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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 8 Posts: 14,499

  2018: Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison (Eunice Gayson) dies at age 90--London, England.
  (Born 17 March 1928--Croydon, South London, England.)

  

  Eunice Gayson obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
  Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the
  first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery
  Toby Hadoke | Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.04 EDT | Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 17.00 EDT

  
  Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr No, 1962.
  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

  Eunice Gayson, who has died aged 90, was an actor with a film, television and theatre career that spanned several decades. Despite this, she will be forever associated with her unique place in cinema history as the first Bond girl.
  
  Exactly eight minutes into the running of the 1962 film Dr No, Sean Connery utters the words “Bond, James Bond” for the first time, in answer to a question from Gayson, whose character has introduced herself at the card table as “Trench, Sylvia Trench”. With typical efficiency, Bond adds Miss Trench to his list of conquests shortly after their casino encounter and he later finds her hitting golf balls in his apartment dressed only in his shirt. Their playful exchange is momentarily interrupted when he is summoned to Jamaica on a mission, a clear demonstration of Bond’s constant juggling of business and pleasure.
  
  Unlike the other women on the Bond girl list, Gayson played the same character in more than one of the extremely successful franchise’s films. Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters. The intention was that Miss Trench would be a regular presence in the films, part of a running joke involving their assignations being cut short when espionage obligations arose at an inopportune moment. Guy Hamilton, the director of the next film in the series – Goldfinger (1964) – had other ideas however, and kiboshed the plan.

  

  Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery in Dr No, 1962.

  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

  No matter, for by then Gayson’s claim to cinematic immortality was unimpeachable, even though her voice was not heard in either film: she was dubbed by the actor Nikki van der Zyl. No criticism of Gayson should be inferred – Van der Zyl dubbed the majority of female voices in Dr No and many others in future Bond films. Gayson’s perfectly acceptable vocal performance, playful and seductive, can still be heard on the film’s original trailer. She might have had a different slice of Bond movie immortality had the original plan – that she play the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny – gone ahead. As it was, Lois Maxwell took the role (and played it for 23 years). Nevertheless Trench was an important part – Gayson received higher billing than Maxwell in both films – and the actor helped a nervous Connery during that crucial first scene.

  She was born in Streatham, south London, the elder of twin daughters and the middle of three children of John Sargaison, a civil servant, and his wife, Maria (nee Gammon). The family moved to Purley, Surrey, then Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, where Eunice enrolled at the Edinburgh Academy. A gifted soprano, she trained as an opera singer and in 1946, aged 18, made her professional debut playing a small role in Ladies Without at the Garrick theatre in London.
  
  That Christmas, she was Princess Luv-Lee in Aladdin (Grand theatre, Derby), with the Stage describing her as a “vivacious” performer “who sings, dances and acts extremely well”. By the end of the decade she was appearing regularly on television – in music shows, revues and television pantomimes. In 1954 she was selected to be a panellist on Guess My Story, a programme in the vein of What’s My Line but featuring disguised celebrities.
  
  Her film break had come in 1948, in My Brother Jonathan, and her other work on the big screen included Melody in the Dark (1949), Dance Little Lady (1954), Basil Dearden’s Out of the Clouds (1955) and Hammer’s The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), in which she played the female lead.

  When she was cast in Dr No she was having success on stage playing the Baroness in the original London production (at the Palace theatre, 1962) of The Sound of Music which ran for more than 2,000 performances (she was one of its longest running cast members).

  Her other theatre work included Over the Moon (Piccadilly theatre, 1953) and Uproar in the House (Whitehall theatre, 1968, taking over from Joan Sims), Victor Spinetti’s production of Duty Free (on tour 1976-77), The Grass is Greener (with Richard Todd, 1971, in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company), and An Ideal Husband and Kismet (both 1980, at the Connaught theatre, Worthing). One final run in the West End as the grandmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Phoenix theatre, 1990-91) was followed by pantomime in the Isle of Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Gaiety theatre, 1992).

  Her 1953 marriage to the writer Leigh Vance was seen by three million American viewers when it was part of the television show Bride and Groom (“sponsored by Betty Crocker’s Piecrust Mix”). The marriage was dissolved six years later and in 1968 she married the actor Brian Jackson. That marriage also ended in divorce but produced a daughter, Kate, who survives her. Kate appeared in the casino scene in the Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

  • Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison), actor, born 17 March 1928; died 8 June 2018
  • This article was amended on 11 June 2018, to add further details of Eunice Gayson’s early life

  

  Eunice Gayson (1928–2018) [/b]

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311013/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (54 credits)
  
  1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Countess Marie
  - Thrust and Counter Thrust (1972) ... Countess Marie
  1970 Turkey Time (TV Movie) - Louise Stoatt
  1970 Albert and Victoria (TV Series) - Madame Aix
  - Lovers' Quarrel (1970) ... Madame Aix
  - The Gothic Church (1970) ... Madame Aix
  
  1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.5 (1968)
  1967 The Reluctant Romeo (TV Series) - Gina Darletti
  - What's in a Name (1967) ... Gina Darletti
  1967 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series)
  - Jim Cleans Up (1967)
  1967 The Dick Emery Show (TV Series)
  - Episode #6.3 (1967)
  1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.3 (1967)
  - Episode #1.2 (1967)
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Lucille Banks
  - Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966) ... Lucille Banks
  1963-1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Christine Graner / Nora Prescott
  - The Saint Bids Diamonds (1965) ... Christine Graner
  - The Invisible Millionaire (1963) ... Nora Prescott
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Louise Bancroft
  - A Man to Be Trusted (1964) ... Louise Bancroft
  1963 From Russia with Love - Sylvia Trench
  1962 Dr. No -Sylvia Trench
  1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
  - The Case of the Bogus Count (1961)
  
  1959 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Liz Pleydell
  - Let Them Eat Cake (1959) ... Liz Pleydell
  1958 Adventures of the Sea Hawk (TV Series) - Carmelita
  - Episode #1.25 (1958) ... Carmelita
  1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein - Margaret
  1958 Duty Bound (TV Series) - Arlene van Hoyk
  - Cows Don't Fly (1958) ... Arlene van Hoyk
  1958 Educated Evans (TV Series) - Lady Fanny Kozatski
  - Musical Tip (1958) ... Lady Fanny Kozatski
  1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Yasmin Rashied
  - The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Yasmin Rashied
  1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Thelma Thomas
  - This Hungry Hell (1958) ... Thelma Thomas
  1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - June Hartley
  - The Heiress Story (1957) ... June Hartley
  1952-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
  Madame Caprice / Chris Cummings / Louka
  - What the Doctor Ordered (1957) ... Madame Caprice
  - The Whiteoak Chronicles #2: Whiteoak Heritage (1955) ... Chris Cummings
  - Arms and the Man (1952) ... Louka
  1957 Light Fingers - Rose Levenham
  1957 The Ship Was Loaded - Jane Godfrey
  1956 Zarak - Cathy Ingram
  1956 The Last Man to Hang - The Story: Elizabeth
  1955 Count of Twelve - Valerie Dyson (episode "Blind Man's Bluff")
  1954-1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Angelia Clifton / Valerie Dyson / Julia
  - The Bargain (1955) ... Angelia Clifton
  - Blind Man's Bluff (1955) ... Valerie Dyson
  - Death Pays No Dividends (1954) ... Julia
  1954-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Nora Kenealy / Angela / Dolly / ...
  - The Thoroughbred (1955) ... Nora Kenealy
  - The Mix-Up (1954) ... Angela
  - One Way Ticket (1954) ... Dolly
  - The Apples (1954) ... Micky
  - Johnny Blue (1954) ... Milly
  1955 Out of the Clouds - Penny Henson
  1954 One Just Man
  1954 Dance Little Lady - Adele
  1953 Both Sides of the Law - Janet (uncredited)
  1952 Miss Robin Hood - Pam
  1952 Down Among the Z Men - Officer's Wife (uncredited)
  1952 Goonreel (TV Movie) - Various
  1952 Nine Till Six (TV Movie) - Beatrice
  1951 La belle Hélène (TV Movie) - Leoena
  1951 To Have and to Hold - Peggy
  1950 Dance Hall - Mona
  1950 Mother of Men (TV Movie) - Jennie
  1950 Treasures in Heaven (TV Movie) - Carol Benson
  1950 Here Come the Boys (TV Series)
  - Episode #2.1 (1950)
  
  1949 Dick Whittington (TV Movie) - Alice
  1949 The Director (TV Movie) - Katie
  1949 Pink String and Sealing Wax (TV Movie) - Emily Strachan
  1949 Melody in the Dark - Pat Evans
  1949 The Huggetts Abroad - Peggy (uncredited)
  1948 Lady Luck (TV Movie) - Faith
  1948 It Happened in Soho - Julie
  1948 Halesapoppin! (TV Movie)
  1948 My Brother Jonathan - Young Girl
  1948 Between Ourselves (TV Movie)

  Trivia (7)

  Appeared on stage in the musical production of "Into the Woods" in 1990.

  Her daughter Kate Gayson later appeared as an extra in the '007' film GoldenEye (1995).

  Initially cast as "Miss Moneypenny" (the role ended up going to Lois Maxwell) at the beginning of the James Bond film series, she instead was given the part of seductive "Sylvia Trench" which was to be a recurring role as well. She has the distinction of appearing in the opening casino scene with Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), in which she says, "I admire your luck, Mr..." and Connery says, "Bond. James Bond". Her part was cut after the second movie, From Russia with Love (1963).

  Originally trained as an opera singer, before entering films.

  She was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962).

  Appeared on stage in London for many years playing The Baroness in "The Sound of Music" at the Palace Theatre.

  For a long time, she was the only non-'MI6' actress to play the same character in more than one James Bond film until Léa Seydoux played the same character in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Three classic Aston Martin automobiles come available for viewing at the London Concours, Honourable Artillery Company’s HQ, London.

  

  Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Trio –
  Coupe, Convertible and Shooting
  Brake – up for sale
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.carsuk.net/aston-martin-db5-vantage-trio-coupe-convertible-and-shooting-brake-up-for-sale/

  June 4, 2021 By Cars UK

  

  Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Icons Collection

  
  A trio of Aston Martin DB5s – a Coupe, Convertible and Shooting Brake – is up for sale with a price tag of £4 million.
  
  The Aston Martin DB5 is forever imprinted in our brains as the ultimate Aston Martin, driven by James Bond and the coolest car on the planet.
  
  Aston Martin only ever built just of 1,000 DB5s, and if you want one with ‘Bond’ history you’ll be digging deep – a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sold in 2019 for £5.25 million – and even the James Bond DB5 ‘Continuation’ models – which you can’t use on the road – will cost you £3.3 million.
  
  But if you can live without the Bond connection, then the chance has arisen to buy what is perhaps the ultimate DB5 collection, a trio of DB5s with a Coupe, Convertible and Shooting Brake all for less than a Bond DB5 – a mere £4,000,000.
  
  Not only is this collection of DB5s rare, but it’s made rarer still as all are Vantage models of which fewer than 70 were ever built – and the DB5 Vantage Shooting Brake is the only one ever built, complete with Radford aluminium body.
  
  Each of the three has been restored by a leading Aston Martin specialists and comes with BMHIT certificate, maintenance records, ownership documents and history files.
  
  If you have a hankering for this unique collection you can see it at the London Concours starting on 8 June at the Honourable Artillery Company’s HQ in the City of London.
  
  Offered by Nicholas Mee, founder Nicholas Mee said:

  "In the 40 or more years I have been dealing in Aston Martin
  cars, I have never been more excited than to offer this
  fabulous collection of Iconic DB5 Vantages. Each one of
  them extremely rare, they are all in a beautifully restored
  condition and we are delighted to bring to market, this
  once in a lifetime opportunity for a collector to invest in this
  unique DB5 Vantage collection."

  Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Icons Collection Video
  
  

  
  2025: World Gin Day. For the World.

  
  
  

  

  
  

  GIN – THE RISING STAR OF THE SPIRIT WORLD!
  https://www.pandorainn.com/gin-the-rising-star-of-the-spirit-world/
  It’s hard to believe that, until a few years ago, gin was considered old-fashioned. A pink gin or a G&T were definitely the drinks of the older generation. Then suddenly – gin was in! Artisan gin producers started springing up everywhere and pubs, like ours, began stocking lots of different brands, quite a few of them locally produced.
  • Though James Bond’s famous “shaken, not stirred” line is probably the most remembered Martini quote in the world, the majority of bartenders disagree and would recommend a stirred Martini instead, as shaking prompts too much dilution.
  • Most authorities seem to agree that Gin is English – not Dutch. Genever, a malted spirit that more like a light whisky with juniper, is Netherlands’ version. Gin, as we know it, was developed in London and is a unique and much purer spirit.
  • Gin was born around 1689. The earliest known food pairing occurred in 1731: gingerbread!
  • By 1726, London had 1,500 working stills and there were 6,287 places where you could buy gin.
  • Gin’s primary flavour is the sweet pine and soft citrus of the juniper berry. All other botanicals are added to highlight nuances of this complex and sophisticated flavour.
  • The gin and tonic first gained popularity in the British colonies, as the quinine in the tonic water was an effective deterrent to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. However, the bitterness of the quinine was awful, so gin was added to make the drink taste better.
  • Though James Bond’s famous “shaken, not stirred” line is probably the most remembered Martini quote in the world, the majority of bartenders disagree and would recommend a stirred Martini instead, as shaking prompts too much dilution.
  • Gin’s primary flavour is the sweet pine and soft citrus of the juniper berry. All other botanicals are added to highlight the nuances of this complex and sophisticated flavour.

  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 8 Posts: 14,499

  June 9th
  
  1917: The Roll of Honour in The Illustrated London News recognizes Valentine Fleming.

  

  Valentine Fleming's Eulogy by Winston Churchill Known at: May 1917

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2483530

  AN APPRECIATION
  ‘W. S. C.’ writes of the death of Major Valentine Fleming, M.P., who,
  as announced in The Times on Wednesday, was killed in action:-

  This news will cause sorrow in Oxfordshire and in the House of Commons and wherever the member of the Henley Division was well known. Valentine Fleming was one of those younger Conservatives who easily and naturally combine loyalty to party ties with a broad liberal outlook upon affairs and a total absence of class prejudice.
  
  He was most earnest and sincere in his desire to make things better for the great body of the people, and had cleared his mind of all particularist tendencies. He was a man of thoughtful and tolerant opinions, which were not the less strongly or clearly held because they were not loudly or frequently asserted.
  
  He shared the hopes to which so many of his generation respond of a better, fairer, more efficient public life and Parliamentary system arising out of these trials. But events have pursued a different course.
  
  As a Yeomanry officer he always took the greatest pains to fit himself for military duties. There was scarcely an instructional course open before the war to the Territorial Forces of which he had not availed himself, and on mobilization there were few more competent civilian soldiers of his rank. The Oxfordshire Hussars were the first or almost the first Yeomanry regiment to come under the fire of the enemy, and in the first battle of Ypres acquitted themselves with credit.
  
  He had been nearly three years in France, as squadron leader or second in command, and had been twice mentioned in dispatches, before the shell which ended his life found him. From the beginning his letters showed the deep emotions which the devastation and carnage of the struggle aroused in his breast.
  
  But the strength and buoyancy of his nature were proofs against the sombre realizations of his mind. He never for a moment flagged or wearied or lost his spirits. Alert, methodical, resolute, untiring he did his work, whether perilous or dull, without the slightest sign of strain or stress to the end. ‘We all of us,’ writes a brother officer, ‘were devoted to him.
  
  The loss to the regiment is indescribable. He was, as you know, absolutely our best officer, utterly fearless, full of resource, and perfectly magnificent with his men.’ His passion in sport was deer stalking in his much-loved native Scotland. He rode well and sometimes brilliantly to hounds, and was always a gay and excellent companion.
  
  He had everything in the world to make him happy; a delightful home life, active interesting expanding business occupations, contented disposition, a lovable and charming personality. He had more. He had that foundation of spontaneous and almost unconscious self-suppression in the discharge of what he conceived to be his duty without which happiness, however full, is precarious and imperfect. That these qualities are not singular in this generation does not lessen the loss of those in whom they shine.
  
  As the war lengthens and intensifies and the extending lists appear, it seems as if one watched at night a well-loved city whose lights, which burn so bright, which burn so true, are extinguished in the distance in the darkness one by one.

  Published in The Times, United Kingdom

  
  

  
  1934: Donald Duck debuts in the Disney cartoon short “The Wise Little Hen”.

