They'll have to wipe "The Simpsons" completely out, not just edit a few scenes.
Posted on 02/27/2023 7:53:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
April 13, 1953 was a red letter the day in popular culture.
It was when Ian Fleming’s debut novel, Casino Royale, was published, and the world was introduced to James Bond.
The success of Casino Royale in the U.K. paved the way for subsequent works by Fleming, featuring Bond.
In 1961, President Kennedy named 'From Russia With Love' as one of his top ten favorite books in Life magazine. This endorsement made the book a bestseller in the U.S.
Some say it was Kennedy's way of linking himself to Bond and projecting himself as a Bond-like heroic leader taking on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In politics, perception often triumphs over reality. Alas, for Kennedy, that perception was never tested, he never survived to run for reelection.
The adaptation of Fleming’s novels to the big screen catapulted the character to legendary status and widened the readership of Fleming’s novels.
Fleming wrote twelve novels and two collections of short stories featuring Bond.
Bond remains a cultural icon to this day with twenty-seven hugely successful cinematic adaptations and myriad authors such as Raymond Benson, John Gardner, Kingsley Amis, and Sebastian Faulks taking over the literary Bond mantle.
Back to the Fleming novels.
Later this April, fresh installments of the Bond book series will be reissued to commemorate its 70th anniversary.
But this reissue has a difference.
The Telegraph reported that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which owns the literary rights to the novels, commissioned a “sensitivity” review of the Bond novels to find out if any of its contents failed to meet the contemporary standards of political correctness.
Following these reviews, changes have been made to the novels.
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Who ever believed they would stop after taking down a few statues?
The rewrite efforts are only in its infancy.
Stop the communist memory-hole!
1984 by Orwell has literally become an operating manual for these communists.
They'll have to wipe "The Simpsons" completely out, not just edit a few scenes.
Is this really necessary? Cancelling Fleming’s books because they upset the Snowflakes, Millenniums, Zeros and fags? How many James Bond books do they sell each year. Are the busybody Azhos going to remake all the movies also? I know the Millenniums, Snowflakes and Zeros are all very sensitive testosterone free sissy boys who vote for minority women a lot but I don’t think this kind of “I want to change the world” bovine scatology is really necessary.
The Telegraph revealed that the word “n-----”, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the '50s and '60s, has been ‘almost entirely expunged’ from the revised texts.
So, a James Bond novel is now going to be three pages long now?
They will do this to The Bible bank it.
Unlikely. Given the current Democrat agreed upon scheme, it would make no sense for them to embrace Lincoln's avowed white supremacy aspirations.
The American Thinker isn't.
Doctor Holly Goodhead. Not a secretary. And only in the film "Moonraker". Played by Lois Chiles.
Hafta send in Matt Helm to kick some sirrus butt!
RE: So, a James Bond novel is now going to be three pages long now?
I got another question — are they gonna cancel or revise the words in most rap music now? (especially gangsta rap ). If so, I support it.
First Roald Dahl, now Ian Fleming. Any bets on who’s next?
After the name, the job responsibility escaped me....sort of like Pussy Galore did.
RE: Any bets on who’s next?
MOST DEFINITELY MARK TWAIN.
LOL, it will be chopped up like a Sopranos episode on PAX TV.
How very Soviet of them...the very thing Mr. Bond fought against.
Gee, I wonder why the lefties want to ban “1984”?
All of the characters will be gay and black except for the white, hetero, male villain.
IMHO it is worse. When books are banned you know about it. When books are "re-edited" you generally don't know unless you can do a line be line comparison to an earlier edition.
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