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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 29 Posts: 14,704

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

  

  Fate Worse Than Death

  See the complete article here:
  

  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.
  

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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

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 30 Posts: 14,704

  August 31
  
  1954: Caroline Cossey is born--Brooke, Norfolk, England.
  
  1962: Chris Ware photographs Sean Connery in his own basement flat.

  
  
  

  
  1972: The Daily Gleaner reports on Harry Saltzman's 26 August arrival in Jamaica.
  He promises filming in Montego Bay (the fishing boat), Falmouth (croc farm, caves), Ocho Rios (the hotel).
  1976: Filming of The Spy Who Loved Me begins with General Gogol's office in the Kremlin. (Ken Adams' set, Pinewood Studios.)

  
  
  
  
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Austria.
  1979: James Bond 007 – Moonraker – Streng geheim (James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret) released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: Guns N' Roses perform their live version of "Live and Let Die" at Wembley Stadium, London. Later used on the B-side of the single.

  
  
  

  1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash.
  
  2020: BBC airs its 9 minute documentary Inventing James Bond.

  

  Witness History
  Inventing James Bond
  How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszmkb

  Listen Now
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszmkb

  

  
  2021: Being James Bond trailer anticipates its release on Apple TV 7 September.

  BEING JAMES BOND | Trailer
  
  
  
  BEING JAMES BOND (46:38)
  In this special 45-minute retrospective, Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 31 Posts: 14,704

  September 1st
  
  1943: Don Stroud is born--Honolulu, Hawaii.
  
  1965: Variety reports the cancellation of the Thunderball world benefit premiere (dropped from 21 Oct 1965) at London’s Odeon, Leicester Square Theatre.
  
  1978: Moonraker model unit films space exteriors on Pinewood's F Stage.
  
  1982: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel For Special Services.

  AFTER a screen bonanza and a literary
  absence of more than a decade, the
  return of James Bond to the world
  of the 1980s a year ago raised some eye-
  brows but enticed the fans. In Licence
  Renewed (written under commission from
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders), John
  Gardner beguiled us with a Bond drinking
  less, smoking specially made low-tar
  cigarettes, his 00 status abolished but still
  unofficially sanctioned by M, a passing nod
  at feminism, his Mark II Continental
  Bentley gone in favour of the sprightly
  energy-conserving Saab Turbo 900. But
  here again, unmistakably, was the Bond of
  Fleming's books which have sold 91 million
  copies in 36 languages. John Gardner ex-
  plained his attitude to Bond at length on
  the front of the Sunday Times Review and on
  television and radio; Philip Larkin took a
  page in the TLS to review the whole Bond
  canon; and Licence Renewed went straight to
  No. 1 on the bestseller lists in Britain. A
  second Bond-of-the-1980s was promised
  and Mr Gardner has been as good as his
  word.
  
  In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to
  the United States Government, his partner
  non other than the tough and beautiful
  Cedar, daughter of 007's old friend Felix
  Leiter. Their enemy? An old adversary,
  the legendary SPECTRE (Special Executive
  for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Re-
  venge and Extortion), has reappeared.
  Bond and Cedar find themselves in some
  deadly and terrifying situations -- from
  skyjack to plunging elevator, from armies
  of killer ants in the Mid-West to horror on
  a private mono-rail -- before they come
  face to face with the heir to Blofeld's ini-
  quitous empire.

  JOHN GARDNER'S
  first James Bond adventure, written
  under licence from Glidrose, Ian
  Fleming's copyright holders
  LICENCE RENEWED

  'Remarkably successful recreation of
  everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
  Telegraph

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

  'No fan will fail to be caught up in the
  world-scale adventure of Licence Renewed.
  The dear old formula of the Mad Scientist
  is also renewed, with great success; and the
  Girl -- with a splendidly improbably name
  of course -- is a worthy addition to the
  famous gallery of Bond's beauties.' Finan-
  cial Times

  'Constructed, scrutinised and checked with
  immense care; the story moves effectively;
  it's enjoyable. Ian Fleming would not be
  displeased.' Daily Telegraph

  'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
  in the 1980s is not much different from the
  earlier Bond . . . his adventures are as cap-
  tivating as ever.' Birmingham Post

  
  Jacket painting and design
  by Bill Botten; author's photograph
  by Oliver Cheesman

  
  
  
  

  For Special Services, John Gardner, 1982.

  AFTERWARD
  
  In 1941 Fleming accompanied Admiral Godfrey to the
  United States for the purpose of establishing relations
  with the American secret service organisations. In New
  York Fleming met Sir William Stephenson, 'the quiet
  Canadian', who became a life-long friend. Stephenson
  allowed Fleming to take part in a clandestine operation
  against a Japanese cipher expert who had an office in
  Rockefeller Center. Fleming later embellished this story
  and used it in his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale
  (1953). Stephenson also introduced Fleming to General
  William Donovan, who had just been appointed Co-
  ordinator of Information, a post which eventually evolved
  into the chairmanship of the Office of Strategic Services
  and then of the Central Intelligence Agency. At Donovan's
  request Fleming wrote a lengthy memorandum describing
  the structure and functions of a secret service organisation.
  This memoranum later became part of the charter of the
  O.S.S. and, thus, of the C.I.A. In appreciation Donovan
  presented Fleming with a .38 Police Positive Colt revolver
  inscribed 'For Special Services'.
  
  JOAN DELFATTORE,
  University of Delaware
  (from a dictionary of
  literary biography)

  
  

  
  1991: This month Eclipse Comics releases James Bond Permission to Die #3.

  
  https://totaleclipse.blog/2018/07/24/1989-james-bond-permission-to-die/
  
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Permission_to_Die
  
  https://www.comicsroyale.com/cover-gallery#/eclipse/

  
  

  1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr. #9 "Absolute Zero", with Dr. No.

  

  James Bond Jr. #9
  Marvel, 1992 Series
  Absolute Zero!

  (September 1992)
  James Bond Jr. / comic story / 20 pages
  Script - Dan Abnett (story)
  Pencils - Mario Capaldi
  Inks - Bambos Georgioli
  Colors - Sophie Heath
  Letters - Stuart Bartlett
  
  Characters
  James Bond Jr.; Horace Boothroyd (I. Q.); Tracey Milbanks; Gordo Leiter; Phoebe Farragut; Coach Mitchell; Trevor Noseworthy III; Connie Fore; Doctor No (Villain)

  Synopsis
  S.C.U.M. plans to hold Switzerland ransom by encasing in glaciers created by Doctor No's Ice-Cap Machine.

  
  

  1994: This month Dark Horse Comics releases #25 James Bond Minute of Midnight.

  

  Dark Horse Comics (1992) #25

  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=125061

  Cover by Russ Heath, Paul Mendza and Jim Royal. We've got a double bill this issue that would sell out any movie house in the country! In "James Bond: Minute of Midnight," a saboteur holds the fate of the world in his hands, prepared to unleash a nuclear holocaust of unimaginable proportions. Can James Bond, the British Secret Service's agent extraordinaire, stop the madman? Catch the mile-a-minute excitement from Doug Moench and comics legend Russ Heath as they take you on Bond's most thrilling adventure yet! Also in this issue, Randy Stradley and Phill Norwood bring you "Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time," a violent glimpse into alien rites of passage. The price of failure is death! Cover price $2.50.

  
  
  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dark-horse-comics-25-james-bond-minute-of-midnight/4000-39588/
  

  
  2012: Hal David dies at age 91--West Hollywood, California.
  (Born 25 May 1921--Brooklyn, New York.)

  

  Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 9
  Legendary Lyricist Hal David
  Dies at 91

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-david-dies-obituary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-367366

  4:57 PM PDT 9/1/2012 by Mike Barnes

  

  The songwriter worked with
  Burt Bacharach on dozens of
  classic songs, including
  Oscar winner "Raindrops
  Keep Fallin' on My Head,"
  "(They Long to Be) Close to
  You" and Dionne Warwick's
  "I Say a Little Prayer."

  
  Hal David, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach to form one of the most sensational hitmaking teams in the history of popular music, has died. He was 91.
  
  David died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke, his wife Eunice said. He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again Tuesday, she said.
  
  "Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she told The Associated Press. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric.
  
  In the 1960s and beyond, David and Bacharach produced some of the most memorable songs for movies, television and recording artists. They received an Oscar in 1970 for “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,” recorded by B.J. Thomas for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and a Tony nomination and a Grammy for the score of Promises, Promises, which debuted in 1968 on Broadway.
  
  The team found their muse in a young Dionne Warwick, who rocketed to stardom singing such Bacharach-David tunes as "Don't Make Me Over," "Always Something There to Remind Me," "Alfie," "Walk on By," "Message to Michael," “I Say a Little Prayer" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"
  
  Their songs also have been recorded by the likes of The Carpenters, Herb Alpert, Marty Robbins, Perry Como, The 5th Dimension, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones and more recently by such contemporary acts as Alicia Keys, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips and the cast of Glee.
  
  The pair had No. 1 hits in the U.S. with Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You" in April 1968, with the famed trumpeter making in his vocal debut; Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which debuted in November 1969; and The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which bowed in June 1970.
  
  The 5th Dimension's heartfelt "One Less Bell to Answer" from 1970 reached No. 2, and "What's New, Pussycat?" from the sexy British singer Jones got as high as No. 3 in 1965.
  
  A native of New York, David started out penning songs to entertain GIs in the South Pacific during World War II. He worked as a copywriter at The New York Post, then wrote for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach. He told The Hollywood Reporter last year that he became a lyricist because his oldest brother, Mack -- also a lyricist and composer who came west from New York -- was his role model. (Mack David wrote “I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine” for Patti Page.)
  
  David and Bacharach scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Como in 1957. Five years later, they met Warwick.
  
  "In 1962, Dionne came into our office in the Brill Building in Manhattan to do some demos for us," he told THR. "She sang popular music with a gospel sound and rhythm and just blew us away. Her very first recording we produced, 'Don't Make Me Over,' was a hit.
  
  "We wrote just about every hit she sang. We were a trio, really. Burt and I worked together for 17 years. Eleven or 12 of those were with Dionne, too."
  
  David and Bacharach were a team from 1957 until their 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon, on which they had worked for two years, bombed at the box office.
  
  Bacharach and David sued each other, and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979, and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."

