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• BT3366

  July 2021 Posts: 1,882

  A couple of things:
  
  -What was the source for the Marvel adaptation of FYEO's publishing date? Was that for the UK or another country? I mentioned in another thread recently I had it before the movie was released in the U.S. so that date surprised me.
  
  -The Frank Rich MR review is yet another positive one. It seems a lot of the reviews of the time were favorable. Not long after release, the fan community seemed to have made MR the culprit for what was wrong with Bond films at the time and those types of reviews were largely ignored to fit that narrative. All I heard in the '80s was how it was rock bottom of the series and it became a guilty pleasure to like it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2021 edited July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  Thanks for that call-out, @BT3366.
  
  I'm thinking the dates I've seen are US. ComicVine.com references 1 July 1981 for the single issue, Marvel Super Special series No. 19. The month of June comes up I realize, which I may default to with 1 June 1981 introduced as "this month Marvel publishes..."
  
  Also there is the two-part edition, For Your Eyes Only #1 (7 October 1981) and #2 (1 November 1981), which I understand doesn't match your memory.
  https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/117057/james-bond-for-your-eyes-only
  
  And third product described as a Marvel Illustrated Books paperback novel-sized edition, (ISBN 0-9604146-4-9).
  
  All three: https://www.comicsroyale.com/marvel-and-dc/narvk2lho076brrg66vutw8yc4dv7m
  
  If someone has them, these references could shed more light on the subject.

  • 007 Magazine, Issue 34, 1998
  • The Bond Files, Andy Lane and Paul Simpson
  • Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide 2007: 1961 to Present, Maggie Thompson

  
  Also:
  Issue 45: For Your Eyes Only - MI6 Confidential https://www.mi6confidential.com/issue-45.php

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  July 3rd
  
  1958: Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson is born--Frome, Eastern Somerset, England.

  

  1959: Andreas Wisniewski is born--West Berlin, West Germany.
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films at Reguliersgracht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Jack Whittingham dies at age 61--Valletta, Malta.
  (Born 2 August 1910--Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.)

  
  Tuesday, July 01, 2008

  The Name’s Whittingham, Jack Whittingham

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2008/07/names-whittingham-jack-whittingham.html

  EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE
  
  With Sebastian Faulks’ Devil May Care sitting pretty atop British bestseller lists, espionage fiction seems to be all the rage. There is, however, another book, also featuring iconic British secret agent James Bond, that’s had an evolution almost as complex as one of Ian Fleming’s plots. That book is of course the revised second edition of Robert Sellers’ The Battle for Bond, a controversial work detailing the legal wrangling over the rights to Thunderball (1961).
  
  The first edition, which contained a foreword by Raymond Benson (who was the last Bond writer prior to Faulks), was withdrawn from sale shortly after its 2007 release due to legal action from the Fleming family and estate. There a few copies of this collector’s item knocking around, but you’ll need a big checkbook to secure one. If you haven’t done so yet, though, I am pleased to report that Sellers and the independent publisher Tomahawk Press have finally released the second edition, sans the sections that caused the Fleming estate to complain. This revision features a foreword Len Deighton, who concentrates in his essay on long-ago charges of plagiarism leveled against author Fleming. This is a topic that should be familiar those of you who pay attention to the Rap Sheet, since we recalled the case in an obituary of Kevin McClory, the Thunderball collaborator who died in 2006. That case’s resolution included a provision stipulating that all future editions of the novel Thunderball include the writing credit “based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.”
  
  Very little has been written about the relatively enigmatic Whittingham. But earlier this week the London Times carried a longish report focusing on his daughter, Sylvan Whittingham Mason, who apparently provided much of the background mosaic for Seller’s book. As writer Giles Hattersley explains:

  Like a latterday Ms. Moneypenny, she holds the secrets of James Bond. Her name is Whittingham. Sylvan Whittingham.
  
  Is she Ian Fleming’s daughter? God, no. Fleming’s name is anathema here. Her father was Jack Whittingham, a celebrated screenwriter of the 1950s and 1960s. It was Jack, she claims, who gave us Bond as we know him.
  
  In 1959, Whittingham’s father had been brought in by the film producer Kevin McClory to work on an original screenplay based on Fleming’s famous secret agent. (Fleming had had an earlier bash at writing his own, but forgot to put any action in it.)
  
  The problem of how to film Bond had rumbled on for years. What passed for steely cool in the books would come off as charmless froideur on screen. But man-about-town Jack turned out to be the fire to Fleming’s ice. In a tobacco-stained study at his Surrey home, the dashing, hard-drinking ladies’ man produced a thrilling tale called Thunderball. And he injected Fleming’s uptight gentleman spy with quippy humour, arch sexuality and plenty of action. Rather like Jack, in fact.
  
  “I always say that Daddy was an honourable man,” says Whittingham, now 64, in a voice that seems to come courtesy of Diana Rigg. “Except when it came to women, of course.” She smiles.
  
  “But he was a marvellous writer and they’d had real trouble with Fleming’s novels. The violent, sadistic, colder, misogynistic Bond of the books didn’t work on the big screen. The audience, back then, didn’t want it. There was no humour, no charm. Daddy turned Bond into the suave hero they needed.”

  This is a fascinating article, really, detailing the playboy similarities between Bond, Fleming, and Wittingham. In the Times, Mason quite clearly credits her father (who died in 1972) with molding 007 into the man who could support a successful long-running film franchise.

  ... Jack had been toughened by a Bond-like life of fast cars and faster women. Born the son of a Yorkshire wool merchant, he had oozed confidence as a young man and made a splash with the ladies when he went up to Oxford.
  
  “He met Betty Offield there, heir to the Wrigley’s gum fortune,” says Sylvan. “They fell in love and she invited him over to America to stay. They used to go shark-fishing off her island in California. Later, he bought a solitaire diamond ring and went to Chicago to propose--but by the time he got there, she’d fallen for somebody else.
  
  “In a bar, drowning his sorrows, he met a female gangster called Texas Guinan--a glamorous blonde--who took him on. She sent him all over town with deliveries for her, probably drugs. He became her pet for a while, before he sold the ring so he could afford to get home.”
  
  After a stint in Iceland during the war--where he was permanently sloshed and would often fall down on parade--Jack returned to England and his wife, Margot, whom he had married in 1942. He was never faithful. “My mother was stunningly beautiful, with a frightened-rabbit look in her eyes, which were violet. She was a lost soul: mental problems, breakdowns, depression,” Sylvan says.

  
  Posted by Ali Karim at 11:53 AM

  
  

  

  1977: The Sunday Times Magazine prints "Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again" about a golden gun.

  Background here.

  

  61
  ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES
  BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED
  BY DAVID COLLINS AND
  FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE
  FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING
  LTD., 1977
  
  Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 GBP

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/gold-the-midas-touch/enlarged-model-james-bonds-new-gun-designed-by

  Description

  ENLARGED MODEL: 'JAMES BOND'S NEW GUN', DESIGNED BY DAVID COLLINS AND FLORIS VAN DEN BROECKE FOR GRANADA PUBLISHING LTD., 1977
  
  painted wood, plastic laminated ply
  
  engraved COLLINS & BROECKE 9mm / ABIS, the grip with different coloured faux-mother of pearl to each side together with a group of sample book covers (some duplicates); a facsimile of the original design; a group of transparencies with repro-graphic work; an exhibition poster; copies of The Sunday Times Magazine featuring the gun and other related articles; six mounted blow-ups of contact sheets showing the gun in production, please see illustrated below
  
  210cm. long, 129cm. high; 6ft. 1¼in., 4ft. 3in.

  Condition Report
  Provenance
  Commissioned by Stephen Abis, Art Director at Granada Publishing as a prop for a series of paperback covers to be issued in 1977.
  
  Literature
  

  • 'Be a James Bond Cover Girl', Daily Mirror, 8 June 1977, p.26;
  • 'Image of the Week: Bond Rides Again', The Sunday Times Magazine, 3 July 1977, p.20-21;
  • 'Bond's New Birds: But the Gun's a Phoney', Sunday People, 17 July 1977, p.9.

  
  Exhibited

  • London, Middlesex Polytechnic, 'The Gun Job', 28 February 1977.

  
  Catalogue Note
  This extraordinary prop by graphic designer and lecturer David Collins was a commission from Granada Publishing. Collins, who worked with fellow designer Floris van den Broecke, was given a brief by the publisher, titled 'Girl and Gun', which detailed the need for a prop gun for use in photographic shoots for the covers of new editions of Bond titles. The ‘gun’ needed to be oversized, flexible and suitable for use with live models as well as appropriate for shop display and book promotion. The design was based on a hybrid of various guns which according to reportage at the time was deliberate. Ian Fleming's Estate had cover approval and insisted that it should not be based entirely on a particular weapon, to avoid specific endorsement, so the model incorporated details from both the 9mm Beretta and the Colt 45. The prop for 'Girl and Gun' was delivered to Granada on the 28th of March 1977 and this date is engraved on the piece (M28277). The total bill was £1590. ‘James Bond’s new gun’, with various glamorously dressed models, was used on nine separate covers, in photographic shoots by Beverley le Barrow, for paperbacks published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
  
  As advised, the sale proceeds of the present lot will go to Royal Trinity Hospice.
  
  Royal Trinity Hospice is the local hospice and the only dedicated provider of end of life care in south west and central London; providing skilled, compassionate care and support to people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses and those close to them.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Ireland.
  1987: The Living Daylights released in Ireland.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2 pursuing the BMW R 1200 through the Vietnam marketplace.

  
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  2017: Joe Robinson dies at age 90--Brighton, East Sussex, England.
  (Born 31 May 1927--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.)

  

  Joe Robinson (actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Robinson_(actor)

  
  Joe Robinson as Thor in Thor and the Amazon Women

  Born Joseph Robinson, 31 May 1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
  Died 3 July 2017 (aged 90), Brighton, East Sussex, England
  Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  Occupation Actor, stuntman
  Years active 1952–1971

  Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.
  
  Career
  Professional wrestling
  Robinson initially embarked on a career in wrestling as 'Tiger Joe Robinson' and won the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952. At the same time, he was also interested in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After injuring his back wrestling in Paris he decided to concentrate on acting. Joe Robinson's daughter Polly Robinson (Hardy-Stewart) has also continued the family's success in martial arts by winning the junior Judo championships in the 1980s.
  
  Acting
  Robinson's first role came in the keep-fit documentary Fit as a Fiddle and in the same year, 1952, he followed it up with a part as Harry 'Muscles' Green in the musical Wish You Were Here in the West End of London.

  He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner alongside appearances in The Saint and The Avengers in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom Pardon the Expression which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including Taur the Mighty (1963), Thor and the Amazon Women (1963) and Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961). Other notable big-screen appearances include 1961's Carry On Regardless, of the British institution the Carry Ons. According to the book Tarzan of the Movies by Gabe Essoe, Robinson played the role of Tarzan in obscure Italian-made films (Taur, il re della forza bruta and Le gladiatrici); the use of the Tarzan character, however, was unauthorised and the character's name had to be changed to Thaur before the film was allowed for public release. His final big-screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he plays diamond smuggler Peter Franks. Robinson claimed that he was a contender for the Red Grant role in From Russia with Love. Though he did not get it, Connery recommended him for the role in Diamonds are Forever. Robinson also claimed he turned down the role of the Rank Organisation's Gongman.

  Retirement
  He retired from acting, and lived in Brighton where he opened a martial arts centre. He conducted classes in Wadō-ryū style karate and Judo. In 1998 he hit the headlines after fighting off a gang of eight muggers single-handed. The 70-year-old was alighting from a bus in Cape Town when the gang struck with baseball bats and knives. 6 ft 2 ins Joe overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth - the rest fled.
  
  Reminiscing about his career in the Daily Mail recently, Robinson spoke on the subject of Laurence Olivier's alleged homosexuality saying 'my kids used to play with his kids at school and I taught him judo ... I have no idea if he was a homosexual... but he did once tell me I had lovely shoulders'.
  
  Death
  Robinson died at the age of 90 on 3 July 2017, in Brighton, East Sussex.
  Filmography

  Year Title Role Notes
  1955 A Kid for Two Farthings Sam Heppner
  1956 Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore Max, der Athlet
  1956 Pasaporte al infierno Pete Archer
  1957 Fighting Mad Muscles Tanner
  1957 The Flesh Is Weak Lofty
  1958 The Strange Awakening Sven
  1958 Sea Fury Hendrik
  1958 Murder Reported Jim
  
  1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Corinthian Uncredited
  1960 The Bulldog Breed Tall Sailor
  1961 Carry On Regardless Dynamite Dan
  1961 Erik the Conqueror Garian Uncredited
  1961 Barabbas Bearded Gladiator
  1961 Tartar Invasion Ursus
  1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Roach
  1963 Taur, il re della forza bruta Taur
  1963 Doctor in Distress Sonja's Boyfriend
  1963 Thor and the Amazon Women Thor
  
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks (final film role)

  
  
  http://jamesbonddatabase.blogspot.com/1978/11/peter-franks.html
  
  
  
  

  2019: mixmag reports Grace Jones quits the Bond 25 production.

  

  Grace Jones has quit her role in the upcoming James Bond film
  
  She reportedly quit the film just minutes after arriving on set
  
  Harrison Williams 3 July 2019

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://mixmag.net/read/grace-jones-quit-james-bond-film-news

  
  
  Grace Jones has reportedly quit her role in the upcoming James Bond film just minutes after arriving on set.
  
  The legendary disco artist and fashion icon is no stranger to James Bond films, having previously played the villain May Day in A View to A Kill in 1985. She was due to feature in the upcoming movie, simply titled Bond 25 at this stage, but was apparently angry with the number of lines she was given. It's now reported that just minutes after arriving on set she quit her role.
  
  A source told The Sun about Grace Jones' perspective of the James Bond situation:

  "Grace’s 007 homecoming was meant to be a real crowd-pleasing moment. Bosses were really excited about landing her. Of course, she comes with a reputation, so they organised premium accommodation and rolled out the red carpet on set to make her feel welcome. But it turns out Grace was expecting to play a bigger role in the movie and took her brief cameo as a slight."

  This is just the latest setback for Bond 25. Last year Trainspotting director Danny Boyle was set to helm the film, but left production due to disputes over the script. Cary Fukunaga took over directing duties. The earlier this year filming was halted after James Bond actor Daniel Craig was injured on set and needed surgery.
  
  Despite the setbacks, Bond 25 is still on schedule to be released April 8, 2020.

  
  2020: Earl Cameron dies at age 102--Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.
  (Born 8 August 1917--Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.)

  

  Earl Cameron (actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Cameron

  Earl Cameron
  CBE
  
  Cameron in 2017

  Born Earlston J. Cameron, 8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
  Died 3 July 2020 (aged 102)
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1951–2013
  Spouse(s) Audrey J. P. Godowski
  (m. 1959; died 1994)
  [1][2]
  Barbara Cameron (m. 1994)

  Earlston J. Cameron, CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a British actor, born in Bermuda and a long-time resident in England. Along with Cy Grant, he is known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom.
  
  With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.
  
  According to Screenonline, "Earl Cameron brought a breath of fresh air to the British film industry's stuffy depictions of race relations. Often cast as a sensitive outsider, Cameron gave his characters a grace and moral authority that often surpassed the films' compromised liberal agendas." He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and The Andromeda Breakthrough.
  
  Early career
  Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda. As a young man, he joined the British Merchant Navy, and sailed mostly between New York and South America.
  
  When the Second World War broke out he found himself stranded in London, arriving on the ship The Eastern Prince on 29 October 1939. As he himself put it in an interview: "I arrived in London on 29 October 1939. I got involved with a young lady and you know the rest. The ship left without me, and the girl walked out too."
  
  In 1941, a friend named Harry Crossman gave Cameron a ticket to see a revival of Chu Chin Chow at the Palace Theatre. Crossman and five other black actors had bit parts in the West End production. Cameron, who was working at the kitchen of the Strand Corner House at the time, was fed up with menial jobs and asked Crossman if he could get him on the show. At first he told Cameron that all of the parts were cast, but two or three weeks later, when one of the actors did not show up, Crossman arranged a meeting with the director Robert Atkins, who cast Cameron on the spot.
  
  According to Cameron, he had a less difficult time than other black actors because his Bermudian accent sounded American to British ears. For example, the following year, he landed a speaking role as Joseph, the chauffeur in the American play The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood.
  
  In 1945 and 1946 he took on the role of one of the Dukes in the singing trio "The Duchess and Two Dukes", which toured with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) to play to British armed forces personnel in India in 1945, and the Netherlands in 1946. In 1946 Cameron returned to Bermuda for five months but decided to return to work as an actor in the UK. He then took a job on the London stage as an understudy in the play Deep Are the Roots. Written by Arnaud d'Usseau and James Gow, this play was staged at the Wyndham's Theatre in London for six months (featuring Gordon Heath) and then went on tour. It was during this tour that Cameron first met, and worked alongside, Patrick McGoohan during a production of that play in Coventry. (In 2012, Cameron participated alongside local actors in Bermuda in a reading of Deep Are the Roots, which the Bermuda Sun described as a play "dear to Earl's heart, for it not only gave him his first break in the West End as Britain's first black actor, but he also met his first wife when he travelled on tour with the production."
  
  He understudied in Deep are the Roots with fellow understudy Ida Shepley, a well known singer. As Cameron was having problems with his diction at the time she introduced him to a very good voice coach named Amanda Ira Aldridge. Miss Aldridge was the daughter of Ira Aldridge, a legendary black Shakespearian American actor of the 19th century. Cameron's breakthrough acting role was in Pool of London, a 1951 film directed by Basil Dearden, set in post-war London involving racial prejudice, romance and a diamond robbery. He won much critical acclaim for his role in the film, which is considered "the first major role for a black actor in a British mainstream film".
  
  Film career
  His next major film role following his work in Pool of London was in the 1955 film Simba. In this drama about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, Cameron played the role of Peter Karanja, a doctor trying to reconcile his admiration for Western civilisation with his Kikuyu heritage. That same year Cameron played the Mau Mau general Jeroge in Safari.
  
  From the 1950s to the present day, Cameron has had major parts in many films, including: The Heart Within (1957), in which he played a character Victor Conway in a crime movie again set in the London docklands; and Sapphire (1959) in which he played Dr Robbins, the brother of a murdered girl; and The Message (1976) – the story of the Prophet Muhammad, where he played the King of Abyssinia.
  
  Other film appearances have included: Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), in which he played Tate; Flame in the Streets (1961), in which he played Gabriel Gomez; Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963), in which he played Mang; Guns at Batasi (1964), in which he played Captain Abraham; and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), in which he played Sergeant Seth Hawkins; A Warm December (1973), in which he acted with Sidney Poitier and played the part of an African ambassador to the UK.

  Cameron was strongly considered for the role of Quarrel in Dr. No (1962) by both director Terence Young and co-producer Albert R. Broccoli, whom he knew from his Warwick Films work; however, Harry Saltzman did not think him suitable for the role and cast American John Kitzmiller. They asked Cameron back to the James Bond series for Thunderball (1965), in which he played Bond's Caribbean assistant Pinder. Cameron also acted alongside Thunderball lead Sean Connery in Cuba, in which he played Colonel Levya.

  His most recent film appearances include a major role in The Interpreter (2005), playing the fictitious dictator Edmond Zuwanie. Cameron's performance was universally praised. The Baltimore Sun wrote: "Earl Cameron is magnificent as the slimy old fraud of a dictator..." and Rolling Stone described his appearance as "subtle and menacing". Philip French in The Observer referred to "that fine Caribbean actor Earl Cameron". In 2006 he appeared in a cameo as a portrait artist in the film The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears), alongside Helen Mirren. In 2010 he appeared as "Elderly Bald Man" in the film Inception. In 2013 he appeared as "Grandad" in the short film Up on the Roof.
  
  TV career
  Cameron has had roles in a wide range of TV shows but one of his earliest major roles was a starring part in the BBC 1960 TV drama The Dark Man, in which he played a West Indian cab driver in the UK. The show examined the reactions and prejudices he faced in his work. In 1956 he had a smaller part in another BBC drama exploring racism in the workplace, A Man From The Sun, in which he appeared as community leader Joseph Brent, the cast also featuring Errol John, Cy Grant, Colin Douglas and Nadia Cattouse.
  
  Cameron appeared in a range of popular television shows including series Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) alongside series star Patrick McGoohan. Cameron worked with McGoohan again in 1967 when he appeared in the TV series The Prisoner as the Haitian supervisor in the episode "The Schizoid Man".
  
  His other television work includes Emergency – Ward 10, The Zoo Gang, Crown Court (two different stories, each three episodes long, in 1973), Jackanory (a BBC children's series in which he read five of the Brer Rabbit stories in 1971), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who – The Tenth Planet (the first Black Actor to portray an astronaut on any film or TV series in the world), Neverwhere, Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, Babyfather, EastEnders (a small role as a Mr Lambert), Dalziel and Pascoe, and Lovejoy.
  
  He also appeared in a number of other one-off TV dramas, including: Television Playhouse (1957); A World Inside BBC (1962); ITV Play of the Week (two stories – The Gentle Assassin (1962) and I Can Walk Where I Like Can't I? (1964); the BBC's Wind Versus Polygamy (1968); ITV's A Fear of Strangers (1964), in which he played Ramsay, a black saxophonist and small-time criminal who is detained by the police on suspicion of murder and is also racially abused by a Chief Inspector Dyke (played by Stanley Baker); Festival: the Respectful Prostitute (1964); ITV Play of the Week – The Death of Bessie Smith (1965); Theatre 625: The Minister (1965); The Great Kandinsky (1994); and two episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre (Anything You Say 1969 and another in 1971). In 1996 he appeared on BBC2 as The Abbott in Neverwhere, an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman.
  
  Following the death of Olaf Pooley on 14 July 2015, Cameron became the oldest living actor to have appeared in Doctor Who, and on 8 August 2017 he became the third "Doctor Who" actor to reach the age of 100 (after Zohra Sehgal and Olaf Pooley).
  
  Personal life
  Since 1963[14] Cameron has been a practitioner of Baháʼí, joining the faith at the time of the first Baháʼí World Congress, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Baháʼí community held a reception in London in 2007 to honour his 90th birthday. He currently lives in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in England.[20] He is married to Barbara Cameron. His first wife, Audrey Cameron, died in 1994. He has six children.
  
  Cameron died on 3 July 2020, at the age of 102.[22]
  
  Honours

  • He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
  • The Earl Cameron Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda was named in his honour at a ceremony he attended there in December 2012.
  • The University of Warwick awarded Cameron an honorary doctorate in January 2013.

  
  Filmography
  1951 Pool of London - Johnny Lambert
  1951 There Is Another Sun - Ginger Jones
  1952 Emergency Call - George Robinson
  1955 Simba - Karanja
  1955 The Woman for Joe - Lemmie
  1955 Safari Jeroge (Njoroge)
  1956 Odongo Hassan -
  1957 The Heart Within - Victor Conway
  1957 The Mark of the Hawk - Prosecutor
  1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro
  1959 Sapphire - Dr. Robbins
  
  1960 Tarzan the Magnificent - Tate
  1961 No Kidding - Black father
  1961 Flame in the Streets - Gabriel Gomez
  1963 Tarzan's Three Challenges - Mang
  1964 Guns at Batasi - Captain Abraham
  1965 Thunderball - Pinder
  1966 The Sandwich Man - Bus Conductor
  1967 Battle Beneath the Earth - Sgt. Seth Hawkins
  1968 Two a Penny - Verger
  1969 Two Gentlemen Sharing - Jane's father
  
  1972 Six Days of Justice - Maynard
  1973 A Warm December -
  1976 Mohammad, Messenger of God - Najashi
  1979 Cuba - Col. Leyva
  
  2001 Revelation - Cardinal Chisamba
  2005 The Interpreter - Edmond Zuwanie
  2006 The Queen - Portrait Artist
  
  2010 Inception - Elderly Bald Man

  

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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  July 4th
  
  1963: Dr. No released in Australia.

  Daybills
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice filming begins with Bond and Ling and the Murphy bed at Pinewood Studios.

  
  
  
  

  
  1981: 007 ユア・アイズ・オンリー (Yua aizu onrī, or Your Eyes Only) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1985: A View to a Kill released in The Netherlands.
  
  2005: Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records release the the first single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" from Kanye West's second album Late Registration. It heavily samples and mixes the song "Diamonds Are Forever". And wins a Grammy.

  

  2006: Casino Royale films at Black Park, Buckinghamshire, doubling for Mbale, Uganda.
  
  2016: Yahoo! News reports Daniel Craig's gloves could have cost the Skyall production millions of dollars.

  
  International Business Times

  James Bond: Daniel Craig's leather gloves almost
  cost Skyfall 'millions upon millions'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://in.news.yahoo.com/james-bond-daniel-craigs-leather-110841780.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABIcUUL0s7F1gt2PFIX6XdvgF8Vnwqxhk_XapNXfM9BRq72lR0ihQL8bLRSQOHPaX9gHcKsiStvxenf-TrUhAhJeNeQKJ7AuV64kaq2e_GRj2kxEEmbOJZuFFgyQ6eYyw4RdKVWIt3lMz64AAwKrLxNZC-RZ_bLOHI1Oo2mQ4nSL

  Amy West \ 4 July 2016

  
  Daniel Craig in Skyfall

  
  Who would have thought that a single pair of leather gloves could almost cost a film studio millions of pounds? But that's exactly what could have happened, had it not been for the quick-thinking of an editor on Sam Mendes' hugely-successful James Bond outing, Skyfall.
  
  Filmmaker and film critic Charlie Lyne took to Twitter to share the story which he learned from someone who worked on the movie. Lyne explained that Daniel Craig liked to go shopping in his downtime, and returned to set one day with a pair of leather gloves that he thought would "be the kind of thing Bond would wear", and urged his director to let him wear them in a scene.
  
  Mendes replied 'yes' to, which subsequently led to Craig donning the gloves in the sequence set in a lavish Macanese casino, where Bond gets in a fight with a particularly formidable baddie and ends up in a pit with a Komodo dragon. The pair scuffle and the villain actually ends up with Bond's Walther PPK handgun, ready to fire it as his opponent. He seemingly hesitates however and the Komodo dragon ends up biting him.
  
  Now, as lovers of Skyfall will know, prior to that scene, Ben Whishaw's Q equips Bond with the gun set specifically to only work if Bond's fingerprints are on the trigger. That ties in with why the baddie couldn't operate the gun in the pit, but how on earth was Bond planning on firing it in the thick of the action if he was wearing leather gloves that obscured his prints?
  
  Fortunately, some eagerly-eyed individuals finishing up the movie noticed this in the film's post-production but it left Mendes and the studio weighing up their options as to how to rectify the problem. Lyne recounts how his insider said that they calculated just how much it would cost to get Craig, the other actor and everything together again to reshoot but realised it would be far too expensive – costing "millions and millions" – and instead opted to computer-generate Craig's skin into the scene.
  
  "The only solution becomes to digitally paint in Bond's hands," Lyne said. "If you watch the scene now ... you can see that Bond has these ridiculously podgy hands, because in every single frame he was wearing these thick leather gloves that have now been painted over with Craig-tone hands."
  

  

  
  
  
  
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  July 5th
  
  1942: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming attends a course on espionage at Camp X (Special Training School No. 103) near Whitby, Lake Ontario, Canada. Possibly staying across the street from St. James-Bond United Church.
  
  1967: Title song "You Only Live Twice" enter UK charts later peaking at the 11 spot.
  
  1973: Live and Let Die Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Canada.
  1985: Daily Variety reports A View to a Kill filming contributed an estimated $4 million to San Francisco's economy.
  1986: Screen International reports Jeroen Krabbé drops Michael Cimino's The Sicilian to take the Koskov role in the next Bond film.
  
  2000: Elizabeth II knights Sir Thomas Sean Connery at the Palace of Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sean Connery knighted
  

  2008: Edinburgh’s City Arts Centre hosts a Fleming Centenary exhibition of Bond-Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design. Through 14 September.

  

  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/10974-bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

  David Pollock | 7 August 2008
  

  

  
  Of human bond-age
  Gentleman shpy David Pollock goesh undercover to inveshtigate the makings of an icon at touring
  exshibition Bond Bound
  
  It’s strange, considering how conservative a character James Bond is, that his presentation and marketing seems to fall so readily in step with the times. From Sean Connery throughout the smooth, swinging 60s, to the more cartoonishly lurid 70s and early-80s of Roger Moore, the smug, yuppified era of Timothy Dalton, the laddish yet indefinably metrosexual Pierce Brosnan and now Daniel Craig’s more broadly-defined revisionist take on the character, Bond remains the same, but always strikingly different.
  
  Of course, that’s the Bond we’re most familiar with; the movie icon. This cinematic character is one stage removed again from the original Bond, though – the rakish gentleman spy whom Ian Fleming defined over 12 novels and two short story collections between 1953 and 1966.
  
  As explicitly stated in the subtitle of the City Art Centre’s new Bond Bound exhibition (‘Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design’), this Bond is supposed to be the one we come to know more about here, but it’s still hard to end up leaving the show without an image of Connery’s sly grin plastered across the memory.
  
  Clearly aware that it’s not as engaging for a viewer to look at a book cover as it is to be dazzled by a large movie poster, the curators have chosen to show a broad spectrum of visual representations of the character. So the first images we see upon entering the exhibition are three international posters for the latest Casino Royale film, featuring Craig in his finest GQ Man pose, all unhooked bowtie, tousled hair and pout.
  
  Across from these hang a selection of posters from the clearly heavily trailed From Russia With Love (1963), the sequel to the character’s hugely successful cinematic debut Dr No. ‘James Bond est de retour,’ they blast over eye-catchingly bright colours and images of slinky girls. ‘James Bond is back.’
  
  And there’s that grin of Connery’s which remains hard to clear from the mind. This was the period when Bond stopped being a popular character in pulp novels and became an icon.
  
  Period artefacts fill out the show, including a manuscript of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which has been annotated by the late Fleming, and a rather wonderful letter to the author from Hugh Hefner. The Playboy publisher, in typical ‘one thing on his mind’ mode, asserts that, ‘Ursula Andress (Dr No’s original Bond girl) is going to be difficult to beat for sex interest.’
  
  Also featured are an extensive set of illustrations by John Burningham from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fleming’s only children’s book, and a couple of pages from the forthcoming comic adaptation of Charlie Higson’s Young Bond book Double or Die by Judge Dredd artist Kev Walker.
  
  After such a selection, the rear room’s rows of original book covers from editions printed around the world over the last five decades feel like something of an anticlimax, or at least a part of the show to be pored over rather than blown away by. In truth, Bond Bound itself doesn’t offer a wealth of new knowledge to even a casual fan of the character, but it does demonstrate how first impressions are important to the continued success of such a legend.
  
  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design is at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, until Sun 14 Sep.

  Published by Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation:
  Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design,
  Bill Smith, Henry Chancellor, Alan Powers, Kate Grimond Selina S, 2008.
  
  https://literary007.com/2013/10/09/bond-bound-ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-cover-design/

  
  
  

  2009: The True Story episode "James Bond" takes a look at Fleming's real world influences.

  

  The Real Story (2003– )
  James Bond

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402999/
  TV-PG | 47min | Documentary, History | Episode aired 5 July 2009
  Season 1 | Episode 2

  Take a look at Ian Fleming and the real-life story behind James Bond.

  Director: Russell England
  Writer: Mark Radice
  Stars: Corey Johnson, Paul McGann, Jonathan Edwards |
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Corey Johnson ... Self - Narrator (voice)
  Paul McGann ... Self - Narrator (voice)
  Jonathan Edwards ... Reenactor
  Caroline Delisser ... Reenactor
  Brian Burnage ... Reenactor
  Paul Esser ... Reenactor
  (alphabetically:)
  Ken Adam ... Self - Production Designer for the James Bond Films, 1962-1979 (as Sir Ken Adam)
  Henry Chancellor ... Self - Author and Historian
  Paul Cornish ... Self - Senior Curator, Imperial War Museum
  Iain Dalzel-Job ... Self - Patrick Dalzel-Job's son
  Ian Fleming ... Self (archive footage)
  Lucy Fleming ... Self - Ian Fleming's Niece
  Kathleen Kinmonth Warren ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's daughter
  Margy Kinmonth ... Self - Admiral Godfrey's granddaughter
  Ben Macintyre ... Self - Author, 'For Your Eyes Only' and 'Agent ZigZag'
  John Pearson ... Self - Fleming's assistant at The Sunday Times
  K.H. Wallis ... Self - Gyrocopter Designer and Pilot (as Ken Wallis)
  

  
  2015: Spectre closes 128 days of principal photography.
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes its hardcover edition James Bond Volume 1 - VARGR collecting its 6 issues.

  
  

  2017: The Omega Seamaster Diver 300 M Co-Axial 41mm Commander's watch is introduced via the Tate Britain Museum, London. Production limited to 7007. Plus 7 of a Gold edition.

  
  https://omegawatches.com/news/the-commander-s-watch-is-launched-in-london
  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 (of 6) Black Box.
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

  
  

  JAMES BOND #5

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652205011
  Cover A: Dominic Reardon
  Cover B: Jason Masters
  Cover C: Patrick Zircher
  Writer: Benjamin Percy
  Art: Rapha Lobosco
  Publication Date: July 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/5

  James Bond #5, "The Suicide Forest"
  In the so-called "Suicide Forest" of Japan, near the base of Mt. Fuji, James Bond finds himself hunted by No Name, the nightmarish assassin. After narrowly escaping, 007 and Selah Sax find themselves on board a bullet train bound for the headquarters of Saga Genji -- in a race against Felix Leiter and the Americans for the "black box" of information that could compromise their nations.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  July 6th
  
  1961: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman establish Eon Productions.
  1963: From Russia With Love films the boat chase. Earlier that day, a helicopter carrying director Terence Young, art director Michael White, and a cameraman crashes in Argyll, Scotland, and sinks into 40–50 feet (12–15 meters) of water. Director Young resumes filming the same day.
  1964: Goldfinger films in Switzerland.
  
  1971: Louis Armstrong dies at age 69--New York City, New York.
  (Born 4 August 1901--New Orleans, Louisiana.)

  

  Louis Armstrong
  Biography

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/

  

  Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.
  
  On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There, under the tutelage of Peter Davis, he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. Released from the Waif’s Home in 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician. Mentored by the city’s top cornetist, Joe “King” Oliver, Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats.
  
  In 1922, King Oliver sent for Armstrong to join his band in Chicago. Armstrong and Oliver became the talk of the town with their intricate two-cornet breaks and started making records together in 1923. By that point, Armstrong began dating the pianist in the band, Lillian Hardin. In 1924, Armstrong married Hardin, who urged Armstrong to leave Oliver and try to make it on his own. A year in New York with Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra proved unsatisfying so Armstrong returned to Chicago in 1925 and began making records under his own name for the first time.

  

  
  HOTTER THAN THAT
  The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz. Armstrong’s improvised solos transformed jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative bursts of scat singing and an underlying swing feel. By the end of the decade, the popularity of the Hot Fives and Sevens was enough to send Armstrong back to New York, where he appeared in the popular Broadway revue, “Hot Chocolates.” He soon began touring and never really stopped until his death in 1971.
  
  The 1930s also found Armstrong achieving great popularity on radio, in films, and with his recordings. He performed in Europe for the first time in 1932 and returned in 1933, staying for over a year because of a damaged lip. Back in America in 1935, Armstrong hired Joe Glaser as his manager and began fronting a big band, recording pop songs for Decca, and appearing regularly in movies. He began touring the country in the 1940s.

  "MY WHOLE
  LIFE, MY
  WHOLE SOUL,
  MY WHOLE
  SPIRIT IS TO
  BLOW THAT
  HORN."

  In 1947, the waning popularity of the big bands forced Armstrong to begin fronting a small group, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Personnel changed over the years but this remained Armstrong’s main performing vehicle for the rest of his career. He had a string of pop hits beginning in 1949 and started making regular overseas tours, where his popularity was so great, he was dubbed “Ambassador Satch.”
  
  In America, Armstrong had been a great Civil Rights pioneer for his race, breaking down numerous barriers as a young man. In the 1950s, he was sometimes criticized for his onstage persona and called an “Uncle Tom” but he silenced critics by speaking out against the government’s handling of the “Little Rock Nine” high school integration crisis in 1957.
  
  Armstrong continued touring the world and making records with songs like “Blueberry Hill” (1949), “Mack the Knife” (1955) and “Hello, Dolly! (1964),” the latter knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts at the height of Beatlemania.
  
  GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY
  The many years of constant touring eventually wore down Armstrong, who had his first heart attack in 1959 and returned to intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital for heart and kidney trouble in 1968. Doctors advised him not to play but Armstrong continued to practice every day in his Corona, Queens home, where he had lived with his fourth wife, Lucille, since 1943. He returned to performing in 1970 but it was too much, too soon and he passed away in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a few months after his final engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (first recording for Louis Armstrong), Gennett Studios, Richmond, Indiana, 1923.
  
  And his last. 1969.
  

  1973: Live and Let Die general release in the US.

  
  
  Lobby Card set of 8
  https://legendsofsfandfantasyart.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-and-let-die-1973.html
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Ireland.
  
  1980: Learning other actors were recently screen-tested, Roger Moore declares he's done with the Bond role.
  1980: Eva Green is born--Paris, France.
  1985: 007 美しき獲物たち (007 Utsukushikiemonotachi; 007 Beautiful Prey) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  
  2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style opens at the Barbican Centre, London, continues through 5 September. Following cities are Dubai, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Rotterdam, Moscow, Melbourne, Shanghai, Toronto.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Elle propose Five Fantasy Bond Girls.

  

  Five Fantasy Bond Girls
  --With the Barbican opening their new exhibition dedicated to James Bond, ELLE suggests five fantasy Bond girls.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/celebrity-style/articles/g6538/five-fantasy-bond-girls/

  By ELLE UK | 05/07/2012
  
  
  GALLERY

  Ursula Andress will forever be the most iconic Bond Girl thanks to her attention grabbing scene in Dr No with her famous white bikini - but who are ELLE's fantasy Bond Girls? Click through the gallery to discover.
  
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  Frieda Pinto – With those beautiful doe eyes, Frida could easily play the damsel in distress who Bond has to rescue. Gazing into her deep pupils, he surely wouldn’t be able to resist ‘reassuring’ her after their escape from danger?
  
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  Scarlett Johannson – Scarlett by name, sizzling by nature, Johannson has an ability to light up the screen and oozes sex appeal. Vital ingredients for any Bond lady. And she proved she can kick ass in recent Marvel films, Iron Man and Avengers Assemble. In a twist, could she be the one that comes to Bond’s rescue?
  
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  Beyonce – The singing sensation has already proved she can play the female side-kick well with a part in 2002’s ‘Austin Powers in Goldmember’. Beyonce would definitely be sassy enough to make Bond feel both shaken and stirred.
  
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  Heidi Klum – A beautiful woman, and as a judge on Project Catwalk, has shown she can ‘Auef’ contestants without emotion. Perhaps she could play a Bond Girl villain to give 007 a run for his money (penny)?
  
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  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – One of the most glamorous ladies around, and now that she’s taken to acting it’s surely only a matter of time before 007 is looking to recruit her.
  

  Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style is a retrospective of the last fifty years of James Bond design and style at London’s Barbican Centre from Dr No through to the upcoming Skyfall.
  
  There will be designs on display from major fashion names such as Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford, Frida Giannini and Miuccia Prada, but of course no Bond would be complete without some arm candy in the form of a Bond Girl.
  
  Iconic, glamorous and dressed to kill – although often the one who ends up disposed of by the end of the scene – the Bond Girl is synonymous with the movie franchise and ELLE have come up with a fantasy list.
  
  Click through the gallery above to see our top five Bond Girl suggestions – and let us know who you would have on your list.

  
  2020: AUTOCAR reports on the Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars.
  https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-continuation-makes-public-debut

  

  Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation makes public debut
  The £3.3m 007-themed limited edition, featuring machine guns, smoke screens and revolving
  numberplates, is being shown at the Salon Privé

  See the complete article here:
  

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  News | by Mike Duff |6 July 2020
  
  Aston Martin has displayed its first DB5 Continuation model, built to celebrate the British marque's long-running connection with James Bond, for the first time in public at the Salon Privé.
  
  The first DB5 Aston Martin to built in more than 50 years, the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation was created in association with Bond filmmaker EON productions. Just 25 cars will be built to mark the release of Bond's 25th outing, No Time to Die, with each featuring replica versions of the gadgets seen in the 1964 film.
  
