Bryce towards McClory, to quote Macmillan, then Prime
    Minister, " What greater moral crime can there be than to deceive those
    naturally inclined to trust you, those who work with you, serve with ou and
    are your colleagues?"

    If Bryce and Fleming were hoping McClory would fall down in the
    witness box, they were sadly mistaken. With all of Fleming's connections--
    Eton, Sandhurst, naval intelligence, everyone figured McClory, an Irishman
    in an English court, didn't stand a chance. But he showed incredible
    command of the hundreds of letters in the case, which he'd committed to
    memory, and was indeed able to demonstrate that his partnership with Bryce
    in Xanadu had endured to include the Bond film. Fleming and Bryce had
    underestimated their foe. As Whittingham's son Jonathan later observed,
    "Fleming et al never believed that Kevin had either the nerve or the financial
    muscle to dare go the whole course. They were dead wrong." Now they were
    to pay the consequences.

    McClory's victory and revenge over the men who had sidelined him was
    considerable. Fleming would keep ownership of the Thunderball novel, but
    his publishers were to add the message: "Based on a screen treatment by
    Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author" to the title page of all
    future editions. It's there still today, McClory, in return was awarded the film
    and television rights to the book, as well as the copyright to all existing
    related scripts and treatments.

    The wording of the Deed of Assignment, executed on 31 December
    1963, is worthy of note and would prove highly significant in years to come.
    Fleming, Bryce and Jonathan Cape assigned to McClory "all the copyright in
    the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel in
    films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." Fleming also
    granted McClory "the exclusive right to use the character James Bond as a
    character in any such scripts or films of Thunderball.

    In addition McClory got his own court costs paid (thought to be in the
    region of £17,500) was awarded damages. In his book, You Only Live
    Once: Memories of Ian Fleming
    , Bryce explained how he forfeited a
    murderous slice of his personal assets to pay all the court costs.

    After the trial, McClory celebrated his victory at a nearby pub with Bobo
    and friend and fellow Irishman Peter O'Toole. "Now I can look forward to
    making the best james Bond film ever produced," he told reporters. he also
    revealed the main reason why he brought the court action: "To wipe out the
    thought of anyone in the profession that I was trying to cash-in on the name
    of James Bond.
    1965: For Thunderball the Los Angeles Times reports on 24 hour schedules at the Paramount Theater. Plus midnight and 2:30 midnight showtimes at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.

    1994: Chivers North America publishes a large print version of John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers.
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    2002: 007 어나더데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.
    2008: Donald Edwin Westlake dies at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.
    (Born 12 July 1933--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)
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    DONALD WESTLAKE
    See the complete article here:
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    Autobiography
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    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.
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    Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
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    Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)
    Writer | Actor
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    FOREVER AND A DEATH
    Donald E. Westlake
    June 2017
    ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7
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    A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
    A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
    AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!
    Read a sample chapter
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    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
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    2011: Reports say Craig almost quit the Bond role after Quantum of Solace.
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    In a recent interview, James Bond star Daniel Craig admitted he almost quit as James Bond. The actor who also stars in the remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ says he considered walking away due to lengthy delays due to MGM suffering from financial problems.
    However fortunes changed for both MGM and Daniel Craig as he has now restarted work on Bond 23 ‘Skyfall’ with director Sam Mendes. He said “There was that long period where Bond maybe wasn’t happening. I’d got it into my head that if it went another two years on top of the two-year gap we’d already had, then they should probably find someone else. And I should think about getting on with things.
    However, Craig also said he had “no desire to escape the role” now and said that Bond fans awaiting the release of Skyfall will be in for a real spectacular.

    2020: CinemaBlend reports why Steven Soderbergh turned down directing a Bond movie.
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    Directing A James Bond Movie
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    For any director, getting asked to direct a James Bond film is a career highlight. There’s been the legendary run of John Glen to Sam Mendes’ gritty reinterpretation to Cary Joji Fukunaga overseeing Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie. At some point, Eon Productions and MGM were courting celebrated filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to enter the Bond pantheon, and now the acclaimed director discussed why his vision of Bond never made it to the silver screen.

    Steven Soderbergh recently spoke with the podcast Happy Sad Confused to discuss his latest film Let Them All Talk. He spoke on a variety of subjects, including his take on film’s future and the importance of 2011’s Contagion in today’s climate. The conversation eventually turned to the director’s brief brush with the iconic spy franchise. Soderbergh explained to the podcast how his vision of 007 didn’t match up with MGM and Eon Production.
    Absolutely. Yeah. I love that world. I
    think we were at odds about some
    things that were important. We had
    some great conversations, and it
    was fun to think about. But we just
    couldn't...the last ten yards were,
    we just couldn't do it. We just
    couldn't figure it out.
    Given how experimental Soderbergh’s work tends to be, I could see where MGM and he might have clashed over Bond’s portrayal. He might have wanted to take Bond in directions Eon may have seen as going against the Bond brand. Soderbergh’s timeline did line up with the Daniel Craig era – Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. The same thing happened with fellow Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle after being chosen to direct Daniel Craig’s final Bond film. His clash with the production company eventually led to him leaving the project and Fukunaga stepping in.

    Around the time Soderbergh was being vetted for a Bond film, he had decided to take a brief hiatus from filmmaking due to the current Hollywood system. The filmmaker in him didn’t die as he directed and produced more projects during his “hiatus” than any other time in his career.

    But Soderbergh’s career hasn’t suffered from not doing a Bond film, to say the least. He went on to direct films such as the Magic Mike series, Side Effects and Haywire. The celebrated director even delved into television as the driving force behind the acclaimed Emmy-winning HBO television film Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

    In recent years, Steven Soderbergh has returned to being behind the camera with critically acclaimed films such as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and The Laundromat. He just wrapped filming No Sudden Moves with an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm and Ray Liotta. It’s nice to see someone as prolific as Soderbergh not let one film stop him from doing his craft even after taking some time away from the film industry.

    If you want more Steven Soderbergh, check out his latest film Let Them All Talk on HBO Max.

    2024: Bond-related New Year's Eve celebrations abound.


    Manai Australia
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    Casino Royale NYE Party! 🎉
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    London, United Kingdom
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    The Secret Agents party. NEW YEARS EVE 2024/25 STUNNING ROOFTOP VENUE Views of 20 miles over London and Fireworks Dress up and party like its NYE
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    Kington Langley, United Kingdom
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    Ledbury, United Kingdom
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    *** SOLD OUT ***Team Oak’s NEW YEARS EVE PARTY with James Bond themed Casino & Disco until 1:00am
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    New Year's Eve Bond Marathon Idea
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    Clifton, Virginia
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    007 New Year’s Eve
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    Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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    Ring In 2025 In Casino Royale Fashion!
    https://www.visitlauderdale.com/event/007-nye/43096/


    Mineral Wells, Texas
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    Mineral Wells’ New Year’s Eve Gala – Casino Royale
    Ring in the New Year in style at Mineral Wells’ New Year’s Eve Gala Casino Royale at The Crazy Water Hotel presented by Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce, Crazy Water and Clear Fork Bank- Mineral Wells Office! Enjoy a night of excitement featuring a live concert by The Tejas Brothers.[/b]
    https://visitmineralwells.org/event/mineral-wells-new-years-eve-gala-casino-royale/


    Peoria, Arizona
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    Step into the world of 007 this New Year’s Eve at Arizona Broadway Theatre! 🎭
    Dress to kill as your favorite Secret Agent, Bond Girl, or Bond Villain and prepare for an unforgettable night filled with sophistication, suspense, and celebration.
    https://www.instagram.com/arizonabroadway/p/DC2vd5_SoUL/


    Kirkland, Washington
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    A James Bond New Year's Eve Soirée
    https://www.facebook.com/events/8544-122nd-ave-ne-kirkland-wa-united-states-washington-98033/a-james-bond-new-years-eve-soirée/480517815022772/



    2034: With the end of the 70th year following author Ian Fleming's death, in theory his books and stories enter the public domain. (Though remedied by Danjaq LLC's registered trademarks for James Bond and 007.)


  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Annual recognition and thanks to @SirHilaryBray for originally starting this thread.



    January 1st

    1925: Zena Marshall is born--Nairobi, Kenya.
    (She dies 10 July 2009 at age 84--London, England.)
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    Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No
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    Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT
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    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
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    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")
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    1937: Suzy Kendall is born--Belper, Derbyshire, England.

    1941: Simón Andreu is born--Sa Pobla, Balearic Islands, Spain.

    1961: Ian Fleming returns to his Goldeneye estate and begins writing the ninth Bond novel. In failing health, he uses a screenplay from a 1958 project as its basis.
    1962: The Dr. No production hands out a draft shooting schedule to the crew.
    1965: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (Agent 007 - Goldfinger Mission) released in Italy.
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    1968: Dr. No re-release in the UK.
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    1968: This month Marvel Comics publishes Strange Tales Vol 1 #164 with the first of an eventual three appearances by James Bond.
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    Published January, 1968
    Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee
    Cover Artist Dan Adkins
    "Nightmare" Writer Jim Lawrence
    Penciler Dan Adkins
    Letterer Al Kurzrok
    Editor Stan Lee
    "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
    Writer Jim Steranko
    Penciler Jim Steranko
    Inker Bill Everett
    Letterer Art Simek
    Editor Stan Lee
    "Ain't you heard... Nick Fury's got more lives
    than a cat! "
    -- Nick Fury
    Appearing in "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

    Featured Characters: Nick Fury Nick Fury
    Supporting Characters: S.H.I.E.L.D., Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Sam
    Antagonists: Yellow Claw (robot), Fritz Voltzman (robot)
    Other Characters: Suwan (robot), Slim, James Bond (First appearance)
    Locations: New York City, Manhattan, S.H.I.E.L.D. Barbershop Headquarters
    Items: Ultimate Annihilator, Revive Chamber and the Self-Regenerating Cell, Amplifier, Code-a-Graph key, Transparent Car, Spectre-Suit, Image Distorter, Frigi-Wep (First appearance), Voltzman's cane
    Vehicles: Sky Dragon (First appearance), Transparent Car

    Synopsis for "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
    At the instant the Claw fired The Ultimate Annihilator at Fury, Suwan teleports him thru "Hyper-Dimensional Space" to the underground lair. She then teleports him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. barber shop, where he collapses. In his lair, The Claw tests the Ultimate Annihilator by destroying a satellite in orbit. Mad with power, he plots "the dawn of a new age...and age of vengeance...of darkness and death". S.H.I.E.L.D. medics give Fury the once-over in a "Revive Chamber", then warn him that any further stimulation could cause blackouts, blindness or death! Telling them to keep it confidential, Fury follows a tip, using the transparent car and a "Spectre-Suit" (to make him invisible) to trail a Claw agent. During a faked traffic accident, Fury sneaks into the trunk of the agent's car, getting out at their destination and getting the drop on The Claw & Von Voltzmann. But he discovers he's onboard "The Sky Dragon", a huge airship miles above the city! Captured, Fury is tied underneath the Ultimate Annihilator, as The Claw prepares to use it to destroy New York City!
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    James Bond (Earth-616)
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    History
    By most opinions the very definition of a modern day spy and counter-espionage agent, James Bond has been mentioned more often than seen in the Marvel Universe, often in comparison -- at times disparagingly, at other times complimentary -- to the likes of Nick Fury and other elite members of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its various counterparts around the world.

    He was briefly seen in New York City, attempting to enter a barber shop that was actually the secret entrance to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s then-operative New York headquarters. Nick Fury had moments earlier unexpectedly materialized inside the shop, and so the agents on guard as barbers rather hastily told the agent that they were closed. Bond's response to their brisk dismissal was remarking that they were treating him like he was an enemy spy.

    Years later, James Bond and his date were among a large group of odd characters gathered at the Laughing Horse saloon, standing at the bar beside an off-duty police detective in a yellow trench coat.
    Trivia
    Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #3 implies that James Bond may be the father of Clive Reston ("an MI-6 agent with a 00 license to kill, and Clive took after his father's [...] love of terrible puns") and descendant of Sherlock Holmes ("a private detective, from whom Clive inherited deductive reasoning talent and a habit for smoking a meerschaum pipe"). However, it wasn't explicitly stated, due to licensing right.
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    1972: Diamenty sa wieczne (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Poland.
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    1976: Daily Variety reports on Kevin McClory and the agreement he signed in 1965 for his involvement in the Thunderball production that returned film and television rights to the property after ten years. And that he can produce Bond films, starting today.
    1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

    1981: For Your Eyes Only films at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from today through February. Delivery of snow is needed for the street scenes.

    1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr #1 "The Beginning", sourced from the first episode of the cartoon series with Scumlord and Jaws.
    Mario Capaldi, artist. T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton, writers (adaptation).
    Colin Fawcett, ink. Mario Capaldi and Colin Fawcett, cover.
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    James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) #1
    See the complete article here:
    James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) 1
    Published Jan 1992 by Marvel.
    Cover pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett. The Beginning, script by T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton (adaptation), pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett.
    007's nephew arrives at Warfield Academy where he becomes the target of S.C.U.M. agents after his Aston Martin. Based on the TV episode of the same title aired 09-30-1991.
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    1995: Dark Horse Comics publishes James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1.
    Gary Caldwell. artist. Don McGregor, writer. Christopher Moeller, cover.
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    In the tropical paradise of Jamaica, things are not as picturesque as the travel brochures would suggest. Sent to stop a notorious arms dealer called Rifle, James Bond once again finds more than he bargained for. Rifle's clients turn out to be Elias Hazlewood and the Disciples of the Heavenly Way, a successful televangelist operation. Among the Way's membership is Maximillian "Quasimodo" Steel, a reformed mercenary. He's got a plan to stop the Beast and further God's cause. That is, unless James Bond can stop him first.
    Creators
    Writer: Don McGregor
    Artist: Gary Caldwell
    Letterer: Elitta Fell
    Editor: Edward Martin III
    Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: January 01, 1995
    1996: This month Topps Comics publishes James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 (Special Limited Convention Preview Edition, black and white), and #1 of three where #2 and #3 remain unpublished.
    Claude St. Aubin, pencils. Rick Magyar, ink. Don McGregor, writer. Brian Stelfreeze, cover.
    1997: This month Playboy magazine publishes an abridged version of the Raymond Benson short story "Blast From the Past". The complete story is later included in The Union Trilogy anthology. 1998: Zítrek nikdy neumírá (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in the Czech Republic.
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    1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.
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    1999: This month Playboy magazine publishes Raymond Benson's short story "Midsummer Night's Doom".
    2000: 縱橫天下 (Zònghéng tiānxià; Across the World) released in Taiwan.
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    2003: Cyril Shaps dies at age 79--Harrow, London, England.
    (Born 13 October 1923--London, England.)
    2003: Die Another Day released in Egypt and Panama.
    2003: Πέθανε μια άλλη μέρα (He Died Another Day) released in Greece.

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    2025: The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry continues its 007 Science exhibition, schedule extended through April.
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    007 Science:
    Inventing the World of
    James Bond
    Open Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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    007 Science at Griffin MSI: Trailer (:30 TV)
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 2nd

    1937: Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby is born in Erdington, Birmingham, England.

    1964: In the Daily Express, Fleming proposes to interviewer John Creusemann that "Bond is Scottish. On both sides."

    1975: Roger Moore is photographed at London's Gerrick Club with wife Luisa and co-star Susanna York from their film Heaven Save Us From Our Friends.
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    1991: Untitled screenplay for a third Dalton mission dated this day. Credited to William Osborne, William Davies, Al Ruggerio, Michael G. Wilson. OO7 investigates a stolen British stealth fighter traveling to Vancouver, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, China, Libya.

    2003: Die Another Day released in New Zealand.
    2003: Dnes neumírej (Today Do Not Die) released in the Czech Republic.
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    2003: Dnes neumíeraj (Today Do Not Die) released in Slovakia.
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    2003: The New York Times publishes Seoul Journal's article "The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans".
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    Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans
    By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003

    In real life, President Bush wrestles with policies to force North Korea to stop selling missiles and making atom bombs.

    On the big screen, at movie theaters here today, James Bond wrestled with a crazed North Korean colonel who was using a space-based laser to burn a massive hole in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
    ''The U.S. put North Korea in 'the axis of evil' and then the director merely followed the plot,'' said Kim So Won, a 19-year-old student taking a break from a New Year's Eve anti-American rally.

    As her girlfriends nodded, she added, ''We won't go see the movie.''
    The new 007 movie, ''Die Another Day,'' opened here on New Year's Eve to a fledgling boycott. But reflecting the love-hate relationship with the United States -- the fact that James Bond is British is a fine point lost on many people here -- there were long lines of people waiting to see the film at the Seoul Theater.
    Min Kyung Woo, a 28-year-old pacifist, lined up too, but on a picket line. ''This is Hollywood's strategy toward Northeast Asia,'' said Mr. Min, who had not been converted by a pre-release showing of the movie intended by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to head off a boycott here.

    ''The movie industry is related to politics,'' he said.
    Indeed, the boycott has been fueled by rising anti-American sentiment and the feeling among many here that North Koreans are replacing Colombians as Hollywood's current international bad guys.
    ''North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies,'' the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo said in apparent surprise at the Bondian depiction of state-sponsored torture in North Korea, a nation that ranks high atop many ''worst'' lists compiled by international human rights groups.
    While North and South Korea remain bitterly divided, judging by such reviews and those of some moviegoers here, the two sides have finally found common ground when confronting 007.
    ''I think there is plenty for Koreans to complain about in this movie,'' Doug E. Shin, a Korean-American pastor from Los Angeles, said as he walked in a jostling, and largely merry, flood of young South Koreans leaving a showing tonight. ''Half the North Koreans were speaking with South Korean accents. That ox looked like it was from the Philippines. That shack at the end looked like it was from Japan.''

    ''I guess the director didn't care,'' he continued. ''But if the movie was about Japan, would they have treated the Japanese that way?''
    A recurring complaint here is about a final scene where befuddled Korean farmers, goading an ox, look at luxury cars that James Bond has dropped, upended, in a rice paddy. While North Korean agriculture plods along on ox power, South Koreans say the only ox carts seen here are in museums.

    The correct image of South Korea, people say, is a nation with among the world's highest rates of cellphone ownership, high-speed Internet access and college-educated youth.
    Then there is a scene where an American officer orders a South Korea military mobilization, which prompted someone to write in an Internet chat room that ''Korea in the movie is viewed as America's colony.''

    After watching the movie today, Kim Yu Min, a 24-year-old office worker, said, ''My girlfriends said, 'At least James Bond doesn't go to bed with a Korean girl.' ''
    MGM, which distributes 20th Century Fox movies, has worked hard to try to smooth ruffled feathers here, a nation of 43 million people that is now the 10th-largest foreign box office territory for American movies.
    Lee Joo Sung, president of 20th Century Fox Korea, told opinion makers at one showing here: ''It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction.''
    The movie, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and is already expected to be the most lucrative Bond movie yet, ran into early controversy when a South Korean actor, Cha In Pyo, turned down the bad-guy role, normally a coveted ticket to Hollywood stardom. He became a local hero last fall when he told reporters that the script was ''demeaning.''

    Rick Yune, the Korean-American actor who stars as the movie's crazed North Korean officer, has found himself at news conferences here parrying hostile questions from reporters concerned about South Korea's image. In one burst of patriotism, Lee Jung Hyun, a pop singer, declined an invitation to appear alongside Mr. Yune on a popular talk show, ''Happiness Channel.''

    North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency has obligingly given MGM free publicity by playing true to character.
    Two weeks before the release here and well before pirated copies could have made their way to reviewers in North Korea, the news agency denounced the film as a ''dirty and cursed burlesque'' that clearly proved that the United States was ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation.''
    A version of this article appears in print on January 2, 2003, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans.
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    2008: George MacDonald Fraser dies age 82--Strang, Isle of Man.
    (Born 2 April 1925--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.)
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    George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82
    By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

    George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.

    The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.

    Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.

    The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.

    In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.

    In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)
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    Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.)

    Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.

    Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.

    For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.

    Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:
    “So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”
    The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.

    In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.
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    After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.

    Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.

    “In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.

    Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.
    His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them “Mr. American” (Simon & Schuster, 1980); “The Pyrates” (Knopf, 1984); and “Black Ajax” (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Octopussy,” released in 1983.
    Mr. Fraser’s latest book, “The Reavers,” a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.

    For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.

    A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.
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    Filmography
    Writer (10 credits)
    1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
    1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
    1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
    1985 Red Sonja (written by)
    1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)

    1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
    1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
    1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
    1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
    1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
    - The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")

    Self (1 credit)
    1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Himself

    Archive footage (1 credit)
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
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    2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.

    2022: A lost Aston Martin DB5 is reportedly found at an undisclosed Middle East location.
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    Missing James Bond Car Has Reportedly Been Found
    By Paul Jackson On Jan 2, 2022

    The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 used in the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger has reportedly been found. According to Motorious (via Yahoo!), the sportscar, Chassis NO. DP/216/1, had been missing since June 1997 when it was stolen from a secured hangar at the Boca Raton Airport where it had been stored. In the nearly 25 years since the theft, many have theorized about the car’s location but now, investigators believe that they have located the Aston Martin in the Middle East. The exact location has not been released.

    Per the report, a witness spotted the car in a “private setting”, but Art Recovery International has only indicated that Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain are “particular areas of interest”. The report notes that someone was able to verify the car’s serial number and found it to be a match for the missing Aston Martin. The car is worth more than $25 million and investigators are hopeful it will be recovered soon.

    “I’m hopeful that the possessor will come forward voluntarily before I have to make an announcement,” chief executive of Art Recovery International said. “It’s my policy to give the possessors of stolen and looted objects every opportunity to do the right thing. I don’t believe the current possessor knew the car was stolen when he or she acquired it. Now they do know, I think they should make every effort to have a discreet confidential discussion about how we clear the title to this iconic vehicle.”

    The vehicle was driven by Sean Connery in the 1964 film Goldfinger. This specific vehicle is unique due to the number of gadgets that were installed in it for the purposes of making the movie, such as pop-out machine guns, water/oil sprayers, tire shredders, and more. At the time of the theft, the vehicle was owned by a businessman named Anthony Pugliese who had purchased the vehicle at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 1986 for $275,000. Since the theft, there have been numerous theories about the vehicle, including that the vehicle was stolen by a real-life Bond villain, though the real story about the car’s theft may have to wait until it’s been safely recovered.

    The stolen Aston Martin isn’t the only car from the Goldfinger-era to remain in existence. An original 1965 Aston Martin DB85 built to Bond specifications — a vehicle that was built specifically for a tour promoting the film Thunderball — went up for auction in June 2019. There were a total of four DB5s created for Goldfinger-era of James Bond.
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    2022: TV24 airs Mythbusters Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1. Early morning.
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    Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1
    The Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special. They are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways and guns.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 3rd

    1922: Dana Natol (later Dana Wilson Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
    (She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)
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    Dana Broccoli
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455828/Dana-Broccoli.html
    12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

    Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.

    Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".
    In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."

    Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.

    "One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."

    But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.

    But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."
    She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.

    After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.

    A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.

    Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.
    In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.
    Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

    The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.
    In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."
    Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."

    Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.
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    Filmography
    Actress (5 credits)

    1979 Moonraker - Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

    1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)


    1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
    - The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
    1951 Wild Women of Wongo - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
    1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)

    Thanks (26 credits)

    2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) (special thanks)
    2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
    2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)

    1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
    1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

    Self (19 credits)

    2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
    2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
    2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

    1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
    1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
    1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
    1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself

    1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
    - Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
    - Episode #1.63 ... Herself
    1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
    1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
    1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
    - The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself


    HiArchive footage (4 credits)

    2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself
    2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
    2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer
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    1926: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, is born--Holloway, London, England.
    (He dies 8 March 2016 at age 90--Colesshill, Oxfordshire, England.)
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    Sir George Martin obituary
    The ‘fifth Beatle’, a talented musician and producer who oversaw
    landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries
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    Producer George Martin recalls making the Beatles’ classic Yesterday – archive video

    The death of George Martin at the age of 90 is not only a sad blow to Beatles fans of all generations, but it also draws a line under a vanished age of the entertainment business. Martin’s work as the Beatles’ producer, overseeing such landmarks of popular music as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, has guaranteed that his reputation will live as long as that of his illustrious proteges.

    Martin and the Beatles were stretching the known boundaries of sound recording almost every time they entered the studio. “When I started, there really weren’t more than a handful of producers,” Martin commented. “Now everyone thinks they’re a producer. Technology has been getting more sophisticated every day. You can make a tune that isn’t that great sound wonderful. This stifles creativity, because you don’t have to work for it, it’s already there.”

    A trained musician, Martin possessed invaluable arranging skills. He helped the Beatles to find striking juxtapositions of sounds and electronic effects previously unheard outside the more freakish fringes of the avant garde, in the process helping to justify pop music’s claims to be something more than a cellarful of noise. But perhaps most important was his capacity for making his clients raise their game to levels they themselves hadn’t believed possible.

    Martin sensed that it was more a matter of psychology than technology. “I realised I had the ability to get the best out of people,” he reflected. “A producer has to get inside the person. Each artist is very different, and there’s a lot of psychology in it.”

    https://theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/beatles-producer-sir-george-martin-has-died-aged-90-video-obituary
    Beatles producer Sir George Martin has died aged 90 – video obituary
    After his groundbreaking work with the Beatles, Martin had earned his ticket to ride, and he worked with a spectrum of luminaries including Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jimmy Webb, Kenny Rogers, Ultravox and Elton John. He produced Shirley Bassey’s theme song for the Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), and composed the score for a further Bond, Live and Let Die (1973), as well as producing its title song, which was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.
    Before rock’n’roll transformed his career, he had already been well known for his work with jazz and popular musicians such as Stan Getz, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Judy Garland, but what especially endeared him to the Beatles was his track record of producing comedy albums, particularly with the Goons and Peter Sellers. John Lennon and George Harrison were aficionados of Goon-humour, and they swiftly struck up a close rapport with Martin.

    It has long been a part of Beatle mythology that Martin was the debonair toff who transformed the fortunes of four leather-clad scruffs from Liverpool, but the truth was not so cut and dried. “It’s a load of poppycock really, because our backgrounds were very similar,” Martin argued. “Paul and John went to quite good schools. I went to elementary school, and I went to Jesuit college. We didn’t pay to go to school, my parents were very poor. I wasn’t taught music and they weren’t, we taught ourselves.”
    George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road.
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    Born in Holloway, north London, George was the son of Henry, a carpenter, and Bertha (nee Simpson), a cleaner, and studied at St Ignatius college, Stamford Hill, and Bromley county school, in south-east London. Having taught himself to play the piano, he was running his own dance band at school by the time he was 16.

    By way of second world war service, in 1944 Martin joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew as an observer and achieved the rank of sub-lieutenant. It was there that he acquired the patina of patrician lordliness that would become his trademark, an effect intensified by his aquiline profile topped by a swept-back mane of hair. No wonder the acerbic John Lennon referred to him as “Biggles”. Paul McCartney commented: “He’d dealt with navigators and pilots. He could deal with us when we got out of line.”

