Ian Fleming

My hero: Alan Ross by William Boyd

I can visualise Alan Ross's expression – ineffably polite, but just failing to disguise his displeasure at being called anyone's hero. Perhaps "exemplar" would be a better word, given that he was the first writer I properly...

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No regrets for engaged couple caught having sex in telephone box

Nov 21 2009 Paul Thornton A COUPLE caught having a steamy sex session in a public phone box yesterday boasted: "We're engaged and in lust." Greig Forbes, 29, and fiancee Sarah Meikle, 23, were spotted by shoppers in a busy...

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A Few Helpful Hollywood Movie Outlines To Check Out (Lois Armstrong)

With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. You can get virtually any movie you want...

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Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow, part 3) By Javier Marías trans Margaret Jull Costa

Jack Deza, the narrator of Javier Marías's 1500-page trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, is an acute observer who reflects on other people's behaviour, rather as a novelist hopes to do. In this final volume, Deza the intellectual...

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Business Profiles: Jamie Fraser profile - You could put this store in any capital city in the...

Nov 20 2009 Greig Cameron Jamie Fraser, of Hamilton and Inches, on why the 140-year-old jewellery brand still sparkles There are aspects of the high-end jewellery trade which feel more at home in one of Ian Fleming's James Bond...

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Licence To Kill

The 16th James Bond film, starring Timothy Dalton in his last appearance. After an escaped drug lord brutally attacks Bond's friend Felix Leiter, Bond starts a personal vendetta against him that requires him to become a...

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The week in geek: should Khan be played by an unknown in Star Trek 2?

Rumours abound that JJ Abrams - if he is to helm the revamped Enterprise's second outing - will cast Lost hunk Nestor Carbonell in the role made famous by Ricardo Montalban. Is that playing too safe? Directors have their...

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Turner Classic Movies Brings Holiday Cheer to Movie Fans With Digitally Remastered Gem Remember...

ATLANTA, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ — It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies (TCM) presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites....

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What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Labour supporters looked forward to a new era of reform and modernisation It is January 1963, and Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Labour Party, is feeling unwell. Then one young student doctor suggests that Gaitskell might...

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Now Russians 'Invade' Tanzania

FROM Russia with Love' is one of the best films in the James Bond's series based on the 1957 novel by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Corporal Tatiana Romanova in Turkey.

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