I didn't really know where to put his post, so here it is! I've already posted elsewhere that the name Travellian is not only known from GE, but also from history. Sir Travellian was one of the worst oppressors during the famine in Ireland in the late 1840s. He was a really cold-hearted bastard. Was the name of a villain from history used as the name of a villain in a Bond movie by pure chance? Maybe. But recently I heard the name Havelock mentioned in a podcast about the Sepoy rebellion in India in 1857. Of course many of us know the name from YOLT as the name of Melina and her murdered family. General Henry Havelock is known in history as the man who relived the besieged British in the city of Lucknow, and I understand there are lots statues of him in Britain and roads named after him. It's very likely Ian Fleming knew this and associated the name with heroism.
I know you know this @Number24 it's FYEO not YOLT. I find many authors pinch names from history or mythology specifically to add an element of 'knowing' - but it only works if you are already in the know!
I don't know where else to put this but it's a bit of trivia I've learned that I've not heard before: the poker game in Casino Royale is held at the Hotel Splendide:
I think there is an other layer to it. To the modern history buff the name Travellian is associated with evil. Havelock was associated with revenge to the Victorians and Edwardians like Ian Fleming. While Henry Havelock was more involved with the rescue part of the Sepoy mutiny /first Indian war of independence, I've now learnt about the British revenge for the this, and it's horrible. The British massacred all males above the age of 16 in the city of Dehli. This is why the capital of India is called NEW Dehli. Fleming must've associated the name Havelock very closely with revenge. Of course FYEY only and Melina Havelock is very much about revenge.
For anyone who'd like to learn more about novelist/scriptwriter Simon Raven, credited with supplying "additional dialogue" for OHMSS, The Critic recently published a biographical profile of the man. It of course mentions Raven's most famous film credit. I will also add that before working on OHMSS Raven had been a longtime supporter of Ian Fleming--he'd reviewed Casino Royale on its publication, defended Doctor No after it was attacked by several journalists, and also reviewed a couple other Bond novels, along with Pearson's Fleming biography and Amis's Bond Dossier. Raven also referenced Fleming in one of his novels (The Rich Pay Late) and in another (Come Like Shadows) drew on his experience filming OHMSS in Switzerland. I hope to go into more detail on all of this sometime soon.
Having personal shark pools and feeding enemies to the predators is easily dismssed as Bond film fantasy, but I'm repeatedly reminded that fact and fiction can often come close to each other. I was listening to a podcast about the former dictator of the Central African Republic Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996): Bokassa spent a third of the country's budget on crowning himself as an emperor in 1977.
In one of his palaces he had a crocodile pool that he liked to throw meat into in front of guests. One of them was president d'Estaign who Bokassa also gifted a trey full of diamonds and hosted safaris hunting endangered animals. But it gets worse. The meat was from the palaces's freezer and was of political prisoners, people with parking tickets and other unfortunates. When foreigners like d'Estaign witnesed the feeding it was meat from the freezer, but that was from humans too. Incredibly it gets even worse, but I'll spare you the details.
"A further £4,225 was spent on a Montblanc Starwalker World Time fountain pen in March of that year, one of a number of pens purchased for four-figure amounts.
Among those are a Montblanc meisterstück moon pearl – a modern version of the pen used by Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1983 film Octopussy – and two special Beatles editions designed by the same company."
He's been remanded into custody today; I wonder if an account on here will suddenly stop posting...
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Excellent! Thanks for posting @Revelator
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93w8xxj09jo
An abandoned DB5 gets restored
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Man apparently swallowed a Faberge egg
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Colin Salmon, who played Charles Robinson in 3 Bond movies, avoids driving ban for speeding.
I didn't really know where to put his post, so here it is! I've already posted elsewhere that the name Travellian is not only known from GE, but also from history. Sir Travellian was one of the worst oppressors during the famine in Ireland in the late 1840s. He was a really cold-hearted bastard. Was the name of a villain from history used as the name of a villain in a Bond movie by pure chance? Maybe. But recently I heard the name Havelock mentioned in a podcast about the Sepoy rebellion in India in 1857. Of course many of us know the name from YOLT as the name of Melina and her murdered family. General Henry Havelock is known in history as the man who relived the besieged British in the city of Lucknow, and I understand there are lots statues of him in Britain and roads named after him. It's very likely Ian Fleming knew this and associated the name with heroism.