  Rotating numberplates, an oil spray system that deploys from behind the tail-lights and a smoke screen are joined by 'machine guns' that pop out from the front bumper, a 'bulletproof' rear deflector that raises from the boot, front and rear battering rams, and simulated tyre slashers. A removable roof panel representing the original DB5’s famous ejector seat, albeit one that isn't actually capable of firing passengers out of the car, is an optional inclusion.
  
  
  
  Inside, the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation is an exact match for the screen car, with an armrest that disguises the gadget switchgear, a simulated radar screen in the centre console, an under-seat weapons tray and a telephone in the driver's door, along with a flip-up gear knob.
  
  More than 4500 hours went into construction, with each car receiving original body panels and a 4.0-litre naturally aspirated in-line six-cylinder engine that produces 290bhp. It is mated to a five-speed transmission and the rear axle features a mechanical limited-slip differential, although the continuation cars aren't road-legal.
  
  “To see the first customer car finished, and realise that this is the first new DB5 we have built in more than half a century, really is quite a moment," Paul Spires, head of Aston Martin Works, said.
  
  
  
  When the company first announced that it was planning 25 continuation replicas of the DB5 used in the Goldfinger film, the big question was how it would deliver on the original car’s huge tally of gadgets. Ahead of production, the firm’s Works Division revealed several of the gadgets under development in the programme, led by Academy Award-winning special-effects creator and Bond film veteran Chris Corbould.
  
  Corbould said he had to think “for about a second and a half” when asked to work on the project, but admitted there have been serious challenges in making features that are both convincing and repeatable.
  
  “If we were doing an oil slick in a film, then we could fill the boot with equipment and put out about 50 litres in a couple of seconds,” he said. “Here, it has to fit into a much smaller space and it has to be able to work again and again.”
  
  There was also the need to consider health and safety. Although the Goldfinger DB5s aren't road legal, Spires said the company does have to make sure they won’t harm anyone. “We have had to make all of this work within the limitations of health and safety,” he said.
  
  
  
  Corbould has worked on every Bond film with the exception of Octopussy since The Spy Who Loved Me, including the forthcoming 25th outing of the franchise, where the DB5 will make its latest cinema appearance.
  
  All 25 of the Goldfinger cars – priced at £3.3 million including VAT – have reportedly been sold. Customer deliveries will continue through the second half of 2020.

  
  
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  July 7th (Double-O7)
  
  1930: Peter Porteous is born--London, England.
  
  1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  

  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress

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

  Friday 7 July, 1944
  
  Sorted out clothes of I.’s that need cleaning, carrying them away in my arms. I. is off abroad for a few days. New uniforms and equipment lying about. He has a private army of 300 men. When I came home from the Admiralty the evening was lovely so, tired though I was, I went to the park.
  
  The grass smelt fresh, the trees were heavy with leaf and I walked to the bandstand and stood for a long time watching and listening. An alert was on as usual. Small clusters of people sat on iron chairs round the bandstand or outside the enclosure under the trees – people of all sorts and kinds, young and old, soldiers and civilians.
  
  The scene was so strange, moving and so unreal – the white bandstand, the charming civilised elegant waltzes, the Americans lolling about, the uniforms, the drone of the pilotless plane, the beauty of the evening, war and peace all mixed up inextricably.

  
  1958: The first James Bond comic strip Casino Royale begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 13 December 1958. 1-138 ) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/cr.php3
  
  
  
  
  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24115/lot/188/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
  (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
  Højt spil i Monte Carlo" [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1968: Test footage of Lazenby and Rigg prompts nervous United Artists executives to pursue a return of Connery.
  
  1973: Fawcett Gold Medal publishes Roger Moore's James Bond Diary in paperback.

  
  

  1977: Roger Moore does a quick commercial for Nationwide Insurance.

  https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1147445081407815681

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me Royal Premiere at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Variety reports potential Moore replacements as James Brolin and Michael Billington.
  1983: Octopussy released in The Netherlands.
  1983: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Icebreaker.
  Cover by Bill Botten (in the style of Richard Chopping).

  JAMES BOND, like Sherlock Holmes before
  him, has become a myth of the twentieth
  century. Predictably, when John
  Gardner (under copyright licence) first
  brought Bond into the 1980s with a new
  consciousness of health and ecology, a
  change of car and a passing nod at femin-
  ism, his book, Licence Renewed, went straight
  to No. 1 on the bestseller lists on both sides
  of the Atlantic. Fleming himself 'would not
  be displeased', the Daily Telegraph said. A
  second updated Bond adventure, For Special
  Services, enjoyed an even greater success,
  remaining for months on end on bestseller
  lists in America.
  
  Now, indestructible as ever, Bond is back
  in a third assignment from John Gardner --
  a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort
  with Bond's opposite numbers from the
  United States, the Soviet Union and Israel
  in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland.
  Yet if resurgent fascism is the common
  enemy, who is really to be feared? Can
  SMERSH be trusted to resist the temptation
  to seek revenge on Bond? Is it the breezy
  American or the voluptuous Israeli who is
  acting as double agent? Are the Finns
  merely using Bond to break the K.G.B.'s
  stranglehold on their tenuous national
  autonomy?
  
  Never has Bond encountered such an
  unnervingly deceitful bunch of collabor-
  ators or been subject to such a bewildering
  series of potentially lethal shocks.

  James Bond adventures
  written under licence from Glidrose,
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders, by
  JOHN GARDNER.
  
  Licence Renewed

  Remarkably successful re-creation of
  everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
  Telegraph

  'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
  old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
  Times

  'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
  of the 1980s is not much different from the
  earlier Bond...his adventures are as capti-
  vating as ever.' BIRMINGHAM Post

  
  For Special Services

  'John Gardner has got the OO7 formula
  down pat. But not too pat...manages to
  create suspense and spring a few surprises.'
  Financial Times

  'Much better nonsense than the previous
  Gardner resurrection of James Bond.'
  Sunday Times

  'Almost as good as the bestselling first one.
  Great fun.' Scotsman

  
  
  
  

  
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/licence-to-kill-en/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-ad-sheet-1989/
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ltk-dk-programme-1989/
  
  

  1989: James Bond med rett til å drepe (James Bond with the Right to Kill) released in Norway.

  https://www.comics.org/issue/369729/cover/4/
  
  
  http://jamesbond.no/visBoker.asp?ID=42
  

  1989: Tid för hämnd (Time for Revenge) released in Sweden.

  https://www.tradera.com/item/341511/330224852/james-bond-tid-for-hamnd
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Swordfish through Orion Publishing Group releases 30th anniversary hardcover editions of John Gardner’s Nobody Lives Forever and Role of Honour.

  That's following Licence Renewed, For Special Services, and Icebreaker released 23 June. They anticipate paperback editions of all the Gardner Bond novels in 2012.

  

  http://www.john-gardner.com/sites/default/files/New swordfish.png

  http://www.john-gardner.com/content/orion-publishing-group-celebrates-30th-anniversary-john-gardners-james-bond-titles
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
  
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  July 8th
  
  1933: Jeff Nuttall is born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.
  
  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.

  

  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 - Xanada 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.

  1968: Spain presents its most prized Don Quixote Award to Roger Moore at the Spanish Embassy, London.

  

  
  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.

  
  

  
  1996: Trevor Leighton photographs Sean Connery.

  

  
  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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  July 9th
  
  1943: The Allied invasion of Sicily Operation Husky, aided by misdirection created by Operation Mincemeat inspired by Fleming, executes this date.

  

  Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books, Edward Abel Smith, 2020.
  Chapter 2 - For Your Eyes Only

  As of September 1942, Fleming’s remit was further expanded to
  include Joint Intelligence Committee work, daily situation reports as
  well as a side project of writing ideas for potential espionage operations
  for NID. Fleming’s nephew Fergus described his uncle’s time in the
  war as ‘one of ingenuity and daring’, producing schemes which were
  ‘notable for their imagination’.
  
  On September 1939, days after war had been declared, Godfrey
  issued a long-anticipated document to intelligence chiefs, written by
  his personal assistant, just four months after employing him. With
  another war now starting, the Allied Forces - initially consisting of
  France, Poland and Britain - needed to quickly get one step ahead of
  their enemy. Named the ‘Trout Memo’, Fleming’s document listed ways
  for ‘bamboozling the Germans at sea’ through ‘deception, ruses de
  guerre, passing on false information and so on’. A big fan of fly-fishing,
  Godfrey had the memo named accordingly as he felt the document, like
  a fisherman, ‘casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue
  and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may give the mater a rest fir
  half-an-hour, but his main endeavor, is to attract fish by something he
  send out from his boat’.
  
  The Trout Memo served as a bible for espionage activity with NID,
  containing fifty-one ingenious ways of ‘introducing ideas into the heads
  of the Germans’ through false information. There were suggestions
  such as ‘setting adrift tins of explosives disguised as food’ which had
  ‘instructions on the outside in many languages’ in the hope that ‘hungry
  enemy sailors or submariners would pick them up, try to heat the tins,
  and blow themselves up’. Other ideas devised by Fleming included
  ‘dropping footballs pained with luminous paint to attract submarines’
  and ‘distributing messages cursing Hitler’s Reich in bottles from a
  fictitious U-boat captain to cause unrest among the enemy’.
  
  Although most of the ideas in the Trout Memo would be kicked into
  the long grass as the war progressed, there was one which caught the
  imagination of Charles Cholmondeley, a twenty-five-year-old secondee
  in the security service from the Royale Air Force, nearly four years later.
  Number 28 was headed ‘A suggestion’ and ‘not a nice one’ in which
  ‘A corpse is dressed as an airman, with (false) despatches in his pockets,
  could be dropped on the coast, supposedly from a parachute that had
  failed’. The concept was further fleshed out to explain that ‘there is no
  difficulty in obtaining corpses at the Naval Hospital, but, of course, it
  would have to be a fresh one’.
  
  In April 1943, Cholmondeley borrowed the idea for what would be
  one of World War II’s most infamous and successful deception plans,
  Operation Mincemeat. Dropping the dead body of tramp Glyndwr
  Michael dressed as a naval officer off the coast of Huelva, it was washed
  ashore with papers purporting that the Allies intended to invade Greece
  and Sardinia, rather than the expected target of Sicily. The Nazis fell for
  the ruse spectacularly, moving troops away from Sicily, which remained
  the target for the invasion named Operation Husky and was successfully
  taken after the landing on 9 July 1943.
  
  Writing the Trout Memo for Fleming had been a pleasure - although it
  would be another four years before he would see the fruits of his labour
  bear out in Operation Mincemeat - as this was the type of intelligence
  he enjoyed. Since playing sport at school, he had not felt enjoyment like
  this, and he was eager to continue challenging himself.

  
  
  Another Fleming Memo
  

  
  1964: From Russia With Love released in The Netherlands.
  1966: Bond's obituary date, as printed in the on-screen version of The Standard in You Only Live Twice.

  
  
  

  
  1973: Richard Schickel reviews Live and Let Die in Time. He doesn't like it.

  

  Cinema: Dirty Trick

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,907516,00.html

  By Richard Schickel Monday, July 09, 1973

  LIVE AND LET DIE
  
  Directed by GUY HAMILTON Screenplay by TOM MANKIEWICZ
  
  There is a new James Bond — Roger Moore of Sainted TV memory — and a new angle to his latest adventure. In this incarnation, 007 is the Great White Hope. He goes about beating up black men who are doing a little heroin smuggling to finance a Caribbean dictatorship and, perhaps, take over the U.S. after they've turned it into a nation of junkies with their free-sample program.
  
  Both novelties are deplorable, and Live and Let Die is the most vulgar addition to a series that has long since outlived its brief historical moment — if not, alas, its profitability.
  
  Moore is afflicted with coolness unto death; one half expects some plot revelation — a saliva test, perhaps — to explain that the bad guys somehow got him hooked before the picture started.
  
  None is forthcoming, so probably what we have here is a case of belated fastidiousness: an actor trying to dissociate himself from a project turning sour all around him.
  
  As for Bond's new character as a racist pig, there is a dubious rationale for it. Through the years he has kicked and chopped his way through most of the other races of man, so it could be argued that it is just a matter of equal rights to let blacks have their chance to play masochists to his pseudo-suave sadist. Not surprisingly, this strained justification fails to relieve the queasiness Live and Let Die induces. Why are all the blacks either stupid brutes or primitives deep into the occult and voodooism? Why is miscegenation so often used as a turn-on? Why do such questions even arise in what is supposed to be pure entertainment?
  
  In part, the answers lie in the fact that the so-called entertainment is never really entertaining. A couple of solid citizens, Yaphet Kotto and Geoffrey Holder, are underemployed as an island dictator cum pusher and his witchdoctor hireling while Jane Seymour, Gloria Hendry and Madeline Smith are comely enough but curiously sexless sex objects. They, like Moore, suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever is rare and surprisingly inept. The vehicular chases that have proved commercially successful in other films are here rendered five times, which is four more than any movie needs. Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable—leaving the mind free to wander into the question of its overall taste. Or lack of it.
  
  *Richard Schickel

  

  1975: Jack White is born--Detroit, Michigan.
  1975: Till Death Do Us Apart comic strip begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 14 October 1975. 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tddup.php3
  
  
  
  
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  Swedish Semic Comic 1977
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3?s=comics&id=01952

  Kontraspionaget Slår Till: Intrig På Balkan!
  (Till Death Do Us Part)
  

  
  Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no45-1978/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 45: “Till Death Do Us Part” (1978)
  "Ballade på Balkan" [Trouble in the Balkan]
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1987: The Living Daylights released in The Netherlands.
  1989: Ajean Harmentz comments on Licence to Kill and the Bond film series to date in the New York Times.

  
  FILM

  Creating a Thriller, Their Words Are Their Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  By Aljean Harmetz | July 9, 1989
  
  Relentless, ruthless and rarely stopping to savor a martini, an implacable James Bond takes his license to kill literally in ''Licence to Kill,'' the 16th in the series of Bond movies produced by Albert (Cubby) Broccoli. That the barrel of this James Bond's Walther PPK is seldom cold is no accident. The 27-year-old series is adapting to 1989 newspaper headlines as well as to Timothy Dalton in the leading role. Whereas Mr. Dalton simply stepped into the finished script of the 1987 movie ''The Living Daylights,'' ''Licence to Kill,'' opening Friday, has been tailored to fit him.
  
  Over nearly three decades, James Bond has become a cottage industry for the Broccoli family, with one action-adventure souffle popping out of the oven every two years. Mr. Broccoli's stepson Michael Wilson has co-written the movies since ''For Your Eyes Only'' in 1981 and is now co-producer. His daughter Barbara became associate producer with ''The Living Daylights.'' His daughter Tina was a set decorator on ''Licence to Kill,'' while his skin-diving son Tony was a location manager for the underwater unit.
  
  Nor has the 80-year-old Mr. Broccoli abdicated. ''Cubby is trying to pull back,'' says Saul Cooper, vice president of marketing for Mr. Broccoli's Warfield Productions, ''but he stands behind his desk skimming the headlines and photographs on every page of six English newspapers day after day. He believes in keeping the material contemporary.''
  
  ''Torn straight from the headlines of today's newspapers,'' according to a United Artists press kit, ''Licence to Kill'' has replaced the usual madman villain who is intent on destroying civilization-as-we-know-it with a more contemporary bad guy - a dope dealer.
  
  ''But the drug peddling is on the scale of Noriega rather than 'Miami Vice,' '' says Mr. Wilson.
  
  To make sure the connection with the Panamanian dictator is not missed, the drug lord's home base is a fictional Isthmus City.
  
  Mr. Dalton is the fourth actor to play the British secret agent 007 created by the novelist Ian Fleming. Sean Connery originated the role of a sardonic and ruthless spy and has played it in seven movies. In ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service,'' George Lazenby did a Connery imitation and failed to make audiences forget the original. Roger Moore, who also played the role in seven films, was clever enough not to try to catch Mr. Connery's blend of irony, sophistication and brutality. His immaculate, unruffled James Bond was more superhero than superagent. (Casino Royale,' the one novel not owned by Mr. Broccoli and his partner, Harry Saltzman, was turned into a bizarre spoof that included multiple James Bonds.) 'Realistic' may be an odd word to apply to a character who uses a mod white parachute in order to drop in at a wedding and who waterskis behind an airplane, but the co-writers of ''Licence to Kill'' use it to describe the essence of Timothy Dalton's Bond.
  
  ''The best James Bond will always be Sean Connery, but Timothy is the best actor of the four of them,'' says Richard Maibaum, who has written or co-written all 16 of the movies. ''Timothy's Bond is a real man with a real sense of destiny; and real people are in jeopardy.''
  
  ''Tim is a more gritty, down-to-earth Bond who can have ruthlessness and vulnerability,'' says Mr. Wilson. ''The current film is an outgrowth of the change in casting. Roger would not have been comfortable playing the vulnerable parts.''
  
  Although both writers are too polite to say it, they are obviously relieved by Mr. Moore's exit. ''Roger's light approach took over and permeated everything,'' said Mr. Maibaum. ''It upset the balance. Every now and then you have to pull the balloon down to reality or lose your audience. With Roger's cavalier attitude, you never felt that he was serious about what he was doing.''
  
  ''Serious? Of course not,'' said Mr. Moore, long distance from St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, where he was about to have an elegant dinner worthy of Mr. Bond. ''It's just wild escapism, all fantasy. Wham and bam and pow. And Bond is not a very secret secret agent because every barman in the world knows him for the cocktail he prefers. Mr. Gorbachev would have hysterics if he saw him. It's a load of nonsense. If you want to see the serious side of violence, see 'Platoon.' '' Actually, ''Licence to Kill'' is filled with serious violence. The maiming of his friend Felix Leiter turns Bond into a coldblooded seeker of vengeance. He kills often and ugly. One villain is drowned in a drawer full of maggots. The movie has more in common with last summer's ''Die Hard'' than with ''Octopussy.'' ''Licence'' has been given a 15 rating in Britain, prohibiting children younger than 16 from entering the theater. It is the first Bond film ever to have a restricted rating there.
  
  ''I tried to bring some dimension to James Bond, to make him a human being,'' says Mr. Dalton. ''He is determined, often very ruthless, by no means a white knight. If you're going to deal with villains, you have to be villainous to beat them. I take my cue from the novels and the very early Bond movies. 'Dr. No' caused a great scandal. A man walks into Bond's bedroom and pumps bullets into a figure on the bed. He empties his gun. Then Sean Connery, who is sitting behind the door says, 'You had your six' and kills an unarmed, defenseless man. Bond murders his own murderer. A hero is not supposed to behave that way.''
  
  In ''Licence to Kill,'' the fifth Bond movie to be directed by John Glen, Bond has a private vendetta instead of a Government commission. ''We have never had a mission that was so intensely personal,'' said Mr. Maibaum. ''If Roger had been around, we couldn't have had that kind of mission. Roger would have insisted on making little jokes along the way. He could never have made you believe he would have grimly reacted to the maiming of his friend and the murder of his friend's wife.''
  
  In a similar change of tone, it is not Bond who makes jokes but the villains. When one of the characters is killed in a particularly messy fashion and bleeds over several million dollars, the drug czar played by Robert Davi is asked what should be done with the money. ''Launder it,'' he says. ''When Fleming was writing his novels, England had just been through that terrible war and there was still rationing,'' says Mr. Maibaum. ''And so he made his hero a connoisseur of food and drink and fine clothes. There's hardly any of that left, only that Bond wants his martini shaken, not stirred.'' (Mr. Moore says that he avoided saying any line that would put him into direct competition with Mr. Connery, and so he never asked for his martini to be shaken but let other characters ask for him.) ''Licence to Kill'' also has more realistic action sequences. It was apparent in the very first moments of ''The Living Daylights'' - when Mr. Dalton threw himself on top of a speeding Land Rover - that the actor would be able to bring back the gritty physicality of the early Sean Connery films. When Mr. Wilson watched the daily rushes on ''Licence,'' he was often startled to find Mr. Dalton doing his own action sequences instead of relying on stunt men. The actor wanted ''to make it believable,'' says Mr. Wilson.
  
  Believable, of course, is relative. Mr. Wilson points out that the two women with whom Bond sleeps in ''Licence'' are contemporary women who are tough and streetwise rather than damsels in distress. The bad one, a standard character who is often sacrificed, even manages to survive liaisons with 007 and the drug czar.
  
  But Bond is still instantly irresistible to gorgeous women, and the two ''Bond Girls'' are played by the fashion models Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto. In response to the plague of AIDS, Mr. Maibaum made Bond monogamous in ''The Living Daylights.'' ''Because of AIDS. I didn't think he could alley-cat around,'' Mr. Maibaum says. ''But they felt the picture would have done better if there had been more sex in it.'' The 80-year-old writer gives a wry smile. Mr. Bond leaps from one bed to another and back again in ''Licence.''
  
  The script for the next Bond movie will not be written until ''Licence to Kill'' has been released and the results analyzed, according to the marketing expert, Mr. Cooper. ''We try to learn something fairly precise from the results of the last movie,'' he says. ''People didn't like the fact that Bond had only one girl and a chaste relationship in 'Living Daylights.' ''
  
  Much earlier, in 1974, ''The Man With the Golden Gun'' was a disappointment at the box office. ''So Cubby said, 'Let's see how people react if we spend more money and get different production values,'' says Mr. Cooper. ''The Man With the Golden Gun'' had cost $9 million. ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' cost $13 million and was the first Bond picture to have a worldwide gross of more than $100 million. ''We said, 'O.K., we've learned something.' Instead of making the story in the book, we took 'Moonraker' into outer space, and the budget mushroomed to $33 million.'' For the last decade, the budgets have been stable, with ''Licence to Kill'' costing $35 million.
  
  Mr. Wilson, a former engineer and lawyer who never had any writing credits until ''For Your Eyes Only,'' is now setting the tone for the series. Mr. Maibaum sighs because he prefers ''the fantastical capers'' of the earliest Sean Connery films and such villains as the metal-fingered Dr. No, who lusts to dominate the world and Auric Goldfinger, a poisonous King Midas who suffocates one victim by covering her from head to toe with gold paint. But Mr. Maibaum still sets the structure, as he always has. ''Writing the villain's caper is the most difficult thing,'' says Mr. Maibaum. ''If you know what he's trying to accomplish - break into Fort Knox and steal all the gold or kill all the people on earth with a nerve gas - you know where the villain has to go to accomplish his ends and what James Bond has to do to foil him. The structure is mythological. It's Theseus and the Minotaur. Bond gets into a maze and he follows the thread, and you must see that you've got the necessary action sequences to bring Bond closer to or push him further away from the Minotaur.''
  
  Mr. Maibaum is sitting in his flesh-colored ranch house in the Pacific Palisades, a house a few miles from the Pacific Ocean where he has lived for the last 36 years. He says he is always fighting for a little less action and ''I beg for a little more space for characterization.''
  
  Looking back on 27 years of James Bond, Mr. Maibaum finds it easy to pick out what he calls ''the cream of the jest.'' The James Bond written by Ian Fleming ''was supposed to be educated, upper class, erudite and sybaritic with encyclopedic knowledge, all of which Sean Connery wasn't,'' Mr. Maibaum says. ''Underneath everything else, Sean was a rough, tough Scots football player. So audiences related to him in a way they would never have related to the people Fleming suggested to play the role, including David Niven.''
  
  For the last 18 years Mr. Connery has doggedly tried to put James Bond behind him. As early as 1964, the actor was telling an interviewer that although he didn't quite agree with Noel Coward, who had described Bond to him as ''a dreary slob,'' he certainly wasn't drawn to 007. ''I don't really suppose I'd like Bond if I met him. He's not my kind of chap at all,'' Mr. Connery said. When he was induced to play Bond once more in ''Never Say Never Again,'' a non-Broccoli Bond film, in 1983, he chose to play the secret agent as a 52-year-old man and ''to show how he and the world have changed.''
  
  For Mr. Moore, James Bond and the world have never changed. ''He always knew he was going to win everything and was highly amused by it all,'' says Mr. Moore. Although some fans hated Mr. Moore's interpretation, in general the films he starred in made more money than the Connery films.
  
  Mr. Dalton, who says he was asked to take on the role of James Bond when Mr. Connery quit - ''That would have been the most suicidal move I could make and, besides, I was too young'' - agreed to replace Mr. Moore only if he could play ''a James Bond I could believe in,'' a James Bond who in ''Licence to Kill'' has ''a moral justification for killing, if not necessarily a legal one.''
  
  Mr. Moore, for one, will never see ''Licence to Kill.'' Nor has he seen ''The Living Daylights.''
  
  ''I'm very honest,'' says the actor. ''If someone asked if I liked the films and I didn't like them, it would seem like sour grapes.''

  
  2002: Die Another Day principal photography is a wrap, filming today includes Madonna's role as Verity.

  
  
  

  2006: Manning Redwood dies at age 77--Surrey, England.
  (Born 16 February 1929--New York City, New York.)

  

  Manning Redwood (1929–2006)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715197/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Mini Bio (1)
  Lived in Harley street in London with his wife Kay, In 1986 they both moved to Fincham in Norfolk where they lived for many years, enjoying the quiet life. In 2004 after both their healths deteriorated, they moved to a nursing home in Surrey to be near the family. Sadly after a long illness Manning passed away at east Surrey hospital on 9th of July 2006. Cause of death, acute myocardial Infarction.
  
  - IMDb Mini Biography By: MICHAEL J PLATTS (Stepson)
  
  Spouse (1)
  Kathleen Joan Kiernan (25 March 1991 - 9 July 2006) ( his death)
  
  Trivia (1)

  Actor Manning Redwood, who appears as General Miller in Never Say Never Again, with Sean Connery, also appeared in the Bond Franchise's next Bond Film, A View to a Kill, as Bob Connelly, one of Max Zorin's associates. Redwood has the distinction of appearing in back-to-back Bond films with different Bond actors playing both a good guy and a bad guy (Joe Don Baker appeared with two Bond actors playing a hero and a villain, but only played an ally in back to back films) However, Joe Don Baker appears in three franchise Bond films while Redwood only appears in one.

  
  
  

  
  2021: Bond, James Bond (Live and Let Dine) comes to Key West on Bournemouth Pier!

  
  

  Bond Live & Let Dine Fri Jul 9, 2021

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/bournemouth/bond-live-and-let-dine/200020906241621

  Bond Live & Let Dine, 9 July | Event in Bournemouth | AllEvents.in Bond Live & Let Dine
  
  Bond, James Bond… comes to Key West on Bournemouth Pier!
  
  Theatre meets vendetta, meets dinner show as our hero tries to unravel who’s out to get him – and why! Imagine a cross between Jonny English, Naked Gun and Austin Powers.
  To coincide with the release of the latest blockbuster film, we are offering a fully immersive comedy dining show where the audience are transported into a slapstick, cartoon-style parody. A madcap evening awaits, featuring the much-loved characters in an adventuresome romp through the clichés of the movies adored by millions. With 4 actors playing 15 characters, expect lots of laughs, LOADS of costume changes and buckle up for the smallest car chase in history
  
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  Tickets for Bond Live & Let Dine can be booked here.
  
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  About The Host: Bournemouth Pier is a must-visit attraction with amazing views. Attractions include indoor climbing, zip wire, restaurant, cafes & gift shops.
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  Key West Bar & Grill, Bournemouth Pier, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

  
  
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  July 10th
  
  1958: BBC Home Service broadcasts Ian Fleming interviewing his friend Raymond Chandler.

  

  
  1967: The Los Angeles Times says Sean Connery has an invite to put his footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

  He doesn't until 13 April 1999.
  
  
  
  

  
  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films the car chase in Bangkok, Thailand.
  1977: Cary Joji Fukunaga is born--Oakland, California.
  
  1987: Iskallt uppdrag (Ice Cold Mission) released in Sweden.

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  1989: US West Hollywood premiere of Licence to Kill.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2009: Zena Moyra Marshall dies at age 84--London, England.
  (Born 1 January 1925--Nairobi, Kenya.)

  

  Zena Marshall
  Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
  Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT
  
  Marshall with Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No (1962)
  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/UNITED ARTISTS

  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

  

  Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  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")
  

  
  
  

  
  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #11.
  Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #11

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244711011
  Cover A: Dan Panosian
  Cover B: Michael Dowling
  Cover C: Dean Kotz
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker, Ibrahim Moustafa
  Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/10/2019

  "The Debt" continues. Lieutenant James Bond learns a new skill. A former friend helps atone for the death of another. And Bond descends into a part of war-torn London that few fresh faces emerge from unscathed. By JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers hosts John Barry and the Music of James Bond with Charles Fernandez on Zoom. Free.

  
  

  John Barry and the Music of James Bond with Charles Fernandez
  Saturday, July 10, 2021

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  John Barry and the Music of James Bond with Charles Fernandez, 10 July | Online Event | AllEvents.in John Barry and the Music of James Bond with Charles Fernandez
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  John Barry and the Music of James Bond with Charles Fernandez
  Where did John Barry come from? How did he get his start? How did he wind up scoring 11 bond films over a 25 year period? Come to an afternoon dedicated to John Barry and his Music for the James Bond Films. You will hear many, many clips from the films. Learn the major traits he used again and again.
  
  BIOS:

  Charles Fernandez is an award-winning, Emmy and Annie-nominated composer, orchestrator, bassoonist, educator and conductor. Hailing from New Orleans, he’s lived in Los Angeles since 1983.
  
  Companies he’s written music for include Disney, Universal, Dreamworks, Amblin, MGM, JUMBO and for shows such as Bonkers, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Casper, 101 Dalmatians, Toonsylvania, Robot Chicken, Doug and Mixed Nutz. He’s worked on countless trailers, including several James Bond trailers including Casino Royale and Spectre.
  
  As an educator, he teaches at UCLA Extension, The Los Angeles High School of the Arts and through Thinkspace (Based in England).
  
  His concert works and arrangements can be found on YouTube and range from Symphonic to Concert Band to Concerto and Chamber.

  John Barry Prendergast, was an English composer and conductor of film music and films.
  
  He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the "James Bond Theme" to the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as The Scarlet Letter, The Cotton Club, The Tamarind Seed, Mary, Queen of Scots, Game of Death, and the theme for the British television cult series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music.
  
  Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed his own band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers the head of music at United Artists approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and Bond series that lasted for 25 years.
  
  He received many awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black.
  
  In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011.

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  2021: Free James Bond Walking Tour, by London with a Local.

  
  

  Jul
  10
  Free James Bond Walking Tour
  by London with a Local
  Free

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  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-james-bond-walking-tour-tickets-160405803075

  Join and step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy!
  
  About this event
  Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, The Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!
  
  Hear about the time the Queen spent a few minutes with Bond for the 2012 Olympics! Take a few detours along the way to delve into the life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, who spent the Second World War working in Naval Intelligence and built his own team of super spies along the way.
  
  On the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage you will wing by the Ministry of Defence to learn about the Secret Service’s real ‘C’, Mansfield Cumming, first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, and more in a fun, entertaining 2-hour stroll that will absolutely captivate you!

  
  
  

  2021: Cars & Octane - 007 Edition Car Show at Dezerland Park Orlando, Florida. Free.

  

  Cars & Octane - 007 Edition
  Sat Jul 10 2021 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-04:00
  Dezerland Park Orlando | Pine Hills

  

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  https://stayhappening.com/e/cars-andamp-octane-007-edition-E2ISTOKM51N

  FREE Car Show at Dezerland Park Orlando, located on I Drive
  All Makes, Models, & Vintages Welcome
  JAMES BOND Theme + Exhibit Tours
  Raffles, DJ, Giveaways
  17+ Attractions Inside including 2000+ vehicle Auto Museum, Karting, Bowling, Pinball, Axe Throwing, & MORE

  Presented by:
  Dezerland Park
  Classic Details FL
  Tint World Orlando
  Kampala Kustomz
  OBC/Bimmer Invasion
  Overkill Lighting

  Event Venue & Nearby Stays
  Dezerland Park Orlando, 5250 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819, Pine Hills, United States

  
  
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  July 11th
  
  1964: Goldfinger's nineteen-week production finishes after five final days in Andermatt, Switzerland.
  
  1985: Agente 007 - Bersaglio mobile (Agent 007 - Moving Target) released in Italy.

  
  
  
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  1987: 鐵金剛大戰 特務飛龍 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn tèwù fēilóng; Iron King Wars Agent Flying Dragon) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale completes filming for the falling house in Venice.
  2007: Through BBC News, Sebastien Faulks describes how he came to write a Bond novel to be published May 2008.

  

  Faulks pens new James Bond novel

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6289186.stm

  Wednesday, 11 July 2007

  
  Faulks said he found writing the book "thrilling"

  
  Sebastian Faulks has
  emerged as the author
  chosen to write a new officially
  endorsed James Bond novel.
  
  The British writer - whose books include Birdsong and Charlotte Gray - was commissioned by the Fleming estate last year but his identity kept secret.
  
  Devil May Care is set in "several of the world's most thrilling cities" during the Cold War.
  
  The book will be published on 28 May next year to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.
  
  The Fleming estate announced last year that it had commissioned a "well known and highly respected" writer for the task.
  
  Faulks, 54, said his new book is "about 80% Fleming" and admitted being "surprised" that he was the estate's choice.
  
  He said: "I was surprised but flattered to be asked by the Fleming estate last summer if I would write a one-off Bond book for the Ian Fleming Centenary.
  
  "I told them that I hadn't read the books since the age of 13, but if, when I re-read them, I still enjoyed them and could see how I might be able to do something in the same vein, then I would be happy to consider it.
  
  "On re-reading, I was surprised by how well the books stood up."
  
  He added: "I put this down to three things - the sense of jeopardy Fleming creates about his solitary hero, a certain playfulness in the narrative details, and a crisp, journalistic style that hasn't dated."
  

  
  Ian Fleming died in 1964

  
  Faulks said he attempted to "isolate the most essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books".
  
  He added: "I found writing this light-hearted book more thrilling than I had expected."
  
  The last of Fleming's 14 books about the secret agent was Octopussy and the Living Daylights, which was published in 1966 - two years after his death.
  
  The first was the 1953 book Casino Royale, made into a film last year with Daniel Craig.
  
  It is not yet known if the new book will be turned into a Bond film.
  
  Corinne Turner, managing director of Ian Fleming Publications, said: "The Fleming family were delighted with the typescript when we received it.
  
  "Sebastian couldn't have written a better book to celebrate Ian's 100th birthday."
  
  Actor and author Charlie Higson was licensed to write books about James Bond's school days. He has so far written four books under the Young Bond banner aimed at younger readers.

  
  2017: y101FM reports that Christopher Nolan wants to do a Bond film.

  

  Christopher Nolan plans to direct and “reinvent” a James Bond movie

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  https://www.y101fm.com/features/lifestyle/entertainment/5746-christopher-nolan-plans-to-direct-and-reinvent-a-james-bond-movie

  Details
  Written by Kevin Tocino | Published: 11 July 2017

  
  Image Source:showfilmfirst.com

  The director of Inception, Interstellar, and The Dark Knight Trilogy discusses the possibility of directing a future 007 film.
  
  Christopher Nolan, one of the most prolific directors working today, has spoken out about the possibility of directing a James Bond film in the near future.
  
  The English director, whose latest movie Dunkirk hits cinemas on July 20, has been linked to the spy franchise for a number of years. Speaking to Playboy recently, Nolan registered his interest in possibly taking the director’s chair on a future Bond film – but only if the series was in need of some “reinvention.”

  Asked if he’d be interested in taking on the job, Nolan said: “A Bond movie, definitely. I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it.
  
  “Maybe one day it would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they’re getting along very well.”

  2019: Red Bull teams with Formula 1 to promote James Bond.

  

  Red Bull to Celebrate Bond
  with Special Silverstone
  Livery

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.red-bull-to-celebrate-bond-with-special-silverstone-livery.7hRHuzgwGkcF9M543qfa0B.html

  

  Red Bull plan to leave Formula 1 fans shaken and stirred at this weekend’s British Grand Prix, as the team’s title sponsors Aston Martin and the world of James Bond celebrate F1’s 1007th race.

  Both Red Bull cars will feature special additions to their race liveries, including the iconic 007 logo, Bond number plates on the back of the rear wings, as well as pit garage graphics inspired by Q’s MI6 Lab.
  
  Max Verstappen’s car will run the number plate from the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger (1964) while Pierre Gasly’s RB15 will feature the Aston Martin V8 plate from The Living Daylights (1987).

  

  “Celebrating Bond at F1’s 1007th race was too good an opportunity to miss given our title partnership with Aston Martin,” said Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner. “Showcasing the world of James Bond here at the British Grand Prix, our second home race of the season, is really exciting. Aston Martin is inextricably linked to Bond and his cars have become truly iconic so we’re really looking forward to this weekend at Silverstone.”
  
  Aston Martin Lagonda President and Group CEO, Dr Andy Palmer, added: “Aston Martin is proud of its association with James Bond. This weekend, we look forward to celebrating this longstanding partnership at Formula 1’s 1007th Grand Prix.”
  
  Fans attending Silverstone this weekend will also be able to visit 007’s Bond In Motion exhibition in the F1 Fan Zone.

  
  
  
  

  
  2021: The Great Drive-In Cinema Movie Night presents James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.

  

  The Great Drive-In Cinema - Movie Night- James
  Bond - Diamonds Are Forever at Warwick.
  Sun Jul 11 2021 at 09:00 pm to 11:40 pm UTC+01:00
  Hilton Warwick / Stratford-upon-Avon | Warwick

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  Publisher/HostHilton Warwick / Stratford-upon-Avon
  
  The Great Drive-In Cinema - Movie Night- James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever
  Get ready to be put into a fantastic mood and join us for the ultimate Drive-In Experience. Featuring - Diamonds are Forever!
  All our events are Completely Covid-19 Secure. Keep warm in the comfort of your own car. We’ve got state of the art sound and screens plus a fantastic selection of food and drink available.
  Make sure you Pre Order your food by emailing the hotel directly for a food menu form.
  Our Drive In Cinema experience will utilise state of the art cinema equipment with a combination of the highest definition projectors offering full HD picture quality and wireless transmission - just tune in to your car radio to hear the sound with your speakers and produce an exceptional cinematic experience.
  
  BOOKING YOUR TICKETS
  Tickets prices are per car.
  Parking Spaces will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. VIP Priority Ticket holders will gain access to our Golden Circle which is located within the first front 3 rows. VIP Priority Ticket holders must attend the event 15 minutes prior to the the event start time.
  In the Golden Circle, no 4x4 vehicles, SUV's or vans are permitted.
  Please note 4x4's and large vehicles will be placed on the back row or to the side to prevent blocking the view of others.
  
  PARKING
  Please ensure you follow the Parking Marshall's and only move when directed.
  Once parked you will not be able to leave your allocated bay until the end of the event. No vehicles are authorised to move throughout the site whilst the event is open. When leaving this event please do not overtake other vehicles , follow Marshalls instructions at all times. This will ensure all audience members can leave the site safety and in the shortest time possible.
  Please ensure any lights (including daytime running lights) are switched off once you park in your allocated bay. Remember to switch your lights back when exiting the event.
  
  ENTRY TO SITE
  You must provide your ticket order reference, Name and Registration Number for the car you are going to attend the event in. This will be used onsite to identify your booking. If you need to change your vehicle please contact [email protected] at the earliest opportunity to provide your new registration plate.
  Please also ensure if you're ordering food that you use the same booking name as your cinema ticket.
  Upon arrival at the event your vehicle number plate will be scanned and your booking will be verified.
  
  FOOD & DRINK
  PLEASE NOTE IT IS NOT PERMITTED TO BRING YOUR OWN FOOD AND DRINKS ONTO THE SITE. IF YOU ARE FOUND TO BE CONSUMING FOOD & DRINK BROUGHT ONTO THE SITE BY OUR MARSHALLS YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.
  We highly recommend pre-ordering food and drinks packages online when purchasing your tickets. Please do this by contacting the venue directly
  Any alcoholic drinks purchased on site must be consumed before you leave the site.
  
  TOILETS
  Toilets will be located onsite. A queuing area with 2 metre spaces will be marked out. Please make sure you maintain your distance from other customers.
  Hand sanitiser stations will be positioned outside the toilets (as well as inside) so please sanitise your hands before and after. The toilets are regularly cleaned and inspected.
  
  MEDICS / ASSISTANCE
  Other than using the toilet and collecting food from beside the car you will not need to leave your vehicle.
  If you require medical assistance, we do have medics onsite. Please turn on your car hazard lights on and a member of staff will attend as soon as possible.
  Information will be displayed on screen and via audio announcements through your speakers. Please look/listen out for these.
  