    After being demobbed in 1947, Martin studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for three years, specialising in composition and orchestration. In 1950 he joined Parlophone Records, part of the EMI group of companies, and in 1955 was made head of the label. But it was not until 1962 that Martin was approached by the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, who, having had his group rejected by Phillips, Decca and Pye, was anxious to find a pair of sympathetic ears in the London-based record business.

    Epstein almost failed to get anywhere with Martin as well, since the Parlophone boss considered that the Beatles’ demo tape “wasn’t very good... in fact it was awful”. But Martin recognised that the group had ambition and charisma, and once drummer Pete Best had been replaced by Ringo Starr, he could see that that the necessary ingredients were in place.

    Nevertheless, even Martin had not foreseen the extraordinary blossoming of the songwriting talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Having started out writing shoddy, derivative tunes, they suddenly began churning out a goldmine of great pop songs, from I Want to Hold Your Hand and A Hard Day’s Night to Strawberry Fields Forever and Back in the USSR. Under Martin’s guidance, for the rest of the decade the band made advances in writing, arrangement and use of technology that transformed pop music. Strawberry Fields, in particular, is often cited by contemporary producers as a revolutionary achievement.

    Though he will always be chiefly remembered for his Beatles work, Martin had numerous other achievements to his credit. Perhaps frustrated by being tied to the terms of his employment contract with EMI, in 1965 he formed his own independent production company, Associated Independent Recordings (AIR), which lent its name to the AIR studio complex on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in the decade till it was forced to close after a hurricane in 1989, and more recently to AIR studios in Hampstead, north London.

    Besides being in steady demand as a producer, Martin participated in a TV documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Sgt Pepper album in 1987, and in 1993 published a book, Summer of Love – The Making of Sgt Pepper. He examined various aspects of music-making in the BBC TV series The Rhythm of Life (1997) and in his books All You Need Is Ears (1979) and Making Music (1983), and produced the Beatles Anthology double-CD sets in the 1990s. He was knighted in 1996, and in the following year produced Elton John’s reworking of Candle in the Wind, in memory of Princess Diana. It became the bestselling single of all time.

    In 1998, he masterminded his own musical swansong with In My Life, an album of Beatles songs performed by an all-star assortment of actors and musicians including Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Celine Dion and Phil Collins. “I’ve had a bloody good innings,” said Martin. “Knowing that I would have to finish, I decided I would make my own last record. It’s a kind of tribute, too, to all the people that I’ve been lucky to work with over the years.”

    However, there was still more to come. The six-CD set entitled Produced By George Martin: 50 Years in Recording (2001) was a survey of his entire studio career, and and it was followed by Martin’s illustrated memoir, Playback (2002). George and his son Giles were music directors of the Cirque du Soleil show Love (2006), a theatrical interpretation of the Beatles’ work featuring 80 minutes of their music remixed by the two Martins and staged in Las Vegas. In 2011 the BBC2 series Arena aired a 90-minute documentary, also called Produced By George Martin, tracing his life and career, with contributions from many of the artists he had worked with.

    In 1948 he married Sheena Chisholm, with whom he had two children, Alexis and Gregory. That marriage ended in divorce, and in 1966 he married Judy Lockhart Smith, with whom he had two further children, Lucy and Giles. He is survived by Judy and his children.

    • George Henry Martin, record producer, born 3 January 1926; died 9 March 2016

    This article was amended on 10 March. The TV documentary from 1987 on the making of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked its 20th anniversary rather than its 25th.
    Note: His death is recorded as 8 March, vice 9.
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    Filmography
    Music department (31 credits)

    2006 Live and Let Die: Conceptual Art (Video documentary short) (music)
    2005 Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra Featuring Violet UK (Video documentary) (music arranger)

    1999 Live and Let Die: On Set with Roger Moore (Video short) (music)
    1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (incidental score) / (orchestrator)

    1989 The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (TV Special) (musical director)
    1985 Rupert and the Frog Song (Short) (music arranger)
    1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street (music arranger) / (musical director) / (orchestrator)

    1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (conductor) / (music arranger) / (musical director) / (original soundtrack album produced by)
    1972 Pulp (conductor)
    1970 Tales of Unease (TV Series) (composer - 6 episodes)
    - The Old Banger (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
    - Bad Bad Jo Jo (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
    - Superstitious Ignorance (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
    - The Black Goddess (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
    - Calculated Nightmare (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
    - Ride, Ride (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)

    1969 The Beatles: Something (Video short) (record producer)
    1969 The Beatles: Get Back (Video short) (record producer)
    1969 The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down (Video short) (record producer)
    1968 The Beatles: Hey Jude (Video short) (record producer)
    1968 Frost on Sunday (TV Series) (composer: theme "By George! It's the David Frost Theme")
    1968 Yellow Submarine (musical director)
    1967 The Beatles: A Day in the Life (Video short) (record producer)
    1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (record producer)
    1967 Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie) (music producer - uncredited)
    1967 The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye (Video short) (record producer)
    1967 The Beatles: Penny Lane (Video short) (record producer)
    1966 The Beatles: Rain (Video short) (record producer)
    1966 The Family Way (music adaptor - uncredited) / (music arranger) / (music supervisor)
    1966 Cilla at the Savoy (TV Special) (orchestra)
    1966 The Beatles: Paperback Writer (Video short) (record producer)
    1965 The Beatles: We Can Work it Out (Video short) (record producer)
    1965 Help! (music producer - uncredited)
    1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey (musical director)
    1964 A Hard Day's Night (composer: incidental music - uncredited) / (music arranger - uncredited) / (music producer - uncredited) / (musical director) / (performer: "This Boy: Ringo's Theme" - uncredited)
    1963 Calculated Risk (music director)
    1963 Take Me Over (arranger and conductor)

    Soundtrack (31 credits)

    2017/I My Generation (Documentary) (producer: "Strawberry Fields Forever")
    2017 The Big Catch (TV Series) (producer: "A Hard Day's Night")
    2016 Good Girls Revolt (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Puff Piece (2016) ... (performer: "My Baby Loves Me" - uncredited)
    2016 Storm Chasing: The Anthology (Documentary) ("Elephants and Castles")
    2016 Morfi, todos a la mesa (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
    - Episode dated 5 April 2016 (2016) ... (producer: "All You Need Is Love")
    2016 Hola y adiós (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.11 (2016) ... (producer: "Blackbird")
    2016 The Walking Dead: Michonne (Video Game) (writer: "Gun in my Hand")
    2015/I Aloha (performer: "Pepperland") / (writer: "Pepperland")
    2014 Tu cara me suena - Argentina (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #2.8 (2014) ... (producer: "Yesterday", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!")

    2008 Frost/Nixon (writer: "By George It's David Frost" - as George Henry Martin)
    2007 Across the Universe (performer: "A Day In The Life")
    2003 The Alchemists of Sound (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Time Beat" - as Ray Cathode) / (writer: "Waltz in Orbit")

    1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (arranger: "Tropic Island Hum")
    1997 The Rhythm of Life (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Melody (1997) ... ("God Only Knows", uncredited) / (performer: "All By Myself" - uncredited)
    1995 The Beatles Anthology (TV Mini-Series documentary) (writer: "Love in the Open Air", "By George! It's The David Frost Theme")
    1994 EarthBound (Video Game) (arranger: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
    1991 Ai monogatari (TV Mini-Series) (producer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand")

    1981 Honky Tonk Freeway (writer: "Ticlaw Anthem", "Love Keeps Bringing Me Down")
    1980 Roadie (producer: "Everything Works If You Let It")

    1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (producer: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole", "Getting Better", "Here Comes The Sun", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Reprise), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Finale))
    1978 Ringo (TV Movie) (arranger: "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" (instrumental))
    1975 Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death ("Trespassers Will Be Eaten")
    1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) (music: "Mister Jerico")

    1969 The Southern Star (arranger: "The Southern Star")
    1967 The Bobo ("Girl from Barcelona", "The Bulls of Salamanca")
    1966 The Family Way (performer: "Love In The Open Air" (main theme) - uncredited)
    1966 Alfie (producer: "Alfie")
    1962 Crooks Anonymous (music: "I Must Resist Temptation" - uncredited)
    1961 V.D. (performer: "Lovers Blues") / (writer: "Lovers Blues")
    1961 I Like Money (music: "I Like Money")

    1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

    Composer (10 credits)

    1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

    1973 The Optimists of Nine Elms
    1973 Live and Let Die (music score)
    1972 Pulp

    1969 With a Little Help from my Friends (TV Special) (music by)
    1966 The Family Way (uncredited)
    1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey
    1963 Calculated Risk
    1963 Take Me Over
    1962 Crooks Anonymous

    Actor (2 credits)

    2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

    1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

    Producer (2 credits)

    2002 Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (TV Movie) (event producer - as Sir George Martin)

    1997 Music for Montserrat (TV Special documentary) (producer)
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    1962: In a letter to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Ian Fleming sends greetings. "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."
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    The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond
    https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731
    Published: 23:58

    THE expert behind the guns used by James Bond has been revealed as a Glaswegian whose world-class knowledge of firearms earned him the role of the Armourer in the 007 books.

    Geoffrey Boothroyd, who worked for ICI in Glasgow, wrote to the author Ian Fleming shortly after reading Casino Royale in 1956, pointing out that the gun Bond used, a .25 Beretta, was inappropriate for the character.

    The strength of his argument persuaded Fleming not only to incorporate his suggestions, but also to adopt Boothroyd as a paid adviser on arms-related matters in the Bond novels.

    Fleming used Boothroyd’s persona as the Armourer in Dr No, describing him as Major Boothroyd, "a short slim man with sandy hair" with "very wide apart, clear, grey eyes that never seemed to flicker".

    The character of Boothroyd makes a dramatic entry in Dr No: "M bent forward to the intercom. ‘Is the Armourer there? Send him in.’ M sat back. ‘You may not know it, 007, but Major Boothroyd’s the greatest small-arms expert in the world." Not surprisingly, the major had a rather acerbic view of Bond’s Beretta. When asked as to its use, Boothroyd replied in a clipped manner: "Ladies’ gun, sir."

    Correspondence between Fleming and Boothroyd, which is to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions, the London specialist saleroom for books and manuscripts, reveal how far the author took on board the latter’s technical advice. Fleming frequently asked Boothroyd for more information on weapons and even borrowed his Smith & Wesson to be painted by Richard Chopping for the dust-jacket of From Russia with Love.

    Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use it. Bloomsbury is to offer it as one lot with a pre-sale estimate of 15,000-20,000.

    The collection of 30 previously unknown letters, written between 31 May, 1956, and 30 September, 1963, demonstrate Fleming’s passion for guns and attention to detail, coupled with Boothroyd’s intense knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject.

    From that first letter on, Bond was never without the correct firearm and his enemies were suitably equipped in return.

    Potential problems over legally holding guns arise in the letters. Fleming assures Boothroyd that, as the Deputy Commissioner of Scotland Yard is "a close personal friend, we should have no complications over firearms certificates."

    The two men’s dry sense of humour often comes through in the correspondence. In a letter dated 3 January, 1962, Fleming writes: "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

    Boothroyd was paid for his technical advice. In a letter to him, Fleming wrote: "I propose to pay you 25 per cent of all revenue I get from this piece and I suggest we needn’t draw up any legal contracts as my secretary, Miss Griffie-Williams, is an extremely honest person and will see that you get your due!" Fleming even signed himself in 1962 as "Comptroller of the Boothroyd Privy Purse".

    Boothroyd, who was born in Lancashire but lived in Glasgow from the age of three, became one of the greatest authorities on the history and development of the sporting gun and was a regular contributor to the Shooting Times. He wrote several books, including A Guide to Guns in 1961 and The Handgun in 1988. He died in 2001. Stagecoach chief executive Martin Griffiths.

    A series of first edition 007 books from Boothroyd’s library are also to be sold by Bloomsbury. Fleming signed very few books and, consequently, there is a large premium for signed and presentation copies. As Boothroyd played such a key role in shaping the character of Bond, two of the books are likely to fetch new world records.

    A copy of From Russia with Love is dedicated by Fleming "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - herewith appointed Armourer to J. Bond from Ian Fleming." The inscription in Dr No reads, "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - alias The Armourer from Ian Fleming". Each is expected to make up to 5,000.

    Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731
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    1971: The Palm Beach Post reports American John Gavin may be the next actor in the Bond role.
    1972: 007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos released in Brazil.
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    1988: Joie Chitwood dies at age 75--Tampa, Florida.
    (Born 14 April 1912--Denison, Texas.)
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    Joie Chitwood
    Born April 14, 1912 | Denison, Texas
    Died January 3, 1988 (aged 75) | Tampa Bay, Florida
    Formula One World Championship career
    Nationality United States American
    Active years 1950
    Teams Kurtis Kraft
    ...
    First entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
    Last entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
    George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.

    Born in Denison, Texas of Cherokee Indian ancestry, he was dubbed "Joie" by a track promoter and the name stuck.

    Racing career
    Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas. From there, he began racing sprint cars. In 1939 and 1940 he won the AAA East Coast Sprint car championship. He switched to the CSRA and won its title in 1942.[1] Between 1940 and 1950 he competed at the Indianapolis 500 seven times, finishing fifth on three different occasions. He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.

    Joie Chitwood Thrill Show
    Chitwood also operated the "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show", an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful he gave up racing. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.

    His show was so popular, that in January 1967, the performance at the Islip Speedway, New York was broadcast on ABC television's Wide World of Sports.

    On May 13, 1978, Joie Chitwood Jr.(b. Aug. 31, 1943) set a world record when he drove a Chevrolet Chevette for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) on just 2 wheels. His sons, Joie Jr. and Tim both joined the auto thrill show and continued to run the "Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show" after their father's retirement. The Chitwood show toured the US from 1945-98. His grandson, Joie Chitwood III, is the President of Daytona International Speedway and a former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

    The show was featured during season 3 of CHiPs in an episode entitled "Thrill Show". Joie Jr. did stunts for Miami Vice on several occasions. Joie Jr. (b. 1943) also appeared as a guest challenger on the TV game show To Tell The Truth. Joie Jr. worked in over 60 feature films and national commercials.

    Chitwood's show was credited by Evel Knievel as being his inspiration to become a daredevil when his show appeared in his home town of Butte, Montana.

    Stuntman
    Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. On a few occasions he appeared in a minor role, notably with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1950 film about auto racing, To Please a Lady.
    In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film Live and Let Die, where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.
    Safety Consultant
    Joie Chitwood Jr. also acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing vehicles for subsequent investigation. He had intentionally crashed more than 3000 vehicles by the time he appeared on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1965. Joie Jr. and Joie Sr. test-crashed guardrails and breakaway Interstate signs for US Steel and aluminum light poles for ALCOA. The highways are safer today because of these tests.

    Retirement
    When Chitwood retired, his sons took over the business. Joie Chitwood died in 1988, aged 75, in Tampa Bay, Florida.

    He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2010 in the Historic category. Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.
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    Filmography
    [bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

    1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (stunts - as Joie Chitwood Sr.)
    1980 Phobia (stunts)

    1978 Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (TV Movie) (stunts)
    1977 Stunts (ski car and special stunt driving)
    1976 A Small Town in Texas (stunts)

    Actor (4 credits)

    1980 CHiPs (TV Series) - Joie Chitwood
    - Thrill Show (1980) ... Joie Chitwood (as Joie Chitwood Jr.)
    1978 Mr. No Legs
    1973 Live and Let Die - Charlie

    1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

    Self (1 credit)

    1963 To Tell the Truth (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
    - Episode dated 11 March 1963 (1963) ... Himself - Contestant
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    2003: "Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film", so reports Associated Press and multiple news outlets.
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    Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film
    https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Two-Koreas-Blast-New-James-Bond-Film-7720206.php
    SOO-JEONG LEE Published 6:00 pm CST, Thursday, January 2, 2003
    Associated Press Writer

    Some in South Korea are complaining that the latest James Bond movie unfairly depicts their communist neighbor to the north as a diabolically evil regime.
    "Die Another Day" attracted crowds at its Seoul premiere on New Year's Eve. But in recent days some moviegoers have been siding with the communist North in condemning the film despite the nuclear standoff that has increased tensions between the nations.
    "I don't want to see a movie where North Korea is depicted as a menace to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the United States is depicted as a hero that resolves the crisis," said Jin-young Park, a 22-year-old university student waiting for a different picture Friday. "It's really getting old."

    In the movie, Bond is sent to North Korea to investigate a rogue communist officer who is planning an invasion of South Korea. The British spy is caught, imprisoned and subjected to extreme torture.

    Later, the rogue North Korean officer uses a satellite-based laser to burn a swath through the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas. His plot is foiled by Bond and an American agent.

    "I initially wanted to see the movie, but I decided not to because I heard some stuff from the media that the film is critical of North Korea and so I changed my mind," said Yi Hye-mi, a university student in Seoul.

    On Friday, a South Korean civic group announced plans to boycott the film, which stars Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Critics say it's demeaning and distorts the situation between the two nations, which have been divided by a demilitarized zone since the Korean War of 1950-1953.

    North Korea criticized the movie when it opened last year, calling it an example of the "corrupt sex culture," in the United States.

    Despite calls for a boycott, however, many are still lining up for the movie.

    "I want to see the movie just to see what the critics are complaining about," Lee Se-young, 27, said after buying his ticket.
    Protests of the time.
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    2006: Casino Royale principle photography commences.
    2008: Quantum of Solace main unit filming kicks off at Pinewood (originally scheduled for 10 December 2007).

    2016: The Independent reports that Christoph Waltz is signed for two more Bond films. As long as Craig returns.
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    Jack Shepherd - @JackJShepherd - Sunday 3 January 2016 10:03
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    Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )
    Christoph Waltz's appearance in the latest James Bond film was originally surrounded in mystery, with many wondering if the actor was playing the evil genius Blofeld.

    On Spectre’s release, it was revealed that he was indeed the iconic villain, the film ending with Waltz’s character having been defeated by Bond and captured by the police.

    Many expect the 59-year-old to return to the series to reprise the role, with it now being revealed he has signed on for two more films - but with a catch.

    The Inglourious Basterds actor will only return if Daniel Craig returns as the titular MI6 agent.
    2019: Planned production start date for BOND 25 with director Danny Boyle for a 25 October release date, same year. (Update: changed to a March production start; director Cary Fukunaga; 14 February 2020 release date. Then April 2020 release date. Then November 2020 release. Then April 2021 release. And finally an October 2021 release.)



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    January 4th

    1900: Ornithologist James Bond is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    (He dies 14 February 1989 at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)
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    January 4 — James Bond Born (1900)
    January 3, 2018

    “Bond. James Bond.” Those words are now immortal among the fans of Ian Fleming’s super-spy. James Bond has been played by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig and a number of others. But who was the real James Bond? Not a spy, not a dapper man-about-town. No, the real James Bond was an ornithologist.

    James Bond was born on January 4, 1900, in Philadelphia (died in 1989). He later moved to England with his father and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Returning to Philadelphia, he soon gave up a career in banking to focus on his first love—natural history. He followed in his father’s footsteps by sailing on a collecting expedition to the lower Amazon River in 1925 on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Now completely hooked, he became a volunteer curator there—one of “the last of a traditional museum breed, the independently wealthy, non-salaried curator, who lacked advanced university degrees.”
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    Bond was intrigued especially with the bird fauna of the Caribbean. He explored more than 100 Caribbean islands during his career. His most influential work is the definitive guide to the birds of the region, first published in 1936 as The Birds of the West Indies. Bond is credited with discovering that the birds of the Caribbean are related to those of North America, not South America, as had been previously assumed. He also published books about the birds of Maine and Bolivia, along with dozens of other scientific papers. Bond received many honors and awards for his work, including the Brewster Medal in 1954, the highest honor of the American Ornithologists’ Union.
    But it was The Birds of the West Indies that earned him fame as the namesake for the world’s favorite spy. Ian Fleming, the creator of the fictional James Bond, spent months at a time at his Jamaican home (Goldeneye) and was an amateur bird-watcher. When he was writing his first spy novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, he was casting around for a name for the hero that would be unremarkable. Fleming later wrote:

    “I was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous as possible….At that time one of my bibles was, and still is, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, and it struck me that this name, brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I needed and so James Bond II was born…”

    The real James Bond—JB authenticus, as his wife referred to him—wasn’t amused by the appropriation of his name. He never played up the connection, even when offered $100 to land in a helicopter on the roof of a movie theater. Ian Fleming appreciated the couple, however, and, at their only meeting, gave them a pre-publication copy of his novel, You Only Live Twice, inscribed “To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his identity, Ian Fleming, Feb. 5, 1964—a great day!” That book sold recently at auction for $84,000.

    Next time you watch the Bond film, Die Another Day, pay attention to the early scenes. As usual, Bond is pretending to be something other than a spy. This time, he claims to be an ornithologist and holds a copy of The Birds of the West Indies.
    References:

    Blakely, Julia. 2016. Bond, James Bond: The birds, the books, the bond. Unbound, blog of the Smithsonian Libraries. Available at: https://blog.library.si.edu/2016/06/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WG0aeVMrKpp . Accessed January 3, 2017.

    New York Times. 1989. James Bond, ornithologist, 89; Fleming adopted name for 007. New York Times, February 17, 1989. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/17/obituaries/james-bond-ornithologist-89-fleming-adopted-name-for-007.html. Accessed January 3, 2017.

    Parkes, Kenneth C. 1989. In memoriam: James Bond. The Auk, 106:718-720. Available at: http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v106n04/p0718-p0720.pdf. Accessed January 3, 2017.

    1962: Michael France is born--St. Petersburg, Florida.
    (He dies 12 April 2013 at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.)
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    Michael France, screenwriter and
    Beach Theatre owner, dies
    The screenwriter was one of the region's most successful movie industry figures.
    By Steve Persall | Published April 14 2013
    Updated April 14 2013

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    ST. PETE BEACH — Hollywood screenwriter and Beach Theatre owner Michael France was discovered dead at his St. Pete Beach home Friday morning after an extended illness, his sister said. He was 51.

    In recent years Mr. France struggled with diabetes that impaired his left arm and right leg. Nine months ago he was found comatose at his residence by his sister, who also discovered his body Friday.

    "He didn't look that bad on Thursday night," his sister, Suzanne France said when contacted at home Saturday. "He was sick, but I didn't think he was as bad as he was the last time or I would have just called an ambulance.

    "He was sitting up, he had good color, he was making jokes. Just sitting there on the couch with his dog."

    Suzanne France, who lives only a few houses away, took over soup and zero-calorie soft drinks Thursday, leaving her brother around 8:30 p.m. The two swapped text messages for another couple of hours, about Mr. France's nausea and groceries she would pick up for him Friday morning.

    Around 10 a.m. Mr. France hadn't responded to text messages from Suzanne or their mother. Using a key she kept as a precaution, Suzanne entered his home to check on him.

    "I went in, and I thought maybe he was just unconscious so I called 911," she said, sobbing. "They had me doing chest compressions on him but by the time the ambulance got there it was too late."
    Mr. France was one of Tampa Bay's most successful movie industry figures, starting with his screenplay for 1993's Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. That was followed two years later with a story credit for GoldenEye, reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with Pierce Brosnan. Mr. France also did uncredited work on the script for another 007 adventure, The World is Not Enough.
    His final three produced screenplays were among the first Marvel Comics adaptations to the screen: Oscar winning director Ang Lee's 2003 version of Hulk, Fantastic Four (2005) and a co-writing credit on The Punisher (2004), filmed around Tampa Bay.

    Last month at the Gasparilla International Film Festival, Mr. France presented a career achievement award to The Punisher star Thomas Jane, celebrating the movie's 10th anniversary of its local filming. Before the presentation, Mr. France and Jane met for the first time on the red carpet in Ybor City — not uncommon in a business where screenwriters generally aren't involved much when shooting begins.

    In 2007, Mr. France purchased St. Pete Beach's landmark Beach Theatre for $800,000 cash, prolonging the survival of a decades-old, single-screen venue where he watched movies as a child. For five years, he presented classic, independent and foreign films generally unavailable at multiplexes, along with current hits to "pay the bills," as he often said. Eventually the bills couldn't be paid.

    Beach Theatre closed its doors to business in November, 2012, after Mr. France claimed attendance had declined and efforts failed to obtain not-for-profit status that would reduce tax liabilities. Mr. France also faced the necessity to convert the theater's projection system to an expensive digital format, in order to continue showing new releases as Hollywood phases out film distribution.

    Around the same time, Mr. France was sued by local small-business owner Brenton Clemons, who alleged he defaulted on a loan with the theater used as collateral. That case is still pending, as are divorce proceedings between Mr. France and his wife Elizabeth that he told the Times thwarted his bid for not-for-profit status.

    "He wanted to reopen the theater, wanted to start writing again," Suzanne France said. "Obviously he didn't think he was as sick as he was. I have seen him at his sickest, and I did not see anything that indicated in any way that he would die in his sleep.

    "Obviously nobody knows what's going to happen now."

    Suzanne France called her brother "my best, my closest friend," especially after the death years ago of their younger brother Andrew, from hypothermia while attempting to rescue a friend from drowning.

    "Mike was an extraordinary friend. He was kind. He was hilarious, and he was so good with my son," she said. "They used to watch the same kind of (television) shows because I'm such a wimp that I couldn't watch them: The Walking Dead and that one with the guy from Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston. (Breaking Bad)."

    Suzanne France said her brother hadn't changed much from the boy who used to keep comic books stacked floor-to-ceiling in his room.

    "If you went into his house... there's a giant Hulk toy and remember Lost in Space? He had the 'Danger, Will Robinson' robot. That's what is sitting around. Everybody else would have coffee table books; he had movie posters and the Lost in Space robot.

    "Mike was a big kid. A big, intelligent kid."

    Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Steve Persall can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8365. Follow him @StevePersall or Twitter.
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    Filmography
    Writer (7 credits)

    2005/I Fantastic Four (written by)
    2004 The Punisher (Video Game) (based on the film written by - uncredited)
    2004 The Punisher (written by)
    2003 Hulk (screenplay)

    1997 GoldenEye 007 (Video Game) (story, characters and earlier screenplay - uncredited)
    1995 GoldenEye (story)

    1993 Cliffhanger (screen story) / (screenplay)
    Trivia
    Produced a James Bond fan magazine as a youngster in the early 1970s.
    France's favorite Punisher comic writer is Chuck Dixon. France told Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action, but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War Journal.'"
    When preparing to write GoldenEye, he toured Russian airbases, a mob casino named "Casino Royale", and KGB facilities around Red Square.
    Though uncredited on The World Is Not Enough, he wrote the first versions of key sequences, including the buzzsaw helicopter attack and the battle in the nuclear disarmament plant at Kazakhstan.
    On the Hulk movie, he was hired twice. The first time he was replaced before he began when the studio decided to hire Jonathan Hensleigh to write and to make his directorial debut. When Hensleigh's version collapsed, France was hired to bring the movie back on track. (Ironically, Hensleigh later made his directorial debut with another France screenplay based on a Marvel character, "The Punisher".)
    Although he may be best known for adapting Marvel characters, he has also worked with Marvel comics guru Stan Lee to create new characters for film and television.
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    1973: Live and Let Die films OO7 meeting Solitaire at the Fillet of Soul.

