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How They Painted Bond’s Golden Girl

Step One: Actress Shirley Eaton is cast as a gold-painted corpse in Goldfinger. Step Two: Miss Eaton is assured that death from “skin suffocation”, (although probably not entirely certain about it in 1964), is not a likely outcome. Step Three: Just in case, a doctor is hired to be on set at all times in fear of possible skin…

The Bond Villain’s Lair: Skyfall’s Abandoned Island

Nearly forty years after people, the Japanese island of Hashima is lifeless, sagging and absolutely uninhabitable to man, unless of course you’re a crazed nemesis of James Bond, plotting to take down the British secret service. If you managed to get past the round-the-block queues outside of cinemas this weekend to catch a screening of…

The Secret Life of a Bond Girl

Guest article by Jamie Quiroz Ah, the Bond Girl.  She purrs when she speaks, and always in an accent of indeterminate origin.  She jets between the world’s most photogenic locales and underground bunkers.  And she occasionally double-crosses lovers, because she can. Ursula Andress of Dr. No with Ian Fleming in Jamaica, 1962 When James Bond…

Vintage Dude du Jour: James Bond’s Big Brother

Meet Captain Peter Fleming, English explorer and intelligence agent who wrote a spy novel before James Bond had even been created by his younger brother, Ian Fleming. When he was 25 years old, Peter replied to an advertisement in The Times recruiting volunteers for an expedition to the Amazon to ascertain the fate of the missing explorers who…

For Sale: The Perfect Bond Villain’s Lair Atop a Desert Volcano

Dr. No’s luxurious mountain lair was of course blown to smithereens by Bond before it could ever go on the market, but should the supervillain have somehow escaped 007, I imagine we would likely find him hiding away in a place that looks exactly like this… What do you look for when you’re house hunting? A great view,…
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