tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130912260408301801.post5953655209387927565..comments2024-03-14T00:37:09.021-04:00Comments on Life Between Frames: 50 Years of 007 - The Living DaylightsLife Between Frameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18186028067136953502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130912260408301801.post-16703369262216663012012-08-15T22:39:33.542-04:002012-08-15T22:39:33.542-04:00A solid post, but as you say, the movie isn't ...A solid post, but as you say, the movie isn't "one that" you "can talk passionately about," and that comes through a bit. This was my first Bond actor switch (not counting Never Say Never Again) and it was a very exciting few months watching this one be promoted EVERYWHERE. Good Morning America, MTV, and that great TV special Happy Anniversary 007 on ABC, hosted by Roger Moore and featuring a nice chunk of this movie's pre-credits sequence as an introduction to Dalton in the special's closing moments. I still have a VHS tape full of this promo stuff somewhere - I would leave a tape running for six hours, then cull any Bond stuff onto another tape by hooking two VCRs together. Kept me off the streets, anyway. It's weird that I know exactly where I was on August 6, 1986 - I was flying back to southern Illinois from Detroit Michigan - where I'd been visiting a long distance girlfriend. On the puddle jumper plane, I saw a fellow passenger about three rows up reading a copy of USA Today. They got to the purple section D - and there it was - a large, weirdly colored (almost like in crayon) portrait of Timothy Dalton, with a headline like "Dalton chosen as new 007" or something like that. I was nearly foaming at the mouth to SEE THAT PAPER, but much too shy to ask to. When we landed, I rushed into the airport, went past my parents - having been away from them on this trip longer than ever before - and found a USA Today dispenser and bought my own copy. Then I went and hugged my parents. My dad gives me good natured crap about that to this day!<br />I really like this 007 adventure - enjoying it as a change from the previous decade and a half - not that I didn't enjoy those movies too - but it was nice to have some fresh air. Another amusing moment pre-Dalton was when a really goofy looking guy named Finlay Light was briefly mentioned as having signed on as Bond for this movie - he was an Australian fellow with terrible hair who looked like he was about 15. His people worked some magic though - and he got put forth out in the world through some wire services and stuff - and I even had one of the newspaper clippings announcing him tacked up on my wall for a few weeks. Of course, he didn't get the role. Interesting too, that Brenda Starr - the movie that almost didn't let Dalton get the role - was on the shelf for a long time - I saw it on VHS years later. What's weird is the same thing happened to Pierce Brosnan - he had a version of Robinson Crusoe in the can before GoldenEye - and it languished on the shelf for a couple of years before dribbling out on home video. I wonder if EON had anything to do with either of those shelvings...? Makes you wonder. In any case, thanks for a fun article! Cheers!Craig Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06037542638067599437noreply@blogger.com