    1984: The Hollywood Reporter reports David Bowie was considered for the Max Zorin role that eventually went to Christopher Walken.

    1990: John Cleese spoofs James Bond in a Schweppes soft drinks commercial.
    1991: Richard Maibaum dies, age 81--Santa Monica, California.
    (Born 26 May 1909--New York City, New York.)
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    Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81
    By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991

    Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for a dozen James Bond films, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 years old and lived in Los Angeles.

    He died of a heart attack, The Associated Press reported.

    Early in the James Bond series, Mr. Maibaum remarked that the hugely popular movies about British secret agent 007 were really parodies of the Ian Fleming novels on which they were based.

    A Sleuth With Humor
    In an article he wrote after the first three adaptations, "Dr. No" (1963), "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger" (both 1964), he said that the movie character James Bond, played by Sean Connery, retained Mr. Fleming's image of a "super sleuth, super fighter, super hedonist, super lover," but that the film makers "added another large dimension: humor."

    "Humor vocalized in wry comments at critical moments," he said. "In the books, Bond was singularly lacking in this."
    Mr. Maibaum started his career as a playwright and actor. He was born in New York, attended New York University and then studied dramatic art the University of Iowa, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees and wrote plays, one of which, "The Tree," an anti-lynching play, was produced on Broadway.

    Returning to New York, he acted with the Shakespearean Repertory Theater in 1933, and wrote two more plays for Broadway, "Birthright," an anti-Nazi drama, and "Sweet Mystery of Life," a comedy. He then got a contract as a writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. While there, he wrote another play, "See My Lawyer," which was produced in New York by George Abbott and which starred Milton Berle. Invited by Producer
    Mr. Maibaum worked with film while serving in the Army during World War II, then became a writer and producer for Paramount from 1945 to 1951. He moved to England in the 1950's to work for the producer Albert Broccoli's Warwick Films, returned to the United States and wrote for television, then was invited by Mr. Broccoli to write the first Bond movie.

    He wound up writing most of them, including "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Octopussy," "For Your Eyes Only," "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill."
    He is survived by his wife, Sylvia; two sons, Matthew and Paul, of Los Angeles; a sister, Gladys Gould of Washington, and a granddaughter.

    A version of this obituary appears in print on January 9, 1991, on Page D00021 of the National edition with the headline: Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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    Filmography
    Writer (52 credits)

    1996 Ransom (story)
    1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)

    1989 Licence to Kill (written by)
    1987 The Living Daylights (screenplay)
    1985 A View to a Kill (screenplay)
    1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (screenplay)

    1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert

    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (screenplay)

    1973 Jarrett (TV Movie)
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever (screenplay)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (screenplay)
    1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional dialogue)
    1965 Thunderball (screenplay)
    1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
    1963 From Russia with Love (screenplay)

    1963 Combat! (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
    - The Medal (1963) ... (writer)
    1962 Dr. No (screenplay)
    1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (screenplay) / (story)
    1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (adaptation)

    1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro (story)
    1959 The Bandit of Zhobe (story)
    1958 The Man Inside (uncredited)
    Wagon Train (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1958) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
    - The John Wilbot Story (1958) ... (writer)
    - The Bernal Sierra Story (1958) ... (teleplay)
    1958 Tank Force (written by)
    1956 Zarak
    1956 Bigger Than Life (story and screenplay)
    1956 Ransom! (screenplay)
    1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (screenplay)
    1954-1955 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
    - Fearful Decision (1955) ... (writer)
    - Fearful Decision (1954) ... (writer)
    1954 Hell Below Zero (adaptation)
    1953 Paratrooper (screenplay)

    1949 Song of Surrender (screenplay)
    1949 The Great Gatsby (writer)
    1946 O.S.S. (written by)
    1945 See My Lawyer (play)
    1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
    1941 Hold Back the Dawn (contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited)
    1941 I Wanted Wings (screenplay)
    1940 Foreign Correspondent (uncredited)
    1940 20 Mule Team
    1940 The Ghost Comes Home (screen play)

    1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams (screenplay)
    1939 Coast Guard (original screenplay)
    1939 The Lady and the Mob (screen play)
    1938 Stablemates (writer)
    1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone (screenplay)
    1937 Live, Love and Learn (screenplay)
    1937 They Gave Him a Gun
    1936 Gold Diggers of 1937 (based on the play by: "Sweet Mystery of Life")
    1936 We Went to College (screen play)

    Producer (14 credits)

    1973 Jarrett (TV Movie) (producer)

    1963 Combat! (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
    - No Time for Pity (1963) ... (producer)
    1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (producer)
    1960 Maisie (TV Movie) (executive producer)

    1958-1959 The Thin Man (TV Series) (executive producer - 35 episodes)
    1950 No Man of Her Own (producer)

    1949 Captain Carey, U.S.A. (producer)
    1949 Dear Wife (producer)
    1949 Song of Surrender (producer)
    1949 The Great Gatsby (producer)
    1949 Bride of Vengeance (producer)
    1948 The Sainted Sisters (producer)
    1948 The Big Clock (producer)
    1946 O.S.S. (producer)

    Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

    1956 Zarak (associate director - uncredited)

    1949 The Great Gatsby (second unit director)

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
    1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
    1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
    1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) - Himself
    - OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Himself


    Archive footage (6 credits)

    2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself
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    1996: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd release the John Gardner novelization of Goldeneye.
    Ian Fleming's
    JAMES BOND

    in
    John Gardner's

    GOLDENEYE

    Based on the screenplay by Michael France
    and Jeffrey Caine

    James Bond is back on screen!
    The new film starring Pierce
    Brosnan is a breathtaking
    superadventure in which Bond's
    enemies are more bloodthirsty,
    his girls more beautiful and the
    action faster than ever before.

    The first thing James Bond
    notices about Xenia Onatopp
    is her yellow Ferrari, as it races
    Bond's Aston Martin along the
    narrow Corniche. The second
    thing he notices is that she
    is beautiful, Russian - and
    fascinatingly dangerous.

    Once Xenia worked for the KGB.
    But her new master is Janus,
    a powerful and ambitious Russian
    leader who no longer cares about
    ideology. Janus' ambitions are
    money and power: his normal
    business methods include theft
    and murder. And he has just
    acquired GoldenEye, a piece of
    high-tech space technology with
    the power to destroy or corrupt
    the West's financial markets.

    But Janus has underestimated
    his most determined enemy.

    James Bond is soon in St
    Petersburg on the track of Xenia
    and Janus, armed with the latest
    high-tech weaponry. He will need
    it all, as he uncovered his most
    dangerous adversary yet.

    John Gardner was educated in
    Berkshire and at St John's
    College, Cambridge. He has had
    many fascinating occupations and
    was, variously, a Royal Marine
    officer, a stage magician, theater
    critic, reviewer and journalist.
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    1996: GoldenEye released in the Philippines.
    1996: Zlaté oko (The Golden Eye) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
    Video marketing.
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    1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Philippines.

    2000: The World Is Not enough released in the Philippines.
    2004: Jeff Nuttall dies at age 70--Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.
    (Born 8 July 1933--Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.)
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    2007: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Double or Die in paperback.
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    2013: Activision and Steam remove online copies and pages for Quantum of Solace, Blood Stone, 007 Legends.
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    Activision's James Bond games disappear from
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    PC versions of Activision's James Bond games have been removed from digital sale on Steam,
    Xbox 360 Games on Demand and Activision's own web store.
    By Martin Gaston | January 4, 2013

    Activision's suite of James Bond games have all disappeared from Steam, Xbox 360 and Activision's own digital store. Spotted by Neogamr.net, 007 Legends and James Bond 007: Blood Stone, from now-defunct studios Eurocom and Bizarre Creations, and the Treyarch-helmed Quantum of Solace are no longer available to purchase from Steam.

    There are no results in Activision's own store, either. On the consoles, the Xbox 360 Games on Demand version of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded has also been pulled. The game is still available to buy on the PlayStation 3, but it is not clear if the game will remain listed on the PlayStation Store when the marketplace is refreshed this week.

    One reason for games being pulled from digital sale can be down to licensing agreements expiring, as happened with GTA: Vice City on Steam recently. Activision obtained the gaming rights to the then-lucrative Bond license from EA in 2006, in a deal with MGM and EON that was scheduled to last until 2014. It is possible that Activision has pulled the plug on this arrangement.

    The last Bond game, Eurocom's 007 Legends, was derided by critics and failed to make an impact on the sales charts, despite being timed to coincide with the release of uber-blockbuster Skyfall. The studio's previous game, the lukewarm 2010 remake of the classic GoldenEye 007, also failed to capture hearts and wallets and the Derby-based studio was closed at the end of 2012.

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    2021: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) dies at age 65--Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 15 October 1955-- The Bronx, New York City, New York.)
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    Show’ Star, Dies at 65 After Premature
    Death Announcement
    By Naman Ramachandran
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    UPDATE: Tanya Roberts, known for playing Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and Midge Pinciotti on “That ’70s Show” between 1998 and 2004, died Monday night after it was prematurely reported by many outlets that she had died on Sunday night. She was 65.
    On Tuesday, Roberts’ publicist, Mike Pingel, confirmed to Variety that she died Monday night at 9:30 p.m. PT due to a urinary tract infection that spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and blood stream. However, Pingel mistakenly told many publications that Roberts had died on Sunday night after her partner, Lance O’Brien, visited her in the hospital and presumed she was no longer living. She remained hospitalized in “dire” condition Monday, Pingel told Variety earlier that day.

    Roberts was out walking her dogs on Christmas Eve when she collapsed. The cause of death is not understood to be related to COVID-19.

    Born Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts had a successful modeling career and appeared in some off-Broadway roles. She made her film debut in 1975 with “The Last Victim.” Thereafter, she appeared in a series of films that attained cult status, including “The Beastmaster” (1982), “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle” (1984), “Body Slam” (1987) and “Night Eyes” (1990). She also played Julie Rogers in the “Charlie’s Angels” TV series.

    On “That ’70s Show,” Roberts played the laidback hippie mother of Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon). While she left the show in 2001, she returned in 2004.

    Roberts’ final on-screen appearance was in the television series “Barbershop” in 2005.
    Britt Ekland, who played a Bond girl in “The Man With The Golden Gun” (1974), tweeted: “Rip Tanya Roberts, once a Bond Girl always a Bond Girl!”
    “The Beastmaster” director Don Coscarelli tweeted: “I just heard the sad news that actress Tanya Roberts passed away. Tanya was a beautiful person, inside and out. I will always remember Tanya for being incredibly sweet and for her genuine love of animals. She was beloved by ‘Beastmaster’ fans everywhere. RIP.”

    An online memorial for Roberts will be announced soon, and donations can be given in her name to the ASPCA.
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    2021: Film Music Reporter gives detail for the Next Station Music release of John Piscitello's soundtrack for Becoming Bond.
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    Next Station Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Becoming Bond. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Piscitello (No Place on Earth, Mike Wallace Is Here, Too Funny to Fail, Memory Games). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Becoming Bond is directed by Josh Greenbaum and tells the true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, despite having never acted a day in his life. The documentary premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and is now available to stream on Hulu.

    Here’s the track list of the album:
    1. The Forgotten James Bond (1:11)
    2. Twelve, Maybe Thirteen (0:50)
    3. A Wild Larrikin (1:06)
    4. Who Cares? (0:52)
    5. Snakes and Bats (1:17)
    6. My Bike’s Broken Down (1:07)
    7. Dry Rooting (0:31)
    8. Listen, Don’t Talk (2:04)
    9. A Little Roughed Up (1:50)
    10. Intimidated by the Love (2:14)
    11. In a Tortuous State (1:34)
    12. Totally in Love (2:54)
    13. Sailing to London (1:03)
    14. It Was Instinctive (1:02)
    15. Platonically (0:54)
    16. I Could Smell Her (1:09)
    17. Smoke out of My Butt (1:50)
    18. Gone to Heaven (0:47)
    19. Gundel (1:03)
    20. Pass Me a Banana (1:22)
    21. Two or Three Times a Day (0:39)
    22. On the Kings Road (0:38)
    23. Maggie Calls (3:15)
    24. Casting Office (4:41)
    25. The Airport (3:42)
    26. Having Fun With It (1:43)
    27. A Little Bigger Head (0:48)
    28. Helicopters at Night (2:06)
    29. A Famously Bad Decision (1:42)
    30. This Is Who I Am (0:44)
    31. Write Your Own Story (3:01)
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    2025: Emilio Echevarría dies at age 80--Mexico City, Mexico.
    (Born in Mexico City, Mexico.)
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    Emilio Echevarría Dies: ‘Amores Perros’ And ‘Die Another
    Day’ Actor Was 80
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    By Greg Evans | NY & Broadway Editor
    January 6, 2025 10:27am
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    Emilio Echevarría, the Mexican actor who played the hitman known as “El Chivo” (The Goat) in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s 2000 film Amores perros and also appeared in Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también (2001) and Iñárritu’s Babel (2006), died Saturday, January 4. He was 80.
    His death was announced by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. Additional details were not disclosed.

    Born Emilio Antonio Echevarría Noriega on July 3, 1944, in Mexico City, Echevarría began his acting career in the late 1970s and he would go on to become a three-time nominee for Mexico’s Ariel Awards.
    His breakthrough role came with Amores perros in 2000, followed quickly by Y tu mamá también, the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day and then, in 2004, John Lee Hancock’s The Alamo. Babel followed in 2006.
    Other credits include 1990’s Dying in the Gulf, 2015’s A Monster With A Thousand Heads and 2018’s The Chosen. All three of those performances earned Echevarría an Ariel Award nomination.

    Among Echevarría’s most frequent collaborators was Gael García Bernal: In addition to Amores Perros, Y tu mamá también and Babel, the two appeared in the 2015 Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.

    Echevarría is survived by daughter and actress Lourdes Echevarría.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    January 5th

    1945: Roger Spottiswoode is born--Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

    1970: 007 - A Serviço Secreto de Sua Majestade (007 - To Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Brazil.
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    1975: 007 Contra o Homem com a Pistola de Ouro (007 Against the Man with the Pisstol of Gold) released in Brazil.
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    1978: Roger Moore signs a contract for his fourth mission as OO7.

    1984: Sir Richard Joseph Hughes CBE dies at age 77--Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong.
    (Born 5 March 1906--Prahran, Melbourne, Australia.)
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    Obituaries
    RICHARD HUGHES, 77, IS DEAD; AUSTRALIAN COVERED THE WARS
    By WILLIAM G. BLAIRJAN. 5, 1984
    ...

    Richard Hughes, a Far East expert and flamboyant foreign and war correspondent for Australian and British publications for more than 40 years, died yesterday of a liver ailment in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. He was 77 years old and lived in Hong Kong.

    Mr. Hughes, an Australian, covered the North African campaigns in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and was one of two Western journalists first summoned to meet the fugitive British spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, when they turned up in Moscow in 1956. The other journalist was from Reuters.

    Based in Hong Kong since 1948, first for The Sunday Times of London and then, since 1973, for The Times of London, Mr. Hughes covered China and Southeast Asia for those publications and others, including The Economist, The Herald and Sun of Melbourne, The Far Eastern Economic Review and The New York Times, for which he wrote many Sunday magazine articles.
    A Model for Novels
    John le Carre used Mr. Hughes as the model for the fictional character Old Craw in his 1977 novel ''The Honourable Schoolboy,'' much of which is set in Hong Kong. The late Ian Fleming, at one time Mr. Hughes's foreign editor on The Sunday Times, portrayed Mr. Hughes as the fictional character Dikko Henderson in the 1964 James Bond novel ''You Only Live Twice.''

    In ''The Honourable Schoolboy,'' Mr. le Carre wrote that Old Craw was ''the ancient mariner'' to other journalists. ''Craw had shaken more sand out of his shorts, they told each other, than most of them would walk over, and they were right,'' he wrote.

    Robert M. Shaplen of The New Yorker, a former Hong Kong-based Far East correspondent for that magazine, recalled Mr. Hughes yesterday as a big, robust man with a dry wit. Mr. Hughes was ''a terrific storyteller, a raconteur with a raconteur's big laugh, a tremendous fund of knowledge and an incredible memory,'' Mr. Shaplen said.

    Mr. Hughes's round, beneficent face and manner of quoting from the Bible won him the nicknames of ''monk,'' ''bishop'' and ''your grace'' among friends and colleagues.

    Entertaining was his forte. He had an immense fund of stories frequently prefaced by the admonition, ''My son, you will take this little jest as an expression of my worldly experience.''
    He Knew the Far East
    Beneath his ribald jokes and careless, sometimes slovenly exterior was an intelligent and industrious reporter. He knew the Far East, as he would say, ''like the back of me hand.''

    Richard Hughes was born in Melbourne on March 6, 1906. He left school there at the age of 14, trying his hand successively as a poster artist, shunter of railroad cars and public relations officer before joining The Star of Melbourne as a reporter in 1934.

    He shifted to The Daily and Sunday Telegraph of Sydney in 1935 and quickly rose to principal assignment editor for both papers by 1939. He returned to reporting the next year as a foreign correspondent for the papers in Tokyo and Shanghai. After covering the war in North Africa in 1942-43, he returned to Sydney to serve first as acting editor of The Sunday Telegraph and then as a foreign correspondent again in Tokyo in 1945. He remained there for three years before moving to Hong Kong.

    Mr. Hughes was the author or editor of four books, the best known of which was ''Hong Kong: Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time,'' published in 1968.

    In 1980, as the widely respected dean of Asia's foreign press corps and its most colorful personality, Mr. Hughes was honored by Queen Elizabeth II, who named him a Commander of the British Empire.

    Mr. Hughes is survived by his wife, Ann, daughter of a Chinese general, and a son by a previous marriage, Richard, of Sydney.

    A version of this obituary appears in print on January 5, 1984, on Page B00013 of the National edition with the headline: RICHARD HUGHES, 77, IS DEAD; AUSTRALIAN COVERED THE WARS.
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    Conversation With Richard Hughes
    By timbowden On January 28, 2012
    CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HUGHES | With Tim Bowden

    Just before World War II Australians seemed unaware that they were geographically linked to Asia, and not simply ‘British to the bootstraps’ as Prime Minister Robert Menzies later put it. There were no Australian foreign correspondents working in Asia, and Richard Hughes (and colleagues like Denis Warner) were determined to redress this balance.
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    Hughes (against the wishes of his newspaper proprietor Frank Packer) went to Japan in 1940 to report from Tokyo on the growing threat of war, and returned in 1945 (still defying Packer who sacked him) to cover the Occupation under General Douglas Macarthur.

    Hughes came late to journalism. He was 28 when he became a reporter on the Melbourne Star, having left school at 14 to become a boy shunter with the Victorian Railways, progressing to become the public relations assistant of Sir Harold Clapp, the head of Vic rail.

    But he was always attracted to a good story, and tells hilarious tales of his time with the Victorian Railways, and indeed of his introduction to journalism in Melbourne. His achievements were legendary, but he quickly nominates his finding two of the ‘Cambridge spies’, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in Moscow in 1956, as his most memorable scoop.
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    Richard Hughes worked directly to Ian Fleming, his boss at the Sunday Times.
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    Hughes and Fleming during a tour of Southern Japan in 1959. They became good friends, and Fleming drew on Hughes’ character, writing him into his last James Bond book, as Dikko Henderson, head of Australian security in Japan. (Pictured in Japan in 1962.)
    In the 1950s he began to work for the Sunday Times in London, directly to Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond books. Fleming made several trips to the Far East researching several books, and Richard Hughes (and Hughes’ Japanese friend ‘Tiger’ Saito) travelled with him.

    Fleming included both men in his last Bond novel You Only Live Twice. Hughes was the model for Dikko Henderson, the head of Australian security in Japan.
    As portraying a foreign correspondent as a spook is one of the worst insults to journalistic integrity that can be imagined, Hughes (tongue in cheek) threatened to sue Fleming, who responded by telling him to go right ahead, adding, ‘If you do, I’ll really write the truth about you Dikko.’
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    In 1975 I was lucky enough to record an extensive interview with Richard Hughes looking back at his remarkable life.
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    You Only Live twice (Dikko Henderson) | The Honourable Schoolboy (Old Craw)
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    2006: Player One publishes a mobile game based on Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel SilverFin. 2006: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Blood Fever.
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    Blood Fever by Charlie Higson
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    Blood Fever is the second book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

    James Bond has discovered danger. Now it’s come looking for him. An Eton boy’s family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count has built himself a mountain fortress. Is there a connection? Young James Bond is about to find out – and face a lethal group of villains beneath the burning Mediterranean sun.
    "Takes the reader by the throat." – Observer


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    JAMES BOND
    James Bond will grow up to become the greatest secret agent in the world, but in the summer of 1933 he is still just a schoolboy. While staying at his cousin Victor’s villa in Sardinia he is drawn into a dangerous and terrifying adventure that will require all his bravery, skill and cunning to survive.

    ‘He ran across the roof and leapt over to the next building… He laughed. This was exactly the same situation he’d been in that night with the Danger Society back at Eton. Only this time he risked more than a beating. This time he was running for his life.’

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    SMILER
    Smiler is Count Ugo’s chief henchman and executioner. A murderous former criminal from the streets of Glasgow he was mutilated by his old gang for selling them out to the police. He now bears the scars of this attack on his cheeks, which have earned him his nickname. A red letter M is tattooed on the back of each of his hands. The symbol of the Millenaria society.

    ‘Zoltan was never sure whether the man was really smiling or not. But he had known him long enough to realize that he probably wasn’t.’

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    ZOLTAN
    Zoltan the Magyar is a Hungarian smuggler. A ruthless but simple man, he dreams of making enough money to retire. James is never sure if Zoltan is a villain or a friend, but if James wants to stay alive he is going to need all the help he can get.

    ‘The blond captain grinned, his teeth flashing. His arms, which were as thick as his legs and knotted with muscle, were crossed on his broad chest… His eyes were startling. The irises were so pale as to be almost colourless and were ringed with a grey that seemed to shine like silver.’

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    AMY GOODENOUGH
    Amy Goodenough is the sister of one of James’s school friends. When the pirate Zoltan murders her father and kidnaps her, Amy, a strong, resourceful girl, vows to kill him. But a strange bond grows between the two of them, and when Amy is taken to Sardinia she realises that Zoltan might be the only friend she has.

    ‘She had short, untidy hair cut raggedly into uneven clumps, pale freckled skin and big eyes that were shining in the dark…

    ‘I thought I was dreaming,’ said the girl. ‘Who are you?’

    ‘The name’s Bond, James Bond. Who are you?’

    ‘I’m Amy Goodenough.’

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    VICTOR
    James’s Swiss cousin, Victor, has retired to live in seclusion in a bizarre villa in Sardinia, surrounded by the surreal artworks of his artist friend, Poliponi. Victor has had enough of the world of men and wants to live out his days in peace. He loves the finer things in life, wine, art, music and good food, but events on the island make him realise that he can’t hide from the world forever.

    ‘No, it is me who must apologise,’ said Victor, his expression softening. ‘I did not mean to get angry, but there are rumours that the Millenaria are here on the island, and I do not want to think about such things. Life should be for pleasure, not for war.’

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    UGO CARNIFEX
    Count Ugo Carnifex has built himself a palace high in the mountains of Sardinia. As head of the sinister Millenaria society, he has secret plans to recreate the Roman Empire. He has a hatred and fear of dirt, dresses all in white and wears silver jewellery dug from the mines beneath his palace.

    ‘His fingers were festooned with silver rings; he had silver chains around his neck, and small silver earrings. His skin, unlike that of the two guards, was a pure, milky white; so pale that James could see the blue veins beneath it. And his close-cropped hair was as white as everything else about him.’

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    VENDETTA
    Vendetta is a 13-year-old whose father was killed in a feud between two Sardinian bandit families. She has lived a harsh life among people whose arguments are settled with the gun or the knife. After a night of hideous torture, she rescues James and nurses him back to health.

    ‘The guard was sitting in the water, slumped against a slimy rock, his head tipped backwards, his eyes staring and white-rimmed, his mouth open in a silent scream of terror. Below his chin was what looked like a second mouth cut into his throat. The girl had sliced clean across it with her knife.’
    2007: 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

    2010: Reports say Sam Mendes is connected with BOND 23. (MGM at the time denies he's signed as director. EON later confirms he was hired as a consultant until MGM worked out its financial issues.)
    2015: Spectre films at Lake Altaussee, Austria.

    2022: China mines James Bond to mock privacy concerns in a short film.
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    By Vasani Vanraj | January 5, 2022
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    Chinese state media have trivialised US and UK concerns around tech privacy and security with a parody film entitled: 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing.

    The video, which was posted to Twitter and YouTube on Tuesday, apparently takes aim at Western governments for banning telecoms giant Huawei from running future 5G networks, among other actions taken against Beijing by both the US and UK.
    In the video, a spy called “James Pond” – or “0.07” – and another called the “Black Window” – or “0.06” – makes contact with an American spy called “M” in the video shared by China’s state controlled Xinhua News Agency.

    “M” tells “Pond” not to to buy a Huawei phone because the devices are a “Chinese backdoor”, and suggests the two spies take “CIA-certified” phones from underneath a table.

    “Pond” and “Black Window” are then shocked that “M” admits to being assigned to spy on “the Great United Kingdom” with the “CIA-certified” phones.
    The focus on Huawei and mobile technology was an apparent reference to the announcement of US sanctions against Huawei in 2020.

    That came amid US claims that China had illustrated a “well-orchestrated, very top down, well-resourced effort to steal American and European intellectual property” and data, as NBC News reported.

    While Huawei denied those claims, the UK government in 2020 also announced that it would remove the Chinese tech giant from its future 5G network, in a decision that Huawei said was “politically motivated and not based on a fair evaluation of the risks”.

    As have UK and US lawmakers aired criticisms of Chinese tech firms such as TikTok for allegedly being beholden to China’s ruling Communist Party, although the social media platform also refutes the allegations.

    Tweeting out the four minute-long parody, Xinhua News Agency said that the video showed a “’Secret Meeting’ between MI6 Agent 0.07 and the CIA after MI6 chief Richard Moore made China the agency’s top priority. Rib-tickling moments…”

    Mr Moore, the head of the UK’s intelligence agency, said in November that China was responsible for “large-scale espionage operations” against the UK and other nations, and that the country had become the “single biggest priority” for MI6.

    China, which ridiculed the claims and Britain in its parody video, responded at the time by saying Mr Moore was ““peddling fake news and false intelligence”, as Sky News reported.
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    2023: From Saratoga with Love - Celebrates 60 years of James Bond with car exhibit at the Saratoga Automotive Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.
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    From Saratoga with love: Celebrate 60 years of
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    Published: Jan. 03, 2023
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    The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum
    By Sunny Hernandez | [email protected]

    It’s been 60 years of secret agent James Bond movies and to celebrate the anniversary, an official collection of James Bond vehicles is now on display in Upstate New York.

    Bond in Motion” has brought 25 iconic “007″ vehicles to the Saratoga Automobile Museum. It opened in November 2022 and will run through November 2023.

