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Revelator wrote:onemonk909 wrote:Did Amis review other Bond novels for the newspapers of the day -- and are any of them found online or elsewhere?I've just found out that Amis reviewed You Only Live...
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Revelator wrote:onemonk909 wrote:Did Amis review other Bond novels for the newspapers of the day -- and are any of them found online or elsewhere?I've just found out that Amis reviewed You Only Live...
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onemonk909 wrote:Revelator wrote:onemonk909 wrote:Did Amis review other Bond novels for the newspapers of the day -- and are any of them found online or elsewhere?I've just found out that Amis reviewed...
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Silhouette Man wrote:onemonk909 wrote:Revelator wrote:I've just found out that Amis reviewed You Only Live Twice for the New Statesman (in the issue dated March 20, 1964). I hope to obtain the piece...
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You guys are way too kind! But thanks nevertheless.
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And here's the review, which also covers le Carre and Deighton: ***New Statesman, 20 March 1964 Literary Agents by Kingsley AmisSpy fever has us in its grip. Saturday night on ITV gives us two solid...
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thanks Revelator!I've read Call for the Dead, and he's right, it's more of a murder mystery than a spy story.I like how Amis avoided the really important spoiler in YOLT even though he actually gives...
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McClory initially intended to film TB without Eon (this would be in 1964) and was considering Richard Burton (among others) to play Bond. When these plans fell through he went into partnership with...
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McClory must of been some kind of all-persuasive bluffer for Amis to believe he would have a competing Bond movie in the theatres by the end of the year, when he didn't even have a lead actor actually...
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caractacus potts wrote:McClory must of been some kind of all-persuasive bluffer ...I do get the impression that charm (blarney?) was perhaps McClory's greatest talent.
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The Domino Effect wrote:caractacus potts wrote:McClory must of been some kind of all-persuasive bluffer ...I do get the impression that charm (blarney?) was perhaps McClory's greatest talent.Well, he...
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aside from the McClory digression (my fault, and there's plenty other threads for that)...once again we get a clue for how Amis woulda written, or rewritten, ...Golden Gun if he wanted to!Here he's...
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caractacus potts wrote:what's this all about?Kingsley Amis wrote:...later this year James Bond will become a double agent in a sense he never suspected, with two different incarnations of himself on...
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Thanks so much for posting this, Revelator! It's awesome that you share stuff like this with everyone after going to all the trouble of hunting it down.Man, I wish Amis had revised the Dossier into...
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caractacus potts wrote:aside from the McClory digression (my fault, and there's plenty other threads for that)...once again we get a clue for how Amis woulda written, or rewritten, ...Golden Gun if he...
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