On This Day

RichardTheBruce

July 13th

1965: Sean Connery and Claudine Auger appear on the cover of Look Magazine.

1977: During the blackout in New York City, Marvin Hamlisch seeks a cab and candles.

The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.

Hamlisch: "...running on the streets of New York with everybody, trying, number one, to get a cab, and number two, more important, getting votive candles from a store so that we can set Carly up on her home with candles because New York is pitch black. I'll never forget it. Everything about Bond is over the top."

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me in limited US release.

1985: Title song "A View to a Kill" tops the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1.

1989: Licence to Kill released in Belgium.
2010: Alan Hume dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.
(Born 16 October 1924--London, England.)
2012: Chris Cornell performs "You Know My Name" the first day of Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park, London.

2007 performance: Personal Festival Live, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

RichardTheBruce

July 14th

1918: Fred Haggerty is born--Budapest, Austria-Hungary. (He dies 2001 at age 83.)
1939: Sid Haig is born--Fresno, California.
1973: Live and Let Die released in Japan.

1989: Licence to Kill released in the UK. Ireland. US.

2017: Paperback version of Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, editors David Nickle and Madeline Ashby, published by ChiDunnit. (Originally published 23 November 2015.)

RichardTheBruce

July 15th

1963: Terence Young films the final scene on location in Venice.
1975: Bond comic The Black Ruby Caper finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 February 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tbrc.php3
https://popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-009-black-ruby-caper/

1983: Bond comic Polestar ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 23 May 1983. 625-719) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/index_strips.php3

1986: The National Broadcasting Network exercises the sixty-day option on Pierce Brosnan's contract to add another season to its (previously cancelled) television show Remington Steele.
1993: John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers published by Hodder & Stoughton.

RichardTheBruce

July 16th

1963: Ian Fleming responds to Norman Felton's letter of 8 July, in part on the Solo project.

July 16, 1963

My near Norman,

Very many thanks for your letter and it was very pleasant to see you over here although briefly and so frustratingly for you.

Your Pacific islands sound very enticing, it would certainly be nice to see some sun as ever since you charming Americans started your long range weather forecasting we have had nothing but rain. You might ask them to lay off.

With best regards and I do hope Solo gets off the pad in due course.

Yours ever,

Ian

1987: The Living Daylights released in Hong Kong.

1988: Licence to Kill principal photography begins.
2010: Activision press release announces James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

playstationlifestyle.net/2010/07/16/james-bond-007-blood-stone-announced/

RichardTheBruce

July 17th

1922: Tetsurô Tanba is born--Tokyo, Japan. (He dies 24 September 2006 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.)
1944: Catherine Schell is born--Budapest, Hungary.
1963: Filming of the helicopter assault on Bond and Tatiana.
1965: The cover of The Saturday Evening Post features Sean Connery and The James Bond Cult.

1968: Roger Moore is photographed drinking a martini.

1977: BBC2 for the Open University airs its documentary Mass Communication and Society, an in-depth record of The Spy Who Loved Me film production. Eight parts.

007magazine.co.uk/news_tswlm40-2.htm

2006: James Bond 'Ultimate Edition' DVD Boxed Set Releases.

2018: Final day to object to the settlement of a class action suit on labeling of James Bond DVD and Blu-ray box sets.

bonddvdsettlement.com/

Thunderfinger

Although I didn tsee TSWLM until a few years later, I did follow that series on tv.

RichardTheBruce

July 18th

1913: Eric Pohlmann is born--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
(He dies 25 July 1979 at age 66--Bad Reichenall, Bavaria, Germany.)
1930: Burt Kwouk is born--Warrington, Cheshire, England.
(He dies 24 May 2016 at age 85--Hampstead, London, England.)
1963: Dr. No released in Argentina.

1979: Moonraker released in South Africa.
1983: People Weekly celebrates Bond's Babes.

1988: Licence to Kill filming begins at Churubusco Studios, Mexico City.
2015: Glu Mobile releases menu-based role-playing game James Bond: World of Espionage as a free app for the Android and iOS platforms.

RichardTheBruce

July 19th

1966: Lucrezia Lante della Rovere is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1989: Licence to Kill released in Spain.

Not to be confused with this 1975 film.

2016: Dynamite Comics announces Hammerhead to be released in October.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

2017: Dynamite Comics James Bond: Kill Chain #1 released.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

RichardTheBruce

July 20th

1938: Diana Rigg is born--Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.
1960: In a letter to artist Richard Chopping, Ian Fleming requests his services for 200 guineas.

