Category: Occasional Writings (page 4 of 6)

UK Product Placement Ban Reversed

RealBusiness.co.uk just reported the following, under a Monday, September 14, 2009, byline by Kate Pritchard.

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Characteristics of the original Bond Girl: Can she take care of herself, or what?

Continuing with the Kingsley Amis analysis of Bond Girls in Ian Fleming books, the following may come as a surprise to those less studied in the world of 007.

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Characteristics of the original Bond Girl: How does she look?

Kingsley Amis tackled the challenge of summarizing the Ian Fleming Bond Girl in Chapter 5 of The James Bond Dossier (1965), “Beautiful Firm Breasts.”

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Let’s not argue with those who dislike the “Bond Girl” archetype

Blame this one (too) on Ian Fleming, advised Kingsley Amis in The James Bond Dossier (1965).

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“Wife”: Criteria

Ian Fleming is reported to have joked that he “demanded or perhaps pleaded for three things in a wife.”
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Deborah Lipp on Bond’s martini

The question of “shaken,” rather than “stirred,” is one commonly debated among James Bond fans.

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Origin of the vodka martini

“A dry martini,” James Bond said. “One. In a deep champagne goblet.” essential 007 brand elements, this, too, comes from the fertile mind of his creator, Ian Fleming.

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