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RichardTheBruce
I'm motivated by my Duty.
March 27th
1935: Julian Glover is born--London, England.
1961: Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel Thunderball is published by Jonathan Cape. Richard Chopping cover.
1967: Talisa Soto is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
2015: Spectre teaser trailer is released.
1935: Julian Glover is born--London, England.
1961: Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel Thunderball is published by Jonathan Cape. Richard Chopping cover.
1967: Talisa Soto is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
2015: Spectre teaser trailer is released.
RichardTheBruce
I'm motivated by my Duty.
March 28th
1959: Live and Let Die comic series ends in The Daily Express (started December 15, 1958).
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
1968: Colonel Sun is published by Jonathan Cape using Robert Markham as a pseudonym for Kingsley Amis. Sells well.
1978: At the Academy Awards Marvin Hamlisch with Sammy Davis Jr. performs a new song "Come Light the Candles" (while Aretha Franklin sings "Nobody Does It Better").
2015: Spectre teaser trailer available for viewing.
1959: Live and Let Die comic series ends in The Daily Express (started December 15, 1958).
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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1949: Gloria Hendry is born--Winter Haven, Florida.
1959: Comic strip Moonraker begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 8 August 1959.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
2015: A statement issued by MGM and the Broccolis declares a James Bond musical is not being pursued--contradicting Merry Saltzman, daughter of Harry.
1962: Simon Abkarian is born--Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France.
1966: BOAC Boeing 707 Flight 911 from Tokyo crashes into Mt. Fuji 25 minutes after takeoff, no survivors. Broccoli, Saltzman, Ken Adam, Freddie Young, and director Lewis Gilbert were scheduled for the flight, but canceled when an opportunity to watch ninja demonstrations arose.
1920: Lewis Gilbert is born--London, England. (Dies 23 February 2018 at age 97--Monaco.)
1974: Tobias Menzies is born--London, England.
2000: Charles Gray dies at age 71--Brompton, London, England.
(Born 29 August 1920--Bournemouth, Dorset, England.)
2011: Daniel Craig appears in a charity video celebrating the centenary of International Women's Day.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/celebrity-news-video/8366190/Daniel-Craig-drags-up-in-James-Bond-charity-video.html
2:28PM GMT 07 Mar 2011
The 007 actor appears in a two-minute video to mark International Women’s Day.
The film is aimed at highlighting inequalities experienced by women around the world.
The voiceover to the video is provided by Judie [sic] Dench, who plays Bond's controller M in the spy films.
She asks whether 007, as "someone with such a fondness for women", has ever considered "what it might be like to be one".
The video, created by the photographer and film-maker Sam Taylor Wood, has been made for EQUALS, a partnership of leading charities brought together by Annie Lennox to celebrate the centenary of International Women's Day on Tuesday 8 March.
(Born 3 January 1926--Holloway, London.)
1915: Ruth Kempf is born. (Dies 9 September 2012 at age 97--Opelousas, Lousiana.)
1964: Sean Connery's first day of filming for Goldfinger--the pre-credit sequence.
2015: Stephanie Sigman's presence is announced for Spectre.
1921: Cec Linder is born--Timmins, Ontario, Canada. (Dies 10 April 1992 at age 71--Toronto, Canada.)
1953: Paul Haggis is born--London, Ontario, Canada.
2016: Ken Adam dies at age 95--London, England. (Born 5 February 1921--Berlin, Germany.)
1925: Peter R. Hunt is born--London, England. (Dies 14 August 2002--Santa Monica, California.)
2018: Q the Music - James Bond Tribute Band plays today and the 12th, hosted by Madeline Smith.
The Woodville. Gravesend, England.
1923: Vladek Sheybal is born--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland. (He dies 16 October 1992 at age 69--London, England.)
2012: Local residents of Hankley Common, near Elstead in Surrey, England, report a huge (Scottish?) manor-type structure being built there.
2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Blu-ray.
2015: National Assembly for Wales rejects a request to film BOND 24 scenes in Senedd Chamber, Cardiff Bay.
