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Pes Football Matches and Home movies + The Odd Book,Interests and things that press the chuckle button! :0)Colin Marriott Aka @The_ChelseaBoys on Twitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06348853507934733156noreply@blogger.comBlogger323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46833500691721491.post-38363921669107765692023-06-30T07:59:00.001-07:002023-06-30T07:59:19.021-07:00Tough Fire missions in Six Days in Fallujah from different squads<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KOIzFNu0jF0?list=PLLV8UA5X6zveSODhfyYhRa2u_mf2il6sh" width="480"></iframe>Colin Marriott Aka @The_ChelseaBoys on Twitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06348853507934733156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46833500691721491.post-45994368874179816032021-09-30T13:08:00.003-07:002021-09-30T13:08:32.381-07:00James Bond Fan Club Newsletter October 2021<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; 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color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: bold;">Newsletter Autumn 2021</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="content editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-image"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image content-image" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/42a0feeb-fde2-4c29-b3b8-a5f7ddabd137.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="600" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Bond is Back! And Nobody Does It Better.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="center-text article editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="text-align: center;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text center-text article-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">We had been expecting him, and it has taken six long years. </span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">But </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">welcome</span><span style="color: black;"> back, 007. </span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">After the inevitable delays to the release of </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black;"> due to the global Covid pandemic, September, 2021, will go down as another watershed moment in Bond history: the 25</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black;"> film in the EON series, the fifth Daniel Craig 007 adventure, and his final one as Ian Fleming’s iconic spy, had finally arrived. As momentum built over the summer, you could sense the growing excitement in the air again by late August, 2021. </span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Given the premiere of </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black;"> had been confirmed as taking place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 11.199999809265137px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black;"> September, and the general release of the movie at the end of September to British cinema screens, the UK’s media began gearing up again for the return of Britain’s favourite fictional spy. </span></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">At the same time, various Bond-related news items also began to appear right across the globe. It is difficult to convey to non-British audiences just how big Bond truly is in the UK, however. It would be no exaggeration to say that the release of a new James Bond movie is a major cultural event, a moment which always reminds us about the power of the cinema and the opportunities it creates for complete escapism from the realities of life. And boy do we need that!</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">You Know His Name</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="50%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">With the release of each new James Bond movie, EON and their backers invest huge effort into mounting a comprehensive media campaign, including in the weeks prior to the film hitting the big screens. It is essential to tease audiences and get them excited for what is to come. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">After a couple of false starts due to the Covid pandemic, this media strategy became even more important for </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. Much depends on Bond wooing back his loyal fans and 007 is seen by the industry as a key part of reinvigorating cinemas and regaining some sense of ‘normality’ after all the damage exerted by Covid-19 in the last year or so. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The British market, naturally, is a key part of this. Newspapers in the UK in August quickly began to feature arts highlights for this coming autumn (fall) and, inevitably, the new James Bond adventure was high up on those lists. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">And rightly so.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-image"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image editor-image" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/60a7f5fa-d057-4a07-aea2-297714e8bc1e.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="600" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">007 and Counting</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The UK’s Guardian newspaper, for example, in its G2 arts supplement on 24th August, put Craig’s gun-toting Bond prominently on the front page of its autumn arts preview and noted inside: ‘Daniel Craig is hanging up his Walther PPK, his tux and sky-blue swimming briefs and bowing out of the 007 role with the latest Bond thriller. Veteran Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have teamed up with Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge for what is purportedly a funnier, savvier Bond for Craig’s last hurrah’. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The newspaper’s film critic Peter Bradshaw also supplied a separate short article on what cinema may look like after the impact of Covid-19 and, inevitably, this included reference to the new James Bond film. Bradshaw noted how the autumn will see new films mixed in with product delayed from the distant ‘before times’ of pre-Covid. And, at one stage, he reflected with humour that: ‘If the forthcoming James Bond film were to be pushed back again, there could be rioting in the streets. Or, at any rate, an unruly crowd of 007 fans, film journalists and industry professionals might run through central London gibbering. Bond is the gold standard of British cinema’. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">Never was a truer word said.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">The Spy We All Love</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/6643ac78-c9b9-44a0-ba85-29a3b8d689f5.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="279" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">Similarly, the UK’s London Times newspaper (28th August), in its ‘Coming Soon! What to Watch’ section in its Saturday review supplement, featured on its front cover a large still of a very determined looking Craig as Bond riding his motorbike through an Italian town in the new movie, and inside the supplement asked: ‘What kept you, Mr. Bond? After a string of Covid-inflicted false starts Daniel Craig’s swansong as 007 is finally here. Craig was recently named as the best paid actor in Hollywood, his $100 million salary boosted by two Knives Out sequels. Before we see him again as Benoit Blanc, however, he’ll play Bond one more time…’. The piece was also accompanied by another photo still of Craig, this time looking suave in his tux alongside Ana de Armas, standing in a bar. It was great teaser material. The very same day (28th August) also saw the front cover of the ‘Review’ supplement of the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper adorned with a large still of Craig’s smart grey-suited Bond emerging from his (Living Daylights) Aston Martin in a London street and crossing the road: ‘Ah, Mr. Bond… We’ve been expecting you’. </span></div><div><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">According to the Telegraph, the new movie, which it called ‘Daniel Craig’s much-delayed swan song’, sees 007 ‘hauled out of retirement to deal with Rami Malek’s terrorist demagogue’. It is no surprise that this photo still of Craig, with him emerging purposefully into a London street, has already become something of an iconic image, and was used extensively throughout September in large tie-in newspaper adverts by Omega watches, which proclaimed that the Omega Seamaster Diver 300m was ‘James Bond’s choice’. Eye-catching billboards saying the same thing could also be caught at key billboard, transport and other sites in London.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Being Bond: Craig reflects on 15 years of 007</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/d80c3b8f-37f3-401a-8cb2-2d05d6fbf13e.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="202" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">In the week prior to the UK premiere of </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, the media interest went up to new levels, and there was plenty for Bond fans to read, watch and enjoy. The BBC’s TV and radio weekly Listings magazine, </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Radio Times</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, was a very good example: it’s front cover for the 25</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">September -1</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">st</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> October edition, which went on sale on 22</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">nd</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> September, carried an especially eye-catching image of Daniel Craig with Naomie ‘Moneypenny’ Harris. The magazine was displayed prominently in many newsagents and retail outlets across the UK, and this must have been deeply satisfying for the Bond publicity team. Inside the magazine, a 4-page main article discussed what was said by Craig and EON producer Barbara Broccoli when they were interviewed in New York. What did we learn? Craig described how his approach to being Bond had evolved over his 15-year tenure, where 007 had just earned his ‘double-o’ status in </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Casino Royale</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> but gradually became more sophisticated over the course of the next four films. Broccoli also reinforced this in her own comments: ‘Daniel has given Bond an inner life. His Bond is allowed to be vulnerable. We see him bleed, we see him cry, we see him struggle with the emotional rollercoaster that Bond has gone through over the last five movies’. Craig, echoing this, commented: ‘I don’t make apologies for Bond. He’s really flawed… but I think that’s interesting’.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Golden High</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">Further tie-in activities for the new movie took place in the days prior to the premiere. Craig and key members of the cast (Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek) appeared in a Bond special edition which heralded the return of the BBC’s very popular late-night series The Graham Norton Show. Craig looked relaxed and in top form. He emphasised how pleased he was that </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> would be in the cinemas and on the big screen, as (he said) it would have been a ‘tragedy’ had it gone straight to streaming. </span></div><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">He said: ‘We want people to see it in the cinemas’. Craig praised his co-stars, and also said Rami Malik is ‘brilliant’ in the movie. He also admitted that he felt a ‘mixture of emotions’ over the fact that his time as Bond was now coming to an end. In the very same evening that this recording of the Norton show was transmitted, Craig made a personal appearance at London Leicester Square’s famous Odeon cinema (once the regular site for Bond premieres in years gone by). The occasion was a live interview event for BAFTA, and Craig responded to questions from interviewer Edith Bowman. </span></div><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">Naturally, security was very tight at the event, which also included plenty of anti-Covid precautions; only mask-wearing fans with both jabs and negative lateral flow tests or proof of naturally immunity were admitted. But there was much to please the audience, and Craig (again) was in top form as he looked back over his career and his service as Fleming’s James Bond. </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Reporting For Duty</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/47680962-8412-4dbc-9703-41f6d6c08f63.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="307" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">At one point during the BAFTA interview Daniel said he had thought the makers of the 007 films had ‘got the wrong guy’ when he was offered the part of Bond by Barbara Broccoli. </span></div><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">He had apparently made a list of pros and cons while deciding whether to accept the role or not, and was finally swayed by one of his very close friends, who had said that not playing 007 would become the biggest regret of Craig’s life: ‘He said, “You’re gonna regret this for the rest of your life if you don’t do this” and like yeah, sitting in a bar going I could have been Bond’. Interestingly, Craig revealed that starring in the crime movie </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Layer Cake</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> in 2004 had an ‘amazingly positive’ effect on his career and had led him to being offered more leading roles. He also offered some thoughtful but humorous reflections on his decision to play Bond for a fifth time after having had serious doubts at the end of </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Spectre</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">. He pointed out that he had suffered injuries during the filming of </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Spectre</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> but Barbara Broccoli ‘bullied me’ into returning for a fifth time and he was ‘so happy I did’. Asked about his last day of filming on </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, which took place on set at Pinewood studios, Craig recalled: ‘It was the last shot and you know we were in the right place – we were in a dirty back lot in Pinewood, pretending to be in Cuba’. Sounding emotional, he continued: ‘I was gonna say goodbye and Barbara came down and then everybody came down, everybody came out of the offices, the heads of department, all the riggers. I realised I’ve been working with these people, some of them, for nearly 30 years in the film industry. It’s just always about the team. Barbara makes an atmosphere on set where we’re a family’. </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">On Her Majesty’s Special Naval Service:</div><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Craig awarded Bond’s RN rank</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/ef32e734-60e3-4d13-aead-788279b56378.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="203" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">In another publicity coup for </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, Bond’s naval connections became a big story in the UK press. As many fans know, Bond creator Ian Fleming made good use of his own memories of wartime service with the British Royal Navy (RN), and naval references and themes featured at various points in the James Bond novels. Now 007 actor Daniel Craig has something directly in common with the fictional James Bond of both the books and the EON films: they share the military rank of Commander. There was major media interest in the news that the current James Bond star has been given a special honour by Britain’s RN: it was announced that Daniel has been made an honorary Commander, the same rank attained by the fictional James Bond. The news came just days before the premiere of </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> at the Royal Albert Hall in central London. Referring to his new real-life RN rank, Craig said: ‘I am truly privileged and honoured to be appointed the rank of honorary commander in the senior service’. The Bond star is especially keen to support the families of RN service personnel (the RN is known as the ‘senior’ service as it is the oldest of the three branches of the British Armed Forces).</span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, presented Craig with the honour and said: ‘I am delighted to welcome honorary commander Daniel Craig to the Royal Navy. Our honorary officers act as ambassadors and advocates for the service, sharing their time and expertise to spread the message about what our global, modern and ready Royal Navy is doing around the world’. Admiral Radakin added: ‘Daniel is well known for being Commander Bond – a naval officer who keeps Britain safe through missions across the globe. That’s what the real Royal Navy does every day, using technology and skill the same way as Bond himself. I look forward to him getting to see more of our sailors and marines over the coming months and years’.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">For Special Services</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The fantastic news came as details emerged about the extent to which the RN gave crucial support to the filmmakers during production of the new Bond movie, which includes an appearance by the British warship HMS Dragon. The production also received generous help from both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the British Army. The RAF allowed the base RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire (doubling for a NATO base in Norway) to be used by the production as a backdrop for a sequence where James Bond boards a C-17 Globemaster plane, while the Army supplied troops from the Household Cavalry when some sequences were shot in Whitehall in central London (there were some great publicity shots of Craig posing with members of the Cavalry during pauses in filming, much to the delight of those who were lucky to witness this).</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">The Name’s Bond… Commander Bond, RN</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/90697e04-ea05-4090-9913-32f353340c75.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="276" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">As many 007 aficionados know, Bond author Ian Fleming, of course, was made a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) in 1939, and served as an assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the Director of Naval Intelligence, in Whitehall during World War Two. Godfrey was said to be the model for ‘M’, who was given a Naval background in the James Bond books. Similarly, Fleming gave his fictional creation James Bond the rank of lieutenant in the Special Branch of the RNVR and, according to 007’s obituary, Bond had ended the war with the rank of Commander. Significantly, the producers of the James Bond movies have made good use of this Naval background over the years. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">A number of the 007 movies have had sequences where Bond is referred to as ‘Commander Bond’ (such as in Sean Connery’s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Diamonds Are Forever</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">) or is seen in Naval uniform (Sean Connery in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">You Only Live Twice</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, Roger Moore in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Spy Who Loved Me</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, and Pierce Brosnan in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Never Dies</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">). Moreover, the Bond productions have been given close cooperation by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), such as with the naval sequences in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Never Dies</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> and in the latest production, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. Craig’s movie </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Skyfall</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was also given permission by the MOD to use some MOD-owned land in Surrey, located next to some MOD firing ranges. And let’s not forget that when Craig was first introduced to the world’s media as the new James Bond, he was escorted up the River Thames to his first press conference by members of the Royal Marines.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">You Only Live Once</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">Interestingly, Ian Fleming’s wartime service as a Naval Intelligence officer will be featured in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Operation Mincemeat</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, a new movie directed by John Madden, and due for release in January, 2022. It is based on the best-selling non-fiction book penned by the historian and Bond expert Ben Macintyre, which told the story of Fleming’s involvement in the creation of a wartime deception operation designed to fool the Germans into thinking that the Allies were planning to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943, instead of their real target of Sicily. </span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">This deception operation, which in many ways was the brainchild of Commander Fleming, involved use of a preserved corpse which was dressed up in an officer’s uniform and planted with false papers and ‘invasion’ details. The ‘officer’ was left at sea by a British submarine, deliberately timed so that it would be found and the officer’s details would end up in the hands of the Germans. The operation proved highly successful in diverting German troops away from Sicily, and thus saving numerous Allied lives. Commander Fleming in the new movie will be played by Johnny Flyn. As an assistant to Admiral Godfrey, Fleming developed a reputation for thinking up imaginative deception and other secret operations, and was also instrumental in setting up 30AU, a special naval assault unit. Some Bond historians have speculated that one or two members of 30AU may have influenced Fleming’s later creation of James Bond in the early 1950s. Fleming, as we know, put a lot of his own character traits into James Bond, but may have also ‘borrowed’ some from certain servicemen he met and admired during the war, including one or two of the brave commandos who served with 30AU. He once famously explained that 007 was ‘a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war’, including his own brother, Peter Fleming, who had operated behind enemy lines.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">No Time To Sigh</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/1dec8338-0c2c-470d-91a4-2a15578db6ff.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="200" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">Fans of the award-winning singer Billie Eilish, who sings the main theme for </span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">and is the youngest artist to do a Bond song, have been used to seeing Billie wrapped in voluminous layers of goth-like clothes, with raven and green hair. However, she surprised many of her fans in March when she revealed she had adopted bleach-blonde hair to mark her latest album, </span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Happier Than Ever</span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">. She then launched an even greater surprise: she appeared in a photoshoot for the British edition of </span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Vogue</span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;"> magazine, adopting what she calls a ‘classic, old-timey pin-up’ look, which she was at pains to point out was ‘entirely her idea’. Social media went into meltdown as soon as the photos were previewed: her younger fans in particular couldn’t get enough of this new look, and there were thousands of ‘likes’ recorded. Billie’s new glitzy look, slightly toned down this time, could also be seen when she made a live appearance at the </span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Global Citizen Live</span><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;"> music festival, held in New York’s Central Park over the weekend of 25</span><sup style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;">-26</span><sup style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: #262c30; font-size: 16px;"> September. It was evident that a huge number of her fans were present. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Quantum did not bring him Solace</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/e06380f0-60a9-4a9c-b52d-a6dca03c318c.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="211" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The JBIFC was sad to hear of the death of the highly talented theatre and film director Roger Michell, who passed away on 22</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">nd</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">September, aged just 65. Michell’s directing career included two movies with Daniel Craig, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Mother</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (2003) and </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Enduring Love</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (2004), both notable for their emphasis on character and emotion. Both movies helped Craig’s film career enormously, and the star was keen to work with Michell again when it came to finding a director for Craig’s second 007 adventure </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Quantum of Solace</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (2008). However, Michell, much to Craig’s disappointment, pulled out, walking away from a reported $8 million fee. Michell prided himself on meticulous preparation and plenty of rehearsal, an approach he had used in his theatre work. He was apparently worried that there was no workable script for Craig’s second 007 movie and felt the project was being rushed to meet an unrealistic production schedule. At one point, Michell explained: ‘The Bond people are used to going into these massive productions in a chaotic “Oh, we’ll fix that later” way. I panicked and the more the money went up, the worse it made me feel’. Some years later he also confessed that even thinking about it still made him ‘want to have a lie down’. It is interesting to speculate how Quantum may have been a very different Bond film compared to what emerged, but that will will remain one of the big unknowns in Craig’s Bond history. Roger Michell (1956-2021), R.I.P. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Licence Renewed Again</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/f434ff53-d575-41f5-8ef6-f17d42b3a9a4.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="202" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">Aficionados of John Gardner’s revival of the literary James Bond in the early 1980s (he went on to pen no less than 14 original Bond novels and 2 novelisations of the EON films) were very pleased to see the re-issue in August 2021 of Gardner’s debut 007 novel, </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Licence Renewed</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, first published in 1981. Orion books have published it in a brand new 40</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the writer M.J. Arlidge. The book, of course, features the devious villain Dr. Anton Murik, who has hatched a plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown. It also conjured up memories for the JBIFC of the sheer excitement that arose back in 1981 when it was dramatically announced that Gardner had been commissioned to revive Ian Fleming’s hero for a new generation of potential Bond book readers. Gardner was a special guest at a JBIFC Convention and was interviewed on stage by the then JBIFC chair, Ross Hendry. Gardner was full of entertaining anecdotes. In fact, Gardner was always gentlemanly and well-dressed, with a good sense of humour. One of Gardner’s first appearances on British TV to promote and discuss his revival of Bond also came on the popular lunchtime BBC programme </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Pebble Mill at One</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, where he was interviewed by host Bob Langley (who was evidently a big Bond Fan himself). Gardner talked about his past life, his time as a Royal Marines Commando, his brief career as a man of the cloth (he trained to be an Anglican priest in the 1950s, but he quickly realised he had made a big mistake), the personal crisis that led to him hitting the bottle for a while (see his very moving autobiography </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Spin the Bottle</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">), his recovery from alcoholism, and then his early career as a novelist. He found big success in the 1960s with his hugely entertaining series of Boysie Oakes spy novels – Oakes was a kind of anti-Bond, a reluctant secret agent who did not like killing, and paid someone else to do it for him! Gardner’s first Oakes novel, </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Liquidator</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> (1964), was made into a movie with Rod Taylor as Oakes (interestingly, with Jill St. John as a co-star and a superb theme song by Shirley Bassey!). Fascinatingly, on the </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Pebble Mill at One</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> programme, Gardner revealed that his original title for </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Licence Renewed</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> had been </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Meltdown</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">. Gardner, who sadly passed away in 2007, also revived the literary Professor Moriarty, the nemesis of detective Sherlock Holmes.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Horowitz is Back for 003</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/ce08671e-7ffd-42dc-8aaa-d5bb452b822d.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="279" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">Another author who has dipped his pen into Sir Arthur Conan Doyles’ literary world is Anthony Horowitz, who wrote two Sherlock Holmes novels. The current official Bond novelist, who has written two bestselling Bond novels, </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Trigger Mortis</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> and </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Forever and a Day</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> to wide critical acclaim, revealed to his fans on social media on August 13</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">that he had just sent his 3</span><sup style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">rd</sup><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> Bond novel to his literary agent. The book will be published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in May, 2022. Naturally, Horowitz is remaining tight-lipped about the plotline and where he will take Fleming’s secret agent 007 next. However, Horowitz did drop an intriguing clue or two in a comment that appeared on his personal website: ‘The new book begins with the death of Scaramanga and Bond’s return from Jamaica to confront an old enemy’. Sounds good to us. We can’t wait!</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">From Mexico With Love?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/3ef94351-31f2-4d53-b805-140b79ba8a26.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="292" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">While on the subject of ‘lost’ or newly imagined 007 novel plotlines, another fruitful source for such items is the world of the pre-Horowitz Bond book continuity authors, and the books or stories they planned to write but never did. A few years ago one of the Bond discussion forums carried some interesting speculation about the possible 007 book sequel plans of author Kingsley Amis, who had penned the first post-Fleming Bond book </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Colonel Sun</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, under the pseudonym ‘Robert Markham’. Amis, who was a big Fleming and Bond fan, had shown his love of the character in two non-fiction books, </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The James Bond Dossier</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;"> and the more light-hearted </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Book of Bond</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 16px;">, a guide for budding spies supposedly written by Bill Tanner. Amis was commissioned by Glidrose Publications to write the first Bond continuation adventure, which was published in March, 1968. The forum discussion focused on whether Amis had considered writing a second James Bond adventure, or whether this was just a rumour that has developed over the years. But the availability in recent years of his extensive correspondence to friends offers us some clues: it does appear that there may have been something to this rumour, in the sense that Amis briefly contemplated writing not another full Bond novel but a short 007 story instead. Earlier in 1968, Amis had visited Mexico, travelling from St. Louis to Mexico City by train. Amis had remembered that Fleming had enjoyed placing his secret service hero on trains and, according to his correspondence (Amis was a prolific letter writer), Amis considered a short Bond story involving an incident on a train in Mexico, possibly with an assassination attempt on Bond’s life. Alas, there is no evidence Amis took this any further.