 'For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming And James Bond', Exhibiton at London's Imperial War Museum |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...5375.html?r=RSS Preview: For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming And James Bond, Imperial War Museum, London Monday, 7 April 2008 Daniel Craig's blood-stained shirt from Casino Royale and Q's travelling-case from A View to a Kill will go on show in the first major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. There are lots of images of the novelist looking dapper in black tie – even reading a copy of his own book For Your Eyes Only in 1960 – along with a desk and chair from his Jamaican home Goldeneye, where he wrote the Bond novels. Exhibits include a yellow helmet worn by Drax's men in Moonraker; a cello pierced by a bullet from The Living Daylights; a spear-gun from Thunderball; a transparent bomb from The World Is Not Enough; a prototype of Rosa Klebb's flick-knife shoes in From Russia With Love; the golf shoes worn by the titular baddie in Goldfinger; a wing-mirror dart-gun from Live and Let Die; the heart transplant unit used for smuggling diamonds in The Living Daylights; the overcoat worn by Sean Connery in Dr No; and a picture of Halle Berry in an orange bikini in Die Another Day. The Imperial War Museum exhibition honours this year's centenary of Fleming's birth, and examines the novelist and 007 in their historical contexts. "We don't get much back-story until the last book, You Only Live Twice," says James Taylor, the co-curator. "There are snippets in other books, but it's clear that Fleming and Bond are not the same person. Bond is Fleming's fantasy. There are parallels between them – both are orphans [Fleming lost his father just short of his ninth birthday], Old Etonians, fluent in German and French and have Scottish blood – but the comparisons stop there." Fleming had a desk job in naval intelligence from 1939 to 1945, but he didn't see much action, unlike Bond. His favourite food was scrambled eggs – a far cry from Bond's gourmet taste. 17 April to 1 March (020-7416 5439) |
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7 April 2008 - 01:28
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
8 April 2008 - 18:04
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8 April 2008 - 19:34
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
14 April 2008 - 04:16
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Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 22 November 2006 From: Michigan |
14 April 2008 - 12:52
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Interesting how certainly things are presented on the site. Ian Fleming was not James Bond. Ian Fleming and gadgets.
Any idea how resourced this information is? For example, it states that six actors have portrayed James Bond. Well, even completely tossing out Barry Nelson because it was television (albeit completely w/in the life and permission of Mr. Fleming), it seems to me you'd have to include the 1960s version of Casino Royale ~ regardless of one's personal opinions about it as an approach to the original content (again, it would not have existed had it not been for Mr. Fleming's sale of the rights, using the funds to buy the Thunderbird, if memory serves). |
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14 April 2008 - 20:03
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Good site.
So that first Charlie Higson event is on the day I arrive in London for the Centenary week. I'll have a bit less than 2 hours to get from the airport to my hotel and then to the museum. It's going to be a trick.  "Fandom is where people come together and complain about what they like." Visit The Young Bond Dossier, now the OFFICIAL site for Young Bond news |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 9 November 2004 From: Oxford, Michigan |
15 April 2008 - 19:23
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QUOTE(zencat @ 14 April 2008 - 16:03)  Good site. So that first Charlie Higson event is on the day I arrive in London for the Centenary week. I'll have a bit less than 2 hours to get from the airport to my hotel and then to the museum. It's going to be a trick. I'll be waiting (rather jealously) for your reports on what should be an amazing trip, John!  But today is the thirteenth... |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 23 August 2001 From: England |
15 April 2008 - 22:27
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QUOTE(zencat @ 14 April 2008 - 21:03) So that first Charlie Higson event is on the day I arrive in London for the Centenary week. I'll have a bit less than 2 hours to get from the airport to my hotel and then to the museum. It's going to be a trick. Yup, that will be a trick....! I would recommend taxis all the way, but if you have to go to your hotel first, then definitely a taxi to the IWM. It is a little out of the way and not that close to a tube stop. Perhaps a prebooked ticket to IWM and the event... Are you getting in at Heathrow? ________________________________________________
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
17 April 2008 - 04:49
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~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ ♦ ♦ Are You Ready To Go? ♦ ♦ ♦ |
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Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 22 November 2006 From: Michigan |
17 April 2008 - 12:14
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QUOTE(zencat @ 14 April 2008 - 16:03) ... I'll have a bit less than 2 hours to get from the airport to my hotel and then to the museum. It's going to be a trick. Are you there yet? I, for one, am anxious to hear your reporting! Thanks. Otherwise: Is it just me, or do others feel that the news reporting on this is too heavily filled w/ James Bond footage? If I want to watch the films, that's what I'll do. But this is a unique opportunity to see things that have never been seen before. Some of that, certainly, is helped by a seconds-long flash from the movie in which it has context. But it seems so much by way of artifacts was sacrified to stock visuals and talking heads. Show me more stuff! |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 17 October 2005 From: Sydney, Australia (but from the UK) |
18 April 2008 - 04:00
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Has anyone else been to this? It looks interesting.
Has zencat made it yet?  --DaveBond21--
Ah, Mr Bond, perhaps you would like to make love to my mistress before I have you killed? Muhhahhh....ha ha ha ha....... |
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