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Bond villain: Karl Stromberg

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Bond villain: Karl Stromberg
007 Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Actor: Curt Jürgens

Mission:
Destroy the world by using hijacked United States and Soviet submarines to fire nuclear missiles on New York and Moscow and luring the superpowers into a nuclear war; rebuild civilization under the sea once the war is over.

Fate of the Bond villain:
Shot four times by Bond

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RIP RICHARD KIEL

Richard Dawson Kiel

Born: 13 September 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 10 September 2014, Fresno, California, USA

Richard Kiel has passed away.
He had fallen and broken his leg a week earlier.

RIP "Jaws"

New event: James Bond 007 Film Fest

Event: James Bond 007 Film Fest
Where: Paramount Theatre, 213 North Schuyler Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
When: 5-6 September 2014

5 September 7.15PM:
50th Anniversary "Goldfinger" (1964)

6 September 4.00PM
40th Anniversary "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1973)

6 September 7.15PM
"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)

Special Appearances by:

* Richard Kiel
(Jaws in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
and "Moonraker" (1979))

* Maud Adams
(Andrea Anders in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1973) and Octopussy in "Octopussy" (1983)

* Raymond Benson
Bond Author:
"Blast from the Past" (short story, 1997)
Zero Minus Ten (1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (novelisation, 1997)
The Facts of Death (1998)
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story, 1999)
"Live at Five" (short story, 1999)
The World Is Not Enough (novelisation, 1999)
High Time to Kill (1999)
DoubleShot (2000)
Never Dream of Dying (2001)
The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Die Another Day (novelisation, 2002)

Autograph Session:
6 September 10AM - 2PM at The Majestic Theatre

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007 Vehicle: Lotus Esprit / The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Bond vehicle: Lotus Esprit

Bond movie: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Bond´s Lotus Esprit is best known for its actions under water.
This "Water Nellie" is like a submarine, made of waterproof light fibreglass.
It can dive as deep as 100 meters and stay under water for two hours.
It is as amazing on land as well.

Engine: 907 1973 cm3 4-cylinder in-line
Top speed: 200 km/h (124 mph)
Acceleration 0-100 km/h: 8,6 seconds
Length: 4190 mm
Width: 1860 mm
Weight: 913 kg
Price 1976/2007: £ 7885 / £ 13 950

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007 Soundtrack: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

FILM: The Spy Who Loved Me(1977)

SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1977

SCORE COMPOSER: Marvin Hamlisch

TITLE SONG: "Nobody Does It Better"
COMPOSED BY: Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager

PERFORMED BY: Carly Simon

The Spy Who Loved Me is the soundtrack for the tenth James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me. The soundtrack is one of only two Bond soundtracks to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The other score nominated was Skyfall (2013).

The theme song Nobody Does It Better was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and was performed by Carly Simon. It was is one of four Bond theme songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The other three were Live and Let Die in 1973, For Your Eyes Only in 1981, and Skyfall, which won the award in 2013.

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TRACK LISTING

"Nobody Does It Better (Main Title)" – Carly Simon – (3:29)

"Bond 77" – (4:19)

"Ride to Atlantis" – (3:28)

"Mojave Club" – (2:13)

"Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental)" – (4:43)

"Anya" – (3:19)

"The Tanker" – (4:24)

"The Pyramids" – (1:37)

"Eastern Lights" – (3:22)

"Conclusion" – (1:37)

"Nobody Does It Better (End Title)" – Carly Simon – (3:25)

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007 Book: The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)

Bond book: The Spy Who Loved Me

Author: Ian Fleming

Publication date: 16 April 1962

The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the shortest (only 113 pages long) and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two thirds of the way through the book. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author. The Spy Who Loved Me was written in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate.

British secret service agent James Bond appears at the door asking for a room, having had a flat tyre while passing. Bond quickly realises that Horror and Sluggsy are mobsters and that Viv is in danger. Pressuring the two men, he eventually gets the gangsters to agree to provide him a room. Bond tells Michel that he is in America in the wake of Operation Thunderball and was detailed to protect a Russian nuclear expert who defected to the West and who now lives in Toronto, as part of his quest to ferret out SPECTRE.

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007 Director: John Glen

Who: John Glen

Born: 15 May 1932, Sunbury-on-Thames, England

John Glen is an English film director, film editor, and author. He is best known for his directorial and editing work on eight James Bond films from the 1960s to the 1980s.

John Glen´s 007 production:

Director:
"For Your Eyes Only" (1981)
"Octopussy" (1983)
"A View to a Kill" (1985)
"The Living Daylights" (1987)
"Licence to Kill" (1989)

Editor and Second unit director:
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)
"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
"Moonraker" (1979)

Other:
In 2001, John Glen published his memoir, "For My Eyes Only".

James Bond: 1969, 1977-89
During the 1960s and 1970s, Glen served as a film editor and second unit director, working on such films as "Superman" (1978) and "The Wild Geese" (1978); he also contributed to three James Bond films: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979). Following the release of Moonraker, Glen was promoted to the rank of official director of the series; he went on to direct all five Bond films of the 1980s. He holds the record for directing the highest number of films in the series to date, just one film more than Guy Hamilton.

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007 Director: Lewis Gilbert

Who: Lewis Gilbert
Born: 6 March 1920, Hackney, London, England

Lewis Gilbert, CBE is a British film director, producer and screenwriter, who has directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as "Reach for the Sky" (1956), "Sink the Bismarck!" (1960), "Alfie" (1966), "Educating Rita" (1983) and "Shirley Valentine" (1989), as well as three James Bond films: "You Only Live Twice" (1967), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979).

Lewis Gilbert´s 007 production:
"You Only Live Twice" (1967)
"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
"Moonraker" (1979)

Actor:
“Moonraker” (1979) (Man at St. Marks Square – uncredited)

James Bond: 1967, 1977-79
Although known for character dramas, Gilbert directed three of the James Bond films. After some reluctance, he was persuaded by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli to direct "You Only Live Twice" (1967). Gilbert returned to the series in the 1970s to make "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) and "Moonraker" (1979).

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