"I will ask [the publisher] to produce an elegant skeleton hand and an elegant Queen of Hearts. As to the dagger, I really have no strong views. I had thought of the ordinary flick knife as used by teenagers on people like you and me, but if you have a nice dagger in mind please let us use it. The title of the book will be Thunderball. It is immensely long, immensely dull and only your jacket can save it!"

1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington. (He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)
1965: Goldfinger released in Colombia.
1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.
2006: Principal photography is a wrap for Casino Royale.
2006: Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reports Chris Cornell is working on the Bond title song.

RichardTheBruce

July 21st

1975: Goldfinger re-released in Spain.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Hong Kong.
1989: Licence to Kill released in Finland.

2005: American Film Institute ranks "shaken, not stirred" as #90 of the best movie lines for the past 100 years.
2012: BBC Radio 4 airs its third Bond radio drama: From Russia with Love. Toby Stephens returns.

2018: Artist Macario “Mac” Gómez dies at age 92.

https://cinematerial.com/artists/mac-macario-gomez-quibus-i565

RichardTheBruce

July 22nd

1989: Licence to Kill released in Taiwan.
2015: A new Spectre trailer becomes available.

2017: Funko announces its licence for James Bond.

2018: Casino Royale in Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emil de Cou.
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia.

https://wolftrap.org/tickets/calendar/performance/18filene/0722show18.aspx

RichardTheBruce

July 23rd

1921: Robert Brown is born--Swanage, Dorset, England.
(He dies 11 November 2003 at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.)
1963: Lotte Lenya finishes filming with the scene riding in a taxi next to Red Grant.

1977: Title song "Nobody Does It Better" charts in the US, eventually reaches #2.

1980: Roger Moore signs a one-picture contract to do For Your Eyes Only.
1983: Octopussy released in Sweden.

1987: New York Museum of Modern Art holds a 007 exhibition and screens the 14 Bond films to date. This after producer Broccoli presents 35mm prints of each with a promise of future films.
1989: Licence to Kill released in Colombia.
2015: With IMDB, Dave Bautista answers questions received via Twitter.

jamesbondradio.com/this-week-in-james-bond-27-07-2015/
Dave Bautista’s Twitter Q&A

In other SPECTRE news, Dave Bautista (who will be portraying henchman Mr Hinx in the film) sat down with the folks at IMDb on 23 July to answer some questions about the film from Twitter users around the world. Not one to be left out of the loop, JBR was also around to submit a few questions...

Some highlights:

Bautista found the role of Hinx less demanding than his role as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy last year, mainly due to the makeup process required for the latter
His favourite Bond film is either Goldfinger or Skyfall
His favourite Bond villain is Oddjob
His favourite Bond girl is Pussy Galore
Jokingly, Bautista claimed that the next film franchise (now that he has the Marvel Cinematic Universe and 007 as notches on his belt) he wants to be a part of is Star Wars

RichardTheBruce

July 24th

1981: A three-day James Bond Weekend begins in Century City, California.
George Lazenby and Hervé Villechaize in attendance.
1986: The New York Times prints Stephen Farber's piece, "'Remington Steele' Gets Reprieve".
2009: Titan Books re-releases James Bond comic strip The Girl Machine.
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

2010: James Bond 007: Blood Stone intro reveals Joss Stone song.

2017: Official announcement confirms details for Bond 25. US release date 8 November 2019. Earlier premieres in the UK. Returning writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade plus producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

QBranch

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

2017: Official announcement confirms details for Bond 25. US release date 8 November 2019.

Wow, it's already been a year since the announcement! And no doubt this next year will seem quicker again - exciting times ahead! \:D/

RichardTheBruce

July 25th

1979: Eric Pohlmann dies at age 65--Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 18 July 1913--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.)
2011: Linda Christian dies at age 87--Palm Desert, California.
(Born 13 November 1923--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.)
2015: BBC Radio 4 airs its fifth James Bond radio drama: Diamonds Are Forever. Toby Stephens.

jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Diamonds_are_Forever_(radio_drama)

RichardTheBruce

July 26th

1939: The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve appoints Ian Fleming as Lieutenant. Special Branch.

1967: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
1979: Moonraker released in Australia.

2006: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announce Chris Cornell to perform the title song "You Know My Name", written by Cornell and David Arnold.
2012: Madonna performs her "Die Another Day"/"Beautiful Killer" mashup during the MDNA Tour, Paris, France.

