Tuesday's Quote of the Day
09:15 UK time, Tuesday, 17 August 2010
"You felt he would have gone through the same antics for any country really, if the girls had been so pretty and the Martinis so dry" - Author John le Carre's opinion of Britain's favourite fictional spy, James Bond.
Le Carre, who created his own rather less glamorous spook in the form of George Smiley, says he views 007 more kindly than he did when he was younger. In a 1966 interview with Malcolm Muggeridge, discovered in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ archive and to be rebroadcast on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four next week, he had described 007 as "some kind of international gangster". However, he still believes there was something "neo-fascistic and totally materialistic" about Bond.
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