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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 8 Posts: 14,532

  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: 14,532

  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: 14,532

  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: 14,532

  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: 14,532

  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.

  

  

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  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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  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
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  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)
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  June 19th
  
  1913: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) is born--London, England.
  (She dies 12 July 1981 at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.)

  

  Ann Fleming

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  Fleming in 1957

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

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

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

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

  

  1916: George Pravda is born--Prague, Czechia.
  (He dies 1 May 1985 at age 68--London, England.)

  

  George Pravda (1918–1985)
  Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695590/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1921: Louis Jourdan is born--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
  (He dies 14 February 2015 at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Louis Jourdan obituary

  French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
  Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
  James Bond movie Octopussy

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan

  Michael Freedland | Sun 15 Feb 2015 18.15 EST

  
  Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron in Gigi, 1958. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

  For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.
  
  When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.
  
  He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.
  
  Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.
  
  His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.
  
  In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.
  
  In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.
  
  He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).
  
  He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.

  He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”

  Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.
  
  His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.
  
  • Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
  • This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.

  

  Louis Jourdan (1921–2015)

  Actor | Soundtrack | Production Manager
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431139/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Actor Louis Jourdan Decorated with the Légion d'Honneur July 2010
  

  
  1952: Virginia Hey is born--Coogee, New South Wales, Australia.
  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the Orient Express train fight.
  1967: Roger Ebert reviews You Only Live Twice.

  

  You Only Live Twice

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/you-only-live-twice-1967

  | Roger Ebert June 19, 1967 |
  Remember those neat gadgets M was always dreaming up for James Bond? Their beauty was that they were well designed and terribly complicated, like Swiss astronomical watches, and they had a great many functions. Probably the best two were the briefcase in "From Russia with Love" and that custom car in "Goldfinger."
  
  The great thing about these gadgets was that after M explained them to 007, they just sat around for a long time looking like briefcases and cars. Their tricks were spread through the film, and always came as a surprise when they finally were sprung. Suspense! Timing! Humor! As when the Chinese spy ejected himself from the driver's seat.
  
  The gadgets were symptomatic of what made the first three Bond films such perfect representatives of the sex-and-sadism spy genre. It was as if the director had gone over every line of the script with a design engineer at his elbow and lovingly worked all the functions of the gadgetry into all the folds of the plot so that everything held together in a subtle way.
  
  A great deal of money was spent on the fifth Bond epic in an attempt to duplicate this mystique, but in "You Only Live Twice" the formula fails to work its magic. Like its predecessor "Thunderball," another below-par entry, this one is top-heavy with gadgets but weak on plotting and getting everything to work at the same time.
  
  For example, we're given another of those delicious scenes we've grown to love, in which Bond has a new gadget explained, to him. This time it's a lightweight one-man helicopter that can fire machine-gun bullets, missiles, rockets and flames. So far, so good. But instead of working the helicopter into the plot, the film immediately demonstrates all these goodies.
  
  Bond takes off. Four helicopters attack him, naturally. He shoots one down with the machine-gun, one with the rockets, one with the missiles, and he incinerates the fourth with his flame-thrower. Just like that.
  
  Same goes for the other stock ingredients. The girls (breathtaking Japanese lovelies) are beautiful and sexy as always, but they don't really emerge as characters the way Pussy Galore did. They're just there, decorating the place, running around in bikinis and, worst of all, not presenting much of a threat to old 007 most of the time.
  
  Connery labors mightily. There is still the same Bond grin, still the cool humor under fire, still the slight element of satire. But when he puts on his cute little helmet and is strapped into his helicopter, somehow the whole illusion falls apart and what we're left with is a million-dollar playpen in which everything works but nothing does anything.

  
  1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 3 December 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/
  
  
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010
  
  
  http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-by-jim.html
  
  
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  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

  Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
  ("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)
  

  
  Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
  "Jagten på det sorte guld" [The Hunt for the Black Gold]
  
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_tgm.php3?s=comics&id=02182
  

  
  1983: Aiden Turner is born--Clondalkin, Ireland.
  1988: Teru Shimada dies at age 83--Encino, California.
  (Born 17 November 1905--Mito, Japan.)

  

  Teru Shimada

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
  Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

  Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

  During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793574/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (74 credits)
  
  1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
  - The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
  1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
  - The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
  1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
  - Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
  1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
  - The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
  1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
  - Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
  1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
  1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
  - Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki
  
  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Mr. Namura
  - Hostage (1968) ... Mr. Namura
  1968 Mannix (TV Series) - Gardener
  - The Need of a Friend (1968) ... Gardener
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Judge Hara
  - Transplant (1968) ... Judge Hara
  1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Mr. Tsu
  - When Good Friends Get Together (1968) ... Mr. Tsu
  1967 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk - Mr. Pan
  1967 Savage Justice - Tom Hirata
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Mr. Osato
  1966 Batman: The Movie
  Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
  1966 Walk Don't Run - Mr. Kurawa
  1965 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Capt. Osama
  - I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus (1965) ... Capt. Osama
  1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Okura
  - Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Mr. Okura
  1962-1965 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Dr. Maseo Tachikawa / Ito Kumagi
  - The Case of the Baffling Bug (1965) ... Dr. Maseo Tachikawa
  - The Case of the Capricious Corpse (1962) ... Ito Kumagi
  1965 King Rat - The Japanese General
  1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Nakamura
  - ...And Five of Us Are Left (1965) ... Nakamura
  1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - President Sing-Mok
  - Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two (1965) ... President Sing-Mok
  1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Japanese Captain
  - A Time for Killing (1965) ... Japanese Captain
  1963 The Prize - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
  1963 Sunday in New York - Maitre 'd (uncredited)
  1963 Hazel (TV Series) - Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  - A Good Example for Harold (1963) ... Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ling Chow
  - In a Foreign Quarter (1962) ... Ling Chow
  1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
  1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Takara - Board Game Opponent
  - Coming of the Tiger (1962) ... Takara - Board Game Opponent
  1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - Captain Suma
  - The Longest Crap Game in History (1961) ... Captain Suma
  1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Kami
  - Dragon at the Door (1961) ... Kami
  1960-1961 The Islanders (TV Series) - Kam Chuh / Regas
  - The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo (1961) ... Kam Chuh
  - The Terrified Blonde (1960) ... Regas
  1961 Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) - - Affair in Tokyo (1961)
  1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Maj. Samada
  1960 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Colonel Okumara
  - Colonel Cat (1960) ... Colonel Okumara
  1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - Noburu
  - Sword of the Samurai (1960) ... Noburu
  1960 The Detectives (TV Series) - Mr. Harada
  - Karate (1960) ... Mr. Harada
  
  1959 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series) - Osato
  - The Ricardos Go to Japan (1959) ... Osato
  1959 Battle of the Coral Sea - Comm. Mori
  1959 Tokyo After Dark - Sen-Sei
  1959 Steve Canyon (TV Series) - Major Fukuda
  - The Prisoner (1959) ... Major Fukuda
  1958 The Geisha Boy - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
  1958 Run Silent Run Deep - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
  1956-1957 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Kiyoshi Arikawa / Kiyoshi
  - Innocent Conspiracy (1957) ... Kiyoshi Arikawa
  - The Pearl (1956) ... Kiyoshi
  1956-1957 Navy Log (TV Series) - Patriarch / Judge Toyama
  - The Commander and the Kid (1957) ... Patriarch
  - A Guy Called Mickey (1956) ... Judge Toyama
  1957 The Delicate Delinquent - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
  1957 Battle Hymn - Korean Official
  1956 Navy Wife - Mayor Yoshida
  1956 Telephone Time (TV Series)
  - Time Bomb (1956)
  1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series)
  - Call Home the Heart (1956)
  1955 House of Bamboo - Nagaya (uncredited)
  1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Japanese Father (uncredited)
  1954 The Snow Creature - Subra
  1953 The War of the Worlds - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
  1950 Emergency Wedding - Ho (uncredited)
  
  1949 Tokyo Joe - Ito
  1944 Dragon Seed - Villager (uncredited)
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
  
  1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
  1936 White Legion - Dr. Nogi (as Teru Shumada)
  1936 Revolt of the Zombies - Buna
  1935 The Affair of Susan - Spieler (uncredited)
  1935 Oil for the Lamps of China - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
  1935 Public Hero Number 1 - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Let 'em Have It - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Bordertown - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
  1934 Imitation of Life - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
  1934 Charlie Chan's Courage - Jiu Jitsu Man
  1934 Murder at the Vanities - Koto (uncredited)
  1934 Four Frightened People - Native (uncredited)
  1933 Midnight Club - Nishi (uncredited)
  1933 Gabriel Over the White House - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
  1932 The Night Club Lady - Ito Mura (uncredited)
  1932 The Washington Masquerade - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Mr. Osato
  1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - The World of James Bond (1967) ... Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2007: EON and Sony Pictures announce Marc Forster to direct BOND 22.

  

  Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony,
  MGM

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.screendaily.com/marc-forster-set-to-direct-bond-22-for-eon-sony-mgm/4033198.article

  By Jeremy Kay19 June 2007
  
  Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.
  
  Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start work imminently on the screenplay with Paul Haggis from a draft by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade.

  Bond 22 will begin filming at Pinewood Studios in London in December in time for a worldwide release through Sony on Nov 7, 2008.
  
  Daniel Craig is set to reprise the role of 007 following his acclaimed performance in last year's global hit Casino Royale, which grossed nearly $600m worldwide to become the most successful release in the 45-year franchise.

  'We are delighted that Marc Forster, with his exceptional talent and unique vision, has agreed to direct our next James Bond film,' Wilson and Broccoli said.
  
  'I have always been drawn to different kinds of stories and I have also always been a Bond fan, so it is very exciting to take on this challenge,' Forster said. 'The new direction that the Bond character has taken offers a director a host of new possibilities and I look forward to working with Daniel Craig, Barbara Broccoli, and Michael Wilson, as well as the team at Sony and MGM on this new film.'

  'We had a great experience working with Marc on Stranger than Fiction and we are excited to be working with him again,' SPE co-chairman Amy Pascal said. 'He's an actor's director - he approaches material with intelligence and taste. What makes him the perfect choice for Bond 22 is that he will bring to this film all the elements Bond audiences expect - action, humour, suspense, and thrills.'
  
  'The Bond franchise is one of MGM's most treasured legacies,' Harry Sloan, chairman and chief executive officer of MGM, added. 'We share Michael and Barbara's confidence in Marc Forster's directing talents and support him in his efforts to continue the evolution of the Bond story for today's filmgoers.'

  Forster's credits include Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball and he is represented by CAA and Management 360.
  

  
  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #8.
  Eric Gapstur, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #8

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532508011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: Khoi Pham
  Cover C: Steve Lieber
  Cover D: Eric Gapstur
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Eric Gapstur
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: June 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/19/2019

  You think you know Goldfinger. But you don't know THIS Goldfinger. Go inside the mind of the most ruthless sociopath in the world, courtesy of GREG PAK (World War Hulk, Weapon X) and ERIC GAPSTUR (Batman Beyond, The Flash: Year Zero).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: Dynamite Entertainment release James Bond 007 #6. Finale for "Your Cold, Cold Heart" and marks a decade of Bond comics delivered.
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Dave Johnson, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: 007 #6

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513033924906011
  
  SKU: C72513033924906011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  UPC: 72513033924906011
  Writer: Garth Ennis
  Artist: Rapha Lobosco
  Genre: Spy Fiction/Action Adventure
  Publication Date: June, 2024
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 6/19/2024

  As time runs out for 007 to stop the deployment of the STALVODA compound, he does what any good agent would do when faced with hopeless odds - he calls in an airstrike! Unfortunately, there is still the small matter of being stuck at ground zero when it arrives... Meanwhile, the snake in the grass at MI6 finally reveals himself - but is it too late for Bond to do anything about it?
  
  Featuring a suitably steely cover by DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) and iconic interiors by RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box), the finale of "Your Cold, Cold Heart" marks a milestone for first-time Bond author GARTH ENNIS and caps off a decade of James Bond comics at Dynamite!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2025: National Martini Day in the US.

  

  

  National Martini Day –
  June 19, 2021 [and every year]
  U.S.

  https://nationaltoday.com/national-martini-day/

  Do you prefer it dry, dirty, shaken, or not stirred? That’s the question we’re all asking on National Martini Day, a special occasion to enjoy your favorite version of the classic martini cocktail. The martini was originally called “The Martinez,” named after the California Gold Rush for the town of Martinez, where it was invented. Early martinis were made with wine, gin, and an olive. But since have expanded to many exciting flavors! So this June 19 take a moment to relax while sipping on a new type of martini after your long day and start feeling like the international spy of mystery that you are.

  Timeline

  First Published
  A recipe for the sweet drink is first published in the “Bartender’s Manual.”
  1882
  
  The Manhattan
  The martini begins with the Manhattan, which combines spirits and vermouth.
  1951
  
  Vodka Martini
  The vodka martini is first referred to in a cocktail recipe book titled Bottoms Up.
  1960s
  
  Three-Martini Lunch
  The three-martini lunch becomes a common practice for cosmopolitan executives and businessmen
  

  National Martini Day Activities

  Try making a martini (for the first time) at home
  If you haven't made your self a martini at home ever try one of our recipes to test out the classic martini. If you already are a cocktail master, take today to try out a new one you've never tasted. Espresso martini, gin martini, cranberry martini, lemon martini, grapefruit martini: the possibilities are endless.
  
  Go out a martini at a bar
  Text your friends for an after work meet-up. Bonus points if you can find a cocktail bar with a piano and a lounge singer, because the only thing that makes drinking a martini better, is drinking it in the proper lounge setting.
  
  Buy yourself or a friend a martini related gift
  Do you need a mixer set to get started in your mixology adventure? Buy cocktails ingredients and bring them over to a friends house. Because, in reality, the enjoyment of drinking cocktails is truly about the company you keep.

  
  Why We Love National Martini Day

  Martinis highlight the flavor of gin
  If you're not a gin fan you might have some trouble loving a martini, but if you do like gin, the martini is the essential drink to highlight the flavor of juniper berries and complement it with new and interesting flavors such as grapefruit or even espresso.
  
  Martinis are easy to make
  You only need eight things on hand to make a perfect martini: ice, a martini glass, a shot glass, a shaker, a strainer, vermouth, gin, and a garnish. Its so simple you can make them at home: try it out this National Martini Day.
  
  Martinis are fun
  Martinis conjure up all sorts of images of high class ladies, James bond spies and adventure. You can take advantage of this and have a martini party or outing themed specifically towards the fun that automatically arrives when you order a Martini.

  National Martini Day dates

  2023 - June 19 - Monday
  2024 - June 19 - Wednesday
  2025 - June 19 - Thursday

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 20th
  
  1915: Terence Young is born--Shanghai, China.
  (He dies 7 September 1994 at age 79--Cannes, France.)

  

  Obituary: Terence Young

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html

  David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994 00:02
  
  Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.
  
  THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.
  
  Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.
  
  Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.
  
  Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.
  
  In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

  Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

  He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.
  
  Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

  By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

  When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.
  
  Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.
  
  Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.
  
  Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.
  
  This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

  
  Terence Young
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Director (40 credits)
  
  1988 Run for Your Life
  1983 The Jigsaw Man
  1981 Inchon
  1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1975 Jackpot
  1974 The Klansman
  1973 The Amazons
  1972 The Valachi Papers
  1971 Red Sun
  1970 Cold Sweat
  
  1969 The Christmas Tree
  1968 Mayerling
  1967 Wait Until Dark
  1967 The Rover
  1966 Triple Cross
  1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
  1965 Thunderball
  1965 The Secret Agents
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  1963 From Russia with Love
  1962 Dr. No
  1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
  1961 Black Tights
  1960 Playgirl After Dark
  
  1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Dark as the Night (1959)
  1959 Serious Charge
  1958 Tank Force
  1957 Action of the Tiger
  1956 Zarak
  1956 Safari
  1955 Storm Over the Nile
  1955 That Lady
  1953 Paratrooper
  1952 The Frightened Bride
  1951 Valley of the Eagles
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1948 Woman Hater
  1948 One Night with You
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors
  
  Writer (17 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
  1973 The Amazons
  1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
  1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
  1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
  1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
  
  1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
  1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
  1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
  1944 On Approval (uncredited)
  1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
  1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)
  
  1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
  1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
  1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
  1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
  Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)
  
  Editorial department (1 credit)
  
  1980 Long Days (supervising editor)
  
  Thanks (2 credits)
  
  2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)
  
  Self (13 credits)
  
  2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
  1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
  1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
  - L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
  1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
  - On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
  1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
  1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
  - Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
  1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
  1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (14 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
  2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
  1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
  1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
  - Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1961: On the advice of Arthur Krim, Broccoli and Saltzman give their Bond movie pitch to David Picker in New York. They get a six-picture deal with United Artists, the first is bankrolled for $1 million.
  (Compare to Columbia's offer of $400,000.)
  1964: Chris Cornell is born--Seattle, Washington.
  (He dies 18 May 2017 at age 52--Detroit, Michigan.)

  

  Chris Cornell obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Lead singer of rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and one of
  the trailblazers of Seattle’s grunge scene
  Adam Sweeting | Thu 18 May 2017 13.29 EDT

  
  Chris Cornell on stage just hours before his death - video report

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Chris Cornell(I) (1964–2017)

  Soundtrack | Actor | Composer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180225/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  

  1969: George Lazenby completes his last day of filming as James Bond.
  
  1984: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson finish their A View to a Kill screenplay. Eleven revisions follow.

  

  Entertainment & Memorabilia, 3rd October 2019, 9:30am
  
  Lot 2560
  James Bond View To A Kill - An original Screenplay script dated 20 June 1984

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  James Bond View To A Kill - An original Screenplay script dated 20 June 1984, Screenplay by Richard Maibum and Michael G. Wilson, pencil name 'Walter' top right and numbered 123 to inside page. With revision pages, 150 pages in total.
  
  Provenance: Consigned by the family of Walter Gotell (1924-1997) - German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love. He also appeared as Gogol in the final part of The Living Daylights (1987), Timothy Dalton's first Bond film.
  
  Hammer Price: £1,200

  
  
  
  

  1985: 鐵金剛勇破 爆炸黨 (Iron King Breaking Through) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  
  

  
  1992: James Bond Jr's action video game released by Eurocom for Super Nintendo. The original Nintendo Entertainment System variant had released in September 1991. The only Bond game published by T·HQ.

  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Press report Martin Campbell disparaging BOND 22.

  

  Martin Campbell says director Forster messed
  up 'Quantum of Solace'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/20/green-lantern-director-james-bond

  By IB Times Staff Reporter | 06/19/11

  
  Director Martin Campbell and his wife Sol E. Romero pose at the premiere of his movie "Green Lantern" at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California June 15, 2011. The movie opens in the U.S. on June 17. Reuters

  Hollywood director Martin Campbell said he was unhappy with the making of the 2008 blockbuster movie Quantum of Solace.
  
  Campbell, who was appreciated for giving James Bond series a reboot that it needed in 2006 with Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig, said the movie Quantum of Solace directed by Marc Forster did not keep up with his or the audience expectations.
  
  Oh, I thought it was lousy. And hopefully this next one will be terrific. Sam Mendes is directing it and I'm sure it'll be terrific, Campbell was quoted as saying in Crave.
  
  I just thought the story was pretty uninteresting. I didn't think the action was related to the characters. I just thought overall it was a bit of a mess really, he said.
  
  Now, Campbell sounds outright about the nature of these films to the media and about what Forster did with his franchise on Quantum of Solace, and he doesn't sound any happier about the results than the audience.
  
  Martin Campbell's much-awaited Green Lantern opened on Friday. The film is a superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds. The film is scripted by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which has been subsequently rewritten by Michael Goldenberg.
  
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  2011: Dame Shirley Bassey performs a James Bond tribute at the BAFTAs.

  Dame Shirley Bassey - The 2011 Classic Brit Awards (starts 2:15)
  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic The Body #6.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Ale? Kot, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: THE BODY #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419006011
  Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
  Writer: Ale? Kot
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action
  Publication Date: June 2018
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/20/2018

  A pub. A meeting between old friends. But is it just what it seems? All threads of The Body converge, and Bond has to face the consequence of his actions.

  
  
  

  
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  2018: A screen-used brooch worn by Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny goes to auction at Surrey.

  Screen-used Moneypenny brooch on auction
  14 June, 2018
  http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/screen-used-moneypenny-brooch-auction
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Prince Charles tours the No Time To Die set.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2019: The Guardian celebrates 10 "best smells".

  

  Ten of the best smells

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview32

  Fri 20 Jun 2008 19.09 EDT

  Paradise Lost by John Milton
  
  Nothing smells nicer than Paradise. As Satan approaches Eden, he gets a whiff of "balmy spoils". He is compared to a sailor off the coast of Mozambique, who catches at "Sabean odours from the spicy shore / Of Araby the blest". And for a little while, the fiend pauses and sniffs the beneficial air.

  "The Odour" by George Herbert
  
  The conceit of "The Odour" is that religious consolation is like a pomander. The poet hankers for the "spiciness" of holy perfume. Religious devotion is "as Amber-greese" (a richly smelling secretion of the sperm whale), which "leaves a rich scent / Unto the taster".

  Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  
  In beautiful Georgian Bath, one of the fashionable doctors assures Smollett's protagonist, Matthew Bramble, of the benefits of "the stercoraceous flavour" of the whiff in the Pump-room and describes with delight his "uncommon satisfaction from hanging over the stale contents of a close-stool, while his servant stirred it about under his nose".

  The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  
  In the "Mutabilitie Cantos" of this great poem we enter the Temple of Venus, which swims with perfume, with frankincense, and "odours rising from the altar's flame . . . And all the ground was strewed with flowers as fresh as May." No wonder you feel giddy with "joy and amorous desire".

  Justine by Lawrence Durrell
  
  The colours and smells of Alexandria (often combined) produce a kind of sensual rapture in the narrator. "Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet-smelling brick-dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water . . . The smell of the sweat-lathered Berberinis ... " You may not have smelled this yourself, but you think that he has.

  Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
  
  This could also compete as one of the 10 best opening sentences of a novel. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three o'clock in the morning." In 1953, British readers of Fleming's first Bond novel had not escaped austerity and had no idea what a casino smelt like. But the reek of sin and glamour comes right off the page.

  A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
  
  It was Proust who most memorably recorded how a smell can detonate a hidden memory. We all remember the taste of that madeleine, but its slight perfume matters just as much. "The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls," Proust wrote, "bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

  Flush by Virginia Woolf
  
  A story about Elizabeth Barrett Browning told from the point of view of her dog: "He smelt the swooning smells that lie in the gutters; the bitter smells that corrode iron railings; the fuming, heady smells that rise from basements ... smells that lay far beyond the range of the human nose."

  "The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes
  
  Here smell stands for inspiration, something wild and undeniable. "With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox / It enters the dark hole of the head." When this poem was first published, few readers knew what this smell was. Nowadays, any city resident with a garden will have caught this "sharp hot stink".

  Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  
  A man with super-sensitive smell who grows up in 18th-century Paris, a super-smelly city: "The stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets . . . and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots." No wonder he becomes a perfume-maker.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 20 Posts: 14,532

  June 21st
  
  1938: Don Black, future OBE, is born--London, England.
  