  The Wise Little Hen
  

  
  1963: Director Terence Young hosts a party with guest of honor Pedro Armendáriz.
  1967: Reprise Records releases the Nancy Sinatra single "You Only Live Twice."
  1967: The NBC-TV special Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond airs.

  
  
  Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond - TV Special 1967 (50:02)
  
  
  http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Japan,_Mr._Bond
  
  

  
  1972: Tom Mankiewicz submits his first draft of the Live and Let Die screenplay.
  1973: The "Live and Let Die" single by Paul McCartney and Wings enters the UK singles chart.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films action in the parking garage.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough films Desmond Llewelyn's last scene as Q.
  
  2009: Media speculation on BOND 23 locations runs to Afghanistan and drug capers.
  
  2015: A Spectre TV spot during Game 3 of the NBA finals (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors) reveals new footage.

  SPECTRE TV Spot 01 (NBA Finals)
  

  2016: An event celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Buckinghamshire.
  In attendance are The Royals, Sir Roger Moore, Dame Judi Dench, Michael G. Wilson C.B.E.

  

  
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Agent of SPECTRE #4.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: AGENT OF
  SPECTRE #4

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383704011
  Cover A: Butch Guice
  UPC: 725130303837 04011
  Writer: Christos Gage
  Artist: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: June 2021
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 6/9/2021

  It's all-out action in Athens, Greece as Bond and Blofeld's tenuous alliance is tested under fire! Can they survive the mountainside attack by upstart SPECTRE member Titania Jones...and can they survive each other? The double-crosses and triple-crosses hurtle toward a shocking and explosive conclusion in this penultimate issue!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Taryn Simon exhibit “Birds of the West Indies” at the Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York.

  

  Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/taryn_simon_birds_of_the_west_indies

  Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”
  Exhibits | For the Birds
  June 7–October 23, 2022
  Conservatory Gallery
  
  In “Birds of the West Indies,” which takes its title from a taxonomy by American ornithologist James Bond, Taryn Simon identifies, photographs, and classifies every bird that appears in the first 24 James Bond films. Casting herself as Bond the ornithologist, Simon trains her eye away from the agents of seduction—luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins.

  
  26 images in a matted frame, each with a label
  Taryn Simon, “United Kingdom, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014.
  Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 39⅞ × 94⅞ inches.
  Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.
  
  7 images with labels elegantly framed with a matte
  Taryn Simon, “Morocco, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014.
  Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 26⅞ × 33⅞ inches.
  Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

  About the Work
  In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous… a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative. Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work, “Birds of the West Indies.”
  
  In “Birds of the West Indies,” Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the first 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.
  
  Each bird is classified by the time code of its appearance, its location, and the year in which it flew. The taxonomy is organized by country: some locations correspond to nations we acknowledge on our maps, including Switzerland, Afghanistan, and North Korea, while others exist solely in the fictionalized rendering of James Bond’s missions, including Republic of Isthmus, San Monique, and SPECTRE Island.
  
  Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. The birds flew freely in the background of the background, unnoticed or unrecognized until they were catalogued by Simon. Sometimes indecipherable specks hovering in the sky or perched on a building, these birds will never know, nor care, about their fame. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, they are frozen in compositions reminiscent of genres from photographic history. Some appear as perfected and constructed still lifes while others have a snapshot quality. Many appear in an obscured, low-resolution form, as if they had been photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras. These visual variations are also affected by feature film’s evolution from 35 mm to high-resolution digital output.
  
  Simon’s taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality. Bird study skins, correspondence, awards, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist have been collected by Simon and are displayed in vitrines alongside the photographic works. These artifacts present remnants of the real-life James Bond in his parallel existence to the fictional spy who took his name.

  

  
  
  2023: National Donald Duck Day in the US.

  https://nationaltoday.com/national-donald-duck-day/
  
  

  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 9 Posts: 14,499

  June 10th
  
  1906: Ivar Felix Charles Bryce is born--London, England.
  (He dies 27 April 1985 at age 78--Birdbrook, Braintree District, Essex, England.)

  

  Ivar Bryce

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbryceI.htm

  Ivar Bryce was born in 1906. His father had made a fortune trading guano, the phosphate-rich deposit of fish-eating seabirds which had been widely used as a natural fertilizer. His mother was a painter and a published author of detective novels.
  
  In 1917 Bryce met Ian Fleming and his brothers on a beach in Cornwall: "The fortress builders generously invited me to join them, and I discovered that their names were Peter, Ian, Richard and Michael, in that order. The leaders were Ian and Peter, and I gladly carried out their exact and exacting orders. They were natural leaders of men, both of them, as later history was to prove, and it speaks well for them all that there was room for both Peter and Ian in the platoon."
  
  Bryce was sent to Eton College where he resumed his friendship with Fleming. Bryce purchased a Douglas motorbike and used this vehicle for trips around Windsor. He also took Fleming on the bike to visit the British Empire Exhibition in London. They also published a magazine, The Wyvern, together. Fleming used mother's contacts to persuade Augustus John and Edwin Lutyens, to contribute drawings. The magazine also published a poem by Vita Sackville-West. The editors showed their right-wing opinions by publishing an article in praise of the British Fascisti Party. It argued that its "primary intention is to counteract the present and every-growning trend towards revolution... it is of the utmost importance that centres should be started in the universities and in our public schools".

  During the Second World War Bryce worked for William Stephenson, the head of British Security Coordination (BSC), a unit that was based in New York City. According to Thomas E. Mahl, the author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44 (1998): "Bryce worked in the Latin American affairs section of the BSC, which was run by Dickie Coit (known in the office as Coitis Interruptus). Because there was little evidence of the German plot to take over Latin America, Ivar found it difficult to excite Americans about the threat."
  
  Nicholas J. Cull, the author of Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American Neutrality (1996), has argued: "During the summer of 1941, he (Bryce) became eager to awaken the United States to the Nazi threat in South America." It was especially important for the British Security Coordination to undermine the propaganda of the American First Committee that had over a million paid-up members. Bryce recalls in his autobiography, You Only Live Once (1975): "Sketching out trial maps of the possible changes, on my blotter, I came up with one showing the probable reallocation of territories that would appeal to Berlin. It was very convincing: the more I studied it the more sense it made... were a genuine German map of this kind to be discovered and publicised among... the American Firsters, what a commotion would be caused."
  
  William Stephenson approved the idea and the project was handed over to Station M, the phony document factory in Toronto run by Eric Maschwitz, of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It took them only 48 hours to produce "a map, slightly travel-stained with use, but on which the Reich's chief map makers... would be prepared to swear was made by them." Stephenson now arranged for the FBI to find the map during a raid on a German safe-house on the south coast of Cuba. J. Edgar Hoover handed the map over to William Donovan. His executive assistant, James R. Murphy, delivered the map to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The historian, Thomas E. Mahl argues that "as a result of this document Congress dismantled the last of the neutrality legislation."

  
  Ivar Bryce

  Nicholas J. Cull has argued that Roosevelt should not have realised it was a forgery. He points out that Adolf A. Berle, the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, had already warned Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State that "British intelligence has been very active in making things appear dangerous in South America. We have to be a little on our guard against false scares."
  
  Bryce wrote to Walter Lippmann in March 1942. He sent him a book by Hugo Artuco Fernandez that had been written at the behest of British intelligence. "I am sending you a copy of my friend Artuco's book, which I think will interest you... Some of it sounds rather alarming and exaggerated but it is much more accurate than most books on South America.... If you felt at all inclined to write anything about the dangers to South America, I could give you any number of facts which have never been published, but which my friends here would like to see judiciously made public at this point."

  Bryce was based in Jamaica (his wife Sheila, owned Bellevue, one of the most important houses on the island), during the Second World War, where he ran dangerous missions into Latin America. Ian Fleming, who was personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence, visited Bryce in 1941. Fleming told him that: "When we have won this blasted war, I am going to live in Jamaica. Just live in Jamaica and lap it up, and swim in the sea and write books."
  
  In 1945 Bryce helped Fleming find a house and twelve acres of land just outside of Oracabessa. It included a strip of white sand on a lovely part of the coast. Fleming decided to call the house, Goldeneye, after his wartime project in Spain, Operation Goldeneye. Their former boss, William Stephenson, also had a house on the island overlooking Montego Bay. Stephenson had set up the British-American-Canadian-Corporation (later called the World Commerce Corporation), a secret service front company which specialized in trading goods with developing countries. William Torbitt has claimed that it was "originally designed to fill the void left by the break-up of the big German cartels which Stephenson himself had done much to destroy."

  In 1950 Bryce married Josephine Hartford. Her grandfather, George Huntington Hartford, was the founder of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Josephine was the daughter of Princess Guido Pignatelli and Edward V. Hartford, who was an inventor and president of the Hartford Shock Absorber Company. A former concert pianist she was one of the leading racehorse owners in the United States.

  Bryce joined with Ernest Cuneo and a group of investors, including Ian Fleming, to gain control of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Andrew Lycett has pointed out: "With the arrival of television, its star had begun to wane. Advised by Ernie Cuneo, who told him it was a sure way to meet anyone he wanted, Ivar stepped in and bought control. He appointed the shrewd Cuneo to oversee the American end of things... and Fleming was brought on board to offer a professional newspaperman's advice." Fleming was appointed European vice-president, with a salary of £1,500 a year. He persuaded James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, that The Sunday Times should work closely with NANA. He also organized a deal with The Daily Express, owned by Lord Beaverbrook.
  
  Bryce became a film producer and helped to finance The Boy and the Bridge (1959). The film lost money but Bryce decided he wanted to work with its director, Kevin McClory, again and it was suggested that they created a company, Xanadu Films. Josephine Hartford, Ernest Cuneo and Ian Fleming became involved in the project. It was agreed that they would make a movie featuring Fleming's character, James Bond.
  
  The first draft of the script was written by Cuneo. It was called Thunderball and it was sent to Fleming on 28th May. Fleming described it as "first class" with "just the right degree of fantasy". However, he suggested that it was unwise to target the Russians as villains because he thought it possible that the Cold War could be finished by the time the film had been completed. He suggested that Bond should confront SPECTRE, an acronym for the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revolution and Espionage. Fleming eventually expanded his observations into a 67-page film treatment. Kevin McClory now employed Jack Whittingham to write a script based on Fleming's ideas.
  
  The Boy and the Bridge was a flop at the box-office and Bryce, on the recommendation of Ernest Cuneo, decided to pull-out of the James Bond film project. McClory refused to accept this decision and on 15th February, 1960, he submitted another version of the Thunderball script by Whittingham. Fleming read the script and incorporated some of the Whittingham's ideas, for example, the airborne hijack of the bomb, into the latest Bond book he was writing. When it was published in 1961, McClory claimed that he discovered eighteen instances where Fleming had drawn on the script to "build up the plot".
  
  President John F. Kennedy was a fan of Fleming's books. In March 1961, Hugh Sidey, published an article in Life Magazine, on President Kennedy's top ten favourite books. It was a list designed to show that Kennedy was both well-read and in tune with popular taste. It included Fleming's From Russia With Love. Up until this time, Fleming's books had not sold well in the United States, but with Kennedy's endorsement, his publishers decided to mount a major advertising campaign to promote his books. By the end of the year Fleming had become the largest-selling thriller writer in the United States.
  
  This publicity resulted in Fleming signed a film deal with the producers, Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, in June 1961. Dr No, starring Sean Connery, opened in the autumn of 1962 and was an immediate box-office success. As soon as it was released Kennedy demanded a showing in his private cinema in the White House.
  
  Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham became angry at the success of the James Bond film and believed that Bryce, Ian Fleming and Ernest Cuneo had cheated them out of making a profit out of their proposed Thunderball film. The case appeared before the High Court on 20th November 1963. Three days into the case, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. McClory's solicitor, Peter Carter-Ruck, later recalled: "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat dramatically adjourned after leading counsel on both sides had seen the judge in his private rooms." Bryce agreed to pay the costs, and undisclosed damages. McClory was awarded all literary and film rights in the screenplay and Fleming was forced to acknowledge that his novel was "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author."
  
  Fleming encouraged Bryce to write his memoirs and gave him some advice on how to deal with the process. "You will be constantly depressed by the progress of the opus and feel it is all nonsense and that nobody will be interested. Those are the moments when you must all the more obstinately stick to your schedule and do your daily stint... Never mind about the brilliant phrase or the golden word, once the typescript is there you can fiddle, correct and embellish as much as you please. So don't be depressed if the first draft seems a bit raw, all first drafts do. Try and remember the weather and smells and sensations and pile in every kind of contemporary detail. Don't let anyone see the manuscript until you are very well on with it and above all don't allow anything to interfere with your routine. Don't worry about what you put in, it can always be cut out on re-reading; it's the total recall that matters." Bryce's autobiography, You Only Live Once, was published in 1975.

  Ivar Bryce died in 1985.

  
  Trivia

  His wife Jo had a mansion on the New York / Vermont border which is the setting for two of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, "For Your Eyes Only" and "The Spy Who Loved Me".

  The Diamonds Are Forever James Bond novel is co-dedicated to Ivar Bryce (as "i.f.c.b") along with two other friends of Ian Fleming.

  After Ian Fleming visited Jamaica in 1944 and decided he wanted to live there, Bryce home-hunted the island to find him a residence and discovered "Goldeneye" for him.

  Ian Fleming named his James Bond character's CIA agent friend after Ivar Bryce's middle name, Felix. His surname was named after another of Fleming's friends, Tommy Leiter.

  Is played by actor Patrick Ryecart in Goldeneye (1989).

  Was involved in the early stages of the development of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).

  He was married to A&P Supermarket heir Huntington Hartford's sister, Josephine Hartford. Huntington Hartford was the original owner and developer of Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

  Bryce and Fleming leave court after settling with McClory.
  
  

  
  1937: Luciana Paluzzi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  
  1972: Comic strip Trouble Spot ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 28 December 1971. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/
  
  
  
  http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html
  
  
  http://parttimefanboy.com/?p=667
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_ts_review.php3
  
  
  https://books.apple.com/ec/book/james-bond-and-trouble-spot/id1108333542?l=en

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3?s=comics&id=02181

  Dödligt Budskap (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

  Dödligt Budskap (Trouble Spot)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 27: “Trouble Spot” (1974)
  "Dræbende budskab"
  
  

  
  

  
  1983: EON releases Octopussy in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1983: Vincent Canby reviews Octopussy in The New York Times.

  

  JAMES BOND MEETS 'OCTOPUSSY'

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  Octopussy
  Directed by John Glen
  Action, Adventure, Thriller
  PG | 2h 11m

  By Vincent Canby | June 10, 1983
  Credit...The New York Times Archives
  
  LET'S face it: the sensationally successful and long-lived James Bond films will not quit, and for good reason. They are ''Star Wars'' fantasies for the middle-aged of all ages. ''Octopussy,'' the 13th in the series that began with ''Dr. No'' in 1961, is actually better than most.
  
  The film, which opens today at the National and other theaters, makes no pretense of being based on anything except the Ian Fleming character and the high good humor and wit of the film makers. Agent 007 faces a succession of unspeakable dangers and obliging women with the absurdly overstated, indefatigable waggishness that has outlived all imitations. Roger Moore, who plays Bond yet again, is not getting any younger, but neither is the character. The two have grown gracefully indivisible.
  
  Much of the story is incomprehensible, but I'm sure that the characters include a crazy Soviet general (Steven Berkoff), who is as feared by the Russians as by the Allies; a decadent Afghan prince (Louis Jourdan), who gambles with loaded dice and would not hesitate to blow up the world for personal profit, and the glamorous tycoon of the film's title (Maud Adams), who lives in a lake palace in Udaipur, India, from which she runs an international business empire of hotels, airlines and an East German circus.
  
  The point of any Bond adventure is its incredible gadgets - this film includes a virtually pocket-size jet plane - and the variations worked on the chases, sequences that, like great vaudeville gags, build from one surprise to the next to discover the unexpected topper. In ''Octopussy'' the best of these are a hilarious, precredit sequence in which Bond flees Cuba, another in India where Bond finds himself in league with a tiger in the course of an unusual ''shoot'' and one across East Germany involving an automobile, a circus train and an atomic bomb.
  
  George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson are responsible for the story and screenplay, which was directed by John Glen, who does much better than he did with ''For Your Eyes Only.'' However, the material is markedly better, and the budget seems noticeably larger. Peter Lamont's production design is both extravagant and funny.
  
