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Posted on 10/04/2009 5:12:04 PM PDT by Perdogg
I just ordered the book “Battle for Bond” and I am not sure if McClory estate owns the rights to Bloefeld.
It’s ironic because in Thunderball the bio of Bloefeld has him born May 28th, 1908 in Gdynia Poland. 5/28/08 is Fleming’s birthday.
I used to be a member of the James Bond usenet/newsgroup (you weren’t a member of that, were you ?), and that often came up. McClory was prior to his death, IIRC, planning to do yet another remake of TB/NSNA (!) which most of us thought was crazy.
Actually, NSNA in some ways was better than TB. Barbara Carrera was magnificent as the villainess, probably one of the most believably psychotic women, better than Luciana Paluzzi in TB (who herself wasn’t bad). Bernie Casey played the first Black Felix Leiter, and did quite well (better than the current guy, and better than the bland and lifeless Rik Van Nutter’s Leiter in TB). Klaus Maria Brandauer was also fairly good as well, although Adolfo Celi was more a classic-style villain. Interestingly, just like with both films, the weak links were Domino, the female that Bond was trying to protect, Claudine Auger in TB and Kim Basinger in NSNA. Basinger has often been a hit or miss in her films, she either gets them right, or very wrong. Although NSNA missed Q, where they had Alec McCowen in the role utter the hillarious, but extremely un-Q-like line of “I hope there’ll be lots of gratuitous sex and violence.” Desmond Llewellyn’s stodgy Q could never have uttered such a line in a million years. Edward Fox as the bureaucratic M wasn’t bad, but nobody has ever been able to fill the shoes of Bernard Lee (and the current franchise is awkward having Judy Dench playing a maternal character to Bond, although it is an interesting tack).
I didn’t know Blofeld and Fleming had the same birthday, funny stuff.
Heh, seems they aren’t clear, either. I tried to look at a link in the thread: http://www.mi6forums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=46985
...but I couldn’t access it without creating an account.
Hillarious, too, the 64-page “I’d Hit It” thread over Eva Green. :-P (who is on my FReeper page)
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“Live And Let Die.”
Zero reminds me of Mr. Big.
Mr Big was a Russian agent.
What an amazing coincidence. ;-)
LOL!!!
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Nice post devolve! Music and all!
I can’t stay, need to do some things and owe a bunch of replies here too! You posted your nice webpage I see!
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Thanks potlatch
That is the composite 007 photograph I made a few years ago - It never existed like that in a film or on a poster
I just linked 8 Bond songs on this post
The webpage I linked last night was a version I made long ago
I have some others I am still searching the folders and files to find
62° here today - The ice is melting in my vodka martini
I will upload this on the lower part of my profile page
I remember it from one of your Profile Pages. I didn’t realize you had 8 songs linked there, pointed to the graphic and saw one and assumed that was it.
Would be nice to get your old webpages fixed up again.
Good webpage devolve!
Lol, you finally saw the Starlight Coupe.
I can’t say it would be a favorite of mine.
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I called it the Starlight coupe
I believe it is actually the Starliner coupe
The ‘58 Packard Hawk has an interesting front end - but the Continental Kit added onto the trunk lid does not work with the rest of the car
You like a bigger car!
[Starlight coupe]
It is whatever you talked about above because that’s what I looked up.
I like my big car now but you know I love many of the small fancy sport cars. That car just isn’t very pretty to me, lol.
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