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...this Friday), 007 sits alone in the first class compartment of an international flight, slamming martinis to forget his worries. When asked by a colleague what he's drinking, a foggy Bond can't respond; the bartender answers for him. (Read Richard Corliss' review of the film...
...shaken vodka martini era in Bond films lasted almost 25 years, until Daniel Craig took the role of Bond in 2006's Casino Royale. Reverting to the original recipe from Fleming's first Bond book, Craig's 007 ordered a drink he dubbed the Vesper - a hybrid martini that is three parts gin and one part vodka, mixed with a half-ounce of Kina Lillet. Ordering the drink, Bond's words in the film were an exact echo of the dialogue in Fleming's 1953 Casino Royale story...
...Mint Julep (Goldfinger): Four fresh sprigs of mint, 2.5-ounces of bourbon whiskey, one tablespoon of powdered sugar and two tablespoons of water. As Bond says in the film: Sour mash, but not too sweet, please...
...than his share of childhood illnesses - tonsils, pneumonia - but still succeeded in growing up into an almost freakishly handsome young man. His first love was drawing and animation, but one day - he must have been around 17 - he tagged along with some chums to pick up work as a film extra. A friendly director put him up for an audition at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. "As I stood on the stage, I knew at that moment that all I'd ever wanted to be was an actor. I'd found my true vocation...
...film's timing that is making local politicians squirm. Hunger's release comes as Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is under pressure to agree on the final design for a much-contested, large-scale redevelopment program at the Maze site...