  WEATHER CONDITIONS
  Please note if there are bad weather conditions for example a storm or lightning, we may have to stop the event.
  If winds speeds are over 24mph we maybe forced to use a back up Smaller Screen solutions which will withstand high gale winds. If we feel the event conditions are not safe we will reschedule due to safety reasons.
  
  LEAVING THE EVENT
  At the end of the event please follow the directions of the parking team. Please help us to protect the environment and prevent the spread of Covid-19 by taking your rubbish home with you.
  
  Event Venue & Nearby Stays
  Hilton Warwick / Stratford-upon-Avon, Junction 15, M40, A429 Stratford Rd, Warwick, United Kingdom

  

  2021: Last day for James Bond Brunch at the established price (valley residents & ski season ticket holders), Piz Gloria.

  
  

  James Bond Brunch (valley residents & ski season ticket holders)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://schilthorn.ch/56/en/James_Bond_Brunch_(valley_residents__and__ski_season_ticket_holders)

  

  Includes return cableway journey from Stechelberg to the Schilthorn and the James Bond Brunch at the Piz Gloria 360-degree revolving restaurant.
  
  With Top4 or Jungfrau Ski Region season ticket 2020/2021 or a valid local resident card.
  
  Price per person
  CHF
  Adults 50.00
  Children (6 - 15 years) 25.00
  Children with Junior Cards 15.00
  
  Price per person including cableway journey Stechelberg – Schilthorn round trip and James Bond Brunch at the 360-degree Piz Gloria revolving restaurant.
  
  Please show your season ticket or local resident card at the ticket office in Stechelberg.
  
  Valid daily until 11 July 2021.
  
  Cannot be combined with other offers/discounts.

  2021: National Mojito Day in the US.

  

  Mojito Day

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/mojito-day/

  Sat Jul 11th, 2020

  

  Celebrate with us!
  The Mojito is one of the most popular classic cocktails around the world! So, you will be pleased to know that you have the perfect excuse to enjoy a few Mojitos on Mojito Day!
  
  The Mojito is a conventional Cuban highball! It consists of white rum, mint, sparkling water, lime juice, and sugar. However, there have been a lot of different variations on the classic drink, with people adding different fruits, such as strawberry and mango mojitos. Some people also enjoy sparkling mojitos, finishing off their drink with a splash of champagne! You can certainly have a lot of fun experimenting.
  
  History Of Mojito Day
  A lot of people know the Mojito as being the favorite drink of famous author Ernest Hemingway. But, where did it all begin for this tasty cocktail? The birthplace of this refreshing drink is Havana, Cuba. Nevertheless, there has been a lot of debate about the exact origin of the drink! It’s known that local South American Indians had cures for several different tropical illnesses. So, a small boarding group went to Cuba, coming back with ingredients for medicine. They included local tropical ingredients – mint, sugarcane juice, and lime – as well as a crude form of rum, which was known as aguardiente de caña. That translates to burning water! While this drink was not known as a mojito at the time, it included a combination of the ingredients that we have come to associate with the drink.
  
  Some historians believe the cocktail’s origin owes a lot to African slaves who were working on the sugar cane fields in Cuba during the 19th century. The sugar cane juice called Guarapo is often found in mojitos, and this was popular amongst African slaves at the time.
  
  In terms of the name mojito, there is also a lot of confusion and theories about where it stemmed from! Some people believe that it is merely a derivative of the Spanish word for ‘a little wet’ – mojadito. There are then others who think that name relates to mojo, which is a Cuban seasoning that is made from lime and used to flavor dishes.
  
  How to celebrate Mojito Day
  Of course, the best way to observe Mojito Day is by making your own version of the cocktail. We’re going to take you through how to make a Mojito.
  
  Making your own Mojito
  First of all, let’s begin by giving you a shopping list of all the ingredients you will require if you wish to make a Mojito. These are as follows…

  • Rum
  • Limes
  • Mint Leaves
  • Club Soda
  • Sugar
  • Ice

  
  The first step of the Mojito recipe is to make a simple syrup. This is essentially sugar water, and it presents a great way of balancing out the limes’ sourness. So, how do you make it?

  • Place one cup of water and one cup sugar in a pan
  • Heat in order to dissolve the sugar
  • Once the sugar has dissolved, you can remove the pan from the heat
  • Add approximately 15 mint leaves and leave them to steep
  • Allow the simple syrup to cool

  So, now you have your simple syrup ready! The next thing you need to do is squeeze some limes. Fresh limes taste much better than lime juice. You can really tell the difference. Squeeze the limes to get the juice necessary. You will probably need to squeeze either one or two limes per Mojito.
  
  Once you have done this, the next thing you need to do is prepare your glasses. You should add a few mint leaves to the bottom of the glass. You should then muddle them. Don’t press too hard. Be gentle whilst breaking up the mint leaves. Why is this step important? Well, it will release the flavor and essence of the mint leaves, which, of course, adds to the cocktail. You should then finish off by adding several ice cubes to the glass.
  
  Now you have done all of the preparation. It is time to serve your Mojito. Getting the ratio of ingredients right is vital so that you have the right balance. We recommend mixing two ounces of rum with one and a half ounces of the mint-infused simple syrup you have created. You should then add one ounce of lime juice and a splash of club soda. Mix this all together and then pour it over the ice and mint leaves that you have already added to the glass. Now your cocktail is ready to serve!
  
  This is a cocktail that is incredibly refreshing with lots of delicate flavors. You can, of course, adjust the measurements to suit yourself. Perhaps you’d prefer your Mojito a bit stronger? If so, add a bit more rum until you are satisfied. Enjoy!
  
  Other suggestions for Mojito Day
  Of course, making your own Mojito is one of the best ways to observe this day, but we have plenty of other ideas as well…
  

  • Why not make mojito ice lollies? You can freeze the ingredients of a mojito to make refreshing cocktail lollies.
  • Bake some mojito inspired cakes and treats. If you do a bit of digging online, you will see that there are some fantastic mojito cake recipes. This includes mojito drizzle loaf cake and mojito cheesecakes. Wash these down with the classic cocktail and you’re going to be in mojito heaven!
  • Have a cocktail party with your friends. Mojito Day is the perfect excuse to get all of your friends around and enjoy a cocktail party!
  • Make your own version of a mojito. We have given you the classic recipe for a mojito, but why not spice things up with your own creation? There have been so many exciting and delicious variations of the Mojito, so you’re bound to have lots of fun experimenting with different ingredients and flavors.

  
  No matter how you decide to celebrate Mojito Day, make sure you drink responsibly! No getting in your car to tell your friends about your delicious creations!

  
  
  

  
  
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  July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  July 12th
  
  1933: Donald Edwin Westlake is born--Brooklyn, New York.
  (He dies 31 December 2008 at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.)

  

  DONALD WESTLAKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

  

  
  Autobiography

  
  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.
  

  
  Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
  Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

  

  Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

  Writer | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  

  FOREVER AND A DEATH

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

  Donald E. Westlake
  June 2017
  ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7
  
  Cover art by Paul Mann

  A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
  A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
  AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

  Read a sample chapter
  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt
  
  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

  
  
  

  
  1961: Variety says the next likely Bond is Patrick Allen.

  

  1961: Caroline Bliss is born--Hammersmith, London, England.
  1966: Tony Mockler writes in The Guardian: "How long will the spies last? ...Is the spy bubble about to burst?"
  1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 discovering Osato's connections to SPECTRE.
  
  1973: UK general release for Live and Let Die.

  
  

  1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports that the second unit for The Man With the Golden Gun relocated from planned Thailand locations, due to the collapse of the Thai government and political turmoil.
  1979: Moonraker released in The Netherlands.
  
  1981: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) dies at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.
  (Born 19 June 1913-–London, England.)

  
  Ann Fleming
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fleming
  

  
  Fleming in 1957

  Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
  Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
  Nationality British
  Known for Hostess

  Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.
  
  Life
  Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.
  
  She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.
  
  Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

  The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.
  
  In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

  The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.
  
  Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

  

  1985: Levande måltavla (Live Target; or Living Target) released in Sweden.

  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  
  2013: Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee dies at age 53--Seaford, East Sussex, England.
  (Born is born 4 May 1960--Harrow, London, England.)

  

  Paul Bhattacharjee obituary

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jul/18/paul-bhattacharjee

  Elegant and meticulous actor whose work ranged from
  Shakespeare to EastEnders
  

  
  Paul Bhattacharjee as Benedick with Meera Syal as Beatrice in the RSC's Much Ado About Nothing,
  directed by Iqbal Khan, at Stratford last year. Photograph: Nigel Norrington

  

  Paul Bhattacharjee (1960–2013)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080335/
  

  
  
  

  2014: Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I, reported inspiration for Ian Fleming and Goldfinger, goes under the hammer.

  

  Aston Martin that inspired 'Goldfinger' goes up for auction

  https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-07-11-aston-martin-that-inspired-goldfinger-goes-up-for-auction/
  11 July 2014 - 12:08 By AFP Relaxnews
  
  This 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mk I Vantage inspired Ian Fleming as he was writing the James Bond novel Goldfinger.
  Image: AFP Relaxnews ©COYS

  This Saturday, July 12, the 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/5 Mk I that inspired Ian Fleming when writing his James Bond novel Goldfinger will be auctioned by Coys of Kensington at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England.

  The model going under the hammer belonged to a certain Lord Phillip Ingram Cunliffe-Lister, son of Lord Swinton, who once headed up the British Security Service (MI5) and was on close terms with Winston Churchill. The vehicle's owner, who was also Ian Fleming's boss, often visited Ian Fleming's next-door neighbors in Kent.
  
  Coys notes that the car is equipped with reinforced steel bumpers, secret hiding places, an anti-interference ignition system and a two-way radio -- exactly like the model described in Goldfinger. Long abandoned, the Aston Martin in question has now been thoroughly restored. Somewhat surprisingly, the official catalog does not list the estimated value of this unique vehicle.

  It is worth noting that the 1964 film adaptation of Goldfinger actually placed Sean Connery at the wheel of an Aston Martin DB5.

  The model is one of over 90 collector cars going under the hammer this Saturday, including several Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, Mercedes, Jaguars and even a 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Series I Ventoux. The latter model is expected to fetch between £275,000 and £320,000 ($470,600-$547,500).
  
  More information: www.coys.co.uk

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Skyfall re-release in the UK.
  2016: Sotheby's auctions an edited copy of You Only Live Twice.

  

  Ian Fleming’s Last Notes on ‘You
  Only Live Twice’ Before His Death

  http://www.realclearlife.com/auctions/ian-flemings-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-last-notes/
  Edited version of penultimate novel up for auction with Sotheby's on July 12
  
  
  Author Ian Fleming, circa 1960 (Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
  
  For James Bond fans, You Only Live Twice might be one of the best book-and-movie combinations in the series—and a piece of its history is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s London on July 12. The last novel Fleming published before his death, You Only Live Twice finds Bond a broken man after the death of his wife, Tracy. The spy ends up venturing to Japan for a final showdown with his arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Ironically, the book ends with an obituary of Bond written by his boss, M. With Fleming’s passing just months after the book’s publication, You Only Live Twice is a fitting tribute to the Bond creator.
  
  Sotheby’s is offering a complete, corrected typescript of the book—with proof markings in purple from Fleming’s copyeditor and blue pen from the author himself. Fleming’s typist produced just eight copies of the script for his publisher. Pre-auction estimates put it at $30,000–$40,000.
  
  For more on the Fleming typescript, click here.
  http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html
  
  Take a look at the first edited page of Bond’s obituary below.
  
  https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l16404-/lot.162.html

  Fleming, Ian
  'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE', CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT,
  with extensive corrections and proof markings by a copy-editor in purple ball-point, the corrected text then checked by the author in blue ball-point WITH SUBSTANTIVE AUTOGRAPH REVISIONS TO APPROXIMATELY 65 PAGES, mostly single words or short phrases but including one eight-line textual addition (p.228), further textual revisions added in a second editorial hand (presumably representing additional authorial revisions made in another typescript) in red ball-point, and also with occasional editorial queries in green ink (pp.26, 192, 197), the first four pages (contents, dedication, divisional title, and first page of text) supplied in contemporary photocopy from another copy of the typescript, the remainder being carbon copy typescript, 255 pages, post quarto (260 x 206mm), March-May 1963, punch holes, held together by a prong fastener in a blue folder labelled "You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming", lacking title page, some abrasion at punch holes, light marks, tears to folder

  
  Literature
  Gilbert A12a (pp.386-87)
  Catalogue Note
  WORKING TYPESCRIPT OF FLEMING'S TWELFTH BOND NOVEL, THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE 'BLOFELD TRILOGY'. It was also the first novel to be conceived and written after the beginning of the film franchise. Fleming had become fascinated with Japan on a 1959 visit. In 1962 he returned to the country, having decided that it would be the setting of his next Bond book (his research notes from the tip were sold at auction in 2002), and he began writing the novel shortly thereafter. By April 1963 the manuscript was completed and ready to be typed. His typist, Jean Frampton (who had typed all Fleming's manuscripts from For Your Eyes Only of 1959) produced eight copies for distribution to the editorial staff at Cape. The novel was printed in December 1963.

  
  

  
  2019: No Time To Die films OO7 and M near London’s Hammersmith Bridge.

  

  'No Time To Die': Bond and M have a clandestine encounter
  in new photo

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/no-time-to-die-james-bond-daniel-craig-ralph-fiennes-090922592.html

  Tom Butler·Senior Editor | July 13, 2020

  
  Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Craig as M and James Bond in No Time To Die. (@007/Instagram)

  A new photo from No Time To Die, the next James Bond film, has been shared online.
  
  It shows Ralph Fiennes as M and Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 having a conversation in front of London’s Hammersmith Bridge.
  
  According to the caption on the photo, which was shared on the official 007 Instagram account, the scene was filmed one year ago, on 12 July, 2019. The new picture comes amid rumours the film may face another delay after already being pushed back from April to November due to coronavirus.
  
  M is wearing an overcoat and clutching a newspaper in the new snap, while Bond wears a smart tailored suit, giving the impression of an unplanned or clandestine encounter.

  The 25th James Bond film will find 007 retired from active service, but brought back into action by Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) who seeks his help in tracking down a missing scientist.
  
  Daniel Craig, who will play Bond for the fifth and final time in No Time To Die, seems to be wearing the same clothes he wears in the publicity photo of him in front of Timothy Dalton’s classic Aston Martin V8 (below).

  
  Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in a promotional still for No Time To Die. (Eon/Universal)

  No Time To Die marks Fiennes’ third appearance as Bond’s boss M – real name Gareth Mallory – after joining the long-running spy series in 2012’s Skyfall.
  
  The film, from Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM), and Universal Pictures International is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and stars Daniel Craig. Written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade (Spectre, Skyfall), Cary Joji Fukunaga, Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Killing Eve, Fleabag).

  No Time To Die also stars Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah with Jeffrey Wright and Ralph Fiennes and comes to cinemas on 12 November.
  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  July 13th
  
  1945: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  

  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress

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

  
  Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
  Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

  Friday 13 July, 1945
  
  I. came to dinner. He is likely to be offered a new job he thinks he won’t be able to refuse. Goodbye then to Jamaica and the dreams that have sustained him during the hard work of these last years.

  
  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."

  
  Anatomy of a Song

  The Secret Agent in Carly Simon’s ‘Nobody Does It Better’
  The singer, the lyricist Carole Bayer Sager and others look back
  on the Bond theme for ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’—and the duality of James

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-agent-in-carly-simons-nobody-does-it-better-11589031471

  
  Carly Simon sang the 1977 hit theme for ‘The Spy Who Loved Me.’ Michael Putland/Getty Images
  By Marc Myers | May 9, 2020 9:37 am ET
  
  In the fall of 1977, Carly Simon’s sultry rendition of “Nobody Does It Better” rose to No. 2 on Billboard’s pop chart, casting James Bond in a new light.
  
  Written by Carole Bayer Sager (words) and Marvin Hamlisch (music) for “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the Bond theme was the first to be titled differently from the movie.
  
  As 007 fans await “No Time to Die”—delayed until November but already teased with a theme by Billie Eilish—Ms. Bayer Sager, Ms. Simon, pianist Michael Omartian and arranger Richard Hewson revisited their hit. Last year, Ms. Bayer Sager received the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Johnny Mercer Award; Ms. Simon’s most recent book is Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie. Edited from interviews:

  
  ‘The song had a stronger feel coming from the female perspective,’ says lyricist Carole Bayer Sager,
  here in 1977. Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images

  
  Carole Bayer Sager:

  In mid-1976, Marvin Hamlisch and I were at his New York apartment working on a song. It wasn’t going too well.
  
  At the end of our writing session, Marvin said, “I’m going to London to work on the next James Bond film—“The Spy Who Loved Me.” When I get back, let’s try again to write something.”
  
  The Bond title didn’t sound great for a song. I said, “Oh wow, James Bond, yeah. If I was going to write a Bond theme, I think I’d call it, ‘Nobody Does It Better.’ ” The title just popped into my head.
  
  “I like that,” Marvin said, turning back to the keyboard. Within 10 minutes, he had a chorus melody written. I sat for another 10 minutes and came up with the lyrics:

  “Nobody does it better /
  Makes me feel sad for the rest /
  Nobody does it half as good as you /
  Baby, you’re the best.”

  Marvin wrote the music for two verses, but there wasn’t time to add lyrics. Marvin said he’d put the music on a cassette tape and leave it with me.
  
  “My biggest job will be to convince [Bond producer] Cubby Broccoli to take a chance on you,” he said.
  
  I wasn’t insulted. I knew they liked to stick to name brands. But I was hopeful. A few days later, Marvin called from London. I was given the go-ahead.
  
  
  
  While Marvin was there scoring the film, I began working on lyrics for the verses and remaining choruses in New York. Days later I relocated to Los Angeles. By then, many of the people I wrote with had moved West. Also, my marriage to Andrew [Sager] wasn’t working out. Space was a good thing.
  
  I rented a house in West Hollywood. Over the next few weeks, I finished the lyrics and sent them to Marvin in London.
  
  I used the movie title just once—in the first verse—just to get it out of the way:

  “But like heaven above me /
  The spy who loved me /
  Is keepin’ all my secrets safe tonight.”

  The song had a stronger feel coming from the female perspective. Instead of just being loved by a spy, she had an opinion about the quality of his performance and passion.
  
  I didn’t set out to make a statement. It was just me, as a woman, thinking about Bond. He was such a cool, sexy hero.
  
  I also wanted his sensuality and the captivating power of his sexuality to be mystifying, leaving the woman baffled about how she wound up in love.
  
  I did this by having the singer pose two questions to Bond in the lyrics:

  “And nobody does it better /
  Though sometimes I wish someone could /
  Nobody does it quite the way you do /
  Why’d you have to be so good?
  
  “The way that you hold me /
  Whenever you hold me /
  There’s some kind of magic inside you /
  That keeps me from runnin’ /
  But just keep it comin’ /
  How’d you learn to do the things you do?”

  Those questions reveal that she didn’t want to fall for him but did. The questions also introduce female vulnerability and sensuality, as if spoken in bed after.
  
  Carly Simon was my first choice to sing the theme. Marvin agreed. Carly was sexy in her demeanor and bedroom voice. She promoted that image on the covers of her albums.
  
  Her voice had a lot of texture. It’s smooth and strong, and yet it has a great pop sensibility—not too serious and yet intensely sensitive and revealing.
  
  I told Marvin that if Carly came aboard, he should encourage her to ad lib the line, “James, you’re the best.” I wanted the duality of James Bond and James Taylor, her husband at the time.
  
  Marvin flew back to New York to play Carly our song.

  
  
  Carly Simon:

  In late 1976, my manager, Arlyne Rothberg, told me I was being considered for the next Bond theme.
  
  I was excited. Ever since “Goldfinger” in ’64, I wanted to sing one. The theme always opened the film.
  
  I was pregnant with Ben at the time, and James Taylor and I were living on Central Park West.
  
  Arlyne told me who the songwriters were, but I didn’t personally know Carole or Marvin then.
  
  She said Marvin wanted to stop up the next day to play it for me. I said, “Sure.” But I goofed. I forgot that a new tax attorney was coming by with papers. I hadn’t met him yet.
  
  The next day, when the doorbell rang, it was the tax guy with heavy glasses in a black suit and tie. I went into the kitchen to make us tea.
  
  As the water boiled, I wondered why the tax guy was playing my piano. When I came out with the tea, the pianist turned out to be Marvin. I didn’t realize he looked like an accountant.
  
  Marvin sang and played “Nobody Does it Better.” Then I sang it back. I don’t read music, but I when I listen, the music sticks.
  
  Before Marvin left, I told him how great the song was and that I’d love to record it. Then Ben was born in January, so I needed a little time before recording.
  
  In April ’77, I had to be in L.A. While there, producer Richard Perry recorded my vocal for “Nobody Does It Better” with session musicians, including pianist Michael Omartian.

  
  Marvin Hamlisch, here in 1977, wrote the music for ‘Nobody Does It Better.’
  Photo: Keith Bernstein/Redferns/Getty Images

  
  Michael Omartian:

  Marvin was in the studio, too. He came up with the piano intro. I was on the Fender Rhodes electric piano.
  
  But Marvin’s sense of time was off slightly. After many takes, Richard called Marvin into the control booth. He suggested Marvin let me take a shot at the piano. Marvin agreed. He wrote out the intro on a sheet of paper. Then I sat down at the piano, and we nailed it in a take or two. Later, I overdubbed my Fender Rhodes part.
  
  We also created a lengthy ending so the orchestrator would have plenty of room to arrange strings around Carly’s vocal.
  
  During the recording of the outro, Carly ad-libbed and layered her vocal several times: “Bay-bee…you’re…the best, sweet baby, dar-ling… you’re…the best.” That’s where she worked in “James.”

  Ms. Simon:

  As I recorded my vocal, I imagined how the movie would start. Bond films always had plenty of action before the theme song came on.
  
  I also felt Carole’s female perspective in the lyrics. They fit me perfectly. Adding “James, you’re the best” was the perfect homage.
  
  Richard Hewson: By 1977, I had already worked with producer Richard Perry on a number of albums by American artists. I also had orchestrated the Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road” and “I Me Mine.”
  
  After I finished my arrangement, Marvin and I disagreed over the ending. I had added horns to the strings. It was a Bond theme and needed a brassy flourish.
  
  Marvin favored holding a single note until it faded. To his credit, Richard backed me up, and Marvin eventually agreed. I conducted the orchestra at Abbey Road’s Studio Two.

  
  Carly Simon and then-husband James Taylor in New York in 1977.
  Photo: Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images

  Ms. Simon:

  Marvin screened the film for us in New York on the evening of July 13—two weeks before the movie opened on July 27.
  
  Only a handful of us were there—Marvin and Carole, James and me, and our friends, drummer Russ Kunkel and his wife Leah, Cass Elliot’s sister, and their son, Nathaniel.
  
  The film began with Bond, played by Roger Moore, skiing down the Alps chased by bad guys with guns. To escape, Bond skied straight off a cliff.
  
  His Union Jack parachute opened and he descended. When the silhouette of a women’s hands came up to cradle him, my theme began. I was breathless.
  
  About five minutes after the end of my theme, the film and score began to slow and then stopped completely. We were in the dark.
  
  A woman with a flashlight arrived and told us there had been a citywide blackout. She led us out.
  
  Since we were on the West Side, we all headed up to my apartment. We lit candles, and I opened the windows.
  
  Everyone stayed overnight. Marvin played the piano and we all sang. I kept getting ice from the deli downstairs. I sang “Nobody Does It Better” any number of ways. James sang, too. He loved the song.
  
  It was wonderful and the only night like it in my life. There we were around the piano during the 1977 blackout. It was a thrill. My blackout just happened to include James Taylor and James Bond.

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

  
  
  

  1977: In the Washington Post, Gary Arnold reviews The Spy Who Loved Me as "Bond Meets Barbie."

  

  Bond Meets Barbie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/07/13/bond-meets-barbie/24326f56-7119-4ad5-9089-54dd501db4a0/

  By Gary Arnold | July 13, 1977
  
  "The Spy Who Loved Me," opening today at area theaters, gets off to a promising start but proves seriously deficient in staying power. Several diverting gambits put one in a receptive mood at the outlet: a KGB music box tinkles the theme from "Dr. Zhivago"; a stuntman doubling for Roger Moore as James Bond culminates a chase sequence filmed on Baffin Island with a stupendous, heart-stopping ski jump off a precipice and potentially into eternity; Maurice Binder contributes yet another splendidly suggestive credit sequence, topping even himself with silhouettes of women gymnasts swinging and vaulting from the barrel of Bond's Walther automatic.
  
  It appears that the series may have recuperated promptly from the doldrums of the last Bond adventure, "The Man With the Golden Gun." Instead, Binder's credits turn out to be the high point of the show.
  
  There's a splashy climactic battle sequence, staged across the majestic length and breadth of one of Ken Adam's cavernous sets, representing the interior of a supertanker concealing British, Soviet and American nuclear submarines hijacked by the villain, and it would probably match up with the equivalent showdowns in "You Only Live Twice" or "Thunderball" if contemplated in the abstract. Unfortunately, the interventing explosition has grown so stale and tedious that one can't take as much gratuitous pleasure in the spectacle of choreographed mayhem. In contrast to "Star Wars," for example, there's no suspense to be resolved in the climactic action of "The Spy Who Loved Me." One is simply grateful to see a ponderous vehicle nearing a conclusion.
  
  While it never sags as alarmingly as its immediate predecessor, "Spy," the 10th film in the series, is at best a tolerable disappointment. The Bond movies have been so successful that it may be commercially impossible to terminate the series. However, it's been quite a while since a Bond adventure appeared to set fashions in escapist, glamorous entertainment. Once widely imitated and parodied by other producers, Bond films are now more likely to imitate themselves with decreasing effectiveness.
  
  To cite one of the most glaring misjudgments, who cast Barbara Bach as the leading lady, a Russian spy whose hatred for Bond is supposed to evaporate as they work and play together really does look indistinguishable from a Barbie doll. Pairing Bond with such a figure at this stage of the series can only make the hero and the filmmakers look ridiculous.
  
  It might be hilariously appropriate to cast a model-starlet as waxen as Barbara Bach if one were planning the final put-down of Bond and wanted to make the point that a life-size Barbie doll was the logical extension of his desires. Coming from people presumably trying to sustain a popular formula, such a casting choice must be considered foolish or unconsciously revealing. Could it be producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli or director Lewis Gilbert who has visions of Barbie dolls dancing around in his head?
  
  The damage wouldn't be quite as acute if the script hadn't been contrived to emphasize an ongoing romantic relationship between Bond and his Soviet colleague, assigned to neutralize a power-mad villain impersonated without much gusto by Curt Jurgens. The movie requires some rapport between the leads to keep from floundering. As cartoon hero figures go. Roger Moore himself is rather too stylized and overrefined. Expecting sparks to fly between him and a plastic leading lady is asking for the impossible.
  
  To his credit, Moore urged the producer to cast an actress in the role - Charlotte Rampling. According to Mrs. Moore, who accompanied her husband on a promotional swing through Washington yesterday, Broccoli disqualified Rampling on the grounds of insufficient bosom. As if there weren't enough over-endowed supernumerary starlets stationed on the perimeters of the movie already.
  
  The big hulking menace, nicknamed "Jaws" and played by Richard Kiel, is deployed as ineffectively as the heroine. Perhaps Broccoli & Co. should refer to "Goldfinger" and notice how the character of Oddjob was kept just out of range until his climactic showdown with Bond. "Jaws" who could probably kill with his bare hands but with his steel-plated bridgework, keeps reappearing for one indecisive encounter after another with Bond. At the end he's even spared in order to return in the next installment, if needed. What the Bond series desperately needs is a firmer grip and fresher outlook at the upper echelon.

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

  
  
  
  

  1989: Permis de tuer released in Belgium.

  
  
  
  

  
  2010: Alan Hume dies at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.
  (Born 16 October 1924--London, England.)

  

  Alan Hume obituary
  Cinematographer known for his work on the Carry On films

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/17/alan-hume-obituary
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 17 Aug 2010 13.14 EDT

  
  Alan Hume started as a camera operator on Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
  Photograph: Bondstars.com

  
  Despite, or because of, the ancient, dirty jokes, schoolboy humour, double entendres, and a string of hammy actors tele-graphing each jest with pursed lips, rolling eyes or a snigger, the Carry On films have an army of devotees. Among the most regular actors were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor, and behind the camera, on almost all of the 30 Carry On movies, was the cinematographer Alan Hume, who has died aged 85.
  
  Hume started as camera operator on the very first, Carry On Sergeant (1958), soon becoming director of photography (DP) on Carry On Regardless (1961), and continuing as DP until Carry On Columbus (1992) ended the franchise. Though few would make any artistic claims for the films, they were competently shot, rapidly, on a shoestring. Because of the rapport Hume built up over a long period with the producer Peter Rogers and the director Gerald Thomas – he worked with them for years without a contract – he knew exactly what was required.

  In the foreword to Hume's autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: Memoirs of a Film Cameraman (2004), Rogers explained: "I have known Alan Hume almost as long as I know myself. I've known him as a giggling camera operator and as one of the film industry's foremost lighting cameramen. I say giggling operator because when we were working on the early Carry On films, he giggled so much … that he had to leave the stage to recover. I've also known him as a non-giggling operator as, for instance, when he was shooting a scene … hanging out of a doorless helicopter and holding a handheld camera."
  
  The latter referred to Hume's second-unit filming of the spectacular pre-credit sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), in which James Bond (the stuntman Rick Sylvester standing in for Roger Moore), chased by baddies on skis, leaps off a cliff and opens up a Union Jack parachute. It was shot high on a mountain on Baffin Island, north Canada, after weeks of waiting for the weather to clear, so it had to be done in one take. "After so many weeks of preparing and anticipating this jump, I suddenly felt the blood rush from my face," Hume wrote. "This was it, and it was a far cry from my working diet of comedy and modest-budget dramas back in London."
  
  Hume went on to be the daring cinematographer on three more Bonds, all starring Moore and directed by John Glen: For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), each offering the well-tried formula of gals, guns, villains and glossy locations.

  Hume, who was born in London, started in films as a clapper boy at Denham Studios, his first job being on Leslie Howard's The First of the Few (1942). A few films later, he was promoted to first assistant camera operator before being called up to serve in the Royal Navy during the second world war. "I was in the photographic unit. I learned more about photography in the navy than anywhere else." Hume returned to Denham, then Pinewood, where he was assistant to the cinematographer Guy Green on David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948). From 1953 to 1960, he was chief camera operator on dozens of British films, then DP mostly on the Carry Ons, with a couple of grisly horror films – Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and From Beyond the Grave (1973) – thrown in.
  
  In 1983, Hume was given the job of DP on the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, although he fell out with the producers when he protested about what he felt was their mistreatment of the director Richard Marquand and was replaced by his assistant Alec Mills. It was one of his very few Hollywood movies.
  
  Among Hume's best work was Andrei Konchalovsky's Runaway Train (1985), shot in freezing conditions in Canada and Iceland, on a real train. Also to be commended was his camerawork for two veteran directors of British cinema, Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, 1989; Stepping Out, 1991), and Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda, 1988).
  
  Hume was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers in 1964, serving as president for three years. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and three children. His eldest son, Lindsey, a film editor, died in 1967. His other sons, Martin and Simon, and a grandson, Lewis, are camera operators, while his daughter Pauline is a titles designer.
  
  • George Alan Hume, cinematographer, born 16 October 1924; died 13 July 2010

  

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  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.
  

  2018: 007 ELEMENTS opens in in Sölden, Austria.

  AUSTRIA JAMES BOND

  James Bond museum opens up on Alpine peak in Austria

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.efe.com/efe/english/entertainment/james-bond-museum-opens-up-on-alpine-peak-in-austria/50000264-3689264

  efe-epaSölden, Austria13 Jul 2018

  
  A general view of the newly opened James Bond museum '007 elements' in Soelden, Austria, 13 July 2018. EPA-EFE/DANIEL KOPATSCH
  
  
  Visitors look on an aircraft from a James Bond movie on display at the newly opened James Bond museum '007 elements' in Soelden, Austria, 13 July 2018. EPA-EFE/DANIEL KOPATSCH
  
  
  A general view of the newly opened James Bond museum '007 elements' in Soelden, Austria, 13 July 2018. EPA-EFE/DANIEL KOPATSCH
  
  
  Visitors watch a scene from a James Bond movie at the newly opened James Bond museum '007 elements' in Soelden, Austria, 13 July 2018. EPA-EFE/DANIEL KOPATSCH

  A strikingly modern mountaintop museum dedicated to the James Bond movies has opened with a license to thrill on an Alpine peak in Austria, offering visitors a chance to immerse themselves fully in the world of the famous English spy, an epa-efe photojournalist reported Friday.
  
  At over 3,000 meters (9,850 feet) above sea level and positioned inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Sölden, the museum's location was significant because it featured in the 2015 movie "Spectre," in which Daniel Craig played the role of Commander Bond.
  
  "The aim of 007 ELEMENTS is to tell the story of the making of 007 films through an ultra-modern, emotive and engaging experience while using the incredible location to place guests in Bond’s environment and bring the stories to life in a unique and unforgettable way," the town's tourism site said of the new attraction.
  
  While the museum, which calls itself "a cinematic installation," focuses heavily on "Spectre," there are echoes of other movies telling action-filled tales of the fearless secret agent whose license to kill was numbered double-oh-seven: 007.
  
  Visitors would be able to see vehicles that were used in Bond movies, including a 4x4 and a futuristic-looking aircraft, as well as interactive galleries, according to the epa-efe source.
  

  
  

  

  NAOMIE HARRIS OPENS 007 ELEMENTS
  
  13 July 2018

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  007 ELEMENTS, an exciting new James Bond experience built
  inside the summit of the Gaislachkogl mountain in Sölden, Austria,
  is now open to the public.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://media.jaguar.com/news/2018/07/naomie-harris-opens-007-elements

  • Spectre and Skyfall actress opens new 007 cinematic installation in the Alps
  • 007 ELEMENTS cinematic installation focuses on Spectre and celebrates the legacy of the James Bond films
  • Jaguar Land Rover is official partner of the experience with star cars from Spectre on display
  • Located over 3,000m above sea level, it is the highest visitor experience of its kind

  
  The cinematic installation was opened by actress Naomie Harris who plays Moneypenny (Spectre, Skyfall) and Jakob Falkner Managing Director of Bergbahnen Sölden.
  
  Visitors can learn how the thrilling action sequences in Spectre were filmed in Sölden and see interactive displays with Jaguar Land Rover technology. The iconic Land Rover Defender driven by villain Hinx’s henchmen is situated on the cliff edge and the Range Rover Sport SVR driven by Hinx (Dave Bautista) is also on display.
  
  The latest Jaguar Land Rover technology is on show with features from the all-new electric Jaguar I-PACE performance SUV and artificial intelligence systems.
  
  Jaguars and Land Rovers have appeared in nine Bond films since 1983, when Roger Moore’s Bond escaped in a Range Rover Classic convertible driven by Bianca (Tina Hudson).

  We are very excited to reach the 35th anniversary of the collaboration between
  Jaguar Land Rover and the Bond franchise.
  
  007 ELEMENTS showcases the long-standing unique partnership which is still
  demonstrated today, with more than 70 Jaguar Land Rover vehicles used in the most
  recent film, Spectre.
  
  Laura Wood
  Head of Brand and Partnerships at Jaguar Land Rover

  
  
  

  At more than 3,000m above sea level, 007 ELEMENTS is the highest experience of its kind taking visitors on a journey through nine galleries and a plaza with stunning Alpine views. The dramatic spaces complete with an immersive soundscape showcase the fundamental elements that define the James Bond films – placing visitors inside the world of 007 and revealing how that world is made.

  We are truly proud to be in partnership with Jakob Falkner and launching our latest
  experience, 007 ELEMENTS, on the very mountaintop in Sölden where we filmed
  Spectre. Architect Johann Obermoser, our Art Director Neal Callow and Tino
  Schaedler have created a Bondian lair worthy of a Ken Adam set in which visitors
  immediately become enveloped in the cinematic world of 007.
  
  Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
  EON Productions

  007 ELEMENTS is accessed via the Gaislachkoglbahn Gondola in the resort village of Sölden. Open daily from 09:00 to 15:30, tickets are available online or from the Bergbahnen Sölden ticket offices and cost €22 for adults, €12 for children. For further information or to book tickets, please visit: 007elements.com

  
  
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  1918: Fred Haggerty is born--Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
  (He dies 2002 at age 83.)

  
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  1939: Sid Haig is born--Fresno, California.
  (He dies 21 September 2019 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Sid Haig, Horror Actor
  and Cult Figure, Dies at 80

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/movies/sid-haig-dead-captain-spaulding.html

  Mr. Haig was a character actor with roles in more than 70
  movies, including the murderous clown Captain Spaulding in
  Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.”

  
  Sid Haig with the actors Devanny Pinn, left, and Alexis Iacono in 2013.
  Credit Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

  
  By Laura M. Holson
  Sept. 23, 2019
  
  Sid Haig, a Hollywood character actor who for more than 50 years played thugs, villains and, most famously, a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding, died on Saturday. He was 80.
  
  His wife, Susan L. Oberg, announced his death on the actor’s Instagram account on Monday, writing, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans. This came as a shock to all of us.” No other details were given.

  Mr. Haig, who lived in Los Angeles, played bit parts in more than 350 television shows and 70 movies, notably “Jackie Brown” and the James Bond thriller “Diamonds Are Forever.” He had become a cult figure among horror fans, who reveled in his portrayal of the murderous clown who terrorized people in the 2003 Rob Zombie film “House of 1000 Corpses.” He would go on to play Captain Spaulding in two other films from the director.

  Rob Zombie, a musician turned filmmaker, wrote on his Instagram account Monday of Mr. Haig’s death, “Horray for Captain Spaulding. Gone but not forgotten.” Fans, too, expressed their grief on Twitter. Mr. Haig was the recipient of numerous awards for his acting in horror movies. In August, he was awarded the Vincent Price Award for excellence in the horror genre.
  
  “I had the greatest night of my career,” he wrote on Instagram then.
  
  

  https://twitter.com/TheRealElvira/status/1176202367668088837

  
  
  Mr. Haig was a hulk of a figure whose lanky, long body towered over fellow actors. He was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian on July 14, 1939, in Fresno, Calif., according to his official website. His parents were Armenian, and his father was an electrician. He took dancing lessons and acted in high school. And he loved music. In 1958, according to the website, he played drums on the song “Full House” by the T-Birds.
  
  Soon after, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater with a school for theater arts that trained actors including Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. In his early roles in film and on television, Mr. Haig played thugs and heavies mostly. In the 1968 cult classic “Spider Baby” he played a brother who cooks a cat; he was in the 1974 blaxploitation film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier; and he had a small role in “Diamonds Are Forever” in 1971.
  
  Moviemakers delighted in his characters. Quentin Tarantino cast Mr. Haig in the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown,” a homage to the actor’s appearance in “Foxy Brown.” (Ms. Grier, too, starred in “Jackie Brown.”)
  
  
  From left: Bill Moseley as Otis Driftwood, Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding and Sheri Moon Zombie as Baby in “Devil’s Rejects,” directed by Rob Zombie.
  Credit Gene Page/Lions Gate Films
  
  But it was as Captain Spaulding, the psychotic clown featured in “House of 1000 Corpses,” that Mr. Haig became a cult figure among horror fans. Mr. Haig said in a 2015 interview with CryticRock.com: “When I first read the script, I knew that it had the potential to do something. I did not know that it was going to be as well accepted as it was. But I did know that it had something going for it.”
  
  In “House of 1000 Corpses,” Captain Spaulding runs the Museum of Monsters and Madmen housed in a run-down gas station on a barren stretch of Texas. There, the clown shoots a man after being attacked. Mr. Haig reprised the role two years later in “The Devil’s Rejects.” He also acted in a number of other horror films directed by Rob Zombie, including the 2007 remake of “Halloween.”
  
  He was back as Captain Spaulding in “3 From Hell,” a sequel to “The Devil’s Rejects,” which was released this month. “He was very cool,” Mr. Haig said of working with Rob Zombie in his interview with CrypticRock.com. “He was really laid back. He would just tell you what he was looking for and then leave you alone and let you do your job. Which is what most directors should do.”
  
  Cassandra Peterson, known by her stage name, Elvira, said she met Mr. Haig at Rob Zombie’s wedding in 2002. But it was on the road at horror fan conventions where they forged a friendship. “He played this horrible character in Rob’s movies, and it took fans by surprise when he was sweet and took time with them,” she said. “He may not have been a big star. But in our world, he was an icon.”
  
