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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,401
    May 13th

    1946: Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith is born--Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
    (He dies 7 April 2017 at age 70--Northampton, England.)
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    Tim Pigott-Smith obituary
    Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown
    Michael Coveney | Sun 9 Apr 2017 13.34 EDT
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    Tim Pigott-Smith as Ronald Merrick, with Siddharth Kak (right),
    in The Jewel in the Crown, Granada TV’s adaptation of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet novels.
    Photograph: ITV/Rex
    The only unexpected thing about the wonderful actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was that he never played Iago or, indeed, Richard III. Having marked out a special line in sadistic villainy as Ronald Merrick in his career-defining, Bafta award-winning performance in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Granada TV’s adaptation for ITV of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet novels, he built a portfolio of characters both good and bad who were invariably presented with layers of technical accomplishment and emotional complexity.
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    Tim Pigott-Smith in the title role of
    Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at the
    Almeida theatre in 2014. Photograph:
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    He emerged as a genuine leading actor in Shakespeare, contemporary plays by Michael Frayn – in Frayn’s Benefactors (1984) he was a malicious, Iago-like journalist undermining a neighbouring college chum’s ambitions as an architect – and Stephen Poliakoff, American classics by Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee, and as a go-to screen embodiment of high-ranking police officers and politicians, usually served with a twist of lemon and a side order of menace and sarcasm.

    He played a highly respectable King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011, but that performance was eclipsed, three years later, by his subtle, affecting and principled turn in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III (soon to be seen in a television version) at the Almeida, in the West End and on Broadway, for which he received nominations in both the Olivier and Tony awards. The play, written in Shakespearean iambics, was set in a futuristic limbo, before the coronation, when Charles refuses to grant his royal assent to a Labour prime minister’s press regulation bill.

    The interregnum cliffhanger quality to the show was ideal for Pigott-Smith’s ability to simultaneously project the spine and the jelly of a character, and he brilliantly suggested an accurate portrait of the future king without cheapening his portrayal of him. Although not primarily a physical actor, like Laurence Olivier, he was aware of his attributes, once saying that the camera “does something to my eyes, particularly on my left side in profile”, something to do with the eye being quite low and “being able to see some white underneath the pupil”. It was this physical accident, not necessarily any skill, he modestly maintained, which gave him a menacing look on film and television, “as if I am thinking more than one thing”.

    Tim Pigott-Smith: a man born to play kings
    Born in Rugby, Tim was the only child of Harry Pigott-Smith, a journalist, and his wife Margaret (nee Goodman), a keen amateur actor, and was educated at Wyggeston boys’ school in Leicester and – when his father was appointed to the editorship of the Herald in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962 – King Edward VI grammar school, where Shakespeare was a pupil. Attending the Royal Shakespeare theatre, he was transfixed by John Barton and Peter Hall’s Wars of the Roses production, and the actors: Peggy Ashcroft, with whom he would one day appear in The Jewel in the Crown, Ian Holm and David Warner. He took a part‑time job in the RSC’s paint shop.

    At Bristol University he gained a degree in English, French and drama (1967), and at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school he graduated from the training course (1969) alongside Jeremy Irons and Christopher Biggins as acting stage managers in the Bristol Old Vic company. He joined the Prospect touring company as Balthazar in Much Ado with John Neville and Sylvia Syms and then as the Player King and, later, Laertes to Ian McKellen’s febrile Hamlet. Back with the RSC he played Posthumus in Barton’s fine 1974 production of Cymbeline and Dr Watson in William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes, opposite John Wood’s definitive detective, at the Aldwych and on Broadway. He further established himself in repertory at Birmingham, Cambridge and Nottingham.
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    Tim Pigott-Smith as the avuncular businessman Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s Enron
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    Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
    He was busy in television from 1970, appearing in two Doctor Who sagas, The Claws of Axos (1971) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976), as well as in the first of the BBC’s adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1975, as Frederick Hale; in the second, in 2004, he played Hale’s father, Richard). His first films were Jack Gold’s Aces High (1976), adapted by Howard Barker from RC Sherriff’s Journey’s End, and Tony Richardson’s Joseph Andrews (1977). His first Shakespeare leads were in the BBC’s Shakespeare series – Angelo in Measure for Measure and Hotspur in Henry IV Part One (both 1979).

