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...series back to life--and is paid a reported $15 million a picture to keep the franchise alive--was once the Bond that got away. In 1986 he had to turn down an offer to play the role because he couldn't get out of his Remington Steele TV contract. But he was ready to take the part when asked again in 1994. After Roger Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make the character...
...million. The plot was foiled after Scotland Yard was tipped off by the tabloid News of the World, whose reporters had infiltrated the cabal. The thwarted kidnapping allowed tabloid reporters to revert to more fan-friendly matters. First came reports that Victoria had signed a new recording contract in an attempt to restart her solo career. That was followed by news that she was battling Peterborough United, a Second Division soccer club, over rights to her nickname. For 68 years, Peterborough has been known as The Posh. The club's attempt to register the moniker as a legal trademark...
...Cavanagh, who has a knack for describing the mechanics of perception, apparently perceives Summers as barbarous, murderous dictator, an “Ayatollah.” Apparently, there is a clause in Cavanagh’s contract that allows him to resort to easy dehumanization when he can’t or won’t marshal an argument. In my view, Cavanagh’s letter demonstrates that he feels raw from being unfairly labeled an anti-Semite and a moral relativist...
Though the term "graphic novel" originated with Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" in 1978, the first actual novel told in pictures appeared over 50 years earlier. A Belgian wood engraver named Frans Masereel created "Passionate Journey," subtitled "A Novel in 165 Woodcuts" in 1926. Through wordless tableaus it tells the story of a man's journeys across classes, cultures, depravations and indulgences. Politicized by the horrors of the First World War, Masereel uses the book, told in the universal language of pure images, partly as an anti-establishment, pro-democratic political parable. Now, nearly 75 years later, Masereel...
Back in 1997, the Russian companies Lukoil, NK Zarubezhneft and Machinoimport signed a 23-year, $3.5-billion contract guaranteeing them access to the colossal West Qurna oil field—which may hold up to 15 billion barrels—once sanctions are lifted. Last week, the Iraqi newspaper Al-Zawra indicated that another Russian firm had solidified an arrangement to drill wells south of Basra...