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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  August 30
  
  1963: Time magazine reviews the latest Fleming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  

  Fate Worse Than Death

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  http://footenotes.net/Pages/Bond.htm

  Time, August 30, 1963
  
  ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
  by Ian Fleming
  299 pages. New American Library. $4.50.
  
  SOME TIME BACK, when sober-sided Britons belabored Author Ian Fleming for the consumer snobbery of his caddish hero (James Bond's car is a Bentley, his girls invariably smell of Guerlain), Fleming was unrepentant. He was sorry, he said, only for having once permitted Bond the unforgivable gaffe of ordering asparagus with bearnaise instead of mousseline sauce. But in Fleming's latest Bond bombshell, there are disquieting signs that he took the critics to heart. On page 152, sophisticated Secret Agent 007 cozies up to a blonde who smells of nothing more aristocratic than Mennen's baby powder.
  
  For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope—as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony.
  
  The lady is a countess named Tracy. She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But —horrors—she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid cliché it was!"
  
  When Bond actually marries Tracy all seems lost. Author Fleming, however, has never been without resources. He appears deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) on page 299 and saves James Bond from his better self.

  
  

  
  1971: James Bond comic strip Starfire begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 24 December 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/sf.php3
  
  
  Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
  "Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]
  
  

  
  1983: Octopussy released in the Philippines.
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Pegasus in the stables.
  
  2010: SNS Publishing releases Joseph Darlington's Being James Bond, as related to his podcast.

  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/Being-James-Bond-One-Pocket-ebook/dp/B0041HXPDW
  

  2014: The Guardian reports on Roger Moore proposing being known as James Bond has no down side.

  

  Interview
  Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known
  as James Bond has no downside’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/30/roger-moore-being-known-as-james-bond-has-no-down-side

  Ruth Huntman | Sat 30 Aug 2014
  The actor, 86, on the women in his life, his humanitarian work – and Daniel Craig’s trunks

  
  'I'm one lucky bastard': Roger Moore.
  Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/Corbis

  • I’m one lucky bastard. During my early acting years I was told that to succeed you needed personality, talent and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me it’s been 99% luck. It’s no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
  • The saddest thing about ageing is that most of my friends are now “in the other room”. I miss David Niven the most. I still can’t watch his films without shedding a tear. There’s a bronze bust of him in my study, given to me by his son, David Jr.
  • Women have played a big part in my life on and off-screen [Moore has been married to fourth wife, Swedish socialite Kristina Tholstrup, for 12 years] and I think I’ve finally worked them out. I always make sure I have the last word. That word is “yes”.
  • Intelligence is my most endearing quality, according to Kristina. That’s her Swedish sense of humour.
  • Being eternally known as Bond has no downside. People often call me “Mr Bond” when we’re out and I don’t mind a bit. Why would I?
  • The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting. I’m sure some people would say, “What does an actor know about world issues?” But [working for Unicef] I’ve become an expert on things from the causes of dwarfism to the benefits of breastfeeding. I feel very privileged.
  • Some of the things I’ve done in my life I’m ashamed of. We don’t talk about those though. If I could give my younger self some advice it would be: “Grow up!”
  • Friends gave me the heads-up on Steve Coogan’s version of me on The Trip. It did make me laugh. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. It’s difficult to find anything different about me to impersonate though – unlike Michael Caine or Jimmy Stewart, I just have a negative, neutral voice.
  • I still have some of Bond’s suits in my wardrobe but they don’t fit me now. During the 007 days I was so thin that if I turned sideways you could mark me absent. Thankfully I never had to squeeze into the trunks that Daniel Craig wore – it takes a lot of hard work to look like that.
  • My mum instilled in me the proverb: “I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” Those words are always with me and I’m a believer in showing kindness to others and not expecting repayment.
  • On-set pranks should always be done while the cameras are rolling so that victims can’t retaliate.
  • Not being offered Peter O’Toole’s role in Lawrence of Arabia is the biggest regret of my life. Other than that, I wouldn’t change a thing.
  • Medicine has always fascinated me and I’m a hypochondriac. It’s not that I wake up every morning and think I’m dying. At my age, I know I am.

  
  Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown is out now (£20, Michael O’Mara Books)
  

  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Moneypenny.
  Jacob Edgar, artist. Jody Houser, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: MONEYPENNY
  ONE-SHOT

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026074101011
  Cover A: Tula Lotay
  Writer: Jody Houser
  Art: Jacob Edgar
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: August 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 40 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 8/30

  By writer JODY HOUSER (Mother Panic, Faith) and new artist JACOB EDGAR, a never-before-told mission starring MONEYPENNY, friend of JAMES BOND, former MI6 field agent and bodyguard of M! On a 'routine' protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Can she call upon her secret agent skills to stop the plot...?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Autoevolution reports on Aston Martin DB5s showing up for filming in Italy. And damage.

