With the support of Eon Productions, John Barry and David Arnold

Sunday 5 October 2008 7.30pm

In Aid of the British Heart Foundation

The Ian Fleming Centenary presents The Story of James Bond - A Tribute to Ian Fleming, at the London Palladium Theatre on Sunday 5 October 2008. Arranged for the family by Ian Fleming's niece, Lucy Fleming this unique and glamorous evening will mark the final event in the Ian Fleming Centenary year.

The evening will be presented by Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry, and stars from the worlds of film and theatre will revel in everything Bond: the villains, the cars, the guns, the gadgets and of course. the girls. A 60-piece orchestra will accompany some of the biggest names in music as they perform their favourite Bond themes, whilst actors and celebrities bring Fleming's words to life, including material never heard before.

A sneak preview clip from the new film, Quantum of Solace, along with other surprises will cap off an unmissable night: the grand finale to Ian Fleming's centenary year, and a show with a license to thrill and amuse.

The evening will star Samantha Bond, Christopher Cazenove, Shirley Eaton, Sebastian Faulks, David Gilmour, Eunice Gayson, Charlie Higson, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jeremy Irons, Lemar, Lee Mead, Roger Moore, Joely Richardson, Rosamund Pike, Ruby Turner, Toby Stephens, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Issy van Randwych, Harriet Walter, Mica Paris, Beverley Knight, Sharon D Clarke, Kit Hesketh Harvey, Tony Hadley, Rory Kinnear, Alex Jennings, Lesley Manville and more to be announced shortly.

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With appearances from Classic Bond girls, the support of The Broccoli family, John Barry and David Arnold this will be an extraordinary one-off performance.

VIP Hospitality packages can be obtained from Mark Butler Associates. Tel: 020 7603 6033 www.markbutler.co.uk

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By Andrew Gans
28 Aug 2008

A host of stage and screen stars will take part in The Story of James Bond: A Tribute to Ian Fleming Oct. 5 at the London Palladium.

Presented by the Ian Fleming Centenary, the 7:30 PM performance will be hosted by Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry.

The evening will feature performances of classic Bond theme songs as well as recitings of Fleming's prose, including never-before-heard material. Among those scheduled to take part in the one-night-only event are Samantha Bond, Christopher Cazenove, Judi Dench, Sebastian Faulks, David Gilmour, Charlie Higson, Jeremy Irons, Lemar, Lee Mead, Roger Moore, Mica Paris, Rosamund Pike, Joely Richardson, Ruby Turner, Toby Stephens, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Harriet Walter as well as appearances by Classic Bond girls.

Singers will be backed by a 60-piece orchestra. A sneak preview of the new film "Quantum of Solace" will also be part of the starry evening.

Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was born May 28, 1908. Ian Fleming wrote 14 Bond books: "Casino Royale" (1953); "Live and Let Die" (1954); "Moonraker" (1955); "Diamonds Are Forever" (1956); "From Russia with Love" (1957); "Dr. No" (1958); "Goldfinger" (1959); "For your Eyes Only" (1960); "Thunderball" (1961); "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1962); "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1963); "You Only Live Twice" (1964); "The Man With The Golden Gun" (1965) and "Octopussy and the Living Daylights" (1966). He also penned the children's favorite, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

London Palladium is located at Argyll Street in London. For tickets, which begin at £25, call 0844 4124657 or visit www.seetickets.com.

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Lucy Fleming
Joanna Lumley
Stephen Fry
Toby Stephens (Bond)
Jeremy Irons (Fleming)
Beverley Knight (sung Licence To Kill & Nobody Does it Better)
Tony Hadley (singing Thunderball and Live and Let Die)
Issy Van Randwyck and Kit Hesketh-Harvey (singing 'Don't Lets Be Beastly to the Germans')
Laura Michelle Kelly (singing 'the Man With The Golden Gun')
Samantha Bond
Sharon D Clarke (singing 'For Your Eyes Only')
Rory Kinnear
Lesley Manville
Brian Conely with Jo Gibb (singing 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and 'Hushabye Mountain')
Ruby Turner (singing 'Goldfinger')
Video messages from Sir Paul McCartney and Duran Duran
Mica Paris (singing 'Diamonds are Forever')
Pan Pioneer Steel Band
Simon Williams
Christopher Cazenove
Julian Glover
Nicky Henson
Charlie Higson
Harriet Walter
Lee Mead (singing 'From Russia With Love')
Joely Richardson
Sebastian Faulks
Gemma Arterton
Lemar (singing 'We Have All the Time In the World')
Rosamund Pike
Sir Roger Moore
Shirley Eaton
Tania Mallett
Mayam D'Abo
Madeleine Smith
Zena Marshall
Caroline Munro
Eunice Gayson
Daniel Craig

А мне Тоби показался там на себя не похожим. Может просто такие фотографии. Какой-то он отекший. Или я привыкла видеть его улыбающимся.

The James Clayton column: “Bond, Ginger Bond...”

Change is a dirty word in the world of 007 - could we ever see a more radical look for Britain's most famous secret agent?

How do you like your 007? Suave and Scottish like Sean Connery? Lighter-haired and light-hearted like Roger Moore? Welsh and serious like Timothy Dalton? How about ginger?