  After splitting with Bacharach, David collaborated with Albert Hammond on "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a 1984 hit for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson that reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100; with Henry Mancini on "The Greatest Gift" for The Return of the Pink Panther (1975); and with John Barry on the title song of the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

  David received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October, and in May, he and Bacharach, 83, were given the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington from President Obama. David was unable to attend because of his stroke.
  
  “Award-winning lyricist Hal David was an American songwriting treasure. His legacy of more than five decades of music has inspired fans, performers and other songwriters with its diversity and longevity," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "He will be missed, but his rich body of work will be with us forever.”
  
  David joined the board of ASCAP in 1974 and served as its president from 1980-86. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001-11 and chairman emeritus at his death.
  
  "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs ... the backdrop of our lives."
  
  In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Jim and Craig and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1987.
  
  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

  
  Songs written by Hal David
  https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3227

  Original songs
  Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by

  99 Miles from L.A. Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (13 artists)
  
  A House Is Not a Home Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brook Benton July 1964 Covered by (159 artists)
  Alfie Burt Bacharach, Hal David Cilla Black March 25, 1966 Covered by (254 artists)
  All Kinds of People Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (9 artists)
  Anonymous Phone Call Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vee with The Johnny Mann Singers November 1962 Covered by Jim O'Rourke
  Another Night Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Dusty Springfield
  Another Tear Falls Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels with The Johnny Mann Singers 1961 Covered by (4 artists)
  Any Old Time of the Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1964 Covered by (7 artists)
  Anyone Who Had a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1963 Covered by (94 artists)
  Are You There (With Another Girl) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (17 artists)
  As Long as There's an Apple Tree Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  A Whistling Tune Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley August 1991 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Balance of Nature Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by (2 artists)
  Bell Bottom Blues Hal David, Leon Carr Teresa Brewer December 1953 Covered by (4 artists)
  Blue on Blue Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vinton May 1963 Covered by (15 artists)
  Broken-Hearted Melody Hal David, Sherman Edwards Sarah Vaughan 1959 Covered by (12 artists)
  
  Call off the Wedding (Without a Groom There Can't Be a Bride) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino November 1962 Covered by Don Backy

  Casino Royale Burt Bacharach, Hal David Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass March 1967 Covered by (21 artists)

  Christmas Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Edward Winter, Kay Oslin, Rita O'Connor, Julane Stites and Neil Jones December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  Country Music Holiday Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bernie Nee with Eddie O'Conner and his Orchestra February 24, 1958 Covered by Adam Faith
  
  Donna Means Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (2 artists)
  Don't Go Breaking My Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (22 artists)
  Don't Let It Happen to Us Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Shirelles August 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  Don't Make Me Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1962 Covered by (51 artists)
  Don't Send Me Home Hal David, Leon Carr Harry James - Toni Harper February 22, 1952 Covered by (2 artists)
  Downhill and Shady Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1965 Covered by The Waistcoats

  Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? John Barry, Hal David John Barry, Nina van Pallandt 1969 Covered by (2 artists)

  Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (112 artists)
  
  Early Morning Strangers Barry Manilow, Hal David Barry Manilow October 1974 Covered by (3 artists)
  Everybody's Out of Town Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas April 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Go with Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  
  Half as Big as Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Hasbrook Heights Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (3 artists)
  Here I Am Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1965 Covered by (8 artists)
  Home Is Where the Heart Is Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires August 28, 1962 Covered by (11 artists)
  
  I Could Make You Mine Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Wanderers [US] September 1960 Covered by Patrick Logelin
  I Cry Alone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (4 artists)
  If I Could Go Back Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Whitman January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  If I Never Get to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson June 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  I Forgot What It Was Like Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ray Peterson July 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  If You Never Say Goodbye Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by Liliane Saint Pierre
  I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tommy Hunt August 1962 Covered by (67 artists)
  I'll Never Fall in Love Again Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (169 artists)
  I'm a Better Man Burt Bacharach, Hal David Engelbert Humperdinck 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  In Between the Heartaches Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (7 artists)
  In the Land of Make Believe Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] December 1963 Covered by (7 artists)
  In Times Like These Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels January 1960 Covered by (5 artists)
  I Say a Little Prayer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (188 artists)
  Is There Another Way to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1965 Covered by Anki
  Italian Fuzz Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1966 Covered by Fifty Foot Combo
  It Doesn't Matter Anymore Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ricky Nelson December 1966 Covered by (3 artists)
  It Only Took a Minute Hal David, Mort Garson Joe Brown and The Bruvvers October 1962 Covered by (3 artists)
  It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Shirelles August 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  It Was Almost Like a Song Hal David, Archie Jordan Ronnie Milsap 1977 Covered by (13 artists)
  I Wake Up Crying Burt Bacharach, Hal David Del Shannon June 1961 Covered by (19 artists)
  
  Johnny Get Angry Hal David, Sherman Edwards Joanie Sommers April 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Kaleidoscope Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1977 Covered by Kisu
  Knowing When to Leave Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Let Me Go to Him Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick March 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  Let the Music Play Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] March 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  Living Together, Growing Together Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tony Bennett December 1, 1972 Covered by (8 artists)
  Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets Burt Bacharach, Hal David Allison Durbin 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  Long After Tonight Is Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jimmy Radcliffe October 1964 Covered by (6 artists)
  Long Ago Tomorrow Burt Bacharach, Hal David B. J. Thomas October 1971 Covered by Burt Bacharach
  Looking With My Eyes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick September 1965 Covered by Mike Melvoin
  Look in My Eyes Maria Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans September 1963 Covered by Cliff Richard
  Lost Horizon Burt Bacharach, Hal David Shawn Phillips January 1973 Covered by (5 artists)
  Love Was Here Before the Stars Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brian Foley October 1967 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Magic Moments Burt Bacharach, Hal David Perry Como December 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  Magic Potion Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  Make It Easy on Yourself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler June 1962 Covered by (69 artists)
  Me Japanese Boy I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Goldsboro July 1964 Covered by (8 artists)
  
  Message to Martha Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler December 1963 Covered by (33 artists)

  Moonraker John Barry, Hal David Shirley Bassey 1979 Covered by (38 artists)

  My Heart Is an Open Book Hal David, Lee Pockriss Jimmy Dean with Ray Ellis and His Orch. September 1958 Covered by (6 artists)
  My Little Red Book Burt Bacharach, Hal David Manfred Mann 1965 Covered by (35 artists)
  
  No Walls, No Ceilings, No Floors Hal David, Archie Jordan Barbara Mandrell September 1978 Covered by (4 artists)
  Now While I Still Remember How Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Odds and Ends Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1969 Covered by (10 artists)
  One Less Bell to Answer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Keely Smith 1967 Covered by (40 artists)
  Only Love Can Break a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (12 artists)
  Outside My Window Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Fleetwoods January 1960 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Promise Her Anything Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones January 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas October 1969 Covered by (252 artists)
  Rain from the Skies Burt Bacharach, Hal David Adam Wade January 11, 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  Reach Out for Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (26 artists)
  Rivers Are for Boats Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Päivi Paunu
  
  Saturday Sunshine Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  Sea of Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Don Gibson May 1961 Covered by (61 artists)
  
  She Likes Basketball Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (3 artists)
  Something Big Burt Bacharach, Hal David Mark Lindsay December 17, 1971 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Take a Broken Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Rick Nelson December 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  The April Fools Burt Bacharach, Hal David Percy Faith His Orchestra and Chorus 1969 Covered by (27 artists)
  The Face Not the Image Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Euson
  The First Night of the Full Moon Hal David, Al Kealoha Perry Jack Jones May 1964 Covered by Ronnie Tober
  The Four Winds and the Seven Seas Hal David, Don Rodney Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians May 1949 Covered by (6 artists)
  The Good Times Are Coming John Barry, Hal David Mama Cass Elliot 1970 Covered by Henry Dee
  The Last One to Be Loved Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 31, 1964 Covered by (5 artists)

  The Look of Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Stan Getz 1968 Covered by (382 artists)

  The Love of a Boy Burt Bacharach, Hal David Timi Yuro November 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Fairmount Singers February 1962 Covered by (18 artists)
  (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1964 Covered by (120 artists)
  The Story of My Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra September 30, 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  The Things I Will Not Miss Burt Bacharach, Hal David Sally Kellerman and Andra Willis January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  The Windows of the World Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (33 artists)
  They Long to Be Close to You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Richard Chamberlain September 1963 Covered by (294 artists)
  This Empty Place Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (10 artists)
  This Guy's in Love with You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Danny Williams 1968 Covered by (249 artists)
  To All the Girls I've Loved Before Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (50 artists)
  Too Late to Worry Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino 1962 Covered by (9 artists)
  To Wait for Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans February 1964 Covered by (14 artists)
  Trains and Boats and Planes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (80 artists)
  True Love Never Runs Smooth Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Hal David Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
  and Margo Sappington December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1963 Covered by (30 artists)
  
  Upstairs Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Using Things and Loving People Hal David, Archie Jordan B.J. Thomas July 1979 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Walk on By Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick April 1964 Covered by (199 artists)
  Walk the Way You Talk Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1970 Covered by (3 artists)
  Wanting Things Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (7 artists)

  We Have All the Time in the World John Barry, Hal David Louis Armstrong 1969 Covered by (55 artists)

  What Am I Supposed to Do? Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by Iris Williams
  What Do You See in Her Hal David, Frank Weldon Helen Grayco with Orchestra Conducted by Harold Mooney August 1955 Covered by (7 artists)
  What's New Pussycat? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones 1965 Covered by (57 artists)
  What the World Needs Now Is Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jackie deShannon April 15, 1965 Covered by (240 artists)
  Where Would I Go Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  Whoever You Are, I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (15 artists)
  Who Is Gonna Love Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  Wishin' and Hopin' Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (46 artists)
  With Open Arms Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jane Morgan 1959 Covered by Adam Faith with John Barry and His Orchestra
  Wives and Lovers Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jack Jones September 1963 Covered by (114 artists)
  
  You'll Answer to Me Hal David, Sherman Edwards Patti Page Featuring The Mike Stewart Singers May 1961 Covered by (3 artists)
  You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1964 Covered by (31 artists)
  You'll Think of Someone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  You You Darling Hal David, Lee Pockriss Eddie Williams 1959 Covered by Willy Hagara - Orchester Rolf Anders und Chor
  
  Adapted songs
  Title Written by Originals Originally by Covered by
  
  Baby Elephant Walk Hal David Baby Elephant Walk Pat Boone
  Dance Mama Dance Papa Dance Hal David Marriage, French Style Joanne and The Streamliners
  No Regrets Hal David Non, je ne regrette rien Edith Piaf Covered by (13 artists)
  Sole, Sole, Sole Hal David Sole, sole Covered by Sarah Vaughan
  Where There's a Heartache Hal David Come Touch the Sun Oliver Covered by (3 artists)
  Who Could Love Me Hal David Mi piaci come sei Shirley Bassey

  
  
  

  
  
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  2013: Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE dies at age 97--Reymerston, Norfolk, England.
  (Born 26 April 1916--Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.)