RichardTheBruce

July 27th

1922: Adolfo Celi is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy. (He dies 19 February 1986 at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy.)
1966: At a press conference in Japan Sean Connery comments--"Japanese women are just not sexy."
1968: Maria Grazia Cucinotta is born--Messina, Sicily, Italy.
2012: BBC's short film Happy & Glorious, directed by Danny Boyle, showcases Craig as Bond with the Queen.
It's used to open the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

RichardTheBruce

July 28th

1978: Goldfinger re-released in Finland.

RichardTheBruce

July 29th

1953: Ian Fleming responds by letter to publisher Jonathan Cape's comments on business
with American publisher Macmillan.

'Yes, the royalties accepted from Macmillans were very modest but then they have given me a present of $750 which is rather more, I guess, than I shall recoup on the English edition. If it is a success in America you will be surprised how tough I shall be over "Live and Let Die"!'

1965: From Russia With Love released in Mexico.

1967: Official statement says Sean Connery is leaving the OO7 role.
1982: Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) dies at age 62--Honolulu, Hawaii. (Born 1 July 1920--Holualoa, Hawaii.)
1984: Octopussy released in the Republic of Korea.
1987: The Living Daylights released in Yugoslavia.

2008: Announcement reveals Jack White & Alicia Keys to collaborate on title song "Another Way to Die"--a duet.
2011: Daniel Craig confirms a plan to use India locations for BOND 23 and pre-titles train action.

Thunderfinger

You know, I was in Yugoslavia a few months before the premiere, and saw that poster promoting the film, in Zagreb.

RichardTheBruce

July 30th

1945: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

Monday 30 July, 1945

I. has refused the new job. He feels he must break away. So Jamaica is on again. I am sure he is right not to let himself grow old, unhealthy and apoplectic sitting for ever in London on mysterious committees and having no leisure, no freedom, no unbuttoning.

1964: From Russia With Love released in France.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Luxembourg.
1989: Licence to Kill released in Italy.

1997: Roger Spottiswoode films Wai Lin's capture by Carver’s men.
2006: Another fire at Pinewood Studios.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5228794.stm

BT3366

I've never seen some of those French FRWL posters (strange it was released so late there) and the LTK lobby cards from Italy. It's cool that this thread does a more thorough job with the range of such advertising material than the at least 3 books on Bond posters have done.

RichardTheBruce

July 31st

1931: George Baker is born--Varna, Bulgaria.
(He dies 7 October 2011 at age 80--West Lavington, Wiltshire, England.)
1944: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

I. dined and talked to me about the German new ‘secret’ weapon: the rocket. Said he thought it wasn’t ready and might never be ready in time but one couldn’t know and if it started I was to get out at once. I was to keep a bag packed and leave London immediately without warning the Admiralty or anyone. I said, ‘What about you?’ He said Winston had decided the govt and the ministers weren’t to be evacuated. It would look too bad vis-à-vis the people.

1960: Ian Fleming begins a second series of articles in The Sunday Times, the first on Hamburg,
later to become part of Thrilling Cities published by Jonathan Cape.
1971: Sean Connery and cast film in Amsterdam.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Colombia.
1987: The Living Daylights released in the US and Finland.

2007: Goldfinger re-released in the UK.
2010: Tom Mankiewicz dies at age 68--Los Angeles, California. (Born 1 June 1942--Los Angeles, California.)
2012: Skyfall full trailer seen in theaters plus online.

2016: Never Say Never Again released in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

RichardTheBruce

August 1st

1930: Lionel Bart is born--Stepney, London, England.
(He dies 3 April 1999 at age 68--Hammersmith, London, England.)
1930: Geoffrey Holder is born--Port of Spain, Trinidad.
(He dies 5 October 2014 at age 84--New York City, New York.)
1942: Giancarlo Giannini is born--La Spezia, Liguria, Italy.
1965: Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE, is born--Reading, Berkshire, England.
1970: Robert Brownjohn dies at age 44--London, England. (Born 8 August 1925--Newark, New Jersey.)
1979: Moonraker released in Columbia and Hong Kong.

1985: A View to a Kill principal photography kicks off at Pinewood with Roger Moore.
1990: John Gardner's Bond novel Brokenclaw published by Hodder & Stoughton.

2013: Cover reveal for William Boyd's Bond novel SOLO to be published by Random House.