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">The Double O in Triple Cross</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">It seems months ago now, but the news remains raw. Early February, 2021, saw the very sad news that the Oscar-winning Canadian actor Christopher Plummer had died, aged 91. Although many people associated him with the musical </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Sound of Music</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, Plummer had a love/hate relationship to his famous role, and was always keen to remind interviewers that he had an extensive theatre career and a wide-ranging filmography. British TV still can occasionally surprise us, and in recent years we have been treated to some rare showings of the 1966 war film </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Triple Cross</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, which starred Plummer as the real-life spy and womaniser Eddie Chapman (who was known by his Military Intelligence handlers as agent 'Zigzag'). The movie has quite a ‘Bondian’ feel to it. Directed by 007 veteran Terence Young, fresh from </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Thunderball</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (1965), the film has a number of familiar faces from the James Bond films, including Gert Frobe who, of course, played the main villain in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Goldfinger</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (1963), Claudine Auger, who was the beautiful Domino in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Thunderball</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, and Anthony Dawson, who was the traitorous Professor Dent in the first Bond movie </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Dr. No</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">(1962). The biographical film, which traced Chapman's role as an agent for both sides in World War Two, was clearly trying to tap into the spy film mania of the mid-1960s, and has some very Bondian-sounding opening and end-credits music. One can also clearly see why Christopher Plummer, who portrayed Chapman as a suave devil-may-care playboy in the movie, was seen as a possible candidate for James Bond at one time by the EON producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. But Plummer’s reputation for partying and hard-drinking (his drinking partners included Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole) may have put the EON duo off. In interviews, Plummer had what one of his obituaries noted was ‘biting candour’ about his film projects. In relation to </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Triple Cross</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, for example, Plummer once commented: ‘It wasn’t very good, that movie. The story is fascinating – I just don’t think we were very good. Of course, we were all blind drunk most of the time’.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">They Never Said 'No' Again</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/383f2a6a-f70d-4bca-931e-610a0692276f.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="279" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">As we once noted in a past JBIFC newsletter, Christopher Plummer was a friend of Sean Connery and his then-wife Diane Cilento, and Plummer recalled in interviews how he had witnessed the unrelenting pressures that fame and super-stardom placed Connery under during the 1960s. Plummer also expressed his strong debt to Connery for the former Bond's single-mindedness in the 1970s ('Connery saved my life', as he put it). In 1976, when studio executives threatened to cut the part of Rudyard Kipling (played by Plummer) from the John Huston classic movie </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Man Who Would Be King</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, the Scottish former Bond actor made it very clear that if they did so he would walk off the film! Knowing Connery's no-nonsense reputation, the executives quickly caved in. Much to Plummer's relief, the part of Kipling stayed in the film. And quite right, too! It's a great film, beloved by many.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">From Kronsteen With Love</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="image-cell " style="padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/c7f80b76-adb6-42b2-a758-1e3b3af6d4bd.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="249" /></div></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="15"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="15" /></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><img alt="" border="0" height="5" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="1" /></td><td align="center" class="mobile-hidden" height="5" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="5"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="5" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">New Year, New Avengers: It is a good few months ago now, but for fans of the cult 1960s TV series </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, it was a great introduction to 2021 to see a rare screening of the 1970s-made sequel series </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The New Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on the Sony Channel in the UK. It was also a great opportunity, of course, to do some serious ‘Bond star watching’, as various stars from the 007 movies also popped up in episodes of the original 1960s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> series and its 1970s sequel. On 12</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February, for example, when episode 5 of season 1 of </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The New Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was shown on Sony, viewers were able to see none other than Vladek Sheybal, who played the memorably sinister SPECTRE agent Kronsteen in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">From Russia, With Love</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (1963), and also popped up briefly in the rogue Bond film </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Casino Royale</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> made by Charles K. Feldman in 1967. In the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">New Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> episode, Sheybal played a character named Zacradi, who carried out several murders by directing flocks of kamikaze birds using a special flute. Bizarre, yes – but hugely entertaining, and Sheybal (1923-1992) always managed to invest his villains with that something ‘extra’. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="4C4C4C" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #4c4c4c;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">From a TV View To a Thrill</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">As many 007 aficionados will know, the original version of </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was something of a conveyor belt in supplying the EON Bond movies with rising stars, Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg being prime examples. Interestingly, though, in a sense, the reverse happened in the case of Joanna Lumley, who was one of Blofeld’s Angels of Death in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">OHMSS</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (1969). Her role in George Lazenby’s one-off Bond movie set her on the road to TV and film fame, and she became the iconic character Purdey in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The New Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. And, of course, Patrick Macnee, who played the suave agent John Steed in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> and reprised the role in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The New Avengers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, went on to play the role of Sir Godfrey Tibbet to Roger Moore’s 007 in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">A View To A Kill</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> (1985).</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="862C21" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #862c21;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Did You Know?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">Polish actor Vladek Sheybal, who had been both an acclaimed stage actor and director in his home country, also brought his theatre directing skills to England. When Bond director Terence Young, who was impressed with Sheybal’s heavy-lidded eyes and quite distinctive ‘special voice’, offered the part of Kronsteen to Sheybal, the actor was initially hesitant. But Sheybal was persuaded to take the role by Sean Connery, whose then girlfriend, Diane Cilento, had been directed on stage by Sheybal. Once he broke into movies in the 1960s, Sheybal never looked back, and went on to play numerous villainous roles. </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" bgcolor="294B93" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" style="background-color: #294b93;" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text section-headline-text" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: white; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div align="left" style="text-align: left;">Bond Bits: Brief Items of News You May Have Missed in 2021 </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="editor-text editor-text " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #606d78; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px; word-wrap: break-word;" valign="top"><div></div><div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bonding with James: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">If you could stomach what ITV’s over-zealous censors do to the Bond films, together with the numerous advert breaks, what better way was there to see in the New Year than with 007? The UK’s main ITV channel decided to see out 2020 with a screening of Daniel Craig’s Bond movie </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Skyfall</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, which was shown on New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Day, 2021, itself, eager Bond fans could switch to ITV2, which screened </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Spectre</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> to herald in 2021… </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bondathon - ITV’s New Year Bond Season: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The UK’s ITV4 channel kicked off New Year 2021 with screenings of all the EON Sean Connery 007 films, starting with </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Dr. No</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on Monday 4</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> January, at the rather odd time of 5.45pm. One could watch a Bond film per day. The same cycle of screenings started again the week after, starting with </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> again on Monday, 11</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Jan. It was a great way to take your mind off all the gloomy news…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bonding with Brosnan:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The UK’s main ITV channel decided to stay with their 007 screenings by also having a Brosnan season, with all four of his Bond adventures shown at 11.05pm on consecutive Saturdays: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Goldeneye</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was screened on 13</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">TND</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on 20</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">TWINE</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on 27</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February, and </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">DAD</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on 6</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> March...</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Spying on Brosnan’s Bond: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">It is always interesting to read the mini-reviews of Bond films in Listings magazines whenever they are screened. The </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Radio Times</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, for example, reviewing TND, argued: ‘For the first hour or so, this 18</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">James Bond movie is up there with the best of them: it has terrific pace, Pierce Brosnan’s 007 has romantic and rough-house appeal, Michelle Yeoh’s Chinese agent is more than a match for him in the action stakes, and the story has grip and even plausibility. Sadly, the second half doesn’t quite sustain the momentum, while Jonathan Pryce’s media mogul… proves to be an unthreatening villain’ (ouch!). But the review then added: ‘Flaws aside, this was at the time the best Bond movie since the heyday of Connery’…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">The World Is Not Another Day:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The same magazine, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Radio Times</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, gave Brosnan’s next two films enthusiastic reviews: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">TWINE</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was called a ‘welcome return to the gritty glamour of such early outings as </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">From Russia With Love</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">: ‘Pierce Brosnan is clearly comfortable as 007, both in the dramatic sequences and during the spectacular stunts… Matching him every step of the way are Sophie Marceau, the best Bond girl in ages, and Robert Carlyle, who is perfect as a vicious villain’. Refreshingly (given the bad press it so often gets), the magazine’s review a week later of DAD gave Brosnan’s final Bond outing high praise: ‘Pierce Brosnan is on fine form as a betrayed and vengeful 007, combining the secret agent’s charm and throwaway wit with true toughness and a streak of venom. Such character-broadening traits ensure that the format never feels stale, while the introduction of Halle berry as an equal, if underdeveloped, female sidekick is a coup’…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Mo(o)re Bond:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The ITV-4 channel of the UK’s ITV network also had in a full season of all the Roger Moore 007 films, showing each one weekly and consecutively, culminating in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">A View To A Kill</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on Friday, 28</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> May, 2021. It was double-0 heaven…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bond on the Box Again: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The ITV network in the UK were then back with Bond movie TV screenings during August, 2021, this time of Connery’s James Bond films as the momentum built up for the release of Bond 25. George Lazenby’s one-off film </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">OHMSS</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> was also included in the season, and Connery’s sixth movie as 007, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Diamonds Are Forever</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, was screened on ITV-1 on Sunday, 26</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> September, in a mid-afternoon slot. Clearly, it was all timed to tap into </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">NTTD</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> fever…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">No Time To Diet:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> A recent edition of the BBC Radio-4 comedy series </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Dead Ringers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> had a nice 007 sketch. After being confined to Covid ‘lockdown’, James Bond returns to work at MI6 HQ and discovers all MI6 staff are still working from home. Moreover, he finds that he himself has put on extra weight and urgently sends out a request to ‘Q’ branch: ‘Bring me some elasticated trousers!’… </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Golden Touch:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Fans of film soundtrack music were given a real treat back in January when, on Monday, 25</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> January, BBC-4 screened a special documentary, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Score</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Cinema’s Greatest Soundtracks</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. An impressive ‘Who’s Who’ of the leading film composers discussed in the documentary included – naturally - John Barry, and also the latest Bond composer Hans Zimmer. If you get the opportunity to view this, then do so. It’s a real treat…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">For Your Car Ears Only:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Interestingly, on 7</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> May, 2021, the UK’s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Daily Mail</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">newspaper carried a profile of Hans Zimmer, and revealed that the latest 007 composer had recently been hard at work for the motor company BMW (Zimmer is a big fan of cars, and BMWs in particular). His mission? To create new soundscapes for the inside of cars. Zimmer explained: ‘We have an extraordinary opportunity to turn electric driving in a BMW into a very special experience with the help of great sounds’. The composer, who has his main studio in Santa Monica, California, had been working closely with a BMW sound engineer to create a sound repertoire for a variety of driving modes in BMW models. It sounded intriguing! Zimmer’s postponed 2021 live European music tour will now take place in 2022, and will include gigs in London, Manchester and Dublin. And, of course, there is his long-awaited soundtrack for </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> which, we understand, will form part of his repertoire on the 2022 tour… </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bonding with Graham:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The lovely and highly-talented Rosamund Pike, who played double-agent Miranda Frost in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Die Another Day</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, was one of the guests on </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Graham Norton Show</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, shown on BBC-1 on 19</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February. Rosamund was on the show to help publicise her new dark comedy thriller </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">I Care a Lot</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, for which she had been nominated for a Golden Globe…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Another Way To Try: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">The UK’s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Daily Telegraph</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> newspaper (20</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> February, 2021) published an enthusiastic - if slightly late - review of </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">The Lost Adventures of James Bond </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">(2020), the fascinating new book by American journalist and author Mark Edlitz (the JBIFC did an item on the book in our Xmas, 2020, Newsletter). The </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Telegraph</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, perhaps inevitably, zoomed in on some of the more bizarre plot proposals that never made it on to the big screen. It’s a great read for those fans who like to speculate on the ‘what if’ and ‘lost Bond’ aspects of James Bond history…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Reporting for Duty Again: </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">It was </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">so</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> good to see Daniel Craig return, even if briefly, as James Bond for a humorous sketch for the BBC’s Comic Relief charity fundraising evening, held on Friday, 19</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> March, otherwise known as ‘Red Nose Day’ in the UK. This can still be caught on the internet if you search carefully…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">From a View To a Thrill:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Fans of Duran Duran, who provided the great title song for Roger Moore’s 007</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> and final adventure as Bond in 1985, were able to catch ‘Duran 40’, a two-part BBC radio-2 programme transmitted on 8</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> May (part 1) and 15</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> May (part 2), presented by Claudia Winkleman to mark the 40</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> anniversary of the UK chart run of their single ‘Planet Earth’. The Bond dimension always gets coverage in any profile of them and it is clear the band remain very proud of their dalliance with double-0 music heaven…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Seydoux interviewed:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Acclaimed actress Lea Seydoux, who reprises her role in </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, was profiled in the UK’s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Guardian</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> newspaper on 17</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> July. Unfortunately, she had experienced a major piece of bad luck when she was due to make an appearance at the 2021 Cannes film festival: she had tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19, and so had to spend the festival period in isolation in Paris. Her interview with the newspaper thus had to take place on the phone, and the main thing that emerged was that Lea was feeling very bored being in lockdown in her house. Bond was inevitably mentioned in the interview. On her reprisal of Madeleine Swann, Lea commented: ‘The challenge with Bond is adapting to a different genre. I’ve done more independent films in my career, so to be on a big machine like James Bond is interesting. And yes, of course, it’s an entertainment… it’s made to entertain’. She added that making Bond took her out of her ‘comfort zone’ and was also ‘fun’. It was, she said: ‘Great stunts, great locations. Something bigger than life’… </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">No Time To Try:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The creator the best-selling Jack Reacher novels, author Lee Child, revealed in the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Sunday Times</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> on 12</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> September that, in the early 2000s, he was twice approached to write a Bond novel to coincide with the 2008 centenary of Fleming’s birth. He said it would have been ‘an uneconomic use of my time’ because he would have had to share royalties. Instead, Sebastian Faulks was given the challenge, and penned </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Devil May Care</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. Lee Child also commented that he couldn’t figure out how to make the Bond story ‘relevant to the modern day’. Well, perhaps something called your creative imagination was necessary, Mr. Child? Other authors have managed the challenge admirably… </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Sky High:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The UK’s ‘Sky Max’ cable and satellite channel screened a great documentary on Saturday, 25</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> September, entitled </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">007: The Daniel Craig Years</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, which looked back on his five films as James Bond as he prepared for the release of the latest movie. Superb…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Welcome Back Graphic Bond:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> As part of all the tie-in publicity around </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">No Time To Die</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, the UK’s </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Sunday Express</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> newspaper on September 26</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> began a re-run of the famous </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Express</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> Bond cartoon strip, drawn by John McLusky (and, later, others), starting with </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Casino Royale</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">. The cartoon strip first began back in 1958 and ran for many years, serialising all the Fleming books, the Kingsley Amis Bond continuation novel, and various original stories. It was pure gold and now is the opportunity to revisit an old friend, brilliantly drawn…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Bond at his Best:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> The UK’s ITV-1 TV channel screened a truly excellent documentary on the evening of Sunday, 26</span><sup style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0;">th</sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> September, two days prior to the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">NTTD</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;"> premiere. Entitled </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Being James Bond</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px;">, the programme enabled Craig to look back and reflect on his 15 years as 007. He was in great form, taking time to offer a range of thoughts on his long service as Fleming’s ‘blunt instrument’. And, in a great bonus for Bond fans, it included some unseen behind-the-scenes footage. It was another dose of double-0 heaven, and included interesting comments from the EON producers… </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="" class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" valign="top" width="100%"><div class="gl-contains-image"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="editor-image" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" border="0" class="" hspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/f3cbd4ab-8b21-4262-8d4b-899fc61ada1c.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100%;" vspace="0" width="599" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div align="left" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Merry Christmas, 007!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The JBIFC sends very warm seasonal wishes to all our readers, supporters, and many good friends in Britain and across the globe. We do hope that you have enjoyed all our regular website news items, stories and other updates on the 007 universe during the course of 2020. <br />We wish you all a very Merry Xmas and a truly great New Year, despite these Covid times. And what a year 2021 still promises to be! <br />The 25<sup>th</sup> James Bond adventure, <i>No Time To Die</i>, in the reliable and imaginative hands of director Cary Fukunaga, promises to see Daniel Craig go out in spectacular style. The new film's release was, of course, delayed twice during the course of 2020 due to Covid-19 concerns, and the new release plan is that (hopefully!) it will now hit our screens in April, 2021. <br />If that is <i>indeed</i> the case, we confidently predict that, by the spring, a state of excitement will be building again, with fans everywhere more than eager to catch their favourite hero back on the screen after such a long wait. Welcome back, Mr. Bond - we've been more than expecting you. <br />And if you don't appear until autumn, 2021, or even 2022... we'll still be waiting, as Bond fans are forever!</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 5px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.261" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/49a776e8-62fd-40d4-809b-02ce5fa87e7a.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>007 Heaven</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Before the new Bond movie <i>No Time To Die</i> was delayed for a second time, the second big marketing push on the movie had started in a major way, and Bond fans were able to get further exciting glimpses of the 25<sup>th</sup>Bond adventure. The publicity machine really geared up on 3<sup>rd</sup> September, when EON released the full trailer for the new film, which at that stage was still planned for release on 12<sup>th</sup> November. A 'taster' trailer had already been released earlier in 2020, and the new full trailer released in September on YouTube provided featured further intriguing insights into the dramatic stunts and powerful storyline of the 25<sup>th</sup> Bond adventure. <br />The caption to the trailer on Twitter proclaimed: 'The mission that changes everything begins...'. And it was breath-taking stuff! The two-and-a-half minute trailer certainly provided some great footage to wet our appetites. There were scenes, for example, from the location filming in Matera in Italy (including the car chase and bridge leap sequences), shots of the Cuban actress Ana de Armas (who plays US Intelligence operative Paloma) engaged in fighting while wearing a floor-length gown, and further clues about the mystery attached to Dr. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux). Indeed, Blofeld is heard saying of Swann: 'When her secret finds its way out, that will be the death of him'. The trailer also gave some further tantalising shots of the high-speed glider that can dive into the sea, while carrying Bond and new double-0 agent Nomi (Lashana Lynch). <br />The trailer also appeared to promise quite an epic feel to the new movie, as Craig's Bond declares at one point: 'If we don't do this, there will be nothing left to save'. All this was also topped off pleasingly with some further clues about the scary new villain Safin, played by Rami Malek, who is heard saying to Bond: 'We both eradicate people to make the world a better place. I just want to be a little... tidier'. It was a chilling comment, and it looks very much like Safin will be a truly formidable foe for our James. <br />As the UK's <i>Daily Express</i> put it (on 4<sup>th</sup> September), the trailer was '007 Heaven'.</span></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Safin Speaks</b></strong><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 525px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 5px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.206" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/ec4cf40f-0bea-40e2-8170-a1b9ddd7609b.jpg" vspace="0" width="525" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rami Malek was given front-cover prominence in the December, 2020, issue of the glossy British edition of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">GQ</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine, which also featured a detailed interview with and profile of the actor. And it is clear that he will invest his villain Safin with a particularly cold and ruthless approach to trying to change the world. In a dig at the latest delay to the release of <br /></span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No Time To Die</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the magazine cheekily entitled its front cover: 'A Bond villain worth waiting (and waiting) for'. The interview inside the magazine with the Oscar-winning actor, which took place at the London Hotel in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles, offered a few new clues on how Bond's latest nemesis will convey his evil (even though Malek plays his cards very close to his chest), and was very thoughtful and readable. The occasion was the first time he had been outside of England since before the Covid-19 pandemic had struck properly last March, and he was in fine form. <br />He explained: 'This is very much home and not just in heart' (he grew up just a few miles away, in Sherman Oaks), adding: 'So it's been really sweet to spend time with the family in the last few days, even with the masks on'.