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Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Roy Thomson, Daily Mail, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Kemsley Newspapers, Thomson Newspapers, Journalism, Sir Denis Hamilton, Bond Novels, Publishing, Biographers International Organization, General Montgomery, Fleet Street, Casino Royale, Thunderball, First Editions, Sunday Times, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Arnhem, World War II, Book Auctions, James Bond, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

They'd stood there, in those distinctive dust covers, gathering dust, for so many years. By rights they should have comprised a complete set of first editions, each one inscribed and signed by Ian Fleming to my father. And now they are all gone!

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70th Anniversay Tribute to Three Casablanca Co-Stars!

Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Casino Royale, Hollow Triumph, The Scar, Claude Rains, Dr.Ruehl, Casablnca 70th Anniversay, Pul Henried, Peter Lorre, The Clairvoyant, The Evil Mind, Weird News News
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.

The 70th anniversary tribute to Casablanca is today, Wednesday, March 21, where it will be shown in 450 theaters across America.

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Authorities Detain Zetas Cartel Hit Man, 'Commander Devil'

AP | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Commander Devil, Casino Royale, Zetas Cartel, Drug Violence, Zetas, Veracruz Drug Violence, Zetas Angel Mora, Mexico Drug Violence, Veracruz, Zetas Drug Cartel, Angel Mora, World News

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities detained the Zeta drug cartel's alleged top hit man in the city of Veracruz for the disappearance of three mar...

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Police Detain Suspect In Mexican Casino Fire Case

AP | PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Monterrey Casino Fire, Casino Royale, Mexico Casino Fire, Casino Fire Police, Moterrey Mexico, Casino Fire, Mexico, Zetas, Mexican Casino Fire, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico — Federal police arrested a state police officer in connection with last week's arson fire at a casino that killed 52 people i...

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5 Detained In Attack That Killed 52 In Mexico

AP | PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 10.29.2011

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MONTERREY, Mexico — Police in northern Mexico have arrested five alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel suspected of setting a casino fire tha...

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Mexico Reeling From Deadly Casino Attack

AP | PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Gambling, Felipe Calderon, Terror, Gunmen, Monterrey, Casino Royale, Mexico Casino Attack, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mexico, Casino Royale Attack, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico — Hundreds of soldiers and federal agents are raiding casinos in this northern city, authorities said Saturday, two days after...

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Dozens Dead In Casino Attack

AP | By KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Casinos, Felipe Calderon, Casino Royale, Terrorism, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Drugs, Fire, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Mexicans have endured plenty of horrific crimes during their country's bloody five-year war against drug gangs: bodies hanging fr...

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40 Dead In Attack On Casino Royale

AP | PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZ | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Gambling, Video, Gamblers, Casino Royale, Monterrey, Gunmen, Terror, Maria Navarro, Drug Cartel, Casino, Mexico, Mexico Casino, Robbery, Calderon, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico — Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline and started a fire that trapped...

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Chris Matthews Interviews Paul Haggis on Nantucket

Linda Flanagan | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Flags of Our Fathers, Church of Scientology, Chris Mathews, Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby, Casino Royale, Paul Haggis, Nantucket Film Festival, Crash, Screenwriting, James Bond, Entertainment News
Linda Flanagan

In director and screenwriter Paul Haggis' interview last week with Chris Matthews at the Nantucket Film Festival, Matthews and the reverential crowd got along famously with the star.

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Paprika Steen Deserves Applause

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The International, Clash of the Titans, Lars Von Trier, Lisa Kudrow, Paprika Steen, Applause, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Duplicity, Dancer in the Dark, Teri Garr, Casino Royale, Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee, Saturday Night Live, Paprika Steen Interview, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Looking sleepy from jet lag - she's just returned to New York after a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles - and complaining a little about the bone-chilling...

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'The Great Gatsby' On American Book Review's List Of 40 Worst Books

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casino Royale, Revolutionary Road, Worst Books, Books, All the Pretty Little Horses, American Book Review, The Great Gatsby, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

The American Book Review has taken stock of literature and come up with its Top 40 Bad Books. The list targets some big, popular favorites -- F. Scott...

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Jacqueline Bisset, Actress with Legendary Film Pedigree, Stars in Death in Love Filmed, Set & Opening in NYC

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surrealism, Trauma, Boaz Yakin, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Josh Lucas, Death in Love, The Night Porter, Paul Newman, Deborah Kerr, John Huston, Murder on the Orient Express, Sophie's Choice, Two for the Road, Casino Royale, David Niven, Day for Night, George Cukor, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Francois Truffaut, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, New York News
Penelope Andrew

The film is set in New York City in the 1990s. Yakin, a native New Yorker, shot the film in 25 days and financed it himself.

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Another '60s Anniversary: The Ur-Action Blockbuster Goldfinger

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Mike Myers, Oddjob, 1960s, Mustang, Cubby Broccoli, Goldfinger, Harry Saltzman, Ford Mustang, George W. Bush, Honor Blackman, Goldeneye, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Fleming, Austin Powers, John Barry, Casino Royale, Paul Johnson, Steven Spielberg, Thunderball, Apollo 11, Jaws, James Cameron, Moon, The Rock, Dr. No, Soviet Union, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Communist China, Shirley Bassey, True Lies, Guy Hamilton, Mad Men, James Bond, Warren Beatty, Indiana Jones, Ursula Andress, George Lucas, George Lazenby, Transformers, Beatles, Tom Cruise, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, Michael Bay, From Russia With Love, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Though Goldfinger looks almost sedate compared to today's jittery, mashed-up action pictures, editor Peter Hunt's work 45 years ago, emphasizing fast hard cuts, was an innovation.

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Star Trek Firsts... 43 Years On

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fringe, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, James T. Kirk, Star Trek the Original Series, Jennifer Garner, Deep Space Nine, Captain Jean Luc Picard, Lost, Sydney Bristow, Enterprise, Milo Rambaldi, Star Wars, Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. McCoy, Captain Christopher Pike, Spock, Star Trek, J.J. Abrams, Alias, John Hodgman, Barack Obama, Gene Roddenberry, Doctor Who, Batman, James Bond, United Nations, Starfleet, United Federation of Planets, San Francisco, World War II, Apple Store, Casino Royale, Batman Begins, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Some 43 years after it began, and seven years after the movie franchise seemed completely played out, Star Trek is making firsts again. And so far, it's the most popular movie of the year in America.

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Angels & Demons teaser goes online... (a victim of the 'Tomb Raider rule'?)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trailer, Casino Royale, Entertainment, Superman Returns, Angels & Demons, Quantum of Solace, Movie, Da Vinci Code, Tomb Raider, Movies, Star Trek, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The only thing about this trailer that makes me interested is the brief appearance of Stellan Skarsgard. Anyway, I wonder if this sequel will be the ...

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Actor Daniel Craig Talking About James Bond, Quantum of Solace and Saving the World

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: English, The Golden Compass, Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, British, Judi Dench, Action, Terrorism, Hero, Daniel Craig, Defiance, James Bond, Corporate, Blond, Millions, Movies, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Agent 007 may not be available to save us in all his athletic and dashing glory, but in Quantum of Solace James Bond exhaustingly gives it a damn good try.

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Weekend Quantum Of Solace Box Office -- Bond Does Bourne at the Box Office Too

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

Various people are tossing around the Batman Begins/Dark Knight comparison for the Quantum Of Solace's $27 million opening day and $71 million opening weekend.

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James Bond Through The Ages

Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kim Morgan

Craig's Bond is a notable mixture of true grit and exciting cool. And though we love our Connery's, Moore's and Brosnan's the time was right for a so-called real Bond.

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