  ''Octopussy,'' which has been rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''), includes a lot of low-voltage sexual hanky-panky and some scenes of mayhem that are more picturesque than realistically violent. Vincent Canby
  
  Palace Life in India

  OCTOPUSSY, directed by John Glen; screen story and screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser and Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson; director of photography, Alan Hume; edited by Peter Davies and Henry Richardson; music by John Barry; produced by Albert R. Broccoli; released by M-G-M/U.A. Entertainment Corpora- tion. At the National 2, Broadway and 44th Street; Gemini 1 and 2, 64th Street and Second Avenue; 86th Street Twin 2, at Lexington Avenue; New Yorker 2, Broadway and 88th Street; Bay Cinema, Second Avenue and 31st Street and other theaters. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG.
  
  James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
  Octopussy . . . . . Maud Adams
  Kamal . . . . . Louis Jourdan
  Magda . . . . . Kristina Wayborn
  Gobinda . . . . . Kabir Bedi
  Orlov . . . . . Steven Berkoff
  Twin One . . . . . David Meyer
  Twin Two . . . . . Tony Meyer
  Vijay . . . . . Vijay Amritraj
  Q . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
  M . . . . . Robert Brown
  Gogol . . . . . Walter Gotell
  Minister of Defense . . . . . Geoffrey Keen
  Gwendoline . . . . . Suzanne Jerome

  

  1985: Lawrence O'Toole reviews A View to a Kill in Maclean's. He likes it.

  

  The chivalrous knight of old
  A VIEW TO A KILL Directed by John Glen

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  June 10 1985 LAWRENCE O’TOOLE
  
  A VIEW TO A KILL Directed by John Glen
  
  Of all the modern formulas in the movie industry, the James Bond series is among the most pleasurable and durable. Lavish with their budgets, the producers also bring a great deal of craft, wit and a sense of fun to the films. Agent 007 is like an old friend whom an audience meets for drinks every two years or so; he regales them with tall tales, winking all the time. The 15th and newest Bond epic, A View to a Kill, is an especially satisfying encounter. As Bond, Roger Moore takes on a brilliant but psychotic Russian named Zorin (Christopher Walken) and his lethal assistant, May Day, played by the astonishingly muscular and sleek Grace Jones. The villain’s plan, as in most Bond films, is nothing less ambitious than the takeover of the world, which he plans to do by controlling the international microchip market. Because 80 per cent of the world’s microchip production comes from California’s Silicon Valley, Zorin simply has to close up the San Andreas Fault with an explosion and bury the valley under a massive flood.
  
  Opening with a breathtaking ski chase in Siberia, A View to a Kill is the fastest Bond picture yet. Its pace has the precision of a Swiss watch and the momentum of a greyhound on the track. There is a spectacular chase up and down the Eiffel Tower and through Paris streets, which Bond finishes in a severed car on just two wheels. But none of the action prepares the viewer for the heart-stopping climax with Zorin’s dirigible tangled in the cables on top of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. For all its similarities to earlier episodes—deadly villains and gorgeous women—A View to a Kill is a little different. It is less gadget-ridden, and Bond relies more on old-fashioned know-how: trapped underwater in a car, he escapes and breathes through the tire valve while waiting for his would-be assassins to leave. The world’s technological advances have caught up with Bond, but they never render him obsolete.
  
  The Bond movies operate on a level much deeper than their dazzling surfaces: they represent assurance in a world laden with global anxiety. And not only does goodness win out, it does so with style and humor. The movies are fantasies of idealism in which even the hero’s sins are turned into delicious double entendres. “Did you sleep well?” asks Zorin. “A little restlessly,” replies Bond after a night in May Day’s arms. “But I finally got off.” Their comic-book characters, the good ones that is, are especially alluring—dashing, talented and impervious to danger. Most of all, Bond is a gentleman—a chivalrous knight who has time-travelled. When he saves the “good girl” of A View to a Kill and holds her in his arms on top of the Golden Gate, it is a sublime romantic gesture. It is true that Roger Moore is showing his age (57) in the role, but there are plenty of tunes left in his violin. James Bond is still a virtuoso, with a licence to thrill.
  
  LAWRENCE O’TOOLE

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies completes filming scenes with Paris Carver.
  Actress Teri Hatcher was three months pregnant at the time.

  
  
  

  
  2011: Orion re-releases the fourteen John Gardner Bond novels in the UK. Plus two novelizations.

  
  
  

  
  2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5.

  

  Comic Book Preview – James Bond #5
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/06/comic-book-preview-james-bond-5/

  June 10, 2020 by Gary Collinson
  
  Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 this coming Wednesday; check out a preview of the issue here…

  Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.
  
  By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D’URSO (Captain Marvel).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1959: An article in The Daily Express proposes a Bond film production headed by Kevin McClory favors Trevor Howard as OO7. And that Fleming prefers Peter Finch.

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  1963: From Russia With Love films the gypsy camp action.
  1964: 鐵金剛勇破 間諜網 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò jiàndié wǎng, or Iron King Spynet) released in Hong Kong.

  

  
  1989: Trevor Leighton photographs Timothy Dalton.

  

  
  2009: Announcements say BOND 23 writers include Peter Morgan working with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade.
  
  2018: Anthony Horowitz promotes his Bond novel Forever and a Day at Waterstones Edinburgh.

  Event schedule for Forever and a Day with author Anthony Horowitz:
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/forever_and_a_day_signing_event_schedule
  
  • Waterstones Glasgow Lunchtime signing (11 June)
  • Waterstones Edinburgh (11 June)
  • Waterstones Manchester (12 June)
  • Waterstones Reading (13 June)
  • Waterstones Brighton (14 June)
  • Chiswick Book Festival (15 September)
  • Appledore Literary Festival (22 September)
  • Henley Literary Festival (3 October)
  • Cheltenham Literature Festival (6 October)

  

  
  2021: Summer season begins for James Bond World in Sölden.

  
  James Bond Cinematic Installation
  007 ELEMENTS

  James Bond World in
  Sölden

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  https://007elements.soelden.com/home.html

  007 ELEMENTS is a world-first — a cinematic installation dedicated to the world of
  James Bond.
  
  The name 007 ELEMENTS reflects the visitor journey through a series of galleries, each distilling the craft of the signature elements that define a James Bond film. The installation focusses on Spectre, which was shot in Sölden and also features other titles in the long-running Bond film franchise.
  
  007 ELEMENTS guides visitors on a journey through a series of high-tech, interactive galleries, each distilling the craft of the signature elements that define a James Bond film — the beautiful title sequences and dramatic scores; the jaw-dropping action sequences; the cars, gadgets and technology; the breath-taking locations and iconic studio sets and lastly, a host of compelling characters.

  Summer Season starts on Friday, 11. June 2021.
  
  Open daily 9.00am - 4.30pm.
  (Closing day every Monday until 21.06. & from 06.09.)

  
  
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  007 Elements Opening - James Bond Kinoinstallation am Gaislachkogl / Sölden
  
  

  2021: Gourmet restaurant ice Q opens for the season in Sölden, Tyrol.

  

  

  Gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, Tyrol
  SOPHISTICATED GOURMET DELIGHTS & GREAT MOMENTS

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  https://www.iceq.at/en/

  Welcome at Austria’s highest located toque-rated gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, 3,048 metres above sea level. Surrounded by over 250 superb three-thousand metre mountains. Where freedom reaches for the stars. Where the skies are so close that you want to touch them. At the spectacular shooting location for the James Bond SPECTRE movie.
  
  Where sophisticated gourmet delights combine with fine wines and dreamy panoramas to create one exceptional symbiosis. In the ice Q gourmet restaurant and in the ice Q Wine & Tapas Lounge, which has a panorama terrace, you get to re-experience what is unique.
  
  In the mountain restaurant ice Q in Sölden – belonging to the 5-star hotel “Das Central” and awarded 2020 by Gault Millau with 2 toques – you get to feel life with all your senses. Right at the Gaislachkoglbahn in Sölden. For the most exclusive break in the Austrian Alps.

  Opening hours - summer 2021

  ice Q GOURMETRESTAURANT

  • 11 June 2021 until 03 October 2021
  • CLOSED: Monday 14 June I Monday 21 June I from 6 September every Monday!
  • Open from 9 am to 4 pm
  • Warm meals served from 11.30 am to 3 pm

  

  CONTACT & RESERVATIONS
  Phone: 0043 664 96 09 368
  E-Mail: [email protected]

  

  LOCATION & GETTING HERE
  Right next to the mountain station of the Gaislachkogl cable car in Sölden. Car parking available at the valley station of the Gaislachkogl cable car.
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  Cable car ride (return-trip) is included in the Ötztal Inside Summer Card.

  

  
  2023: The Music of James Bond at Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  

  

  The Music of James Bond

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  https://www.usherhall.co.uk/whats-on/music-james-bond

  7:30pm, Sun 11 Jun 2023

  This celebratory concert will take you on a journey not to be forgotten and is licensed to thrill! Showcasing the best Bond themes and songs from across the last six decades, it is set to be a great evening. Featuring the sensational International Film Orchestra and two exceptional vocalists, nobody does this better! Guaranteed to leave you shaken and stirred!
  
  Matthew Hopkins– Conductor
  Paul Pashley and Louise Dearman – Vocalists
  
  PROGRAMME
  Includes the iconic James Bond theme, plus songs from:
  

  • You Only Live Twice
  • GoldenEye
  • Live and Let Die
  • From Russia With Love
  • Quantum of Solace
  • The World Is Not Enough
  • Goldfinger
  • A View To a Kill
  • Thunderball
  • Skyfall
  • For Your Eyes Only
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
  • Moonraker
  • The Living Daylights
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Spectre
  • Licence To Kill
  • Diamonds are Forever

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  £38.50 | £35.75 | £30.25 - includes the 10% b/fee
  
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  Venue:
  Usher Hall
  Categories: Film/Music Light Entertainment
  Door time: 6:30pm
  
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  2023: Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe “Casino Royale－My Name’s Bond” live and re-streaming.

  

  

  Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe
  “Casino Royale －My Name’s Bond－”
  

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  Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe
  
  Event Schedule
  11. Jun. 2023. 13:30 (KST)
  
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  “Casino Royale ~My name is Bond~” written and directed by Shuichiro Koike is a work that describes the hidden conspiracy in the background of a gorgeous casino.
  The cold and strong Suzuho Makaze as James Bond, and the gorgeous and romantic musical stage productions unique to Takarazuka Revue. You can enjoy all these by watching on Beyond LIVE.
  
  This last performance at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater in Tokyo will be the last stage of the top pair Suzuho Makaze and Hana Jun who left the Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe.

  【What is Takarazuka Revue?】
  Takarazuka Revue is an all-female revue troupe with a history of more than 100 years.
  There are five troupes: Flower, Moon, Snow, Star, and Cosmos. They perform throughout the year in various locations in Japan, mainly in two dedicated theaters.
  
  Most of the performances consist of a musical play and a dance show. Takarazuka Revue perform a wide range of genres, including original works by Takarazuka's in-house director, works based on manga, movies, literature, and foreign musicals, as well as re-performances of popular plays.
  
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  2023: James Bond Outdoor Movie Series screens On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Hemisfair, San Antonio, Texas.

  

  

  James Bond Outdoor Movie Series

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  https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/calendars/?nav=false#!/details/James-Bond-Outdoor-Movie-Series/10430418/2022-06-25T20

  Saturday, June 25, 2022 , 8:00pm-10:00pm
  
  Location
  Hemisfair
  434 S Alamo St
  San Antonio, TX
  (210) 709-4750

  Description
  Outdoor movies shaken, not stirred, featuring one film from each actor who has played James Bond. Movie at dusk. Bring picnics, lawn chairs and blankets! Hosted by Slab Cinema.

  June 4 – Dr. No
  June 11 – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
  June 18 – The Spy Who Loved me
  June 25 – The Living Daylights
  July 2 – Golden Eye
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  1914: William Lundigan is born--Syracuse, New York.
  (He dies 20 December 1975--Duarte, California.)

  

  William Lundigan,Actor,Dead; Made
  125 Films Over 38 Years

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/22/archives/william-lundigan-actor-dead-made-125-films-over-38-years.html

  
  December 22, 1975, Page 31
  
  William Lundigan, who appeared in more than 125 films during his 38‐year career in Hollywood, died yesterday after a long illness in the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was 61 years old and lived in West Los Angeles.
  
  Despite his active career in Hollywood, in which he appeared in an average a more than three films a year, including a handful of starring roles, critical acclaim largely eluded the lean, sandy‐haired, blue‐eyed actor.
  
  A Critic's Description
  A critic for The New York Times wrote 25 years ago, “He is more suggestive of a prep school football “coach abruptly plunked down in the middle of the Rose Bowl, in the pink, but dot quite seasoned to the shouting.”
  
  In the 1940's and 50's, Mr. Lundigan played the male counterpart to the‐girl‐nextdoor, a role that, brought stardom to such actresses as Susan Haywood, Dorothy McGuire, Jane Greer and Jeanne Crain, all of whom he appeared with.
  
  In 1951, after he appeared opposite Miss Haywood in “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain,” the story of a Methodist circuit rider in the hills of Georgia, Mr. Lundigan described his first years in Hollywood.
  
  After he signed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1937, “nothing much happened,” he said in an interview.
  
  “I was at Warners and Metro for two years each in pictures like ‘Dodge City,’ The Fighting Sixty‐ninth’ and ‘The Old Maid.’
  
  “I was always turning, up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut—that old bugaboo, type‐casting —and made one quickie after another.”
  
  Mr. Lundigan was born in Syracuse, where he worked as a salesman in his father's shoe store. The elder Mr. Lundigan also owned the building that housed the local radio station, WFBL, and the actor‐to‐be often filled in as an announcer between stints as a pre‐law student at Syracuse University.
  
  After 13 years as an announcer, Mr. Lundigan was heard by a visiting film man, who was impressed by his. crisp, resonant bass voice. He was sent to a movie studio in Astoria, Queens, for a screen test and soon he was in Hollywood.
  
  “In, but not inside,” he was to recall years later.
  
  After making “Salute to the Marines,” in 1942, he was drafted into the Marines and served two and one‐half years, mainly with the First Division in the**
  
  Pacific. With Hedy Lamarr
  
  After the war, the, actor tried freelancing, with little success. The one exception was 11 supporting role in “Dishonored Lady,” with Hedy Lamarr and his good friend, Dennis O'Keefe, with whom he often went duck hunting.
  
  Two years later. Mr. Lundigan was cast at the Elia Kazan film “Pinky,” starring Jeanne Crain. Other films include “The Man Who Talked Too Much,” “The Case of the Black Parrott,” “Sunday Punch,” “The Fabulous Dorseys” and “Mother Didn't Tell Me.”

  Mr. Lundigan was later host for the television series “Climax” and “Shower of the Stars.”

  He leaves his wife, the former Rena Morgan; a daughter, Anastacia, and two brothers, Robert and John.

  

  William Lundigan (1914–1975)

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  1927: Yaroslav Horak is born--Harbin, Manchuria.
  (He dies 24 November 2020 at age 93--Sydney, Australia.)

  

  In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
  Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://downthetubes.net/?p=123513&fbclid=IwAR2OztK1Hj9eCj16H9EVQrZag8EkYebdcpRSqcU9hC89hhm5JsT_La3IpR4

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2020
  
  We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
  
  Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.

  
  James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun

  Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.
  
  In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.
  
  He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.
  
  (Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).

  
  Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press

  Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.
  
  Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.
  
  Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.

  

  Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

  Between 1963 and 1966, he also drew stories for Fleetway’s War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library, before replacing John McLusky on the James Bond newspaper strip, at the suggestion of writer Peter O’Donnell, drawing some 33 adventures starring the secret agent between 1966 and 1984.
  
  Horak’s take on the secret agent resembled Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, long before either actor took up the role on the big screen.
  
  He first drew adaptations of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity, and The Living Daylights, followed by an adaptation of Colonel Sun (the Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis).
  
  It was Horak’s acclaimed adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun, published between January 1966 and September 1966, that led to writer Jim Lawrence being given permission by the Fleming Trust to write original Bond stories for Horak to draw, including River of Death, Trouble Spot and The Girl Machine.

  Horak returned to Australia in 1975, drawing a newspaper strip adaptation of the Australian TV show Cop Shop for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, which ran from 1980 to 1983, collected in a tie-in magazine.
  
  His final comics project was his own – the SF series, “Andea”, published by Australia’s Daily Mirror, centring on a glamorous female extra-terrestrial who travelled to Australia from the distant planet Xavax.
  
