St. Moritz Part II

So if you ever go to St. Moritz, instead of to the next Bilderberg Conference – wherever that is being held (and once it actually has been held in St. Moritz too, by the way) – I would suggest going to the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival. Anyone may.

You’re going to see some hilarious things there. And yes, it will mostly be filled with mighty wealthy people, and even the Chefs who go are at the top end of the food business throughout the world so they are certainly not paupers either by any means.

You’re going to see some old styles and traditions that almost no one else would get away with anywhere else in the world these days. For instance, by choice, whenever there is some big food event, the women actually go off and sit with the other women, leaving the men, to hang out by themselves on their side of the room, or rooms, as these often are. We’re talking about actually during the meal!

And there are women in sable furs like you wouldn’t believe.

Roman Polanski

When Roman Polanski was holed up in Gstaad not too long ago, he had meals brought up to him in secret by some quite amazing Chefs. Gstaad is another one of these ‘ski playgrounds of the vastly wealthy’ – also in Switzerland though 400 kilometres away from St. Moritz.

I include here a pic also of another Russian/Jewish/Polish/half-Catholic expatriate – the late Western Australian city councillor and psychologist, architect, and poly-histor, Paul Ritter... You may recall he was one of the two architects who laid the foundation stones of the original WTC towers. You may not recall that too of course, though I have mentioned it before and now at least you do know it anyway...

The late Paul Ritter

Facts are much stranger than fiction, don’t you know! I have a copy of the recently leaked pre-screenplay text for the upcoming Bond movie ‘Spectre.’ A lot of people do. One of the Schlumberger family girls – Lea Seydoux – is in the cast of the movie.

Modern production needs and funding being what they are, who knows what this movie will turn out to be like.

I think the real problem with the Bond movies nowadays is the difficulty storywriters have of dealing with who the villain character is and why we should regard them as villains, and what they do or did to attain the appellation.

Latest Russian side arm, the Strizh Swift Strike -
is able to fire underwater! Fleming would be pleased!

But I will tell you this: occasionally the Danjaq LLC team has gotten the kernel of the story pretty right. And it will have been drawn from real behind-the-scenes stuff. They all hang out at the same Swiss restaurants and hotels, see... Maybe one day they’ll stop with the American focus groups and the ‘pc’ endings. We’ll get a story then.