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For Your Eyes Only’s 30th anniversary: 007 returns to earth
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Posted on 06/25/2011 2:36:24 PM PDT by Perdogg

The James Bond film series ended the 1970s with one of its most extravagent entries, Moonraker, where James Bond went into outer space. For the first Bond film of a new decade, producer Albert R. Broccoli opted to bring the gentleman agent back down to earth in For Your Eyes Only.

Moonraker hadn’t used much of Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only would tap the plots of two Fleming short stories, For Your Eyes Only and Risico. Both had been published in the same 1960 collection of short stories by Fleming. Broccoli brought back screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who hadn’t been involved with Moonraker, to write the new movie. Broccoli collaborated with Broccoli’s stepson Michael G. Wilson on the script.

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KEYWORDS: 007; bond; bondjamesbond; rogermoore; topol
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Screw you! I googled her and she looks just fine for fifty-four.

I like description of her as a “skater who accidentally became an actress”.


21 posted on 06/25/2011 3:52:57 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju; fieldmarshaldj

Johnson was in one of the pilot movies for Micky Spillane’s Mike Hammer, “More Than Murder” (1984).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085961/

The memorable line went something like this:

Hammer: “You’re good.”
Sandy: “Oh, I’m better than good.”


22 posted on 06/25/2011 4:30:26 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: GSP.FAN; fieldmarshaldj

Indeed. Bouquet rated as one of the top three Bond women, imo. The green eyes were killers!!


23 posted on 06/25/2011 4:33:06 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Stacy Keach did the best Mike Hammer, no two ways about it.


24 posted on 06/25/2011 4:33:37 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: fieldmarshaldj
One might say that scene was more the way Connery would’ve done it. No more Mr. Nice Guy there for Rog. Too bad they couldn’t have had him do it this way instead for all those prior silly ‘70s entries.


But it took several Bond movies for Roger to live down his nice guy image gained as “The Saint”....:^)

25 posted on 06/25/2011 4:37:22 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: sinanju
Stacy Keach did the best Mike Hammer, no two ways about it.

Back when A&E ran the series back in the late 90s, I taped almost all of them. I'm missing 3 or 4. Wish they would put them out on DVD.

26 posted on 06/25/2011 4:39:19 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Perdogg
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27 posted on 06/25/2011 5:10:59 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
One might say that scene was more the way Connery would’ve done it. No more Mr. Nice Guy there for Rog. Too bad they couldn’t have had him do it this way instead for all those prior silly ‘70s entries.


But it took several Bond movies for Roger to live down his nice guy image gained as “The Saint”....:^)

28 posted on 06/25/2011 5:11:19 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: GSP.FAN

Topol was in this one as well to assist 007. I think he is also an excellent actor!


29 posted on 06/25/2011 6:20:56 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: abb

The “Squeeze” a movie Stacy did in the 70’s,one of my favorite movie from the era.


30 posted on 06/25/2011 7:51:29 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: abb

“It’s great for muscle tone!”


31 posted on 06/25/2011 8:05:58 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: stylecouncilor
That photo is awesome!

Thank you for sharing it with us!

32 posted on 06/25/2011 8:18:56 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Perdogg

“For Your Eyes Only” is probably my favorites Bond flicks. No supervillians, just Bond against the Soviets, or their proxies. A great supporting cast, and some great quotable lines:

“How deep is the water?”
“Not. deep. enough!”

Bond: “Forgive me father, for I have sinned.”
Q: “That’s putting it mildly, 007!”

“you have what we Greeks call brassos, GUTS!


33 posted on 06/25/2011 8:20:35 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: stylecouncilor

That pic is almost as awesome as a pic of all 12 Doctors. Bravo!


34 posted on 06/25/2011 8:23:34 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

It was in the tradition of the Ian Fleming novels.


35 posted on 06/25/2011 8:31:27 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Perdogg

I read a couple of the novels back in high school, but that was a long time ago.


36 posted on 06/25/2011 9:17:52 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: Perdogg

I don’t recall from which story, but in one of Fleming’s books he noted that Bond in his off-time was writing a book. Moore’s version of Bond never allowed me to believe he could even read a book, much less write one.


37 posted on 06/26/2011 1:38:54 AM PDT by tlb
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To: stylecouncilor

Now that is an awesome photo!


38 posted on 06/26/2011 5:20:28 AM PDT by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: tlb

This was noted in “Obit” chapter (chapter 21) from “You Only Live Twice”.


39 posted on 06/26/2011 6:54:36 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Actually, as I noted in a previous posting, Octopussy had a good script but John Glen screwed it up.


40 posted on 06/26/2011 7:00:12 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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