On 2007-09-16 08:36, VampiressRN wrote:
Sometimes the things that seem too futuristic are in reality already occurring.

Schweet! I want a fake volcanic island with stuff in the crater that looks just like water from the air but can open like a giant sunroof so you can land a helicopter inside.

:lol: :lol: AND...I want Ursula Andres' figure and good looks!!!

On 2007-09-17 20:13, VampiressRN wrote:
:lol: :lol: AND...I want Ursula Andres' figure and good looks!!!

Granted, but have you seen her lately?

Ooops! Wrong thread. Nevermind.

On 2007-09-17 20:13, VampiressRN wrote:
:lol: :lol: AND...I want Ursula Andres' figure and good looks!!!

I want Sixties era Ursula as my girlfriend. :wink:

I loved the Casino Royale spoof of the Sixties. The movie was a cool and hip flick of that swingin' decade. It had a great cast with some gorgeous women in it, such as Ursula Andress, Joanna Pettet, Barbara Bouchet, etc. Plus I loved the music.

[ Edited by: roguespy007 2007-09-27 08:55 ]

I was sad to see that Lois Maxwell passed away.

Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in a string of James Bond movies, has died aged 80.

Maxwell starred alongside Sir Sean Connery in Bond's first movie outing, Dr No, in 1962.

She played the role until 1985's A View To A Kill with Sir Roger Moore, who told the BBC she had been a "great asset" to the early Bond movies.

A spokesperson for Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia, said she died there on Saturday evening.

I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M - she would have been a wonderful M stated Sir Roger Moore.

She appeared in more movies than any of the actors who played the lead role in the spy series, including Sir Sean Connery and Sir Roger Moore.

Only Desmond Llewelyn, who played gadget man Q 17 times before his death in 1999, starred in more films.

"It's rather a shock," Sir Roger, who had known her since they were students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) in 1944, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with."

"She absolutely perfect casting," he said of her role as Miss Moneypenny.

"It was a great pity that, after I moved out of Bond, they didn't take her on to continue in the Timothy Dalton films.

Sir Roger said she had moved to Australia to be with her son after being diagnosed with cancer.

Born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada, in 1927, her acting career started in radio, before she moved to the UK with the Entertainment Corps of the Canadian army at the age of 15.

In the late 1940s, she moved to Hollywood and picked up a best newcomer Golden Globe for her part in Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl.

As well as her 14 outings as Miss Moneypenny, she also appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and worked on TV shows including The Saint, The Baron, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Department S.

Aged 58 when she made her final Bond appearance, she was replaced by 26-year-old Caroline Bliss for The Living Daylights.

As well as her acting career, she also worked as a columnist for the Toronto Sun newspaper.

Her last film role was in the 2001 thriller The Fourth Angel, alongside Jeremy Irons and Jason Priestley.

I agree. I was so sad to hearing about the passing of Lois Maxwell. She'll always be Miss Moneypenny to me.

I just listened to my new CD Shaken Not Stirred. It is really nice...the 50's pop-jazz rendition of some great songs...a good buy!!!

From the Label
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED features 12 tracks by some of the most notable finger-snappin’, hip-swayin’ musicians of the genre. Like a dream night in some fantastic lounge, the album brings together greats including Arthur Lyman, Bob Florence, James Bond, and Jack (Bongo) Burger. Lyman, one-time vibraphonist extraordinaire for Martin Denny, sold millions of albums during his solo career with HIFI and charted with the singles “Taboo” and “Yellowbird” (#6 and #4, respectively); “Taboo” is included in this compilation. Still performing at many of Hawaii’s swankiest hotel resort lounges, Lyman is definitely the man with the Golden Vibes. Bob Florence’s sound is pure Hollywood -- the big, cool and seductive sound of “Green Eyes” is like cinemascope for stereo. James Bond & His Sextet offer jazz renditions of those famous big screen spy themes (“Goldfinger,” for example), though this Bond actually came first. Bongo-ing up a storm on the track “Mambo Burger” is Jack (Bongo) Burger, mixing a wide range of afro-cuban beats with his band of hip-hepniks. Leon Russell (on harpsichord) and Glen Campbell (no less) team with Bond to form The In Group, whose zany rendition of “If I Had a Hammer” is bound to get toes tapping and glasses clinking.

In remastering SHAKEN NOT STIREED from the original masters, This Way Productions engineer Danny Caccavo paid careful attention to the sonic quality, repairing many splices and even fixing a crumple in Lyman’s “Taboo” that went unnoticed in previous reissues of that song. The booklet for SHAKEN NOT STIRRED is art-directed to suit any bachelor pad and uses many pieces of original art from the HIFI archives. And if that’s not enough, the trend-setting Manhattan restaurant Global 33 has given up the recipe for their ultra-suave cocktail, “The Taboo,” and displayed it for all to see (and enjoy) within the CD package.

(edit to fix a broken link)

FATIMA BLUSH: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
JAMES BOND: Yes, but my martini is still dry.

[ Edited by: VampiressRN 2007-10-01 12:23 ]

Hello Vampiress. Thanks for sharing that with us. I'm checking out the link now, listening to some of the clips. This sounds right up the alley of the kind of tunes I really dig. Wow. I'm definitely going to have to get me a copy of this one. Very cool and hip sounding.

[ Edited by: filslash 2008-09-20 15:54 ]

Is that father Mulcahey from MASH?

On 2007-10-08 23:21, spy-tiki wrote:
Is that father Mulcahey from MASH?

[ Edited by: filslash 2008-09-20 15:54 ]