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Jottings found on the screening-room floor after a critics' viewing of the new James Bond film...
Does anybody know this flick has nothing to do with 1962 novel of same name, since Ian Fleming nixed sale of anything but title to movies? Does anybody care? All that's left of Bond formula here is 007 character, sexy starlets and gee-whiz gadgets. (Question: What else did it ever consist...
Plot seems snipped from previous installments. Bond tangles with female Russian spy: From Russia with Love. They team up against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
...tell the actors that time. This time the principals know. Reeve and Margot Kidder, who gives Lois Lane the sex appeal that schoolboys always knew she had, are already looking forward to Superman II, III and IV. Reeve was afraid of being typecast, but Sean Connery, who played James Bond six times, put his fears to rest. Said Connery: "You had better be good in the first Superman or you won't have to worry about the second and third...
...verdict, but later emotionally charged that they were victims of a racially prejudiced jury. From Manila, Dr. Pacifico Marcos, brother of the Philippine President and head of the defense fund drive, expressed shock. Said he: "It's a miscarriage of justice." Still free on $75,000 bond, the nurses will appeal...