    The exhibit includes the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, the 1977 Lotus Esprit from “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the 2007 “Casino Royale” Aston Martin DBS that made movie history with a record-breaking seven rotation roll, and one of the ten Aston Martin DB10s built specifically for 2015′s “Spectre.”

    Bond in Motion” will also feature other vehicles including a motorbike, three-wheeler, submarine, and the Indian motorized rickshaw, or “tuk-tuk,” that appeared in a chase scene through the crowded streets of Udaipur in the 1983 film “Octopussy.”
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    The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum
    In addition, movie memorabilia, images, and video from all 25 films will be on display to create a full Bond experience for museum visitors.

    According to The Daily Gazette, Steve Struss, the curator of the museum, said it is only the second time the collection has been on exhibit in a museum in the U.S. The first time being at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.

    Since the Saratoga museum is smaller, it is only 10 percent of the full collection.
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    The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum
    Other exhibits at the museum include the two cars build specifically for the Mille Miglia race, the history of the automobile industry in New York, car racing in New York including the first Grand Prix in America, the stock car hall of fame, and an exhibit about the museum building’s history as a bottling plant of Saratoga Spa waters.

    Admission prices are $15 for adults, $12 for children ages 6-18, military and law enforcement, and senior citizens. Free admission is available for children under age six and museum members.

    Tickets are available the Saratoga Automobile Museum website.
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    2025: National Bird Day in the US.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 6th

    1955: Rowan Atkinson is born--Consett, County Durham, England.

    1966: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Colombia.
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    1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Blofeld and Tracy exchanging verses from James Elroy Flecker's The Story of Hassan.
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    ISHAK
    Thy dawn, O Master of the world, thy dawn;
    The hour the lilies open on the lawn,
    The hour the grey wings pass beyond the mountains,
    The hour of silence, when we hear the fountains,
    The hour that dreams are brighter and winds colder,
    The hour that young love wakes on a white shoulder,
    O Master of the world, the Persian Dawn.

    That hour, O Master, shall be bright for thee:
    Thy merchants chase the morning down the sea,
    The braves who fight thy war unsheathe the sabre,
    The slaves who work thy mines are lashed to labour,
    For thee the waggons of the world are drawn—
    The ebony of night, the red of dawn!

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    1998: Sutra ne umire nikad (Tomorrow Is Not Dying Never) released in Serbia.
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    2012: Robert Wentworth John (Bob) Holness dies at age 83--Pinner, England.
    (Born 12 November 1928-- Vryheid, South Africa.)
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    Bob Holness obituary
    Modest quizmaster who achieved cult status at the helm of Blockbusters
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    Before television and radio quizmasters became increasingly raucous, clever-clever and sarcastic, Bob Holness, who has died aged 83, saw the role as that of a rewarder of knowledge rather than the ringmaster of a hysterical circus. Indeed, one of the worst mistakes one could make with Holness was to refer to any of the many quizzes he conducted as gameshows. In his unostentatious clothes, he resembled a jovial and thoughtful golfing companion rather than a smirking media man, and he always made a point of sympathising with contestants who lost.

    Blockbusters, the TV quiz for 16- to 18-year-old contestants but aimed at a much wider audience, consolidated Holness's popularity and also gained him cult status. In the programme, he posed questions, the answers to which began with a letter of the alphabet that had been chosen by contestants from a honeycomb grid. A favourite wheeze of the contestants was to tease him by asking, "Can I have a P please, Bob?" or even "Can I have U?" Holness, who said that he always recognised the "little snigger" in the contestants' voices, took all this in good part, knowing that it helped to build up the programme's audience to more than 6 million.

    A variant of a show first screened in the US, Blockbusters was the most popular programme Holness conducted. Produced by Central, it was first broadcast in the UK in 1983 and ran for 10 years at differing times in various regions on the ITV network, before being taken up by Sky – with Holness still as quizmaster – for a short run. There followed variations of the show, hosted by Michael Aspel and Liza Tarbuck.

    Holness was born in Vryheid, Natal, in South Africa. His grandfather had fought in the South African wars at the turn of the century and settled there as a mining engineer and prospector. He had many contacts with Zulu people, and taught King Solomon how to drive a car. Holness's father, too, enjoyed the country, and regularly drove across Natal, paying out the wages at the mines, and returning with lumps of gold that had been discovered.

    When he was young, Holness's family relocated to the UK and he won a scholarship to Ashford grammar school, now the Norton Knatchbull school, in Kent. During the second world war he and a gang of schoolmates plundered shot-down German aircraft for souvenirs. He enjoyed listening to forces radio, and would sometimes stay up all night, tuned to American stations.
    After attending Maidstone College of Art, he was persuaded by his father to become a printing apprentice. He took up a printer's job in South Africa and joined a repertory theatre in Durban within two months of arriving. In the 1950s he acted first in repertory, where he met his future wife, Mary, and then on radio. He was one of the first actors to portray James Bond, taking the role in a Durban radio production of Ian Fleming's Moonraker in the mid-50s. He also presented music and magazine programmes on radio.
    After he and Mary had started a family, they decided to move to the UK. It took the couple a few years to save up enough money for the tickets, and when they arrived at Southampton, it was with virtually empty pockets. They stayed with Mary's family in London while Holness looked for work.

    The British actors he had met in South Africa had spoken with great enthusiasm about the booming television industry in the UK. Within three weeks of approaching companies, Holness was put under contract by Granada in Manchester. The company introduced him to audiences in 1961 on the TV shows Take a Letter and Junior Criss Cross Quiz, as well as using him as a continuity announcer and newsreader.

    This lasted for three years until he moved south, buying a modest house in Pinner, north-west London, which remained the family home for more than three decades. Over the years, he worked as a reporter, interviewer and announcer for TV programmes such as World in Action and Today, and radio shows including the unscripted Late Night Extra. He delivered LBC radio's traffic reports from a helicopter and for many years, he and Douglas Cameron co-hosted LBC's morning news show, AM, which required him to get up at 3.30am.

    Holness had a long association with BBC Radio 2, chiefly as presenter of Bob Holness and Friends, and with the BBC World Service, for which he presented Anything Goes, a weekly anthology of words and music. Once Blockbusters had put him on the path to celebrity, he became recognised as a master of the quizshow genre and in the 1990s, he was seen presiding over Raise the Roof and Call My Bluff.

    He also lent his support to a number of children's charities including Teenage Cancer Trust, Young People's Trust for the Environment and, as vice-president from 1994, National Children's Home (now Action for Children).

    Holness, who had suffered a number of minor strokes in recent years, is survived by Mary and their children, Carol, Rosalind and Jonathan.

    • Robert Wentworth John Holness, quizmaster, presenter and actor, born 12 November 1928; died 6 January 2012
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    Filmography
    Actor (6 credits)

    2004 The Impressionable Jon Culshaw (TV Series) - Julius Caesar
    - Episode #1.2 (2004) ... Julius Caesar
    1998 Rex the Runt (TV Series) - Mr. Formal
    - Adventures on Telly 1 (1998) ... Mr. Formal (voice)
    1991 The Little and Large Show (TV Series) - - Episode #11.4 (1991)
    1990 Harry Enfield's Television Programme (TV Series) - Bob Holness
    - Episode #1.5 (1990) ... Bob Holness

    1984 The Chain - Newsreader

    1974 Thriller (TV Series) - Announcer
    - One Deadly Owner (1974) ... Announcer (voice)

    Self (37 credits)

    2006 Blockbusters: Interactive Quiz (Video Game) - Himself - Presenter (voice)
    2006 The Top of the Form Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
    2005 Gameshow Marathon (TV Series)
    Himself / Himself - Audience Member
    - The Golden Shot (2005) ... Himself
    - Take Your Pick (2005) ... Himself
    - The Price Is Right (2005) ... Himself - Audience Member
    2005 Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member
    2004 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #3.3 (2004) ... Himself
    1997-2002 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Himself - Presenter / Himself - Chairman - 12 episodes
    - Episode dated 30 May 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
    - Episode dated 4 February 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
    - Pantomime Special (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
    - Episode dated 19 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
    - Episode dated 5 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
    2001 Bob Martin (TV Series) - Himself
    - This Life (2001) ... Himself
    2001 Trigger Happy TV (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #2.3 (2001) ... Himself
    2001 An Audience with Des O'Connor (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
    2000 I Love a 1970's Christmas (TV Special documentary) - Himself

    1991-1998 Telly Addicts (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #13.4 (1998) ... Himself
    - Episode #7.17 (1991) ... Himself
    1997 Auntie's Bloomers (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Auntie's New Winter Bloomers (1997) ... Himself (uncredited)
    1997 Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #1.5 (1997) ... Himself
    1993-1997 The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode dated 30 April 1997 (1997) ... Himself
    - Episode #1.0 (1993) ... Himself
    1996 Happy Birthday Shirley (TV Special) - Himself (uncredited)
    1995 Raise the Roof (TV Series) - Himself - Host
    -1994 Blockbusters (TV Series) - Himself / Himself - Host / Himself - Presenter / ... 875 episodes
    1994 An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (TV Special documentary) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
    1994 Joy to the World (TV Movie) - Himself - Narrator
    1994 Noel's House Party (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #3.13 (1994) ... Himself
    1993 Paul Merton: The Series (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #2.3 (1993) ... Himself
    1993 Cluedo (TV Series) - Himself - Studio Guest
    - Seven Deadly Sinners (1993) ... Himself - Studio Guest
    1993 The Word (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #3.19 (1993) ... Himself
    1992 Gamesmaster (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #2.13 (1992) ... Himself
    1992 Public Enemy Number One (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #1.1 (1992) ... Himself
    1992 Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show (TV Series) - Himself
    - Oh Blimey It's All Gone wrong (1992) ... Himself
    1992 WYSIWYG (TV Series) - Himself
    - Shopping (1992) ... Himself
    1990 Celebrity Fifteen to One (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
    - 1990 Special (1990) ... Himself - Contestant
    1990 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Bob Holness (1990) ... Himself

    1989 You Bet! (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode #2.8 (1989) ... Himself
    1988 Bullseye (TV Series) - Himself - Guest Contestant
    - Christmas Special 1988 (1988) ... Himself - Guest Contestant
    1986 Looks Familiar (TV Series) - Himself - Guest
    - Episode #14.9 (1986) ... Himself - Guest

    1968/I Today (TV Series) - Himself
    1967 Transworld Top Team (TV Series) - Himself - Scorer
    1965 Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series) - Himself - Guest DJ
    - Episode #7.23 (1965) ... Himself - Guest DJ
    1962-1964 Take a Letter (TV Series) - Himself - Host
    - Episode dated 24 June 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host
    - Episode dated 11 March 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host (as Robert Holness)
    - Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Himself - Host
    1963 Bootsie and Snudge (TV Series) - Himself
    - The Lorry Route (1963) ... Himself (as Robert Holness)
    Trivia
    The second actor to 'play' James Bond - he was the voice of Bond in a 1957 radio dramatisation of 'Moonraker' on South African radio.
    One of his daughters, Ros Holness was in a pop group called "Toto Coelo", they had a smash hit with "I Eat Cannibals".
    He was the subject of an urban myth, initiated by broadcaster Stuart Maconie, who while writing for the New Musical Express, claimed (untruthfully) that he played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's song Baker Street. The true performer was Rafael Ravenscroft. The story clearly appealed to his sense of humour as he has often played along with the myth, and has also at various times jokingly claimed to be the lead guitarist on Derek and the Dominoes' Layla and the mysterious individual putting Elvis Presley off his stride on the infamous "laughing version" of Are You Lonesome Tonight?.
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    2012: Skyfall films M's funeral.
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    New James Bond movie Skyfall has reportedly filmed funeral scenes in Greenwich, London.

    Producers started shooting today (Friday, January 6) at the Old Royal Naval College outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, says Footprints of London.

    "Eight coffins draped in union flags" sit in the Painted Hall, the website has claimed.
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    One onlooker wrote on Twitter: "Walked past eight hearses with flag draped coffins at the Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College. The funeral scene for the new James Bond."

    Another fan said that Dame Judi Dench, who reprises her role as M in the movie, was attending the filming.

    The official Skyfall 007 Twitter account has since posted a photograph of a clapperboard resting on what appears to be one of the coffins used for filming.

    Starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, the 23rd Bond movie is due to hit cinemas on October 26, 2012.
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    2013: The Oscars promise a 50 year James Bond tribute on 24 February.
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    Above Instead of Switzerland, it’s Scotland, and Daniel Craig pays homage to Sean Connery in a Skyfall publicity photo.

    The 85th Academy Awards—the Oscars—will pay tribute to 50 years of the James Bond films, it was announced Friday.

    Show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement that there will be a special sequence ‘saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday.
    ‘Starting with Dr No back in 1962, the 007 movies have become the longest-running motion picture franchise in history and a beloved global phenomenon.’
    The six actors who have portrayed Bond in the official franchise—Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig—will feature in the sequence.

    The Oscars telecast will take place on February 24. Nominations will be announced on January 10 in Los Angeles.

    The latest entry in the Eon Productions franchise, Skyfall, has taken over US$1,000 million, with the film still yet to open in China.

    The film, directed by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, has overtaken 1965’s Thunderball as the highest-grossing Bond film adjusted for inflation.

    Since the “reboot” of the franchise in 2006 with Casino Royale, the Bond films have had more critical nods than their predecessors, which were generally acclaimed on their technical merit. In the mid-1960s, Goldfinger won an Oscar for sound effects, while Thunderball won for special visual effects.

    Daniel Craig had a BAFTA nomination for Casino Royale, the first Bond actor to achieve this, while Skyfall’s Javier Bardem received a best supporting actor nomination by the Screen Actors’ Guild.

    Skyfall is on the shortlist of the Producers’ Guild of America’s best film nominees, alongside Lincoln and Argo.

    The theme song, by Adele and Paul Epworth, could take home a best song Oscar.

    The British Academy Awards, the BAFTAs, paid tribute to 50 years of the Bond films last year, with Tom Jones singing the theme song from Thunderball.

    2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #3 comic, continuing VARGR.
    Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.
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    Writer: Warren Ellis
    Art: Jason Masters
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Publication Date: January 2016
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 pages
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    Bond is on his way to break up a small, agile drug-trafficking operation in Berlin. The truth about what he's walking into is bigger, scarier and much more lethal. Berlin is about to catch fire, and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the "VARGR" storyline, the debut chapter of the ongoing James Bond saga as written by industry legend Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters!
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    2018: Daniel Craig announces he'll purchase the home of Martin Amis, Brooklyn, New York.
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    January 6, 2018 | 4:59pm

    James Bond is Brooklyn bound.
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    Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond star Daniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise.

    The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday.

    Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home).

    Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).”

    Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.”
    Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, Colonel Sun — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called The James Bond Dossier, analyzing Fleming’s novels.
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    2022: Ultimate Classic Rock Radio reports that Variety reports on multiple endings considered by the filmmakers of No Time To Die.
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    Director Cary Joji Fukunaga said the team behind the latest James Bond movie No Time to Die rejected a “realistic” ending for Daniel Craig’s final appearance as 007.

    In the 25th title of the franchise, the spy is involved in an epic and heroic sacrifice after finding himself in a no-win situation. But in a new interview with Variety, Fukunaga revealed that several alternate climax moments were discussed before being dismissed.
    “How he meets his end wasn’t decided yet,” he said. “It was just the fact that he would, so the question then became how to do it. … There were many, many iterations. ... A bullet, like an anonymous bullet, I remember that one. But it just seemed like a conventional weapons death didn’t seem appropriate. Given how much he had been able to escape from everything else, the fact that it would just be a bullet that always had your name on it from the beginning, as a sort of the thematic element seemed, while realistic, for Bond it had to be something even beyond that – like the impossible, impossible situation.”
    Craig argued that
    "the important thing was that we all try to create a situation of tragedy … the idea that there’s an insurmountable problem, there’s a greater force at play, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.” He also outlined the circumstances of Bond’s demise, describing it as a deliberate choice that’s also “the last thing on earth he wants to do. ... It couldn’t feel like a random act. It had to have weight – without it, it wasn’t gonna work. And if we hadn’t have got that weight, I don’t think we would’ve done it. We would’ve found another way of ending it.”
    Asked about the risk of a negative response from the audience, which might “walk in expecting that James Bond is going to save the day every time,” Craig noted: “
    If you stay to the end credits, it definitely says, ‘James Bond will return.’ So all is good.”
    Producer Barbara Broccoli added:
    “The amazing thing was that the audience managed to keep this secret, and that’s really a testament, I think, to the Bond fans, that they didn’t want to spoil other people’s enjoyment by telling them the end of the story.”
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    January 7th

    1924: Albert Geoffrey Bayldon is born--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
    (He dies 10 May 2017 at age 93--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.)
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    Geoffrey Bayldon
    See the complete article here:
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    Born Albert Geoffrey Bayldon | 7 January 1924 | Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
    Died 10 May 2017 (aged 93) | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
    Occupation Actor | Years active 1952–2010
    Partner(s) Alan Rowe
    Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1970–71). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).

    Early life
    Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture.[6] Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he appeared in amateur theatricals and then trained at the Old Vic Theatre School.

    Career
    Bayldon enjoyed a substantial stage career, including work in the West End and for the RSC. He made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, including King Rat (1965), To Sir, with Love (1967), Casino Royale (as Q) (1967), the Envy segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), the Marc Bolan/T. Rex film Born to Boogie (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), as well as the film versions of Steptoe and Son, Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) as the vicar, and Porridge (1979) as the Prison Governor.
    Bayldon also appeared in several horror films; Dracula and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed for Hammer Films and The House That Dripped Blood, Asylum and Tales from the Crypt for Amicus. In 2004, after many years of successful television work he appeared in the film Ladies in Lavender.

    He appeared in Doctor Who with a guest appearance as Organon in The Creature from the Pit (1979) opposite Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Subsequently, he played an alternative First Doctor in two audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions in the Doctor Who Unbound series: Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005). In 1963, Bayldon had been one of the first actors offered the role of the Doctor.

    Bayldon's other television roles include, ITV Play of the Week (1957, 1959, 1964, 1967), The Avengers (1961 and 1967), Z-Cars (1963, 1968), Theatre 625 (1964–1968), The Wednesday Play (1968, 1969), ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1970, 1972), Space: 1999 (1976), The Tomorrow People (1976), Tales of the Unexpected (1980, 1983), Blott on the Landscape (1985), Star Cops (1987), Rumpole of the Bailey (1987), The Chronicles of Narnia (1989).[14] He later took part in a number of BBC Schools programmes,[15] where he displayed a number of otherwise unexploited talents (such as singing). In 1993, he played Simplicio in the Open University video Newton's Revolution.

    In 1986, Bayldon provided the vocals on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard which was also used (without the vocal) as the theme for BBC1's Top of the Pops.

    Among his later television appearances were the Five game show Fort Boyard (1998–2001), Waking the Dead (2004), Heartbeat (2004) and Casualty (2006, after previous appearances in 1991, 1997 and 2004).[14] His final television appearances, before his retirement, were New Tricks (2007) and My Family (2010).

    Death
    Bayldon died on 10 May 2017, aged 93, from undisclosed causes.[20] His partner of many years, fellow actor Alan Rowe, had predeceased him in 2000.
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    Trivia (9)
    • He played the Doctor in two Doctor Who (1963) Unbound audio plays, "Auld Mortality" (2003) and "A Storm Of Angels" (2005).
    • He served in the Royal Air Force prior to training to be an actor.
    • Has said in an interview he was offered the role of the first Doctor Who (played by William Hartnell). This is at odds with most documents of the official history of the series, which have stated that Hartnell was the third choice after Cyril Cusack and Leslie French. Bayldon was considered for several roles in the series, including Sir Robert Muir in Doctor Who: Black Orchid: Part One (1982), Lord President Borusa in Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity: Part One (1983) and Lord Ravensworth in Doctor Who: The Mark of The Rani Part One (1985).
    • Appeared as a butler in the rock and roll movie Born to Boogie (1972) featuring Marc Bolan and T. Rex, and directed by Ringo Starr, due to their fondness for his TV series Catweazle (1970).
    • At the age of 80 in 2004, he became the oldest actor to ever play the Doctor Who (1963) character the Doctor, which he did (for the second time) in the Big Finish audio drama "A Storm of Angels".
    • He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Sir Percy Heseltine and the Fatherly Guard in Lifeforce (1985).
    • He died only seven days after his Casino Royale (1967) co-star Daliah Lavi.
    • Trained as an R.A.F.air-crew radio operator during the war but by the time his training was complete there were sufficient crews so he worked in orderly rooms and helped with entertainment.
    • He was the long-term partner of fellow actor Alan Rowe, who died in 2000.
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    1964: Laurence Harvey states he's been asked by Kevin McClory to play Bond in a film version of Thunderball. And he'd like that a lot.
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    It wasn't long before stories began emerging in the press about who would
    play 007 in McClory's renegade Bond film, which was ready to go before
    cameras in March 1964, the same month as Goldfnger. Two names mentioned
    were the Australian actor Rod Taylor, recent star of Hitchcock's The Birds, and
    Laurence harvey, who'd made his name in the kitchen sink drama Room at the
    Top before moving on to Hollywood and films like The Alamo and The
    Manchurian Candidate. Harvey seemed the favourite and on 7 January revealed
    that he had been asked and was considering the offer. "I think the script is
    marvellous and I would be delighted to portray Bond."
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    1966: Sean Connery appears on the cover of Life magazine.
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    1974: Richard Maibaum finishes the first draft of the screenplay for The Man with the Golden Gun. 1976: Producer Kevin McClory announces in Variety his planned film James Bond of the Secret Service, to begin filming in the Bahamas with the involvement of Len Deighton and Sean Connery.
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    1981: 문 레이커 (Moon-ray-ee-kuh) released in South Korea.
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    1981: RCA Selectavision buys the laser-disc rights to the 007 films for $1.5 million.
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    1985: Pinewood's Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage re-opens, rebuilt after a July 1984 fire. A huge Peter Lamont set of Zorin's mine interior is already constructed.
    July 1984.
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    January 1985.
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    1993: Fantail publish James Bond Jr. paperback Live and Let's Dance by John Peel, writing as John Vincent.
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    2000: Ο κόσμος δεν είναι αρκετός (James Bond, praktor 007 - O kosmos den einai arketos) released in Greece.
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    2000: Swiat to za malo (World for a Little While) released in Poland.
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    2012: Shooting resumes for Skyfall with the funeral scene following the explosion at MI6 Headquarters. On location at the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich, Michael G. Wilson on hand for his cameo.
    2015: Spectre cast members Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista pose on Gaislachkogl's peak, Sölden, Austria prior to filming there.
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    2015: Khan Bonfils dies at age 43--London, England.
    (Born 1 January 1972--Vietnam.)
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    Kan (Khan) Bonfils (1972[1] – January 5, 2015) was a Danish actor and performer. He was born in Vietnam and adopted by a Danish family when he was 5 years old. He grew up in Denmark and later moved to London to fulfil his dream. He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He was a trained Martial Artist and studied the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu from Austin Goh, and was also a practitioner of Yin Style Ba Gua Zhang in London since 2008.

    His film credits include Jedi Master Saesee Tiin (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Body Armour (2007) and Traveller (2013).
    His other film credits include Tomb Raider 2, Batman Begins, and the James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Skyfall (2012).
    Bonfils also performed in the West End: Miss Saigon at Drury Lane, Theatre Royal London and The King & I at London Palladium where he performed the lead with Elaine Paige.

    Bonfils also had a brief modelling career, before starting acting, modelling for Michiko Kochino, Hermes, Oswald Boateng and more.

    On 5 January 2015, Bonfils was rehearsing an upcoming stage production of Dante's Inferno when he collapsed. He could not be resuscitated, and was pronounced dead by paramedics. He was 42 years old.

    Filmography
    His film credits include:
    • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Satoshi Isagura (uncredited)
    • Shadow Run (1998) - Baz
    • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) - Saesee Tiin
    • Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) - Reiss' Guard
    • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Creepy
    • Batman Begins (2005) - League of Shadows Warrior #3
    • Body Armour (2007) - Ozu
    • Tribe (2011) - Tolui
    • Skyfall (2012) - Silva's henchman
    • Traveller (2013) - Tolui
    • Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper (2016) - JK (final film role)
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    2019: The 76th Golden Globes Awards generates evidence of potential rivalry over the Bond role.
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    2019 Golden Globes
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    As shared by Mr. Idris Elba.
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    2020: Reports say Hans Zimmer will compose the soundtrack to No Time To Die.
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    Famed composer behind Inception and Gladiator drafted in to
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    Hans Zimmer has been drafted in as a last-minute replacement to score the James Bond movie No Time to Die, less than three months before its release.

    He replaces Dan Romer, who departs due to creative differences with the film’s production company Eon Productions, Variety reports. Romer had scored previous projects by Bond director Cary Fukunaga, such as Beasts of No Nation and Maniac. The theme song, a key element of each Bond film, has not yet been announced.
    Zimmer is one of Hollywood’s most high-profile composers, celebrated for his scores for films such as Gladiator, The Da Vinci Code and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He won an Oscar for his 1994 theme for The Lion King, though he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Christoper Nolan on Inception, Interstellar, the Dark Knight movies and more. Last week, Quentin Tarantino said “you could define the decade by” Zimmer’s score for Nolan’s film Dunkirk.

    Zimmer has scored two more films approaching release: superhero sequel Wonder Woman 1984 and Denis Villeneuve’s remake of Dune. He recently announced a live tour of arenas across Europe in spring 2021.
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    2020: Michael Apted dies at age 79--Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 10 February 1941--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, South East England.)
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    Benjamin Lee | Fri 8 Jan 2021

    The British director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79.

    The film-maker and documentarian was known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries.

    His death has been confirmed by his agency to the Hollywood Reporter. No further details are yet known.
    Apted’s career started in the 1960s on the small screen, and in 1964, he assisted on the the show Seven Up! as part of the current affairs show World in Action. He helped the director Paul Almond interview 14 seven-year-old children, and continued to independently revisit them every seven years over the course of their lives. The most recent, 63 Up, was released in 2019 and the director referred to it as “the most important thing I have ever done”. The series as a whole won the Peabody award in 2012.

    “The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,” Apted said in an interview last year. “The class system needed a kick up the backside.”

    In promotion for the most recent installment, Apted expressed a desire to continue in another seven years’ time, saying he would continue as long as he “can breathe and speak”.
    In the 1970s, Apted made his big-screen debut, directing the second world war drama The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. But he saw see his first major film success in 1980 with Coal Miner’s Daughter, a Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for Spacek as best actress.
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    Apted went on to direct Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a film that also picked up five Oscar nominations; Nell, which scored an Oscar nomination for Jodie Foster; the Kate Winslet drama Enigma; the Jennifer Lopez thriller Enough and, most recently, the action film Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace.

    “What I like about women at the center of films is that I find that a woman character brings a lot of emotion to a story, whatever a story is,” he said in a 2017 interview. “Whether it’s a woman with gorillas or a country music singer, a woman’s emotional life – at least on the surface – is more dramatic than a man’s.”
    He also directed the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough and the fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
    Apted has been remembered by his peers on Twitter, including Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids.

