Sublime

On my return I came face to face for the first time with the villain of our piece, Yaphet Kotto, a mountain of a man; all six foot four and muscled two hundred and fifty pounds of him was waiting to meet me in the bar. I felt a bit of a beanpole by comparison. As Mr Big, he has no scenes in New Orleans, but has come down for make-up tests. He may c

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Fleming spent every winter in Jamaica from 1946 until his death, in 1964. It was where he wrote all the Bond books. Jamaica was also where Fleming conducted an affair with a rich widow named Blanche Blackwell, who was in turn having an affair with Fleming’s neighbor, Errol Flynn. Scampering underfoot at Goldeneye was Blackwell’s young son, Chris, w

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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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