  1959: Albert Romolo Broccoli marries Dana Notol Wilson. Cary Grant as best man.

  
  

  
  1962: Ian Fleming types a letter to twelve-year-old Terry Wing.

  

  FLEMING (IAN)

  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20753/lot/322/
  Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Terry Wing, replying to a fan letter from a twelve-year-old schoolboy and answering some of his questions ("...you are right in thinking that Dr. No is the sequel to From Russia With Love..."): confirming that he does indeed do a lot of travelling ("...one can't really write truthfully about places one hasn't seen for one's self, having been in Naval Intelligence during the war, I do know something about spies and spying..."), telling him about his car ("...I am at present driving a Ford Thunderbird which I have had for two years, but I am in the process of changing to a very new model, the Studebaker Avanti, with a top speed of 174 and acceleration from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds..."), complimenting him on his pluck ("...So far as your future is concerned I shouldn't bother to try and emulate James Bond. You are already an adventurous chap with plenty of guts or you wouldn't be writing to authors out of the blue at the age of 12 and a bit!..."), and "As a prize for your enterprise (bad English that!)" sending a signed copy of his last but one book, 1 page, engraved heading, light coffee-staining on the reverse just showing through, but overall in sound and attractive condition, 4to, 4 Old Mitre Court, Fleet Street, 21 June 1962
  Footnotes
  
  'I SHOULDN'T BOTHER TO TRY AND EMULATE JAMES BOND. YOU ARE ALREADY AN ADVENTUROUS CHAP' – a delightfully revealing letter in which Ian Fleming compliments a schoolboy admirer and gives him details of his own glamorous lifestyle of travel and fast cars, letting slip the admission that he does "know something about spies and spying". The first of the Bond films, Dr No, was to appear that autumn.
  

  
  

  1962: The first recording of The James Bond Theme--Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios, Kensington Gardens Square, London's Baywater District.

  

  1965: Thunderball films Bond chased by Lippe and Fiona Volpe. Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire, England.
  
  1980: Casino Royale re-released in Finland.
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Ireland.
  
  2005: The American Film Institute declares the 22nd greatest film quote of all time as "Bond. James Bond."
  Plus the 90th: "A martini. Shaken, not stirred" .

  

  AFI'S 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME

  afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx
  
  AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is a list of the 100 top film quotes of all time.
  
  A jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists, critics and historians. Selection criteria included choosing quotes from American films which circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.
  
  The television special AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes originally aired on CBS on June 21, 2005.

  1 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."
  Rhett Butler Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
  2 "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
  Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972
  3 "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
  Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
  4 "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
  Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
  5 "Here's looking at you, kid."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  
  6 "Go ahead, make my day."
  Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact 1983
  7 "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
  Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
  8 "May the Force be with you."
  Han Solo Harrison Ford Star Wars 1977
  9 "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
  Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
  10 "You talkin' to me?"
  Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver 1976
  
  11 "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
  Captain Strother Martin Cool Hand Luke 1967
  12 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
  Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
  13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
  Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal Love Story 1970
  14 "The stuff that dreams are made of."
  Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
  15 "E.T. phone home."
  E.T. Pat Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
  
  16 "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
  Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night 1967
  17 "Rosebud."
  Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
  18 "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
  Arthur "Cody" Jarrett James Cagney White Heat 1949
  19 "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
  Howard Beale Peter Finch Network 1976
  20 "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  
  21 "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
  Dr. Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 1991
  22 "Bond. James Bond."
  James Bond Sean Connery Dr. No 1962[/u]
  23 "There's no place like home."
  Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
  24 "I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
  Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
  25 "Show me the money!"
  Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr. Jerry Maguire 1996
  
  26 "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
  Lady Lou Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
  27 "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
  "Ratso" Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy 1969
  28 "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
  Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
  29 "You can't handle the truth!"
  Col. Nathan R. Jessup Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men 1992
  30 "I want to be alone."
  Grusinskaya Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932
  
  31 "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
  Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
  32 "Round up the usual suspects."
  Capt. Louis Renault Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
  33 "I'll have what she's having."
  Customer Estelle Reiner When Harry Met Sally... 1989
  34 "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
  Marie "Slim" Browning Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
  35 "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
  Martin Brody Roy Scheider Jaws 1975
  
  36 "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
  "Gold Hat" Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
  37 "I'll be back."
  The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator 1984
  38 "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
  Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
  39 "If you build it, he will come."
  Shoeless Joe Jackson Ray Liotta (voice) Field of Dreams 1989
  40 "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
  Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994
  
  41 "We rob banks."
  Clyde Barrow Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde 1967
  42 "Plastics."
  Mr. Maguire Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
  43 "We'll always have Paris."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  44 "I see dead people."
  Cole Sear Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense 1999
  45 "Stella! Hey, Stella!"
  Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  
  46 "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
  Charlotte Vale Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
  47 "Shane. Shane. Come back!"
  Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Shane 1953
  48 "Well, nobody's perfect."
  Osgood Fielding III Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
  49 "It's alive! It's alive!"
  Henry Frankenstein Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
  50 "Houston, we have a problem."
  Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995
  
  51 "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
  Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry 1971
  52 "You had me at 'hello.'"
  Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Jerry Maguire 1996
  53 "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
  Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
  54 "There's no crying in baseball!"
  Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks A League of Their Own 1992
  55 "La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
  Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall 1977
  
  56 "A boy's best friend is his mother."
  Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
  57 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
  Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street 1987
  58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
  Michael Corleone Al Pacino The Godfather Part II 1974
  59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
  Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
  60 "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
  Oliver Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933
  
  61 "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
  Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface 1983
  62 "What a dump."
  Rosa Moline Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
  63 "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
  Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman The Graduate 1967
  64 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
  President Merkin Muffley Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
  65 "Elementary, my dear Watson."
  Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
  
  66 "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."
  George Taylor Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes 1968
  67 "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
  Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
  68 "Here's Johnny!"
  Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining 1980
  69 "They're here!"
  Carol Anne Freeling Heather O'Rourke Poltergeist 1982
  70 "Is it safe?"
  Dr. Christian Szell Laurence Olivier Marathon Man 1976
  
  71 "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
  Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
  72 "No wire hangers, ever!"
  Joan Crawford Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest 1981
  73 "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
  Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1931
  74 "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
  Lawrence Walsh Joe Mantell Chinatown 1974
  75 "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
  Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
  
  76 "Hasta la vista, baby."
  The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
  77 "Soylent Green is people!"
  Det. Robert Thorn Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
  78 "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
  Dave Bowman Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
  79 Striker: "Surely you can't be serious."
  Rumack: "I am serious … and don't call me Shirley."
  Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen Airplane! 1980
  80 "Yo, Adrian!"
  Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky 1976
  
  81 "Hello, gorgeous."
  Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 1968
  82 "Toga! Toga!"
  John "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi National Lampoon's Animal House 1978
  83 "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
  Count Dracula Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
  84 "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
  Carl Denham Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
  85 "My precious."
  Gollum Andy Serkis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
  
  86 "Attica! Attica!"
  Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon 1975
  87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
  Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
  88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"
  Ethel Thayer Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 1981
  89 "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."
  Knute Rockne Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
  90 "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."
  James Bond Sean Connery Goldfinger 1964[/u]
  
  91 "Who's on first?"
  Dexter Bud Abbott The Naughty Nineties 1945
  92 "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
  Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980
  93 "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
  Mame Dennis Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
  94 "I feel the need—the need for speed!"
  Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt.jg Nick "Goose"
  Bradshaw Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards Top Gun 1986
  95 "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
  John Keating Robin Williams Dead Poets Society 1989
  
  96 "Snap out of it!"
  Loretta Castorini Cher Moonstruck 1987
  97 "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
  George M. Cohan James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
  98 "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
  Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing 1987
  99 "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"
  Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939
  100 "I'm the King of the World!"
  Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997

  
  2015: Spectre begins Tangier filming.
  2016: Dynamite publishes the hardcover collection of Vargr (Issues #1 to 6).
  Jason Masters, artist/cover. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #6.
  Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458006011
  Cover A: Mike Perkins
  Writer: James Robinson
  Art: Aaron Campbell
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: June 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  UPC: 725130254580 06011
  ON SALE DATE: 6/21

  The thrilling series conclusion! Tiger and Felix have cornered their prey, the North Korean agent responsible for the bio-weapons - but Alena Davoff, Felix's former lover, is still at large, and Felix is dead-set on investigating!
  
  He must figure out if Alena is still working for her former Russian handlers... or if she's gone rogue?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2018: Shinmoedake volcano erupts in Kyushu, Japan.

  
  

  

  Japan volcano featured in 'James Bond' movie
  erupts, ejecting smoke and rocks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-volcano/japan-volcano-featured-in-james-bond-movie-erupts-ejecting-smoke-and-rocks-idUSKBN1JI0EA

  Environment
  June 22, 2018
  By Reuters Staff
  
  TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country’s west.
  
  Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 985 km (616 miles) from Tokyo on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, had quietened down since the earlier eruption, although admission to the 1,421-metre- (4,662-ft-) high peak remained restricted.
  
  Television images showed smoke and ash billowing into the air above the peak, which featured in the 1967 spy film, “You Only Live Twice”. TBS television said rock was thrown as far as 1,100 meters (3,609 ft) from the mountain.
  
  Japan has 110 active volcanoes and monitors 47 constantly. When 63 people were killed in the volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake in September 2014, it was the country’s worst such toll for nearly 90 years.
  
  In January, a member of Japan’s military was struck and killed when rocks from a volcanic eruption rained down on skiers at a central mountain resort.
  
  On Monday, an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck Osaka, Japan’s second largest city, killing five, including a nine-year-old schoolgirl, and injuring hundreds.
  
  Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Clarence Fernandez

  
  

  
  2019: The Independent repeats some opinions for the worst male writing about women.

  [

  Bad fiction: The worst
  male writing about
  women, according to
  Reddit

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.indy100.com/article/sexism-male-writing-women-novels-books-sex-erotica-8965871

  Posted Friday 21 June 2019 07:00 by Joe Sommerlad in ents

  
  Ian Fleming was a popular choice for his descriptions of Bond girls in his many 007 novels
  BEN STANSALL/AFP/GETTY

  A thread on Reddit has asked readers for their favourite examples of bad male writing about women - and the results are pretty cringeworthy indeed.
  
  Some of the 20th century's most acclaimed and widely read novelists came off badly in the excerpts chosen, with the science fiction genre found to be a repeat offender when it comes to the queasy objectification of space age femme fatales.
  
  The great Philip K Dick was damned for the phrase "her breasts pulsed with resentment" while Frank Herbert's suggestion in Heretics of Dune (1984) that "not even the stiffest robe" could conceal a character's "ample breasts" fell foul of the internet literati.
  
  Here are the best (or rather, most appalling) quotes from their selections.
  1. Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796)

  She had torn open her habit, and her bosom was half exposed. The weapon's point rested upon her left breast: And Oh! that was such a breast! The Moonbeams darting full upon it enabled the Monk to observe its dazzling whiteness. His eye dwelt with insatiable avidity upon the beauteous orb.

  2. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

  'Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic,' said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.
  
  'Awfully.' But there was an expression of pain in Bernard's eyes. 'Like meat,' he was thinking.

  3. Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (1954)

  Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable.

  4. Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959)

  For my own amusement sometimes I like to think of her part by part... One breast is smaller than the other, like junior and senior; her pelvic bones are not well covered, she is a little gaunt there. But her body looks gentle and pretty.

  5. John Updike, Rabbit, Run (1960)

  Standing there trying to get the waist of the skirt suit to link at her side, the tops of her breasts, swollen with untaken milk, pushing above her bra, she does have a plumpness, a fullness that call to him...
  
  She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There’s that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men’s dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry.

  6. Stephen King, The Dark Tower: Gunslinger (1982)

  A full-grown one, blond, dirty, and sensual, watched with a speculative curiosity as she drew water from the groaning pump beside the building. She caught the gunslinger's eye, pinched her nipples between her fingers, dropped him a wink, and then went back to pumping.

  7. Michel Houellebecq, Platform (2001)

  She turned on the overhead light and contemplated her body in the mirror. Her breasts were as firm as ever, they hadn't changed since she was seventeen. Her arse was amazingly round too, without a trace of fat; unquestionably she had a beautiful body.

  8. George RR Martin, A Dance with Dragons (2011)

  'F*** yourself, you beardless boy.'
  
  'I'd sooner f*** you.' One quick slash unlaced her jerkin...
  

  She was sopping wet when he entered her. 'Damn you,' she said. 'Damn you damn you damn you.' He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure.

  9. Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers (2015)

  Her mouth was intensely ovoid, an almond mouth, of citrus crescents. And under that sling, her breasts were like young fawns, sheep frolicking in hyssop – Psalms were about to pour out of me.

  10. Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

  His eyes ran over the robe, resting a moment on the slight prominence of her breasts, dropping then to the bronzed carves and ankles, up to the smooth kneecaps. She had a body like a young girl's. She certainly didn't look like the mother of two.

  2019: The Guardian interviews Danny Boyle on Yesterday, Bond, and the 2012 Olympics.

  

  Interview
  Danny Boyle: 'They should get Robert
  Pattinson to be the next James Bond'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/21/danny-boyle-they-should-get-robert-pattinson-to-be-the-next-james-bond

  Xan Brooks | @XanBrooks| Fri 21 Jun 2019

  
  ‘In a time of complete uncertainty, people latch on to the things they can depend on’ … Boyle.
  Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

  The director’s new film imagines a world without the Beatles. He
  talks about bailing on the latest 007 venture, being a national
  treasure and why he naively believes in the goodness of human
  beings
  
  Danny Boyle’s new film, Yesterday, is a spry piece of speculative fiction set in a land that has never heard Sgt Pepper, Hey Jude or Tomorrow Never Knows. On a superficial level, this alternative UK is not so different from our own. The Lowestoft bus still runs on time, friends gather on summer evenings in the beer garden and Ed Sheeran is on the umpteenth leg of his latest tour. But something vital is missing – and only a handful of people realise what has been lost. As one character puts it: “A world without the Beatles is a world that’s infinitely worse.”
  
  Fittingly, Boyle’s film resembles a three-minute pop song itself – so simply structured as to feel skimpy and disposable until it snags in your brain like an infernal ear-worm and you find yourself pondering its implications for days. On the surface, the story is bright and perky. Underneath, it is desolate: a high-concept comedy about cultural amnesia and a wonderful Britain that might have been. I tell Boyle I think it might be a Brexit movie in disguise and he guffaws in embarrassment and reaches for his cup of coffee. “Yeah, well,” he says. “You could certainly make a case for that.”
  
  Seeing as we are in the business of making grand and sweeping claims, let’s go one further. Boyle, it could be argued, is part of the same parallel cool-Britannia that Yesterday is longing for. He is the man who galvanised 90s cinema with Trainspotting, won an Oscar in the 00s for directing Slumdog Millionaire and presided over the all-embracing splendour of the opening ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics. If he is not quite at Paul McCartney level, he is surely within shouting distance. A few weeks ago he rocked up as a guest on BBC’s Top Gear and the producer bellowed: “National treasure coming through!” Boyle laughs at the memory. “So yeah, you do get a little of that, the ‘national treasure’ thing. And that’s all right, it’s not so bad. I’m happy to be a good ambassador.”
  
  He pours more coffee and talks about Yesterday, which stars Himesh Patel as Jack, a callow young busker who is knocked off his bike and regains consciousness in a Beatles-free universe that is ripe for the taking. Before long, Jack is fixing a hole, passing off classic songs as his own – all the while terrified that he is about to be found out. Boyle accepts that it is a nostalgic film – or, rather, a film that examines the power of nostalgia. He likens it to Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody, two other crowd-pleasing pictures about Britain’s musical past. “It’s an interesting trend. In a time of complete uncertainty – politically, economically – people latch on to the things they can depend on.”

  
  Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis filming Yesterday with Himesh Patel and Lily James.
  Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures

  Boyle admits that he was always more of a Bowie and Led Zeppelin fan, but that is by the by: the Beatles influenced pretty much everything. Yesterday concentrates solely on the music, but their social and political impact extended well beyond that. “If you took them out of the equation, the ripple effect would be enormous. We’d probably be living in this massive dystopian universe. It would take a novel to track just how much everything changed.”
  
  Boyle is 62: a whippy live-wire, with thick-framed glasses and a shocking pink jumper, like an amiable geography teacher who moonlights as a seaside entertainer. Perhaps he is mellowing with age. Yesterday, for instance, is scripted by Richard Curtis, the saccharine McCartney to Boyle’s acerbic Lennon. Back in the 90s, they were viewed as natural enemies. Wasn’t Trainspotting (which Boyle made in collaboration with producer Andrew Macdonald, writer John Hodge and actor Ewan McGregor) seen as the gritty corrective to Four Weddings and a Funeral?
  
  Boyle chuckles and says he never saw it that way, that he always liked Curtis’s work. “The truth is, after making Trainspotting, we were very cock-a-hoop and we thought: ‘Now let’s do a romantic comedy.’ So we set off for Utah and made a film called A Life Less Ordinary. Then we came back and over the Christmas period I got sent this script called Notting Hill. And I read Notting Hill and thought: ‘Well, that’s a romantic-comedy. I don’t know what the fuck it is we’ve just shot in Utah – but it certainly isn’t that.’”
  
  Boyle, for his part, spent the bulk of Beatlemania squirrelled away in Radcliffe, north of Manchester. He spent eight years as an altar boy and briefly considered the priesthood before working in theatre, TV and finally film, which he feels is not a dissimilar calling. As a young man, he thrilled to the work of the 1970s film-makers who seemed intent on pushing themselves and their congregation to the limits. Apocalypse Now, he has suggested, was his Damascene conversion. So if he were to wake up in a world in which Coppola had never made it … “Oh, absolutely,” he says. “Yes, of course I’d remake it, 100%, shot-for-shot, I’m obsessed with that film. I’d probably do Nic Roeg’s films as well, because there’s no one else like him, he was our Picasso. That extraordinary 10-year period, Performance to Bad Timing. I’d remake all of those.”

  
  Trainspotting, 1996. Photograph: Allstar/CHANNEL FOUR FILMS

  If Boyle’s work has yet to hit Roeg’s peaks of wildness, it compensates with a bold, buzzing energy of its own. It also has a brightness of vision that is sometimes at odds with the subject matter. Whether he is tackling heroin addiction, zombie apocalypse or life in the Dharavi slums, Boyle runs at the material with a bounce in his step. He rarely allows himself to be burdened by fatalism or misery. “Well, I’m a positive person,” he explains. “And I suppose that makes me a positive film-maker. I feel an obligation to lift people somewhere else with my films. And I believe in the inherent goodness of human beings. That’s naive – I recognise that. But it’s what keeps me going through the bad times.”

  Professionally, at least, Boyle hasn’t suffered many knockdowns. He says he has learned that he is more comfortable on smaller productions, where he has room to manoeuvre and faces less pressure from upstairs. The Beach – a Hollywood behemoth starring Leonardo DiCaprio – remains a rare leaden misstep, while he and John Hodge recently bailed out of the next James Bond picture, citing creative differences with the franchise’s producers. I would like to get the full story on what happened, but his lips are sealed and his hands tied; there is not much he can say. “I was with John and they didn’t really like what we were doing and so it’s far better to part company.” He shrugs. “What we were doing was good. But it was obviously not what they wanted.”

  
  Himesh Patel plays the Beatles in Yesterday.
  Photograph: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures

  Why did he want to get involved with Bond anyway? They’re movies for producers, not directors; he must have known that. Boyle grins. “You should be my agent,” he says. “And, yeah, you’re right. That’s ultimately what you learn. But you’ve got to go into that stuff optimistically. It’s like falling in love. You can’t go in guarded and trying to protect yourself. You have to be open-hearted and prepared to be hurt – and so what if you get a bit of bruising? You get well-paid and well looked after. So at the end of the day these are champagne problems.”
  
  He insists he has put Bond behind him and no doubt that is true. But every now and then he is reminded of the bruising. Last month he went to see Claire Denis’s High Life and was especially taken by Robert Pattinson’s performance. “And it was so bizarre, because I was sitting there thinking: ‘Oh my God, they should get him to be the next Bond.’” Isn’t Pattinson a bit too young for the role? “No, no,” he scoffs. “He must be in his 30s. How old was Connery? He’s ready now.”

  Ironically, Boyle’s greatest achievement may not be a movie at all, but his four-hour Olympic opening ceremony in 2012. Isles of Wonder was a joyous salute to British culture and history that commanded a TV audience of 900 million. The event bounded from England’s green and pleasant land, through the industrial revolution to the present day. It found room for Windrush immigrants and NHS nurses, Shakespeare and the Beatles, James Bond and the Queen. Tory MP Aidan Burley dismissed the show as “leftie multicultural crap”, while the Mail’s Stephen Glover labelled it “Marxist propaganda”, but these were voices in the darkness. Even in the moment, Isles of Wonder felt special. It was a celebration of the best of British liberalism, maybe the culmination of it, too.

  
  The NHS section of Boyle’s 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
  Photograph: Jae C. Hong/AP

  At the time, Boyle said directing the ceremony had turned him into a patriot – or possibly made him realise that he had been one all along. He met with so many international Olympic workers who regarded the UK as a model society – a nation at ease with itself and its history – that he came away convinced. He saw his country afresh through the eyes of the world.
  
  I read back to him what he once said about those international workers: “They see us as a beacon – as a modern, progressive country.”
  
  “Yes, they did,” he groans. He clamps a hand to his brow. “And, oh my God, I wonder what they think about us now. Would they even own up to saying that in the first place? You’d have to ask them. But probably not.”
  
  It is nice to think back on that Olympic opening ceremony. The further it recedes into the past, the more brightly it shines: the nation’s golden last hurrah, before the days of Brexit and backstops; societal confusion and the burgeoning bad times. Boyle hasn’t sat down to watch it since and says it would feel a bit weird. But he has a painting by his youngest daughter, who was 20 at the time, and was inspired by the industrial section of the show. It is very impressionistic; his one souvenir. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever had in my life,” he says.
  
  By this point I fear that we have become hopelessly lost down memory lane. We started the interview pining for the Beatles; now, we’re coming over all nostalgic about the London Olympics. Boyle shakes his head and stares at the wall. “Oh my God,” he says. “You might be right.”
  
  Still, he is at pains to remain positive; it is how he is geared. The times have gone bad and the country is in a mess. But he has faith in its people, its art and its industry. Its ideals are a bedrock, or perhaps a guiding light through the gloom.
  
  “I believe that culture lives within us,” he explains. “It’s in our DNA and I really believe that, I can’t stress that enough. So when you hear a great song for the first time, it’s actually something you’ve heard before. It’s the culture that’s within us and that’s why it will survive what is going on at the moment. I’m not talking about culture as a last bastion, but as something that survives and endures and that we’ll eventually come back to.” He’s struggling for words and says he wishes he was more articulate. “It’s progress we’ll come back to,” he says. “Because I don’t think we’re heading towards progress at the moment. But it’s still there, it’s not gone. It’s progress we can return to whenever we want.”
  
  Yesterday is released in the UK on 28 June

  
  2022: Gladys Knight performs at Windsor Hall, Nottingham, England.

  

  

  Gladys Knight Tickets
  Windsor Hall (BIC), Bournemouth. Tuesday 21 Jun 2022

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  Gladys Knight
  Windsor Hall (BIC), Bournemouth
  Tuesday 21 Jun 2022 at 19:30.
  
