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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    July 8th

    1933: Jeff Nuttall is born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.
    (He dies 4 January 2004 at age 70--Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.)
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    Jeff Nuttall
    See the complete article here:
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    Born - Jeffrey Addison Nuttall - 8 July 1933 - Clitheroe, Lancashire, England
    Died - 4 January 2004 (aged 70) - Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
    Occupation
    Poet
    Publisher
    Actor
    Painter
    Sculptor
    Jazz trumpeter
    Anarchist sympathiser
    Social commentator
    Jeffrey Addison Nuttall (8 July 1933 – 4 January 2004) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist[1] and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.
    Life and work
    Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, and grew up in Orcop, a village in Herefordshire. He studied painting in the years after the Second World War and began publishing poetry in the early 1960s. Together with Bob Cobbing,[2] he founded the influential Writers Forum press and writers' workshop.[3]

    His Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2003.[4]
    Works
    Poems (1963), with Keith Musgrove
    The Limbless Virtuoso (1963), with Keith Musgrove
    The Change (1963), with Allen Ginsberg
    My Own Mag (1963–66)
    Poems I Want to Forget (1965)
    Come Back Sweet Prince: A Novelette (1966)
    Pieces of Poetry (1966)
    The Case of Isabel and the Bleeding Foetus (1967)
    Songs Sacred and Secular (1967)
    Bomb Culture (1968), cultural criticism
    Penguin Modern Poets 12 (1968), with Alan Jackson and William Wantling
    Journals (1968)
    Love Poems (1969)
    Mr. Watkins Got Drunk and Had to Be Carried Home: A Cut-up Piece (1969)
    Pig (1969)
    Jeff Nuttall: Poems 1962–1969 (1970)

    Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception (1970)
    George, Son of My Own Mag (1971)
    The Foxes' Lair (1972)
    Fatty Feedemall's Secret Self: A Dream (1975)
    The Anatomy of My Father's Corpse (1975)
    Man Not Man (1975)
    The House Party (1975)
    Snipe's Spinster (novel, 1975)
    Objects (1976)
    Common Factors, Vulgar Factions (1977), with Rodick Carmichael
    King Twist: a Portrait of Frank Randle (1978), biography of music hall comedian
    The Gold Hole (1978)
    What Happened to Jackson (1978)
    Grape Notes, Apple Music (1979)
    Performance Art (1979/80), memoirs and scripts, two volumes

    5X5 (1981), with Glen Baxter, Ian Breakwell, Ivor Cutler and Anthony Earnshaw (edited by Asa Benveniste)
    Muscle (1982)
    Visual Alchemy (1987), with Bohuslav Barlow
    The Bald Soprano. A Portrait of Lol Coxhill (1989)
    Art and the Degradation of Awareness (1999)

    Selected Poems (2003)

    Selected filmography
    Scandal (1989) – Percy Murray, Club Owner

    Robin Hood (1991) – Friar Tuck
    Just like a Woman (1992) – Vanessa
    Damage (1992) – Trevor Leigh Davies MP
    The Baby of Mâcon (1993) – The Major Domo
    The Browning Version (1994) – Lord Baxter
    Captives (1994) – Harold
    Paparazzo (1995) – Lionel
    Beaumarchais (1996) – Benjamin Franklin
    Crimetime (1996) – Doctor
    Monk Dawson (1998) – Sir Hugh Stanten
    Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lord Morris
    The World Is Not Enough (1999) – Dr. Mikhail Arkov, a Russian nuclear physicist whom Bond goes undercover as.

    Octopus (2000) – Henry Campbell
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    1959: Fleming writes a letter to Ivar (Felix) Bryce offering the rights to produce the first Bond film. In return he asks for $50,000 worth of shares in the film company. Then he will also provide a treatment, plus his ongoing services if they are desired.
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    The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
    Chapter 4 - The Deal Is Done
    Put simply, Fleming was offering Xanadu first refusal on the character of
    James Bond for movie exploitation. "And in him you have potentially a very
    valuable property if you can sign him up for several years." McClory was only too
    well aware of this. Why else were he and Bryce so intent on acquiring not just any
    old right to make a Bond film, but the rights to the first Bond film?

    Having acquired those rights, there was no reason, suggested Fleming,
    why the Bond character couldn't then be sub-leased, first to Bubbell
    Robinson's TV From Russia with Love, then back to Xanadu for the feature
    film or later to a television series. Another ingenious Fleming proposal was that
    the same thing could apply in lesser degree to various subsidiary characters like
    M, Felix Leiter, etc.

