The Spy Who Loved Me

Richard Kiel, best known for his role as Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker alongside Roger Moore, is to appear at The Misty Moon Gallery in London on May 27th. “An Evening With Richard Kiel” includes a Q & A with the actor, autograph signings and a screening of The Spy Who […]

American actor Richard Kiel , best known for his portrayal of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker is to appear at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum on Sunday 26th May, according to 007.com. The museum is home to the Bond In Motion exhibition, the largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles and The actor will […]

British newspaper The Guardian ran an interesting story on Friday regarding The Spy Who Loved Me, which saw Ian Fleming abandon his tried and tested formula for the James Bond novels in favour of writing a story from the point of view of the heroine. The article argues that the book demonstrates some of Fleming […]

Marvin Hamlisch, composer of many film scores including The Spy Who Loved Me, has died in Los Angeles on Monday following a short illness, according to his family. In addition to Roger Moore’s third outing as James Bond, for which he penned “Nobody Does It Better”, Hamlisch worked on more than 40 film scores including The Sting. […]

A week or so ago I was thinking about which James Bond pre-titles would make it onto my list and decided to ask what other people thought using social media channels. The idea wasn’t to poll followers for a definitive list of their favourite PTS, rather to remind me of any that I might overlook otherwise.

Ian Fleming experimented radically with The Spy Who Loved Me. The story is told in the first person by the heroine, Vivienne Michel, and James Bond only appears in the last third of the book. Author: Ian Fleming Publication date: 16th April 1962 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Cover artist: Richard Chopping Search for first edition copies on Abebooks The […]

When James Bond drove a Lotus Esprit S1 directly into the water on the Sardinian coast to escape a helicopter in hot pursuit in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), he introduced what is one of 007’s best-known gadgets; flipping a switch the car turns into a submarine. The Lotus Esprit was a mid-engine coupé […]

Tom Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplays for Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun, has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 68. As well as credits for three Bond films, he also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, although he was uncredited. Read […]

By the time the next instalment of the James Bond series was due to be released, much had changed. Despite the relative success of Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun, 007 was in danger of being overtaken by new, spectacular summer blockbuster films including cinema’s latest phenomenon: Star Wars. With […]

James Bond arrives in Sardinia in The Spy Who Loved Me, where he and Anya Amasova – agent XXX of the KGB – check into Hotel Cala di Volpe on the Costa Smeralda. After visiting the base of Stromberg they are chased by his henchmen, culminating in Bond driving his Lotus Esprit into the water, […]