You’ll probably only read it twice Goodnight Gazette Issue #1, September 2008 Welcome AUTHOR DAHL NAMED AS What you are reading is a THE SPY WHO LOVED PLENTY brand new publication which content is solely dedicated to the magn- ificent world of James Bond, but with a slightly To the general public Roald Dahl is well He had a good career in the Royal Air Force remembered as a popular author of children’s but an injury made him unfit to fly and in 1942 different angle. We pene- books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was moved to the US, to work for the Brit- trate details, linger around BFG, The witches and Matilda to name a few. ish embassy. There he was to use his good rumours, address far-fet- Surely it’s not general knowledge, James Bond- looks and social skills to infiltrate the powerful ched themes, review mis- fans aside, that Dahl also wrote a few movie milieu of Washington in order to recruit Amer- haps, provide lists and treat scripts including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and ican support for Britain against Nazi Germany. 007 far more seriously than foremost You only live twice . In doing so, Dahl made numerous sexual con- it was ever intended. Script writer Harold Jack Bloom who was initi- quests including Millicent Rogers, the heiress to All with a personal touch. ally hired for You only live twice left the a Standard Oil fortune, and Clare Boothe Luce, production at an early stage having made out a right-wing congresswoman and the wife of It is supposed to provide Bond-fans worldwide with the first draft of the plot. Roald Dahl, an old the publisher of Time magazine. friend of Ian Fleming accepted the producers’ Boothe Luce was quite keen, Dahl later claimed an enjoyable read. approach, having him adapting the Bloom to have begged his superiors to take him off I am the editor and I would script although Dahl claims he had little creat- the assignment, only to be told to get back into gladly welcome any contri- ive input and that Saltzman and Broccoli were the bedroom. “Girls just fell at Roald's feet. I bution to the Goodnight in full control of the script. think he slept with everybody on the east and Gazette. A recent book wrote by journalist Jennet Con- west coasts that [was worth] more than $50,000 D o email and send me your ant, does however get an amusing new angle to a year,” said Antoinette Marsh Haskell, the questions, tips, feedback or Dahl’s connection to the Bond franchise. The daughter of Dahl’s Texan friend Charles writings and the GG would Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Marsh. Wartime Washington reveals that Dahl’s experi- Dahl did prove himself as an agent and passed be most grateful. The Goodnight Gazette will ences from his work in the British Intelligence on several useful pieces of intelligence. Doesn’t were very much in correlation to the lifestyle of he stand out as the most suitable script writer be published most the fictional 007. to a Bond movie ever? irregularly. The Gazette is named after Bond’s secretary, Major Mary Goodnight, in The Do we have to send her a cake? Man with the Golden Gun played by Swedish Britt Ekland. In the large galley of personnel that have She is, however, an icon to many, The Queen contributed to the James Bond franchise few of Pop and all that. Few female artists have are held in as poor regard as Madonna. survived like she has and her career and success - Pontus Forslund, editor Not only did she try to use Die Another Day as a are admirable, especially when you consider the commercial tool for her upcoming album she fact that she can’t sing. Ever hear her live? also wanted a snogging part which she was Pierce Brosnan sounds like Freddie Mercury in denied. So following her obstinate personality comparison to her co-star. she had her pointless cameo part playing a All the same, Madonna turned 50 this august lesbian, seemingly with the motif that she had and we wish her all the best, and hope that the power to refuse Bond a kiss on account of she’ll someday grow up. Oh, and never comes Goodnight being homosexual, although that hadn’t close to a Bond set again. Gazette Editor: Pontus stopped Bond before. Her childish mind must Should she be sent a cake? Forslund have been somewhat satisfied when she got to We’ve got rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding and All text © Pontus say the word “Cock” on screen. strawberry tart. But I think the strawberry tart #1 Forslund 2008 To top it all off she also provided the Bond is out of the