  

  

  Ken Wallis. Aviator 1916-2013 - A short
  film from the Into the Wind Archive (13:31)

  https://vimeo.com/electricegg/kenwallis

  Originally included on the DVD release of Into the Wind, this film has been released online in memory of Ken Wallis who recently passed away. Ken's career in British aviation is well known from his wartime career as a Wellington pilot with Bomber Command to autogyro creations post-war. Ken is known to many through his connection to the James Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice' in which his autogyro 'Little Nellie' is 'flown' by Sean Connery, Bond, in one of the key scenes.
  

  

  James Bond Pilot Ken Wallis Gets Lifetime Award

  See the complete article here:
  

  An autogyro pilot from Norfolk, who flew as James Bond's stunt double in You Only Live Twice, has been honoured for his lifetime contribution to aerospace.
  
  Retired Wing Cdr Ken Wallis, 96, who lives near Dereham, was given the award by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators on Tuesday.
  
  Mr Wallis said he was "privileged to be recognised by an organisation which celebrates professionalism and dedication in flying".
  
  24 October 2012 |Section | BBC News

  
  
  

  

  Kenneth Horatio Wallis, DSO MBE DEng CEng FRAeS PhD
  
  Autogyro Little Nellie with its creator and pilot, Ken Wallis

  Born 26 April 1916: Ely, Cambridgeshire
  Died 1 September 2013 (aged 97): Dereham, Norfolk
  Allegiance United Kingdom
  Service/branch Royal Air Force
  Years of service 1939–1964
  Rank Wing Commander
  Unit No. 268 Squadron RAF
  No. 103 Squadron RAF
  No. 37 Squadron RAF
  Battles/wars World War II
  Awards Distinguished Service Order
  Other work Leading exponent of autogyros

  Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS RAF (26 April 1916 – 1 September 2013) was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war, he moved on to research and development, before retiring in 1964. He later became one of the leading exponents of autogyros and earned 34 world records, still holding eight of them at the time of his death in 2013.
  
  Early life
  Born on 26 April 1916 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Wallis developed a practical interest in mechanics, building a motorcycle at the age of 11. In 1936, he was inspired by a demonstration by Henri Mignet of his Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea"). Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials required, and started to build his own Flying Flea. He abandoned construction because of widespread adverse publicity about fatal accidents that implied inadequate design of the type.
  
  Wallis took an interest in powerboats which he kept up until 1957, when he won the 56-mile (90 km) long Missouri Marathon.
  
  Military career
  Wallis was keen to join the RAF, and applied for their Volunteer Reserve Service, but he was turned down due to a defective right eye. Consequently, he obtained a private flying licence which required only a certificate signed by his GP. Wallis obtained his A Licence for dual and solo flying in a record 12 hours. In 1938, Wallis tried to join the RAF again, this time with the newly formed RAF Short Service Commission Scheme, but again failed the eye test. In 1939, he was called up to RAF Uxbridge, and again was sent for a medical. When it came to the eyesight test he managed to pass, as Wallis later recalled, "I did the first line with my good eye then they covered it up and asked me to read the bottom line with my bad eye, without them realising I just turned my head slightly so I could again see with my good eye – I passed it with Above Average Eye Sight!"
  
  Wallis's military career started with Westland Lysander patrols in the RAF. In 1942, he was transferred to RAF Bomber Command, flying Wellingtons near Grimsby. Wallis subsequently served in Italy and on secondment to the US Strategic Air Command, where he flew the massive Convair B-36, that had six piston engines and four auxiliary jet engines. Thereafter, he was involved in research and development, and was awarded a number of patents on his inventions. Wallis left the RAF in 1964, retiring to Norfolk.
  
  Autogyros
  Wallis produced autogyros for, in his own words, "reconnaissance, research & development, surveillance and military purposes", and his designs were not available for enthusiasts as he considered that although the design is simple it has to be built to the appropriate standards. His contribution to autogyro design included the "offset gimbal rotor head".

  Wallis worked as Sean Connery's stunt pilot in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where he flew one of his WA-116s named Little Nellie.

  Production was at Cambridge by "Wallis Autogyros Ltd." run by his cousin.
  
  In 1970, Wallis provided camera footage from one of his autogyros in a search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  
  In 1970 it was announced that Airmark would produce his autogyro design with a certificate of airworthiness (C of A), that being essential for commercial use of the autogyro. Expected price was around £3,000.
  
  Between 2006 and 2009, Wallis took part in filming for Into the Wind, a documentary by Steven Hatton featuring the experiences and memories of wartime members of Bomber Command. The film, released in 2012, features Wallis demonstrating several of his autogyro designs.
  
  Wallis was the President of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, and Patron of the Wolf Preservation Foundation.

  
  a 1:24 scale plastic model kit of Wallis' WA-116 Little Nellie autogyro as portrayed
  in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, was released
  by the Airfix company.

  Autogyros and aircraft
  Wallbro Monoplane Replica
  Wallis WA-116 Agile
  Wallis WA-117
  Wallis WA-118 Meteorite
  Wallis WA-119
  Wallis WA-120
  Wallis WA-121
  
  Recognition
  Wallis was the recognized world record holder for many categories of autogyro records over the years, and was also recognized as the oldest pilot to set a world flight record at the age of 89. Wallis held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying career. These include the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale time-to-climb, a speed record of 189 km/h (111.7 mph), and the straight-line distance record of 869.23 km (540.11 mi). On 16 November 2002, Wallis increased the speed record to 207.7 km/h (129.1 mph).
  
  Wallis received the MBE in 1996.
  
  In July 2013, Wallis received a campaign medal for his 28 bomber missions over Germany during World War II.
  
  Later life
  He was married to Peggy Stapley, a Women's Auxiliary Air Force veteran, from 1942 to her death in 2003. Wallis died on 1 September 2013, aged 97. Prior to his death, he was living in the quiet Norfolk village of Reymerston.
  
  Old Buckenham Airport held a memorial event on 29 September at the request of the Wallis family: "A Celebration of the Life of Wing Commander Ken Wallis". It had been expected that about 500 people would attend, but an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 attended the event.

  

  K.H. Wallis (1916–2013)

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  2014: Gottfried John dies at age 72--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
  (Born 29 August 1942--Berlin, Germany.)

  

  Gottfried John obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john

  German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
  villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
  Ronald Bergan
  Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT

  
  Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
  Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

  It was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low cheekbones, raspy voice and boxer's flattened nose, would play villains. In commercial terms, the culmination of his 20-year stage, cinema and television career came when John was cast as the perfidious Russian general Arkady Ourumov, James Bond's nemesis, in GoldenEye (1995), the highest-earning Bond film since Moonraker, 16 years previously.

  However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.
  
  John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.
  
  Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.
  
  In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.
  
  He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).
  
  John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

  After Fassbinder's death in 1984, John embarked on an international career generally playing shady German characters in spy dramas, such as the British TV series Game, Set and Match (1988), based on books by Len Deighton. In GoldenEye, in keeping with the Hollywood tradition of casting any old nationality as a foreigner, John was General Ourumov, the corrupt and ruthless head of the Russian Space Division, secretly planning to take control of the world's satellites. In the exhilarating climax, Ourumov is in a black sedan, drinking from a hip flask and holding a woman hostage, followed by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) driving a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg. At one stage, he tells his driver, when faced with a group of people blocking the way, "Use the bumper! That's what it's for!"

  In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).
  
  John is survived by his wife, Barbara.
  
  • Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

  

  Gottfried John

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_John
  
  Filmography

  Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
  Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)
  
  Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
  Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
  Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
  World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
  Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
  Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
  Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
  Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
  In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
  Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
  The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze
  
  Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
  Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
  Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
  Ente oder Trente (1983)
  Super (1984) .... Hilpert
  Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
  Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
  Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
  Die Mitläufer (1985)
  Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
  Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
  Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
  Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
  Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann
  
  Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
  Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
  Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
  Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
  Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
  Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
  Die Zeit danach (1992)
  Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
  Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
  Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
  Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
  Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
  Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
  GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
  The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
  Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
  Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
  Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
  Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski
  
  Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
  Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
  The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
  Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
  Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
  Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
  Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
  Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
  The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
  Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
  Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
  Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
  Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
  John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
  Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
  Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
  Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl
  
  Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

  

  Gottfried John (1942–2014)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Arthur Wooster dies at age 91.
  (Born 18 May 1929--London, England.)

  

  

  Arthur Wooster BSC

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://imago.org/news/arthur-wooster-bsc-passes-away-at-91/

  September 2, 2020

  It is with great sadness that we share the news that Arthur Wooster BSC has passed away this week at the age of 91.
  
  It’s safe to say that hundreds of millions of moviegoers around the world have admired and been excited by Arthur Wooster’s cinematography, more often than not without knowing Wooster was the artist behind those images. Hardly surprising, when you learn that among Arthur Wooster’s most widely seen work is the terrific second unit photography for such James Bond blockbusters as or Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights and Goldeneye.
  
  Arthur Wooster had an impressive career in cinematography and directing which spanned almost six decades.

  
  ARTHUR WOOSTER
  It is with deep regret that we report that Arthur Wooster BSC passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon. He was 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s in later years and his only pleasure had been visiting the cinema but when the pandemic struck all that changed. A stalwart of our industry and one of the most hard working and prolific DPs in our Society and a kind and thoughtful man as well. Our thoughts and condolences go to his wife of 56 years, Anne and his two sons David and Tim.
  
  He became a member of the BSC in 1972 and in 1983 was honoured by BAFTA with an award for "‘Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema” followed by a "BSC Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2007.
  