  Indeed Mr. Haig was a fan favorite. He made regular appearances at festivals to sign autographs or appear as Captain Spaulding, who became a recognizable villain among mainstream audiences. In June, he attended the Mad Monster Party in Phoenix where he signed autographs for fans. Earlier that month he was in Las Vegas for the Days of the Dead horror convention.
  
  Fans often dressed up like Captain Spaulding at conventions or had tattoos inked in homage to his famous character. The adulation surprised Mr. Haig. He said on Instagram in February, “The level of commitment to put my mug into your skin for life just blows me away.”

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  Laura M. Holson is an award-winning feature writer from New York. She joined The Times in 1998 and has written about Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. A movie producer once held a butter knife to her neck. @lauramholson

  
  Sid Haig (I) (1939–2019)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

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  1952: Writing at Goldeneye, Ian Fleming creates the opening words for his novel Casino Royale.

  The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino
  are nauseating at three in the morning.

  
  
  Fay Dalton, artwork.
  
  
  

  
  1964: Goldfinger films pre-titles action at night.
  
  1973: 007 死ぬのは奴らだ (Shinu no wa yatsurada; It's Those Who Die) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  Book cover.
  

  
  1982: Variety announces Roger Moore will return as James Bond. (A week earlier they reported James Brolin and Michael Billington as contenders.)
  1985: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is born--Ealing, London, England.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in the UK. Ireland. US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1989: The Washington Post prints Desson Howe's review of Licence to Kill.

  

  ‘License to Kill’ (PG-13)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/licensetokillpg13howe_a0b225.htm

  By Desson Howe | Washington Post Staff Writer | July 14, 1989
  
  Remember James Bond movies -- those airy escapes to exotic lands, where devilish Sean Connery sported human hair and saved the Western world from diabolical megalomaniacs while frolicking with girls, girls, girls?
  
  Remember Playboy magazine?
  
  "Licence to Kill," 007's latest Never-Say-ERA-Again voyage, heads nostalgically for Club Bond and other points Bunny, equipped with the requisite state-of-the-art gadgetry -- and scenery. Playboy subscribers and other flashlight owners will be glad to know the girls (cottontail rivals Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto) trip over each other's bikini strings to get to Bond, and opening-sequence meister Maurice Binder still favors smoking guns and lissome gals.
  
  Take the early "Jaws" assault that sets second-time Bond Timothy Dalton in vengeful motion: Drug henchmen throw his CIA buddy David Hedison into the shark pool, but instead of offing the guy, the "Bond" crew (including producer-for-life Albert R. Broccoli and regular cohorts, director John Glen and co-writers Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum) makes him survive. Later, the double amputee, whose new bride was recently blown away, cheerily suggests a fishing trip with Bond. What's a dead wife and a coupla flesh wounds between agent-pals?
  
  But this cruise is also a gruesome one. You may find yourself shaken -- not stirred -- by the screenwriting cruelty and cynicism behind the 16th "Bond."
  
  Then there's the diabolical drug czar, the facially ravaged Robert ("Die Hard") Davi, who cuts out the heart of his girlfriend Soto's lover. ("It's my fault," says the less-than-Thespian Soto later. "I did something wrong that made him angry.") Or how about the unfortunate fellow who finds out just how those automatic, slice-and-dice cocaine processors really work?
  
  With its license-to-crib mix of drug running, Uzi blowouts and 18-wheeler jockeying, all taking place between Key West and Isthmus City, "Licence" might appeal to those of you currently bored with your "Rambo," "Miami Vice" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" videotapes. There's also a checkoff list for Bond fans -- some "Dr. No" underwater action, casino games, aerial stunts (the most spectacular towing job you'll ever see), the requisite martini-preparation instruction and of course cameos from the alphabet people -- Robert Brown's "M" and Desmond Llewelyn's "Q."
  
  But don't be surprised if, at the end of this trip, you feel just a little queasy.
  

  1989: The Washington Post prints Hal Hinson's review of Licence to Kill.

  

  ‘License to Kill’ (PG-13)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/licensetokillpg13hinson_a0a94a.htm

  By Hal Hinson | Washington Post Staff Writer | July 14, 1989
  
  It's time to find a new Bond. This one is tuckered out, spent, his signature tuxedo in sore need of pressing.
  
  For "Licence to Kill," the 16th installment in the Cubby Broccoli-produced series, the filmmakers and their star, Timothy Dalton, have entered into a sort of grim collusion, building the film to the actor's stern specifications. As a result, Dalton plays a straight-faced, humorless, no-nonsense Bond -- all guns and no play -- and it makes for a very dull time.
  
  The blame falls as much to the creators' conception of their hero as to the actor playing him. It's not that Dalton, who's making his second appearance in the role, isn't actor enough for the job. It's that Bond himself now seems prosaic, earthbound, in serious need of a superhero transfusion. In making the picture, Cubby and company -- which includes director John Glen, who is making his fifth Bond movie, writer Richard Maibaum, who has contributed to 13 of the 007 films, and Michael G. Wilson, who has co-written five -- were achingly aware of just how fierce the superhero business has become and, in reaction, have attempted to create a Bond to stand tall beside caped crusaders and fedoraed archaeologists.
  
  Trying to bring a new relevance to the series, the producers have given their hero's adventures a more realistic context, one sprung from newspaper headlines and real-world tensions. In Bond-movie terms, this means creating a bad guy who, instead of trying to break into Fort Knox, is working to corner the market in cocaine. This time out Bond's enemy is a Noriega-like drug lord headquartered in the made-up Central American capital of Isthmus City, and with the lizard-skinned Robert Davi in the role, they've matched the Panamanian heavy-hitter acne scar for acne scar. A veteran heavy, Davi supplies the movie with a sort of strip joint sleaziness. Early in the film, he finds his sumptuous companion (Talisa Soto) in bed with another man, a transgression that earns her a vicious beating with a sawed-off bullwhip, plus a very special kind of valentine.
  
  A kinder, gentler Bond film? No way.
  
  Actually, what Broccoli and his team have created with "Licence to Kill" is a clunkier, squarer, far less stylish episode of "Miami Vice." As the product plugs flash on the screen, the filmmakers spin your average revenge scenario: Bond's best friends are messed with -- one critically, one fatally -- and Bond gets even. This time it's personal -- so personal, in fact, that Bond goes rogue and, refusing to follow orders, has his commission suspended and his license to kill revoked. But Glen and his writers have given only lip service to creating real emotional resonance in Bond's adventures. (It's a mistake, I think, even to try.) What they actually mean by realistic is more action, and to keep up with the summer demand for end-to-end thrills, the filmmakers rely more heavily than ever on explosions and brawls and less on characterization. As usual, there are large-scale stunts and grandiose sets, but aside from the extended duel between humongous gasoline tankers on a narrow mountain road, the daredevil routines are all workmanlike and unspectacular and the sets cheesy.
  
  Also, although there's grace and agility in Dalton's physical work, in repose he nearly ceases to exist. That Dalton hasn't emerged as a Bond to be reckoned with, a star to juice the character's EKG back onto the scale, is a shocking disappointment. With his deep-clefted, cruelly handsome features, Dalton held out the promise of a return to Connery form, to a time in Bond's movie life when both danger and wit were part of his secret agent accessory kit. But playing Bond doesn't seem to spark anything special in Dalton. Even though this is only his second shot at the role, there's nothing new to discover in him. Dalton plays the part as if it were an unpleasant chore -- he doesn't seem to be having any fun -- and there's an air of condescension in his performance, as if somehow his classical training made the character beneath him. He acts as if he's slumming.
  
  Dalton actually gets the dangerous part, it's the essential wit that's missing. (He seems to think the two are in opposition.) If the previous Bonds were champagne, this Bond is beer -- and flat beer at that. Gone are the sophisticated hedonism and the sexy pedantry about wines and guns and caviar. Watching Sean Connery in the role, and even, on occasion, Roger Moore, men could fantasize about being Bond and leading the life he led, even when the movies themselves weren't very good. But Dalton turns Agent 007 into a brooding blue-collar grunt. Who would want to jump into this Bond's shoes?
  
  With the injection of more and uglier violence, the filmmakers seem eager to put Bond in competition with other monosyllabic action movie heroes. They know where the real money is, and that it has nothing to do with their hero's ability to distinguish between Cristal '79 and Cordon Rouge. They want a Bond closer in spirit to Rambo, a killing machine to put the big summer numbers on the board. They want a lug, and Dalton gives them pretty much what they want.
  
  Connery used to make a joke out of having to sleep with beautiful women -- he was, after all, sacrificing himself for the crown. When this Bond sleeps with a woman, he seems to take no pleasure in it. In contrast to the safety-first sexual attitude in "The Living Daylights," 007 here is given a couple of frisky bedmates. Soto -- who has cracked up preview audiences with her line readings -- is the exotic, bad Bond girl, and Carey Lowell is his American beauty sidekick. Both are genuine knockouts -- actresses, no -- but Dalton doesn't seem to find any greater thrill in these erotic encounters than he does in Bond's other chores. It's all heavy lifting to him.
  
  Not all the film's problems can be blamed on Dalton; his presence merely brings them into focus. Perhaps the one original wrinkle is written into the role of a televangelist (Wayne Newton) who, speaking in code, acts as the on-air middleman in the deals being negotiated by the drug lords and their costumers. Squishing with unctuous sincerity and God-bless-you sentiments, Newton steals the show. He's perfect, and the role may immortalize him -- as what, I'm not exactly sure. But what does it say about a movie when Wayne Newton is the only performer with true star presence?

  "Licence to Kill" is rated PG-13 and contains mild violence and implied sex.

  1989: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel prints Candice Russell's review "Despite Extremely Slow Start, 'Licence' Pays Off."

  

  DESPITE EXTREMELY SLOW START,
  'LICENCE' PAYS OFF

  See the complete article here:
  

  CANDICE RUSSELL, Film Writer | SUN-SENTINEL
  
  The first 45 minutes of the new James Bond film Licence to Kill are imponderably bad. Unfortunately for the Florida film industry, those scenes were shot in and around Key West.
  
  Bond fans with a memory for spectacular film beginnings are bound to be let down by this one. Although Agent 007 finds himself airborne and waterlogged in the pursuit of an international drug smuggler, reruns of Flipper have more excitement and suspense. Happily then, the film switches gears.
  
  The action moves from a phony Florida marine laboratory and the interior of a yacht to an unnamed Latin American country. The cocaine kingpin Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) owns the biggest bank, the capital casino, even the country's wimp of a president. A sense of larger-than-life weirdness and wonder kicks in. Bond is back in the right groove.
  
  This is Timothy Dalton's second go-round in the legendary role. Although slighter in build than predecessors Roger Moore and Sean Connery, he acquits himself well. Blame screenwriters Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum, rather than Dalton, for the dramatic lassitude at the start. They also deserve the discredit of not having given Bond more droll commentary on the madness around him.
  
  Exoticism and spirit are qualities that the film eventually finds as Bond tracks Sanchez on home turf. He has the help of two young lovelies, Sanchez's reluctant girlfriend Lupe (Talisa Soto) and Pam (Carey Lowell), a former U.S. Army pilot with the grit of Oliver North and the curves of Miss Universe. This time, Bond isn't acting on behalf of the British government. Instead, his Dirty Harry-ish quest is personal.
  
  The eventual befriending of Bond by Sanchez, played with sinister cool by Davi, is the film's most devilish component. Sanchez's Moorish fantasy of a mansion on a beautiful cityside bay is the stuff of dreams. Befitting the stature of other classic villains from the pen of novelist Ian Fleming, Sanchez's disposition of enemies is appropriately nightmarish.
  
  With the past four Bond films to his credit, including the more consistent and superior The Living Daylights, director John Glen should be getting the hang of it. Yet, he should have his license revoked until he can account for the casting of David Hedison, who is terrible as CIA agent Felix Leiter.
  
  On the other hand, Glen did put Wayne Newton, who oozes insincerity in real life, in the role of Professor Joe Butcher. He's a TV huckster, begging for donations to support a meditation retreat in the mountains, which actually is a cover for Sanchez's operation.
  
  It takes too long for the beloved "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn) to appear with his briefcase of lethal gadgets, but when he does, the film picks up. "Q" is a delightful character who comes to the rescue more than once. His presence also provides a sense of continuity and tradition with past Bond films.
  
  Licence to Kill gets better as it unfolds for more than two hours. It just takes an insufferably long while to find the right pace.

  LICENCE TO KILL
  Agent 007 battles the head of an international drug cartel.
  Credits: With Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi. Directed by John Glen. Written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum.
  Rated PG13: Violence, coarse language, sexual implication.

  1989: The Chicago Tribune prints Dave Kehr's review "Licence to Kill--First-Rate Action With Fresh Touch."

  

  `LICENCE TO KILL` FIRST-RATE
  ACTION WITH FRESH TOUCH

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-07-14-8902170428-story.html

  Dave Kehr | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | July 14, 1989
  
  There are no friends like old friends, and James Bond, back for the 16th time in an Albert R. Broccoli production, proves to be every bit as reliable as ever. As directed by John Glen, ''Licence to Kill'' (the producers have retained the British spelling of ''license'') proves to be action entertainment of the first order-thrilling, impeccably paced and executed with high precision.
  
  The trick to making a Bond film lies in striking just the right balance of familiarity and innovation. There are rituals that must be observed, from the spectacular pre-credit stunt to the invocation of ''Bond . . . James Bond,'' and much of the pleasure in the later entries in the series is one of simple repetition. After 27 years, even the words ''shaken, not stirred'' (as Bond inevitably orders his martinis) take on a mythic resonance.
  
  ''Licence to Kill'' is properly respectful of tradition, beginning with an eye-popping stunt in which Bond lassoes a flying helicopter and proceeding through such comforting chestnuts as Q`s presentation of his latest gadgetry
  
  (Desmond Llewelyn remains the only member of the original cast still on the job) and the destruction of the villain`s huge secret lair, still decorated with the stainless steel panels that production designer Ken Adam installed in the `60s.
  
  But director Glen has also taken advantage of Bond`s new interpreter, Timothy Dalton, to introduce a fresh emotional angle. Very little trace of the cartoonishness of the Roger Moore years remains (and what does largely falls flat); this is an altogether darker, more brooding Bond, whose appearance so close to Michael Keaton`s revisionist ''Batman'' suggests that pop adventure films are now entering a ''noir'' phase, similar to the darkening of the western in the 1950s.
  
  There is even a bit of ''Batman`s'' mirroring of hero and villain, though it`s played out more efficiently and much less pretentiously. Bond`s opponent this time is South American drug lord Franz Sanchez (played by Robert Davi, an actor who physically resembles Dalton), and while he displays the sadistic tendencies proper to every Bond villain, Glen and his screenwriters (Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum) have also given him a redeeming gloss of honor and practical intelligence. He could be the first credible, psychologically complex heavy in the history of the series.
  
  When Sanchez cripples Bond`s old CIA pal Felix Leiter (David Hedison) and murders Leiter`s wife, Bond resigns from the service to pursue what his boss M (Robert Brown) calls his ''personal vendetta.'' Stripped of his ''licence to kill,'' Bond himself becomes an outlaw. He`ll use ''Sanchez`s way'' to bring him down.
  
  Dalton revives the cool, ironic detachment of the Connery years, but he also allows a touch of obsession to show through Bond`s surface aplomb. Though he`s hardly the raving neurotic of Keaton`s ''Batman,'' this Bond does have a loose screw or two, and the deepening of the character adds immeasurably to impact of the action scenes, as superbly filmed as they are. Unlike the Indiana Jones films, something more or less real is at stake--one might even go so far as to call it a moral point. Can Bond destroy the villain without destroying himself?
  
  If 'Licence to Kill'' has one of Bond`s best heavies, it also has one of his best heroines in Carey Lowell, a strapping brunet who plays an ex-Army pilot reluctantly enrolled on Bond`s side. Lowell`s line readings may be only adequate, but she moves with the grace and vigor an action movie needs. It would be too much to call her a feminist figure (Bond has not matured to that point), but in her no-nonsense, one-of-the-boys attitude, she`s at least a welcome revival of the proto-feminist heroine Howard Hawks celebrated in such classics as ''To Have and Have Not'' and ''Rio Bravo'' (the influence even comes with a pedigree-producer Broccoli worked for years as Hawks` assistant). ''Licence to Kill' may find Bond losing his sense of professionalism, but the creative members of the team have retained and reinforced their own. It may not be filmmaking on its most inspired level, but the amount of planning and know-how that has gone into the creation of the climactic action scene-a mountainside chase involving four oil tankers, a couple of jeeps, a golf cart and an airplane-inspires its own kind of respect. The sequence has logic, rhythmic variation and a dazzling clarity of line-and under such circumstances, one can do very well without genius.

  ''LICENCE TO KILL''
  *** 1/2
  Directed by John Glen; written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum; photographed by Alec Mills; production designed by Peter Lamont; edited by John Grover; music by Michael Kamen; produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. An MGM/UA release; opens July 14 at the Burnham Plaza, Water Tower, Webster Place and outlying theaters. Running time: 2:15. MPAA rating: PG-13. Violence, adult situations, mild vulgarity.
  THE CAST
  James Bond.........................................Timothy Dalton
  Pam Bouvier..........................................Carey Lowell
  Franz Sanchez.........................................Robert Davi
  Lupe Lamora...........................................Talisa Soto
  Milton Krest........................................Anthony Zerbe

  1989: Roger Ebert reviews Licence to Kill in the Chicago Sun-Times.

  

  Licence to Kill

  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/licence-to-kill-1989

  | Roger Ebert | July 14, 1989 | 9
  
  The James Bond movies have by now taken on the discipline of a sonnet or a kabuki drama: Every film follows the same story outline so rigidly that we can predict almost to the minute such obligatory developments as

  1. the introduction of the villain's specialized hit man;
  2. the long shot that establishes the villain's incredibly luxurious secret hideout;
  3. the villain's fatal invitation to Bond to spend the night;
  4. the moment when the villain's mistress falls for Bond;
  5. the series of explosions destroying the secret fortress, and
  6. the final spectacular stunt sequence.

  Connoisseurs evaluate the elements in a Bond picture as if they were movements in a symphony, or courses in a meal. There are few surprises, and the changes are evolutionary, so that the latest Bond picture is recognizable as a successor to the first, "Dr. No," in 1962. Within this framework of tradition, "Licence to Kill" nevertheless manages to spring some interesting surprises. One is that the Bond character, as played now for the second time by Timothy Dalton, has become less of a British icon and more of an international action hero. The second is that the tempo has been picked up, possibly in response to the escalating pace of the Rambo and Indiana Jones movies. The third is that the villain has fairly modest aims, for a change; he doesn't want to rule the world, he only wants to be a cocaine billionaire.
  
  I've grown uneasy lately about the fashion of portraying drug smugglers in glamorous lifestyles; they're viewed with some of the same glamor as gangsters were, in films of the 1930s. Sure, they die in the end, but they have a lot of fun in the meantime. In "Licence to Kill," however, the use of a drug kingpin named Sanchez (Robert Davi) and his henchmen (Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae) is apparently part of an attempt to update the whole series and make it feel more contemporary.
  
  There are still, of course, the obligatory scenes. The film begins with a sensationally unbelievable stunt sequence (Bond and friend lasso a plane, then parachute to a wedding ceremony). But then the action switches to the recognizable modern world in and around Key West, Fla., where the British agent finds himself involved in an operation to capture Sanchez and cut his pipeline of cocaine.
  
  Like all Bond villains, Sanchez has unlimited resources and a beautiful mistress. His operation uses an underwater shark-nabbing company as its cover, and keeps a few sharks on hand so they can dine on federal agents. After Bond's friend, Felix Leiter, is mistreated by the bad guys, 007 begins a savage vendetta against Sanchez, which involves elaborate and violent stunt sequences in the air, on land, and underwater.
  
  He is aided in his campaign by the beautiful Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell, introduced as "Miss Kennedy, my executive secretary"), and saved more than once by Sanchez' beautiful mistress, Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto). Both women are as beautiful as the historical Bond standard, but more modern - more competent, intelligent and capable, and not simply sex objects. This is no doubt part of the plan, announced before Dalton's first Bond picture, to de-emphasize the character's promiscuous sex life. Compared to his previous films, 007 is practically chaste this time.
  
  My favorite moments in all the Bond pictures involve The Fallacy of the Talking Killer, in which the villain has Bond clearly in his power, and then, instead of killing him instantly, makes the mistake of talking just long enough for Bond to make a plan. The fallacy saves Bond's life two or three times in this movie - especially once when all that Davi has to do is slice his neck.
  
  "Licence to Kill" ends, as all the Bond films do, with an extended chase and stunt sequence. This one involves some truly amazing stunt work, as three giant gasoline trucks speed down a twisting mountain road, while a helicopter and a light aircraft also join in the chase. There were moments when I was straining to spot the trickery, as a big semi-rig spun along tilted to one side, to miss a missile aimed by the bad guys. But the stunts all look convincing, and the effect of the closing sequence is exhilarating.

  On the basis of this second performance as Bond, Dalton can have the role as long as he enjoys it. He makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary. The major difference between Dalton and the earlier Bonds is that he seems to prefer action to sex. But then so do movie audiences, these days. "Licence to Kill" is one of the best of the recent Bonds.

  

  
  1992: Putnam & Sons publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Death Is Forever in the US.

  
  

  
  2017: ChiDunnit in Canada publishes the paperback version of Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, editors David Nickle and Madeline Ashby. (Originally published 23 November 2015.)

  
  

  
  2021: Bastille Day, La Fête nationale in France.

  
  
  

  
  
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  I didn't know Dave Kehr had reviewed LTK--thanks for posting that piece. He's a very good but very tough critic, so I'm glad he thought so highly of LTK. These passages stand out:
  
  "...this is an altogether darker, more brooding Bond, whose appearance so close to Michael Keaton's revisionist Batman suggests that pop adventure films are now entering a ''noir'' phase, similar to the darkening of the western in the 1950s.
  
  "There is even a bit of Batman's' mirroring of hero and villain, though it's played out more efficiently and much less pretentiously. Bond's opponent this time is South American drug lord Franz Sanchez (played by Robert Davi, an actor who physically resembles Dalton), and while he displays the sadistic tendencies proper to every Bond villain, Glen and his screenwriters (Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum) have also given him a redeeming gloss of honor and practical intelligence. He could be the first credible, psychologically complex heavy in the history of the series.
  
  "...Dalton revives the cool, ironic detachment of the Connery years, but he also allows a touch of obsession to show through Bond's surface aplomb. Though he's hardly the raving neurotic of Keaton's Batman, this Bond does have a loose screw or two, and the deepening of the character adds immeasurably to impact of the action scenes, as superbly filmed as they are. Unlike the Indiana Jones films, something more or less real is at stake--one might even go so far as to call it a moral point. Can Bond destroy the villain without destroying himself?"
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  July 15th
  
  1932: Nina van Pallandt is born--Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the final scene on location in Venice.
  1967: The You Only Live Twice soundtrack debuts in the US eventually topping at #27.

  

  
  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.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1014
  
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tbrc.php3
  
  
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-009-black-ruby-caper/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Press 1976
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

  Kodnamn: Svart Storm
  ("Codename: Black Storm" -
  The Black Ruby Caper)
  

  
  Tamil Star comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/

  

  
  Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)
  "Kodenavn: Sorte Storm"
  [Codename: Black Storm]
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Comic strip Polestar ends its run in The Daily Express, mid-way through the story. (Began 23 May 1983. 625-719) Complete versions eventually published in non-UK media. John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1984
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  Projekt Polstjärnan
  (Project Polestar -
  The Paradise Plot [Part 2])
  
  
  
  

  1986: The National Broadcasting Company exercises the sixty-day option on Pierce Brosnan's contract to add another season to its (previously cancelled) television show Remington Steele.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1989: The Orlando Sentinel prints critic Jay Bahar's review of Licence to Kill--"New Bond Has the Old Touch 'Licence' Reminiscent of Cool, Cool Connery."

  

  NEW BOND HAS THE OLD TOUCH
  'LICENCE' REMINISCENT OF COOL,
  CRUEL CONNERY

  See the complete article here:
  

  Jay Boyar, Sentinel Movie Critic | THE ORLANDO SENTINEL | July 15, 1989
  
  At the Hemingway House in Key West, agent 007 has his famous "license to kill" revoked for insubordination.
  
  Our hero wants to track down a vicious drug dealer who has fed the legs of one of Bond's friends to a shark. But British intelligence has other plans. When 007 refuses to go along with them, his license is pulled and he's told to surrender his gun.
  
  "I guess it's a 'farewell to arms,' " quips Bond - an offhand reference to the house and its history. A moment later, 007 is gone, Walther PPK still in hand, drug lord still on the brain.
  
  All of this happens early in Licence to Kill, the 16th entry (or 18th, if you count the anomalous Never Say Never Again and Casino Royale) in the popular action series that began 27 years ago. This time, Bond is pretty much on his own: a vigilante with a vendetta in the Florida Keys and, eventually, in the fictional Latin American town of Isthmus City.
  
  In Licence (British spelling) to Kill, the producers continue to move away from the cartoonish tone that the series had acquired during the years Roger Moore was the star. For The Living Daylights (1987), they recast the role of Bond with Timothy Dalton, whose effective interpretation of the character as a cool (even cruel) customer was closer to that of Sean Connery, the original 007. In that episode, the producers also began to play down the Indiana Jonesy high jinks.
  
  The new film goes a bit further, putting the sting back into the violence and - Bond's Hemingway quip notwithstanding - de-emphasizing the comedy. Like The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill definitely has its moments. But also like The Living Daylights, the new, two-hour-plus picture goes on too long and is encumbered by a needlessly complicated plot.
  
  Dalton continues to show us a Bond who is ruthlessly efficient. Most of the actor's scenes have a dangerous edge to them, and he handles the action sequences with much more conviction than Roger Moore ever could.
  
  As the drug lord called Sanchez, Robert Davi is an adversary worthy of Bond: Like 007, Sanchez is a professional who sometimes puts loyalty ahead of business. Also making favorable impressions are Desmond Llewelyn (as the wily gadgeteer Q) and Wayne Newton (as an oily TV fundraiser, the role he was born to play).
  
  There are two "Bond girls" in Licence to Kill: former model Carey Lowell as a tough-gal pilot and former Miss Galaxy Talisa Soto as a reluctant Sanchez love slave. These spectacularly beautiful women have more to do than some of their predecessors did, and their roles are rather more interesting than usual.
  
  Sadly, though, neither Lowell nor Soto is especially familiar with the craft of acting. If Bond girls are going to be called upon to function as something more than ornaments, the producers might consider hiring real actresses. (Just a thought.) Licence to Kill was produced by Albert "Cubby" Broccoli (the grand old man of the series) and Michael G. Wilson (who has worked on these films in various capacities since 1972). Wilson, who was listed as a writer on the last four Bond pictures, co-wrote the Licence to Kill screenplay with Richard Maibaum, who has collaborated on 12 previous Bond films.
  
  The director is John Glen, who also directed For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. Glen is still a good (if conventional) action man: Whenever Bond is called upon to jump on something, swim to somewhere or fight with somebody, Glen keeps the action brisk and clear. And Glen does elicit decent performances from those members of the cast who are lucky enough to be able to act.
  
  But if the series is ever going to return to its Connery-era glory, it definitely needs some new writers, ones who know how to streamline a story and keep the dialogue tight. Too bad the writer who gave his name to the Hemingway House is no longer available. He'd be perfect.
  
  Fla. flaw: Now that producers are making more movies in Florida, these guys really ought to wake up and realize that down here we don't put tags (i.e., license plates) on the fronts of our cars, just on the backs. The first time I noticed a Florida tag on a car's front was in last year's Running on Empty, and it just keeps happening. In Licence to Kill, James Bond's car has a Florida tag on the front.
  
  Bond's license to kill is revoked in the movie. He's lucky he didn't have his license to drive lifted too.

  
  1993: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers, misspelling a main character's name on the dustjacket.

  NEVER SEND
  FLOWERS
  
  When Laura March, an officer
  of the British Security Service,
  is murdered in Switzerland,
  James Bond is sent to liaise with
  the local authorities. He teams
  up with the local authorities. He teams
  up with the lovely and lively
  Flicka von Grősse, a member
  of Swiss Intelligence, and
  together they discover some
  curious information about
  Laura's past.
  
  In turn, they become conscious
  of a link between the March
  murder and four recent,
  high-profile assassinations,
  in Rome, London, Paris and
  Washington. They also discover
  a further connection between
  the assassinations and the
  internationally famous actor,
  David Dragonpol, who has
  retired early from a spectacular
  career and now lives in a castle
  on the Rhine, in which every
  room becomes a bizarre step
  into the past.
  
  But the past is dangerous, to
  Dragonpol, Bond and Flicka,
  and it leads them to a deadly
  game of hide and seek, following
  a sinister shadow across the
  world, from Athens to Milan,
  to Singapore, the United States
  and back to Europe for a
  denouement in the most
  unlikely setting of EuroDisney
  outside Paris.

  JOHN GARDNER was educated
  in Berkshire and at St John'ss
  College, Cambridge. He has had
  many fascinating occupations
  and was, variously, a Royal
  Marine officer, a stage magician,
  theater critic, reviewer and
  journalist.
  
  As well as his James Bond novels,
  most recently The Man from
  Barbarossa and Death is Forever,
  Gardner's other fiction includes
  the acclaimed Herbie Kruger
  trilogy and, more recently, The
  Secret Generations, The Secret
  Houses and The Secret Families.

  
  
  

  
  2002: Vogue reports on a new Bond Girl brand of perfume and cosmetics.

  
  News

  COSMETIC BOND-ING

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/cosmetic-bond-ing

  By Vogue | 15 July 2002 | Conde Nast
  
  AS WELL as sweet-talking his way into the affections of some of the world's most beautiful women, James Bond will now provide the rest of the female population with a Bond Girl brand of perfume and cosmetics. Work on the range, which is to be fronted by such past Bond stars as the original Bond Girl,** Ursula Andress**, and ** Sophie Marceau ** from The World Is Not Enough, has been going on in secret for months. It will be launched during a massive marketing campaign linked to the release of the forthcoming 007 film, Die Another Day. "There will be a number of products around the Bond Girl brand," Keith Snelgrove, senior vice-president of global business strategy at Danjaz (sic), the American arm of Eon, the company that makes the Bond films, told the Sunday Express. "The Bond girls have really changed over the years, they're very different now from the Bond girls of 40 years ago. They are strong female characters in their own right and we believe a Bond Girl cosmetics range will have widespread appeal." (July 15 2002)

  

  2010: Activision releases the trailer for Blood Stone.

  James Bond 007 Blood Stone | launch trailer (2010)
  

  2019: Esquire reports the return of Christoph Waltz as Blofeld(!) in BOND 25.

  

  Christoph Waltz will return in Bond 25 as Blofeld

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.esquireme.com/content/36742-christoph-waltz-will-return-in-bond-25-as-blofeld

  Because you can't keep a good baddie down

  

  James Bond, Daniel craig, Bond 25, Christoph Waltz
  15 July 2019 | Esquire Editors
  
  Christoph Waltz will join the cast of Bond 25, reprising his role as the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, according to Variety.
  
  The iconic criminal mastermind has been played by actors including Donald Pleasence and Max von Sydow over the years, but Waltz took over the role with 2015’s Spectre.
  
  Bond 25—an official title for the film has yet to be released—is currently filming at the UK’s Pinewood Studios. Rumors circulated earlier this year that the film’s working title was Shatterhand. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand is one of Blofeld’s aliases, so it seemed likely that Waltz would be returning to the series.
  
  However, in March Bond producer Barbara Broccoli suggested that the film would have a different title, casting doubts on Waltz’s role in the production. Now we know that Waltz is definitely in, but there haven’t been any updates surrounding the name of the much-anticipated release.
  
  Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek is also slated to join Bond 25 as a villain, but whether that means that Waltz's Blofeld will be stepping back from Big Bad status is unclear.
  
  The film's release has been delayed until April of next year, thanks in part to production troubles. Director Danny Boyle left the project last August, and was replaced by True Detective's Cary Fukunaga.
  
  In May, Craig was injured on set and production had to be delayed while the star recovered from ankle surgery. And just last month, reports emerged that in separate incidents an on-set explosion injured a crew member, iconic former Bond girl Grace Jones quit the film within moments of arriving on set, and a man had been arrested for placing a camera in the women's bathrooms at Pinewood Studios.

  
  2020: An Instagram post shows James Bond ready for action in No Time To Die.

  
  
  

  
  
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  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

  

  
  1979: Maclean's prints Lawrence O'Toole's review of Moonraker--"007 at Zero Gravity."

  

  007 at zero gravity
  MOONRAKER Directed by Lewis Gilbert
  July 16 1979 | Lawrence O’Toole

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1979/7/16/007-at-zero-gravity

  The only reason to be disappointed in Moonraker is not having stock in United Artists. Number 11 in the 007 series, its predecessors seen already by more than a billion people, it’s the most expensive yet and,during its last half hour, the most inspired and poetic.
  
  The James Bond movies have always been a happy regression: you feel like a kid while you’re watching them—and you don’t want them to finish. Of all the summer movies (compare it to the gross and inept Meatballs for size), Moonraker is the most satisfying entertainment around. The Bonds are textbooks on how to make movies; they’re as reassuring as watching the sun rise.
  
  By now the formula has become an impregnable fortress against failureluxe sets and settings, fantastic schemes and plots, wildly energetic comic-strip violence (killing is never very real), truly gorgeous specimens of the female persuasion, witty dialogue and that smiling sybarite himself, James Bond. This time out Bond (Roger Moore, who has picked up Sean Connery’s sly old grace) is up against one of the world’s richest men, an eloquent fascist named Drax (Michael Lonsdale).
  
  In the tradition of Bond villains, he wants to take over the world with a plan (not to give anything away) that requires setting up a city in outer space. Sexy women pull guns, fast ones and their clothes off and Bond leaves them all dozing like lambs. As always, there’s a special girl, this time Lois Chiles’ Holly Goodhead (yes, that’s the name)—a CIA agent posing as a NASA scientist. “Where did you learn to fight like that?” he asks her after she has rearranged someone’s jaw with her fists. “NASA?” “No,” she answers, “Vassar.” And, as always, the sex is swift and silky, with a few entendres thrown in for good measure: “If it’s ’69, you were expecting me,” he says to her, referring to a bottle of champagne. The Bond films are as sexist as telling someone she looks terrific, and the women, brainy and beautiful, always enjoy his favors. Both genders seem to be having a ball.
  
  Those who turn up their snouts at the Bond series might consider the Wildean wit of Christopher Wood’s screenplay: “Look after Mr. Bond—see that some harm comes to him,” says Drax; later, “At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery.”
  
  For those who’ve looked up at the screen in awe before, Moonraker nearly stall-feeds the senses. Besides the wickedly clever gadgetry, there are: (1) a free-fall fight in the air after Bond falls, without a parachute, from an airplane; (2) a jumbo jet blown up in midair; (3) a chase through the canals of Venice; (4) the world’s most expensive glass, Venini, totally demolished, in a scene that’s the last word on the bull in the china shop; (5) a fight atop a sabotaged trolley car above Rio; (6) another boat chase, this time up the Amazon; (7) an underwater battle with a giant snake; and (8) the final confrontation in space.
  
  The series is pure plot. It keeps you thinking, fascinated: how will he get out of this one? How will he escape Jaws (the giant with the steel teeth played playfully by Richard Kiel) this time? The classy locations—Venice, Rio during carnival, the Amazon—are enough to knock you out.
  
  But the classiest location of all is outer space. With John Barry’s brass and woodwind score, the ride there is breathtaking and Moonraker turns into a ballet in the skies. The effects are dazzling—tiny yellow and white figures blasting lasers at each other, the explosion of the space city, Bond and Holly making love at zero-gravity; make-believe has seldom been so magical. And all the while, you know that Bond’s safe and, in a way, that you are too. Moonraker is an example of why some people love movies instead of liking them.
  
  Lawrence O’Toole

  
  1987: 鐵金剛大戰 特務飛龍 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn tèwù fēilóng; Iron King Wars Agent Flying Dragon)
  Hong Kong release.

  

  1989: Tulsa World prints Dennis King's review of Licence to Kill.

  

  `Licence to Kill'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://tulsaworld.com/archives/licence-to-kill/article_85ea227c-fc7e-5636-9111-6f865ea82a80.html

  Dennis King | Jul 16, 1989
  
  Film: "Licence to Kill"
  Stars: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi and Carey Lowell
  Theaters: Park Lane, Eastland, Woodland Hills and Cinema
  8 (Broken Arrow, Sand Springs)
  Rating: PG-13 (language, violence, sexual innuendo)
  Quality:3 stars (on a scale of zero to five stars)

  Bond ... James Bond has lost his licence to kill. But he
  hasn't lost his cool air of menace and sophistication. He
  hasn't lost his bag of deadly gimmicks and his flare for
  derring-do. And he hasn't lost his way with the ladies.
  
  In "Licence to Kill," the 16th adventure in the stalwart
  series, everything we expect of a Bond movie is comfortably
  in place. All the familiar rituals are properly observed.
  And from the time-honored pre-credit stunt (in which Bond
  lassos a swooping helicopter) to that first suave introduction,
  "Bond ... James Bond," we know that all the glamour, gadgets,
  girls and action that we've come to expect from author Ian
  Fleming's Secret Agent 007 will be delivered in this latest
  installment.
  
  Much of the pleasure in the Bond films lies in the simple
  repetition of those comforting chestnuts - Bond flirting
  with Moneypenny; Bond reviewing Q's latest in deadly, high-tech
  gadgetry; Bond seducing the latest in a long-running series
  of sexy "Bond girls"; Bond infiltrating and eventually
  destroying the villain's secret lair.
  
  It's all here. The elaborate stunts are executed with dizzying
  daring. The villain (Robert Davi) is as cooly evil and dauntingly
  cunning as any Bond has ever faced. The Bond women (Carey
  Lowell and Talisa Soto) are the best to come along in years
  (Lowell, despite delivering a few wooden lines, even manages
  to bring a touch of strength and independence to her role
  - something unheard of in past Bond babes).
  
  But there's something more, something that separates this
  from the progressively bland outings of the Roger Moore
  Bond. It's Timothy Dalton. He's surely the best Bond since
  Sean Connery.
  
  In this film, Dalton seems more at ease and self-assured
  than he did in his first Bond role, last summer's "The
  Living Daylights." With is chiseled features and aristocratic
  bearing, Dalton embodies that same cool, ironic detachment,
  that suave undercurrent of menace that made Connery's reading
  of the character so memorable. That's welcome after so many
  years of Moore's effete cartoonishness.
  
  This film's generally trite but serviceable plot has Bond
  acting as best man at the Florida wedding of longtime CIA
  ally Felix Leiter. But before the honeymoon can begin, Leiter
  and his lovely bride are brutally murdered on the orders
  of Franz Sanchez (Davi), a vengeful Colombian drug lord.
  
  Because of Bond's personal attachment to the victims, his
  superiors revoke his "licence to kill" (the filmmakers
  use the British spelling of licence) and order him off the
  case. (An interesting side note: this film was originally
  titled "Licence Revoked," but it was changed because the
  filmmakers reportedly felt most Americans wouldn't know
  what "revoked" meant.)
  
  Anyway, Bond sets out on his own to infiltrate Sanchez's
  South American stronghold and take revenge for his friend's
  murder.
  
  That's pretty much the whole plotline. The rest of the action
  covers familiar territory. It's the razzle-dazzle special
  effects, the great stunts and the often inspired bits of
  visual wit that make the run-of-the-mill story seem fresh.
  Among the film's odd surprises is a bizarre appearance by
  Las Vegas lounge singer Wayne Newton as a bombastic, sex-crazed
  evangelist. It's a strangely close-to-home performance reminiscent
  of Richard Dawson's turn as a smarmy game show host in "Running
  Man."
  
  "Licence to Kill" was deftly directed by John Glen (working
  on his fifth Bond film), and his sureness with the form
  shows itself in the eye-popping climactic action scene -
  a wild mountain chase involving oil tankers, jeeps, a golf
  cart and an airplane - that has to go down as one of the
  best Bond chases ever.
  
  In losing his licence to kill, Bond has regained some of
  the punch that was missing from his last few films. "Licence
  to Kill" puts Bond back in top form.

