The name of 007’s creator has migrated to the Ian Fleming International Airport 10 minutes down the road. Now Goldeneye has expanded to become a luxury resort. Kennedy, who watched From Russia With Love at a private screening in the White House, weeks before his assassination. One of his biggest fans was President John F. And in a barely post-colonial world, where privilege was still synonymous with pleasure, Bond offered a risqué escape from the Cold War. Ogling was just a heightened form of espionage.

And the beach is where the first actor to play Bond spied the first Bond girl, as Sean Connery poked his head through the bushes and watched Ursula Andress emerge from the sea in a white bikini, a knife slung from her waist, singing the calypso strains of Under the Mango Tree. No in 1958, and another 11 novels that would turn 007 into a magic number. That three-bedroom bungalow is where Ian Fleming wrote Dr. He was born in Jamaica, in a house named Goldeneye on a cliff overlooking a bucolic private beach. This story originally published in print in February 2020.īond.

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