    “So very very sad to hear of the passing of Michael Apted,” Feig wrote. “He was always so kind to me and I was such a great admirer of his work.”

    Gale Anne Hurd, producer of Aliens and The Terminator, tweeted: “Another legendary filmmaker gone … a brilliant documentarian and a wonderful colleague. Do yourself a favor and check out his terrific filmography.”

    Apted is survived by his wife, Paige Simpson, sons Jim and John, and daughter Lily Mellis.
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    Director | Producer | Additional Crew
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 8th

    1920: Douglas Wilmer is born--Brentford, London, England.
    (He dies 31 March 2016 at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.)
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    1937: Dame Shirley Bassey is born--Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales.

    1962: Ian Fleming begins writing On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Goldeneye.
    1966: Bond comic strip You Only Live Twice ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Began 17 May 1965. 275-475) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    (Devil's Garden - You Only Live Twice!)
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    The Devil's Garden"
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    1971: 007 카지노 로얄 (Kah-gee-no low-yal; Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1976: Richard Maibaum and Christopher Wood complete the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. Today found at the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository.

    1992: Anthony Dawson dies at age 75--Sussex, England.
    (Born 18 October 1916--Edinburgh, Scotland.)
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    Born Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson, 18 October 1916, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
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    Nationality British
    Alma mater RADA
    Occupation Actor
    Years active 1940–1991
    Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in British films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Midnight Lace (1960), as well as playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

    Life
    Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet (Kittel) and Eric Francis Dawson.

    Career
    Following RADA training and WW II service, he made his film debut in 1943's They Met in the Dark. He went on to appear in such classic British films as The Way to the Stars (1945), The Queen of Spades (1948) and The Wooden Horse (1950), before moving to America in the early 1950s.

    It was while there that he appeared on Broadway in the play, and then the subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film of Dial M for Murder (1954), playing C. A. Swann/Captain Lesgate.[5][6] In the film, he is blackmailed by Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) into murdering his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). In his unpublished memoirs, Rambling Recollections, Dawson reminisced about getting the part:
    ... I had never met Hitchcock before, and yet he was about to do me the most fantastic good turn I could imagine. In that wonderful fat man's Cockney voice, he said, slowly, drooping every word separately, as though he had all day: 'Tony, I just called to let you know that I want you for this picture, so you're quite safe to make yourself a nice deal.' What could I say? I mumbled my thanks and put the phone down, feeling rather dazed, electrified, stunned; all of these. The full impact of this call from Hitch was very soon to come home to me.
    He had two other memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).
    Throughout his career he could often be found in the films of director Terence Young, including the aforementioned Dr. No, They Were Not Divided (1950), Valley of Eagles (1951), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), Red Sun (1971), Inchon (1982) and The Jigsaw Man (1983). Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat. His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann. Dawson appeared alongside fellow Bond veterans Adolfo Celi, Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the Italian Bond knockoff O.K. Connery.
    After the early 1960s, his roles got progressively smaller, but he continued to act until his death.

    Death
    He died in Sussex of cancer at the age of 75 in January 1992.
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    Filmography
    Actor (81 credits)

    1991 Selling Hitler (TV Mini-Series) - Marquess of Bath
    - Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Marquess of Bath
    1990 The Gamblers - Roy

    1988 Run for Your Life - Colonel Moorcroft
    1987 Ghoulies II - Priest
    1986 Pirates - Spanish Officer
    1983 The Jigsaw Man - Vicar
    1981 Inchon - Gen. Collins

    1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Noirtier De Villefort
    1973 Massacre in Rome
    1973 The Big Game - Burton (uncredited)
    1972 Cool Million (TV Series) - Prefect
    - Mask of Marcella (1972) ... Prefect
    1972 The Valachi Papers - Federal Investigator
    1971 Red Sun - Hyatt (as Tony Dawson)
    1970 Deadlock - Anthony Sunshine, der alte Killer
    1970 Rosolino Paternò, soldato... - Italian General

    1969 The Battle of Neretva - Morelli
    1968 A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof - Samuel Pratt (as Anthony M. Dawson)
    1967 Dirty Heroes - American Colonel (as Anthony M. Dawson)
    1967 Hell Is Empty - Paul Grant
    1967 Your Turn to Die - Dr. Evans
    1967 The Rover - Captain Vincent
    1967 Death Rides a Horse - Burt Cavanaugh
    1967 Operation Kid Brother - Alpha
    1966 Triple Cross - Major Stillman (as Tony Dawson)
    1966 Kaleidoscope - English Casino Manager (uncredited)
    1965 Change Partners - Ben Arkwright
    1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)
    1964-1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Simpson / Lucas
    - A Very Dangerous Game (1965) ... Simpson
    - Don't Nail Him Yet (1964) ... Lucas
    1965 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Arkwright
    - Change Partners (1965) ... Ben Arkwright
    1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Officer of Dragoons
    1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Mickey (uncredited)
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Colonel Nathan
    - We the Hunted (1964) ... Colonel Nathan
    1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavros Blofeld (as ?)
    1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Harris
    - Key Witness (1963) ... Harris
    1962 Seven Seas to Calais - Lord Burleigh
    1962 The Saint (TV Series) - Floyd Vosper
    - The Arrow of God (1962) ... Floyd Vosper
    1962 Dr. No - Professor Dent
    1961 The Devil Inside - James Dawson
    1961 Naked City (TV Series) - Mike Grundy
    - A Kettle of Precious Fish (1961) ... Mike Grundy
    1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - George Frobisher
    - I Heard You Calling Me (1961) ... George Frobisher
    1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - The Marques Siniestro
    1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Martin / Security Officer
    - The Leak (1960) ... Martin
    - The Sisters (1960) ... Security Officer
    1960 Midnight Lace - Ash
    1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Clouston
    - Ascent to Murder (1960) ... Clouston
    1960 The Valley of Decision (TV Movie)
    1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Gilles Porret
    - The Dennison Case (1960) ... Gilles Porret

    1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Al Vintner
    - The Conspiracy (1959) ... Al Vintner
    1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Stranger
    - Markheim (1959) ... Stranger
    1959 Libel - Gerald Loddon
    1959 Tiger Bay - Barclay
    1958 The Haunted Strangler - Supt. Burk
    1958 Dial M for Murder (TV Movie) - Captain Lesgate (Swann)
    1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Maurice
    - Wedding Cake (1958) ... Sir Maurice
    - Freeing the Serfs (1958) ... Sir Maurice
    1957 Action of the Tiger - Security Officer
    1957 Hour of Decision - Gary Bax
    1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Count Victor Mattoni
    - I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
    - I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
    - I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
    1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Captain Pierre Cordier
    - The Debt (1956) ... Captain Pierre Cordier
    1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Captain Flask
    - The Hand of the Hawk (1956) ... Captain Flask
    1956 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Lucas
    - Blackmail (1956) ... Lucas
    1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Archduke Johann Salvator
    - The Mayerling Affair (1956) ... Archduke Johann Salvator
    1955 London Playhouse (TV Series) - Adrian Childe
    - Area Nine (1955) ... Adrian Childe
    1955 That Lady - Don Inigo
    1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - German
    - The Bridge (1955) ... German
    1954 Dial M for Murder - Charles Swann
    1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
    - Beyond Reason (1953)
    - Colonel Judas (1951)
    1951-1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - - Of Lena Geyer (1952)
    - Claire Ambler (1952)
    - Top Secret (1951)
    1952 The King's Author (TV Movie) - Lord Chamberlain
    1951 Repertory Theatre (TV Series) - - A Little Night Music (1951)
    - Women of Intrigue (1951)
    1951 Valley of the Eagles - Sven Nystrom
    1951 The Long Dark Hall - The Man
    1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Secret Agent (uncredited)
    1950 Five Angles on Murder - Inspector Wilson (uncredited)
    1950 The Wooden Horse - Pomfret
    1950 They Were Not Divided - Michael

    1949 The Queen of Spades - Fyodor
    1947 Meet Me at Dawn - First Duelling Opponent (uncredited)
    1946 Secret Flight - Flt. Lt. Norton
    1946 Beware of Pity - Lt. Blannik
    1945 Johnny in the Clouds - Bertie Steen
    1943 They Met in the Dark - 2nd Code Expert
    1940 Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt - Student (uncredited)

    Writer (2 credits)

    1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series)
    1958 The Snorkel (from "The Snorkel" by)
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    1992: Dali Bensallah is born--Rennes, France.

    2006: Media report director Quentin Tarantino is furious with James Bond producers. Or at least unhappy.
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    Quentin Tarantino is unhappy with James Bond producers.
    By Daniel Kilkelly | 8 Jan 2006

    The director claims that he suggested the idea of filming Casino Royale to former Bond star Pierce Brosnan, who has since been replaced by Daniel Craig.

    "I'm annoyed that the James Bond producers never even called me up to talk to me about it because I can tell you they would not be making Casino Royale if I hadn't talked about it first," Tarantino is quoted by the Sunday Mirror[/b] as saying.

    "They should have called me. Especially since they are taking my idea and they are taking the publicity I gave them towards that idea. They should have at least out of courtesy had coffee with me."
    Visions of the project.
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    2008: Norvic FDC (First Day Cover) issues James Bond commemorative stamps for the Fleming Centenary.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 9th

    1943: Scott Walker is born--Hamilton, Ohio.
    (He dies 22 March 2019 at age 76--London, England.)
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    Scott Walker with the Scottish pop singer Lulu during an awards ceremony in the late 1960s. Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, his group, the Walker Brothers, had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts.
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    By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

    Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died on Friday in London. He was 76.

    His record label, 4AD, said the cause was cancer. He had been living in England since the 1960s.

    The Walker Brothers arrived in England in early 1965, reversing the earlier British invasion of America. There, the group — made up of Mr. Walker (his real name was Noel Scott Engel), a dramatic baritone who played bass; John Maus, a guitarist and vocalist; and Gary Leeds, the drummer, all of whom used the surname Walker — found the success that had eluded them in the United States.

    Though their popularity never reached Beatlemania levels, their fans, like those of the Beatles, would scream during their performances — and, in one harrowing incident, turned over a van taking them from a concert in Dublin.

    Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts: “Make It Easy on Yourself,” a ballad by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” which had first been recorded by Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons. Both songs also rose to the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

    Mr. Walker left the group in 1967 to start a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase. In one iteration he recorded songs by the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. But his most critical period was a retreat into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize: ominous and clangorous, existential and electronic, with big blocks of sound, his baritone voice now used to almost operatic effect. For many years, he did not appear in concert.

    Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”

    In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”

    “Met him once at Meltdown,” he added, referring to the annual music and art festival in England, “such a kind gentle outsider.”

    Noel Scott Engel was born on Jan 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, the only child of Noel and Elizabeth Marie (Fortier) Engel. His father was an oil company geologist whose job took the family to various cities. When Scott was about 6 his parents divorced, and he went to live in Denver with his mother.

    They subsequently moved to New York, where in the mid-1950s Scott, still a schoolboy, began his entertainment career. He had small roles in the Broadway musicals “Plain and Fancy” and “Pipe Dream” and recorded singles, including “When Is a Boy a Man?” (1957), as Scotty Engel — hoping, without success, to break through as a teenage idol. Many of those songs were later released in the compilation album “Looking Back With Scott Walker” (1968).
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    Around 1960 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the Chouinard Art Institute. He also played in various music groups, worked as a session bassist and, in 1964, formed the Walker Brothers with Mr. Maus (who had already been using John Walker as a pseudonym). They played at the Whisky a Go Go and other clubs along the Sunset Strip.

    Although the best-known songs of his Walker Brothers period did not portend how radical his music would become, Mr. Walker began to demonstrate a willingness to free himself from the conventions of pop and rock as early as 1967, when he began releasing a series of solo albums — “Scott,” “Scott 2,” Scott 3” and “Scott 4.” He did so again on “Nite Flights” (1978), an album made during a brief reunion of the Walker Brothers.

    Along the way, he found an admirer in David Bowie. Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums. Mr. Bowie listened to the music and became so enamored that he later took the role of executive producer of “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2007), a documentary directed by Stephen Kijak.

    “I like the way he can paint a picture with what he says,” Mr. Bowie said in the film. “I had no idea what he was singing about. And I didn’t care.”

    Mr. Walker, who worked on his albums slowly and meticulously, continued his musical evolution with “Climate of Hunter” (1984). With “Tilt” (1995) and “The Drift” (2006), he drew closer to matching his ambition to his creative visions — and to those that crept into his mind while he slept.

    “I have a very nightmarish imagination,” he said in the documentary, which focuses on the recording of “The Drift.” He added: “I’ve had bad dreams all my life. Everything in my life is big, it’s out of proportion.”

    “Clara,” a song on “The Drift,” reimagines the executions of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, at the hands of Italian partisans in 1945. (It was inspired by newsreels Mr. Walker had seen as a child.) Another song, “Jesse,” imagines a conversation between Elvis Presley and Jesse, his stillborn twin brother, as a vehicle to write about the destruction of the World Trade Center.

    In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings:
    Fame is a tall, tall tower
    A building left in the night
    Jesse, are you listening?
    It casts ruins in shadows
    Under Memphis moonlight
    Jesse, are you listening?
    Howard Kaylan, a founding member of the Turtles, said in a 2013 interview that he had been listening to Mr. Walker since the 1960s. He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker’s solo music as the work of genius.

    “My jaw hit the ground when I heard ‘Tilt,’ ” Mr. Kaylan told the newspaper Record Collector News. “And by the time he got to ‘Drift,’ I understood what he was doing: He is doing the most conventional pop music I ever heard. He is just doing it as if he was observing it from outer space and then trying to tell you what he saw as an alien.”

    Mr. Walker’s survivors include his partner, Beverly; his daughter, Lee; and a granddaughter. Mr. Maus died in 2011.

    Some of Mr. Walker’s lyrics were published last year in the book Sundog, with an introduction by the Irish novelist Eimear McBride, who compared Mr. Walker to James Joyce.

    “Walker’s work, as Joyce’s before it, is a complex synesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond,” Ms. McBride wrote. “This is not art for the passive. It does not impart comfort or ease. Tempests will not be reconciled by the final bars, and no one is going home any more.”
    A version of this article appears in print on March 27, 2019, on Page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Scott Walker, 76, Pop Idol Who Turned Experimental.
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    Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye end titles

    Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"
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    1965: Goldfinger general release in the US.
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    1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the shootout at Piz Gloria.

    1972: The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, ending plans to use it as "the Floating College".
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    1998: Jonathan B. Dinerstein in The Harvard Crimson proposes "When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic, Everyone Loses."
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    TOMORROW NEVER DIES Directed by Roger Spottiswoode Starring Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh
    By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
    January 9, 1998

    Secret agent, my foot. How secret can this guy be? He keeps going around telling people his name.

    Although James Bond was never one to be coy or reserved, the claim that his agent ship is secret becomes an increasingly ridiculous assertion with the advent of each new film. The bad guys in each movie must all have flunked out of elementary bad guy school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk."

    In fact, Tomorrow Never Dies is no better than a mediocre, run-of-the-mill, modern action flick. Sure, the high paced action scenes, abundant chases, explosions and lavish gadgetry with which a Bond film is now associated has entertainment value of its own. But to claim that the current films have any more tradition or class to them than any generic action movie with say, Arnold or Stephen Segal, is bunk. Better to just do away with the whole cumbersome apparatus and obligatory baggage which slapping a Bond label on a movie entails, and instead devote the energy to making good original action films.

    Tomorrow Never Dies is fairly watchable, taken by itself. There are some nice scenic shots of missiles and jet fighters cruising over mountain ranges. There are many appreciably nifty action sequences involving vehicles of all sorts. There is also the usual bevy of beautiful Bond women, this time including Teri Hatcher, and a new twist to the series in the person of Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese dish who joins forces with 007 and is as skilled and equipped for secret agency as Bond.

    But the relentless drive for more action and stunts eventually becomes overwhelming. The machine guns effectively attached to the characters' arms only function as noise-makers, and by the end, the movie becomes bogged down in big bangs and blow-ups.

    Pierce Brosnan is substantially improved as 007. Although no one can possibly surpass the standards set by Sean Connery, Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies probably comes the closest. In this movie he is much more somber, more reserved and better composed. He makes it seem as though his predicaments represent business as usual, and in so doing, seems to be having more fun. He has tamed his rampant smirks, paring down their usage so that they become a potent portrayer of cunning and savoir-faire and not simply a crutch.

    Despite Brosnan championing the character's cause, the gadgetry and explosions win out. The action should have featured less gadgetry, and that gadgetry should have included fewer Ericsson mobile phones.

    Now instead of simply selling the James Bond character out for the sake of box office sales, Tomorrow Never Dies has eliminated the middle-man and gone straight to selling him to private companies. Ultimately, the movie is nothing more than the world's most expensive commercial.
    1998: Το αύριο ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει (To avrio pote den pethainei, or The Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Greece.
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    2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Egypt.
    2003: Die Another Day released in the Netherlands.

    2012: Producers announce Thomas Newman will score Skyfall.
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    Development
    Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on 9 January 2012 that Thomas Newman, frequent collaborator of Skyfall director Sam Mendes, would score Skyfall. On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous. He emailed me back, saying I was just about to call you, let’s meet for lunch!" Newman took over musical duties for the film from David Arnold who was busy directing the musical aspects of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies. However, Arnold later commented that the reason behind the selection of Newman had been because of his past work with Mendes.Newman's collaborator J. A. C. Redford did the orchestration.

    On 6 October 2012, the album's track list was revealed featuring the running times of each track. The first preview of the score was released a few days later on 9 October 2012, while the soundtrack itself was released less than a month later by Sony Classical. This was the second time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album.

    Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to Skyfall does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.

    The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman. Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the Casino Royale soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over Skyfall's end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs."
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    2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #3.
    Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.
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    Cover B: Philip Tan
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    Cover D: Marc Laming
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    Writer: Greg Pak
    Art: Marc Laming
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: January 2019
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 1/9/2019
    ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
    Northern Australia: Agent 007 infiltrates an illegal outpost, to prevent a uranium dealer's negotiations with terrorists. Or, that WOULD be his mission, if not for the interference of a (seemingly ever-present) Korean secret agent. Will James Bond stay on target, or will his fury towards John Lee overtake his priorities?
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 10th

    1908: Bernard Lee is born--Brentford, Middlesex, England.
    (He dies 16 January 1981 at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.)
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    BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
    BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
    IN JAMES BOND MOVIES
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    Jan. 18, 1981
    Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.
    Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

    Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

    Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.
    He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.
    Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.
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    Filmography
    Actor (150 credits)

    1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben

    1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
    1979 Moonraker - M
    1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
    1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
    - Seawrack (1978) ... Man
    1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
    1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
    1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
    - The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
    1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
    - Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
    1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
    1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
    - What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
    1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
    - Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
    1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
    - Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
    1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
    - The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
    - The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
    1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
    - The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
    1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
    1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
    1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
    - Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
    1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
    - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
    1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
    - Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
    1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
    - Silver (1973) ... James Cable
    1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
    1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
    Francis Cumberland
    1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
    1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
    - Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
    1971 Danger Point - Captain
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
    1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
    - Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
    1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
    1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
    1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
    1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
    - Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
    1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
    - Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
    1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
    - The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
    1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
    - Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
    1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
    1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
    - Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
    1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
    - The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
    1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
    - Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
    1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
    - Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
    1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
    - The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
    1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
    - Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
    1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
    - The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
    1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
    - Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
    1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
    1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
    1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
    1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
    - Flight of a Tiger (1966)
    1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
    - The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
    - Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
    1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
    - The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
    - Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
    - Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
    - Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
    1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
    - The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
    - Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
    1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
    - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
    - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
    1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
    1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
    - The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
    1965 Thunderball - 'M'
    1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
    - Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
    1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
    - After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
    1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
    1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
    1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
    1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
    1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
    - The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
    1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
    - Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
    1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
    1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
    1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
    - Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
    - The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
    - Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
    - Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
    - Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
    1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
    1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
    1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
    - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
    - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
    1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
    1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
    1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
    - Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
    1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
    1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
    - Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
    - Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
    1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
    1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
    1962 Dr. No - M.
    1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
    1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
    1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
    1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
    1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
    1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
    1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
    1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
    1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
    1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
    1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
    1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

    1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
    - Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
    - The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
    - In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
    - Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
    1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
    1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
    - Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
    1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
    1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
    1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
    1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
    - Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
    - All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
    - The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
    1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
    1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
    1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
    1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
    1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
    1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
    1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
    1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
    - The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
    1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
    - A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
    1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
    1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
    1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
    1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
    1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
    1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
    1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
    1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
    1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
    1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
    1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
    1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
    1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
    1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
    1951 White Corridors - Burgess
    1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
    1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
    1950 Odette - Jack
    1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
    1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
    1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

    1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
    1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
    1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
    1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
    1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
    1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
    1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
    1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
    1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
    1941 Once a Crook - Duke
    1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
    1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

    1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
    1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
    1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
    1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
    1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
    1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
    1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
    1934 The Double Event - Dennison

    Writer (1 credit)

    1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4
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    1966: Bond comic strip The Man with the Golden Gun begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Ends 9 September 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence writer.
    They go on to adapt five more Fleming titles, plus Colonel Sun and 20 original Bond adventures.
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    Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
    (The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 1) | (The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 2)
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    Manden Med Den Gyllene Pistole
    (The Man With The Golden Gun)
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    Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/
    James Bond Agent 007 no. 40:
    “The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1) + “The Living Daylights” (1977)
    "Hjernevasket" [Brainwashed] + "Spionen fra Øst" [The Spy from the East]
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
    "Manden med den gyldne pistol"
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
    Manden med den gyldne pistol
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    1977: ABC-TV premiere of The Man With the Golden Gun.
    Television-friendly titles.

    2003: 007 - Um Novo Dia Para Morrer (007 - A New Day to Die) released in Brazil.

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    2003: 007 어 나 더 데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea. 2003: 007 - Morre Noutro Dia (007 - Die Another Day) released in Portugal.
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    2013: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces Skyfall's 5 Oscar nominations, includes Best Song.
    2015: Spectre completes filming at the 3S Cable Car and ICE Q Restaurant at Sölden, Austria.
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    2016: Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards goes to Sam Smith for "Writing's on the Wall".

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited January 9 Posts: 14,085
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 11th

    1966: Principle photography begins for Casino Royale.

    1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes the James Bond comic Convención en Bahía Sangrienta (Convention in Bloody Bay, or The Man With the Golden Gun) in Argentina. Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

    1990: The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Albert R. Broccoli with a star.
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    1999: Principal photography for The World Is Not Enough begins at Pinewood Studios.

    2000: Chapter III Records releases a second soundtrack album for Tomorrow Never Dies.
    The original soundtrack release occurred before the actual score of the film was completed. Chapter III Records removed the theme songs, Moby's Bond theme remake, "Station Break". Added: new music tracks plus an interview with composer David Arnold.
    2002: Die Another Day begins filming at Pinewood Studios. Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and cast pose for on hand photographers.
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    2012: MGM and EON Productions announce the 9 November 2012 release date for BOND 23. Sam Mendes directing. John Logan assisting with the script.
    2015: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg dies at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.
    (Born 29 September 1931-- Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.)
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    Anita Ekberg - obituary
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    Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita
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    Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.

    Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.

    Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”

    Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”

    Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.

    Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.

    Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.
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    She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.

    In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.

    At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.
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    She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.

    In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”
    Following the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Anita Ekberg appeared opposite Bob Hope in Call Me Bwana and Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (both 1963). She was also considered for the part of Honey Ryder in Dr No but lost out to Ursula Andress. When she did appear in a Bond film, it was both unwitting and unflattering: in From Russia with Love (1963) Sean Connery shoots a spy escaping through a gigantic Call Me Bwana poster featuring Anita Ekberg’s face. “She should have kept her mouth shut,” says Bond.
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    Anita Ekberg’s on-screen persona – a freewheeling man-eater from overseas – soon spilt over into her private life. Sinatra was one of the many leading men she was rumoured to have taken as a lover, along with Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper.

    She often played characters possessed of an untethered and wild spirit. As a “war lady” in The Mongols (1961) she indulged in torture and sado-masochism, striding in thigh-high boots among the slave girls cracking a bullwhip. For “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”, Fellini’s episode in the portmanteau feature Boccaccio '70 (1962), she was once again the sex object, this time as the model featured on a “Drink More Milk” billboard poster who is brought to life to trap a puritanical doctor. Thus Fellini followed Tashlin in using her abilities for erotic satire.
    In 1963 Ekberg married Rik Van Nutter (who later played Felix Leiter in Thunderball). They lived in Spain and Switzerland and in 1969 became entrepreneurs. “Rick and I have gone into the shipping business. We found a cargo ship and we’re in business with the captain,” she said (the couple also bought a Chinese junk). “Ours is a good marriage. There are so many good times in marriage, that the bad times are really unimportant. Anyway, I learnt from my parents that difficulties are there to be overcome.”
    As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”

    The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.
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    Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.

    After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.

    Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.

    Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015
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    Filmography
    Actress (65 credits)

    2002 Beauty Centre (TV Series) - Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Ottobre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Settembre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Agosto (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Maggio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Aprile (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Febbraio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
    - Gennaio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti

    1998 Le nain rouge - Paola Bendoni
    1996 Bámbola - Mamma Greta
    1996 Witness Run (TV Movie)
    1992 Cattive ragazze - Milli
    1992 Dov'era Lei a quell'Ora? - Anita Ekberg
    1992 Ambrogio - Clarice
    1991 Il conte Max - Marika

    1988 Quando ancora non c'erano i Beatles (TV Mini-Series) - La pianista
    - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... La pianista
    - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... La pianista
    - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... La pianista
    1987 Intervista - Anita Ekberg
    1986 The Seduction of Angela - Signora Rocchi
    1982 Cicciabomba - Baronessa Judith von Kemp
    1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert - Dr. Else Biebling

    1979 Killer Nun - Sister Gertrude
    1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Queen Na-Eela
    1975 Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (scenes deleted)
    1974 Anno Schmidt (Short)
    1974 Northeast of Seoul - Katherine
    1972 Deadly Trackers - Jane
    1972 The French Sex Murders - Madame Colette
    1970 Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (as Anita Edberg)
    1970 The Conjugal Debt - Ines
    1970 The Divorce - Flavia

    1969 Death Knocks Twice - Sophia Ferretti
    1969 A Candidate for a Killing - Jacqueline Monnard
    1969 Fangs of the Living Dead - Malenka / Sylvia Morel
    1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium - Performer
    1968 Crónica de un atraco - Bessie
    1967 Woman Times Seven - Claudie (segment "Snow")
    1967 The Glass Sphinx - Paulette
    1967 The Cobra - Lou
    1966 Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? - Olga, la baronessa
    1966 Way... Way Out - Anna Soblova
    1966 Come imparai ad amare le donne - Margaret Joyce
    1965 The Alphabet Murders - Amanda Beatrice Cross
    1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Lolita Young
    1964 Love Factory - Alberchiaria
    1963 4 for Texas - Elya Carlson
    1963 Call Me Bwana - Luba
    1962 Boccaccio '70 - Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
    1961 The Mongols - Hulina
    1961 A porte chiuse - Olga Duvovich
    1960 Little Girls and High Finance
    1960 Le tre eccetera del colonnello - Georgina
    1960 The Dam on the Yellow River - Miss Dorothy Simmons
    1960 La Dolce Vita - Sylvia

    1959 Sheba and the Gladiator - Zenobia - Queen of Palmira
    1958 The Man Inside - Trudie Hall
    1958 Screaming Mimi - Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
    1958 Paris Holiday - Zara
    1957 Valerie - Valerie Horvat
    1957 Pickup Alley - Gina Broger
    1956 Hollywood or Bust - Anita Ekberg
    1956 Zarak - Salma
    1956 Man in the Vault - Flo Randall
    1956 Back from Eternity - Rena
    1956 War and Peace - Helene Kuragina
    1955 Artists and Models - Anita
    1955 Blood Alley - Wei Ling
    1955 Casablanca (TV Series) - Katrina Jorgenson
    - Who Holds Tomorrow? (1955) ... Katrina Jorgenson
    1953 Private Secretary (TV Series) - The Hubby Killer
    - The Hubby Killer (1953) ... The Hubby Killer
    1953 The Golden Blade - Handmaiden (uncredited)
    1953 Take Me to Town - Dancehall Girl (uncredited)
    1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars - Venusian Guard
    1953 The Mississippi Gambler - Maid of Honor (uncredited)

    Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

    2003 Lost in Translation (film clip: "La Dolce vita" courtesy of - as Ms. Anita Ekberg)
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    2015: Rome officials ban (= limit) the filming of a car chase in the city.
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    11 Jan, 2015
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    Culture officials fear damage to Quattro Fontane fountains
    Rome’s cultural heritage officials have blocked plans to film a high-speed car chase at the Quattro Fontane intersection as part of the new James Bond movie being filmed in the Italian capital.