  “‘Andea’ showcased Horak’s storytelling skills to brilliant effect,” notes Kevin Patrick, “with his intricate plots, fantastic characters, and exquisite artwork demonstrating his complete mastery of the medium throughout the series’ seven-year run. It was a fitting end to Yaroslav Horak’s incomparable career as one of Australia’s great comic artists.”
  
  Refocusing on painting in later life, Horak was awarded the Ledger of Honour in recognition of his contributions to Australian comics, as part of the Ledger Awards for 2018.
  
  Our sympathies to his family at this time, who requested that donations in his memory be made to Dementia Australia.
  
  Yaroslav Horak, artist, born 12th June 1927, died 24th November 2020. Survived by his wife, Jacqueline and children Anton, Natasha and Damon

  Comics Down Under

  Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2015/06/yaroslav-horak-portrait-of-artist-as.html

  While recently browsing through a box of old magazines and newspapers in an antiques shop, I came across a tattered and torn copy of The News, a tabloid newspaper produced by the Australian Journalists Association and the Printing Industry Employees' Union during a wartime industrial dispute with Sydney Newspaper Proprietors' Association. This copy of The News, dated Tuesday, 17 October 1944, caught my eye because it contained a brief profile of a talented young high-school student from Sydney, Yaroslav Horak (See image). The text of the article reads as follows:

  Sixteen-year-old Russian, Yaroslav Horak, of Centennial Park, pupil of St Mary's Cathedral High School, displays a poster he has entered in the Australia-wide Second Victory Loan School contests. Born in Manchuria, Yaroslav came to Australia four years ago. He has since learnt to speak English fluently.

  

  

  Yaroslav Horak, of course, went on to become a talented and highly sought-after comic book artist in Australia following World War Two, creating such popular characters as Jet Fury (originally a back-up feature in Michael Chance Comics), along with The Mask, which was controversially banned by Queensland's Literature Board of Review in 1954, at the height of anti-comics hysteria in Australia (A comprehensive interview with Yaroslav Horak was published in the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Inkspot magazine in 2009).

  Emigrating to Great Britain in the 1960s, Horak worked for British comics publishers, such as IPC's popular Battle Picture Library series, and went on to succeed John McLusky as the illustrator of the James Bond comic strip appearing in The Daily Express newspaper (An informative profile of Horak's work on James Bond appears on the Dave Karlen Original Art Blog).

  Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

  A blog for original comic art collectors! Please visit my other blog, TARZAN FOREVER!, and my original art web site at... Dave Karlen Original Art
  Dave Karlen Original Art Blog

  Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/yaroslav-horak-on-james-bond.html

  Tuesday, August 19, 2008
  
  Russian born Yaroslav Horak began his early career as a portrait sketch artist, but soon switched to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers after migrating to Sydney. His successful comic series The Mask, ran afoul with Victoria's State censors, but was soon followed by his daily outback adventure strip Mike Steel for Sydney's, The Woman's Day. A quick talent for animation and storyboards also kept Horak busy on many different projects. When given the James Bond strip in 1965, Horak's adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was highly praised in the new direction he approached the series. The syndicate was so pleased with their creative team that Jim Lawrence was given permission by the Fleming Trust to produce original stories for Horak to draw. Overall they worked on thirty-three thrilling Bond tales for the Daily Express and other various newspaper syndicates in Europe.
  
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  In the UK recently he presented Pierce Brosnan with a portrait of the "Brosnan Bond", at a UK fan club occasion, in Horak's new rough style. I have a full size copy of it and he also did one of Ursulla Andress, which he didn't get to present to her for some reason, the large original ink on paper is of her in a bikini depicted from Dr. No. with two diving knives.

  

  Yaroslav Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  War Picture Library

  WPL 214 Rough Justice 1963
  WPL 303 Death Or Dishonour 1965
  WPL 304 Battle Drill 1965
  WPL 315 Cross For Courage 1965
  WPL 323 Passage Of Arms 1966
  WPL 648 The Curse 1971
  BPL 156 The Savage Sands 1964
  BPL 173 The Stronghold 1964
  BPL 190 Killers Code 1965
  BPL 197 Gun Crazy 1965
  BPL 231 Victory Cry 1965

  
  James Bond strips

  Title | Writer | Published date | Serial no.
  The Man with the Golden Gun | Jim Lawrence 10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966 1-209
  The Living Daylights | Jim Lawrence 12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966 210-263
  Octopussy | Jim Lawrence 14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967 264-428
  The Hildebrand Rarity | Jim Lawrence 29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967 429-602
  The Spy Who Loved Me | Jim Lawrence 18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968 603-815
  The Harpies | Jim Lawrence 10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969 816-1037
  River Of Death | Jim Lawrence 24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969 1038–1174
  Colonel Sun | Jim Lawrence 1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970 1175–1393
  The Golden Ghost | Jim Lawrence 21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971 1394–1519
  Fear Face | Jim Lawrence 18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971 1520–1596
  Double Jeopardy | Jim Lawrence 21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971 1597–1708
  Starfire | Jim Lawrence 30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971 1709–1809
  Trouble Spot | Jim Lawrence 28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972 1810–1951
  Isle Of Condors | Jim Lawrence 12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972 1952–2065
  The League Of Vampires | Jim Lawrence 25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973 2066–2172
  Die With My Boots On | Jim Lawrence 1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973 2173–2256
  The Girl Machine | Jim Lawrence 19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973 2257–2407
  Beware Of Butterflies | Jim Lawrence 4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974 2408–2541
  The Nevsky Nude | Jim Lawrence 13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974 2542–2655
  The Phoenix Project | Jim Lawrence 23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975 2656–2780
  The Black Ruby Caper | Jim Lawrence 19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975 2781–2897
  Till Death Do Us Apart | Jim Lawrence 7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975 2989-2983
  The Torch-Time Affair | Jim Lawrence 15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976 2984-3060
  Hot-Shot | Jim Lawrence 16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976 3061-3178
  Nightbird | Jim Lawrence 2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976 3179-3312
  Ape Of Diamonds | Jim Lawrence 5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977 3313-3437
  When The Wizard Awakes | Jim Lawrence 30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977 1-54
  Sea Dragon | Jim Lawrence 1977 55-192
  Death Wing | Jim Lawrence 1977-1978 193-354
  The Xanadu Connection | Jim Lawrence 1978 355-468
  Shark Bait | Jim Lawrence 1978-1979 469-636
  Snake Goddess | Jim Lawrence 1983-1984 822-893
  Double Eagle | Jim Lawrence 1984 894-965

  
  
  

  
  1958: Ian Fleming writes Naomi Burton regarding his pursuit of a Bond television opportunity.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

  On 12 June he wrote to Naomi Burton telling her he was “on the edge
  of a vast television deal” which would keep him occupied for the next
  eighteen months. He asked her to tell her colleague Jo Stewart that he
  would be out of the television market for the whole of that period. He
  subsequently informed Stewart that because of his commitment to CBS,
  he could not proceed with the deal she was negotiating over Dr No, since,
  for the time being at least, he needed to retain al his television rights.
  
  At the end of June he few to New York to finalize arrangements with
  CBS. He was clutching a proposal for thirteen episodes (one of which
  centered on the Monte Carlo casino), together with some suggestions about
  how James Bond should be played. He counselled Hubell Robinson against
  introducing “too much stage Englishness. There should, I think, be no
  monocles, moustaches, bowler hats, bobbies or other ‘Limey’ gimmicks.
  There should be no blatant English slang, a minimum of public-school
  ties and accents, and subsidiary characters should generally speak with a
  Scots or Irish accent. The Secret Service should be presented as a tough,
  modern organization . . . “ and Bond as a “blunt instrument wielded by a
  Government Department”. Ian’s memo for Robinson was interesting for
  its general comments about how to communicate Bond to an increasingly
  astute and well-educated audience. He said that in his recent discussions
  about strip cartoons, he had persuaded the Daily Express that “the action
  can be speeded up far more than its usual in this ‘art’ form. But, in
  this speeding up of the action and the leaving of much to the reader’s
  imagination, I suggested that the artist should linger over the physical details
  and perhaps devote as much as four boxes to the details of, for instance,
  a particular gun.” This mannered pictorial style reflected what Ian was
  trying to do in hiss books. Indeed, in an interesting commentary on his
  style, he told Hubell Robinson, “It is the gimmicks in my books, rather
  than the more or less straightforward plots, that stay in people’s minds.”

  1958: Ian Fleming writes Bond television series outlines for CBS, later used for short stories collected in For Your Eyes Only.

  
  FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, [1960].
  https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/04319/ian-fleming/james-bond/?soldItem=true

  Gilbert A8a (1.1).
  
  For Your Eyes Only. "Following the success of the 1954 American television adaptation of Casino Royale for the drama series Climax!, CBS approached Ian Fleming again in 1958 regarding a proposed television show based on the James Bond character, wanting the author to write thirty-two episodes over a two-year period. Henry Chancellor, in his book, James Bond: The Man and His World states that a deal was negotiated for thirteen episodes, and that Fleming provided a compilation of seven new stories, plus recycled episodes from his already published novels at that time. A letter in the Jonathan Cape archive concerning the project states: 'what I wish to sell is the television rights in the name and character of James Bond, together with ten specimen episodes and some editorial notes. These I have supplied and are with him [producer Maurice Winnick]' (TLS, to Wren Howard, 13th May 1959/Cape Archive MS2446). Fleming further states that he did not wish to be contracted to 'writing episodes or otherwise slaving', and the proposed shows never went into production. Later that year, and seemingly with his plots running dry, Fleming gathered his outlines and developed them into a collection of short stories." (Gilbert).
  
  For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming's eighth novel to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Published by Jonathan Cape on 11th April 1960 it marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The five short stories were From a View to a Kill; For Your Eyes Only; Quantum of Solace; Risico; and The Hildebrand Rarity.

  
  1967: London premiere of You Only Live Twice.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Bond comic strip Isle of Condors begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 21 October 1972. 1952–2065) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3?s=comics&id=01483

  

  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1974 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

  Kondorernas ö (Isle of Condors)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 28: “Isle of Condors” (1974)
  "Kondorernes ø"
  
  

  
  1989: MCA Records releases "If You Asked Me To" sung by Patti LaBelle.

  
  
  Patti LaBelle - If You Asked Me To (Official Video) (3:52)
  
  
  Patti Labelle on Tonight Show (4:08)
  
  

  
  2012: Penguin publishes My Dad Was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop.

  

  My Dad Was Nearly James Bond
  Des Bishop

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/my-dad-was-nearly-james-bond-9780241956502

  A son's funny, frank and moving story of the lessons his father taught
  him
  
  For years acclaimed comedian Des Bishop wanted to write a show about his father. Mike Bishop was a model and actor who gave up that life to become a hard-working man of the suburbs - a good husband, a caring father, a responsible citizen. Still, he sometimes talked wistfully about the glamourous life he might have had. But after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2009, Mike's regrets about his fantasy other life crumbled. He cherished his family and they came together to surround him with love, laughter, tears and talk. Lots of talk.
  
  The insights that emerged during Mike Bishop's illness became the show his son always wanted to stage. He and his father collaborated on My Dad Was Nearly James Bond - a hilarious, outrageous and moving celebration of what Des calls 'the heroics of fatherhood'. The show has attracted rave reviews and sell-out audiences around the world.
  
  Mike Bishop died in February 2011. Now Des has written a memoir inspired by the stage show, by the startling discoveries he made about his father's background before he died, and by his own realization of what it means to finally grow up. The book is a funny, wise and unforgettable story of a father, a son and what really matters.
  

  

  
  2019: Sotheby's auctions (one of) the most famous cars in the world at Monterey, Canada.

  

  The Most Famous Car In The World: RM Sotheby's Presents James
  Bond Aston Martin DB5

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.conceptcarz.com/a32413/rm-sothebys-james-bond-aston-martin-db5.aspx

  June 12, 2019 by RM Sothebys

  

  THE MOST FAMOUS CAR IN THE WORLD: RM
  SOTHEBY'S PRESENTS JAMES BOND 007 ASTON
  MARTIN DB5
  
  CAR FEATURES 13 FUNCTIONING BOND
  MODIFICATIONS AS SEEN IN GOLDFINGER AND
  THUNDERBALL BOND DB5 LEADS 'AN EVENING WITH
  ASTON MARTIN' AT MONTEREY SALE
  
  • RM Sotheby's offers nearly unrepeatable opportunity to acquire an original 1965 Aston Martin DB5 James Bond Car at record-setting Monterey auction
  
  • DB5 is one of two examples outfitted with John Stears-designed Bond gadgets from new and used on the North American promotional tour for Thunderball
  
  • Beautifully restored, all 13 Bond modifications are fully-functioning, including a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and more
  
  • Experience the gadgetry and performance that the DB5 afforded 007 in a film trailer starring Florence Walker: VIDEO

  

  • Additional information and updated list of entries for Monterey sale available at rmsothebys.com
  
  The Most Famous Car In The World: RM Sotheby's Presents James Bond Aston Martin DB5

  

  BLENHEIM, Ontario (12 June 2019) – RM Sotheby's, the official auction house of Aston Martin, has announced 'the most famous car in the world' and perhaps the most iconic Aston Martin of all time to lead 'An Evening with Aston Martin', a special single-marque sale session at the company's 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. RM Sotheby's will present a 1965 Aston Martin DB5, one of just three surviving examples commissioned in period by Eon Productions and fitted with MI6 Q Branch specifications as pictured in Goldfinger.
  
  No one could have predicted the fabulously successful multi-decade synergy that would develop when production designer Ken Adam and special effects man John Stears visited Aston Martin's Newport-Pagnell plant in late 1963. The two men were on a mission to source a pair of the latest Aston Martin models for use in Eon Productions' third adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, again about the MI6 superspy with a license to kill, James Bond. The film was called Goldfinger.
  
  Two near-identical cars were built and loaned to Eon Productions for filming, with each fulfilling various roles; one for stunt driving and chase sequences and therefore needing to be lightweight and fast, and the other for interior shots and close-ups, to be equipped with functional modifications created by Stears. As Desmond Llewelyn's legendary weapons-master Q would go on to explain to Sean Connery's 007, the Snow Shadow Gray-painted DB5 was equipped with front and rear hydraulic over-rider rams on the bumpers, a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, a raising rear bullet-proof screen, an in-dash radar tracking scope, oil, caltrop and smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and a passenger-seat ejection system. Although never used during the film, the car was also equipped with a telephone in the driver's door to communicate with MI6 headquarters and a hidden compartment under the driver's seat containing several weapons.
  
  The smash success of Goldfinger was also a success for Aston Martin, which saw DB5 sales surge to fuel an unprecedented level of production. The producers at Eon also took notice of the enormous appeal and potential marketing opportunities. In preparation for Thunderball's release, the company ordered two more DB5 saloons, receiving chassis nos. DB5/2008/R, the example on offer at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale, and DB5/2017/R. The two cars were fitted with all of Stears' Goldfinger modifications and were shipped to the United States for promotional duties for Thunderball.

  Reached through his son, Stephane Connery ahead of the sale, legendary actor Sean Connery, who originally portrayed James Bond on film in both Goldfinger and Thunderball said: 'These DB5s are amazing – I remember the Furka Pass tire shredding as well as the promotional events with these cars – they have become increasingly iconic since Goldfinger and Thunderball, in fact I bought a very fine DB5 myself relatively recently.'

  Following the tour, the two cars were no longer required as the next two Bond films debuted with different, more current automobiles in the hero roles and, accordingly, they were quietly offered for sale in 1969. The cars were soon purchased as a pair by well-known collector Anthony (now Lord) Bamford, whose British registration for chassis no. 2008/R remains on file. The Aston Martin build record lists Eon Productions as the original purchaser, with the important designation of being a '(Bond Car)' noted.
  
  Bamford then sold DB5/2008/R to B.H. Atchley, the owner of the Smokey Mountain Car Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Aston Martin was featured as the museum's centerpiece, remaining in a pristine state of display for 35 years, receiving regular start-ups for exercise. In 2006, RM Sotheby's (previously RM Auctions) was privileged to offer this very Bond DB5 for public sale, in a largely unrestored state.
  
  Since that time, a well-documented, no-expense spared restoration by Switzerland's esteemed Roos Engineering was completed. Roos Engineering is one of 13 specialist facilities whom Aston Martin have appointed as official Heritage Specialists. Not only were the chassis and body completely refinished to proper standards, but all thirteen of the John Stears-designed Bond modifications were properly refurbished to function as originally built.
  