There’s a thought that may leave you both shaken and stirred, which to be honest isn’t fair on redheads. Shame on you for your disgusting negative attitude towards the orange-tops! Sadly though, those with gingery bits atop their bonce are mostly either the subject of ridicule, scorn or suspicion by the mass populace. Even if a red-headed actor, acclaimed as the finest screen performer of his generation, rose to take the Walther PPK and reaped the plaudits as the perfect 007, people wouldn’t be able to refer to him as “the ginger James Bond”. It just sounds wrong. The entire cinemagoing audience would re-enact the Emperor’s New Clothes and just ignore the flaming tufty bits that lay above their screen idol’s forehead.

Bond villain of Die Another Day, Toby Stephens, is well aware of this. Perhaps slightly bitter but acceptant that he could never be the main man in lieu of his hair colour, the actor raises a particularly interesting point in an interview printed in this week’s Radio Times magazine. When questioned if he’d make a better 007 than Daniel Craig, Stephens not only praises the “brilliant” incumbent 00-agent, but remarks “they made a big enough fuss about Daniel being blond; can you imagine if he was a redhead? It would be major insurrection!”

Trust the guy who, in Gustav Graves, played a baddie who was actually a North Korean general going through an extreme metamorphic DNA replacement process to bring appearance issues to the fore, but Stephens has a point. People have a fixed perception of what constitutes James Bond - and it’s usually tall, dark and British as set in stone from the get go of Dr. No by Sean Connery. George Lazenby sits uneasily as an Australian one-off and I’d say it’s likely that there are fans out there still having difficulty coming to terms with Craig’s fair-haired facade. The 007 persona is pretty much entrenched in the popular mindset, and change is a dirty, disconcerting word.

Taking things a few steps further, I’d say that this stiff mindset is just one aspect of what is ultimately a very traditional entity. The franchise may have progressed since Judi Dench’s more maternal M took the MI6 hotseat and branded Bond “a misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War” but there’s no denying that the 007 series can be critiqued as highly conservative. You pretty much know what you’re going to get with a Bond flick. The formula runs as follows: there’s a megalomaniac villain with some kind of physical infirmity or ridiculous foreign accent; there’s a bevy of Bond girls, one of whom Bond will finish the film with; there’s an array of odd henchmen who will be duly dispatched by 007 with a droll quip. There will also of course be much in the way of globetrotting glamour, groovy gadgets, swish secret lairs, thrilling vehicle chases and flirting with Moneypenny; all presented with typically-British wit and washed down with a Martini Vodka.

I wouldn’t go as far as to label it “dumb” (because that’d be incorrect and abhorrent to my fanboy mind) but James Bond films aren’t exactly highfalutin, high-brow material. Analytically delve a little deeper into the franchise however and unsettling ideological aspects emerge. Bond is basically an unquestioning puppet for Her Majesty’s government who goes about inhumanely killing and committing acts of subterfuge to keep “The Man” and the powers of the Western world in place. Superspy and saviour of the world from warped individuals with evil schemes or an alcoholic, ethics-free sexist jobsworth who sucks up to the state and does its dirty work in exchange for an extravagant expenses account?

It’s probably futile to start applying politics to James Bond and instead we’re better off rolling with the punches, playing along in the high-octane exotic espionage adventures and accepting the escapist über-masculine cocktails of guns, girls and gadgets. There’s fun in the formula, just as long as it doesn’t strangle the series’ development and it will be interesting to see how it sticks in the future.

Daniel Craig’s casting and the carefully considered reboot contained in Casino Royale and the subsequent Quantum of Solace have given a flagging franchise a kick up the backside and saved it from stagnation. Things are fine for the moment, but what about in five or ten years’ time? Our man Stephens (we’re looking to him as a wise auburn-locked expert here. And why not? How else are redheads going to get respect?) theorises that “The Bourne Supremacy changed the dynamic... so Bond needed something more visceral”. What’s to say that after a while there’s a bold seachange and seismic innovation in action cinema that once again renders the 007 series a bit stodgy, stale and out-of-step?

Daniel Craig’s arrival as 007 was stylistically and tonally marked with a back-to-basics gritty vigour that dusted off some of the traditional elements and wore the 21st century, post-Bourne blockbuster attitude on its sleeve. There’s still that still that Bond-ness at the core though, and if it was challenged again, would the 007 brand adapt even further and cast off even more recognisable convention? Q branch has been ditched it seems, 007 will apparently decline to deliver his customary “Bond, James Bond” introductory catchphrase and he’s being played by a blonde. In light of this, it’s worth wondering just how radical reinventions and reforms of the 007 cycle could be should the need to change once again become critical. Is it inconceivable that a redhead could one day rise to claim the role? If the USA could feasibly have a black president, could the movies give us a black Bond? Is it possible that 007 could have a sensual experience with someone of the same sex and provide a bisexual Bond moment? Deep breath traditionalists: may we one day actually be watching Jane Bond, 007?

В первом выделенном абзаце говорится, что Тоби дал интервью журналу Radio Times, где на вопрос - мог бы он стать лучшим Бондом, чем Дэниэл Крэйг ответил, что Дэниэл Крэйг прекрасно справляется с ролью и если уж столько шуму было поднято из-за светлых волос Крэйга, то тяжело представить, что бы устроили критики, увидев рыжеволосого Бонда!

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