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  Gladys Knight
  
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  The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight has long been one of the greatest. Very few singers over the last 50 years have matched her unassailable artistry.
  
  Today, Gladys Knight - The Empress Of Soul and seven time Grammy winner - announces a series of special UK dates for June 2022. Starting June 18th in Manchester, the 9-city tour concludes with two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall on June 29th and 30th.

  Gladys comments: "UK I have missed you! I can't wait to be back in 2022 and very much look forward to seeing you all soon!'

  Since she began her career in the 1950s performing with The Pips, the award-winning singer has recorded more than 40 albums and enjoyed No.1 hits on the Pop, Gospel, R&B and Contemporary charts.
  
  Known for her collection of classic hits such as Midnight Train To Georgia (which remains one of the most famous Motown records to date and was honoured as one of 'The Greatest Songs Of All Time' by Rolling Stone Magazine), Help Me Make It Through The Night, Licence To Kill (the official theme song to the James Bond film), The Way We Were, Baby Don't' Change Your Mind, and You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Gladys Knight is one of music's icons, and her contribution to pop culture unparalleled.

  Gladys Knight has been honoured with the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame; a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has dozens of TV, film and theatre credits.

  
  Another performance on the 30th.
  
  Gladys Knight - Licence to Kill (Live) - Royal Albert Hall, London - 30th June 2022 (4:49)
  

  2022: Helicopter Pilot Chuck Aaron presents a GE Aviation lecture at Chantilly, Virginia and online.

  

  

  GE Aviation Lecture
  Flying Upside Down: How
  Chuck Aaron Created
  Helicopter Aerobatics

  Presenter: Helicopter Pilot Chuck Aaron
  June 21, 2022 | 8 - 9pm
  At the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and Online
  
  Free, reservations required
  
  Discover what it takes to fly a helicopter upside down

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://airandspace.si.edu/events/flying-upside-down

  Register for:

  • In-Person https://s.si.edu/gecaip
  • Online https://s.si.edu/gecaol

  
  Since 1972, helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron has had an amazingly diverse career. He is best known as a pioneer of helicopter aerobatic demonstrations and for his work as a stunt pilot, including in the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre. In 21,000 hours of flying, he has piloted an astounding array of helicopter types in challenging operations around the world. In 2006, after extensively modifying a BO.105 helicopter and working closely with the FAA and sponsor Red Bull, Aaron debuted the first approved helicopter aerobatic demonstration in the United States. Hear stories from his accomplished life and career including how his father inspired him to become a pilot, his time with NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and his gravity-defying aerobatics.
  
  This program will be presented in-person at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and will be streamed on YouTube with live closed captioning. Registration is required for in person attendance and encouraged for online viewing.
  
  Register to attend in person at the Udvar-Hazy Center.
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  The GE Aviation Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of GE Aviation.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron performs an aerobatic routine during the California International Airshow.

  
  Stunning helicopter acrobatics - Chuck Aaron (3:31)
  

  
  
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  1906: Billy Wilder is born--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland.
  (He dies 27 March 2002--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
  6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php

  By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

  
  Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as
  "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia
  Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

  One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.
  
  Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.
  
  Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.
  
  "There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book Conversations with Billy Wilder. "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."
  
  One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").
  
  INTERVIEWED FREUD
  Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.
  
  "People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.
  
  LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
  Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").
  
  Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."
  
  CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
  He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.
  
  Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.
  
  Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."
  
  TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
  Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.
  
  "If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."
  
  And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.
  
  "His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."
  
  When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said:

  I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.
  
  "I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."

  Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

  BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
  . -- AS WRITER

  -- "People on Sunday," 1929
  -- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
  -- "Adorable," 1933
  -- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
  -- "Music in the Air," 1934
  -- "Lottery Lover," 1935
  -- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
  -- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
  -- "Midnight," 1939
  -- "What a Life," 1939
  -- "Ninotchka," 1939
  -- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
  -- "Arise My Love," 1940
  -- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
  -- "Ball of Fire," 1942
  -- "A Song Is Born," 1948

  "Casino Royale," 1967.

  
  -- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

  -- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
  -- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
  -- "Double Indemnity," 1944
  -- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
  -- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
  -- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
  -- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
  -- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
  -- "Stalag 17," 1953
  -- "Sabrina," 1954
  -- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
  -- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
  -- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
  -- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
  -- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
  -- "The Apartment," 1960
  -- "One, Two, Three," 1961
  -- "Irma la Douce," 1963
  -- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
  -- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
  -- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
  -- "Avanti! "1972
  -- "The Front Page," 1974
  -- "Fedora," 1978
  -- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.

  Source: Associated Press

  

  Billy Wilder) (I) (1906–2002

  Writer | Director | Producer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  
  1937: Chris Blackwell is born--Westminster, London, England.
  
  1943: Klaus Maria Brandauer is born--Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria.
  
  1961: Fleming writes to Richard Chopping to commission his cover artwork for The Spy Who Loved Me.

  

  FLEMING, Ian.
  The Spy Who Loved Me.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-spy-who-loved-me-138042.html

  Jonathan Cape, London, 1962 Stock Code: 138042
  £35,000.00

  Notes
  Presentation copy to the designer of the dust jacket, with the original letter commissioning the design
  
  First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ian Fleming to the designer of the dust jacket, Richard Chopping, on the front free endpaper: "To Dickie In admiration! from Ian". Chopping has signed the jacket on the front flap.
  
  Together with the original typed letter Fleming sent to Chopping on 22 June 1961, commissioning the jacket: "The jacket season has come round again and I and the Capes do pray that you will once again be the artist... The title of the book is The Spy Who Loved Me and so what suggests itself of course is a juxtaposition between a dagger or a gun and an emblem representing love, rather on the lines of your gun with a rose... Anyway, first of all, will you please do the jacket and, secondly, will you please have a brilliant idea?" Fleming has headed the letter in blue ink "My dear Dickie" and signed off "Yours ever Ian". He has made two corrections, of "garden" to "gun", and hyphenating "its self".
  
  Fleming was introduced to Chopping, then a young artist specializing in tromp-l'oeil paintings, by his wife Ann in 1956. Chopping designed almost all the James Bond jackets From Russia With Love onwards; he afterwards also designed the covers of the Amis and Gardner continuations. The designs have become an iconic component of the Bond cultural phenomenon.
  
  Description
  Octavo. Original black cloth, decorated in blind and silver, red endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Custom red morocco-backed folding case by the Heritage Bindery. With original typed letter.
  
  Condition
  A fine copy in the very good, bright jacket, patch of tape residue to each flap which has peeled away part of the paper on the front flap (without loss).
  
  Bibliography
  Gilbert A10a (1.1).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1963: The Saturday Evening Post publishes Geoffrey Bocca's article “The Spectacular Cult of Ian Fleming".

  
  

  1964: Denmark re-release of Dr. No.

  

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny as an immigration official.

  

  
  1987: Warner Brothers Records releases the single "The Living Daylights" performed by the Norwegian group A-ha, their collaboration with composer John Barry.

  

  1987: Thames Television airs James Bond Licence to Thrill hosted by Nick Owen.

  

  James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987)

  51min | Documentary | TV Movie 29 June 1987

  Promotional documentary television special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James Bond and release of the then new James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' (1987).

  Director: Mike Ward
  Writer: George Perry
  Stars: Nick Owen, Lois Maxwell, Ursula Andress
  

  
  22 June 1987 Thames - James Bond Licence to Thrill trail & Imaginary Friends (TV Spot)
  
  
  Licence To Thrill - 25 Years Of James Bond
  

  
  2007: Encore airs television documentary True Bond.

  

  True Bond (2007)

  52min | Documentary | TV Movie 22 June 2007
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193533/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

  James Bond is a worldwide icon, but is Ian Fleming's creation based on a real character? This documentary profiles the wartime exploits of Dusko Popov, a double-agent who worked for Britain and the U.S. against Germany, and reveals how Fleming used his imagination to weave the adventures of Popov and others into Casino Royale and subsequent James Bond stories. Includes clips from Bond films and classified wartime footage, plus interviews with MI6 figures, Popov's son, Hilary Saltzman (daughter of James Bond producer Harry Saltzman), David Giammarco (actor and author of the best-selling book For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films), Andrew Lycett (Ian Fleming biographer), and other experts on the clandestine world of Ian Fleming and the James Bond films.
  —True Bond Productions

  Director: Jane Armstrong
  Writers: Michael LaVoie, Gary Lang
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Graeme Cornies ... Narrator (voice)
  Nick Abraham ... Dusko Popov
  Michael Lomenda ... Ian Fleming
  Eugene Oleksiuk ... Gambler
  Conor O'Hegarty ... Johnny Jebsen
  James Luke ... Von Karsthoff
  Tom Saunders ... Ian Wilson
  Ava Himmel ... Elizabeth Sahrbach
  Howard Pressburger ... Ewan Montagu
  Natalie Roy ... Simone Simon
  Glen Koppen ... Wilhelm Canaris
  Emma Basque ... Terry Richardson (as Emina Basic)
  Frank Fitzgibbon ... FBI Agent
  Willie Fahnestock ... Menzies
  Peter Mehren ... Additional Voices (voice)

  

  
  2011: Daniel Craig at 43 weds Rachel Weisz, 41, in New York.

  

  2014: David Beckham advertises Sky Sports inspired by James Bond.

  David Beckham helps make Sky Sports even better
  

  
  2015: Spectre finishes filming at Vauxhall Bridge, the River Thames and Westminster Bridge.

  http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptlondon/vauxhallbridge.htm
  
  
  https://londonist.com/2016/08/secrets-of-westminster-bridge
  
  
  

  2017: David Beckham and James Corden compete for the Bond role.

  The Next James Bond - David Beckham v James Corden
  

  
  2018: Kirishima volcano, famous for appearing in You Only Live Twice, erupts in Japan.

  

  Japan volcano featured in 'James Bond' movie erupts, ejecting
  smoke and rocks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japan-volcano-featured-james-bond-movie-erupts-ejecting-051527073.html

  22 June 2018

  
  Smoke rises from a volcano of Shinmoedake, in Miyazaki, Japan, June 22, 2018
  in this picture obtained from social media. Yamayuu/via REUTERS

  TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country's west.
  
  Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 985 km (616 miles) from Tokyo on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, had quietened down since the earlier eruption, although admission to the 1,421-metre- (4,662-ft-) high peak remained restricted.

  Television images showed smoke and ash billowing into the air above the peak, which featured in the 1967 spy film, "You Only Live Twice". TBS television said rock was thrown as far as 1,100 meters (3,609 ft) from the mountain.

  Japan has 110 active volcanoes and monitors 47 constantly. When 63 people were killed in the volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake in September 2014, it was the country's worst such toll for nearly 90 years.
  
  In January, a member of Japan’s military was struck and killed when rocks from a volcanic eruption rained down on skiers at a central mountain resort.
  
  On Monday, an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck Osaka, Japan's second largest city, killing five, including a nine-year-old schoolgirl, and injuring hundreds.
  
  (Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

  

  Kirishima Vulkan: Nachrichten

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/de/kirishima/nachrichten/69551/Shinmoedake-Kirishima-volcano-group-Japan-2-eruptions-over-the-past-week-maintaining-explosive-activ.html

  
  Shinmoedake (Kirishima volcano group, Japan): 2 eruptions over the past week, maintaining explosive activity which suddenly started early March
  Mi, 27. Jun 2018 | IS

  
  A plume of smoke billows from Mount Shinmoe, in Kobayashi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on June 22, 2018.
  (Photo courtesy of an unknown reader of The Mainichi)

  
  Graph showing the thermal anomalies recorded at Shinmoedake volcano over the past months,
  clearly showing the sudden intense activity from early March to early April, followed by
  isolated events in May and June 2018. (MIROVA)
  
  
  The tall ash plume billowing above Mt Shinmoe during its explosive activity on 6 March 2018
  (aerial photograph taken by The Mainichi)
  
  
  View into Shinmoedake’s crater where the fresh lava ejected in the 6 March explosions
  is still red hot (aerial photograph taken by The Mainichi)

  Shinmoedake volcano, located on the Japanese island of Kyushu, erupted explosively on Wednesday 27 June, 2018 after a previous explosion that occurred 5 days before. Both eruptions produced ash plumes that are 2000 meter tall and seem to represent that aftermath of the volcano's intense phase of explosive activity that occurred in early March 2018.

  Shinmoedake is one of 18 young, small stratovolcanoes that make up what is known as the Kirishima volcano group which straddles the boundary between the Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures. This 1421 m tall Japanese volcano, famous for its feature in James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice', erupted on Wednesday 27 June, 2018, at 15h34 local time, sending a plume of ash and gas 2200 m into the air. A similar event occurred on Friday 22 June, 2018, when at 9h09 local time an explosion spewed ash and smoke up to 2,600 meters in the air. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reports that large cinders were flung up to 1,100 meters from the center of the crater rim, flying in a ballistic path, and that resulting ash plume was blown east, carrying small cinders a long way by the wind.

  The 22 June explosion was the first explosive eruption since a month of increased volcanic activity ended on April 5, 2018. After 7 years of inactivity, the volcano suddenly came back to live and produced 18 violent explosions on 6 March 2018. The volcano thereby hurled rocks measuring 50 centimeters in a radius of 900 m around the vent and created an eruption plume that reached a height of about 3000 meters. This intense eruptive activity continued into March 7 when 11 more explosions were registered by JMA and the presence of red hot lava in the vent was confirmed. After this intense first phase activity died down to irregular explosions during the next couple of weeks, 1 eruption in May and now two more in late June.
  
  The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) maintains the volcano alert level at 3 - restricted entry to the mountain – on a scale of 5. No evacuations were carried out, but they call on the public to exercise caution around the volcano as large chunks of debris could fall within a 3-kilometer radius of the vent, while pyroclastic flows could reach as far as 2 kilometers.

  A three minute video of the entire 22 June 2018 explosion was shared on the YouTube channel of VolcanoYT':
  
  
  
  

  2018: Zurich helicopters evacuate Piz Gloria after a cable car malfunction.

  NEWS IN BRIEF

  Tourists airlifted from James Bond mountain

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk"]https://thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk

  June 22 2018, 12:01am, The Times

  
  Piz Gloria, on the 2,970m summit of the Schilthorn in the Bernese Oberland,
  was the setting for Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

  Zurich Helicopters had to airlift about 400 people off the Swiss mountain that featured in the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service after a cable car broke down. The tourists were on the 2,970m (9,744ft) Schilthorn, home of the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, which was Blofeld’s lair in the George Lazenby film. A technical fault disabled a gondola below where they were, the Schilthorn AG company, which operates the cable car, said. The guests were taken in another cable car to a nearby ridge, where four helicopters ferried them down the mountain to the ski station of Mürren.
  (Reuters)

  
  2022: The Other Fellow red carpet arrival and premiere at Aukland, New Zealand.

  

  The Other Fellow

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/the-other-fellow

  22 Jun 2022
  $17.00 - $21.00
  
  Te Civic, The Civic
  
  The Other Fellow
  Doc Edge Festival 2022

  Bond, James Bonds. Can anyone ever live up to that name?
  
  An energetic exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name - James Bond.
  
  1952. Jamaica. When author Ian Fleming needs a name for his suave, sophisticated secret agent, he steals one from an unaware birdwatcher and creates a pop-culture phenomenon about the ultimate fictional alpha male.
  
  2022. It is the year of 007’s sixtieth anniversary onscreen and Australian filmmaker Matthew Bauer is on a global mission to discover the lasting, contrasting and very personal impacts of sharing such an identity with James Bond.
  
  From a Swedish 007 super-fan with a Nazi past, a gay New York theatre director, an African American Bond accused of murder, and two resilient women caught up in it all, Bauer’s cinematic mission is an audacious, poignant, and insightful examination of masculinity, gender, and race in the very real shadows of a movie icon

  OPENING NIGHT FILM
  
  The Civic, Auckland, Wed 22 June
  7 pm | Red Carpet arrival, official welcome and introductions
  8 pm | The Other Fellow screening, followed by live Q&A session with director Matthew Bauer
  
  * Note: Every person who purchases a ticket to The Other Fellow (Auckland screening at The Civic) is invited to attend the official Doc Edge Awards Ceremony between 6 and 7 pm.
  
  United Kingdom | 2022 | World Premiere | documentary | 80 min | English / Swedish | Matthew Bauer
  
  Meet the Team Behind The Other Fellow
  WED 22 Jun 2022
  After screening (screening at 8 pm)
  
  Duration: 20 min
  Buy tickets to The Other Fellow and join the live Q&A session with Director Matthew Bauer.
  
  The Other Fellow is the Opening Night of Doc Edge Festival 2022 at The Civic. Every person who purchases a ticket is invited to attend the official Doc Edge Awards Ceremony at 6pm and walk the Red Carpet at 7pm.
  
  Dress code: 007-inpsired – Prize for The Best Dressed will be given live from the red carpet.
  
  More screening information and buy tickets: https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/the-other-fellow
  ___________________________________
  Accessibility: If you are attending a show or event in our venues and have an access need, find more information about accessibility here. You can also take a virtual accessibility tour of the venue.
  
  80 min
  Accessible seating available
  Hearing aid loop performances
  Rating (E) Exempt

  
  
  THE OTHER FELLOW Trailer - James Bond documentary (2:29)
  

  
  2023: Live & Let Thai – The Play at the Junkyard Theatre, Phuket Town, Phuket, Thailand.

  

  LIVE & LET THAI – THE PLAY

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://junkyardtheatre.com/shows/live-and-let-thai-the-play/

  DATES:
  22nd, 23rd of June 2023
  
  IMPORTANT
  INFORMATION:
  Age: PG
  Run Time: 2 Hours
  Tickets:
  800THB – 1,200THB
  PROGRAMME:
  6:30 PM ARRIVAL
  7:00 PM SHOW STARTS
  9:00 PM SHOW FINISHES

  LIVE & LET THAI – THE PLAY
  DESCRIPTION:
  Showing at the Junkyard Theatre, is a hilarious stage play called, “Live and Let Thai,” a murder mystery featuring a Hollywood crew filming a James Bond movie in Phuket.
  
  As their lives unravel at the shabby Palm Village Hotel, a slew of quirky characters and jilted lovers lead to murder.
  
  Can the Andaman Thespic Society save the play?
  
  Find out in a night of mayhem and fun!

  PRICE:
  ฿800 – ฿1,200

  Original showing
  
  

  
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  June 23rd
  
  1945: Q-Day is the rehearsal for the atomic bomb demonstration.

  Topical Tens

  23 June: Q Day

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/06/23-june-q-day.html

  
  Q-Day was 23 June 1945, the day of the dress rehearsal of the first atom bomb test. Nowadays it is sometimes used informally to mean "Quality Day", or the first day of the calendar quarter. 10 things you might not know about the letter Q:

  

  1. It’s the 17th letter in the English alphabet, and the second least frequently used, after Z.
  2. The earliest forms of the letter may have been a symbol representing a knot, a threaded Needle, or a monkey with its tail hanging down.
  3. It was common up until the 19th century for some capital Qs to have longer tails. This is thought to have originated in Latin texts, where Q is much more likely to be the first letter of a word. They still used shorter tailed Qs, however, for shorter words. The long tailed Q fell out of use with the advent of digital fonts. One person who would have been glad to see the back of them was the American typographer D.B. Ukdike, who claimed that printers would use them simply to “outdo each other”.
  4. The letter Q is usually followed by a letter U in the English language, but there are exceptions – according to Wikipedia, 4,422 of them to be exact. They are often obscure words which have been assimilated into the English language from other tongues such as Arabic, Chinese or French. For example, qigong (Chinese exercise system), qi (the Chinese word for the life force), qat (a shrub with narcotic properties) and cinq (the number five in a pack of cards.
  5. The Estonian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian, Turkish, Welsh and Cornish alphabets do not include the letter Q.
  6. Q is the symbol for the Guatemalan quetzal, the currency of Guatemala.
  7. In Medieval times, Q was sometimes included in the Roman numeral system and was used to represent 90, 500 or 500,000.
  8. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, “Quebec” is Q. In Morse Code - –.- represents Q.
  9. In Star Trek, Q is not only a character (played by John de Lancie) but the name of the race he belongs to, who all refer to each other as Q. They are the only race which can access the Q Continuum. Gene Roddenberry chose the letter Q for this character/race in honour of a friend, Janet Quarton.

     10. Q is also a character in the James Bond novels and films. Q in this case stands for “Quartermaster” and is therefore a job title. In military usage a quartermaster is a senior officer who co-ordinates the distribution of supplies. In the James Bond universe, he’s the one who issues Bond with gadgets.

  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes a letter of thanks to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, Leicester, in response to an invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club.

  

  FLEMING (IAN)

  Typed letter signed ("Ian Fleming"), to Doctor G.R.C.D. Gibson, of Leicester, thanking him for his "splendid letter" and invitation for James Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners Club: "Since neither Bond nor his biographer are owners of an Aston Martin, I can do no more than pass your invitation on to the head of Admin. at the Secret Service from whose transport pool the DB III was drawn"; and disagreeing with his penultimate paragraph "couched though it is in such graphic language" ("...Pussy only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady..."); and telling him that he has in mind a story with motor racing as its background, although not quite along the lines he suggests ("...I will try and get around to it in due course and shall not be surprised if I then receive a sheaf of acid complaints from experts such as yourself..."); he ends by thanking him again "for cheering up my morning at the office"; with autograph salutation and subscription, 1 page, printed heading, 4to, Kemsley House, London, 23 June 1959
  
  Footnotes
  ʻPUSSY ONLY NEEDED THE RIGHT MAN TO COME ALONG' – FLEMING ON JAMES BOND'S ASTON MARTIN AND PUSSY GALORE, AS FEATURED IN GOLDFINGER. The novel had come out on 23 March 1959. In the book, Bond drives what Fleming describes as an Aston Martin DB III, but which the purist Dr Gibson thinks should be called the "Mark III". The unrepentant Fleming however thinks this "reads a bit too stuffily". When the film came out in 1964, the DB III was to be updated to a DB5.
  
  Fleming did indeed sketch a story with motor racing as its background. This was a treatment for an unfilmed episode of a television series, Murder on Wheels and is set in the Nürburgring, with Bond fighting a Russian plot to kill Stirling Moss. The Fleming estate has recently granted Anthony Horowitz access to the script. He has used it as the basis for his Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, published on 8 September this year. By coincidence, or otherwise, the book is set two weeks after the events described in Goldfinger and features Pussy Galore.

  
  
  

  
  1963: Ian Fleming walks on location in Turkey during the filming of From Russia With Love.

  https://jakemcmillan.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/ian-flemings-secret-cameo-in-from-russia-with-love/
  
  
  
  
  

  1966: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Octopussy and The Living Daylights, with stories "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights". Later editions add "The Property of a Lady" and still later "007 in New York".

  OCTOPUSSY
  AND
  THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
  
  From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine
  and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim
  city of stealth, James Bond pursues
  two strangely heroic enemies of the
  Secret Service. The first is a dying
  major whose dwindling hoard of gold
  conceals an act of treachery, and the
  second an assassin whose identity
  disturbs Bond's deadly aim.
  
