Robert Culp first obit on the “In Memoriam” segment of ABC’s “This Week”

You can view it by clicking CLICKING RIGHT HERE. A few seconds included part of a main titles from I Spy.

45th anniversary of Thunderball — in French!

It’s WAY too early to do serious posts about Thunderball’s 45th anniversary. But here are a few clips from the French version of Thunderball’s trailer.

Ann Baack

To all our visitors, It is with a sad heart that I inform you that Paul Baack’s mother Ann has passed away. She was a delightful and special woman. My deepest and sincerest of condolences to my brother Paul. I am there for you always. Tom Zielinski

1997: a 1960s spy reunion with Culp, Vaughn,Macnee and Bain

The Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder often engaged in “stunt casting,” in which the producers would deliberately cast actors famous for certain roles in the past and put them in a story that evoked their iconic images. In November 1997, CBS aired an episode of the series called “Discards,” which featured the stars of [...]

MGM update: one bidder drops out

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which makes the “Saw” horror film series, has dropped out of the bidding for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., according to Bloomberg.com. MGM controls half of the James Bond franchise, and thus MGM’s fate will determine how quickly, or even if, there will be a Bond 23. According to the Bloomberg story, Time Warner [...]

Why I Spy was a big deal

Robert Culp’s death this week is drawing an attention to a show that debuted 45 years ago this fall. Typically, obituaries for the 79-year-old actor reference him starring in I Spy. It’s not hard to see why. I Spy was a big deal for various reasons. First, and most obviously, it was a ground breaking [...]

I Spy’s Robert Culp dies

Two 1960s spy icon die the same month. Robert Culp, who starred with Bill Cosby on I Spy, died at the age of 79 after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, according to an Associated Press story on the Web site of The New York Times. His death comes just 10 days after the death of [...]

Bond actors trade on their 007 image outside the U.S.

Sean Connery has done a number of advertisements that haven’t been seen in the U.S. but, thanks to You Tube, can be viewed easily. For example, here’s a mid-1990s spot he did for Mazda in Japan: Connery, though, isn’t the only Bond who’s utilized his 007-ish image in ads outside the U.S. Here’s Pierce Brosnan [...]

Sean Connery: “Some age, others mature.”

James Bond, at least in his movie incarnation, is known for drinking vodka Martinis. But this Dewars ad features an older Connery providing a lesson to a young Connery/James Bond:

Salute to Peter Graves

Peter Graves wasn’t the first star of Mission: Impossible. Steven Hill was. But Graves was the actor most identified with the show, the longest-running (seven seasons) of the 1960s TV spy series that got their start because of the James Bond movies. Here’s a typical opening to an M:I episode: It’s from an early second-season [...]