  

  James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Shows Up
  for Filming in Italy, Gets Banged Up

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.autoevolution.com/news/james-bonds-aston-martin-db5-shows-up-for-filming-in-italy-gets-banged-up-137133.html

  30 Aug 2019 · by Elena Gorgan
  
  Aston Martin is to James Bond what Martinis are to the same 007 agent: the three are inseparable. As such, it was only to be expected to see an iconic car show up again for duty on the set of the upcoming installment.
  
  “No Time to Die,” the 25th Bond movie and leading man Daniel Craig’s last one, is set for an April 2020 release. Under the original plans, it should have been out this fall, but Danny Boyle’s departure as director left a mark on the production, which translated into the inevitable delay.
  
  The movie is now heavily underway, with several reports of action scenes being shot in various Italian cities. Daniel Craig hasn’t arrived in the country just yet, leaving all the experienced stunt work to the actual stuntmen. An intense action scene was also shot with his stunt double, Express notes.
  
  However, that’s the least interesting part about this. The most interesting one is that Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 was featured in the car chase scene and that it got pretty banged up in the process. Well, the damage was mostly scratches to the side of the car and those too were probably not real, but they still make for a painful sight.
  
  The video below shows a scene of the car chase, which sees Craig’s stunt double at the wheel. In the passenger seat is a blonde woman believed to be the stunt double for Lea Seydoux. The footage doesn’t include the moment when the Aston Martin was scratched, only several takes of the same scene and one good look at this beautiful piece of machine.
  
  “No Time to Die” will also be shooting on location in Puglia, Italy, Norway, Jamaica and the U.K., so expect more sightings of beautiful, expensive or powerful cars being either destroyed or used to their maximum potential to catch or get away from the bad guys.
  
  Speaking of, Rami Malek stars as the yet unnamed villain in this installment. The rest of the cast includes Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw.
  

  [James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 gets banged up during car chase on Italian movie set]
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  2020: Mark O'Connell reports on the Bloomsbury Publishing release of Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

  A BOND STITCH IN TIME as
  FASHIONING JAMES BOND
  opens the wardrobe on the
  costuming of a legend

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://markoconnell.co.uk/a-bond-stitch-in-time-as-fashioning-james-bond-opens-the-wardrobe-on-the-costuming-of-a-legend/

  August 30, 2020 / Mark O'Connell

  

  The creative choices, acumen and outcomes of many artists who work on a film are so often ignored and misunderstood – and confused with off-the-peg labelling rather than deeper stitches into how fashions, zeitgeist, youth culture and cinema can echo or evolve all our costuming choices. Academic writer Llewella Chapman will now rectify this by opening the wardrobe and culture to an new examination on the costuming, suits and sense of gender and representation of the Bond films in a 2021 publication called Fashioning James Bond.

  ‘Fashioning James Bond provides the first full-length critical study of the costume and fashion evident in the James Bond films. Its methodological approach includes research generated from archives, close textual analysis of the costumes and fashion brands presented within the James Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the ‘look’ and fashion for the character of James Bond, and critical reception and the marketing strategies for the films, promoted to create a ‘James Bond lifestyle.’ – Bloomsbury

  Bond’s Savile Row era, marketing, 1990s Italian influences, the Tom Ford era, how a suit created both Connery and 007 and then had to do it all over again for the other fellas, the designers themselves and those that have made sartorial, marketing and retail choices for and around 007 are all part of the cut of this new interesting publication.

  

  Fashioning James Bond
  Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007
  Llewella Chapman (Author)

  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/
  
  Description
  Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.
  
  Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

  Table of Contents
  Introduction
  1: 'My tailor… Savile Row': Sean Connery (1962)
  2: 'Fitting Fleming's hero': Sean Connery (1963-1967)
  3: The Man with the Midas touch: Lifestyle, fashion and marketing in the 1960s
  4: 'Coming out of Burton's short of credit': George Lazenby (1969)
  5: 'Provided the collars and the cuffs match': Sean Connery (1971)
  6: 'Licence to frill': Roger Moore (1971-1975)
  7: Breaking his tailor's heart: Roger Moore (1976-1980)
  8: 'You can always spot a Hayward': Roger Moore (1980-1985)
  9: Licence to tailor revoked: Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)
  10: Cool Brioni: Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)
  11: Slick trigger suits: Daniel Craig (2005-2008)
  12.You travel with a tuxedo? Daniel Craig (2010 – 2015)
  Conclusion
  Appendix
  Glossary
  Bibliography
  Index