[AS PUBLISHED IN MALAY MAIL AFTERNOON]
REAL SECRET AGENT
By Jordan Barnes
LET’S go back to 1973, when ABBA, Queen and AC/DC were all starting out, while United States soldiers withdrew from Vietnam.
It was a time when flowery peace symbols were out, and bell bottoms, platform shoes and disco were all the rage. People were lining up and dancing on television for primetime entertainment.
It was also the year of Live and Let Die… but before a “best James Bond ever” debate explodes, a moment of appreciation, please, as we’re referring to the theme tune.
With the change of times, Paul McCartney’s Wings delivered a pulse-raiser. A rock thriller, really. Its intro a little Beatles-y, but surely adds some drama as the song builds and eventually rips into an orchestral break that will blow your socks off.
Best Bond theme ever? Well, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No.2, runner-up to Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger.
Now, back to Live and Let Die, which was Roger Moore’s debut assignment as 007, alongside Jane Seymour as Kananga’s psychic Solitaire.
Off the set, there were apparently some equally mystical powers at work — as Moore claimed to have had inside knowledge on the assassination of John F Kennedy!
In a journal the British actor wrote during filming, he penned a number of bizarre anecdotes authored with the same wit and charm shown on screen.
Among them an excerpt revealed on birthmoviesdeath.com which indicates Moore was privy to same intel as the CIA.
“The rest of the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way,” he begins.
“Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of New Orleans, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film.
“I’m not at liberty to disclose what I saw but it left no doubt (Lee Harvey) Oswald didn’t fire the fatal shot.
“Garrison’s assertion is Oswald wasn’t acting alone but as part of a CIA conspiracy. Interesting conclusion to 007’s five weeks in Louisiana,” he wrote.
“Interesting” is putting it lightly.
Was Moore leading a double life as actor and secret agent?
Now the world wonders if he has taken any “Moore” classified information to grave.
REAL SECRET AGENT
By Jordan Barnes
LET’S go back to 1973, when ABBA, Queen and AC/DC were all starting out, while United States soldiers withdrew from Vietnam.
It was a time when flowery peace symbols were out, and bell bottoms, platform shoes and disco were all the rage. People were lining up and dancing on television for primetime entertainment.
It was also the year of Live and Let Die… but before a “best James Bond ever” debate explodes, a moment of appreciation, please, as we’re referring to the theme tune.
With the change of times, Paul McCartney’s Wings delivered a pulse-raiser. A rock thriller, really. Its intro a little Beatles-y, but surely adds some drama as the song builds and eventually rips into an orchestral break that will blow your socks off.
Best Bond theme ever? Well, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No.2, runner-up to Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger.
Now, back to Live and Let Die, which was Roger Moore’s debut assignment as 007, alongside Jane Seymour as Kananga’s psychic Solitaire.
Off the set, there were apparently some equally mystical powers at work — as Moore claimed to have had inside knowledge on the assassination of John F Kennedy!
In a journal the British actor wrote during filming, he penned a number of bizarre anecdotes authored with the same wit and charm shown on screen.
Among them an excerpt revealed on birthmoviesdeath.com which indicates Moore was privy to same intel as the CIA.
“The rest of the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way,” he begins.
“Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of New Orleans, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film.
“I’m not at liberty to disclose what I saw but it left no doubt (Lee Harvey) Oswald didn’t fire the fatal shot.
“Garrison’s assertion is Oswald wasn’t acting alone but as part of a CIA conspiracy. Interesting conclusion to 007’s five weeks in Louisiana,” he wrote.
“Interesting” is putting it lightly.
Was Moore leading a double life as actor and secret agent?
Now the world wonders if he has taken any “Moore” classified information to grave.
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