
"Diamonds Are Forever" Estate Available 4 Vacation
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:19 AM
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:27 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:29 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:30 AM
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:32 AM
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:34 AM
Mmm, yes.Ummm... would you settle for a tulip?
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:36 AM
Wade... I like your thinking. It would be great if one could get a bunch of people interested in this. But how many people would one have to get to cut that pri$e down, eh? Would be QUITE cool... a Bond SleepoverIf we could organize Bond fans around the country, and they could each chip in a bit, and the management company could, maybe, do us a deal, we could put together a two-day DAF extravaganza, including a showing of the film on a BIG-SCREEN television. I'm incredbiyl up for this. Anyone think this is a great idea?

#8
Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:38 AM
We need to talk to Matt.

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:42 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 06:42 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 07:27 AM

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Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:09 PM
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 09:30 PM
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Posted 23 March 2004 - 10:15 PM


You know... the main room with the retracting ceiling is just cool. I mean what a great atmosphere!

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 06:55 PM
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Posted 24 March 2004 - 07:52 PM
We may disagree about Brosnan... but I do think we see eye to eye on DAFNice house, shame about the film.

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 08:31 PM

I've just always thought it a neat little place in the film!
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Posted 24 March 2004 - 08:33 PM
To be fair, that house scene is one of the highlights of the film. I bet Sensualist likes Bambi and Thumper - very, very kinky indeed!Oh, c'mon, that house, for the few minutes it was in Diamonds Are Forever, rocked! And the film itslef is rather good.
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I've just always thought it a neat little place in the film!

Hmmm.... actually, I'm now in the mood to give my DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER DVD another spin. Later.

#19
Posted 24 March 2004 - 08:36 PM
I don't know exactly why, but Diamonds Are Forever has really grown on me since the first time I saw it years ago.
Bambi and Thumper are indeed two girls that can really kick


#20
Posted 24 March 2004 - 10:56 PM
I did, to my huge surprise.LOL! Enjoy!

I've realised I've really underrated DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER all these years. It really is quite terrific fun (although, with my "critical" hat on, I'd still say there's an awful lot wrong with it - for instance, and as weird as this sounds, Connery seems to be trying simultaneously to play Bond in a more serious fashion than usual and a more jokey fashion than usual.... which doesn't quite work).
All the Connery/Jill St John scenes are pure gold - never realised before quite how much chemistry there is between them. Not sexual chemistry, but they seem to play very well together as actors. Also, there are plenty of enormously funny lines (from all and sundry - every man and his dog gets at least one funny line in this film), and lovely moments - hey, can you really dislike a movie in which 007 strikes up a polite conversation with a rat? (I also love the shot of Wint and Kint driving away from the pipeline, laughing like Beavis and Butt-Head.)
DAF is great to look at, too, but what truly makes the picture is Barry's gorgeous score.
Like I say, tremendous fun.


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Posted 25 March 2004 - 02:01 AM

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Posted 25 March 2004 - 04:09 AM
Are the yellow glass flowers on the ceiling in the kitchen by glass artist Dale Chihuly?
#23
Posted 25 March 2004 - 08:54 AM
Very pleased to hear it Loomster. Leave the critical hat on the hat stand and enjoy Diamonds Are Forever for the splendid piece of cinema that it is.I think I've become a DAF convert (which I'm sure Freemo will be pleased to read).
#24
Posted 04 April 2004 - 10:16 PM
I was born in Palm Springs in 1975, and the Whyte, Thumper, Bambi house was open in the early and late seventies for tourism in which my parents took me to see on a couple of occasions when I was around 2, 3, and 4 years of age. They visited the house even before I was born, so this is nothing new Athena. I guess it reopened after many years of being closed to the public.Read up about Willard Whyte's prison, protected by Bambi and Thumper... and how you can rent it on your next vacation... Right Here from CBn's Main Page
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Posted 04 April 2004 - 10:22 PM
Actually... what I reported on the house was and is new. The fact that it's for rent -- It's not brand-brand new news, but it is new news. You see, it was open to the pubic as you say and then for a while there it was on the market to be sold, unfortunately (or fortunately, however one sees it) it didn't sell. So now it's out there for vacation rent....so this is nothing new Athena.
it's cool that you got to see it back then though

#26
Posted 04 April 2004 - 10:35 PM
I wanna go see it.

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Posted 05 April 2004 - 01:45 AM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 04:05 AM
(I apologize in advance.)
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 05:50 AM