Ian Fleming News

OXFAM in Morningside has raised more than A 3,000 from auctioning a James Bond book.

Guns! Intrigue! Explosions! Parkour! Crushing gambling addictions! Martinis! People with scars on their faces! Washboard abs! The "Bodies" exhibit! No, I'm not just describing how I spent my Arbor Day two years ago; it's also all the subject of the major Bond reboot, Casino Royale .

"The name's Bond, James Bond." Everyone knows those iconic words of the martini-slugging, woman-chasing 007, but if not for Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, Ian Fleming's super-spy might not have uttered them on the silver screen.

The Sign of Four , 1932, b&w. Graham Cutts , Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson, Herbert Lomas, Roy Emerton.

There are a lot of terrible movie titles out there, and everyone has their list, but most of these titles are attached to terrible films! It's when bad titles are attached to good movies that there starts to be a problem.

Thursday November 5th, 2009 'A Hidden Gem!' or 'Lame!!!'? Online Travel Reviewers to Watch Out For - By Daniel Edward Craig In 2007, a traveler wrote the following review of Opus Hotel Vancouver on TripAdvisor: 'The GM who thought he was Ian Fleming was a real detriment to a great trip.

JA Story The Musical, a theatrical celebration of Jamaican history, makes its debut on October 29 at the Stratford Circus venue in east London.

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Intelligence & Counterintelligence.

Chris Blackwell - File London, circa 1967. England's capital is the world's hippest scene, thanks to mod fashions and amazing music from The Beatles, Rolling Stones and guitar sensation Jimi Hendrix.

In the newest James Bond novel, Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks emulates Ian Fleming's wry, sardonic style without lapsing into parody or pastiche.

Did you assume that James Bond went to Eton like Cameron? Only for a "brief and undistinguished" spell, according to his Times obituary in You Only Live Twice.

For the first time in Australian legal history, a major trial is to be televised.

Variety reports that Hammer Films, in addition to its relaunched production slate, is getting into the publishing field as well thanks to a newly signed deal with the UK's PFD literary agency.

James Bond creator Ian Fleming has nothing on reporter Robert Fisk. Fisk wrote in the British broadsheet The Independent this week that finance ministers and central bank governors from Russia, China, Japan and Brazil have been holding "secret meetings" to work on a scheme to replace the U.S. dollar as the currency in which oil is traded.

Even a long, long sentence can be clear and powerful when the subject and verb make meaning early.

Fusing together entries on Fleming's famous 00-agent and detailed information on cases of espionage, real-life spies, MI5, SIS, CIA, KGB, and others, Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's James Bond asks the question: What proportion of Fleming's output is authentic, and what comes directly from the his imagination? Read more at commanderbond.net ...

A Croydon author has revealed what he says is proof James Bond author Ian Fleming based one of his books on his own war time experiences as a spy.

KATIE Ray is playing Truly Scrumptious for the first time in the current tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which arrived in Aberdeen this week.

A rare books auction in Dallas next month has an item sure to appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up devouring Ian Fleming books and watching James Bond movies.

One of the most modest in scale of Ian Fleming's James Bond books is buried deep, deep beneath unmotivated bed-hopping and globe-hopping from Mother England to California, to Venice, to Rio, and ultimately to outer space.