previous bond refrences
Ovaly Excited
wondering if anyone knew where i can get a list of all the refrences made in
DAD about the previous bond movies.
Thanks in advance
ovaly
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From 2002-11-25
Matt Sherman (m...@007forever.com)
Dr. No: Bikini and knife worn by Jinx Johnson (and Ursula Andress).
Dr. No #2: The "fast car Bond needs" in Cuba should look familiar. It
is the famous Ford Fairlane, and somewhat similar in appearance to the
chauffeur-driven car to first drive Bond 40 years before.
Dr. No #3: Wellington's Arch in London is featured in Gustav Graves'
London scene. The Duke of Wellington's portrait was stolen in the
1960's and featured in Dr. No's headquarters as one of EON's
first-ever insider jokes.
Dr. No #4: Inside the Cuban clinic is placed a bizarre sound effect
that duplicates the tinkling noises of Dr. No's gun barrel sequence.
Dr. No #5: Bond is sent for at a club where is a member when MI-6
"finds him" in both films.
Dr. No #6: The melting/explosion of the Ice Palace is highly
reminiscent of the collapse/explosion of Dr. No's headquarters.
From Russia With Love: The Cigar Factory scene is reminiscent of the
rug bazaar.
FRWL #2: "Raul's" character and dialogue, age and looks, office HQ and
association with MI-6 are perhaps the closest to that of Kerim Bey of
any subsequent Bond film. A very likeable supporting character.
FRWL #3: Bond sniffs unappreciatively at Rosa Klebb's knife shoe,
inside Quartermaster's lab.
FRWL #4: Bond ejects the dagger from his old briefcase just before he
sniffs Rosa's shoe.
FRWL #4: Bond is filmed during a (potential) liaison with an opposing
agent.
FRWL #5: Two women fight together in DAD as they did memorably in FRWL
and more briefly in GoldenEye.
FRWL #6: A trick suitcase is used against the villain and also to help
Bond escape from capture.
Goldfinger: Bond sets the timer in the plastic explosive in the
pre-credits as in Goldfinger. The explosive is clearly labeled for our
edification as Goldfinger-type "C-4!"
Goldfinger #2: Bond arises from the water in a black scuba outfit,
presumably a Goldfinger in-joke added to the C4 as there is no need
for a surfer to use scuba equipment.
Goldfinger #3: Bond's Aston uses an ejector seat, the fourth such
device if we include not only Goldfinger but the ejection from the
helicopter in GoldenEye and the clever ejector seat move on the
airplane in Tomorrow Never Dies!
Goldfinger #4: Jinx is subject to a laser table. Note the clever
script lines about her unwillingness to talk, which is why she should
die on the laser table! The DAD script is adorable! How can you not
like this film?
Goldfinger #5: All of DAD clearly is an homage Goldfinger in visual
style, parsing down of dialogue to minimum as needed to move plot,
zippy and quirky soundtrack (remember Vic Flick strumming a banjo in
Goldfinger?), etc. Hey, if you are gong to remake a film 17 times, do
it right the 17th time. Hooray!
Goldfinger #6: Pussy Galore struggled to pilot a plane during Bond's
fight aboard the same plane, as does Jinx in DAD.
Goldfinger #7: Bond is a member of a club where he pretends to be
scheduled for a lesson. He arranges a brief meeting with the main
villain and they plan to play the club's sport for cash. Bond is just
behind the villain in score (as in Ian Fleming's source novel
Goldfinger and the DAD film) when the stakes become elevated by Bond's
introduction of an item the villain smuggles. Both combatants play
hard and a bit dirty until Bond triumphs.
Goldfinger #8: Bond: "You're joking!" Q: "?I never joke about my
work."
Goldfinger #9: Q's famous "?Pay attention and this will only take
another 90 minutes or so" has been cleverly given homage in a nice
moment by "You can probably shoot through the manual in just a few
minutes."
Goldfinger #10: The window is shot out of Graves' plane in a moment
similar to the Goldfinger climax.
Thunderball: Bond used Q's "rebreather" in both films, discarding them
after use onscreen in both films, swimming this time "beneath the ice"
(pun intended), which reminds viewers of Largo's covered swimming pool
in terms of a confined space.
Thunderball #2: After he's distracted the guards and jumped through
the window to move around them at the Cuban clinic, Bond goes through
a patient's room, saying "Good day" in Spanish and lifting a grape.
