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The Violent World of James Bond Ken Ferguson Talks to the Man Who Created the World’s Most Famous Secret Agent (Photoplay, November 1962) Three Blind men shuffle along a hot sunny pavement rattling money boxes. From an adjacent club, a smartly…
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Frank Gorshin still owns the Riddler. He brought a gleeful high-strung tension to the role that even Jim Carrey and Paul Dano couldn't re-capture. Plus he was a terrific impressionist!
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Yes, and I think Fleming would have been amused and pleased to know a later Bond film would be titled The World is Not Enough. It would have been a fine alternate title for OHMSS too, but the actual one was The Belles of Hell.
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Ludovico wrote: » They want to make a live action remake of HTTYD. Why oh why? And why now? https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/17/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-week-in-geek-shrek Because Disney has been doing it, and n…
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For anyone who's feeling frustrated, enjoy this clip, wherein Michael Keaton tells someone to do something naughty to himself:
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Mrs. Ian Fleming: Widow to a Legend (The Cool Crazy Committed World of the Sixties, by Pierre Berton, 1966) “I thought I was marrying the Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times.” She had no idea, of course, back in 1952, that she was marrying into…
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The lady is Janet Flanner, the Paris correspondent for the New Yorker.
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Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Generally there are no awkward moments or egos clashing in Cavetts shows, he appears to genuinely get on well with everyone. Aside from Norman Mailer:
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Dragonpol wrote: » I was wondering if you know of or could recommend any book that would serve as a guide or reference work on the history of the 1960s Batman TV series starring Adam West? I'd start with the Feb. 1994 issue of Cinefantastiq…
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Dragonpol wrote: » I get that it's a bit camp and spoof-like but I see above that @Revelator said that it was based on the 1960s comics of the time which must've went more in that direction. The late 50s and early 60s Batman comics were def…
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How James Bond Destroyed My Husband By Mrs. Ian Fleming, as told to Leslie Hannon (Ladies’ Home Journal, Oct. 1966) Ian Fleming wrote the most successful spy stories of our time. His books and movies made millions. Now, his widow discloses a p…
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I'm also surprised that folks didn't know the models were nude--I assumed everyone had heard a version of this Binder anecdote: There was a dancer--Carolyn Cheshire...she was very good and all nude for Man With the Golden Gun. I used some rippli…
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From what I've heard Maurice Binder was a gentleman--if he'd gotten up to anything wrong we'd probably have heard about it by now (as in the case of Terence Young). The use of nudes in the Bond titles was as professional and tasteful as the use of n…
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And here's my other favorite, Elvis's version of "Any Day Now," described by Greil Marcus as "a Burt Bachrach-Bob Hilliard composition Elvis sang with a naked passion—a naked piety, really—that cannot be found in any of his other recordings."
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Here's one of my favorite Bacharach compositions, "Message to Michael." It inspired the Temptations song "I Wish It Would Rain":
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j_w_pepper wrote: » I'm sorry, but the John Cleese of today is not the John Cleese I loved on Monty Python and Fawlty Towers and all those projects connected with both. I didn't even like him as the cartoonish "R" in TWINE and DAD, which however …
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Turns out Carl Davis also conducted a version of Licence to Kill that has an actual vocal. The singer is not on the level of Gladys Knight but the recording has a less sterile sound than the movie version:
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Another instrumental of Licence to Kill, this time conducted by the great Carl Davis: More Davis/Bond recordings here.
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You're very welcome, and just remember, folks are aging today much better than in Fleming's time, so there's still a chance for you to nab some beautiful ladies by posing as an international man of mystery!
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Ian Fleming’s Last Interview: How to Take Any Woman…James Bond Style! By Alain Ayache (Saga: The Magazine for Men, July 1965) You don't have to be a spy—or look like Sean Connery—to make love to the woman you want. Here, the creator of James B…
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Sean211 wrote: » And good luck on getting anything 007 from Iowa's Special Collections Library. You need to get permission from both EON Productions and Richard Maibaum's son. I asked about getting "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No." As you can imagine EON…
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The Grand Tour hasn't actually been axed. Variety ran an article claiming that Amazon "would likely cut ties with Clarkson" after 2024. Notice the "likely" and the lack of official confirmation by Amazon. And today James May "dismissed suggestions t…
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Herr_Stockmann wrote: » ...overall these scripts seem far from Fleming and the lack of Las Vegas is quite surprising and regrettable in my opinion considering it's such a big part of DAF's identity (both the novel and the movie). Tonally the id…
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ggl007 wrote: » And, if I'm not mistaken, the Playboy interview is in the Taschen book too. Yes, I'd forgotten completely about that, despite having a copy of the 2012 edition on the shelf. The complete interview is reproduced there.
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You're correct! The Fleming interview was collected twice in hardcover. First in Playboy Interviews (Playboy Press, Chicago, 1967), and then in The Playboy interview II, edited by G. Barry Golson (Perigee Books, New York, N.Y., 1983). There's a good…
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Denbigh wrote: » I actually kinda like the idea of the tiger killing Blofeld. Me too. It's a suitably colorful way of dispatching a supervillain. 007HallY wrote: » Revelator wrote: » In the third treatment Blofeld is killed by six …
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Some exceedingly interesting information on the script history of Diamonds Are Forever... A fellow named Tom Mason managed to read Richard Maibaum's early treatments of the film and has discussed them on the Licence to Queer podcast: For t…
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Ian Fleming By Ken Purdy (Playboy, Dec. 1964) Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” expert practitioners of the form have known huge audiences and heavy material rewards. In this proces…
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Broker (2022). The great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with a story about a pair of men who sell abandoned babies and a new mother who needs to dispose of her child. Along the way there's an orphanage, a pair of social workers, mobster…
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Delighted you enjoyed it, and thanks always for your feedback! Yes, Fleming's mourning for Kennedy was one of my favorite parts too. I suspect Dulles was less enamored of JFK, who had fired him after the Bay of Pigs disaster. Incidentally, Flemin…
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