  These two stories, written in I96I and
  I962, were among those composed by
  Ian Fleming while he was writing the
  incomparable series of James Bond
  thrillers. The first collection of stories
  appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes
  Only; a further collection which he
  had planned to publish was never
  completed.

  
  
  
  

  
  1969: Comic strip The Harpies ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 10 October 1968. 816-1037)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54569
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comics 1978
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

  Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  

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

  Fågelkvinnorna
  ("Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  (Part 1) - (Part 2)
  
  

  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 19: “The Harpies” (1970)
  "Fuglekvinderne" [= The Bird Women]
  
  

  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service wraps up production, 58 days over schedule.
  
  1984: A View to a Kill begins Second Unit filming in Iceland.
  
  2016: The Guardian asks 007 questions. Ten, actually.

  
  Ian Fleming

  007 questions: how well do you know the James Bond books? – quiz

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/23/007-how-well-do-you-know-the-james-bond-books-quiz-ian-fleming

  On this day 50 years ago, Ian Fleming’s 14th and final Bond book, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, was published. How much do you know about Ian Fleming in print?
  
  Thu 23 Jun 2016 07.00 EDT

  
  Guns and girls ... Michael Gillette‘s Bond girl book covers, from Penguin’s James Bond centenary collection. Composite: Penguin Books

  1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

  "Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

  "Three measures of Bombay, one of vodka, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add an olive."

  "Three measures of vodka, one of gin, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of orange peel."

  "Three measures of Beefeater, one of vodka, half a measure of Pimms. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large chunk of onion."

  2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

  Scottish and English

  English and French

  Scottish and French

  Scottish and Swiss

  3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

  183

  279

  352

  469

  4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

  Gala Bland

  Viv Michel

  Domino Vitali

  Mary Goodnight

  5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

  An enchanting femme fatale

  An octopus, named Pussy

  A ship

  A particularly odd curse word

  6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

  Diamonds Are Forever - Fleming's fourth Bond book

  From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

  Dr No - Fleming's sixth Bond book

  Thunderball - Fleming's ninth Bond book

  7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

  Thunderball

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  You Only Live Twice

  Quantum of Solace

  8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  You Only Live Twice

  The Hildebrand Rarity

  The Spy Who Loved Me

  9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

  Boothroyd

  Bigby

  Blanche

  B

  10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

  Ernst Stavro Blofeld

  Francisco Scaramanga

  Le Chiffre

  Sir Hugo Drax

  
  Answers

  
  1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

  "Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

  2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

  Scottish and Swiss

  3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

  352

  4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

  Gala Brand

  There is a Gala Brand, however, in Moonraker.
  5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

  An octopus, named Pussy

  6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

  From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

  7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

  "Quantum of Solace"

  8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

  The Spy Who Loved Me

  9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

  Boothroyd

  10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

  Francisco Scaramanga

  
  
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  June 23 Posts: 14,532

  June 24th
  
  1939: Michael Gothard is born--Hendon, Middlesex, England.
  (He dies 2 December 1992 at age 53--London, England.)

  

  Michael Gothard

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

  
  as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

  Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
  Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
  Years active 1961–1992

  Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

  Early life
  Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."
  
  Career
  He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).
  
  His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."
  
  He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

  He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

  Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.
  
  His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.
  
  Death
  Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.[7][8]
  
  Filmography

  Herostratus (1967) as Max
  Up the Junction (1968) as Terry
  Michael Kohlhaas-Der Rebell (1969) as John
  Scream and Scream Again (1970) as Keith
  The Last Valley (1971) as Hansen
  The Devils (1971) as Father Barre
  Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) as Albie
  La Vallée (1972) as Olivier
  The Three Musketeers (1973) as John Felton
  The Four Musketeers (1974) as John Felton
  King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975) as Kai
  Warlords of Atlantis (1978) as Atmir
  For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Emile Leopold Locque
  Lifeforce (1985) as Dr Bukovsky
  Going Undercover (1988) (aka Yellow Pages) as Strett
  Gioco al massacro (1989) as Zabo
  Destroying Angel (1990) as "the Hitman"
  The Serpent of Death (1990) as Xaros
  Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) as Inquisitor's Spy
  Frankenstein (1992) as Boatswain (final film role)
  
  Television
  Out of the Unknown (1966) as Kuno
  Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966) as Grady, in "The Excavation"
  The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967) as Mordaunt
  Armchair Theatre (1969) as Brian, in "The Story-Teller"
  Fraud Squad (1969) as Jacky Joyce, in "Run For Your Money"
  Department S (1969) as Weber, in "Les Fleurs du Mal"
  Randall and Hopkirk (1970) as Perrin, in "When the Spirit Moves You"
  Paul Temple (1970) as Ivan, in "Games People Play"
  Menace (1970) as Pip, in "Nine Bean Rows"
  Arthur of the Britons (1972–1973) as Kai
  Warrior Queen (1978) as Volthan
  The Professionals (1979) as Kodai, in "Stopover"
  A Tale of Two Cities (1980) (Michael E. Briant version) as Gaspard
  Shoestring (1981) as Harry, in "The Mayfly Dance"
  ITV Playhouse (1981) as Dieter, in "The Perfect House"
  Ivanhoe (1982) as Athelstane
  Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) as Terry Marvin, in "The Sweet Scent of Death"
  Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984) as Karl Portillo, in "Our Man in Tegernsee"
  Lytton's Diary (1985) as Jake Cutler, in "Daddy's Girls"
  Minder (1985) as Sergei, in "From Fulham, With Love"
  Jack the Ripper (1988) as George Lusk
  Capital City (1989) as Stefan in "Twelve Degrees Capricorn"

  

  Michael Gothard

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1961: Bond comic strip Risico ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 3 April 3 1961. 850-921) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/r.php3
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

  Risicologan! (Risico)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Risico-Ligan (Risico)
  

  
  Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no10-1967/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 10: “Risico” (1967)
  "Risico - de hensynsløse smuglere ..."
  
  
  
  

  
  Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no50-1979/

  James Bond 007 no. 50: “Live and Let Die” (1979)
  "Lev og lad dø"
  

  
  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2015/04/
  

  1967: Billboard Magazine runs an ad declaring the You Only Live Twice soundtrack as Album of the Year.
  
  1969: Bond comic strip River of Death begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 29 November 1969. 1038–1174.) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

  Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1970 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728

  Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 21: “River of Death” (1971)
  "Dødens flod"
  

  
  1974: The Man with the Golden Gun production returns to Pinewood Studios for 8 weeks of studio filming.
  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only premieres at the Odeon Leicester Square Theatre, London.

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  1983: Octopussy released in South Africa.
  
  2018: The search for an Aston Martin DB5 stolen in 1997 continues.

  

  New hope in mystery of James Bond's
  missing Aston Martin

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/24/new-hope-mystery-james-bonds-missing-aston-martin/

  
  Sean Connery, who played James Bond, standing with the Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger
  Credit: Rex Features

  Patrick Sawer, Senior Reporter Natasha Moufarrige | 24 June 2018 • 7:00am

  It is a mystery worthy of the pen of Ian Fleming himself, featuring a high stakes theft, shady middle men and a 20-year-hunt for the dastardly individuals responsible.
  
  When the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 featured in the James Bond film Goldfinger was stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997 there were fears it would never be seen again.
  
  For years the search for the car used by Sean Connery in his role as Fleming’s 007, the spy with a licence to kill, proved fruitless.
  
  But now hopes have risen that it may yet be recovered, after a tip was received giving details of the Aston Martin’s current whereabouts.
  
  Its location, according to those supplying the information, is classic espionage territory -- the Middle East.

  
  Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger, with the Aston Martin DB5
  Credit: Cine Text / Allstar/ Sportsphoto Agency

  Art Recovery International (ARI), which was hired by an unspecified insurance firm to help track down the stolen Aston Martin, have been told it is being held at a specific location in the region.
  
  A six figure sum is being offered for information leading to its safe return.
  
  Christopher Marinello, the chief executive of ARI, told The Sunday Telegraph: “I have been given a specific tip, but we are working on it. We want to reach out to collector car community and vast array of mechanics to let them know we are very serious about recovering it.”
  
  Naturally, Art Recovery are wary of the possibility the vehicle is simply one similar to the actual Aston Martin used in the Bond film.
  
  “As there are many Aston Martins, it is very important that we get a shot of the chassis number, dp/216/1. This is what we are looking for, as it is very specific to the vehicle,” said Mr Marinello. “It is quite possible the potential in the Middle East is a mere look alike, which is why it is crucial we retain a close up of the chassis number.”
  
  The stolen Aston Martin was one of two used in the filming of Goldfinger, with another deployed for the scenes featuring Connery behind the wheel.

  
  Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger (1964)
  Credit: CAP/MFS/Capital Pictures

  ARI say it is estimated by some auction houses that the missing DB5 could now be worth between £7 and £10 million, given its iconic status as a 007 vehicle.
  
  The DB5, which following the release of Goldfinger in September 1964 became known as "the most famous car in the world", was designed for Aston Martin by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera and named after Sir David Brown, the luxury car manufacturer's owner from 1947 to 1972.
  
  The car’s rightful owner bought it at auction for $250,000 in 1986, but in June 1997 thieves managed to remove it from the hangar at Boca Raton and squirrel it away.
  
  For the filming of Goldfinger the car had been modified to include an array of Bond gadgets, including machine guns, tyre-shredding blades and oil, smoke and water emitters.
  
  As a result it was so heavy that when thieves broke into the hangar they had to drag it out by its axles, leaving telltale tyre marks leading up to where it was thought to have been loaded onto a waiting cargo plane.
  
  Police investigating the theft drew a blank, paving the way for years of speculation as to its fate.

  
  2022: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson receive honours at Buckingham Palace, London, England.

  

  James Bond producers to receive
  CBEs at Buckingham Palace

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gulftoday.ae/culture/2022/06/24/james-bond-producers-to-receive-cbes-at-buckingham-palace

  
  Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.

  James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are among the high achievers to be honoured at Buckingham Palace on Friday.
  
  The sister and brother duo own EON Productions and have produced the last nine 007 films – including Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time To Die.
  
  The pair, previously honoured with OBEs in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2008, will receive CBEs after being included in the 2022 New Years’ Honours List.
  
  Their collection of Bond films have picked up of awards over the years including the Bafta for outstanding British film for 2012’s Skyfall.
  
  Together, they have also produced The Rhythm Section, starring Blake Lively, and several independent film projects including The Silent Storm with Damian Lewis and Radiator featuring Gemma Jones.
  
  Broccoli has also produced a number of Broadway stage productions including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Steady Rain, and Once – as well as West End productions of Chariots Of Fire and Strangers On A Train.

  Elsewhere in the film industry, pioneering director Horace Ove will receive a knighthood.
  
  The 83-year-old, who was born in Trinidad, is credited by Guinness World Records as being the first black British film-maker to direct a feature-length picture, with Pressure in 1976.
  
  Dr June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), will be honoured with a damehood at Friday’s investiture.
  
  Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes will be awarded an OBE, as will Figen Murray – the mother of one of the Manchester Arena victims and campaigner.
  
  Charlotte Worthington, who won a gold medal for freestyle BMX at the Tokyo Olympics last year, will be given an MBE.
  

  
  
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  June 25th
  
  1945: Carly Simon is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
  
  1950: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea moves south and invades the Republic of Korea, beginning 3 years of combat followed by an armistice that continues today.

  S.Korea airs gratitude clip at N.Y. for Korean War UN veterans in 22 countries (2:10)
  
  
  Michael Caine on his Experience in the Army and Fighting in the Korean War (7:48)
  
  
  The Korean War and Michael Caine (6:17) [Stronger language here]
  

  
  1963: Norman Felton meets Fleming in London and learns that due to health issues, pressure from producers Broccoli and Saltzman, plus the Thunderball McClory legal suit he is leaving the "Solo" project.
  1965: Thunderball films Blofeld electrocuting SPECTRE #11.

  Or #9.
  

  
  1976: The Hollywood Reporter reports on Kevin McClory's suit delaying filming for The Spy Who Loved me.
  1979: The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a James Bond exhibit ending 30 June.
  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the UK.

  

  
  2015: Daniel Patrick Macnee dies at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.
  (Born 6 February 1922--Paddington, London, England.)

  

  Patrick Macnee’s Biography

  http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio/
  

  Details of Patrick Macnee’s Life
  Patrick Macnee was born into an aristocratic English family — his Father was a successful racehorse trainer and his mother was the lovely Dorothea Hastings, a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon (descendants of Robin Hood!). His parents divorced after his father ran off to India and his mother moved into Rooksnest, a bizarre household in Wiltshire, dominated by his mother’s lady lover, the formidable “Uncle” Evelyn. At age three, he was bundled off to Summer Fields Prep School near Oxford. Patrick then entered Eton College, where apart from an active role with the school’s dramatic society, he distinguished himself as the leading bookie and pornographer on campus — and was promptly expelled.
  
  Macnee went on to win a scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start in show business in 1941 with a small role in a stage production of Little Women. One year later he made his debut in films as an extra in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
  
  After serving as an officer in His Majesty’s Royal Britannic Navy (1942-46), Patrick resumed his career in stage and film roles. Commuting between Britain, America and Canada, where he helped to pioneer Canadian TV, Macnee starred in over 30 television plays and more than a dozen feature films during the busy post-war years. Patrick was in Hollywood from 1957-1959 for Les Girls and Mission of Danger for MGM; his TV credits during this time included various Playhouse 90’s, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and numerous stage appearances across the country.
  
  In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.

  His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.

  Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.
  
  One of his great pleasures these days is recording books on tape. Recent recordings include the Bible, eight of Jack Higgins’ thrillers and Peter Mayle’s Toujours Provence. Patrick’s entertaining autobiography, Blind In One Ear, was published in 1992.
  
  His latest book is a memoir, The Avengers: The Inside Story, which was re-published by Titan Books in January 2008, and is a companion to the digitally remastered home videos of the The Avengers and The New Avengers. Since their original release in 1998, the home videos, with episodes starring Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt have all ranked high on the Billboard Top 40 charts.
  
  After nearly 40 years on television, The Avengers came to the big screen with Ralph Fiennes in the role of John Steed. Carrying on the suave style created by Patrick Macnee, the new Steed continued to wear a bowler hat and carry a furled umbrella, but did not — to Macnee’s delight — carry a gun.
  
  In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.

  

  Patrick Macnee (1922–2015)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (174 credits)
  
  2003 The Low Budget Time Machine - Dr. Ballard
  2001 Frasier (TV Series) - Cecil Hedley
  - The Show Must Go Off (2001) ... Cecil Hedley
  2000 Family Law (TV Series) - Sir Thomas Matthews
  - Second Chance (2000) ... Sir Thomas Matthews
  
  1999 Nancherrow (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Awliscombe
  - Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
  - Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
  1997-1998 Spy Game (TV Series) - Dr. Quentin / Mr. Black
  - How Diplomatic of You (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
  - Go, Girl (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
  - Why Spy? (1997) ... Mr. Black
  1998 The Avengers - Invisible Jones (voice)
  1997-1998 NightMan (TV Series) - Dr. Walton - 6 episodes
  1997 NightMan (TV Movie) - Dr. Walton
  1997 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) - John Garrison
  - Discards (1997) ... John Garrison
  1996 Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (Video short) - Chauffeur
  1995 Thunder in Paradise 3 (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1994 Thunder in Paradise II (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1994 Thunder in Paradise (TV Series) - Edward Whitaker - 22 episodes
  1993-1994 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Steadman
  - Dragonswing II (1994) ... Steadman
  - Dragonswing (1993) ... Steadman
  1993 Thunder in Paradise (Video) - Edward Whitaker
  1993 The Hound of London (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
  1993 Jack's Place (TV Series) - Henry
  - Faithful Henry (1993) ... Henry
  1992 Twenty-Four Robbers (Short) - Narrator (segment "Big Hungry Bear") (voice)
  1992 Coach (TV Series) - Mr. Thind
  - Dresswreckers (1992) ... Mr. Thind
  1985-1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull
  - The Dead File (1992) ... Dayton Whiting (as Patrick MacNee)
  - Sing a Song of Murder (1985) ... Oliver Trumbull
  1992 Dream On (TV Series) - Elliot Sterns
  - B.S. Elliot (1992) ... Elliot Sterns
  1990-1992 Super Force (TV Series) - E.B. Hungerford / E. B. Hungerford - 48 episodes
  1992 Waxwork II: Lost in Time - Sir Wilfred
  1992 Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (TV Movie) - Dr. John Watson
  1991 P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series) - Uncle Ray Bailey
  - I'd Kill to Direct (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Friend (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Smile, You're Dead (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
  - Pilot (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey (as Patrick MacNee)
  1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
  1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (TV Movie) - Sir Colin
  1991 Eye of the Widow - Andrew Marcus
  1990 Super Force (TV Movie) - E.B. Hungerford
  1990 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Stendahl
  - Usher II (1990) ... Stendahl
  
  1989 Chill Factor - Carl Lawton
  1989 Dick Francis: Twice Shy (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
  1989 The Return of Sam McCloud (TV Movie) - Tom Jamison
  1989 Masque of the Red Death - Machiavel
  1989 Dick Francis: Blood Sport (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
  1989 Sorry, Wrong Number (TV Movie) - Nigel Evans
  1989 Where There's a Will (TV Movie) - Charles Crow-Finch
  1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
  1989 Lobster Man from Mars - Professor Plocostomos
  1989 War of the Worlds (TV Series) - Valery Kedrov
  - Epiphany (1989) ... Valery Kedrov
  1988 Murphy's Law (TV Series) - Frank Houlighan
  - Do Someone a Favor and It Becomes Your Job (1988) ... Frank Houlighan
  1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Thaddeus
  - Survival of the Fittest (1988) ... Thaddeus
  1988 Transformations - Father Christopher
  1988 Waxwork - Sir Wilfred
  1985-1986 Lime Street (TV Series)
  Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Three Million Dollar Spirit (1986) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Wayward Train (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  - The Mystery of Flight 401 (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
  1986 Blacke's Magic (TV Series) - Beechum
  - It's a Jungle Out There (1986) ... Beechum
  1986 Mary (TV Series) - Burke
  - Beans (1986) ... Burke
  1986 Club Med (TV Movie) - Gilbert Anthony Paige
  1985 Shadey - Sir Cyril Landau
  1985 Hotel (TV Series) - Edmund Bradshaw
  - Hearts and Minds (1985) ... Edmund Bradshaw
  1985 A View to a Kill - Tibbett
  1984 The Love Boat (TV Series) - David Blake
  - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master (1984) ... David Blake
  1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Matthew Grade
  - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1984) ... Matthew Grade
  1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
  - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
  1984 This Is Spinal Tap - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg (as Patrick MacNee)
  1984 Empire (TV Series) - Calvin Cromwell - 6 episodes
  1983 For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-Series) - Major Vickers
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Major Vickers
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Major Vickers
  1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (TV Movie) - Doctor Bloom (segment "School, Girls & You!")
  1983 Automan (TV Series) - Lydell Hamilton
  - Automan (1983) ... Lydell Hamilton
  1983 The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (TV Movie) - Sir John Raleigh
  1982-1983 Gavilan (TV Series) - Milo Bentley - 9 episodes
  1983 Sweet Sixteen - Dr. John Morgan
  1982 Young Doctors in Love - Jacobs
  1982 Rehearsal for Murder (TV Movie) - David Mathews
  1981 House Calls (TV Series) - Uncle Digby
  - Uncle Digby (1981) ... Uncle Digby
  1981 The Creature Wasn't Nice - Dr. Stark
  1981 The Hot Touch - Vincent Reyblack
  1981 Comedy of Horrors (TV Movie) - Host
  1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Melford
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 5 (1981) ... Lord Melford
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Lord Melford
  1981 The Howling - Dr. George Waggner
  1981 Vega$ (TV Series) - Lyle Jeffries
  - Murder by Mirrors (1981) ... Lyle Jeffries
  1980 The Sea Wolves - Major Yogi Crossley
  1980 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Elmer
  - Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend (1980) ... Elmer
  
  1979 King Solomon's Treasure - Capt. Good R.N.
  1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Boudreau
  1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Horatio Black
  1979 Sweepstakes (TV Series) - Rodney
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Rodney
  1978-1979 Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Imperious Leader / Count Iblis / Opening Credit Announcer
  - War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979) ... Count Iblis
  - War of the Gods: Part 1 (1979) ... Count Iblis
  - The Living Legend: Part 2 (1978) ... Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  - Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 1 (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  - Saga of a Star World (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - S
  - Assault on the Tower (1978) ... S
  1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Ian Waldeigh
  - Part II (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
  - Part I (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
  1978 Battlestar Galactica - Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
  1976-1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed - 26 episodes
  1977 Dead of Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Gheria (segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire") (as Patrick MacNee)
  1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
  1975 Matt Helm (TV Series) - Shawcross
  - Matt Helm (1975) ... Shawcross
  1975 Caribe (TV Series) - Hendy
  - The Patriots (1975) ... Hendy
  1975 Khan! (TV Series) - Marcus Graham
  - A Game of Terror (1975) ... Marcus Graham
  1975 Columbo (TV Series) - Capt. Gibbon
  - Troubled Waters (1975) ... Capt. Gibbon
  1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Wag Frazer
  - Frame (1974) ... Wag Frazer
  1974 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Charles Foster
  - A Time to Remember (1974) ... Charles Foster
  1973 Diana (TV Series) - Bryan Harris
  - You Can't Go Back (1973) ... Bryan Harris
  1972 The Woman I Love (TV Movie) - Lord Brownlow
  1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
  - The Different Ones/Tell David.../Logoda's Heads (1971) ... Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
  1971 Incense for the Damned - Derek Longbow
  1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Norman Alexander
  - The Man Who Murdered Himself (1971) ... Norman Alexander
  1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) - Dudley
  1970 The Virginian (TV Series) - Connor
  - A King's Ransom (1970) ... Connor
  
  1961-1969 The Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed / Basil - 161 episodes
  1960-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
  Arthur / Algernon Moncrieff / David Manning
  - The Long Nightmare (1966) ... Arthur
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Innocent (1960) ... David Manning
  1966 Conflict (TV Series) - Thomas Mendip
  - The Lady's Not for Burning (1966) ... Thomas Mendip
  1964-1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Richard Page / Crawford / Alan
  - The Small Hours (1966) ... Richard Page
  - I Love, You Love, We Love (1964) ... Crawford
  - Divorce, Divorce (1964) ... Alan
  1964 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Captain Carvallo
  - Captain Carvallo (1964) ... Captain Carvallo
  1962 The Winter's Tale (TV Movie) - Polixenes
  1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Keith Salesby
  - Lucky Strike (1960) ... Keith Salesby
  1952-1960 Encounter (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Pine / Kesson / Mr. Darcy / ... - 29 episodes
  1960 The Hill (TV Movie) - Centurion
  1960 Startime (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff / Frank Hunter
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1960) ... Algernon Moncrieff
  - The Browning Version (1960) ... Frank Hunter
  1960 The Unforeseen (TV Series) - Cyrus
  - The Tintype (1960) ... Cyrus
  1960/I Shadow of a Pale Horse (TV Movie) - Kirk
  