The whole Cuban clinic is an homage to Thunderball in a pleasant way.
Thunderball #3: Jet pack appears in Q's lab. Bond: "Does this still
work?"
Thunderball #4: The audio cue as Bond exits the water next to the
Yacht Club is lifted directly from the Thunderball score.
Thunderball #5: Bond: "Yes, of course."
You Only Live Twice: Jinx sliding down a cable within the Ice Palace
is right out of the ninja attack from that film.
Casino Royale: Bond escapes a firing squad at the last moment than
jumps right back into trouble ala Woody Allen.
O.H.M.S.S.: The Cuban clinic is akin to Blofeld's Piz Gloria with its
eerie, hypnotic voices instructions gene patients in tutoring them
with new identities and languages.
O.H.M.S.S. #2: Jinx leaves Bond in an empty bed, as Tracy did in the
earlier film.
O.H.M.S.S. #3: The four-note guitar backing from O.H.M.S.S. is clearly
heard during the chase in through the Cuban clinic.
O.H.M.S.S. #4: Bond wades through relics of former missions.
O.H.M.S.S. #5: Graves asks Frost, "What would I do without you?" or
the same line previously asked of M and Bond to Moneypenny. Note that
most of the homage lines are delivered/edited with a quick dramatic
pause for an extra "script beat" before they are delivered onscreen.
O.H.M.S.S. #6: Bond is seen inside his office, and in a reverse of
leaving MI-6 in the O.H.M.S.S. scene, he is working right after his
reinstatement to active duty in the DAD version.
O.H.M.S.S #7. Speed-up/slow-down editing with sounds effects attached
plus crash-cutting/Peter Hunt style editing (eliminating all
establishing shots not pertinent to the action) used to great effect
in film. "Crash cutting" would include when Bond used the ice car's
parachute to knock off a motorcyclist from his bike... yet the
audience was not delayed to the action watching Bond set in place or
even retrieve the parachute beforehand. Peter Hunt borrowed this style
of action film editing from the French New Wave movement's "Jump
Cuts", forever changing action films.
Diamonds Are Forever #1: Glass floor of Gustav Graves' Ice Palace main
room reminiscent of Whyte House apartment glass floor displaying Baja,
California oil rig and other Willard Whyte concerns.
DAF #2: Bond smuggles diamonds by Bond in both films. In both films,
the villains illegally secure the diamonds before they are smuggled
between countries.
DAF #3: Icarus diamond-laser satellite reminiscent in design and use
of Blofeld's diamond-laser satellite. (Both satellites super-heat
stuff until it explodes.) Questionable: Is Icarus diamond-based as it
appears to bear diamonds aboard its "reflector" or is it merely
financed by diamonds as was Blofeld's laser?
DAF #4: Scorpions in titles and Bond's tortures bring back Mr. Wint
and Mr. Kidd. Hooray!
DAF #5: (They picked one of my favorite 007 films to homage
continually! Hey, I have my reasons why I like it!) The Cuban clinic
scene mimics DAF's opener with the masked doctors seeking to alter
both a villain's (Graves') and a henchman's (Zao's) facial features.
It wasn't merely Telly Savalas' Blofeld they were altering to Charles
Gray's features but Blofeld's doppelganger henchmen, too. Think about
it. Or if you like, "Angelo" becomes "Derval" as in Thunderball.
DAF #6: As 007 reads the Gustav Graves feature in "High Life" magazine
on the flight from Havana to London, you can clearly see the words,
"Diamonds Are Forever" as a subheading at the bottom of that page!
DAF #7: Both films feature diamonds smuggled away from South Africa.
DAF #8: Graves delivers the line, "DIAMONDS ARE FOR EVERy one."
DAF #9: Hovercrafts appear in both films.
DAF #10: Bond's car is clearly seen on two wheels just before it turns
over in DAD. Publicity shots of the Aston "on two wheels" DAF-style
were used in magazines worldwide.
Live and Let Die: Bond prominently enjoys a good cigar ala Roger
Moore.
LALD #2: A black American agent sleeps with Bond before he comes to
understand her true identity/allegiance. (Jinx Johnson's strong
character reminded me strongly of the delightful and strong in
real-life Gloria Hendry.)
LALD #3: A woman in the title sequence "melts".