I know you know this @Number24 it's FYEO not YOLT. I find many authors pinch names from history or mythology specifically to add an element of 'knowing' - but it only works if you are already in the know!
You're right of course, it’s FYEO. 🫢
From the London Times:
And from the obituary mentioned above:
Brilliant 👏🏻🤣
The helicopter used to take Koskov from the Blayden safe house in TLD was captured from Argentina on the Falklands by the British army.
I don't know where else to put this but it's a bit of trivia I've learned that I've not heard before: the poker game in Casino Royale is held at the Hotel Splendide:
Daniel Craig appeared in a 2000 film called Hotel Splendide:
I think there is an other layer to it. To the modern history buff the name Travellian is associated with evil. Havelock was associated with revenge to the Victorians and Edwardians like Ian Fleming. While Henry Havelock was more involved with the rescue part of the Sepoy mutiny /first Indian war of independence, I've now learnt about the British revenge for the this, and it's horrible. The British massacred all males above the age of 16 in the city of Dehli. This is why the capital of India is called NEW Dehli. Fleming must've associated the name Havelock very closely with revenge. Of course FYEY only and Melina Havelock is very much about revenge.
The UK is sending the warship HMS Dragon to Cyprus to defend RAF Akrotiri:
HMS Dragon is the warship that appears at the end of No Time To Die and fires the missiles that kill Bond:
Picture from https://movie-screencaps.com/no-time-to-die-2021/page/102#foobox-1/153/notimetodie-movie-screencaps.com-18334.jpg?ssl=1
For anyone who'd like to learn more about novelist/scriptwriter Simon Raven, credited with supplying "additional dialogue" for OHMSS, The Critic recently published a biographical profile of the man. It of course mentions Raven's most famous film credit. I will also add that before working on OHMSS Raven had been a longtime supporter of Ian Fleming--he'd reviewed Casino Royale on its publication, defended Doctor No after it was attacked by several journalists, and also reviewed a couple other Bond novels, along with Pearson's Fleming biography and Amis's Bond Dossier. Raven also referenced Fleming in one of his novels (The Rich Pay Late) and in another (Come Like Shadows) drew on his experience filming OHMSS in Switzerland. I hope to go into more detail on all of this sometime soon.
Looking forward to that; I'd like to know a bit more about his work on OHMSS.
Ditto…sounds very interesting
Warning: Horrible details. Not for everyone.
Having personal shark pools and feeding enemies to the predators is easily dismssed as Bond film fantasy, but I'm repeatedly reminded that fact and fiction can often come close to each other. I was listening to a podcast about the former dictator of the Central African Republic Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996): Bokassa spent a third of the country's budget on crowning himself as an emperor in 1977.
In one of his palaces he had a crocodile pool that he liked to throw meat into in front of guests. One of them was president d'Estaign who Bokassa also gifted a trey full of diamonds and hosted safaris hunting endangered animals. But it gets worse. The meat was from the palaces's freezer and was of political prisoners, people with parking tickets and other unfortunates. When foreigners like d'Estaign witnesed the feeding it was meat from the freezer, but that was from humans too. Incredibly it gets even worse, but I'll spare you the details.
The remains of the crocodile pool:
I can only wonder what the water slide was for.....
Just read that…I guess they will go with the more obvious theme tunes…? I hope they don’t just go that route…
He's one of us!
"A further £4,225 was spent on a Montblanc Starwalker World Time fountain pen in March of that year, one of a number of pens purchased for four-figure amounts.
Among those are a Montblanc meisterstück moon pearl – a modern version of the pen used by Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1983 film Octopussy – and two special Beatles editions designed by the same company."
He's been remanded into custody today; I wonder if an account on here will suddenly stop posting...