  Barney Ruprecht, Car Specialist, RM Sotheby's comments: 'No other car in history has played a more important leading role on film and in pop culture than the Aston Martin DB5. The DB5 is the iconic cornerstone of a marketing relationship that still exists to this day—with the model's collectible status rooted largely in its 007 fame—and we look forward to exciting car and film enthusiasts alike in the lead up to the auction. This is an unbelievably rare chance to play secret agent in a car that offers incredible performance and style in its own right and we're honoured to offer the Bond DB5 alongside our partners at Aston Martin.'
  
  The first Stears-modified car has been lost since 1997, narrowing the number of surviving examples to just three. The car on offer is one of only two built from new with all Bond gadgetry, and chassis no. 2008/R stands apart with its extremely minimal chain of ownership, having had just three private owners over 50 years, including a 35-year period of museum exhibition. An incredibly rare and exciting example of what has been deemed 'the most famous car in the world', the DB5 offers a highly desirable acquisition for the serious marque collector…or secret agent (Est. $4,000,000 - $6,000,000).
  
  RM Sotheby's will display the Bond DB5 in North America this summer, with July dates to be announced. The car leads 'An Evening with Aston Martin', a special third auction evening on 15 August during RM Sotheby's flagship Monterey sale, featuring more than 30 of the world's most sought-after road-going and track-ready Aston Martin sports cars from across the marque's illustrious history. This year's Monterey sale (15-17 August) will once again present more than 120 of the world's most important motor cars in the ultimate collector car destination.
  
  For further information on RM Sotheby's 2019 Monterey auction and to view a frequently updated list of entries, please visit rmsothebys.com. Interested consignors are invited to call RM Sotheby's global headquarters at +1 519 352 4575 to speak with a car specialist about entering an important motor car in the Monterey sale. Consignments are invited through 3 July 2019.
  
  
  RM Sotheby's is the world's largest collector car auction house by total sales. With 40 years of proven results in the collector car industry, RM's vertically integrated range of services, from auctions and private sales to estate planning and financial services, coupled with an expert team of car specialists and an international footprint, provide an unsurpassed level of service to the global collector car market. RM Sotheby's is currently responsible for six of the top ten most valuable motor cars ever sold at auction. In February 2015, RM formed a strategic partnership with Sotheby's, uniting the two companies for the full calendar of future automobile auctions. For further information, visit rmsothebys.com.
  
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  June 12 Posts: 14,499

  June 13th
  
  1940: During an air raid, Lieutenant (Sp) Ian Fleming RNVR on an RAF plane lands at a deserted airfield near Chateaudun, France, between Orleans and Le Man.

  

  Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II, Mark Simmons, 2018.

  On 13 June 1940 Commander Ian Fleming of the Royal Navy
  Volunteer Reserve was flown to Le Bourget airfield, near Paris in
  France. It was not the first time he had gone there in recent weeks.
  France was lurching toward defeat and Paris was expected to fall
  soon. The Admiralty in London and Winston Churchill were
  desperate to know what would happen to the powerful French
  fleet. Contact had been lost with its commander Admiral Francois
  Darlan who Churchill described at the time as becoming ‘ … very
  important. My contacts with him had become few and formal.’
  
  Admiral John H. Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence,
  wanted to re-establish contact in order to give the First Sea Lord
  and the PM the best advice. He wanted to go himself but that was
  impossible. So he sent his personal assistant Ian Fleming.
  
  Fleming wrote later that it was his suggestion that he, wit a
  wireless operator, should go to France to find Darlan and stay with
  him: ‘I cannot imagine what made me suggest this, expect perhaps
  my usual desire to escape from Room 39 and get some fresh air.’
  Indeed Godfrey was to write about Fleming: ‘He had plenty of ideas
  and was anxious to carry them out but was not interested in and
  would prefer to ignore, the extent of the logistics background
  inseparable to all projects.
  
  In June 1940 Ian Fleming had been in Naval Intelligence less
  than a year. He was thirty-two and a colleague at NI described him
  as ‘ … tall and dark, elegant in his uniform and elastic-sided sea
  boots, with the worried down-the-nose look, and the heavy loping
  gait.

  
  1967: General release of You Only Live Twice in the US and the UK.

  

  
  1982: Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia dies at age 45--Hawaii.
  (Born Fanene Pita Anderson 6 April 1937--American Samoa.)

  

  Peter Maivia

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Not to be confused with Neff Maiava.

  Peter Maivia

  

  Birth name Fanene Pita Anderson
  Born April 6, 1937, American Samoa
  Died 13 June 1982 (aged 45), Hawaii, U.S.
  Cause of death Cancer
  Spouse - Lia Maivia, Children - 2
  Relatives Dwayne Johnson (grandson), Nia Jax (grandniece), Rocky Johnson (son-in-law)
  Family Anoa'i
  Professional wrestling career
  Ring name(s): Peter Anderson; Peter Maivia
  Billed height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
  Billed weight 275 lb (125 kg)
  Billed from "The Isle of Samoa"
  Trained by Steve Rickard
  Debut 1960

  
  Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia (born Fanene Pita Anderson; April 6, 1937 – June 13, 1982) was a Samoan-American professional wrestler better known as Peter Maivia. He is the maternal grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He was also part of the famous Anoa'i family and was a promoter for the National Wrestling Alliance in Hawaii.
  
  Professional wrestling career
  Early career
  Maivia made his debut in 1960 working for NWA Hawaii. He also worked in France, United Kingdom, and the United States.
  
  New Zealand and Australia (1964–1968)
  After spending his first twenty years in American Samoa, Maivia moved to New Zealand. He began his wrestling career, wrestling not as The High Chief, but as Prince Peter Maivia. Athletic, naturally talented and a quick study, Maivia received his original ring training in New Zealand, under the watchful eye of local wrestler/promoter Steve Rickard.
  
  Both in and out of the ring, Rickard taught the young Samoan a great deal about his new profession, and under his guidance, Maivia developed at an amazing rate. On August 3, 1964, after less than a year in the business, the popular rookie sensation stunned New Zealand's wrestling fanbase by toppling the rugged, experienced Rickard to win the prestigious New Zealand Heavyweight title in Auckland. The title victory was impressive, indeed, however Maivia's reign turned out to be extremely short, and he held the coveted New Zealand title for just three days, dropping the championship back to Steve Rickard in Wellington on August 6, 1964. The point had been made though, and from that period forward, Maivia enjoyed main-event status in the NWA's New Zealand territory.
  
  Later in 1964, Maivia followed up his previous success by winning another very prestigious championship, the NWA Australasian Heavyweight title. Maivia became the new Australasian champion by defeating Kangaroo Kennedy in Auckland, and he carried the belt for four consecutive years before finally losing his title to Steve Rickard in 1968. After developing his repertoire and ring skills in New Zealand, Maivia slowly began to branch out and take bookings in other (and often larger) promotions, with success invariably following the popular islander.

  
  Maivia in 1975

  Various Promotions (1968–1977)
  Maivia continued working mainly in Hawaii during most of his career. In 1968 he worked for International Wrestling Enterprise in Japan. From 1969 to 1975 he worked in NWA San Francisco, NWA Hollywood, World Class Championship Wrestling, Houston Wrestling, and the American Wrestling Association winning many titles.

  
  Maivia in 1977

  World Wide Wrestling Federation (1977-1981)
  During his stay in the then called World Wide Wrestling Federation, he was one of its most prominent stars, making numerous appearances on Championship Wrestling. He worked matches with many well-known wrestlers who became WWE Hall of Famers, such as Superstar Billy Graham, Ivan Putski and Bob Backlund. He turned heel in 1978 on Bob Backlund in a match against Spiros Arion and Victor Rivera. During his tenure in WWWF he also made trips to Hawaii, Japan, Toronto, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Zealand. He left WWF (WWWF) in 1981.
  
  Later Career (1981-1982)
  After leaving WWF, Maivia return to California as he won the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship. He wrestled his last recorded match in Hawaii in February 1982 defeating Victor Rivera.
  
  Personal life
  Maivia, also known as the Flying Hawaiian, was of the Ali'i lineage of Malietoa. Maivia's traditional Samoan tattoos, which covered his abdomen and legs, were a symbol of his High Chief status. According to Superstar Billy Graham, they were completed in three days. Maivia's grandson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed that they were done with traditional Samoan instrumentation: a small hammer, a needle, and ink.[citation needed] His wife Ofelia Fuataga, who became known as Lia Maivia, was regarded as one of the first female wrestling promoters. He also adopted Lia's daughter Ata.
  
  Maivia disapproved of his daughter's relationship with Rocky Johnson because he was a wrestler. The duo married despite Maivia's objections. His son, Peter Jr., also wrestled in Hawaii and the West Coast after the passing of Peter Sr. sometimes under the name "Prince Peter Maivia".
  
  Maivia was considered a "blood brother" by Amituanai Anoa'i, the father of the Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika), thus the Anoa'i family regard the Maivia line from him on forward as an extension of their own clan.

  Maivia was also in the fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, where he plays a driver who transports a disguised Bond to Osato headquarters. His character also fights Bond, is hit with a sofa, wields a katana, and is put down when a statue is broken on his head. He was the (uncredited) stunt fight co-ordinator for the film.

  Death
  In 1981, Maivia was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, having reportedly ignored symptoms along with his friends and family’s admonitions to see a doctor. He died on June 12, 1982. Maivia was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, along with his son-in-law Rocky Johnson, in 2008 by his grandson Dwayne Johnson. The award was accepted on his behalf by his daughter Ata Maivia-Johnson. During his tribute video, WWE chairman Vince McMahon refers to him as a 'tough S.O.B.' and somebody 'you didn't want to mess with' outside the ring, but added he was 'a real wonderful, likable guy'. On October 19, 2008, Maivia's wife, Lia Maivia, died.
  
  Legacy
  In the 2016 Disney animated film, Moana, the character design of Maui was derived from photographs of Peter Maivia, according to interviews with his grandson, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who voices Maui in the film.
  
  Filmography
  You Only Live Twice (1967) - Dodge driver
  
  Championships and accomplishments

  50th State Big Time Wrestling
  NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Jim Hady (1), Billy White Wolf (1), and Sam Steamboat (2)
  NWA All-Star Pro Wrestling
  NWA Australasian Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  NWA Big Time Wrestling
  NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[11][12]
  NWA Hollywood Wrestling
  NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Championship (2 times)
  NWA New Zealand
  NWA New Zealand British Empire Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  NWA San Francisco
  NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (San Francisco version) (2 times)
  NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (1 time)[2] - with Ray Stevens
  Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  Class of 2016
  World Wrestling Entertainment
  WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2008)
  Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  Most Washed Up Wrestler (1981)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Rocky Johnson Discusses His Final Memories Of Peter Maivia
  
  
  Hall of Fame: Peter Maivia Package
  
  
  You Only Live Twice: James Bond vs High Chief Peter Maivia
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1985: General release of A View to a Kill in the UK.

  

  1989: Licence to Kill premieres at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1996: The MTV Movie Awards nominate GoldenEye for Best Fight and Best Sandwich.

  

  Best Fight
  Nominated: Pierce Brosnan and Famke Jansen in GoldenEye.
  The Winner(s): Adam Sandler vs. Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore.

  

  Best Sandwich
  Nominated: Submarine Sandwich With Tomatoes and Provolone in GoldenEye.
  The Winner: Ham and Cheese Sandwich in the film Smoke.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2001: German media company Mission Productions applies for registration of the word sign ‘Dr. No' as a Community trade mark. The action is quickly opposed by Danjaq, manager of James Bond film intellectual property rights.

  
  CJE30 June 2009

  THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE DISMISSES THE ACTION
  OF THE OWNER OF THE RIGHTS TO THE ‘JAMES BOND'
  FILMS AGAINST REGISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY
  TRADE MARK ‘DR. NO' BY ANOTHER COMPANY

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/CJE_09_57

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  PRESS RELEASE No 57/09
  30 June 2009
  Judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-435/05
  
  Danjaq LLC v OHIM

  
  THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE DISMISSES THE ACTION OF THE
  OWNER OF THE RIGHTS TO THE ‘JAMES BOND' FILMS AGAINST
  REGISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY TRADE MARK ‘DR. NO' BY
  ANOTHER COMPANY
  
  

  The proprietor, Danjaq, has failed to establish either that the signs ‘Dr.
  No' and ‘Dr. NO' were used as trade marks or that the title of the film Dr.
  No was used in the course of trade, which might have enabled it to
  oppose registration of the mark.

  
  On 13 June 2001, Mission Productions, a German media company, applied for registration of the word sign ‘Dr. No' as a Community trade mark.
  
  Danjaq, the American company which manages the intellectual property rights to the ‘James Bond' series of films, opposed that registration, claiming that there was a likelihood of confusion with its earlier well-known marks ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' and relying on its non-registered marks and the earlier signs used in the course of trade ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO'.
  
  OHIM rejected the opposition, holding that Danjaq had not proved either that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' had been used as trade marks or that they had previously been used in the course of trade as signs other than trade marks. 1
  
  Danjaq brought an action against the OHIM decision before the Court of First Instance.
  
  First of all, the Court of First Instance points out that the essential function of a trade mark is to identify the commercial origin of the goods or services in question. It notes that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' used by Danjaq do not indicate the commercial origin of the films, but rather their artistic origin. Those signs, affixed to the covers of the video cassettes or to the DVDs, help to distinguish that film from other films in the ‘James Bond' series. The commercial origin of the film is indicated by other signs, such as ‘007' or ‘James Bond'. In those circumstances, the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' cannot be regarded as well known trade marks or non-registered trade marks that could be relied on in order to oppose the registration of a Community trade mark.

  1 - Following that decision, Danjaq applied for registration as a Community trade mark of the other James Bond film titles. 18 of those 21 titles were registered. The registrations of the remaining three, Casino Royale, Octopussy and Goldeneye, were the subject of opposition proceedings brought by other companies, and the applications are still pending.

  Next the Court of First Instance recalls that the protection provided for by copyright cannot be relied on in opposition proceedings, but only in proceedings for a declaration of invalidity of a Community trade mark after it has been registered.
  
  However, the titles of artistic works are protected by certain national laws against the use of a subsequent mark, as distinctive signs outside the area of copyright. Thus, German and Swedish law afford protection against a subsequent trade mark which gives rise to a likelihood of confusion with the titles in question, provided that such titles have distinctive character and are used in the course of trade. Nevertheless, since the documents submitted by Danjaq were too general, not objective, and irrelevant to the countries concerned, they are not sufficient to establish that the title Dr. No was used in the course of trade in the territories in question, even though the extent of use of that title could have been established without too much difficulty, for example by providing programming details of the film, either for cinemas or television.
  
  Consequently, the Court of First Instance dismisses the action, since Danjaq has failed to establish either that the signs ‘Dr. No' and ‘Dr. NO' were used as trade marks or that the title of the film Dr. No was used in the course of trade.
  
  REMINDER: An appeal, limited to points of law only, may be brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities against a decision of the Court of First Instance, within two months of its notification.
  

  Unofficial document for media use, not binding on the Court of First Instance.
  Languages available: EN, FR, DE
  The full text of the judgment may be found on the Court's internet site
  
  http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=rechercher&numaff=T-435/05
  
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  2006: Casino Royale films the Miami airport tanker chase (at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Cranleigh, Surrey, England).
  
  2010: Jimmy Dean dies at age 81-- Varina, Virginia.
  (Born 10 August 1928--Plainview, Texas.)

  

  Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jimmy-dean-20100615-story.html

  By Dennis McLellan
  | Los Angeles Times | Jun 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
  
  
  Jimmy Dean helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s. (CBS TV)
  
  When the Country Music Assn. announced in February that Jimmy Dean would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, Dean joked, "I thought I was already in there."
  
  "Seriously, it brought a huge grin to my face," he said in a news release. "I am honored."
  
  Dean already had been inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
  
  That's not to mention his 2009 induction into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame.
  
  Indeed, Dean, who died Sunday evening at his home in Henrico County, Va., at age 81, may be better known by some today as "the sausage king" of TV commercial fame than a hit-making country music star and one-time TV show host who helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s.
  
  The Texas-born entertainer and businessman, who began his recording career in the 1950s, scored a No. 1 hit on both the country and pop singles charts in 1961 with his spoken-narrative song about a coal miner — "a giant of a man" — who saves fellow workers from "a would-be grave" after their mine collapses.
  
  "Big Bad John," which Dean said he wrote in an hour and a half on a flight from New York to Tennessee, earned a Grammy Award for best country and western recording.
  
  The 1960s were the down-home entertainer's heyday.
  
