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Who is Lana Wood?

Lana Wood is an actress known for her role as Sandy Webber on the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1964) and as Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). She also appeared in films such as The Searchers (1956) and Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972). Later in her career, she worked as a producer.

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Joanna Pettet, Actress in ‘The Group’ and ‘Casino Royale,’ Dies at 83

Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress who played one of the eight Vassar graduates in Sidney Lumet’s The Group and a spy put to work by her father, David Niven’s James Bond, in Casino Royale, has died. She was 83. Pettet died Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, her friend and former manager Pam DuBois told The Hollywood Reporter. Her death came exactly 31 years after her son, Damien Cord, whom she had with actor Alex Cord, died at age 26 in 1995 of a heroin overdose. Pettet also fell for Tom Courtenay’s German officer in Anatole Litvak’s The Night of the Generals (1967); portrayed the wife of Stanley Baker’s crook in Peter Yates’ crime caper Robbery (1967); and was the spirited love interest of Terence Stamp‘s bandit in Blue (1968). She began her film career after acting in three Broadway comedies in the early 1960s. On television, Pettet turned up

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Callum Turner emerges as new surprise frontrunner to replace Daniel Craig as next James Bond

Callum Turner has emerged as a surprise frontrunner to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond.The actor known for his role in Fantastic Beasts, now sits just behind long-time favourite for the role Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 34, whose odds stand at 8/11. Bookmakers slashed odds on 35-year-old Callum taking the 007 role following a surge of weekend bets.Henry Cavill, 41, and Theo James, 40, remain in contention, but Coral bookmakers confirmed Callum’s odds have shortened significantly in recent days.John Hill, a spokesperson for Coral, said: “Callum Turner has been extremely popular in our James Bond betting over the weekend, forcing us to slash his odds to replace Daniel Craig. “With Turner being backed,

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The James Bond Franchise Has a Major Problem And Its Time for It To Die

If the James Bond films have proven anything, it's that they are impervious to change until they have to. For example, sexist, double entendre Bond girl names like Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles), and Plenty O'Toole, died after Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) in The World is Not Enough, with the series at last acknowledging that the time had long passed for the names to go. But one tenacious trend that continues to plague the franchise, right up to Daniel Craig's final act in No Time to Die, is the antagonist with a defining physical trait that's meant to contribute to their intimidation. You know. Eye patches. Prosthetic metal hands. Metallic teeth. An eye that weeps blood. And scars. So many scars of all shapes and sizes, some even diamond-encrusted. The trope is so familiar that Mike Myers' spot-on spoof of the Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,

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The Searchers Ending Explained: Wandering Forever Between The Winds

John Wayne starred in dozens of Westerns during his lengthy career, but he very rarely played the bad guy. One of his darkest roles came in "The Searchers," his 14th and greatest collaboration with John Ford, the director who helped the Hollywood icon make his name in "Stagecoach." It was a film that inverted Wayne's heroic screen persona by casting him as Ethan Edwards, a bitterly racist former soldier who spends many years on an obsessive quest to track down his niece after she is abducted by Comanches. For a director-star combo that had often portrayed Native Americans as a faceless marauding horde in many of their earlier pictures, "The Searchers" is a soulful and sometimes awkward attempt to reckon with that past and, in turn, America's legacy of genocide and Manifest Destiny. While its comedic moments seem to belong to another film and its use of Redface is cringe-inducing,

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The Original Ending Of Diamonds Are Forever Was A Little Too 'S&m' For British Censors

When Sean Connery returned to the James Bond films after skipping out on "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (which is a great movie but seen as lesser at the time), anticipation was high. In 1971, Connery was Bond. George Lazenby was some pretender. There wasn't a tradition of handing over the character to a new actor yet. This was his grand return, and the film's creatives needed to get it right. They even brought back "Goldfinger" director Guy Hamilton to call the shots. On a financial level, everyone was happy. "Diamonds Are Forever" was the third-highest grossing film at the domestic box office in 1971. On an artistic level ... it's one of the worst films in the series. Connery is clearly only in it for the paycheck, the story is weirdly low-stakes and silly, and the Las Vegas setting feels chintzy. The film does have two major bright spots though. First, there's

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Joan Collins Says She Was Drugged and Date-Raped by Her First Husband

Joan Collins spoke out for the first time about abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her first husband, Maxwell Reed, including being raped on their first date. The 88-year-old British actress discussed the alleged assault in a BBC documentary that aired on Saturday night in the U.K., saying that Reed spiked her drink while she visited his home. Collins was just 17 at the time; Reed was 31. “The next thing I knew I was flat out on the sofa and he was raping me. In those days, my mother would have said I was taken advantage of,” Collins said. “Now, we call it date rape.” #newdocumentary #thisisjoancollins @bbctwo #newyearday 9pm

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