
The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die

Day Twelve and back to work. Paul Rabiger, our make-up man, was telling me about other Bond films he has done while he was working on me this morning. He has been on every one except the first – Dr No – and consequently has made up all the leading ladies; and when you meet a girl every morning at around 7 a.m. without her make-up, it’s like being m
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closed set in order to concentrate. He wants to concentrate! Luisa, knowing tomorrow is my love scene with Gloria, has been plying me with questions all evening. ‘You do love me, Roger, don’t you?’ she asked. ‘Of course, I do,’ I replied. ‘I shall just be doing a job. It’s my work.’ ‘Yes. I know,’ sighed Luisa, and, lapsing into Italian, said: ‘Non
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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Sidney Poitier, who else? He lives in Nassau and is hoping to hop over next week to spend a couple of days with us. Michael Caine was coming from London, but he has been laid low with the ’flu and doesn’t feel up to the transatlantic flight. Mike is not the only ’flu victim. Roddy Mann, Sunday Express columnist and an
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Moving day in the movie business is a mammoth military operation. Two tons of equipment to be dismantled, crated and shipped to the airport for customs clearance ready for the flight to Jamaica took the unit most of Saturday. Nobody felt much like it as they were all fragile from the effects of the farewell party our US crew had thrown the night be
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Golden Gun, will be made in Bangkok. Turning over his tarot cards, he told me that I was going to have a car accident in an Oldsmobile, in which I would suffer some brain damage, and when I gave him a bewildered blink he added, with a happy smile, that it would not be fatal. He finished on a fact about ‘my son or adopted son’ and must have meant Ge
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Our ranks are beginning to swell as various crew members’ wives turn up. I am a great believer in having the family around because it makes for earlier nights. On locations where all the crew are wifeless, they congregate in the local bar, get smashed out of their minds, stay up far too late, and work the next day suffers because they feel bloody a
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The only gun in sight in the French Quarter was slung on the hip of a young point duty policeman, and discussion revealed that, with his sergeant’s permission, the policeman, with typical Southern hospitality, was quite happy to loan his gun on condition we borrowed him as well. After a street search, the sergeant was found and gave the go-ahead. T
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The German magazine Stern also sent a reporter (Ve haf vays of making you give an interview). Stern is responsible for the current drama involving the real-life ‘M’, whose son figured in a drug case. Stern decided to reveal M’s identity in defiance of a British government ‘D’ Notice, which forbade publication under the Official Secrets Act. English
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Monday morning and Day Three. Harry called me at eight to tell me we were going to a funeral. ‘That’s nice. Mine?’ I queried. It turned out he meant a jazz funeral for a famous musician, Sylvester George Handy, who was being buried at twelve o’clock. I was on ‘stand-by’, which means I could be called out to the location where the rest of the unit w
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