  
  2010: Activision press release announces James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

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

  

  Award winning artist Joss Stone goes
  undercover in Activision's James Bond
  007: Blood Stone (DS version by n-Space)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://gonintendo.com/stories/137509-award-winning-artist-joss-stone-goes-undercover-in-activision-s-j

  16 July, 2010 by rawmeatcowboy
  
  Santa Monica, CA – July 16, 2010 – Award winning artist Joss Stone is set to debut as the newest Bond girl in Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) James Bond 007: Blood Stone, an original Bond experience from legendary screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. In addition to stepping into a leading role, Grammy and BRIT Award winner Joss Stone will create original music for the game, luring players into an explosive third-person action adventure where they will unravel an international conspiracy across exotic locales. Players will experience full-throttle, behind-the-wheel action on land and sea while using the most high tech gadgetry known to James Bond 007, the world’s most skilled secret agent.

  “James Bond 007: Blood Stone captures the cinematic intensity of a Bond film by immersing players in an intriguing conspiracy that will require them to think and act like James Bond,” said David Pokress, Head of Marketing for Licensed Properties, Activision Publishing. “In addition, the game will feature a diverse array of multi-player modes and debut strategic objective-based gameplay that will allow Xbox 360, PS3™ and PC players to battle as teams of spies and mercenaries through authentic Bond locales.”

  James Bond 007: Blood Stone features the likeness and voice talent of Daniel Craig, Joss Stone and Judi Dench and features an epic, original story developed by legendary screenwriter Bruce Feirstein. Players can engage in cover-based firefights, lethal hand-to-hand combat and speed their way through explosive adrenaline-fueled driving sequences as they embark on a global chase leading to action on land and sea through Athens, Istanbul, Monaco and Bangkok. Gamers can also feel what it is like to be a 00 agent, as they take the battle online in several robust 16-person multi-player modes that require skill, teamwork and strategy as players compete in matches that will have spies battling mercenaries.
  
  Joss Stone provides an original musical track to the game titled, “I’ll Take it All” written and performed by her and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. The song will be featured exclusively in James Bond 007: Blood Stone.
  
  The James Bond 007: Blood Stone video game is being developed by critically acclaimed developer Bizarre Creations for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC under license from EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM). Additionally, an original Nintendo DS™ game is being developed from the ground up by n-Space. For more information about the game, visit www.007.com.

  
  "I'll Take It All" performed by Jess Stone and Dave Stewart and The Eurythmics
  
  
  Blood Stone. 20:29 worth
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2013: Science Daily says the CIA mined 007 for ideas.

  

  A close Bond: How the CIA exploited 007 for gadget ideas
  and public relations

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130716075931.htm

  Date: July 16, 2013
  Source: University of Warwick
  Summary:
  The real-life CIA copied outlandish gadgets from Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, according to an analysis of declassified letters and interviews revealing the bond between Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles.
  
  FULL STORY
  The real-life CIA copied outlandish gadgets from Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, according to a University of Warwick analysis of declassified letters and interviews revealing the bond between Ian Fleming and Allen Dulles.
  
  However the relationship between the former CIA director and the spy thriller writer went far deeper than raiding the novels for technological inspiration.
  
  Through Dulles, the agency actively leaned on the British author to paint it in more positive light at a time when US film-makers, authors and journalists were silent about the activities of the CIA, fearful to even mention it by name.
  
  Dr Christopher Moran from the University of Warwick has trawled through declassified letters and media reports from the 1950 and 60s for the study, Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA, published in the Journal of Cold War Studies.
  
  He said: "There was a surprising two-way influence between the CIA and the James Bond novels during the Cold War, stemming from the mutual admiration between Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming.
  
  "This ranged from the copying of devices, such as the poison-tipped dagger shoe in From Russia With Love, to the agency using the 007 novels to improve its public profile.
  
  "It's even more striking that this was going on at time when mentioning the CIA was strictly off-limits for the US media and cultural establishment, whereas Fleming, as a British author, could say what he liked.
  
  "For a long time, the James Bond books had a monopoly on the CIA's public image and the agency used this to its advantage."
  
  Declassified letters between Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming reveal the former CIA boss's strong affection for the Bond novels -- he even persuaded the author not to pension off 007 in 1963.
  
  And in a rediscovered 1964 edition of Life Magazine, Dulles describes his meeting with the 'brilliant and witty' Fleming in London in 1959 where the author told him that the CIA was not doing enough in the area of 'special devices'.
  
  On his return to the US, Dulles urged CIA technical staff to replicate as many of Bond's devices as they could.
  
  The article details how the CIA successfully copied Rosa Klebb's infamous spring-loaded poison knife shoe from the film From Russia with Love.
  
  But it had less luck with the homing beacon device used in Goldfinger to track the villain's car -- the CIA version had 'too many bugs in it', Dulles said, and stopped working when the enemy entered a crowded city.
  
  The letters between Dulles and Fleming also show how the CIA tapped into James Bond for public relations support, with the author agreeing to include a number of glowing references to the CIA in his later novels. He did this out of respect for Dulles, a close friend, but the effect was to promote the image of the CIA. In return, Dulles rhapsodised about Fleming in the American press, even saying on one occasion that his organisation "could do with a few James Bonds."
  
  Dr Moran said: "The early 007 novels, written in the 1950s, introduce millions of readers to the CIA for the first time through the character of its agent Felix Leiter.
  
  "Although Fleming's portrayal of the CIA is largely favourable, readers are left in no doubt that the British intelligence services are the superior outfit.
  
  "In Live and Let Die, for example, Leiter comes across as a bit of a bungler, unable to blend in with the locals and forced to rely on paid informants.
  
  "But in the later books, as the friendship between Dulles and Fleming deepens, a far rosier picture of the CIA emerges.
  
  "For example, in Thunderball, Bond's boss 'M' dispenses with his characteristic economy of words to speak enthusiastically about the way the CIA is selflessly putting itself in the service of freedom.
  
  "And Allen Dulles is even the subject of several honourable mentions in the later books.
  
  "It really does come across as a bit of a mutual appreciation society."
  
  Story Source:
  Materials provided by University of Warwick. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
  
  Journal Reference:
  Christopher Moran. Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA. Journal of Cold War Studies, 2013; 15 (1): 119 DOI: 10.1162/JCWS_a_00310
  
  Cite This Page:
  University of Warwick. "A close Bond: How the CIA exploited 007 for gadget ideas and public relations." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 July 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130716075931.htm>.

  2019: Q the Music offers a live medley from Piz Gloria--appropriately featuring music from On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Live rebroadcast for a limited time.

  OHMSS Medley Trailer
  Q The Music Show - James Bond Concert Spectacular

  https://www.facebook.com/QTheMusicShow/videos/2368439073411730/
  July 15, 2019 ·
  
  Coming Tuesday 16 July 2000 London Time:

  FULL 20 minute medley from On Her Majesty's Secret Service performed LIVE at Piz Gloria.

  The video re-run will be broadcast "live" at 2000 and then taken down shortly afterwards - don't miss it!
  https://www.facebook.com/QTheMusicShow/videos/ohmss-medley-trailer
  
  Video will be shown here:
  http://thelondonshowband.acemlna.com/lt.php…
  
  Features:

  • This Never Happened To The Other Fella
  • Try
  • Ski Chase
  • Over And Out
  • Battle At Piz Gloria
  • Blofeld's Plot
  • Gumbold's Safe

  
  OHMSS50 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service 50th Anniversary Concert Piz Gloria Fan Event.
  
  

  
  2020: The Malay Mail reports on author William Boyd's proposal for fictional James Bond's real world flat in London.

  

  Licence to chill: UK author tracks down
  James Bond’s home

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2020/07/16/licence-to-chill-uk-author-tracks-down-james-bonds-home/1885238

  Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 08:41 PM MYT
  

  
  A file picture of Ian Fleming, a British journalist, secret service agent and writer. — AFP pic

  
  LONDON, July 16 — British author William Boyd believes he has discovered the London home of James Bond, after researching the character’s creator Ian Fleming and his famous books for clues.

  Fleming wrote a total of 14 Bond books, two of them short story collections, in the 1950s and ‘60s but never revealed exactly where the secret agent lived, other than noting it was in the Chelsea neighbourhood.
  
  But after re-reading all 14 before penning his own Bond continuation novel Solo in 2013, Boyd said he suspects the spy lives at number 25, Wellington Square, in Chelsea.
  
  “That’s where James Bond’s flat was,” the writer said in an essay published today in the Times Literary Supplement, detailing how he settled on the address.

  “Obviously, James Bond is a fictional character and didn’t actually live anywhere,” he added.
  
  “However, it is strange how in the case of some fictional characters a kind of reality begins to take over their lives, as if they really did live and breathe, had an actual address and a mortgage.”
  
  Boyd deployed sleuthing skills worthy of Bond himself to hunt down his home.
  
  He began his mission with Fleming’s 1955 novel Moonraker, which describes it as “a comfortable flat in a plane-tree’d square off the King’s Road” — a famous street in Chelsea.
  
  He used those details and some crucial coordinates in Thunderball (1961) — that the flat was a quick drive up the road to Hyde Park — to narrow the choice down to Wellington Square.
  
  Boyd then examined Fleming’s social circle when he lived in London.
  
  The spy who lived here
  The Bond creator did much of his writing on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where he had a house built after World War II.
  
  But he drew on his prior experiences in British Naval Intelligence for some of his novels’ raw materials and was also a foreign editor at the Sunday Times before leaving the UK.
  
  Boyd discovered that a colleague at the newspaper, chief book reviewer Desmond MacCarthy, and his wife owned the flat at number 25, Wellington Square.
  
  The couple were “legendary entertainers and their home became a kind of salon”, according to Boyd, who noted they were also acquainted with one of Fleming’s close friends.
  
  “The circumstantial evidence is compelling. It is highly probable that Fleming went to one or more of the MacCarthys’ parties in Wellington Square,” he added.
  
  Concluding his case, Boyd found the flat matched Fleming’s description of Bond’s home in From Russia, with Love (1957) as having “a long big-windowed sitting room”.
  
  The spy’s sitting room is also described as “book-lined” — which Boyd interprets as a nod to MacCarthy, who was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of 20th-century intellectuals.
  
  In a final coincidental quirk, Boyd discovered Wellington Square is a stone’s throw from Bywater Street, where another famous fictional spy lived: John le Carre’s George Smiley. — AFP

  
  
• BT3366

  July 2021 Posts: 1,882

  I'm a few days late, but it's fun reading these LTK reviews. I'm surprised the Washington Post had 2 different reviews on the same day. Hal Hinson's could almost be taken as the archetype of the negative LTK review of the time right down to the Miami Vice comparison and unlimited criticisms of what's wrong with Dalton. It's especially baffling his suggesting Bond needs to be more of a superhero when all critics suggested prior to Dalton how much of a superhero Bond had become and how he needed to be closer to the early Connery portrayal.
  
  It's also refreshing to see there were several reviewers who liked the film. Also noteworthy is how Roger Ebert's print review seemed more positive than the one he gave on his TV review show with partner Gene Siskel. I recall both gave it their famous thumbs down. Funny too how he says here Dalton can have the role as long as he enjoys it when he would repeat the same about Brosnan a few years down the road. Then again, Siskel was the one who was always going on about Connery being the only Bond that mattered.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  July 2021 Posts: 12,988

  July 17th
  
  1922: Tetsurô Tamba is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  (He dies 24 September 2006 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.)

  

  Tetsuro Tamba

  Japanese actor whose life was a journey from kitsch to cult
  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/06/guardianobituaries.japan
  Ronald Bergan | Wed 6 Dec 2006 04.17 EST
  
  The Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba, who has died aged 84, was a recognisable face to that large group of film fans from the west who are followers of Asian genre movies. He was seen in every conceivable kind of film - disaster, gangster, samurai, war and horror, as well as a number of art films.

  In an acting career that began in 1954, Tamba made more than 200 films; he admitted that he never refused a role, never memorised a script - and never sat through an entire film that he appeared in. One of his most well-known roles internationally was in Lewis Gilbert's You Only Live Twice (1967), the fifth blockbusting James Bond movie starring Sean Connery. Tamba played Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese secret service, who helps Bond save the world from destruction. The character is the mirror of Bond-san: he has a witty and sarcastic sense of humour, dresses smartly, is in perfect physical condition and has a taste for beautiful women. When Bond makes contact with him, he uses the password, "I love you."
  
  One of the best exchanges between them is when they are being bathed by Tanaka's women. Tanaka: "You know what it is about you that fascinates them, don't you? It's the hair on your chest. All Japanese men have beautiful bare skin." Bond: "Japanese proverb say 'Bird never make nest in bare tree.'"

  Gilbert also directed Tamba in The Seventh Dawn (1964). In the Malaya of 1945, he and William Holden are two pals who fought the Japanese together during the war but are now on opposing sides - Holden, an imperialist rubber plantation owner, and Tamba a communist guerilla. In another English-language film, Tamba played an ideological baddie in Bridge to the Sun (1961), as a militaristic diplomat at odds with a friend who married an American girl (Carroll Baker) before Pearl Harbor.
  
  He was born Shozaburo Tanba (he is sometimes credited as Tetsuro Tanba) in Tokyo, the son of the emperor's personal doctor. After some years under contract to Shintoho studios, he went freelance in 1959 and began starring in films, mostly yakusa, jidai-geki (period) movies and gore spectacles. For example, he was the unheeded professor who predicts The Last Days of Planet Earth (1974). But he also worked with some of Japan's best directors, including Shohei Imamura - Pigs and Battleships (1961), 11'09.01-September 11 (2002), Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri, 1962), Kwaidan (1964), Kinji Fukasaku (Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, 1972) and Juzo Itami (A Taxing Woman Returns, 1988).
  
  Towards the end of his life, Tamba made a few films for Takashi Miike: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), and Gozu, 2003, in the former as a stern grandfather. He also had a cameo role as a harsh art critic in Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001). In the 1980s, while appearing in around seven films a year, Tamba became leader of Dai Reien Kai (Great Spirit World), a spiritual cult movement, for which he made several propaganda videos based upon his theories of the afterlife. He is survived by his son, the actor Yoshitaka Tanba.
  
  · Tetsuro Tamba (Shozaburo Tanba), actor, born July 17 1922; died September 25 2006

  
  Tetsuro Tamba
  https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/tetsuro-tamba/credits/176543/
  

  Actor (24 Credits)
  
  The Twilight Samurai (Movie) Tozaemon Iguchi 2003
  11'09"01: September 11 (Movie) Bonze 2002
  The Happiness Of The Katakuris (Movie) Jinpei Katakuri 2001
  Tokyo Pop (Movie) Dota 1988
  Onimasa (Movie) The Big Boss 1982
  The Bushido Blade (Movie) Lord Yamato 1982
  
  Hunter In The Dark (Movie) Okitsugu Tanuma 1979
  Message From Space (Movie) Noguchi 1978
  Karate Bearfighter (Movie) 1977
  Tidal Wave (Movie) Prime Minister Yamato 1975
  Prophecies Of Nostradamus (Movie) 1974
  Under The Fluttering Military Flag (Movie) 1972
  The Five Man Army (Movie) Samurai 1970
  The Scandalous Adventures Of Buraikan (Movie) Soshun 1970
  
  Goyokin (Movie) Rokugo Tatewaki 1969
  Black Lizard (Movie) Show Dancer 1968
  Portrait Of Chieko (Movie) Kotaro Takamura 1967
  You Only Live Twice (Movie) Tiger Tanaka 1967
  Kwaidan (Movie) 1964
  Samurai From Nowhere (Movie) Gunjuro Ohba 1964
  The Seventh Dawn (Movie) Ng 1964
  Harakiri (Movie) Hikokuro Omodaka 1962
  The Diplomat's Mansion (Movie) 1961
  Bridge To The Sun (Movie) Jiro 1961

  

  Kaiju Shakedown: Tetsuro Tamba

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/kaiju-shakedown-tetsuro-tamba/

  By Grady Hendrix on October 6, 2014
  
  Eight years ago last month Tetsuro Tamba went to the After Life World, leaving behind a cloud of contradictions that linger in the air long after his departure, like a zesty aftershave made of man-sweat and punches to the jaw. Simultaneously the best actor in Japan and the worst, a man of refined taste and of no taste at all, a rich kid whose career was either shotgunned from the hip with no planning whatsoever or a carefully wrought piece of performance art, one thing is for certain: Tetsuro Tamba is probably the only man to direct a movie that ends with a dead poodle turning to the screen and saying “Sayonara.”
  
  Appearing in either 268, or 301, or 350 movies, depending on who you ask, Tamba was born rich, descended from Japanese aristocracy, and he lived his life according to the rule he laid out for Sean Connery when he appeared opposite him as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice (67), “Rule number one—never do anything for yourself when someone else can do it for you.”
  
  The Five Man Army
  For Tamba, that meant: never watch your own movies, never turn down a role, and never memorize a line. Whether he was on the stage in Takashi Miike’s Demon Pond or a scientist trying to save the world in The Last Days of Planet Earth (74), Tamba gave his super-serious performances from inside a vortex of notecards and script pages taped up all over the set. Watch him move around his office in The Last Days of Planet Earth delivering a speech about the coming apocalypse and you’ll see him reading his first few lines from a file folder he’s holding, looking inside a desk drawer for the next few, and delivering the clincher from off the back of a lampshade.
  
  That didn’t mean he was a bad actor, but he wasn’t exactly a good actor either. Tamba transcended acting and simply existed, generating a force field made of machismo that fermented into gravitas with age. Whether he was the President of the Earth Federation in Kinji Fukasaku’s Message From Space (78), or a po-faced grandpa killing a bird with a thrown log in Happiness of the Katakuris (01), Tamba was the Troy McClure of Japanese cinema, a man as stiff and reassuring as Charlton Heston, and as rugged and out-of-date as John Wayne.
  
  Happiness of the Katakuris
  His father was physician to the Meiji Emperor, and Tamba himself was a pampered aristocrat who lied his way into a job as a translator for Occupation forces after WW II, making up for his total lack of English by taking GIs to all the best whorehouses. In 1951 he won a “New Face” competition at Shintoho studios, and his movie career began. Shintoho had been launched in a burst of optimism four years previously, a splinter group of artists who left Toho over a labor dispute, who cared deeply about cinema, and who vowed to build a brighter future.
  
  Full of potential, Shintoho attracted directors from Ozu to Kurosawa but the one thing it couldn’t attract were audiences. By 1956, it had been taken over by Mitsugu Okura, a circus ringmaster turned theater owner, and he unleashed a tidal wave of sex, horror, and mutilation under its logo. Before Okura, Shintoho released Mizoguchi’s classic Life of Oharu (52); under Okura, it released Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals (57). See what he did there? Tamba clashed with the studio constantly, believing that he came from just as good a family as they did, and therefore they were his equals, not his bosses. Three years after Okura took over, Tamba squirmed out of his contract and went rogue. He took part in high-class pictures like Kobayashi’s Harakiri (62) but his most important role came when he conned his way onto British film, The 7th Dawn (64), again using his nonexistent English. (According to legend he just answered “yes” to every question at the audition). 7th Dawn was directed by Lewis Gilbert, whose next movie, Alfie (66), won a special jury prize at Cannes. Next up for Tamba was Gilbert’s You Only Live Twice.
  
  You Only Live Twice
  Set in Japan, Gilbert turned immediately to the one Japanese actor he knew for the role of Tiger Tanaka: Tetsuro Tamba. Putting his machismo into overdrive, Tiger Tanaka’s office is only accessible via a chrome laundry chute, he has a school of ninjas, a bikini beauty bathing squad who wash him, and he gets to admire Sean Connery’s chest hair and utter such immortal lines as, “In Japan, men come first, women come second.”
  
  With a Bond film in his back pocket, Tamba had a license to appear in any movie he wanted and the movie he picked was…all of them. He appeared in Italian spaghetti westerns (Five Man Army, 69), he appeared in the Shaw Brothers' wuxia (The Water Margin, 77), big-budget disaster flicks (Sinking of Japan, 73), Teruo Ishii softcore samurai pictures (Bohachi Bushido, 73), science fiction films (Message from Space, 78), and Buddhist biopics alongside Tatsuya Nakadai (The Human Revolution, 73). He had his own late night talk show, Tamba Club, he was in the movies, he was on TV, he was everywhere, reading his lines off cue cards and tightening his jaw on cue.
  
  The Water Margin
  He was also in the afterlife.
  
  In the Seventies, Tamba got interested in the possibility of life after death, and decided to do research, which meant reading a bunch of books. This led him to become leader of the Dai Reikai (Great Spirit World) movement, a new age, afterlife-focused group that appeared in Japan in the Eighties promising to scientifically investigate the afterlife, which apparently involves flying around on a trumpet. Tamba wrote dozens of books on the Great Spirit World, worked on opening a Great Spirit World theme park, gave lectures about spirituality, and made three feature films on the subject, the most infamous of which, Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spirit World—What Happens After Death (89) features a dead dog who gives the aforementioned “Sayonara” sign-off at the end of the film.
  
  But an interest in life after death didn’t stop Tamba from appearing in plenty of other movies, including Hong Kong’s Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (91) and Takashi Miike’s Happiness of the Katakuris (01), Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (02), and Gozu (03). In 2006, he passed away at the age of 84, and by all accounts his death was a quiet affair, which seems tremendously out of character. Terrible, amazing, awesome, and awful, Tetsuro Tamba was the very definition of a cinematic icon. Hell, he even gets his own hip-hop track. If that doesn’t guarantee immortality, I don’t know what will.
  
  Deadly Outlaw
  

  

  Tetsurô Tanba (1922–2006)

  
  Actor (334 Credits)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848533/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

  
  

  
  1944: Catherine Schell is born--Budapest, Hungary.
  
  1959: Laurence Evans from MCA offers advice to Fleming on Bond film deals.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  ...Fleming changed his mind yet again and phoned
  [Laurence] Evans to tell him the deal with Bryce was done and that he would no longer
  be seeking his representation in the matter. But Evans was evidently uneasy
  about the status of Xanadu and his client's interest in it and wrote to
  Fleming on 17 July offering to have an unofficial look at the proposed terms.
  "I am not interested so much with your ultimate remuneration from this
  project as with the certainty or otherwise of the film being made." Clearly
  Evans was anxious about the viability of Xanadu mounting a Bond film and
  with the pending American TV version of From Russia With Love was sure
  there would be renewed interest in Bond film rights. "It would be a great
  pity if our hands were tied by arrangements which were not clearly defined
  and suitably rewarding."

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the helicopter assault on Bond and Tatiana.
  1963: Jonathan Cape's Michael Howard writes Richard Chopping regarding Fleming's opinion for elements of the eventual You Only Live Twice dust cover.

  Michael Howard to Richard Chopping:

  I have had a talk with Ian about the ideas for the ingredients
  of this design. He is very much in favour of the toad ...
  but with a suitable array of oriental embellishrangment,
  i.e. toad plus Japanese flower arrangements, which he thinks
  should be sitting in a suitable piece of Japanese pottery, perhaps
  ornamented with a dragon motif. If you could manage a
  pink dragonfly sitting on the flowers, and perhaps just one
  epicanthic eye peering through them he thinks that
  will be just splendid!

  

  1964: Roger Moore plays James Bond on Mainly Millicent.

  

  Mainly Millicent (1964)

  Episode aired Jul 17, 1964
  
  Writers | Sidney Green, Richard Hills
  
  Top Cast
  Millicent Martin as Sonia Sekova
  Roger Moore as James Bond
  Leslie Crawford
  Peter Diamond
  Len Lowe
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2225195/
  

  Sir Roger Moore as Bond 1964?
  

  1965: The Saturday Evening Post features Sean Connery and "The James Bond Cult (Guns, girls, and gadgets)."

  

  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
  
  

  
  1990: Putnam and Sons publishes John Gardner's Bond novel Brokenclaw in the US. Hyphenated.

  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the stealth barge action. Pierce Brosnan splits his lip on a stuntman's helmet, receives eight stitches.
  
  2004: Francis Patrick (Pat) Roach dies at age 67-- Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.
  (Born 19 May 1937--Birmingham, England.)

  

  Pat Roach

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roach

  Born Francis Patrick Roach, 19 May 1937, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
  Died 17 July 2004 (aged 67), Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
  Nationality - British
  Occupation - Actor, wrestler, author, businessman
  Years active - 1960–2004
  Height - 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[1][2]
  Television - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  Spouse(s) - Doreen Harris (m. 1957)
  Children - 2

  Francis Patrick Roach (19 May 1937 – 17 July 2004) was an English actor, and professional wrestler. During an acting career between the 1970s and the 1990s he appeared in multiple films, usually cast as a support player strongman villain. He appeared in the Indiana Jones cinema, as the West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the 1980s British television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and in the role of Petty Officer Edgar Evans in the television production The Last Place on Earth.
  
  Early life
  Roach was born and brought up in Birmingham, West Midlands, the son of Francis "Frank" Roach (born 1905). He was National Judo Champion in 1960, and Midland Area Black Belt Champion in 1962.
  
  Sports career

  

  Roach boxed as an amateur before becoming professional as a protege of Jack Solomons.
  
  He began his professional wrestling career under the name of "Judo" Pat Roach. After his acting career had begun, he continued to wrestle under the name of "Bomber" Pat Roach, having previously been billed as "Big" Pat Roach before receiving affectionate cheering from the audience. He was trained by Alf Kent, his first official wrestling match was against George Selko in 1960. Roach held both the British and European heavyweight championships at one time.
  
  Acting career
  Roach made his acting debut as the red-bearded bouncer in the Korova Milkbar in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. He worked on another Kubrick film, Barry Lyndon, where he played a hand-to-hand brawler named Toole who engages Ryan O'Neal in fistfight. Roach went on to play a number of strong-man supporting character roles in films in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, including the nonspeaking role of Hephaestus in Clash of the Titans alongside Laurence Olivier.

  He later appeared as Atlas in the story of Perseus and the Gorgon in Clash of the Titans. He also appeared as a SPECTRE-backed assassin in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and as bandit-warlord Lord Brytag in the sword-and-sorcery film Red Sonja. He appeared as the skull-helmeted General Kael in the film Willow; the evil wizard Thoth-Amon in Conan the Destroyer and as the Celtic chieftain in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

  In an alternative from playing strongman villains, in 1985 he played Petty Officer Edgar Evans in the Central TV miniseries The Last Place on Earth about Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Roach was turned down as Darth Vader in Star Wars; however, its director, George Lucas, subsequently cast him as several burly villains in the Indiana Jones film series in the 1980s. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he played two roles: the first being a giant Sherpa who fights Jones in the bar in Nepal, the second being a German Luftwaffe mechanic who fistfights with Jones before being killed by an aircraft's propeller blades on the airstrip in Egypt. In the next film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Roach played a Thuggee guard in a mine who fights with Jones before being killed in a rock crusher. His final appearance in the series was as a Gestapo officer in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he appears only briefly as the character's fight with Jones was cut because director Steven Spielberg considered the scene "too long" and served as a subplot.
  
  Roach played the character of Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen Pet, as a West Country bricklayer who appeared in all four of the full length series.
  
  Personal life

  
  Roach's grave in Bromsgrove

  
  Roach married Doreen Harris in 1957, the marriage producing a son and a daughter.
  
  In the 1990s Roach owned and managed a scrapyard in Saltley, Birmingham, he also ran a gym on Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, in North-East Birmingham.
  
  Roach died on 17 July 2004 of esophageal cancer. His body was buried in Bromsgrove Cemetery, Worcestershire.

  

  Pat Roach (I) (1937–2004)

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

  

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

  

  James Bond Complete Boxed Sets Class Action Settlement

  https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settlements/839004-james-bond-complete-boxed-sets-class-action-settlement/
  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #9.
  Eric Gapstur, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #9

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532509011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: Khoi Pham
  Cover C: Kano
  Cover D: Eric Gapstur
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Eric Gapstur
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/17/2019

  "THE HEIST"
  Plan is set. Clock gets tight. Goldfinger bets big.
  
  The modern 007 epic continues from GREG PAK (Batman/Superman, Hulkverines) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash: Season Zero).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: The Living Daylights headlines at the Prince Charles Cinema, London. [SOLD OUT!]

  

  THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

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  https://princecharlescinema.com/PrinceCharlesCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=17896363

  THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS]/b]
  Directed by John Glen
  Starring Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé
  1987 | 130mins | UK | rated (PG)
  

  James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.

  Saturday 17 Jul 2021
  Book 5:30pm -- Sold Out

  
  

  

  2021: Licence To Phil: Whitfield On Bond adds a series of events following a screening of The Living Daylights at the Prince Charles Cinema in London.

  

  Licence To Phil: The Living Daylights Big Bond
  London Weekender
  Sat Jul 17 2021 at 12:00 pm to Sun Jul 18 2021 at 07:00 am UTC+01:00
  London, United Kingdom | London

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  Licence To Phil: Whitfield On Bond
  
  Licence To Phil: The Living Daylights Big Bond London Weekender
  
  We are celebrating The Living Daylights and attending the screening of the film at the Prince Charles Cinema in London with a series of events over the weekend of 17th/18th July.
  
  On Saturday 17th July, I will be hosting a walking tour of Bond locations in London which will begin at 13:00 meeting at the Churchill statue in Parliament Square.
  
  The tour will last a couple of hours and obviously involve a lot of walking. Please bring some water or something to drink.
  
  After the film screening, I was planning for the group to meet at upstairs Central Station pub at 37 Wharfdale Road, London, N1 9SD (nearest tube is Kings Cross) but due to COVID restrictions still in place groups of 6 can not meet in doors. The pub is open and, of course, there is nothing to stop your own group making their way to this pub, so it is possible I may still see you there (socially distanced, of course!) Different groups can always interact outside on the roof terrace.
  
  On the Sunday, meeting we are heading to Stonor House at 12:00 for a picnic in the gardens (please supply your own hamper from Harrods or elsewhere) with tours of the house available from 1:30. If you do wish to tour the house please book an early session as we plan to leave Stonor between 2:30 and 3 for the Big Bond Location tour. Own transport is vital although some people are offering lifts for those who don’t have a car.
  We plan to be back in London for about 7pm.

  2021: Free James Bond Walking Tour & The History of Espionage, London.

  
  Jul
  17

  Free James Bond Walking Tour
  by London with a Local

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  Join and step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy!
  
  About this event
  Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, The Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!
  
  Hear about the time the Queen spent a few minutes with Bond for the 2012 Olympics! Take a few detours along the way to delve into the life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, who spent the Second World War working in Naval Intelligence and built his own team of super spies along the way.
  
  On the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage you will wing by the Ministry of Defence to learn about the Secret Service’s real ‘C’, Mansfield Cumming, first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, and more in a fun, entertaining 2-hour stroll that will absolutely captivate you!

  Date and time
  Sat, 17 July 2021
  11:00 – 13:00 BST
  
  Location
  Clermont Hotel
  Charing Cross
  The Strand
  London
  WC2N 5HX
  United Kingdom
  
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  July 18th
  
  1913: Eric Pohlmann is born--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
  (He dies 25 July 1979 at age 66--Bad Reichenall, Bavaria, Germany.)

  

  Eric Pohlmann

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pohlmann

  

  Born - Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
  Died - 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
  Years active - 1948–1979
  Spouse(s) - Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

  Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

  Early life
  Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.
  
  In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.
  
  Career
  After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.
  
  One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).
  
  He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

  Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

  In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.
  
  Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.
  
  Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.
  
  In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.
  
  In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.
  
  He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).
  

  

  Eric Pohlmann (1913–1979)

  Actor
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  1930: Burt Kwouk is born--Warrington, Cheshire, England.
  (He dies 24 May 2016 at age 85--Hampstead, London, England.)

  

  Burt Kwouk obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-obituary

  Actor best known for his roles in the Pink Panther films and the
  BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 24 May 2016 12.24 EDT

  
  Burt Kwouk, right, was a regular co-star with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films,
  including Return of the Pink Panther, 1975. Photograph: SNAP/Rex/Shutterstock

  Anna May Wong, the first of the few Chinese actors to gain Hollywood stardom, explained why she retired from the screen: “I was so tired of the parts I had to play. Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain? And so crude a villain – murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that. How should we be, with a civilisation that is so many times older than that of the west?” Burt Kwouk, who has died aged 85, felt the same way but, as he remarked: “I look at it this way – if I don’t do it, someone else will. So why don’t I go in, get some money and try to elevate it a bit, if I can?”
  
  Kwouk, mostly seen in British films and TV, did manage to elevate many of his roles, finally transcending stereotypes such as his celebrated Cato, the foil to Peter Sellers’ bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, to become a national treasure, this status being consecrated in 2002 by his joining the cast of the BBC’s longest running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
  
  Kwouk was born in Warrington, Lancashire, “because my mother happened to be there at the time,” but at 10 months old was taken back to the family home in Shanghai. There he remained until he was 17, when his well-off parents sent him to the US to study politics and economics. However, before he was able to graduate his parents lost all their money in the 1949 revolution, and he returned to Shanghai. A few years later, Kwouk took advantage of his dual nationality and returned to Britain, where he took various menial jobs before his girlfriend “nagged me into acting”. Capitalising on his oriental looks, he started getting roles mostly as villainous or comic Chinese or Japanese characters.
  
  One of his first TV appearances was a comic one, in a Hancock’s Half Hour (1957), as a Japanese man presenting two bowls of rice to Tony Hancock, who has won a lifetime’s supply in a newspaper competition. A year later, Kwouk was fortunate, so early in his career, to have one of his better film roles in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, set in China but shot in Wales. Kwouk, one of the few genuine Chinese people in the cast, played Li, who helps Ingrid Bergman, as the English Christian missionary Gladys Aylward, escape from the Japanese with 100 children. After a long and arduous journey, he is shot and killed by Japanese soldiers when he tries to distract them from the children.
  
  He was soon cast in a couple of Hammer Horror films, The Terror of the Tongs, as one of evil Christopher Lee’s hatchet men, and Visa to Canton (both 1961). Kwouk was subsequently to play the sidekick of Lee’s Fu Manchu in The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). But in The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980), Sax Rohmer’s master criminal was played by Sellers, with Kwouk as his manservant. It was a best-forgotten, dismal ending to Sellers’ career, but it did give him and Kwouk a last chance to work together.
  
  Their first chance had come 16 years before in A Shot in the Dark (1964), the second of Blake Edwards’s slapstick comedies featuring Sellers as the extraordinarily maladroit Inspector Clouseau, who seemed unable to cross a room without breaking something. Kwouk played Clouseau’s Chinese “houseboy”, whose sole function was to ambush his master with kung fu attacks at the most unexpected moments from the most unsuspected places. These brilliantly choreographed running and jumping gags, which always resulted in the destruction of Clouseau’s apartment and Cato coming off worst, were the highlights of all the Pink Panther films, which included The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
  
  “Peter and I fell about laughing so much that very often we were unable to complete the day’s work as scheduled, which the producers hated,” Kwouk recalled. “Cato and I are very different. He never stands still. I only move when I have to.” The death of Sellers in 1980 didn’t prevent Edwards from making The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) by piecing together out-takes and clips from the previous films in the series. Kwouk was seen as Cato, bravely being interviewed about his boss, and again in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), this time as proprietor of the Clouseau museum. Kwouk’s protracted association with the Pink Panther series ended with Son of the Pink Panther (1993), in which, in various disguises, he attacks villains on behalf of Roberto Benigni in the title role.

  Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond movies: Goldfinger (1964), as a nuclear scientist sent to oversee the bomb that China has given to Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) to blow up Fort Knox, but who is later double-crossed and shot; Casino Royale (1967), as a Chinese general; and You Only Live Twice (1967), as one of Blofeld’s gang of Spectre henchmen.

  His other roles varied from Chairman Peng of the People’s Republic in Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) to a corrupt Laotian general who’s hoping to save up enough money to buy a Holiday Inn in the US in Air America (1990), to the trustworthy contact in Paris of Jet Li’s Chinese cop in the formulaic martial arts thriller Kiss of the Dragon (2001).
  
  Parallel to his film career, Kwouk made a niche for himself on British television in series including The Saint (1965-68), It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1977-78), Doctor Who (1982), and as himself in The Kenny Everett Show (1983-84) and The Harry Hill Show (1997-2000). But the role that revealed his underused talents as a dramatic actor was Major Yamauchi, the strict but honourable commandant of a women’s POW camp in Tenko (1981-84).
  
  In contrast was his Mr Entwistle, a philosophical electrical handyman from Hull in Last of the Summer Wine, a part specially written for him by Roy Clarke. “It is a very pleasant and easygoing programme, a lovely gentle comic show,” Kwouk remarked. “There is no one charging around, and even the slapstick is quite gentle – certainly more gentle than I am used to.”
  
  Kwouk’s voice was almost as famous as his face. It can be heard in the video game Fire Warrior, narrating the English version of the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (1976-78), the bizarre “interactive” gambling show Banzai! (2001-04) and in many TV commercials.
  
  Kwouk was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to drama.
  
  He is survived by Caroline Tebbs, whom he married in 1961, and their son Christopher.
  
  • Burt Kwouk, actor, born 18 July 1930; died 24 May 2016

  
  https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/person/223941

  Films | Year | Film | Role
  
  1958 Windom's Way (villager)
  1959 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Li)
  1959 Upstairs and Downstairs (Chinese restaurant proprietor)
  
  1960 Expresso Bongo ([Soho youth])
  1960 The Terror of the Tongs (Ming)
  1960 Visa to Canton (Jimmy)
  1962 Satan Never Sleeps (Ah Wong)
  1962 The Sinister Man (Captain Feng)
  1963 The Cool Mikado ([art teacher])
  1964 Goldfinger (Mr Ling)
  1965 A Shot in the Dark (Kato)
  1965 Curse of the Fly (Tai)
  1966 Our Man in Marrakesh (export analysis manager)
  1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu (Feng)
  1966 The Sandwich Man (ice cream salesman)
  1967 Casino Royale ([Chinese Army officer at auction])
  1967 You Only Live Twice (SPECTRE No 3)
  1968 Nobody Runs Forever (Pham Chinh)
  1969 The Most Dangerous Man in the World (Chang Shou)
  
  1970 Deep End (hot dog stand man)
  1972 Die Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu (henchman)
  1975 Girls Come First (Sashimi)
  1976 Return of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  1977 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Cato)
  1977 The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It (Chinese delegate)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  
  1982 Trail of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  
  1990 I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (Fu King owner)
  1992 Carry On Columbus (Wang)
  1993 Leon the Pig Farmer (art collector)
  
  2004 Fat Slags (Dalai Lama)

  

  Burt Kwouk (1930–2016)

  Actor | Soundtrack
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  1963: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic 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. (Filming ends 18 November.)
  1989: The Christian Science Monitor prints David Sterritt's film review "In 007's Latest, Violent Outing Dalton Finds Room to Grow."

  
  FILM REVIEW

  In 007's Latest, Violent Outing Dalton
  Finds Room to Grow

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0718/llic.html

  July 18, 1989 | By David Sterritt Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor | NEW YORK
  
  HOLLYWOOD movies are usually geared to be popular and uncontroversial, so they can provide clues to what's going on in the American consciousness. A look at the new James Bond picture, "Licence To Kill,'' shows a development worth noticing: the Contras of Nicaragua no longer have the respectability they enjoyed during the Reagan years. Bond's main adversary is a Latin American criminal who purchases Stinger missiles from the Contras so he can threaten to down an American airliner if the Feds don't lay off his drug-running operation. The film assumes that the Contras would sell their weapons to any high bidder, and that they wouldn't care if the bidder happened to be a psychotic criminal.
  
  The bad guy only uses his Stingers during the final shootout with Agent 007, but the other key ingredients of his crookedness - drugs and money - are practically the stars of the movie.
  
  This is another sign of the times, also visible in "Lethal Weapon 2,'' a midsummer hit that arrived slightly earlier. In that picture, two Los Angeles cops chase a South African who uses diplomatic immunity to shelter his narcotics dealing.
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  South African officials and Contra-supplied Latins may be new on Hollywood's roster of stock villains, but as characters they're just facile variations on the Nazis, Commies, and other politically aligned antagonists who plagued heroes in bygone melodramas.
  
  Like them, the new breed of heavy serves not only as a foil for the good guy but, more significantly, as a reflection of American xenophobia - a trait that plagues all manner of movies from Indiana Jones epics to back-alley exploitation flicks.
  
  Bond is a "foreigner'' himself, of course, but "Licence To Kill'' minimizes Britishness by transplanting him to the Florida Keys and other locations near the United States, and by teaming him with a former CIA operative. He even resigns from Her Majesty's Secret Service at one point, becoming (just like the "Lethal Weapon 2'' heroes) a vigilante on a purely personal vendetta. The movie also flaunts its America-first leanings with pointless inside jokes, including plays on the names of former President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy.
  
  The other hallmark of "Licence To Kill'' is its violence, which is surprisingly vicious for a warm-weather entertainment with a PG-13 rating. Bond has always been a casual killer, of course, even in the days when Sean Connery played him with a savoir faire that hasn't been equalled. But his nastiness has been escalating, and it reaches an awful height in his new adventure.
  
