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...faithful watchers of Miami Vice already recognize, the greatest threat to our national security is no longer global terrorism--it's drugs. So the villian in Timothy Dalton's second outing as Bond, and the first of the series not to be based on a Fleming work, is guess what, a narcotics kingpin...
Which gives Dalton a long overdue chance to re-invent the James Bond character. In Licence to Kill, Dalton is a spy with a vendetta. His dark, brooding face displays not the faintest hint of humor. And without necessarily being more violent than his predecessors, Dalton somehow manages to appear more brutal...
Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles) fell in love with a girl from the local public school and got beaten up by her boyfriend, although in the end he won her with poetry. Charlie Dalton took his individualism to the limits, demanded to be called "Nuanda," painted red lightening bolts for fertility on his chest and got kicked out of school for standing up for his convictions. (At the same time however, he tried to use the society to pick up women...
What has increased the publishing industry's appetite for fresh manuscripts is a steady, decade-long expansion in the market for hard-cover best sellers. With their combined 2,100 outlets, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton have created a vast distribution system for general-interest hardcovers. The Book Industry Study Group estimates that retailers sold 286 million such books last year, up 33% from 1983, while publishers' revenues from those volumes nearly doubled, to an estimated $2.2 billion...
Despite all the controversy, though, sources say Vorenberg backed both Trubek and Dalton in their attempts to win promotion...