2015: 007 Walk of Fame opens at Piz Gloria.

https://myswitzerland.com/en-us/007-walk-of-fame-on-the-schilthorn.html

RichardTheBruce

August 2nd

1910: Jack Whittingham is born--Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
(He dies 3 July 1972 at age 61--Valletta, Malta.)
1949: Madeline Smith is born--Garfield, Sussex, England.
1961: First flight of the Wallis WA-116 Agile, a British autogyro.

jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/little-nellie-wallis-wa-116-agile-series-1-gyroplane

2016: Funny or Die releases James Bond: Secret Pokémon Go Agent.

2017: Dynamite comic James Bond Black Box #6 of 6 available in print and online.

RichardTheBruce

August 3rd

1937: Steven Berkoff is born--Stepney, London, England.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the US.

US Lobby Cards

1981: "For Your Eyes Only" single released.

B-side instrumental.

1989: Licence to Kill released in Iceland.
2007: John Edmund Gardner dies at age 80--Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
(Born 20 November 1926--Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England.)

John Gardner
Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
Mike Ripley - 3 Nov 2007 19.53 EDT

John Gardner, who has died aged 80, was the consummate thriller writer, producing more than 50 novels. But he owed his reputation to James Bond. His early success came with send-ups of the Bond genre, and he was to find greater fame, if not satisfaction, in reinventing Agent 007 almost 20 years after the death of the secret agent's creator, Ian Fleming.

Born in Seaton Delaval, then in Northumberland, Gardner was the only child of an Anglican priest - the family moved south when his father became chaplain at St Mary's, Wantage, Berkshire, where Gardner attended King Alfred's school. During the second world war, he joined the Home Guard aged only 14. He then served in the Fleet Air Arm in 1944 and the Royal Marine commandos in the Middle and Far East. After the war, he read theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican priesthood, but after five years and a crisis of faith, he turned to journalism as drama critic of the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, and to drink.

By the age of 33, he realised that his intake of gin qualified him as an alcoholic. As part of his therapy, he wrote Spin the Bottle (1963), a memoir about his relationship with alcohol. He claimed never to have touched booze since 1959, and the memoir - his only non-fiction book - launched him on a writing career.

Gardner's first novel, The Liquidator, a spoof of the Bond books, was published in 1964, the year of Fleming's death. The anti-hero, Boysie Oakes, had one drawback as a licensed-to-kill man of action: he was a coward who hated violence and sub-contracted parts of his missions to an assassin.

The book was filmed by Jack Cardiff, with Rod Taylor in the Oakes role and Eric Sykes as the hit man. Gardner was unimpressed with the result, but he was far less complimentary about Michael Winner's 1973 film The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson, adapted from his novel, A Complete State of Death (not one of the Oakes series), which he wrote in 1969 under the pen name Derek Torry.

Seven more Oakes books followed, including Amber Nine (1966), in which the villain turned out to be Hitler's long-lost daughter. By 1974, though, Gardner was ready for a change and launched a new series based on the diaries of Professor James Moriarty, the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. He intended a trilogy, but after the appearance of The Return of Moriarty (1974) and The Revenge of Moriarty (1975), he could not agree a publishing deal for a third book, and, in any case, Bond was about to intervene once more.

While living in tax exile in Ireland, Gardner was approached by crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Harry Keating, on behalf of the Fleming estate. The proposition was to reinvent the Bond books for the late 1970s. Gardner, by now the author of 17 novels and two collections of short stories, was at first reluctant to commit. But in the end he convinced himself he could "round out" the character.

Licence Renewed (1976) was the first in a franchise which lasted 20 years. There was a media frenzy at the return to the page of a more politically correct Bond - and an outcry that 007 was now driving a Saab 900 Turbo.

Although they brought him wealth and a worldwide audience, Gardner never seemed comfortable with the Bond franchise, though he remained proud of one title, The Man From Barbarossa. Within three years, he had launched a series of five much grittier, hardboiled espionage thrillers, starting with The Nostradamus Traitor (1979) starring "Big" Herbie Kruger, a character shaped by the second world war - as Gardner had been.

Gardner wrote more Bond books than Fleming - a total of 16, two based on the films Licensed [sic] to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995) - but in the same period, he also produced the Kruger books, another trilogy of spy stories and six stand-alone thrillers.

Gardner moved to America in 1989, but ill-health forced him to relinquish the Bond franchise to Raymond Benson in 1996. Medical bills for treating cancer of the oesophagus forced his return to England in reduced circumstances, only to suffer further when his wife of more than 40 years, Margaret, died suddenly the following year.

