Ian Fleming’s writing can be categorized two ways. The first iseconomy– he was a master of short, punchy sentences and wildly evocative adjectives. The reason James Bond books are so eminently quotable is that Ian Fleming said more with a handful of words than some authors could say in a...
A belated Happy New Year to my dear readers. While I wasn't up for doing this update right after travelling for some 20+ hours, I did take today off for recovery and what better way to spend the day off than by looking back at some of the things I've seen over the break? First...
I've been falling behind on my anime viewing, but I did finish readingVolume 4ofThe Eminence in Shadow, the latter part of which is going to be hitting the silver screen at some point in the hopefully not too distant future. For movie reviews, we have both the1950 originaland the1991 ...
A devoted Wilkerson follower and a great beneficiary of Billy’s generosity was Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the very successful future producer of all James Bond movies (He also producedChitty Chitty Bang Bangwhich was written by James Bond writer Ian Fleming.) How did he get the name Cubby?
And Sean looked up to me and said, “Come on, kid, it’s not Hamlet: Just answer the phone, turn around; let’s get out of here.” So. I did another take. Brian says, “Cut. Andy, we only saw one eye.” And Sean, with his great sense of humor, said, “You saw two ...
Harry PotterandThe Lord of the Ringsall fit this category. And possibly the best proof of a successful adaptation is the James Bond series, the majority of which has been adapted from the007novels of Ian Fleming. Perhaps unusually, audiences seem to accept that the actors who have played ...
The franchise kept announcing each new Bond movie in the credits of the previous one until they ran out of Ian Fleming titles to adapt, at which point the tease was shortened to the open-ended “James Bond Will Return.” And sure enoughNo Time to Dieincludes the phrase too. James Bond ...
More About This Book The Benefits of Being an Octopus Ann Braden Zoey wishes she had eight arms like an octopus. Because if she did, she would be able to balance her responsibilities at home caring for her younger brother and sister, doing her schoolwork, and laying low around her mother...
What did Archimedes discover about the centroid of a triangle?Question:What did Archimedes discover about the centroid of a triangle?Archimedes:Archimedes is one of the greatest mathmaticians of all time as well as a physcist, inventor, astronomer, and engineer. The most famous phrase attri...
Why did Timothy Dalton quit? Timothy Dalton –LEGAL ISSUES! It was in fact something completely out of his control: he was all set for a third movie in 1990, only for legal issues between Eon Productions and MGM to delay the production. "Because of the lawsuit, I was free of the contr...