🎬 James Bond News #152: 🍸May 2021

Published: Tue, 05/04/21

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Hi - more sad news this month with the deaths of two actors in their fifties.

Paul Ritter died of a brain tumour at the age of 54. He appeared in Quantum of Solace as government advisor Guy Haines, who was moonlighting for Quantum.

Days later

Helen McCrory died from cancer. The 52 year old actress played Clair Dowar MP, who chairs the Parliamentary inquiry hearing in Skyfall.

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This summer Salisbury Museum plans an exhibition of Richard Chopping’s work, whose trompe-l’œil artwork was used on the dustjackets of nine James Bond first edition books. The exhibition runs from 17th May until 3rd October 2021.

Features

At the start of Thunderball we find a badly hungover James Bond. The previous night while playing bridge he had downed a total of eleven whisky and sodas and, blaming it firmly on that last drink, lost heavily. You can find out more in Thunderball: Food and drink from the novel.

Javier E. Trujillo reviews issue 1 of Dynamite’s 2021 comic book series. Review: James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE #1 from Dynamite

The next of John Gardner’s continuation novels looked at by Kathryn Smith is Role of Honour. Review: Role of Honour

James Bond & Friends podcast

The latest episodes of James Bond & Friends are now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere. These are fun to record and the response has been hugely positive. You can listen to the most recent episodes below:

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Also, don't miss the latest livestream I did with Bill Koenig of The Spy Command. It was great fun as usual although I had some tech issues with both my mic and lighting.

During the discussion about reports that No Time to Die's premiere is reported to have a massive £10 million budget we shoot down suggestions that it will happen at Wembley Stadium.

Watch it here

That's all for now. Unless there is any big news in the world of 007 beforehand I'll be back at the start of June.

Meanwhile, if you have any comments or questions then shoot me an email.

See you soon!

David Leigh
The James Bond Dossier

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