LALD #4: A powerful magnet is used during a fight, as in LALD and
TSWLM.
The Man With The Golden Gun: The turning mirrors in the Cuban DNA lab
are right out of Scaramanga's "Island Fun House".
TMWTGG #2: Bond's car flips over and back upright again in DAD as in
TMWTGG.
TMWTGG #3: Bond's ring is a "sonic agitator". The "solex agitator"
drove TMWTGG's plot.
TMWTGG #4: Moon disables Bond's airborne vehicle, designed to
transport him to non-Communist territory after he kills the villain,
with a big gun he wishes to demonstrate for Bond's benefit.
TMWTGG #5: MI-6's ship is in Hong Kong harbor, nearby the sunken Queen
Elizabeth of TMWTGG.
TMWTGG #6: The copper bullet around Zao's neck containing four
conflict diamonds might be taken for a golden bullet homage. Bond had
to snatch both bullets during a fight scene.
TMWTGG #7: Jinx's "Off! Off!" are reminiscent of the scene with Bond
and Goodnight while Bond was almost cut in two by Scaramanga's laser.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Ice Palace reminiscent of Stromberg's Atlantis
in terms of architecture.
TSWLM #2: Cars are upended and crash vertically... near innocent
workers... for a laugh for the viewing movie audience.
TSWLM #3: The same sound effect is cues for the Icarus laser as for
the submarines being "gobbled" in TSWLM.
TSWLM #4: Union jack parachute as worn by Gustav Graves.
TSWLM #5: Bond's stolen skimobile is quite similar in design to the
now famous first ever jet ski from TSWLM.
Moonraker: Swordfight with Gustav Graves reminiscent of other
marvelous 007 swordfight, with Chang inside Venetian glassworks. Both
fights include errant slashes that topple and shatter glass cases.
Moonraker #2: Colonel Moon's waterfall "death fall" an homage to Jaws'
waterfall "death fall" in Brazil Glastron Carlson sequence. Watch the
camera angle and speeds in both sequences.
For Your Eyes Only: Madonna both appears in film and sings title song,
the second such double appearance, as Sheena Easton also appeared in
her Bond film, over Maurice Binder's titles.
FYEO #2: Bond dismounts a biker across the chest with a parachute and
flips two others through the air with his car. Reminiscent of bikers'
dismounts and deaths in FYEO Cortina D'Ampezzo scenes.
FYEO #3: Bond throws the parking break as in GoldenEye than rides away
backward. Melina shifted her transmission and sent the "getaway car"
also in reverse in FYEO.
Octopussy: Bede Mini-Jet may be seen in Q's lab.
Octopussy #2: Alligator Mini-Sub hangs alongside the Bede Jet!
Octopussy #3: Bond notices he needs to "borrow" the sunglasses of the
South African smuggler to complete his impersonation, a tip of the cap
to Bond needing a last-minute moustache to complete his doppelganger
bit in the Octopussy teaser.
Octopussy #4: Bond cases and sneaks onto a mysterious island HQ just
offshore after binoculars are used.
Octopussy #5: Q's old "rope trick" is lying beneath Q's table
onscreen! Apparently also an insider joke as Q is still "?Having
trouble keeping it up?"!
Octopussy #6: A moderate Communist resists a hard line Communist
wishing to turn a superweapon on the West's border in preparation for
a massive ground invasion.
Octopussy #7: Bond pulls the cord on another's parachute.
Never Say Never Again: Bond finds out in a pointed manner that a woman
he is bed with wields a knife.
NSNA #2: Bond throws a jar with a liquid specimen at the magnet to
activate it. A urine specimen was thrown to dismantle another
henchman's attack in NSNA.
A View To A Kill: Lawrence Makoare plays "Mr. Kil," a "name to die
for." (Bond was meeting Mr. Kil with a view to killing him later!)
AVTAK #2: Bond glacier sky surfing sequence is reminiscent of
"California Girls" snowboard bit in the AVTAK teaser. In both films,
Bond dismantles a crashed, stolen sit-down snow ski to create a
surfboard.
AVTAK #3: On the floor on the right-hand side of Q's lab door, you can
see Q's robot dog snooping device!