  1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Colonel O'Neill
  - The Bamboo Curtain (1959) ... Colonel O'Neill
  1959 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - First Officer McLeod
  - Judgment Night (1959) ... First Officer McLeod
  1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Johnny / An attorney
  - Misalliance (1959) ... Johnny
  - Verdict of Three (1958) ... An attorney
  1959 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - British Captain
  - The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother (1959) ... British Captain (as Patrick MacNee)
  - The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox (1959) ... British Captain
  1959 Rawhide (TV Series) - Henry Watkins
  - Incident of the 13th Man (1959) ... Henry Watkins
  1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Professor Kersley / Sgt. John Theron
  - The Crystal Trench (1959) ... Professor Kersley
  - Arthur (1959) ... Sgt. John Theron
  1959 Markham (TV Series) - John White
  - The Counterfeit Stamps (1959) ... John White
  1959 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Gilbert Burns
  - Robbie and His Mary (1959) ... Gilbert Burns
  1955-1959 Folio (TV Series) - Captain John Tregarthen / Macduff
  - Iron Harp (1959) ... Captain John Tregarthen
  - Macbeth (1955) ... Macduff
  1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Eric Farley
  - Night of April 14th (1959) ... Eric Farley
  1959 Black Saddle (TV Series) - Michael Kent
  - Client: McQueen (1959) ... Michael Kent (as Patrick MacNee)
  1959 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Gilbert Farleigh
  - Dangerous Interlude (1959) ... Gilbert Farleigh
  1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable Hawton
  - Vision of Crime (1958) ... Constable Hawton
  1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Shaw
  - Strange Occurrence at Rokesay (1958) ... Sergeant Shaw
  1958 Northwest Passage (TV Series) - Colonel Trent
  - The Red Coat (1958) ... Colonel Trent
  1958 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Bill Cheever
  - Man Under Glass (1958) ... Bill Cheever
  1956-1958 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Mr. Andrews / Wealthy Playboy / Reginald Urquart - 6 episodes
  1956-1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) Don Pedro / Duke of Winterset / John Smith / ... - 9 episodes
  1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Captain John Biersdorf
  - Voice in the Night (1958) ... Captain John Biersdorf
  1955-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Lieutenant Honeywell / George / Henty / ... - 9 episodes
  1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Charles Daurigny
  - No Boat for Four Months (1958) ... Lt. Charles Daurigny
  1957 Until They Sail - Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
  1957 First Performance (TV Series) - Julian Shaw
  - Seeds of Power (1957) ... Julian Shaw
  1957 Les Girls - Sir Percy
  1957 Pacific 13 (TV Series) - Famous Young Writer
  - Child Wife (1957) ... Famous Young Writer
  - The Transient Guest (1957)
  1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Lieutenant Commander Medley R.N.
  1956 The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) - Charlie
  - The Piper of St. James (1956) ... Charlie
  1956 Playwrights '56 (TV Series) - Guy Cartwright
  - Keyhole (1956) ... Guy Cartwright
  1956 Star Tonight (TV Series) - - The Girl (1956)
  1956 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Quayle
  - The Case of Colonel Petrov (1956) ... Quayle
  1956 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Lucius Septimus
  - Caesar and Cleopatra (1956) ... Lucius Septimus
  1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Don Juan / Captain Carvallo
  - The Return of Don Juan (1955) ... Don Juan
  - Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Captain Carvallo
  1955 Scope (TV Series) - Horatio
  - Hamlet (1955) ... Horatio
  - The Verdict Was Treason (1955)
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Guard Subaltern (uncredited)
  1953/II The Affair at Assino (TV Movie)
  1950-1953 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
  Lodovico / Captain Marchant / Peter / ... - 6 episodes
  1952-1953 Tales of Adventure (TV Series) - Roger Sudden - 12 episodes
  1951 Nocturne in Scotland (TV Movie) - Duke of Argyll
  1951 A Christmas Carol - Young Jacob Marley (as Patrick MacNee)
  1951 Flesh and Blood - Sutherland
  1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie)
  1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Hon. John Bristow
  1950 Dick Barton at Bay - Phillips (as Patrick McNee)
  1950 Seven Days to Noon - Bit Part (uncredited)
  1950 The Girl Is Mine - Hugh Hurcombe
  1950 Ten Minute Alibi (TV Movie) - Colin Derwent
  
  1949 Myself a Stranger (TV Movie) - Dick Tumbull
  1949 All Over the Town - Mr. Vince (uncredited)
  1949 Macbeth/II (TV Movie) - Malcolm
  1949 Macbeth (TV Movie) - Malcolm
  1949 Hour of Glory - Man at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
  1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
  1948 The Fatal Night - Tony
  1948 Wuthering Heights (TV Movie) - Edgar Linton
  1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Laertes
  1947 The Brontes (TV Movie) - Rev. William Weightman
  1947 A Month in the Country (TV Movie) - Beliaev
  1946 Arms and the Man (TV Movie) - An officer
  1946 Morning Departure (TV Movie) - Stoker Marks (credit only)
  1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Extra (uncredited)
  1938 Pygmalion - Extra (uncredited)
  
  Costume and Wardrobe Department (1 credit)
  
  The Avengers (TV Series) (wardrobe designer - 23 episodes, 1968 - 1969) (wardrobe - 1 episode, 1968) - 24 episodes
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1990 The ITV Chart Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 1 December 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
  1990 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 29 November 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
  
  1970 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Treppen (1970) ... (performer: "Mit Schirm und mit Charme und Melone" - uncredited)
  
  1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Too Many Christmas Trees (1965) ... (performer: "The Grand Old Duke of York", "Green Grow the Rushes, O" - uncredited)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1960-1961)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Bryan Marshall dies at age 81--Australia.
  (Born 19 May 1938--Battersea, London, England.)

  

  Bryan Marshall obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/bryan-marshall-obituary

  Character actor admired for his role in the London gangster film
  The Long Good Friday

  
  Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, 1971.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  Anthony Hayward | Published on Thu 4 Jul 2019 12.56 EDT
  
  The actor Bryan Marshall, who has died aged 81, was a solid character actor who brought integrity and realism to the parts he played on screen in Britain throughout the 1960s and 70s. Many will remember him best for his pivotal role as the duplicitous Councillor Harris in the classic film The Long Good Friday (1979), which made a massive impact at the box office with its brutal tale of a London gangland boss, Harold Shand, played by Bob Hoskins, seeing his empire being threatened by rivals from the IRA.
  
  The drama, written by Barrie Keeffe and directed by John Mackenzie, brilliantly captures the dreary London of the 70s as it approaches a new decade of aspiration and docklands regeneration. Shand sees the development opportunities and Harris is on his payroll. For much of the film, Marshall is a silent presence, but that changes when his character gets drunk at a dinner with potential American mafia investors.
  
  Describing himself as a self-made man who rose from the gutter, he tries to sell the idea of developing “a magnificent, high in the sky hotel, something to be proud of”, but is too loud for their liking. When it emerges that he had a hand in the IRA’s attempt to take Shand’s empire, Harris ends up being shot and killed.

  Earlier, Marshall had put himself on the radar of James Bond fans when he was seen in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Commander Talbot, captain of a British nuclear submarine captured by a supertanker. It brought another grisly end for the actor when Talbot was killed by a grenade while storming the ship’s control room after Roger Moore’s 007 freed him and his crew.

  
  Bryan Marshall, right, and Andrew Keir in the film Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.
  Photograph: Hammer Film/Allstar/Studiocanal

  Marshall’s talent was largely lost to British film and TV producers and directors after he moved to Australia in 1983, although he made a few returns to his homeland and was seen in Australian soaps broadcast in Britain.
  
  He was born in Battersea, south London, and on leaving the local Salesian college went through jobs in an insurance office and as a sales rep while acting with amateur companies. His ambition to act full-time was realised after he trained at Rada (1961-63). He found work in repertory theatres before coming to the attention of a nationwide audience during a six-month run as the fictional Brentwich United’s awkward club captain Jack Birkett in the BBC football soap United!, from its first episode in 1965 until 1966.
  
  Marshall returned to soap in 1971 with a one-off role in Coronation Street as Trevor Parkin, who attended a horticultural lecture given by Albert Tatlock and upstaged the host by showing greater knowledge of the subject. In between, on television he played Captain Dobbin in Vanity Fair (1967), Detective Sergeant Peach in Spindoe (1968), Gilbert Markham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968), Dr John Graham Bretton in Villette (1970) and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion (1971).
  
  He showed that he could carry a drama himself when he starred in two 1972 Play for Today productions – as the striking Cornish clay miner Manuel Stocker in Stocker’s Copper and Bill Huntley in Better Than the Movies – as well as Commander Alan Glenn in the third series (1976) of Warship, the property developer Ray Campion in the thriller serial The Mourning Brooch (1979) and the air freight business’s chief pilot Tony Blair (before the future prime minister found fame) in Buccaneer (1980). He was back in soap as Clive Lawson for the first two runs (1974-75) of the afternoon serial Rooms, in which he and Sylvia Kay played the owners renting out bedsits in their London house.

  
  Bryan Marshall, left, in The Long Good Friday, 1980, the role for which he is most remembered.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  Another pivotal role for Marshall came in the film Quatermass and the Pit (1967), a big-screen remake of the writer Nigel Kneale’s third sci-fi serial for TV about a scientist confronting alien forces. He played Potter, a bomb squad captain identifying an unexploded device unearthed during an archaeological dig as a German V-missile. It was his fourth appearance in a Hammer Films production. Earlier he was the Russian villager Vasily in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), played Tom in The Witches (1966) and was Dominic in The Viking Queen (1967).
  
  After moving to Australia in 1983, Marshall remained a prolific screen actor. Among many appearances in television dramas, he starred in Golden Pennies (1985) as a pioneering Englishman seeking his fortune in an 1850s gold-rush mining area, and played Duncan Stewart, Australian ambassador to a fictional south-east Asian country, in the first two series of Embassy (1990-91).
  
  His soap roles included Piet Koonig in A Country Practice (1983), Dr Jonathan Edmonds in Prisoner (retitled Prisoner: Cell Block H in Britain, 1984), Gerard Singer in Neighbours (1987) and Ron Hawkins in The Flying Doctors (1988), and he took two parts in Home and Away – John Simpson (1998) and Trevor Bardwell (2003). In 1989 Marshall hosted the first series of Australia’s Most Wanted, featuring real-life unsolved crimes.
  
  There were occasional returns to Britain for roles that included DSI Don Roberts in two 1997 episodes of Thief Takers and a vet with a drink problem in Heartbeat in 1998.
  
  Marshall is survived by his wife, Vicki, and their three sons, Sean, Paul and Joshua.
  
  • Bryan Marshall, actor, born 19 May 1938; died 25 June 2019

  

  Bryan Marshall (I) (1938–2019)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550789/
  

  
  
  
  

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  1904: László Löwenstein (Peter Lorre) is born-- Ružomberok, Slovakia.
  (He dies 23 March 1964--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  
  Peter Lorre Dies in Hollywood; Symbol of Film Horror Was 59; Actor Who Made Debut in ‘M’ Also Portrayed ‘Mr. Moto’ —Movie Favorite 30 Years
  https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/24/peter-lorre-dies-in-hollywood.html
  MARCH 24, 1964
  March 24, 1964, Page 35 The New York Times Archives
  
  HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UPI) —Peter Lorre, whose mild manner and sinister voice sent shivers up the spines of moviegoers for three decades, died of a stroke today. His age was 59.
  
  When Peter Lorre squinted his baleful brown eyes and took a slow sinister puff on a cigarette, moviegoers throughout the world squirmed in their seats.
  
  On the screen, the actor seemed to be the image of subsurface malevolence, and his pale, almost pasty, moonface seemed to conceal a homicidal maniac with a temporary but firm grip on himself.
  
  From the time of his debut in the German produced “M” in 1931, through scores of Hollywood and television films, Mr. Lorre, a short (5 foot 5 inches), pudgy man, was able to dominate the screen with his own particular brand of evil.
  
  Occasionally, he varied his roles and played humorous parts, but he was never at his best in those parts, and he always returned to the role of the sinister and smart bad man.
  
  As one critic put it, Mr. Lorre made a reputation “by being as mean and as murderous as the Hays office [then the industry's censorship panel] would permit.” Others described him as “one of the cinema's most versatile murderers,” the “gentle‐fiend,” and a “homicidal virtuoso.”
  
  After the terror years of Lon Chaney, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff became Hollywood's stalwarts of horror movies.
  
  Mr. Lorre was born in Rosenburg, Hungary, on June 26, 1904. He went to school in Vienna for a while but ran away at 17 to join a touring German theatrical troupe. With the exception of a short period as a clerk in a bank, he remained an actor for the rest of his life.
  
  After the usual tour in bit parts on the German stage, the producer Fritz Lang saw him as the perfect actor for the role of a pathological killer of little girls in “M.”
  
  Mr. Lorre's portrayal in the film is ranked among the greatest criminal characterizations on the screen, and the film made Mr. Lorre and Mr. Lang famous.
  
  Although he was fluent in several European languages and had made a number of films on the Continent, Mr. Lorre spoke no English when he went to Britain for a role in a film.
  
  However, when he encountered Alfred Hitchcock, Mr. Lorre let the director do all the talking, and by smiling and nodding, convinced him that his English was adequate.
  
  Mr. Hitchcock gave the actor a role in “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” after the one‐way interview, and Mr. Lorre later commented that it was two weeks before Mr. Hitchcock learned that he spoke no English.
  
  By the time the film was completed, Mr. Lorre's English was nearly perfect, and in 1934 he went to Hollywood.
  
  In his first years in Hollywood, Mr. Lorre was cast in the type of roles that had already made him famous. He was an insane doctor in “Mad Love,” and played the seriously disturbed student in Dostoevski's “Crime and Punishment.”
  
  One of his most distinctive features was the soft, nasal quality of his voice, tinged with a European accent, which he used with chilling effectiveness.
  
  In many of the roles, Mr. Lorre seemed to be a man of two sides, a quiet gentle man and a raving maniac.
  
  In one film, “Island of Doomed Men,” which is not considered among his best, Mr. Lorre played a prison warden who equally enjoyed listening to Chopin and flogging prisoners.
  
  In a series of movies, Mr. Lorre appeared as the larcenous sidekick of the late Sydney Greenstreet, a film bad man with a booming laugh that neatly complemented Mr. Lorre's nervous giggle.
  
  Together with Humphrey Bogart, they appeared in “The Maltese Falcon,” and “Casablanca,” screen classics of the early nineteen‐forties.
  
  Mr. Lorre also portrayed the Japanese detective “Mr. Moto” in a series of movies, but soon returned to more sinister roles.
  
  In Hollywood, Mr, Lorre was known as a quiet, almost shy man, with a deadpan sense of humor. He had been . bothered with heart trouble in recent years, but managed to keep up a fairly busy working schedule.
  
  Most recently, he had appeared in a number of “humorous” horror pictures. His latest film was “Muscle Beach Party,” and he recently completed a Jerry Lewis picture, “The Patsy.”
  
  Among his other films were “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Confidential Agent,” “Mask of Dimitrios,” “Beat the Devil” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”
  
  During the nineteen‐fifties and sixties he made frequent television appearances. He also sought more comic performances after the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1949 had warned parents to send children to bed before he appeared on a late variety show.
  
  But Mr. Lorre had a thoroughly professional attitude toward his career.
  
  “What do I care if I'm a villain?” he once asked. “I’ll be anything they want me to be—ghoul, goon or clown—as long as it's necessary.”
  
  With only a few exceptions, Hollywood found it necessary—and Mr. Lorre found it profitable—for him to remain sinister.
  
  Early in his career, Mr. Lorre worked with Bertolt. Brecht and later was considered an expert on the works of the German playwright.
  
  An avid reader of books in several languages, Mr. Lorre was also a fan of Los Angeles's professional baseball and football teams.
  
  The actor married three times; Cecilia Lvovsky in 1934, Karen Verne in 1945 and Annemaire Stoldt in 1953: The first two marriages ended in divorce.
  
  A spokesman for his studio, American International Pictures, said that Mr. Lorre and his wife were separated. They have a 10‐year‐old daughter, Kathryn.

  

  Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (111 credits)
  
  1964 The Patsy - Morgan Heywood
  1964 Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour
  1963 The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie
  1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Frederick Bergen
  - The End of the World, Baby (1963) ... Frederick Bergen
  1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - The Gypsy
  - 5: Part 1 (1963) ... The Gypsy
  1963 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Archie Lefferts
  - Diamond Fever (1963) ... Archie Lefferts
  1963 The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
  1962 Route 66 (TV Series) - Peter Lorre
  - Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962) ... Peter Lorre
  1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed
  1962 Tales of Terror - Montresor (segment "The Black Cat")
  1961 The Gertrude Berg Show (TV Series) - Professor Kestner
  - The Trouble with Crayton (1961) ... Professor Kestner
  - First Test (1961) ... Professor Kestner
  1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery
  1961 The Best of the Post (TV Series) - Baron
  - The Baron Loved His Wife (1961) ... Baron
  1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Alonzo Pace Graham
  - The Human Touch (1961) ... Alonzo Pace Graham
  1960 Rawhide (TV Series) - Victor Laurier
  - Incident of the Slavemaster (1960) ... Victor Laurier
  1955-1960 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - King Zurium / Boris - Chief Spy / Mad Scientist / ... - 7 episodes
  1960 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Alexander Portlass
  - The Alexander Portlass Story (1960) ... Alexander Portlass
  1956-1960 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Café Owner / Tenzing / Dr. Ostrow / ...
  1960 Scent of Mystery - Smiley
  1957-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Carlos / Tomas Salgado
  - Man from the South (1960) ... Carlos
  - The Diplomatic Corpse (1957) ... Tomas Salgado
  
  1959 Five Fingers (TV Series) - The Colonel
  - Thin Ice (1959) ... The Colonel
  1959 The Big Circus - Skeeter
  1958 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series) - Guest
  - Episode #1.11 (1958) ... Guest
  1955-1958 Studio 57 (TV Series)
  Heitzer / Mr. Grover
  - The Queen's Bracelet (1958)
  - The Finishers (1956) ... Heitzer
  - Young Couples Only (1955) ... Mr. Grover
  1957 Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (TV Movie) - Mr. Munsey
  1957 Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret
  1957 The Sad Sack - Abdul
  1957 The Story of Mankind - Nero
  1957 Silk Stockings - Brankov
  1954-1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Benny Kellerman / Mr. Ho / Normie / ...
  - A Taste for Crime (1957) ... Benny Kellerman
  - The Man Who Lost His Head (1956) ... Mr. Ho
  - The Fifth Wheel (1956) ... Normie
  - A Promise to Murder (1955) ... Mr. Vorhees
  - Casino Royale (1954) ... Le Chiffre
  1957 The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner
  1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) - Moyzisch
  - Operation Cicero (1956) ... Moyzisch
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic
  1956 Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
  1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas - Peter Lorre (uncredited)
  1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) - Willy
  - No. 5 Checked Out (1956) ... Willy
  1955 The Star and the Story (TV Series) - Inspector Andre Mondeau
  - The Blue Landscape (1955) ... Inspector Andre Mondeau
  1955 The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (TV Series) - Ambrose Dodson
  - The Sure Cure (1955) ... Ambrose Dodson
  1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Poffy
  - Reunion in Vienna (1955) ... Poffy
  1955 The Best of Broadway (TV Series) - Dr. Herman Einstein
  - Arsenic and Old Lace (1955) ... Dr. Herman Einstein
  1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Conseil
  1954 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
  - The Pipe (1954)
  1953 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
  - The Vanishing Point (1953)
  1953 Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara
  1952 Suspense (TV Series)
  - The Tortured Hand (1952)
  1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pratt
  - The Taste (1952) ... Richard Pratt
  1951 Der Verlorene - Dr. Karl Rothe, alias Dr. Karl Neumeister
  1950 Double Confession - Paynter
  1950 Quicksand - Nick
  
  1949 Rope of Sand - Toady
  1948 Casbah - Slimane
  1947 My Favorite Brunette - Kismet
  1946 The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins
  1946 The Chase - Gino
  1946 The Verdict - Victor Emmric
  1946 Black Angel - Marko
  1946 Three Strangers - Johnny West
  1945 Confidential Agent - Contreras
  1945 Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig
  1944 Hollywood Canteen - Peter Lorre
  1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky
  1944 Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein
  1944 The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden
  1944 Passage to Marseille - Marius
  1943 The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger
  1943 Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff
  1943 The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy
  1942 Casablanca - Ugarte
  1942 The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz
  1942 Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito
  1942 All Through the Night - Pepi
  1941 The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Captain Chang
  1941 Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde
  1941 The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
  1940 You'll Find Out - Karl Fenninger
  1940 Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger
  1940 Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel
  1940 I Was an Adventuress - Polo
  1940 Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig
  
  1939 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation - Mr. Moto
  1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island - Mr. Moto
  1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Mr. Moto
  1938 Mysterious Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1938 I'll Give a Million - Louie 'The Dope' Monteau
  1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Chance - Mr. Moto
  1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble - Mr. Moto
  1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1937 Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning
  1937 Think Fast, Mr. Moto - Mr. Moto
  1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm
  1936 Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy
  1936 Secret Agent - The General
  1935 Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov
  1935 Mad Love - Doctor Gogol
  1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott
  1933 High and Low - Le mendiant
  1933 Unsichtbare Gegner - Henry Pless
  1933 Les requins du pétrole - Henry Pless
  1933 Was Frauen träumen - Otto Fuessli
  1932 F.P.1 Doesn't Answer - Bildreporter Johnny
  1932 Stupéfiants - Le bossu
  1932 Dope - Hunchback
  1932 Schuß im Morgengrauen - Klotz
  1932 Fünf von der Jazzband - Car thief
  1931 A Man's a Man - Galy Gay - a packer
  1931 Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix
  1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek
  1931 M - Hans Beckert
  1930 The White Devil
  1929 Die verschwundene Frau - Patient of a Dentist (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (5 credits)
  
  1963 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - The Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show (1963) ... (performer: "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Murdered Dear Old Dad)" - uncredited)
  1957 Silk Stockings (performer: "Too Bad (We Can't Go Back to Moscow)", "Red Blues", "Siberia" - uncredited)
  1936 One in a Million ("Horror Boys of Hollywood" (1936))
  1931 Bombs Over Monte Carlo (performer: "Jawohl, Herr Kapitän")
  1931 M (performer: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1951 Der Verlorene
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1995 49/95: Tausendjahrekino (Documentary short) (voice)

  
  
  
  Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in the 1954 television version of Casino Royale
  
  
  

  
  1950: Corinne Cléry is born--Paris, France.
  1951: Robert Davi is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
  1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

  
  

  1959: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's seventh Bond novel Goldfinger. Richard Chopping cover.

  'Gilt-edged Bond.' SUNDAY TIMES
  'In a class of its own.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
  'Mr. Fleming is the best thriller writer since
  Buchan.' EVENING STANDARD

  'Sound writing and a sophisticated mind.'
  THE TIMES

  'James Bond is having it good again.'
  THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

  'With his forked tongue sticking right
  through his cheeek, he remains maniacally
  readable.' OBSERVER

  'Only Fleming could have got away with it
  . . . . outrageously improbably, wickedly
  funny, wildly exciting.'
  MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

  'Mr. Fleming is still in a class by himself.'
  OXFORD MAIL

  and, for the two million citizens who play
  golf, this acclamation from Henry Longhurst
  in the SUNDAY TIMES:
  'As a rabid fan of Ian Fleming and the
  adventures of his Secret Service hero, I am
  delighted to find that the second of the
  latter's skirmishes with villainous Mr.
  Goldfinger takes place on the golf course
  . . . The account of the match add materially
  to the fictional literature of golf.'