    A long association with Hall began at the National Theatre in 1987, when he played a coruscating half-hour interrogation scene with Maggie Smith in Hall’s production of Coming in to Land by Poliakoff; he was a Dostoeyvskyan immigration officer, Smith a desperate, and despairing, Polish immigrant. In Hall’s farewell season of Shakespeare’s late romances in 1988, he led the company alongside Michael Bryant and Eileen Atkins, playing a clenched and possessed Leontes in The Winter’s Tale; an Italianate, jesting Iachimo in Cymbeline; and a gloriously drunken Trinculo in The Tempest (he played Prospero for Adrian Noble at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2012).

    Tim Pigott-Smith: how Ian McKellen made me raise my acting game
    The Falstaff on television when he played Hotspur was Anthony Quayle, and he succeeded this great actor, whom he much admired as director of the touring Compass Theatre in 1989, playing Brutus in Julius Caesar and Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. When the Arts Council cut funding to Compass, he extended his rogue’s gallery with a sulphurous Rochester in Fay Weldon’s adaptation of Jane Eyre, on tour and at the Playhouse, in a phantasmagorical production by Helena Kaut-Howson, with Alexandra Mathie as Jane (1993); and, back at the NT, as a magnificent, treacherous Leicester in Howard Davies’ remarkable revival of Schiller’s Mary Stuart (1996) with Isabelle Huppert as a sensual Mary and Anna Massey a bitterly prim Elizabeth.

    In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals. He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves, Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.

    He and Davies combined again, with Helen Mirren and Eve Best, in a monumental NT revival (designed by Bob Crowley) of O’Neill’s epic Mourning Becomes Electra in 2003. Pigott-Smith recycled his ersatz “Agamemnon” role of the returning civil war hero, Ezra Mannon, as the real Agamemnon, fiercely sarcastic while measuring a dollop of decency against weasel expediency, in Euripides’ Hecuba at the Donmar Warehouse in 2004. In complete contrast, his controlled but hilarious Bishop of Lax in Douglas Hodge’s 2006 revival of Philip King’s See How They Run at the Duchess suggested he had done far too little outright comedy in his career.
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    Tim Pigott-Smith as King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011.
    Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
    Television roles after The Jewel in the Crown included the titular chief constable, John Stafford, in The Chief (1990-93) and the much sleazier chief inspector Frank Vickers in The Vice (2001-03). On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008).
    Tim Pigott-Smith: a life on stage and screen – in pictures
    In the last decade of his life he achieved an amazing roster of stage performances, including a superb Henry Higgins, directed by Hall, in Pygmalion (2008); the avuncular, golf-loving entrepreneur Ken Lay in Lucy Prebble’s extraordinary Enron (2009), a play that proved there was no business like big business; the placatory Tobias, opposite Penelope Wilton, in Albee’s A Delicate Balance at the Almeida in 2011; and the humiliated George, opposite his Hecuba, Clare Higgins, in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at Bath.

    At the start of this year he was appointed OBE. His last television appearance came as Mr Sniggs, the junior dean of Scone College, in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, starring Jack Whitehall. He had been due to open as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in Northampton prior to a long tour.

    Pigott-Smith was a keen sportsman, loved the countryside and wrote four short books, three of them for children.

    In 1972 he married the actor Pamela Miles. She survives him, along with their son, Tom, a violinist, and two grandchildren, Imogen and Gabriel.

    • Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, actor, born 13 May 1946; died 7 April 2017

    This article was amended on 10 April 2017. Tim Pigott-Smith’s early performance as Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing was with the Prospect touring company rather than with the Bristol Old Vic.
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    1958: Macmillan publishes Ian Fleming's non-fiction book The Diamond Smugglers in the US.
    THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS
    With an introduction by ‘John Blaize’,
    formerly of the International Diamond
    Security Organization

    A major campaign against the greatest
    smuggling racket of the world - the smug-
    gling of diamonds from Africa, to the tune
    of some ten million pounds a year - has
    just been completed. It took three years,
    Paris was involved and Antwerp, Beirut,
    Freetown, Johannesburg - and Moscow.
    Now this underground battle was waged in
    the greatest spy story since the war.

