As I get further and further into my own original research on Ian Fleming, it’s started to amaze me at just how much biographical substance is available to the general public.
Category: Ian Fleming
In “Playbill,” the page that introduces the March 1960 Playboy magazine, editors provide context for the first appearance of a James Bond short story contributed to that issue by Ian Fleming.
Sean Connery provided the following insights into what Branding, James Bond Branding fundamentally argues is the critical role of product placement in 007 stories.
He had great energy and curiosity and he was a marvelous man to talk to and have a drink with because of the many wide interests he had. What made him a success and caused all the controversy was that his writing was such good journalism. He always contrived extraordinary situations and arranged extravagant meetings for his characters, and he always knew his facts. He was always madly accurate, and this derived from his curiosity. When he was discussing anything, like how a truck worked or a machine or a permutation at bridge, there was a brain at work and an enormous amount of research involved; it wasn’t just a lot of drivel he was talking. That’s what I admired most about him — his energy and his curiousity.
Ian Fleming is reported to have joked that he “demanded or perhaps pleaded for three things in a wife.”
- enough money to buy her own clothes,
- able to make “incomparable Sauce Béarnaise,” and —
- “she should be double-jointed.”
The following as-yet undated interview with Ian Fleming
