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Former 'Bond girl' slain in Ireland
upi ^ | 12/16/08 | upi

Posted on 12/16/2008 4:26:30 PM PST by Flavius

HOWTH, Ireland, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Celine Cawley, who earned the title of "Bond girl" for her small role in "A View to a Kill," was bludgeoned to death at her home in Howth, Ireland, police say.

Cawley appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie, which starred Roger Moore as secret agent 007.

The Daily Mail said the 46-year-old actress, advertising executive and filmmaker was the victim of a mid-morning attack Monday on the patio of her posh home. She died at the hospital where she was taken -- battered and comatose with serious head injuries -- less than an hour after she was discovered.

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KEYWORDS: gb; guns; homicide; ireland; murder; thrush
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1 posted on 12/16/2008 4:26:31 PM PST by Flavius
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To: Flavius

The picture looks like Tanya Roberts.


2 posted on 12/16/2008 4:27:59 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

It is. I guess this “bond girl” had a much smaller part in the movie. Maybe more of a “Zorin girl”.


3 posted on 12/16/2008 4:29:49 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Flavius

As a sidenote — Just read a piece in one of the tabloids where Roger Moore unsuccessfully tried to get the director of “A View to a Kill” to reduce the amount of violence in the film. Moore says today’s Bond films are much too violent — that Bond is supposed to be a charmer, not a killer.


4 posted on 12/16/2008 4:30:12 PM PST by malkee (Abigail Adams is my role model.)
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To: Flavius

That pic would flow nice with “Since 1968, 911 Emergency promised... but 1911 ACP has provided...


5 posted on 12/16/2008 4:31:17 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Flavius

Only the theme song was decent.


6 posted on 12/16/2008 4:32:33 PM PST by keat
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Tanya’s gonna give me TIX to a Hot New Show on the Strip.............:*)


7 posted on 12/16/2008 4:33:25 PM PST by cmsgop ( Using OS X on a 400 Mhz DV iMac, thats right, I'm Bad.........)
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To: Flavius

She would have been 22 when the film was shot. Pretty girl. Too bad.


8 posted on 12/16/2008 4:34:00 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: malkee

I happened on one of the sets for this movie while they were shooting. Before then I had no idea how tedious film making can be.


9 posted on 12/16/2008 4:34:44 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Flavius
Apparently, police have identified the murder weapon as a brick.

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Here's a pic of Cawley, btw. Not sure when it was taken.


10 posted on 12/16/2008 4:36:19 PM PST by DemforBush (Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
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To: malkee
Moore says today’s Bond films are much too violent — that Bond is supposed to be a charmer, not a killer.L

Which is why the Moore films are so lame. James Bond is a professional killer for the British government, and the charm is just a veneer.

11 posted on 12/16/2008 4:36:29 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: johniegrad

I think that is Tanya Roberts. This is a weird crime because Ireland is fairly safe. They are catching up to England and Scotland in letting Muslims flood in.


12 posted on 12/16/2008 4:37:22 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: skeeter
Cawley had a small unnamed role as a party girl in the 1985 Roger Moore Bond movie A View To a Kill

I haven't found a picture yet.

13 posted on 12/16/2008 4:37:37 PM PST by Tax-chick (What did the dog just eat?)
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To: Flavius

Hardly a Bond girl (but still sad). From IMDB:

Celine Cawley ... The Girls (uncredited)


14 posted on 12/16/2008 4:38:04 PM PST by OCC
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To: keat
Only the theme song was decent.

I had a girfriend at the time who was big into Duran Duran, and she thought them getting the Bond theme responsibilites was the ultimate. Kinda their last hurrah, if you ask me. Hard to top "7 & the Ragged Tiger", much like F. Mac trying to follow up on Rumours. (remember Tusk?)

15 posted on 12/16/2008 4:38:17 PM PST by jimmyray
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I was never much a fan of the Moore as Bond films, either. Connery and Craig are my faves (in that order).


16 posted on 12/16/2008 4:39:08 PM PST by DemforBush (Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
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To: jimmyray; fieldmarshaldj
The best thing about "Tusk" was the title track, with the UCLA band.

BTW: View to a Kill had my fave Bond theme song, and Astoria's own Christopher Walken as Zorin.

17 posted on 12/16/2008 4:39:43 PM PST by Clemenza (Red is the Color of Virility, Blue is the Color of Impotence)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I actually like Daniel Craig as bond. A real thug. I liked Craig less when he said Obama could be Bond - not with them freaking ears. Moore was the worst bond. George Lazenby was probably even better.


18 posted on 12/16/2008 4:39:57 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Moore was awful no doubt. What the hell did he think “A license to kill” meant? It wasn’t a license to charm.


19 posted on 12/16/2008 4:40:26 PM PST by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: Frantzie
Cawley's husband, Eamonn Lillis, was out walking the dogs on the morning of December 16, 2008, when the attack occurred. Signs of a struggle are visible on the body and police hope that the murderer's DNA may be discovered underneath her fingernails. Lillis told police that when he returned from walking his dogs, he met a masked man leaving the house. Lillis tackled the man, but he escaped, running down the back garden and into the street, still wearing a balaclava (ski mask).

The same source mentions a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood.

20 posted on 12/16/2008 4:40:34 PM PST by Tax-chick (What did the dog just eat?)
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