Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Shiffman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM From: Shiffman@WHITE.SWW.Symbolics.COM Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Fleming's 007 vs. Broccoli's 007 Message-ID: <2110@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 28-May-85 16:58:26 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2110 Posted: Tue May 28 16:58:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 20:23:13 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 From: Hank Shiffman From: mtgzz!leeper@topaz.arpa (m.r.leeper) Date: 23 May 85 03:39:10 GMT >Not exactly. Fleming sold both titles and stories to Albert >Broccoli. The rest of the films ignored the books because the >producer felt that it was SF hardware, lots of women, exotic >locations and car/boat/plane/... chases which made money. My "facts" are based on hearsay and reading Variety. I don't remember the source of my information. I (gulp!) bow to your better knowledge, if it is better. Where did you hear it? 007 James Bond: A Report by O.F. Snelling The James Bond Dossier by Kingsley Amis (from before he wrote Colonel Sun) James Bond In The Cinema by John Brosnan Also a fair number of newspaper articles over the years and a couple of television interviews with Broccoli.