Bond Cartoon

[Lauryn]

I was ingesting the day's headlines along with my daily requirement of All Things Pierce and have discovered that White House Whisperer Karl Rove has now outed none other than Bond, James Bond. Go to www.comics.com/editoons/luckovich/ for the visual. Looks like Diamonds Are Forever era Connery, right pussy, but wrong Blofeld.

The usual suspects at the White House (that's with an "i" in case you're still thinking about DAF) do rather remind us all of that quote from Steele Of Approval

"...this is the most arcane, byzantine bunch I've ever seen." And we'll throw in Machiavellian, too.

Interesting times. Will prosecutor Fitz, in the truth crusading Westfield role, have them all pointing fingers at each other? Will they pull his investigator's license? Will he be sent off to search for urchins all over greater London? Does Michael Gleason feature prominently in the White House rolodex? Heads up, press corps! In the meantime I'm going out for Jiffy Pop.

PS: Apologies for dabbling in politics and going a bit off topic, without alerting everyone of same.

[Ace]

;D ;D ;D !!!

It's certainly Connery Bond. But I'll go for YOLT Bond (who wasn't exactly svelt either), with YOLT Donald Pleasance Blofeld who also had sharks and lived in a Volcano.

P.S.: No apologies necessary -- it's certainly on Bond target.

[Lauryn]

It's certainly Connery Bond. But I'll go for YOLT Bond (who wasn't exactly svelt either), with YOLT Donald Pleasance Blofeld who also had sharks and lived in a Volcano.

Was Connery really that wide-bodied in YOLT? I thought a Japanese diet was very low fat! Forgive the cognitive dissonance. It just looked like they'd dropped him into the volcano from the wrong movie (DAF) which is what I meant, more or less, by wrong Blofeld. Perhaps this is all a consequence of my straining for White House / Whyte House puns.

[Ace]

To be fair he wasn't as wide bodied in YOLT as in DAF but then in neither was he as triangular as in that cartoon.

Though it's hard to really even pay attention to Connery's waistline in YOLT. I'm too busy either looking at the ridiculous Japanese makeover or those absolutely UGLY golf looking white shoes he runs or rather skips ( Connery doesn't seem to run) around in for hours. Or since it's in YOLT it just seems like hours. Who'd have thought a film with Bond, volcanos, ninjas and shark tanks could be so bloody boring?

Ace

[Lauryn]

To be fair he wasn't as wide bodied in YOLT as in DAF but then in neither was he as triangular as in that cartoon.

What adds to the confusion is that he's clearly wearing a carnation in his lapel, and the lapels themselves are rather wide-bodied (so 70's!). Of course he's not wearing the white dinner jacket of DAF. When else did Connery wear that combo with the carnation? Just DAF and Goldfinger? That's no Goldfinger physique, LOL!

Of course, Ian Fleming would probably flagellate himself at his man wearing a white dinner jacket for evening, but then again, Bond is in Vegas in DAF and thus slumming, so it's not the unpardonable sin it might be.

Though it's hard to really even pay attention to Connery's waistline in YOLT. I'm too busy either looking at the ridiculous Japanese makeover or those absolutely UGLY golf looking white shoes he runs or rather skips ( Connery doesn't seem to run) around in for hours.

The whole cast in YOLT seems to run about aimlessly. Yet I have the distinct feeling no one on set wanted to broach the subject of Connery's running style.

I skip, you shhaay? Well, why don't you bugger off!

At least he doesn't do the Roger Moore duck walk.

I'm sure some wit in the Bond-iverse will come up with a DVD feature called "Bond's Closet" in which they "out" his every fashion faux pas. Terrycloth baby-blue jump suit horror? Check! Pink tie? Check! And on and on. Roger's flares would get their own Hall of No Shame.

Or since it's in YOLT it just seems like hours. Who'd have thought a film with Bond, volcanos, ninjas and shark tanks could be so bloody boring?

It does seem like a criminal waste of a marvelous, fantastical set and set pieces.