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person is LeChiffre, the terrorists’ banker. Only thing is, he needed to turn a profit on investments left in his care, and made unwise decisions. He had to win it back in a high-stakes poker game to prevent the mysterious head of Quantum, Mr White (Jesper Christensen, right), from becoming upset in
Casino Royale
.
    Mr White and Quantum are also behind Dominic Greene’s (Mathieu Amalric, right) attempts to control water in Bolivia – or at least I think that was the plot – in
Quantum Of Solace
. Mr Greene didn’t survive, but Mr White is still out there. I just hope I don’t bump into him!

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    BOND
    ON
    GIRLS
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    The most iconic of all Bond girl poses – Shirley Eaton was painted gold, head to toe, as the tragic Jill Masterson.

BOND ON GIRLS
    H ow does one describe a ‘Bond girl’? Bond girls are considered to be ‘ubiquitous symbols of glamour and sophistication’, according to Robert A. Caplen in his book
Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond
, that is. Bond girls are certainly bewitching, beguiling and memorable but they are not always necessarily
just
the victims of Bond’s charm: many villainesses, allies and co-workers are given the moniker too, as is my wife Kristina – my favourite Bond girl of all.
    Ursula Andress was voted ‘Best Bond Girl of All Time’ by readers of one national newspaper in 2008. She also received a Golden Globe as ‘New Star of the Year’ for her role in
Dr. No
.
    In Fleming’s books, Bond girls always seemed to be in their mid-twenties, a decade or so younger than Jim, though in
Goldfinger
Fleming wrote that Bond suspected Pussy Galore was in her early thirties. An older woman? Perish that thought!
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE …
    Needless to say, all Bond girls are very beautiful, more often than not sporting a light sun tan, and with their eyes and mouths widely spaced – or so wrote Ian Fleming. Their eyes, by the way, are usually blue, but in
Diamonds Are Forever
Tiffany Case’s are chatoyant – ‘varying with the light from grey to grey-blue’ – while in
Goldfinger
Pussy Galore has deep-violet eyes, the only truly violet eyes Bond had ever seen.
    Eunice Gayson was the very first Bond girl. Her famous red dress was in fact a last-minute change, and as it wasn’t made to measure, she had to use a few strategically placed clothes pegs to hold it together!
    Yes, they all usually have exotic-sounding names too. In addition to the aforementioned, we have Suki, Vesper, Honey, Tatiana, Solitaire, Chew Me, Bibi, Octopussy, Mayday, Kara, Lupe, Paris and Elektra. Suggestive, sexy and very, very Bondian.
    Fleming indicated that most of the Bond girls were sexually experienced by the time they met 007, which is probably just as well. However, not all of their experiences had been positive, with histories of sexual violence often a contributory factor in alienating them from men – until Jim arrived on the scene. Jim, meanwhile, I should add, lost his virginity on his first visit to Paris when he was sweet sixteen.
    Though this darker backcloth to the characters is largely absent from the films, many Bond girls do face some abuse on screen – Domino (Claudine Auger) at the hands of Largo’s cigarette and ice in
Thunderball
; Andrea Anders (Maud Adams) in
The Man With The Golden Gun
is hurt by the dastardly Francisco Scaramanga; Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto) in
Licence To Kill
is whipped by Franz Sanchez … perhaps these events were behind their determination to resist Bond at first?
    But Jimmy’s charms win through … even in the case of lesbian Pussy Galore when, in bed, Bond says, ‘They told me you only liked women,’ and she tellingly replies it was because ‘I never met a man before.’
    You have to laugh. To think Bond could turn a gay woman is quite comical. But then again, Judi Dench’s M did describe Jim as being ‘a sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War…’ in
GoldenEye
, so he’d probably like to