As Grant talks, Bond slips his metal cigarette case between the pages of a magazine he is holding in front of him and positions it in front of his heart to stop the bullet.

The British newspaper News of the World first reported that Harris was in talks for an undisclosed role in the upcoming 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall.

When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond, although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved.

She takes him to Konstantine who talks to Bond and tells Hera to kill him.

If I was George Michael right about now, I'd be shitting myself ") or current events ( a 2000 issue remarked " The Government spent £ 850 million on the Millennium Bug, and the only thing that crashes is Q < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > out of the Bond films ").

For the first time in the Bond novels, there is friction between Bond and M in Dr. No, brought about because Bond was nearly killed by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb in From Russia, with Love.

Oberon has a low Bond albedo of about 14 %.

Nemo is infuriated about H-142, and Bond coolly replies that they will claim that, officially, the Martians died of the common cold, whilst any humans found dead will have been killed by Martians.

Taking the idea back to basics, he left the James Bond pastiche idea behind and ended up thinking more of The Shadow ; " suddenly I was engaged and enthusiastic about the idea ".

On April 13, 1928, about sixty young people had gathered in the Bond Dance Hall, on the second floor of an East Main Street building ( the ground floor was occupied by Wiser Motors ).

Fleming's book The Fixers ( about MGM's legendary " fixers " Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling ), Beery, gangster Pat DiCicco, and Albert R. " Cubby " Broccoli ( who was also DiCicco's cousin and eventual producer of the James Bond films ) allegedly beat comedian Ted Healy to death in the parking lot of the Trocadero nightclub in 1937.

Evil's head quarters where he kills people around the table ; the plot about stealing nuclear arms and holding the world ransom ; conversation about a swimming pool with sharks ; Austin playing Black Jack with No 2 .; No. 2 modelled on Emilio Largo ; both Austin and Bond fighting with a bad-guy in drag — though the audience doesn't know that it's the bad-guy in drag until the fighting begins.

Until then, the Western public imagined their secret services as promoters of democracy and democratic values ; a view principally espoused in the popular James Bond thriller novels — romantic high adventures about what a Secret Service should be.

Strong and intelligent, Coach Mitchell often knows more about James Bond Jr's activities than he lets on to his colleagues, and often risks his job by allowing James to get into danger.

It was concern about Asante activities on the coast that had compelled the Fante states to sign the Bond of 1844.

They were not consulted about this annexation, which arbitrarily set aside the Bond of 1844 and treated its signatories like conquered territories.

They had only met for the first time about a week earlier, on 4 July at Grillon's Hotel in Bond Street.

For example, in the novel Thunderball, Fleming wrote that she " often dreamed hopelessly about Bond.

Gilbert and the actor had a famous exchange during rehearsals for The Mikado about an improvised bit of " business " in which Jessie Bond pushed Grossmith, as they kneeled before the Mikado, and he rolled completely over.

Mackenzie waited for Bond Head's force of about 1000 men and one cannon, led by Colonel James FitzGibbon, which outnumbered Mackenzie's approximately 400 rebels.

In the summer of 1958 Fleming and his friend, Ivar Bryce, began talking about the possibility of a Bond film ; in the autumn of 1958 Bryce introduced Fleming to a young Irish writer and director, Kevin McClory, and the three of them, together with Fleming and Bryce's friend Ernest Cuneo, formed the partnership Xanadu Productions, named after Bryce's Bahamian home, but which was never actually formed into a company.

Bond scholar John Griswold notes that in the original draft of the story, Fleming killed Leiter off in the shark attack ; when Naomi Burton, Fleming's US agent with Curtis Brown protested about the death of the character, Fleming relented and Leiter lived, albeit missing an arm and half a leg.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service contains what the author of " continuation " Bond novels Raymond Benson calls " major revelations " about Bond and his character.

Benson also notes that Fleming gives relatively little information about the character, only how Bond reacts to her.

In Chinese, (), meaning Bond ( asterism ), refers to an asterism consisting of α Arietis, β Arietis and γ Arietis.

In Brazil, it was named as Austin Powers-O Agente Bond Cama, roughly translated as The Spy Good in Bed ( a gag with the pronunciation of James Bond's last name, which can be interpreted as " bom de ", meaning " good at something ").

