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Much of the credit for the aging spy's resuscitation goes to producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. The daughter and stepson of franchise co-founder Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, the two run EON--an acronym for "Everything or Nothing"--the company based in London that has produced all the official Bond films. (Never Say Never Again, in which Connery played 007 for the first time in a dozen years, is considered a rogue agent.) When Cubby's health began to fail in the 1990s, the pair stepped up to take his place. Wilson had been co-producing since...
...Broccoli, you grow up making him. EON, the production house behind 007, has been a family business since Albert (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who produced the first nine films together, set it up in 1961. Today a second generation of Broccolis--Cubby's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael Wilson--runs the London-based outfit. They zealously protect the Bond tradition, but they've also brought the once fading franchise forward. "They've re-examined the character and focused on who Bond is--not just what his world is like," says John Cork, co-author of James Bond: The Legacy...
...DEPORTED. MOHAMMED NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, New Zealand citizen and stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein; after his arrest by FBI and immigration officials. Saffi, in the U.S. on a tourist visa, admitted not having the student visa required for his planned enrollment at a Miami aviation school...
...ARRESTED. MOHAMMAD NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, on immigration charges; in Miami. Saffi, who worked as a commercial pilot in New Zealand, where he is a citizen, had enrolled in a Florida flight school for recertification training. Immigration officials say he was traveling as a tourist and had not applied for the necessary student visa...
...Christine Choy, follows the story of Chin’s killing and his mother’s five-year quest for justice. Chin was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat two days before his wedding at a strip club by Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz in what was widely believed to be a racially motivated killing...