  Born in 1929, Arthur’s father ran a butcher’s shop opposite Wembley Film Studios (Britain's first purpose- built sound studios). Knowing Arthur was very interested in photography he arranged an interview at The Crown Film Unit in 1944 and Arthur became a clapper loader at Pinewood studios working with Chick Fowle BSC on a documentary The True Story of Lilly Marlene, directed by Humphrey Jennings.
  
  After his national service, he re-joined the Crown Film Unit and worked on Man of Africa as a focus puller, directed by Cyril Frankel and shot in Uganda. A year or so later, Crown were shooting in Malaya when the crew were ambushed and the cameraman, Teddy Catford, was injured. When no-one at the unit wanted to replace him, Arthur volunteered and was now a DP.
  
  When Crown disbanded in 1952, Arthur helped form Film Partnership and also shot newsreels for Pathe and Movietone including a 3D film about the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
  
  Arthur eventually left the company and by now, was directing and photographing numerous short films, commercials and documentaries around the world including Mekong: River of Asia (1964) and Pipeline Alaska (1977) both directed by John Armstrong and nominated for Oscars.
  
  Arthur’s reputation as a cameraman expanded into sports films that included Official Films of the 1966 World Cup, 1968, 1972 & 1976 Olympic Games and later at the 1990 World Cup.

  The first feature Arthur worked on was second unit on Downhill Racer (1969 d. Michael Ritchie), followed by films such as Le Mans (1971 d. Lee Katzin) and Gold (1974 d. Peter Hunt). John Glen often worked in the cutting rooms at Film Partnership often cutting films that Arthur had shot and directed, as well as several James Bond films. In 1980 Glen was going to direct For Your Eyes Only and asked if Arthur would be interested in doing the second unit. This was to be the start of a long relationship for Arthur with the Bond company where he would direct and shoot the second unit on titles such as Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, etc.

  Arthur had now established himself as one of the world’s top 2nd Unit Directors who could DP as well, a combination that made him highly sought after but naturally restricted his main unit DP opportunities although he photographed a number of his own films including Eat the Peach (d. Peter Ormerod) and the television series Sharpe, one episode of which Sharpe’s Company, directed by Tom Clegg, won an RTS award for cinematography.
  
  (David Wooster with Phil Méheux BSC)

  
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  Arthur Wooster

  Camera and Electrical Department | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Cinematographer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941331/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  

  
  2020: No Time To Die teaser poster released. Plus a trailer.

  
  
  
  NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2
  

  2021: Final trailer(s) for No Time To Die shared.

  JAMES BOND 007: NO TIME TO DIE Final Trailer (2021) - US, 2:44
  
  
  No Time to Die Final International Trailer (2021) | Movieclips Trailers - 2:34
  

  
  2022: The Royal Institution presents Superspy science - The World of James Bond with author Kathryn Harkup at London, England.

  

  

  Sep
  01
  Superspy science: The world of
  James Bond
  by The Royal Institution

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/superspy-science-the-world-of-james-bond-tickets-386882986427

  Discover the science, tech and deaths in the world of James Bond.
  
  About this event

  Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of James Bond.
  
  Join Kathryn Harkup as she explores the practicalities of building a volcano-based lair, whether being covered in gold paint really will kill you, and whether it’s better to use bacteria, bombs, or poison to take over the world.
  
  In this talk, Kathryn discusses plots, gadgets and the ludicrous ways that threatened Bond’s life. From the first book published in 1953 to now.

  By booking to attend events at the Royal Institution, you confirm that you have read and agree to the Ri's event terms and conditions.
  
  Date and time
  Thu, 1 September 2022
  19:00 – 20:30 BST
  
  Location
  The Royal Institution
  21 Albemarle Street
  London
  W1S 4BS
  United Kingdom

  

  
  2022: The British Library hosts Double or Nothing - James Bond and Beyond with Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood at London, England.

  

  Double or Nothing: James Bond and Beyond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bl.uk/events/double-or-nothing-james-bond-and-beyond

  Thu 1 Sep 2022, 19:00 - 20:30

  

  Book now
  Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546
  Email: [email protected]
  Full Price: £13.00 Member: £13.00 Other concessions available
  
  With Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood.
  
  Early bird offer: Get tickets for £10 for this event until 31 July. After this full-price tickets will be £13.
  
  This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
  
  The online version of this event will be live captioned.

  James Bond is missing… 007 has been captured – perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company and the future of humanity hangs in the balance. The fate of the world rests in the hands of a trio of MI6's finest Double O agents but time is running out.
  
  So begins the pulsating new spy thriller Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood, the first in an officially commissioned trilogy that promises to 'blow the world of Ian Fleming's James Bond wide open.'
  
  At this special launch event, Kim is joined by fellow Bond author Charlie Higson to celebrate the ever-thrilling and evolving world of 007.

  The event will be followed by a book signing. Early bird price £10 until 31 July (with additional concessions for students and under-26s) after which prices will be £13 full price, £11.50 over 60s, £6.50 other concessions.
  
  Online event bookers can buy a copy of Double or Nothing with a ticket at checkout for £23 (with UK postage) and watch the event for free. International postage will be higher. Books will be posted out within 7 days after the event. Please ensure your address is up to date on your British Library account.
  
  Charlie Higson created and starred in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is also author of the bestselling Young Bond books (Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, Silverfin and By Royal Command) and horror series The Enemy. His latest book Whatever Gets You Through The Night is his first adult crime novel in 25 years; a colourful thriller exposing dark truths lurking beneath the surface of a sunny Mediterranean idyll.
  
  Kim Sherwood won the Bath Novel Award for her debut novel Testament, published in 2018. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award, shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel, and won the Harpers’ Bazaar Big Book Award. She was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. Sherwood has a Bond connection: she is the granddaughter of the actor George Baker who made a number of appearances in the James Bond films - most famously playing Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Kim is a lifelong fan of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Double or Nothing (released September 1st 2022)is the first in Kim's trilogy of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.
  
  In association with Ian Fleming Publications and Harper Collins
  
  If you’re attending in person, please arrive no later than 15 minutes before the start time of this event. We are committed to the safety of our event bookers. Find out how we are welcoming you to the Library safely.
  
  The British Library is a charity. Your support helps us open up a world of knowledge and inspiration for everyone. Donate today.
  
  Details
  Name: Double or Nothing: James Bond and Beyond
  
  Where: Entrance Hall
  The British Library
  96 Euston Road
  London
  NW1 2DB
  
  When: Thu 1 Sep 2022, 19:00 - 20:30
  Price: Full Price: £13.00
  Member: £13.00
  Student: £6.50
  Registered Unemployed: £6.50
  Disabled: £6.50
  Senior (60+): £11.50
  Young Person (18-25): £6.50
  Online Full Price: £5.00
  Online Member: £5.00
  Online event w/book (Double or Nothing) UK postage: £23.00
  Online event w/book (Double or Nothing) Non-UK postage: £27.50
  Enquiries: +44 (0)1937 546546
  [email protected]

  2022: HarperCollins publishes Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood.

  

  Double or Nothing

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/double-or-nothing-kim-sherwood?variant=39706862616654

  By Kim Sherwood
  On Sale: September 1, 2022
  £20.00
  England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales shipping only
  
  Product Details
  reviews

  James Bond is missing. 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown.

  Meet the new generation of spies…

  Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. Together, they represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled, determined and with a licence to kill, they will do anything to protect their country.

  The fate of the world rests in their hands…

  Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. But can he really? The new spies must uncover the truth, because the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

  Time is running out.

  The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6’s agents with a licence to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open!

  What everyone is saying about DOUBLE OR NOTHING:

  ‘Filled with characters so real we feel we know them,
  the novel races through its surprising plot twists
  like an Aston Martin in high gear’
  Jeffery Deaver, author of
  Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel

  ‘Stylish, explosive, fresh and fun, Kim Sherwood
  takes one of the world’s most beloved series
  and makes it her own’ Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

  'Kim Sherwood has taken the world of James Bond
  and turned it on its head’
  Charles Cumming, author of BOX 88

  ‘A cleverly plotted and absorbing novel with a
  fantastic cast of fully rounded characters’
  Lisa Ballantyne, author of The Innocent One

  ‘Delivers everything you could want and more
  from a high-octane, high-stakes spy thriller’
  Tim Glister, author of Red Corona

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Yvonne Shima dies at age 88--British Columbia, Canada.
  (Born 1935--British Columbia, Canada.)

  

  Yvonne Shima

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Shima
  
  Yvonne Shima
  Born 1935
  British Columbia, Canada
  Died 1 September 2023 (age 88)
  British Columbia, Canada
  Occupation(s) Actress, Singer
  Years active 1958–1965
  Spouse Barry Ransom
  
  Yvonne Shima (1935 – 1 September 2023)[1] was a Canadian-born British actress.
  
  Life and career
  Shima was born in British Columbia into a Japanese Canadian family and later settled in Toronto. Soon after arriving in the UK in 1958[2] she began playing the role of Lotus Blossom in the play The Teahouse of the August Moon on stage. To the general public, she was probably best known for playing receptionist Sister Lily in the very first James Bond film Dr. No in 1962. In the late 1960s, Yvonne decided to stop acting after suffering a car accident.
  
  Filmography
  Film
  Year Title Role Notes ref
  1960 The Savage Innocents Lulik
  The World of Suzie Wong - Minnie Ho
  Passport to China - Liong Ti Uncredited
  1961 The Sinister Man - Tamaya
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Poon Soon
  1962 Dr. No - Sister Lily
  1963 The Cool Mikado - Peep-Bo
  1965 Genghis Khan - Concubine
  
  Television
  Year Title Role Notes ref
  1958 Television Playwright - Episode: "The Commentator"
  1958 Armchair Theatre - Fujiko Maki - Episode: "The Deaf Heart"
  1963 The Avengers - Anna - Episode: "A Chorus of Frogs"
  
  References
  "In Memoriam Canadian-Japanese actress Yvonne Shima (1935-2023)". jamesbond007.se. 22 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  "Lucky Lotus". Worthing Gazette. 10 September 1958. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/stars/yvonne-shima

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  September 2nd
  
  1935: Kenneth Tsang Kong is born--Shanghai, China. (Also reported as 5 October 1934.)
  (He dies 27 April 2022 at age 87--Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, China.)

