I am a big fan of action movies and I really enjoyed the last couple of Bond Films. Quantum of Solace in particular was very good and had excellent cinematography to keep up with the pace. I taught Daniel Craig everything he knows!
Sir Sean Connery skyrocketed to international fame as Secret Agent 007 in six of Ian Fleming's Bond movies: Dr. No, Goldfinger, From Russia, With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, and Diamonds are Forever. Other film credits include: Murder on the Orient Express, The Man Who Would Be King, Robin and Marian, Outland, Never Say Never Again, The Hunt for Red October, Rising Sun, Dragonheart, Just Cause, The Rock, Entrapment, Finding Forrester, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Spoofing the Spy
Randi Zuckerberg works in marketing at Facebook, where she leads the company’s election strategy and has pioneered several large media partnerships. Included in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2008 Digital Power List, she is also a founder of The Dot Comix, an online video troupe that creates satirical videos about technology and geek culture.
As Quantum of Solace hits theaters, Bond parodies are flooding YouTube. Randi Zuckerberg picks her top five.
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Matthew Oshinsky is a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn.
In Quantum of Solace, due out in two weeks, 007 is more interested in emotional brooding than chasing babes.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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