  
  James Bond's most recent adventure was
  DOCTOR NO
  'Ian Fleming first attracted me for three
  qualities which I thought, perhaps wrongly,
  almost unique in English writers . . escape
  from the mandarin English . . daring . . an
  acute sense of place.' Raymond Chandler in
  THE SUNDAY TIMES
  'Fleming, by reason of his cool and analyti-
  cal intelligence, his informed use of technical
  facts, his plausibility, sense of pace, brilliant
  descriptive powers and superb imagination,
  provides sheer entertainment such as I, who
  must read many novels, am seldom lucky
  enough to find.' SPECTATOR
  'Sex, sadism and snobbery. NEW STATESMAN
  'Absolutely compelling.' TABLET
  
  Jacket design by Richard Chopping

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1961: Comic strip From A View To A Kill begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 9 September 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3
  
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=989
  
  
  https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1976
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

  Dödligt Uppdrag ("Fatal Commission" - From A View To A Kill)
  

  
  Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 43: “From a View to a Kill” (1978)
  Dødelig opgave" [= Deadly Assignment]
  
  

  
  Danish 1968 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 13: “From a View to a Kill” (1968)
  Dødelig mission [Deadly Mission]
  

  1962: Bert Rhodes finishes orchestrating the remainder of Monty Norman's score for Dr No at CTS Studios, London. Norman splits his £500 fee. (None of it is included in the released soundtrack album.)
  1963: Terence Young films Rosa Klebb inspecting Red Grant for fitness.
  
  1979: ITV airs the My Name is Bond… James Bond – Moonraker TV Special in the UK.
  1979: London Royal Premiere of Moonraker at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the US.

  Title cards, 11x14 inch displayed in sets of eight.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1982: Charles Joseph Russhon, United States Air Force retired, Lieutenant Colonel, dies at age 71--Manhattan, New York.
  (Born 23 March 1911--New York, New York.)

  

  Through Airmen's Eyes: The
  Airman and James Bond

  https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/109829/through-airmens-eyes-the-airman-and-james-bond/
  By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013

  
  (U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)
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  Sean Connery feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon was the military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Sean Connery’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Claudine Auger, a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and former Miss France Monde, during the production of “Thunderball.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Claire Russhon, wife of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses in the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in the films. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Martine Beswick, an English actress cast as a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and “From Russia With Love,” during the production of “Thunderball.” Sean Connery sits in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Sean Connery is welcomed to the TWA Ambassadors Club during the production of “Thunderball.” Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and friend of Sean Connery’s, is to his right. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  This photograph from a 1945 article published in the “San Francisco Examiner” features Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon as a captain (center) after his return from Japan in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russhon was one of the first Americans on the ground in both locations within 24 hours of the bombs being dropped on both. One of the original Air Commandos, Russhon worked as a military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. (Photo by the "San Francisco Examiner" courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  American cartoonist Milton Caniff poses with his “Steve Canyon” comic strip featuring “Charlie Vanilla,” a character inspired by his friend Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The signed photograph features a circled “Charlie Vanilla,” aka Russhon, and says “this guy keeps turning up!” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon (left), military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the original Air Commandos, chats with Major General (ret) Johnny Alison, one of the fathers of Air Force special operations, and Brigadier General J. Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)
  
  
  Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses with Sean Connery during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon took Connery in tow when he arrived in New York, and they remained friends until Russhon passed away in 1982, Russhon’s wife, Claire Russhon, said. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

  
  HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- (Editor's Note:This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)

  Quartermaster "Q" supplied Skyfall's 50-year anniversary James Bond with a radio and a Walther PPK handgun, but Sean Connery's 007 relied on an Special Operations Airman for some of the bigger stuff.

  Retired Lt. Col. Charles Russhon, one of the founding air commandos assigned to the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was a military adviser to the Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s.
  
  Among the gadgets Russhon procured for filmmakers were the Bell-Textron Jet Pack and the Fulton Skyhook, both featured in the 1965 "Thunderball," as well as the explosives that were used to blow up the Disco Volante ship.
  
  He arranged for exterior access to Fort Knox, Ky., coordinated filming locations in Istanbul, Turkey, and facilitated film participation by Air Force pararescuemen in "Thunderball."
  
  "Roger Moore called him 'Mr. Fixit' because he seemed to be able to do or get anything in New York City," Russhon's wife, Claire, wrote in an email. "For example, suspending traffic on FDR Drive for a Bond chase scene (and that isn't done in one take)."
  
  As special associate to the producers, Russhon, a native New Yorker, researched new technologies, locations and permissions for whatever the scripts required, she said.
  
  Russhon, who passed away in 1982, worked on "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," and "Live and Let Die."
  
  "Mr. Fix-It"
  Christian Russhon remembers his father's business card read "catalyst -- agent that brings others together."
  
  For him, there was never a dull moment, he said.
  
  "He was larger than life," Christian said.
  
  The film crew commemorated the colonel's penchant for life on the set of "Goldfinger" in which they promoted him to the rank of general. In the film, a banner hung on the Fort Knox airplane hangar reads "Welcome, General Russhon."
  
  Christian Russhon said he also remembers seeing his dad on film in "Thunderball" in which he appeared as an Air Force officer at a conference with other agents. According to the International Movie Database, Russhon is sitting to the right of "M" in the scene.
  
  Russhon's connections with movers and shakers made him the right man for the Bond job after his retirement from active-duty service in the Air Force. His acquaintance with film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli predated Broccoli's work on the Bond films, Claire Russhon said. He was available when Broccoli needed a man stateside to work on the films.
  
  Russhon relied on his acquaintance with President John F. Kennedy's press secretary Pierre Salinger for access to film at Fort Knox in "Goldfinger."
  
  He worked with his military connections to get approval for filming in Turkey in "From Russia with Love" and to arrange for pararescuemen conducting a water training jump to be featured in "Thunderball."
  
  He was also there for a young Sean Connery when he arrived in New York City, Claire Russhon said.
  
  "Connery was a stranger in New York, and Charles took him in tow."
  
  When Connery was at odds with the producers, Russhon would serve as the go-between, she said.
  
  "Despite his reputation with the girls, Sean was a man's man," she said. "They kept in touch long after working together, and Sean called me when Charles died."
  
  Christian Russhon, who has also worked in the film industry for 30 years, remembers Sean Connery stopping by their New York apartment all the time.
  
  "I called him Uncle Sean," he said.
  
  The BSA Lightning motorcycle from "Thunderball," complete with rockets, also left an impression on young Christian Russhon. The motorcycle was gifted to his dad who gave it to his godson. Christian was not old enough to drive yet, so he missed out on the BSA Lightning, he recalled.

  Some real spy work
  
  Russhon not only had the connections, but he had the credentials to advise Bond filmmakers. He conducted his own top secret special operations work with the 1st Air Commando Group during World War II.
  
  The group, led by co-commanders and then lieutenant colonels John Alison and Philip Cochran, assisted one of the fathers of irregular warfare, British Army Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, and his ground forces, the "Chindits," as they penetrated the Burmese jungles in the fight against the Japanese.
  
  Their mission was to provide air support to British ground forces through infiltration and exfiltration, combat resupply and medical evacuations in hostile territory using a wide variety of aircraft flying low-level, long-range missions.
  
  Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Russhon worked as a sound engineer for NBC in New York City and for Hollywood-based Republic Pictures, which specialized in Westerns.
  
  Claire Russhon said her husband's deep patriotism and education at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N.Y., motivated him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps following the attack.
  
  As a young lieutenant, he was sent to Burma where he led the 10th Combat Camera Unit, a small group of cameramen supporting the 1st Air Commando Group.
  
  Alison and Cochran built a rapport with Russhon based on his exemplary work as a cameraman. He later became permanently attached to the Group, said Air Force Special Operations Command historian William Landau.
  
  "They became fast friends," Claire Russhon said. "Gen. John Alison was later best man at our wedding."
  
  Russhon became critical to mission success in the days leading up to Operation Thursday when he was cleared by Cochran to defy Wingate's orders and conduct last minute photo reconnaissance of the three landing strips Allied forces were to use during the mission, Landau said.
  
  Operation Thursday, a mission in which gliders were used to drop the Chindits deep behind Japanese enemy lines, marks the first time in military history that airpower was the backbone of an invasion, Landau said.
  
  "The photo reconnaissance was used to survey and select the landing sights," he said. "By cutting it off, Wingate basically left himself open to the possibility of a nasty surprise upon landing."
  
  Russhon got in the air with his camera. The first airstrip, Broadway, was clear. Chowringhee airstrip was clear. Piccadilly, which was to be used in the first night of operations, was strewn with teak logs locals had dragged out to the clearing to dry, he said.
  
  "Russhon was so taken aback, he actually forgot to photograph the area," Landau said. The pilot doubled back.
  
  He rushed to develop about 30 photographs at the nearest base of operations and had them delivered to Cochran, Alison and Wingate.
  
  "(Russhon's photo reconnaissance) not only saved many lives. It saved the operation itself," Landau said. "If they had landed with logs and debris at Piccadilly, the mission had the potential of being a catastrophic failure."
  
  Russhon received the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in August 1945. An excerpt from the citation reads: "This officer has displayed exemplary keenness and devotion to duty and was personally commended by General Wingate for his courageous action."
  
  Russhon continued to serve as a photographer through the end of World War II.
  
  After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was among the first Americans on location documenting the destruction.
  
  A 1945 article from the San Francisco Examiner interviewed Russhon about being on the ground in both cities within 24 hours after each bomb dropped.
  
  "A strange, rusty-looking haze hung over Nagasaki when I flew above the city at 3,000 feet the day after it was hit by the atomic bomb," Charles Russhon told the Examiner. "It was unlike anything I've ever run into before or since. I got out of there in one hell of a hurry."
  
  Following his active-duty career with the Air Force, Russhon entered the Air Force Reserve and began his work bringing life to Ian Fleming's Bond on the big screen.

  Claire Russhon said her husband enjoyed working on all of the Bond films but that one of the most interesting was "You Only Live Twice," because it required him to return to Japan where he recalled some of his World War II experiences.
  
  "In preparing for the Bond filming, there was a reception for the Japanese officials at which a gentleman greeted Charles and said 'you have gained weight,'" she said. "It was a Japanese general who explained that he was on the welcoming committee at Atsugi Air Base, (Japan,) when that first plane arrived (after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Charles stepped off."

  Russhon's legacy is extensive. Not only has he been immortalized on screen in the Bond films, but friend and celebrated American cartoonist Milton Caniff crafted "Charlie Vanilla" from his "Steve Canyon" comic strip after his person.
  
  The "Charlie Vanilla" character was a mister fix-it with an affinity for vanilla ice cream who always managed to save the day, Claire Russhon said.
  
  "The ice cream cone was fashioned after Charles's addiction to chocolate ice cream, but Caniff decided that 'Vanilla,' with the dangling vowel sounded more ominous," she said.
  
  Beyond the life he breathed into Bond by supplying filmmakers with the cool gadgets and locations viewers remember when they watch classic movies like "Goldfinger," Russhon is immortalized in Air Commando history through his photos and his leadership.
  
  "I get a sense of adventure. I get a sense of cunning," the AFSOC historian said. "To me, he embodied what an Air Commando more or less should be. He was fearless."
  
  (Editor's note: This article was completed with research assistance from the Air Force Special Operations Command Historian)

  

  1986: Jonathan Cape publishes the John Gardner Bond novel Nobody Lives For Ever.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 25 Posts: 14,532

  2013: Christie's auctions the Breitling watch worn by Bond in Thunderball.

  

  RELEASE: James Bond’s
  Breitling Top Time Discovered at
  Car Boot Sale for £25
  
  Christie’s is pleased to present the first ever watch specially
  adapted for James Bond in the Pop Culture sale on 26 June
  2013.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=6414&lid=1&mob-is-app=false

  Christie’s is pleased to present the first ever watch specially adapted for James Bond in the Pop Culture sale on 26 June 2013. The Breitling Top Time, worn by Sean Connery during 007’s mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE in the 1965 movie Thunderball, was recently bought for £25 at a car boot sale and is estimated to realise between £40,000 and £60,000 (illustrated above). It was the first watch to be modified by the famous Q Branch and is equipped with a ‘Geiger counter’ which in the film detects the emission of nuclear radiation. Made by Breitling in 1962 it was adapted by the James Bond art department and was the only example produced for the movie. This is a great opportunity for collectors to acquire a unique piece of James Bond memorabilia.

  
  
  
  
  Modified Breitling Top Time, issued by Q, equipped with a Geiger counter
  https://www.watchfreeks.com/threads/watches-in-thunderball-1965.101306/
  

  
  2018: Richard Jay Potash (Ricky Jay) is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
  (He dies 24 November 2018--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
  Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
  Nights,’ Dies at 72

  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
  https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS
  
  Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
  CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter
  
  Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.
  
  Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
  
  His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”
  
  A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.
  
  He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”
  
  Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”
  
  In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

  In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

  He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.
  
  With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”
  
  Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”
  
  A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.
  
  A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

  

  Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Trivia
  Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk
  
  Filmography

  Actor (41 credits)
  
  2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
  - The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
  - The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
  2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
  - Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
  2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
  2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
  - Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
  2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
  2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
  2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
  - Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
  2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
  - Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock
  
  2009 Intense - John
  2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
  - Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
  - Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
  2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
  2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
  2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
  2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
  - Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
  - Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
  2006 The Prestige - Milton
  2005 Last Days - Detective
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
  - Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
  2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
  2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
  2000 State and Main - Jack
  2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  
  1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
  1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
  1997/I Hacks - The Hat
  1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
  1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
  1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
  
  1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
  1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
  1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
  - Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
  1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
  1991 Homicide - Aaron
  
  1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
  1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
  - Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)
  
  2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
  2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
  2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
  2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
  2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
  2001 Heist (technical consultant)
  2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)
  
  1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
  1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
  1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
  1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
  1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
  1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
  1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
  1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)
  
  1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
  1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
  1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
  1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
  1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
  Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
  2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
  1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)
  
  1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)
  
  Music department (1 credit)
  
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

  
  
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies Restored Deleted Scenes - Gupta's Card Throwing (1:46)
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Daniel Craig visits U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, near Washington, District of Columbia.

  

  

  Daniel Craig visits CIA in run-up to
  shooting new James Bond film

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/06/daniel-craig-cia-visit-bond-007

  US intelligence agency entertains 007 star as it attempts to engagewith public and increase understanding of how it operates

  
  I, spy … Daniel Craig was reportedly told that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’
  and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented on screen. Photograph: CIA

  Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Fri 6 Jul 2018
  
  Daniel Craig has visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, as part of the CIA’s attempt to engage with the public and increase understanding of how intelligence work operates in the real world.
  
  Craig is currently preparing to shoot the 25th James Bond film, his fifth and apparently final time in the role, and the CIA hosted his visit on 26 June as an adjunct to its recent Reel vs. Real seminar.

  In a statement on its website the CIA said: “Mr Craig met with our leadership and workforce, who explained that real-life espionage is a lot more ‘cloak’ and a lot less ‘dagger’ than presented in the entertainment world of spy v spy.” The statement also added: “Mr Craig remarked about the teamwork that goes into the intelligence cycle and how impressed he was with the commitment and dedication of CIA officers.”
  
  The agency said its motivation was “to combat misrepresentations and assist in balanced and accurate portrayals” of the intelligence community.

  Production on Bond 25 is due to start in December; Danny Boyle will be the director and is writing a script with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge. No details of the plot or title have been released, but rumours have suggested the film may be called Shatterhand (after a Blofeld alias used in You Only Live Twice) and that Boyle and Hodge will depart from the customary portrayal of female Bond characters to better reflect the #MeToo era. The series is also expected to continue its attempt to construct a “universe”, but Christoph Waltz will not return as Blofeld.
  
  Bond 25 is due to be released on 25 October 2019 in the UK and on 8 November in the US. [Later changes include different director, dates delayed due to pandemic, plus

  Blofeld returns.]

  

  
  
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  June 27 Posts: 14,532

  June 27th
  
  1922: Peter Bayliss is born--Kingston upon Thames, London, England.
  (He dies 29 July 2002 at age 80--London, England.)

  

  Peter Bayliss

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Peter Bayliss (27 June 1922 – 29 July 2002) was an English actor. Bayliss was born in Kingston upon Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company. More than six feet tall, with a voice to match, he supplemented it with a barrage of wheezings, croakings, mutterings and, as the opera singer in Frontiers of Farce (Old Vic, 1977), garglings. In 1956 he appeared on stage in "The Matchmaker" at the Royale Theatre in New York and in 1960 he appeared in "Ross" at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London. His 20 films ranged from The Red Shoes (1948) to Darling (1965). He acted in more than 40 television productions including Please Sir! (he played the part of Mr Dunstable, Dennis Dunstable's father), The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy and The Bill, plus dramas like Bye, Bye Columbus (1990), Merlin (1998) and The Arabian Nights (1999). On radio he was particularly good in Jacobean adaptations, playing characters with names such as Sir Moth-Interest and Walter Whorehound. He appeared in more than 100 theatre productions. He made several films for the Children's Film Unit in his later years.
  
  Selected filmography
  Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) - Aide to Mithridates (uncredited)
  The Red Shoes (1948) - Evans - Lord Oldham's Chauffuer (uncredited)
  The Frightened Man (1952) - Bilton
  Jet Storm (1959) - Bentley
  
  From Russia with Love (1963) - Commissar Benz
  Darling (1965) - Lord Grant
  The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) - Professor (uncredited)
  Pretty Polly (1967) - Critch
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968) - Victor
  House of Cards (1968) - Edmond Rosier
  Lock Up Your Daughters (1969) - Mr. Justice Squeezum
  Arthur? Arthur! (1969) - Dr. Hubble
  The Magic Christian (1969) - Pompous Toff
  
  Please Sir! (1971) - Mr. Dunstable
  Vampira (1974) - Maltravers
  Mr. Selkie (1979) - Mr. Selkie
  
  Bullshot (1983) - Chairman of the Institute
  Mister Skeeter (1984) - title role
  School for Vandals (1986) - Sir Oswald Kane
  Hard Road (1988) - Hitch-Hiker
  
  Emily's Ghost (1992) - Rev. Dodsworth
  Don't Get Me Started (1994) - Father (voice, uncredited)
  The Ugly Duckling (1997) - The Actor Manager (voice)
  Merlin (1998) - 2nd Physician
  Alice in Wonderland (1999) - Mr. Dodo

  

  Peter Bayliss (I) (1922–2002)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063101/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1963: Dr. No released in Toronto, Canada.
  
  1973: Live and Let Die released in the US.

  
  
  
  http://www.the007dossier.com/page/Live-and-Let-Die-Movie-Posters

  1974: The Man with the Golden Gun cast and crew return to London for interiors. That's after location filming at Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau (China).
  1979: Moonraker general release in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Look-In magazine covers Bond and Wimbledon and Lotus.

  https://twitter.com/Thunderballs007/status/913127310055878657

  1984: A fire on the set of the Ridley Scott film Legend severely damages the 007 Stage.

  
  
  
  
  

  1985: 007 - Na Mira dos Assassinos (007 - The Assassins' Sight) released in Brazil.

  Eventual DVD release.
  
  
  

  1987: TV Times has a James Bond 25th anniversary cover suggesting Monepenny's assessment of 007s to date.

  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye films the destruction of the satellite.

  

  1996: Alberto Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli dies at age 87-- Beverly Hills, California.
  (Born 5 April 1909--Queens, New York.)

  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.html

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.
  2:36 PM BST 29 Jun 1996

  
  Photo: REUTERS

  A vast, unhurried man with the deeply shadowed eyes of a perpetual jet-setter, Broccoli, ensconced in the calm of his Mayfair office, could remind visitors of one of James Bond's sensual, cat-stroking adversaries.
  
  But he was noted by the profession for his geniality, and for the fatherly interest he took in his productions. Despite the enormous riches he accumulated from putting Ian Fleming's books on screen, Broccoli was almost believed when he said: "I have always felt that Bond is bigger than all of us."
  
  In 1960 he formed Eon (standing for "Everything or Nothing") Film Productions in London with the Canadian Harry Saltzman, who held an expiring option on the film rights to all Fleming's Bond books except Casino Royale.

  Broccoli and Saltzman agreed that the film industry should be international in scope, but their working methods were contrasting. While Saltzman revelled in his tough image, Broccoli became known as one of the industry's nice guys. As Michael Caine said, "Cubby is Harry's sense of proportion. They're like two policemen: Cubby gives you a cigarette and Harry knocks it out of your mouth."

  Their break came in 1962 when they persuaded United Artists to provide backing for Dr No, and made the inspired casting of Sean Connery - who, they thought, had the right walk - as Bond. An immediate hit, the film was followed by From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
  
  By then the partners were pounds 4 million the richer. Their partnership, which was always combative, endured until 1975, when Saltzman sold his share and Broccoli became the undisputed chief of the Bond industry. As such he took an unusually involved approach, embroiling himself in every stage of a film's development.
  
  "Bond is the only script written by a committee," he said. "I sit down with the writer, director and executive producer and we decide what we want in the script. The final decision," he added, "is made by me."

  Albert Romolo Broccoli, always known as "Cubby", was born in New York on April 5 1909, the son of Italian immigrants. His father was a bricklayer. With no idea what he would do with his life, young Cubby helped an uncle who ran a market garden in Long Island. He would later claim that this uncle brought the first broccoli seeds to America and gave his name to the well-known vegetable. Etymologists think otherwise.
  
  After a spell managing a coffin-factory, Broccoli was alerted by a holiday in Hollywood to his desire for a career in films and he moved out to the west. Not an immediate success, he worked as a street-corner Christmas tree hawker and as a salesman of hairdressing products in San Francisco, where he lived in one room with only a rat for company.
  
  "I really looked forward to seeing that rat. I fed him. He became a friend. Then one day I won a few dollars at the races. That was it: I said goodbye to the rat and made for LA." He became a teaboy at 20th Century Fox studios and soon progressed to the post of assistant director.
  
  During the Second World War, Broccoli served in the navy. Afterwards he worked in Hollywood as an agent and then settled in London. In 1951 he formed Warwick Film Productions with Irving Allen and produced a large number of competent pictures with tough characters and lots of action. These include The Red Beret (1953), Safari (1956) and The Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959).

  Although generally jovial and given to dishing up spaghetti for cast and crew, Broccoli could be stern. In 1970 he explained why the contract of George Lazenby, who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), had not been renewed. "Our parting was not by mutual desire," he said, "but by our desire. I wouldn't use him again. He's a pain in the arse."
  
  Broccoli returned to Hollywood in 1977, for tax reasons. In 1982 he was honoured at the Oscar ceremony with the prestigious Irving G Thalberg award. He was appointed OBE in 1987.
  
  Extremely skilful at negotiating a fair share for himself from the Bond films, Broccoli amassed an estimated pounds 100 million.

