[moehoward]

"However, since Fleming preferred Niven he muse have liked some wit and a twinkle in the eye. Very suave."

Fleming wanted someone that looked like himself.

[morphing libertarian]

my mom would have picked Niven or Cary Grant

[xp38]

When he first thought him up in the early 1950s Fleming said Bond looked like this guy Hoagy Carmichael.