“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…
In his iconic first novel, The Time Machine, H. G. Wells sends his Victorian protagonist 800,805 years into the future to a parasitic civilization that contributes nothing to knowledge, art, or culture. He could have cut the journey short by…
In every period between James Bond movies, the progressive chorus starts singing the same tiresome two songs, right on key. Song No. 1 chants that it’s time for a black Bond, a female Bond, or a gay Bond, and they’ve…
It’s time to have an urbane James Bond who loves his clandestine work — once again. The Bond brand suffered under Daniel Craig, who has made no secret of his desire to abandon that role. Reflecting the primacy of global…
What can you say about an urbane, epicurean super spy for Queen and Country who became a geek? That he liked digitization? That he went liberal? In an alarming development for Bond devotees everywhere, the digital colosssi Apple and Amazon…
English actor Daniel Craig has shown dismaying condescension about his role as the debonair master spy known as Bond, James Bond. The actor stated in 2015 that he would “rather slash (his) wrists than return to the James Bond role.”…
