Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Subject: First V. Thrush (and James Bond to
Date: Oct 9 12:02:08 2013
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Gary:

Yes I've heard those also, and from other sources recall long ago that James wasn't all that happy to get the spotlight that came
with 007 name. The name Goldeneye has an apparent connection to one of the earliest 007 films (with Sean Connery this time)
of the same name.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:25:46 -0700
From: garybletsch at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] RE: Subject: First V. Thrush (and James Bond to boot!) / Caryn / Wedgwood
To: scottratkinson at hotmail.com; tweeters at u.washington.edu

Dear Scott, Caryn, and Tweeters, Thanks for bringing up this curious James Bond-birding connexion. As I recall from a biography of Ian Fleming, the author once said years later that he chose the name for his spy character because he wanted it to sound dull and uninteresting. A birder himself, Fleming lived in Jamaica, and had a copy of James Bond's Caribbean field guide lying about when he began writing the series. A glance at the cover was all it took. The ornithologist is said to have given the author a bit of rueful chastisement after having his "dull-sounding" name turned into a household
one. This was depicted in a made-for-television movie about the life of Ian Fleming. Bond comes walking out of the bushes, binoculars and all, into the garden of Fleming's Jamaican home, to wag a finger at Fleming. That home, by the way, was named "Goldeneye," but not, apparently, in any connexion to the diving duck of that name. Yours truly, Gary Bletsch Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA garybletsch at yahoo.com "Nun," sagte ich, "wenn ich ein Taugenichts bin, so ist's gut, so will ich in die Welt gehen, und mein Glueck machen." Und eigentlich war mir das recht lieb, denn es war mir kurz vorher selber eingefallen, auf Reisen zu gehen, da ich die Goldammer, welche im Herbst und Winter
immer betruebt an unserm Fenster sang: "Bauer, miet' mich, Bauer, miet' mich!" nun in der schoenen Fruehlingszeit wieder ganz stolz und lustig vom Baume rufen hoerte: "Bauer, behalt' deinen Dienst!"

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:20 PM, Scott Atkinson <scottratkinson at hotmail.com> wrote:






Caryn:

On James Bond fiction that nonetheless has some links to reality, you should
watch the beginning of Octopussy (this an earlier 007 film with Roger Moore). In an early scene, the USSR Politburo is convening to discuss the latest NATO arms control proposals. The chairman is clearly a depiction of then-General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, and the feisty
General Orlov is clearly supposed to be Marshal Ogarkov. Orlov (Ogarkov) gets into an
argument with General Gogol (actual person: Marshal Ustinov, in this observer's view) in a classic guns-versus-butter debate. The debate and characterizations quite closely parallel certain events in the late 1970s USSR...

But closer to Tweeterland, check out the scene with Halle Berry in Cuba in the film Die Another Day (2002, Pierce Brosnan). The Bond character has binoculars and discusses his birding plans with Berry, and later he actually flashes a copy of Bond's original Birds of the West Indies to a Cuban contact. This was a clear nod to the original James Bond, who inspired the Scott AtkinsonLake Stevensmail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com



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