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Win, Lose or Try</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">With regard to his decision to take on the role as the main villain in <i>NTTD</i>, Malek told <i>GQ</i> readers: 'Look, there was no way I was going to say no. It's a 007 film, man. They're part of our cinematic history'. Moreover, the fact that it was Daniel Craig's last film as James Bond only added to the appeal: 'An opportunity to go toe-to-toe, head-to-head with Daniel and give them all I got? That's something I'll look back on as as big as it gets'. One interesting point that emerged from the interview, which not everyone has picked up on yet, is that the Japanese Noh mask which Safin wears early on in the movie is a mask which appears to have different expressions depending on the light and angle at which it is viewed. This adds, in a sense, to Malek's multi-layered portrayal. In addition, some insights were given in the <i>GQ</i> profile on the goals the creative goals that Malek shared with the director Cary Fukunaga: one of their goals was apparently to make sure Safin was not a caricatured villain who divulges details of his plan in the traditional Bond villain way. Towards the end of the interview, Malek was asked about the implications of the Covid pandemic for the release of <i>NTTD</i>. He responded: 'Essentially, we make these films for entertainment. So ultimately it would be great if people feel it's safe enough to see this film in the cinema. And maybe that could be some sort of normalcy, whatever that is. And I hope that it is possible for reasons bigger than this film'. </span></div><br /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContentWidth MobFullWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK77" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="MainText Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #0e76bc; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.262" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/039b5534-012b-417a-9b04-a5536be86438.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>From a View To a Thrill</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Rami Malek's final observations in the <i>GQ</i> interview raise interesting questions. How do you like your Bond film viewings? On the small or <br />on the big-screen in a cinema theatre? There are numerous Bond fans out there who were first introduced to the world of James Bond via the small TV screen, got the 'Bond bug' from that medium, and then graduated to the big-screen and the thrill of seeing new 007 adventures in the cinema. What constitutes a 'small' screen today, of course, is open to debate, as many viewers have cinema-style TV systems in the comfort of their own homes. And who can blame them? However, there is still something rather special and truly thrilling about seeing a new James Bond movie at the cinema on the big screen, which is, after all, the ultimate cathedral to the world of moving pictures. <br />There is nothing quite like it! After all, the James Bond movies, with their larger-than-life thrills and spills, great stories and glossy production values, were absolutely made for big-screen audience consumption and mass entertainment. The original producers, Harry Saltzman and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, were especially passionate about this. They were right. Anybody who has been able to attend a Bond film premiere, for example, will tell you that there is something rather 'delicious' (as Elliot Carver would say) about seeing Bond on the big screen in a brand new adventure.</span></div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>No Time To Sigh</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.263" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/f5804d92-423f-48f1-863f-b8ed512ebaf1.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These are some of the points that have emerged again with the dilemmas over the state of the box-office at cinemas in the UK and around the world, given the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, many cinemas in the USA, a key market for Bond, have been closed for most of the year. The major studios have thus been struggling in 2020 with the question of whether to release new films direct to streaming and video-on-demand, or still place their faith in traditional theatrical releases, pushing new films well into next year or even further (which, of course, piles on costs). <br />Cinema managers in Britain were especially hopeful that the planned release of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No Time To Die</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in November, 2020, would add a badly-needed boost to the UK box-office, and so were very disappointed when the release was delayed again. <br />In fact, two days after the latest delay was announced, Cineworld publicly announced that it was closing all its UK and U.S. screens for the foreseeable future, and a number of grumpy commentators in the British press blamed the closures solely on the producers of the delayed Bond movie. This was very unfair. What should be remembered is that </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">NTTD</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">was made for an estimated £195 million, and the makers need to get that investment back and much more on top, so it must have been an agonising decision to delay the release yet again. But the economics just did not add up under current on-off-on lockdown conditions. <br />It should also be borne in mind that the EON producers, who have managed to hold on to one of the movie industry's last family-run businesses, still have a huge and commendable faith in the beauty and power of the big screen, and feel - ideally - that Bond deserves to be seen on the big cinema screen before any other medium. It is difficult to disagree.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MobFullWidth ContentWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="MainText Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #0e76bc; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="color: black;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Never Send Flowers</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Interestingly, in light of all this debate and controversy about the future of the cinema and the traditional big screen, early December saw something of an alliance form between leading UK directors on the topic. First out of the block was director Paul Greengrass, whose films include entries in the <i>Bourne</i> spy franchise (and was once seen as a possible contender to direct a Bond film). <br />In comments to the media, Greengrass made a strong defence of cinema, praising the decision to give his new film, <i>News of the World</i>, a U.S. theatrical release, despite the pandemic. He admitted that it might struggle at the box-office, but said: 'Somewhere in the big-screen experience, you are elevated and healed'. He added: 'I love that Universal, a movie studio that of course is twitching like all the studios and all of us are in the pandemic, is going for the collective experience... we have to try and somehow keep these collective experiences going. It's an expression of the deep commitment that studio has to the craft of film-making and the theatrical experience that means so much in all our societies'. <br />Similarly, director Christopher Nolan, whose spy movie <i>Tenet</i> was released in cinemas in the autumn (fall), also spoke out. His latest action movie has now taken about $350 million globally, although it underperformed in the U.S. and UK markets. Nolan condemned Warner Bros for its recent controversial decision to release all its films for 2021 on a streaming service at the same time as in cinemas (a radical change in its business model, which means that cinemas will no longer have an exclusive window in which to show its films). <br />Nolan said this change betrayed film-makers who wish to preserve cinema as the best place to see films, and had been done without any consultation with stars and directors. He added that he still believed that cinemas would bounce back in the long term and that they would still be profitable if they were allowed to continue. When the vaccine has been rolled out, he added, he was 'very bullish on the long-term prospects of the industry. People love going to the movies and they're going to get to go again'. One can almost hear the cheers of support from other film-makers, including, we suspect, from EON.</span></div></div><div><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>The World of the 'Lost' Bonds</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 243px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" height="314" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.264" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/a35ba1a1-8bb1-4739-98d9-e4b78f7c38e9.jpg" vspace="0" width="243" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A great piece of reading during 2020 was the publication in September of the new book </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Lost Adventures of James Bond</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, written by Mark Edlitz, a book we suspect will appear in the Christmas stockings of numerous Bond fans. It was the second book from Edlitz, who previously authored </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Many Lives of James Bond</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (2019), an excellent read which had examined the Bond character through the eyes of the numerous artists of all kinds who have interpreted him over the years. Edlitz's latest book maintained this high standard, with discussion of various unmade or 'forgotten' 007 projects. <br />As many Bond aficionados know, there has been a huge thirst in recent years for 'what might have been' style investigations of the 007 books that were never written, or the Bond films that were proposed but never made, or the James Bond TV series that </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">nearly</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> were. In that sense, any book on the topic is bound to be a sure-fire hit, and Edlitz has delivered on this in many ways, skilfully drawing together numerous scattered strands to provide fans with very interesting summaries of Timothy Dalton's 'third' and 'fourth' James Bond films and other unmade 007 adventures. The treatment for the third Dalton movie had the working title of 'Bond 17', while the 'fourth' was apparently entitled </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reunion with Death </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(which is a title many have not heard of before). <br />Edlitz also has chapters on Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan's 'Lost' Bond movies i.e. the proposed storylines for </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Spy Who Loved Me</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moonraker</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Goldeneye</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> that did not make it into production in the end (although there is some tantalising evidence that some of the ideas for Dalton's 'third' movie were not wasted and did end up in Brosnan's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Goldeneye</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">). It is a very entertaining book, and we are sure it will have healthy sales. As the JBIFC has found, anything on 'alternative' or unmade 007 treatments tends to be very popular with fans. A couple of blogs on Dalton's unmade 'third' Bond on our website in recent years have been among the most regularly visited blogs we have ever published!</span></div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="InnerBGColor BottomFullColumn" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; padding: 0px;" valign="top" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MobFullWidth ContentWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK25" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><div><b>More 'Unseen' Bonds</b></div><div><b><br /></b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 241px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" height="341" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.265" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/0b1c2e26-f673-4f92-bc79-c44ab1223bea.jpg" vspace="0" width="241" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">While on the subject of 'unmade' or 'unseen' alternative James Bond movies, by coincidence the latest issue of the excellent British Sci-fi and fantasy magazine <i>Infinity</i> (no.31, 2020), which hit retail outlets in the UK in December, contained a glossy 7-page article on 'The Bond Movies That Never Were', penned by Brian J. Robb. This took the reader through some familiar but nevertheless still fascinating accounts of the Bond movies that were briefly talked about or even planned, but never made. For example, did you know that one idea was to have Cary Grant as James Bond in a 007 adventure directed by Alfred Hitchcock? The idea was possibly influenced by their earlier collaboration on the highly successful <i>North by Northwest</i> (1959). Although Grant was aged 58 by 1962, he still seemed suave and 'Bondian' and was apparently on the EON producers' radar as a possible choice for the first big-screen James Bond. However, the story (whether true or not) is that Grant himself turned down the possibility, as he did not want to become involved in a multi-film spy series. Similarly, the article by Brian Robb gave <i>Infinity</i>readers a tour of the ins-and-outs of the proposed Dalton 'third' 007 adventure, apparently titled <i>Portrait of a Lady</i> (hmmm, surely <i>Property of a Lady</i>?). Robb's article also had plenty of detail on many of the other actors who were considered as leading candidates for the role of the big-screen 007, such as Patrick McGoohan and, much further on in the evolution of the series, James Brolin (who was screen-tested) and Sam Neill (who was also tested). There was also some discussion of the various Kevin McClory Bond projects, and some coverage of the so-called 'fifth' Brosnan movie that never was - a version of <i>Casino Royale</i>directed by Quentin Tarantino (a big Bond fan). Tarantino was apparently keen to direct a back-to-basics version of Fleming's first 007 novel, which (as we know) <i>did</i> eventually happen - but without Tarantino or Brosnan! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>On Her Majesty's Cougar Sold</b></span></div></div></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><div><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.266" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/22fd8fe0-e6fa-4241-b269-acc47c0ecd49.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The many fans of George Lazenby's one-off Bond movie </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (1969) were reminded what a powerful and classic movie the director Peter Hunt gave us when one of the cars used in the production was put up for auction on 16</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> December, 2020, at Bonhams, the famous auctioneers on New Bond Street in central London. The car in question, Lot 104 in the auction, was a red 1969 Mercury Cougar Convertible XR-7, driven in the film by Countess Teresa (Tracy) di Vincenzo, played by the late Diana Rigg. <br />It is thought to be one of three (some sources say four) Cougars used in the production. Finished in a Candy Apple Red with a black roof, this particular model was used for the romantic Barn scene in the movie, where James Bond talks about marriage with Tracy as they take refuge from the night's snowy wind-storm and have a rest from being chased by Blofeld and his men. The Cougar, although in poor condition before it was renewed by the seller, was still in relatively good shape as it was not involved in the now famous ice-race chase sequence, which saw damage to the other Cougars used. It sold for the eye-watering and princely sum of £356,500. Wow. Even Blofeld would be jealous!</span></div><br /></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MobFullWidth ContentWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK26" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="MainText Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #0e76bc; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><div style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Another Way to Dig</b></span></div><br /><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" height="289" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.267" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/cf4ed00b-69f8-41ce-a6d4-f248874eb734.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To lose one 'M' was bad enough, but to lose her successor, Gareth Mallory, would be a major catastrophe! Watch out for Ralph 'M' Fiennes in the new BBC film </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Dig</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, directed by Simon Stone and co-starring Carey Mulligan, which is released on Netflix from 29</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> January, 2021. It is based on John Preston's historical novel about the famous 1939 excavation at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, Eastern England, where the royal burial ship of an Anglo-Saxon King was discovered by a self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Fiennes). To make the scenes as realistic as possible, the Australian director Stone buried real artefacts around the sight to capture the moments on film when the stars genuinely discovered things while digging. Similarly, according to Carey Mulligan, there was also a scene where Fiennes was entombed in dirt and Mulligan's character, Edith Pretty, had to urgently scrabble through the soil to dig him out and free him. She told the UK's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Daily Mail</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: 'It was the most terrifying moment of my career! I was responsible for getting the soil away from his face. As the cameras came down, all I could think was: "Don't let me kill Ralph Fiennes!"'. Interestingly, while some filming took place in East Anglia (mostly at the seaside town of Cromer, not far from the original site, in December, 2019), most of the principal photography took place at the small hamlet of Shackleton, near Godalming in the county of Surrey, in October and November, 2019. This is an area that will be familiar to those of us with an interest in Bond location filming, such as </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The World Is Not Enough</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Die Another Day</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Skyfall</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. For the latter, for example, some of the key Scottish scenes were shot at Hankley Common, Ministry Of Defence land at Elstead, a village a few miles away from Godalming. The Skyfall Lodge, Bond's Scottish ancestral home, was constructed at Hankley, and CGI was used to provide some background.</span></div></span></div></div><div style="color: black;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><div class="MainText" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Remembering the Admiral </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 515px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.268" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/9800ced4-2263-46b9-86b2-05dc6238475f.jpg" vspace="0" width="515" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was only in one James Bond movie, but he still had a great impact and seemed perfectly cast as a man who did not suffer fools gladly.Geoffrey Palmer, who sadly died in November aged 93, played the rather exasperated British Naval representative Admiral Roebuck in the operations oversight centre in </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tomorrow Never Dies </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(1997).His real-life friend and former 'M' Dame Judi Dench shared her memories of the late Geoffrey Palmer for the TV listings magazine </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Radio Times</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in November.She had worked with Palmer on the long-running and very popular comedy series </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Time Goes By</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> on British TV from 1992 onwards. They also shared the big screen in 1997's award-winning </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mrs. Brown</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and, of course, in Pierce Brosnan's second blockbuster adventure as 007. Dame Judi said the pair had great fun on set, and if things went wrong during filming, Palmer would be in pieces laughing. Dame Judi also said that, on occasion, their sizeable height difference - he was 6ft and she is 5ft 2in - created some comedic moments. She recalled one scene in </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tomorrow Never Dies</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in which, as Bond's boss 'M', she had to descend a staircase to confront Palmer's Admiral Roebuck, which made the mismatch painfully evident: 'I don't how we got through it', she laughed. Palmer's other work during his career included three separate appearances in the popular British Sci-fi series </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Who</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (in 1970, 1972 and again in 2007).</span></div><br /></div></span></div></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ContentWidth MobFullWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK61" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="MainText Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boyd on Bond</b></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 525px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.269" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/ead7f71c-585e-4401-98b6-5a77578a7a70.jpg" vspace="0" width="525" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For aficionados of the literary James Bond, one of the highlights of the summer of 2020 was a fascinating essay penned by the Whitbread Prize-winning novelist William Boyd, who wrote the James Bond continuation novel </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solo </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(2013). Boyd has become something of a Fleming expert in recent years, and his latest piece of research into Ian Fleming's world saw him on the trail of where the Bond author actually placed 007's Chelsea flat in London. Writing in the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Times Literary Supplement</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in July, Boyd revealed that he had gone to Wellington Square, just off the famous King's Road in Chelsea, and - using clues from Fleming's novels, such as </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moonraker</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (1955), </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From Russia, With Love</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (1957), and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thunderball</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(1961) - he had pinpointed what he now believes was the precise address that Fleming had in mind when he painted in the background details for the everyday life of his fictional creation: no. 25, Wellington Square. Boyd added at the end of his article: 'That's where James Bond's flat was. Stand by for the Blue Plaque'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Boyd, Bond and Buchan</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">William Boyd remains a highly regarded novelist in the UK, and his latest novel, <i>Trio</i>, was published in October, 2020, to plenty of enthusiastic reviews. He is also well-known for all the careful research and preparation he puts into his writing, whether it is his fiction or his numerous other essays. He also regularly reviews books for serious-minded journals and magazines, especially books with an espionage-related theme. Interestingly, for example, Boyd revealed in May, 2019, that, as well as a fascination with the novels of Ian Fleming, he is also very interested in the career of the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), whose spy stories, such as <i>The Thirty-Nine Steps </i>(1915) and <i>Greenmantle</i> (1916), are sometimes seen as paving the way for the wave of espionage adventures of later years. It is thought that Buchan's work also had a big influence on the young Ian Fleming. Reviewing a new book about Buchan in the <i>New Statesman</i>, Boyd wrote that Buchan's novels are difficult to read today, but added that he believed the various screen adaptations of Buchan's work have ensured Buchan's longevity in the same way as the James Bond movies have kept Ian Fleming's name alive, 'however distant the films may be from the original books'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Live and Let Live</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 525px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.270" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/db8dbe95-8265-4c78-82de-301f8fb16976.jpg" vspace="0" width="525" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The lovely Jane Seymour, who played Solitaire in Roger Moore's first James Bond movie, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Live and Let Die</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (1973), was profiled in the 'Times 2' section of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Times</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> newspaper on 17</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> November. She talked about her new role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in a mini-series, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Glow and Darkness</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. She also reflected on her long career and life in America, where she spends most of her time (she became a U.S. citizen in 2005), and the various roles she has had there, including the title role in the acclaimed TV series </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Seymour also added her thoughts about Hollywood and ageing, and pointed out that she has never had plastic surgery, as she needs to be able to move her face! <br />And, inevitably, she was also asked about Bond. The British, she reckons, still think of her as a Bond girl, even though it is 50 years since she landed the role of Solitaire in </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Live and Let Die</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. <br />She was only 20 at the time: 'I was very grateful for the gig and I am to this day grateful to have been part of something that is so iconic and continues to pass the test of time'. The profile noted that the recent obituaries of Sean Connery had often described him as the best Bond. Seymour, who got to know Connery years later when they played at the same golf club, said that Sean was the first Bond she watched while growing up and she thought he was 'magnificent' in the role. She added: 'I think it's not a question of who's the best Bond, it's a question of who was your Bond, and when I got to do the Bond film it was with Roger. I think Roger was a wonderful Bond in the sort of Austin Powers tongue-in-cheek era'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Some Quantum But Little Solace?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 525px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.271" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/374ebbaf-5a1b-46a7-abad-90cde3520f83.jpg" vspace="0" width="525" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bond woman Gemma Arterton, who played MI6 agent Strawberry Fields in Craig's second Bond movie </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quantum of Solace</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, appeared on the front cover of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> magazine (a supplement of the UK's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sunday Telegraph</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">) on 6</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> September, and gave an in-depth interview about her career and her upcoming role in Matthew Vaughn's new action movie </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The King's Man</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(due out in February, 2021). She said she enjoyed the 'pistol-whipping', but said not enough of it made it into the final cut. <br />The new film is a prequel to the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kingsman</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> spy movies, and also stars Ralph 'M' Fiennes. Arterton has expressed mixed feelings in recent times about her part in </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quantum</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and has been accused by some critics of being too keen to bite the spoon that fed her, as her comments must be a bit disappointing to Barbara Broccoli. <br />Again, in this interview, Arterton said that despite the 'enormous gratitude' she feels towards Broccoli, she had no idea 'how long that film would follow me around' and would not choose a role like Strawberry Fields now, as the character had no 'backstory'. On the other hand, Arterton said she hoped screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge has given the new James Bond movie some 'good lines', including some funny punch-lines. Arterton has certainly been a pioneer for women in the film industry - in 2013 she co-founded a new UK-based production company, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rebel Park</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, which has focused on getting more women involved in every aspect of film-making, an ambition that is undoubtedly shared by Barbara Broccoli.</span></div></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MobFullWidth ContentWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK22" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="MainText Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><div><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><b>Did You Know?</b></span></div><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="OneColumnMobile" data-padding-converted="true" style="width: 255px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"><img border="0" height="369" hspace="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.272" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/239341c6201/b612b3f1-39f8-474a-bed4-5ec3b9f63abc.jpg" vspace="0" width="255" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli has been very active in helping to create opportunities for women and young people generally to break into the movie business in the UK. She is a Trustee of the charity 'Into Film', the film education charity for young people aged 5-19, and she also has an Honorary role at 'Women in Film and Television UK'.</span></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MobFullWidth ContentWidth" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK29" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="Content" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 15px 15px 0px;" valign="top"><div style="font-size: 14pt;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bond Bits: Brief Items of News You May Have Missed</b></div><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><div><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Golden Memories: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In a little-noticed piece in <i>The New European</i>newspaper in late April, the showbiz journalist Tim Walker used his weekly 'Star Turns' column to recall his interviews with the very hard-working Hammer Horror star Sir Christopher Lee, who played Scaramanga in <i>The Man With The Golden Gun</i> (1974), and also had key roles in the <i>Star Wars</i> and <i>Lord of the Rings</i> franchises. What struck Walker was how seriously Lee took his acting profession and roles. He also noted how the easy-going Roger Moore was intrigued by Lee when they appeared together. Although Moore liked Lee, he admitted he couldn't help but tease a man who was so profoundly earnest...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Fleming, Uncle Fleming:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The April, 2020, issue of the British magazine <i>The Oldie</i> (which is aimed at an 'older' generation of readers) contained a great article by Kate Grimmond on her famous Uncle, Ian Fleming. She recalled that, for her, her sister, and her brother, a visit from Uncle Ian was 'a tonic', as he would make them all laugh, telling them interesting facts and tales of foreign places. Her article gave a nice new perspective on the famous creator of 007... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Shaken But Not Stirred:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The same issue of <i>The Oldie</i> also contained an article by Mary Clive, who recalled her personal memories of Ian Fleming, with whom she dined once a week over a period from autumn, 1937, to May, 1938. She said every time he was different, and it was 'like peeling an onion. You peeled off layer after layer'. She described Fleming as like an enormously difficult crossword puzzle...