During location filming in Jamaica, Ian Fleming gives Sean Connery some firsthand pointers on his portrayal of James Bond. ... Fleming smoked 70 cigarettes a day and drank like a fish.

007’s iconic name was almost completely different, a new book claims. According to “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” MI6 superspy James Bond was nearly called Rodney. That surprising ...

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States.

According to Nicholas Shakespeare's “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” Fleming worked on the story in the early 1950s, based Lord Ower on his boss, Lord Kemsley, and based Bone upon himself.

According to Nicholas Shakespeare's “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” Fleming worked on the story in the early 1950s, based Lord Ower on his boss, Lord Kemsley, and based Bone upon himself.

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The journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in 1966 to Fleming’s first biographer, John Pearson, had a warning: “Don’t you get destroyed by Bond’s ghost as Ian did by his creation. Remember ...

NEW YORK — “James Bond” creator Ian Fleming didn't need to write about Cold War intrigue to consider the ways people scheme against each other. “The Shameful Dream,” a rare Fleming work ...

According to Nicholas Shakespeare's “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” Fleming worked on the story in the early 1950s, based Lord Ower on his boss, Lord Kemsley, and based Bone upon himself.

NEW YORK — “James Bond” creator Ian Fleming didn't need to write about Cold War intrigue to consider the ways people scheme against each other. “The Shameful Dream,” a rare Fleming work ...