Short answer to continuity questions: There is none. This came up yesterday. I was discussing Casino Royale with a rare fan: The kind who didn’t like Casino Royale. (And you know I absolutely adore fans with unusual opinions.) And one of her complaints was that the whole “prequel” idea didn’t work for her. She complained [...]

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The late Harry Saltzman, Cubby Broccoli’s partner for the first nine Bond films, would have been 92 today. And John Cleese, the intrepid R-turned-Q, turns 68.

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Via CBn, the Hollywood Reporter reveals that Daniel Craig has signed a contract with MGM for four more Bond pictures. Not only is this good news for fans of Craig’s performance, I think it’s good for Craig as an actor. It lets him breathe in the role. He’s not focused on ‘this picture, then we’ll [...]

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I love things like this. ABC News has a then-and-now slideshow of about a dozen Bond girls.

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The director of two Bond films is 67 today. Helming two of the best, he deserves our praise and gratitude!

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I would totally buy a zillion of these. Too bad I don’t live in England.

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My sister and I have started a blog about the AMC show Mad Men. I’ve posted about this show before, and in fact, I have a half-written post about the feminism of the show sitting in my Drafts folder. It was Roberta’s idea (the blog) and I hope it’s going to be fun. So please [...]

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A person who attended a workshop I presented last summer has kept in touch with me. I guess you’d call him a fan. I was impressed with me, and I guess my workshop made a big difference in his life. Anyway, he wrote last week to tell me that he’d found something Bond-related at a [...]

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Digital Spy is today reporting that Amy Winehouse will not be singing the Bond theme, but that David Arnold and Don Black are “reportedly more interested in Finnish rock band HIM.” I am impressed with Winehouse’s publicists. There’s no news about Winehouse, there is something new in the article (HIM) but she still gets the [...]

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The fabulous Rosamund Pike, who played Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, is supposedly set to marry filmmaker Joe Wright. Neither WENN nor The Daily Mail are my favorite sources, but sometimes they’re right. I wish the couple well.

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