007/Hawaii Five-O part III (the end, we hope)

OK, we’ve milked this for all it’s worth. But how in heaven’s name could we have forgotten this one?

Harold Sakata 007: Played Oddjob, Goldfinger’s lead henchman in the 1964 movie with the villain’s name as the title (and just to be clear it was called Goldfinger not Oddjob). Five-O: Played a thug in a fifth-season episode called “I’m A Family Crook — Don’t Shoot.” The lead guest star is Andy Griffith who, in effect, plays the dark side of his Andy Taylor character, the father of a family of grifters.

The resemblance to The Andy Griffith Show isn’t a coincidence. The episode was directed by Bob Sweeney, who helmed many of the early Andy Griffith Show episodes. By this time, he was supervising producer on the Five-O series. The script by Jerome Coopersmith combines humor with some very serious violence (which consumes, among others, the Sakata character).

Quentin Tarantino: ‘Daniel Craig shouldn’t be James Bond’

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/189759/quentin-tarantino-daniel-craig-shouldnt-be-james-bond.html

Daniel Craig wouldn’t be playing James Bond — if director Quentin Tarantino had his way.

The eccentric movie maker said he would like to have directed Casino Royale — but with Pierce Brosnan as the suave British spy.

“The reason they did Casino Royale all comes down to me,” Quentin said.

“I made it a point, I said I wanted to do Casino Royale. They were already on record as saying the movie was unfilmable but then after I said it and talked about it for a little bit — then the big thing on all the internets was that that was what all the fans wanted to see and so that’s when they said, ‘Oh, maybe it’s not so un-filmable.’

“Actually if I had done the film, I wouldn’t have done it with Daniel Craig, I would have done it with Pierce Brosnan.”