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Voices: I’m Ian Fleming’s biographer – there’s no way James Bond can be made ‘PC’
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoI feel strongly that what an author commits to paper is sacrosanct and shouldn’t be altered. It...
OPINION - Ian Fleming was a spy too: Bond was his bid to relive his youth
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoIn this new biography of Fleming, commissioned and authorised by his estate, Nicholas Shakespeare...
Making James Bond a Woman Was Pitched Before 1962’s ‘Dr. No’ Got Made; Ian Fleming Met Sean Connery...
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoLashana Lynch became the first woman to own the 007 title in the 2021 James Bond tentpole “No Time...
Before Sean Connery in 1962, “Valley of the Dolls” Actress Was Almost Cast as Female James Bond,...
People via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoAuthor Ian Fleming also called Sean Connery a "roughneck," according to a new biography Bettmann...
A Female James Bond on the Big Screen Was an Idea on the Table in the 1950s
Indiewire via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoYes, a female James Bond has been over a half-century in the making. Before Lashana Lynch briefly...
Sean Connery among new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoScottish actor Sir Sean Connery and English singer Dame Vera Lynn are among the new entrants in the...
OPINION - 2019-2024: The tax-raising-est parliament on record
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has published a paper titled: . First, because the...
OPINION - This sinister censorship agenda in the publishing world should trouble us all
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoHard on the heels of the news that Ian Fleming’s publishers have “edited” its new edition of the...
‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoAs a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin...
John le Carré, the World’s Greatest Spy Writer, Gets His Spotlight
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoApple TV+No one knew spies like David John Moore Cornwell, aka John le Carré, the acclaimed novelist...