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  1. When men were men and women were women, and socialism was just a trendy way to get laid…

    Look how much they improved it, Bond is now Hegelian bond. where the originals were tall and one man. the new one is short, and one of many who held the title. Previous bond were black haired, this one is blond. Old bond was always in control, this one can lose control. In terms of women, its the same.

    but dont worry, they can re-imagine the whole thing and improve it the way they did Disney and relationships, and trying to do with medicine, and railroads…

    Skyfall, due for release on 26 October 2012

    Conrad O’Brien-ffrench
    Patrick Dalzel-Job
    Bill “Biffy” Dunderdale
    and Flemings brother were major inspirations as well as others “was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war”… quoting wiki…

    the earlier novels had more references to real things in history, the later ones became incredibly farcical… like the fleet of shuttles and a character named Pu**y Galore…

    Smersh actually existed… (during WWII)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH

    SMERSH (James Bond)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH_%28James_Bond%29

    [SMERSH] meaning “Death to Spies”.

    Though Fleming’s version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organization, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS.

    as did Kamera (and still does), the poison makers for the KGB, etc…
    [its very hard now to find any information on Kamera since Google now spell corrects to help you search]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services is the wiki page…

  2. As to the article, “Live and Let Die” by Wings is overrated imo – popular when it was released, but a little too quirky in hindsight. And I’d have had “You Only Live Twice” (Nancy Sinatra) among the best five. That title song blended especially well with the film score.

    And of course, Bassey’s “Godlfinger” and Carly’s “Nobody Does It Better” are awesome.

  3. Someone here turned me on to Dennis Miller declaring Nancy Pelosi’s new name as a Bond villan. Pelosi Galore. Lol!

  4. Missed Dr No when it came out, but saw it 5 or 6 years ago and rather liked it, and agree completely about the music. The only one I saw when it was new was Goldfinger, and I liked it a lot. In recent years I’ve seen several of the post-Connery ones and found them sort of dull.

    And Ursula Andress…though I didn’t see the movie, there was a photo spread in some mainstream magazine–was it Life?–that was just crazy-making to a 14-year-old boy.

  5. “Artfldgr –
    He’s the man,
    the man with the verbose touch-
    – he types so much…..”

  6. We had the first three Bond pictures aboard the Midway in 1965. Do not know how many times they were shown, but the ready room was always packed. Lots of ribald remarks about the girls and Bond’s mastery of the opposite sex. Bond was masterful and we aspired to be the same.
    I’ve seen all the Bond pictures through those that starred Pierce Brosnan. IMO, none can match the ones that made with Sean Connery as Bond.

    Saw into Ursula Andress and her then husband, John Derek, in 1964 at the Subic Bay Officer’s Club in the PI. They were on location filming the movie, “Once Before I Die,” and stopped by the base for a meal and some time out of the jungle. The base CO was all too happy to have them visit. Her appearance created a near mob scene as sex-starved Naval Officers vied to get a close up look at her. She was not all turned out as you would expect for a movie star. No makeup and casual clothes suited for jungle location filming. Nonetheless, I recall that she was quite beautiful.

  7. I’m glad to see that my favorite Bond movie – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – with George Lazenby & Diana Rigg is listed. Not that the others were not good; but this is my favorite of them all.

  8. I approve of Goldfinger as #1. But my favorite 007 is From Russian with Love. Connery, Robert Shaw, and Lotte Lenya were superbly campy and extremely fun together on screen.

  9. Parker, I agree. Many memorable lines and scenes in that one. Robert Shaw as the KGB hit man was a suitably lethal opponent for Bond. Lotte Lenya was superb as the crafty and dangerous Soviet spy.

    Correction: I did not see “INTO” Ursula Andress. “Into” should have been deleted. “Saw Ursula……”
    Sigh.

  10. Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger.” You could probably blast open the Gold Repository with her.

    Best 007? John Dee.

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    One more for your collection

  12. J.J. formerly Jimmy J. Says:
    March 30th, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Correction: I did not see “INTO” Ursula Andress.

    ‘Fess up. You bought the “X-Ray Specs” from the comic book ads, didn’t you?

  13. Hmmm. Interesting about Diana Rigg. I did not know that. Interesting because Honor Blackman, Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, was Diana Rigg’s predecessor on The Avengers.

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