Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the occasion of “The Story of James Bond. A Tribute to Ian Fleming”, arranged by Ian
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Daniel Craig continues to sport his arm sling at the “The Story Of James Bond: A Tribute To Ian Fleming” tribute event in London Palladium on Sunday night. (Fleming is creator of the famous fictional secret agent James Bond.) Girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell stayed on the 40-year-old British actor’s other arm. Craig refused to say how he got [...]
Cally's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently reading my way through Ian Fleming's James Bond books. A few days ago, I finished Thunderball . The copyright page of the book explains that the book is based on a film treatment written by Fleming and a couple of others. This was not a good start to the reading because it gave me the impression that the novel is a kind of hand me down...
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... relationships with women are complicated and rare. I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Ian Fleming's Bond novels (not the movies) but I'm trying to stay away from pastiche, and instead hope to explore the same debates about masculinity and Britishness he did, while perhaps coming to different conclusions. I also hope this is serious SF in all sorts of ways, and that the politics...
Hellomagazine.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Since James Bond was created in 1953 six actors have portrayed him on the silver screen. And two of them, current 007 and former Bond , were on hand to help pay tribute to Ian Fleming, the man behind the world's greatest secret agent.Accompanied by his beautiful girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell, hunky Daniel – whose second Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, goes on general release in the UK this month...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
JAMES BOND legend SIR ROGER MOORE is happy author IAN FLEMING abandoned plans to kill off the superspy - because movie fans would never want 007 to die. Fleming was ...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
JAMES BOND author IAN FLEMING saved the British intelligence service from collapse in the 1940s, it has emerged. Fleming was an officer in the British navyÂ's ...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Ian Fleming helped to insert "new blood" into reallife secret service.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Author Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy hero James Bond, helped insert new blood into MI6, Britain's real-life intelligence agency, documents reveal. Released National Archives documents show the man behind secret agent 007 used his position with the British Navy's intelligence department during World War II to help solidify the Secret Intelligence Service,...
Desicritics (Free subscription) | yesterday
After Ian Fleming’s death in 1964, various authors have tried their hand at recreating James Bond in the image moulded by Fleming. The latest writer to throw his hat into the ring and take up the challenge of imitating Fleming is Sebastian Faulks, the highly acclaimed author of books such as The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. Faulks’s Devil May Care is the...
Mick Smith (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The myth that Ian Fleming knew very little about MI6 has thankfully been exploded by a new file belated released to the National Archives at Kew, see Sunday’s article in the Sunday Times. The file was uncovered by Phil Tomaselli...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... Kipling wrote "The Jungle Book" and Agatha Christie wrote "At Bertram's Hotel." Bond creator Ian Fleming was also quite fond of this hotel, and so it was appropriate that we met his niece, Lucy Fleming in the hotel's English Tea Room. Now, I'm not much of a tea drinker, but the lemon tea I had at the Brown was one of the greatest things I've ever tasted. Daughter of actress Celia...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... is a minute's walk from James Bond's fictional HQThe location has impeccable Bond credentials. In Ian Fleming’s Bond books, 007’s HQ was just a short walk away - described as a ‘tall grey building near Regent’s Park’ which housed British Naval Intelligence.Meanwhile Fleming’s real-life nemesis, the architect Erno Goldfinger, left his mark on the area in the form of the flats he designed...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Pictured: Ian Fleming in his study with a copy of For Your Eyes Only (April 1960). (Photo by Evening Standard / Getty Images) Last month, Cinematical was lucky enough to join a few other select outlets on a trip to London for something called The James Bond Experience. One of the cooler activities we took part in (aside from driving an Aston Martin at 150mph and chatting with both Daniel Craig...
[Geeks are Sexy] technology news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quantum Of Solace , the 22 nd James Bond movie and the second to feature Daniel Craig, following his highly-acclaimed turn as 007 in 2006’s Casino Royale , opens in the UK on October 31, 2008, and the USA a week later. Casino Royale distinguished itself in many ways from previous films in the Bond canon, being far more faithful to author Ian Fleming’s description of Bond (hair colour aside),...