    Producers of Spectre, the 24th edition in the Bond series, had hoped to shoot a sequence in which 007, played by British actor Daniel Craig, would race through Rome in a night-time car chase.

    However city officials have refused to authorise the scene planned at the Quattro Fontane crossroads between Via del Quirinale and Via XX Settembre, over concerns that the 16th-century fountains are too fragile to risk being hit by a speeding Aston Martin.

    Instead the city has suggested that the filmmakers recreate the sequence using post-production special effects. The fountains are currently undergoing a €320,000 restoration due for completion in late February.

    Filming in Rome begins on 19 February and is expected to last throughout March. The most dramatic scene will feature 007 landing by parachute onto the 15th-century Ponte Sisto pedestrian bridge between Campo de' Fiori and Trastevere.

    Bond will also appear in a number of high-speed car chases on Borgo Vittorio near the Vatican, on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II between Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori, and on the Lungotevere along the river Tiber.

    The movie is being directed by Britain's Sam Mendes – who was behind the most recent Bond film Skyfall – and is due for release on 6 November.
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    2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #4.
    Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #4 (OF 6)
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    Cover: Francesco Francavilla
    Writer: Andy Diggle
    Art: Luca Casalanguida
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Publication Date: January 2017
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    UPC: 725130252722 04011
    ON SALE DATE: 1/11
    Bond finds himself at the mercy of Malfakhar, a Yemeni smuggler and black marketeer. But both men are mere pawns in a far greater game, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. As the Hammerhead weapon is deployed and the true identity of the criminal mastermind Kraken is finally revealed, 007 makes a last desperate bid to prevent nuclear war!
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    2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #1.
    Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #1
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    Cover A: Mike Perkins
    Writer: James Robinson
    Art: Aaron Campbell
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Publication Date: January 2017
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 pages
    UPC: 725130254580 01011
    ON SALE DATE: 1/11
    From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007's American counterpart!

    Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond!
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    2021: Last day for Bollinger Champagne Brut Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition offer.
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    BOLLINGER
    CHAMPAGNE BRUT
    Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition
    Bottle 0,75 L in box[/b]
    EUR 75.00
    Vat included
    Dosage Brut
    Cuvèe Assemblage
    Grapes Pinot Noir 60%, Chardonnay 25%, Meunier 15%
    Winery area A.O.C. Champagne
    Particularity Limited Edition
    Winery category Maisons
    Alcohol 12% Vol.
    Product Code BLS007B1
    In celebration of over 40 years of partnership as the Official Champagne of 007 and the upcoming film No Time To Die, Champagne Bollinger has produced a limited edition gift box that brings together three icons: Bollinger’s signature Special Cuvée, the Aston Martin DB5 and the legendary British secret agent, James Bond.

    Honouring the most perfect of partnerships, the limited edition gift box features the silhouette of James Bond alongside his Aston Martin DB5. The colourway of the gift box echoes the silver birch finish of the DB5. The Bollinger lettering and logos are depicted in gold and the iconic Special Cuvée bottle has been adapted to feature a black and gold neck collar with a 007 blazon.

    Champagne Bollinger worked with celebrated photographer Greg Williams, for the soon to be released Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition campaign, featuring his signature cinematic style that also appears in the No Time To Die campaign.

    Bond, Bollinger and Aston Martin all return in No Time To Die.
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    The Special Cuvée represents the best expression of the Bollinger style. The entire know-how of the Maison Bollinger embodies every year a top Champagne, with style and persistent qualities, in unique assemblages - balanced in their roundness, vinousity and elegange.

    The Maison Bollinger bases its diversity and qualitative choices on this wine and it is willing to be tested. The assemblage is 60% Pinot Noir (35% from Ay), granting vinousity and complexity, 25% Chardonnay, adding fineness and elegance, as well as 15% Meunier, bringing freshness and elegance.

    The grapes comes from their 80% from Grand and Premier Crus territories; for Pinot Noir: Ay, Tauxeries, Verzenay and Louvois; for Chardonnay: Le Mesnil s/Oger, Oger, Cuis and Grauves. To maintain quality and style, the maison adds 5 to 10% vins de reserve, which firstly fermented in oak barrels and later conserved according to cru, vine and vintage, fro 5 to 12 years in magnum with cork caps.

    The Special Cuvée rests on yeasts for at least 3 years before disgorging: this is a longer period than the time requested by the guidelines (15 months). It also rests in the cave for at least 3 months before shipping.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 12th

    1937: Shirley Eaton is born--Edgware, Middlesex, England.

    1996: Επιχείρηση Χρυσά Μάτια (Epiheirisi Hrysa Matia, Enterprise Golden Eyes) released in Greece.
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    1996: Agente 007 - GoldenEye released in Italy.

    2002: BBC News reports "Pierce Brosnan agrees to a fifth 007 film".
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    Brosnan agrees to fifth 007 film
    Saturday, 12 January, 2002, 07:56 GMT
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    Bond is to drive an Aston Martin
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    Actor Pierce Brosnan has extended his contract to play James Bond for a fifth time.

    The Irish performer told reporters at the launch of his fourth 007 adventure he was keen to make one more film, but admitted it would probably be his last.

    The 20th James Bond movie - as yet untitled - starts shooting officially at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire on Monday before taking in locations including Hawaii, Iceland, Spain and London.

    The movie marks the 40th anniversary of the series that began in 1962 with Dr No, starring Sean Connery.
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    many classic Bond films
    Brosnan, 48, said he was delighted to be continuing in the role.
    "I will do another one. Time has gone by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday I was sitting here for GoldenEye," he said.

    But he said he might be too old for a sixth appearance as the British spy.

    "It takes stamina to play this role. I would like to get off the stage with grace.

    "I am honouring my contract here but it would be wonderful to do another one. After that, I do not know."
    The 20th film will be directed by Lee Tamahori, whose previous successes include Along Came a Spider and The Edge.

    Swordfish star Halle Berry and newcomer Rosamund Pike will be Brosnan's glamorous female co-stars.

    Berry, who also worked on X-Men, said it a dream come true to be playing opposite 007.
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    Halle Berry is tipped for an
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    She said: "I hope I will fit in and do as fine a job as the women before me."

    Pike, who has never starred in a movie before, admitted she was not keen on Bond when she was growing up, but said she was looking forward to an "electrifying" experience.

    British actor Toby Stevens will play the villainous bad guy.

    Other stars returning include Dame Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny and John Cleese in the role of Q following the death of Desmond Llewelyn.

    Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin, after a deal with the manufacturer.

    The V12 Vanquish will be the fourth Aston Martin that Bond has driven since the association began in 1964 with the film Goldfinger - when the DB5 was fitted with ejector seats and rockets.

    Award
    Co-producer Barbara Broccoli is the daughter of Cubby Broccoli, the producer who originally brought Ian Fleming's spy to the big screen, and who died in 1996.

    Broccoli and fellow producer Michael G Wilson, will receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle.

    The award will be presented at the Circle's 22nd awards ceremony on 13 February.

    It is being given to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films, and the organisers say they expect some familiar Bond faces to be among the guests at the event.

    2011: Ian Fleming International Airport (formerly Boscobel Aerodrome) in Jamaica, a $300 million renovation, is officially re-opened by Prime Minister Bruce Golding plus Lucy Fleming, Fleming's niece. A 10 minute drive from Golden Eye (sic) Resort.

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    2011: The Telegraph prints Tim Robey's article "Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James Bond movie."
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    Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James
    Bond movie
    Director could have to battle for his 'vision' if past Bond films are a guide, says
    Tim Robey.

    By Tim Robey, Film Critic | 2:05PM GMT 12 Jan 2011

    It's a full year since Sam Mendes was first put in the frame as a potential Bond director, in which time MGM’s financial woes derailed the production schedule, allowing 007’s more possessive fans to forget their immediate beef and prematurely mourn the whole franchise.

    Now it’s back on, but they’re still not happy about the (reconfirmed) Mendes appointment. “It’ll be all middlebrow and safe!” seems to be the standard assumption. The Bond they want is gleeful, sly and viscerally over-the-top, qualities it’s fair to say haven’t been much in evidence in Mendes’s movies to date.

    Bond, though, is simply not a director’s franchise. Fans on message boards love to rail against the last one, Quantum of Solace, and throw a lot of blame at Marc Forster, the Swiss helmer of Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and other literary Oscar-bait, whose face-value credentials for the job were every bit as elusive as those of Mendes.

    The argument goes that you need a real action-director’s pair of hands, and that Martin Campbell, who rebooted the series twice with GoldenEye and Casino Royale, is the right type of guy. Directors with artistic pretensions tackle Bond at their peril and everyone else’s.

    Because their names carry unexpected pedigree for the task of a mass-market blockbuster, Forster, and now Mendes, become convenient stooges for what’s actually a producer’s logistical nightmare – and responsibility.

    It’s about marshalling an army of second unit/assistant directors, stunt co-ordinators and effects technicians. In the Brosnan years, people such as Roger Spottiswoode and Michael Apted may have had the helm, but most of the standout set-pieces were famously masterminded by Vic Armstrong and his team.

    Sure, directors of Bond movies have their work cut out to get the actors and story into shape, but they have less autonomy to foist any particular vision of their own on to the screen than in most other franchises this side of Police Academy. You could pick apart the auteur theory on the evidence of editor-turned-director John Glen, who directed the last three Roger Moore instalments, then made the terrific first Timothy Dalton one, The Living Daylights, and then followed it up with surely the nadir of the entire series, Licence To Kill.

    This proves my point: who directs a Bond movie has almost nothing to do with how good it is. (A further dent in the just-use-Martin-Campbell argument is available to anyone who’s actually tried to watch GoldenEye lately, Famke Janssen’s ace villainess honourably excepted.)

    So imagining that Mendes will somehow attempt to turn Bond into Revolutionary Road II or The Cherry Orchard: Dawn Inferno is a mug’s game. He won’t be allowed.

    Whether his installment is praised or pilloried will be down to the entire creative team, the script, the editing, effects, production design, score, and the harmony of all those elements, as it always is – and, as usual, it'll be mainly the producers', not Mendes's, concern to foster that harmony.

    Oh, and the casting. Rumours are abroad that Simon Russell Beale is currently being considered for a role. He’d love to be a baddie. I’d love him to be a baddie. The petition starts here.
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    2022: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Himeros #4.
    Giorgio Pontrelli, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #4
    https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230304011
    Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
    Cover B: Jackson Guice
    Writer: Rodney Barnes
    Artist: Giorgio Pontrelli
    Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: January 2022
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32
    ON SALE DATE: 01/12/2022
    James Bond has survived a series of deadly assaults as he and Sarah Richmond make it to Wilhelm's island. Amidst the traumatic memories the island unleashes, will they find what they're looking for or does death continue to await them at every turn?

    Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!
    Did you know: Ian Fleming wrote the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to entertain his son Caspar.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    January 13th

    1925: Count Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees is born--Cairo, Egypt.
    (He dies 23 June 2012 at age 87--Stornoway, Scotland.)
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    Obituary: Robin de la Lanne-
    Mirrlees; title-loving prince who
    found peace on isle of Great
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    Published: 00:00 Friday 29 June 2012

    Born: 13 January, 1925, in Cairo. Died: 23 June, 2012, in Stornoway, aged 87.
    COUNT Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees was the dashing figure whose colourful career lay at odds with his decision to adopt self-imposed exile on the island of Great Bernera, off Lewis. He encompassed lives as an army captain, herald, laird, count and prince, as well as aiding Ian Fleming in writing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which he is cast as the main character.
    This fluent linguist, international heraldic figure, one-time Lloyds’ “name”, property owner and castle restorer became revered in the Western Isles as a benevolent laird, who swapped a Paris flat for a croft, and was known to the 350 islanders on Great Bernera simply as “Robin”.

    In spite of holding a Yugoslav royal title, attending the Queen as a herald at her coronation and being in direct descent of Louis Philippe I of France, he latterly became anti-monarchist. In a reference to his own princely title, he remarked, “Any old fool can be a prince, and in my case legitimately”, adding, “I’m quite a man of the people really”.

    Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees was born Robin Grinnell-Milne in Cairo, son of Captain Duncan Gribbell-Milne, a Great War pilot, and the Countess Frances de la Lanne. He initially changed his name when his mother later married another Great War hero, Major-General William Mirrlees. His second change of name occurred two decades ago.

    Learned and outgoing, he was a born networker, whose godfather was the 11th Duke of Argyll. Educated at the English School of Cairo, in Paris and Merton College, Oxford, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and saw service in India. Passionate about heraldry, his career began in 1952 at the College of Arms in London as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, being promoted to Richmond Herald. In later years, he was a regular at Edinburgh meetings of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.
    In his 15 years at England’s centre of heraldry, he corresponded with Fleming, then researching On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond’s cover role was based on Mirrlees, the fictional spy having the title Sable Basilisk Pursuivant, suggested by Robin. Villain Stavro Blofeld also bears the “deformity” of having no ear lobes.

    Robin too was lobeless. His friendship with Fleming resulted in a jointly written book, Sable Basilisk (1965), centring on Bond’s “genealogy”, with 007’s coat-of-arms on the cover and motto: “The World Is Not Enough”.
    Critics accused Count Robin of basking in “flummery” – and he did love titles. That of count came through his mother’s line, recognised in 1964 by the Republic of San Marino. His claim to his princedom emanated in 1967 from the exiled King Peter II of Yugoslavia, his “Prince of Coronata” covering islands off Dalmatia. Further titles followed: in 1975, he was recognised as Baron of Inchdrewer and Laird of Bernera. He was also a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.

    In 2005, he began to assert his princely title, informing friends: “Maybe it will help me find a princess at my age”. His only marriage, at 45 to a nurse half his age, lasted less than a week.

    Robin proved a generous and witty host, enormously enjoying good company and stimulating conversation. In the early 1970s he restored Inchdrewer Castle near Banff, but never occupied the place. His purchase sight unseen in 1962 of Great Bernera off Lewis and his croft home there made him an adopted islander. He refused to raise rents, and donated land for community use. Three years ago when in a care home on Great Bernera, he and the only other resident faced being made to move by Western Isles Council; the pair retained their residency through becoming “tenants”.

    The Lloyds crash of the early 1990s almost ruined him but Count Robin paid off more than £2 million in debts after “a property clear-out”. He lost his house in Holland Park, London, chateau in France, flats in Paris and Switzerland, and Ratzenegg Castle in Austria, yet good humouredly, joined the Lottery syndicate on his beloved Bernera.

    He is survived by Patrick de la Lanne,, his natural son through his relationship with Margarethe, Duchess of Wurttemberg; and three grandchildren.

    Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350
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    LANNE-MIRRLEES, Robin de la (aka Sable Basilisk or the Rouge Dragon). Sable Basilisk. Privately printed, n.d. (c. 1965). Exceedingly rare Fleming item, one of an edition of about six copies. Reproduction from typescript by Xerox, 51 leaves printed on rectos only, bound in red buckram with gilt-lettered spine. A TLS is laid in from the author "to Jonathan", dated 26 May 1965, presenting the book. Condition: About fine. Note: Lanne-Mirrlees held the post of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London from 1952 until 1967. He is perhaps best known for his correspondence with Ian Fleming while Fleming was doing research for his book On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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    1944: Maud Russell writes in her diary about Ian Fleming.
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    Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
    secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
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    Thursday 13 January, 1944

    Ian dined and talked about his plans for the future, whether to take a newspaper job with the Daily Telegraph and go on hustling and bustling all his life, or whether to live in a cottage, take off his collar and tie, and write a novel or two. Then pros and cons of marriage. I said he would be happier married and shouldn’t leave it too long – not after 40. He is worn out almost every time I see him and wants to talk about cottages, seashores, Tahiti, long naked holidays on coral islands and marriage.
    1948: The Gleaner in Jamaica announces the arrival of Fleming and (still married) Lady Ann Rothermere the day prior. With photo.
    1965: Variety reports Elsa Martinelli was considered for a role.
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    1972: 007: Los diamantes son eternos (007 - The Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Mexico.
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    1977: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes James Bond comic Clínica Peligrosa (Fear Face). Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
    1977: The Spy Who Loved Me sinks the Atlantis model near Goulding Cay, Nassau, the Bahamas.
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    2000: Jeden svet nestací (One World Is Not Enough) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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    2012: Journalists post an image of Daniel Craig at the Four Seasons Hotel, Canary Wharf, (doubling for Shanghai) on the web--the first leak of Skyfall filming.
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    2015: Spectre finishes two days of filming around the Sölden Glacier and tunnel, Austria.
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    2020: Producers confirm Hans Zimmer is scoring No Time To Die, and the departure of Dan Romer over creative differences.
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    Hans Zimmer confirmed as new ‘No
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    The legendary film composer will be taking over from Dan Romer as
    a last-minute replacement – just three months before the Bond
    movie is set to be released.
    The score to the new Bond film No Time To Die will now be produced by Hans Zimmer.
    Zimmer, who has been drafted in as a last-minute replacement, is taking the reins from composer Dan Romer who was originally set to score the film.

    The announcement was confirmed yesterday (13 January) by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, in an official statement on the movie’s website.

    Director of the latest installment, Cary Joji Fukunaga, said: “I’m beyond excited that Hans is scoring No Time To Die. The music of Bond has always been iconic and I’ve already witnessed Hans adding his touch of genius to the Bond legacy.”

    According to Variety, the Beasts of No Nation composer was dismissed over “creative differences” with the film’s production company, Eon Productions, last month.

    We’re sure the score to the highly-anticipated action movie is in safe hands with Zimmer, whose track record in cinematic music includes the instantly recognisable sounds of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator and The Da Vinci Code.

    But taking on this job is no small task, especially considering Zimmer is already scoring three big movies this year – Wonder Woman 1984, Dune and Top Gun: Maverick.

    Zimmer is an 11-time Oscar nominee, who won the Best Score award in 1994 for The Lion King.

    Back in 2015 we spoke to Daniel Craig, ahead of the release of Spectre, about the importance of music throughout the Bond franchise – particularly when it comes to those iconic motifs.

    “It’s so emotive that sound, and if you use it at the right point in the movie then everyone remembers, ‘Yes, we’re in a Bond movie.’”

    We’re excited to see what Zimmer produces in this latest instalment – especially considering he’s got less than three months to do it.
    2020: Bonham's gets no bids on Licence to Kill storyboard.
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    James Bond: A set of storyboards for Licence To Kill
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    Eon Productions, 1988, Qty Eon Productions, 1988, comprising; 53 printed sheets for the pre-title sequence, the underwater fight/sea plane sequence, and the petrol tanker pursuit, dated June and July 1988, with certificates of authenticity from Prop Store, 17in x 11in (43cm x 28cm), (Qty) This lot is offered without copyright or any reproduction...
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    2021: Electric Dreams adds the Scalextric C4202 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’ model slot car to their catalog.
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    This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 January, 2020.

    The 25th and latest Bond film sees 007 once again back behind the wheel of the iconic Aston Martin DB5. The car looks as resplendent as ever in the famous Silver Birch shade and in his tuxedo Bond looks as dapper as ever!

    In the 25th installment of the franchise, No Time To Die, Bond relies once more on the faithful DB5 to escape an army of henchmen while in Italy. And now you can recreate that excitement at home with your own James Bond model slot car!
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 14th

    1947: Stuart Baird is born--Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.

    1956: Ian Fleming starts his novel From Russia With Love at Goldeneye.

    1962: EON's crew arrives in Jamaica, to start filming 2 days later. Monty Norman and wife--actress-singer Diana Coupland--also arrive on island this date.

    1964: The Los Angeles Times reports Guy Hamilton is hired to direct the next Bond film Dr. Goldfinger. [sic]
    1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Volume 3.
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    1965: James Bond 007 - Goldfinger released in West Germany.
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    1972: Diamonds Are Forever released in Ireland.
    1974: ABC-TV network premiere of From Russia with Love.

    1985: A View to a Kill completes principal photography with OO7 and May Day at the mine.

    2000: 007 - Il mondo non basta released in Italy.
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    2000: Dünya Yetmez (World Not Enough) released in Turkey.
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    2002: Scheduled start to filming Die Another Day.

    2020: The No Time To Die film production announces (American) brother-sister team Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell as creators of the title theme.

    2022: Actor Toshiaki Karasawa donates his white Toyota 2000GT to the Toyota Automobile Museum.
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    Actor donates Toyota 2000GT, of James Bond fame, to
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    See the complete article here:
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    Actor Toshiaki Karasawa poses for a photo with a Toyota 2000GT he donated to the Toyota Automobile Museum. (Provided by the museum)
    NAGAKUTE, Aichi Prefecture--The Toyota Automobile Museum received an unexpected call in mid-August offering up an ultrarare Toyota 2000GT sports car for donation.

    The surprise caller was film and TV actor Toshiaki Karasawa, who said he had decided to finally let go of the specialty sports car, one of only a handful in the world, and that he wanted to give it to the museum.

    Toyota Motor Co., which is now known as Toyota Motor Corp., developed the vehicle in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Co. in 1964, on the heels of the explosion in popularity of sports cars around the world.
    When the world-class luxury car debuted, it boasted a maximum speed of 220 kph and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 kph in just 8.6 seconds.

    Two trial cars were remodeled into a custom open-top version, driven by Sean Connery when he played James Bond in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, which was filmed in Japan.

    The vehicle was released that year but production was halted three years later. 
    Only 337 units were ever produced of the 2000GT.

    Karasawa, a classic car enthusiast, approached the museum with the donation because he wanted many people to be able to see and enjoy his beloved car. And he has a connection to the museum.

    Karasawa played a race car driver in a TV drama produced by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) that aired in 2018. The museum was one of the locations where the show was filmed.

    "We hope people seize the opportunity and visit the museum to see (the vehicle)," a museum official said.

    The museum attracts many fans and families looking to see its displays of historical vehicles made by automakers from around the world.
    The actor’s car will join the ranks of several other 2000GTs, including the one used in the 007 movie, kept at the museum.
    Karasawa’s 2000GT has been placed near the entrance since late October.

    Many visitors stop at the spot to admire the rare car, which has also caused a stir on social media.

    The 2000GT is on display until the end of March 2022, according to the museum.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 15th

    1913: Aston Martin Ltd. is incorporated.
    1931: Derek Meddings is born--Pancras, London, England.
    (He dies 10 September 1995 at age 64--London, England.)
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    Cy Young | Thursday 14 September 1995
    The work of Derek Meddings thrilled millions of moviegoers, yet only a small percentage could actually name the man responsible for the special effects of the James Bond films of the 1970s and Hollywood blockbusters like Superman (1978). Within the industry, the reverse was true: American film-makers came to Pinewood Studios because of the international reputation of British technicians, and Meddings was one of the best.
    His father had been a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother variously Merle Oberon's stand-in and Alex Korda's secretary, but it was not until the late 1940s that Derek was able to use his art school training to get a job there, lettering credit titles. The first break came when he met the special effects man Les Bowie on a commercial, and joined his matte painting department.

    During the Fifties Bowie and his new recruit created Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films, where limited budgets necessitated a "string and cardboard" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest television puppet shows. From painting cut-out backgrounds of ranch houses and picket fences on Four Feather Falls (a western format), Meddings moved on to design the models for Stingray (1965) with Reg Hill, and was then given a free hand on what has since become a cult series, Thunderbirds.
    Drawing on the lessons in ingenuity from his years with Ron Bowie, he applied simple logic to the problem of tracking alongside the futuristic vehicles on take-off and landing; camera and Thunderbird remained stationary, while the background of trees and runway moved backwards on a continuous belt which rotated under the miniature set, on the same principle as an escalator. In 1966 Anderson and Meddings hit the big screen with the full- length cinema feature Thunderbirds are Go!, and then made the crossover to adult, live action, science fiction with Doppelganger (1969, aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) about a rogue planet that was a mirror of the earth. Meddings worked again with Anderson on Captain Scarlet (1967) and UFO (1970, another live action venture) until he impressed Cubby Broccoli with some miniature effects done for Live and Let Die, which launched Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973.

    Once Broccoli realised the economic advantages of building detailed models instead of expensive full-size constructions, Meddings was encouraged to come up with ideas on the next Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun (1974). However, he was not entirely finished with "string and cardboard" - or, at least, wire and fibreglass. In 1975 John Dark and Kevin Connor decided that their prehistoric adventure The Land That Time Forgot could do without the stop-frame animation and matte superimpositions of Hammer's One Million Years BC - instead they would build prop monsters that could be photographed in the same frame as the actors. It was not Meddings's fault that a low budget meant that the pterodactyls' wings never moved in flight.
    He was on safer ground the following year with Aces High. For this First World War aviation drama there was no model work. Authentic fighters and bombers of the period were restored to flying trim by the specialists Doug and Tony Bianchi, and Meddings's principal job was to rig the planes for the combat sequences.

    On the release of Aces High, I compiled a programme in Granada television's series Clapperboard about the making of the film, and Meddings was one of our interviewees. Like most backroom professionals in the film business he was modest, quietly spoken, matter-of-fact, and took pleasure in explaining his craft; how the stab of gunfire was simulated by the flashing of a strobe light in the muzzle of a biplane's machine-gun, and how a canister placed discreetly between the underside of a wing and the fuselage would be detonated by the pilot, to leave a dramatic smoke trail as the aircraft spiralled out of a dogfight. Meddings became a friend of Clapperboard, and came back on several occasions to demonstrate the tricks of his trade.
    He returned to the world of James Bond for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and came to admire the production designer, Ken Adam, greatly. Adam had the luxury of working on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, which had been purpose- built to accommodate his design for the interior of a supertanker; but Meddings probably had more fun, because he got to spend four months on location in the Bahamas, where he supervised the design and construction of a miniature supertanker for exterior sequences. "Miniature" is a comparative term, since the oil tanker was over 60ft in length; it had to be of a scale to gobble up three equally authentic-looking nuclear submarines and - being filmed on the real ocean - would have to achieve a convincing amount of water displacement.

