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Note: What you are about to read is a chapter from the only unpublished book by Ian Fleming. In late 1960 Fleming was invited by the Kuwait Oil Company to write a book about the Gulf emirate, which had recently become independent. Fleming eventually…
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Feyador wrote: » Highly selective and a tad simplistic. The New Yorker writer had a tendentious narrative and just ran with it, while ignoring, or just ignorant of that which might contradict it - or at least make more complex. And assigning comm…
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My prediction about the American critics is coming true. The New Yorker has reviewed the book alongside a biography of Franz Fanon, so the emphasis, reductive in the extreme, is on empire. Excerpts below. *** ...Today, they are probably the mo…
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Dragonpol wrote: » It's very disappointing for me to see the The Times Literary Supplement take such an unfair and critical stance on Ian Fleming, considering they used to be very favourable to all things Fleming and Bond. Not sure what has happen…
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A negative review has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement. Some excerpts: Since last year marked the seventieth anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Casino Royale, it may be worth taking a necessarily brief look at what Flemi…
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The Writer Speaks (1962) Guests: Ian Fleming, British suspense writer, and William Plomer, British author and critic. The Writer Speaks… a [radio] program produced in cooperation with the New American Library, publishers of Signet and Mentor p…
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Creasy47 wrote: » I started out 2024 very, very strong with our own Felix Leiter in American Fiction, which was an amazing piece of satire that's both uncomfortable and hilarious. Out of all the trailers I sat through last year, that one lo…
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The 10 best films I saw in 2023 (in no order). Only one is from that year. The Boy and the Heron (2023, Hayao Miyazaki). Studio Ghibli's latest film (and Miyazaki's last), cut from the same cloth as Spirited Away. When the Clouds Roll By (1919…
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Here are the 10 best books I read in 2023: The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I (2007) by John Adamson. A deep dive into the aristocratic conspiracy that helped bring down a king and start a civil war. Peerless Among Princes: The Life …
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For me OHMSS has the most attention-getting gunbarrel music. The combination of heavy, propulsive, funky bass with cold, spidery, almost mocking synthesizer is startling. It feels seductive and sinister. It's a truly new sound for the series and Bar…
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Note: This week's interview consists of excerpts from a long panel discussion conducted for BBC radio. My thanks to the fellow researcher and collector who kindly sent me the transcript. The Travellers in Towns Ian Fleming, Norman Lewis, and …
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The Blu-Ray of Superman: The Complete Animated Series is currently $20 at Amazon. That's $3.33 a disc!
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My feelings exactly. I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas!
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After more than a decade's wait, Talk of the Devil is now available for purchase! Go here to drop £75 (10 extra for shipping outside the UK).
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After more than a decade's wait, Talk of the Devil is now available for purchase! Go here to drop £75 (10 extra for shipping outside the UK).
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It's not correct. Fleming took longer than two weeks to write a book--two to three months is more accurate, and that was just to produce a first draft. And the processes of research, revision, and corrections--which occurred before and after the dra…
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Ian Fleming on the film Our Man in Havana (The Third Programme, BBC, Jan. 7, 1959) It is very sad that they are even knocking the Secret Service these days. Sad, I mean, for those who have thrilled since their childhood to the glorious myth and s…
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A recently uploaded video interview with Peter Hunt:
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This has more to do with the DC Animated Universe, but I was reading a 2006 interview with Bruce Timm and came across this section, where Timm talks about Darkseid: "He's very much like the classic James Bond villains. As Kingsley Amis pointed ou…
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It's quoted in Charles Helfenstein's Making of OHMSS book. Definitely a must-buy, especially for the section on the evolution of the film's script.
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007ClassicBondFan wrote: » I’d never heard this before. How come? According to Hamilton: "Maibaum is a very nice man, I had a lot of respect for him, but at this period he'd run out of, to me, freshness. He was basically an old man compared…
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007HallY wrote: » As for Brofield, I suppose Maibaum did have his strange thing about putting Goldfinger’s twin brother in a number of scripts, which is even dafter I’d say. I think it's less daft, because the idea was just an excuse to hav…
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I don't always agree with Maibaum's criticisms, but considering how he contributed to all of the best Bond films from the classic period ('62-'89), he more than earned the right to be critical. He was a major player in the continuing success of the …
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Yes, I believe The Fabulous Pay-Off was the working title for The Man with the Golden Gun. The phrase refers to the pay-off Scaramanga promised Bond and to Bond's attempt to snare Scaramanga, as in chapter 13: "He had been after this man for over si…
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Profile: Ian Fleming (Criminology, Sept.-Oct. 1963) By Michael Fitzgerald James Bond and his bride, Tracy, are driving away on honeymoon at the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when the fiendish Blofeld shoots up their car. Frankly, Trac…
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Fleming was serious about TMWTGG being the last Bond novel, and its final paragraph was added to the typescript in his own handwriting. I think that paragraph is what he considered an appropriate send-off to his character. He had plenty of opportuni…
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Herr_Stockmann wrote: » Definitely the strongest movie so far about Bonaparte's youth. But an incomplete one since it ends with the Italy Campaign. True--Gance never had the opportunity to make the three or four sequels he had envisioned (a…
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I saw the film last night. Better than I expected: not a great movie but a solid one. The problem with telling Napoleon's life in the space of 2 hours is that you end up with a digest rather than full biography, so I'll be interested in seeing the d…
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Background to Bond (The Motor, August 21, 1963) Special Investigator D.B. Tubbs Grills 007’s Creator Ian Fleming You can’t read a book about Secret Service agent 007 James Bond without being aware that he is fond of fast cars, which is not sur…
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