Has Success Spoiled James Bond?
Things change. If the calendar didn't tell us we're safely into the seventies, the systematic crumbling of our sixties" idols would. The Kennedys are gone, no longer the national force they once were; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and any number of others are gone, their albums now serving as a dim reminder of a glory that was once supposed to have been; even blacks are, well if not exactly gone, at least no longer the angry, Chic force they were once perceived to be.
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Has Success Spoiled James Bond?
John Kane
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Things change. If the calendar didn't tell us we're safely into the seventies, the systematic crumbling of our sixties" idols would. The Kennedys are gone, no longer the national force they once were; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and any number of others are gone, their albums now serving as a dim reminder of a glory that was once supposed to have been; even blacks are, well if not exactly gone, at least no longer the angry, Chic force they were once perceived to be.
James Bond, almost alone of all the idols of the sixties, survives. Double-oseven, the suave spy in a velvet smoking jacket who came in from the cold war, is still big boxoffice. There have been seven Bond films to date; the eighth, The Man With the Golden Gun, has just gone into release. Like its predecessors, it's expected to be a blockbuster. Note
that I said blockbuster. The Bond films don't merely turn a profit^ for more than a decade now they have consistently been among the year's top grossing films.