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Loving Honor:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The June, 2020, issue of the magazine <i>Best of British Past and Present</i> was a must for Bond magazine collectors as it contained a great Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) cover, and a very nice 2-page tribute by Chris Hallam to the <i>Goldfinger</i> star, who sadly passed away earlier this year. He noted that Honor privately delighted in embarrassing interviewers by saying her character's name as often as possible! Pure gold...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Row Royale: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The very hard-working French actress Eva Green, who made such an impact as Vesper Lynd in <i>Casino Royale</i> (2006), opposite Daniel Craig's 007, was in the news in August, but not for reasons she necessarily welcomed. It was reported that Green was embroiled in a legal row over claims that she had scuppered <i>A Patriot</i>, a British science fiction film starring Charles Dance. The film was to go into production in the summer of 2019, but the shoot fell through, and Green had issued legal proceedings in the High Court in London, demanding a $1 million fee. The production company concerned has issued a counter-claim for alleged losses it incurred after the film fell through, claiming Green's claim was 'without merit' and that she had breached her contract by withdrawing from the film without notice. Green's legal team responded that their client had 'an unblemished professional reputation' and had never been in breach of her contractual obligations. Sounds like she should call the SPECTRE special operations branch to sort things out...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Best Bond?</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> He may be stepping down as 007, but Daniel Craig still has plenty of big fans in the print media. Journalist Jan Moir, for example, used her weekly column in the UK's <i>Daily Mail</i> on 14<sup>th</sup> August to proclaim that, despite polls on the best Bond placing Connery and Moore highly, her hero remained Daniel. As far as she is concerned, she wrote, Craig 'is the only Bond who looks like he really means it'...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>In Love with From Russia:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The showbiz writer Kevin Maher devoted a double-page spread to the '10 Best Spy Films' in the Arts section of <i>The Times</i> newspaper on 21<sup>st</sup> August. No.5 in the list was <i>The Ipcress File</i>(1965), produced by Harry Saltzman and with its superb John Barry score. At no.8 was 007 movie <i>From Russia, With Love</i> (1963), which Maher wrote was: 'Not just quintessential Sean Connery, but quintessential "spy movie" Bond'. Maher added that <i>FRWL</i> 'unfolds like a profoundly "old-fashioned" spy story', and, 'best of all', it has an extended sequence set aboard the Orient Express...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Live and Let Laugh:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> It has sometimes been tough to retain a sense of humour in a pandemic year with regular lock-downs, but a good laugh is sometimes the best medicine. A cartoon by the talented artist Paul Thomas in the UK's <i>Daily Mail</i> newspaper on 28<sup>th</sup> August had a great illustration of Ernst Stavro Blofeld sitting in front of a console with multi-TV screens all showing scenes from the world of James Bond (a satellite, sharks, Oddjob, a volcano, rockets, etc). This also included one of Daniel Craig's 007 boiling the kettle and making toast in his flat's kitchen! The dastardly Blofeld, complete with his white cat wearing a face-mask, is bemused at Bond and taunts: 'Fear you? Come, come, Mr. Bond - we both know you're STILL not back in the office'...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>What Next for 'M'? </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The showbiz columnist Baz Bamigboye revealed in his column in the <i>Daily Mail</i> on 4<sup>th</sup> September that Dame Judi Dench, who played Bond's boss to both Brosnan and Craig's versions of 007, will portray the grandmother of actor Kenneth Branagh in a semi-autobiographical film that Branagh has been shooting about his early childhood growing up in Norther Ireland...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Join the 'Q':</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> Would you like to drive one of the new limited edition Aston Martin DB5 <i>Goldfinger</i> Continuation cars (see our previous Newsletter), which recently went into production? Then join the 'Q' (groan!). Car expert Jeremy Taylor penned an entertaining piece in the 'Saturday' section of the UK's <i>Daily Telegraph</i> on 12<sup>th</sup> September which shared with readers his experiences of road-testing one of the new Astons (well, 'road-testing' is not quite the right term, as it comes with one caveat - it cannot be driven on the road, for health and safety reasons). The Continuation models complete with gadgets, including 'machine guns', tyre-slashers and (replica) radar tracking system. Sounds perfect for all those annoying traffic jams, if only they could be used! And Taylor's verdict? He said, for his money, he'd happily sacrifice all the gadgets just to be able to purr along the open road in such an iconic car as the DB5... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Dr. No's Duke: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Keep an eye out for the new film <i>The Duke</i>, starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent, which was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. It is about the man who stole the famous painting by Goya of the Duke of Wellington, which was on display in the National Gallery. The painting will seem familiar to you. There's a great in-joke in Sean Connery's debut Bond movie <i>Dr. No</i> when, as Bond and Honey are about to have dinner with the villainous Doctor, 007 is surprised to see the painting sitting in No's lair. It was a great touch, and amused audiences at the time who immediately got the joke...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>License Renewed: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Fans of the recent BBC radio adaptations of the Ian Fleming novels, with former <i>Die Another Day</i> villain Toby Stephens as James Bond, were given a real treat in November, when three of the dramas were given a repeat transmission on BBC Radio-4 on three consecutive Saturdays: <i>Thunderball</i> (14<sup>th</sup> November), <i>Moonraker</i> (21<sup>st</sup>November), and <i>Diamonds Are Forever</i> (28<sup>th</sup> November). The adaptations are much appreciated for their very close adherence to the original novels. Double-o Heaven...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>From Golden High to Fallen Sky:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> In our previous Newsletter we noted that the famous radio telescope in Puerto Rico that was used in Goldeneye was in serious danger of collapse. Unfortunately, it was confirmed on 3<sup>rd</sup> December that the 57-year old telescope, which was often used to search for signs of extraterrestrial life, has now collapsed. A least the magnificence of the telescope was captured on film forever, albeit in a fight between 007 and villain! The word is that it will be too expensive to replace in the immediate future...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Moore the Merrier: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The very entertaining book <i>Raising an Eyebrow</i>: <i>My Life With Sir Roger Moore</i>, by Gareth Owen, in which he recalls his life as the late Sir Roger's agent and PA, was one of the publications which appeared in the <i>Daily Mail</i>'s Christmas Books selection on December 4<sup>th</sup>. The book was part of the newspaper's pick of the year's best TV and showbiz memoirs. And deservedly so...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Role of Honour:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The UK's <i>Observer</i> Sunday newspaper on 13<sup>th</sup>December devoted its 'New Review' section to those we lost in 2020, and included a tribute to Sean Connery by his close friend Jackie Stewart, who spent some time with him not long before he died in the Bahamas, and a tribute to Diana Rigg by the actor (and Bond fan) Mark Gatiss...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Farewell, Smithers:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The JBIFC were sad to hear of the passing of actor Jeremy Bulloch, who died on 17<sup>th</sup> December, aged 75, of complications from Parkinson's disease. Perhaps best known for his role as Boba Fett, the galaxy's most notorious bounty hunter in the <i>Star Wars</i> franchise, he also appeared in <i>Dr. Who</i> and, as a naval crewman, in <i>The Spy Who Loved Me</i>. His next two Bond appearances saw him injecting some welcome humour as Smithers, Q's gadgets assistant in <i>For Your Eyes Only</i> and <i>Octopussy</i>. Farewell, good friend...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Bonding Together: </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The UK's BBC-1 TV channel, which scheduled a new festive three-parter, <i>Black Narcissus</i> (about a convent school in the Himalayas) for Christmas viewing, brought together two former Bond women, Gemma Arterton (<i>Quantum of Solace</i>) as Sister Clodagh and the late Diana Rigg (<i>OHMSS</i>) as Mother Dorothea. In fact, sadly, the series, which was mainly shot at Pinewood Studios, was the final screen appearance for Dame Diana, who passed away in September...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Remembering and Celebrating Sir Sean:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> The January, 2021, issue of the glossy British cinema magazine <i>Empire</i>, which was published in December, contained some great coverage of the life of the late Sir Sean Connery. An article by Christina Newland explored Connery's time as James Bond and his love/hate relationship with the character, and three other articles discussed his post-Bond career in detail. It was a very nice tribute to a great star... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Peter the Great:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> Just as we were finishing this Newsletter we were given the extremely sad news of the death of Peter Lamont, the hugely talented production designer on 18 James Bond films, beginning with <i>Goldfinger</i> (1964). His last Bond movie was Casino Royale (2006), and he also worked on <i>The Ipcress File</i> and numerous other movies, culminating in an Oscar for his stunning work on <i>Titanic</i> in 1997. In a statement issued to the media, Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said that Peter 'was a much-loved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry'. We could not have put it any better...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><b>Bells, Trees and Bond at Xmas:</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> It's been a tough year for many of us, and even Christmas has been impacted by the nasty Covid pandemic. Blofeld would be pleased. So how do we cheer ourselves up, in a 'Bondian' way? The film expert Mark Kermode used his 'Christmas Special' on the UK's Scala Radio station on 19<sup>th</sup> December to celebrate festive film-scores, and this included the magnificently catchy 'Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?', sung by the Danish singer-actress Nina van Pallandt from <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i>. 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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Many seasonal wishes to all our readers, supporters, good friends and members. We do hope that you have enjoyed all our regular website news items and updates on the world of 007 during the course of 2018, and also our JBIFC Newsletter.<br />We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year, wherever you are.<br />During the second half of the year things began to really heat up in the world of the cinematic James Bond. Preliminary studio work commenced and some location recces were undertaken. The pre-planning of Bond 25 then went through a number of ups and downs, of course, with the sudden departure of one director (Danny Boyle), and next - a short while later - the selection of an exciting new replacement (in the reliable form of U.S. director Cary Fukunaga).<br />This brief period of uncertainty brought out the inevitable doom-mongers in the media (especially in the UK), and also on Bond forums on social media, individuals who are always on the lookout to criticise the EON franchise and all aspects of the fictional character originally created by Ian Fleming. However, with Cary very much on board, the year is ending on a real high for 007 aficionados. Bond 25 will commence full production at Pinewood in early March, 2019, and everything is looking both tantalising and really exciting for what is still arguably the most successful movie franchise in cinema history. Welcome back, Mr. Bond. We've been expecting you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In a major piece of surprise news for Bond fans, new director Fukunaga recently confirmed that French actress Lea Seydoux, the leading Bond woman in the last 007 movie </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Spectre </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(2015), is to return for the as-yet-untitled Bond 25.<br />According to exclusive comments made by the American director to the British </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Daily Mail </i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">showbiz journalist Baz Bamigboye, carried in the paper on 7</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">th December, Fukunaga said 'Lea will be returning', as well as MI6 HQ regulars Ralph Fiennes (as 'M'), Ben Whishaw (as 'Q'), and Naomie Harris (as Miss Eve Moneypenny). Seydoux, who played Dr. Madeleine Swann in Daniel Craig's fourth 007 adventure, will apparently reprise her role as psychiatrist Swan.<br />Bond star Craig wanted Seydoux back, and so did Fukunaga. The new director also heaped praise on the regular Bond team of actors and British actors in general, pointing out that he had worked with British thespians on many past projects: 'You have some of the best actors in the world here', commented Fukunaga. 'Why wouldn't I have the best coming back?' Well said, Cary: we are with you all the way on that point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The latest news will be very reassuring for Bond fans, signalling that, while Fukunaga will inevitably be keen to put his own distinctive brand on the new film, at the same time some welcome continuity will be retained from previous entries in the Craig cycle of the Bond franchise. The revelation also constitutes some of the first hard news on key casting for the new 007 adventure. Lea Seydoux had previously commented in interviews that she would love to return for another James Bond movie, and now it seems that the 33-year old award-winning Parisian actress is seeing her wish come true.<br />Asked at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, 2018, for example, whether or not she would like to return to Bond, she had commented: 'Of course, I would love it'. She had added: I loved working on Bond; it was actually one of my best experiences. Yes, I would love that but we'll see'. Precisely when she was officially offered a chance to return is difficult to say, but it would appear that the appointment of Fukunaga gave Craig a chance to lobby on her behalf. </span></div>
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In a sense, Seydoux will be joining a very exclusive club, which is made up of women who have made more than one appearance in a Bond movie. The circle has included the late Lois Maxwell (as Moneypenny), the late Eunice Gayson (as Sylvia Trench), Martine Beswicke (two separate roles), Maud Adams (two separate roles), and past and present Moneypenny actresses Caroline Bliss, Samantha Bond and Naomie Harris. Dame Judi Dench, of course, also played 'M' opposite two Bond actors, Brosnan and Craig.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Interestingly, just one day after the Bamigboye <i>Daily Mail </i>report, <i>Variety</i>,the highly respected American screen entertainment industry journal, expanded slightly on the 'Seydoux will return' revelation by noting some other brief details concerning the casting for Bond 25. According to <i>Variety</i>: 'Besides Seydoux, EON is looking for two other actresses - one would play an MI6 agent who works with Bond and another a mystery woman - as well as the Bond villain'. The journal noted that, according to 'insiders', the actor Rami Malek (who played the rock singer Freddie Mercury in the recent 2018 biopic movie about the famous band <i>Queen</i>) was being eyed for the role of the main baddie. However, Malek's availability was said to be uncertain, due to his commitment in March-July, 2019, to the last season of <i>Mr. Robot</i>. The JBIFC also understands that a number of other actors have been closely looked at for the role of main villain. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Significantly, perhaps, Baz Bamigboye in his <i>Daily Mail </i>column also referred to the new screenplay for Bond 25 by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade as having 'major input from Fukunaga'. Again, it is going to be truly fascinating to see what new story angles and character perspectives the American director will bring to his James Bond movie. Some intriguing clues were offered in an interview Fukunaga gave in Los Angeles in November to the <a href="http://inquirer.net/">Inquirer.net</a> website. At that stage, the director hinted that the new screenplay was still being developed, but he also dropped some hints about the overall direction Bond 25 may take. Reflecting on his appointment to such a 'large' job, Fukunaga said at one point: 'Now that I have the job, I just keep my head down and try to figure out how to make this as good as possible'.<br />After revealing that <i>A View to A Kill</i> was the first Bond movie he ever saw (and also his love of the theme song by 'Duran Duran'), Fukunaga said he was looking forward to working with Daniel Craig on Bond 25, and said of the current 007 actor: 'In his first Bond movie, <i>Casino Royale</i>, he brought an incredible amount of vulnerability and humanity to the character, which was a big shift from Pierce Brosnan's run'.<br />He continued: 'In terms of what I can bring to change the character, Bond is on a character arc that started with <i>Casino Royale</i>, and I will be carrying that over. There will be changes, I am sure. As in any story, a character has to change in order [to have] a narrative'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now, pay attention, 007. On the lookout for a last-minute Christmas treat? Also interested in the historical background to Ian Fleming and James Bond? How about a new book about Fleming's wartime career? The newly published book </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Keeping Spain out of World War Two</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, by Mark Simmons (Casemate Publishers, September 2018), which was also reviewed on the JBIFC's main website, is a slim but fascinating and notably well-researched study of the various Allied operations and schemes created to keep Spain and Portugal out of World War Two. Naval Intelligence officer Fleming, helped by key figures such as Alan Hillgarth, was the main architect of 'Operation Golden Eye', a propaganda, sabotage and disruption scheme that was planned to be launched had Nazi Germany put its troops into Spain and threatened key British bases such as Gibraltar. It's a great read, and also has information and analysis on how Fleming drew upon his wartime experiences for his post-war writing career and the creation of 007. Well worth a purchase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Another truly great Xmas present idea (if you have not indulged already!), is <i>The 007 Diaries</i>, by Roger Moore (History Press, 2018), which was a very welcome reprint during 2018 of a Pan paperback first published back in 1973, originally under the title <i>Roger Moore as James Bond 007</i>. Fans of the late and much-missed Sir Roger will know that the 3<sup>rd</sup> 007 kept his own personal diary record of what he saw and experienced during the making of his debut Bond movie <i>Live and Let Die</i>, and this was published to the delight of Bond fans when the movie launched Moore's tenure as 007. Written with a real eye for detail and regularly peppered with Sir Roger's often humorous observations and insights, the <i>Diaries </i>are the only record of the making of a Bond movie on location written on the spot by one of the James Bond stars, penned as the cameras rolled on the production on a day-by-day basis. A typical extract: B-Day Thirty-Six: 'This morning I was bleary-eyed at the early start but I soon woke up when we passed a sign which said "Beware Crocodiles Crossing", then stopped at another which warned: "Trespassers Will Be Eaten". That was not bluff...'. A must-have book for all Bond aficionados.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">And here's another possible Xmas present: if you live in the UK, you might want to keep an eye on the discount book stores that have popped up in many city centres in recent years. The last few months have seen a real bargain on sale in such stores in the form of <i>James Bond</i>: <i>The Secret History </i>(John Blake Publishing, 2016), written by novelist, film journalist and music expert Sean Egan. This highly entertaining history, which first appeared in hardback in 2016, traces the creation and evolution of Bond by 007 creator Ian Fleming and then provides succinct chapters and highlights on the transference of the book Bond to the cinema screen, up to and including (briefly) <i>Spectre </i>in 2015.<br />In the process, as spy author and Bond expert Jeremy Duns comments in a short foreword to the book, Egan has written 'an excellent overview of the history of the James Bond phenomenon' and provides 'a lot of information and insights that cast the familiar in surprising new angles'. Included in the middle of the volume are some eye-catching colour stills, such as a great and rare photo of John Barry with Barbara Broccoli. Egan's book is well worth your reading time, and remains a real bargain if you can find it. Discount stores have been retailing the hardback version of the book, complete with a Daniel Craig front-cover. It's the sort of book you can dip into or just read in full as you sip your Vodka Martini and finish the turkey sandwiches between Xmas and New Year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Just as Bond author Ian Fleming loved good quality wrist-watches and all the intricate branding details associated with beautifully designed but sturdy time-pieces for agent 007 to use on missions in the field, the cinematic James Bond has always had an iconic watch for many of his adventures, something that has often been part of the major tie-in marketing campaigns for each new entry in the EON franchise (remember the Seiko watch, anybody?). Fleming himself equipped his famous secret agent with 'a heavy Oyster Perpetual' and, up until <i>Licence To Kill </i>in 1989, the screen Bond regularly wore a Rolex (Timothy Dalton in 1989, for example, sported a silver Rolex Submariner 5513). From <i>Goldeneye </i>(1995) onwards, and with an even greater emphasis on product placement, the Bond films switched to an Omega. A great example of a Bond wrist-watch marketing campaign was launched by Omega in the second half of 2018, to promote the new Seamaster Diver 300M Master Chronometer watch, and entitled with the headline 'Black Tie or Deep Blue'. An excellent still of super-cool Daniel Craig in tuxedo, with his head just above the water, was employed as the main photographic image in advertisements for the Seamaster, accompanied with the blurb: 'The Seamaster Diver 300M will take you from the bottom of the sea, to the centre of attention and to the top of the world'. Full-page versions of the stunning image were carried in British newspapers such as <i>The Times </i>(17<sup>th</sup> November). It's a great image, and a truly iconic wrist-watch. And we think you'll agree that the image of Craig is an excellent teaser to 'wet' our appetites for the upcoming Bond 25! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">It is important to always remember that there is a whole army of support workers, designers, technicians and other highly-skilled specialists who work very hard behind the scenes to bring us each new James Bond movie, especially the men and women who often carry out a variety of risky and dangerous stunts. The JBIFC were very sad to hear of the passing of stunt artist Peter Brace, who died on 29<sup>th</sup> October, aged 94. For about 35 years of a 40-year career in the film industry, Peter, who was often seen as a 'gentle giant' on set (he was an impressive 6ft 4in tall), performed an incredible number of stunts for movies of all kinds. He was also a veteran of the early Bond films - he performed stunts in <i>Dr. No </i>(1962) and in <i>From Russia, With Love </i>(1963), for example. Moreover, in <i>Goldfinger </i>(1964), Peter can also be seen directly on-screen in the memorable opening pre-credits sequence, where he played an oil refinery guard whom 007 (in the form of Sean Connery's stunt double Alf Joint), jumps and kicks in the face. In <i>You Only Live Twice </i>(1967), Peter was a stunt driver in the car chase sequence where Bond, who is a passenger in an open-topped Toyota 2000GT sports car driven by Aki, is pursued by Blofeld's rather inept assassins. Later on in the same movie (Sean Connery's fifth as Bond), Peter was one of the <i>ninja </i>commandos who quickly abseil down ropes into the secret SP.E.C.T.R.E. rocket-base housed in a Japanese volcano (a huge set at the time, which had been designed at Pinewood Studios by the master of film design, the late Ken Adam). Peter's stunt skills also included impressive abilities as a horseman and as an accomplished swordsman. But Peter found he was not just in demand as a stunt performer: directors loved his physical size and his distinctive chisel-chinned face, and he made various on-screen appearances as tough guys, including as a Nazi soldier in Lewis Gilbert's award-winning war movie <i>Reach for the Sky </i>(1956), and as a hard-nosed prison inmate in <i>Mackintosh Man </i>(1973). Peter was also a Mafia henchman in <i>Curse of the Pink Panther </i>(1983). As late as 1990, Peter played a grim-looking hangman in <i>Sherlock Holmes and the Prince of Crime</i>. His last piece of film stunt work was conducted for the Mel Gibson movie <i>Braveheart </i>(1995). Tributes to Peter came from various people in the film and television world, including his friend and fellow veteran 007 stunt artist Vic Armstrong. Peter Brace (1924-2018). R.I.P.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Just two one-off roofless models of the Toyota 2000GT were specially made for the Japan-based location shooting for <i>You Only Live Twice</i>. It is said that a roofless version was required to accommodate Sean Connery's size and height. Surprisingly, in the period 1967-1970, only 351 models of the full-roof version were produced. Interestingly, in 2012, current Bond star Daniel Craig, speaking on the BBC's '50 years of Bond Cars' <i>Top Gear </i>special programme, revealed that the Toyota 2000GT was his favourite Bond car of all time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">No more 'speculation'. Our wait for SPECTRE is very nearly over!<br />You know the name. You know the number. And you know the release date: October 26th. After eight long months of principal shooting both in Britain and across the globe, not counting the extra months of additional hard work on pre-production and post-production, the 24th James Bond adventure will receive its Royal World Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in central London this Monday evening.<br />All the main members of the cast are expected to be there, including 007 star Daniel Craig, together with the director Sam Mendes and the two EON producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. An incredible amount of energy and creativity has gone into the new James Bond film, and an impressive large-scale marketing campaign has increasingly raised the excitement and anticipation over the last few weeks.<br />The standard was set very high by the award-winning Skyfall, arguably the most successful Bond movie ever, and so all members of the team working on SPECTRE were determined to maintain this 'golden touch' and, if possible, take things even higher. The JBIFC are very confident that Craig and his Bond crew have more than succeeded in this mission.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In what was something of a surprise, but very welcome, move for the James Bond franchise, SPECTRE will also hit the ground running (so to speak) and go on general release in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on the very same evening as the World Premiere.<br />It will then be rolled out in markets across the world, accompanied by a sophisticated publicity drive. Indeed, as many Bond fans are more than aware, the latter campaign push has already started, with a variety of short TV spots being shown across a wide number of markets, a large number of tie-in interviews with the key stars appearing in magazines and newspapers, a well-conceived and colourful poster campaign and, of course, a huge internet operation. In a special tribute to all the fantastic help they received from local people in Mexico City, SPECTRE will have its 'Premiere of the Americas' in Mexico City on Monday, November 2nd.<br />It will then be rolled out in North America and South America on November 6th. Four days prior to the Royal Premiere (on Thursday, October 22nd), Daniel Craig was joined by his female co-stars Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux at a special press event held at the Corinthia Hotel in London, and they all looked very relaxed and very happy. And they had every reason to be: the first advance reviews had just been published that same day and they were overwhelmingly enthusiastic!</span><br /></div>
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The special UK press screening for SPECTRE took place on Wednesday, 21st October, and quickly led to a mini-avalanche of advance reviews in the British press and on TV channels. The vast majority all agreed on one central thing: that this is one of the best 007 films in the series, and clearly takes the franchise to a new and golden high. So, what did our hard-nosed journalists have to say in response to their exclusive advance screening? The BBC, that bastion of Britishness, was one of the first TV channels to offer a detailed verdict. Speaking on the BBC's 'Breakfast' early morning TV programme on October 22nd, for example, the film critic Jason Solomons said SPECTRE has all the things you would want in a James Bond movie, and more! In his estimation, the movie ticks off a checklist of 'Bondian' features; moreover, it delves into Bond's psychology more than ever before. Turning to Bond's newspaper of choice, The Times (October 22nd), the newspaper offered a review from film critic Kate Muir, entitled 'Cool, sleek, powerful: it's Bond at his best'. And this was the tone struck by many of the other newspapers: The Guardian (October 22nd) said the movie is 'terrifically exciting', while the Daily Telegraph (October 22nd) summed up its enthusiasm in the very title of its review: 'Journey through the ghosts of Bond's past is pure cinematic delight'. The more populist British middle-market newspapers, who can sometimes be very difficult to please, also strongly echoed the high praise. The UK's Daily Mail (October 22nd), for example, proclaimed in a headline at the top of its front page: 'Brilliant Bond is back!', and Brian Viner's review inside the paper said it is 'a spectacular joyride of a movie'. The Mail's main rival, the Daily Express (October 22nd) entitled its review with 'It's Bond at his spectacular best'. The reviewer, Allan Hunter, noted that Skyfall was the most successful 007 film ever made and asked: 'How do you follow a triumph like that? Director Sam Mendes and the Bond team rise to the challenge in spectacular fashion with Spectre. The latest Bond extravaganza is thrill ride from the first chase to the last bullet'. High praise indeed! </div>
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Naturally, there has been tremendous media and other interest in Daniel Craig since filming on SPECTRE began and, especially for Bond fans, in the extent to which he has pushed his interpretation of James Bond in new and exciting directions, helped by the very close creative 'bond' he has developed with Sam Mendes, both on Skyfall and now on SPECTRE. In many ways, SPECTRE puts forward a kind of story-arc that draws on all of Craig's previous Bond films. We suspect that was not really the original intention when Craig first took over as James Bond for Casino Royale or, moreover, when early pre-production ideas for the latest Bond film were first put forward. However, it is something that seems to have developed incrementally as the SPECTRE storyline evolved and it went through various drafts, and it nicely ties up some loose ends. Sam Mendes has announced that he has now completed his own particular 'two-part' story and his involvement with the Bond franchise, and wants to move on to other projects and new challenges. This must be giving Daniel Craig cause for reflection, too. From his perspective, the possibility of doing a fifth 007 movie under a new director must be something quite difficult to think about. We sometimes underestimate how draining and exhausting the role of 007 can be, especially when it seems like the whole world is watching your every move. Craig has given a large number of interviews, including in the days just after the main filming on SPECTRE had ended, and some more recently. We could quote endlessly from some of these, but one or two interviews in particular created something of a flurry, when a clearly very tired but elated Daniel tried to convey how relieved he was that the filming and very long hours on SPECTRE had finally come to a close.</div>
