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From: bill@hp-pcd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 'Never Say Never...' --- good! - (nf)
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hp-pcd!bill    Oct 11 10:38:00 1983

No, it's not coincidence, because "Never Say Never ..." IS essentially
a remake of "Thunderball".  I read that the exclusive rights to the
original "Thunderball" only lasted 15 years or so, and recently ran out,
thereby making it legal for someone else to do a remake (I don't recall
if "Never" is a Broccoli-Saltzman production).  Anyway, whoever did "Never"
figured that the original Bond (Sean Connery, I don't count Niven) is
still the best Bond, and I have to agree.  I'm not sure about the title,
but supposedly when Connery finished his last Bond film 10 or 15 years
ago, he said something to the effect of "Never again."  The next Bond film
was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", the first and last with George
Lazenby as James Bond.  In the middle of filming "On Her Majesty's ..."
Lazenby apparently started making unreasonable demands ($$$) about his 
*next* film, which, consequently, they didn't let him make.

bill frolik
hp-pcd!bill