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A Broken Bond March 12, 2025
Debbie McWilliams joined the James Bond juggernaut in the early 1980s as casting director, picking actors from the top of the bill to the bottom. Her first film was Octopussy in 1983, her last No Time to Die in 2021. That is 38 years of experience an...
Can James Bond Be Licensed to Thrill Again? March 07, 2025
James Bond has stared down plenty of villains over the years—garden-variety megalomaniacs, faceless henchmen, Soviet killers with weird skills—but his latest mission may be the most unexpected: proving that the espionage genre still has a pulse....
In-trays, Out-trays, and Ashtrays October 23, 2024
In one of the most famous scenes in the history of cinema, Ursula Andress wades ashore on a Caribbean beach with a knife in her belt, singing “Underneath the Mango Tree.” Then she meets the dashing secret agent James Bond, and a franchise is born whi...
Shaken, Not Stirred October 14, 2024
You learn things from studying any life, but more from some lives than others. For some reason my father always had the autobiography of Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini around when I was growing up. Frequently, of an evening, he took Plutarch’...
My James Bond September 19, 2024
August 12, 2024, marked the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. His creation James Bond entered the world a little more than a decade before he died, with the 1953 publication of Fleming’s taut Casino Royale. The first Bond novel was well-re...
The Ultimate Bond Film Turns 60 September 13, 2024
“You expect me to talk?”“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”Even that small minority of the Earth’s population who wouldn’t normally watch a James Bond movie can quote that exchange from Goldfinger, spoken as Bond follows the progress of a laser beam...
Black and White and Bond All Over August 16, 2024
“You only live twice, or so it seems” – at least, that is, if you are the work of the late illustrator John McLusky, creator of the popular James Bond newspaper cartoon strips. His dynamic, almost-forgotten drawings brought a reliable touch of glamo...