  

  Kenneth Tsang Dies: Golden Age Hong Kong Film Actor
  Who Later Entered Hollywood Was 87

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://deadline.com/2022/04/kenneth-tsang-dead-hong-kong-film-actor-later-hollywood-was-87-obituary-1235011663/

  By Bruce Haring | April 27, 2022 4:45pm | AP

  

  Kenneth Tsang, who made his mark in Hong Kong’s golden age of film before coming to the US and scoring roles in several prominent movies, died at age 87 today. He was found after quarantining in a Hong Kong hotel after entering China from Singapore, per that country’s Covid-19 protocols.
  
  Tsang’s talent manager confirmed his death. “I’m deeply saddened by the news and will miss his laughter and his friendship,” Tsang’s manager, Andrew Ooi, said in a statement.

  “He was a pioneer and a legend of his time in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, who broke boundaries with his fearless performances not only there but in Hollywood too. His legacy will live on in the movies he’s made and my heart goes out to his family in this difficult time.”
  
  In addition to his Hong Kong films, Tsang appeared in Hollywood movies Rush Hour 2 (2001) and the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002). He made his Hollywood debut in 1998’s The Replacement Killers,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.

  Tsang won the Hong Kong Film Award for supporting actor in 2015. He was nominated for the same prize at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in Overheard 2, which won him the supporting actor trophy at the 2012 China Film Media Awards.
  
  Before his film career, Tsang graduated with a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, according to the South China Morning Post. He also appeared in dozens of TV series, including The Greed of Man, starring Tsang as Lung family patriarch Sing-bong.
  
  Tsang is survived by his wife of 28 years, Taiwanese film actor Chiao Chiao.
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  1939: An overworked Ian Fleming declines his duties as best man at the Gerald and Patricia Coke wedding.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 3 - "The world's worst stockbroker"

  [Admiral] Godfrey did not let on much about the job he had in mind. More
  interest in "having a good look at the fellow", he suggested Ian might
  like to come into the NID at the Admiralty on a part-time basis and get
  the feel of the place. Ian began attending for three or four afternoons a
  week in June. Within a fortnight, Fleming had mastered his limited brief
  and was asking Godfrey for something more challenging. Godfrey had
  already seen enough: as he recorded in his unpublished memoirs, "I
  quickly made up my mind that here was the man for the job." In late July
  Ian was appoint to the newly formed Special Branch (dealing with
  intelligence and meteorology) of the Wavy Navy, the Royal Navy Vol-
  unteer Reserve (RNVR). He joined NID full-time the following month and
  was firmly installed, with enough inside information to advise Percy Muir
  to move his book collection to the countryside, and enough work on his
  desk to have to cancel his engagement as best man at Gerald Coke's
  wedding on 2 September, the day before war began.

  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Bond's first scene--with Moneypenny.
  
  1980: For Your Eyes Only film production officially starts with three days North Sea filming of the St. Georges.

  
  Internet Movie Boat Database Wiki
  https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only

  St. Georges

  
  This trawler serves as a British spy ship. It is sunk by a WW2 sea mine, which was accidentally pushed against the hull when it got captured in one of the fishing nets. Bond and Melina later explore the wreckage of the ship. The St. Georges is a model ship.

  
  
  
  

  
  2013: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke comments on Daniel Craig as James Bond.

  

  Daniel Craig lacks the panache to be James Bond,
  says Dick Van Dyke

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newdelhitimes.com/daniel-craig-lacks-panache-james-bond-dick-van-dyke/

  By Editor | September 2, 2013
  
  Screen legend Dick Van Dyke has revealed that he doesn’t think Daniel Craig is right for the role of James Bond .
  
  The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star said that he considered Craig to be a ‘wonderful actor’ with ‘great physicality’, but he was missing a certain something required for the acclaimed part, Metro.co.uk reported.

  The 87-year-old actor also revealed that he was considered to play the spy.
  
  He said that when Sean Connery had talked about dropping out of Bond flick, Cubby Broccoli approached him and asked if he was interested in the role.
  
  Van Dyke however turned down the offer, saying that he didn’t have a proper British accent.

  
  
  
  

  
  

  2015: American Photography reports on the book Dying to Eat by Henry Hargreaves in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, focusing on Bond meals.

  

  

  Dept of Ideas: Photographing James Bond's Dinners

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/15063/dept-of-ideas-photographing-james-bonds-dinners.html

  By David Schonauer | Wednesday September 2, 2015
  
  He kissed and killed. And ate and drank.
  
  Best known for his consumption of cocktails in the movies, James Bond was also a gourmand in his literary incarnation. “I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from the habit of taking a lot of trouble over details,” he tells Vesper Lynd in 1953’s Casino Royale, the first of the Bond thrillers written by Ian Fleming.

  Reading about Bond’s dining habits from a modern perspective is akin to cultural archeology. His dinner with Vesper, for instance, is a remarkable example of post-war extravagance. She orders caviar, to be followed by “a plain grilled rognon de veau with pommes soufflés, and then fraises de bois, with a lot of cream.”
  
  “I myself will accompany Mademoiselle with the caviar, but then I would like a very small tournedos, underdone, with sauce Bearnaise and a coeur d’artichaut,” Bond tells the maitre d’hotel. “While Mademoiselle is enjoying the strawberries, I will have an avocado pear, with a little French dressing.”

  Today we don’t necessarily think of avocado as an exotic treat. But in the economically-ravaged Europe of the early 1950s, it could be used by Fleming as a symbol of almost unimaginable privilege. Like his creation, Fleming took trouble over such details, and it paid off. People read the books in part to be transported to a world where both danger and luxury could be found in abundance.
  
  That sense of history is what photographer Henry Hargreaves, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, sat out to capture in his book Dying to Eat, a depiction of the meals Bond enjoys during his adventures.

  “Ian Fleming wrote for 1950’s Englishman, whose everyday experience of the world was colored by the devastating consequences of war,” Hargreaves notes. “The 50s post-war man could read Fleming’s Bond books and dream not only of adventure and villains in far-off lands, but an exciting lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, finely tailored clothes, and exotic gourmet meals from around the world.”

  Ironically, a previous Hargreaves project, No Seconds, focused on the last meals ordered by death row inmates, from John Wayne Gacy (fried shrimp, a bucket of chicken from KFC) to Timothy McVeigh (two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream).
  
  By way of contrast, there are the decadent stone crabs swimming in butter that Bond eats in Miami Beach at the beginning of Goldfinger and the smoked ham and peaches he has in From Russia With Love.
  
  Hargreaves notes at his website that he worked as both a fashion model and in the food industry before becoming a professional photographer. “I was fascinated about people’s requests and [how] what they ordered [revealed] their character and personality. I try to bring this idea into my work by showing the connections visually,” he writes at his website.
  
  Bond’s meals reveal a man whose eyes are perhaps bigger than his stomach (For Bond, the world was not enough, after all). Like his famous cocktail creation, the Vesper (3 measure of Gordon’s gin, 1 measure of vodka, and 1/2 measure of Kina Lillet), Bond’s dinners are showy — and borderline absurd, if not deadly in their own right. (Fleming would later apologize for his Vesper recipe; having actually tried one, he found it “unpalatable,” notes David Leigh in The Complete Guide to The Drinks of James Bond.)
  
  Fleming used booze and food to create an illusion and give his famous character depth; but he had to go to increasingly greater heights of imagination to maintain the illusion, making Bond’s meals more and more bizarre throughout the series. In You Only Live Twice, the second-to-last novel, “Bond is mucking around with Japanese lobster eaten alive as it crawls around his table,” writes Simon Wender in The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.
  
  Hargreaves takes us on a journey through the Cold War, armed with knife and fork, but not a Walther PPK in sight.

  https://henryhargreaves.com/
  

  
  Casino Royale
  
  Live and Let Die
  
  Moonraker
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  Goldfinger
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  Thunderball
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  The Man With The Golden Gun
  
  
  

  
  2020: A No Time To Die ten-second teaser anticipates a new trailer on 3 September.

  

  2020: ET Online looks at 26 James Bond posters through the years.

  

  Movies
  James Bond Posters Through the
  Years

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.etonline.com/gallery/james-bond-posters-through-the-years-21694/spectre-2015-81456

  By ET Staff | September 2, 2020
  
  Take a look back at the legacy of all the
  different 007s, from Sean Connery to Daniel
  Craig, Roger Moore to Pierce Brosnan.
  

  No Time to Die (2020)
  
  United Artists Releasing
  Starring Daniel Craig as Bond.
  
  Spectre (2015)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Skyfall (2012)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  James Bond 50th Anniversary Poster
  
  MGM
  
  Quantum of Solace (2008)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Casino Royale (2006)
  
  Sony Pictures Releasing
  
  Starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond.
  Die Another Day (2002)
  
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  
  The World Is Not Enough
  
  MGM
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  
  MGM
  
  GoldenEye (1995)
  
  MGM
  
  Starring Timothy Dalton as Bond.
  Licence to Kill (1989)
  
  MGM
  
  The Living Daylights (1987)
  
  MGM
  
  Starring Roger Moore as Bond.
  A View to a Kill (1985)
  
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  
  Octopussy (1983)
  
  United International Pictures
  
  For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  
  United Artists
  
  Moonraker (1979)
  
  United Artists
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  
  United Artists
  
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  
  United Artists
  
  Live and Let Die (1973)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring George Lazenby as Bond.
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  
  United Artists
  
  Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
  You Only Live Twice (1967)
  
  United Artists
  
  Thunderball (1965)
  
  United Artists
  
  Goldfinger (1964)
  
  United Artists
  
  From Russia with Love (1963)
  
  United Artists
  
  Dr. No (1962)
  
  United Artists
  

  
  
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  September 2 Posts: 14,704

  September 3rd
  
  1939: Recognizing the German invasion of Poland and a refusal to withdraw, Britain and France declare war.
  
  1943: Valerie Perrine is born--Galveston, Texas.
  
  1963: Serena Gordon is born--London, England.
  
  1984: A View to a Kill films at the Ascot Race Course--Ascot, Berkshire, England.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: The Telegraph announces Revlon's limited edition 007 Colour Collection, a Die Another Day tie-in.