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In an interview for the famous London Listings magazine Time Out, for example, given in early July (and finally published in their October 20th-26th edition), Craig had finished filming on the movie just four days earlier and offered some characteristically honest and blunt views, fuelled by an espresso coffee or two. He said at one point: 'Every idea I've had for a Bond movie I've stuck into this one. It's gone in. The Bond bank is dry. If you're asking me what I would do with another Bond movie? I haven't a clue'. When asked at another point whether he could imagine doing another Bond movie, Craig responded: 'Now? I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That's fine. I'm over it at the moment. We're done. All I want to do is move on'. When asked whether this meant he wanted to move on from Bond for good, Craig replied: 'I haven't given it any thought. For at least a year or two, I just don't want to think about it. I don't know what the next step is. I've no idea'. Daniel also offered similar comments in at least one other interview. Some journalists in the media immediately jumped on these comments and saw a chance to create some dramatic headlines, subjecting them to misinterpretation, and assuming that Craig was announcing his time as Bond was now definitely over! He wasn't. His attitude is more complex. Moreover, we should remember that the producers remain determined to hold on to him. On the question of how long Daniel Craig will continue as 007, its worth recalling that Michael G. Wilson said some time ago in an IGN interview: 'We want him for as long as he'll have us', while his co-producer Barbara Broccoli revealed: 'He's got an open-ended contract'.<br /></div>
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Things perhaps became a little clearer during the special SPECTRE press call held at the Corinthia Hotel, mentioned earlier, where Craig at one point offered his views on his 'bond' with Bond. The press event saw a nicely relaxed and very happy-looking Daniel pose for photographs with Monica Bellucci, Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris, and Christoph Waltz, together with director Sam Mendes. During the course of the photocall, the 007 star was asked about the comments he had made not long after completion of filming on the movie, comments which had led some journalists to conclude that he had finally finished with the role.<br />Craig explained to one journalist that he had said things like that because he had just finished shooting after long eight months: 'I said what was on my mind. That's the way I've always spoken'. He also revealed to the same journalist that it was actually up to him whether he returned as 007: 'There is no contract. It is up to me'. At another point, when faced with the question of whether he would return as Bond for one last time, Craig responded jokingly: 'Do I have any choice?' He then added: 'I love making these films. Skyfall was a huge success but you want to move on and make a bigger and better version. We've spent a huge amount of time making sure this story is as strong and real as possible'.<br /></div>
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Sam Mendes has also given a range of interviews over the past few months, and - in the process - has offered some very interesting insights into his creative approach to interpreting the character of James Bond, including which parts of Ian Fleming's writings have helped him in this task. He also reflected at times about which of the previous Bond films have given him some inspiration. We could quote lots of different points from these interviews, but those that appeared in two magazines in particular stood out for us, as they gave some intriguing clues on which Bond films Mendes admired, and also indications of just how deeply Mendes has delved into 007's psychological make-up in order to underpin both his previous and latest Bond films. One piece was a straightforward interview, given to the British SFX magazine (no. 267, for December, 2015), which hit the news-stands in the UK in October; the other was a series of comments he gave that formed part of a compilation of comments that appeared in the British GQ magazine (for November, 2015). In SFX Mendes was asked about the now familiar fact that his own personal favourite Bond movie is Live and Let Die. He confirmed that one of the elements of SPECTRE - the pre-title sequence, with Bond wearing a skeletal mask - did indeed owe something to Roger Moore's first Bond movie. He said: 'You see the skullface and you're like, "Oh, it's Baron Samedi!" It's actually quite different, but of course there are echoes there. But part of the joy of Bond is a riffing on the iconography of it, and teasing you with things...'. In British GQ magazine, the influence of Fleming on Mendes emerged in some of his comments. At point, for example, he reflected: 'There's a short story that Ian Fleming wrote called The Hildebrand Rarity, which I thought about when I was making the two films'. According to Mendes, the story brought out the 'darkness' in Bond that had perhaps been lost in the screen interpretation at times. </div>
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A superb new issue of the popular British movie magazine Empire (November, 2015) appeared in early October, and what a treat it proved to be! It was something of a 'must-have' purchase - a SPECTRE special edition, with no less than 39 pages devoted to 007 and his world. Moreover, it was also guest-edited by director Sam Mendes. Bond magazine collectors must have thought they had died and gone to 00-heaven! Published with a striking cover image of Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz posing against a Bond gunbarrel design, the glossy new issue of Empire began with a special 'Editor's Letter' introductory page from Mendes, who commented that, for those of us who believe - as he does - that 'James Bond is one of the greatest of all contemporary mythologies', the magazine was offering plenty to get excited about ahead of the official release of the movie on October 26th. The magazine commenced its coverage with a report from Mexico, where the action-packed pre-credits sequence was shot earlier this year against the backdrop of the famous 'Day of the Dead' festival. At one point, Daniel Craig commented that: 'By having Sam back we've created a language that's one foot in the past but hopefully very modern as well...'.</div>
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You have got to admire his dogged determination: ever since the original SPECTRE press launch at Pinewood Studios in 2014, Christoph Waltz has been adamant he would not give anything away whatsoever about his role in Bond 24 - not one iota of information has passed his lips. He was clearly sworn to secrecy by the Bond production team. Indeed, so much so that we suspect not even Auric Goldfinger's industrial laser could make Waltz crack! In fact, the director and producers must be really pleased about Waltz's admirable and strict self-discipline. The main villain of SPECTRE (Franz Oberhauser) is, of course, played by the acclaimed Austrian actor, and there has inevitably been much speculation in recent months over the precise nature and background of his character in the film. As we noted in our previous JBIFC newsletter, the British GQ magazine obtained a nice coup when they were able to interview Mr. Waltz at length for their May, 2015, issue (with the 58-year old actor also featuring prominently on the front cover). Conducted at the Corinthia Hotel in London, when Waltz was taking a break from filming SPECTRE, and entitled 'We've been expecting you, Mr. Waltz', the 10-page profile provided a run-down on his general acting career and an opportunity to give Waltz a chance to explain his approach to cinema acting. GQ also tried to delicately tease out some brief details on the topic of his Bond role, something quite brave to do with the notoriously cautious Waltz, who has tended to dance around any such questions and skilfully bounce them back; he has certainly been quite challenging to pin down. But we can safely say that Waltz was not giving anything away about Oberhauser, and remained as tight-lipped as ever!<br /></div>
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True to form, while the special SPECTRE edition of Empire, guest-edited by Mendes, also offered some coverage of Waltz, the magazine only managed, as with GQ previously, to tease very little out of him about the mysterious Franz Oberhauser. However, in Empire's interview with Waltz, under the title 'The Phantom Menace', the ultra-cautious Austrian did comment that 'You're asked to do more than play a part when you're asked to play in Bond', and it was abundantly clear to Empire that cinema audiences are in for an absolute treat later this month. As Daniel Craig also commented to Empire on Waltz: 'He's got something brilliantly dark inside him, when he turns it on'. Although, as per usual, he would not give way on any Oberhauser details, Waltz did give some brief assessments of the past James Bond actors, together with his views on the EON family business. Once SPECTRE is out, we wonder whether Waltz will be more prepared to discuss Mr. Oberhauser and any particular qualities to the character that he wanted to come across on screen? Perhaps... then again, perhaps not! Intriguingly, those thirsty for some clues about Oberhauser were given an indirect helping hand by none other than Lea Seydoux back in July. Lea, who plays Dr. Madeleine Swann (and has also acted with Waltz before, in the wartime tale Inglorious Basterds), gave an interview to USA Today and said of Oberhauser: 'He's mean. But he has a human side. I don't know if I can say touching, but you can have a real attachment to him. You have empathy (for him), and that's why he's going to be great in this role'.</div>
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Arguably one of the most visually-striking pieces of publicity for Mr. Waltz and his SPECTRE character Franz Oberhauser came with an interview the actor gave to the British newspaper The Guardian, which appeared in their glossy 'Weekend' magazine on October 10th. The magazine's front cover, headlined 'Be afraid. Be very afraid', showed a pensive but dangerous-looking Waltz, sitting in mysterious dark shadow in a chair and looking directly into the camera lens, holding the reader's gaze. A very similar shot appeared inside the magazine, but from a side angle, with Waltz looking even more villainous and stony-faced. He was clearly having tremendous fun playing up to the camera, and we loved it. What a powerful image! The newspaper proclaimed that 'Christoph Waltz is the baddest Bond villain yet', and was clearly having much fun as Waltz himself was with the Sp.e.c.t.r.e. angle and all the associated speculation. The interview, conducted by Xan Brooks, found Mr. Waltz to be an 'erudite and charming' personality, but with firm views on what he likes and dislikes (especially when it came to the choice of wine!). The article provided some detailed exploration of Waltz's long career, noting how things really began to take off for him in 2008 when he took the role of SS colonel Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds. Unsurprisingly, Waltz was not prepared to give anything away about his Bond villain role, but the interviewer, after seeing some advance footage of the new 007 movie, seemed to sum his role up for him: he was like a 'sadistic dentist'!<br /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">One of the great pleasures of witnessing the production of the new 007 adventure was seeing which of the popular British film magazines would be the first with detailed Bond coverage designed to wet our appetites. The ball quickly got rolling. First came Total Film (April, 2015, issue), which carried two pages on SPECTRE, including early photos from the snowbound Austrian scenes. Similarly, Empire (April, 2015, issue) gave us a 14-page profile (no less) of SPECTRE and other aspects of the James Bond universe, plus an excellent Daniel Craig cover-page. The magazine had been allowed special access to the set at Pinewood Studios, and included interviews with the Bond producers and also with Bond's new leading women, French beauty Lea Seydoux and gorgeous Italian star Monica Bellucci. Since then, we have seen a mini-avalanche of magazines with SPECTRE coverage, much to the delight of dedicated Bond magazine collectors, but gobbling up their pennies at an incredible rate! These mags have included Cosmopolitan (profile of Naomie Harris, September 31st), the Mail On Sunday's 'Event' magazine (special collector's edition, September 27th), the Sunday Times 'Culture' magazine (Craig interview, October 4th), Sunday Times 'Style' magazine (Naomie Harris, October 11th), Esquire (Craig profile, October, 2015), Starburst (October, 2015),Total Film (October, 2015), Total Film (November, 2015), Empire (bespoke collector's edition, November, 2015) (discussed earlier in this newsletter), SFX (November, 2015), TV and Satellite Week (on Craig, October 17th), Mail on Sunday 'You' magazine (Lea Seydoux interview, October 18th), Time Out (Craig interview, October 20th), Radio Times (exclusive on Naomie Harris, October 24th), British GQ magazine (November, 2015)... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Phew!<br /> </span></div>
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So, what else has been happening in the Bond universe recently? Plenty! The world of the book version of Bond has seen another great success. In fact, for Anthony Horowitz, the latest author to take up the challenge of writing a James Bond novel, it has evidently been a case of 'Mission Accomplished'. His Bond novel Trigger Mortis became an immediate best-seller, and was also very well received by both the critics and the fans, many commenting that here was an author who had been able to really capture the style and excitement of Ian Fleming, compared to previous attempts by other authors. Critics in the UK were especially positive about the new book. Nicholas Lezard, for example, writing in the London Evening Standard ('Reborn Bond is back at his best', September 3rd) wrote that it was a 'hugely enjoyable story, which has everything in it we want from Bond, and more'. On the eve of the publication of the new novel, Horowitz spoke to The Times (October 5th) about his lifelong passion for Bond, and explained how this had helped him write his new 007 adventure. He said: 'I loved writing Trigger Mortis. Part of the pleasure was rereading the original novels and working out all the tricks and the techniques that make them so great'. It is more than clear than all this hard work has really paid off handsomely! Indeed, it has been an incredibly busy year for the workaholic author, with old projects dropped and brand new ones taken on. He announced in January, for example, that - after 13 highly successful years - his popular TV detective series Foyle's War had now definitely come to an end. The series, which starred Michael Kitchen (chief-of-staff Bill Tanner in two of Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies), saw the very final episode air on the UK's ITV channel earlier this year, on Sunday, January 8. Sunday nights have never been the same again! The series regularly drew in very large TV audiences. On the other hand, in addition to bringing his new Bond book to fruition, Horowitz took a bold move into writing for the stage. His new play Dinner With Saddam was premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in London, in September, with none other than Steven Berkoff in the key role of the late Iraqi dictator. Berkoff, of course, as many fans know, played the excellent role of ruthless renegade General Orlov in Octopussy (1983). Uniquely, Horowitz, who has written an amazing 42 books, including two exciting Sherlock Holmes novels, was able to use some original unused Ian Fleming material short-story material for part of his new 007 novel, which is set in the 1950s. And he has woven this into the novel extremely successfully, in our humble opinion.</div>
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As mentioned earlier, there has been a lot of magazine interest in Miss Eve Moneypenny, played by Naomie Harris.<br /><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Naomie's</span> career is a great inspiration to others: she got herself from a single-parent home to studying at Cambridge University, where she studied social and political sciences at Pembroke College. After Cambridge she trained at the Bristol Old Vic, and just nine months after her graduation Danny Boyle cast her in the film 28 Days Later, which was her breakthrough hit. In an interview for the Sunday Times 'Style' magazine (October 11th), it was claimed that Naomie is now known in the film industry for two things - playing Miss Moneypenny and having laser-focused ambition. The latter might be changing, though. The 39-old actress admitted: 'My thing was always "hard work", "succeed". Now I want to be less led by society's goals and dreams...'. Looking back on her selection as Miss Moneypenny, she said she had found it difficult to keep it a secret and was glad when it finally came out in the open: 'Having to do that whole Skyfall tour and keeping that secret was hard'. On her reprisal of the role for SPECTRE, Naomie said the character is 'Strong, powerful and independent - I think that's what people were yearning for'. In another interview, given to the BBC's Radio Times magazine (October 24th), she also praised the Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson for keeping the franchise relevant while still keeping the essence of Bond: 'You need the cars, the gadgets and the humour but you also have to move with the times. A large part of Spectre is about surveillance, how much are people delving into our private lives, collating information without us knowing. That's a huge debate around the world today and it's all reflected in the film'. Interestingly, Naomie has also helped be the key face of SONY's 'Made for Bond' new technology campaign, which has seen a tie-in mini-movie (shot on London's Southbank), and also a striking poster of Harris as Moneypenny, an image that has appeared all over London. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">The thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, perhaps most famously known for his best-selling novels The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, and who recently penned his memoirs (The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue), has sometimes been seen as an author who could have written a great James Bond novel. But what has also now emerged is that he led something of 'Bondian' existence himself in real life. In a fascinating article for the Daily Mail in July, the writer Guy Walters (himself a big expert on espionage) explored Forsyth's early career in some detail, asking whether 76-year old Forsyth had perhaps even modelled himself on Bond author Ian Fleming? Moreover, Forsyth evidently did some occasional work for MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service. The Service has often made use of journalists and writers, and this was especially the case during the Cold War. In 1963, for example, as a young 25-year old journalist, Forsyth was posted to East Berlin to cover East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. What happened next was like something from a Fleming Bond novel: the Czech secret police sent a 'very pretty girl' to pick him up in a bar, and, after a midnight swim and the inevitable 'liaison', she revealed she was a spy. Furthermore, it is quite likely that Forsyth was feeding information back to MI6 from behind the Iron Curtain, and possibly did the same when he worked in Africa later on, possibly putting his life in great danger from capture and torture.</span></div>
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From present to past: Samantha Bond, who was Miss Moneypenny in Pierce Brosnan's four 007 films, still has a very loyal Bond-based following. She was back on British TV earlier this year, starring in ITV's wartime drama Home Fires. In an interview about her career in the 'Weekend' magazine of the Daily Mail (May 9), the former Moneypenny said at one point that 'there's whole generation of men who get misty-eyed when they meet me because I was their Moneypenny when they were growing up'. The ever-busy Bond has also been on British TV again recently, with a role as the formidable Lady Rosamund in the final series of Downtown Abbey. Interviewed by 'You', the magazine of the Mail on Sunday (September 27), the 007 connection was inevitably tapped into again ('The name is Bond...'), with Samantha posing in a sleek white sports car. Although it is 13 years (wow! Is it really?) since she appeared in a Bond film opposite Brosnan, the role still follows her around. She said she 'adored' Pierce and making the 007 films was a 'huge adventure', but she also admitted that: 'I'd never seen a Bond film in a cinema until I was in one'. The magazine noted that 007 fans won't let her forget her past, and Bond commented: 'They're always a bit younger than me, because they were late teens when I was Moneypenny'. Bond's next project is shooting a second series of Home Fires.</div>
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In the new book The Man With The Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters, edited by Fergus Fleming, which has just been published by Bloomsbury, there is a letter written by the Bond author from April, 1958, where he reflects on James Bond's life and how 007's profession requires him to be more or less constantly involved in violent action: 'It is also true that, as in any real-life spy, when the villain gets hold of Bond, Bond is made to suffer painfully'. </div>
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<br /><strong>From Mexico with love: </strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ahead of her turn as a Bond woman, Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman (who is in the pre-credits of SPECTRE), gave an interview to the Sunday Times 'Style' magazine (August 30th). She said she is a particular fan of Monica Bellucci: 'I'm gonna meet her at the premiere and ask for a selfie!'...</span></div>
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The Italian beauty herself was profiled in The Guardian newspaper on September 19th, in a page entitled '30 minutes with Monica Bellucci'. She said she was 'proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man. You know why? Because he doesn't exist!'...</div>
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Some UK newspapers in September were fascinated by a study for The Grocer magazine (we kid you not!) on James Bond's alcohol habits. It claimed Daniel Craig's Bond is the 'booziest Bond ever', knocking back an average of 20 units per film since his debut...<br />Appropriately, Craig is fronting a £64million TV advertising campaign for lager-maker Heineken to coincide with the launch of SPECTRE. The lager also appears on screen in the film... </div>
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<br /><strong>For our ears only:</strong> The radio music channel Classic FM have been very generous to Bond fans recently. Saturday October 10th saw a John Barry special, followed just a week later (on October 17th) by a Thomas Newman special (with a first hearing for some SPECTRE soundtrack music). Brilliant stuff...</div>
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<br />The music channel then had a SPECTRE special on October 24th, playing instrumental music from all the James Bond films, with comments from Daniel Craig, Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes...<br />So, which pieces of classic Bond music do Craig and Mendes prefer? Craig praised the iconic Monty Norman James Bond theme, while Mendes chose You Only Live Twice and Live and Let Die... </div>
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<br />And talking of the iconic sound and sheer style of 007, look out for Bond by Design: The Art of the James Bond Films, a new official book which was released earlier this month. This great book gives readers an exclusive tour of EON Productions' James Bond archives...<br />It explores the set, storyboard, vehicle, gadget and costume designs by the now legendary designers who have worked on the 007 movies over the years, including Sir Ken Adam, Syd Cain, Peter Murton, Peter Lamont, Allan Cameron and Dennis Gassner...<br />The book is written by Meg Simmonds, EON Productions' Archive Director, and reveals each Bond film's design approach, as well as a nice range of stories behind the individual designs created for each new 007 adventure...</div>
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<br /><strong>Miss Moneypenny (Naomie Harris),</strong> speaking at a boat party in early October on a man-made island just off Butler's Wharf on London's South Bank (close to where some SPECTRE scenes were filmed), told the London Evening Standard that she was 'so excited' to reprise her role, and loves the part: 'She's really strong, powerful, dynamic, witty, and playful'. Other guests at the event included Dame Judi Dench, Moneypenny's former boss 'M'...</div>
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<br />Dame Judi, who is now 80 years young, was a special guest on BBC Radio-4's Desert Island Discs on September 9th, and briefly touched on her iconic role as Bond's boss and how her casting came about. She also managed to keep hold of a big, big secret connected with </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">During the recent <i>SPECTRE </i>location shooting in Mexico City, the James Bond producers - Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson - gave a detailed interview to <i>IGN</i>'s Roth Cornet, and talked (among other things) about the first <i>SPECTRE </i>teaser trailer (released on March 27-28), the story continuity in the Bond series, the sheer challenge of topping <i>Skyfall</i>, and the question of the theme song for the new 007 adventure. When asked about the teaser trailer, which was released the day before the interview (and has been widely watched on the internet),<br />Michael G. Wilson said that they 'wanted to create something as a teaser that's a bit of a puzzle and a mystery. From what I saw online, people are really putting it together. It's a little puzzle people can enjoy'. His co-producer Barbara Broccoli, questioned on the continuity or not of the storyline, added that: 'It's always a challenge. We try to get the right blend of classic Bond and a contemporary twist, and come up with new storylines. I think we've done a really good job on this one'. She added that she thinks Sam Mendes 'is an amazing director and we've got a great cast and a great story. So we have to let the public decide'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The <i>IGN </i>interview also covered the general casting philosophy of Broccoli and Wilson and elicited some of their impressions of the Mexico City pre-credits filming (which was still ongoing at the time, and uses the annual Mexican 'Day of the Dead' festival as a backdrop to the action). Broccoli explained that Sam Mendes is a 'real magnet for actors' when it comes to casting: 'He's a real actor's director and a great storyteller and - as it turns out, now, after these two movies - a great action director, too. So I think he's a real magnet for actors. They want to work with him. So putting a cast together is easy. They want to work with Daniel and Sam'. Wilson said they 'always try to make the pictures surprising', but also emphasised that there has to be elements in them that are 'Bondian' in the sense that people 'won't be disappointed in the picture when they go see it. So that's the fine line we've got to tread'.<br />Referring to the location shooting in Mexico City, which involved some complex logistical planning (including the employment of 1,500 extras, extensive set-dressing and filming of streets and buildings, and some spectacular helicopter stunts), Wilson said: 'This is a big picture... We did the carnival down in Rio (for <i>Moonraker</i>), and that was a big project, staging that - but this is much bigger. This is really pretty big'. Broccoli added: 'But it's a lot of fun. That's the thing... It's very exciting for everybody. It makes them step up to the plate when you have a challenge like that. Sam had a real vision of his version of the Day of the Dead, and everybody really embraced it. Tom Newman created special music for it and everything. So it feels like a big celebration to us'. On the question of how long Daniel Craig will continue as 007, Wilson said: 'We want him for as long as he'll have us', while Broccoli revealed: 'He's got an open-ended contract'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">As the Mexican shooting neared completion, and people witnessed some of the spectacular action that was being captured by Mendes and his team in Mexico City, there was growing anticipation that the pre-credits sequence to <i>SPECTRE </i>is set to be the biggest opening sequence ever seen in the EON James Bond franchise. This is the result of comments from both the EON producers themselves and also the main star, Daniel Craig. EON co-producer Michael G. Wilson, for example, told the UK's popular movie magazine <i>Empire </i>recently that 'it is maybe the biggest sequence we've done'. Similarly, Craig - speaking to the UK's <i>Daily Mirror </i>newspaper when he was still filming in Mexico - commented: 'It's one of the biggest opening sequences I think the Bond franchise has ever done'. After considerable pre-shooting preparations, the main unit's filming in Mexico City took just under three weeks, and included a gritty post-explosion chase sequence on foot between Craig's Bond and Marco Sciarra (played by Alessandro Cremona). This culminated in a truly breathtaking fight sequence, with two stuntmen, shot on board a helicopter over the streets of central Mexico City.With most of the principal location shooting by the main unit now in the bag, thoughts are turning to what still needs to be carried out in London and also in Tangier, Morocco. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The main villain of <i>SPECTRE</i> (Franz Oberhauser) is, of course, played by the acclaimed Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, and there has been much speculation over the precise role of his character in the movie. There is certainly growing media interest in Waltz, and the British <i>GQ </i>magazine obtained a nice coup when they were able to interview Mr. Waltz at length for their May, 2015, issue (with the 58-year old actor also featuring prominently on the front cover). Conducted at the Corinthia Hotel in London, when Waltz was taking a break from filming, and entitled 'We've been expecting you, Mr. Waltz', the 10-page profile provided a run-down on his acting career and an opportunity to give Waltz a chance to explain his approach to cinema. <i>GQ </i>also tried to delicately tease out some brief details on the topic of his Bond role, something quite brave to do with the notoriously cautious Waltz. First of all, the magazine noted that Waltz, in general conversation, is engaging, amusing and inventive - until you broach the subject of his own life, at which point he becomes evasive and very guarded. As <i>GQ </i>noted, Waltz was unknown to most English-speaking audiences until Quentin Tarantino had the wit to cast him as SS Colonel Hans Lada in the quirky and entertaining <i>Inglorious Basterds </i>(2009), and his Oscar-winning performance (followed by another Oscar for Tarantino's <i>Django Unchained </i>in 2012) gave him sudden global recognition after decades of trying. Waltz was especially praised for the way he delivered his lines in both movies and appeared to enliven the scripts even more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Tackled on the question of whether the Bond series can also help him realise the same high spirit of artistic endeavour, Waltz told <i>GQ</i>: 'A James Bond film <i>can </i>be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology'. When he was asked whether he hesitated before agreeing to appear in Bond 24, Waltz commented: 'I did, yes. I always hesitate... You ask yourself, hang on: <i>what </i>James Bond are we talking about?' He then explained: 'The thing about <i>Spectre </i>is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams'. Waltz also revealed that the new movie does include some scenes that will resonate with old-school Bond aficionados: 'The action scenes in Mexico are extravagant to say the least. The scenes in Austria are traditional Bond in the snow'.