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...overseas readers will recall - they'd better, if the plot and emotions of this film are to make any sense - that the 2006 Casino Royale was a conscious return to the young agent on his first big case as an operative of Her Majesty's Secret Service. While dispatching the usual number of foreign villains, he falls for the lustrous Vesper Lynd (as in West Berlin; Fleming was addicted to pun names for his Bond girls), an agent for the British Treasury Service. A misunderstanding about Vesper's motives leads to her death, for which Bond blames himself. Quantum...
...these is White, who tells M and Bond a little secret; that Quantum has people everywhere. That's the cue for M's trusted bodyguard to pull a gun on her and reveal himself as a Quantum hireling. More fighting and chasing and leaping, intercut with the running of Il Palio, the famous horse race held in a Siena's main piazza. Director Marc Forster - known for gimmicky art-house films like Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction and The Kite Runner - turns out to be a natural as the helmer of a high-energy, high-gloss action film. He also...
...Knew Too Much (whose climax of an assassination attempt in the Albert Hall gets an update here) and Jackie Chan's Police Story (jumping from a building to the top of a moving bus to another building across the street). The globe-hopping itineraries of our favorite secret agent and his targets - Italy, England, Austria, Haiti, Bolivia - will remind you of the geographic restlessness on display in Syriana, Body of Lies and other war-on-terror spy capers. And like hundreds of action-film thugs, the marksmen in this film are fatally slow on the trigger...
...brother Oakes.) The founding of The Paris Review offers proof that enthusiasm can trump disorganization, but Plimpton doesn't come into focus until his brief engagement to Bee Dabney, who dumps him for a friend at their engagement party. Dabney tells the tale here, but it was hardly a secret; Plimpton dined out on it for years. "That was quintessential George," says John Heminway. "He took such pleasure in telling a story about what great sadness...
...indefatigable Army engineer Robert Furman, who died Oct. 14 at 93, drove more than four hours through a winter storm to dedicate the offices where he had worked 64 years earlier as a key aide to the head of the top-secret Manhattan Project...