  He went on to record hits including "Dear Ivan," "Little Black Book," "P.T. 109" (inspired by the Naval vessel commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II) and "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)."
  
  From 1963 to '66, he hosted "The Jimmy Dean Show," an hourlong TV musical variety show that ran on ABC and featured singers including Roger Miller, George Jones and Buck Owens. The show also regularly featured Dean's humorous banter with a "dog" named Rowlf, the first of Jim Henson's Muppets to attract national attention.

  Along with headlining in Las Vegas and performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the London Palladium, Dean played fur trapper Josh Clements on Fess Parker's "Daniel Boone" series in the late '60s and had the supporting role of a reclusive billionaire in the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."

  He launched the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in the late '60s, after previously buying a hog farm in his native Texas.
  
  "Everything was fine and dandy until hog prices dropped out," he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2004. "One morning I was having breakfast at a little old diner in Plainview — sausages and eggs — and reached up and plucked a [large] piece of gristle out of my teeth."
  
  It was then, he said, that he became determined to produce a quality sausage.
  
  "It was not something I just put my name on," he said. "It was my money and my sausage and my work — and those commercials that they think are so funny."
  
  After selling his meat company to what later became known as the Sara Lee Corp. in 1984, he remained as chairman of the board and TV spokesman. After he was dropped as spokesman in 2003, Dean reportedly stopped eating the products that bear his name and changed his license plates that read SSG KING.
  
  Dean was born Aug. 10, 1928, in Olton, Texas, and grew up in Plainview. He and his brother Don were raised on a farm by their mother after their father left when Dean was still a child. They were so poor, he once said, he wore shirts that his mother made out of sugar sacks.
  
  Poverty, Dean told the Times-Dispatch, "was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
  
  He began singing early on, and his mother taught him to play his first chord on the piano when he was 10. He later taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and accordion.
  
  Dropping out of high school at 16, he joined the Merchant Marines and later served in the Air Force. While stationed at a base in Washington, D.C., Dean and three other airmen formed a country music quartet that played local honkytonks.
  
  After his discharge in 1948, Dean formed the Texas Wildcats. He began developing a following with a show on an Arlington, Va., radio station and had his first country top 10 hit, "Bumming Around," in 1953.
  
  Dean and the Texas Wildcats moved to local television in 1955, and from 1957 to 1959 he hosted the first version of "The Jimmy Dean Show," a half-hour daily variety series on CBS.
  
  Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story, a 2004 autobiography, was co-written with his second wife, Donna Meade Dean, a singer and songwriter he married in 1991.
  
  In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children from his first marriage, Garry Dean, Connie Dean Taylor and Robert Dean; and two granddaughters.
  
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  2021: Christie's in New York City auctions what they call a head-to-head battle of the Rolexes.

  

  
  

  Head to head: Battle of the Rolexes

  https://www.christies.com/features/Head-to-head-Battle-of-the-Rolexes-9224-1.aspx

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  Which watch will win the 13 June showdown between two
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  June 13 Posts: 14,499

  June 14th
  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the Russian consulate explosion and following action.

  

  
  1966: A demo of Wing Commander Ken Wallis' one man autogyro at Pinewood Studios brings him into the You Only Live Twice production.

  

  Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury, 2018.
  Chapter 9 Don't Think of Danger - You Only Live Twice

  Little Nellie had been discovered by Ken Adam while he was shaving
  one morning. Adam had heard Ken Wallis, an eccentric wing commander,
  being interviewed about his small one-man helicopter by Tony Scase on
  the BBC Today programme. The film’s aviation advisor Hamish Mahaddie
  called Wallis and invited him to demonstrate the autogiro at Pinewood.
  Adam was a fighter pilot during World War II so was naturally impressed
  with Wallis’s contraption. Following the Pinewood demonstration on 14
  June 1966 Wallis remembered, ‘Cubby Brocolli stood looking at it and
  said “We shall want it in Japan in six weeks’ time.”’ Wallis was in fact
  scheduled to appear in a James Bond-esque spoof in Brazil when he got
  the call. Dahl soon found a place in the script for Little Nellie and
  suggested she should fold away and arrive in a series of suitcases.

  
  
  
  

  1967: The New York Times prints Bosley Crowther's review of You Only Live Twice, "Screen: Sayonara, 007: Connery Is at It Again as Whatshisname".

  

  Screen: Sayonara, 007: Connery Is at It
  Again as Whatshisname

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/14/archives/screen-sayonara-007connery-is-at-it-again-as-whatshisname.html

  By Bosley Crowther | June 14, 1967
  Credit...The New York Times Archive
  
  ALTHOUGH there's a lot more science-fiction than there is first-vintage James Bond in "You Only Live Twice," the fifth in a series of veritable Bond films with Sean Connery, there's enough of the bright and bland bravado of the popular British super-sleuth mixed into this melee of rocket-launching to make it a bag of good Bond fun. And there's so much of that scientific clatter — so much warring of super-capsules out in space and fussing with electronic gadgets in a great secret underground launching pad—that this wayout adventure picture should be the joy and delight of the youngsters and give pleasure to the reasonable adults who can find release in the majestically absurd.Are your nerves frayed and mind bewildered by the war in the Middle East? Give them a rest via this violent excursion with Double-O Seven in Japan. Go with him on this crucial mission to find out whence come those cannibal capsules that move in to devour those American spaceships that are innocently orbiting the earth, and plunge with him into the strange crater of that dead volcano on the Japanese coast to discover it isn't the Russians who are doing the mischief and save us by a hair's breadth from World War III.You may find the noise slightly deafening when the chasing autos scream around those Tokyo curves, or the four massive enemy helicopters loose their machineguns on the minicopter carrying Bond, or especially when the Japanese commandos rain down upon that secret launching pad and assist Bond in happily blasting this Spectral installation to smithereens.This noisy and wildly violent picture, which opened yesterday at the Astor, the Victoria, the Baronet and Loew's Orpheum, is evidently pegged to the notion that nothing succeeds like excess. And because it is shamelessly excessive, it is about a half-hour too long.Probably its profligate producers. Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, figured they had spent so much on it—on that fantastic launching pad set, which could be put down at Expo 67 and be a hit pavilion; on a sparkling color production and some beautiful location shooting in Japan—that they wanted Lewis Gilbert, the director, to keep it going as long as he could.As a consequence, there is a lengthy build-up of tooling around Tokyo with Bond, buzzing through a wrestling arena, stealing secrets from a chemical company's safe, firming a Japanese contact and trifling casually here and there with a few girls, before it gets to an even lengthier playout of the discovery and raid on the launching pad.Through it all, Mr. Connery paces with his elegant nonchalance a little more non than usual (he is evidently getting slightly bored), but altogether able in the clinches and in tossing off the gags of Roald Dahl. Able as conspirators and scenery are several lovely Japanese girls whose names are so superfluous and difficult there is no point in spelling them out. A fellow named Tetsuro Tamba is dandy as a Japanese partner-spy, and Donald Pleasence is grandly grotesque as the evil genius who would rule the world. It is notable that only Bond, the title and the location of an Ian Fleming book have been used by Mr. Dahl in writing his screenplay. The rest, with, just a Dahl touch here and there, is blueprint Bond stuff cum science-fiction. The sex is minimal. But, then, Bond is getting old. And so, I would guess, is anybody who can't get a few giggles from this film.

  YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, screenplay by Roald Dahl; directed by Lewis Gilbert; produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman; released through United Artists. At the Astor Theater, Broadway and 45th Street; the Victoria, Broadway and 46th Street; the Baronet, Third Avenue and 59th Street, and Loew's Orpheum, Third Avenue and 86th Street. Running time: 115 minutes.
  The Cast
  James Bond . . . . . Sean Connery
  Aki . . . . . Akiko Wakabayashi
  Tiger Tanaka . . . . . Tetsuro Tamba
  Kissy Suzuki . . . . . Mie Hama
  Osato . . . . . Teru Shimada
  Helga Brandt . . . . . Karin Dor
  Miss Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
  Q . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
  Henderson . . . . . Charles Gray
  Chinese girl . . . . . Tsai Chin
  M . . . . . Bernard Lee
  Blofeld . . . . . Donald Pleasence

  A version of this article appears in print on June 14, 1967 of the National edition with the headline: Screen: Sayonara, 007: Connery Is at It Again as Whatshisname.

  

  
  1973: Goldfinger re-released in The Netherlands.
  
  1989: Licence to Kill UK general release.

  
  

  
  2001: Putnam publishes the Raymond Benson Bond novel Never Dream of Dying in the US.

  THE NEW BOND ADVENTURE
  
  After a moment's silence came the voice. "Here we are
  again, Mister Bond. We seem to meet under the most
  unusual circumstances"
  
  Bond shot toward the voice, but then he heard
  Cesari laugh behind him. Bond twisted again and fired.
  There was silence and then the voice came from yet
  another place in the dark.
  
  You're in my habitat now, Mister Bond," Cesari
  said. "You can't see a thing, can you?"
  
  Bond could hear Cesari's voice moving. He fired the
  gun into the darkness again, but the laugh came from
  a different direction.
  
  Then the club struck him hard on the right shoulder
  blade.
  
  "Have you any strange dreams lately, Mister
  Bond?" Cesari asked as Bond fell to the ground in
  agony. "You know what they say . . . never dream of
  dying. It just might come true."

  NEVER
  DREAM OF
  DYING

  In Raymond Benson's chilling new James Bond
  novel, 007 comes face to face at last with the
  most cunning criminal mastermind he has ever
  fought--the blind genius behind the brutal
  organization called the Union.
  
  It begins at a movie studio in Nice, where
  a police raid goes horribly wrong, with inno-
  cent men, women, and even children killed. It
  continues in an English prison, where a corspe
  discloses an intriguing secret about the Union.
  The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where
  he meets the tantalizing movie start Tylyn
  Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of sensu-
  al discovery.
  
  But Tylyn is in mortal danger. Her former
  husband, a volatile French film producer, has
  not forgiven his glamourous ex-wife for ending
  their troubled marriage--and he is connected
  to the Union's thugs.
  
  Meanwhile Bond's friend Mathis, a French
  agent, has disappeared while tracking down
  the Union's mysterious leader, Le Gérant.
  Bond's search for Mathis takes him to a
  thrilling underwater brush with death, a chase
  through the Corsican wilderness, a surprise
  encounter with an old friend--and a final con-
  frontation with a twisted criminal genius.

  Raymond Benson is the author of Doubleshot.
  High Time to Kill, The Facts of Death, and Zero
  Minus Ten, and the novelizations for the films
  The World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never
  Dies. A director of the Ian Fleming Foundation,
  he lives and works in the Chicago area.
  
  Jacket design, Thomas Tafuri
  Front Jacket image courtesy
  Fontenille Pataud, France

  
  
  

  2003: The Queen's Birthday Honours see Sir Roger Moore promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his philanthropic work with UNICEF and Kiwanis International. (He was already created a Commander of that order on 31 December 1998 in the New Year Honours List, for services to UNICEF.)

  
  
  

  
  2011: Simon & Schuster release Jeffery Deaver's Bond novel Carte Blanche in the US.

  "The face of war is changing.
  The other side doesn't play by the rules
  much anymore.
  There's thinking, in some circles,
  that we need to play by a different set of
  rules too. . . "

  James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran
  of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organi-
  zation. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates
  independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense,
  its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the
  Realm, by any means necessary.
  
  A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from
  dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has
  decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack
  scheduled for later in the week:

  Casualites estimated in the
  thousands, British interests
  adversely affected.

  And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do
  whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . .

  The new thriller by Master of the Mind Game
  JEFFERY DEAVER
  featuring
  JAMES BOND
  as you've never seen him before.

  In 2004, Jeffery Deaver won the Crime Writers' Associa-
  tion Ian Fleming's Steel Dagger Award for his book Garden
  of Beasts. Little could he know that his acceptance
  speech, in which he spoke aloud about his lifelong admiration
  of Fleming's writing, would lead him to being approached
  to write the next James Bond novel.
  
  The international number-one bestselling author of
  two collections of short stories and 27 suspense novels,
  Deaver is best known ffor his Katthryn Dance and Lincoln
  Rhyme thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which
  was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington
  and Angelina Jolie. His many awards include the Novel
  of the Year at the International Thriller Writers' Awards in
  2009 for his stand-alone novel The Bodies Left Behind.
  The latest entries in the Lincoln Rhyme series are The
  Cold Moon, The Broken Window and The Burning Wire.
  
  Deaver's most recent stand-alone thriller, Edge, was
  called "an exciting new weapon in the author's arsenal of
  memorable characters" [Pubishers Weekly].

  JEFFERY DEAVER lives in North Carolina. Parallels
  between Bond's and Deaver's lives include their love of
  fast cars, skiing and whiskey. Deaver is the fifth author
  to continue Ian Fleming's legacy by penning a James
  Bond novel.
  

  For further information, visit
  www.jefferydeaver.com.

  Based on the legendary character created by IAN FLEMING
  
  JAMES BOND is back.
  #1 international bestselling author
  JEFFERY DEAVER
  brings Agent 007 into the modern age . . .
  
  Critical acclaim for Jeffery Deaver
  Author of 17 New York Times bestsellers
  

  "A master ticking-bomb suspense." - PEOPLE
  "Dazzling" - THE NEW YORK TIMES
  "Cunning and deceptive" - THE DENVER POST
  "Scarily believable" - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
  "The most creative, skill, and intriguing thriller writer
  in the world." - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
  
  www.ianfleming.com

  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  

  2015: Spectre films on the River Thames, London.

  

  
  
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  June 15th
  
  1959: In a letter responding to Ernest L. Cuneo's film outline, Ian Fleming suggests an organization called SPECTRE--vice SMERSH--be used to avoid the politics of the Soviets as the enemy. ("‘Since the film will take about two years to produce, and peace might conceivably break out in the meantime..."). It also identifies a beautiful double agent named Fatima Blush.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 3 - Enter SPECTRE

  Despite Fleming's glowing appreciate of Cuneo's work, he saw problems
  with it, too, like the lack of a heroine for his hero to dally romantically with.
  Cuneo had suggested one of the female entertainers could turn out to be CIA.
  "Love interest easy to insert," he wrote, offhandedely.
  
  In a fascinating memorandum dated 15 June, Fleming suggested instead a new character, a beautiful double agent under M's control that assists the
  enemy spy. Her name - Fatima Blush. It's from her that Bond learns details
  of the spy plot. In the underwater finale Fatima would be on the enemy side
  and Fleming wrote: "Her appearance in tight-fitting black rubber suiting will
  make the audiences swoon." As the battle progresses the spy finds Fatima
  sabotaging his aqualung and realises that she's a double agent. In the ensuing
  fight Bond kills him just as he is turning of the valve in Fatima's oxygen
  tanks. "The curtain goes down as Bond and Fatima kiss through their
  snorkels," Fleming envisaged, adding, "My imagination has slightly run riot
  over this last scene but you see the point." Perhaps too much. At the [future] trial
  McClory stated that he thought Fleming's idea of a hero and heroine kissing
  though their snorkels "infantile." Indeed when the passage was described in
  court there were bursts of laughter.
  
  After the memo neither the name nor the character of Fatima Blush
  reappeared in any of the subsequent treatments or screenplays relating to
  Thunderball, nor the novel or the 1965 film. Fleming too never reused it. But
  it was too good a name to ignore and McClory resurrected it for the black widow
  SPECTRE assassin played by Barbara Carrera in Never Say Never Again, thus
  becoming one of the few bona-fide Fleming contributions to the film.

  By far Fleming's biggest criticism was with Cuneo's use of Communists as
  the principal villains. "It might be very unwise," he wrote, "to point directly at
  Russia as the enemy. Since the film will take about two years to produce, and
  peace might conceivably break out in the meantime, this should be avoided."
  So what to put in their place? Fleming's suggestion turnout to be the most
  significant contribution to the entire Thunderball story-line, and one of the
  most important for the future of the Bond legend - the creation of super
  villains SPECTRE.

  
  1964: Goldfinger films the villain's arrival at Fort Knox.

  

  
  1989: Reviews of the latest Bond film include:

  • Derek Malcolm's "James the Sixteenth: Bond is Back" in The Guardian,
  • David Robinson's "Business as usual; Cinema" in The Times, and
  • Adam Mars-Jones' "Low-tar espionage: Licence to Kill" in The Independent.

  
  2001: German DVD premiere of the 1967 Casino Royale.
  