<br />He added: 'These films with Daniel Craig have shifted the tone. They don't depend on a set formula that forces actors simply to go through the motions'. Interestingly, Waltz confirmed that he did not have to audition for his role in the movie, and the role was, in a way, written for him: 'Let's say it was tweaked in my direction'. However, he also strongly denied rumours that he is playing James Bond's long-standing nemesis, Blofeld: 'That is absolutely untrue. That rumour started on the internet, and the internet is a pest. The name of my character is Franz Oberhauser'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Shhh! Eyes only, 007: that man Blofeld certainly causes a lot of secrecy among his opponents, including at the very top of MI6: according to the <i>Mail On Sunday </i>(April 5), Ralph Fiennes, who plays the new 'M' Gareth Mallory in <i>SPECTRE</i>, commented recently: 'All I can say is that my hair has more chance of playing Blofeld's cat than I have of being allowed to reveal the plot of the new Bond film'. Interestingly, journalist Baz Bamigboye revealed in his showbiz column in sister paper <i>The Daily Mail </i>(March 27) that his involvement with the 007 franchise is allowing Fiennes to spend more time on the stage, the great love of his life. The 'healthy' pay cheque that Fiennes gets from his Bond commitments gives him the freedom to venture more into the theatre. He has been wowing audiences in G.B. Shaw's <i>Man and Superman </i>at the National Theatre on London's Thames embankment, and in January and February, 2016, he is due to play Ibsen's emotionally flawed architect Halvard Solness in a new version of <i>The Master Builder</i>, which will run at the Old Vic theatre. The ever-busy Mr. Fiennes is also in talks to do some Shakespeare at the Almeida theatre later in 2016 or possibly in 2017. In the meantime, the JBIFC understands that Fiennes, who shot his first new scenes as 'M' for <i>SPECTRE </i>last December, carried out some more filming work on the new movie during April, and is back on the Bond set this month (May) to complete further takes for his role as Mallory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">As far back as April, 2014, the movie trade magazine <i>Variety </i>claimed that award-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (of <i>12 Years a Slave </i>fame) was a contender for a role in Bond 24. At the time, according to un-named sources, the acclaimed British star was said to be a strong contender for the role of lead villain. It now turns out that this report had some truth to it. Interestingly, according to a recent report in <i>The Times </i>(April 20), which was in turn based on some more of the recent illegally-leaked Sony Pictures e-mails, it has emerged that Hollywood executives considered casting Ejiofor as Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld! Ejiofor, who won a BAFTA for his portrayal of the black slave Solomon Northup in the 2013 movie, apparently told the Bond director Sam Mendes that year that he wanted to play Blofeld (<i>if</i> we are to believe an e-mail exchange between executives). In another e-mail exchange, some further beans are spilled (so to speak): the possibility of a female Blofeld was also floated, and three-times Oscar winner Meryl Streep was touted to play the role - one executive remarked that Blofeld as a woman 'is idiotic unless Meryl Streep does it'. Intriguing, to say the least: perhaps <i>SPECTRE </i>nearly became <i>The Property of a Lady</i>? Now... we know our Ernst was into plastic surgery in a big way, and also sometimes dressed as a woman for a quick escape, but would he be desperate enough to have a complete gender change operation?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The JBIFC was sad to learn of the recent death of actor and dubbing expert Robert Rietti, who passed away on April 3. As a film, television and radio actor, Rietti was arguably best-known for his highly memorable and versatile voice, and was often in big demand for his ability to dub multiple roles, using different accents (exemplified in his work for the epic movie <i>Waterloo </i>in 1970). In many ways, he was one of the great unsung heroes behind the scenes in the film world, but when employed on dubbing his name was often absent, which was a source of frustration for him. As well as speaking English, he was also fluent in Italian, German, French and Russian. Moreover, any Bond fan worth his salt will also know that Rietti had some significant involvement in the James Bond films, starting with <i>Dr. No </i>(1962), where he was the voice of secret agent John Strangways. The latter was killed in the opening scenes, of course, but minutes later Rietti was providing the voice for someone else - as one of the Baccarat players in the London casino! More importantly, Rietti dubbed the Italian actor Adolfo Celi's voice as villain Emilio Largo in <i>Thunderball </i>(1965), and also dubbed the Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka in <i>You Only Live Twice </i>(1967). When John Hollis appeared in the pre-credits to <i>For Your Eyes Only </i>(1981) - as the un-named Ernst Stavro Blofeld - it is Robert Rietti's distinctive voice that we hear threatening Roger Moore's Bond in the helicopter cabin sequences: 'Really, Mr. Bond! Have you no respect for the dead?'<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Interestingly, Rietti also appeared on-screen, too, as one of the staff in the casino in <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service </i>(1969), and also had a small role in <i>Never Say Never Again </i>(1983), which was apparently arranged by Kevin McClory as a 'thank you' to his old friend from the <i>Thunderball </i>days. In all, Rietti worked on seven Bond movies. He told <i>Empire </i>magazine in 1994: 'In nearly every Bond picture there's been a foreign villain and in almost every case they've used my voice'. After <i>Thunderball </i>Adolfo Celi was showered with offers of other film work, and Rietti came as part of the package (so to speak); as he quipped to the BBC's <i>Film 94 </i>TV programme, 'I had a job for life!' On the 1974 Agatha Christie adaptation <i>And Then There Were None</i>, for example, he re-voiced Celi as well as four other parts, including the German actor Gert Frobe (<i>Goldfinger</i>)! Celi was an army General and Frobe was a police official in the movie.Interestingly, when actor Robert Shaw ('Red' Grant in <i>From Russia</i>, <i>With Love</i>) died in 1978, Rietti was called in to dub Shaw's voice in parts of three movies for which Shaw had not completed the recording. Rietti styled himself 'The Man With a Thousand Voices' - and one can certainly see why! R.I.P., Robert. But your voice lives on.</span></div>
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<b>Double-O Heaven: Film mags cover </b><b style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>SPECTRE</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">One of the great pleasures of witnessing the production of a new 007 adventure is seeing which of the popular British film magazines will be the first with detailed Bond coverage designed to wet our appetites. The ball quickly got rolling not long after Christmas. First came <i>Total Film </i>(April, 2015, issue), which carried two pages on <i>SPECTRE</i>, including early photos from the snowbound Austrian scenes. With a run-down on the key locations, and a page on 'Everything you need to know about Bond's bête noire' (i.e. the Sp.e.c.t.r.e. organisation), the magazine commented that the new film 'is shaping up to be the most globe-trotting Bond to date. Our ex-<i>spectre</i>-tions are running sky high on this one'. Meanwhile, <i>Empire </i>(April, 2015, issue)took things much further, with a 14-page profile (no less) of <i>SPECTRE </i>and other aspects of the James Bond universe, plus an excellent Daniel Craig cover-page. The magazine had been allowed special access to the set at Pinewood Studios, and included interviews with the Bond producers and also with Bond's new leading women, French beauty Lea Seydoux and gorgeous Italian star Monica Bellucci. There were also comments from stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell and Dave Bautista (who plays henchman 'Mr. Hinx'). According to Bautista, Hinx will be a 'badass' but will also have a sense of humour. He also commented 'James Bond and Mr. Hinx are not friends'. Oh dear, sounds like our James is in for a very tough time! Thanks <i>Empire </i>- a great issue: you did Bond fans a real service. More, please. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Acclaimed actor Yaphet Kotto, who was, of course, an excellent 'Mr. Big' (and Dr. Kananga) in <i>Live and Let Die </i>(1973), gave a rare and welcome interview to the UK's weekly magazine <i>The Big Issue </i>on April 9. Unsurprisingly, the veteran actor offered some forthright views, including some (arguably very sensible) comments on the latest stage in the 'Black Bond' debate that seems to have become something of an obsession with journalists. According to Kotto: 'James Bond cannot be black. Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. He was established by Ian Fleming as a white character, played by white actors. It's silly. Play 003 or 006 but you cannot be 007. A lot of people say we should be allowed to play everything. Don't be ridiculous. If I say I want to play JFK I should be laughed out the room. Why should James Bond be black? It's silly'. He continued: 'I don't think it's right for black actors or writers to do roles that whites have made historically white heroic roles. These roles were not written for black men. Black men should stop trying to play white heroes. We have pens. Put a black man in a role that no one else has established'. Concerning his role as 'Mr. Big', Kotto agreed that his role could have been a terrible stereotype: 'That was the danger of that role. When I read the script, I said man, if this is played the wrong way... I had to play Kananga in a way that was so believable you became mesmerised. You see a guy who is completely together - almost together as James Bond himself'. Regarding his wider film career, Kotto confirmed that he chose roles that would change the black stereotype on screen: 'That was my plan, to play parts that would open up the doors for others, and it worked'. Kotto, who is a member of the Academy in Hollywood, said movies should be 'judged on the integrity of their creative art and not political reasons'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The UK's popular <i>Daily Mirror </i>newspaper (April 7) carried an interesting interview with former <i>Goldfinger </i>(Pussy Galore) star Honor Blackman, who is now an amazing 89-years old and is still taking occasional TV roles, the latest being a part in the comedy <i>You</i>, <i>Me and Them</i>, alongside Anthony Head and Eve Myles. Blackman became a household name in the UK back in 1962 when she took what soon became the iconic role of leather-clad karate-chopping Cathy Gale in TV's spy drama <i>The Avengers</i>, opposite Patrick Macnee. But it was really <i>Goldfinger </i>that elevated her to international stardom, and still brings her fan mail even today. Interestingly, Honor was asked by the <i>Mirror </i>what she thought of the latest 007 star Daniel Craig? She revealed that she felt Craig delivers a more multi-dimensional character than Sean Connery could: 'I'm sorry to say he's a better actor - but I think Sean would acknowledge that. I think Dan is terrific. He's capable of so much more. Sean was perfection as Bond only as Ian Fleming wrote it. He was a Mr. Universe entrant, he was handsome and very, very sexy and had that ridiculous accent. Now it is no longer like Ian Fleming, it's more like <i>The Bourne Identity</i>. It's a different kind of film. But that doesn't make any difference to the fact they're super films and Daniel is probably the best actor that ever played Bond'. Honor, who turns 90 this summer, revealed to the <i>Mirror </i>that she is suffering from scoliosis, a back condition that gradually twists the spine. As a result she is set to bring her long and distinguished career to an end; 'By the end of this year I'll probably chuck it in. It'd be a great regret because my career has been so interesting - some of it fun, some of it torture - but it has filled my life. It's an effort at this stage of life. And since nobody is forcing me to make it, I don't see any point in putting myself through it'. We still love you, Honor! May the force be with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bond producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli once said that Honor Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in <i>Goldfinger </i>because of her success as the popular black-leathered judo expert Cathy Gale in <i>The Avengers </i>spy series on British TV, alongside Patrick MacNee. Broccoli knew, of course, that most American cinema-goers would not have seen the British TV programme, but he reasoned: 'The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs. Gale, the Yanks would like her because she was so good. It was a perfect combination'. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Taylor once recalled: 'Producer Cubby Broccoli wanted me to screen test for James Bond, when he was preparing <i>Dr. No </i>in 1961. I refused because I thought it was beneath me. I didn't think Bond would be successful in the movies. That was one of the greatest mistakes of my career. Every time a new Bond picture became a smash hit, I tore my hair out! Cubby and I have laughed about it ever since'... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Cumming, a former Admiral in the Royal Navy, wrote in green ink and signed his secret memos and correspondence 'C', and this is thought to have influenced Ian Fleming when he created Bond's boss 'M'. The green ink and 'C' habits were continued by Cumming's successors, and this is generally seen now as standing for 'Chief' of MI6...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The blue plaque was unveiled in the presence of the current 'C', Alex Younger, who made his first public speech since taking over as MI6 Chief in October, 2014. He described the similarity between the secret service created by Cumming in 1909 and the MI6 of today, calling both of them small organisations achieving big things. One journalist present wondered if this included the prevention of World War Three by a certain Mr. E.S. Blofeld?! Funnily enough, we wondered that, too...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The famous British satirical magazine <i>Private Eye </i>has had a lot of gentle fun with the new Bond movie <i>SPECTRE</i> in recent months. Not long after the special press event at Pinewood to announce the film and introduce the principal cast, <i>Private Eye </i>(December 12) carried a photo entitled 'New "Older" Bond Girl' - which turned out to be Daniel Craig with the Queen of England!...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The magazine was back for more quips a short while later (December 20). Covering embarrassing real-life allegations about MI6's possible knowledge of secret use of torture by the CIA, <i>Private Eye </i>gave a 'Bond' angle to them. Tapping into the 'Sony-gate' leaks, the mag carried what it called 'That leaked James Bond movie script - redacted version', with key bits of dialogue heavily blanked out, but with an interesting conversation between Felix Leiter and 007 set in a dungeon: Bond asked: 'Do you expect him to talk?', to which Felix responded: 'No, Mr. ----, I expect him to die!'...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Has Idris Elba finally put to bed the constant rumours linking him to Bond, the ones that are so beloved by the UK press? It was a rumour that started on the internet, was not taken seriously by most people, and then seemed to snowball out of all proportion. According to the London <i>Evening Standard </i>(March 19) ('Elba dashes Bond hopes'), the actor - who previously encouraged the 007 speculation - has now said that he's not interested: 'Nah, I'm too old now. It's nice to be described as a classy British brand but, you know, it's just a massive rumour. I think I've probably put the Bond team off even thinking about me now because I've talked so much about it'... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Author William Boyd, who penned the James Bond novel <i>Solo</i>, was at BAFTA's Piccadilly HQ in London on April 1, attending a short story event. At one point, he was asked by a fan when he would return to film-making? Boyd's only directorial effort remains <i>The Trench</i>, released in 1999, which starred a young actor named Daniel Craig and an even younger new actor named Ben Whishaw! Boyd responded: 'The film is famous because of the then very unknown actors, and now they're very successful'. He laughed: 'So of course they owe it all to me! I will do it again one day. But it's also very hard work, and we're very spoilt and lazy, us novelists: working until late in the night isn't quite what one signed up for'...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2f007_red.jpg" vspace="3" width="229" />The JBIFC would like to wish all our readers, members and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a ‘Spectacular’ New Year. <br /> Many thanks for sticking with us and being so loyal. <br /> The past year started off relatively quietly when it came to James Bond news but we think 2014 is now ending on a real high. The new James Bond adventure <em>SPECTRE </em>began principal photography in December, after an eagerly-anticipated press call was held at the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, and since then news has been flowing weekly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> This edition of the JBIFC newsletter is a <em>SPECTRE </em>special, and is part of our continuing in-depth coverage of all things Bond as the exciting new movie takes shape. As we enter 2015, get ready for things to heat up even more. Agent 007 has definitely reported for duty again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Welcome back, Mr. Bond. We’ve been expecting you"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> From a View to a Thrill </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fSpectre_2.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />After months of speculation, Thursday December 4 at 11.00am GMT saw Sam Mendes take to the stage at Pinewood Studios, where he revealed to the world that Bond no. 24 in the long-running EON franchise was titled <em>SPECTRE</em>. Mendes explained, with a twinkle in his eye: ‘Those of you who have some knowledge of the Bond franchise and the legend of Bond will probably have some idea what that refers to, but I couldn’t possibly comment!’ <br />Standing alongside Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, Mendes also revealed the distinctive logo for the new adventure and also Bond’s new car for the movie, the Aston Martin DB10. In addition, he also confirmed the new movie will have (00)7 months of main shooting, and this will include location shooting in Austria, Morocco, Italy, Mexico City, and London. Within seconds, the news had very quickly gone around the globe, such is the intense interest in one of the most iconic fictional figures in literary and movie history. <br /> Bond was back! <br /> After Mendes had unveiled the new vehicle, an Aston Martin that has been developed specially for the movie (Mendes called the new car a ‘thing of beauty’), the second-time Bond director then proceeded to introduce the principal cast members to the audience. The atmosphere was electric. First of all, key members of Bond’s MI6 support team were introduced: Rory Kinnear (as Bill Tanner), Ben Whishaw (as gadgets expert ‘Q’), Naomie Harris (as the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny), and Ralph Fiennes (who became the new ‘M’ towards the end of <em>Skyfall</em>). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong> Live and Let High </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Sam Mendes then proceeded to introduce, one by one, the new principal cast members: Andrew Scott (who plays a high-ranking Whitehall official named Denbigh), Dave Bautista (who plays Mr. Hinx, who is, in Bautista’s own words, ‘a badass’), Monica Bellucci (who plays Lucia Sciarri), Lea Seydoux (who plays Madeleine Swann), and Christoph Waltz (who plays Franz Oberhauser, a character with close links to Bond’s past). Last, but not least, James Bond star Daniel Craig took to the stage, looking relaxed and very happy. Although he was not present on December 4, a few days later it also emerged that Jesper Christiensen (who played the mysterious ‘Mr. White’ in both <em>Casino Royale </em>and <em>Quantum of Solace</em>) is also reprising his role for <em>SPECTRE</em>. Soon after the main introductions had been officially made by Mendes on stage and the live event was over, the director, his producer, and the main members of the cast then spoke in more detail to the waiting members of the press and TV. At one point, Mendes explained his thinking behind his decision to direct a second Bond move, after initially declining to do so. He said: ‘I felt I had introduced new characters in <em>Skyfall </em>and I hadn’t finished telling their story’. He said he still felt ‘a connection with them’ and, after taking some time to reflect on this, he said he felt he wanted to continue their story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Speculating on <em>SPECTRE </em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fSPECTRE_225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Mendes also went into a little more detail about the reasons for the title. He told the press: ‘I was able today to say that the title of the 24 th movie is <em>SPECTRE</em>, and for those who know their Bond – which is quite a lot of people – <em>SPECTRE</em> is the name of a criminal organisation that featured in Ian Fleming’s novels from a very early stage. Beyond that, I can’t really say much more, but I love the fact that it’ll lead to endless speculation and it also is going to feel as if some big shadows from Bond’s deep past are going to resurface’. The <em>SPECTRE</em> organisation, of course, as many Bond fans are aware, has played a prominent role in the Bond universe, first appearing in Ian Fleming’s novel <em>Thunderball </em>(1961), which had been based on a screen treatment the 007 author had originally worked on with Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham in the late 1950s. In one sense, ‘<em>SPECTRE</em>’ had been the Bond author’s replacement for ‘SMERSH’ (‘Death to Spies’), the ruthless Russian intelligence and assassination organisation which Fleming had previously used in his writings. Whereas SMERSH had been ideological and a product of the Cold War, <em>SPECTRE </em>was more about private profit from crime, and also about the villainous ambitions of a single individual. Instead of having a murderous state-sponsored organisation (as with SMERSH), the new concept (so to speak) in <em>Thunderball </em> was now an enterprise called the ‘Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion’ (or SP.E.C.T.R.E. for short), a private-sector criminal syndicate based at a secret HQ in Paris, and run by arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> The Nature of <em>SPECTRE</em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSPECTRE_symbol.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />The <em>SPECTRE </em>crime syndicate’s managerial executive in Fleming’s fictional Bond world consisted of 21 main members, each known by their number from 1-21. According to Fleming, <em>SPECTRE </em>was staffed by a combination of people from a variety of previous outfits: ex-members of SMERSH, the Nazi Gestapo, the Mafia and the Chinese Black Tong crime network of Peking. The concept of <em>SPECTRE</em>, of course, was also used in the early EON Bond movies (starting with <em>Dr. No </em>in 1962), together with the character of Blofeld (who first appeared - in profile only - in <em>From Russia, With Love </em>in 1963), but both the organisation and the character of Blofeld later became the subject of a complex legal tussle between Kevin McClory and EON/Danjaq in the mid-1970s. Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, who had by then taken on the role of solo producer when Harry Saltzman departed after <em>The Man With The Golden Gun</em>, had originally intended to have Blofeld return in <em>The Spy Who Loved Me </em>(1977). But the legal objections and claims to ownership of the character of Blofeld being made by McClory at the time had forced a reluctant rethink by EON, much to Cubby’s frustration. However, Cubby Broccoli was able, in a sense, to still make a point about the character and have a subtle dig at McClory: Blofeld appeared in all but name in the pre-credits to <em>For Your Eyes Only </em>in 1981. McClory finally realised his vision of a rival Bond movie with <em>Never Say Never Again </em>(1983), when Blofeld was played by the respected actor Max von Sydow. However, a number of critics noted how von Sydow’s interpretation lacked menace, possibly the result of severe pruning of the script during production on a movie that was fraught with creative differences and financial and other difficulties (one version of the script had Blofeld dying as a result of being scratched by the poisoned claws of his own white cat). Ever the showman, McClory also continued to harbour dreams of a rival Bond franchise, and regularly announced new titles to keep himself in the movie news. At one point, ironically, McClory even announced that he intended to make a Bond film titled ‘Spectre’! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>A New Perspective on <em>SPECTRE</em>? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> In November, 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Danjaq issued an official announcement from Los Angeles that, after negotiations with Kevin McClory’s estate, they had reached a settlement of the long-running legal dispute and had now acquired all the Bond rights belonging to the late Irish producer, who had died in 2006. The news from America led to numerous pieces by commentators around the globe speculating on whether this might herald the return of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to the EON Bond series at some point in the near future. What fuelled this speculation even more was the fact that John Logan, one of the scriptwriters on <em>Skyfall</em>, was known to be something of a Blofeld aficionado. Indeed, the speculation had been given a fillip in the run-up to Bond 23 when Logan made a teasing remark that he thought Blofeld was a worthy adversary to Bond: ‘Bond should always fight Blofeld’, he said. It would appear that with the 2013 legal settlement Logan was given a green-light to use the <em>SPECTRE </em>and Blofeld concept for Bond 24. And he was clearly in double-0 heaven about this. So, what can Bond fans expect from these developments? Well, Mendes is right: there continues to be endless speculation, which is excellent news for the Bond marketing people: it helps keep 007 firmly in the news. All the JBIFIC can say is, expect a radical re-invention of the organisation and its founder. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> You Know the Name </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fFleming4.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />The main biographers of James Bond creator Ian Fleming have argued that the 007 author ‘borrowed’ the name ‘Blofeld’ from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer who was chairman of the Country Gentleman’s Association in England and also a fellow member of Boodle’s, the London club where Fleming often went to eat. Tom Blofeld had also been a contemporary of Fleming’s at Eton public school in the 1920s. Tom Blofeld’s son is the famous English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld, who is now retired but is still in demand on the lecture circuit to talk about his favourite sport (something no doubt the cricket-loving Sam Mendes is well aware of!). There has also been some interest in Ian Fleming’s evident fascination with certain words, or variations of the same word, in his Bond novels, including the word ‘spectre’. In Fleming’s fourth Bond novel <em>Diamonds Are Forever </em>(1956), at one point Bond’s cover as a diamond smuggler is blown and he is kidnapped by Serraffimo Spang, of the ‘Spangled Mob’, and is locked up in ‘Spectreville’, a ghost town outside Las Vegas. And in a variation on the word, in Fleming’s adventure <em>From Russia, With Love </em>(1957), Tatiana Romanova offers to defect with the coveted ‘Spektor’ coding machine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Skyhigh: Wide Media Coverage of <em>SPECTRE </em>Launch </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> There was widespread media coverage of the launch of the new Bond movie. Newspapers and TV in both the UK and around the globe reported in considerable detail on the events at Pinewood and, inevitably, there was intense interest in the new members of the cast. Such is the fascination and love of James Bond in the UK that a number of British newspapers placed coverage of the <em>SPECTRE </em>launch on their front pages. Typical headlines included: ‘We’ve been expecting you Mr. Bond... 007 is back’ (<em>Daily Express</em>); ‘Bond’s triple glammy’ (<em>The Sun</em>); ‘007 – and Blofeld – return for highbrow 24 th Bond film’ (<em>The ‘I’-newspaper</em>); ‘Bond is back for the 24 th time and he’s got a new motor’ (<em>City A.M.</em>); ‘Bond’s new girls’ (<em>Daily Mirror</em>); ‘The sexiest Bond ever’ (<em>Daily Star</em>); and: ‘Bond is back! Oh Oh heaven’ (<em>The Metro</em>). Most other newspapers devoted eye-catching stories to the new Bond movie, with large stills of the key cast, especially Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux. How many other movie franchises today could generate such interest? Not many. There were also some notably thoughtful articles on <em>SPECTRE </em>in some of the British press, including in <em>The Daily Telegraph </em>(December 5) and <em>The Guardian </em>(December 5). Ben Child in <em>TheGuardian </em>argued that the introduction of the <em>SPECTRE </em>organisation ‘marks a definitive return to traditional 007 territory’ on the part of EON. Robbie Collin, in the <em>Telegraph</em>, noted in particular all the behind-the-camera talent also returning to the movie, which ‘bodes very well’. At one point Collin also noted that former James Bond, Sir Roger Moore, had tweeted excitedly during the press conference: ‘So Blofeld is back!’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>From London with Love </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fClapper_board_225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Principal photography on <em>SPECTRE </em>commenced at Pinewood on Monday, December 8, 2014. In the same week, set construction in preparation for some London location shooting also began, with a small crew building some platforms on scaffolding on a section of the Regents Canal at Camden Lock. Week 2 of principal photography thus began with some central London filming and, in a sense, Bond returned to some very familiar territory – the famous River Thames (which was previously used heavily for the pre-credits of <em>The World Is Not Enough </em>in 1999). Monday, December 15 thus saw some sequences shot on the UK capital’s main river which involved both Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear (who plays the MI6 chief-of-staff Bill Tanner). In what appeared to be a water-borne trip to the MI6 headquarters, which is located near Vauxhall Bridge, the two actors were filmed travelling as front passengers in a speedboat as it sped along the river. They were taken at some speed to the area directly outside the real-life MI6 HQ, with the boat at one point going directly under Vauxhall Bridge itself. Along with Craig and Kinnear, the speedboat was manned by two extras in helmets, who were piloting the boat as 007 and Tanner stood in front of them and looked straight ahead as the boat whizzed along the river. A camera crew, with Mendes on board, travelled alongside the speedboat in their own special boat, filming from a short distance. Both Bond and Tanner wore dark overcoats over suits, with Bond also in black gloves and a scarf (which was undoubtedly needed on a bright but crisp morning on the breezy Thames). After filming the trip up to the MI6 HQ area of Vauxhall, the two actors were then given an even speedier ride back down the river, much to their delight. Both men were in high spirits, swapping jokes and comments with each other as they took in the sights along the embankment. The MI6 building and Vauxhall Bridge also featured, of course, in the previous 007 adventure <em>Skyfall</em>. Dame Judi Dench, as ‘M’, and Rory Kinnear, as Tanner, were seen being stuck in heavy traffic on the Bridge and then witnessing a dramatic explosion at the Secret Service HQ. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Nightfall: Bond and Moneypenny in Notting Hill </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fCraig_Notting_Hill_225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Later that same day (Monday, December 15), the London location shooting continued in the evening, but this time in another part of the capital. This involved Craig as Bond and another key member of the MI6 HQ support team, the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny (played once again by the lovely 38-year old Naomie Harris). The night-time shooting took place at a plush apartment located in the more up-market area of London’s Notting Hill. A small team of crewmen, arc-lights, cameras, cranes and trailers had arrived in the relatively quiet and exclusive W11 area at the weekend, and took up temporary positions in the residential parking bays outside various townhouses in the nearby streets. Filming then commenced on Monday evening inside an upper-floor apartment in a large former townhouse located on the corner of Stanley Crescent and Ladbroke Gardens, and also outside in the adjacent street. The scenes involved Miss Money penny in the street below, while Craig (as Bond) could be seen through the large window of the apartment. At one point he was filmed looking out of the window, wearing a coloured dressing-gown and gazing down into the street outside the flat. The residents of the elegant townhouses in the area have become quite used to seeing film-makers over the past few years, as a number of movies have made use of the streets. Ironically, in early 2014, Naomi Harris herself shot some scenes in the very same street used by the <em>SPECTRE </em>crew when she filmed for another spy movie, <em>Our Kind of Traitor</em>, which is based on the best-selling espionage novel penned by John le Carre. Harris stars in the gritty film alongside Ewan McGregor. It is understood that the scenes Naomi shot with Craig on the Monday evening are connected with some interior scenes shot at Pinewood in the first week of filming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Return Another Day </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fCraig%2520and%2520Kinnear%2520smile%2520at%2520Camden%2520Lock.