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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 14 Posts: 14,884

  November 14th
  
  1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428) Yaroslav Horak,artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
  https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976
  
  
  
  JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 1) -
  Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish 1969 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no16-1969/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 16: “Octopussy” (1969)
  ”Undervandsdøden” [The Underwater Death]
  

  
  Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no42-1977/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 42: “Octopussy” (1977)
  "Undervandsdøden" [The death underwater]
  
  
  
  
  

  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's films OO7 and more cowbell.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
  1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
  (Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 44 of 65 - "A DeRange Mind" in New York.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - A DeRange Mind

  Season 1 - Episode 44
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807090/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  When an UFO is shot down by a military close to New York, the craft is taken for analysis to a military research laboratory.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Barbella (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 44 - A DeRange Mind
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
  2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, and the US.

  

  

  2008: 007 Quantum (French title) and Quantum of Solace released in Canada.
  2008: 007 Quantum released in Mexico.
  2008: Định Mức Khuây Khỏa (Comfort Rate) released in Vietnam.

  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  James Bond Origin #3

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244703011
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Declan Shalvey
  Cover C: Kev Walker
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q

  "CHAPTER THREE: ROCKET SEA"
  The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues, by superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!
  Aboard a Royal Navy submarine, Lieutenant James Bond and crew encounter deadly German warships and bombers! Can the British crew keep their nerve and evade...or will they sink into a watery grave?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 15 Posts: 14,884

  November 15th
  
  1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 15 March 2021 at age 81--The Philippines.)

  

  Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’
  Star, Dies at 81

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/yaphet-kotto-dead.html

  Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

  
  Yaphet Kotto with Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film “Alien,” in which he played
  a member of a spaceship crew doing battle with an extraterrestrial creature.
  Credit...20th Century Fox, via Associated Press

  By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

  Yaphet Kotto, a versatile actor whose many roles included the wisecracking engineer in the hit science-fiction film “Alien,” the villainous adversary in the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and a police lieutenant on the long-running television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday near Manila. He was 81.

  His agent, Ryan Goldhar, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Kotto had lived in the Philippines for some years.
  
  Mr. Kotto worked mostly in the theater for the first decade or so of his career. His bodily size made him a dominating figure in any sort of role, though it tended to bring him parts as a heavy.
  
  “I’m always called powerful, bulky or imposing,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1993, when “Homicide: Life on the Street” made its debut. “Or they say I fill up a room. I’m a 200-pound, 6-foot 3-inch Black guy. And I think I have this image of a monster. It’s very difficult.”

  
  Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

  In 1969, still largely unknown, he had the formidable task of replacing James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope,” Howard Sackler’s drama based on the life of the boxer Jack Johnson. Mr. Jones had won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the lead character, who in the play is named Jack Jefferson. Mr. Kotto stepped into the role as the production entered its second year, and Clive Barnes, taking a fresh look at the show in The New York Times, was impressed.
  
  “I had never even heard of the Hollywood-based Mr. Kotto,” he wrote. “But luckily someone had, for this is inspired casting, and Mr. Kotto will never be unheard-of again.”
  
  It was two decades before he returned to the stage, and again it was as something of a shadow to Mr. Jones, who had received another Tony playing Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. Mr. Kotto tackled the role in 1990 at Arena Stage in Washington, again drawing raves.
  
  “Setting the tone throughout is the thunderous Mr. Kotto,” Hap Erstein wrote of that production in The Washington Times, “a caged animal pacing the backyard, a bullying brute more expressive with his hands than his words. Away from the theater for many years pursuing film and TV work, he makes a scorching return to the stage.”

  
  Mr. Kotto with Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
  It was Mr. Moore’s first film as Bond, and one of Mr. Kotto’s best-known movie roles.
  Credit...MGM/UA Entertainment

  In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.
  Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.
  
  “The combination punch for my career of ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Alien’ was like wham, bam!” he told The Canadian Press in 2003, adding that those wildly different roles showcased his versatility. “I think the only other person who has a combination like that is Harrison Ford.”

  
  Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born on Nov. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. His father, he told The Baltimore Jewish Times in 1995, was from Cameroon and jumped ship as a merchant seaman, ending up in New York; his mother, he said, was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father had adopted Judaism, and his mother was Roman Catholic. The couple separated when Mr. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
  
  Mr. Kotto said his career path was set by a fateful trip to the movies.
  
  “One day, when I was about 16, I walked into this theater showing ‘On the Waterfront’ and I saw Marlon Brando for the first time,” he told The Orange County Register of California in 1994. “I couldn’t speak. It was like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It was like someone had crashed cymbals in both ears. I was blasted out of the theater. I knew from that moment that I wanted to be an actor.”
  
  The actress Judy Holliday saw him in a stage production and became a mentor, he said, “moving me around like furniture, telling me what to eat.” He said his knowledge of Yiddish earned him his only other Broadway credit, in the 1965 production of “The Zulu and the Zayda,” a comedy about a Jewish grandfather who settles in South Africa.
  
  Mr. Kotto received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan strongman, in the 1977 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He appeared opposite Robert Redford in the prison movie “Brubaker” in 1980.
  
  In the 1988 action-comedy “Midnight Run,” starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, he played the F.B.I. agent Alonzo Mosely, whose stolen ID becomes fodder for a running joke. And in “The Running Man,” a dystopian 1987 thriller set in what was then the near future (2019), Mr. Kotto played a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fascist version of America.
  
  Mr. Kotto married three times, Mr. Goldhar said. He and Thessa Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, married in 1998. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.
  
  Mr. Kotto was always conscious of the image projected by his roles, something that led him to reject certain ones.
  
  “I was offered a part in ‘Glory’” — a 1989 movie about a Black company commanded by a white office in the Civil War — “which I refused, because for me it purported to be about a Black experience and was really about the white guy,” he told The Globe and Mail of Canada in 1994. “Do you see me taking orders like that? I couldn’t see myself in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ either, playing the chauffeur, taking it from some old lady. Some other actor may be able to put that on and make it look real, but I couldn’t do it.”
  
  “Homicide,” a police series that was innovative for its time, was a career high point, running for seven seasons. But things started off badly, Mr. Kotto said.
  
  “The script was so good and the camera work was so different than what I was used to that I forgot my lines,” he told The Register. “I was really embarrassed. That had never happened to me before.
  
  “But the other actors came over to me and told me the same thing had happened to them.”
  
  Mike Ives contributed reporting.
  
  Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries Desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. @genznyt
  

  

  Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

  Actor | Writer | Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001433/
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.

  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 45 of 65 - "Catching the Wave."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Catching the Wave

  Season 1 - Episode 45
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807096/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Jaws and Nick Nack prepare to gatecrash a secret meeting of the Government Technology Committee.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Baron Von Skarin (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 45 - Catching the Wave
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

  
  
  
  

  
  2004: Video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent released in Canada.

  

  

  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422335/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Join the other side of the law, as you play a rogue MI6 Agent, who becomes involved in a bitter gang war between Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger.

  Directed by Ken Harsha ... (in-game cinematics)
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Danny Bilson
  Paul De Meo
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Enn Reitel ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Jeannie Elias ... Pussy Galore (voice)
  Christopher Lee ... Francisco Scaramanga (voice)
  Jenya Lano ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
  Carlos Alazraqui ... Dr. Julius No (voice)
  Jason Carter ... James Bond / 007 (voice)
  Gideon Emery ... Number One (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) (voice)
  André Sogliuzzo ... (voice)
  Robert Wu ... (voice)
  Ron Yuan ... (voice)
  Danny Mann ... (voice)
  Brian George ... (voice)
  Linda Wang ... Hong Kong 1 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice)
  Peter Kwong ... Hong Kong 1 (voice)
  Tim Dang ... Triad Informant (voice) (as Timothy Dang)
  Greg Ellis ... (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Zach Goldsmith ... (voice)
  Kirsten Kairos ... Hologram Hostess (voice) (as Kristen Kairos)
  Nolan North ... (voice)
  Robin Sachs ... (voice)
  Toonyun ... Hong Kong 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice) (as Shirley To)

  HQ James Bond: Goldeneye:Rogue Agent Introduction
  
  
  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Teaser Trailer
  

  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.
  
  2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

  

  2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper
  

  2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
  2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.
  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: November 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/15

  As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: Go!Tekken Wiki projects future animated product James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die. (?!?)

  

  

  James Bond 007: An Italian
  Mission to Live it and Die

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://gotekken.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_007:_An_Italian_Mission_to_Live_it_and_Die

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die
  Directed by Guy Richard
  Screenplay by Guy Richard, Tessa Selier, Jackie Sanderman
  Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming
  
  Starring
  Michael Caine
  Lea Seydoux
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet
  Ben Whislaw
  Naomie Harris
  Mike Nawrocki
  Jack Dylan Grazer
  Emma Berman
  Josh Gad
  Tony Hale
  Alec Baldwin
  
  Music by Dan Romer (score), Pharrell Williams (songs)
  Cinematography by Sanne De Beer (lighting), Rinske Hermus (camera)
  Edited by Mandy van Zuylen
  
  Production Company
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Eon Productions
  Goanimate Animation
  
  Distributed by
  Warner Bros Pictures (North America and Asia)
  20th Century Studios (International)
  
  Release Date
  November 15, 2024 (United Kingdom)
  November 22, 2024 (United States)
  
  Running Time 105 minutes
  Country United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States
  Budget $115 million (€110 million)

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is 2024 upcoming computer-animated spy comedy film and the 27th film to the James Bond film series, it will be directed by Guy Richard, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eon Productions and Goanimate Animation and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures, the production will be started in December 2021 and will take nearly 4 years until September 2024, Michael Caine will do the role of James Bond, along with the new voice actors including Mike Nawrocki, Emma Berman, Josh Gad, Jack Dylan Grazer, Tony Hale and Alec Baldwin, and with Ben Whislaw reprising the role of James Bond's Quartermaster named Q, Léa Seydoux and Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as the roles of Madeleine Swann and his daughter Mathilde, and with Naomie Harris returning to voice the role of Eve Moneypenny, with the estimated production budget of $115 million, James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is first very-expensive animated film of James Bond movie series that is ever made and the third Goanimate Animation film to feature the computer-animated on-screen logo with the squirrel mascot Scrat, since the fifth Andrew Orozco movie and Cartoons: King's Games: The Movie.

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die will have its world premiere at De Bodde Film Festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on November 13, 2024, and was scheduled to be released direct-to-streaming on Goanimate Plus on November 22, 2024, it was originally intended for the worldwide theatrical release, but the fears from the worldwide people over the infections rises caused by B.A. 4 and B.A. 5, resulted in the change.
  
