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It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background.
Under the pseudonym " Adam Hall ", Trevor Dudley-Smith wrote the Quiller spy novel series, beginning with The Berlin Memorandum ( US: The Quiller Memorandum, 1965 ), a hybrid of glamour and dirt, Fleming and Le Carré.
** Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
It became a catch phrase, often used humorously for Yankees visiting the South, as in the mystery novel, Death of a Damn Yankee: A Laura Fleming Mystery ( 2001 ) by Toni Kelner.
When those plans did not come to fruition, Fleming adapted the ideas to form the basis of the novel, which he originally titled The Wound Man.
Although the project came to nothing, Fleming used the idea as the basis for the Dr. No novel.
Fleming wrote the novel in January and February 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica and initially gave it the title of The Wound Man.
* Ian Fleming, in his novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, named the family patriarch " Caractacus Potts ", and in the story, explains the significance of the name to his readers.
In the Ian Fleming novel You Only Live Twice, Kissy Suzuki has a cormorant who is named " David " after the actor.
It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).
** Emilio Largo, the main antagonist in the James Bond film Thunderball ( as well as the Ian Fleming novel of the same name.
One of the re-writes was Bond's fate at the end of the novel ; Fleming had become disenchanted with his books, and decided in April 1956 to alter the ending to make Klebb to poison Bond, allowing Fleming to finish the series with the death of Bond if he wanted.
In Istanbul Fleming met the Oxford-educated Nazim Kalkavan, who became the model for Darko Kerim ; Fleming wrote much of Kalkavan's conversations into a notebook, which he then used verbatim in the novel.
Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.
Robert R Kirsch, writing in the Los Angeles Times, also disagreed with Boucher, saying that " the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming.
At the time of writing the novel ( 1959 ) Fleming believed that the Cold War might end during the two years it would take to produce the film, which would leave it looking dated ; he therefore thought it better to create a politically neutral enemy for Bond.
Fleming details Blofeld's background in the novel Thunderball, though none of his past is ever revealed in the Bond films.
The first person narrator of the novel is an unnamed medical doctor turned politician ( called Dr Stephen Fleming in the Louis Malle film ) whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent.
The most recent of these was Thunderball, a novel Fleming initially published under his own name, but which was the subject of a legal action by its co-authors, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham.
As he wrote the novel, Fleming used aspects of his life to flesh out the details, much as he did with many of his Bond stories.
Thus, in the novel, one of the children was called Jemima, after the daughter of his previous employer, Hugo Pitman ; the advice Pott gave to his children also echoed that of Fleming: " Never say ' no ' to adventures.
* Casino Royale ( novel ), the first James Bond novel by Ian Fleming

Fleming and three
Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.
However a 15-yard illegal man downfield penalty on left guard Bob Kuechenberg nullified a 20-yard pass completion to tight end Marv Fleming on the first play after the turnover, and the Dolphins were forced to punt after three more plays.
The 1983 Barun Valley discoveries prompted three years of research on the ' tree bear ' possibility by Taylor, Fleming, John Craighead and Tirtha Shrestha.
He has judged the CWA / Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for three years.
Blofeld makes three appearances in the Ian Fleming novels.
The proceedings lasted three weeks, during which time Fleming was unwell, suffering a heart attack as the case progressed.
EFO's first three CDs drew the attention of booking agency Fleming and Associates.
* Peggy Fleming, 1968 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, three time world champion figure skater ( 1966-1968 )
* John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who in 1973 married Kate Fleming ( b. 1946 ), elder daughter of the writer Peter Fleming and actress Celia Johnson, and has three children with her.
On October 10, 2005, John Murray published the first of three Ian Fleming Publications ' sanctioned novels, written by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, entitled The Moneypenny Diaries, a trilogy from the point of view of Miss Moneypenny.
In addition to three high schools ( Cobourg District Collegiate Institute East ( CDCI EAST ), CDCI West and St. Mary's Secondary School ), Cobourg is home to a satellite campus of Fleming College.
Macintyre also notes that in his study of Fleming's work, Kingsley Amis outlined that way Fleming had described M's voice, being: angry ( three times ); brutal, cold ( seven times ); curt, dry ( five times ); gruff ( seven times ); stern, testy ( five times ).
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.
The case lasted three weeks, during which time Fleming was unwell — including having a heart attack during the case itself — and, under advice from his friend Ivar Bryce, they offered a deal to McClory, settling out of court.
He formed a powerful partnership with Peter Fleming, with whom he won 57 men's doubles titles, including four at Wimbledon and three at the US Open.
Together the couple had three children: Francis Philip Jr., Elizabeth Fleming, and Charles Seton.
hosted by Art Fleming ( February 21, 1972 ), in which the three highest-scoring undefeated champions at that point returned to play an abbreviated game for charities.
According to the Mundell – Fleming model of 1962 and 1963, a small, open economy cannot achieve all three of these policy goals at the same time: in pursuing any two of these goals, a nation must forgo the third.
Capra, Fleming, and James Whale were three of the few directors who received the credit " A ( insert director's name here ) Production " even though they did not produce their films.
Continuation Bond author Raymond Benson notes that two of the stories (" Quantum of Solace " and " The Hildebrand Rarity ") are experimental for Fleming, whilst the remaining three are straightforward Bond adventures.

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