Perhaps Mrs. 008 and I can make it, seeing as Vegas is her favorite city.
Bryce, can you fill me in on what BCW is and what transpires at DTBB?
Dare To Be Bond left broken hearts and shattered detritus between Glitter Gulch and Baja, California. Think “VIP access at the Playboy Club and caviar stuffed with lobster.”
Bond Collectors’ Weekends' standard operating procedure included collectibles sales and auctions public and private, molecular gastronomy, bull sessions with the stars, and destroying numerous motor vehicles. Think “Climb in the Bathosub and stab someone on Bourbon Street while Vic Flick accompanies you on the guitar.”
Uh, now that I can recall, we had a few Bond actors join the fun on location:
Barbara Bouchet, Miss Moneypenny in Casino Royale
Bernie Casey, Felix Leiter in Never Say Never Again
Bruce Glover, Mr. Wint in Diamonds Are Forever
David Hedison, Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die & License To Kill
Don Stroud, Heller in License To Kill
Geoffrey Holder, Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die
George Lazenby, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Gloria Hendry, Rosie Carver in Live and Let Die
Lana Wood, Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever
Lois Chiles, Dr. Holly Goodhead in Moonraker
Maud Adams, Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy in Octopussy
Max Vesterhalt, Casino Girl in For Your Eyes Only
Richard Kiel, Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me & Moonraker
Tanya Roberts, Stacey Sutton in A View To A Kill
Virginia Hey, Rubavitch in The Living Daylights
and some other equally charming special guests:
Alan Stepheson, Top Vintage OO7 Collector
Bruce Scivally, author, James Bond: The Legacy, producer/writer: The Bond DVD Documentaries
Dan Haggerty, Tomorrow Never Dies and License To Kill Airplane/Photography Manager
Danny Biederman - The Incredible World Of Spy-Fi/Million-dollar OO7 Collector
David Reinhardt - Ian Fleming Foundation VP/Top Book Collector & Dealer
Dean Williams - Pepperfinger, A Pepper For Tomorrow, OO7 DVD Designer
Deborah Lipp - author, The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book
Don McGregor - author, The Quasimodo Gambit, GoldenEye, TND Cards Series
Doug Redenius - Ian Fleming Foundation VP, Million-dollar OO7 Collector
Jeff Marshall - lithographer, The Bond Limited Editions Series
John Cork - author, The Bond Legacy, Bond Girls Are Forever: The Women of James Bond, producer/writer: The Bond DVD Documentaries
John Griswold - author, The Annotated Ian Fleming
Lawrence Keller - producer/director, The Guns Of James Bond
Michael Di Leo - author, The Spy Who Thrilled Us
Paul Kyriazi - author, How To Live The Bond Lifestyle
Paul Meyers - security director/coordinator, License To Kill
Raymond Benson - Ten-Time Bond Novelist/author of The James Bond Bedside Companion
Robert Short - Oscar-winning FX creator, Diamonds Are Forever
Steven Jay Rubin - author, The James Bond Encyclopedia
Timothy Napier-Moxon, Strangways in Dr. No
Tom Mankiewicz - screenwriter, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me
Vic Flick - Bond Signature Theme Guitarist/Lead for seven James Bond Film Scores
Etc. including General Oleg Kalugin of KGB and Chase Brandon of CIA, various henchpersons, Robert Culp, David Carradine, and more...
I'll call them and ask them to join us in Lost Wages, as soon as I find my address book. I think it's buried under my little Octopussy.
Um, what were we talking about?
"Because you can only blot out a 50th Anniversary once."