    All the facts have come into the hands
    of Ian Fleming. He has been in Africa with
    the secret agent chiefly responsible for
    penetrating the international smuggling
    network. Ian Fleming has written this
    man’s story: it is a true story, and breath-
    taking.
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    1963: Agente 007 contra el Dr. No (Agent 007 against Dr. No) premieres in Madrid, Spain.
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    1964: Sean Connery practices his golf swing at Northolt Airport, South Ruislip, England.
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    1967: Title song "You Only Live Twice" charts this date. Also, British weekly Melody Maker declares “Nancy meets James Bond … in the recording studio.”
    1971: Diamonds Are Forever films the craps game with Bond and Plenty O'Toole. 1974: Bond comic strip The Nevsky Nude begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Finishes 21 September 1974. 2542–2655) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, artist.
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    ‘The Nevsky Nude’ centres on a rather revealing mystery
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    By Edgar Chaput
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218
    Fallen Från Skyarna ("Fall From Sky" - The Nevsky Nude)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 38: “The Nevsky Nude” (1976)
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    1987: Happy Anniversary, 007 hosted by Roger Moore celebrates Bond's 25th anniversary.


    Commentary version, Moore looks great


    1993: MGM through Variety announces work on BOND 17 resumes with writer Michael France.
    1999: UNICEF Envoy Roger Moore visits a Stankovac refugee camp to raise funds for Kosovo children.

    2008: Thomas Dunne Books publishes the US hardcover version of The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel by Samantha Weinberg (as "Kate Westbrook").
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    2014: The Norwegian press says Norwegian actresses compete for Bond Girl roles in BOND 24.
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    Norwegian actors in race to be next Bond
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    Synnøve Macody Lund (right) and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (left) Photo: Magnet
    Releasing/Resolve film | The Local | [email protected] | @thelocalnorway
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    Norwegian actresses Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Synnøve Macody Lund are both among the Scandinavian women competing to become the next 'Bond girl'.

    Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, the 34-year-old Norwegian star of the upcoming Hollywood film Hercules, auditioned for the provisionally named "Bond 24" last year, her agent Anne Lindberg told The Local.

    According to Norway's Dagbladet newspaper, Synnøve Macody Lund, the 38-year-old star of the film Headhunters, has also recently filmed audition scenes in Copenhagen for the film which, like Skyfall, will star Daniel Craig as James Bond and have Sam Mendes as director.

    According to Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper two Swedish actresses have also auditioned: Disa Östrand, a 27-year-old known for her role in Känn Ingen Sång, and Ida Engvoll, a 28-year-old who starred in 2013's Bäst Före.

    The film's producers have confirmed they are recruiting a woman with typical Scandinavian features to play "a woman with a difficult history" in the film.

    If Lund gets the role and is cast as one of Bond's love interests, the mother of two will become the eldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. In Ian Fleming's 14 Bond books, Pussy Galore, the eldest of Bond's lovers, is described by Bond as "in her early thirties" .

    According to Dagbladet, Lund would only confirm that she had met Sam Mendes at Pinewood Studio outside London.

    "It was a great moment for me as a film enthusiast, and I was more than a little nervous," the former TV2 film journalist told the newspaper. "Just to look inside Pinewood Studios, with all its Bond props on display, was amazing."
    Norway has already had one Bond girl, Julie Ege, who played Helen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). Sweden, on the other hand, has already had no fewer than six Bond girls (click here for a full list https://www.thelocal.se/20121026/44070). Swedish actor Ola Rapace played one of the villains in Skyfall.
    According to Lindberg, the film's producers have over the past year auditioned almost every suitable actress in Denmark, Sweden and Norway without yet giving any indications of who will get the role.

    "In Denmark, there was a lot of castings last year and this year for the Bond girl but nobody knows anything yet," she said. "I don’t think anyone knows yet what the outcome is."

    According to the film journalist Morten Steingrimsen, who edits James Bond magazine, Lund would fit into the new trend for more psychologically complex Bond girls.

    "Synnøve has something Bond-like about her, and it is easy to imagine that she could develop a good dynamic with Craig and create a complex, interesting and different Bond girl," he said.

    "In recent years there has been a clear trend towards making Bond's female counterpart something more than a sex symbol."
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited May 14 Posts: 14,401
    May 14th

    1937: Victor Harold Flick is born--Worcester Park, South West London, England.
    (He dies 14 November 2024 at age 87--Los Angeles, California.)
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    Vic Flick, Guitarist Who Plucked the
    James Bond Theme, Dies at 87
    Emmett Lindner | Nov. 20, 2024
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/arts/vic-flick-james-bond-dead.html
    A busy session musician, he also recorded music for the Beatles’ film “A Hard Day’s Night” and contributed to several hit songs.
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    Vic Flick performing in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2002. Since “Dr. No” was released in 1962, the sound of his “grungy” guitar playing on the James Bond theme made those films instantly recognizable.Credit...Mel Bouzad/Getty Images
    Vic Flick, a British guitarist whose driving riff in the theme for the James Bond movies captured the spy’s suave confidence and tacit danger, died on Nov. 14 in Los Angeles. He was 87.