    Meddings's other masterpiece of special effects on The Spy Who Loved Me was the Lotus Esprit which converted into a submersible. For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie - incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.
    Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set. Having made audiences believe that a man could fly, Meddings received an Oscar.
    For the next Bond epic, Moonraker (1979), Meddings returned to first principles. Using a technique almost as old as the cinematograph itself, he did all the optical effects for the climactic battle "in the camera"; a process of winding back the film and exposing it again and again, until the required composite image of astronauts, space station and escape pods was obtained.
    Ever versatile, Meddings designed the bizarre weapons employed in the sword and sorcery adventure Krull (1983), as well as directing second- unit action in Italy, before lending his talents to Neil Jordan's supernatural comedy High Spirits (1988). When the director Tim Burton visited Meddings at the Irish location to discuss working on Batman (1989), it was not only his track record with 007 and Superman that counted - it emerged that Burton was a fan of Thunderbirds, and Meddings reckoned that was really why he got the job.

    The resulting collaboration was another feather in the cap of the Magic Camera Company, the comprehensive visual effects facility that Meddings had established at Lee International Studios in Shepperton. From this base of operations, Meddings also supplied the necessary expertise to Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus - the Movie (1985); while for the internationally cast production The Never Ending Story II (1990), a tale of magic and dragons, he set up an outfit in Germany.
    At the time of his death, Derek Meddings was engaged in post-production on the new James Bond picture, Goldeneye, on which his sons Mark and Elliott also worked.
    Derek Meddings, film special effects technician: born London 15 January 1931; twice married (six children); died London 10 September 1995.
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    Filmography
    Special effects (20 credits)

    2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) (special effects - 2015)

    1993 Germinal (special effects coordinator)
    1991 Hudson Hawk (special effects supervisor)
    1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
    1988 Apprentice to Murder (special effects)
    1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway (special effects)
    1983 Banzaï (special effects cameraman) / (special effects supervisor)
    1981 Invaders from the Deep (director of special effects)

    1976 Aces High (special effects)
    1974 Invasion: UFO (special effects coordinator)
    1974 The Land That Time Forgot (special effects supervisor)
    1974 Doctor Who (TV Series) (special effects - 1 episode)
    - Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974) ... (special effects - uncredited)
    1973 Live and Let Die (special effects)
    UFO (TV Series) (special effects - 21 episodes, 1970 - 1973) (special effects director - 5 episodes, 1970 - 1971)
    1972 Fear Is the Key (special effects)
    1972 Z.P.G. (special effects)

    Thunderbirds (TV Series) (supervising special effects director - 31 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (special effects director - 1 episode, 1965)
    - Give or Take a Million (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
    - Ricochet (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
    - Lord Parker's 'Oliday (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
    - Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
    - Path of Destruction (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
    1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) (special effects director - 39 episodes)
    - Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... (special effects director)
    - Marineville Traitor (1965) ... (special effects director)
    - Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... (special effects director)
    - The Golden Sea (1965) ... (special effects director)
    - The Master Plan (1965) ... (special effects director)
    1962-1963 Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (special effects - 6 episodes)
    - Space Magnet (1963) ... (special effects)
    - Hypnotic Sphere (1963) ... (special effects)
    - The Fire Fighters (1963) ... (special effects)
    - Planet of Platonia (1963) ... (special effects)
    - The Doomed Planet (1962) ... (special effects)
    1961 Supercar (TV Series) (special effects)

    Visual effects (26 credits)

    1995 GoldenEye (miniature effects supervisor)
    1994 The NeverEnding Story III (visual effects supervisor)
    1991 Cape Fear (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
    1991 Hudson Hawk (supervisor: visual effects and miniatures, The Magic Camera Company)
    1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (special visual effects)

    1989 Batman (special visual effects)
    1985 Spies Like Us (visual effects supervisor)
    1985 Santa Claus: The Movie (director of miniature effects) / (director of visual effects)
    1984 Supergirl (special visual effects)
    1983 Krull (visual effects supervisor)
    1983 Superman III (additional model effects - uncredited)
    1981 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (TV Movie) (supervising director of visual effects)
    1981 [n]For Your Eyes Only[/b] (visual effects supervisor)

    1980 Superman II (director of miniature effects & additional flying sequences)
    1979 Moonraker (visual effects supervisor)
    1978 Superman (model effects director & creator)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (special visual effects)
    1976 Shout at the Devil (models and special effects)
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (miniatures)
    1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 5 episodes)
    - Computer Affair (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
    - Flight Path (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
    - Survival (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
    - Exposed (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
    - Identified (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)

    1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (visual effects director - 1 episode)
    - A Case for the Bishop (1969) ... (visual effects director)
    1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (visual effects director)
    1968 Joe 90 (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 1 episode)
    - Hi-Jacked (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    1968 Thunderbird 6 (visual effects director)
    Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 20 episodes, 1967 - 1968) (visual effects supervisor - 8 episodes, 1967)
    - The Inquisition (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    - Attack on Cloudbase (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    - Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    - Traitor (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    - Inferno (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
    1966 Thunderbirds Are GO (visual effects director)

    Actor (1 credit)

    1985 Spies Like Us - Dr. Stinson

    Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

    1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)

    Thanks (1 credit)

    1995 GoldenEye (dedicatee)
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    THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WIZARD – Derek Meddings and the Behind the Scenes Art of Explosions (5:07)

    1952: This morning Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.
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    1964: Goldfinger films the aerial view of the Fountainbleu Hotel, Miami.
    1967: The Los Angeles Times estimates the You Only Live Twice set to be 126 feet tall, concealing a sixty-six foot rocket.
    1968: The last original Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes airs.

    1976: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 15 October 1975. 2984-3060) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
    En Enkel, Acapulco! (The Torch-Time Affair)
    [And Simple, Aculpulco!]
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
    "En enkelt Acapulco" [One-way to Acapulco]
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    1998: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Argentina.
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    2020: GQ associates James Bond with Dry January.
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    Even James Bond is doing Dry
    January, apparently
    By Thomas Barrie | 15 January 2020

    Still sneering at the non-drinkers this month? Get over yourself. The world’s most famous spy has been spotted in a new advert for nonalcoholic Heineken
    “No, Mr Bond, I expect you to Dry... January.”
    No? Bear with us, because long-time James Bond drinks sponsor Heineken has co-opted Daniel Craig to star in a new advert, in which the famously heavy-drinking MI6 man turns down a cocktail in favour of a nonalcoholic beer.

    The jokes write themselves (something something dry Martini?). It’s a welcome change for a character branded an alcoholic not only by Craig, but also the world’s most redundant study, which was carried out by the University Of Otago and published in the Medical Journal Of Australia in 2018. Its findings? That 007 is, yes, a complete lush, noting that during one flight in Quantum Of Solace, he consumed 24 units of alcohol – the equivalent of eight pints.



    So it’s perhaps no wonder the idea of Bond laying off booze after a heavy Christmas period captures the imagination. The advert itself is a bit odd; for some reason, Bond watches a slightly shady-looking bartender – perhaps played by a cousin of ur-villain Mark Strong – make him a whole double Martini before giving it back and pointing silently at Heineken 0.0 on ice.

    “Oh,” stutters the bartender, clearly thrown by Bond’s new-found puritanism. After all, the 20-second spot is about as believable as Oliver Reed ordering a lemonade down the pub. But in a world where even Keith Richards has second thoughts about his ongoing liver abuse, anything is possible.

    A side note: what on earth has the man served Bond? A Martini, shaken not stirred, sure, but then... with two massive ice cubes plopped in it. That’s not right. GQ’s pet theory is that Bond is so freaked out by the waiter’s concoction that he decides on the spot that he’s “not drinking”, and that a beer will have to do instead.

    Either way, all Bond says is, “I’m working.” A missed opportunity for a pun, perhaps, given the character’s heroic past efforts (“Christmas only comes once a year,” anyone?) but we’ll let it slide – the spluttering rage the advert will no doubt spark on anti-snowflake Twitter is all the entertainment we need. Meanwhile, Heineken will continue to rake in the views and Bond can enjoy improved sleep and mental health while lowering his risk of heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. Everybody wins!

    Update: As of 15 January, Heineken has released its full-length advert, playing heavily on the fact that Daniel Craig and James Bond are very much different characters and, perhaps, Mr Craig isn’t quite up for running after speeding cars through exotic locations when not on the job. “Once James Bond, always James Bond,” it announces, perhaps to the chagrin of Craig himself, who has been pretty open about his wishes not to be defined by the role for his entire career. And as for the booze? At the end of this ad, Bond/Craig picks up a bottle as before – but it’s been re-edited to show him enjoying a normal Heineken. All is as it should be, so now we can rest easy and look forward to Billie Eilish’s newly announced No Time To Die track.
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    2020: The Mirror reports on the Jinx spinoff failure to launch.
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    By Lewis Knight TV and Film Writer
    15 Jan 2020

    Die Another Day star Halle Berry almost led a James Bond spin-off film.

    The Oscar-winning actress was set to reprise her role as the 2002 film's leading lady Jinx in her own standalone outing.

    But now franchise producer Barbara Broccoli has revealed there were budgetary issues in getting the film off the ground.

    In an interview with Variety , Broccoli was revealed to be "incensed" when studio MGM was apprehensive about the thought of rewarding Jinx a film with an $80 million budget.

    Also she described the slow battle for the film series to improve its approach to women.

    Broccoli surmised: "Bond's been evolving along with all the other men in the world.

    "Some have just gotten there more quickly than others."
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    The character of Jinx was a CIA field operative who crossed paths with Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Die Another Day.

    She soon became his lover not long after memorably emerging from the ocean akin to iconic Bond star Ursula Andress in the film Dr No.
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    2021: The Daily Record reports on shenanigans at the Skyfall lodge.
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    Drunk James Bond fans visiting Skyfall location plague
    Scots locals with rowdy behaviour
    007's 'childhood village' in Glen Etive is being strewn with litter and abandoned camping gear causing hell for those who live there.
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    James Bond’s childhood village is being made hell by drunken campers – according to locals who want to bring in a booze ban.

    The village of Glen Etive in the Highlands, appeared in 2012 movie Skyfall when Daniel Craig and Judi Dench visited the area where 007 grew up.

    Only a handful of people live there now but the scenic beauty spot has become a magnet for alleged anti-social behaviour from campers in visiting vans – who use being over the limit as an excuse not to leave when asked.

    Shocking photos showed abandoned camping gear, beer bottles and empty cans stacked in the embers of campfires.

    Wild camping, littering and tourist traffic are long-standing problems but the boom in staycations following the lifting of the lockdown in the summer exacerbated the problem.
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    One night in the summer, 167 tents were pitched and a campervan is said to have been parked there for a week between Christmas and New Year.

    The community is hoping a booze ban aimed at campers could help reduce the problem.

    Viki Sutherland, 76, said: “Only seven people live in Glen Etive but they have a terrible life.” She moved to the area with husband Alister 20 years ago.

    Viki, who is originally from Denmark and has lived in Scotland for 57 years, said: “I got dog’s abuse when I suggested that campervans didn’t really bring any benefit to the community.

    “They have got their own accommodation, their own food. I had over 80 posts, telling me to go back to Denmark. Someone said I should be shot. I’m 76, I’m not used to that.

    “There are lots of things that we want and the money is obviously not going to cover it all.

    “Even though we have an extremely good community policeman here, Glen Etive is a long way from Fort William and if they are going to apprehend anyone, they reckon to charge someone from Glen Etive would take up four hours of their time.
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    “Basically, there aren’t enough police – it’s a huge area.

    “The police go down and they say, ‘We can’t go anywhere because we’ve already drunk four cans of beer’ – so we want to get an alcohol ban.

    “Our councillor needs to get the permission from the procurator fiscal and he’s been on to this for about six months and he’s keeping on at it.

    “The police think that an alcohol ban is the way forward because at least then if they have been drinking, the police can book them.”

    The community welcomed the announcement that £375,000 has been allocated by the Scottish Government to address “increasing visitor pressures” in the Glen Etive and Glencoe area to improve tourism infrastructure in rural areas.

    The money will be used to improve car parking provision and introduce measures to restrict traffic, in a joint project with Highland Council and the National Trust for Scotland.
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    2023: Aston Martin celebrates its 110th anniversary.
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    Aston Martin celebrates 110th
    anniversary
    January 12, 2023 By Anglotopia Staff
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    Car maker Aston Martin has brought together two of its most innovative models to mark its 110th anniversary.

    One of the brand’s oldest surviving racing cars, the 1923 Razor Blade, was pictured alongside a modern Valkyrie sports car.

    Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford formed a partnership on January 15, 1913 that went on to create the first Aston Martin car.
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    Aston Martin described the cars as ‘iconic and innovative’ (Aston Martin/PA)
    The Razor Blade was one of the first cars to be specifically designed with aerodynamics taken into account.

    It broke various performance records at Brooklands race track in Surrey.

    Valkyrie is a high-performance car that brings Formula One engineering to public roads.

    Aston Martin Lagonda chief executive Amedeo Felisa said: “In 1913, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford came together with a shared vision of racing cars and using learnings from the racetrack to push the boundaries of automotive innovation.

    “One hundred and 10 years and little over 110,000 cars later, that spirit continues.

    “Our 110th year promises to be just as exciting as our first, as we turn a new chapter in Aston Martin history with the launch of our next generation of sports cars and the reveal of an extraordinary special model later this year that will celebrate this unique milestone.”

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 16th

    1946: Kabir Bedi is born--Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan).
    1949: Caroline Munro is born--Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    1962: Fifth draft of the screenplay complete, Dr. No filming begins on location in Jamaica. Exteriors of Crab Key and Kingston, in the vicinity of the Fleming Goldeneye estate (and he was a frequent visitor with guests). Scenes filmed at Oracabessa, the Palisadoes strip, plus Port Royal in St. Andrew.
    1966: The Los Angeles Times reports director Terence Young saying he intends to divert from Bond films.

    1970: In geheime dienst van Hare Majesteit (In Secret Service of Her Majesty. Flemish title) released in Belgium.
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    1971: Bond comic strip The Golden Ghost ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Began 21 August 1970. 1394–1519) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer. 1976: Bond comic strip Hot-Shot begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Ends 17 January 1976. 3061-3178) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, artist.
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    Dödsstrålen (Hot-Shot)
    [The Ray of Death]
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 46: “Hot-Shot” (1978)
    "Dødsstrålen" [= The Death Ray]
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    1981: Bernard Lee dies at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.
    (Born 10 January 1908--Brentford, Middlesex, England.)
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    BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
    BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
    IN JAMES BOND MOVIES
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    Jan. 18, 1981
    Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.
    Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

    Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

    Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.
    He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.
    Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.
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    Filmography
    Actor (150 credits)

    1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben

    1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
    1979 Moonraker - M
    1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
    1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
    - Seawrack (1978) ... Man
    1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
    1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
    1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
    - The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
    1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
    - Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
    1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
    1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
    - What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
    1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
    - Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
    1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
    - Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
    1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
    - The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
    - The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
    1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
    - The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
    1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
    1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
    1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
    - Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
    1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
    - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
    1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
    - Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
    1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
    - Silver (1973) ... James Cable
    1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
    1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
    Francis Cumberland
    1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
    1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
    - Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
    1971 Danger Point - Captain
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
    1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
    - Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
    1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
    1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
    1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
    1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
    - Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
    1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
    - Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
    1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
    - The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
    1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
    - Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
    1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
    1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
    - Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
    1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
    - The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
    1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
    - Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
    1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
    - Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
    1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
    - The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
    1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
    - Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
    1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
    - The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
    1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
    - Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
    1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
    1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
    1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
    1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
    - Flight of a Tiger (1966)
    1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
    - The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
    - Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
    1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
    - The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
    - Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
    - Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
    - Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
    1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
    - The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
    - Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
    1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
    - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
    - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
    1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
    1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
    - The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
    1965 Thunderball - 'M'
    1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
    - Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
    1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
    - After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
    1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
    1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
    1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
    1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
    1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
    - The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
    1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
    - Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
    1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
    1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
    1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
    - Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
    - The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
    - Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
    - Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
    - Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
    1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
    1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
    1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
    - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
    - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
    1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
    1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
    1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
    - Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
    1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
    1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
    - Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
    - Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
    1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
    1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
    1962 Dr. No - M.
    1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
    1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
    1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
    1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
    1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
    1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
    1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
    1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
    1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
    1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
    1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
    1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

    1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
    - Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
    - The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
    - In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
    - Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
    1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
    1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
    - Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
    1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
    1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
    1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
    1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
    - Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
    - All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
    - The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
    1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
    1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
    1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
    1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
    1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
    1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
    1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
    1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
    - The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
    1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
    - A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
    1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
    1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
    1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
    1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
    1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
    1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
    1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
    1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
    1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
    1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
    1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
    1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
    1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
    1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
    1951 White Corridors - Burgess
    1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
    1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
    1950 Odette - Jack
    1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
    1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
    1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

    1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
    1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
    1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
    1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
    1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
    1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
    1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
    1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
    1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
    1941 Once a Crook - Duke
    1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
    1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

    1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
    1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
    1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
    1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
    1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
    1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
    1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
    1934 The Double Event - Dennison

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    1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

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    2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
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    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
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    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself

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    1995: First day of GoldenEye filming at EON Studios with OO7 and Zukovsky.
    1998: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Brazil.

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    1998: 007: El mañana nunca muere released in Mexico.

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    1998: Jutro nie umiera nigdy released in Poland.
    2003: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Argentina.
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    2008: Mythbusters airs their James Bond Special: Part 1.
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    "The name's Hyneman. James Hyneman." It's tuxedos and martinis as the Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special one-hour episode. Our stealthy secret agents are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways, and guns.

    2011: National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, New Forest in England, launches the Bond In Motion exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.
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    The world’s biggest-ever collection of Bond cars, bikes and planes is going on show at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic action movie.
    At least 50 vehicles, including the Lotus Esprit S1 submarine driven underwater in the Roger Moore movie The Spy Who Loved Me, an Aston Martin DB5 of the type that starred in Goldfinger and Thunderball and the BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough, feature in the exhibition ‘Bond In Motion’.

    ‘This is a really fitting celebration in an important year for Bond movies. It marks the 50th anniversary of the start of filming of the first Bond movie Dr No and In October we will release the latest movie, starring Daniel Craig,’ says Eon Productions, which makes the Bond films.

    The exhibition has largely been assembled from two major collections — one owned by the charitable US-based Ian Fleming Foundation and another owned by Eon Productions. Although other exhibits come from private collections around the world.

    The DB5, for example, is on loan from the Dutch National Motor Museum. It is one of two replicas built to promote Thunderball, but never used in filming.

    Other DB5s are scheduled to take its place as the exhibition carries on throughout the year.

    ‘We came up with the idea for the exhibition late in 2010, knowing the importance of 2012,’ says Meg Simmonds, archivist for Eon productions.

    Interestingly, Dr No is the only Bond movie for which no cars exist and no-one knows what happened to them after filming.

    In the early days, props were disposed-of as soon as filming was finished, simply because there was nowhere to store them. Bond movie owner Cubby Broccoli famously growled: ‘I’m not in the warehousing business.’

    But times change and since the Goldeneye movie of 1995, Eon has been keeping the cars and other action props in its own collection, stored in the east of England.

    From Eon’s collection comes the Cagiva 600 W16 that features in the dramatic opening sequence of Goldeneye, in which the bike hurtles off a cliff allowing Bond to catch-up with a plane and jump in the cockpit. Filmed seven times, only two bikes are thought to have survived.

    Other stars at the show include an AMC Hornet of the type that performed an amazing barrel roll jump in 1974’s The Man With the Golden Gun. Bond jumps the red hatchback 40ft — a shot completed in one clean take, even though legendary stuntman ‘Bumps’ Willard had never attempted the jump before. The car on show is a showroom vehicle used in a city chase.

    Daniel Craig’s Aston DBS, which was famously rolled at Millbrook test track for Casino Royale is also on show, complete with smashed up bodywork and cracked glass.

    Modified with an air cannon to initiate the roll, the DBS flipped through seven and three-quarter turns, with stuntman Adam Kirley at the wheel, to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

    Other star machinery includes the Renault 11 from View To A Kill, Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only, Bede BD5 microjet from Octopussy and ‘Little Nellie’, the Wallis WA 116 autogyro from You Only Live Twice, the latter still owned by Ken Wallis.
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    2015: Spectre completes the three-day build of a wooden structure to be filmed at Obertilliach, Austria.
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    2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #5.
    Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.
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    Cover A: John Cassaday
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    Cover E: Bob Q
    Writer: Jeff Parker
    Art: Bob Q
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: January 2019
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 1/16/2019
    "Rocket Sea" continues, by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger). Bond and his squad commander a German bomber plane, to sink a Nazi cruiser. And aside from not knowing how to fly the bomber, or how to drop bombs from it, all should go as planned...
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 17th

    1962: The Gleaner reports that filming of Dr. No started the 16th at Palisadoes airport. Also noted are local casting, includes the beautiful 1961 Miss Jamaica: Marguerite LeWars. 1963: Agente 007 - Licenza di uccidere (Agent 007 - Licence to Kill) released in Italy.
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    1966: 007 Contra a Chantagem Atômica (007 Against Atomic Blackmail) released in Brazil.

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    1998: 007 네버 다이 (007 Nay-buh dah-ee) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    2003: Baska Gün Öl (Die Another Day) released in Turkey.
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    2009: 007/慰めの報酬 (007/Remuneration for Comfort) limited release in Japan.
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    2011: Title and cover art for Jeffrey Deaver's Bond novel revealed at The InterContinental, Dubai.
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    James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy
    By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News
    25 May 2011
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    Thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who unveiled his James Bond novel Carte Blanche on Wednesday, has admitted that he gives Ian Fleming's superspy a tough time in the 21st Century.
    At a launch event planned with the precision of an MI6 operation, the American author received the first copy of the book from a team of Royal Marines who abseiled from the roof of London's St Pancras station.

    Deaver's novel, which is set in the present day, is published on Thursday.

    The book's release coincides with the anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. The writer who created the original Bond novels in the 1950s would have been 103 on Saturday 28 May.

    His niece, actress Lucy Fleming, told the launch event that her uncle would have been pleased by the way that Deaver "has kicked his dear old James Bond into the 21st Century".

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    Carte Blanche was not "a pastiche", Deaver told the BBC.

    "I took Ian Fleming's iconic character and made him younger - and the poor guy ends up in a Jeffery Deaver novel. I write rollercoasters, which means he doesn't get a minute's rest."

    Earlier, the 61-year-old author had arrived at the launch event, at a champagne bar at St Pancras International, in a red Bentley with 007 emblazoned on the bonnet.

    He was flanked by a female stunt rider on a 1960s BSA motor-bike.
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    Deaver is not the first writer to take on the Bond legacy. Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner are among other authors to have written officially-sanctioned Bond novels since creator Ian Fleming's death in 1964.

    But he is the first to set Fleming's character in 2011. In Carte Blanche, Bond has served in the Royal Naval Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, before joining the secret service.

    In an early chapter he uses a mobile phone application to eavesdrop on a target in Serbia.

    "In the movies he got a bit gadget-oriented," said Deaver. "Fleming actually gave him relatively few gadgets - and I went back to that. Nowadays my BlackBerry has more capacity than the best computer in the mid-1950s."
    Who would have thought
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    Jeffery Deaver
    Deaver was eight years old when he read his first James Bond novel. A self-confessed "Bond addict", he wrote his first unpublished novel aged 11 about "a British agent who sneaks into Russia to steal a Soviet bomber".

    Eighteen months ago, Deaver - whose 28 novels have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide - accepted the offer to carry on the Bond legacy.

    Deaver said: "Who would have thought that the dreams and aspirations of a young boy so many years ago would come full circle in the way that they have?"

    But why does he think the publishing industry loves bringing back famous characters like James Bond, Dracula, Peter Pan and - later this year - Sherlock Holmes?

    "The industry has always known that this is a market-driven business - business is the dirty little word that nobody wants to mention - but it is business.

    "Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven - they wrote on commission, it was a business to them.

    Books are no different, and we are beholden to the audience to give them something they want.

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    2012: Naomie Harris denies her Skyfall character is Miss Moneypenny.
    2014: Writer John Logan talks to IGN about Bond 24 and Bond 25.
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    James Bond Writer John Logan Intends Bond
    24 and 25 to Build on What They Did in
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    "There's resonance from Skyfall in the new movie."
    Roth Cornet
    By Roth Cornet
    Posted: 17 Jan 2014 6:47 pm

    Skyfall writer John Logan is busy completing production on his new horror series for Showtime, Penny Dreadful. He and series' stars Eva Green and Josh Hartnett took a small break from shooting on location in Ireland to attend this week's TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour for early promotion of the series.

    We had the opportunity to sit down with both Logan and Hartnett do discuss the Gothic monster series (more on that to come). During the course of our conversation with Logan, we also touched on his other commitments, namely the upcoming 24th and 25th installments in the James Bond franchise, the first of which Skyfall director Sam Mendes will also helm.

    Details on Bond films are notoriously kept under lock and key, and Logan was hesitant to reveal particulars about the story for the upcoming film. "All I can say about Bond is that I'm happily writing it" he said. Joking that, "Sam [Mendes] would rappel through the window and kill me." Though the writer did indicate that the next two films would carry forward what had been established with Skyfall.

    One of the intentions with Skyfall was to recapture and contemporize some of the classic elements of Bond.

    "My goal is to write a great movie that's appropriate, to build on what we did on Skyfall, but make it its own unique animal," Logan said of the teams aspirations for Bond 24. "The themes, ideas and the characters from Skyfall can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. So I think there's resonance from Skyfallin the new movie."

    "I grew up on the Bond movies," Logan said of his own connection to the franchise. "The first one I saw was Diamonds Are Forever, when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces. I love all the elements, from the books -- mostly from the novels; going back to Ian Flemming is where I started with Skyfall -- and there's certainly elements of the movies and the novels that we've brought into the new movie, as they did into Skyfall."

    One of the most memorable elements in Skyfall was Javier Bardem's villainous Silva. "He was just fantastic!" Logan enthused, adding that the creative team didn't feel pressure to match the success of that villain as each story requires its own unique antagonist.

    Eon, the production company behind the Bond franchise, just got back the rights back to the Joker of the Bond world, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. As such, fans have been wondering if we may see Blofeld make an appearance was early as the next Bond film.

    "You know, I think our villain's appropriate to the story we're telling," Logan said slyly when asked if there was a temptation to utilize that character now that they are able.

    We will keep you updated as details on Bond 24 and 25 emerge.
    Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.

    2018: Dynamite's James Bond: The Body #1 goes on sale.
    Luca Casalanguida, artist. Ales Kot, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: THE BODY #1
    https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419001011
    Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
    Writer: Ales Kot
    Art: Luca Casalanguida
    Genre: Action
    Publication Date: January 2018
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 1/17
    PART ONE - THE BODY

    As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them.