Now living quietly in an almshouse in Basingstoke, he turned to his own memories of wartime Britain for his final series of thrillers, featuring Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford. The first, Bottled Spider, was published in 2002. The leading character was based on Gardner's youthful romance with a nurse named Patricia Mountford, who, some 50 years after their last meeting, contacted him after reading about her namesake. The couple enjoyed a romantic reunion.

In the field of espionage fiction, Gardner lacked the intellectual complexities of John le Carré or the stylistic innovations of Len Deighton or Anthony Price, but he was a prolific and reliable deliverer to a thrill-seeking audience. Harsher critics have suggested he fed off the creations of others. He always knew that Bond would overshadow everything, and longed to be remembered as more than the man who brought back 007. In that, despite 52 novels, he probably failed.

The fifth Suzie Mountford book, No Human Enemy, has just been published. The third Moriarty book, The Redemption of Moriarty, completed shortly before Gardner's death, will be published posthumously. He is survived by the son and daughter of his marriage, Simon and Alexis; Miranda, the daughter of his relationship with Susan Wright; and Patricia Mountford, to whom he was engaged.

· John Edmund Gardner, writer, born November 20 1926; died August 3 2007

RichardTheBruce

August 4th

1901: Louis Armstrong is born--New Orleans, Louisiana.
(He dies 6 July 1971 at age 69--New York City, New York.)

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (first recording for Louis Armstrong), Gennett Studios, Richmond, Indiana, 1923.

And his last.

1967: You Only Live Twice released in Ireland.
1969: John Barry signs on to score On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
2001: Pierce Brosnan weds Keely Shaye Smith at Ballintubber Abbey, County Mayo, Ireland.

2008: Sony Ericsson reveals its James Bond themed C902 phone and Pocket Gamer.

Sony Ericsson unveils James Bond themed C902 phone
Complete with preloaded spying game
pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/Sony+Ericsson+C902/news.asp?c=8175
Product: Sony Ericsson C902 | Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson
by Stuart Dredge

Getting excited about upcoming James Bond flick Quantum of Solace yet? We're still boggling at the rubbish name, to be honest.

But anyway, Sony Ericsson is excited, because its C902 handset will feature in the film, possibly during a scene where Bond whiles away several hours in a Haitian jail cell by playing Tower Bloxx Deluxe. Or not.

To celebrate, the company is launching a limited-edition silver edition of the phone, with all manner of 007 branding and content.

That includes the official James Bond: Top Agent game, as well as the new film's trailer, video interviews with its stars, and wallpapers and screensavers.

It's the second Sony Ericsson Bond mobile, following 2006's silver K800i model. The C902 is more focused on photography than gaming, but Sony Ericsson's track record means it'll be good for the latter, too.

The Bond edition goes on sale in November, when the film comes out. If you're wondering why the photo above isn't silver, well, SE hasn't released a shot of the new one yet.

2017: ITV promotes Daniel Craig in Casino Royale but airs the 1967 version, disappointing many.

digitalspy.com/tv/james-bond-007/news/a834825/itv4-airs-wrong-james-bond-film-casino-royale/

RichardTheBruce

August 5th

1963: Ian Fleming appears on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs. His choice: War and Peace.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/desert-island-discs-40-greatest-guests/ian-fleming/

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Italy.

1983: Octopussy released in Austria, Switzerland, and West Germany.

007collector.com/ps-octopussy-germany/

1987: The Living Daylights released in Norway.
2015: News reports say Pierce Brosnan is stopped by airport security in Burlington, Vermont, for having a knife.

Some_Kind_Of_Hero

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

2015: News reports say Pierce Brosnan is stopped by airport security in Burlington, Vermont, for having a knife.

Brosnan says he was let through with a subtle offer of 50 gold sovereigns and that he's just glad they didn't trigger the tear gas cartridges.

RichardTheBruce

August 6th

1962: Jamaica transitions from British colony to independent country.
1962: Michelle Yeoh is born--Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1970: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in Mexico.

1973: Live and Let Die released in Hong Kong.
1977: Title song "Nobody Does It Better" charts in the UK, eventually reaching number 7.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Hong Kong and Germany.

1986: Licence withdrawn--producer Albert R. Broccoli withdraws the Bond role offer from Pierce Brosnan.
1986: Timothy Dalton is named the fourth James Bond by EON.
2012: Marvin Frederick Hamlisch dies at age 68--Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 2 June 1944--New York City, New York.)