The Greatest Bond Year Ever?
The Domino Effect
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As we bid a fond farewell to 2012 and slide into 2013, I can't help but wonder if this was the best Bond year ever (with the possible exception of 1953 and the birth of Bond in Casino Royale).
We not only had a new Bond movie, but Bond bounced back as good as ever and its $1 billion+ box office haul proves to detractors that Bond isn't just a misogynistic old dinosaur at all and guarantees a long life ahead! In addition we saw the return of Moneypenny and Q, a new M and the next Bond flic already on course for an on-schedule release in 2014! And we had the entire series released in Blu-Ray and the debut of a great Bond documentary.
For Bond book lovers we had scores of new titles to add to our shelves, most eminently being Jon Gilbert's masterful Ian Fleming bibliography and the definitive 'Bond Archives'....and the announcement of the author of the next Bond continuation book.
Visitors to London and Toronto had the Designing 007 exhibition to entertain them.
Collectors had new offerings from Factory Direct...not to mention Royal Doulton's Jack the Bulldog and several other licenced Skyfall collectables.
And of course there was the Skyfall wardrobe and prop hunt on which we got an early start thanks to leaked info and photos, film sneak-peaks and the hard work, eagle eyes and diligence of so many AJB members. Although there were the usual arm-and-a-leg Tom Ford bits of cloth and the rarer-than-hen's-teeth offerings from last season, we also had more economical and plentiful bits and bobs that were available to anyone even on more modest budgets.
What a year. Probably never to be repeated...which is just as well as I am broke!
We not only had a new Bond movie, but Bond bounced back as good as ever and its $1 billion+ box office haul proves to detractors that Bond isn't just a misogynistic old dinosaur at all and guarantees a long life ahead! In addition we saw the return of Moneypenny and Q, a new M and the next Bond flic already on course for an on-schedule release in 2014! And we had the entire series released in Blu-Ray and the debut of a great Bond documentary.
For Bond book lovers we had scores of new titles to add to our shelves, most eminently being Jon Gilbert's masterful Ian Fleming bibliography and the definitive 'Bond Archives'....and the announcement of the author of the next Bond continuation book.
Visitors to London and Toronto had the Designing 007 exhibition to entertain them.
Collectors had new offerings from Factory Direct...not to mention Royal Doulton's Jack the Bulldog and several other licenced Skyfall collectables.
And of course there was the Skyfall wardrobe and prop hunt on which we got an early start thanks to leaked info and photos, film sneak-peaks and the hard work, eagle eyes and diligence of so many AJB members. Although there were the usual arm-and-a-leg Tom Ford bits of cloth and the rarer-than-hen's-teeth offerings from last season, we also had more economical and plentiful bits and bobs that were available to anyone even on more modest budgets.
What a year. Probably never to be repeated...which is just as well as I am broke!
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
2008 and 2012 were pretty good too for obvious reasons!