    One gets the impression reading this letter that Fleming was desperate for
    Bryce to buy into Bond; to have someone he knew and respected owning the
    film copyright to his character rather than some faceless conglomerate or
    Hollywood cowboy producer. The concluding paragraph strikes a particularly
    friendly note: "Sorry to send you all this food for thought but the whole thing
    is getting too big for me and, before MCA finally devours me, I thought
    I ought to give you a last clear think." He then added a PS: "If anything isn't
    clear to you in this letter, it isn't clear to me."

    Fleming's letter did the trick and within days Bryce got in touch to make
    a firm offer - Xanadu wanted to go ahead with the Bond film...
    1963: Norman Felton writes Fleming a letter following the decision to leave the Solo television project.
    Norman Felton letter dated 8 July 1963:
    Dear Ian:

    May I thank you for meeting with me when I was in England recently. It was deeply appreciated in view of all of the pressures on you at that time. I am hoping, incidentally, that your move to the country has worked out satisfactorily.

    Your new book, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, is delightful. I am hoping that things will calm down for you in the months to come so that in due time you will be able to develop another novel to give further pleasure to your many readers throughout the world.

    They tell me that there are some islands in the Pacific where one can get away from it all. They are slightly radioactive, but for anyone with the spirit of adventure, this should be no problem.

    Warm regards,

    Norman Felton.
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    1968: Spain presents its most prized Don Quixote Award to Roger Moore at the Spanish Embassy, London.
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    1970: Richard Maibaum finishes his draft screenplay for Diamonds Are Forever.
    1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Bond's ordeal in a crematorium.
    1977: The Spy Who Loved Me UK general release. Plus Ireland.
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    1996: Trevor Leighton photographs Sean Connery.
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    2003: Date on the script for a Jinx spin-off film as reported by CinemaBlend.
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    James Bond: Halle Berry’s Scrapped Spinoff
    Script Has Made Its Way Online, And Wow
    By Mike Reyes published February 12, 2021
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    Way back in simpler times, the blockbuster Die Another Day introduced Halle Berry’s Giacinta Johnson as a Bond woman who would help save the day in Pierce Brosnan’s final film as James Bond. Though the film was a bit of a disappointment, a spin-off was being developed for her character, better known to her friends/foes as Jinx. While it never happened, the scrapped script for the film has apparently made its way online; and oh man, do I need to read this now.

    User 007inLA apparently got his hands on the first draft, dated July 8, 2003, which was simply titled Jinx. Sharing the cover page on Twitter as proof of life, the story is credited to James Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the men who have provided the backbone of the 007 franchise’s stories since their hiring for Tomorrow Never Dies. While the commentary on the script is rather limited due to the misplacement of some pages to Jinx’s finished product, there’s some clues as to where it was all headed.
    Jinx sees Halle Berry’s NSA agent go through her origin story paces, with the death of her parents being the motivation for her joining up. Pushing to be recruited and proving that she’s a worthy candidate, we see this Die Another Day fixture interacting with another familiar face to achieve her mission: her handler Damian Falco, played by legendary hard case and Quentin Tarantino collaborator Michael Madsen. Should this film have happened, we’d have seen Jinx first meeting her co-worker, before they were both introduced during their assistance in Die Another Day’s big, diamond encrusted crisis.

    You can see why Berry was upset about this movie being scrapped, as Jinx sounds right at home in the world of 007. Her character would have even gotten to meet an MI6 agent in her travels, though it’s “no one [she’d] know,” so you can stop updating your theories of how James Bond is a codename for the time being. Though if you’re looking to expand your theory on how Sofia from John Wick 3: Parabellum is really Jinx from Die Another Day… let’s get that story going.

    Nerve gas, a global terrorist plot, and everything you’d expect from a James Bond adventure looks present and accounted for in Jinx. Only instead of merely rehashing the 007 formula, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade looked to expand the brand with a new point of view on the espionage business; and it’s something audiences could still use to this day. With further spinoffs for Naomie Harris’s Moneypenny and Lashawna Lynch’s Nomi creeping into the consciousness surrounding Skyfall and No Time To Die respectively, this isn’t an idea that’s died off just yet. Maybe with the right approach, Halle Berry’s Jinx could return after all, teaming up with either or both James Bond characters to forge a new path towards a cinematic universe.
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    2014: Youniverse Digital Limited releases a browser-based adventure game that promotes the Young Bond book Shoot to Kill by Steve Cole.
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