    His death, in a nursing facility, was announced on social media by his son, Kevin, who said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease.

    The Bond films produced signature catchphrases (“shaken, not stirred,” “Bond, James Bond”) that have been endlessly recited and parodied since “Dr. No,” the first in the series, was released in Britain in 1962. But it was the sound of Mr. Flick’s guitar in the opening credits that helped make those spy thrillers instantly recognizable.

    During the title credits of “Dr. No,” when moviegoers were introduced to or reacquainted with the works of the author Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond books, Mr. Flick’s thrumming guitar sounded out through a brass-and-string orchestra.
    “The selection of strings available in the late ’50s and early ’60s was abysmal compared to today,” he wrote in his 2008 autobiography, “Vic Flick, Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond.”

    “To get that ‘overplayed sound,’ I simply overplayed the guitar, leaning into those thick low strings,” he continued.

    He also placed a pack of Senior Service cigarettes under the bridge of the guitar to help round out the sound.

    “He was a musician’s musician,” Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues wrote in the foreword to “Vic Flick, Guitarman.” “He played for all the greats, and on so many treasured records. He was in demand, and he delivered.”

    Victor Harold Flick was born on May 14, 1937, in Surrey, England, to Harold Flick, a music teacher, and Mabel (Curry) Flick, a singer. His childhood was marked by the frequent need to find safe havens from bombs that German planes were dropping over the area during World War II.

    Once the war ended — and, as Mr. Flick wrote in his book, “a hesitant normality reigned” — his father and brother joined a band to perform at local churches. When Vic was 14, he saw an ad for a Gibson Kalamazoo, a small acoustic guitar.

    “A deal was struck,” he wrote in “Guitarman,” adding: “I practiced the instrument until the tips of my fingers bled. I had to catch up to the others who were, compared to me, accomplished musicians.”

    In 1953, Vic left school to work in a bank. He later worked as a heating and ventilation technician before pursuing music in earnest. He formed a band with his brother in 1958 and later joined a band led by Bob Cort, a folk musician.

    While the group was on tour with Paul Anka, Mr. Flick met John Barry, who would go on to arrange the James Bond theme and later compose the scores for 11 Bond films. (Mr. Barry told The Sunday Times of London in 1997 that he had composed the theme; this was disputed by Monty Norman, the original composer for “Dr. No,” who then successfully sued the newspaper for libel.)

    When the original theme was written for “Dr. No,” the music editor told the producers that it didn’t represent the film, Mr. Flick said in a 2021 interview with Guitar Player magazine.

    “I said, ‘Take it down an octave, make it grungy,’” he said. “That and the brass punched the Bond films to success.”

    The result has been imprinted into the annals of cinema, and Mr. Flick would go on to work on the theme music for several more Bond films, including “Goldfinger” (1964).

    He became a successful session musician, playing on tracks for Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield and others and on Peter and Gordon’s album “A World Without Love.” His Fender Stratocaster is heard as Ringo Starr walks the streets to the strains of “Ringo’s Theme,” an instrumental version of the Beatles song “This Boy,” in the 1964 film “A Hard Day’s Night.” And he worked with Paul McCartney on the 1977 album “Thrillington,” a collection of instrumental covers of songs from the 1971 album “Ram” that Mr. McCartney released under the pseudonym Percy “Thrills” Thrillington.

    In 2013, Mr. Flick received a lifetime achievement award from the National Guitar Museum.

    In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife, Judith Mary Flick, and a grandson. His daughter, Jayne, died in 2000.

    Mr. Flick’s wide sonic range could be boiled down to a focused philosophy. When Guitar Player asked him what he might tell an aspiring musician, he offered this advice: “Don’t forget to make every note music.”
    • Emmett Lindner writes about breaking and trending news. He has written about international protests, climate change and social media influencers.
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    Vic Flick interview with Jesse Amoroso at Cowtown Guitars, Las Vegas (26:10)


    Vic Flick Performs the James Bond Theme (1:58)


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    1939: Veruschka von Lehndorff is born--Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany.

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    1964: The first two demo recordings of title song "Goldfinger" are completed, vocals by Anthony Newley. John Barry liked the "creepy" performance. (Newley and Leslie Bricusse agreed it was too strange a tune to be the film version.)