question. She already has plenty of Contact: goodnightgazette series with the most appalling theme song ever. tart to pass around. @hotmail.com Goodnight Gazette #1, Septembe r 2008 Michael Pate COMPLETE AND UTTER passes away NUTTER LOST LEITER Michael Pate has died at the age of 88. He was known in the Bond community as the The never ending story about the constant first screen Leiter in the 1954 change of actors who portray CIA man and Climax television version of Bond’s friend Felix Leiter gets a new chapter Casino Royale. with Jeffrey Wright. Yes, we know that David Born 1920 in Sydney, Australia Hedison did actually do two outings as Leiter, Pate worked with radio and although with 16 years apart. It’s eight actors after World War II where he for nine films turning nine for ten shortly. served in the Army he expand- One of Bond-fans’ favourites was the ed his career to television and unknown American actor Rik van Nutter who movies. joined Sean Connery in Bahamas for During his time in Hollywood Thunderball. Indeed van Nutter’s Leiter is one he appeared in several TV- of the most memorable and there are many series, including Wanted: Dead who ask why it turned out to be his only or Alive, Mission: Impossible, performance. He did do a fine job baby sitting Batman, Perry Mason, Zorro, The Domino, reading the Geiger and being Man from U.N.C.L.E., Gun- punched in the gut. smoke and Rawhide and was It is sometimes stated that van Nutter actually often cast as an American had a contract for playing Leiter in the The Broccoli’s were great friends with Anita Native. following two Bond-movies after Thunderball Ekberg and when Cec Linder wasn’t available He returned to his Australia but nevertheless in Diamonds are Forever he was to do Leiter for Thunderball Cubby went to working in television and replaced by Norman Burton, never to be heard Anitas husband Rik, almost like a personal theatre both as a producer and of again. favour. Let’s put it like this: van Nutter as an actor. In the seventies he wouldn’t have gotten the part if he wasn’t True, the character wasn’t in the script for was working on one of Aust- either You only live twice nor OHMSS, but van married to Ekberg. ralia’s most classic series The Nutter disappearance wasn’t entirely due to the But Rik and Anita’s relationship was Matlock Police , which aired supremacy of Burton. problematic and troublesome mainly because 1971-76 having Pate only The rise and fall of van Nutter’s Felix Leiter is the jealous mind of Rik who accused Anita of missing out on the final spelt: Anita Ekberg. infidelity. He burned her early letters, photos season. California-born, Rik van Nutter met Swedish and memories. He vanished in 1970 when Before he retired in 2001, Pate bombshell actress Anita Ekberg while working Anita’s was working on a movie but before that was honored with a special in the Italian film industry. van Nutter had sold most of her belongings award at the 2000 Film Critics Love sprung and the two married in 1963. including furs, jewellery, furniture, the boat and Circle of Australia Awards. Anita had been working the legendary Albert even the house. Anita was devastated and van In the 1953 Casino Royale Pate R. “Cubby” Broccoli on four films including Nutter’s abuse of her lost him more than the was cast as the MI6 agent Call me Bwana, the billboard of which Bulgarian part of Felix Leiter, which Cubby re-cast, Clarence Leiter, the parts of villain Krilencu climbs out of out of Anita’s standing by the family friend, Anita. the two agents had been rever- mouth in From Russia with Love. sed as Bond became Americ- an, “Card Sense” Jimmy Bond. Lost in Translation The Line The title for the soon to come Bond film was released in 1981, translators used the Quantum of Solace could raise an eyebrow or two Swedish version for From a view to a Kill not Double six, fancy among Swedish translators, although we’ve just really giving it a second thought. that?! heard that no Swedish title is to be set. But in 1985 when A view to a Kill hit the It was quite a different story for another of cinemas, the title was used up and a new title Fleming’s short story featured in the book that had to be invented. So For your eyes only got A Roger Moore never looked was named For your eyes only . view to a Kill’s Swedish title and the latter was cooler at the gaming table In Sweden, this book was named after another named Levande Måltavla, that in English would as in Octopussy when Kamal short story in that same volume: From a view to a read Living Target.