  

  Discover your inner Bond girl with
  bullet-shaped mascaras and 007 blushes

  http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG4795038/Discover-your-inner-Bond-girl-with-bullet-shaped-mascaras-and-007-blushes.html
  Jenni Baden Howard on a new to die for range from Revlon
  BY Jenni Baden Howard | 03 September 2002[/center]
  With two months to go before the British premiere of Die Another Day, prepare to discover your inner Bond girl. The 007 film archives have always provided an irresistible source of inspiration for make-up artists and hair stylists (Ursula Andress's surf-tousled exit from the sea in Dr No has been recreated in endless magazine spreads), but Revlon has gone one step further and come up with a make-up range based on the latest 007 instalment.
  
  Halle Berry, who stars in the new film, is one of the beauty brand's current faces (former Revlon models who have also been Bond girls include Kim Basinger, Talisa Soto and Carey Lowell), and the company has collaborated with the makers of Die Another Day to create a cosmetics line which is inspired by its two femme fatales: Halle, whose character is called Jinx, and young British actress Rosamund Pike, who plays Bond's M16 agent, Miranda Frost.
  
  The limited edition 007 Colour Collection will be launched here on November 7 to coincide with the film's release. Revlon obviously had a lot of fun dreaming up the product names, which are predictably loaded with Bond-style puns and innuendo.
  
  There is a gold, bullet-shaped mascara in Bond Black, which features a clear lash primer; lipsticks in Mission Mauve and Berry Avenger; a blush imprinted with the famous 007 pinwheel motif and eyeshadow compacts named after Halle and Rosamund's characters.
  
  The range was developed in collaboration with the film's make-up artist and stylist, who advised on the looks and mood of the two characters. Shades and textures range from the warm and vibrant to the cool and frosted (much of the action takes place in an ice palace in Iceland, which was inspired by Sweden's ultra-trendy Ice Hotel). But the Lash Fantasy mascara stands out as a must, as it creates the essential, glamorous Bond babe flutter.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2004: A 1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre Gurney Nutting Drophead Coupé auctioned at Bondham's.

  Still in good shape.

  
  
  
  
  
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  2006: Wiley publishes The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films by Loish H, Grish and Robert Weinberg.

  From the Back Cover

  The science behind the gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world′s greatest spy
  
  From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat–seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats and gadgets truly possible?
  
  The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bond′s most fantastic and off–the–wall accoutrements. The acclaimed science–fiction authors Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real–world achievements and brilliant imaginations behind such singular Bond gadgets as the buzz–saw Rolex, the car that turns into a submarine, and the ever–popular rocket–firing cigarette. They examine hundreds of Q Division′s ingenious inventions; analyze Bond′s astonishing battles beneath the earth and sea, in the skies, and even in outer space; and ask intriguing questions that lead to enlightening discussions about the limits of science, the laws of nature, and the future of technology.
  
  Filled with entertaining anecdotes from Bond movie shoots and supplemented with "tech" ratings for all of the Bond movies, The Science of James Bond separates scientific fact from film fantasy with some very surprising results.

  About the Author

  LOIS H. GRESH is the author of seventeen books, including four novels. She has written dozens of suspense and science–fiction stories and has been nominated for national fiction awards six times. Gresh and Robert Weinberg have coauthored several books, including The Science of Superheroes and The Science of Supervillains, both from Wiley.

  ROBERT WEINBERG is the author of sixteen novels and seventeen nonfiction books. He also scripted comic books for DC, Marvel, and Moonstone Publishers. Weinberg is the only World Fantasy Award winning author who has served as the grand marshal of a rodeo parade.

  
  
  

  
  2015: A new poster for Spectre showcases classic Bond elements and The Day of the Dead.

  

  2017: Scene Therapy looks at Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall.

  

  

  Fictional Homes: James Bond’s Ancestral Home, Skyfall
  

  See the complete article here:
  

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  The infamous ’Skyfall’ house from the 007 movie of the same name [2012 MGM/Sony/Columbia] is supposed to be situated in the barren rural lands of Glen Coe, Scotland, however the property was purpose-built from scratch at Hankley Common, Surrey, England. The lodge was built to resemble the weather-beaten stone builds of the Highlands, complete with creeping moss and small mullioned windows.

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  The interiors, created and shot on a soundstage at Pinewood Studios, feature all the classic features of an ancestral British country lodge, such as wood panelling, oil paintings, grandfather clocks, stone fireplaces, stag-themed paraphernalia and antique furniture.
  
  The Skyfall Lodge, created by Art Director Dean Clegg, was designed, built and filmed in six months.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: A new trailer for No Time To Die introduces action from the film.

  NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2
  

  2021: newsline promotes the Land Rover Defender V8 Bond Version.

  Expertise James Bond’s unique SUV

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  https://newsline.news/expertise-james-bonds-unique-suv/

  September 3, 2021
  
  Experience James Bond's exclusive SUV

  Division SV customization From Land Rover created Land Rover Defender V8 Bond Version To commemorate the twenty fifth supply James Bond, No Time to Die, Earlier than the world premiere later this month.

  Out there model 110 with 90 Impressed by the Defender specification in No Time to Die, the hidden Defender V8 Bond Version has Lengthy black bag with Luna Gloss Black alloy wheels 22 inch pliers Xenon blue entrance brake and a Defender 007 again badge.
  
  The custom-made contact extends to the sensible inside, with a luminous operating board and Contact display screen begin animation Developed particularly for intuitive infotainment methods Beer Professional Commemorate the long-term partnership between Land Rover and the James Bond collection.
  
  The inside of the Defender V8 Bond Version is completely out there to 300 patrons all over the world, together with laser engraving, indicating that it’s “One of many 300” and the SV Bespoke brand.
  
  Based mostly on the just lately launched Defender V8, the Bond model is powered by a 5-liter supercharged gasoline engine that produces 525 Resume, 625 Nm of torque and drive by means of an eight-speed automated transmission. Defender V8 90 will be downloaded from 0 to 100 km/h in solely 5.2 seconds​​ And attain the utmost velocity 240 km/h.
  
  By combining the V8 engine with professionally developed gearbox and suspension settings, it supplies a brand new degree of efficiency and driver engagement to create the quickest and most dynamic reward Defender so far.
  
  With distinctive drivetrain and suspension settings, together with particular ratio springs and shock absorbers, and a brand new rear digital lively differential, Defender V8 supplies extra versatile and fascinating dealing with and enhanced management, all of that are accompanied by With a singular engine sound. Supercharge from V8.
  
  No Time to Die Director Cary Joji Fukunaga And starring Daniel Craig, Who entered the pores and skin of James Bond 007 Ian Fleming That is the fifth and final time. The defender and two folks occupy the motion middle of the film Vary Rover Sport SVR, A type of Vary Rover Basic and a Land Rover Collection III.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: James Bond Movie Trivia Game! 25 Questions Live! Online event.

  

  James Bond Monthly Online Trivia Game

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  2022: Last night for Bonking James Bond at Aukland, New Zealand.

  

  Bonking James Bond

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  Bonking James Bond
  written by April Phillips
  directed by Kevin Murray
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  A tale of a disillusioned housewife’s discovery that her husband of 20 years is unfaithful—what to do?—the answer—create a fantasy lover. A lover that calls her on the phone, sends her flowers. Make him jealous. That should do the trick.

  This play won the 2010 Playwrights Assn. of N.Z. one act play competition. It’s funny, it’s witty.

  Group A
  Matinee - Sat 3 at 2pm
  One play of six selected for the AMI Ellerslie One Act Play Festival 2011
  
  Cast
  Betty Robertson - Julia Leathwick
  Jeffrey Robertson - Bryce Jones
  Penelope / Svetlana - Christy Quilliam
  James - Rob Holland

  

  
  
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  1932: Edward James de Souza is born--Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
  
  1966: The Los Angeles Times reports on You Only Live Twice filming in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan.
  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me starts its South London theater booking.
  
  1983: Random House publishes an updated version of Steven Jay Rubin's The James Bond Films - A Behind the Scenes History. Includes the latest films Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.

  

  
  1993: Hervé Villechaize dies at age 50--North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 23 April 1943--Paris, France.)

  

  Hervé Villechaize

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

  
  Villechaize in 1977

  Born Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize 23 April 1943, Paris, France
  Died 4 September 1993 (aged 50), North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

  Cause of death Suicide by shooting
  Resting place | Ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean
  Occupation | Actor
  Years active | 1966–1993
  Notable work
  Nick Nack in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  Spider in Seizure (1974)
  King Fausto in Forbidden Zone (1980)
  Smiley in Two Moon Junction (1988)
  Height 3 ft 11 in (119 cm)
  Television Fantasy Island
  Spouse(s)
  Anne Sadowski | (m. 1970; div. 1979)
  Camille Hagen | (m. 1980; div. 1982)

  Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: [ɛʁve vilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French American actor. He is best remembered for known for his role as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the 1977–1984 American television series Fantasy Island, where his catch phrase was "Ze plane! Ze plane!"

  Early life
  Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was born in Paris, France on April 23, 1943. to English-born Evelyn (Recchionni) and André Villechaize, a surgeon in Toulon. The youngest of four sons, Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried unsuccessfully to cure in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf". Villechaize was bullied at school for his condition and found solace in painting. He also had a brief modeling career.[citation needed] In 1959, at age 16, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.
  
  In 1964 he left France for the United States. He settled in a Bohemian section of New York City and taught himself English by watching television.[citation needed]
  Career
  
  Villechaize initially worked as an artist, painter and photographer. He began acting in Off-Broadway productions, including The Young Master Dante by Werner Liepolt and a play by Sam Shepard, and he also modeled for photos for National Lampoon before moving on to film.[citation needed]
  
  His first film appearance was in Chappaqua (1966). The second film was Edward Summer's Item 72-D: The Adventures of Spa and Fon filmed in 1969.[8] This was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; Crazy Joe; Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure; and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He was asked to play a role in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film Dune, which had originally begun pre-production in 1971 but was later cancelled.

  His big break was getting cast in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), by which time he had become so poor he was living out of his car in Los Angeles. Prior to being signed up by Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, he made ends meet by working as a rat catcher's assistant near his South Central home. From what his co-star Christopher Lee saw, The Man with the Golden Gun filming was possibly the happiest time of Villechaize's life: Lee likened it to honey in the sandwich between an insecure past and an uncertain future. In addition to being an actor, Villechaize became an active member of a movement in 1970s and 1980s California to deal with child abuse and neglect, often going to crime scenes himself to help comfort abuse victims. Villechaize's former co-workers recalled that despite his stature, he would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers when he arrived at crime scenes. In the 1970s, on Sesame Street, Villechaize performed Oscar the Grouch as a pair of legs peeping out from a trash can, for scenes which required the Grouch to be mobile. These appearances began in the second season and included the 1978 Hawaii episodes.