    1993: Domark Software releases James Bond video game The Duel (Japan: 007 Shitō).
    Developed by "The Kremlin". 1997: Tomorrow Never Dies begins filming the motorcycle chase.
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    2016: The Bruce Museum's 29th Annual Renaissance Ball at the Greenwich Country Club takes on a James Bond theme. Greenwich, Connecticut. Casino tables, martini bar, and bids for travel packages.
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    The Bruce Museum's 29th Annual
    Renaissance Ball is May 14th
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    The Bruce Museum Board of Trustees Requests the Pleasure of Your Company at The 29th Annual Renaissance Ball. This year's gala will showcase the elegance for which 007 is known.
    Saturday, May 14, 2016
    6:30 pm
    Greenwich Country Club
    19 Doubling Road, Greenwich
    Black Tie * Valet Parking
    Art Silent Auction * Silent Auction * Live Auction

    2019: The Sun reports that Aston Martin is working on 25 special edition DB5s to cost £3.3m per.
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    FULLY LOADED
    Aston Martin remaking its Goldfinger DB5
    with a 25-car limited-edition model costing £3.3m
    Bond special-effects wizard Chris Corbould is working with Aston Martin
    Revealed
    Edited by Rob Gill | 16 May 2019, 1:21

    THE difference between men and boys is the size of their toys, someone once said.

    Well, this side of an Apache gunship, you can’t get much better than a real Goldfinger DB5 loaded with all the original gadgets.
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    Aston Martin is remaking the Goldfinger DB5 for 25 rich people, at £3.3million a pop —
    but it does come fully loaded. Credit: Max Earey www.maxearey.com
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    2019: The Guardian reports on Daniel Craig's recovery from an ankle injury on the set of No Time To Die.
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    Bond film delayed again after Daniel
    Craig hurt
    Shooting suspended after star injured his ankle, adding another
    setback for the spy franchise
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    at a photocall for the Bond franchise’s 25th film.
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    Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver
    Published on Tue 14 May 2019 06.58 EDT

    Production on the latest Bond film has been delayed again, after star Daniel Craig injured his ankle while filming an action sequence in Jamaica.

    According to the Sun, Craig slipped and fell while running, and the subsequent ankle injury resulted in him being flown to the US for treatment. Filming scheduled to take place at Pinewood studios in London has been postponed.

    This is not Craig’s first injury on a Bond set: in 2006 he had two teeth knocked out while making Casino Royale, lost a fingertip on Quantum of Solace in 2008, and hurt his knee in 2015 during the shoot for Spectre.

    The setback is the latest of a string of delays to Craig’s fifth – and reportedly final – outing as Bond. In 2018, director Danny Boyle unexpectedly dropped out due to “creative differences” and was replaced by Cary Fukunaga. A comprehensive script overhaul has seen a string of writers work on the project, including veteran Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, Paul Haggis, Scott Z Burns and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

    It is not thought that Craig’s injury will affect the film’s opening date. Originally scheduled for release in November 2019, the film is now due to premiere in April 2020. [Later delayed to Fall 2020, April 2021, then Fall 2021.]

    2023: Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival presents Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche
 with John Higgs - Love and Let Die at The Forum, Royal Tunbridge Wells, England.
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    Bond, The Beatles and the British
    Psyche

    Love and Let Die is the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage. It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond, and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end.

    Told over a period of sixty dramatic years, this is an opportunity to hear John Higgs give an account of how two outsized cultural monsters continue to define our aspirations and fantasies and the future we are building. Looking at these touchstones in this new context will forever change how you see the Beatles, the James Bond films and six decades.
    “Entertaining . . . an eccentric jaunt through the interwoven histories [of the Beatles and Bond]” - Sunday Times
    Authors Website https://johnhiggs.com/

    TIMES
    VENUE OPENS: 1:30pm
    EVENT STARTS: 2:00pm
    EVENT FINISHES: 3:30pm
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    2023: Brisbane Writer's Festival presents Spies Like Us and the fictionalised escapades of the real-life inspiration for Miss Moneypenny at Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Australia.
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    Spies Like Us
    Sun 14 May 2023
    Christine Wells + Brett Mason + Melanie Myers

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    Main Festival

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    Duration: 60 minutes
    Don your trenchcoat and go undercover for this tense discussion of spy-craft and diplomacy. The fictionalised escapades of the real-life inspiration for Miss Moneypenny and the remarkable true story of two Australians who helped the Allies win World War II both shine some light into the shady corners of subterfuge. Enjoy them shaken, not stirred.
    Christine Wells
    Christine Wells is an internationally bestselling author of fifteen published books. Her recent historical novel, Sisters of the Resistance, featuring Catherine Dior, was published by HarperCollins New York, and received mentions in American Vogue, The Wall Street Journal and The Times. Her most recent release, One Woman’s War, is about the real woman who inspired the character of Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Christine writes about strong, clever women from the past, and as a former lawyer, she often features legal themes in her books. Christine lives in Brisbane and loves sharing her knowledge of the writing craft and the publishing business with other writers through workshops and private mentorships.