  2015: Nintendo's E3 press conference announces a modernized GoldenEye 007 game with Daniel Craig, an updated script by Bruce Feirstein, and Nicole Scherzinger covering the original title song. As developed by Eurocom, and published by Activision for Wii and Nintendo DS November 2010. Later in 2011, ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as GoldenEye 007: Reloaded.

  GoldenEye 007 - James Bond | intro sequence Nintendo Wii (2010) Nicole Scherzinger
  
  
  Launch Trailer - GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
  

  2016: Dynamite Entertainment release James Bond #7.
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #7

  https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181807011
  Cover A: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: June 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/15

  After World War Two, army intelligence groups created ghost cells called "stay-behinds" across Europe in the event of a Warsaw Pact surge. "EIDOLON" is the story of a SPECTRE stay-behind structure - ghost cells of SPECTRE loyalists acting as sleepers until the time is right for a SPECTRE reformation and resurgence. The time is now.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 1 VAGR hardcover edition.
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer. Jason Masters, cover.

  

  JAMES BOND VOL. 1: VARGR HARDCOVER

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Hardcovers
  Cover: Jason Masters
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Publication Date: June 2016
  Format: Hardcover
  Page Count: 168 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/15

  After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces gathered in secret against him, the full scope of an operation that's much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire... and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all-new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

  • "We are officially spoiled when it comes to the adventures of Agent 007, for casual and diehard fans of the character alike." - Ain't It Cool News
  • "Tense and fast-moving." - Comic Book Resources
  • "This debut from Dynamite Entertainment is everything I could have wanted." - Newsarama
  • "An amazing interpretation of the James Bond characters and his world in a way that feels like it's an ode to both Fleming's writing and the film adaptations." - Multiversity Comics
  • "A slick, action-packed action thriller... Bloody entertaining." - Big Comic Page
  • "The art team of Jason Masters and Guy Majors steals the show." - Geek Tyrant
  • "Strong action pieces... full of pace and movement." - Comic Crusaders
  • "This is classic Bond here. Odd, strong henchmen, brutal fighting, lots of bodies, and a maniacal mastermind leaving Bond in a deathtrap..." - Bleeding Cool
  • Wonderfully highlight(s) character and motivations for 007 and his foes." - Comic Buzz

  

  
  2017: Pegasus publishes Goldeneye – Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming`s Jamaica by Matthew Parker.
  2018: Film and Furniture gives detail to an immersive James Bond museum opening July in the Alps.

  
  Immersive, minimalist mountaintop James
  Bond museum
  https://filmandfurniture.com/2018/06/immersive-minimalist-mountaintop-james-bond-museum-in-the-austrian-alps/
  Feature By Film and Furniture
  15 Jun 2018
  
  A museum like no other opens in Soelden, Austria this July. Set 10,000 feet up Gaislachkogl Mountain sits the new stunning, immersive James Bond Museum – 007 Elements.

  
  007 Elements – The James Bond Museum. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

  Snowy landscapes and ski chases are an integral feature of Bond movies: Soelden’s striking architectural jewel the Ice Q restaurant was the real live location for the Hoffer [sic] Klinik in Spectre (2015). Accessed by cable car, the new series of multi-sensory galleries and cinematic installations that make up 007 Elements allow visitors to experience the Bond world of luxury and intrigue.

  
  The “Briefing Room” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

  The jaw dropping space was designed by Neil Callow (art director on Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and the forthcoming Bond 25 ), Tino Schaedler (head of design at Optimist Inc.) in collaboration with Austrian architect Johann Obermoser and the team at Arch Omo Architektur, who designed the Ice Q.

  
  The “Tech Lab” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

  Built inside the mountain itself, each room of the museum allows visitors to explore different elements of the film – the characters, gadgets, music and locations.

  

  “Our aim with 007 Elements is to tell the story of the making of 007 films in an ultra-modern, emotive and engaging way.” says the Museum.“Visitors are taken on a multi-sensory journey, with emotive soundscapes, dramatic programmed lighting, and high-quality visual projections.

  

  “The structure of the storytelling, the rhythm of the spaces within the building, and the movement between light and shadow was designed to give visitors an experience closer to a movie than a traditional museum.”
  
  A real spectacle!

  
  
  

  
  2020: Waterstones shops begin reopening.

  https://www.waterstones.com/help/coronavirus-updates/2104

  2020: AntikBar gallery reopening.

  https://antikbarposters.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/covid-19-coronavirus-update-gallery-re-opening-on-15-june/
  
  https://antikbarposters.wordpress.com/tag/you-only-live-twice/

  
  2025: World Martini Day. For the world.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  A Martini for Every James Bond
  https://beer-flicks.com/a-martini-for-every-james-bond/#google_vignette
  November 14, 2021 Brianna Gunter
  The MI6 agent’s martini order leaves a lot of questions. We’ll go ahead and fill in the blanks for him — with a complete martini recipe for every Bond from Connery to Craig!
  

  • Sean Connery – Classic Stirred Vodka Martini
  • George Lazenby – Dry Gin Martini (with a Side Shooter)
  • Roger Moore – Extra Dry Gibson Martini
  • Timothy Dalton – Champagne Martini
  • Pierce Brosnan – Mojito Martini
  • Daniel Craig – Vesper Martini

  

  
  
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  June 16th
  
  1920: Geoffrey Jenkins is born--Pretoria, South Africa.
  (He dies 7 November 2001--Durban, South Africa.)

  

  Geoffrey Jenkins

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Geoffrey Ernest Jenkins[1] (16 June 1920 – 7 November 2001) was a South African journalist, novelist and screenwriter. His wife Eve Palmer, with whom he collaborated on several works, wrote numerous non-fiction works about Southern Africa.
  
  Early life
  Jenkins was either born in Port Elizabeth South Africa or Pretoria to Ernest Jenkins, an editor, and Daisy Jenkins. At age 17, he wrote and had published A Century of History, which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the Potchefstroom centenary celebrations. Smuts also wrote the book's introduction.
  
  Jenkins subsequently won the Lord Kemsley Commonwealth Journalistic Scholarship, which took him to Fleet Street, where he spent World War II as a war correspondent.

  While working for the Sunday Times, he became friends with author Ian Fleming, creator of the British secret agent James Bond. Fleming later praised Jenkins' writing, saying "Geoffrey Jenkins has the supreme gift of originality... A Twist of Sand is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure".

  After the war Jenkins settled in Rhodesia, where he met his wife, author Eve Palmer (1916–1998). They married on 17 March 1950. They had a son named David (born c. 1953).
  
  Jenkins was briefly editor of the newspaper The Umtali Advertiser then became a reporter at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.
  
  Writing
  Early novels
  While working for The Star, he wrote his first novel, A Twist of Sand (1959), which was subsequently translated into 23 languages and became a motion picture in 1968 starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman. He kept his newspaper job until he had published his third novel.
  
  Jenkins' 1966 novel Hunter-Killer was a sequel to A Twist of Sand. Hunter-Killer opens with the protagonist, Geoffrey Peace RN, faking his own death and funeral at sea, only to clamber aboard a submarine.

  James Bond
  After Ian Fleming's death, Glidrose Productions commissioned Jenkins to write a James Bond novel in 1966. Jenkins claimed that he and Fleming together developed a diamond-smuggling storyline in 1957. After a long period of negotiation, during which Ann Fleming (Ian's widow) raised several objections to the idea of a continuation novel, Jenkins finished the manuscript for Glidrose entitled Per Fine Ounce, but it was rejected. The novel is believed lost, except for 18 pages now in the hands of Jenkins' son David. Two pages have been released to the public and were exclusively published by the James Bond website MI6-HQ.com. Ian Fleming Publications (formerly Glidrose) allegedly returned their copies of the manuscript after rejecting it.

  Later works
  Jenkins did colour photography for his wife's non-fiction work Trees of Southern Africa (1972). The couple travelled over 100,000 miles to research this three volume work. They subsequently collaborated on the 1978 travel book The Companion Guide to South Africa. Helene Moore of the Knight Ridder syndicate believed that it was "impossible to cram everything pertinent into one guidebook and do a thorough job of it," but felt that the authors have chosen "the right solution." Moore claimed that the over four-hundred page book gave the authors sufficient space "for single-minded reporting on what to see at the bottom of this exotic continent - plus plenty of space for history, legend and all the personal commentary that enriches any travel book. Good reading even if you're not headed that way."
  
  Later years and death
  Jenkins published his final novel A Daystar of Fear in 1993. Jenkins moved from Pretoria to his son David's home in Durban. According to an obituary, he was planning to write a sequel to Scend of the Sea shortly before his death in 2001.
  
  Film adaptations
  Three of his novels have been filmed. A Twist of Sand (1968) co-starred Honor Blackman and Richard Johnson, director Terence Young's original choice for James Bond. Dirty Games (1989), based on In Harm's Way, co-starred Jan-Michael Vincent.
  
  The River of Diamonds (1990) had been set for production in the 1960s. During the 1980s Brian Clemens wrote a script. Sylvester Stallone - who asked for US$9M and a share of the profits - and Tom Selleck - who asked for US$1.5M and a share of the profits - were approached to star, but asked too much money which the production couldn't afford. A journal describes this as South Africa's "most ambitious film project" with what was at the time to have been the biggest budget financed by a South African producer estimated to have been between two and three million Rand.
  
  Works
  
  Novels
  A Twist of Sand (1959)
  The Watering-Place of Good Peace (1960; revised 1974)
  A Grue of Ice (1962) published in the U.S. as The Disappearing Island
  The River of Diamonds (1964)
  Hunter-Killer (1966)
  Scend of the Sea (1971) published in the U.S. as The Hollow Sea
  A Cleft of Stars (1973)
  A Bridge of Magpies (1974)
  South Trap (1979) published in paperback as Southtrap
  A Ravel of Waters (1981)
  The Unripe Gold (1983)
  Fireprint (1984)
  In Harm's Way (1986)
  Hold Down a Shadow (1989)
  A Hive of Dead Men (1991)
  A Daystar of Fear (1993)
  
  Unpublished
  Per Fine Ounce (circa 1966)
  A Kiss of Thorns
  Disquietly to His Grave
  A Gate of Blood
  A Knot of Fire
  
  Non-fiction
  A Century of History: The Story of Potchefstroom (1939; 2nd edition 1971)
  The Companion Guide to South Africa (1978), with Eve Palmer
  
  Photography only
  Palmer, Eve; Pitman, Norah (1972). Trees of Southern Africa. colour photography by Geoffrey Jenkins and others. A. A. Balkema. (3 vols.)
  
  Unproduced screenplay
  Fifth Paw of the Lion (1966, Columbia Pictures, Charles H. Schneer Productions)

  
  
  Real and imagined.
  

  
  1942: William P. Cartlidge is born--England.
  (He dies 3 March 2021 at age 78--Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, England.)

  

  William P. Cartlidge

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Cartlidge

  William P. Cartlidge (June 16, 1942 – March 3, 2021) was an English film and television producer.
  
  Life and career
  William P. Cartlidge was born on June 16, 1942.
  
  Cartlidge worked on three James Bond films, each of which was directed by Lewis Gilbert. He was the first assistant director for the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, the associate producer for the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, and the associate producer for the 1979 film Moonraker.
  
  In 2002, Cartlidge was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as the producer of Dinotopia.
  
  Cartlidge died on March 3, 2021. He was 78 years old.
  
  Filmography
  1960s
  The Young Ones (1962), second assistant director
  The Punch and Judy Man (1963), second assistant director
  Summer Holiday (1963), second assistant director
  Girl in the Headlines (1963), assistant director
  The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), assistant director
  Strictly for the Birds (1964), assistant director
  Success Machine (1965), assistant director
  Wild Goose Chase (1965), assistant director
  Struggle for a Mind (1965), assistant director
  Dual Control (1965), producer
  Alfie (1966)
  The Reptile (1966), assistant director
  Born Free (1966), assistant director
  The Double Man (1967), assistant director
  You Only Live Twice (1967), assistant director
  Duffy (1968), production manager
  
  1970s
  The Adventurers (1970), assistant director
  Fragment of Fear (1970), assistant director
  The Last Valley (1971), assistant director
  Friends (1971), assistant director
  Nearest and Dearest (1972), assistant director
  Young Winston (1972), assistant director
  Phase IV (1974), assistant director
  That's Your Funeral (1974), assistant director
  Paul and Michelle (1974), associate producer
  Seven Nights in Japan (1976), associate producer
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), associate producer
  Moonraker (1979), associate producer
  
  1980s
  Educating Rita (1983), co-producer
  Not Quite Jerusalem (1984), co-producer
  Consuming Passions (1988), producer
  Dealers (1989), producer
  
  1990s
  The Playboys (1992), producer
  Haunted (1995), co-producer
  Incognito (1997), co-producer
  The Scarlet Tunic (1997), executive producer
  
  2000s
  Dinotopia Part 1 (2002), producer
  Dinotopia Part 2 (2002), producer
  Dinotopia Part 3 (2002), producer
  
  2010s
  Everything or Nothing 007 (2012), cast member
  

  

  William P. Cartlidge (1942–2021)

  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Producer | Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142081/
  

  
  
  

  1942: Billy Mitchell is born.
  (He dies 1999--Hertfordshire, England).

  

  Billy J. Mitchell

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_J._Mitchell

  Born June 16, 1942
  Died 1999 (aged 56–57)
  Hertfordshire, U.K.
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1976–1999

  Billy J. Mitchell (June 16, 1942 – 1999) was an American character actor based in the United Kingdom. He was known for portraying North American characters in British-based productions like Superman (1978), Top Secret! (1984), and GoldenEye (1995).
  
  Mitchell died in 1999 aged 56 or 57 in England. He never married and had no children.

  Filmography
  Carry On England (1976) – Gunner Childs
  Superman (1978) – 1st Editor (Daily Planet)
  Ragtime (1981) – Delmas' Assistant No. 2
  Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) – Keir Santage (Red Seven) (uncredited)
  The Lonely Lady (1983) – Gross
  Never Say Never Again (1983) – Captain Pederson
  Top Secret! (1984) – Martin
  Morons from Outer Space (1985) – Alaska Space Monitoring Unit Commander (uncredited)
  Rustler's Rhapsody (1985) – Town Doctor
  Death Wish 3 (1985) – Fraker's Lawyer
  Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Cop No. 1
  Bird (1988) – Prince
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – Forensic No. 2
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – Dr. Mulbray
  Bullseye! (1990) – Elmer, Tourist
  Malcolm X (1992) – Man No. 1
  GoldenEye (1995) – Admiral Chuck Farrell
  What Rats Won't Do (1998) – Diner on Boat
  A Year and a Day (2005) – Band Leader (final film role)

  

  Billy J. Mitchell (1942–1999)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593165/
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
  1989: Premiere of Licence to Kill in Dublin, Ireland.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the fight scene in the bicycle shop.
  
  2009: Aaron Westgate shares a tutorial for how to create the traditional James Bond gunbarrel.

  

  Bond… James Bond
  Aaron Westgate | March 20, 2009
  https://planetphotoshop.com/bond-james-bond.html
  Corey reproduces the famous Bond logo in this tutorial.
  

  2013: ITV Granada broadcasts A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode) with appearances by Ian Fleming and James Bond via contributions from writer Charlie Higson.

  

  A Caribbean Mystery (Agatha Christie's Marple episode)

  https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/A_Caribbean_Mystery_(Agatha_Christie%27s_Marple_episode)
  Directed by: Charles Palmer
  Written by: Charlie Higson
  Adapted from: A Caribbean Mystery
  Starring: Julia McKenzie
  Production Company: ITV
  Network: ITV
  Aired: 16 June 2013
  Country of Origin: United Kingdom
  Preceded by: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  Followed by: Greenshaw's Folly

  A Caribbean Mystery is the first episode of the sixth series of Agatha Christie's Marple. It was broadcast on ITV by Granada Television on 16 June 2013. The screenplay was written by Charlie Higson and the episode was directed by Charles Palmer. It was an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

  Synopsis
  After a period of ill health, Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for the tropical Caribbean paradise of St Honoré, where an English couple - Tim and Molly Kendall - run a quaint little resort called the Golden Palms. Among the many guests, which include the innocuous Hillingdons, their unseemly American friends the Dysons, and gruff business tycoon Jason Rafiel, is garrulous Major Palgrave, who is friendly to all - much to everyone's chagrin. When Palgrave launches into his infamous storytelling routine one evening, only Miss Marple takes enough interest to listen. Talk quickly turns to murder, and Palgrave coyly asks her if she'd like to see a photograph of a serial killer. But before he can pull it out, he sees something - or someone - and quickly changes the subject. After a night of excessive drink and entertainment, including a voodoo show, Palgrave is found dead in his room the next morning - the cause of death being a heart attack. Sensing his death is no coincidence, Miss Marple takes it upon herself to unravel the secrets of the guests of St. Honoré, intent on finding the one person with a secret worth killing for. But more victims will be claimed, and one suspect will slowly lose their grip on sanity altogether before this Caribbean mystery will be solved.

