By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Nothing is so much of a boys' club as a James Bond movie. That is, except when Judi Dench is on screen.
When I first heard that "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes had been tapped to make the newest James Bond film, I wondered how the choice might transform the series. Would we find Bond sitting in a McMansion wearing a cardigan and brooding over a failed marriage? Would we discover in the end that the true enemy was, in fact, the inescapable horror of suburban ennui? Would he switch his drink order to white wine?
Tee Hee, Oddjob and Jaws are just a few of the best evil lackeys to challenge the mighty 007.
The queen and James Bond gave the London Olympics a royal entrance like no other Friday in an opening ceremony that rolled to the rock of the Beatles, the Stones and The Who.
