Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor door, and I go out it." Director Irvin Kershner, whose last film, The Empire Strikes Back, mixed romance and rue, sees Never Say Never as "an entertainment, but with real people and human values. As far as I'm concerned, there's never been a Bond picture before...
...course, impeccably dressed. "It adds the bizarre to the bazaar," he notes, with an insouciant cock of the left eyebrow. "Who wouldn't gawk at an Englishman in a dinner jacket running down a street here with a six-bladed dagger sticking out of his chest?" Does Bond survive? "Oh, I have a heart of steel...
...again into the arms of his wife Luisa. He is engagingly self-deprecating about his career: "If I kept all my bad notices, I'd need two houses." But how does he bring his acting gifts to bear on the subtle character changes demanded of James Bond? "Sometimes I wear a white dinner jacket, sometimes a black...
However light a heart Moore may wear on his silk sleeve, however amiable Connery may feel, the stakes are high in the game of Bond baccarat. To date, Bond pictures have sold something like a billion tickets. The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only (Nos. 11, 12 and 13 in the corpus) each grossed between $150 million and $200 million worldwide. The costs are high...
...heading north." (Translation: up to $25 million.) Both films will be fighting for the moviegoer's attention against The Revenge of the Jedi (Part III of the Star Wars saga) and a swarm of aggressive kidflix. Will there be enough prurient adults around to push both Bond pictures into the black? It makes for quite a cliffhanger-but then, everyone knows 007/007 is invincible. -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Marcia Gauger/Udaipur and William Hackman/Villefranche-sur-Mer