    Brett Mason
    Brett Mason is Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia and Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at QUT. He was formerly a Senator for Queensland , serving in the Ministry, before being appointed Australia's Ambassador to the Hague and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He is currently completing Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: JFK, Reg Evans and the birth of Australian-American Friendship.

    Melanie Myers
    Melanie is a writer, editor, playwright and researcher. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches at the University of Queensland. In 2018, she won the Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award for Emerging Writer. Her debut novel Meet Me at Lennon’s (UQP) was shortlisted for the 2020 QLA Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance and People’s Choice Award. Her writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Griffith Review, Arena Magazine, Overland, Hecate, TEXT and other publications. She is a winner of the 2022 Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition.
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    1918: Joseph Wiseman is born--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
    (He dies 19 October 2009 at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.)
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    Versatile character actor best remembered on screen as James
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    ‘I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,’ said Wiseman of his role in Dr No.
    Despite the fact that Joseph Wiseman, who has died aged 91, appeared in dozens of movies and countless TV series and had only 20 minutes of screen time in Dr No (1962), it is for his performance in that film, as the eponymous adversary to James Bond in the first movie of the series, based on the books by Ian Fleming, that he will best be remembered.

    Dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black, prosthetic hands, the result of a "misfortune", Wiseman was cool and calculating as the half-German, half-Chinese arch enemy of 007, played by Sean Connery, and one of the most effective of Bond villains. Dr Julius No is a member of Spectre – the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. "The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world," he explains. "Correction. Criminal brains," says Bond. "A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be," retorts Dr No.

    Wiseman was fortunate that Noël Coward, a friend and neighbour of Fleming's in Jamaica, where the film was set, turned the role down, saying, "Doctor No? No. No. No." Of his most famous role, Wiseman said: "I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I had no idea it would achieve the success it did. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery."
    Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, and his family subsequently moved to the US. He started his acting career on stage in his late teens, making his Broadway debut as part of the ensemble in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), with Raymond Massey in the title role. There followed parts in three plays by Maxwell Anderson: Journey to Jerusalem (1940), Candle in the Wind (1941) and Joan of Lorraine (1946), and he was the eunuch Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), directed by and starring Kathleen Cornell.

    But it was his role on stage in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story (1949) that launched his film career, during which he typically played slightly crazy off-beat characters. Wiseman, in a loud striped suit, was both sleazy and comic as the lowlife burglar, becoming hysterical when interrogated by overzealous policeman Ralph Bellamy. He repeated the role in William Wyler's 1951 film version, starring Kirk Douglas, without toning down his manic stage performance.

    This coiled-up energy proved to be highly effective in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), in which he played the opportunistic journalist and agent provocateur who finally betrays Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando). He continued to steal scenes in two rather risible biblical epics, as an imposing priest in The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's debut picture, and as a wily beggar in The Prodigal (1955). Around the same time, Wiseman was able to reveal more of his talent on stage. He played Edmund to Louis Calhern's King Lear; the gangster Eddie Fuselli in a revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1952), and The Inquisitor in Jean Anouih's The Lark (1955), with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc.
    In 1960, returning to movies, Wiseman had a typically flashy role as a one-eyed, deranged itinerant evangelist armed with the "Sword of God" in John Huston's western The Unforgiven. Then, in 1962, came The Happy Thieves, in which, third-billed after Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison, he seemed to have some fun as a master forger, and the infamous Dr No. It was six years before Wiseman made another movie.
    Making up for lost time, he appeared in seven films within a few years. Apart from playing ruthless Italian gangsters in Stiletto (1969) and The Valachi Papers (1972), Wiseman created a niche for himself portraying a variety of Jewish characters. In The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Wiseman is the bemused Jewish owner of the notorious burlesque theatre, who disapproves of his son's introducing striptease.

    Bye Bye Braverman (1968) saw him as a pedantic lecturer on his way to a friend's funeral. Of his performance, Time magazine wrote that Wiseman "wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham … What picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical littérateur … As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity."

    Back in Canada for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Wiseman played a Trotskyite owner of a blouse factory, who calls his nephew (Richard Dreyfuss) "a pushy Jewish boy".