    From writer Ales Kot (Secret Avengers, Zero) comes a James Bond story that explores the secret agent in ways that we have yet to experience!
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    2024: Dynamite Entertainment marks ten years of publishing James Bond comics with James Bond - 007 Vol. 2 #1, and its part one of story "Your Cold, Cold Heart".
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    Cover A: Dave Johnson
    UPC: 72513033924901011
    Writer: Garth Ennis
    Artist: Rapha Lobosco
    Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
    Publication Date: January, 2024
    Format: Comic Book
    ON SALE DATE: 1/17/2024
    Codename: Stalvoda
    Translation (from Russian): Steel Water
    A relic of the Cold War, the deadly compound Stalvoda has a long buried connection with MI6. So when it mysteriously reappears in disturbing circumstances, the agency naturally assigns its best operative to get to the bottom of things - 007 himself, James Bond.
    But Bond isn't the only one to have carried the Double O rank, and with it MI6's secrets. Former agent Archibald Tyron is another, and he's also carrying a grudge - one that's aimed squarely at the heart of His Majesty's Secret Service!

    Legendary comics author GARTH ENNIS (The Boys, Preacher, Battlefields, The Punisher) joins artist RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box) and cover artist DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) to bring you Part One of "Your Cold, Cold Heart" - marking the 10-year anniversary of James Bond comics being published at Dynamite!

    Featuring cardstock covers on all issues!

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 18th

    1936: Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
    (Born 30 December 1865--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.)
    The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
    ...

    Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.

    The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
    ·007

    A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

    Complete story linked here.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

    1940: A memorandum notes Commander Ian Fleming considering misdirection involving U-boats.
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    Letters in bottles and leaky U-boats: Ian Fleming’s ideas factory
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    Posted on 27th January 2019 by PWE Propagandist
    Document of the month: FO 898/6/64-5
    Guy Woodward traces the involvement of the creator of 007 in covert wartime propaganda
    This is a memo dated 18 January 1940 – it reports on a recent meeting of the ‘Consultative Committee’ of the Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries. This department was part of Electra House, a secret body under the control of the Foreign Office, responsible for clandestine propaganda in the early stages of the war – before the foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in July 1940 and the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) in September 1941.

    The meeting discussed a number of ‘sibs’ – rumours invented to spread misinformation – but also makes a series of references to Lieutenant Ian Fleming, later creator of James Bond, then serving in the British Naval Intelligence Department (NID).

    We read first about a mysterious plan involving a ‘letter from a U-Boat Commander in a bottle’:
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    It is unclear what the first plan involved – there are no other references in the archive to letters in bottles – but we can speculate that moves were afoot to produce a fake letter from a U-boat commander to be thrown into the sea, which would mislead its intended German recipients (the cross marked beside the proposal suggests that this was never enacted anyway). The second plan is more straightforward, involving the dissemination of propaganda material to Germany via containers dropped at sea. Ian Fleming’s assertion that sailors on naval patrol ‘will like’ doing this is striking however, an expression of adventurousness and derring-do at odds with the cold formality of many of these departmental records – and indicative of the approach he took to his own role.[1]
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    Indeed, the plans cited here are very much milder than some of the schemes which Fleming hatched in the early stages of the war. In For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond (2008) Ben Macintyre writes that ‘Some of Fleming’s ideas were run-of-the-mill, some were fantastical and impractical, and some, in the opinion of his colleagues, were simply mad.’[2] These included:
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    point in order to block the waterway for German shipping;
    forging Reichsmarks to disrupt the German economy;
    dropping an observer (possibly Fleming himself) on the island
    of Heligoland to monitor the shipping outside Kiel; luring
    German secret agents to Monte Carlo and capturing them; and
    floating a radio ship in the North Sea to broadcast depressing
    hand/or irritating propaganda to the Germans.
    [3]
    Although Fleming would later dismiss such plans as ‘nonsense’ and ‘romantic Red Indian daydreams’, the fact that they were considered indicates the operational leeway afforded naval intelligence, before the foundation of SOE and before the fall of France and consequent Battle of the Atlantic dictated other naval priorities. Through Fleming, NID continued to be involved in the formulation of propaganda, however.
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    Fleming had been recruited in May 1939 by Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence and widely credited as inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond novels. Working from the ‘ideas factory’ – room 39 in the Admiralty – Fleming developed his schemes and liaised officially and unofficially with a wide circle of military personnel, agents and propagandists.[4]

    The PWE’s Sefton Delmer had known Fleming as a journalist before the war, and recalls in his memoir Black Boomerang, being introduced by his friend to Godfrey, who was excited by the potential of ‘black’ radio stations as a means of attacking the morale of U-boat crews. Both Godfrey and Fleming proved enthusiastic supporters of Delmer’s methods.

    Delmer explains this naval enthusiasm (as opposed to the frequent hostility of the army and RAF to propaganda activities) with reference to the fact that the Royal Navy had been engaged in all-out war from the beginning of the conflict in 1939, when army and air force remained engaged in the phoney war. He notes that the navy were also unique among the services in having direct contact with the enemy from the beginning of the war, as they captured German prisoners at sea. Interrogations of these prisoners provided valuable intelligence material, later used by Delmer’s propagandists in crafting black propaganda such as the Soldatensender Calais radio station, intended to undermine the morale of U-boat crews.[5]

    Fleming’s linguistic skills even enabled him to make direct contributions to such outlets, voicing commentaries on special programmes aimed at sailors of the Kriegsmarine broadcast by the BBC German Service and telling a friend ‘You may have heard my austere tones […] telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak.’[6]
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    Many connections can of course be drawn between Fleming’s wartime activities and his later creation of British secret agent 007 – the ability to conceive a compelling scenario and a predilection for imaginative and unorthodox methods are certainly clear assets in the fields of propaganda and of popular fiction. Delmer, whose name appears in a passing reference in Fleming’s Diamonds are Forever (1956) certainly suggested that his friend had drawn on his involvement with the PWE, writing that:
    I sometimes wonder whether he did not pick up something for his thriller writing from our ‘black’ propaganda technique in return. For our first clandestine radio ‘Gustav Siegfried Eins’ and later our counterfeit German soldiers radio ‘Soldatensender Calais’ we used the most meticulous minutiae, taking care to get them exactly right , street numbers, technical terms, nicknames, and what have you, so that the deception itself would gain acceptance through their accuracy.[7]
    Notes
    All archival material is Crown Copyright and is held in The National Archives. Quotations which appear here have been transcribed by members of the project team.

    [1] The RAF were notably sceptical about the value of dropping propaganda leaflets from the air and were often reluctant to facilitate drops over enemy territory. See Tim Brooks, British Propaganda to France, 1940-1944: Machinery, Method and Message, (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), p. 37 and David Garnett, The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, (London: St Ermin’s Press, 2002), p. 188.

    [2] Ben Macintyre, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 27.

    [3] Macintyre, p. 28.

    [4] Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995), p. 102.

    [5] Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang: An Autobiography: Volume Two, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962), p. 70.

    [6] Lycett, p. 133.

    [7] See https://www.psywar.org/delmer/2030/1001.

    1969: David Michael Bautista is born--Washington, District of Columbia.

    1971: Bond comic strip Fear Face begins its comic strip run in the Daily Express.
    (Ends 20 April 1971. 1520–1596) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    1984: Mai dire mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies second unit filming begins, handled by Vic Armstrong, involves pre-titles action at the Peyresourde Airport, French Pyrenees.
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    1998: James Villiers dies at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.
    (Born 29 September 1933--London, England.)
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    Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02

    James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.

    One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.

    His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.

    Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.

    After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.

    In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).

    He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.
    Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.
    A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.
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    2015: June Randall dies at age 87--England.
    (Born 26 June 1927--London, England.)
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    June Randall (26 June 1927 – 18 January 2015) was a British script supervisor whose career spanned over five decades and more than 100 film and television productions. She was most noted for being director Stanley Kubrick's "continuity girl" on A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining and for her work on five of the James Bond films: The Spy Who Loved Me, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, and GoldenEye.

    Biography
    Randall was born on 26 June 1927 in London, England. When World War II began in 1939, Randall, then aged twelve, was sent to Australia aboard the MS Batory. She returned to England four years later. ] Soon thereafter, Randall sought employment at Gainsborough Pictures in the hopes of meeting actor James Mason after seeing him in an advert for his film The Wicked Lady. She did not get to meet Mason, but did manage to secure a job as secretary to the studio's Head of Production, Betty Box. Wishing to be on the studio floor, however, Randall took the lower-paying job of assistant continuity girl (now script supervisor). In this capacity, she worked on such films as Dear Murderer and Ken Annakin's Miranda.
    Over the next two decades, Randall monitored continuity on such films as Hell in Korea, X: The Unknown, Quatermass 2, Tony Richardson's groundbreaking Look Back in Anger, Circus of Horrors, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Roy Ward Baker's The Anniversary, and Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out. She also began working in television, including 35 episodes of The Avengers and 22 episodes of The Saint. It was on the latter that Randall met actor Roger Moore, who nicknamed her "Randy" and with whom Randall remained friends for the rest of her life. Randall and Moore later worked together on two of Moore's outings as secret agent James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill. Although the latter was Moore's last film as Bond, Randall continued with the franchise, working with Timothy Dalton on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill and Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye.
    Randall also had a long-standing partnership with director Stanley Kubrick, whom she met during pre-production of his film A Clockwork Orange in 1970[ She agreed to work with Kubrick not only on that film, but on Barry Lyndon and The Shining, as well, despite the director's notorious compulsiveness and perfectionism. Other films on which Randall supervised continuity include the cult genre favorites Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter and Flash Gordon, Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning Gandhi, Michael Mann's crime thriller Manhunter, and David Fincher's Alien³. She retired in 2001 and died in London on 18 January 2015, at the age of 87.
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    2017: Professor Jeremy Black proposes James Bond is more of a feminist than you might think.
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    Jeremy Black Professor of History at the University of Exeter
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    The Bond of the films doesn't always bear resemblance to the Bond of Ian Fleming's novels

    When Judi Dench accused James Bond of being a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" at the beginning of GoldenEye, she was reflecting conventional wisdom about 007. Bond girls were cardboard cut-out fantasy figures: stunning, acquiescent and up for a little danger. In the course of his films, Bond used his club-land charm to seduce 58 of them, inviting feminists to condemn him as a woman-hater who wants his ‘girls’ to iron shirts, leap into bed with him and then look grateful. Bond, we've been told, wallows in a "sewer of misogyny”.
    The critics may have a point – if the 007 cinematic opus before Daniel Craig’s arrival on the scene is the case for the prosecution. But before the Bond films were Ian Fleming’s books, written in the 1950s and 1960s; a pre-pill age when Britain was a socially-disapproving place and sexual freedom was frowned upon. I've spent a large chunk of the last two years studying Fleming's words, as research for a book on the subject – and what I've found is that while Bond may have pre-war manners, his attitudes to women were, in many ways, very modern.

    Throughout Fleming's series, Bond admires female partners who are not only as sexually liberated and demanding as him, but independent, resourceful and tough enough to help him defeat villains. These are women who are not constrained or defined by the search for matrimony and motherhood – women, in other words, who buck the social norms of the time they live in. Far from misogynistic in attitude, Bond was ahead of his time.

    On close inspection, it's a theme that crops up repeatedly. For example, in the books, 007 rails against the victimisation of women and the depiction of sexually-liberated women as ‘tarts’ or whores.

    Here's Fleming on Bond's admiration of Dominetta Vitali, the mistress of arch villain Emilio Largo in Thunderball: "'Whore', ‘tart’, 'prostitute' were not words Bond used about women unless they were professional streetwalkers or the inmates of a brothel. This was an independent, a girl of authority and character. She might like the rich, gay life, but so far as Bond was concerned, that was the right kind of girl. She might sleep with men, obviously did, but it would be on her terms and not on theirs.”
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    Tellingly, some of the female characters Bond most admires are not only sexually adventurous but independent of men. The improbably-named Pussy Galore, for example, is the resourceful leader of a lesbian motorcycle gang, “who had never met a man before.” In Goldfinger, she helps Bond foil a plot to gas the guards at Fort Knox. Fleming says of Ms Galore, whom he eventually seduces: “[Bond] was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room ‘All men and bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me’.”

    That's not to say Bond wasn't a quintessential tough-guy. The books describe a character who is the very image of physicality, sharpness and resolution – all necessary qualities if you are single-handedly defeating the world’s super-villains. Of course, these attributes can be read as those of a “school boy bully”. In 1958, Paul Johnson described Bond as having “the mechanical two-dimensional sex longing of a frustrated adolescent’; while William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the Times, writes that Bond is a “high technology killer, a sadistic womaniser and a pseudo sophisticate.”

    In my book The World of James Bond, published later this year, I draw a distinction between the hardened war-hero type Fleming created and the priapic caricature he became in many of the films.
    Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable. It is central to the image of Bond’s sexuality that he gives, as well as receives, pleasure – and the women he sleeps are not beyond setting the sexual pace.

    To use Goldfinger as the example again: in a scene that didn't make the film, Jill Masterston accompanies Bond on the Silver Meteor train from Miami to New York. Fleming writes:
    “She had woken him twice more in the night with soft demanding caresses, saying nothing, just reaching for his hard, lean body. The next day she had twice pulled down the roller blinds to shut out the hard light and had taken him by the hand and said ‘Love me, James’….. Neither had had regrets.”
    Fleming’s own private life was far from conventional. His wife Ann had an affair with Hugh Gaitskell, then leader of the Labour party, and from 1955 Fleming had his own lover. His commitment to living in the West Indies was in part linked to his sex life.

    We should also note that in the books, Bond is disgusted with villains’ sadistic behaviour towards women. He dislikes the very attitudes 007’s critics have sometimes attributed to him. Fleming actually contrasts the mechanistic megalomania of many of the villains and the sadistic evil of their agents with Bond’s sensuality.

    In Goldfinger 007 feels disgust reading a passage in a SMERSH manual which says: “A drunken woman can also usually be handled by using the thumb and forefinger to grab the lower lip. By pinching hard and twisting, as the pull is made, the woman will come along.”

    Bond’s reputation as a Paleolithic sexist has not been helped by quotes from Fleming’s works, frequently taken out of context.

    One Bond remark often taken as evidence against him is in the short story "Quantum of Solace", in which 007 contends that if he married he would marry an air hostess. He could then have “a pretty girl always tucking you up and bringing you drinks and hot meals and asking if you had everything you waned. And they’re always smiling and wanting to please. If I don’t marry an air hostess, there’ll be nothing for it but marry a Japanese. They seem to have the right ideas too.”
    "Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable"

    Jeremy Black
    A clear case for the prosecution: unconstructed sexism with a dose of racism thrown in. But read on.

    Fleming writes that Bond deliberately made such as provocative remark “to outrage the Governor into a discussion of some human topic. Bond had no intention of marrying anyone. If he did, it would certainly not be an insipid slave.”

    This is not to say that Bond is a new man who in our day would be happy to work part time and share parenting duties. His attitude to same-sex relationships, between men, is hostile and derogatory. In a Miami restaurant in Goldfinger, the manager is described as “a pansified Italian”, while at the start of the novel From Russia, with Love, Bond advocates the recruitment of gays to hunt gay spies.

    In many ways Bond is old fashioned, with old fashioned prejudices: the last of the club-land heroes who adheres to an older established code and set of values. With a martini ‘shaken but not stirred’ in one hand, and a Walther PPK concealed on his person, he is possibly too flamboyant for the modern mode of espionage. And beware the Russian honey-trap: there is also no doubt that Bond is an admirer of a well-turned ankle.

    But Fleming’s Bond is more complex and interesting character in the books than in many of the films. He is certainly not the misogynistic dinosaur described by Judi Dench’s M. Is James Bond a feminist? Perhaps that's stretching it a bit. But he's far from the monster we're led to believe either.

    Professor Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the
    University of Exeter. His book The World of James Bond, is to
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    January 19th

    1922: Ken Graham Hughes is born--Liverpool, England.
    (He dies 28 April 2001 at age 79--Los Angeles, California.)
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    Born - Kenneth Graham Hughes, 19 January 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
    Died - 28 April 2001 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, United States

    Kenneth Graham Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001)[2] was an English film director, writer and producer. He was the co-writer and director of the children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). He has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining, and deserved more critical attention than it has received."

    Early Life and Career
    Hughes was born in Yates St, Toxteth, Liverpool. His family moved to London soon after. Hughes won an amateur film contest at age 14 and worked as a projectionist. When he was sixteen he went to work for the BBC as a technician and became a sound engineer.

    In 1941 he began making documentaries and short features; he also made training films for the Ministry of Defence. Hughes eventually returned to the BBC where he made documentaries.

    Director
    Hughes's first film as director was the "B" movie Wide Boy (1952). He did a short feature, The Drayton Case (1953), which became the first of Anglo-Amalgamated's Scotland Yard film series (1953-61), and several of the later installments including The Dark Stairway (1953) and Murder Anonymous (1955). He did Black 13 (1954) then made The House Across the Lake (1954) for Hammer Films, based on Hughes' own novel.

    He made The Brain Machine (1955), Little Red Monkey (1955), and Confession (1955). Timeslip (1955) was science fiction. He was one of several writers on The Flying Eye (1955) and Portrait of Alison (1955).

    Hughes received notice for Joe MacBeth (1955) a modernised re-telling of Macbeth set among American gangsters of the 1930s, but shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey. He shared an Emmy Award in 1959 for writing the television play Eddie (for Alcoa Theatre) which starred Mickey Rooney.

    The later 1950s
    Hughes made some films for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (1956), and The Long Haul (1957). He wrote High Flight (1957) made by Warwick Films, producers Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen, who released through Columbia. For British TV he wrote episodes of Solo for Canary (1958).

    For Warwick Films, he directed two films with Anthony Newley, Jazz Boat (1960) and In the Nick (1960). Warwick liked his work and hired Hughes to direct The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) with Peter Finch. It was well received, and was Hughes favourite among his films because he did not make any concessions in its production.

    Career peak
    Hughes wrote and directed The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), based on Hughes' television play Sammy which had been broadcast by the BBC in 1958. Anthony Newley was the title lead in both playing a confidence trickster and gambler. He directed episodes of the TV series Espionage (1964).
    He replaced Bryan Forbes, who in turn had replaced Henry Hathaway as director of Of Human Bondage (1964), starring Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak. It was financed by Seven Arts who used Hughes on the Tony Curtis comedy Drop Dead Darling (1965). Hughes also wrote episodes for the TV series An Enemy of the State (1965). He was subsequently one of several directors who worked on the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967).

    He co-wrote and directed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) for producer Broccoli. Although it was a success at the box-office, it received a negative response from critics who objected to its sentimentality. It was a project he did not enjoy working on. "The film made a lot of money, but that doesn't really make me feel any better about it. On the other hand, I've made pictures that got awards at Berlin and places, and didn't make any money, and that doesn't make me feel any better either".
    Irving Allen produced Cromwell (1970), a dream project of Hughes who called it the "best thing I've ever done". It starred Richard Harris in the title role and Alec Guinness as Charles I, but was not a financial success. It meant he was unable to raise funds for a proposed film of Ten Days That Shook the World.

    In 1969 Hughes sold his company, Ken Hughes Productions, to Constellation Investments for the issue at par of 300,000 of 6 percent convertible unsecured loan stock. The stock was deposited by the vendors as security for warranties that profits of Ken Hughes Productions during the next ten years will exceed £500,000 after corporations tax and be available to Constellation.

    Later career
    Hughes directed The Internecine Project (1974) for British Lion and Alfie Darling (1975), a sequel to Alfie (1966); they both flopped He wrote and directed episodes of Oil Strike North (1975).

    Hughes sold his production company for £300,000 in 1969, but encountered financial difficulties in the 1970s.[12] In July 1975 he declared bankruptcy. He told the London Bankruptcy Court he earned £44,177 in 1968 and £47,960 in 1969 but nothing in 1970. "The film industry collapsed," said Hughes. "It has not recovered yet." He had debts of £32,277 and had to sell his house to pay creditors. Hughes attributed his financial situation to paying maintenance to two wives and an inability to reduce expenses. ("But I am afraid it was too late by then. The time for me to do do was in 1969 or 1970.") He was also hit by a tax bill. At one stage, claims against him reached £48,000.

    He worked in the United States for the first time directing Mae West in her last film, Sextette (1978).

    His final film was the slasher movie Night School (1981), the film debut of Rachel Ward.

    Personal life and death
    Hughes had three marriages, to two women. From 1946 to 1957, he was married to Charlotte Epstein. From 1970 to 1976, he was married to Cherry Price, with whom he had a daughter Melinda, an opera singer. The marriage was dissolved in 1976, and Hughes remarried his first wife in 1982. They were married when Hughes died from complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He had been living in a nursing home in Panorama City in Los Angeles.

    Critical appraisal
    Filmink magazine did a profile on Hughes which argued "he was a very 'ups and downs' kind of guy with a solid overall average: the maker of a genuine classic (Trials of Oscar Wilde), a handful of terrific movies (Long Haul, Joe MacBeth, Wide Boy) and some films that have splendid things in them (Small World of Sammy Lee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and yes, Casino Royale). He also made movies that were dull (Cromwell), dire (Alfie Darling), disappointing (Timeslip) and in one case, beyond belief (Sextette). He clearly worked best when attached to a feisty little production company with strong Hollywood links."

    Filmography
    Sammy (1952) - writer
    Wide Boy (1952) - director
    The Drayton Case (1953) - director, writer
    The Missing Man (1953) - writer, director
    The Candlelight Murder (1953) - writer, director
    Black 13 (1953) - director, writer
    The Dark Stairway (1953) aka The Greek Street Murder - director, writer
    The Blazing Caravan (1954) (short) - writer, director
    Passenger to Tokyo (1954) (short) - director
    The Strange Case of Blondie (1954) (short) - writer, director
    The House Across the Lake (1954) aka Heat Wave - director, writer
    The Brain Machine (1955) - director, writer
    Little Red Monkey (1955) aka Case of the Red Monkey - director, writer
    Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955) - director
    Confession (a.k.a., The Deadliest Sin, 1955) - director, writer
    Timeslip (a.k.a. The Atomic Man, 1955) - director
    The Flying Eye (1955) - writer
    Joe MacBeth (1955) - director, writer
    Postmark for Danger (1955) aka Portrait of Alisonr - writer
    Murder Anonymous (1955) (short) - director
    Wicked As They Come (1956) aka Portrait in Smoke - director, writer
    Town on Trial (1957) - writer
    The Long Haul (1957) - director, writer
    High Flight (1957) - writer
    Sammy (1958) - producer, writer, director
    Solo for Canary (1958) - writer
    Alcoa Theatre (1958) - writer episode "Eddie"

    Jazz Boat (1960) - director, writer
    The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - director, writer
    In the Nick (1960) - director, writer
    The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) - director, writer
    Espionage (1964) - writer, director
    Of Human Bondage (1964) - director
    An Enemy of the State (1965) - writer
    Drop Dead Darling (1966) aka Arrivederci, Baby! - director, producer, writer
    Casino Royale (1967) - director, writer
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - director, writer

    Shark! (1969) - writer

    Cromwell (1970) - director, writer
    Sammy (1972) - writer
    Menace (1973) - writer
    Colditz (1974) - writer
    The Internecine Project (1974) - director
    Fall of Eagles (1974) - writer
    Dial M for Murder (1974) - writer
    Alfie Darling (1975) - director, writer
    Oil Strike North: Deadline (1975) - episode "Deadline" - writer
    Sextette (1978) - director

    Night School (1981) - director

    Novels
    The Long Echo (1955)
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    Ken Hughes
    Writer | Director | Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400731/
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1967
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    Casino Royale, 1967
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    Sextette, 1978
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    1941: Putter Smith is born--Bell, California.

    1960: Jack Whittingham reports to Ivar Bryce the progress he's making with Kevin McClory on a Thunderball screenplay.
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    Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

    ..."We are both working in the dark so far as Ian Fleming is concerned--and Bond is very much his personal creation. Thus they needed to get together with Ian to discuss their first draft. I know he will be very helpful at this much more detailed stage, and it would encourage us enormously if we felt we were all still pulling at the same rope."

    1981: The For Your Eyes Only production crew at Meteora, Greece, feels of the wrath of monks who place laundry and other eyesores on their dwellings to disrupt filming. A show of displeasure, potentially over to small a stipend paid to them by the producers. Filming continues nonetheless.
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    1995: GoldenEye films Valentin.

    2000: Radioactive/MCA releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough by David Arnold in Japan. 68 minutes in length.

    2015: To capitalize on Fleming and Bond material becoming public domain in Canada, Independent Toronto publisher ChiZine Publications announces Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond. An anthology of short stories, available only in Canada.
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    2016: Titan Books publishes James Bond: Spectre: The Complete Comic Strip Collection.
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    2017: Anthony Horowitz announces on Twitter he's writing a second Bond novel due out October 2018.
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    2018: Manchester University Press publish The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine by Claire Hines.
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    The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Playboy-James-Bond-Fleming-Magazine/dp/0719082269
    Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2018
    by Claire Hines (Author)

    This is the first book-length study to focus on James Bond’s relationship to the playboy ideal during the sixties and beyond. The book examines aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, best represented in the pages of Playboy magazine, and considers how they are interconnected, especially in terms of gender and consumption, to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era onwards. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery’s definitive Bond as seen in the films and promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections between Bond and Playboy within the historical framework and contemporary debates, this book offers new insights into the related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.

    Throughout, the book traces and analyses key aspects of the development of James Bond’s connections to the lifestyle fantasy and image of the playboy. These connections are rooted in the fifties and were formalised in Playboy during the 1960s with the help of Ian Fleming and his Bond novels, followed by the rising popularity of the big screen character first played by Connery, which established other associations that still remain influential today. This book will contribute to the growing area of Bond studies as well as to the study of popular culture, and will interest scholars and students in these and other fields of research.

    Review
    'This book engages a range of topic relevant to university courses in fields such as English, History and Cultural Studies. It will also appeal to fans of Bond and popular culture. The playboy and James Bond is concise, fluent and eminently readable, striking the right balance between sharp analysis and telling a compelling story.'
    Professor Christoph Linder, University of Oregon
    'The more fascinating part of Hines's analysis, however, goes beyond the two enterprises' mutual boosting to spotlight the astonishingly parallel guidance they provided in encouraging male consumerism. One of the shared foci, on "fetishized mechanical objects", was represented by Bond's Aston Martin DB5 car and the Playboy automated round bed. Both Playboy and Bond encouraged the commodification of women and guilt-free (hetero-)sexuality, as evidences by the Bond girls and Playboy Bunnies. Both championed elaborate male grooming routines, gourmet food and alcohol, and travel to exotic locations ... [This book] would be of use to scholars and teachers of intertextual analysis, magazine studies, and gender and sex in the media. It could also make an excellent addition to the reading lists of seminars on fanship studies or fan magazines.'
    Journal of Magazine Media
    About the Author
    Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University -- .
    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (19 Jan. 2018)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
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