Grace Under Fire
April, 2013
The 1970s and 1980s were not the best time for James Bond fans (Being Bond, November). For those of us rearedon Ian Fleming's novels and/or the early Bonds of Sean Connery, the film series took a turn for the silly. Yet after each new release fans convinced themselves the producers would fulfill their promise to return the series to its roots. (To this day, several Fleming plots have never been adapted.) I was a film journalist at the time, so four to six months before each new movie I would get...