  Premise
  ..and to Genova, where Nonos Spectre will kill people with the pepper spray gun, to stop the plan to kill the people, James Bond, Giulia Marcovaldo, Larry Bond and Steve will work together to save Italy and prevent it from getting people killed and died by the pepper spray.
  
  Cast
  For the international voice casts, see James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die international voice casts.

  Michael Caine as James Bond, a british MI6 agent, Mathilde's father and Giulia's uncle.
  Lea Seydoux as Madaline Swann, James Bond's girlfriend.
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as Mathilde Swann, Madaline and Bond's daughter.
  Mike Nawrocki as Larry Bond, a british-accent cucumber agent from the MI6.
  Jack Dylan Grazer as Alberto Scorfano, Giulia's adopted brother from Portorosso.
  Josh Gad as Steve, a smart-knoweldge bird and Mathilde's bird friend.
  Emma Berman as Giulia Marcovaldo, a 13-year old girl from italy who is the fan of James Bond.
  Marco Barricelli as Massimo Marcovaldo, an Italian fisherman, cook, and Giulia's father.
  Alec Bladwin as Noros Spectre, a half human and half stork villain who is the co-founder of Spectre.
  Phil Vischer as Dr. Zorro, Noros's nervous tomato assistant.
  Guy Richard as Almir Piegon, a piegon with indian accent.
  Brian Hull as Sudsan Piegon, a piegon who is Almir's brother.
  Wesley Selier as Casino Worker #2, Crash the Hand, and the cheese-headed bean boy.

  Production
  Animation and Compositing
  The animation was created by Goanimate Mac Guff in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, the models of the italian towns of Portorosso, Rome and Genova, and the MI6 headquarters in London, England was created after building for 4 months with Autodesk Maya, while the characters James Bond and Larry Bond was created with Blender, a dutch animation software that the Goanimate Mac Guff animation-studio and other animation studios used it, and to composit the movie, the compositing team used the Nuke software.
  
  Release
  Theatrical and streaming
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on September 15, 2023, but due to the production not starting until November 2021, it was delayed by a year to July 8, 2024, and then on April 3, 2024, the film got delayed again, this time to November 22, 2024, due to the rapid spread of the Deltacron variant in the US and Canada.
  
  On October 4, 2024, it was announced that the film would have its world premiere at the De Bodde Film Festival Eindhoven on November 6, 2024.
  
  Marketing
  To promote the film's theatrical release, Goanimate Animation signed the sereval deals with the marketing companies like Tokon Toys (for the non-dangerously guns) and Spreadshirt (for the clothes and home accessories like t-shirts, pants, socks, caps, mugs, coasters, drink bottles, fabric bags and iphone cases for IPhone 7, 8 and X).
  
  Music
  Score soundtrack
  No. Title Composer
  1 Gunbarrel/A Life in Portorosso | Dan Romer | 2:35
  2 James Bond, You're Back! | Dan Romer | 1:32
  3 The Pepper Spray Gun/A Fight in Rome | Dan Romer | 1:25
  4 For Once in My Life Guy Richard 2:50
  
  Omitted tracks
  For Once in My Life by Stewie Wonder (played in the end credits scene)
  
  Reception
  Box office
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was projected to gross $95-120 million in the opening weekend in the United States and Canada.
  
  Critical response
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film had its rating of 95% and had the audience score of 84%, with an average rating of 7.30/10. The website's critics consensus reads ''James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is one of the best James Bond movies, and of course the first animated movie in the movie series that the fans was hoped, for the action, the spy missions, the comedy and friendship, and animated look of James Bond was surprised for the James Bond fans''.
  
  Sequel
  After beginning development of the first James Bond 007 animated film, Goanimate Animation is also developing the sequel to James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die titled James Bond 007: No Far from Italy, the planned sequel is slated for theatrical release on July 17, 2026, and Micheal Caine was interested about reprising the role of James Bond in the animated sequel.

  Gallery
  Textless promotional posters
  
  
  
  Promotional posters
  Untitled James Bond animated movie reveal poster
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 15 Posts: 14,884

  November 16th
  
  1942: Joanna Pettet is born--Westminster, London.
  
  1968: Yildirim Harekati (Lightning Strike) released in Turkey.

  
  
  
  

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  1986: The Los Angeles Times reports only minor changes to the finished script for The Living Daylights since the casting of Timothy Dalton.
  
  1995: L'oeil de feu (The Eye of Fire) released in Canada.

  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Malaysia.
  1999: Tomorrow Never Dies video game released in the UK and US.

  

  

  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Video Game | 1999 | T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253823/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  As suave secret agent 007, employ your cunning wit and high-tech gadgets to survive multiple levels of espionage based on exciting situations from the blockbuster film.

  Directed by
  William Botti
  Writing Credits
  Flint Dille ... (written by)
  Ian Fleming ... (character)
  William Botti
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Stephen Critchlow ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Adam Blackwood ... James Bond (voice)
  Andrew Bicknell ... Stamper / Bartender (voice)
  Miles Anderson ... Dr. Kaufmann / Isagura / Q (voice)
  Ève Karpf ... Paris Carver (voice)
  Larissa Murray ... Wai Lin (voice)
  Steve Hope Wynne ... Elliot Carver (voice)
  Caron Pascoe ... M (voice)
  Nicolas Read ... Additional Voices (voice)
  
  Music by
  David Alexander ... (as Sonic Mayhem)
  Howard Ulyate

  
  Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 Trailer
  
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies (Video Game) Medley
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, and Syria.

  
  

  2006: James Bond: Casino Royale released in Slovakia.
  2006: Казино Рояль released in Russia.
  2006: 007: Казино Рояль released in Ukraine.

  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall premieres in Sydney, Australia, at the State Theatre.

  
  
  
  
  

  2012: The International Spy Museum in Washington DC opens its Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains exhibit.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: OO7 Legends video game released in the US.

  

  

  OO7 Legends
  Video Game | 2012 | T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171704/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Play as James Bond in this first person shooter adventure. You will encounter the most memorable nemeses of 007 spanning from Goldfinger to Skyfall.

  Directed by
  John Dower ... (film segment director) (voice director)
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Bruce Feirstein
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Timothy Watson ... James Bond / Auric Goldfinger / Drax Henchman (voice)
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Rory Kinnear ... Bill Tanner (voice)
  Demetri Goritsas ... Felix Leiter (voice)
  Naomie Harris ... Eve (voice)
  Natasha Little ... Pussy Galore (voice)
  Orion Lee ... Mr. Ling / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Glenn Wrage ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice)
  Nicola Walker ... Teresa di Vicenzo (voice)
  Anthony Edridge ... Marc Ange Draco (voice) (as Antony Edridge)
  Roberto Davide ... Franz Sanchez / Additional Voices (voice) (as Rob David)
  Carey Lowell ... Pam Bouvier (voice)
  Vincent Carmichael ... Alfonso / Additional Voices (voice)
  Madalena Alberto ... Jinx Johnson / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Toby Stephens ... Gustav Graves (voice)
  Jason Wong ... Zao / Additional Voices (voice)
  Jane Perry ... Holly Goodhead / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Michael Lonsdale ... Hugo Drax (voice)
  Gyuri Sarossy ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nicholas Boulton ... Aston Martin GPS (voice)
  Jen Bradshaw ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Joseph May ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Joseph Balderrama ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Lauren Dagley ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Luis Soto ... Additional Voices (voice)
  James Goode ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nick Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice)
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  2020: Adrian Harrington Ltd. publish Ian Fleming and James Bond by Jon Gilbert.

  

  Ian Fleming and James Bond. Manuscripts in The Schøyen Collection
  Series 32. [Silver]
  GILBERT, Jon (born 1972).

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  1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan.
  (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

  

  Teru Shimada

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

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

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

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

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

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

  
  
  
  Tokyo Joe
  
  King Rat
  
  
  YOLT
  

  
  1936: John Campbell Wells is born--Ashford, Kent, England.
  (He dies 11 January 1998 at age 61--London, England.)

  

  John Wells (satirist)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_(satirist)

  John Wells
  
  From John Wells and the Three Wise Men
  (produced by Open Media in 1988)

  Born - John Campbell Wells, 17 November 1936, Ashford, Kent, England
  Died 11 January 1998 (aged 61), London, England
  Occupation Actor, writer and satirist

  John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.
  
  Early life
  The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
  
  Career
  Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).
  
  In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
  
  Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement. He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.
  
  In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[3] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.
  
  In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.
  
  Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.
  
  Personal life
  From 1982, Wells was the second husband of Teresa Chancellor (daughter of Sir Christopher and sister of Alexander). His daughter Dolly is an actress.
  
  Wells died of cancer in London in 1998 at the age of 61.
  
  Filmography

  Title Year Role Notes
  Casino Royale 1967 'Q's' assistant
  The Bobo 1967 Pompadour Major Domo
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968 Honorable Gavin Hopton
  
  Every Home Should Have One 1970 Tolworth
  Rentadick 1972 Owltruss
  
  For Your Eyes Only 1981 Denis Thatcher
  Bullshot 1983 American Scientist
  Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984 Sir Evelyn Blount
  Revolution 1985 Corty
  Consuming Passions 1988 Dr. Forrester
  
  Princess Caraboo 1994 Reverend Hunt
  Gulliver's Travels 1996 Flimnap the Treasurer TV Mini-Series, 1 episode

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1966: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (Sophie Marceau) is born--Paris, France.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.
  
  1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

  
  
  

  1995: The New York Times reviews GoldenEye as "That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond".

  

  FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist,
  Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-that-sexist-misogynist-dinosaur-james-bond.html

  By Janet Maslin | Nov. 17, 1995
  GoldenEye
  Directed by Martin Campbell
  Action, Adventure, Thriller
  PG-13
  2h 10m

  "Goldeneye" unveils Pierce Brosnan as the coffee-bar James Bond: mild, fashionable and nice in a very 90's way. Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs.
  
  Today's Bond does have the Internet and a credit sequence resembling a pretentious music video. And he has a girlfriend with advanced computer skills (Izabella Scorupco, a deep-voiced model who looks as good as Mr. Brosnan, which is saying a lot). Still, he often seems adrift. And this film is missing such basics as the cold war and the James Bond theme music. The absence of the latter is sure to throw some audience members into a two-hour Pavlovian twitch.
  
  Judi Dench, as the first woman to play his supervisor, M, is on hand to call Bond "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" so that you won't have to. But the real problem is not a matter of Bond's antediluvian quirks. It's that "Goldeneye" bears no stamp of Ian Fleming beyond its title, which was the name of his Jamaican home. This film's screenplay, by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein from a story by Michael France, features only flat repartee and fairly desperate homages to the Fleming style.
  