Brady Bond negotiations generally involved some form of " haircut " – meaning that the value of the bonds resulting from the restructurings was less than the face value of the claims before the restructurings.

In Chinese, (), meaning Bond ( asterism ), refers to an asterism consisting of γ Arietis, β Arietis and α Arietis.

Saved delves into the lives of a selection of South London working class youths suppressed-as Bond would see it-by a brutal economic system and unable to give their lives meaning, who drift eventually into barbarous mutual violence.

The Lord Chamberlain sought to censor it, but Bond refused to alter a word, claiming that removing this pivotal scene would alter the meaning of the play.

In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel Thunderball, published in 1961.

The Evening Standard looked at why Bond was a success and listed " the things that make Bond attractive: the sex, the sadism, the vulgarity of money for its own sake, the cult of power, the lack of standards ".

* Tiara Hotstones-This jewel-loving mercenary shares somewhat of a rapport with James Bond Jr. and despite being ruthless in achieving her aims, is inclined to pursue only jewels and money rather than power or world domination.

The town voter being mainly British, the bill met with the bitter opposition of the Bond members, who declared that its object was the extinction of their parliamentary power.

Once considered for the role of James Bond, Lucan was a charismatic man with expensive tastes ; he raced power boats and drove an Aston Martin.

When Whiteway came back into power in 1889 ; Bond was made Colonial Secretary.

In the James Bond novel From Russia, with Love, Ian Fleming claims that Rosa Klebb-the book's main villain-had been Nin's co-worker and mistress between 1935 and 1937, while in fact being an agent of the OGPU ; that it was she who murdered him, on orders from Moscow ; and that it was this coup which put her on the road to high power within the Soviet espionage apparatus and eventual confrontation with James Bond.

Between 1847 and 1852 Bond and pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple used the Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.

Poland is a major power and the chief rival of the Anglo-French, and the two exist in a situation of Cold War ; some of the stories are spy thrillers, where Lord Darcy is pitted against Polish agents and takes on some of the attributes of James Bond ( with some magic ingredients added, such as a spell used to make him fall madly in love with a beautiful female Polish agent ).

The NightFire documents lead Bond to a nuclear power plant being decommissioned by Phoenix International.

SPECTRE is introduced in the first film, Dr. No ( 1962 ), in which the doctor explains to Bond that it is the acronym for the SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, the four great cornerstones of power.

Within the main port enclave, on the north side of the river, are a power generating station ( gas-fired ), several oil terminals and number of slightly-related businesses, such as car dealerships, and a Topaz fuelling station on Bond Road.

The new GTS 350 Monaro, at the hands of Colin Bond, was once again able to hold out Ford to claim another famous victory for Holden, after the Phase One's special tyres failed under the Falcon's heavy weight and great V8 power.

The power predictions for ball mills typically use the following form of the Bond equation:

Besides the profit and / or power the solex agitator can give him, Scaramanga's scheme in acquiring the device is also intended to lure Bond to Scaramanga's private island so that the two of them can engage in one final, decisive duel ( Although Bond is using his eight-bullet. 32 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that he ' only needs one ', Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground ).

James Bond is sent in to recover it before the Union can sell the microfilm to a foreign power.

The circumstances relating to Vittorio Vidali, Ramón Mercader and the other agents ( Trotsky's murder, the lethal purges of agents in the Soviet Union and Fulgencio Batista's Cuba ( such as Sandalio Junco, ), as well as Vidali's travels through Cuba before and after Fidel Castro's coming to power, and his presence in Turkey, Mexico, Spain, have drawn comparison with a James Bond story.

* Bond Lake carhouse and power house

Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy ’.

As the power of British Empire was beginning to decline, journalist William Cook observed that " Bond pandered to Britain's inflated and increasingly insecure self-image, flattering us with the fantasy that Britannia could still punch above her weight.

" In 1953, when Casino Royale was published, coal and many items of food were still rationed, and Bond was " the ideal antidote to Britain's postwar austerity, rationing and the looming premonition of lost power ", according to historian and The Times journalist Ben Macintyre.