AVTAK #4: Gustav Graves is reminiscent of Max Zorin. Both men are
fairly young, rich (though his fortune and opportunities are
"inherited" from his Communist support base), he has a quick, bad
temper and psychotic/sociopathic conversational manner, and breaks
with his former Communist allies. Zorin's Pegasus colt was "Ithacus"
(mythological suitor of Penelope). Graves' satellite is "Icarus"
(mythological flier burned going close to the sun).
AVTAK #5: The camera lingers on the medal Graves steals from his
father as the now "British" Graves treasures his father's award. Bond
is awarded the Order of Lenin in AVTAK and the pseudo-medals prepared
for both films are similar in appearance.
The Living Daylights: The giant Russian cargo plane with the huge exit
in back, and several vehicles, at least one of which contains
parachutes, is one obvious reference.
TLD #2: Beach opening credits resemble TLD's opener as in both the
audience views set traps for tanks/armored vehicles.
TLD #3: An exciting Aston Martin car chase through ice and snow with
numerous gadgets are featured in both DAD and its predecessor.
TLD #4: M warns the assembled team that Bond and Johnson are
unreachable "?IN THE MIDDLE OF A Korean AIRBASE." Bond, of course,
admonished Kara that they were perhaps hopelessly stuck "?In the
middle of a Russian airbase."
TLD #5: A bust/head of the villain is displayed in that villain's
headquarters.
License To Kill: Bond is released from active duty and purposed for
quarantine/debriefing when he directly and angrily disobeys M then
escapes MI-6 to seek revenge.
LTK #2: Working as an MI-6 sniper, Bond is about to kill his quarry
when his shot is blocked/interrupted. As also in the "Living
Daylights" film and original Fleming short story where Bond hesitates
to kill a woman, perhaps Bond hesitates in DAD because Miranda Frost
enters his sights and he cannot therefore "see" Moon clearly.
LTK #3: A female agent conceals a small pistol in a "weeping eye"
holster (concealed below her dress).
LTK #4: Jinx trounces Frost with a knife to the heart and says later,
"I think I broke her heart." Sanchez has a knife taken to the heart of
Lupe's lover with a heart quip, too.
GoldenEye: We see Bond's laser watch cut an icy semi-circle in an
almost exact duplicate of the move from the GoldenEye teaser sequence.
GoldenEye #2: Bond's struggle to right the falling helicopter is
almost a straight mimic of Bond's attempts to right his plane in the
opener of GoldenEye ("C'mon c'mon".) Both times Bond is successful in
averting disaster, of course.
GoldenEye #3: Both movies feature villains disfigured facially by an
explosion set by Bond.
GoldenEye #4: The great expense of damages to Aston Martins and
Ferraris raised eyebrows when the Xenia/Bond car chase was filmed.
Xenia's car was originally to have been a yellow Ferrari. A yellow
Ferrari and a red Countach (rather similar to an old Lotus) are
trashed during the final scenes of DAD.
GoldenEye #5: Bond begins his teaser mission alongside an MI-6
colleague.
GoldenEye #6: Bond tells Q in a dry manner, "Point taken..." after
touching Rosa's shoe in Q's lab. The same quip is delivered to M's
"?Sexist, misogynist dinosaur" speech in GoldenEye.
GoldenEye #7: The large golden-irised eye of the GoldenEye credits is
clearly seen twice during the DAD titles.
GoldenEye #8: A bullet hurtles through the gun barrel in a "shot" from
GoldenEye's titles opener.
GoldenEye #9: Q's car again has "?All the usual refinements."
GoldenEye #10: A "hand identigraph" allows a villain access in both
films to the secret satellite guidance center.
GoldenEye #11: The purplish lightning of Graves' glove, the
paper/debris strewn about the plane during the climax fight and even
the rumbling Icarus shockwaves themselves through Korean territory are
very close visually to the destruction onscreen caused by the
GoldenEye satellite.
GoldenEye #12: Bond and Jinx come up inside a level of Graves' plane
by lifting a plate just as Bond and 006 did in the GoldenEye teaser.
Moments later, they pass one of the GoldenEye gas canisters (near the
Ferrari)! A few moments later, Jinx drops from ceiling inside one
level aboard Graves' plane while pursuing the pilot where toilet paper
and accessories are stored. Like Bond, she "?Had to stop in the
bathroom".
GoldenEye #13: Jinx's disrobe to throw off the Cuban guards reminds us
of Xenia's revealing outfit and strip down in GoldenEye.
