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From: clark@sdcsla.UUCP (Clark Quinn)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: A View To A Kill
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 14:40:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 14:40:43 1985
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> I've heard that they're considering casting the star of "Remington Steele"
> as the next James Bond.  Can't remember his name, though.
  
Pierce Brosnan, and I hope not.  He's not bad as a TV actor, but for the
big screen?  I'd rather go with Mel Gibson, if he'd be interested, or some new
face.

> Also, I hate to admit that there was something in a James Bond movie
> that I didn't understand, but I'm kind of baffled by one particular
> scene.  In this scene, Roger Moore is unlocking a window from the outside
> with some sort of magnetic credit card device.  That's ok, but the card
> had the words "The Image Maker" on it.  What is that supposed to mean?
> 
> Robert Orenstein
> Relational Technology

Just a brief explanation about the name on the credit card.  The name
was Sharper Image.  They are a mail order catalog of unusual gadgets and 
high technology gizmachies (combination video camera/telephones and such :-)
Apparently they are making some sort of promotional connection with the movie.
Their latest catalog had a bunch of stills from the movie, although I didn't
expect to see their name in the movie.  Just another example of crass 
commercialism (altho, since I enjoy the Sharper Image catalogs, I didn't 
mind this one too much).

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson

 Clark N. Quinn
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