By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
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Michael Douglas, Bill Murray and Bruce Willis are just a few of stars to move from a life on television to a successful film career.
From adventures in exotic locales to the memorable girls and super villains, let's celebrate 007's 60th anniversary.
Ian Fleming gave us James Bond. Robert Ludlum gave us Jason Bourne. Now authors Wayne Simmons and Mark Graham give us a novel with an unapologetically pro-American master of espionage, Jake Conlan. Not since Tom Clancy created Jack Ryan has a U.S. audience had such a compelling spy to root for.
Nothing is so much of a boys' club as a James Bond movie. That is, except when Judi Dench is on screen.
Tee Hee, Oddjob and Jaws are just a few of the best evil lackeys to challenge the mighty 007.
James Bond lovers have spent thousands of pounds for pieces of memorabilia from the spy movies at a London auction.
It was a meeting of the two most famous British people on the planet: Queen Elizabeth II turned to her tuxedo-wearing guest and said, "Good evening, Mr. Bond."
If there's one thing James Bond has taught us it's that behind every great spy is a great tailor.
The next James Bond movie, "Skyfall," promises the usual action, exotic locations, scheming villains and beautiful women. For fans of the original novels by Ian Fleming, there's more: a journey into the troubled psyche of the iconic spy.
James Bond has a new American publisher: Amazon.com.
James Bond has a new American publisher: Amazon.com.
Acclaimed British novelist William Boyd said Thursday he hopes to bring James Bond back to his roots when he pens the next installment of the suave superspy saga.
"Operation Fortitude" is nonfiction, the story of how British intelligence gulled the German high command into believing little ruses with what they called "chickenfood" and a turkey of a lie that crucially helped win the war.
Most cars are just that: Four tires and an engine. And then there's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the flying version born of Ian Fleming's imagination and the namesake of the James Bond creator's only book for children.
We use words to tell each other what we mean. Words illuminate reality. But sometimes, and it seems increasingly so in these troubled times, words can be used to conceal truth.
The book was an instant success, leading Fleming to write 12 more novels and two short stories featuring 007.
However because Bond does not kill indiscriminately and takes no joy in killing — he tells Scaramanga in "The Man With The Golden Gun" that he kills upon the specific orders of his government and those that he kills are themselves killers — we do not get upset when he has to kill.