Tomorrow Never Dies: Jinx's cable and leather outfit are an almost
direct lift of Wai Lin's. Note that Miranda Frost later comments on
"Jinx's tailor!". This one is too good not to be true.
TND #2: An expatriate foreigner who is now a recognized member of
British high society is the main villain, as in TWINE as well! In
GoldenEye, the other of the four Brosnan Bonds, the villain is an
expatriate "Englishman" (Although Trevelyan is technically a Lienz
Cossack who passes himself off as an Englishman and then as a Russian
? note Ourumov's surprise when Bond tells him Trevelyan's true
identity)!
TND #3: Bond studies wall art for a few moments to discern where he
can reveal a villain's secret supplies/room in both Carver's Hamburg
HQ and the Cuban clinic.
TND #4: Bond hefts and uses a square glass ashtray for destruction in
both films. The ashtrays seem to be nearly identical. Someone check
the TND DVD.
TND #5: The car chases in both films go up and down a circular run and
both end when a car crashes through a wall. Note the height of both
barrier walls in both films as they are nearly identical.
TND #6: Bond provides air mouth-to-mouth for Jinx as he did Wai Lin
after henchmen plan to drown the women.
TND #7: The fiery explosions behind M as she speaks are eerily similar
and perhaps even lifted in homage directly from TND's teaser
explosion. In both cases, M is asking Charles Robinson, et al,
regarding Bond's whereabouts.
TND #8: Bond's descent along Graves' geodesic dome mimics Wai Lin's
cable walk even in its body posturing.
TND #9: Villains in both films launch private-invite publicity parties
to reveal their satellite capabilities. Graves plans to "?Change your
world" while Carver seeks "?World domination."
The World Is Not Enough: Icarus was the son of Daedalus in Greek
mythology. A father and son fly too close to the sun and are
burned/fall to their deaths. Colonel Moon and his father die aboard a
plane that uses sunlight as weaponry... Jinx turns the DAD plane
toward the "sunbeam" before father and son die aboard the craft...
Greek mythology as Bond plot. Reminiscent of "Elektra" King (daughter
who slays father for Greek mythology as 007 plot). Also, Janus,
two-faced god of Roman mythology is a simile for Alec Trelveyan's
two-sided face in GoldenEye.
TWINE #2: David Arnold's "love theme" for the final minute of DAD
lifts straight from TWINE's romantic theme/theme song. David Arnold
also gives homage O.H.M.S.S. and another half-dozen of John Barry's
Bond scores in pleasant ways in DAD. Especially prominent besides
TWINE are cues from THUNDERBALL, YOLT and O.H.M.S.S.
TWINE #3: Jinx shares an apple with Bond as Elektra shared a cube of
ice in the earlier Purvis/Wade written film. The scriptwriters' homage
to "ice" in DAD is duly noted.
TWINE #4: Jinx faces drowning and beats the door hoping to be rescued,
than later asks Bond why he waited so long to save her. Bond pounded
the airlock window in the TWINE submarine in the same manner as his
air supply ran low.
TWINE #5: The "fire woman" of TWINE's poster and book campaigns
returns (sort of) in Kleinman's DAD titles.
TWINE #6: A female ally of MI-6 turns out as traitor using sex to
manipulate/blind Bond.
TWINE #7: Jinx's dive backwards is an "I can top this!" reference to
Bond's spectacular high dive near the Zhukovsky submarine.
TWINE #8: Frost, now converted openly from good girl to bad girl above
the Korean demilitarized zone, appears to Jinx in tube top and shorts
similar to Denise Richards' TWINE appearance in the nuclear
dismantling DMZ.
TWINE #9: After straining to pull himself using Graves' parachute to
shore and to a safe landing, Bond quickly stretches out an arm and
shoulder, as he injured himself in the TWINE pre-credits sequence!
Ian Fleming's Resource Material: Bond's cover as "James Bond,
Ornithologist" and his reading "Birds Of The West Indies" (as written
by James Bond!) onscreen.
Ian Fleming's Casino Royale: The Miranda Frost character is a nod to
Vesper Lynd. (Purvis and Wade re-read the Fleming novels before
bringing DAD to the screen.)
Casino Royale #2: General Moon wields scissors for an audience
frightening moment. Perhaps Bond was brutalized as in the Casino
Royale novel in a sensitive area?