  He married, in 1959, Dana Wilson; Cary Grant was best man. They had two daughters.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2014: Harrod's offers its special edition Ocean Royale (50ml). Comes with 007 playing cards.

  https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/harrods-launches-ocean-royale-and-quantum-fragrance-007-playing-cards

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Inspiration?

  
  
  

  2018: Wanda's Book Reviews notes an Agatha Christie connection from 1934.

  

  Wanda's Book Reviews

  Did Agatha Christie influence
  Ian Fleming?

  http://wandapedersen39.booklikes.com/post/1769680/did-agatha-christie-influence-ian-fleming
  2:47 pm 27 June 2018
  
  This is a frequent enough question that Google filled it in for me when I asked! Here is a quote from a website that provides some info:

  A character by the name of James Bond appeared in a 1934 short story, "Rajah's Emerald", which was published in the Agatha Christie anthology, The Listerdale Mystery. The Bond character from this short story is not a spy or action hero, but he does deal with an adventure that has to do with a stolen emerald, hence the title, and pines for the heart of a young woman named Grace. Was 007 creator Ian Fleming humoring readers when he named his classic protagonist, James Bond? According to the www.007magazine.co.uk:

  "Ian Fleming's wry sense of humor has been well-documented over the years, making it highly possible that he may very well have hoaxed everyone and have also been influenced by Agatha Christie's writings, as her books were bestsellers during his formative years."

  It's point five on this web page:
  https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/five-rare-things-about-james-bond-007-you-most-likelyfe20ae95eb
  
  Interesting, yes?
  
  BTW, the link in the actual article is misspelled and doesn't work. Even when you spell it correctly, it only goes to a generic page for the magazine, nothing specific to this question. WP

  
  
  

  
  2022: Altitude Films releases documentary GoldenEra.

  

  BOND’s GOLDEN EGG – New
  documentary GOLDENERA
  celebrates a 007 gaming classic
  on its silver anniversary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/bonds-golden-egg-new-documentary-goldenera-celebrates-a-007-gaming-classic-on-its-silver-anniversary/

  June 22, 2022 / Mark O'Connell

  

  “There was a movie license done by a small team of inexperienced developers which
  somehow ended up being the greatest first person shooter of its era.”
  – GoldenEra

  When Steven Spielberg and writer Ernest Cline cite GoldenEye 007 in their pop-culture fest Ready Player One as being the best game ever designed it only confirmed what players already knew…it was!
  
  From Altitude Films this month loads up a brand new documentary looking at the creation, design, happenstance and fortune of a Bond minded computer game that became one of THE best remembered and played games of all time.

  “There is before GoldenEye and there is after GoldenEye.“

  

  GoldenEra tells the incredible inside story of the creation and legacy of GoldenEye 007, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. From a tough genesis of many hardcore design hours, sleepless nights and dogged persistence GoldenEra saves and uploads the story of what happened when a bunch of designers from Warwickshire changed the future of computer game, laid a golden egg for Nintendo and demonstrated the love for a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie classic.

  GoldenEra Offical Trailer
  

  GOLDENERA / screener link
  https://www.altitude.film/page/goldenera?country=united-kingdom
  
  GOLDENERA Homepage
  https://goldenerafilm.com/
  
  GoldenEra is released digitally on June 27 2022.

  
  GoldenEra | James Bond Game Documentary | Full Documentary | FREE4ALL (1:44:04)
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  1961: Variety comments on Broccoli and Saltzman.

  
  Variety declares:

  "A.R. (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman have joined forces in a production setup. As a start, they have acquired screen rights to all the Ian Fleming yarns on James Bond, and plan to put the first into production in Britain this fall. Initial one will be ‘From Russia With Love.’”

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films a cheeky scene with Tiffany Case.

  
  
  
  

  1973: Roger Greenspun reviews Live and Let Die in The New York Times.

  

  The Screen: 'Live and Let Die'
  Opens:The Latest James Bond Fights
  Heroin Ring

  See the complete article here:
  

  By Roger Greenspun | June 28, 1973

  Torchlight, Voodoo drums. Dark bodies writhe in the mounting frenzy of some unspeakable tropical rite. Suddenly a door is flung open and framed within it stands a beautiful white girl held captive by two monstrous black men. Her filmy white gown scarcely covering the soft contours of her body, she is dragged — protesting — to a crude scaffold and there is tied fast. As if by signal, the ranks of jeering celebrants open and there advances an executioner, laughing, stomping, hideously costumed. He holds a poisonous snake in his outstretched hands, a snake whose bite is destined for the smooth young bosom. . . . Whatever the quality of this little scenario, you must admit that to stick it into a movie these days takes nerve. Merely to make a new adventure movie in which all the bad guys are black and almost all the good guys are white, and which includes in its climax the (near) sacrifice of a (recent) virgin—takes nerve.Nerve, and certain insolence toward public pieties, and a lot of canniness about just what level of sophistication its audience is up to—all of them qualities that have characterized the James Bond movies since the beginning, 10 years ago, and that abundantly characterize the latest, Guy Hamilton's "Live and Let Die. "There are now eight Bond movies, and though they are the work of many different talents (Hamilton has directed two previously: "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever") they do represent a recognizable tradition in which the whole—or the memory of the whole — seems to be greater than the sum of the parts. The plots tend to flow into each other—one scheme after another for controlling all the money in the world—changing their elements to fit changing anxieties (in "Live and Let Die" the evil is a heroin monopoly operating out of some Caribbean island kingdom with pipelines into New York City and New Orleans), but remaining the same in essence.And always there is a woman waiting to be converted by the power of sex. In "Live and Let Die" she reads the Tarot pack to tell fortunes for the enemy. James Bond's card keeps coming up "Lovers," though she thinks she is hoping for "Death." There are three chases (four, if you stretch a point), including one by car and motorboat that gets so complicated it allows for character development. One actor, Clifton James, who appears only during the chase, gets fourth billing in the cast list.The names above Mr. James's do not seem so impressive. Roger Moore is a handsome, suave, somewhat phlegmatic James Bond—with a tendency to throw away his throwaway quips as the minor embarrassments that, alas, they usually are. As Solitaire, to whom the cards speak truth only so long as she remains a virgin, Jane Seymour is beautiful enough, but too submissive even for this scale of fantasy. Yaphet Kotto (Dr. Kananha), a most agreeable actor, simply does not project evil. However, I could list compensating virtues by the score. There is a marvelous escape from an alligator farm (deadly reptiles are rather a motif in this movie), a superb collection of grotesque ways of killing, and a fine sense of pace and rhythm. "Live and Let Die" has been especially well photographed and edited, and it makes clever and extensive use of its good title song, by Paul and Linda McCartney."Live and Let Die" opened yesterday at several local theaters.

  The Cast
  LIVE AND LET DIE, directed by Guy Hamilton, screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz; camera, Ted Moore; editors, Bert Bates, Raymond Poulton and John Shirley; music, George Martin; produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman; presented by United Artists Corporation. At the United Artists East Theater, First Avenue and 85th Street; the Rivoli Theater, Broadway and 49th Street and the 49th Street East Theater at Third Avenue. Running time: 121 minutes. Rating: PG.
  James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
  Doctor Kananga . . . . . Yaphet Kotto
  Solitaire . . . . . Jane Seymour
  Sheriff Pepper . . . . . Clifton James
  Tee Hee . . . . . Julius W. Harris
  Baron Samedl . . . . . Geoffrey Holder
  Leiter . . . . . David Hedison
  Rosie . . . . . Gloria Hendry
  "M" . . . . . Bernard Lee

  1973: Charles Champlin reviews Live and Let Die in the Los Angeles Times.

  

  MOORE TAKES OVER AS 007

  

  
  1984: 深入虎穴 勇闖龍潭 (Deep Into the Tiger's Den) released in Hong Kong.

  Later DVD.
  
  

  
  2012: Phaedros (Paul) Stassinos dies--Limassol, Cyprus.
  (Born: 1930--Pano Platres, Cyprus.)

  

  Paul Stassino

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Phaedros Stassinos (1930 – 28 June 2012) was a Greek Cypriot actor whose international stage name was Paul Stassino.

  
  Paul Stassino in Thunderball
  (1965)

  Early life
  Stassino was born in Platres and grew up in nearby Limassol, but spent most of his acting career in England. He had moved there at the age of 18 to study law. Without telling his parents, he got a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
  
  Career
  He appeared in many British films, in British TV dramas such as Danger Man and The Saint. He appeared in Coronation Street in 1968, as Hungarian demolition contractor Miklos Zadic who had a brief relationship with Emily Nugent (played by Eileen Derbyshire).

  Possibly his best known performance was when he played two parts, Major François Derval and Angelo Palazzi, in the James Bond film Thunderball.

  Other roles include "Le Pirate" in That Riviera Touch, and the first officer of the Colombian ship Paloma in Tiger Bay.
  
  In 1972 he moved to Athens, where he worked as a director in the casino in Athens, and then because of his great love for his island, he moved to his birthplace in Cyprus where he worked in the Public Theatre in Nicosia as an actor and as a director, where after he retired he moved to his beloved Limassol. He died on 28 June 2012 in Limassol and was buried in the cemetery of Limassol Sfalagiotisa.
  
  Personal life
  He was married twice and had three children Julian Stassino, Alex Stassino, and Elvi Stassinou.
  
  Filmography
  Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) - Yani Katsias
  Interpol (1957) - Customs Inspector
  Miracle in Soho (1957) - Paulo
  Ice Cold in Alex (1958) - Barman
  The Great Van Robbery (1959) - Toni
  The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Nick Morelli
  Tiger Bay (1959) - 'POLOMA' 1st. Officer
  The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) - Hatti
  
  The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) - Lt. Silver
  Moment of Danger (1960) - Juan Montoya
  Sands of the Desert (1960) - Pilot
  The Criminal (1960) - Alfredo Fanucci
  Exodus (1960) - Driver-guide on Cyprus
  Man Detained (1961) - James Helder
  The Secret Partner (1961) - Man in Soho Street
  The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) - Stefano - The Barber
  Echo of Barbara (1961) - Caledonia
  Sammy Going South (1963) - Spyros Dracandopolous
  Stolen Hours (1963) - Dalporto
  The Long Ships (1964) - Raschid
  The Moon-Spinners (1964) - Lambis
  The High Bright Sun (1965) - Alkis
  Thunderball (1965) - François Derval / Angelo Palazzi
  Where the Spies Are (1965) - Simmias
  That Riviera Touch (1966) - Le Pirate
  Sands of Beersheba (1966) - Salim
  The Magus (1968) - Meli
  
  You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) - Gunner major (uncredited)
  A Touch of the Other (1970) - Connelly
  Die Screaming, Marianne (1971) - Portuguese Police Detective
  Escape to Athena (1979) - Zeno's Man (final film role)

  

  Paul Stassino (1930–2012)

  Actor | Writer
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  2013: Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville returns to Stoke Park for its first James Bond Golf Day.

  

  
  2015: Spectre films at the Millennium Bridge, Southbank, London.

  
  
  
  

  2019: Sotheby's New York opens viewing on an Aston Martin DB5 prior to auction.

  

  

  Calling All Secret Agents: James Bond’s 1965 Aston
  Martin DB5 Is Up for Auction

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/james-bonds-1965-aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-rm-monterey-auction

  Automobiles | RM Sotheby's | Jun 12, 2019
  
  RM Sotheby’s, the official auction house of Aston Martin, is offering perhaps the most
  iconic Aston Martin of all time to lead ‘An Evening with Aston Martin,’ a special
  single-marque sale session at the 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. Featuring
  thirteen functioning Bond modifications, the James Bond 007 Aston Martin DB5 is
  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.
  
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  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.
  
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  The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Bond Car to be offered at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale. Estimate $4,000,000–6,000,000. (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)
  
  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.
  
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  A look at the interior gadgets in the Bond DB5 (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)
  
  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.
  
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  The smoke screen dispenser on the DB5 is engaged (Simon Clay © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s)
  
  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.
  
  The Bond DB5 will be on view at Sotheby's New York from 28 June through 31 July.
  

  
  Monterey 2019: ‘The Most Famous Car in the World’ (Full Length Film)
  

  
  2020: Sky News reports Brosnan recalls saving Halle Berry from choking. Sort of.

  

  Pierce Brosnan 'vaguely' remembers
  saving Halle Berry from choking during
  love scene in James Bond film

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://news.sky.com/story/pierce-brosnan-vaguely-remembers-saving-halle-berry-from-choking-during-love-scene-in-james-bond-film-12015805

  Berry said Brosnan performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on her when she started choking during filming.
  Sunday 28 June 2020 04:29, UK

  
  The incident happened during a love scene

  Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has said he
  "vaguely" remembers saving Halle Berry from choking on the set of Die
  Another Day.
  
  According to Berry, Brosnan performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on her when she started choking while they were filming a love scene.
  
  Brosnan said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that he was "not sure" what happened during filming for the 2002 movie.
  
  He said: "I vaguely remember it, I've seen little quotes in the press recently. We were on the set, I'm not quite sure what I did, I might have Heimliched her, I'm not sure."
  
  A laughing Brosnan added: "I just patted her on the back."
  
  Oscar-winning actress Berry, 53, told Fallon in April that Brosnan came to the rescue when a fig got stuck in her throat.
  
  She said: "I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig. I end up choking on it and he had to get up and do the Heimlich. So not sexy."
  
  Berry added: "James Bond knows how to Heimlich! He was there for me, he will always be one of my favourite people in the whole world."
  
  Die Another Day was the final Bond movie featuring Brosnan.
  

  

  
  2022: The British Film Institute bestows its highest honours to Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson: BFI Fellowships.

  

  James Bond Producers Barbara Broccoli,
  Michael G. Wilson Accorded BFI
  Fellowships

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2022/film/global/james-bond-producers-bfi-fellowships-1235297188/

  
  Barbara Broccoli Michael G. Wilson
  Jeff Spicer

  James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are being accorded BFI Fellowships, the highest honor bestowed by the British Film Institute.
  
  The fellowships will be presented at the BFI chair’s dinner, hosted by BFI chair Tim Richards, on June 28.

  For Eon Productions, Broccoli and Wilson have overseen the Bond franchise for nearly 30 years and together produced nine of the 25 Bond films, the first of which was Goldeneye (1995) and includes Skyfall (2012), which went on to win the BAFTA for outstanding British Film. Wilson was screenwriter on five films in the 1980s (with Richard Maibaum) and producer of three Bonds with his stepfather and original Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. The franchise turns 60 this year and the BFI will be marking this anniversary with James Bond 60th celebration weekend of screenings and events in London at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX on Oct. 1 and 2.
  
  Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said: “We are so proud to be awarded the BFI Fellowship on behalf of all of those who have been a part of the James Bond series over 60 years and feel honored to join such an esteemed group of distinguished industry fellows. We are very grateful to so many members of the British film industry who we have worked with over the course of our careers and thank the British Film Institute for their tremendous support and leadership for the creative industries in the U.K.”
  
  Richards added: “I am honored and excited to be awarding Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with the prestigious BFI Fellowship. I can think of no-one else more deserving particularly as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the incredibly successful James Bond franchise. With amazing insight and vision Michael and Barbara have not only re-invented Bond for today’s audiences, but No Time to Die arrived at exactly the right moment to welcome those audiences back to the big screen experience as never before. As equally, if not more, important is their commitment to our industry away from the spotlight, where they work tirelessly to open doors for others by playing a huge part in educating, supporting and inspiring the next generation of film makers.”

  Broccoli and Wilson have also produced and executive produced several films outside the Bond franchise including “Radiator” (2014), “The Silent Storm” (2014), “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” 2017), “Nancy” (2018) and “The Rhythm Section” (2020).
  
  Broccoli is VP for film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, president of the National Youth Theatre, director of Time’s Up U.K. and a Trustee of Into Film, a film education youth charity. Wilson is honorary VP of the Science Museum Foundation and a Fellow of the Science Museum London. Both Wilson and Broccoli are directors of the Dana and Albert R. Broccoli Foundation and co-founders of the London Screen Academy.
  
  In 2008, they were appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and in 2014 they were honored by the Producers Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. In 2022, they were appointed Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for services to film, drama, philanthropy and skills (CBE).
  
  BFI Fellows include Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, Tilda Swinton, David Lean, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Nicholas Roeg, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, Judi Dench, Ousmane Sembène, Bernardo Bertolucci and Steve McQueen.
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  THE BFI WHO LOVED ME –
  London’s BFI & IMAX to celebrate
  Bond’s 60th anniversary
  weekend

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/the-bfi-who-loved-me-londons-bfi-imax-to-celebrate-bonds-60th-anniversary-weekend/

  June 17, 2022 / Mark O'Connell

  
  

  From the BFI with love this fall as London’s BFI and IMAX will mark sixty cinematic years of Bond, James Bond. Over two days (October 1st and 2nd 2022), the capital’s movie hub will celebrate six decades of 007 with a series of screenings and events. To mark the celebrations the BFI are also giving Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson the valued BFI Fellowship. This honour marks the decades of support, employment and support that Wilson and Broccoli have brought to British film production and exhibition. The Fellowship will be given to the producing pair at a special reception at London’s Claridge’s on June 28 2022.

  “I am honoured and excited to be awarding Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with the prestigious BFI Fellowship. I can think of no-one else more deserving particularly as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the incredibly successful James Bond franchise. With amazing insight and vision Michael and Barbara have not only re-invented Bond for today’s audiences, but No Time to Die arrived at exactly the right moment to welcome those audiences back to the big screen experience as never before. As equally, if not more, important is their commitment to our industry away from the spotlight, where they work tirelessly to open doors for others by playing a huge part in educating, supporting and inspiring the next generation of film makers.”
  Tim Richards, BFI Chair

  Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are deeply proud of the accolade and subsequent celebrations. The BFI has been a perfectly located and celebratory hub of James Bond over the years. In 2009 the Southbank centre of cinema held a rich season marking the centenary of Bond legend Albert R. Broccoli (including a quite memorable screening of 1962’s Dr. No to a room full of Bond legends hosted by Roger Moore in April 2009). Countless Bond film screenings and Q & A sessions have sold out there and a September 2019 Bond Day event included three classic 007 adventures back on the big screen and with Bond director John Glen and OHMSS star George Lazenby in attendance.

  
  Photo / Mark O’Connell

  ‘We are so proud to be awarded the BFI Fellowship on behalf of all of those who have been a part of the James Bond series over 60 years and feel honoured to join such an esteemed group of distinguished industry fellows. We are very grateful to so many members of the British film industry who we have worked with over the course of our careers and thank the British Film Institute for their tremendous support and leadership for the creative industries in the UK.’
  – Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli

  The BFI will be marking this anniversary year of the franchise with a special James Bond Sixtieth celebration weekend events in London at the BFI Southbank and the neighbouring BFI IMAX on October 1st and 2nd 2022 – including screenings of some classic Bond movies back on the big screen where they belong.

  

  
  2025: Armed Forces Day in the United Kingdom.

  
  
  

  
  
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  June 28 Posts: 14,532

  June 29th
  
  1943: Soon-Tek Oh is born--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.
  (He dies 4 April 2018 at age 85--Los Angeles, California.)

  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary
  
  Short obit from a Korean source.

  
  https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619

  Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85

  

  Apr 07,2018
  이미지뷰
  
  Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
  
  Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.
  

  Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film “The Man with the Golden Gun,” which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

  In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.
  
  By Sung Ji-eun

  

  Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644902/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb briefing Tatiana Romanova.

  
  
  From Russia With Love - Tania Meets Klebb - John Barry (1:30)
  

  1964: Comic strip On Her Majesty's Secret Service debuts in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 15 May 1965. 1-274) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ohmss.php3
  
  http://rooschristoph.blogspot.com/2018/06/james-bond-comics.html
  
  
  
  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/bloodysnow/snow03.htm
  
  
  https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870830
  
  
  
  http://jamesbondcomicart.co.uk/james-bond-originals-for-sale/
  
  
  1988 Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3?s=comics&id=02331

  I Hennes Majestäts Hemliga Tjänst Del
  (O.H.M.S.S. - Part 1)
  
  

  
  Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no33-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 33: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1975)
  "I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"
  
  

  
  Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no11-1967/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 11: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1967)
  "I Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1979: Moonraker general release in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1979: The New York Times prints Vincent Canby's positive review of Moonraker.

  

  Screen: 'Moonraker' Puts Bond in
  Orbit: Old, Old Friends

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/29/archives/screen-moonraker-puts-bond-in-orbitold-old-friends.html

  By Vincent Canby | June 29, 1979

  AT a time when everything is being either inflated or devalued it's comforting to know that at least one commodity maintains its hard currency. That's James Bond, who, by all rights, should be an antique, as emblematic of the 60's as the Beatles and flowerpower, but who goes blithely on as if time has had a stop.
  
  Moonraker which opens today at the Rivoli and other theaters, is the 11th in the remarkable series that began in 1963 [correction: 1962] with Dr. No and it's one of the most bouyant Bond films of all. It looks as if it cost an unconscionable amount of money to make, though it has nothing on its mind except dizzying entertainment, which is not something to dismiss quickly in such a dreary, disappointing movie season.
  
  What's it about? That's a silly question, though I suppose one might answer that it's about sleight of hands—those of all the people who worked on it. They include the indefatigable producer, Albert R. Broccoli (also known as Cubby), Lewis Gilbert, who directed it, Christopher Wood, who wrote the screenplay, Ken Adam, the production designer, and all of those far from little people who are responsible for the extraordinary tricks that persuade us to suspend our disbelief.
  
  Mr. Wood's screenplay begins when a United States space-shuttle craft mysteriously disappears as it's being ferried to England on the back of a Boeing 747. The fiend behind this remarkable theft is a French-accented American aeronautics tycoon named Drax (Michael Lonsdale), an eccentric fellow who lives in California in a transplanted French chateau and who surrounds himself with astronauts, all of whom are between the ages of 18 and 25, beautiful and female.
  
  The space-shuttle craft, called Moonraker, was actually built by Drax's company, so the mystery that James Bond (Roger Moore) must solve is why Drax would feel the need to hijack his own product. The trail leads from London to California to Venice to Rio de Janeiro and, after that, to Drax's jungle hideaway that takes in bits and pieces of settings filmed in Guatemala and Argentina as well as Brazil. Among other things Moonraker deals in creative geography. The climactic duel occurs in the only location left—outer space.
  
  Moonraker, like all of the better Bond pictures, returns us to a kind of film making that I most closely associate with the 15-part serials of my youth. Our astonishment depends on the ingenuity by which the writers and directors disentangle Bond from the impossible situations into which he seems to fall every seven minutes.
  
  Moonraker begins with one of the funniest and most dangerous (as well as most beautifully photographed and edited) sequences Bond has ever faced. He's booted out of an airplane without a parachute and must do mortal combat, during a swooping, soaring free-fall, with an adversary who, luckily, does have a parachute. There are also a high-speed chase through Venetian canals (with one gondola a disguised Hovercraft), another chase on the Amazon, a fight on the roof of the funicular that goes to the top of Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain, and a final confrontation in space that is as handsome as anything in "Star Wars."
  
  What's it about? It's about movie making of the kind Georges Méliès pioneered in films like "Voyage to the Moon" (1902) and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" (1907). It's the unimaginable most satisfactorily imagined.
  
