Bond in the age of AIDS? Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights
A couple of years back I began looking at the first film of the various James Bond actors, then stopped after Live and Let Die. As our current can’t-load-images problem …
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Crime was never as organized as this!
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …
The blackest Bond: Live and Let Die
1973’s Live and Let Die is a reminder that the course of any serialized entertainment — comics, TV, film series — is often dictated by outside events and backstage struggles …
Behold the birth of Bond! Dr. No (1962)
The first film in a series often isn’t typical. As with comics, the elements that come to define a series often aren’t there at the first, and that’s somewhat true …
August, 1965: Bondage comics
No, not the Wonder Woman kind of bondage.I mean “bond-age” as in the Age of James Bond. After Goldfinger came out in ’64, spies were suddenly cooler than they’d ever …
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
The Bond Girl Changes: The Spy Who Loved Me
So as the combination of two puking dogs this weekend and (more pleasantly) multiple social events over the past nine days has thrown off my schedule. So it’s a recycled …