    On Broadway, Wiseman originated the role of LeDuc, a Jewish psychotherapist, in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964), who asserts that "the Jew is only the name we give to that stranger within everyone". Also on Broadway was his Drama Desk award-winning performance in the title role of In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer (1969).

    Wiseman continued to be active on television throughout his career, notably in Crime Story (1986-88) as the menacing gang boss Manny Weisbord. In his later years, Wiseman would often give readings of Yiddish writers, and his last stage performance was in 2002 at a gala concert called Yiddish in America at the New York town hall. His last Broadway appearance had been the previous year, as a prosecution witness in Abby Mann's stage adaptation of his film drama Judgment at Nuremberg.

    Wiseman's first marriage, to Nell Kennard, ended in divorce, and he is survived by his daughter, Martha, by that marriage, and his sister Ruth. His second wife, the dancer, teacher and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.

    •Joseph Wiseman, actor, born 15 May 1918; died 19 October 2009
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    1925: Roy Stewart is born--Jamaica.
    (He dies 27 October 2008 at age 83--London, England.)
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    Born 15 May 1925, Jamaica
    Died 27 October 2008 (aged 83).
    London, England
    Occupation actor
    Years active 1959–1981

    Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.
    In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Other film appearances include Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Leo the Last (1970), Games That Lovers Play (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Arabian Adventure (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: Out of the Unknown, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who (in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Terror of the Autons), Doomwatch, Up Pompeii!, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999 and I, Claudius.
    Background
    One of seven brothers, Roy Stewart was born in Jamaica, and came to Britain in 1948 with aspirations of being a doctor. But either theatre or a television commercial changed that.

    Having suffered for some time from heart disease, Stewart died on 28 October 2008, aged 83.

    Film and television career
    In a role, possibly his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for Fry's Turkish Delight, playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain.

    Film
    Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, The Mummy. In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe the changes that had taken place over the years.
    One of his last roles in film was as Pomeroy in Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, a 1981 made-for-television movie.

    Television
    He appeared in Dr. Who at least twice. He played Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and Tony in Terror of the Autons.

    Television commercials
    Fry's Turkish Delight
    Surf washing powder

    Business interests
    Stewart ran a basement gymnasium at 32A Powis Square, Kensington, west London which was opened in 1954. It had the policy of allowing all races to train there. Some actors trained there too, one of them, David Prowse, a Commonwealth Games weightlifter in 1962, went on to play Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The Gymnasium had a dual purpose. It was also an unofficial after-hours drinking club. By 1964, Stewart had been convicted four times for selling liquor without a license. He also ran a nightclub in Bayswater. Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and Bob Marley were some of the patrons.

    The Globe
    In the 1960s he opened a Caribbean restaurant and bar called The Globe. The Globe, formerly Bajy's, was located at 103 Talbot Road. Jimi Hendrix was reportedly seen there the night before his death in September 1970. Stewart ran The Globe until he died in October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs.
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    Filmography
    Actor (42 credits)

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

    1979 Rentaghost (TV Series) - Djinn
    - Rentasanta (1979) ... Djinn
    1979 Arabian Adventure - The Nubian
    1978 Sykes (TV Series) - Porter
    - Football Match (1978) ... Porter
    1977 Follow Me (TV Mini-Series) - General
    - Episode #1.7 (1977) ... General
    - Episode #1.6 (1977) ... General
    1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - American sailor
    1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Sentor
    - Waiting in the Wings (1976) ... Sentor
    1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Tall Alien in Cave
    - The Metamorph (1976) ... Tall Alien in Cave (uncredited)
    1976 Caesar and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Nubian Slave
    1975 Quiller (TV Series) - John Cornelius
    - Objective Caribbean (1975) ... John Cornelius
    1973 Live and Let Die - Quarrel
    1972 Call Me by My Rightful Name - Doug's Agent
    1972 Lady Caroline Lamb - Black Pug
    1971 Twins of Evil - Joachim
    1971 Lady Chatterly Versus Fanny Hill - Mr. Howanda
    1965-1971 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Toberman / Strong Man / Saracen warrior
    - Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971) ... Strong Man
    - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 (1967) ... Toberman
    - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 (1967) ... Toberman
    - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 (1967) ... Toberman
    - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 (1967) ... Toberman
    ... 6 episodes
    1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jeremy
    - Guess Who's Coming to Sin'Er Nymphia (1970) ... Jeremy
    1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Security Man / Carlos
    - Let's See the Colour of Your Money (1970) ... Security Man
    - Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1970) ... Carlos
    1970 Julius Caesar - Slave
    1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Negro
    - Spectre at the Feast (1970) ... Negro
    1970 Leo the Last - Jasper's Bodyguard
    1970 Carry On Up the Jungle - Nosha (uncredited)

