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This morning in London, Sony Pictures had a big press conference about the next James Bond movie, the one that has been rumored and delayed and speculated about for months upon years.

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M’s spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond’s conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and...

LONDON (Reuters) - Lois Maxwell, the Canadian-born actress who was to many fans the definitive Miss Moneypenny in James Bond films, has died in Western Australia aged 80, the BBC reported on Sunday. It said Maxwell, the demur foil to Bond's suave rake in 14 films from 1962's "Dr. No" to 1985's "A View to a Kill," had died in Fremantle Hospital. She had been suffering from cancer. In the Bond films Moneypenny as secretary to Bond's chief M has a flirtatious relationship with the spy, evidently attracted to him but never succumbing to his advances. It was a role...