Yahoo! Movies does the coolest cars in film. Of course the DB5 is listed prominently, but they get the year wrong. D’oh! It’s a ‘64 not a ‘63!

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Daniela Bianchi, who played Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love (in my opinion, the greatest Bond movie), turns 66 today.
Bianchi is a kind of watershed for Bond girls, a dividing line between old and new. She is the diametric opposite of Anya Amasova; she is indecisive where Anya is firm, helpless where Anya [...]

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The other day, I was musing on the issue of recurring characters. Today, on Robbie Coltraine’s birthday, it’s worth revisiting.
Zukovsky was a different character in his second appearance, and this happens far too often. Jaws, Jack Wade, even Sheriff Pepper got dumber, softer, and more cooperative when they returned to the Bond franchise, whereas at [...]

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Scotland.org rules! As I reported, I won the Scotland.org James Bond stamp contest.
Well, my prize arrived.
In addition to the gorgeous Royal Mail stamps, I received a heavy silver-tone keychain that says “Scotland,” a 248mb flash drive, a tie pin of the US & Scotland flags, a Scotland rain poncho, a a Scotland pen, and a [...]

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Commenter Frank Herbert alerted me to this story. The Arecibo Observatory, run by Cornell University,
…is struggling to stay open after the National Science Foundation, its main funding source, decided last year to slash its budget from $10.5 million to $8 million. By 2011, the money is expected to dwindle to $4 million.
The foundation cuts also [...]

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I love cool locations!
Cerro Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert that hosts ESO’s Very Large Telescope, will be the stage for scenes in the next James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace”.
Looking akin to Mars, with its red sand and lack of vegetation, the Atacama Desert is thought to be the driest [...]

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Today MSNBC discusses the great card games in great movies. Casino Royale ranks #3 after The Cincinatti Kid and Rounders. Since I haven’t seen the other two movies, I can’t fairly assess the ranking.

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In comments, Jay calls LTK a great film, while Matt Sherman lists it as a favorite. I’ve recently posted about my adoration for Timothy Dalton, so why do I rank LTK relatively low (#12 on my list of 22)?
Let’s start by saying, it’s not that LTK is bad; it’s that 11 Bond films are better. [...]

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Corinne Clery, who played the doomed Corinne Dufour in Moonraker, turns 58 today. Nowadays, she acts mostly in Italy, where she has a TV series.
Carole Ashby doesn’t have a big acting career, nor is she famous as a Bond girl. She is of interest to me because she’s one of the many actors who have [...]

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I recently posted rankings of the Bond films and thought I might better defend LTK as #1. Having said that, I recently re-watched Licence To Kill but also watched AVTAK last night.
View played much better than I had remembered on a big screen with the new print on the Ultimate DVD set. The production values [...]

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