  One example is a moment when 007 has his antagonist completely subdued and dangling helplessly over a hungry shark. Instead of tempering law enforcement with mercy, Bond cheerfully tosses a heavy suitcase (stuffed with the villain's ill-gotten cash) at the bad guy, deliberately plunging him to a horrible death. All of which gives a chuckle to Bond's sidekick, who promptly remarks, "What a waste - of money!''
  
  Violence and xenophobia apart, "Licence To Kill'' is at least as lively as most other current movies. One comparison is with "Batman,'' which - according to one of my teen-age children - doesn't have enough "bat-traps'' in it (a bat-trap being a fiendish device found in the "Batman'' comic books for killing the hero). By contrast, "Licence To Kill'' has plenty of Bond-traps, from the aforementioned shark to that old favorite, a conveyor belt leading to a deadly machine.
  
  None of them work, of course, and 007 is sure to return for plenty more sequels. They may well feature Timothy Dalton; so I'm happy to report he's more human and less wooden in "Licence To Kill'' than in "The Living Daylights,'' his last outing. As unlikely as it seems, Mr. Dalton actually appears to be growing in the Bond role, which is potentially stifling because its own popularity has so rigidly defined it.
  
  John Glen has directed "Licence To Kill'' with the same dogged energy he brought to four earlier Bond epics. The supporting cast includes such veterans as Desmond Llewelyn, who has played the character called Q in all but two of the Bond pictures, and Robert Brown, who's played M since "Octopussy'' in 1983. Also on board, in his film-acting debut, is singer Wayne Newton as an evangelist who's as oily as he is phony.
  
  Footnote: In one more sign of the times, "Licence To Kill'' is the first movie I know of with a Surgeon General's Warning at the end because of the on-screen use of tobacco products.
  
  While this is a step in the right direction, I have two further suggestions: Leave those tobacco products on the cutting-room floor in the first place, and slap a Surgeon General's Warning on the whole movie - since its eager violence pollutes the filmgoing atmosphere at least as much as James Bond's cigarettes!

  
  
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  2006: Casino Royale films the final action of the chase across the airport, completing principal photography.

  
  

  
  2015: Glu Mobile releases menu-based role-playing game James Bond: World of Espionage as a free app for the Android and iOS platforms.

  
  
  James Bond: World of Espionage (by Glu Games Inc.) - iOS / Android - HD Gameplay Trailer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: LEGO releases a 1290-piece Aston Martin DB5.

  

  Channel your inner James Bond with Lego’s Goldfinger DB5
  
  1290-piece Aston Martin recreates film’s iconic car

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.evo.co.uk/aston-martin/21514/channel-your-inner-james-bond-with-lego-s-goldfinger-db5

  by: Lee Stern | 18 Jul 2018

  
  Lego Aston Martin DB58

  Lego has uncovered an Aston Martin DB5 based on the car driven by James Bond in Goldfinger. Available from 18 July the model, which costs £129.99, features the weapons arsenal and gadgets fitted to the car in the film.
  
  Measuring 10cm high, 34cm long and 12cm wide, the model is a 1:8 scale of the real car and made up of 1290 pieces. The complexity of the build process has seen Lego brand the kit 16-plus.
  
  To ensure authenticity, the car receives the same Q treatment as the iconic car that starred in the film back in 1964. To that end, there’s the radar tracker and deployable machine guns to locate and neutralise villains, while the bullet-proof screen on the rear deck, revolving number plates and wheel-mounted tyre scythes are there to fend them off.
  
  Along with the radar tracker, the interior is kitted-out with the hidden telephone and all-important (operational) ejector seat. Just like the movie car, the model is finished in silver birch and rides on wire wheels.
  
  Lift the front-hinged bonnet and the DB5 reveals a Lego recreation of the 4-litre straight-six engine, which produced 282bhp in 1964; enough to send the Bond car from 0 to 60mph in around eight seconds and on to a 142mph top speed.
  
  
  This Aston Martin DB5 model follows on from other Lego recreations, including the orange Porsche 911 GT3 RS that featured a working PDK gearbox, and the 3600-piece Bugatti Chiron.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Albert David Hedison Jr. dies at age 92--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 20 May 1927--Providence, Rhode Island.)

  

  David Hedison, Actor in
  'Voyage to the Bottom of the
  Sea’ and ‘The Fly’, Dies at 92

  https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/
  Mackenzie Nichols, Staff Writer
  
  
  David Hedison, a film, television, and theater actor known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the sci-fi adventure television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and as the crazed scientist turned human insect in the first iteration of the film “The Fly,” died on July 18. He was 92, and the family said in a statement that he “died peacefully” with his daughters at his side.
  
  “Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father. He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style,” said the family in a statement.
  
  David Hedison, born Al Hedison, was from Providence, R.I. and studied at Brown University where he grew fond of the theater, becoming a part of the university’s theater production group “Sock and Buskin Players.” He then moved to New York, studying with Sanford Meisner at “The Neighborhood Playhouse” as well as Lee Strasberg of “The Actor’s Studio.” In the 1950s, he appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing” and “A Month in the Country,” working with Uta Hagen and Michael Redgrave on productions by Clifford Odets and Christopher Fry, among others.
  
  Shortly after “A Month in the Country,” Hedison first hit the big screen with his role in the 1957 film “The Enemy Below” and in the 1958 film “Son of Robin Hood.” He also played André Delambre in “The Fly,” (1958) which became a cult phenomenon and sparked a remake in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum reprising the role. Hedison then signed with Twentieth Century Fox in 1959 and changed his first name to David, his given middle name. In 1964, he hit his big television break as Captain Lee Crane in producer Irwin Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which ran until 1968.

  He also joined Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die” as well as Timothy Dalton in 1989 with “License to Kill,” becoming the first actor to play CIA agent Felix Leiter twice. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on shows such as “Another World,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Who’s the Boss” and “The Colbys.”

  According to family members, Hedison joked during his final days that “instead of RIP he preferred SRO ‘Standing Room Only.'” They said that he was “tall and strikingly handsome,” and “a true actor through and through.”
  
  Hedison’s wife, Bridget, a production associate on “Dynasty” and an assistant to producer on “The Colbys,” died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters; Serena and Alexandra, an actress and director who is married to Jodie Foster.
  
  Donations may be made to the Actor’s Fund.

  
  http://david-hedison.com/wp/filmography/
  Filmography

  Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017) Interviewee #2
  Superman and the Secret Planet (Video) (2013) ….. Jor El
  The Reality Trap (2005) …. Morgan Jameson
  “The Young and the Restless” …. Arthur Hendricks / … (50 episodes, 2004)
  … aka “Y&R” – USA (promotional abbreviation)
  – Episode #1.8018 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
  – Episode #1.8017 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
  – Episode #1.8015 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
  – Episode #1.8014 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
  – Episode #1.8012 (2004) TV episode …. Arthur Hendricks
  (45 more)
  Spectres (2004) …. William
  … aka “Soul Survivor” – USA (cable TV title)
  Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) …. Daniel Alexander
  … aka “Megiddo” – USA (short title)
  Mach 2 (2001) …. Senator Stuart Davis
  
  Fugitive Mind (1999) (V) …. Senator Davis
  “Another World” (1964) TV series …. Spencer Harrison (1991-1996, 1999) (unknown episodes)
  Sheng zhan feng yun (1990) …. US Ambassador
  … aka “Undeclared War” – Hong Kong (English title)
  
  Licence to Kill (1989) …. Felix Leiter
  “Murder, She Wrote” …. Mitch Payne / … (3 episodes, 1986-1989)
  – Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Casper
  – Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Caspar
  – The Perfect Foil (1986) TV episode …. Mitch Payne
  “The Law and Harry McGraw” …. Blake Devaroe (1 episode, 1987)
  – Mr. Chapman, I Presume? (1987) TV episode …. Blake Devaroe
  “Who’s the Boss?” …. Jim Ratcliff (1 episode, 1987)
  – Mona (1987) TV episode …. Jim Ratcliff
  “The Colbys” …. Lord Roger Langdon / … (9 episodes, 1985-1987)
  – Devil’s Advocate (1987) TV episode …. Roger Langdon
  – The Honeymoon (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
  – My Father’s House (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
  – Burden of Proof (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
  – The Trial (1986) TV episode …. Lord Roger Langdon
  (4 more)
  “Hotel” …. Dr. Howard Bentley / … (2 episodes, 1985-1987)
  – Pitfalls (1987) TV episode …. Dr. Howard Bentley
  – Distortions (1985) TV episode …. Jack Fitzpatrick
  Smart Alec (1986) …. Frank Wheeler
  … aka “Hollywood Dreaming” – USA (alternative title)
  “Trapper John, M.D.” …. Miles Warner (1 episode, 1985)
  – The Second Best Man (1985) TV episode …. Miles Warner
  “The A-Team” …. David Vaun (1 episode, 1985)
  – Mind Games (1985) TV episode …. David Vaun
  “Crazy Like a Fox” …. Ed Galvin (1 episode, 1985)
  – Eye in the Sky (1985) TV episode …. Ed Galvin
  “A.D.” …. Porcius Festus (5 episodes, 1985)
  – Part 5 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
  – Part 4 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
  – Part 3 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
  – Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
  – Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Porcius Festus
  “Knight Rider” …. Theodore Cooper (1 episode, 1985)
  – Knight in Retreat (1985) TV episode …. Theodore Cooper
  “Double Trouble” …. David Burke (2 episodes, 1985)
  – The Day of the Rose (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
  – September Song (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
  “Finder of Lost Loves” …. Neil Palmer (1 episode, 1985)
  – Haunted Memories (1985) TV episode …. Neil Palmer
  “Simon & Simon” …. Austin Tyler (2 episodes, 1985)
  – Simon Without Simon: Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
  – Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
  “The Love Boat” …. Cliff Jacobs / … (7 episodes, 1977-1985)
  – Love on the Line/Don’t Call Me Gopher/Her Honor, the Mayor (1985) TV episode …. Barry Singer
  – Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 1 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
  – Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 2 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
  – April in Boston/Saving Grace/Breaks of Life (1982) TV episode …. Bradford York
  – Lady from Sunshine Gardens/Eye of the Beholder/Bugged (1981) TV episode …. Allan Christensen
  (2 more)
  “The Fall Guy” …. Jordan Stevens / … (3 episodes, 1982-1985)
  – Her Bodyguard (1985) TV episode …. Monte Sorrenson
  – Undersea Odyssey (1984) TV episode …. Milo
  – The Snow Job (1982) TV episode …. Jordan Stevens
  “Partners in Crime” …. Davidson (1 episode, 1984)
  – Fantasyland (1984) TV episode …. Davidson
  The Naked Face (1984) …. Dr. Peter Hadley
  “Fantasy Island” …. Captain John Day / … (6 episodes, 1978-1984)
  – Don Juan’s Last Affair/Final Adieu (1984) TV episode …. Daniel Garman
  – Everybody Goes to Gilley’s/Face of Fire (1982) TV episode …. Phillip Camden
  – Show Me a Hero/Slam Dunk (1981) TV episode …. Captain John Day
  – Man-Beast/Ole Island Oprey (1981) TV episode …. David Tabori
  – The Chateau/White Lightning (1981) TV episode …. Karl Dixon/Claude Duncan
  (1 more)
  Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983) (TV) …. Carson
  “Dynasty” …. Sam Dexter (2 episodes, 1983)
  – The Vote (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
  – The Downstairs Bride (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
  “Amanda’s” …. David (1 episode, 1983)
  … aka “Amanda’s by the Sea” – USA (alternative title)
  – All in a Day’s Work (1983) TV episode …. David
  “Matt Houston” …. Pierre Cerdan (1 episode, 1982)
  – Recipe for Murder (1982) TV episode …. Pierre Cerdan
  “T.J. Hooker” …. Saxon (1 episode, 1982)
  – The Protectors (1982) TV episode …. Saxon
  “Hart to Hart” …. Miles Wiatt (1 episode, 1982)
  – Hart of Diamonds (1982) TV episode …. Miles Wiatt
  The Awakening of Cassie (1982)
  “Nero Wolfe” …. Phillip Corrigan (1 episode, 1981)
  – Murder by the Book (1981) TV episode …. Phillip Corrigan
  “Charlie’s Angels” …. Carter Gillis / … (2 episodes, 1978-1981)
  – He Married an Angel (1981) TV episode …. John Thornwood
  
  – Angels in the Stretch (1978) TV episode …. Carter Gillis
  “Benson” …. John Taylor (1 episode, 1979)
  – Pilot (1979) TV episode …. John Taylor
  The Power Within (1979) (TV) …. Danton
  “Greatest Heroes of the Bible” …. Ashpenaz (1 episode, 1979)
  – Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar (1979) TV episode …. Ashpenaz
  ffolkes (1979) …. King
  … aka “North Sea Hijack” – UK (original title)
  … aka “Assault Force” – USA (TV title)
  “Flying High” (1 episode, 1978)
  – High Rollers (1978) TV episode
  Colorado C.I. (1978) (TV) …. David Royce
  “Project U.F.O.” …. Frederick Flanagan (1 episode, 1978)
  … aka “Project Blue Book” – USA (alternative title)
  – Sighting 4011: The Dollhouse Incident (1978) TV episode …. Frederick Flanagan
  “The Bob Newhart Show” …. Steve Darnell (1 episode, 1978)
  – It Didn’t Happen One Night (1978) TV episode …. Steve Darnell
  “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” …. Evan Robley (1 episode, 1977)
  … aka “Wonder Woman” – USA (original title)
  … aka “The New Original Wonder Woman” – USA (first episodes title)
  – The Queen and the Thief (1977) TV episode …. Evan Robley
  Murder in Peyton Place (1977) (TV) …. Steven Cord
  “Barnaby Jones” …. Paul Nugent (1 episode, 1977)
  – The Deadly Charade (1977) TV episode …. Paul Nugent
  “Gibbsville” (1 episode, 1977)
  – The Grand Gesture (1977) TV episode
  “Family” …. Peter Towne (2 episodes, 1976)
  – Coming of Age (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
  – Coming Apart (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
  “Ellery Queen” …. Roger Woods (1 episode, 1976)
  – The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer (1976) TV episode …. Roger Woods
  “Bronk” …. Lyle Brewster (1 episode, 1975)
  – Betrayal (1975) TV episode …. Lyle Brewster
  “Cannon” …. Bell / … (3 episodes, 1973-1975)
  – The Star (1975) TV episode …. David Farnum
  – Night Flight to Murder (1973) TV episode …. John Sandler
  – The Dead Samaritan (1973) TV episode …. Bell
  The Art of Crime (1975) (TV) …. Parker Sharon
  The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) (TV) …. Dr. Wes Dolan
  Adventures of the Queen (1975) (TV) …. Doctor Peter Brooks
  For the Use of the Hall (1975) (TV) …. Allen
  “The ABC Afternoon Playbreak” …. Clay (1 episode, 1974)
  … aka “ABC Matinee Today” – USA (alternative title)
  – Can I Save My Children? (1974) TV episode …. Clay
  “The Manhunter” …. Jeffrey Donnenfield (1 episode, 1974)
  – The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger (1974) TV episode …. Jeffrey Donnenfield
  The Compliment (1974) (TV) …. Steve Barker
  “Wide World Mystery” …. Herbert Kasson (1 episode, 1974)
  – Murder Impossible (1974) TV episode …. Herbert Kasson
  “Medical Center” …. Dave (1 episode, 1974)
  – Dark Warning (1974) TV episode …. Dave
  “Shaft” …. Gil Kirkwood (1 episode, 1974)
  – The Capricorn Murders (1974) TV episode …. Gil Kirkwood
  “The New Perry Mason” …. Calvin (1 episode, 1973)
  – The Case of the Frenzied Feminist (1973) TV episode …. Calvin
  The Cat Creature (1973) (TV) …. Prof. Roger Edmonds
  Live and Let Die (1973) …. Felix Leiter
  … aka “Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
  Crime Club (1973) (TV) …. Nick Kelton
  “The F.B.I.” …. Lou Forrester (2 episodes, 1972-1973)
  – A Gathering of Sharks (1973) TV episode
  – The Buyer (1972) TV episode …. Lou Forrester
  The Man in the Wood (1973) (TV) …. Edmund hardy
  “BBC Play of the Month” …. John Buchanan (1 episode, 1972)
  – Summer and Smoke (1972) TV episode …. John Buchanan
  “ITV Saturday Night Theatre” …. Bill Kromin (1 episode, 1972)
  – A Man About a Dog (1972) TV episode …. Bill Kromin
  A Man About a Dog (1972) (TV) …. Bill Kronin
  A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971) (TV) …. Kit Shaeffer
  Kemek (1970) …. Nick
  
  “Love, American Style” …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”) (1 episode, 1969)
  – Love and the Bachelor/Love and the Other Love/Love and the Positive Man (1969) TV episode …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”)
  “Journey to the Unknown” …. William Searle (1 episode, 1968)
  – Somewhere in a Crowd (1968) TV episode …. William Searle
  “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” …. Captain Crane / … (110 episodes, 1964-1968)
  – No Way Back (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
  – The Death Clock (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
  – The Edge of Doom (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
  – Attack! (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
  – Flaming Ice (1968) TV episode …. Capt. Lee B. Crane
  (105 more)
  The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) …. Philip
  … aka “George Stevens Presents The Greatest Story Ever Told” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
  “The Farmer’s Daughter” …. Richard Barden (1 episode, 1964)
  – The Mink Machine (1964) TV episode …. Richard Barden
  “The Saint” …. Bill Harvey (1 episode, 1964)
  – Luella (1964) TV episode …. Bill Harvey
  “Perry Mason” …. Damion White (1 episode, 1962)
  – The Case of the Dodging Domino (1962) TV episode …. Damion White
  “Bus Stop” …. Max Hendricks (1 episode, 1961)
  – Call Back Yesterday (1961) TV episode …. Max Hendricks
  Marines, Let’s Go (1961) …. Pfc. Dave Chatfield
  “Hong Kong” …. Roger Ames (1 episode, 1961)
  – Lesson in Fear (1961) TV episode …. Roger Ames
  The Lost World (1960) …. Ed Malone
  … aka “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” – USA (complete title)
  
  “Five Fingers” …. Victor Sebastian (5 episodes, 1959)
  – Final Dream (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Emerald Curtain (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Men with Triangle Heads (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – Station Break (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) (uncredited) …. Narrator
  … aka “Leo McCarey’s Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!” – USA (complete title)
  The Son of Robin Hood (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Jamie
  The Fly (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Andre Delambre
  The Enemy Below (1957) (as Al Hedison) …. Lt. Ware (Executive Officer [XO])
  “Star Tonight” (1 episode, 1956)
  – The Mirthmaker (1956) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
  “Kraft Theatre” (1 episode, 1955)
  … aka “Kraft Television Theatre” – USA (original title)
  … aka “Kraft Mystery Theatre” – USA (new title)
  – Eleven O’Clock Flight (1955) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
  
  As Himself
  Atomic Recall (2007) (V) (special thanks)
  On the Set with John Glen (2006) (V) …. Himself
  “SoapTalk” …. Himself (2 episodes, 2004)
  – Episode dated 23 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 18 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
  The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood’s Scariest Insect (2000) (TV) …. Himself
  Inside ‘Licence to Kill’ (1999) (V) …. Himself
  To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (1997) (TV) …. Himself
  … aka “Hollywood Aliens & Monsters” – USA (original title)
  The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) (TV) …. Himself
  ABC’s Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978) (TV) …. Himself
  “The Hollywood Palace” …. Himself (1 episode, 1967)
  – Episode #5.3 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  “Dream Girl of ’67” …. Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
  – Episode dated 7 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 6 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 5 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 4 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 3 April 1967 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  “The Hollywood Squares” …. Guest Appearance (5 episodes, 1967)
  – Episode #1.93 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
  – Episode #1.92 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
  – Episode #1.91 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
  – Episode #1.90 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
  – Episode #1.89 (1967) TV episode …. Guest Appearance
  
  Archive Footage
  The 16th Annual Soap Opera Awards (2000) (TV) …. Spencer Harrison
  Terror in the Aisles (1984)
  The Horror Show (1979)

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020 An Aston Martin DB5 is stolen at Hawthorn Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.

  

  Stolen Aston Martin DB5: can
  you help find it?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/stolen-aston-martin-db5-can-you-help-find-it

  By Lizzie Pope | News | 26 Aug 2020

  

  Classic & Sports Car – Stolen Aston Martin DB5: can you help find it?
  
  This silver Aston Martin DB5 was stolen in broad daylight earlier this year – and now a £1000 reward is being offered to anyone who has information that leads to its safe recovery.
  
  On 18 July 2020, this 1965 example was taken from where it was parked on Hawthorn Lane, a residential street in Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK.
  
  And as if being a silver DB5, similar to 007’s car, wasn’t enough to make it stand out, this one, chassis number, DB5/2058/R, also has a unique, yellow-tinted front foglight as well as ‘Vantage’ badges on its sides.
  
  “This is a highly unusual theft in broad daylight and one we felt is of national significance. Old and young people alike have an affiliation with this classic motor which will forever be synonymous with James Bond,” said Neil Thomas, Director of Investigative Services at AX, which has launched this appeal.
  
  And if you have any information, please click here and help the investigation.
  https://www.ax-uk.com/have-you-spotted-the-missing-aston-martin-db5

  

  Spotted the DB5
  somewhere?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ax-uk.com/have-you-spotted-the-missing-aston-martin-db5

  It's such an iconic classic how could anyone miss it, don't forget there is a £1000 reward for the safe return of this vehicle.
  db5reward2
  
  An iconic Aston Martin DB5, thought to be one the UK’s most valuable vehicles, has gone missing following a suspected theft on the 18th July.
  
  One of only 123 on the road worldwide, the vehicle went missing when parked on Hawthorn Lane in the Wilmslow area of Cheshire on the 18th July this year. Anyone with information which leads to the safe recovery of the vehicle could receive a reward of £1,000.

  
  

  2021: Licence To Phil: Whitfield On Bond adds a series of events following a Saturday screening of The Living Daylights at the Prince Charles Cinema in London.

  

  Licence To Phil: The Living Daylights Big Bond
  London Weekender
  Sat Jul 17 2021 at 12:00 pm to Sun Jul 18 2021 at 07:00 am UTC+01:00
  London, United Kingdom | London

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://stayhappening.com/e/licence-to-phil-the-living-daylights-big-bond-london-weekender-E2ISTLRUVNC

  Publisher/Host
  Licence To Phil: Whitfield On Bond
  
  Licence To Phil: The Living Daylights Big Bond London Weekender
  
  We are celebrating The Living Daylights and attending the screening of the film at the Prince Charles Cinema in London with a series of events over the weekend of 17th/18th July.
  
  On Saturday 17th July, I will be hosting a walking tour of Bond locations in London which will begin at 13:00 meeting at the Churchill statue in Parliament Square.
  
  The tour will last a couple of hours and obviously involve a lot of walking. Please bring some water or something to drink.
  
  After the film screening, I was planning for the group to meet at upstairs Central Station pub at 37 Wharfdale Road, London, N1 9SD (nearest tube is Kings Cross) but due to COVID restrictions still in place groups of 6 can not meet in doors. The pub is open and, of course, there is nothing to stop your own group making their way to this pub, so it is possible I may still see you there (socially distanced, of course!) Different groups can always interact outside on the roof terrace.

  On the Sunday, meeting we are heading to Stonor House at 12:00 for a picnic in the gardens (please supply your own hamper from Harrods or elsewhere) with tours of the house available from 1:30. If you do wish to tour the house please book an early session as we plan to leave Stonor between 2:30 and 3 for the Big Bond Location tour. Own transport is vital although some people are offering lifts for those who don’t have a car.
  We plan to be back in London for about 7pm.

  
  
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  July 19th
  
  1966: Lucrezia Lante della Rovere is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.

  
  
  

  
  1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that eats him.
  1989: Licencia para matar (Catalan tite, Llicència per matar) released in Spain.

  
  
  
  
  
  Not to be confused with this 1975 film. Or 1965 film.

  

  
  2016: Garry Trent Marshall dies at age 81--Burbank, California.
  (Born 13 November 1934--The Bronx, New York City, New York.)

  

  Garry Marshall (I) (1934–2016)

  Writer | Producer | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005190/
  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #1 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017801011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Cover B: Juan Doe
  Cover C: Luca Casalanguida
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: July 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 7/19

  When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong,
  
  James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of a plot to smash NATO. Someone is assassinating allied agents, and 007 is the next target in the kill chain. Having kept the peace for decades, the old alliance is collapsing, pitting MI6 against its former ally - the CIA! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the return of writer Andy Diggle (James Bond: Hammerhead, The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Luca Casalanguida (James Bond: Hammerhead) as they plot the return of James Bond's oldest and deadliest foe: SMERSH!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Royal Albert Hall's 150th anniversary anticipates a new composition from David Arnold.

  
  

  A closer look at David Arnold’s
  new composition for our 150th
  anniversary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2021/july/a-closer-look-at-david-arnolds-new-composition-for-our-150th-anniversary/

  Monday 12 July 2021 | Music RAH 150 About The Hall
  
  To mark our 150th birthday, composer David Arnold (James Bond films, Independence Day, Sherlock) has turned his compositional genius to create a musical history of the Hall comprised of ten movements. This new piece will be performed for the first time at our 150th Anniversary Concert on 19 July.
  https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2021/150th-anniversary-concert/
  
  At the start of the writing process, David Arnold picked ten themes inspired by the Hall’s rich history, then went out into the community along with musical facilitator and composer James Moriarty to conduct workshops with primary school and secondary school children as well as music college groups, sheltered housing groups and Chelsea pensioners. The ten movements take inspiration from the workshop participants’ experiences of the Hall and their hopes and wishes for our future. The result, titled A Circle of Sound, is a beacon of our culture and our community.
  
  Watch David and James talk about their incredible journey composing this musical snapshot of the Hall’s unique history, which started in 2019:
  
  
  
  Let’s take a closer look at the themes that inspired the ten movements in A Circle of Sound …
  
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  2021: 150th Anniversary Concert at Royal Albert Hall, 7:30 PM.

  
  

  150th Anniversary
  Concert
  David Arnold's 'A Circle of Sound'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2021/150th-anniversary-concert/

  Monday 19 July 2021
  Starts: 7:30pm
  Ends (approximately): 9:30pm

  Join us in this celebration of the Hall’s 150th birthday at our first full-capacity event since March 2020
  
  David Arnold (James Bond films, Independence Day, Sherlock) turns his compositional genius to create a musical snapshot of the Hall’s unique history. Let this new ten-movement work, titled A Circle of Sound, take you on a sonic journey through our first 150 years.
  
  Special guests including Melanie C, Michael Sheen, Nicola Adams, Brian Cox, Claudia Winkleman, Jess Gillam, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Charles Dance, LionHeart, Eden Tikare, Jemma Redgrave and Helen Pankhurst will join David on stage to present readings about each movement penned by writers Neil Gaiman, Jack Thorne, Dorian Lynskey and Joe Penhall.
  
  Creative agency People – who produced the show and visuals for the 2019 Special Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies – and film production house White Stone Media will bring the show to life on the big screen.
  
  Local choirs, schools, and other community groups worked with David for over a year to compose this new piece. They will also take to the stage to show the importance of our community after this year of turmoil, supported by our very own Albert’s Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
  
  We can’t wait to welcome you back for this special anniversary event celebrating our history this summer.
  
  
  
  This event is kindly supported by John Lyon’s Charity
  

  
  
• BT3366

  July 2021 Posts: 1,882

  Garry Marshall was one of the hoods in Goldfinger??? First I'd heard of that. I'd love to know more about it if true.
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  Yes @BT3366, these sources and others enjoyed citing Mr. Marshall's acting appearances including Goldfinger. (I did remove the smaller image above, since it's questioned elsewhere that it's him.)
  

  The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jul 2020

  Remembering Garry Marshall: 5 Greatest Film and TV Cameos (Video)
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/remembering-garry-marshall-5-greatest-913063/lost-in-america/
  The writer-director, who died July 19 at age 81, was a well-known face on film and TV screens, thanks to dozens of memorable (if brief) appearances including in 'Never Been Kissed' and 'Goldfinger.'

  Goldfinger
  
  Yup, he was in a Bond movie. He’s one of the gangsters — we’re pretty sure he’s in a light grey suit — who get gassed in Goldfinger, his very first appearance on the big screen.

  Variety, Jul 19, 2016

  Garry Marshall, ‘Pretty Woman’ Director and Creator of ‘Happy Days,’ Dies at 81
  https://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/

  Marshall also had a long acting career that began in the early 1960s. He played a hoodlum in the James Bond film “Goldfinger” and made appearances, most uncredited, in many of his film and TV projects. He had a recurring role on “Murphy Brown” as the head of the network and guested on shows ranging form “Monk” and “The Sarah Silverman Show” to “ER.” His many small film roles included a part in sister Penny’s “A League of Their Own” as a cheapskate baseball team owner, which he reprised in the brief TV series based on the movie. In his son Scott Marshall’s 2006 comedy “Keeping Up With the Steins,” Marshall had a small but notable role as the grandfather of the bar mitzvah boy who has adopted Native American customs.

  The Washington Post, 20 July 2016

  The many lives of Garry Marshall, ‘Happy Days’ creator, dead at 81
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/20/garry-marshall-creator-of-happy-days-and-director-of-pretty-woman-dead-at-81/

  He often stepped in front of the camera as well.
  
  One of his first roles was as an uncredited “hoodlum” in the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger.”
  
  Later, he became a recurring character on “Murphy Brown” as Stan Lansing. He continued to work until his death, appearing in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Netflix’s “BoJack Horseman” and the reboot of “The Odd Couple” in just the past two years.

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  July 20th
  
  1938: Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE is born--Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.
  (She dies 20 September 2020 at age 82--London, England.)

  

  Diana Rigg, Emma Peel of ‘The Avengers,’
  Dies at 82

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/obituaries/diana-rigg-dead.html

  Ms. Rigg also played many classic roles onstage in both New York
  and London and, late in her career, found new fans on “Game of
  Thrones.”

  
  Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in “The Avengers.”
  Credit...Terry Disney/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

  By Anita Gates | Sept. 10, 2020
  
  Diana Rigg, the British actress who enthralled London and New York theater audiences with her performances in classic roles for more than a half-century but remained best known as the quintessential new woman of the 1960s — sexy, confident, witty and karate-adept — on the television series “The Avengers,” died on Thursday at her home in London. She was 82.
  
  Her daughter, Rachael Stirling, said in a statement that the cause was cancer.
  
  Ms. Rigg had late-career success in a recurring role, from 2013 to 2016, as the outspoken and demanding Lady Olenna Tyrell on HBO’s acclaimed series “Game of Thrones.” “I wonder if you’re the worst person I ever met,” Lady Olenna once said to her nemesis Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). “At a certain age, it’s hard to recall.”
  
  But Ms. Rigg’s first and biggest taste of stardom came in 1965, when, as a 26-year-old veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she was cast on the fourth season of ITV’s “The Avengers.” As Emma Peel, she was the stylish new crime-fighting partner of the dapper intelligence agent John Steed (Patrick Macnee), replacing Honor Blackman, who had left to star in the James Bond film “Goldfinger.” (Ms. Blackman died in April.)

  
  Ms. Rigg in “The Assassination Bureau,” released in 1969.
  Credit...Bob Dear/Associated Press

  Although Mrs. Peel, as Steed frequently addressed her, remained on the show relatively briefly, she quickly became the star attraction, especially when “The Avengers” was broadcast in the United States, beginning in 1966. Reviewing the 1969 movie “The Assassination Bureau,” in which she starred, Vincent Canby of The New York Times described Ms. Rigg in her Emma Peel persona as a “tall, lithe Modigliani of a girl with the sweet sophistication of Nora Charles and the biceps of Barbarella.”
  
  She had left the show by then for a luminous career in feature films. Her other roles included Helena in Peter Hall’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1968), Portia in an all-star version of “Julius Caesar” (1970), a free spirit who tempted George C. Scott in Arthur Hiller and Paddy Chayefsky’s satire “The Hospital” (1971), and the cheated-on wife in Harold Prince’s interpretation of the Stephen Sondheim musical “A Little Night Music” (1978).

  But again it was for something of an action role that she received the greatest attention, when she played a crime boss’s daughter in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), the only James Bond film to star George Lazenby. Her character had the distinction among Agent 007’s movie love interests of actually marrying Bond, but she was killed off in the final scene, for the sake of future plot lines.

  Ms. Rigg returned to television, largely in more serious roles than before, among them Clytemnestra, Hedda Gabler, Regan in “King Lear” and Lady Dedlock in “Bleak House.” And although she said that she was not a fan of mysteries herself, she was the host of the PBS series “Mystery!” from 1989 to 2003 and played Gladys Mitchell’s unconventional detective Adela Bradley on the BBC series “The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries” from 1998 to 2000.

  
  In “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” starring Ms. Rigg and George Lazenby, right,
  she played the only one of James Bond’s love interests to marry the secret agent.
  Credit...United Artists

  Ms. Rigg never neglected the theater, where she had begun. She joined the National Theater Company in 1972 and went on to acclaimed performances both on Broadway and in the West End, interpreting writers as different as Tom Stoppard (“Night and Day,” “Jumpers”) and Mr. Sondheim (a 1987 London production of “Follies”).
  
  She continued working in theater well into her 70s, starring in “The Cherry Orchard” in 2008 and “Hay Fever” in 2009, both at the Chichester Festival Theater. One of her final stage roles was as Mrs. Higgins, the protagonist’s imperious but sensible mother, in a 2011 production of “Pygmalion” at the Garrick Theater in London. Thirty-seven years before, at what was then the Albery Theater, a few streets away, she had been the play’s ingénue, Eliza Doolittle. (She played Mrs. Higgins again in the 2018 Lincoln Center Theater revival of “My Fair Lady.”)
  
  Wherever Ms. Rigg went, honors seemed to follow. She received the 1994 Tony Award for best actress in a play for her performance in the title role of “Medea.” In London she had already received the Evening Standard Theater Award for the same role, an honor she received again, in 1996, for both Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children.”
  
  She never won the Olivier Award, London’s Tony equivalent, but she was nominated three times: for “Mother Courage” (1996), “Virginia Woolf” (1997) and Jean Racine’s “Britannicus/Phèdre” (1999).
  
  Her most notable British screen award was a 1990 best actress honor from Bafta, the British film and television academy, for “Mother Love,” a BBC mini-series in which she played a murderously possessive parent. From 1967 to 2018 she was nominated for nine Emmy Awards, including four for “Game of Thrones.” She won in 1997 as best supporting actress in a mini-series or special for her role in a British-German production of “Rebecca,” based on the Daphne du Maurier novel. Mrs. Peel had become Mrs. Danvers.

  
  Ms. Rigg had a late-career success as the outspoken and demanding
  Lady Olenna Tyrell on “Game of Thrones.”
  Credit...Helen Sloan/HBO

  Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born on July 20, 1938, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, the daughter of a railroad engineer who soon moved his family to India for a job with the national railway. She returned to England when she was 8 to attend boarding school and remained in the country to complete her education.
  
  Ms. Rigg entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at 17 and made her professional debut two years later, in 1957, in Brecht’s drama “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.” As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1959-64), she began in minor parts and advanced to meatier ones, including Lady Macduff in “Macbeth” and Bianca in “The Taming of the Shrew.”
  
  Ms. Rigg was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1988 and a Dame Commander in 1994. Her marriages — to Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli artist (1973-76), and to Archibald Sterling, a Scottish businessman and theater producer (1982-90) — ended in divorce. Her surviving daughter, Rachael, from her second marriage, is an actress. Ms. Rigg is also survived by a grandson.
  
  Although Ms. Rigg’s career was distinguished, it had disappointing if not unpleasant moments. An American sitcom, “Diana” (1973), in which she played a fashion designer on her own in New York, lasted only one season. And when she did a much-talked-about nude scene on Broadway in “Abelard and Heloise” (1971), she was nominated for a Tony but suffered the particular slings and arrows of one critic, John Simon of New York magazine, who was notorious for criticizing actors’ looks and described her as “built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.”
  
  Ms. Rigg fought back at critics in general by compiling similarly unkind criticism in a 1983 book, “No Turn Unstoned: The Worst Ever Theatrical Reviews.” Its reassuring examples included a comparison, by the Australian broadcaster Clive James, of Laurence Olivier’s Shylock to the cartoon character Scrooge McDuck.

  
  Ms. Rigg at a party in New York to celebrate her 80th birthday, in July 2018.
  Credit...Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times

  In interviews, Ms. Rigg was both philosophical and flexible about her career. She suggested in the 1970s that “it would have been death to have been labeled forever by that one TV series,” referring to “The Avengers,” then defended a return to television in the late ’90s with the thought that “being doomed to the classics is as limiting as doing a series for the rest of your life.”
  
  But when she was appearing in “Medea,” her love for the stage was evident. “It’s simply to do with an appetite now for really good work in the final third of my life,” she told The New York Times in 1994.

  “The theater to me is home; in some curious way, I don’t belong anywhere else.”
  -- Diana Rigg

  

  Diana Rigg (I) (1938–2020)

  Actress | Soundtrack | Costume and Wardrobe Department
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001671/
  

  
  
  

  
  1960: Ian Fleming writes a letter to Richard Chopping soliciting book cover art for Thunderball.

  

  1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington.
  (He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)

  

  Chris Cornell obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-obituary]

  Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of
  the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge scene

  Adam Sweeting | Thu 18 May 2017 13.29 EDT
  
  Chris Cornell on stage just hours before his death - video report
  
  As the lead singer of the Seattle-based band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, who has been found dead at the age of 52, had been one of the trailblazers of the city’s grunge movement in the late 1980s and 90s. Having achieved stardom with that band, he went on to further great success with Audioslave in the new millennium, while also developing a flourishing solo career. At the time of his death, Cornell was in the middle of a tour with Soundgarden, who had re-formed in 2010 after a 13-year hiatus, and had just performed at the Fox theatre in Detroit.

  Chris Cornell:
  rock star who
  kicked down the
  boundaries of sound

  Alexis Petridis

  The group was started in 1984 by Cornell, along with guitarist Kim Thayil and bass player Hiro Yamamoto, with Matt Cameron becoming their full-time drummer in 1986. After releasing a single, Hunted Down (1987) on the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, and a debut album, Ultramega OK (1988), for the independent SST, Yamamoto left the band, and was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, before Ben Shepherd joined on bass. Soundgarden signed to A&M records, and their second release for that label, Badmotorfinger (1991), became a multi-platinum seller in the US, also reaching the Top 40 in the UK. The singles from that album, Outshined and Rusty Cage, received heavy play on alternative radio stations and MTV, and Badmotorfinger earned a Grammy nomination in 1992.
  
  An invitation to open for Guns N’ Roses on their Use Your Illusion tour (1991-93) introduced Soundgarden to huge new audiences in both the US and Europe, as did an opening slot with the heavy metal band Skid Row in 1992. “Our big moment of truth was when we were offered a slot opening up for Skid Row and we didn’t know what to do with that,” Cornell told the music journalist Pete Makowski in 2011. “Was that good or bad? And what happened was we toured with them and their audience all bought Soundgarden records.”
  
  A berth on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour alongside Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam framed Soundgarden as one of the rising names in American alternative rock. (In 1990 Cornell had joined with members of Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, in tribute to the late Andy Wood of another Seattle band, Mother Love Bone. They released an eponymous album in 1991, and last year reunited for a 25th-anniversary tour.) Cornell also had a solo cameo performance in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 Seattle-based romcom Singles, with his gentle acoustic track Seasons.
  
  Soundgarden’s next album, Superunknown (1994), duly topped the US chart (and reached No 4 in the UK), and went on to sell 5m copies in the States alone. After extensive international touring, Soundgarden started work on their fifth album, Down on the Upside, though Cornell’s desire to lighten the group’s dark, metallic sound with acoustic instruments triggered arguments with his bandmates. When it was released in 1996, it was acclaimed by reviewers but sales fell far short of its predecessor’s. After a further marathon bout of touring, the group announced they were splitting in April 1997.
  
  Cornell released his first solo album, Euphoria Morning, in 1999. This found him exploring a mix of rock, pop and psychedelia, allowing him to use different facets of his impressive vocal range beyond a heavy-rock roar, though again critical enthusiasm did not translate into huge sales. But his solo career was put on hold when he formed Audioslave in 2001, with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, who had been recommended Cornell by the producer Rick Rubin.
  
  Over the next five years they recorded three albums, Audioslave (2002), Out of Exile (2005) and Revelations (2006). The first of these was by far the most successful, selling 3m albums in the States and spinning off five hit singles including Cochise, Like a Stone and I Am the Highway. The release of Revelations (which reached No 2 on the US charts and 12 in Britain) was preceded by the appearance of two of its tracks, Wide Awake and Shape of Things to Come, in Michael Mann’s film Miami Vice (2006).
  