  And so many other action films have borrowed from the Bond formula in the 33 (yes!) years since "Dr. No" that this one has a hard time looking special. A plane, a motorcycle, a huge dam, a bungee jumper and nerve gas all feature in the opening sequence, yet it still lacks the novelty that starts the best Bond films off with a bang. And Mr. Brosnan, who makes a fabulous clothing model and has mastered the one dramatic mode this role requires of him (wry), is not at his most believable during action scenes. When Bond rides in a tank through St. Petersburg during a scenery-crunching chase scene, Michael Dukakis comes to mind.
  
  Clinging desperately to the idea of Russian villainy for old times' sake, the plot involves Russian gangsters trying to exploit a secret space-based weapons program to sabotage financial markets in the West. And its chief villain is 006 (Sean Bean), who was once Bond's colleague and now calls him "Her Majesty's loyal terrier." Beyond this, it's enough to note that character actors include Robbie Coltrane as a Russian hood and Joe Don Baker as a C.I.A. man, and that settings can be drably industrial unless the film is pointedly visiting Switzerland or the Caribbean, where it practically screams about the scenery.
  
  Though 006 has the poor form to bait Bond about his past, wondering theatrically whether all those vodka martinis can silence the screams of all the men Bond has killed, most of "Goldeneye" is relatively restrained. Martin Campbell, who previously directed the sci-fi prison film "No Escape" with Ray Liotta, supplies shootouts and explosions at reliable intervals, and without any special frills. The film's gaudiest feature is a vicious Russian named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), who bites and claws her lovers and has a way of confusing sex with death. Her nutcracker thighs, not to mention her name, suggest that the Bond babe is as ready as 007 was for a timely overhaul.
  
  In the product-placement department, BMW, Perrier and the becoming Bond wardrobe are all advertised. "Goldeneye" is as much a merchandising event as it is a wishfully nostalgic movie.
  
  "Goldeneye" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes several sexual episodes, along with double-entendres that either draw smirks or die trying.

  GOLDENEYE
  Directed by Martin Campbell; written by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein, based on a story by Michael France and characters created by Ian Fleming; director of photography, Phil Meheux; edited by Terry Rawlings; music by Eric Serra, with "Goldeneye" theme written by Bono and the Edge; production designer, Peter Lamont; produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli; released by United Artists. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
  
  WITH: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky) and Judi Dench ( M )
  
  Nov. 17, 1995, Section C, Page 17 of the National edition with the headline: FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond.

  
  

  
  2002: Frank McCarthy dies at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.
  (Born 30 March 1924--New York City, New York.)

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-mccarthy&pid=640960

  

  Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.
  
  Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.
  
  He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

  
  Witness he.
  
  
  http://www.artnet.com/artists/frank-mccarthy/
  
  Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.
  
  Thunderball
  
  
  
  
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  
  Colonel Sun paperback
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  
  Dr. No
  
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  
  Goldfinger
  
  
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  
  The Great Escape
  
  
  The Dirty Dozen
  
  
  
  Danger: Diabolik
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

  
  

  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
  2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

  

  2006: 皇家赌场 (Huángjiā dǔchǎng; Royal Casino) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2015: MTV proposes GoldenEye as the best party game of all time.

  

  'Goldeneye' Is Still The Best Party
  Game Of All Time

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mtv.com/news/pw30bt/goldeneye-party-game

  Slappers only, please.
  By Victoria McNally
  November 17, 2015 / 1:35 PM
  
  On November 17, 1995, Pierce Brosnan first stepped into the role of James Bond for the iconic film "Goldeneye," and with it the franchise was forever changed -- we got the first Bond movie with CGI in it, the first to feature Judi Dench as M, and the first to ever be sold on DVD.
  
  But for many kids growing up back then in the '90s, the true legacy of "Goldeneye" has nothing to the movie at all (you know, because some of our parents wouldn't let us watch it *cough*). Instead, when we hear the title "Goldeneye" we think of a completely different medium altogether -- video games, because "Goldeneye 007" for the Nintendo 64 was one of the best games of all time.
  
  
  
  Although it was released two years after the film, "Goldeneye 007" was miles above what you'd expect from the average movie tie-in game -- it ended up becoming the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all time, and drastically influenced the future of first person shooters for years to come. You like "Call Of Duty" or "Halo?" You've got this game to thank.
  
  And "Goldeneye" also had one of the most awesome, most hilarious, most fun multiplayer modes ever, where you and your friends could kill each other over and over again until one of you came out the victor. Pretty awesome for a game that wasn't even going to have multiplayer in the first place, right?
  
  In case you haven't picked up this amazing game in a few years, let's take a walk down memory lane and remind you why it got brought out at every sleepover, after school hangout session, and nostalgia college party you've ever been to:
  
  First of all, it let you play all kinds of characters from across the Bond franchise, even the Bond Girls.
  
  
  
  Trust me, you notice that stuff when you're a little girl who always gets stuck playing Peach in "Mario Kart 64." And even if you weren't worried about gender breakdown, there were plenty of awesome characters to play, especially if you or your friend managed to unlock everyone by beating story mode. Grace Jones as Mayday from "A View To Kill?" Yes please! Oddjob from "Goldfinger?" Sign me up!
  
  It also let you play with up to three of your friends for maximum carnage.
  
  
  
  Connecting up with your friends from across the country via headsets and WiFi is fun and all, but admit it: you miss having to share a screen and a couch with a bunch of your buds.
  
  It was so, so satisfying to see your competitors go down in a haze of red.
  
  
  
  
  You weren't supposed to cheat when you were playing local multiplayer, but it was just so wonderful seeing somebody's side of the screen go bloody after you'd hunted them down.
  
  Speaking of which, you got to handle all those amazing weapons.
  
  
  
  
  Sure, sometimes you accidentally ran right past them on the floor because you weren't sure of where you were going, and that was always pretty embarrassing. But once you got your hands on a rocket launcher, watch out! (No seriously, watch out, because if you fired that thing too close to your opponent then you ended up going red, too.)
  
  Or with just one weapon at a time, if you wanted it to get real weird.
  
  
  
  
  Anyone could win a round with a wide variety of weapons at their disposal, but what happened when you were all stuck using throwing knives or proximity mines? That's where things got truly interesting, and either one of you would emerge victorious as a strategic mastermind of mines, or you'd all die in a chaotic mess. Probably both, actually.
  
  Or, even better, no weapons.
  
  
  
  
  If you have not played a 4-person session of "Goldeneye" in "Slappers Only" mode, then you have not lived. It's the single funniest thing that has ever been programmed into a video game, and you'd always die so many times simply because you were too busy laughing to pay attention to who was smacking you in the face.
  
  And then there was the infamous Big Head mode.
  
  
  
  
  Honestly, you didn't even need to be in multiplayer to enjoy the magic of the Big Head cheat -- you could just take turns in first person story mode and have just as much fun together, if not more. Look at all those giant furry Russian hats! Pure bliss.

  
  

  
  2020: Hero Collector publishes 50 Greatest Bond Cars, Ben Robinson, editor.

  

  50 Greatest Bond Cars

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/Article/50-greatest-bond-cars

  Out next week from Hero Collector, the ultimate resource on James Bond cars, 50 Greatest Bond Cars.
  
  Here's a selection of the lavish contents you can find in this new fully illustrated hardback book.
  
  50 legendary cars from 25 James Bond movies. The vehicles featured in this book were driven by – or pursued – the world's most celebrated spy. Stylish, fast, and especially equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets, each detailed graphic shows the key features that set them among the world's greatest cars. Includes the cars from No Time to Die movie starring Daniel Craig and Rami Malek.

  007 has driven some of the most exciting and iconic cars in movie history and he has been involved in some of the greatest car chases ever filmed. Famously, many of Bond’s cars have been modified by Q Branch, who fitted them with everything from machine guns, to bulletproof screens, mines, lasers and ejector seats. Some of Q’s cars can even turn into submarines or become invisible!
  
  Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, Ford Mustang, BMW Z8, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and many many more, with facts and figures plus their key scenes and stunts, these are the cars that made Bond history.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Movieweb talks to British James Bond and the American Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://movieweb.com/james-bond-movies-thanksgiving/

  By Richard Fink | 17 November 2022
  
  The James Bond movies have typically been released around Thanksgiving weekend, so what makes a UK spy great to watch on an a American holiday?

  

  Thanksgiving weekend has often been a big time for movies, as the five-day holiday weekend gives for more chances for families that have gathered together to celebrate the holiday the chance to go out to the movies. There have been certain staples over the years. Disney has often opened an animated feature film over the holiday weekend. Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games all used the week before Thanksgiving to achieve incredible box office numbers. Yet one franchise has been a staple of the holiday season without anyone really noticing: James Bond.
  
  James Bond has been a box office draw since his debut film in 1962's Dr. No. The super spy has been the star of 25 official films from Eon Pictures. The franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and is in a transition period between Bond actors. With all the James Bond movies on Prime Video now, and for those needing to get in the Thanksgiving spirit, this is how and why Bond is such a staple of the Thanksgiving holiday season.

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

  James Bond Release History
  From Dr. No in 1962 until The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974, the James Bond films typically were released during the holiday season around December as it was one of the most profitable times to release a movie. However, in 1975 the release of Jaws shifted the release calendar to make the summer movie season the most profitable time for big budget fair which was only solidified in 1977 with the release of Star Wars. 1977 saw the first James Bond movie released in the summer, The Spy Who Loved Me. The next seven Bond movies were released during the summer movie season.
  
  After a seven-year hiatus, Bond returned with Goldeneye in 1995 and the film was given a November 17 release date, the Friday before Thanksgiving. Goldeneye was a box office hit and set the Pierce Brosnan era as a staple of the holiday season. While Tomorrow Never Dies got a December release date (opening the same day as Titanic), both The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day were released the Friday before Thanksgiving.

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

  Craig Bond Films Bring the Franchise to New Heights
  Daniel Craig marked not only a new James Bond but a new continuity. However, many rules of the franchise remained the same, and one of them was that prime November release date. Casino Royale opened on November 17, 2006. While the movie did not take the number one spot at the box office (it was beaten by Happy Feet), Casino Royale held exceptionally well the following weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday and ended up bringing $167 million domestic and $605 million worldwide.
  
  The following three Daniel Craig James Bond movies, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre opened on the second weekend of November as the weekend before Thanksgiving had since become the main weekend for YA novel adaptations. Quantum of Solace may not have received the positive reviews that Casino Royale did, but it did see a slight increase at the domestic box office. Skyfall on the other hand shattered all expectations to become the highest grossing Bond movie and the first in the franchise to cross $1 billion worldwide. Spectre may not have performed at the level of Skyfall but $880 million worldwide is still nothing to be ashamed of.
  
