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**SNIP** After mentioning the Sony emails and telling his listeners who Elba is, Limbaugh said, “Here’s the thing, though… James Bond is a fictional character, obviously. James Bond was invented, created by Ian Fleming… and James Bond is… white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is.” “But now Sony is suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton rather than a white from Scotland,” continued Limbaugh. “But that’s NOT who James Bond is, and I know it’s racist to probably even point this out… We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond...

Moviegoers can thank Austin Powers for killing off the martini-quaffing sexoholic, writes Tanya Gold. Last week James Bond was fired. His nuclear pencil gathers dust beneath Whitehall. There is no news of 007 number six and the production of Bond film 21, due this November, has stalled. There is trouble at MI6, minister: the martini-quaffing sexoholic is suffering an existential crisis and it can't be cured by an intelligent Rolex or a gondola that can drive on land. Eon, which produces Bond, and MGM, which finances his capers, are bickering. It is rumoured MGM wants an action-movie franchise - Spiderman...

Bond Producers to Make 'Casino Royale' Themselves On the heels of recent speculation that director Quentin Taratino was considering the possibility of remaking the James Bond thriller 'Casino Royale' with Pierce Brosnan in the starring role, published reports in the UK now indicate that Eon Productions, which has produced the Bond films for MGM, has decided to make the film on their own--without the involvement of either Taratino or Brosnan.The original filmed version of the Bond novel was actually a spoof starring numberous actors playing Bond 'in disguise,' including David Niven, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen.However, the actual 'Casino Royale'...