  Cornell quit Audioslave in early 2007. This was a significant period in his career, since he had been suffering from problems with drug and alcohol abuse during his later years with Soundgarden, and had made a strenuous effort to overcome them. “It was really hard to recover from, just mentally,” he recalled. “I think Audioslave suffered from that because my feet hadn’t hit the ground yet. I was sober but I don’t think my brain was clear … It took me five years of sobriety to even get certain memories back.”
  
  Born Christopher Boyle in Seattle, to Ed Boyle, a pharmacist, and Karen (nee Cornell), an accountant, Chris had three younger sisters and two older brothers. After his parents’ divorce, when Chris was a teenager, he and his siblings took their mother’s maiden name. He attended a Catholic elementary school, Christ the King, then Shorewood high school, but left education at 16, and worked various jobs (including sous-chef at Ray’s Boathouse restaurant).
  
  In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview he said: “I went from being a daily drug user at 13 to having bad drug experiences and quitting drugs by the time I was 14 and then not having any friends until the time I was 16.” He eventually found his feet as a musician, and it was while performing with the Shemps, a covers band, that he met Thayil and Yamamoto, with whom he subsequently formed Soundgarden.

  In 2006, Cornell composed and recorded "You Know My Name", the theme song for the James Bond movie Casino Royale. He put out his second solo effort, Carry On, in 2007, and promoted it with a campaign of touring, both in his own right and as a support act to Aerosmith.

  In 2009 he released his next album, Scream, on which he collaborated with the producer Timbaland. It reached No 10 on the US album chart, Cornell’s highest solo chart placing. In 2011 he released the live album Songbook, a document of his solo acoustic Songbook tour on which he played songs from all phases of his career as well as versions of Led Zeppelin’s Thank You and John Lennon’s Imagine. “I felt like I can’t really call myself a musician or entertainer if I can’t pick up a guitar by myself and hold someone’s attention,” he explained of his decision to perform solo.
  
  By now he was working with the reformed Soundgarden, who released the compilation Telephantasm: A Retrospective (2010). Their first new song to go public was Live to Rise, which featured in the 2012 movie The Avengers, and later that year they followed up with an album of new material, King Animal (it reached No 5 in the US and 21 in Britain). Cornell’s most recent solo album was Higher Truth (2015), a mellow, melodic work, which entered the US Top 20.
  
  He is survived by his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, whom he married in 2004, their son, Christopher Nicholas, their daughter, Toni, and by a daughter, Lillian, from his first marriage, to Susan Silver, which ended in divorce.
  
  • Chris Cornell (Christopher John Boyle), singer, songwriter and musician, born 20 July 1964; died 17 May 2017

  Note: most sources confirm his death as on 18 May 2017.
  

  1965: 007 contra Goldfinger released in Colombia.

  
  

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 stealing a moon buggy.

  
  
  
  

  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Davao, the Philippines.
  1989: The Lantern reviews Licence to Kill.

  

  Action carries 'Licence to Kill '

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://osupublicationarchives.osu.edu/?a=d&d=LTN19890720-01.2.22&e=

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  en-20--1--txt-txIN

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  The Lantern, 20 July 1989

  Action carries 'Licence to Kill'
  Although the latest James Bond movie , "Licence to Kill," has the thrills and speed of a roller coaster , Timothy Dalton ' s performance makes the ride stop a little short . No one can match Sean Connery ' s mastery of the character — although at his best Roger Moore came close — ' but Dalton seems to have particular trouble getting a grip on the part. At times , his lines are stilted and Dalton appears to be merely walking through the part, rather than sinking his teeth into it. But 007 fans won't be disappointed by the odds we've come to expect in these movies. Once again , it's about one hundred enemies to one James Bond — and Bond rises to the occasion admirably . This time, the enemy is drug-ring leader Franz Sanchez, played by Robert Dari . Sanchez is running a multimillion-dollar drug operation masked as a religious television.
  
  FILM ELAINE TORRIE show. As the television "preacher" asks for donations from the viewer audience , drug dealers call in bids. ROBERT DAVI, as Sanchez, presents us with a cold villain who has no redeeming qualities. His hard, flat eyes match those of the lizards he keeps as pets. Felix Leiter (David Hedison), Bond's fellow agent and friend, was getting close to having enough information on Sanchez to do him in, when Sanchez has Leiter murdered. When Bond sets off to avenge his friend's death, he is told by his superiors to stay off the case — that it's "too personal" to him — but he refuses and sets off after Sanchez. Bond finds help in the form of Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), a former Army pilot and ex-CIA agent. Bouvier, unlike most of the women in earlier Bond movies , is intelligent, brave and capable. When Bond doubts Bouvier's abilities early on, she informs him that she ' s already "flown to the toughest hell holes in South America ." CAREY LOWELL is a delightful surprise as a female Bond sidekick. She brings grit, gumption and vulnerability to her character. How refreshing to see a capable woman in a Bond movie ! She even saves Bond's life at one point. In "The Living Daylights," the previous Bond movie, the filmmakers made a bow to our conservative times and made Bond monogamous. In the latest, the 16th movie in the Bond series, Bond is once again playing the field. Not only does he become romantically involved with Bouvier, he also has an affair with Latin beauty Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto), who happens to be Sanchez's girlfriend. Talisa Soto poses through the role of yet another Bond beauty. AGENT Q (Desmond Llewelyn) appears briefly with wonderful gadgets such as toothpaste that explodes. The chase scenes and special effects are innovative and fun, with scenes such as Bond waterskiing behind an airplane and a burning car flying off a mountainside over the top of a low-flying plane. Director John Glen takes us through the movie at break-neck speed, which was a wise decision considering Dalton's trouble with the part.
  
  Courtesy MCM / UA Carey Lowell and Timothy Dalton star in the latest James Bond adventure "Licence to Kill."

  

  
  2006: Principal photography is a wrap for Casino Royale.
  2006: Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat reports Chris Cornell is working on the Bond title song.
  2006: SuperHeroHype reports news at the time projecting a 2 May 2008(!) release for BOND 22.

  

  22nd James Bond Coming May 2, 2008!

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.superherohype.com/features/91505-22nd-james-bond-coming-may-2-2008

  SuperHeroHype | Thursday, July 20, 2006
  
  It was announced today by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment, that the 22nd James Bond adventure will be released by Columbia Pictures on May 2, 2008 with Daniel Craig reprising the role of the legendary British secret agent.
  
  The story for the latest James Bond film produced by the franchise holders, EON Productions has yet to be announced.

  “As we wrap production on ‘Casino Royale’ we couldn’t be more excited about the direction the franchise is heading with Daniel Craig. Daniel has taken the origins of Ian Fleming’s James Bond portraying, with emotional complexity, a darker and edgier 007,” said Wilson and Broccoli.

  Source: Columbia Pictures

  
  2018: The Guardian reports BOND 25 will feature a Russian villain. [Later changed.]

  

  Next James Bond villain to be 'cold and charismatic' Russian

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/20/bond-villain-russian

  Leaked call sheet for Danny Boyle script suggests a plot inspired by current affairs, while Māori actor is sought for a support role

  
  Daniel Craig will play the central role in the as-yet-untitled 25th Bond film.
  Photograph: Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

  Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Fri 20 Jul 2018
  
  The Trump-Russia saga has given us many things – DNC email hacks, #TreasonSummit, Maria Butina – but it may yet give us something else: a Russian Bond villain. Though film production is a a slow-moving affair, it looks as if life may well imitate art when the next 007 film – currently known only as Bond 25 – is released, with a “charismatic, cold and vindictive” Russian seemingly set to be 007’s principal antagonist.
  
  According to a casting call sheet obtained by well-established unofficial Bond fan site mi6-hq.com, producers are looking to cast a a Russian actor in a male leading role (though producers are “also open to suggestions of actors from the Balkans or similar”). The list of characteristics – “charismatic, powerful, innovative, cosmopolitan, bright, cold and vindictive” – suggests a villain, while fluent English is required, crucial for that “I kill you, Mr Bond” dialogue.
  
  The casting sheet also suggests the film is in the market for a “very striking” and “strong physical” female lead role, also Russian; but her characteristics – “intelligent, brave, fierce and charming … witty and skilful. A survivor” – suggest she will be more sympathetic, possibly some sort of double agent. And in apparent accordance with the ethnically diverse casting of past Bond-movie henchmen – Oddjob, Baron Samedi – producers appear to be looking for a Māori actor with “stage combat skills” to play an “authoritative, cunning, ruthless and loyal” character.
  
  More often than not, Bond villains accord with where global menace is perceived to be swirling most darkly – hence the run of maverick industrialists in the 1970s, or the Murdoch-esque telecoms magnate Eliot Carver in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.
  
  Bond 25 has been in development at least since March 2018, when Danny Boyle confirmed that he and his Trainspotting collaborator John Hodge were working on a script. Boyle was subsequently confirmed as director, as was the return of Daniel Craig in the central role.
  
  No plot details have yet been revealed but Boyle and Hodge have plenty of real-life material to work with. Spy Anna Chapman was deported from New York in 2010 as part of a prisoner exchange; Russian military intervention in Ukraine began in 2014 and led to the annexation of Crimea; then came the DNC email hack during the 2016 election and the recent unmasking of another Russian spy, Maria Butina, with connections to the NRA.
  
  For a film series so closely identified with the cold war and east-west tensions, Bond has had remarkably few Russian villains. Its most famous baddie, the cat-stroking terrorist mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who appeared most recently in 2015’s Spectre, hails from behind the iron curtain, but is Polish. High-profile Russian baddies include dagger-booted Rosa Klebb (From Russia With Love) and bomb-happy General Orlov (Octopussy). The most recent was Robert Carlyle’s pain-impervious hitman Renard in 1999’s The World Is Not Enough.
  
  Bond 25 is due to be released on 25 October 2019. [Later changed.]

  
  
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  July 21st
  
  1973: United Artists release the Live and Let Die soundtrack.
  1975: Goldfinger re-released in Spain.

  

  1977: 鐵金剛勇破 海底城 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò hǎidǐ chéng; Iron King Underwater City) released in Hong Kong.

  http://playitagain.info/site/1977/spy-who-loved-me-the/
  

  1978: Lewis Gilbert in The San Bernardino Sun says the next Bond film will have Bond and Drax but little else from Moonraker.

  
  THE SUN-TELEGRAM

  Can James Bond beat the Brazilian
  bureaucracy ?

  https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780721.1.51&e=
  Fri., July 21, 1978
  By EDGAR MILLER Associated Press
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
  
  Much of James Bond's next muItimillion dollar spy movie will take place in Brazil if nature and the Brazilian government decide to cooperate. One of the main scenes in Brazil, says English director Lewis Gilbert, would be at Iguazu Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border. But a severe drought in southern Brazil has left the normally spectacular falls a barren cliff with only a tiny stream of water. Gilbert, whose last James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me," grossed, he claims, more than $100 million, says filming of the Brazilian part of "Moonraker" will begin In January and that by that time, he hopes summer rains will have filled the Parana River with water again. The other problem the production company is facing is Brazilian bureaucracy. The scripts of all movies filmed in Brazil must be approved in advance by the government. So far, the "Moonraker" script is languishing on some bureaucrat's desk in Brasilia. "I don't think we'll have any real problem with the Brazilians," Gilbert says. '"This is the most fantastic advertising that Brazil could have." He said that Brazilian authorities apparently are concerned that foreign movie producers might show the seamier side of Brazilian life. "But they don't have to worry because we only show the beautiful part," Gilbert says. "James Bond is a creature of luxury and he doesn't hang around in favelas." Favelas are Brazilian slums.
  
  Gilbert says tourism in Egypt jumped tremendously after "The Spy Who Loved Me," much of which was filmed there. Other scenes from "Moonraker" will be filmed in Paris, Venice, San Francisco and Guatemala. The movie will have little in common with the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, Gilbert says, except for Bond, to be played by Roger Moore, beautiful girls and the villain, Hugo Drax. As for plot, Gilbert would only say it will deal with space, noting the whole concept of space has changed since Fleming wrote the book. Carnival scenes from Rio's famous pre-Lenten celebration were filmed earlier this year. "We'll use them for backdrops and re-create our own carnival for Bond," Gilbert says. The famous Bond escapades are a "top secret" but Gilbert promises they will "top anything up to now." Cost of the production will be considerably more than the $15 million the previous Bond movie cost, Gilbert says. It will be Gilbert's third Bond movie and his 31st film.

  
  1988: Licence to Kill films OO7 attacking Q.
  1989: 007 ja lupa tappaa (007 and Permission to Kill; or Swedish: 007 och rätten att döda, 007 and the Right to Kill) released in Finland.

  https://007travelers.blogspot.com/2016/09/007-item-james-bond-007-007-ja-lupa.html

  
  
  
  

  
  2012: BBC Radio 4 airs its third Bond radio drama: From Russia With Love. Toby Stephens returns.

  

  2018: Macario “Mac” Gómez Quibus dies at age 92--Olesa de Montserrat, Spain.
  (Born 8 March 1926--Reus, Spain.)

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: 007 Dinner at Casey's in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

  Hmm. VERY close to where I live.

  
  007 Dinner
  Wed Jul 21, 2021

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/fredericksburg/007-dinner/10000162574872821

  

  007 Dinner
  6 course James Bond themed wine dinner, featuring wines from Sokol Blosser Winery

  About this Event
  Join us for a special event at Casey's, Chef Alex has created a six course dinner with wine pairings for Wednesday July 21st.

  Tickets
  General Admission | USD 120
  

  

  2021: Belfry Music Theater and Jaimee Hall present Bond - A Salute to the Music of James Bond. Delavan, Wisconsin.

  

  Bonded - A Salute to the Music
  of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.belfrymusictheatre.com/events/2021/010-bonded/

  
  

  For those who prefer their music “shaken not stirred,” Jaimee Paul presents Bonded, a fresh take on the classic music of James Bond. This expertly produced show by multi–Grammy Award winner Michael Omartian, and Grammy Nominated Producer Jack Jezzro, makes this show “A View to a Kill”! Returning to the Belfry for the fourth time, Jaimee Paul’s timeless voice proves once again, “Nobody Does It Better.” Don’t miss this opportunity to see Jaimee Paul, the “Spectre” of 007, perform all the enduring hits of the iconic James Bond franchise.

  Purchase Tickets
  Wed July 21 | $52 - $74 per ticket
  Thu July 22 | $52 - $74 per ticket

  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Agent of Spectre #5.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: AGENT OF SPECTRE #5

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Agent_of_Spectre
  Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
  Writer: Christos Gage
  Artist: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: July 2021
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 7/21/2021

  The SPECTRE Civil War reaches its explosive conclusion! Who will come out on top, the established Ernst Stavro Blofeld or the upstart Titania Jones? Either way, will James Bond -- and the world -- survive? Can 007 use this war to bring SPECTRE down from within...or will he end up just one more casualty?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  July 22nd
  
  1940: The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) begins work that lasts until 15 January 1946, preceding MI6.

  

  The real "James Bond Girls"

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://findery.com/Chung123/notes/the-real-james-bond-girls

  
  Before MI6 replaced it after WW II, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) operated 22 July 1940 – 15 January 1946 at 64 Baker.
  
  Vera Atkins was the French Section head 1941-45 in charge of sending secret agents to the French Resistance.
  
  37 of her agents were women. 14 died while in captivity. Several moms who were secret agent women were captured from betrayal and tortured.
  
  The military status of women in WW II was never immediately recognized and Vera fought hard to ensure those executed at concentration camps were given Killed In Action status and memorialized. Three women would receive the George Cross: Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo, and Noor Inayat Khan. The latter two were executed.
  
  Secret agent women often were wireless operators transmitting messages back to London from various underground networks in France. Some saw gun battles and hand-to-hand combat. Most parachuted into France. Some boated. A few had landing fields.
  
  They all were trained in weaponry and spy gadgetry. Below is a mini-camera spies often carried.
  
  They also had silencers, a pen that could shoot one bullet, coins with daggers, pencils with spikes, fake train fog alert devices with explosives, silk maps with escape routes, compass maps, kid-sized portable motorcycles, piano wire garrote and other accessories along with their radio.
  
  They had to move often to maintain secrecy from safe house to safe house.

  SOE inspired M in James Bond films. French Section head Vera Atkins is widely believed to be Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond books. She managed 400 secret agents.

  But "James Bond girls" are a far cry from the real thing.
  
  Many of Vera Atkins' secret agent women maintained their secrecy while enduring torture for weeks and months, and 12 were executed at concentration camps.
  
  Two women Noor Inayat Khan and Odette Sansom were the Gestapo's most wanted. They had leading roles like James Bond. Secret agent women included moms who had kids. Survival rates were barely 1 in 2.
  
  Now THAT would make an interesting James Bond film.

  

  Vera May Atkins, CBE

  

  
  1955: Willem Defoe is born--Appleton, Wisconsin.
  
  1967: The Casino Royale soundtrack charts.
  
  1974: Claudio Santamaria is born--Rome, Italy.
  1974: The Man with the Golden Gun films OO7 and Goodnight escaping explosions on Scaramanga's island.
  
  1989: 鐵金剛勇戰 殺人狂魔 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó; Iron King Fighting Murderer) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2011: Linda Christian dies at age 87--Palm Desert, California.
  (Born 13 November 1923--Tampico, Mexico.)

  

  Linda Christian obituary
  B-movie actor who could lay claim to having been the first Bond
  girl

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/26/linda-christian-obituary

  
  Linda Christian’s first ambition was to become a doctor,
  but her outstanding beauty led her into the movies.
  Photograph: Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures

  The phrase "famous for being famous" could have been invented for Linda Christian, who has died aged 87. Her celebrity came from her marriages to the handsome film stars Tyrone Power and Edmund Purdom, and her liaisons with various wealthy playboys and bullfighters, rather than her somewhat limited acting ability.
  
  Christian's extravagant, cosmopolitan lifestyle derived from her stunning beauty – she was dubbed "The Anatomic Bomb" by Life magazine – and her ability to speak fluent French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English. She was born Blanca Rosa Welter in Tampico, Mexico, the daughter of a Dutch executive at Shell, and his Mexican-born wife of Spanish, German and French descent. As the family moved around a great deal, living in South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she gained a taste for globetrotting.
  
  Christian's early ambition was to become a doctor, but after winning a beauty contest and meeting Errol Flynn in Acapulco, she was persuaded to try her luck in films in the US. She was soon cast as a Goldwyn Girl in the actor Danny Kaye's first feature film, Up in Arms (1944), and as a cigarette girl in Club Havana (1945), directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Then, with her name changed to Linda Christian, she signed a contract with MGM, which gave her a small decorative role in the musical Holiday in Mexico (1946), shot in Hollywood, and an exotic one in Green Dolphin Street (1947), as Lana Turner's Maori maid.
  
  At the time, Turner was having an affair with Power. Rumour has it that Christian overheard Turner say when Power was going to be in Rome. Christian decided to fly to Rome, stay at the same hotel and wangle a meeting with the dashing star. A romance led to Christian and Power getting married in January 1949 at a church in Rome while an estimated 8,000 screaming fans lined the street outside.
  
  Prior to the marriage, the only substantial role MGM had given Christian was as an island girl rescued by Tarzan from the clutches of an evil high priest in Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), the 12th and final time Johnny Weissmuller played the Ape Man. Christian, wearing a skimpy two-piece costume, is referred to as a mermaid because she swims a lot.
  
  After marrying Power, Christian started to get a few leading roles in B-pictures such as Slaves of Babylon (1953), co-starring Richard Conte. More gratifying was her sitting for a portrait by the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The painting, reproduced on the cover of her autobiography, Linda (1962), and for which she was once offered $2m, is now in a private collection.

  In 1954, Christian played Valerie Mathis, James Bond's former lover now working for the French secret service, in a CBS television version of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, therefore allowing her to lay claim to being the first Bond girl. At this time, the movie fan magazines were full of photos of Power and Christian as a blissfully married couple with two daughters, while the gossip columns intimated that both husband and wife had strayed. In 1954, Christian played Purdom's snooty fiancee in the MGM musical Athena. Christian had been at the same school as Purdom's wife, the former ballerina Anita Phillips, and the Powers and the Purdoms became good friends, even going on holidays together. But soon sexual jealousy broke up the once cosy foursome. In 1956, Christian divorced Power, charging mental cruelty.

  After the divorce, there was no shortage of millionaires to help keep Christian in the manner to which she was accustomed. Once she was called to testify at a Los Angeles court because she refused to return jewels given to her by the socialite Robert H Schlesinger, whose cheque for $100,000, as partial payment for the jewels, had bounced. Christian was also involved with the racing driver Alfonso de Portago, with whom she was photographed a short while before he died in a crash at the 1957 Mille Miglia car race, in which several spectators were also killed. That year, she and the Brazilian mining millionaire Francisco "Baby" Pignatari went on an around-the-world tour together. In 1962 she married Purdom. They divorced the following year.
  
  Christian continued to appear in routine films such as The Devil's Hand (1962), as a seductive high priestess of voodoo, opposite her real-life sister Ariadna Welter. In Francesco Rosi's semi-documentary The Moment of Truth (1965), she played herself as an American in Barcelona who attracts a matador (the bullfighter Miguel Mateo Miguelín). During the filming, she fell for the bullfighter Luis Dominguín, the former lover of Ava Gardner.
  
  In 1968, Christian retired to Rome. She returned to cinema almost 20 years later, at the age of 64, in a couple of dreadful Italian thrillers.
  
  She is survived by her daughters, Taryn and Romina Power.
  
  • Linda Christian (Blanca Rosa Welter), actor, born 13 November 1923; died 22 July 2011

  

  Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160046/
  
  Filmography

  Actress (36 credits)
  
  1988 Cambiamento d'aria (TV Movie) - Linda Christian
  1987 Amore inquieto di Maria - Helen
  1987 Delitti - The Narrator
  
  1968 L'oro del mondo - Mother of Lorena
  1967 The World's Gold - Laura - mother of Lorena
  1966 How to Seduce a Playboy - Lucy's Mother
  1966 Murder in Amsterdam - Ellen Martens
  1965 The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall - Madre de Martha
  1965 The Moment of Truth - Linda, American woman
  1964 Contest Girl - Rose of England Judge (uncredited)
  1964 Full Hearts and Empty Pockets - Minelli
  1963 The V.I.P.s - Miriam Marshall
  1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Susan Lane
  - Last of the Private Eyes (1963) ... Susan Lane
  1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series) - Taina Haagen
  - The Waltz of the Two Commuters (1963) ... Taina Haagen
  1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Eva Ashley
  - An Out for Oscar (1963) ... Eva Ashley
  1962 Passport for a Corpse - Eva
  1961 The Devil's Hand - Bianca Milan
  1960 Das große Wunschkonzert - Vilma Cortini
  1960 Appuntamento a Ischia - Mercedes Barock
  
  1959 Meet Peter Voss - Grace McNaughty
  1959 Rebel Flight to Cuba - Gräfin Colmar
  1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Elsa
  1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - - A Piece of Cake (1956)
  1956 Thunderstorm - Maria Ramon
  1954 Athena - Beth Hallson
  1954 Climax! (TV Series) - Valerie Mathis
  - Casino Royale (1954) ... Valerie Mathis
  1953 Slaves of Babylon - Princess Panthea
  1952 The Happy Time - Mignonette Chappuis
  1952 Battle Zone - Jeanne
  1951 Show Boat - Chorus Girl (uncredited)
  
  1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids - Mara
  1947 Green Dolphin Street - Hine-Moa
  1946 Holiday in Mexico - Angel (uncredited)
  1945 Club Havana - Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
  1944 Up in Arms - Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
  1943 The Rock of Souls (as Linda Welter)

  
  
  Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

  
  
  Diego Rivera painting.
  

  2015: A new Spectre trailer comes available.

  

  SPECTRE THE BEST JAMES BOND
  TRAILER EVER

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.movieviral.com/2015/07/22/spectre-the-best-james-bond-trailer-ever/

  by James Murphy | 22 July 2015
  

  SPECTRE TRAILER ANALYSIS
  

  
  Well, it’s here. ‘Finally’ as Christoph (‘honestly not Blofeld at all’) Waltz’s baddie might say. The trailer for SPECTRE.
  
  The film is released in October. It is Produced by EON PRODUCTIONS; Distributed by SONY PICTURES /MGM and is Directed by Academy Award winner SAM MENDES. It stars DANIEL CRAIG as JAMES BOND. Recently wrapped on principal photography; the film is now in the post-production /editing stages.
  
  MEANTIME: WATCH THE TRAILER. IT IS AMAZING!
  
  The piece speaks for itself. So sit back, relax, sip that Martini and BEHOLD the BRILLIANT trailer
  for SPECTRE!
  
  
  But we cannot resist a few leading comments. In depth ANALYSIS. For Screen and Country, you understand.
  
  This is CLASSIC Bond
  Instantly. ALL the aesthetics of a Sean Connery/Roger Moore era feast, fused with the fidelity to the Ian Fleming novels and emotional maturity of the Timothy Dalton films. All built directly, it seems, on the continuity within the last three films, via neat dash of ret-con: rewarding fans whilst keeping things relatively self-contained.
  
  There’s EVEN a HINT of the theme to ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE. Now, that COULD just be trailer score. But I’ll bet Thomas Newman will FINALLY be the Bond composer to re-work THAT tune in a film, alongside the traditional Bond theme.
  
  DANIEL CRAIG looks perfect: calculating, cool, commanding. Decent haircut. Worked out but not hulking. Brooding still but newly buoyant, smiling stride in step. He helps set a timeless tone whilst avoiding pastiche.

  

  
  The WOMEN
  Strong. Beautiful. Complex. Everything they should be in the modern Bond film, whilst retaining a glamour and femininity that ensures 007 never feels redundant. There is a real spark between Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci. Lea Seydoux is divine.

  

  
  GADGETS
  The car is a proper Aston Martin, with ACTUAL defence measures. That’s right. No more nods and winks with tagged on machine guns in a vintage model or mere glove compartments containing medical devices. This is a proper James Bond car that can do impossible things whilst keeping one wheel in reality (they stop short of invisibility). Notice also: a Q BRANCH scene! IE gadgets being built in the background!

  

  
  STUNTS /ACTION
  Truly SPECT(RE)ACULAR. The rooftop action across Mexico City feels exotic and urgent. Snow-based scenes in Austria have adventurous, atmospherics. Killings look brutal yet quick, thereby retaining the punchy realism, whilst keeping it all 12A/ PG-13.

  

  
  LOCATIONS
  London is prominent. Cf: IAN FLEMING’S MOONRAKER. It IS an exotic location: if in doubt, just VISIT the place! We also get: Austrian snow; Mexican sun; remarkable Rome and a romantic train ride. Short of going underwater or into space (again), it’s difficult to think of anywhere else this movie could possibly take you.

  

  
  VILLAINS

  

  There is a pervasive sense of menace. You FEEL Bond is hopelessly outnumbered. The organisation: SPECTRE, of the title, is the main nemesis here. But also a shadowy figurehead, played by Christoph Waltz.
  
  Waltz is BORN to play this part. The official character name is Oberhauser. HE IS NOT BLOFELD. But LOOK at his SUIT! THEN tell yourself it’s not Blofeld, Bond’s arch-nemesis. Yep. Told you so.
  
  Like all good villains, this ‘not Blofeld’ has an imposing henchman (Mr. Hinx, played by Dave Bautista, who impressed us all in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). Also featuring: Jasper Christensen’s Mr. White; previously a ‘big bad’ himself in CASINO ROYALE and QUANTUM OF SOLACE).

  

  
  PLOT /TONE/PREDICTIONS/LAST WORDS
  A BRILLIANT trailer: shows glimpses of everything yet gives away ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! One is left satisfied and oddly NOT seeking any further information until the release in October. Yet still very curious and hyped.
  
  What little DO we know in terms of substantial plot points? This time it’s personal. AGAIN. Bond is clearly in trouble at Mi6. AGAIN. And his past is under scrutiny. AGAIN. That’s not a complaint: those beats simply ‘work’ in the Craig era and it seems they are being brought full circle into the bigger picture of traditional Bond fantasy.
  
  We don’t know what the ‘macguffin’ is here (in SKYFALL it was a missing list of agents and then the life of Judi Dench’s M). But it seems that Lea Seydoux’s Madeline Swann holds the key to the plot that Bond must decode. He must locate and protect her in order to take down the evil organisation known as SPECTRE. So begins a personal and dangerous quest, linked to Bond’s previous ‘pain’.

  

  
  Quibbles? THAT WHITE TUXEDO! Fix it in post-production. NOW! Looks awful on Craig and if they needed a nod to old school Bond costumes: why not put him in his Royal Navy Commander’s uniform?

  But on the whole: PERFECT. Ms. Broccoli and Mr. Mendes appear to have topped SKYFALL. A BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, BLOCKBUSTING BOND. And that’s just the TRAILER!

  

  2017: Funko announces its licence for James Bond.

  
  
  
  
  

  
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  2021: The Music of James Bond at His Majesty's Theater Downstairs at the Maj, Perth, Australia.

  

  The Music of James Bond
  22 - 24 July 2021
  His Majesty's Theatre, Downstairs at The Maj

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ptt.wa.gov.au/venues/his-majestys-theatre/whats-on/the-music-of-james-bond/

  

  Presented by His Majesty's Theatre
  Part of the Downstairs at The Maj 2021 Season
  
  For decades, the adventures of the world’s greatest spy have been accompanied by exceptional theme songs made famous by the world's biggest stars.
  
  The Music of James Bond will explore all the greatest theme songs, and some of the lesser-known Bond moments. Grab a martini and prepare to be shaken (or stirred) with the Oz Big Band and vocalist, Leah Guelfi.
  
  The Oz Big Band have been performing for the community in and around Perth since the 1980s. They have fast become one of Australia’s most sought after dance bands, touring the Eastern States no less than 7 times in the past 10 years.
  
  It’s a 17-piece feast for your ears!

  Musical Director Adrian Hicks
  Vocalist Leah Guelfi
  Saxophone Bridget Cleary, Pia Nidd, Kieran Toye, Paul Schneider, Jess Herbert
  Trumpet Dusan Cuculoski, Blake Robertson-Hall, Michelle Stephenson, Brittany Stevenson
  Trombone Alex Parkinson, Tom Loughnan, Nigel Dennis, Alistair Barrow
  Rhythm Yoko Clinch, Tom Coveney, Greg Paterson, Matthew Bateman-Graham

  Downstairs at The Maj
  Please note:

  • Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break during the performance.
  • Mobile telephones and electronic devices are to be turned off during the performance.
  • Cameras, video cameras and tape recorders will not be permitted without the consent of the promoter.

  2021: Last performance by the British Army of The Sword and the Crown, with the highlight of a James Bond suite. Buckingham Palace.

  

  Army brings back public ceremonial with military
  musical spectacular

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/07/a-military-musical-spectacular/

  16 July 2021
  
  London’s top free tourist attraction, Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, has not taken place since March 2020, and the world-renowned military bands of the Household Division have only been able to perform in private. For the longest period since the second world war, state ceremonial and public duties have been absent from London, due to the COVID 19 Pandemic.

  Army brings back public ceremonial with military musical spectacular

  Now, celebrating the lifting of lockdown, and the easing of restrictions, the British Army is poised to bring back ceremonial splendour to the heart of the capital, starting with a magnificent public concert on Horse Guards Parade.
  
  Titled ‘The Sword & The Crown’, this musical spectacular, available to the public, will star the Foot Guards in their red tunics and bearskin caps and showcase some of the most talented military musicians in the British Army. It is hoped this unique event, staged outdoors over three nights next week, will bring a much-needed lift to the country’s spirits after a challenging year and a half, endured bravely by all.
  
  Prepare to welcome back the Bands of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish & Welsh Guards with the Corps of Drums of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. They will perform as a massed band on Horse Guards Parade for the first time since The Queen’s Birthday Parade in June 2019.
  
  The Massed Bands of the Household Division will also be joined by the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company, the Band of the Royal Yeomanry, The Pipes & Drums of the London Scottish Regiment, the Corps of Drums of The Honourable Artillery Company and the Combined Universities’ Officer Training Corps Pipes and Drums.
  
  Over the past 18 months, amongst uncertainty and unpredictability, the Bands and infantry units have demonstrated their professionalism, combined with a sense of flexibility and enthusiasm, to play an integral part supporting Operation Rescript, the military response to COVID-19. Now they are back centre stage, doing what they do best.
  
  The concert will combine immaculate drill, dramatic scores, light effects, fireworks and unbridled emotion. The evening’s musical narrative will focus on ‘Global Britain’, heralded by ‘Fanfare for a Great Occasion’. As the United Kingdom prepares to take its place in the world post COVID, the ‘Union’ narrative will strike a patriotic chord with beautiful traditional songs and airs from the massed Pipes and Drums. The music will then travel farther afield in ‘Rangers Alert’, a new composition highlighting the UK Government’s environmental support against the illegal wildlife trade in Zambia.

  Amidst the wide-ranging styles of music performed will be cinematic favourites including an entire suite devoted to 007, James Bond. The British Army has a cameo role in the new Bond film which premieres later this year.

  As part of a rousing finale, ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, perhaps one of the most loved hymns and anthems in the repertoire of great British music, will match video and imagery projections of troops in action from the COVID Support Force to overseas commitments to the support the Household Division gives to Her Majesty The Queen.
  
  VIPs will join the public for each performance with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab taking the salute on Wednesday and HRH The Princess Royal as Guest of Honour on Thursday.
  
  The soldiers privileged to perform on parade not only represent the musical talent of the British Army but also the breadth of roles the military provides. In the last sixteen months the British Army has been focused on supporting the National Health Service in the fight against COVID-19 and a large number of those on parade will have been involved in that fight.
  
  Four musicians are not joining the bands on parade as their duties continue at The Royal Hospital Chelsea. They are providing ongoing support to the Chelsea Pensioners, administering daily onsite lateral flow device tests to help keep them and staff safe. One musician reflected on this being one of her most rewarding times in the Army. She said, ‘Both the staff and In-Pensioners were extremely welcoming, and I found it hugely rewarding to see the direct impact my work was having. It’s an honour to be able to help protect them as part of my service’.
  
  We have all learnt to adapt recently to changing rules and regulations, and the British Army is no different, especially when it comes to State Ceremonial events. It is a real joy for the Army to welcome an audience back to Horse Guards.

  The outdoors concert will be repeated over three evenings on 20, 21 and 22 July, against one of the most beautiful backdrops in London. Tickets are available to purchase online at www.householddivision.eventbrite.co.uk, in person at Horse Guards Parade or the Guards Museum, Birdcage Walk London.

  
  
  
  
  
  Queen's Guard playing James Bond Theme (2013)
  

  
  
  
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  July 23rd
  
  1921: Robert James Brown is born--Swanage, Dorset, England.
  (He dies 11 November 2003 at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

  

  Robert Brown (British actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_(British_actor)

  

  Born Robert James Brown, 23 July 1921, Swanage, Dorset, England
  Died 11 November 2003 (aged 82), Swanage, Dorset, England
  Years active 1949–1991
  Spouse(s) Rita Becker (m. 1955–2003; his death)
  Children 2

  Robert James Brown (23 July 1921 – 11 November 2003) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond films from 1983 to 1989, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981.
  
  Brown made his first appearance as M in Octopussy in 1983.

  Brown was born and died in Swanage, Dorset. Before appearing in the Bond films, he had a long career as a bit-part actor in films and television. He had a starring role in the 1950s television series Ivanhoe where he played Gurth, the faithful companion of Ivanhoe, played by Roger Moore. He had previously made an uncredited appearance as a castle guard in the unrelated 1952 film Ivanhoe. He had an uncredited appearance as the galley-master in Ben-Hur (1959) and as factory worker Bert Harker in the BBC's 1960s soap opera The Newcomers. In One Million Years B.C. (1966), he played grunting caveman Akhoba, brutal head of the barbaric "Rock tribe".

  Brown first started in the James Bond franchise in the film The Spy Who Loved Me as Admiral Hargreaves, appearing alongside Lee. After Lee's sudden death in January 1981, Broccoli and the other producers, decided to leave M out of For Your Eyes Only out of respect for Lee and assigned his lines to M's Chief of Staff Bill Tanner. In 1983, Brown was hired to portray M on the recommendation of Bond actor Roger Moore, his Ivanhoe co-star and the father of Brown's goddaughter Deborah. It is unclear if Brown was the same M as Lee's character, or a different M, perhaps a promoted Hargreaves. Brown was succeeded in 1995 by Judi Dench in GoldenEye.

  Filmography

  Altogether, Robert Brown starred in five James Bond films.
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Admiral Hargreaves (possibly the same character as M he played in subsequent films)
  Octopussy (1983) – M
  A View to a Kill (1985) – M
  The Living Daylights (1987) – M
  Licence to Kill (1989) – M
  
  Other films:
  The Third Man (1949) – Policeman in sewer (coincidentally Bernard Lee is also in this film) (uncredited)
  
  Out of True (1951) – Dr. Dale
  The Dark Man (1951) – Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
  Cloudburst (1951) – Carter
  Death of an Angel (1952) – Jim Pollard (uncredited)
  Derby Day (1952) – Foster – Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
  Ivanhoe (1952) – Castle Guard (uncredited)
  Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) – Bill Jordan
  The Gambler and the Lady (1952) – John – Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
  Noose for a Lady (1953) – Jonas Rigg
  The Large Rope (1954) – Mick Jordan
  Passage Home (1955) – Shane
  The Dark Avenger (1955) – First French Knight
  Helen of Troy (1956) – Polydorus
  Lost (1956) – Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
  The Man Who Never Was (1956) – French (uncredited)
  A Hill in Korea (1956) – Private O'Brien
  Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) – Steve Ryan
  The Steel Bayonet (1957) – Company Sergeant Major Gill
  The Abominable Snowman (1957) – Ed Shelley
  Campbell's Kingdom (1957) – Ben Creasy
  Passport to Shame (1958) – Mike
  Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) – First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
  Ben-Hur (1959) – Rowing Overseer (uncredited)
  
  Sink the Bismarck! (1960) – unnamed officer aboard HMS King George V (uncredited)
  The Challenge (1960) – Bob Crowther
  Sands of the Desert (1960) – 1st Tourist
  A Story of David (1961) – Jashobeam
  The 300 Spartans (1962) – Pentheus
  Live Now, Pay Later (1962) – (unconfirmed)
  Billy Budd (1962) – Arnold Talbot
  Mystery Submarine (1963) – Coxswain Drage
  Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) – Sam Farley
  The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – Guard
  Clash by Night (1963) – Mawsley
  Operation Crossbow (1965) – Air Commodore
  One Million Years B.C. (1966) – Akhoba
  Un hombre solo (1969)
  Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969) – Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)
  
  Private Road (1971) – Mr Halpern
  Fun and Games (1971) – Ralph
  Wreck Raisers (1972) – Cox'n
  Demons of the Mind (1972) – Fischinger
  Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) – Otba
  Jesus of Nazareth (1977) – Pharisee
  Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Briggs
  The Passage (1979) – Major
  
  Lion of the Desert (1981) – Al Fadeel
  Jugando con la muerte (1982) – 2nd bodyguard

  

  Robert Brown

  Actor
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  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: The Living Daylights released in Colombia.
  1987: The New York Museum of Modern Art end its 007 exhibition (started 5 June) and a total fourteen screenings of Bond films. Producer Broccoli previously presented 35mm prints of each with the promise of future films.
  
  1998: John Richard Hopkins dies at age 67--Woodland Hills, California.
  (Born 27 January 1931--London, England.)

  

  John Hopkins (writer)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopkins_(writer)

  For other people named John Hopkins, see John Hopkins (disambiguation).

  John Hopkins
  Born John Richard Hopkins, 27 January 1931, London, England, UK
  Died 23 July 1998 (aged 67), Woodland Hills, California, US
  Nationality British
  Other names John R. Hopkins
  Occupation Writer
  Years active 1957–1995
  Spouse(s) Prudence Balchin (1954–69, div.)
  Shirley Knight (1969–1998)
  Children 1

  John Richard Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins; 27 January 1931 – 23 July 1998) was an English film, stage, and television writer.
  
  Biography
  Born in southwest London, Hopkins was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School, did National Service in the Army from 1950-1951. He read English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and joined BBC Television as a studio manager on graduation.
  
