![]() ![]() In typical Bond fashion, when he’s not trying to kill 007 he’s inviting him to lunch (women always refer to him as “James”, super villains call him “Mr. The chief baddie in THUNDERBALL is Emilio Largo (these guys never have names like Mike or Skip) and you know he’s evil because he has a black patch over one eye. ![]() In the world of James Bond, Gloria Steinem is as much a super villain as Ernst Blowfeld. Women were objects, easy, submissive, disposable, or evil. Yikes! Since when did Bob Hope become a British Secret Agent?Īnd the sensibility was soooo sexist. The dialogue, which seemed so sparkling at the time, now comes off as cringeworthy. No one wants to see Octapussy as octogenarian. Note to PLAYBOY magazine: NEVER do another layout showing Bond girls as they are today. Too bad it was in the 60s though and most of these women had helmet hair and raccoon make-up. Connery’s Bond enjoyed the gig, and why not? He sure got laid more than the later Bonds. There is just a level of insouciance in Connery’s Bond that none of his successors had – even light-comedy master Roger Moore never had that twinkle. And there’s no question that Sean Connery was the best Bond. So I wondered, did it hold up after all these years? From the stirring THUNDERBALL theme sung by Tom Jones I was hooked. I saw it originally at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on the big BIG screen. Caught one I hadn’t seen in years – THUNDERBALL from 1965. You know it’s the holiday season when there are James Bond marathons on every cable network except Oxygen.
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