  Though popular with the public, Villechaize proved a difficult actor on Fantasy Island, where he continually propositioned women and quarreled with the producers. He was eventually fired after demanding a salary on par with that of his co-star Ricardo Montalbán. Villechaize was replaced with Christopher Hewett, of Mr. Belvedere and The Producers fame.
  
  In 1980, Cleveland International Records released a single by The Children of the World, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why" b/w "When a Child is Born"
  
  He starred in the movie Forbidden Zone (1980), and appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and Taxi. He later played the role of the character Rumpelstiltskin in the Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre episode Rumpelstiltskin.
  
  In the 1980s, he became popular in Spain due to his impersonations of Prime Minister Felipe González on the television show Viaje con nosotros (Travel with us), with showman Javier Gurruchaga.
  
  He made his final appearance in a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.
  
  Personal life and death
  Villechaize was married twice. He met his second wife Camille Hagen, an actress and stand-in double, on the set of the pilot for Fantasy Island.[2] They resided at a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) San Fernando Valley ranch which also was home to a menagerie of farm animals and pets.
  
  In 1983, for a television program That Teen Show which included messages directed at depressed and suicide-prone teenagers, Haywood Nelson, star of the sitcom What's Happening!!, interviewed Villechaize about his many suicide attempts. Villechaize said then that he had learned to love life.
  
  In the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.
  
  At the time of his suicide, Cartoon Network was in negotiations for him to co-star in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which was in pre-production at the time. Villechaize would have voiced Space Ghost's sidekick on the show.
  
  His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Point Fermin in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.[citation needed]
  
  Depictions in media
  In a March 2012 New York Times interview, Peter Dinklage revealed that he and Sacha Gervasi spent several years writing a script about Villechaize. Gervasi, a director and journalist, conducted a lengthy interview with Villechaize just prior to his suicide; according to Dinklage, "[a]fter he killed himself, Sacha realized Hervé's interview was a suicide note". The film, My Dinner with Hervé, which is based on the last few days of Villechaize's life, stars Dinklage in the title role, and premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018.
  
  Filmography

  Chappaqua (1966) as Little Person (uncredited)
  
  Maidstone (1970)
  The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) as Beppo
  The Last Stop (1972) as Deputy
  Greaser's Palace (1972) as Mr. Spitunia
  Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) as Bobo
  Seizure (1974) as The Spider
  Crazy Joe (1974) as Samson
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Nick Nack
  Hot Tomorrows (1977) as Alberict
  Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977–1983) as Tattoo
  The One and Only (1978) as Milton Miller
  
  Forbidden Zone (1980) as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
  Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Little Breather
  The Telephone (1988) as Freeway (voice)
  Two Moon Junction (1988) as Smiley

  

  Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993)

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  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films its final scene with OO7 and Wai Lin staying undercover.

  
  

  
  2008: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel By Royal Command.

  https://www.youngbond.com/by-royal-command/

  
  by Charlie Higson
  
  By Royal Command is the fifth book in the bestselling Young Bond series.
  
  Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school – and his country.
  
  Life for James Bond will never be the same again. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful – and dangerous – girl by his side. Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy throws him once more into the path of death.

  MEET THE CHARACTERS
  

  Roan Power
  Roan is the intriguing new boys’ maid at Eton. Tough, witty and beautiful, this Irish girl soon makes an impression on James and his school-friends…
  
  “‘You must be James Bond,’ she said, looking him up and down with a raised eyebrow. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you.’
  
  ‘And you must be Roan, the new maid,’ said James. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you, too.’
  
  And his messmates hadn’t been making it up.
  
  Roan was indeed a lot prettier than the previous maid. She was about the same height as James, but two or three years older, with wavy black hair and skin as white and smooth as a marble statue. Her huge eyes were deep and dark, but they shone with an intense brightness, like polished glass. Her wide mouth was curled up at one end in a slight, mocking smile.”

  

  Graf von Schlick
  The thrill-seeking Graf von Schlick enjoys fast cars and the cool air of his native Austria. But when the young James Bond encounters him after a tumble in the mountains, he is sure that all is not as it seems. Has James seen the Graf somewhere before..?
  
  “As James and Andrew walked back towards their taxi James glanced up to see the Graf von Schlick emerging through the big brass-studded double doors of the clinic. He was wearing a long, black, astrakhan overcoat that came almost down to the ground, black leather gloves and a black fur hat covering his bald head. Once more he stared at James with that disconcerting blank look.”

  

  Dandy O’Keefe
  A friend of the new boys’ maid Roan, James is both drawn to and suspicious of the roguish and charming Dandy…
  
  “The young man was as handsome as Roan was beautiful, with a glamorous mop of wavy fair hair and dark blue, almost black eyes. He was dressed in an olive green moleskin suit with a bright orange waistcoat and a red scarf knotted loosely around his throat.
  
  Roan stretched out on her back on the blanket and called over to James.
  
  ‘This is my pal, Dandy O’Keefe,’ she said. ‘Us paddies need to stick together, you know. We’re a long way from home.'”

  

  
  2011: India Railways Minister puts some controls on BOND 23 filming.

  

  Bond train stunt change ordered
  Railways minister says rooftop travel is illegal and cannot be encouraged

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  https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/bond-train-stunt-change-ordered-1.861010

  September 04, 2011 00:00 AFP

  
  A crowded passenger train in Patna, capital of the state of Bihar. A terse message from the Congress Party and indications that the Trinamool Congress could be dropped from India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has jolted the maverick West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
  Image Credit: Reuters

  New Delhi: India has asked the makers of the latest James Bond movie to change a stunt showing people travelling on train rooftops, saying it would depict the state-run railway in a poor light.
  
  "Rooftop travel is illegal in India and it cannot be encouraged," Indian Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Saturday. Many Indians seek to avoid paying for tickets by travelling on the roof.
  
  Daniel Craig, who plays the world's most famous secret agent, was supposed to jump from a motorcycle onto a moving train roof packed with travellers and then leap to another equally crowded train top, according to the script.
  
  Trivedi said 007 could perform the stunt - but only if there is nobody on the top of the trains. "Rooftop travel will not be shown," he said, adding that the government has also stipulated the filming "has to be safe and passengers should not be inconvenienced".
  
  The railways minister said that the original movie script could have led to an impression that rooftop travel was common in India. "There are many trains in India and not all trains have people travelling on the rooftops," he argued.
  
  The makers of the as-yet untitled movie - known currently only as "Bond 23" - had agreed to the conditions, Trivedi said in a telephone interview.
  
  The film is to be directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes and will be shot in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and the resort state of Goa. Shooting is planned for February and March next year and the film is slated for release in November 2012.

  Trivedi also said he is plugging for the James Bond character to be used to promote the sprawling Indian Railways, still the country's main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from new private airlines.
  
  "I have proposed that the spy says something like: 'Indian Railways is as strong as James Bond.' It is my suggestion," the cabinet-ranking minister said.

  The state-run railway is the country's largest single employer, with 1.4 million workers, and runs 11,000 trains carrying 19 million passengers daily.
  
  The world's second-largest railway offers some adventurous journeys where trains chug through arid deserts, snowy Himalayan regions and across rickety British-built bridges spanning mountain gorges and fast-flowing rivers.
  
  The last time a Bond film was on location in India was for the 1983 hit Octopussy, with actor Roger Moore in the lead role. It was shot in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
  
  "Bond 23" is one of nearly two dozen films by foreign studios which have been cleared to shoot in India recently. Others include a film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Trishna, British director Michael Winterbottom's version of Thomas Hardy's classic Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi.

  2015: Ocula magazine interviews Taryn Simon on her book Birds of the West Indies and other subjects.

  

  Ocula Conversation
  Taryn Simon in Conversation

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  https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/taryn-simon/

  Gagosian Gallery 4 September 2015

  
  Taryn Simon. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

  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.
  
  Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies takes the name and format of the original Bond’s taxonomy to present an inventory of women, weapons, and vehicles—recurring elements in the James Bond films between 1962 and 2012. This visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition. It also underlines how they function as essential accessories to the myth of the seductive, powerful, and invincible Western male.
  
  Maintaining the illusion upon which the Bond narrative relies––an ageless hero with an inexhaustible supply of state-of-the-art weaponry, luxury vehicles, and desirable women—requires a constant process of replacement. A contract exists between the Bond franchise and the viewer that binds both to a set of expectations. In servicing the desires of the consumer, fantasy becomes formula, and repetition is required; viewers demand something new, but only if it remains essentially the same.
  
  Ten of the fifty-seven women Simon approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula. Simon represents each missing woman by reinserting the black rectangle cut from the mat to frame their would-be portrait, covering and at the same time representing their absence.
  
  Simon’s film Honey Ryder (Nikki van der Zyl), 1962 documents the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, Nikki van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.
  
  The sequencing of women, weapons, and vehicles in Birds of the West Indies was determined using a random number generator called the Mersenne Twister, used for statistical simulations and in computer programming languages. By randomly reconfiguring the ordering of the works, Birds of the West Indies continuously mimics a longing for endless reiteration unaffected by time and history.
  
  How would you describe your work, since it’s clearly not just photography?
  I look at my work as interdisciplinary—not existing in any specific envelope. These days most are working in interdisciplinary forms where things are less easily defined or clear. I find titles limiting and a means of control.
  
  I’m interested in spaces of confusion and disorientation in which subjects and thoughts mutate and transform—and are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to picture. I try to look at those amorphous spaces through something actual—looking at abstraction through something understandable as opposed to through abstraction itself. I’m interested in the questions that keep you up at night – what we are doing here, if there’s purpose—but driving at the unanswerable through something that appears tangible.
  
  Why are photography and text both so integral to your work?
  I use photography and writing to highlight an invisible space between the two – a space governed by interpretation, translation and manipulation. These two poles are constantly fighting each other and supporting each other and sometimes doing both at the same time. I do find myself more interested in the camera as a machine, allowing me to inventory certain subjects that are then made into works through their relationship to text, space, font and graphic design.
  