Ian Fleming's Moonraker: British-adopted foreigner awaits knighthood,
seeks to play Bond for money (angrily and with vast pride) at
"Blades". ("Gala Brand" was originally the name for "Miranda Frost" as
well.)
Ian Fleming's Goldfinger: Korean henchmen and staff populate the
villain's headquarters.
Ian Fleming's Thunderball: Domino was enamored of the Players
Cigarette's sailor character. Two different posters for the Players
Cigarettes Sailor appear in the London Underground MI-6 Headquarters!
Ian Fleming's O.H.M.S.S.: Miranda Frost's "Love For Dinner" and "Death
For Breakfast" are pulled straight from Fleming's novel (to good
effect in the film)!
Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun: Bond is captured by bad
guys. Perhaps he has been brainwashed to be turned against M
himself/herself? M's "office" has an invisible partition to protect
her/him from Bond.
Kingsley Amis as Robert Markham's Colonel Sun: "Colonel Moon" was to
have been named "Colonel Sun" in the original DAD draft.
John Gardner's License Renewed: Bond is a "blunt instrument" who
serves M and England in that disagreeable but necessary capacity.
John Gardner's Icebreaker: "The Ice Palace" is the given nickname of
the villain's headquarters.
Icebreaker #2: Bond is tortured in an attempt to reveal MI-6
information, via icy water.
John Gardner's Role Of Honour: Bond dispatches with a throwing knife
to the throat as used effectively by Jinx in DAD.
Raymond Benson's The Facts Of Death: Invisible/surface changing car
appears (disappears).
Insider Joke #1: Quartermaster tells Bond about his Omega [and also
the Bond films themselves], "...That's about 20 of them now, isn't
it?" Bond replies, "...Has it been that many?" [watches bond has lost
and also 20 Bond films over 40 years?]
Insider Joke #2: Bond quips "...Just a flesh wound" to John Cleese as
Q. Perhaps the best-known movie or TV line of all time from John
Cleese's famous comedy troupe is "...Just a flesh wound!" from Monty
Python and the Holy Grail.
Insider Joke #3: Bond reads "High Life" for an in-flight travel
magazine, just the type of life 007 lives? and Bond gives a quick quip
about his martini being shaken (the plane has presumably experienced
turbulence in an earlier deleted scene or perhaps something happened
between Bond and the flight attendant?)
Insider Joke #4: Bond's appearance post-Korean capture is reminiscent
of the "Robinson Crusoe" beard and long hair. Recall the producers
aghast at Lazenby's publicity appearance with long hair and a beard.
Pierce Brosnan appeared pre-GoldenEye with a similar "Crusoe" look.
Insider Joke #5: Anticipating audience reaction to the "Vanish," the
car lift rolls beneath an underground "Way Out" sign! Get it?
Other #1: Producer Michael G. Wilson makes yet another cameo, this
time in "Havana" (leaning against a car in scene as Bond strolls
across a city street).
Other #2: Michael Wilson again appears onscreen VERY briefly inside
intelligence headquarters (the white-moustache general standing
alongside M).
Other #3: "Gregg Wilson" wrote The High Life magazine article about
Gustav Graves.
Gregg is Michael Wilson's real-life son.
Other #4: Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah, makes a cameo appearance
onscreen in DAD.
Other #5: Bond drops his heart rate as in the old Derek Flint series.
Other #6: The plane with the glass panels is visually reminiscent of
Dr. Evil's sub in Goldmember.
Other #7: Bond is captured at least once, and boats are either used or
seen onscreen, as in all 21 previous Bond films.
If you like this game you'll love the 4,000 words I wrote about the
bizarre similarities between GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies for
007Forever.com. ;)
--Matt Sherman
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Faf
FlickerFree
> DAF #3: Icarus diamond-laser satellite reminiscent in design and use
> of Blofeld's diamond-laser satellite. (Both satellites super-heat
> stuff until it explodes.) Questionable: Is Icarus diamond-based as it
> appears to bear diamonds aboard its "reflector" or is it merely
> financed by diamonds as was Blofeld's laser?
>
modified it in Moonraker and Gustav Graves re-activated it.
FF
E.B.Clucher
Faf <nr...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Insider Joke #3: Bond reads "High Life" for an in-flight travel
> magazine, just the type of life 007 lives?
I'm mightily imperssed!
Just one thing in case you didn't know, High Life has been BA's inflight
mag for at least ten years.