  The tradition did break with the release of No Time To Die but not for lack of trying. The studio original set it for release in November 2019 but was delayed following original director Danny Boyle's departure. The film was set for April 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 and the studio set it for release on November 12, 2020 in the UK and Thanksgiving weekend of November 25, 2020 in the United States. However, the movie was delayed multiple times and finally was released in theaters on October 8, 2021.

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

  Why Does Bond Work With The Holiday Season
  It is odd that a franchise focused on a British secret agent would feel so right with a uniquely American holiday. Yet there is something about Bond movies that just feel right at home in November. Typically, the movies open a few weeks earlier in the UK, but in the United States, Bond has been a part of the holiday season for two decades. Part of the reason could be the cold London setting fits the weather of the holiday season while the unique locations offer a break from the traditional November weather that feels like an escape.
  
  Yet another major aspect would be the target audience. Bond is an old franchise, now celebrating 60 years. A good portion of the audience who went to go see the original films as kids are now old enough to not only be parents but grandparents and even great-grandparents. It is a franchise that has grown up with its audience, catering to an older movie going crowd that may not go out to the movies as much but will go for a Bond film.
  
  That also has the impact of making them generational films, as they will go with younger relatives and, pun intended, form a bond watching them. It becomes a shared experience, one that can become associated with the holiday. Everyone coming together to enjoy a meal and then afterwards deciding to go out to a movie together and James Bond can appeal to all ages. Thanksgiving just feels like it is missing something when a James Bond movie isn't around.

  

  
  2022: The International Spy Museum hosts Superspy Science with author Kathryn Harkup.

  

  Superspy Science with
  Kathryn Harkup
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/superspy-science-with-kathryn-harkup/2022-11-17/

  Virtual Event
  Thursday, November 17, 2022

  Could our favorite Bond villains actually achieve world domination? Were the huge variety of weapons and technology in Bond’s arsenal ever actually developed? Could 007 really escape all those close shaves with his life intact?
  
  The world of 007 is known for its guns, gadgets, and grandiose schemes to take over the world, but would any of these weapons, tech, or plots make it in the real world? With her new book, Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond, international bestselling author, Dr. Kathryn Harkup has set out to explore how science and technology intersect with the world of Bond. From Dr. No to Skyfall, Harkup takes on the really difficult questions such as: Will being covered in gold paint really kill you? Can you run across crocodiles? Can you sled in a cello case? And how do suicide pills work and can you survive taking one? Join us for a conversation with Harkup about some of our favorite Bond weapons, technologies, and tactics and just how rooted in reality they are.
  
  Following the conversation, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.

  Auto-generated closed captioning will be available for this program.
  
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  November 17th
  
  1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan.
  (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

  

  Teru Shimada

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

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

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

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

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

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

  
  
  
  Tokyo Joe
  
  King Rat
  
  
  YOLT
  

  
  1936: John Campbell Wells is born--Ashford, Kent, England.
  (He dies 11 January 1998 at age 61--London, England.)

  

  John Wells (satirist)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_(satirist)

  John Wells
  
  From John Wells and the Three Wise Men
  (produced by Open Media in 1988)

  Born - John Campbell Wells, 17 November 1936, Ashford, Kent, England
  Died 11 January 1998 (aged 61), London, England
  Occupation Actor, writer and satirist

  John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.
  
  Early life
  The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
  
  Career
  Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).
  
  In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
  
  Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement. He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.
  
  In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[3] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.
  
  In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.
  
  Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.
  
  Personal life
  From 1982, Wells was the second husband of Teresa Chancellor (daughter of Sir Christopher and sister of Alexander). His daughter Dolly is an actress.
  
  Wells died of cancer in London in 1998 at the age of 61.
  
  Filmography

  Title Year Role Notes
  Casino Royale 1967 'Q's' assistant
  The Bobo 1967 Pompadour Major Domo
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968 Honorable Gavin Hopton
  
  Every Home Should Have One 1970 Tolworth
  Rentadick 1972 Owltruss
  
  For Your Eyes Only 1981 Denis Thatcher
  Bullshot 1983 American Scientist
  Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984 Sir Evelyn Blount
  Revolution 1985 Corty
  Consuming Passions 1988 Dr. Forrester
  
  Princess Caraboo 1994 Reverend Hunt
  Gulliver's Travels 1996 Flimnap the Treasurer TV Mini-Series, 1 episode

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1966: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (Sophie Marceau) is born--Paris, France.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.
  
  1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

  
  
  

  1995: The New York Times reviews GoldenEye as "That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond".

  

  FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist,
  Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-that-sexist-misogynist-dinosaur-james-bond.html

  By Janet Maslin | Nov. 17, 1995
  GoldenEye
  Directed by Martin Campbell
  Action, Adventure, Thriller
  PG-13
  2h 10m

  "Goldeneye" unveils Pierce Brosnan as the coffee-bar James Bond: mild, fashionable and nice in a very 90's way. Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs.
  
  Today's Bond does have the Internet and a credit sequence resembling a pretentious music video. And he has a girlfriend with advanced computer skills (Izabella Scorupco, a deep-voiced model who looks as good as Mr. Brosnan, which is saying a lot). Still, he often seems adrift. And this film is missing such basics as the cold war and the James Bond theme music. The absence of the latter is sure to throw some audience members into a two-hour Pavlovian twitch.
  
  Judi Dench, as the first woman to play his supervisor, M, is on hand to call Bond "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" so that you won't have to. But the real problem is not a matter of Bond's antediluvian quirks. It's that "Goldeneye" bears no stamp of Ian Fleming beyond its title, which was the name of his Jamaican home. This film's screenplay, by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein from a story by Michael France, features only flat repartee and fairly desperate homages to the Fleming style.
  
  And so many other action films have borrowed from the Bond formula in the 33 (yes!) years since "Dr. No" that this one has a hard time looking special. A plane, a motorcycle, a huge dam, a bungee jumper and nerve gas all feature in the opening sequence, yet it still lacks the novelty that starts the best Bond films off with a bang. And Mr. Brosnan, who makes a fabulous clothing model and has mastered the one dramatic mode this role requires of him (wry), is not at his most believable during action scenes. When Bond rides in a tank through St. Petersburg during a scenery-crunching chase scene, Michael Dukakis comes to mind.
  
  Clinging desperately to the idea of Russian villainy for old times' sake, the plot involves Russian gangsters trying to exploit a secret space-based weapons program to sabotage financial markets in the West. And its chief villain is 006 (Sean Bean), who was once Bond's colleague and now calls him "Her Majesty's loyal terrier." Beyond this, it's enough to note that character actors include Robbie Coltrane as a Russian hood and Joe Don Baker as a C.I.A. man, and that settings can be drably industrial unless the film is pointedly visiting Switzerland or the Caribbean, where it practically screams about the scenery.
  
  Though 006 has the poor form to bait Bond about his past, wondering theatrically whether all those vodka martinis can silence the screams of all the men Bond has killed, most of "Goldeneye" is relatively restrained. Martin Campbell, who previously directed the sci-fi prison film "No Escape" with Ray Liotta, supplies shootouts and explosions at reliable intervals, and without any special frills. The film's gaudiest feature is a vicious Russian named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), who bites and claws her lovers and has a way of confusing sex with death. Her nutcracker thighs, not to mention her name, suggest that the Bond babe is as ready as 007 was for a timely overhaul.
  
  In the product-placement department, BMW, Perrier and the becoming Bond wardrobe are all advertised. "Goldeneye" is as much a merchandising event as it is a wishfully nostalgic movie.
  
  "Goldeneye" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes several sexual episodes, along with double-entendres that either draw smirks or die trying.

  GOLDENEYE
  Directed by Martin Campbell; written by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein, based on a story by Michael France and characters created by Ian Fleming; director of photography, Phil Meheux; edited by Terry Rawlings; music by Eric Serra, with "Goldeneye" theme written by Bono and the Edge; production designer, Peter Lamont; produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli; released by United Artists. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
  
  WITH: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky) and Judi Dench ( M )
  
  Nov. 17, 1995, Section C, Page 17 of the National edition with the headline: FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond.

  
  

  
  2002: Frank McCarthy dies at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.
  (Born 30 March 1924--New York City, New York.)

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-mccarthy&pid=640960

  

  Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.
  
  Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.
  
  He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

  
  Witness he.
  
  
  http://www.artnet.com/artists/frank-mccarthy/
  
  Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.
  
  Thunderball
  
  
  
  
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  
  Colonel Sun paperback
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  
  Dr. No
  
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  
  Goldfinger
  
  
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  
  The Great Escape
  
  
  The Dirty Dozen
  
  
  
  Danger: Diabolik
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

  
  

  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
  2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

  

  2006: 皇家赌场 (Huángjiā dǔchǎng; Royal Casino) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2015: MTV proposes GoldenEye as the best party game of all time.

  

  'Goldeneye' Is Still The Best Party
  Game Of All Time

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mtv.com/news/pw30bt/goldeneye-party-game

  Slappers only, please.
  By Victoria McNally
  November 17, 2015 / 1:35 PM
  
  On November 17, 1995, Pierce Brosnan first stepped into the role of James Bond for the iconic film "Goldeneye," and with it the franchise was forever changed -- we got the first Bond movie with CGI in it, the first to feature Judi Dench as M, and the first to ever be sold on DVD.
  
  But for many kids growing up back then in the '90s, the true legacy of "Goldeneye" has nothing to the movie at all (you know, because some of our parents wouldn't let us watch it *cough*). Instead, when we hear the title "Goldeneye" we think of a completely different medium altogether -- video games, because "Goldeneye 007" for the Nintendo 64 was one of the best games of all time.
  
  
  
  Although it was released two years after the film, "Goldeneye 007" was miles above what you'd expect from the average movie tie-in game -- it ended up becoming the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all time, and drastically influenced the future of first person shooters for years to come. You like "Call Of Duty" or "Halo?" You've got this game to thank.
  
  And "Goldeneye" also had one of the most awesome, most hilarious, most fun multiplayer modes ever, where you and your friends could kill each other over and over again until one of you came out the victor. Pretty awesome for a game that wasn't even going to have multiplayer in the first place, right?
  
  In case you haven't picked up this amazing game in a few years, let's take a walk down memory lane and remind you why it got brought out at every sleepover, after school hangout session, and nostalgia college party you've ever been to:
  
  First of all, it let you play all kinds of characters from across the Bond franchise, even the Bond Girls.
  
  
  
  Trust me, you notice that stuff when you're a little girl who always gets stuck playing Peach in "Mario Kart 64." And even if you weren't worried about gender breakdown, there were plenty of awesome characters to play, especially if you or your friend managed to unlock everyone by beating story mode. Grace Jones as Mayday from "A View To Kill?" Yes please! Oddjob from "Goldfinger?" Sign me up!
  