  Hopkins began his writing career in radio, writing episodes of the BBC serial Mrs Dale's Diary for eighteen months. An attempt to become a trainee television director at the commercial television franchise holder Granada Television was unsuccessful. The company did accept his first play, Break Up (1958), about the end of the marriage of a young couple, although it was only shown in the Granada region. He established himself as a writer beginning when his then father-in-law Nigel Balchin asked him to try to adapt his novels for television, Adaptations of both The Small Back Room (for Sunday Night Theatre) and Mine Own Executioner were broadcast in April and August 1959 respectively.[2][3] Hopkins then adapted Margery Allingham's novels about the private detective Albert Campion into Campion featuring two six-part serials, Dancers in Mourning (1959) and Death of a Ghost (1960). Hopkins followed with a series based on Rosamund Lehmann's The Weather in the Streets (1961). He wrote his own thriller series, A Chance of Thunder in 1961.
  
  Hopkins wrote over fifty episodes of the BBC police drama Z-Cars, remaining with the series for 2​1⁄2, serving as the series' script editor for a time. One episode featured Judi Dench in the role of a delinquent. This character inspired Hopkins to write what is probably his best remembered work for the small screen, the four-part play sequence Talking to a Stranger (1966) directed by Christopher Morahan, with whom he had developed a rapport while working with him on Z-Cars. Starring Dench, and Michael Bryant, as the adult children of characters played by Maurice Denham, and Margery Mason, Talking to a Stranger was transmitted as part of BBC2's Theatre 625 anthology series. The plays told the story of one bleak weekend from the viewpoints of the four individuals. It won the British Directors' Guild Writers' Award and an Emmy in 1968 after the sequence was shown on American televison. Critic George Melly described in The Observer as "[t]he first authentic masterpiece written directly for television". Two Wednesday Plays from this period by Hopkins were Fable from January 1965 and Horror of Darkness broadcast the following March. The former imagines an inverted South African apartheid in Britain[6] (which was postponed by the BBC in case it affected a by-election), while the latter is a rare exploration of homosexuality in the 1960s. Hour of Darkness featured Glenda Jackson and Nicol Williamson in the lead roles.

  Hopkins made his feature film debut with the screenplay he co-wrote with director Roy Ward Baker Two Left Feet (1963), a lightweight comedy-drama with Michael Crawford. He received co-screenwriter credit with Richard Maibaum for the fourth James Bond film James Bond movie Thunderball (1965). He co-wrote the screenplay for Leslie Thomas' boys-in-uniform comedy The Virgin Soldiers (1969) and worked on the screenplay for the film adaptation of Man of La Mancha (1972), although he was removed from this project by United Artists when the studio discovered his draft omitted most of the songs from the musical. His screenplay for Murder by Decree (1979) places Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. The film was directed by Bob Clark and featured Christopher Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Watson.

  Hopkins wrote his first stage play, This Story of Yours, in 1968. Though it had poor reviews when it was staged at the Royal Court. One audience member who was impressed by the play was Sean Connery who chose it as a personal film project which became The Offence (1973). Connery not only produced the film under a deal with United Artists when he returned to the role of James Bond role, but also acted in the film version, directed by Sidney Lumet. Hopkins' plays for the stage included Next of Kin, which was produced at London's National Theatre in 1974 with Harold Pinter directing.
  
  His play, Find Your Way Home (1970) was produced in London and then on Broadway where it won a "Best Actor" Tony Award for Michael Moriarty.
  
  Hopkins adapted Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1973) for television, it starred Edith Evans and Philip Madoc, and he wrote the two-part television screenplay, Divorce His; Divorce Hers (1973), which starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. His later television work also includes the Play for Today A Story to Frighten the Children (1976), and the serial adaptation of John le Carré's novel Smiley's People (1982), starring Alec Guinness, both for the BBC; and the Cold War espionage thriller Codename: Kyril (1988) for ITV. Hopkins' six-play cycle, Fathers and Families (1977), again directed by Christopher Morahan, was unsuccessful.
  
  Hopkins died at his home in Woodland Hills, California, United States, in July 1998, following an accident in which he slipped, hit his head and fell unconscious into his swimming pool, where he drowned.
  
  Private life
  In 1954, Hopkins married Prudence Anne Balchin, a daughter of author Nigel Balchin. They divorced in 1969.
  
  In 1969, he married the American actress Shirley Knight; the couple had one daughter, Sophie. His stepdaughter from his marriage to Knight is actress Kaitlin Hopkins, whom he raised.
  

  

  John Hopkins (I) (1931–1998)

  Writer | Script and Continuity Department | Director
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  2019: Dr Monica Germanà comments on Lashana Lynch as the new 007.

  

  France Info: Dr Monica Germanà
  comments on the new 007 agent
  in next James Bond film
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/france-info-dr-monica-germana-comments-on-the-new-007-agent-in-next-james-bond-film

  Dr Monica Germanà, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Creative Writing, was interviewed by the French outlet France Info on British actress Lashana Lynch being set to play the new 007 agent in next James Bond film.

  
  Dr Monica Germanà

  It was recently announced that British actress Lashana Lynch was set to become the new 007 agent in the upcoming ‘Bond 25’ film.
  
  In her interview with Television France, Dr Germanà, whose new book Bond Girls: Body Fashion and Gender is due to be launched in October, said: “It is a very good news, as the Bond franchise has had dubious politics with regards to race and gender and it has been in the spotlight for a long time, though not always in a fair way. Bond Girls from the past have shown that they have their own strengths and their own missions regardless of their colour. There have been many Bond girls of colour who have been significant characters in the films.”
  
  Commenting on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s contribution to the forthcoming James Bond film, Dr Germanà said: “Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who has been called in to help with the script, has strong feminist credentials. She has written in the past very strong female characters. We don’t need James Bond to change but we want the films to show that they can create something different with women.
  
  “We don’t want James Bond to suddenly become a philanthropist or a feminist because it is not that character. We want interesting female characters that challenge sexism and conservative views.”
  
  Listen to the full interview here.
  https://www.facebook.com/franceinfovideo/videos/vb.266677330042439/446625836190623/?type=2&theater
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  2020: A couple images of No Time To Die with Bond in Jamaica come available via Instagram.

  

  Bond returns to Jamaica in new images from 'No Time to Die'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/no-time-to-die-jamaica-james-bond-102034354.html

  Tom Beasley | 23 July 2020·2-min read

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Jamaica during 'No Time to Die'. (Credit: Instagram/007)

  The James Bond franchise returned to the idyllic environment of Jamaica for No Time to Die — and new images provide a glimpse of the sun-baked setting.
  
  A pair of pictures shared via the official 007 Instagram account showcase Daniel Craig soaking in the sun in his final outing as Ian Fleming’s super-spy.
  
  The first Bond movie, Dr No, shot most of its story in Jamaica, within touching distance of Fleming’s Goldeneye estate.
  
  Bond production returned to Jamaica for Roger Moore’s 1973 outing Live and Let Die, with the island doubling for the fictional Caribbean nation of San Monique.
  
  No Time to Die filmed on the island last year as part of a globe-trotting production that also visited Matera in Italy as well as, of course, Pinewood Studios in the UK.
  
  No Time to Die will see Daniel Craig say goodbye to the role of James Bond, having played the character since 2006’s Casino Royale marked a soft reboot of the franchise.
  
  Cary Joji Fukunaga directed the movie, replacing original filmmaker Danny Boyle, who left the project due to creative differences.
  
  The plot sees 007 retired from active service after the events of Spectre, until a request from his CIA buddy Felix Leiter pulls him back into the world of espionage.
  
  Rami Malek is set to play the mysterious villain Safin, with Christoph Waltz returning to portray Bond’s archenemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
  
  Other new additions to the cast include Captain Marvel star Lashana Lynch and Knives Out standout Ana de Armas.

  
  Lashana Lynch and Daniel Craig in a still from 'No Time To Die'. (Credit: Eon/Universal)

  No Time to Die was delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with its original April release pushed to November.
  
  Fukunaga pledged not to alter the movie during the delay, insisting he was “mentally finished” with the film before COVID-19 scuppered the release plans.
  
  He said: “You could just fiddle and tweak and it doesn’t necessarily get better.”
  
  No Time to Die is currently set to arrive in UK cinemas from 12 November, though it has been rumoured that there may be a further delay. [Later delayed]
  

  2021: Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert at The Transatlantic Book Fair of America hosts an online discussion of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Rebecca Baumann and Ajay Chowdhury join Mr. Gilbert on the panel.
  Free registration. 12:00 pm EST.

  
  

  007: The Transatlantic Appeal of Ian Fleming's James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/online/007-the-transatlantic-appeal-of-ian-flemings-james-bond/10000163063087083

  Join us at the Transatlantic Book Fair for a James Bond panel hosted by Ian Fleming bibliographer and bookseller Jon Gilbert!

  Date & Time
  Fri Jul 23 2021 at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
  (Eastern Daylight Time)

  About this Event
  The irrepressible James Bond is returning to the big screen soon in the film “No Time to Die.” Join us at the Transatlantic Book Fair for a panel, hosted by Fleming bibliographer and bookseller Jon Gilbert, who will be discussing Ian Fleming and his iconic character, James Bond.
  
  Besides building major Fleming collections around the world, Mr. Gilbert produced a mammoth comprehensive and authoritative bibliography of Ian Fleming in 2012. On the interest in Fleming books Gilbert wrote in an article “…they are popular and collectible. James Bond merchandise and memorabilia is a whole industry in itself and its strength continues to be felt in the world of rare books. As each new film or book is released interest rises in the literature of Bond’s creator, as seen in the prices achieved at auction…”

  Panelists include Ajay Chowdhury, author and expert on Bond films and Rebecca Bauman from the Lilly Library, which houses a major Fleming collection.

  
  PANELISTS:

  Jon Gilbert is an English bibliophile, historian and the official bibliographer of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional character James Bond. He is also an authority on J.K. Rowling first editions. He was educated at Caterham School and Roehampton Institute London. According to Fleming-family publisher Queen Anne Press, Gilbert is perhaps the foremost expert on the works of Ian Fleming and the literary history of James Bond. Through Adrian Harrington booksellers, he has become an internationally renowned dealer in rare Fleming material, and is a member of the Ian Fleming Foundation. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, which was published in October 2012, is the result of both a career immersed in the writings of Ian Fleming, and four years intensive research following Fleming’s centenary year in 2008. The book was the winner of the 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, awarded in 2014.

  Rebecca Baumann is the Head of Public Services at the Lilly Library, the rare book and manuscript library of Indiana University. In their time at the Lilly Library, they have taught over 700 one-shot instructional sessions for undergraduates, graduate students, and community groups. They are also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Library Science at IU, teaching three courses in the Rare Book and Manuscript Specialization: The Book 1450 to the Present, Rare Book Librarianship, and Rare Book Curatorship. Their research interests center on the history of pulp and paperback publishing and popular genres including horror, science fiction, and romance. Publications include Frankenstein 200: The Birth, Life, and Resurrection of Mary Shelley’s Monster (IU Press, 2018) and “Speculative F***books: The Brief Life of Essex House” (in Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, PM Press, 2021).

  Ajay Chowdhury was born in London and read Law at university there and in The Netherlands. For over two decades, Ajay has consulted on various motion picture, music, publishing, television and theatrical projects. Ajay has been involved with British and European feature film production in various capacities. He was the associate producer on two feature films, ‘Lost Dogs’ (2005) and ‘Flirting With Flamenco’ (2006). Ajay has been an Advisory Board member on Tongues On Fire Film Festival. In 2015, he co-wrote the internationally bestselling, ground-breaking Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films with Matthew Field, published by The History Press. The book was updated in paperback to cover The Road To Bond 25 and published in August 2018. As the spokesperson for The James Bond International Fan Club, Ajay is frequently called upon by worldwide media to comment on all things relating to Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 www.007.info

  
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  2021: Susie Pepper & Mixology present their one-of-a-kind concert, SHAKEN NOT STIRRED 007 BOND TRIBUTE, at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison, Maine.

  

  Susie Pepper / Mixology "Shaken not Stirred" 007 Tribute

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ticketstripe.com/events/1025183

  Fri, July 23, 2021 - 7:30 PM
  
  Ticket General Admission
  $34.00 | (+ $1.01 fee)
  
  Location
  Deertrees Theatre
  156 Deertrees Road
  Harrison, Maine 04040

  Event Details
  When | Fri, July 23, 2021 - 7:30 PM
  Location | Deertrees Theatre - Harrison, Maine
  Who | All Ages

  Event Description

  Susie Pepper & Mixology will present a one-of-a-kind concert, SHAKEN NOT STIRRED 007 BOND TRIBUTE, with songs from many of your favorite James Bond films and recording artists across the globe! Created just for Deertrees Theatre's 84th Season Susie & Mixology will rock the house and rattle the pines with musical numbers from 007 films from the past 50 years+! Rolling Stone Magazine: "James Bond movie theme songs are the cinematic equivalents of paperback book-series covers they suggest familiarity and course with the promise of a compelling new adventure for Western cultures most un-killable pop icon." Sponsored by Norway Savings Bank!

  

  
  
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  1947: David Meyer is born--Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
  1947: Anthony "Tony" Meyer is born--Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 helping Marie get something off her chest.

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  1980: Peter Sellers dies at age 54--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
  (Born: 8 September 1925--Portsmouth, England.)

  

  Peter Sellers Dies at 54

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54

  by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980
  
  Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.
  
  His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.
  
  "Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."
  
  An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.
  
  Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.
  
  His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.
  
  His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.
  
  His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."
  
  I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."
  
  In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.
  
  "The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.
  
  Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."
  
  He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.
  
  In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.
  
  In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.
  
  Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."
  
  Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.
  
  "Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.
  
  "I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

  PETER SELLERS
  The Official Website of Peter Sellers
  https://www.petersellers.com/about/filmography/
  
  Filmography

  1982
  – Trail of the Pink Panther
  
  1980
  -The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  
  1979
  -Being There
  -The Prisoner of Zenda
  
  1978
  –Revenge of the Pink Panther
  
  1978
  -Kingdom of Gifts (voice)
  
  1977
  -Best of British Film Comedy
  -To See Such Fun
  
  1976
  -Best of the Muppet Show
  -Murder by Death
  -The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  
  1974
  -The Great McGonagall
  -Soft Beds, Hard Battles
  -The Return of the Pink Panther
  
  1973
  – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  – The Blockhouse
  – Ghost in the Noonday Sun
  – The Optimists
  – Undercovers Hero
  
  1972
  -Does It Hurt?
  – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  
  1970
  -There’s a Girl in My Soup
  – A Day at the Beach
  – Hoffman
  – Simon Simon
  
  1969
  -The Magic Christian
  
  1968
  – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
  – The Party
  
  1967
  – The Bobo
  – Woman Times Seven
  – Casino Royale
  – Alice in Wonderland
  – With Love, Sophia
  
  1966
  – After the Fox
  – Caccia alla volpe
  – The Wrong Box
  
  1965
  – What’s New, Pussycat
  
  1964
  – Dr. Strangelove
  -The World of Henry Orient
  – Carol for Another Christmas
  – The Pink Panther
  – A Shot in the Dark

  

  Peter Sellers (I) (1925–1980)

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  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".

  

  'REMINGTON STEELE' GETS REPRIEVE

  https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/24/arts/remington-steele-gets-reprieve.html
  By STEPHEN FARBER and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESJULY 24, 1986
  July 24, 1986, Page 00024
  
  NBC has reinstated its romantic detective series ''Remington Steele'' just two months after canceling it.
  
  ''Usually a cancellation is the final word,'' said Michael Gleason, the executive producer and co-creator of the series. ''It is tough to make a network change its mind.''
  
  There was, however, a precedent to cite. Two years ago, CBS, responding to viewer protests, revived the defunct ''Cagney and Lacey,'' and the revamped series scored a resounding success. The producers of ''Remington Steele'' argued that their show also deserved another chance.
  
  NBC said it was swayed by the number of protests from fans of the series, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist as a pair of elegant, bantering sleuths. ''We got over 10,000 angry letters and phone calls since the cancellation,'' said Warren Littlefield, NBC's senior vice president in charge of series. ''There were even pickets outside our building. We're still getting 200 to 300 letters a day, and that's a very strong response. We rarely have that kind of interaction with the audience.''
  
  In addition, the show's ratings improved in summer reruns; the series had moved from the mid-40's during the main season to the top 20 in the last month. ''I attribute that rise to the fact that the loyal audience for the show had simply not had enough time to discover it in its new time period on Saturday night,'' said Tom Palmieri, vice president of operations at MTM Enterprises, the company that produces the show for NBC. Midseason
  
  ''Remington Steele'' had never been a smash in the ratings, but it had performed respectably during its first three seasons and, as in the case of another MTM series with mediocre ratings, ''St. Elsewhere,'' demographic surveys showed that it was watched by the 18- to 49-year-old audience that appeals to advertisers. But last season the show's ratings began to plummet.
  
  Mr. Littlefield attributed the decline to competition from ABC's successful new series ''Moonlighting,'' which also featured a pair of sophisticated, sparring detectives. Although ''Moonlighting'' was shown at 9 P.M. and ''Remington Steele'' at 10, he said, he felt the popularity of ''Moonlighting'' cut the number of viewers watching NBC on Tuesday nights. Earlier this year, the network moved ''Remington Steele'' from Tuesday to Saturday night, but its ratings did not improve. In May, NBC scuttled the series.
  
  ''Remington Steele'' has now been ordered as a midseason replacement series for next season. Six episodes will be shot and the network will then evaluate the ratings before deciding whether to order more.

  One last complication remains to be resolved. Exactly when the show goes on the air depends on whether Mr. Brosnan also stars in the next James Bond movie, ''The Living Daylights.'' He has been mentioned as the most likely successor to Roger Moore in the popular series, but United Artists has not yet named a new Bond. A studio spokesman said a casting announcement would be made shortly.
  
  Mr. Brosnan's contract with MTM runs two more years, but MTM and NBC have told the actor they will delay production to allow him to play Bond.
  
  Mr. Gleason pointed out that this would benefit the series as well as Mr. Brosnan. ''Obviously, it would enhance the show if we could promote it by saying we have James Bond as Remington Steele,'' Mr. Gleason said. ''Now we're waiting for UA to make their decision. They keep telling us they'll let us know tomorrow. This is like sweating out the renewals for the fall series all over again.''

  

  1989: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Win, Lose or Die.

  WIN, LOSE
  OR DIE
  
  JOHN GARDNER'S eighth novel
  featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.
  
  The London Gazette announcement was
  brief:

  'BOND, JAMES,
  Commander RNVR,
  Relieved of current liaison
  duties at the Foreign Office.
  Promoted to the substantive
  rank of Captain and returned
  to active service forthwith.'

  The return of James Bond to the Royal
  Navy marks the intriguing backdrop to
  John Gardner's thrilling new adventure
  featuring Ian Fleming's celebrated hero.
  
  Bond takes a refresher course and keeps
  up his flying hours by doing a conversion
  course on Sea Harriers. And eventually he
  learns that his mission is to serve in the
  Royal Navy's major aircraft carrier, HMS
  Invincible as minder to a phalanx of top
  brass British, American and -- in this era of
  glasnost -- Russian admirals, who are on
  board for a NATO exercise.
  
  But why? Can a thrilling hi-jack by
  airborne troops (using hang-gliders) on a
  Japanese tanker, some time before, be
  connected?

  As ever, John Gardner is adept at piling
  on the tension. Bond is never far from the
  action or from the beautiful Russian naval
  attaché with whom he joins forces. WIN,
  LOSE OR DIE shows James Bond -- and
  John Gardner -- on top form.
  
  JOHN GARDNER'S last book was a
  novelisation of the new James Bond film,
  Licence to Kill (Coronet 1989). His
  previous James Bond novel, Scorpius, was
  published by Hodder & Stoughton in
  1988.

  
  
  

  
  2009: Titan Books re-releases the James Bond comic strip The Girl Machine.
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  

  
  2010: The James Bond 007: Blood Stone intro reveals the Joss Stone song "I'll Take It All".

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Social Compassion in Legislation releases a public service announcement with spokesman Pierce Brosnan.

  

  2017: An official announcement confirms details for BOND 25 and a US release date of 8 November 2019. [Later changed.]

  

  Daniel Craig 'returning as James
  Bond' for 2019 movie, reports confirm
  The New York Times has confirmed previous reports

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/daniel-craig-james-bond-2019-movie-reports-confirm-sources-a7858446.html

  

  Jack Shepherd | @JackJShepherd | Tuesday 25 July 2017 09:11
  
  Last night (24 July), Eon Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — the companies behind the James Bond franchise — announced their next 007 thriller would reach cinemas 8 November 2019. However, there was no announcement over who would be playing the iconic character.
  
  The New York Times has since confirmed recent reports that Daniel Craig will return, despite having previously said he would rather “slash his wrists” than play the character again.
  
  Two sources told the publication Craig’s contract was a done deal; separate sources told The Mirror earlier this year that Craig had “changed his mind” about playing Bond and that franchise producer Barbara Broccoli has “secured” the actor.
  
  It was previously reported that Craig was offered up to £120 million to return as the spy for two more films despite attention surrounding fellow candidates Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, James Norton and Poldark star Aidan Turner.
  
  Dunkirk’s Christopher Nolan has been one director in talks regarding the upcoming film following Sam Mendes departure, saying in a recent interview: “I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it.
  
  “Maybe one day that would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they’re getting along very well.”
  
  The producers are also rumoured to be “determined” to bring back Adele to record the theme tune after singing the lead track on Skyfall — the first 007 theme to win a Grammy and a Golden Globe award.
  
  The new film does not have a formal title yet. It will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the duo who handled the scripts for Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.
  

  2018: Nick Taylor-Collins asks "Could Danny Boyle’s James Bond save Brexit Britain?"

  

  Could Danny Boyle’s James Bond save
  Brexit Britain?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://reaction.life/danny-boyles-james-bond-save-brexit-britain/

  Nick Taylor-Collins | July 24, 2018
  
  Much has been made of Danny Boyle’s appointment as director of Bond 25, the next outing for Daniel Craig’s 007, slated for a 2019 release. Both Bond and Boyle have longstanding interests in a thriving United Kingdom; the former being bound to serve the country as an elite spy, and the latter, as a director known for his creative portrayals of British culture.
  
  Since its gritty reboot in Casino Royale (2006), the Bond films have been praised, in part, for rejecting the gadgetry of previous films, instead prioritising depth of character and staging a vulnerable Bond prone to introspection. Coupled with greater awareness of real-life political issues in the films – big banks and money laundering, playing politics with natural resources in developing countries – Craig’s Bond has been asking himself why and for whom he serves.
  
  In his 25th movie outing, Bond will have an extra political issue to address: Brexit. Bond’s remit is to protect British society and interests from abroad. Given Britain’s changing politics, the spy will likely have a new set of international dynamics to negotiate.
  
  Boyle, too, will need to pay close attention to the political landscape. He will be directing a franchise film for the first time – one funded by Hollywood dollars that plays on the kitsch British pound – and will be selling the goods to the global movie market.
  
  But what will this mean for potential storylines? Look back to Sam Mendes’ Skyfall (2012) and you’ll see inspiration taken from the 7/7 bombings of London’s transport network. Skyfall dramatises a self-questioning Britain, no longer trustful of the international model of espionage. When M (Judi Dench) attends a parliamentary inquiry into the running of MI6, she explains to the chair:

  Our enemies are no longer known to us. They don’t exist on a map.
  They’re not nations. They’re individuals.

  Skyfall is all about saving the UK from its own, and rescuing it in the face of supranationalist political terrorism. It focuses on restoring unity to the UK’s nations, while rejecting internationalist politics. Towards the beginning of the film, during a psychometric test, Bond’s own trigger-word response to “country” is “England”. The UK, like Bond himself, is fractured.
  
  The only other represented part of the UK is Scotland, where Bond grew up. It represents a younger, more innocent Bond, before he fell into the world of spying and sin. When Bond finally kills cyberterrorist Raoul Silva in a bid to save the country (albeit at the cost of the Britannia-esque matriarch, M) he simultaneously prepares the way for Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) to assume his tenure as head of MI6, tasked with keeping the UK safe long into the future.
  
  This narrative of protecting the nation was cemented during the “opening ceremony” of London’s 2012 Olympics. Bond seemingly retrieved the Queen from Buckingham Palace and brought her to the Olympic stadium by helicopter, where she leapt out. Evoking Roger Moore’s scene in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), a union jack flag adorned Her Majesty’s parachute.
  
  Fittingly, the director of the ceremony was Boyle. His “Isles of Wonder” was a vision of Britain that sought to bring together the country’s voices and histories as a harmonious whole in which the British nations are sutured together invisibly; borders largely erased and difference easily overcome. It was a Utopian vision of concord and camaraderie.
  
  Boyle’s vision of Britain hasn’t always been the most optimistic, however. His most feted film – 1996’s Trainspotting – thought about the UK in starkly different terms. Based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel, Trainspotting documents the tribulations of a handful of Scottish addicts, whose tipples range from alcohol to violence to heroin. Set during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the Leith area of Edinburgh in the film is underfunded and forgotten by the neo-conservative society that Thatcher cultivated. Trainspotting’s Scotland is splintered off from the coherent UK.
  
  By the time Boyle’s Bond film is released, Britain will have exited the European Union. The new internationalist arrangement between the UK and its continental counterparts will potentially be a throwback to the pre-Thatcher UK, when nations were primary drivers in politics. Though there is no saving Trainspotting’s disintegrated UK, Boyle’s Bond offering will come up against the backdrop of a “saved” nation – at least in terms of its own national identity, that is.
  
  In the Bond films, Britain has long had a foil for solving international disputes, and a figure whose commercial appeal outweighs, on average, the current GDP of over 150 countries. But Boyle brings something new to the Bond universe, and his Trainspotting version of Britain where individualism thrives against a conception of a coherent UK is something Bond has rarely encountered. Now, however, the only question that remains is whether Bond will once again be able to save the Queen Olympics-style, as it were, and restore unity to a fractured Brexit Britain.
  
  This article was originally published on The Conversation
  
  Nick Taylor-Collins is a Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University

  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Free James Bond Walking Tour by London with a Local conducted 15:30 to 17:30 BST.

  
  

  Jul
  24
  Free James Bond Walking Tour
  by London with a Local

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-james-bond-walking-tour-tickets-160405805081

  

  About this event
  Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, The Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!
  
  Hear about the time the Queen spent a few minutes with Bond for the 2012 Olympics! Take a few detours along the way to delve into the life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, who spent the Second World War working in Naval Intelligence and built his own team of super spies along the way.
  
  On the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage you will wing by the Ministry of Defence to learn about the Secret Service’s real ‘C’, Mansfield Cumming, first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, and more in a fun, entertaining 2-hour stroll that will absolutely captivate you!

  Date and time
  Sat, 24 July 2021
  15:30 – 17:30 BST

  Location
  Clermont Hotel
  Charing Cross
  The Strand
  London
  WC2N 5HX
  United Kingdom

  
  
  

  2021: Comic-Con online panel "Dynamite: All the Big Reveals" features writers Rodney Barnes, Jimmy Palmotti and Fred Van Lente. And Red Sonja, James Bond, Elvira Meets Vincent Price. Saturday 5 to 6 p.m. EST.

  

  Dynamite Announces Comic-Con@Home
  Panels
  Dynamite Entertainment has announced two exciting panels featuring heavy hitters like
  Vampirella and James Bond for this year's online Comic-Con@Home.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://screenrant.com/dynamite-comic-con-at-home-2021-panels-vampirella/

  By Shaun Corley Published 1 day ago
  
  Dynamite Entertainment has announced its slate of panels for this year’s Comic-Con@Home, the virtual version of the world-famous San Diego Comic-Con. These panels will give readers an up close and personal look at what is coming from the Dynamite in the months ahead. Fans will enjoy sneak peeks at various titles including Vampirella, James Bond and Elvira!
  
  The San Diego Comic-Con is one of the biggest pop culture conventions in the world, regularly attracting huge crowds; it has become a media event in its own right. It is also one of the oldest, having been around for more than 50 years. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Comic-Con has pivoted to an online experience, opting instead for virtual panels. While major movie studios like Marvel will not be taking place in the event, many comics publishers such as Dark Horse and DC Comics will present panels. And now, Dynamite Entertainment, publisher of Red Sonja, John Carter and Vampirella, among others, has announced two exciting panels for Comic-Con@Home, giving fans a sneak peek at the company’s future offerings.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  July 25th
  
  1963: Ian Fleming comments on death to Hilary Bray.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 14 - Kent and Wiltshire

  Halfway through July, after four years of building, waiting and frustration,
  the Flemings finally moved into their new house at Sevenhampton. The
  first names in the visitors’ book were Raymond O’Neill and his wife
  Georgina. But even now the work was incomplete. The grounds were full
  of workmen who infuriated Ann by retreating into their huts whenever it
  rained. She tried to show an example by scurrying into the garden during
  cloudbursts and weeding ostentatiously. Ian’s spirits were hardly boosted
  by news of the death of another close friend, Hugo Putman, on July 25. In
  a note to Hilary Bray, he adopted unfamiliar shooting parlance: “Friends
  dwindle rapidly at our age, and Duff and Hugo were a bad left and right.”

  1964: A day after three typescripts of The Man with the Golden Gun are complete, Ian Fleming's secretary confirms to the typist one copy plus a list of corrections will go back to the author.

  

  FLEMING, Ian The Man With the Golden Gun: Author's
  Corrected Typescript
  FLEMING, Ian

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.jonkers.co.uk/rare-book/8622/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-author-s-corrected-typescript/ian-fleming

  The Man With the Golden Gun: Author's Corrected Typescript
  1964.
  182 numbered pages of typed foolscap, five further preliminary pages and a single sheet of suggested (later adopted) corrections by Kingsley Amis, all bound in a cloth folder. Authorial revisions in Fleming's hand to approximately 80 pages with further editorial revisions in green and black ink. Fleming's corrections are mainly quite significant, rewriting entire sentences, adding or removing paragraphs etc.
  
  The corrected typescript, used as the setting copy for Fleming's last Bond novel.
  Fleming wrote The Man with the Golden Gun at his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, in the early months of 1964, as was his custom. Fleming's original text was completed by April and, as had become routine in the preparation of his books, he had 'clean' copies typed up for editing. The text was sent in stages, and on 24 July, three typescripts extending to 182 pages, with initial sub editor corrections, were returned. The following day, Fleming's secretary wrote to the typist, "I've sent one typescript to Mr. Fleming and will do a list of your corrections for him." This is that typescript.
  
  Fleming made some (presumably light) revisions and sent the typescript to his friend and Cape reader, William Plomer, with the instructions that it was "unrevised" and not to show it to anyone else other than Michael Howard, director of Cape. Plomer wrote to Howard that he "much enjoyed the book as it is" but Fleming was unsatisfied with the novel as it stood and asked for the typescript to be returned to him, stating that he "would personally like to take it back to Jamaica and paint the lily next year". It would appear that Fleming began this process immediately as much of the more substantial alterations have the effect of tightening the prose. He revises some key moments, such as the description of Scaramanga's "golden gun" (p.26), but the most telling change is the addition of a paragraph to the very end of the novel, which gives a vivid insight into Fleming's troubled state of mind in his final weeks:
  
  "At the same time, he knew, deep down, that love from Mary Goodnight, or from any other woman, was not enough for him. It would be like taking 'a room with a view'. For James Bond, the same view would always pall."
  
  The visit to Jamaica was never to happen. Fleming's health, which had been poor for some time, went into rapid decline and he died on 12 August. This typescript therefore almost certainly contains Fleming's last ever work on James Bond. In Fleming's absence, Kingsley Amis, fellow Cape author and keen student of the Bond oeuvre, was brought in to tidy up the editing process, and this typescript, including Fleming's final changes, as well as Amis's suggestions, was then sent to the printer for publication.
  
  Stock ID: 35909

  
  
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice moves cast and crew to Japan.
  
  1979: Eric Pohlmann dies at age 65--Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany.
  (Born 18 July 1913--Vienna, Austria-Hungary.)

  

  Eric Pohlmann

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pohlmann

  

  Born - Erich Pollak, 18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
  Died - 25 July 1979 (aged 66), Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany
  Years active - 1948–1979
  Spouse(s) - Liselotte Goettinger (1939–1968; her death; 2 children)

  Eric Pohlmann (German: Erich Pohlmann; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain.

  Early life
  Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.
  
  In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, Odette and Carve Her Name With Pride), into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler.
  
  Career
  After the war, he began a career on the London stage. Among other roles he played "Peachum" in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.
  
  One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed's classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).
  
  He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying (1964) and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975).

  Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).

  In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play numerous character roles in German and Austrian film and television productions. He had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and also appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild [de]. In addition to The Defence Counsel (1961) with Barbara Rütting and Carl Heinz Schroth, he appeared in Der Kleine Lord (1962) with Albrecht Schoenhals and Michael Ande, as well as The Dreyfus Affair (1968) with Karl Michael Vogler and Bernhard Wicki. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.
  
  Pohlmann's greatest success in German TV drama came in 1970 with an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman In White, one of the most successful television productions of the year which gained over 9 million viewers. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Käutner. The mini-series has a cult following to this day.
  
  Pohlmann was a regular on British television, taking the role of "Inspector Goron" in the 1952-1954 TV series Colonel March of Scotland Yard with Boris Karloff, and appearing as a guest star in such series as The Saint, The Champions, The Avengers, Danger Man, Department S, Jason King and Paul Temple.
  
  In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.
  
  In 2006, the Turner Classic Movies "31 Days of Oscar" festival was based on the theme of "360 Degrees of Oscar" (based on the game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon") in which TCM chooses an actor who has played a significant role in Oscar history, and builds its entire schedule around him. They chose Eric Pohlmann.
  
  He also appeared on stage (Henry Cecil's Settled Out Of Court is a production this editor remembers seeing him in).
  

  

  Eric Pohlmann (1913–1979)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688384/
  

  
  

  
  2015: BBC Radio 4 airs its fifth James Bond radio drama, Diamonds Are Forever.
  Cast includes Toby Stephens, Stacy Keach.

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

  2019: Variety reports Aston Martin showing off Bond cars.

  

  Aston Martin shows off all its 007 cars in Bond 25
  There's a couple of plot pointers if you look hard enough

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.esquireme.com/content/37329-aston-martin-shows-off-all-its-007-cars-in-bond-25

  

  25 July 2019 | Thomas Shambler
  
  There's been a lot of nods and winks toward which cars James Bond will be
  throwing about in Bond 25 lately.
  
  The ones we've been teased with include the chop-top Land Rover, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the classic DB5, and an absolutely mad-looking Aston concept called the Valhalla.
  
  Now, all Bond's Aston Martins for the new film have been lined up for inspection:
  
  Let's do this school photo style. From left: Aston Martin V8 Vantage; stripped down DB5; normal DB5; Aston Martin V8 Vantage; DB5; DB5 with a pod on top, used by a stunt driver who does the actual driving while actors inside do the actual acting; and Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

  They're all huddled around the Aston Martin Valhalla, either consciously or unconsciously echoing that scene at the end of Hereditary in the treehouse where the nude cult members bow to Paimon. A spoiler? Maybe. Just maybe.
  
  Given that original DB5s go for north of a million quid these days, these are likely to be very, very faithfully recreated facsimiles. Then again, very, very faithfully recreated facsimiles can be pretty spicy too. Aston Martin's own recreations of the classic DB5 with Bond's gadgets and modifications will set you back £2.75 million, and there will only be 25 such 'continuation' models made.

  2019: Casino de Monte-Carlo launches its James Bond slot machines.

  

  PRESS RELEASE
  Monaco, 26th July 2019
  
  James Bond slot machines at Casino de Monte-Carlo
  Thursday 25 July 2019

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.montecarlosbm-corporate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pr-james-bond-slot-machines-at-casino-de-monte-carlo.pdf

  PRESS RELEASE
  Monaco, 26th July 2019 For the launch of the new "James Bond" slot machines in Salle Europe, Casino de Monte-Carlo is inviting My Monte-Carlo members with Gold status and above to an exceptional cocktail on Thursday 25 July at 7.00pm. Guests will be transported into the universe of the most famous spy ever, "Agent 007™". The luxury gaming temple is widening its offering by proposing a brand new entertainment experience. The universe of James Bond left its gloss on the image of Casino de Monte-Carlo in 1983 with the film Never Say Never Again, then in 1995 with the iconic Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye at the Casino. Then, it left more than gloss and was instead a veritable incarnation.For this special evening, Casino de Monte-Carlo invites its loyal customers to discover this glamorous world where the vodka-Martini steals the day. Upon their arrival, guests can admire the display of collector Aston Martins at the entrance to Casino de Monte-Carlo. Then, they will enter Casino de Monte-Carlo and their immersion in the universe of the British spy will reach its peak. A stylish and surprising cocktail will be served in the Atrium of the Casino from 7.00pm to 8.30pm, before the machines are unveiled in Salle Europe. Musical entertainment, live music and dedicated scenery will plunge guests into the universe of the famous secret agent with its codes and unique aesthetics. Some will make the experience last well beyond the evening, with an Omega watch, 48 hours in an Aston Martin and many other surprises offered from an exceptional prize draw. These eight new immersive slot machines related to the different sagas of James Bond™ (Goldfinger, Thunderball, Casino Royale, etc.) join the offer of over 1,000 slot machines in Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer establishments.
  
  These new slot machines in the middle of Salle Europe, traditionally dedicated to table games, will appeal to players seeking thrills and distraction. There is only one step from the new James Bond™ slot machines to the craps table, which this new generation of customers will have fun taking. The offering is part of the metamorphosis of Casino de Monte-Carlo and the development of the "So Monte-Carlo" experience led by Pascal Camia, Chief Executive, Gaming, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, and his teams. "Creating unique events and new experiences for our players is part of our vision: to be and to remain the most beautiful and the most exclusive gaming destination in Europe. James Bond™ and Casino de Monte-Carlo are closely linked, therefore it seemed obvious to offer our customers this unique moment during which the spirit of the famous British spy will come alive for one night", explains Pascal Camia, Chief Executive, Gaming, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer.
  
  The art of hospitality by My Monte-Carlo
  Offered as an exclusive preview to its members, the Dolce Vita event is part of the exclusive experiences provided within the framework of the My Monte-Carlo loyalty programme, which today has over 27,000 members. The programme is open free of charge to customers of the casinos and all of the establishments of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer. Thanks to Loyalty Points earned, customers can benefit from numerous advantages to play (free entrance and valet parking for Casino de Monte-Carlo, access to private rooms, participation in exceptional evenings and tournaments, etc.), to stay in Monaco (upgrade and special welcome pack provided in the room, access to the well-being spaces of the Resort, early check-in and late check-out, transfer by limousine from Nice, etc.), but also to eat, go shopping and enjoy entertainment with the best seats proposed for events and shows.
  
  About Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer
  Since 1863, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer has been offering a unique Art of Living, a one-of-a-kind resort with four casinos, including the prestigious Casino de Monte-Carlo, four hotels (Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo Beach, Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel& Resort), the Thermes Marins Monte-Carlo spa, dedicated to well-being and preventive health, 30 restaurants including five that together have seven Michelin Guide stars. A hub of night-life, the Group offers an incredible selection of events, including the Monte-Carlo Sporting Summer Festival and the Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival. At the end of 2018, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer is completing four years of transformation works dedicated to Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo and to the creation of a new district around Place du Casino, One Monte-Carlo, with luxury accommodation, shops, restaurants and a conference centre. The vision of Groupe Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer for 2020is to make Monte-Carlo the most exclusive experience in Europe.
  
  

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  2021: A walking tour of Spies, Lies and Double Agents at Cambridge.

  

  

  July
  25
  Spies, Lies and Double Agents (e)
  

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  A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times
  
  About this event
  A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to James Blunt, via James Bond. The tour will be led by Green Badge Guides.
  
  Enjoy a spy-filled walk around some of Cambridge's loveliest streets. Discover how the Tudor monarchs made the university their secret-service HQ, and how they exploited codes, ciphers and undercover agents in their determination to reveal plots. Learn how a famous Elizabethan dramatist was exposed as a spy by his college bar bill. And why did Churchill call the Cambridge code-breakers at Bletchley Park, "the geese that laid the golden eggs."? Then there's James Bond, Miss Moneypenny, the Big Five, and much more...
  
  Email [email protected] if you would like a tour in Spanish, Russian, French, German Cantonese, Mandarin or Putonghua.
  

  Date and time
  Sun, 25 July 2021
  11:30 – 13:00 BST

  £15

  Location
  Outside Great St Mary's (GSM)
  The University Church
  Senate House Hill
  Cambridge
  CB2 3PQ
  United Kingdom

  2021: James Bond Auction (started 16 July) finishes today.

  

  James Bond Auction
  16 - 25 July 2021

  https://www.catawiki.com/en/a/th/1241-james-bond-auction