Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians by James O'Meara

Author:James O'Meara [O'Meara, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cinema, Film, Spirituality
Publisher: Manticore Press
Published: 2021-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

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209 See especially Jef Costello’s The Importance of James Bond & Other Essays; ed. by Greg Johnson (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017).

210 In the words of the Buddha, Katam karaniyam, “that which has to be done has been done,” a phrase that will acquire pertinacity here soon.

211 Steve McQueen, it’s been said, is the only man who could make wearing a turtleneck look cool; Coburn barely succeeds at that. As for Bond, am I the only one who thinks Daniel Craig, as he emerges from the end of the Casino Royale titles, is channeling McQueen? In fact, according to Wikipedia, “Spy novelist Jeremy Duns revealed that Steve McQueen was considered for the lead role in a film adaptation of The Diamond Smugglers, written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming; McQueen would play John Blaize, a secret agent gone undercover to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling ring in South Africa. There were complications with the project which was eventually shelved, although a 1964 screenplay does exist.”

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