  Cast
  Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
  Pippa Bennett-Warner as Victoria
  Charity Wakefield as Molly Kendall
  Robert Webb as Tim Kendall
  Warren Brown as Jackson
  Alastair Mackenzie as Colonel Hillingdon
  Hermione Norris as Evelyn Hillingdon
  Charles Mesure as Greg Dyson
  MyAnna Buring as Lucky Dyson
  Kingsley Ben-Adir as Errol
  Antony Sher as Rafiel
  Montserrat Lombard as Esther Walters
  Oliver Ford Davies as Major Palgrave
  Daniel Rigby as Canon Prescott
  Andrea Dondolo as Mama Zogbe
  Joe Vaz as Sergeant Weston
  Anele Matoti as Inspector Daventry
  Jeremy Crutchley as Ian Fleming
  Charlie Higson as James Bond

  Filming Locations
  Rather than filming in the Caribbean the episode was made in Cape Town, South Africa.

  

  Charlie Higson's licence to
  rewrite Agatha Christie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/407947/Charlie-Higson-s-licence-to-rewrite-Agatha-Christie

  JAMES BOND and Miss Marple don’t seem like natural bedfellows until you meet Charlie Higson. The Fast Show comedian, children’s author and actor was intent, he says, in “bringing together two great literary families”, which is exactly what he has done in adapting Agatha’s Christie’s Caribbean Mystery.
  By David Stephenson | Sun, Jun 16, 2013

  
  Charlie Higson as James Bond and Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple

  Higson has put the superspy – or rather, his real-life inspiration – into this episode. He plays an American birdwatcher called called James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming chose for 007.
  
  He says: “One of the first things the production wanted when they approached me was to put historical figures into Marple, to root them in time.
  
  “Because it was set in the Caribbean they thought it would be interesting to have our two great literary estates come together in the form of Ian Fleming, who had his house Golden Eye out there, where he wrote all the James Bond books, and Christie.”
  
  Higson, the author of the Young Bond books wasn’t daunted: “No, not in that way. I think people go to Christie for the plots, those very intricately worked out mysteries, for the sleight of hand of hiding things from you and how she pulls off those tricks.

  You tinker with Christie
  at your peril. She has
  sold billions of books.
  The people who tune
  into these shows know
  what they want to watch.
  Charlie Higson

  “The simple characterisation in that respect supplies a need, which is why she remains so popular today. It is a closed world with very rigid structures and her vocabulary is fairly simple. It’s all there to function the plot. Agatha Christie was always one of those books that children started reading when they gave up on children’s books.”
  
  SO BOND... how was that achieved? “As we know Fleming got the name of Bond from the American ornithologist of the same name. It was on Fleming’s bookshelf at the time. He simply looked up. So I came up with the idea of putting Ian Fleming there and him meeting James Bond doing a talk on birds to people at the resort and that’s where we see him. So we made it that everyone who was at the ornithology lecture had a cast-iron alibi.”
  
  Did the Christie estate demand any changes? “No, all they wanted was that I keep the murder or murderers and that the victims remain the same as they do in the Caribbean Mystery book. You can play around with the rest of it.
  
  “You tinker with Christie at your peril. She has sold billions of books. The people who tune into these shows know what they want to watch.”
  
  He added: “What you do know when you read the book is that no one says anything unless there’s a reason for it. It’s that mechanical.”
  
  He agrees the adaptation is blessed with a strikingly good cast. “I couldn’t believe that I got Antony Sher. I thought this is going to make my terrible lines really good!” Joining Sher are Julia McKenzie’s Miss Marple, Warren Brown, Oliver Ford Davies, Myanna Buring and Hermione Norris. I defy you to pick out the killer in the first 10 minutes, it’s that good.
  
  In a trick of television the Caribbean was actually South Africa. “The problem with shooting in the Caribbean is that there’s no infrastructure. There’s really no film and TV industry there so you have to take all your equipment and crew with you.”
  
  He adds: “There was even CGI in there. Did you know there are no palm trees in South Africa?” You will be comforted to know however that it rained the whole time he was there. “It hammered it down for those three days I was there. We had to build an emergency roof over the area where I made my speech as James Bond. There was thunder, lightning, the whole thing.
  
  “At one point the set nearly collapsed. We were shooting with Antony and Julia and one of them said: ‘This is about to collapse!’ Up went the scaffolding poles to save it. You see none of it in the finished product.”
  
  HIS CAMEO was well received. “Well, apart from everyone trying to prop up the roof in this gale. I’m standing there at the back, trying to do my lines and then I realised that no one was paying attention to me at all.
  
  “It’s always the way in the filming. It’s incredibly stressful. I was sitting at home hoping everything is going well then they say: ‘Come and do this James Bond thing.’ You arrive and they say: ‘Rewrite this, change that.’ The marvels of filming. Hopefully it will all look like a wonderful tropical evening.”
  
  Agatha Christie’s Marple, ITV, tonight, 9pm

  
  

  
  2022: Potter & Potter Auctions auctions Pop Culture, Disneyana, & Collectibles & Bond.

  

  

  Pop Culture, Disneyana & Collectibles

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  June 16, 2022 • 10:00 AM
  
  A cornucopia of American pop culture memorabilia is represented in this nearly 700 lot sale from rock & roll memorabilia, movie posters, and autographs, to an extensive collection of James Bond and spy toys, vintage toy guns, comics, cards, and games. Disneyana and Steiff are also featured.

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  2022: DMD Digital publishes Filming James Bond in the Bahamas by Simon Firth.

  

  Filming James
  Bond in the
  Bahamas |
  STANDARD
  HARDCOVER

  See the complete article here:
  

  PUBLICATION DATE: JUNE 16, 2022 | All pre-orders will be dispatched after June 16

  “The Bahamas was just terrific. Bloody hard work, but terrific”, says Martin Campbell, the director of Casino Royale. Not only did the 2006 James Bond film rejuvenate the franchise, it also marked the return of His Majesty’s most loyal secret agent to The Bahamas.
  
  Whether the country and its islands provides by way of glamorous location, transcendent beaches or the exalted blues of it clear waters, The Bahamas has seen cinematic James Bond visit no less than 007 times! Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, Casino Royale, and underwater in You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and The World Is Not Enough; indication enough for The Bahamas to be considered 007’s favourite destination, as this book will prove.
  
  Speaking to more than 30 people on both sides of the Productions, location owners and those who helped prepare the locations for filming, Simon Firth answers every question imaginable.Illustrated with images from both the archives of On The Tracks Of 007 and those interviewed from the films’ productions, Filming James Bond in The Bahamas is the definitive work charting James Bond in film and book as his adventures take you through the beauty and romance of this stunning country.
  
  Featuring a Foreword by Casino Royale’s director Martin Campbell and an Afterword by production manager Anthony Waye.

  Specifications:
  Written by Simon Firth
  Edited and designed by Martijn Mulder
  Cover by Jeffrey Marshall
  Full colour - hardcover w/ dustjacket - 282 pages
  ISBN: 9789081329484
  Published by: DMD DIGITAL - The Netherlands

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 18th
  
  1942: Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE is born--Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
  
  1959: Lord Ridley writes to Ian Fleming suggesting the Seychelles as a location for adventure.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

  For all the build-up, the CBS programmes were never produced. When
  Ship Kelly discovered that Ian was negotiating another television series
  with CBS through Hubell Robinson, he took umbrage. He imagined Paley
  was going behind his back to deal with Ian. Although Paley appeared to
  be unaware of Robinson’s initiative, he immediately put a stop to it.
  According to Ship’s wife, Kay-Kay, now remarried as Mrs Douglas Auch-
  incloss, Paley considered his friendship with Ship more important than
  any television series. In the mutual relationships the casino project was
  abandoned. Only the omnibus edition of James Bond’s adventures sur-
  vived.
  
  It was all rather anticlimactic when Ian began to edit his Seychelles
  pieces. A search for photographs took him to the North of England where
  Lord Richard Percy, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, was professor
  of zoology at Newcastle University. Percy had visited the Seychelles with
  his friend Lord Ridley in 1955 and had taken some photographs. (Percy
  and Ridley had been near contemporaries at Eton, though of a slightly
  later vintage than Ian.) Ridley wrote to Ian on 18 June suggesting that the
  Seychelles might provide an interesting backdrop for a James Bond novel.
  Ian had already thought of that, replying, “I have mentioned your
  suggestion to James Bond. He was in fact sent there briefly during Mak-
  arlo’s exile. He was sent to fix up the security arrangements and to foil a
  Greek commando attempt at rescue. While he was there he was involved
  in a subsidiary adventure featuring a bizarre fish called the Hildebrand
  Rarity; and I hope that one day M. will allow me to have access to the
  relevant files.
  
  Ian was referring to the fact that on his travels he had started to write a
  series of five short stories which he completed in Jamaica the following
  spring and which were published as a collected in April 1960. In ‘The
  Hildebrand Rarity’ James Bond enjoys the usual luxury of a week’s leave
  in the Seychelles, where he meets a boorish American millionaire called
  Milton Krest who is cruising through the islands collecting rare species of
  animals and fish for his tax-dodge charity, the Krest Foundation. Ian drew
  on his own recent experiences in Jamaica as well as the Seychelles to flesh out
  the detail. For example, in order to capture the Hildebrand Rarity, an
  unusual striped fish, Krest is prepared to poison the sea. Reflecting Ian’s
  own love of the ocean, Bond shows an ecological awareness ahead of his
  time in seeking to halt this unequal struggle between the evil of technology
  and the beauty of nature.

  

  
  1960: Barbara Broccoli is born--Los Angeles, California.
  1963: Pedro Armendáriz dies at age 51--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 9 May 1912--Mexico City, Mexico.)

  

  Pedro Armendáriz

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, May 9, 1912 - Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

  Died June 18, 1963 (age 51) - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Cause of death Suicide by gunshot
  Burial place Panteón Jardín, Mexico City
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1935–1963
  Spouse(s) Carmelita Bohr
  (m. 1938; his death 1963)
  Children 2, including Pedro Jr.

  
  Pedro Armendáriz (born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings; May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s.
  
  Early life
  Armendáriz was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García Conde (Mexican) and Adela Hastings (American). He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín. Armendáriz and his younger brother Francisco lived with their uncle Henry Hastings, Sr. in Laredo, Texas after their mother died. He later studied in California. He started in the world of acting by participating in the stage plays performed by the theater group at the University of California, where he continued a career in law. He graduated with an engineering degree from the California Polytechnic State University.
  
  

  
  Armendáriz with Harry Carey Jr. and John Wayne in 3 Godfathers in 1949.

  Career
  When Armendáriz finished his studies, he moved to Mexico where he worked for the railroad, as a tour guide and as a journalist for the bilingual magazine México Real. He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz recited a soliloquy from Hamlet to an American tourist. His meeting with the director Emilio Fernández was providential, whereupon the actor and director began working in numerous films: Soy puro mexicano (1942), Flor silvestre (1942) and specially María Candelaria (1943) were the first films of intense common path. Under the guidance of Emilio Fernández, Pedro Armendáriz developed the film personality traits of strong nationalist; often, he played tough and manly men, indigenous, peasants and revolutionaries. Amendáriz repeatedly portrayed Pancho Villa and played opposite actresses such as Dolores del Río and María Félix.
  
  With Dolores del Río, Amendáriz formed one of the most legendary couples of the Mexican cinema. María Candelaria provided Armendáriz with international visibility. The film was awarded the Palm d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Other prominent titles where Armendáriz appeared with Dolores del Río were Las Abandonadas (1944), Bugambilia (1944) and La Malquerida (1949). Maria Felix was his other partner in such films as Enamorada (1946) or Maclovia (1948).[1]
  
  In the late 40s, he made the jump to Hollywood by the hand of John Ford. Armendáriz was a favorite of Ford, appearing in three of his films: The Fugitive (1947), Fort Apache and 3 Godfathers (both 1948).

  
  Armendáriz with Lana Turner in Diane in 1956.

  Besides his career in the Mexican cinema, Armendáriz made a remarkable career in Hollywood and Europe. His other prominent films in Hollywood were: We Were Strangers (1949, directed by John Huston), The Torch (1950), Border River (1954), The Conqueror (1956) and Diane (1956), among others. In Europe, highlighted his participation in the film Lucrèce Borgia (1953), filmed in France. In Mexico, his participation highlighted such notable films such as El Bruto (1953, directed by Luis Buñuel), La Cucaracha (1959) and La Bandida (1962).

  Armendáriz's last appearance was in the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963), as Bond's ally, Kerim Bey. Armendáriz was terminally ill with cancer during the filming of From Russia with Love, and towards the end of shooting he was too ill to perform his part; his final scenes were performed by his double, director Terence Young. Armendáriz died four months before the release of the film.

  Personal life

  Armendáriz was married to actress Carmelita Bohr (née Pardo) by whom he had one son and daughter. Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. also became an actor and appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989); his daughter Carmen Armendáriz became a TV producer.

  Illness and death
  In 1956, Armendáriz had a role in the film The Conqueror produced by Howard Hughes. Filmed in the state of Utah at the time when the US government was doing above-ground nuclear testing in neighboring Nevada, within 25 years 91 of the 220 people involved in the production were afflicted with cancer, 46 of whom died.
  
  Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hips; years later it was discovered that he had neck cancer. He learned his condition was terminal while at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and, reportedly, endured great pain to film From Russia with Love (he visibly limps in most scenes) in order to assure his family financial resources.
  
  On June 18, 1963, Armendáriz committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a gun he had smuggled into the hospital. He was 51 years old. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.

  

  Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)

  Actor | Producer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000784/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: Goldfinger films Oddjob and Kisch and Bond and the bomb.
  
  1973: Apple Records releases the single "Live and Let Die" in the US. (B-side: "I Lie Around".)

  
  

  1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 1 March 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1009
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/dwmbo.php3
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/die-with-my-boots-on/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Press 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  Droghandlarna (Die With My Boots On)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-30-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 30: “Die With My Boots On” (1974)
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens dies at age 66--Vienna, Austria.
  (Born 13 December 1915--Solin, Munich, Germany.)

  

  CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
  UPI | JUNE 19, 1982
  
  Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.
  
  Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.
  
  His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

  Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

  Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners
  
  Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.
  
  A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.
  
  With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''
  
  Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

  

  Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (169 credits)
  
  1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
  1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
  1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
  1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
  1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander
  
  1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
  1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
  1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
  1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
  1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
  1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
  1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
  1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
  - Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
  1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
  1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
  1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
  1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
  - Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
  1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
  1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
  1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
  1975 Second Spring - Fox
  1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
  - Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
  1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
  1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
  1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
  1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
  1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
  1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
  - The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  - The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
  1973 Occupation (TV Series)
  1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
  1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
  Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
  - Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
  - Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
  1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
  1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
  1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
  1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
  1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
  1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
  1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
  - Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  - Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
  1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
  1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
  1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
  1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks
  
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
  1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
  1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
  1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
  1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
  1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
  1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
  1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
  1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
  1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
  1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
  1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
  1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
  1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
  1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
  1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
  1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
  1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
  1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
  1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
  1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
  - The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
  1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
  1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
  1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
  - Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
  1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
  1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
  - The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
  1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
  1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
  1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
  1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
  1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
  1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun
  
  1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
  1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
  1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
  1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
  1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
  1957 Les espions - Alex
  1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
  1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
  1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
  1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
  1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
  1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
  1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
  1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
  1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
  1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
  1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
  1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
  1954 Orient Express - Bate
  1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
  1954 Circus of Love - Toni
  1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
  1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
  1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
  1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
  1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
  1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
  1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
  1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
  1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
  1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
  1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
  1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
  1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
  1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
  1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
  1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
  1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
  1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
  1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor
  
  1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
  1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
  1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
  1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
  1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
  1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
  1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
  1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
  1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
  1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
  1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
  1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
  1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
  1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
  1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
  1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
  1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
  1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
  1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
  1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
  1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
  1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
  1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
  1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
  1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
  1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
  1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
  1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)
  
  Director (6 credits)
  
  1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
  - Immer die Bigelows (1966)
  - Flug nach Ankara (1966)
  - Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
  - Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
  1951 Gangsterpremiere
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
  1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
  1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
  1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
  Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)