  It also let you play with up to three of your friends for maximum carnage.
  
  
  
  Connecting up with your friends from across the country via headsets and WiFi is fun and all, but admit it: you miss having to share a screen and a couch with a bunch of your buds.
  
  It was so, so satisfying to see your competitors go down in a haze of red.
  
  
  
  
  You weren't supposed to cheat when you were playing local multiplayer, but it was just so wonderful seeing somebody's side of the screen go bloody after you'd hunted them down.
  
  Speaking of which, you got to handle all those amazing weapons.
  
  
  
  
  Sure, sometimes you accidentally ran right past them on the floor because you weren't sure of where you were going, and that was always pretty embarrassing. But once you got your hands on a rocket launcher, watch out! (No seriously, watch out, because if you fired that thing too close to your opponent then you ended up going red, too.)
  
  Or with just one weapon at a time, if you wanted it to get real weird.
  
  
  
  
  Anyone could win a round with a wide variety of weapons at their disposal, but what happened when you were all stuck using throwing knives or proximity mines? That's where things got truly interesting, and either one of you would emerge victorious as a strategic mastermind of mines, or you'd all die in a chaotic mess. Probably both, actually.
  
  Or, even better, no weapons.
  
  
  
  
  If you have not played a 4-person session of "Goldeneye" in "Slappers Only" mode, then you have not lived. It's the single funniest thing that has ever been programmed into a video game, and you'd always die so many times simply because you were too busy laughing to pay attention to who was smacking you in the face.
  
  And then there was the infamous Big Head mode.
  
  
  
  
  Honestly, you didn't even need to be in multiplayer to enjoy the magic of the Big Head cheat -- you could just take turns in first person story mode and have just as much fun together, if not more. Look at all those giant furry Russian hats! Pure bliss.

  
  

  
  2020: Hero Collector publishes 50 Greatest Bond Cars, Ben Robinson, editor.

  

  50 Greatest Bond Cars

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/Article/50-greatest-bond-cars

  Out next week from Hero Collector, the ultimate resource on James Bond cars, 50 Greatest Bond Cars.
  
  Here's a selection of the lavish contents you can find in this new fully illustrated hardback book.
  
  50 legendary cars from 25 James Bond movies. The vehicles featured in this book were driven by – or pursued – the world's most celebrated spy. Stylish, fast, and especially equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets, each detailed graphic shows the key features that set them among the world's greatest cars. Includes the cars from No Time to Die movie starring Daniel Craig and Rami Malek.

  007 has driven some of the most exciting and iconic cars in movie history and he has been involved in some of the greatest car chases ever filmed. Famously, many of Bond’s cars have been modified by Q Branch, who fitted them with everything from machine guns, to bulletproof screens, mines, lasers and ejector seats. Some of Q’s cars can even turn into submarines or become invisible!
  
  Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, Ford Mustang, BMW Z8, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and many many more, with facts and figures plus their key scenes and stunts, these are the cars that made Bond history.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Movieweb talks to British James Bond and the American Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://movieweb.com/james-bond-movies-thanksgiving/

  By Richard Fink | 17 November 2022
  
  The James Bond movies have typically been released around Thanksgiving weekend, so what makes a UK spy great to watch on an a American holiday?

  

  Thanksgiving weekend has often been a big time for movies, as the five-day holiday weekend gives for more chances for families that have gathered together to celebrate the holiday the chance to go out to the movies. There have been certain staples over the years. Disney has often opened an animated feature film over the holiday weekend. Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games all used the week before Thanksgiving to achieve incredible box office numbers. Yet one franchise has been a staple of the holiday season without anyone really noticing: James Bond.
  
  James Bond has been a box office draw since his debut film in 1962's Dr. No. The super spy has been the star of 25 official films from Eon Pictures. The franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and is in a transition period between Bond actors. With all the James Bond movies on Prime Video now, and for those needing to get in the Thanksgiving spirit, this is how and why Bond is such a staple of the Thanksgiving holiday season.

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

  James Bond Release History
  From Dr. No in 1962 until The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974, the James Bond films typically were released during the holiday season around December as it was one of the most profitable times to release a movie. However, in 1975 the release of Jaws shifted the release calendar to make the summer movie season the most profitable time for big budget fair which was only solidified in 1977 with the release of Star Wars. 1977 saw the first James Bond movie released in the summer, The Spy Who Loved Me. The next seven Bond movies were released during the summer movie season.
  
  After a seven-year hiatus, Bond returned with Goldeneye in 1995 and the film was given a November 17 release date, the Friday before Thanksgiving. Goldeneye was a box office hit and set the Pierce Brosnan era as a staple of the holiday season. While Tomorrow Never Dies got a December release date (opening the same day as Titanic), both The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day were released the Friday before Thanksgiving.

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

  Craig Bond Films Bring the Franchise to New Heights
  Daniel Craig marked not only a new James Bond but a new continuity. However, many rules of the franchise remained the same, and one of them was that prime November release date. Casino Royale opened on November 17, 2006. While the movie did not take the number one spot at the box office (it was beaten by Happy Feet), Casino Royale held exceptionally well the following weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday and ended up bringing $167 million domestic and $605 million worldwide.
  
  The following three Daniel Craig James Bond movies, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre opened on the second weekend of November as the weekend before Thanksgiving had since become the main weekend for YA novel adaptations. Quantum of Solace may not have received the positive reviews that Casino Royale did, but it did see a slight increase at the domestic box office. Skyfall on the other hand shattered all expectations to become the highest grossing Bond movie and the first in the franchise to cross $1 billion worldwide. Spectre may not have performed at the level of Skyfall but $880 million worldwide is still nothing to be ashamed of.
  
  The tradition did break with the release of No Time To Die but not for lack of trying. The studio original set it for release in November 2019 but was delayed following original director Danny Boyle's departure. The film was set for April 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 and the studio set it for release on November 12, 2020 in the UK and Thanksgiving weekend of November 25, 2020 in the United States. However, the movie was delayed multiple times and finally was released in theaters on October 8, 2021.

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

  Why Does Bond Work With The Holiday Season
  It is odd that a franchise focused on a British secret agent would feel so right with a uniquely American holiday. Yet there is something about Bond movies that just feel right at home in November. Typically, the movies open a few weeks earlier in the UK, but in the United States, Bond has been a part of the holiday season for two decades. Part of the reason could be the cold London setting fits the weather of the holiday season while the unique locations offer a break from the traditional November weather that feels like an escape.
  
  Yet another major aspect would be the target audience. Bond is an old franchise, now celebrating 60 years. A good portion of the audience who went to go see the original films as kids are now old enough to not only be parents but grandparents and even great-grandparents. It is a franchise that has grown up with its audience, catering to an older movie going crowd that may not go out to the movies as much but will go for a Bond film.
  
  That also has the impact of making them generational films, as they will go with younger relatives and, pun intended, form a bond watching them. It becomes a shared experience, one that can become associated with the holiday. Everyone coming together to enjoy a meal and then afterwards deciding to go out to a movie together and James Bond can appeal to all ages. Thanksgiving just feels like it is missing something when a James Bond movie isn't around.

  

  
  2022: The International Spy Museum hosts Superspy Science with author Kathryn Harkup.

  

  Superspy Science with
  Kathryn Harkup
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/superspy-science-with-kathryn-harkup/2022-11-17/

  Virtual Event
  Thursday, November 17, 2022

  Could our favorite Bond villains actually achieve world domination? Were the huge variety of weapons and technology in Bond’s arsenal ever actually developed? Could 007 really escape all those close shaves with his life intact?
  
  The world of 007 is known for its guns, gadgets, and grandiose schemes to take over the world, but would any of these weapons, tech, or plots make it in the real world? With her new book, Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond, international bestselling author, Dr. Kathryn Harkup has set out to explore how science and technology intersect with the world of Bond. From Dr. No to Skyfall, Harkup takes on the really difficult questions such as: Will being covered in gold paint really kill you? Can you run across crocodiles? Can you sled in a cello case? And how do suicide pills work and can you survive taking one? Join us for a conversation with Harkup about some of our favorite Bond weapons, technologies, and tactics and just how rooted in reality they are.
  
  Following the conversation, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.

  Auto-generated closed captioning will be available for this program.
  
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  November 17th
  
  1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan.
  (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

  

  Teru Shimada

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

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

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

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

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

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

  
  
  
  Tokyo Joe
  
  King Rat
  
  
  YOLT
  

  
  1936: John Campbell Wells is born--Ashford, Kent, England.
  (He dies 11 January 1998 at age 61--London, England.)

  

  John Wells (satirist)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_(satirist)

  John Wells
  
  From John Wells and the Three Wise Men
  (produced by Open Media in 1988)

  Born - John Campbell Wells, 17 November 1936, Ashford, Kent, England
  Died 11 January 1998 (aged 61), London, England
  Occupation Actor, writer and satirist

  John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.
  
  Early life
  The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
  
  Career
  Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).
  
  In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
  
  Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement. He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.
  
  In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[3] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.
  
  In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.
  
  Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.
  
  Personal life
  From 1982, Wells was the second husband of Teresa Chancellor (daughter of Sir Christopher and sister of Alexander). His daughter Dolly is an actress.
  
  Wells died of cancer in London in 1998 at the age of 61.
  
  Filmography

  Title Year Role Notes
  Casino Royale 1967 'Q's' assistant
  The Bobo 1967 Pompadour Major Domo
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968 Honorable Gavin Hopton
  
  Every Home Should Have One 1970 Tolworth
  Rentadick 1972 Owltruss
  
  For Your Eyes Only 1981 Denis Thatcher
  Bullshot 1983 American Scientist
  Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984 Sir Evelyn Blount
  Revolution 1985 Corty
  Consuming Passions 1988 Dr. Forrester
  
  Princess Caraboo 1994 Reverend Hunt
  Gulliver's Travels 1996 Flimnap the Treasurer TV Mini-Series, 1 episode

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1966: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (Sophie Marceau) is born--Paris, France.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.
  
  1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

  
  
  

  1995: The New York Times reviews GoldenEye as "That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond".

  

  FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist,
  Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-that-sexist-misogynist-dinosaur-james-bond.html

  By Janet Maslin | Nov. 17, 1995
  GoldenEye
  Directed by Martin Campbell
  Action, Adventure, Thriller
  PG-13
  2h 10m

  "Goldeneye" unveils Pierce Brosnan as the coffee-bar James Bond: mild, fashionable and nice in a very 90's way. Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs.
  
  Today's Bond does have the Internet and a credit sequence resembling a pretentious music video. And he has a girlfriend with advanced computer skills (Izabella Scorupco, a deep-voiced model who looks as good as Mr. Brosnan, which is saying a lot). Still, he often seems adrift. And this film is missing such basics as the cold war and the James Bond theme music. The absence of the latter is sure to throw some audience members into a two-hour Pavlovian twitch.
  
