Thursday 14 May, 2009
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Anyway, here's the Newsletter for May 2009
Bond 23
Still no news on Bond 23, but as soon as there is a confirmed news item
I will send an email alert to you so you don't have to wait for the newsletter
to arrive. Personally I don't think we'll hear anything until late this
year at the earliest and I think we can safely assume now that the next
Bond film will be in 2011.
Free download
Last month I mentioned that Paul
Kyriazi's "How to live the James Bond lifestyle" is now available
as a download. Well, I contacted Paul about putting together a report
expanding one of the sections in his audio course, which is called "Bond
symbols for change". Basically I expanded my own thoughts on how
you can put this into pratice and supplied links for you - you
can download it here.
Bond books
As anyone who has been on this list for a while knows, I'm quite an avid
reader and the latest Bond related book I read was "For Your Eyes
Only - Ian Fleming+James Bond" by Ben Macintyre. It's now available
in paperback from Amazon.co.uk
and Amazon.com.
The book was produced to celebrate Ian Fleming's centenary last year and
was supposed to be a tie in with the exhibition at the Imperial War Museum,
which I unfortunately missed.
I was surprised to find it wasn't therefore a catalogue of the exhibition,
but more of a biography. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much new
and everything seemed rather familiar. And there is one thing I'd love
to know - both this book and "James Bond, The Man And His World"
assert that both Fleming and Bond wear bright beach shirts from Antonio's
in Falmouth.
The trouble with this is I cannot place that - Ian Fleming may have, but
I can't find any reference to Antonio's in any of his novels. In fact
to my knowledge Bond always wears a navy sea island cotton shirt, but
if anyone can point me to where I can find any reference to Antonio's
I'd love to hear from you.
New website launched
- James Bond sunglasses
And yes, I have launched a new website which focuses purely on sunglasses
worn by James Bond, with links to a variety of online retailers so you
can compare prices and/or source locally from the UK, America and Australia.
If you'd like to check it out then it's easy to remember - www.jamesbondsunglasses.com.
Bond on the big
screen
If you've never seen any of the early Bond films on the big screen and
you live in the UK, now is your chance. Dr No, From Russia With Love,
Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service will be showing on Sundays
in June at selected cinemas across the country.
You can check
out the details on MI6.
MI6 Declassified
And if you want some good reading material - away from your computer that
is - then I recommend the latest edition of MI6
Declassified. It covers Quantum of Solace, John Gardner, Fleming's
non-fiction Thrilling Cities and more.
Phew - that's all for now, but if you'd like to get in contact you know
where to find me - m@thejamesbonddossier.com.
Until the month!
M
The James Bond Dossier
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