  You were studying science before entering into art. Does that indicate something about your interests?
  I am often skating a line between science and aesthetics. Science itself gives the appearance of authority or a clear answer. Graphic design plays a big role in rendering this sense of certainty to the public. I like toying with that relationship (between answers and data and the way in which they are conveyed), and creating systems that appear absolute, but are in fact just personal creations.
  
  Both my father and grandfather were obsessed data collectors and photographers. I was introduced to the larger world, the construction of facts and fantasy, and photographic production through their frequent slideshows. My father recorded histories, peoples and landscapes in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Thailand, and Pakistan… And brought me the visual evidence coupled with his other-worldly narratives. My grandfather’s perspective was the opposite—a macro view of the stars, nebulas, insects, minerals and plants. He spent years grinding glass to perfect a lens for his telescope. Both had closets stacked with slides. And both identified every photograph with a considerable amount of collected information.

  
  Taryn Simon, Shark Brain Control Device, 1983. From the series Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 

  Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
  Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

  How do you select the subjects or themes of your works?

  The works are often guided by things I've been introduced to in the previous project—peripherally or directly. Or they are a rejection or move against previous work. They start simply, and then unfold into complicated programs. I read a lot – and often cull ideas from discoveries in both fact and fiction.
  
  For example, in A Living Man Declared Dead and other chapters, I tried to articulate certain systems, patterns, and codes through design and narrative. I travelled around the world researching and recording eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. I was exploring the unanswerable questions regarding fate and its relationship to chance, blood and circumstance. Its failures and rejections became a big part of the work. There are several empty portraits representing living members of a bloodline who could not be photographed for reasons including dengue fever, imprisonment, army service, and religious and cultural restrictions on gender. Some just refused because they didn’t want to be part of the narrative. In the end, the blanks establish a code of absence and presence. The stories themselves function as archetypal episodes from the past that are occurring now and will happen again. I was thinking about evolution and if we are in fact unfolding, or if we’re more like a skipping record—ghosts of the past and the future.
  
  For A Living Man…, you traveled to 18 countries over a four year period of time. Has your gender ever been a challenge in this context?
  Being a woman has been very difficult at times, and in others helpful. There were a number of difficulties to avoid along the way, something always happened: flash floods, typhoons, landslides, carjacking’s, authorities who didn’t want me photographing certain subjects. We traveled with a ton of gear to accommodate our moving studio which made us uncomfortably visible and indiscreet. In Tanzania for example, our equipment was seized by corrupt authorities that demanded 80,000 dollars for its return. I was there to photograph the bloodline of the director of the Tanzania Albino Society. Albinos in Tanzania are hunted by human poachers who trade their skin, limbs and organs for large sums of money to witchdoctors who promote the belief that albinos have magical powers. This is a subject the authorities are not keen to publicize.
  
  Your work seems very brave. Are you?
  It’s quite the opposite. I’m in fact very fearful and many of the projects are about confronting those intimidating and haunting lines.
  
  What are you up to now?
  I just completed a project for the Venice Biennale on the paperwork of power and the ways in which human kind exerts the illusion of control over events and the natural world. I'm currently working on a film project in Russia and a large scale performance piece for the Park Avenue Armory in New York and ArtAngel in London. —[O]

  Birds of the West Indies/ / A Short Interview for Photo Shanghai

  How did you begin your research for Birds of the West Indies? Did you watch all the James Bond films?
  
  
The films were watched chronologically in a binge. And then reviewed again and again. The entire studio was involved.

  
  Taryn Simon, 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7, 1969. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.
  
Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
  Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

  Did your understanding of the Bond franchise change after watching and re-watching all the films for this project?

  The films journey through economics, race, gender politics, weapons development and proliferation, branding, identity, global politics, aesthetics in such a radical form. They truly stand as a powerful record of culture's role in all of these categories. Interestingly I was told that MI6 at one point looked to Bond for weapons development ideas as opposed to the other way around. Perhaps that's the way it goes: imagination and fantasy first. 


  
  Will you be in the movie theater for the next James Bond film?

  Front and center.


  
  How were you able to photograph the elements of the James Bond film franchise? What was the hardest thing to find?

  The weapons and vehicles came from different sites throughout Europe and America: the official Bond archive, auction houses, private collectors, museums. The earlier items presented more obstacles because the value of the franchise was not yet established and elements of the films weren't preserved as they are today. I'm always interested in archives that develop before value is established - and then how they mutate once it is recognized -- the collision of low and high art. 

  
  Did any one of the interchangeable elements of the Bond franchise have particular meaning for you?

  As a metaphor, I always liked the Hasselblad signature gun in which a camera is a weapon of death.
  


  Were you concerned about the project’s viability when some of the actresses refused to be photographed? What made you decide to indicate these actresses’ absences with “blank” images?

  When Ursula Andress declined to participate, I was sure the project was in jeopardy of failure. She is THE bond girl. I became obsessed with getting her image and history, and in that process discovered that the voice of her character in Dr. No is dubbed by an uncredited English woman named Nikki Van der Zyl. Ursula's character, Honey Ryder, is a fragmented creation; pieced together to compel. In the end Ursula's absence was a blessing. I created a film in which Nikki, who had always been invisible in the Bond universe, reads the complete lines of Ursula's character - and becomes visible. 

  
  Nikki was the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, she provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. For me, she underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.
  
  

The empty portraits disrupt the archive and present obstacles I couldn't transcend. In my work, I'm often associated with access to difficult and complex areas and subjects. I assumed this project would be a break from those difficulties. Surprisingly, it was even more difficult. Ten of the fifty-seven women I approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula.

  
  Taryn Simon, Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson), 1981. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.
  
Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
  Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

  
How do you view the portraits of the women in relation to your ongoing exploration of reality of fiction in the history of your work?
  
I see the women's portraits existing in this strange liminal space between reality and fiction. Or a space where both reality and fiction disappear and a third space opens up that is neither. The mark of a bond girl is so indelible; there is often no room for another reality or identity. Their poses and clothing play a part in that push/pull. —[O]
  
  Interview supplied by Photo Shanghai

  
  
  

  
  2018: Smithsonian Snapshot features Bond, James Bond - Ornithologist. A mouthful.

  

  Bond, James Bond: Ornithologist

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/bond-james-bond-ornithologist

  September 4, 2018

  
  Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of the first edition, Birds of the West Indies.
  Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

  The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007), whose action-packed exploits and international adventures are depicted in books and movies, got his name because it was the most bland name his creator Ian Fleming had ever heard.
  
  Fleming said he chose the name because he “wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument…” Bond’s first appearance was in Casino Royale, published in 1953.
  
  Fleming borrowed the name from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, an avid bird watcher, had loved in his youth.
  
  Pictured above is the Cuban tody from the Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of Birds of the West Indies. In addition, the Smithsonian collections contain bird specimens that the real James Bond collected in the Caribbean; they are housed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Division of Birds.
  
  Read more about James Bond, Ian Fleming and bird books at Smithsonian Libraries’ “Unbound” blog.
  https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/06/13/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WzUOJNJKiUk

  

  2018: James Bond 007 on Twitter celebrates National Wildlife Day.

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1036941607243796484

  
  
  https://x.com/i/status/1036941607243796484

  
  2019: Shanghai China enjoys Secret Cinema Casino Royale.

  

  Brit Event Movie Experience Secret Cinema Launches
  In China With ‘Casino Royale’ Show

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://deadline.com/2019/09/secret-cinema-casino-royale-china-1202710124/

  By Andreas Wiseman | International Editor | @AndreasWiseman | September 3, 2019

  
  Secret Cinema

  Secret Cinema, the popular British event cinema brand, is expanding to China, marking the company’s debut on the international stage.
  
  In collaboration with Chinese firm SMG Live, Secret Cinema will launch with its current immersive show Casino Royale in Shanghai on November 23 of this year.
  
  Secret Cinema was founded in the UK in 2007. The immersive cinema screenings include theatrical elements and fancy dress as audiences are assigned a character and become part of the show. The label has run more than 70 productions.
  
  Secret Cinema Presents Casino Royale opened in London this year and has drawn in around 120,000 customers so far; making it the company’s biggest production to date.
  
  SMG is one of the largest media and entertainment businesses in China and its performing arts and live entertainment division, SMG Live has curated hundreds of productions. SMG Live will have the exclusive license to present Secret Cinema’s production of Casino Royale in Shanghai.
  
  “Fabien Riggall, Creator and Chief Creative Officer of Secret Cinema commented, “I created Secret Cinema in 2007 to reinvent the cinema experience allowing participants to live inside the movies. It’s always been my dream to bring it to other parts of the world and now with the support of an amazing team we are able to make this happen. China is the largest film market in the world with a rich cinematic heritage with some of my favourite films, Chen Kaige’s Farewell my Concubine, Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It’s been amazing to see Secret Cinema become a cultural phenomenon here in the UK, and we’ve loved thrilling audiences with small and large scale productions of cult cinematic classics such as Back to the Future, Blade Runner and Star Wars. SMG Live’s heritage and production experience makes it the perfect partner to bring the concept of Secret Cinema to life in China.”
  
  Max Alexander, CEO, Secret CInema comments, “Expanding internationally is incredibly complicated even with a traditional theatre show and Secret Cinema is a unique product with added complexities. We can’t just hire a purpose built venue, we need a venue that can house a production of this magnitude and then we have to build it. Having worked with SMG Live in the past I know them to be China’s most ambitious, experienced and skilled producers of live entertainment and a perfect partner for Secret Cinema. This is the first collaboration of many with SMG Live with whom we look forward to a long and creatively rich relationship. Secret Cinema is an incredible entertainment experience and we look forward to bringing it to more markets around the world as we embark on our international growth strategy”.

  
  
  

  
  2022: Taryn Simon - Birds of the West Indies at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York.
  Continues through 23 October.

  

  

  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. “Birds of the West Indies is installed as part of the Garden’s For the Birds exhibition and program series.
  
  https://www.bbg.org/img/uploads/lightbox/_tile_thumbnail_regular/SIMON-2014-(ed-4)-United-Kingdom-Birds-of-the-West-Indies.jpg
  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.
  
  https://www.bbg.org/img/uploads/lightbox/_tile_thumbnail_regular/SIMON-2014-(ed-4)-Morocco-Birds-of-the-West-Indies.jpg
  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.
  
  FOR THE BIRDS PRESENTING SPONSOR
  Warby Parker