  Judi Dench, as the first woman to play his supervisor, M, is on hand to call Bond "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" so that you won't have to. But the real problem is not a matter of Bond's antediluvian quirks. It's that "Goldeneye" bears no stamp of Ian Fleming beyond its title, which was the name of his Jamaican home. This film's screenplay, by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein from a story by Michael France, features only flat repartee and fairly desperate homages to the Fleming style.
  
  And so many other action films have borrowed from the Bond formula in the 33 (yes!) years since "Dr. No" that this one has a hard time looking special. A plane, a motorcycle, a huge dam, a bungee jumper and nerve gas all feature in the opening sequence, yet it still lacks the novelty that starts the best Bond films off with a bang. And Mr. Brosnan, who makes a fabulous clothing model and has mastered the one dramatic mode this role requires of him (wry), is not at his most believable during action scenes. When Bond rides in a tank through St. Petersburg during a scenery-crunching chase scene, Michael Dukakis comes to mind.
  
  Clinging desperately to the idea of Russian villainy for old times' sake, the plot involves Russian gangsters trying to exploit a secret space-based weapons program to sabotage financial markets in the West. And its chief villain is 006 (Sean Bean), who was once Bond's colleague and now calls him "Her Majesty's loyal terrier." Beyond this, it's enough to note that character actors include Robbie Coltrane as a Russian hood and Joe Don Baker as a C.I.A. man, and that settings can be drably industrial unless the film is pointedly visiting Switzerland or the Caribbean, where it practically screams about the scenery.
  
  Though 006 has the poor form to bait Bond about his past, wondering theatrically whether all those vodka martinis can silence the screams of all the men Bond has killed, most of "Goldeneye" is relatively restrained. Martin Campbell, who previously directed the sci-fi prison film "No Escape" with Ray Liotta, supplies shootouts and explosions at reliable intervals, and without any special frills. The film's gaudiest feature is a vicious Russian named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), who bites and claws her lovers and has a way of confusing sex with death. Her nutcracker thighs, not to mention her name, suggest that the Bond babe is as ready as 007 was for a timely overhaul.
  
  In the product-placement department, BMW, Perrier and the becoming Bond wardrobe are all advertised. "Goldeneye" is as much a merchandising event as it is a wishfully nostalgic movie.
  
  "Goldeneye" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes several sexual episodes, along with double-entendres that either draw smirks or die trying.

  GOLDENEYE
  Directed by Martin Campbell; written by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein, based on a story by Michael France and characters created by Ian Fleming; director of photography, Phil Meheux; edited by Terry Rawlings; music by Eric Serra, with "Goldeneye" theme written by Bono and the Edge; production designer, Peter Lamont; produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli; released by United Artists. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
  
  WITH: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky) and Judi Dench ( M )
  
  Nov. 17, 1995, Section C, Page 17 of the National edition with the headline: FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond.

  
  

  
  2002: Frank McCarthy dies at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.
  (Born 30 March 1924--New York City, New York.)

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-mccarthy&pid=640960

  

  Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.
  
  Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.
  
  He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

  
  Witness he.
  
  
  http://www.artnet.com/artists/frank-mccarthy/
  
  Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.
  
  Thunderball
  
  
  
  
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  
  Colonel Sun paperback
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  
  Dr. No
  
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  
  Goldfinger
  
  
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  
  The Great Escape
  
  
  The Dirty Dozen
  
  
  
  Danger: Diabolik
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

  
  

  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
  2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

  

  2006: 皇家赌场 (Huángjiā dǔchǎng; Royal Casino) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2015: MTV proposes GoldenEye as the best party game of all time.

  

  'Goldeneye' Is Still The Best Party
  Game Of All Time

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mtv.com/news/pw30bt/goldeneye-party-game

  Slappers only, please.
  By Victoria McNally
  November 17, 2015 / 1:35 PM
  
  On November 17, 1995, Pierce Brosnan first stepped into the role of James Bond for the iconic film "Goldeneye," and with it the franchise was forever changed -- we got the first Bond movie with CGI in it, the first to feature Judi Dench as M, and the first to ever be sold on DVD.
  
  But for many kids growing up back then in the '90s, the true legacy of "Goldeneye" has nothing to the movie at all (you know, because some of our parents wouldn't let us watch it *cough*). Instead, when we hear the title "Goldeneye" we think of a completely different medium altogether -- video games, because "Goldeneye 007" for the Nintendo 64 was one of the best games of all time.
  
  
  
  Although it was released two years after the film, "Goldeneye 007" was miles above what you'd expect from the average movie tie-in game -- it ended up becoming the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all time, and drastically influenced the future of first person shooters for years to come. You like "Call Of Duty" or "Halo?" You've got this game to thank.
  
  And "Goldeneye" also had one of the most awesome, most hilarious, most fun multiplayer modes ever, where you and your friends could kill each other over and over again until one of you came out the victor. Pretty awesome for a game that wasn't even going to have multiplayer in the first place, right?
  
  In case you haven't picked up this amazing game in a few years, let's take a walk down memory lane and remind you why it got brought out at every sleepover, after school hangout session, and nostalgia college party you've ever been to:
  
  First of all, it let you play all kinds of characters from across the Bond franchise, even the Bond Girls.
  
  
  
  Trust me, you notice that stuff when you're a little girl who always gets stuck playing Peach in "Mario Kart 64." And even if you weren't worried about gender breakdown, there were plenty of awesome characters to play, especially if you or your friend managed to unlock everyone by beating story mode. Grace Jones as Mayday from "A View To Kill?" Yes please! Oddjob from "Goldfinger?" Sign me up!
  
  It also let you play with up to three of your friends for maximum carnage.
  
  
  
  Connecting up with your friends from across the country via headsets and WiFi is fun and all, but admit it: you miss having to share a screen and a couch with a bunch of your buds.
  
  It was so, so satisfying to see your competitors go down in a haze of red.
  
  
  
  
  You weren't supposed to cheat when you were playing local multiplayer, but it was just so wonderful seeing somebody's side of the screen go bloody after you'd hunted them down.
  
  Speaking of which, you got to handle all those amazing weapons.
  
  
  
  
  Sure, sometimes you accidentally ran right past them on the floor because you weren't sure of where you were going, and that was always pretty embarrassing. But once you got your hands on a rocket launcher, watch out! (No seriously, watch out, because if you fired that thing too close to your opponent then you ended up going red, too.)
  
  Or with just one weapon at a time, if you wanted it to get real weird.
  
  
  
  
  Anyone could win a round with a wide variety of weapons at their disposal, but what happened when you were all stuck using throwing knives or proximity mines? That's where things got truly interesting, and either one of you would emerge victorious as a strategic mastermind of mines, or you'd all die in a chaotic mess. Probably both, actually.
  
  Or, even better, no weapons.
  
  
  
  
  If you have not played a 4-person session of "Goldeneye" in "Slappers Only" mode, then you have not lived. It's the single funniest thing that has ever been programmed into a video game, and you'd always die so many times simply because you were too busy laughing to pay attention to who was smacking you in the face.
  
  And then there was the infamous Big Head mode.
  
  
  
  
  Honestly, you didn't even need to be in multiplayer to enjoy the magic of the Big Head cheat -- you could just take turns in first person story mode and have just as much fun together, if not more. Look at all those giant furry Russian hats! Pure bliss.

  
  

  
  2020: Hero Collector publishes 50 Greatest Bond Cars, Ben Robinson, editor.

  

  50 Greatest Bond Cars

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/Article/50-greatest-bond-cars

  Out next week from Hero Collector, the ultimate resource on James Bond cars, 50 Greatest Bond Cars.
  
  Here's a selection of the lavish contents you can find in this new fully illustrated hardback book.
  
  50 legendary cars from 25 James Bond movies. The vehicles featured in this book were driven by – or pursued – the world's most celebrated spy. Stylish, fast, and especially equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets, each detailed graphic shows the key features that set them among the world's greatest cars. Includes the cars from No Time to Die movie starring Daniel Craig and Rami Malek.

  007 has driven some of the most exciting and iconic cars in movie history and he has been involved in some of the greatest car chases ever filmed. Famously, many of Bond’s cars have been modified by Q Branch, who fitted them with everything from machine guns, to bulletproof screens, mines, lasers and ejector seats. Some of Q’s cars can even turn into submarines or become invisible!
  
  Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, Ford Mustang, BMW Z8, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and many many more, with facts and figures plus their key scenes and stunts, these are the cars that made Bond history.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Movieweb talks to British James Bond and the American Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://movieweb.com/james-bond-movies-thanksgiving/

  By Richard Fink | 17 November 2022
  
  The James Bond movies have typically been released around Thanksgiving weekend, so what makes a UK spy great to watch on an a American holiday?

  

  Thanksgiving weekend has often been a big time for movies, as the five-day holiday weekend gives for more chances for families that have gathered together to celebrate the holiday the chance to go out to the movies. There have been certain staples over the years. Disney has often opened an animated feature film over the holiday weekend. Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games all used the week before Thanksgiving to achieve incredible box office numbers. Yet one franchise has been a staple of the holiday season without anyone really noticing: James Bond.
  
  James Bond has been a box office draw since his debut film in 1962's Dr. No. The super spy has been the star of 25 official films from Eon Pictures. The franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and is in a transition period between Bond actors. With all the James Bond movies on Prime Video now, and for those needing to get in the Thanksgiving spirit, this is how and why Bond is such a staple of the Thanksgiving holiday season.

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

  James Bond Release History
  From Dr. No in 1962 until The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974, the James Bond films typically were released during the holiday season around December as it was one of the most profitable times to release a movie. However, in 1975 the release of Jaws shifted the release calendar to make the summer movie season the most profitable time for big budget fair which was only solidified in 1977 with the release of Star Wars. 1977 saw the first James Bond movie released in the summer, The Spy Who Loved Me. The next seven Bond movies were released during the summer movie season.
  
  After a seven-year hiatus, Bond returned with Goldeneye in 1995 and the film was given a November 17 release date, the Friday before Thanksgiving. Goldeneye was a box office hit and set the Pierce Brosnan era as a staple of the holiday season. While Tomorrow Never Dies got a December release date (opening the same day as Titanic), both The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day were released the Friday before Thanksgiving.

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

  Craig Bond Films Bring the Franchise to New Heights
  Daniel Craig marked not only a new James Bond but a new continuity. However, many rules of the franchise remained the same, and one of them was that prime November release date. Casino Royale opened on November 17, 2006. While the movie did not take the number one spot at the box office (it was beaten by Happy Feet), Casino Royale held exceptionally well the following weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday and ended up bringing $167 million domestic and $605 million worldwide.
  
