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[Qwerty]

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[The Richmond Spy]

Volpe by a mile. Even her death is better than Blush's.

[Qwerty]

Volpe by a mile. Even her death is better than Blush's.

I thought they both had terrific exits from each film.

[RJJB]

Fatima Blush is the $10 hooker you settle for when you can't get anywhere with Fiona Volpe.

[Bon-san]

Well, I think Fiona Volpe is cooler, sexier, more crafty, and more cunning. But the term wicked witch seems to me to apply more to Fatima Blush.

So I didn't vote.

[Scottlee]

I voted for Fatima, but TB is a far superior film. It's actually a shame Fatima Blush had to be in NSNA and not one of the EON ones.

[Double-Oh Agent]

This is a tough one. I like them both almost equally but I suppose I like Luciana Paluzzi's Fiona Volpe just a tad more. However, the question is about who's the true wicked witch and on that score, I would give a slight edge to Barbara Carrera's Fatima Blush.

In short, Volpe is a bitch while Carrera is a witch.

[Forward Look]

There's no contest. Fatima Blush is more wicked than Fiona Volpe as demonstrated by:

• Her assault of Jack Patachi for smoking and her administration of heroin injections.
• Throwing a live boa constrictor into a moving vehicle to distract Jack Patachi.
• Leaving the Monte Carlo casino singing with delight when she was ordered to kill Bond.
• Drowning Nicole in the water bed.
• Attaching the radio transmitter to Bond's scuba tank so that the tiger sharks would attack him.
• Requiring Bond to write an endorsement of Fatima's sexual prowess at gun point.
• All that remained of her when she was shot with the pen gun was a pair of high heels similar to the ruby slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz.

Fiona Volpe just seems like a who orders her henchmen to kill Bond.

Well, actually both of them are ordering their henchmen around, including orders to kill Bond. Their styles, however, are different. Fiona is more smooth and subtle than Fatima, whereas Fatima is more maniacal and OTT crazy. Fiona's demise, however, is far better and much more creative. She gets killed off accidentally by her own henchmen, when Bond whirls her around at the Kiss Kiss Club to receive a bullet intended for him. This scene provides one of Sean's best quotes in the Bond series...and my sig line.

[stamper]

It's Fiona because she is a 100 on the shagameter

Fatima Blush scores about a 65, she is more efficient talking and gesticulating than making love.

Do you guys know that Lucianna Paluzzi husband saw her for the first time in Thunderball on screen ? He got such a blast watching her on screen, he tried to locate her for 10 years unsuccesfully (hey, there was no internet to know where a star was back then). When he finally got to meet her, he seduced her and they got married.

This bring a smile to me and hope to all of us fanboys who get fixations on movie stars : it can be done !