As a sort of a follow-up to the Action Heroine Blogathon, and in my never-ending quest to afford Bond Girls the respect they deserve, my list herewith of truly ass-kicking Bond girls; the ones who put the “action” into action movies.
The 1960s

Rosa Klebb: Neither a true “Bond girl” nor a heroine, she was definitely a [...]

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Someone kept asking me what Blofeld’s birthday was; thought it would be a cool day to have a Bond celebration.
Well I just came across it, quite by accident. It’s May 28, 1908. And if that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s also Ian Fleming’s birthday. He gave his biggest villain his own date of birth.

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Today is the Action Heroine Blogathon. There are lots of kickass action Bond girls, so I thought a lot about who to feature today. Even a relatively passive heroine like Domino Derval manages to kill the villain with some pretty decisive steel in her eyes.
Finally, I decided I just had to talk about GoldenEye, because [...]

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Better known as Fiona Volpe to Bond fans, she remains, in my opinion, the finest of the “bad girls” of Bond.

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CommanderBond.net has published an extremely erudite article detailing all the instances in which Ian Fleming’s novels were censored and corrected. Fascinating stuff.

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On various Bond message boards, I use the screenname Kara Milovy. I love Kara, she’s a favorite Bond girl, and I love her romance with Bond. The scene on the Prater Wheel is a pure swoon, and perhaps the one I most readily picture as being me up there on screen with Bond.
But I am [...]

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Another find on CommanderBond.net today: One of the cars from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sold for over a half million dollars.
This is of interest to Bond fans, of course, because Ian Fleming wrote the original novel. In addition, the film was produced by Cubby Broccoli, co-written by YOLT scribe Roald Dahl, and featured [...]

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Via CommanderBond.net, here’s an interview in the Times with Roger Michell, who turned down the opportunity to direct Bond 22.
“The Bond people – who are lovely – are used to going into these massive productions in quite a chaotic way: ‘Oh, we’ll fix that later.’ I panicked about this. And it was starting to make [...]

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Blogathon…June 12!

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