  The following three Daniel Craig James Bond movies, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre opened on the second weekend of November as the weekend before Thanksgiving had since become the main weekend for YA novel adaptations. Quantum of Solace may not have received the positive reviews that Casino Royale did, but it did see a slight increase at the domestic box office. Skyfall on the other hand shattered all expectations to become the highest grossing Bond movie and the first in the franchise to cross $1 billion worldwide. Spectre may not have performed at the level of Skyfall but $880 million worldwide is still nothing to be ashamed of.
  
  The tradition did break with the release of No Time To Die but not for lack of trying. The studio original set it for release in November 2019 but was delayed following original director Danny Boyle's departure. The film was set for April 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 and the studio set it for release on November 12, 2020 in the UK and Thanksgiving weekend of November 25, 2020 in the United States. However, the movie was delayed multiple times and finally was released in theaters on October 8, 2021.

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

  Why Does Bond Work With The Holiday Season
  It is odd that a franchise focused on a British secret agent would feel so right with a uniquely American holiday. Yet there is something about Bond movies that just feel right at home in November. Typically, the movies open a few weeks earlier in the UK, but in the United States, Bond has been a part of the holiday season for two decades. Part of the reason could be the cold London setting fits the weather of the holiday season while the unique locations offer a break from the traditional November weather that feels like an escape.
  
  Yet another major aspect would be the target audience. Bond is an old franchise, now celebrating 60 years. A good portion of the audience who went to go see the original films as kids are now old enough to not only be parents but grandparents and even great-grandparents. It is a franchise that has grown up with its audience, catering to an older movie going crowd that may not go out to the movies as much but will go for a Bond film.
  
  That also has the impact of making them generational films, as they will go with younger relatives and, pun intended, form a bond watching them. It becomes a shared experience, one that can become associated with the holiday. Everyone coming together to enjoy a meal and then afterwards deciding to go out to a movie together and James Bond can appeal to all ages. Thanksgiving just feels like it is missing something when a James Bond movie isn't around.

  

  
  2022: The International Spy Museum hosts Superspy Science with author Kathryn Harkup.

  

  Superspy Science with
  Kathryn Harkup
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/superspy-science-with-kathryn-harkup/2022-11-17/

  Virtual Event
  Thursday, November 17, 2022

  Could our favorite Bond villains actually achieve world domination? Were the huge variety of weapons and technology in Bond’s arsenal ever actually developed? Could 007 really escape all those close shaves with his life intact?
  
  The world of 007 is known for its guns, gadgets, and grandiose schemes to take over the world, but would any of these weapons, tech, or plots make it in the real world? With her new book, Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond, international bestselling author, Dr. Kathryn Harkup has set out to explore how science and technology intersect with the world of Bond. From Dr. No to Skyfall, Harkup takes on the really difficult questions such as: Will being covered in gold paint really kill you? Can you run across crocodiles? Can you sled in a cello case? And how do suicide pills work and can you survive taking one? Join us for a conversation with Harkup about some of our favorite Bond weapons, technologies, and tactics and just how rooted in reality they are.
  
  Following the conversation, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.

  Auto-generated closed captioning will be available for this program.
  
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  November 18th
  
  1928: Mickey Mouse is born in the film short Steamboat Willy.
  (Known as Topolino --Baby Mouse-- in Italy.)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie (7:22)
  

  
  1962: The Sunday Times prints the Ian Fleming piece "James Bond's Hardware. [The Guns of James Bond]".

  

  Lot 59 of 721:
  Two rare Ian Fleming appearances

  https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/442/lot/142155/Two-appearances-by-Ian-Fleming-in-The-Sunday-Times-Magazine

  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 infiltrating the volcano.

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  1974: Chelsea Records releases Lulu's single "The Man with the Golden Gun".

  
  

  
  1988: Licence to KIll principal photography finishes. (Started 18 July.)
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 46 of 65 - "Last of the Tooboos."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Last of the Tooboos

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807107/?ref_=ttep_ep46
  

  While visiting the London Zoo, James interrupts Skullcap during his theft of a rare animal, a tooboo, whose unusual enzymes Dr. Derange wants for himself.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  Music by
  Dennis C. Brown
  Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr Episode 46 - Last of the Tooboos
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  1999: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's novelization of The World Is Not Enough.

  

  THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
  
  Greed, revenge, world domination
  through the power of oil,
  high-tech terrorism . . Only
  some of the ingredients of this
  latest 007 adventure which
  begins outside the Guggenheim
  Museum in Bilbao, Spain and
  continues with a spectacular
  high-speed boat chase up the
  Thames and an avalanche in
  the Caucasus Mountains before
  Bond faces a murderous enemy
  in Baku and a potential nuclear
  explosion in Turkey.
  
  Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil
  tycoon, is murdered in an
  unprecedented bombing at the
  Secret Intelligence Service's
  London headquarters. M takes
  the attack personally and sends
  James Bond to what was once
  the USSR to protect King's
  heiress, his beautiful and fiery
  daughter Elektra. For the
  bombing is the work of "Renard",
  the cruel and cunning terrorist
  who once kidnapped Elektra King
  and held her to ransom.
  
  With nuclear weapons expert Dr
  Christmas Jones at his
  side, Bond travels to the Caspian
  Sea - where a former enemy
  becomes a formidable
  ally - before the final dramatic
  confrontation in the
  claustrophobic confines of
  a nuclear submarine beneath the
  surface of the Bosphorus.
  
  THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
  takes James Bond to new
  levels of danger, intrigue and
  non-stop action.
  

  
  RAYMOND BENSON
  is the author of HIGH TIME TO KILL,
  THE FACTS OD DEATH, ZERO MINUS
  TEN and the novelisation of the
  Bond film TOMORROW NEVER DIES.
  His first book, The James
  Bond Bedside Companion, was
  shortlisted for an Edgar Allan
  Poe Award for Best
  Biographical/Critical Work.
  A director of the Ian Fleming
  Foundation, he lives and works
  in the Chicago area.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day world premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2003: Michael Arnold Kamen dies at age 55--London, England.
  (Born 15 April 1948--New York City, New York.)

  

  Michael Kamen

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/21/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

  Driven classical and pop composer
  Friday 21 November 2003 01:00
  
  Michael Kamen, composer: born New York 15 April 1948; married Sandra Keenan (two daughters); died London 18 November 2003.
  
  The extraordinary musical career of Michael Kamen was a testament not only to his talent and driven ambition, but also to a ceaseless passion and energy for his chosen course in life: following the twin paths of classical and pop music, he seemingly effortlessly balanced work as a composer, collaborator, performer, orchestrator and producer.
  
  On one hand, he was the driving force behind such fantastically ambitious projects as the 1994 Great Music Experience at Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, in aid of Unesco, to which Kamen not only brought Bob Dylan together with an orchestra for the first time, but also composed and conducted an overture for 350 performers including a symphony orchestra, 200 Buddhist monks, 35 Kodo Japanese drummers, an ancient Chinese orchestra, the Irish folk group the Chieftains and an all-star rock band. Yet, he was also the co-composer of Bryan Adams' 1991 hit "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", a No 1 single in the UK for four months and for seven weeks in the United States. It was the biggest selling single in the history of A & M Records, and won Kamen one of several Grammy awards.

  The Adams' hit song, which many loved to hate, was taken from the soundtrack of Robin Hood: prince of thieves. The film world readily came to appreciate Kamen's abilities: he could write under pressure and he was fast - it took him just three weeks to come up with the soundtrack for The Three Musketeers in 1993 ("He thought visually," said the film producer Eric Fellner) and he wrote over 30 musical soundtracks, including those for all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series, for Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986), The Krays (1990), the James Bond film Licence To Kill (1989) and X-Men (2000); several of these soundtracks were Oscar-nominated.

  "He was a man of many parts, using a very wide brush," said his close friend David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. "He was about the most successful film writer in recent years. He had such a gift for a memorable tune, and a great gift for melody. He also had huge enthusiasm, and a compulsion to keep at it." Gilmour had considerable experience of Kamen's work method. At the instigation of the producer Bob Ezrin, Kamen was brought in to orchestrate the string sections of Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and subsequently moved to London from his native New York. In 1983 he co-produced Pink Floyd's The Final Cut album with the group. Kamen was an ebullient, bouncing bear of a man, with a gregarious personality.
  
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  Chris Salewicz

  

  Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004383/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  [Licence to Kill (Suite), Michael Kamen, 1989.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Final Cut, Pink Floyd, 1983. Produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen.
  
  

  
  

  
  2012: Daniel Craig visits British troops at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Screens Skyfall with 800 soldiers.

  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Mark Milsome dies at age 54--Ghana.
  (Born 1963--London, England.)

  

  Mark Milsome Foundation

  https://www.imago.org/index.php/news/item/800-mark-milsome-foundation.html

  On 18th November 2017, Mark Milsome was killed age 54 on a film set in Ghana whilst operating a camera for a car stunt that went tragically wrong. It was a shocking happening leaving everybody astonished by the fact that the accident ocurred while in duty and should have never happened. Now a few initiatives like getting up a foundation under is name is now underway in the occasion of the date of the first year of his death.

  The Mark Milsome Foundation is inspired by the achievements, character and unique nature of our respected friend and colleague, Mark Milsome who was killed behind his camera whilst filming a car stunt in Ghana 18th November 2017.
  
  We are a non profit registered UK charity which aims to support, encourage and inspire young people, initially through two scholarship programmes, and to raise awareness of the importance of Health and Safety in the Film and Television Industry.
  
  We have established one scholarship in advance of our launch via the Guild of British Camera Technicians Training Programme and will announce a second early in 2019 that will support deserving Film Students to secure mentorship and work experience.
  We have taken our core values and ambitions as a charity from the example set by Mark Milsome and believe opportunities should be open to men and women who prove they have the character, determination and focus needed to thrive in the industry.
  
  We will encourage young people from all parts of the UK, all social and economic backgrounds, all levels of academic achievement, whether from obscurity or from a recognised educational programme to work with us. We will require evidence of genuine passion and a strong work ethic before considering anyone to be deserving of support or scholarships in Mark’s name.
  
  As an organisation we are open to exploring other areas, including furthering health and safety, and will evolve in any way that best serves the scholars, the Film and Television Industry and the memory of Mark Milsome.
  
  Please go to www.markmilsomefoundation.com to remember Mark and discover more about the ambitions of the foundation.
  
  LAUNCH OF MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION WEBSITE AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF BLACK - T - WEEK (18TH -24TH NOVEMBER)
  Following the tragic death of Mark Milsome on set in Ghana on 18th November 2017 a charitable foundation has been set up in his name by industry professionals, friends and family.
  