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />The very next morning, on Tuesday, December 16, the London location shooting returned to the waterways when Sam Mendes oversaw some <em>SPECTRE </em>filming with the speedboat seen on Monday, but this time on a section of the Regents Canal, at Camden Lock. The scenes once more involved Bond star Daniel Craig and MI6 Chief-of-Staff actor Rory Kinnear. A large section of the waterway was closed off for the day as Craig and Kinnear were filmed standing once again in the front section of the speedboat, in a sequence where their boat went across the canal water at (what is known locally as) West Yard and then travelled under an arched bridge, taking them under a large building on the canal-side. Both actors wore dark overcoats over suits, with Bond again in black gloves. While some parts of the canal have good light, other sections do suffer from shadow at certain points in the day. A large back-screen had been put in place to help reflect light, and large floodlight had been suspended from a crane on the opposite bank of the canal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Canal <em>Royale </em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Both actors were again in high spirits in between takes at Camden, and also shared comments and jokes with Mendes, who spent part of the day in his own small boat close by, overseeing the canal filming. Mendes also watched footage of the takes carefully at one point on small monitor screens. The back-screen, various platforms, some elaborate scaffolding and lights had been put in place a few days previously by crew members, some of them wearing distinctive <em>SPECTRE </em>stunt-crew jackets. Some members of the crew also wore these on the filming day. Inevitably, as word went round among locals and shoppers at the nearby famous Camden Lock market, quite a few onlookers gathered in the area at times, eager to try and catch a glimpse of the action. At one point Craig gave a big smile and wave to the enthusiastic public, but also a less pleasant sign to some of the more over-zealous <em>paparazzi </em>with their zoom-lensed cameras! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Did You Know? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=TKP7fRQMEhcTMBnhg7kpP82JCHBMBWRSO1IagXWx6Rg%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fSpectre%2fChristoph%2520Waltz%2520at%2520Spectre%2520press%2520call.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Christoph Waltz, who is Franz Oberhauser in <em>SPECTRE</em>, was briefly associated with the world of Bond once before. He played the role of a German spy in the Anglia TV movie <em>Goldeneye </em>(1989), which was a carefully-observed and largely faithful biographical study of Bond author Ian Fleming. The movie was based largely upon the biography of the Bond author written by his former journalistic colleague John Pearson in 1967 (Pearson had first met Fleming back in 1954). The well-received 1989 TV movie starred Charles Dance as Fleming. Ironically, Dance himself had also had a small role as a ‘heavy’ in the Roger Moore 007 adventure <em>For Your Eyes Only </em>(1981). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Bond Bits: Brief Items of News You May Have Missed </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> More gadgets for ‘Q’? Actor Ben Whishaw, who is making a very welcome return as MI6 gadgets expert ‘Q’ in <em>SPECTRE</em>, gave a brief interview to the ‘Heatworld’ website during his appearance at the December 4 launch at Pinewood... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The 34-year old actor, who is the voice of the popular bear in the new <em>Paddington </em>movie, which has just stormed the UK box office, was asked at one point what new devices might be in store from ‘Q’ branch in the new movie. He responded: ‘I’m definitely not allowed to say anything, but there’s a few more than last time’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Intriguingly, when Whishaw was asked a cheeky question about his dream song artist would be for the movie, he said: ‘I actually know who it is, but I can’t say. If I did I’d be hauled into someone’s office and given some very stern looks’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whishaw’s comments appeared to be confirmed a few days later, when director Sam Mendes revealed to <em>Entertainment NOW! </em>that he also knows who will be singing the theme song to <em>SPECTRE</em>. But Mendes added: ‘When will you find out? You’ll have to ask Barbara Broccoli, but I would say – on the basis of the last one – very, very late in the day’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Double-0 heaven: the beautiful Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who is joining French actress Lea Seydoux as one of the two new Bond women in <em>SPECTRE</em>, was given a detailed profile in the UK’s <em>Sunday Times </em>newspaper (December 7), and the paper commented that ‘for millions of her worshippers the news that the Italian bombshell is to star in the latest Bond film is the cause of unmitigated rapture’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As many Bond fans know, and as the <em>SPECTRE</em>-related coverage again reminded people, it is not the first time that Monica has been linked to the world of 007. She first auditioned to be a Bond woman for 1997’s <em>Tomorrow Never Dies</em>, when she was considered for the role of Paris Carver... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> However, after behind-the-scenes pressure from MGM, Bellucci lost out to American actress Teri Hatcher, the preferred choice of the main studio (which caused much disappointment to the then-007 star Pierce Brosnan). So, it must be doubly-satisfying for the 50-year old Italian star to have finally secured a role in a Bond movie. Bella!... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Irish actor Andrew Scott, who played the criminal mastermind Moriarty in the BBC’s popular TV series <em>Sherlock</em>, has said he will give nothing away about his role as Denbigh in the new James Bond film. He told the London <em>Evening Standard </em>(December 8): ‘I’m quite good at keeping the secret’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Speaking after winning the best supporting actor award for his role in the film <em>Pride </em>at the Moet British Independent Film Awards, Scott added: ‘You learn how to nod and smile. It’s great fun. It would be so weird if I started giving plots away. People would be aghast. I just keep schtum’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to the <em>Standard</em>, Scott declined to be drawn on ‘completely speculative’ deductions about the relationship of his character, Denbigh, to Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Quite right, too. It would be very unwise to upset the <em>SPECTRE </em>syndicate. Remember what happened to Count Lippe in <em>Thunderball</em>?!... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Bond’s favourite car firm, Aston Martin, now under new boss Andy Palmer, is planning to raise millions in new income to make manufacture new models. Palmer is working on plans to issue new shares or bonds to raise up to £150 million for the launch of new Aston Martin models. The unveiling of the new Aston Martin DB10 on December 4 was part of this bold new plan... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The loss-making car manufacturer, which sold 4,200 cars in 2013 compared to the 7,300 it was able to sell in 2007 (before the recession hit in), hopes that the new Aston Martin DB10 (which has been designed for <em>SPECTRE </em>only and will not go on general sale) will provide a badly-needed publicity boost for the company. The signs are very encouraging. There has already been considerable interest from around the world in Aston Martin’s new turnaround efforts. Fingers crossed, 007... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Naomi Harris, who has reported for duty again as Miss Eve Moneypenny for <em>SPECTRE</em>, was interviewed for the ‘Upfront’ page of <em>ES </em>magazine, the free magazine of the London <em>Evening Standard </em>newspaper (December 12) and, at one point, referring to her role as Moneypenny, she said she has had to ‘put in some serious time and effort practising walking in high heels’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Naomi also commented: ‘When I’m filming Bond the most important thing is getting enough sleep’. Hmmm. We wonder how she felt about her recent night-time shooting in Notting Hill?!... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Chistoph Waltz, who will play such an important role in <em>SPECTRE</em>, has recently played the husband of artist Margaret Keane in the movie <em>Big Eyes</em>, directed by Tim Burton. Waltz gave a <em>Big Eyes </em>tie-in interview to the <em>Metro </em>newspaper (December 18) and described some of views of acting and the interpretation of roles... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> When asked about his role as ‘Walter’ in the new film, Waltz told the <em>Metro</em>: ‘I don’t describe characters. I play them. I find it very counterproductive if actors put themselves and their opinion in... Actually, I’m interested in what you tell me’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Waltz was also (inevitably) asked at one point about how he felt about being in the new James Bond film. He replied: ‘It’s great, although I haven’t started working on it so there is nothing to feel great about yet’. That will soon change, Mr. Waltz...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="4741" valign="top" width="486"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Live and Let Ski: Bond 24 Takes Shape </span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fObertilliach1.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />There are strong indications that the next James Bond movie will at one point make dramatic use of the beautiful Austrian Alps for some snow-bound sequences. Since the last JBIFC Newsletter, various exciting news items have emerged about the possible themes and locations for the upcoming Sam Mendes-directed 007 movie, and it was recently suggested that a 3-day shoot has been scheduled in the small Austrian village of Obertilliach, with sets for another ‘village’ to be constructed nearby. Snow and ice have regularly played a big role in previous Bond movies (<em>On Her Majesty’s Secret Service</em>, <em>The Spy Who Loved Me</em>, <em>For Your Eyes Only</em>, <em>The World Is Not Enough</em>). Moreover, in Ian Fleming’s 007 books, the author gave the orphan Bond an interesting family history: Bond’s parents had been killed in the Alps. Fleming also described 007 as an expert skier. So, in a sense, Bond 24 will be tapping into some traditional Bond angles with a snow-bound location. Interesting rumours have also emerged (warning: possible spoiler alert here!) that a chase sequence will be shot in the area, involving skidoos (one-person snowmobiles). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Double Snow Seven </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> According to the Norwegian newspaper <em>Dagbladet</em>, the Bond producers had originally considered the Svalbard Island group as a possible filming location, and had requested some image material on the location. However, possibly due to the sheer logistical challenge of shooting there in ice-cold wintry conditions, or due to script changes (or for both reasons), they opted for the more accessible Austrian Alps instead. The Norwegian Svalbard group of Islands (formerly known as Spitsbergen) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic ocean, located north of mainland Europe. We understand that an icy or wintry location played a key role in John Logan’s original storyline for Bond 24, and it is interesting to note that sources in the Swedish media have pointed out that some Swedish actresses have been screen-tested for the role of a ‘Scandinavian’ woman in the movie. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Licence Reviewed: ‘Tweaked’ Script Now Delivered </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fPurvis_Wade_225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />As many Bond fans are aware, news emerged in the early summer that EON’s producers had hired the veteran screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who had stepped aside from Bond script-writing duties after <em>Skyfall</em>, to carry out some work on John Logan’s script for Bond 24, and provide it with more ‘punch’ and some extra interplay between 007 and the other characters. Although we have been unable to verify this, the JBIFC has been led to understand that Logan’s main focus in his original treatment had envisaged 007 lying low in a north European country after a mission had gone wrong, but the producers, along with Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes, felt the storyline needed to be widened out and given more action. Purvis and Wade, who worked in close collaboration with Craig and Mendes, have now finished their work on the Logan treatment and have delivered the script, and everybody is now said to be ‘very happy’ with the reworked treatment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> From Rome With Love? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> From ice to sun: sources in Italy recently claimed that Bond 24 will make use of the beautiful Italian capital city of Rome for some important location shooting. According to media reports in Italy, the recently appointed president of the Rome and Lazio Film Commission, Luciano Sovena, had said that Bond 24 will possibly make use of locations in Rome later this year, subject to approval from the city authorities. He said he had met the producers of the Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and had ‘discussed the project’, which may include a car chase in streets around the Via Quattro Fontane (the Four Fountains). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Golden Touch: Barry Norman on Bond </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fBarry_Norman_2_225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Since the rights to screen the James Bond films on TV in the UK were recently transferred back to the ITV network, after a brief spell with Sky, ITV have certainly been making the most of its screening opportunities, with regular showings of the movies on ITV4. And this has inevitably led to some interesting reviews and reassessments of the series by various film critics. One veteran writer on 007 is the BBC film critic Barry Norman, who has taken a close interest in the franchise ever since 1961-1962, when he first got to know the then relatively unknown young actor Sean Connery. Norman’s love of the franchise was on display again recently, when he penned one of his typical appreciations of a Bond film, <em>Goldfinger</em>, when ITV screened Connery’s third entry on Saturday August 2. Writing in the BBC’s listings magazine <em>Radio Times</em>, Norman argued: ‘<em>Dr. No </em>was a good start, <em>From Russia With Love </em>a strong follow-up. But it was the third 007 movie <em>Goldfinger </em>that truly established the never-ending franchise because it was here that most of the elements that characterised so many of its successors were first introduced’. He continued: ‘For a start there’s the pre-credits sequence with Bond performing heroic and sexual feats that have little or nothing to do with the action that follows. Then there are the gimmicks, the technological gadgets. The first two films were relatively free of those, but this time around Bond is equipped with such things as an Aston Martin with radar, machine guns and an ejector seat for unwelcome passengers. Add to that Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the Korean valet with a decapitating bowler hat, Shirley Eaton slain by being painted gold and a lethal laser beam that threatens to end 007’s womanising days for good, and you have the quintessential, albeit 50-year-old, Bond movie’. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Oddjob, Nick-Nack, Hinx? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fJaws_1.jpg" vspace="0" width="225" />There were some further fascinating (unconfirmed) reports in late August that a leading casting agency has been on the lookout for an actor to play a key henchman in Bond 24, a character provisionally named ‘Hinx’. The agency has indicated that the Bond 24 team are interested in equipping the new 007 movie with a memorable or quirky henchman in the tradition of Oddjob or Jaws, as this has arguably been absent from the last three Craig Bond movies. The agency has been looking for a ‘physically fit male between the ages of 30 and 45’, and over 6 foot 2 inches; the successful candidate will undertake stunt training for fights and also some driving duties. It is known that both Craig and Mendes are particular fans of <em>Live and Let Die</em>, and some sources have suggested to us that they may be keen to have a henchman like Tee Hee (played by Julius W. Harris) – a tough henchman with a peculiar physical quirk or ability, but still very believable and dangerous and rooted in reality. Make of all this what you will. Time will tell. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> From Switzerland With Love </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Some key sequences for <em>Goldfinger </em>were shot, of course, in some beautiful and spectacular locations in Switzerland. To help celebrate the 50 th Anniversary this year of the movie, our good friends at James Bond Club Switzerland have organised an event called ‘<em>Goldfinger</em> Reloaded’, which will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2014. The Club want to ‘honour and celebrate’ the movie and will host special guests Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson, and Norman Wanstall, Oscar-winner for Best Sound Effects for <em>Goldfinger</em>. <br /> The special event will have a guided tour of the original movie locations, with vehicles and a photoshoot, and later there will be an autograph session, Q&As, a memorabilia sale, and a 3-course dinner. Organised by Markus Hartmann, further details of the very special day can be obtained from: <a href="mailto:president@jamesbondclub.ch"><span style="color: #0072c6;"> president@jamesbondclub.ch</span></a> or: <a href="mailto:events@jamesbondclub.ch"><span style="color: #0072c6;"> events@jamesbondclub.ch</span></a></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Pure Gold: New <em>Goldfinger </em>Anniversary Steelbook</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fgoldfinger_met.jpg" width="225" />And here’s some more special <em>Goldfinger </em>news: to help celebrate the 50 th Anniversary this year of the iconic third James Bond movie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are to release an elegant Limited Edition gold Steelbook Blu-ray of <em>Goldfinger</em>. Available from September 22, 2014, this exciting new collector’s item will feature sketches of the Aston Martin by legendary Production Designer Sir Ken Adam on the inside of the case and will contain a variety of Special Features, some of them sourced from the archive of EON Productions. There will be Audio Commentaries by the Director Guy Hamilton and other members of cast and crew. There will also be special Featurettes on the movie’s locations, production, publicity campaign, and global impact. In addition, the Steelbook will include the Screen Tests of Theodore Bikel and Tito Vandis, an interview with Honor Blackman, and some notably rare stills. Special Interactive Features will also be available in the Steelbook. The <em>Goldfinger </em>50 th Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook will be priced £24.99 in the UK. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> From Sweden With Love </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="225" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fweb-FSWL-poster-vertical-225.jpg" vspace="5" width="225" />Fancy a trip to Sweden? Our good friend Anders Frejdh, who runs the notably comprehensive Swedish 007 website ‘From Sweden With Love’ (FSWL), has spent the last six months very busily organising a special ‘James Bond Weekend’ in support of the charity UNICEF. There will be exclusive film screenings with Q and As, autograph signings, a Bond exhibition, a charity gala and a live singing performance by none other than Robert Davi who, of course, so memorably played the main villain Franz Sanchez in <em>Licence to Kill </em>(1989). Yes, while Robert Davi still acts in films (he can be seen for example, in <em>The Expendables III</em>, currently in cinemas), he also has another huge talent: he can sing Frank Sinatra songs! Other guests will include director John Glen and stunt coordinator Paul Weston, to name just a few. The special FSWL James Bond weekend will take place September 19-21, 2014. Full details of the not-to-be-missed event can be obtained at: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Yb2_-VFnJPud8M8QZ4cz4zo2CxBQYBNackM0ay61WXr6LJXLbFWaus2BxvJz2MxdU-V0nAa2v76cwbyQlnbt82Ahi4ww-ojQwdRnlCNUflM1O159NjGdoksRgjj-deNqaRLofIjfvti-7tiByji_RqjcaEdeVv51zY6NgCo6Ov_MGxCmvnfssTWeLDeCVwR17OGho05AV4SXsRTtpr5WAQ==&c=ZrLFVNEnbhVwK4yDg0cokmhWfWYgTg2pINwgaHlCA7u-5s_io7eDpw==&ch=5mh0SMdRWlkKMeOmGXjKTsktD6N0OgZ533AEzJxoSYJvtaDmMCq5qA==" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0072c6;"> http://www.jamesbond007.se/from-sweden-with-love.asp</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Spy Another Day </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The World Premiere of the new espionage thriller <em>The November Man</em>, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring former four-times 007 star Pierce Brosnan, took place on the evening of Wednesday August 13 at the famous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Brosnan plays veteran former CIA agent Peter Devereaux (code-name ‘November’) in the new movie, which is based on a series of best-selling novels by Bill Granger. Brosnan and his co-star Olga Kurylenko (who played Camille Montes in <em>Quantum of Solace</em>) attended the premiere, and both generously spent time signing autographs for fans, who had been waiting patiently across the street since the afternoon. Other special guests at the red-carpet premiere included actor Ben Kingsley and two-times Bond director Martin Campbell, the man who launched both Brosnan and Craig on their Bond careers, directing the debut 007 movies of both men. Looking super-cool in a dark, three-piece suit, 61-year old Brosnan, when asked to comment about director Donaldson’s view that Brosnan’s character Devereaux ‘could kick James Bond’s butt’, smiled and described his character as a ‘hard-boiled man, a cultured bad-ass and sassy operative’, someone who had been in the game of espionage for quite a long time and is called out of retirement. Brosnan said he felt that there had been sufficient time between him playing Bond and now for him to ‘jump back into the ring’ and play a spy again. He also said he had very good support from a team who had worked with him previously on the Bond movies, led by stunt co-ordinator Mark Mottram. Mottram was Brosnan’s (uncredited) stunt double on <em>Tomorrow Never Dies </em>(1997) and <em>The World Is Not Enough </em>(1999), and was also a stunt performer on <em>Die Another Day </em>(2002). Pierce also revealed that they were allowed to have free run of the streets of Belgrade for the new movie, allowing them to create plenty of dramatic explosions and action for the fast-paced plot of <em>The November Man</em>. Produced by Brosnan’s own Irish Dreamtime production company, there are already plans in place for a possible sequel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Return Another Way? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> While busily promoting <em>November Man </em>since its premiere, Brosnan has made some interesting further reflections on the links with his time as James Bond and, in the process, given us some clues as to where he may have taken the character of 007 had he been given the chance of a final Bond movie. Speaking to <em>Wenn</em>, for example (August 21), Pierce revealed that he signed up for the role of Peter Devereaux in a bid to conclude his journey as James Bond which, in a sense, was ‘unfinished’ after he was abruptly replaced as 007 by Daniel Craig. Brosnan told <em>Wenn </em>that he never really got the chance to get the Bond franchise or character out of his system. But now <em>November Man </em>has helped him ‘exorcise’ that ghost once and for all. He said: ‘After my four outings as James Bond there seemed to be unfinished business in the way that the Bond films finished in my life and the demise of Bond going offstage left into the night; it seemed like there was a certain void there... Bond was so big and mighty in my career’. He added: ‘I wouldn’t be in the company of you all, talking about <em>The November Man</em>, if it hadn’t been for James Bond’. On the other hand, given the complexity of the character of Devereaux, which had a ‘punch and a grit to it’, Brosnan said the role gave him ‘the opportunity to really take the gloves off’ and ‘be as hard as nails’, showing a moral ambivalence to his character. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> A View From a ‘Q’</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" height="224" hspace="10" src="https://dub109.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=MHGgEzzcZwWg%2b1%2fjxJ0FxXrUjx1UbpizR1PXuVh5RB8%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.007.info%2fimages%2fJohn_Cleese_Q.jpg" vspace="5" width="224" />John Cleese, former gadget master in two the last two Brosnan 007 films, speaking as his famous Monty Python team embarked on their final reunion stage shows in London in July, voiced some reservations about what he claimed has been the ‘humourless’ tone of the recent James Bond films. Cleese, who played a trainee assistant to ‘Q’ in 1999’s <em>The World Is Not Enough </em>and then assumed the full Quartermaster role in 2002’s <em>Die Another Day</em> (following the tragic death of Desmond Llewelyn in 1999), spoke to the BBC’s <em>Radio Times </em>magazine. The 74-year old comedy actor reminded readers of the magazine that he did two 007 films ‘and then I believe that the tone they needed was that of the <em>Bourne </em>action movies, which are very gritty and humourless’. He said that in his view the action sequences now go on for too long. Cleese has been hard at work recently working on his memoirs, and has just agreed to appear as the villain in <em>The B Team</em>, a new movie directed by Chris Cottam, which will (unofficially) reunite some of the stars from the old <em>Baywatch </em>TV series, but with a comedy and espionage storyline. The movie starts shooting in September. The Monty Python reunion shows took place at the 02 Arena in east London, near the River Thames; this was formerly the Millenium Dome and will be very familiar to Bond fans after it featured in the spectacular pre-credits river chase sequence in <em>The World Is Not Enough</em>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Concert <em>Royale</em>: David Arnold Wows his Many Fans </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The theme song to <em>The World Is Not Enough</em>, originally sung by Garbage, was one of the songs bravely sung live on stage by former 007 music composer David Arnold at his first live London concert, which took place in front of a packed audience at the Royal Festival Hall on July 6, to much acclaim from Bond fans and general film music enthusiasts. There was a great atmosphere in the auditorium. Arnold played a variety of excellent compositions from his distinguished film music career, and was backed on the evening by a 75-piece orchestra conducted by Nicholas Dodd. The evening included Arnold’s main song from <em>Made in Dagenham</em>, the new West End stage show, sung on stage by Arnold himself. As well as a range of familiar and less familiar Arnold film compositions, the superb evening included (for Bond fans) ‘Surrender’ (sung by David McAlmont, with backing on acoustic guitar by Arnold); ‘City of Lovers’ from <em>Casino Royale</em>; ‘A Night at the Opera’ from <em>Quantum of Solace</em>; and a brilliant instrumental version of ‘You Know My Name’, the main title song from <em>Casino Royale</em>. There was also a nice surprise for Sherlock Holmes fans, when Arnold introduced Mark Gatiss and Amanda Abbington who both introduced the ‘Sherlock Suite’, conducted by Michael Price, from the smash-hit <em>Sherlock </em>TV series. After Nicholas Dodd reappeared to conduct the spectacular end titles to Arnold’s music for <em>Independence Day</em>, there was a mouth-watering Encore to the evening when David Arnold played the famous ‘James Bond Theme’ on his electric guitar. There is no doubt this remains one of the most famous pieces of film music in the world, and Arnold did it more than justice. What a musician! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Barry is Forever </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> One of David Arnold’s big personal heroes was John Barry, and he has pointed to Barry’s music for <em>You Only Live Twice </em>as having a major inspirational impact on his own decision to become a film composer. Regular filmmakers at Pinewood Studios over the years will have become very familiar with what was once called the Pinewood Studios Screening Theatre no.7. However, in honour of the famous James Bond music composer John Barry, who scored some classic 007 films and many other films produced at Pinewood but sadly died in January 2011, the screening theatre has been renamed ‘The John Barry Theatre’ in memory of the Yorkshire-born music maestro. A private unveiling ceremony took place at the location on Friday 20 June, attended by his wife Laurie and Jonpatrick Barry, together with the 007 producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and former Bond director John Glen. Barry scored the soundtracks to 11 Bond movies between 1963 and 1987 (arguably 12 if you include his work on rearranging Monty Norman’s ‘James Bond Theme’ for <em>Dr. No </em>in 1962). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Double-O-Heaven: New edition of <em>Music of Bond </em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> And while we are on the subject of the music of the 007 films, September 2014 sees the publication of a new, updated edition of Jon Burlingame’s superb study <em>The Music of James Bond</em>, which was originally published in 2012 to coincide with the 50 th anniversary of the James Bond movie series. The first edition of the book contained a chapter devoted to each of the Bond movies (including the non-official ones), and quickly became a key reference book for Bond scholars and general film music enthusiasts alike. Oxford University Press have announced that the new 2014 paperback edition includes a new chapter on the most recent Bond movie <em>Skyfall</em>. Moreover, Burlingame has revealed to eager readers that the new chapter is based on some comprehensive interviews with all the people involved behind the scenes with the production of Adele’s award-winning theme song, together with the movie’s soundtrack composer Thomas Newman. Burlingame, who teaches film and TV music scores at the University of California, has become one of America’s leading experts on movie soundtrack compositions, and it will be fascinating to read his views on the latest entry in the Bond music canon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> To Jamaica With Love</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Another book well worth investing in concerns Ian Fleming’s love of Jamaica and the extent to which the island may have played an even more important role in his development of James Bond than experts previously realised. The book, which has just been published in the UK by Hutchinson, is <em>Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born – Ian Fleming’s Jamaica</em>, written by historian Matthew Parker. The new book is a combination of part-biography of Fleming, a history of Jamaica (and especially its tourist industry), and a critical exploration of the James Bond novels. Many of the 007 books were developed and written in Fleming’s island retreat of ‘Goldeneye’, the rather austere bungalow built to his own specifications, where the Bond author would regularly sit at his writing desk (still there today) and type out a first draft of his latest Bond adventure, smoking his beloved cigarettes and listening to the tropical birds in the lovely sunken garden; he would then reward himself with a daily swim in the bay. Parker’s thesis is that, not only did the exotic island provide much incidental background and atmosphere to the Bond series, but that Jamaica’s place in the wider global context of the Cold War was also an influence on the Bond books, especially in relation to Anglo-American relations in the Caribbean and evidence of Britain’s declining power in the post-war world. A good example was the friendly sparring between Bond and his CIA buddy Felix Leiter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Golden High for <em>Goldeneye </em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The book has been well-received by critics and highly praised in various quarters. Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett, for example, writing in the <em>Literary Review </em>(August, 2014 issue), praised Parker’s ‘close and intelligent’ reading of Fleming’s work while David Mills, writing in the <em>Sunday Times </em>review section (August 3), also noted how Parker has pointed to Bond as Fleming’s response to the decline of Britain as a world power. Robert McCrum, writing in the UK’s <em>Observer </em>newspaper (August 17), said that Parker’s account of the role Goldeneye played in the evolution of 007 is ‘persuasive, well-researched and entertaining’, while John Preston in the <em>Daily Mail </em>(August 15) reflected: ‘You might think there is nothing new to say about Ian Fleming – that every detail of his life has been obsessively picked over by biographers. Matthew Parker, though, has produced a book as illuminating as it is intriguing’. The JBIFC hightly recommends the book for your collection. And for those who want yet more, Parker himself has also penned a special tie-in article on his book’s main themes for the new <em>BBC History </em>magazine (September, 2014), which has just gone on sale in the UK. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong> Underneath the Mango Trees </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> There is no doubt that Fleming drew upon his immediate surroundings as well as his friends (and enemies) for inspiration and plotlines in his 007 novels, as well as key aspects of his own personality and life. The lovely Caribbean island of Jamaica provided the setting for three James Bond adventures penned by Fleming: <em>Live and Let Die</em>, <em>Dr. No</em>, and <em>The Man with the Golden Gun</em>. A Jamaican backdrop was also used for his short story <em>Octopussy </em>(published posthumously in 1966). In his recent book <em>Ian Fleming’s Commandos </em>(2011), the historian Nicholas Rankin noted how the central character of the story of <em>Octopussy</em>, Major Dexter Smythe, shared certain key characteristics with Fleming himself: both lived on the north shore of Jamaica, and both spent much time snorkelling in the water by their home. Moreover, during the war (like Fleming), Dexter Smythe had formed a unit for ‘special operations’. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Did You Know? </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> When Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and Harry Saltzman decided that <em>Dr. No </em>would be the first James Bond movie instead of their original choice (<em>Thunderball</em>), they faced the tricky challenge of casting an appropriate actor for the main villain, Julius No. A near-neighbour and close friend of Ian Fleming in Jamaica was Noel Coward, the famous playwright and star of stage and screen. Fleming was keen for Coward to play the role of Julius No but, when he sounded the famous thespian out, Coward sent a telegram back to Fleming with the now immortal words: ‘Dear Ian, the answer to Dr. No is No! No! No!’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Bond Bits: Brief News Items You May Have Missed </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear, who played M’s assistant and Chief of Staff in <em>Quantum of Solace </em>and <em>Skyfall</em>, and will reprise his role in the upcoming Bond 24 this autumn, was interviewed in the BBC’s <em>Radio Times </em>in May in relation to his BAFTA nomination for his role in the TV series <em>Southcliffe</em>. He said he loved ‘working with actors who surprise me’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It has been very good news recently for Pinewood Studios, the traditional home of James Bond. The film studios group Pinewood Shepperton reported in June that there has been ‘unprecedented demand’ for its famous production facilities and pre-tax profits had recently doubled to £3.5m... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Pinewood also recently finally won permission for its £200m expansion project to go ahead, which will double the size of its studios with new stages, new facilities and badly-needed additional capacity, such as offices and workshops... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> A fair number of Bond fans are also big fans of <em>The Saint </em>TV series, which famously starred Roger Moore in the 1960s, before he became 007. So there was much excitement when a new <em>Saint </em>TV movie began shooting. Then all went strangely quiet. So, what happened? The JBIFC recently checked out the latest news... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The new <em>Saint </em>revival project, which had the backing of Sir Roger and also his TV-producer son, seemed to have ended in stalemate, but all is not lost. A pilot movie for a new TV series (which also included a small role for Sir Roger) was indeed made and completed, and the hope was that the major US TV networks would take it up... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> But the major networks apparently took so long trying to decide whether to buy the pilot that the main star and his female lead have moved on to other projects! According to insiders, though, all is not lost. The plan is to try to recast the main role and carry on with making the TV series... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Interestingly, the scriptwriter Chris Lunt told <em>The Times </em>newspaper (May 1) that he has been working on new scripts for the <em>Saint </em>reboot and that they now hoped to find a ‘Roger Moore-type character’, who would give the new series a ‘very British feel’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Famke Janssen, who played the wonderfully-named Xenia Onatopp in <em>Goldeneye </em>(1995), remains as busy as ever. Famke was interviewed for the London <em>Metro </em>newspaper (July 24), while she was promoting her role in the second series of the supernatural Netflix drama <em>Hemlock Grove</em>... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Famke reflected on her role in the <em>X-Men </em>franchise, making it clear she would like to feature in the films again in the future if the possibility is there, but she is also very keen to continue pursuing her own independent projects: she was a writer, director, and producer on <em>Bringing Up Bobby </em>(2011), which starred Milla Jovovich, and she is now trying to get her next script, a satire about Wall Street in the 1970s, off the ground: ‘I’m about to shop it around to producers to look for money’, she said. ‘It’s a difficult time for independent films and I have to work on it between acing jobs. But I’ve never shied away from challenges’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another veteran of <em>Goldeneye</em>, Sean Bean (who played the villainous former ‘double-0’ section agent Alec Trevelyan), hosted an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session on the social media site reddit.com in early August and, perhaps inevitably, he was asked about Bond, James Bond. He revealed that he was given an Omega watch, with ‘Issued to Sean Bean, 006’ inscribed on the back, as part of his thanks for playing the role... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> In response to another Bond-related question, Sean also said the famous <em>Goldeneye </em>Nintendo 64 game is ‘great’, but he thinks his head looks ‘a bit square’ in it! Perhaps the designers used ‘Q’s facial identikit hardware from <em>For Your Eyes Only</em>? (“I said a nose, Q, not a banana”!!)... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Alan Cumming, who played the computer-hacking henchman Boris Grishenko in <em>Goldeneye</em>, and has been treading the boards of Broadway in a revival of the hit show <em>Cabaret </em>for Sam Mendes, has been busy penning his memoirs. He recently (in May) signed a contract with Canongate books. Entitled <em>Not My Father’s Son</em>, his new book will be published in November, 2014... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The JBIFC were very sad to hear about the death of Tom Pevsner (1926-2014), Executive Producer on <em>Goldeneye</em>, who died on August 19, aged 87. He was also Associate Producer on <em>For Your Eyes Only</em>, <em>A View To A Kill</em>, <em>The Living Daylights</em>, and <em>Licence to Kill</em>. He started his career in the film industry back in 1951... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Live and Let Bye: it was announced in June that Sir John Sawyers, currently the real-life ‘M’ (known officially as ‘C’) is to bid goodbye and step aside from his job as head of MI6 in November, 2014, on the fifth anniversary of his appointment in 2009... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Known as a ‘smooth operator’, when he was originally appointed Sir John was likened to Pierce Brosnan’s portrayal of Bond by some media outlets, who were keen to coin a headline. Rumours that Dame Judi Dench, who took over as ‘M’ in <em>Goldeneye </em>and recently ‘vacated’ the role in <em>Skyfall</em>, has offered to step in and fill Sir John’s shoes have been vigorously denied by MI6 insiders... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The latest James Bond novelist, William Boyd, whose best-selling 007 adventure <em>Solo </em>recently appeared in paperback, has joined a campaign to save the old Curzon Cinema, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, London, which is not far from where he lives... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> According to the London <em>Evening Standard </em>(August 12), the Bond author recently used the newsletter of the Chelsea Arts Club to help drum up support for the ‘Save Curzon Chelsea’ campaign, as he is unhappy about the plans of a developer to drastically reduce the size of the unique pre-war picturehouse... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Boyd said the cinema is an integral part of the local area’s ‘rich and enduring artistic life’ and demolishing it risks ‘King’s Road being turned into a soulless, homogenous 21 st-century shopping mall’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">People tend to forget that Boyd is not just a highly talented novelist: he also has a love of cinema. He directed the independent movie <em>The Trench </em>(1999), set in the First World War on the eve of the battle of the Somme. The film included a gritty performance from a younger pre-007 Daniel Craig as a war-hardened British army soldier, Sergeant Winter. Eagle-eyed viewers of Boyd’s dramatic account of the last 48 hours in the lives of some infantrymen can also see a young Ben (‘Q’) Whishaw in the movie, who played Private James Deamis... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> King’s Road, of course, is also famous as the road named by Ian Fleming as James Bond’s local residential area in London. In the Bond novels, 007 has a flat just off the King’s Road, which is maintained by his loyal Scottish housekeeper, May. Ian Fleming himself was very familiar with the general area, and had a flat not too far away in Ebury Street, near Victoria Station... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> King’s Road was also increasingly famous in the Swinging Sixties as the place to be seen for fashion-conscious youngsters and upcoming pop stars. Interestingly, Sebastian Faulks, who penned the James Bond continuation novel <em>Devil May Care </em>(2008), had Bond in chapter 3 driving his beloved Bentley Continental down the King’s Road towards Sloane Square... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Another Fleming car was in the news recently: a survey by the UK’s <em>Auto Trader </em>of the British public’s favourite screen cars placed ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ at no.3, even beating the Batmobile (which came in at no.4). First place went to ‘Herbie’ from <em>The Love Bug</em>... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The musician, painter and actor Goldie, who played the gold-toothed henchman ‘The Bull’ in <em>The World Is Not Enough </em>(1999), has just curated a new triple CD called <em>Masterpiece</em>, which showcases the music that has influenced him over the years... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> And talking of music, Sam Smith has poured cold water on recent internet rumours that he could be singing the theme song to Bond 24. The 22-year old singer, famous for <em>Money On My Mind</em>, spoke to the <em>New Musical Express </em>in mid-August and said of the claims: ‘I have no idea what that was about. I think it’s something everyone would love to do, but yeah, it was all news to me’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">However, according to the <em>NME</em>, he did reveal that he is a big fan of the song written for <em>Quantum of Solace</em>, sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys: ‘I thought it was amazing. Her voice and his voice together, I thought, was really interesting’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The ever-lovely Rosamund Pike, who played treacherous Miranda Frost in <em>Die Another Day </em>(2002), joined Simon Pegg to sign autographs for fans in Leicester Square, London, on the evening of August 13 for the World Premiere of their new comedy <em>Hector And The Search For Happiness</em>. Pike plays the wife of a psychiatrist (Pegg), a man who sets off to find out what makes people happy. Just getting an autograph from Rosamund should be on top of the list, surely?... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> We were very sad to learn of the loss of Iris Rose, one of the veteran members of the EON ‘Bond family’, who passed away on Tuesday, August 12. Iris had served four 007 actors since 1981. She was promoted to Unit Manager in 1985 on <em>A View to A Kill</em>, and her last film was <em>Quantum of Solace</em>. RIP, Rose... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Dame Diana Rigg, who played Tracy Di Vicenzo in <em>On Her Majesty’s Secret Service </em>(1969), and more recently starred in <em>Game of Thrones</em>, performed her own one-person show at the Edinburgh Fringe Arts Festival, August 14-12, entitled ‘Dame Diana Rigg: No Turn Unstoned’ (great title!). Her well-reviewed stage show was based on Dame Diana’s old 1982 book of the same title, which famously brought together some of the worst critical notices ever served on actors over the years. Her show updated this material... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> As part of the tie-in publicity for her Edinburgh show, Dame Diana was interviewed by Peter Rossin in <em>The Sunday Times </em>newspaper (August 3) about her life and wide acting career, and she revealed that, despite her iconic role as super-fit Emma Peel in the cult TV series <em>The Avengers </em>and her subsequent role as James Bond’s late wife in <em>OHMSS</em>, she could still get awful reviews from critics who, instead of commenting constructively on her acting, would make jibes about her physical attributes... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Dame Diana said she had never forgotten one such wounding review given to her in 1971, when she was starring on Broadway in <em>Abelhard & Heloise</em>, in a role that required a nude scene: the critic John Simon, reviewing the production, wrote that the actress was ‘built, alas, like a brick basilica with insufficient flying buttresses’... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dame Diana clearly still knows a trick or too from her karate-chopping days on <em>The Avengers</em>, however. According to the London <em>Evening Standard </em>(August 19), Rigg, who played the kickass Emma Peel in the famous series, put her martial arts training to good use again during her stay in Edinburgh. Minutes before being interviewed live by the BBC, Rigg found herself locked in a Portaloo. After calling for help to no avail, Dame Diana, now 76-years old, karate-kicked the lock off (!)... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Interestingly, Dame Diana had some hard-hitting things to say about her time as a Bond woman. Interviewed at the Edinburgh Fringe by Sue Perkins, at one point she was asked about <em>OHMSS</em>. She said that working with George Lazenby ‘was a nightmare’, and she wished it had been Sean Connery or Roger Moore instead. She said that George ‘had read too many film magazines and thought that was the way you have to behave. Oh, he was ghastly. And I had to marry the man!’. Ouch. Strong stuff... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The British radio channel <em>Classic FM </em>devoted the rain-soaked August Bank Holiday Monday (August 25) to a special ‘Movie Music Hall of Fame 2014’, playing the top 100 favourite film music scores of all time, as selected by the channel’s listeners. Bond composers, predictably, did very well in the chart. David Arnold’s <em>Casino Royale </em>came in at no.83, followed closely by John Barry’s theme for <em>The Lion In Winter </em>at no.82. Monty Norman’s <em>James Bond Theme</em> came in at no.55, while Barry’s dramatic <em>Zulu </em>was placed at no.46... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> John Barry also featured twice in the survey’s top ten: his haunting and beautiful <em>Dances with Wolves </em>reached no.6, followed next, at no.5, by his remarkable classic <em>Out of Africa</em>. First place went to Canadian composer Howard Shore’s 2001 theme for <em>Lord of the Rings</em>... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Happy birthday, Sir Sean! It may be over 50 years since Sean Connery took on the role of 007 and changed cinema history, and he may now be retired from movies, but he’s still pursuing an active life and looking as cool as ever when he appears in public. Sir Sean, who turned 84 on August 25, was seen recently in New York with his wife Micheline eating at the Atlantic Grill, and then going for a stroll and some shopping. Photos appeared in the UK’s <em>Daily Mail </em>(August 22) and in other media outlets... </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Home of the Open Championship 1931, 1937, 1953, 1968, 1975, 1999, 2007 & 2018</span><span style="font-size: small;">Host of the Seniors Open 2010, 2016 and the Women's British Open 2011</span></strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">1st. Cup</span></strong></div>
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<strong>410 yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 10</strong></div>
A reasonably gentle introduction to Carnoustie Championship golf course. The drive is played to a wide fairway with slopes which tend to take the ball to the right hand side, and should pose no real problems although the burn meandering in front of the 1st tee can intimidate the nervous golfer.<br />
The 2nd shot is one of the few blind shots to be played at Carnoustie and it is important to judge the distance correctly.<br />
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"Ideally left centre of fairway off the tee which will allow you to see the whole of the green."<br />
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<strong>435 yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 4</strong></div>
A long and straight drive is required to avoid the bunkers which will catch even the slightly miss-hit shot. Once the fairway has been found the 2nd shot is straightforward, but with a green measuring 60 yards from front to back the choice of the right club is crucial.<br />
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"Play to the middle of the green with your approach shot as most of the trouble is at the front of this green."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">3rd. Jockie's Burn</span></strong></div>
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<strong>351 yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 14</strong></div>
A short but very deceptive par 4, this hole does not place too many pressures upon the drive although the fairway bunkers will catch anything pulled slightly left.<br />
Jockie’s Burn, after which the hole is named, sits immediately in front of the green and awaits any approach shot that is under-hit.<br />
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"Be aware of water hazard at front of green. Pay particular attention to the pin placement on this hole."<br />
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<strong>375 yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 16</strong></div>
The hole dog legs slightly to the right and players must be cautious not to hook the ball as a ditch awaits just over the back of the fairway bunker.<br />
The green, the only double green on the golf course, is well protected by bunkers and the approach should be long if anything.<br />
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"All trouble visible from tee, but do remember this is a double green. Play to the yellow flag on the front nine."<br />
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<strong>392 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 12</strong></div>
A hole which dog legs to the right and which has a two tiered green. If the pin is placed on the top tier it can add as much as 4 clubs to the approach shot. Longer hitters must be careful not to run out of fairway as a narrow ditch stretches the entire width of the fairway at around 280 yards.<br />
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"Do not be too aggressive from the tee as a drainage ditch awaits too long a drive."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>512 Yards - Par 5 - Stroke Index 2</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The 6th hole on the Championship Course was officially renamed on Wednesday 24th September 2003 as Hogan's Alley by our 1999 Open Champion, Paul Lawrie.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">To commemorate Ben Hogan's feat in 1953, today's professionals were invited to take part in a longest drive competition using a 1953 driver and old 1.62 golf balls. The winner was Arjun Atwal with a drive of 251 yards. Other notable entries were Paul Lawrie 245 yards, Adam Scott 231 yards, Vijay Singh 219 yards, Colin Montgomerie 203 yards and Sam Torrance 200 yards.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Named after the immortal Ben Hogan who won the Open Championship in 1953, this hole is where Carnoustie starts to turn up the heat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Normally played into the prevailing wind this hole can be a severe par 5. Bunkers and out of bounds await the miss-cued drive and although the best line is up Hogan’s Alley between the bunkers and the out of bounds fence, it requires a brave player to drive to that narrow piece of fairway. The 2nd shot is no less perilous with a ditch angling across the fairway and the out of bounds continuing to be a threat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The approach is reasonably straightforward to an undulating green, particular care must be taken if the pin is located on the back right portion of the green.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A player should always be content with a five on this hole as it can be the ruin of many a scorecard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Hogan's alley for the brave, but not for the faint hearted, who should favour the right of the centre bunkers on this very difficult par five. Care must also be taken with your second shot as once again Jockey's burn bites deeply into the right side of the fairway."</span><br />
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<strong>7th. Plantation</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>394 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 8</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Again the out of bounds threatens on the left hand side and the fairway bunkers are cleverly placed to catch the drive pushed only slightly to the right. Care must be taken not to over hit the 2nd shot and run through the green where a difficult up and down awaits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"A long drive on this narrow hole will be rewarded with a much simpler approach shot."</span><br />
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<strong>8th. Short</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>167 Yards - Par 3 - Stroke Index 18</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Carnoustie's first par 3 and well worth the wait. On par with the great par 3's in world golf with out of bounds left and bunkers surrounding an elevated green. Normally played into a cross wind it requires a good swing and no little courage to find the heart of this green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">"Take plenty of club as there is less trouble beyond the green."</span><br />
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<strong>9th. Railway</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>413 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 6</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">The drive is paramount on this hole with out of bounds left, a ditch on the right and numerous fairway bunkers. Finding the fairway always comes as a welcome relief to any player but then a long difficult approach to a well-protected green awaits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"A long drive on this narrow hole will be rewarded with a much simpler approach shot."</span><br />
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<strong>10th. South America</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>446 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 3</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">The start of the back 9 and perhaps the most challenging 9 holes in golf await the player who stands on this tee.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In order to reach the green in 2 a long and straight drive is required with particular care required to avoid 3 bunkers on the right hand side. Once the player has found the fairway, a decision is then required as to whether the Barry Burn which runs some 40 yards in front of the green can be carried with a 2nd shot or not. Unless the player is confident of his ability to fly the ball all the way onto the putting surface, it is often best to lay up and accept a 5, which is never a bad score on this hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">"Avoiding the three right hand bunkers is essential if you hope to reach this green in regulation."</span><br />
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<strong>11th. John Philip</strong></div>
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<strong>362 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 15</strong></div>
The decision must be made on the tee as to whether to take on the fairway bunkers with the driver and try to guide the ball through a narrow neck of fairway or to lay up and thereby leave a longer shot into the green. The green is well bunkered and slopes quite significantly from back to front which can make putting tricky.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"Hitting the fairway with a reasonable length of drive on the slight dogleg assures only a mid to short iron approach to the green."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">12th. Southward Ho</span></strong></div>
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<strong>479 Yards - Par 5 - Stroke Index 9</strong></div>
Played as a par 5 from the back tees and a par 4 from the other tees, this hole again challenges the player with an intimidating drive, whins and gorse must be carried and there are ditches on both the right and left hand sides. Two massive fairway bunkers on the right hand side eat into the heart of the fairway and will catch any shot that cuts slightly to the right. The approach must be played between 2 sets of bunkers positioned on the right and left hand side about 30 yards short of the green and it is often wise to lay up and rely upon a pitch and a putt.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"This hole should be treated as a three shot par five regardless of the tee in use on the day you play."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">13th. Whins</span></strong></div>
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<strong>161 Yards - Par 3 - Stroke Index 17</strong></div>
A deceptively difficult short hole, particularly if it is played down wind when it becomes extremely difficult to stop the ball from running through the green. Bunkers surround the green and will catch anything which is not straight. Once in the bunker the high lips will test any players ability to get up and down. <br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"Heavily bunkered par three at which if you play for the middle of the green and find it you should not be too far away."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">14th. Spectacles</span></strong></div>
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<strong>476 Yards - Par 5 - Stroke Index 1</strong></div>
Gary Player struck the finest shot of his life here in 1968 to make an eagle 3 which enabled him to go on to win the Open Championship. The drive is tough enough with out of bounds left and bunkers well in play. However the hole is made by the 2nd shot, where the player must decide whether he is going to carry the massive Spectacle bunkers or not. If a player goes for the green and lands in the Spectacles he can expect to be there for some time as these bunkers are huge and intimidating. Further bunkers closer to the green provide further protection and any player making 4 can feel justifiably proud of that score.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"Another hole where getting on the green in three is not a disappointment. An accurate drive is paramount and remember this is the second part of our only double green, you play to the red flag on this nine."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">15th. Lucky Slap</span></strong></div>
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<strong>459 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 7</strong></div>
As hard a par 4 as can be found anywhere in golf, this hole requires a long and accurate drive and then a powerful approach to the very well protected green. Into the wind the majority of golfers will not be able to get home in 2 and if a lay up is required it must be kept well away from the bunkers some 25 yards short of the green as getting out of these in one stroke is extremely difficult.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"Most exacting par four on the course. What is required is a drawn drive followed by a faded approach, but for the majority playing this hole for a bogey is not a bad idea."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">16th. Barry Burn</span></strong></div>
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<strong>245 Yards - Par 3 - Stroke Index 13</strong></div>
A 245 yard par 3 often played into the wind. Tom Watson had 5 attempts to get a par 3 here during the 1975 Open Championship and was not successful in doing so. In 1968 Jack Nicklaus was the only player to get past the pin during the final round. This hole is really a 3.5 and a par is an outstanding achievement.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"Hit plenty of club on this lengthy par three. Just like number eight the majority of the trouble is at the front of the green."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">17th. Island</span></strong></div>
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<strong>433 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 5</strong></div>
Continuing with Carnoustie’s fearsome finish, the Barry Burn winds and twists it’s way down this hole. The drive must be placed between the island part of the hole and then the player is left with a long difficult approach to a green protected by whins and bunkers.<br />
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<strong>Caddie's Tip</strong></div>
"The line from the tee is the gable end of the white house, which means you are aiming for the right half of the island. Water awaits the hooked tee shot."<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">18th. Home</span></strong></div>
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<strong>444 Yards - Par 4 - Stroke Index 11</strong></div>
No more difficult finishing hole will be found anywhere. The burn is in play for the drive to the right and left of the hole and also short. Fairway bunkers edge in to the right hand side and it was here that Johnny Miller lost the 1975 Championship when he took 2 to get out of the bunker. The Barry Burn crosses right in front of the green and it poses a huge obstacle for the 2nd shot. It was here that the hopes of Jean Van De Velde sunk in 1999 when Paul Lawrie went on to take the title.<br />
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The clock on the Hotel is the line off the tee. Remember the Barry Burn at the front of the green "and if you better a seven - reward yourself with a drink!"<br />
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<img alt="Hole 5" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-05.jpg" height="640" id="hole5" width="380" /><img alt="Hole 6" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-06.jpg" height="640" id="hole6" width="380" /></div>
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<img alt="Hole 7" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-07.jpg" height="640" id="hole7" width="380" /><img alt="Hole 8" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-08.jpg" height="640" id="hole8" width="380" /></div>
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<img alt="Hole 9" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-09.jpg" height="640" id="hole9" width="380" /><img alt="Hole 10" src="http://www.staplefordabbottsgolf.co.uk/scoreboard/images/h-10.jpg" height="640" id="hole10" width="380" /></div>
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