As we mourn the passing of Christine Auger, the French actress who played a femme fatale in “Thunderball,” it’s worth noting that her character, Domino, was named for a … bird. Matthew Parker, author of “Goldeneye,” pointed out in an
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As I learned in researching my book, there are more real James Bonds than you can shake a Martini at. The latest squib is from Mike Ives of The New York Times, who included an item in the Morning Briefing
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The real James Bond was a world-renowned ornithologist and author whose fame was totally eclipsed by 007. As I write in The Real James Bond, it must have been particularly galling for the lifelong Philadelphian to learn that the Philadelphia Chewing
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