50-year-old bottled in Bond --- James Bond...

Started by quiller, September 06, 2012, 02:51:17 PM

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quiller

You know the tune from its immortal first four notes, the classic John Barry theme and shoot-to-kill opening that has made James Bond a fifty-year cinema sensation.

This year they'll be humming it a lot, as the real red carpet rolls out for half a century of 007....

http://itineraries.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/05/12530403-50-years-of-agent-007-and-his-rides-on-display-in-the-uk?lite

I didn't know until this evening that Ian Fleming died in 1964. One hopes he lived long enough to see Sean Connery and Robert Shaw in the series' early masterpiece, From Russia With Love.