  The Foundation will officially launch early 2019 but as we approach the anniversary of Mark’s death they are inviting cast and crew from the film making community worldwide to honour Mark during the week of 18th - 24th November by wearing a black foundation T shirt on set. The limited edition T shirts will be available to purchase through October from the Foundation website at: www.markmilsomefoundation.com with deliveries early November in time for Black - T - Week.
  
  The Foundation are encouraging crew to visit their site to remember Mark and to sign up for updates and the ambitions of the Foundation to help young people in the industry.
  
  You can also receive Mark Milsome Foundation updates and info from:
  Facebook @MarkMilsomeFoundation
  Twitter @MarkMilsomeFDN
  Instagram @markmilsomefoundation

  

  Mark Milsome (1963–2017)

  Camera and Electrical Department | Cinematographer | Miscellaneous Crew
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590600/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Camera and Electrical Department (80 credits)
  
  2018 Black Earth Rising (TV Series) (camera operator)
  2018 The Etruscan Smile (camera operator)
  2018 National Treasure: Kiri (TV Mini-Series) (second camera operator - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.4 (2018) ... (second camera operator)
  2017 Bang (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  2017 The Durrells in Corfu (TV Series) (camera operator - 6 episodes)
  - Episode #2.6 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.5 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.4 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.3 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  2017 Bitter Harvest (b camera operator: additional photography)
  2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) (b camera operator - 3 episodes)
  - Battle of the Bastards (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  - The Door (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  - Book of the Stranger (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  2014-2015 Downton Abbey (TV Series) (a camera operator - 9 episodes)
  - Christmas Special (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.8 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.7 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.6 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.5 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.4 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.3 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #5.6 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #5.5 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
  2015/I Bill (camera operator)
  2015 Safe House (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.4 (2015) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.3 (2015) ... (camera operator)
  2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (camera operator)
  2014 The Theory of Everything (camera operator: 'b' camera)
  2014 24: Live Another Day (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
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  2014 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
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  2010-2014 Sherlock (TV Series) (camera operator - 7 episodes)
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  2013 How I Live Now (additional photography) / (camera operator: "b" camera)
  2012 Hunted (TV Series) (camera operator - 1 episode)
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  2012 Accused (TV Series) (second camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Tina's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
  - Tracie's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
  2011 Hunky Dory (camera operator: second unit)
  2011 My Week with Marilyn (camera operator: "c" camera)
  2011 Your Highness (camera operator: "b" camera)
  
  2009 Into the Rose-Garden (Short) (camera operator)
  2009 Small Island (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator)
  2009 Nowhere Boy (camera operator: "b" camera)
  2009 Skellig: The Owl Man (TV Movie) (camera operator)
  2008 Quantum of Solace (camera operator "b" camera: main unit)
  2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (focus puller: "a" camera)
  2008 The Passion (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
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  2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (camera operator: second unit)
  2007 1408 (additional camera operator)
  2006 Dracula (TV Movie) (additional camera operator)
  2006 Notes on a Scandal (second assistant camera)
  2006 Miss Potter (focus puller: "a" camera)
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  2006 Longford (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  2006 The History Boys (first assistant camera: "a" camera)
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  2005 Mrs Henderson Presents (first assistant camera)
  2005/I Game Over (first assistant camera)
  2005 The Constant Gardener ("b" focus puller: London)
  2005 Russian Dolls (first assistant camera: London)
  2005 The Dark (camera operator: second unit)
  2005 On a Clear Day (second camera operator: Isle of Man)
  2004 Finding Neverland (focus puller: "b" camera)
  2004 King Arthur (camera operator: additional photography - uncredited)
  2004 Stage Beauty (camera operator: "c" camera) / (focus puller: "a" camera)
  2004 Sex Lives of the Potato Men (camera operator)
  2003 Winter Solstice (TV Movie) (camera operator)
  2003 Loving You (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  2002 Anita & Me (focus puller)
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  2002 Thunderpants (focus puller)
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  2001 Wit (TV Movie) (focus puller: "b" camera)
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  1999 Heart (focus puller)
  1998 Little Voice (focus puller)
  1998 Saving Private Ryan (first assistant camera)
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  1997 Zeus and Roxanne (assistant camera: second unit)
  1996 Brassed Off (focus puller)
  1996 Mary Reilly (clapper loader)
  1995 Hackers (clapper loader)
  1994 Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (second assistant camera - 3 episodes)
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  1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (clapper loader)
  1993 Dark Waters (camera operator)
  1993 Cliffhanger (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
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  1992 Blame It on the Bellboy (clapper loader)
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  1990 Memphis Belle (clapper loader: aerial unit)
  1990 Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (TV Movie) (clapper loader)
  1989 About Face (TV Series) (clapper/loader - 1 episode)
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  Rasta Man Vibrations (Short) (completed)
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  1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) (jobfit trainee - 1 episode)
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  2000 Supporting Acts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
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  2022: The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club offers mixology and culinary experience at A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas.

  

  Shaken, Not Stirred at
  The Martini Bar

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bahamas.com/fr/events/shaken-not-stirred-at-the-martini-bar

  18 Nov, 2022
  The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort

  A nod to its glamorous and star-studded legacy, The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas has launched a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience.
  
  The Martini Bar is known best as the backdrop for the 2006 remake of the Casino Royale film where James Bond can be seen sipping his famous Vesper Martini. This limited seat Living Room Bar transports guests into the scenes of their very own movie.
  
  Whether sipping on a classic Vesper Martini or indulging in the new ultra-luxe Caviar Martini, it’s an unforgettable experience. While cocktails are the heart of The Martini Bar signature experience, new unique culinary creations are presented with suggested Martini pairings.

  The Martini Bar and Lounge is open every Friday and Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling the Resort at +1-242-363-2501.
  
  Every friday
  The information or details for this event may change at any given time and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and the Government of The Bahamas will not be held liable for any decision made based upon it.

  

  
  2024: Victor Harold Flick dies at age 87.
  (Born 14 May 1937--Worcester Park, England.)

  

  Vic Flick, Guitarist Who Plucked the
  James Bond Theme, Dies at 87

  Emmett Lindner | Nov. 20, 2024
  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/arts/vic-flick-james-bond-dead.html
  A busy session musician, he also recorded music for the Beatles’ film “A Hard Day’s Night” and contributed to several hit songs.

  
  Vic Flick performing in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2002. Since “Dr. No” was released in 1962, the sound of his “grungy” guitar playing on the James Bond theme made those films instantly recognizable.Credit...Mel Bouzad/Getty Images

  Vic Flick, a British guitarist whose driving riff in the theme for the James Bond movies captured the spy’s suave confidence and tacit danger, died on Nov. 14 in Los Angeles. He was 87.
  
  His death, in a nursing facility, was announced on social media by his son, Kevin, who said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease.
  
  The Bond films produced signature catchphrases (“shaken, not stirred,” “Bond, James Bond”) that have been endlessly recited and parodied since “Dr. No,” the first in the series, was released in Britain in 1962. But it was the sound of Mr. Flick’s guitar in the opening credits that helped make those spy thrillers instantly recognizable.
  
  During the title credits of “Dr. No,” when moviegoers were introduced to or reacquainted with the works of the author Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond books, Mr. Flick’s thrumming guitar sounded out through a brass-and-string orchestra.

  

  “The selection of strings available in the late ’50s and early ’60s was abysmal compared to today,” he wrote in his 2008 autobiography, “Vic Flick, Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond.”
  
  “To get that ‘overplayed sound,’ I simply overplayed the guitar, leaning into those thick low strings,” he continued.
  
  He also placed a pack of Senior Service cigarettes under the bridge of the guitar to help round out the sound.
  
  “He was a musician’s musician,” Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues wrote in the foreword to “Vic Flick, Guitarman.” “He played for all the greats, and on so many treasured records. He was in demand, and he delivered.”
  
  Victor Harold Flick was born on May 14, 1937, in Surrey, England, to Harold Flick, a music teacher, and Mabel (Curry) Flick, a singer. His childhood was marked by the frequent need to find safe havens from bombs that German planes were dropping over the area during World War II.
  
  Once the war ended — and, as Mr. Flick wrote in his book, “a hesitant normality reigned” — his father and brother joined a band to perform at local churches. When Vic was 14, he saw an ad for a Gibson Kalamazoo, a small acoustic guitar.
  
  “A deal was struck,” he wrote in “Guitarman,” adding: “I practiced the instrument until the tips of my fingers bled. I had to catch up to the others who were, compared to me, accomplished musicians.”
  
  In 1953, Vic left school to work in a bank. He later worked as a heating and ventilation technician before pursuing music in earnest. He formed a band with his brother in 1958 and later joined a band led by Bob Cort, a folk musician.
  
  While the group was on tour with Paul Anka, Mr. Flick met John Barry, who would go on to arrange the James Bond theme and later compose the scores for 11 Bond films. (Mr. Barry told The Sunday Times of London in 1997 that he had composed the theme; this was disputed by Monty Norman, the original composer for “Dr. No,” who then successfully sued the newspaper for libel.)
  
  When the original theme was written for “Dr. No,” the music editor told the producers that it didn’t represent the film, Mr. Flick said in a 2021 interview with Guitar Player magazine.
  
  “I said, ‘Take it down an octave, make it grungy,’” he said. “That and the brass punched the Bond films to success.”
  
  The result has been imprinted into the annals of cinema, and Mr. Flick would go on to work on the theme music for several more Bond films, including “Goldfinger” (1964).
  
  He became a successful session musician, playing on tracks for Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield and others and on Peter and Gordon’s album “A World Without Love.” His Fender Stratocaster is heard as Ringo Starr walks the streets to the strains of “Ringo’s Theme,” an instrumental version of the Beatles song “This Boy,” in the 1964 film “A Hard Day’s Night.” And he worked with Paul McCartney on the 1977 album “Thrillington,” a collection of instrumental covers of songs from the 1971 album “Ram” that Mr. McCartney released under the pseudonym Percy “Thrills” Thrillington.
  
  In 2013, Mr. Flick received a lifetime achievement award from the National Guitar Museum.
  
  In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife, Judith Mary Flick, and a grandson. His daughter, Jayne, died in 2000.
  
  Mr. Flick’s wide sonic range could be boiled down to a focused philosophy. When Guitar Player asked him what he might tell an aspiring musician, he offered this advice: “Don’t forget to make every note music.”
  

  • Emmett Lindner writes about breaking and trending news. He has written about international protests, climate change and social media influencers.

  
  
  Vic Flick interview with Jesse Amoroso at Cowtown Guitars, Las Vegas (26:10)
  
  
  Vic Flick Performs the James Bond Theme (1:58)
  
  
  

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

  
  
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  2024: Mickey Mouse Day.