There is a probably apocryphal anecdote about the two greatest authors of French literature, who just happened to be close friends. Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas were strolling by the Seine River one day in 1865, when the bells of…
A friendly warning: After I die, no matter how many centuries have passed, I will return to earth in the form of a bloody whirlwind to rain lava down on any imbecile who dares to remove sentences from any of…
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night In the 21st…
The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has lost its brand identity due to a lack of focus. It is both confused and confusing. And the franchise has…
Time to take a break during the holidays — impossible during last year’s kerfuffle after the 2020 election — and hence the delay in publishing this piece on a legend who left us on Halloween 2020; and quite a bio he…
Twenty years ago, I sat in a movie theatre with a late buddy and fellow James Bond fan, Jim, trying to follow the plot of the last Pierce Brosnan outing, Die Another Day. It had something to do with a…
“You expect me to talk?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to comply.” To translate former President Trump’s astute observation at an August rally into the Queen’s English, “Everything woke turns to shite.” The latest casualty of this truth is…
My wife, both shaken and stirred by the news of Sean Connery’s passing at 90, is inconsolable. Her preference for male stars of the silver screen has always run to the more rough-hewn. None of your George Clooneys or Brad…
Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was the ultimate British super-spy of film. His last Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, was in 1983. Many actors have tried to emulate 007 of the Secret Intelligence Service of…