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[MajorB]

Good one, but not what I was thinking. Hint: special place.

[glidrose]

Something to do with the M briefing scene?

[MajorB]

Yes. Go on, Mr. Bond.

[glidrose]

I believe the only time Bond goes in M's office is OHMSS. All the other films it's somewhere else: sub, Bond's tacky flat, M's car, Hemingway House, etc.

[MajorB]

Correct! Well done! Carry on!

[glidrose]

Octopussy, Licence to Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Casino Royale.

Hint: The answer is within the first five to ten (or so) minutes.

[Call Billy Bob]

Casino Royale's PTS doesn't involve any sort of air travel (plane, helicopter, parachute, etc)?

[glidrose]

Nope.

[glidrose]

Okay, here's another clue. Don't even try guessing this if you're tone deaf.

[Call Billy Bob]

Is it title song related? Casino Royale's is the only one in the group sung by a male?

[glidrose]

Good guess, but no.

 

Another clue: mode.

 

Yet another clue: Roman Polanski would have really liked this one circa 1977.

[MajorB]

Casino Royale is the only one of the title themes in a minor key?

[glidrose]

Hats off to MajorB. He got it.

[MajorB]

Excellent! Let's see . . .

 

Trevor Howard, Roger Moore, Patrick McGoohan, David Niven, Cary Grant.

[MajorB]

Here's a clue: myth versus reality.

[glidrose]

Trevor Howard the only one never asked to play Bond?

[MajorB]

Very very close.

[glidrose]

Roger Moore was never approached for DN?

[MajorB]

Correct!! Not approached or even considered, apparently. That seems to have been some retconning by Cubby et al.

 

You score, glidrose! Your turn!

[glidrose]

Ian Fleming, Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Pearson, John Gardner, William Boyd.

 

Hint: CR'06 title song. Do we?

[Call Billy Bob]

Kingsley Amis was never "actually" credited for writing anything Bond related ("Robert Markham", however, was)

[glidrose]

Good, but not what I was looking for.

 

Hint: consider the author's entire known output. Bond and non-Bond.

 

Another hint: I'm stretching things a bit by including Fleming's own journalism.

 

Yet another hint: If we exclude Fleming's journalism, then he's one of two people in the list who are "odd ones out".

[glidrose]

Another clue. Let's say you want to read the collected works of each author. And you happen to be in a multi-story public library that has every book, every newspaper column ever published. Which of the authors requires the least amount of traveling?