    1965-1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Boxer / Major Buba
    - Son of Man (1969) ... Boxer
    - For the West (1965) ... Major Buba
    1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mulatto
    - Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Mulatto
    1968 Detective (TV Series) - Pompey
    - The High Adventure (1968) ... Pompey
    1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Giles
    - Have Guns - Will Haggle (1968) ... Giles
    1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - 3rd Guard / Guard
    - The Great Ring of Akba (1968) ... 3rd Guard
    - Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier (1968) ... Guard
    1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) - Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
    - Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
    1966-1967 Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series) - Guard / Negro Bodyguard / Weightlifter
    - The Basardi Affair (1967) ... Guard
    - A Slight Case of Reincarnation (1966) ... Negro Bodyguard (uncredited)
    - Beauty Is an Ugly Word (1966) ... Weightlifter
    1967 Prehistoric Women - Warrior (uncredited)
    1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Wrestler
    - The Man Who Liked Lions (1966) ... Wrestler (uncredited)
    1966 On the Margin (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.2 (1966)
    1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - A Dervish
    - Gordon of Khartoum (1966) ... A Dervish
    1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Security guard
    - No Place Like Earth (1965) ... Security guard
    1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Chief Nwambe
    - The New Member (1965) ... Chief Nwambe
    1965/I She - Black Guard (uncredited)
    1964 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Ali
    - An End to Revenge (1964) ... Ali
    - Dishonour (1964) ... Ali
    - Evidence of a Crime (1964) ... Ali
    - Unlimited Credit (1964) ... Ali
    - A Garden in Auteuil (1964) ... Ali
    1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Bearer in Museum (uncredited)
    1963 First Night (TV Series) - Broccoli
    - The Strain (1963) ... Broccoli
    1961 Operation Snafu - Trinidad (uncredited)
    1960 Sands of the Desert - Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)

    1959 The Mummy - Flashback Slave (uncredited)
    1929: David Healy is born--New York City, New York.
    (He dies 25 October 199 at age 66--London, England.)
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    1932: John Glen is born--Sunbury-on-Thames, England.

    1965: Bond comic strip On Her Majesty's Secret Service ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 29 June 1964. 1-274) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
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    I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst (On Her Majesty's Secret Service}
    (Part 1) | (Part 2) +
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    Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no33-1975/
    James Bond Agent 007 no. 33: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1975)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 11: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1967)
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    1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 fighting Bambi and Thumper at the Elrod House, Palm Springs, California.
    2015: NewScientist reports a Caribbean rodent named after James Bond.
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    Meet the cat-sized rodent named after James Bond
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    Life | 15 May 2015 | By Penny Sarchet
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    The name’s Bond. Plagiodontia aedium bondi. It’s certainly a name to live up to. A cat-sized rodent newly discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola has been named after James Bond, a real-life naturalist who also gave his name to Ian Fleming’s fictional spy.

    Found by Samuel Turvey of the Zoological Society of London and his team, the guinea pig-like rodent, which weighs more than a kilogram, is a type of hutia, a family of secretive rodents that live in the West Indian islands. Its name is fitting because the original Bond studied the distribution of hutias and their relatives in the Caribbean.

    But the James Bond rodent belongs to a troubled family. Although there were once more than 30 species, most hutia have been driven to extinction by the colonisation of the islands. The newly discovered resident may be one of only eight types of hutia left.

    “I am glad we were able to describe James Bond’s hutia before it’s too late, as it is highly threatened by deforestation, even in protected areas,” says Turvey.

    Journal reference: Zootaxia, 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.4
    2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #7.
    Eric Gapstur, artist. Greg Pak, writer.
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    Cover A: Dave Johnson
    Cover B: Khoi Pham
    Cover C: David Nakayama
    Cover D: Stephen Mooney
    Writer: Greg Pak
    Art: Eric Gapstur
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: May 2019
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 5/15/2019
    "GOLDFINGER"
    A friendship is finished. The world is in peril. And Goldfinger wants diamonds.

    The modern Bond epic continues by GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and ERIC GAPSTUR (Batman Beyond, The Flash: Season Zero).
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    2022: Documentary The Other Fellow premieres at London, England.
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