2018: Work commences on the expansion of Ian Fleming International Airport, Boscobel, St. Mary, Jamaica, to make it a regional hub. Includes a police station.
1960: Ian Fleming dines with US Senator John F. Kennedy, sharing colorful advice for ousting Cuban President Fidel Castro.
1953: Ian and Anne Fleming depart Jamaica for London via Montego Bay, Nassau, New York City. They leave behind Mr. and Mrs. Guy Charteris, plus Lucian Freud who establishes his moment of "Goldeneye folklore".
Surrey is in Scotland?
Corrected to read:
2012: Local residents of Hankley Common, near Elstead in Surrey, England, report a huge (Scottish?) manor-type structure being built there.
1924: Walter Gotell is born--Bonn, Germany. (He dies 5 May 1997 at age 73--London, England.)
1942: Molly Peters is born--Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. (She dies 30 May 2017 at age 75.)
1944: Fleming associate Maud Russell writes about him in her diary entry.
Wednesday 15 March, 1944
This morning I heard Muriel Wright, I.’s girl, had been killed. Strange things happen. I heard in my room at the Admiralty that she’d been killed by debris flung up from a crater in the road coming through her roof and falling on her in bed. Most of the room was untouched. Appalled for I. and found it difficult to concentrate. I know he will be overcome with remorse and blame himself for not marrying her and for a thousand other things none of which he is to blame for.
1959: Ludger Pistor is born--Recklinghausen, Germany.
1965: A serialization of The Man With the Golden Gun appears in Italy's Sunday magazine "Domenica Del Corriere", with illustrations.
1925: Gabriele Ferzetti is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy. (He dies 2 December 2015 at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)
1931: Eunice Gayson is born--Croydon, South London, England.
1961: Life Magazine presents US President John F. Kennedy's list of his ten favorite books.
From Russia With Love places 9 out of 10.
Lord Melbourne by David Cecil
Montrose by John Buchan
Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan
1952: Ian Fleming shows the finished Casino Royale manuscript to ex-girlfriend Clare Blanchard.
Her advice: do not publish it. Or at least use pen name.
2012: Ian Fleming Publications announces there will be no novelization of Skyfall.
1935: Burt Metcalfe is born--Saskatchewan, Canada.
1936: Ursula Andress is born--Ostermundigen, Switzerland.
1964: Sean Connery begins filming Goldfinger.
2001: BBC News reports composer Monty Norman wins a suit against The Sunday Times for their article questioning his level of involvement in writing The James Bond Theme.
1942: Ian Fleming to Admiral John Henry Godfrey presents a paper recognizing successful German efforts to send advance Commando forces that seized "documents, equipment, and ciphers" before they could be destroyed. He suggests a similar effort by the Allies. And later in civilian life collects important manuscripts for posterity.
https://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-boyle-rules-himself-out-of-directing-james-bond-film-8542164.html
1946: Timothy Dalton is born--Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales. [Or maybe 1944.]
1963: The Sydney Morning Herald publishes an interview with Sean Connery.
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Rapha Lobosco, illustrator. Ales Kot, writer. Luca Casalanguida, cover illustrator.
1948: Noel Coward arrives at the Fleming Goldeneye estate and remarks: "It is quite perfect."
2013: Trumpeter Derek Roy Watkins dies--Surrey, England. (Born 2 March 1945 in Reading, England.)
1911: Charles Joseph Russhon is born. (He dies 26 June 1982--New York City, New York.)
1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.
1952: Ian Lancaster Fleming and Anne Geraldine Charteris are married--Port Smith, Jamaica.
Skyfall wins Best Film at the Empire Film Awards, picked up by Michael Wilson, Rob Wade, Barbara Broccoli, Sam Mendes and Neal Purvis. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Danny Boyle won an Outstanding Contribution award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images
1956: Raymond Chandler reviews the fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever in The Sunday Times.
1956: Ian's Fleming's fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever is published, Jonathan Cape.