  Almost everyone connected with the movie is in top form, even Mr. Moore who has a tendency to facetiousness when left to his own devices. Here he's as ageless, resourceful and graceful as the character he inhabits. Mr. Lonsdale is sometimes uncomfortably wooden and square, but then he's not supposed to be a barrel of laughs. Lois Chiles is lovely as Bond's Central Intelligence Agency vis-à-vis, who's just one of the sexually tireless Bond's conquests. Richard Kiel reappears as Bond's thug-enemy, the gigantic Jaws, who, you may be happy to learn, undergoes the kind of character transformation that means he'll probably turn up in yet another Bond film. Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, as, respectively, "M" and Miss Moneypenny, also are on hand.
  
  Welcome back to old friends. Moonraker, which has been rated PG ("parental guidance suggested"), includes some suggestive situations and comically overstated violence.
  
  Old, Old Friends

  MOONRAKER, directed by Lewis Gilbert; screenplay by Christopher Wood; director of photography, Jean Tournier; film editor, John Glen; music by John Barry; lyrics by Hal David; produced by Albert R. Broccoli; released by United Artists; at the Rivoli, Gemini I, 86th Street East, Bay Cinema and other theaters. Running time: 126 minutes. This film is rated PG.
  James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
  Holly Goodhead . . . . . Lois Chiles
  Drax . . . . . Michael Lonsdale
  Jaws . . . . . Richard
  Dufour . . . . . Corinne Clery
  "M" . . . . . Bernard Lee
  Frederick Gray . . . . . Geoffrey Keen
  "Q" . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
  Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
  Manuela . . . . . Emily Bolton
  Chang . . . . . Toshiro Suga
  Dolly . . . . . Blanche Ravalec

  
  

  1979: Gene Siskel reviews Moonraker in the Chicago Tribune.

  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43601776/gene-siskel-movie-reviewmoonraker/
  Roger Moore, as James Bond, goes to space, and Gene believes the results go nowhere interesting.
  
  

  

  General mediocrity, sorry
  story mar ‘Moonraker’

  TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW:
  Cheesey
  **
  “MOONRAKER”

  THE MOST HONEST thing I can say about
  the James Bond series of films is that I haven’t
  really enjoyed one since Sean Connery stopped
  playing agent 007. That’s eight years and four
  films ago. Connery’s replacement have been
  embarrassing (model George Lazenby in “On
  Her Majesty’s Secret Service”) and merely
  acceptable (Roger Moore in now his fourth
  Bond film, “Moonraker.”)
  
  In the beginning of the Bond series, before
  they were thought of as a series, each film was
  a good action picture with a colorful, entertain-
  ing hero.
  
  Today, they come off as conglomerate busi-
  ness enterprises rather than movies. How else
  does one explain the intrusive commercial
  plugs in “Moonraker” for Christian Dior per-
  fume, British Airways, Bollinger champagne,
  Glaston [sic] boats, and Seiko watches?
  
  Truly, money derived from these plugs can’t
  be worth the loss of story continuity when the
  products are flashed in front of the camera.
  Someone is being awfully cheap about the
  plugs, which borders on incredibility because
  the James Bond series is one of the surest
  moneymakers in the film business. Maybe the
  producers of “Moonraker” are blind to story
  construction?
  
  That certainly would explain the film’s
  failure.
  
  AFTER A TRULY exciting opening
  sequence—a fight between Bond and a thug as
  they fre-fall from an airplane—”Moonraker”
  degenerates into a tired yarn about a modern-
  day Hitler who wants to create a super race in
  space after spraying the Earth with poison gas.
  
  French actor Michael Lonsdale plays the evil
  billionaire Hugo Drax, and frankly, Lonsdale
  is a big bore. He looks as though he has just
  been sucked dry by a vampire. His only
  slightly menacing characteristic is a goatee
  that makes him look like he spends most of his
  time in a dirty book store. He might make a
  credible henchman, but as the major villain
  Lonsdale is a flop.
  
  And that’s an important flop, because 007 and
  his villain are the two most important charac-
  ters in Bond film. To watch “Moonraker” is
  to long for the good old days when James
  Bond’s enemies stroked white cats, threw leth-
  al derbies, fed people to sharks, aimed lasers
  at groins, and carried poison-tipped knives in
  their shoes. By comparison, the evil Hugo Drax
  is a wimp.
  
  In an attempt to bolster an obviously weak
  villain, “Moonraker” gives Drax a familiar
  henchman, a giant named “Jaws” (7 foot 2
  inch Richard Kiel, who played the same
  character in the last Bond picture). The last
  time we met “Jaws” he was a rousing villain
  with a steel vice for a mouth. This time he has
  the same set of metal braces, but his character
  has been turned into a big pussycat. “Jaws”
  walks around the various locations smiling. It
  looks as though Richard Kiel is trying to act.
  He can’t.
  
  AFTER THE VILLAIN, the next most impor-
  tant elements of the Bond picture are the women
  and the gadgets. “Moonraker” comes up short
  on both counts. The women look as thought they
  stepped out f one of those kinky lingerie ads
  featuring bored women staring into space.
  
  Lois Chiles, Roger Moore’s principal love
  interest in the picture, plays an American
  agent assigned to track down Hugo Drax. The
  script gives Chiles nothing to do. Her brightest
  moment comes when she appears in Venice in
  a beautiful shirtwaist dress fleck with Lurex.
  And that’s a pity, because Chiles proved she
  could act when she played Jordan Baker in the
  Robert Redford version of “The Great
  Gatsby.”
  
  As for the gadgets, they’re nothing special.
  Bond’s principal weapons this time is a dart gun
  concealed in a watch. Big deal. He also uses a
  boat that can travel on land. But when the boat
  takes a spin around St. Mark’s Square in
  Venice, the stunt is simply vulgar.
  
  Also annoying is the film’s preference for
  bigness rather than taut story. “Moonraker”
  features a series of exotic locations—Guatemala,
  Brazil, a chateau in France—but forgets to place
  any importance on script. And the film’s outer
  space special effects seem rather tame when
  compared to the hardware of “Star Wars”.
  
  “Moonraker” may do well at the box office,
  but what people will be buying is not a good
  movie, but nostalgic for the time when the
  James Bond films guaranteed good stories and
  not just a catalog of James Bond memorabilia.
  
  Gene Siskel
  Gene Siskel regularly reviews the movie
  Scene at 5 and 10 p.m. on Channel 2 News.

  
  1982: Michael Brennan dies at age 69--Chichester, East Sussex, England.
  (Born 25 September 1912--London, England.)

  

  Michael Brennan (Actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  in Ambush in Leopard Street (1962)

  Born Bernard O'Leary, 25 September 1912, London, England
  Died 29 June 1982 (aged 69), Chichester, Sussex, England
  Occupation Actor
  Spouse Mary Hignett
  
  Michael Brennan (25 September 1912 – 29 June 1982) was an English film and television actor.

  Born in London, Brennan was married to actress Mary Hignett. He appeared in such films as Tom Brown's Schooldays, Ivanhoe, Thunderball, Tom Jones, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders and Doomwatch. On television, he made guest appearances on All Creatures Great and Small (which featured his wife) and Dixon of Dock Green.

  Partial filmography
  "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) - Camp Guard with Lantern (uncredited)
  They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) - Jim
  Captain Boycott (1947) - Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)
  Brighton Rock (1947) - Crabbe (uncredited)
  Blanche Fury (1948) - Farmer
  Escape (1948) - Truck Driver (uncredited)
  My Brother's Keeper (1948) - Police Constable at Roadblock (uncredited)
  Noose (1948) - Ropey (uncredited)
  The Brass Monkey (1948) - Wilks
  Cardboard Cavalier (1949) - Brother Barebones
  For Them That Trespass (1949) - Det. Insp. Benstead
  The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) - Sergeant
  
  Morning Departure (1950) - C.P.O. Barlow
  They Were Not Divided (1950) - Smoke O'Connor
  Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) - (uncredited)
  Waterfront (1950) - Engineer
  Blackout (1950) - Mickey Garston
  No Trace (1950) - Mike Fenton
  The Clouded Yellow (1950) - Superintendent Ross
  Circle of Danger (1951) - Bert Oakshott
  The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
  Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) - Black Bart
  Emergency Call (1952) - Police Constable
  Ivanhoe (1952) - Baldwin
  Something Money Can't Buy (1952) - Fairground boss
  Made in Heaven (1952) - Sgt. Marne
  Personal Affair (1953) - Police Officer (uncredited)
  It's a Grand Life (1953) - Sgt. Maj. O'Reilly
  Trouble in Store (1953) - Davis
  Up to His Neck (1954) - CPO Brazier
  See How They Run (1955) - Sgt. Maj. Towers
  Up in the World (1956) - Prison Warder
  Not Wanted on Voyage (1957) - Chief Steward
  Just My Luck (1957) - Masseur
  The Naked Truth (1957) - 2nd Irishman (uncredited)
  A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - Tom - Coach Driver (uncredited)
  Law and Disorder (1958) - Bent - Warder Ext. Prison
  The Big Money (1958) - Bluey
  The 39 Steps (1959) - Detective on Train (uncredited)
  
  The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) - Walters (uncredited)
  Watch Your Stern (1960) - Security guard
  Johnny Nobody (1961) - Supt. Lynch
  On the Fiddle (1961) - Soldier at Army Meat Van (uncredited)
  Ambush in Leopard Street (1962) - Harry
  The Devil's Agent (1962) - Horvat
  Live Now, Pay Later (1963) - Bailiff
  The Girl Hunters (1963) - Policeman
  Tom Jones (1963) - Jailer at Newgate (uncredited)
  The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) - The Turnkey
  Thunderball (1965) - Janni
  Death Is a Woman (1966) - Bonelli
  The Deadly Affair (1966) - Wolfe the Barman (uncredited)
  Three Hats for Lisa (1966) - Police Sergeant
  Just like a Woman (1967) - Commissionaire
  Woman Times Seven (1967) - (segment "At The Opera")
  Cuckoo Patrol (1967) - Superman No.1
  The Great Pony Raid (1968) - Butch
  
  Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Landlord
  Fright (1971) - Sergeant
  Doomwatch (1972) - Tom Straker
  Up the Front (1972) - M.P.
  Nothing But the Night (1972) - Deck Hand

  

  Michael Brennan(I) (1912–1982)

  Actor | Stunts
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107357/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  

  1985: The soundtrack for A View to a Kill composed by John Barry charts in the US. Eventually reaches #33.
  1985: 鐵金剛勇戰 大狂魔 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn dà kuáng mó; Iron King Fighting Madman) released in Taiwan.

  Later video releases.

  
  
  

  
  1987: ITV airs documentary James Bond - Licence to Thrill.

  

  James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987)

  51min | Documentary | TV Movie 29 June 1987
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt00918535/
  Promotional documentary television special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James Bond and release of the then new James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' (1987).
  
  Director: Mike Ward
  Writer: George Perry
  Stars: Nick Owen (presenter).

  
  

  1987: The London Royal Premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall confirms Danny Kleinman as titles designer.
  2013: Bond World 007 Grand Opening in Switzerland.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_bond_world_preview.php3

  
  
  
  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/news_bond_world_007.htm
  

  
  2015: Spectre films a world record explosion in Erfoud, Morocco.

  https://www.news24.com/Channel/new-james-bond-movie-sets-guinness-world-record-20151111
  
  SPECTRE BREAKS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
  

  
  
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  June 29 Posts: 14,532

  June 30th
  
  1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary entry.

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

  Wednesday 30 June, 1943
  
  I. dined yesterday, well and in good spirits and questioning me about the office. [After the death of Russell’s husband, Gilbert, in 1942, Fleming got her a job in the Admiralty’s propaganda division.] He says: you mustn’t do too much – and pities and admonishes me. But I tell him not to pity me, that he has saved my life, or given me a new one, that I am engrossed in the work and as happy as I could be under the circumstances.
  
  We talked a lot about the Admiralty. He has various very significant jobs and is an important person. The work is the work that would suit him. I knew him first when he was 23, a clerk at Reuters and starting out – or dashing out – into the world, a life. That is more than 11 years ago.

  
  1978: Salainen agentti 007 Istanbulissa (Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul) re-released in Finland.
  (Swedish title Den hemliga agenten 007 i Istanbul, or The Secret Agent 007 in Istanbul.)

  Original 1963 poster.
  

  
  1987: "The Living Daylights" single released.
  
  2009: The Court of First Instance dismisses the action of the owner of the rights to the James Bond films.

  

  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

  CJE30 June 2009
  
  Press and Information
  
  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
  
  It can usually be consulted after midday (CET) on the day judgment is delivered.
  
  For further information, please contact Christopher Fretwell
  Tel: (00352) 4303 3355 Fax: (00352) 4303 2731
  

  
  2016: Joe Powell dies at age 94--London England.
  (Born 21 March 1922--Shepherd's Bush, London, England.)

  

  Joe Powell, stuntman – obituary

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/27/joe-powell-stuntman--obituary/

  
  Joe Powell, doubling for Sean Connery on the set of The Man Who Would be King
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Joe Powell, who has died aged 94, was known as the “daddy of British stuntmen” for the gut-wrenchingly high-risk feats he performed in classic adventure films such as Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone.
  
  For The Man Who Would Be King, John Huston’s adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story filmed in the Atlas mountains, Powell, “doubling” for Sean Connery, had to plunge 100 ft from a collapsed rope bridge into a perilous ravine: if he had missed the target area covered with boxes to cushion his fall, he would have plummeted a further 2,000 ft. The co-star Michael Caine walked away saying: “I’m not going to watch this one.” Huston was delighted, saying it was “the darnedest stunt I ever saw”.

  
  Joe Powell falls through the air in The Man who Would be King
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  During the course of his career Powell suffered a few broken ribs, and a broken hip after a horse fell on him, but he did not allow himself to be unduly troubled by nerves. “The thing is,” he explained, “you don’t have time to be scared – if you stop to think about what you are doing you wouldn’t do it… I didn’t have any training so when I performed a stunt the audience were literally seeing someone fall off a cliff – it made it more realistic.”

  
  Joe Powell in the 1950s
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Joseph Augustus Powell was born on March 21 1922 at the Shepherd and Flock public house, Shepherd’s Bush, where his father, Joseph, a former quartermaster sergeant in the Life Guards, was the landlord. Joe was brought up in Camden where his father had the tenancy of a pub called the Camden Head, then in Chelsea where, after the death of his father, his mother Ada (neé Blunt) ran the Prince of Wales in Dover Street.
  
  Joe was one of five siblings; his only brother, Eddie, also became a stuntman. Whiling away his spare time while his parents were running the pub, he joined first the Cubs and then the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cadet Corps. He enjoyed soldiering, and soon after the outbreak of war, when he was still only 17, he joined the Grenadier Guards. To break the monotony of drill and PT he took up boxing with the regimental team, but as the war progressed he was selected for No 4 Special Service (Commando) unit, taking part in the 1942 raid on Dieppe, during which he was briefly knocked out, and in the D-Day invasion.

  
  No 4 Commando: Joe Powell is on the far left Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  With the war in Europe over, Powell was sent to Germany, where he learnt to ride. He had little idea of what he was going to do apart from vague thoughts of becoming a professional boxer. But in 1946 a chance meeting at a bus stop with the actor Dennis Price led to Powell visiting the studios where Price was filming a Napoleonic-era musical with Stewart Granger called The Magic Bow.
  
  Powell was struck by how comically unrealistic Napoleon’s “crack soldiers” were and determined that here might be an opening. “I’m going into the film industry,” he told his friends, “to bring realism into action films.”
  
  Demobbed in the rank of sergeant, he managed to get a job as an extra at Pinewood. He was sparring at the Polytechnic Boxing Club in Regent Street and through a friendship there he ended up as a founding partner in a stunt team set up by Captain Jock Easton MC, who was just out of the SAS.
  
  For Powell’s first big stunt, in The Small Voice, filmed at Ealing Studios, he played a motorcycle policeman pursuing a criminal gang in a car. He had to simulate being shot at, swerving off the road at 40 mph and crashing into a tree. The stunt was so lifelike that the prop man assumed Powell really had been injured.

  
  Joe Powell takes to the air in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Powell appeared in nearly 100 films, including Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Moby Dick (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). It was not unusual for him to be blown up, machine-gunned or otherwise “killed” multiple times in one picture, as when he played German soldiers in Where Eagles Dare (1968). He always insisted that he had not trained to be a stuntman, though one special skill he had was falling from heights.
  
  As well as the rope bridge fall in The Man Who Would Be King, there was a dramatic plunge 90 ft down from the side of a sinking ship (Titanic) in A Night to Remember in 1958, filmed in Glasgow docks. Then in 1961 for The Guns of Navarone he took the role of a German shot by Gregory Peck and dropping 90 ft from a cave into the sea by the island of Rhodes. It went without a hitch, though he was heavily bruised.

  
  Joe Powell during the filming of Zulu
  Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  Living through a golden age of films with military themes, Powell applied his own Army experience to his projects. In 1964 he took on a rare acting role in one such film, as Sgt Windridge, in Cy Endfield’s Zulu. The film contained some unusual stunts; Powell also trained the Zulus and helped choreograph the battle scenes.
  
  In 1962 he worked on The Longest Day, the film based on Cornelius Ryan’s book about D-Day, which depicted events in which he had been involved. Visiting the set one day with the producer Darryl Zanuck, Lord Lovat was heard to say: “There’s Powell, one of my sergeants.”

  Powell appeared in three Bond films and the spoof Casino Royale. In 1969, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, he stood in for Telly Savalas as the criminal mastermind Blofeld in a terrifying bobsleigh chase.

  
  Joe Powell playing chess with Anthony Quinn Credit: Penelope Reiffer

  In retirement Powell kept up his keep-fit enthusiasm. Looking back on his career he was particularly proud of the fact that he had helped stunt performers to gain acceptance into Equity, the actors’ union. He had a lifelong love of the sea and was in the crew of the replica ship Mayflower II when it sailed to America in 1957.
  
  He was twice married, first to Marguerite, known as “Clem”; she died of cancer. His second wife, Juliet, also died, and he is survived by four sons and a daughter; another daughter predeceased him.
  
  Joe Powell, born March 21 1922, died June 30 2016

  
  Filmography

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  Stunts (60 credits)
  1986 Half Moon Street (stunt arranger)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt arranger - uncredited)
  1984 Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce (fight arranger)
  1984 Top Secret! (stunt arranger)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 Flash Gordon (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 The Passage (stunt arranger)
  1978 Caravans (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Death on the Nile (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Golden Rendezvous (stunt arranger)
  1977 Van der Valk (TV Series) (stunt arranger - 2 episodes)
  - In Hazard (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
  - Man of Iron (1977) ... (stunt arranger)
  1977 Valentino (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 The Squeeze (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 At the Earth's Core (stunt arranger - uncredited)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1974 The Odessa File (stunts - uncredited)
  1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunt adviser) / (stunt arranger)
  1973 The MacKintosh Man (stunts - uncredited)
  1973 A Warm December (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Fear Is the Key (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Young Winston (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 The Last Grenade (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Hell Boats (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: Blofeld - uncredited)
  1969 Mosquito Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Great Catherine (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Attack on the Iron Coast (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 The Dirty Dozen (stunts)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunt rigger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Africa: Texas Style (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
  1966 Khartoum (stunts - uncredited)
  1966 Cast a Giant Shadow (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 The Heroes of Telemark (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited)
  1965 Mister Moses (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 633 Squadron (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Zulu (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1963 Cleopatra (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 The Longest Day (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Billy Budd (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Quinn - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1957 The Steel Bayonet (stunts - uncredited)
  1957 Tarzan and the Lost Safari (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1956 Zarak (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Moby Dick (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Alexander the Great (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
  1953 The Master of Ballantrae (stunts - uncredited)
  1952 The Crimson Pirate (stunts - uncredited)
  1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (stunts - uncredited)
  1950 Waterfront Women (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1949 The Spider and the Fly (stunt performer - uncredited)
  1948 The Hideout (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (14 credits)
  1977 Golden Rendezvous - Male Nurse
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Taxi Passenger
  1975 Oil Strike North (TV Series) - Mate
  - The Floating Bomb (1975) ... Mate
  1974 11 Harrowhouse - Hickey
  1971 The Last Valley - Kaas (uncredited)
  
  1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Martin
  - From Venus with Love (1967) ... Martin (uncredited)
  1965 The Heroes of Telemark - Quisling (uncredited)
  1965 The Brigand of Kandahar - Colour Sergeant
  1964 Zulu - Sgt. Windridge
  1963 Captain Sindbad
  1962 The World's Greatest Sinner - Follower
  
  1957 The Abominable Snowman - Yeti (uncredited)
  1953 Laughing Anne - Pierre
  1949 Cardboard Cavalier - Rider (uncredited)
  
  Casting department (4 credits)
  1965 Genghis Khan (extras casting - uncredited)
  1963 55 Days at Peking (extras casting - uncredited)
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong (extras casting - uncredited)
  
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (extras casting - uncredited)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1984 Top Secret! (second unit director)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  2002 The Making of 'Zulu': Roll of Honour (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2002 The Making of 'Zulu':...and Snappeth the Spear in Sunder (Video documentary short) - Himself

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale films Vesper dunked underwater. Bond follows.

  
  
  

  
  2022: Producer Barbara Broccoli says BOND 26 won't shoot sooner than two years' time.

  

  
  Next Bond film will be ‘complete reinvention’
  but won’t shoot for ‘at least two years’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://dailynewser.com/movies/next-bond-film-will-be-complete-reinvention-but-wont-shoot-for-at-least-two-years

  Barbara Broccoli has revealed details about the future of the 007 franchise after the departure of Daniel Craig
  
  The 26th official James Bond movie is not going to be in cinemas earlier than 2025, in step with the series’ producer, Barbara Broccoli.
  
  Speaking at a dinner to honour Broccoli and her 1/2-brother Michael G Wilson after the presentation of their BFI Fellowships, the gatekeeper of all matters 007 (and daughter of Cubby Broccoli) stated they had no longer but forged the actor who will update Daniel Craig in the tux.

  “Nobody’s in the jogging,” she stated in a speech first pronounced by Deadline. “We’re running out where to go together with him, we’re talking that via. There isn’t a script and we can’t provide you with one until we decide how we’re going to technique the subsequent film due to the fact, clearly, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he's and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at the least two years away.”

  Craig departed the collection after 5 films, bowing out with closing year’s No Time to Die. That movie concluded Craig’s run with a finality unusual for the film, some thing which fuelled speculation over the likely destiny of the franchise, with a few suspecting the movies would ought to go back to Bond’s youth or early secret agent years for greater testimonies.
  
  The sale of studio MGM to Amazon has additionally meant the highbrow belongings rights over Ian Fleming’s character exert a looser grip than in previous years. Broccoli and Wilson are producing a brand new fact series, 007’s Road to a Million, for you to be Amazon Prime Video’s debut TV show.
  
  The siblings were provided with their fellowships by way of Bond regulars Ralph Fiennes and Naomie Harris, who play M and Moneypenny. Noting the destiny of Bond in the most latest film, Fiennes joked:

  “Naomie and I are the humans to repair it. You locate him and we’ll teach him.”

  Broccoli has previously confirmed that the brand new Bond could be male, after calls for the man or woman to undergo a Doctor Who-fashion reinvention. Key runners and riders remain Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Richard Madden.