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Ian Fleming Never Mentioned James Bond’s Ethnicity. But He did Offer a Few Clues…
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Posted on 09/02/2015 3:43:08 PM PDT by Perdogg

Anyone who thinks to diverge even slightly from this now officially accepted view, to be held by everyone everywhere in the world on pain of excommunication, is a racist. We know this because of the recent experiences of children’s author Anthony Horowitz, who briefly committed heresy over the weekend when he dared to suggest that Elba was perhaps too “street” to play a suave, Eton-educated, Senior-Service-trained, half-Swiss, half-Scots secret agent.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: bondjamesbond; goodgrief; jamesbond; ohwhocares; reallywhocares; whocares
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To: JMS

I wonder, do any of the Flemming Bond novels mention what color the sky is?


41 posted on 09/02/2015 4:48:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: needmorePaine

Doctor No campy? I can’t see it


42 posted on 09/02/2015 4:52:01 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: wagglebee
or this one

43 posted on 09/02/2015 4:52:14 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Perdogg
In a recent obituary of Christopher Lee, Lee was quoted as saying that Ian Fleming told him that he (Fleming) wanted Lee to play James Bond.

Lee also claimed that Tolkien told him he wanted Lee to play Gandalf.

44 posted on 09/02/2015 4:55:53 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Perdogg

The wikipedia article on Christopher Lee says that Fleming did want Lee to play James Bond in Dr. No.

From the same article:

“Lee had met J.R.R. Tolkien once (making him the only person involved in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy to have done so) and made a habit of reading the novels at least once a year.”

So maybe Tolkien did tell him he wanted Lee to play Gandalf (in the event of a film).


45 posted on 09/02/2015 5:05:23 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ilgipper

I think Cubby Broccoli is dead.......he was a customer of my husband’s.


46 posted on 09/02/2015 5:15:32 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: yarddog

You DO know that Redd Foxx was BLACK???


47 posted on 09/02/2015 5:17:37 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

You mean Redd was Black?


48 posted on 09/02/2015 5:23:29 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

ha!!!!


49 posted on 09/02/2015 5:28:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Altura Ct.

And it should stay almost exclusively white, right, Mr. StormFront troll?


50 posted on 09/02/2015 5:30:38 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Perdogg

A LUSH EUROPEAN GAMBLING CASINO, INTERIOR, NIGHT: Slow pan from Sylvia Trench to Bond as he casually lights a Players cigarette with his custom gunmental lighter. Cut to Sylvia, she says, “And you are...?” Cut to Bond as he lights the cigarette and allows rills of smoke to drift from the corners of his mouth. He says, “Hey, yo, yo, you, Beeyatch-—Bond; fokking Shaka Koonta Kintay Bond, yo....(Cue theme, BADA DA DAHH! DA DA DAHHHH!)


51 posted on 09/02/2015 5:37:50 PM PDT by Reverend Saltine (Don't say, "the administration," or "the EPA"--say "OBAMA." Give him full credit)
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To: a fool in paradise

Bangladesh??

KEYnyah????


52 posted on 09/02/2015 5:40:13 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: muir_redwoods
its worth noting that most of the Bond movie stories were completely unknown to Flemming. I think Flemming’s influence on the franchise disappeared long ago.

Correct. I read all the Bond books by Fleming, and after the second movie, they had less and less to do with the thrillers that Flemming wrote. I really lost any desire to see them after the 4th or 5 the flick, and have never paid to see one since.

53 posted on 09/02/2015 5:50:00 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: MeshugeMikey

It’s been outsourced to Mumbai.

All Singing
All Dancing
All Bond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBy9aOBXR0Y


54 posted on 09/02/2015 5:55:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: Mr Rogers

Hmmmmm...tough sale in Hollywood:
I think this picture was when he played on the Laramie series.


55 posted on 09/02/2015 5:59:21 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: MUDDOG

So maybe Tolkien did tell him he wanted Lee to play Gandalf (in the event of a film).
except lee didn’t play gandolf. that was ian McKellan Lee played Saruman.


56 posted on 09/02/2015 6:02:59 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: a fool in paradise

Mumbaiwood?


57 posted on 09/02/2015 6:05:53 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Correct.

Tolkien died long before the live-action LOTR movies, so when Lee met Tolkien, all talk of film roles was purely speculative at that point.


58 posted on 09/02/2015 6:06:08 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: headstamp 2
The new Bond will be a transvestite.

No, Ms. Bond, an avowed feminist named her child born of artificial insemination, after aborting two male fetuses, James, because gender identities are so passé these days. . . and Xe was the first of xer genderlessness to be admitted to Eton, breaking that horrific bastion of oppressive male patriarchal domination. Now, 007, licensed to write nasty notes to the bad guy's mother (killing is, of course, not permitted), is the star agent of the EU's joint Overt Operations Service, overseen by Mother, played by Dame Judi Dench, who gets very vexed if 007 fails to ask permission to do anything before investigating anything, including having breakfast. . . or going to the bathroom. . . or, of course, writing a nasty note to the bad guy's mother.

The new, politically correct, Justice Warrior 007 prefers to have xer morning fruit smoothie shaken not blended. Xe carries a MonteBlanc pen with which to write her nasty notes and xe drives a green Volt, with a special battery designed by Q, which will get ten more minutes of charge than a standard model.

59 posted on 09/02/2015 6:35:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Bollywood


60 posted on 09/02/2015 6:36:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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