LKY On The Edge

My information - and it is from a source that has been reliable - is that Singapore dictator Lee Kuan Yew's health is failing very fast and he does not have long to go.

 

And I think this is just stating a fact at this point.

 

Looks old here...



 

My Competing New Bond Film

Having now read enough of the leaked latest James Bond screenplay, and having heard that the production is said to be now already $200 million over budget, it is a wonder to me why the producers never seem to have the brainpower to hire an actual, as in, real, writer/s!

Some of what I read is just plain silly.

And so I have decided to do just that - hire some real writers - myself...

Design evokes narrative -

the noir detective-style character, parks his

Challenger SRT Hellcat in a post-industrial

brickyard, gentrified and converted to loft apartments.

The actual Bond screenplay leaks are so extensive and detailed that there is little reason to suspect they are any kind of false trail. No, the storyline is that MI5 and MI6 are merging (this is simply a fact from real life, and it happened around the time Blair decided to push WMD fibs to justify committing to war in Iraq). Personally, my judgement is that the idea that Bond is about to be retired, comes from the author John Pearson, who wrote an ‘official biography’ of Bond, which towards the end assumed an older Bond going to live in Queensland or Sydney, from memory, on a boat. Fair enough, I suppose.

The villain in the movie is no one Ian Fleming ever penned – a character called Heinrich Stockmann (seriously?!). And he’s meant to be the boss of ‘Spectre.’ And Bond just tricks him and shoots him. Some villain.

Anyway I know some real writers and I’m going to ask ‘em to come up with a competing ‘latest’ Bond.

My own design philosophy parameters would be that Fleming adulated Chandler, and that Bond is an English noir tale virtually always set elsewhere to anywhere in Britain, and containing way more American and other culture paraphernalia than you might think.

I know you won’t believe this, but Bond is a young Jesse Ventura-type, if anything, (ex-navy diver/commander) and has a cover job – Universal Exports – not very far different from your common-or-garden pulp detective type story from a Chandler-esque book.

 

Actor James Marsters - cyber-enhanced transhuman
Dr. Milton Fine
(My villain choice)

And it’s 2015. Any real villain is a cyber-enhanced soldier or ex-soldier or upper ranker... Not even fully human, really. More-than-human, but not actually human. I’m thinking Dick Cheney, but then that’ll never make it to the screen, will it?!

So we’ll go for Dr. Milton Fine, aka Brainiac from Superman, instead.  

Seriously Though...

What's he doin' here?

 

2012.  Honestly, Vlad, you can trust me.
All I want is some more borscht. I'm hungry, see. And my friends
at Bain & Co don't feed me. Much.

 

I Did It All For Love...

Vanity. All is vanity...

 

There's little Oswald Cobblepot in the pic above, between the idiot of the Bauer family, Jacob, and some ambassador or other to China.

Got to shake this guy's hand.

 

World's most powerful men...

 

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.