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AUCTION OF JAMES BOND'S ASTON MARTIN DB5 GADGETS RAISES QUESTIONS

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2008-03-14 17:41:13 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...gadgets designed to replicate those seen in the film. Ultimately, this car ended up in the possession of Anthony Pugliese, who had the car displayed at international auto shows - until it inexplicably went missing in 1997, resulting in an insurance payment of over $3 million Mr. Pugliese maintains he stripped the car of the gadgets prior to...
 
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J.J. Abrams And Star Trek Writers Reveal Film Has All The Gadgets You Could Want

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2008-09-02 16:14:44 by Jennifer Vineyard in MTV Movies Blog
...gadgets arent. We intentionally dont talk too much about the story, said producer Bryan Burk, but theres all the gadgets you could want. No replicators, since they originated in Next Generation, but theres warp speed and transporter beams and tricorders and communicators and everything you could want. All the gadgets Its one thing in Star...
 
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2009-01-06 23:50:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...gadgets and inner-workings. I repeat: I would have loved this book as a kid! ( The James Bond Fact File came close back in those daysbut not in such style.) Some of the cutaways require creative extrapolation from what we actually see in the movies. For example, the book details the components of Dr. Nos prosthetic hands and reveals the...
 
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2007-12-17 00:49:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...gadgets go a long way toward keeping one spur-heeled foot distinctly in the realm of espionage. Hes still outfitted with a quick-loading rig up his sleeve that surreptitiously delivers a Derringer into his hand at the twist of a wrist. This season, the tiny pistol has been modified to accommodate a Batman-like piton trailing some lightweight...
 
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Spy Hunter Sidetracked

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2008-08-18 13:18:36 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...gadgets. You never saw the driver. Arcade games in the 80s were never that elaborate. You drove and shot at badguys who tried to run you off the road. Occassionally you would get an upgrade and could do things like dropping oil slicks or smoke screens. Other than that you had the guns that shot out the front. Oh, and just for some variety the...
 
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2007-11-27 20:03:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...gadgets to rely on! Just like those Steranko Fury stories. Unfortunately, that promising concept is immediately abandoned. Its made clear from the outset that Starks Iron Man armor is hovering in low orbit, just a cell phone call away if he needs it. And as soon as he gets into trouble, hes immediately tempted to summon it rather than...
 
Tags: spy, spy genre, gadgets, love spy gadgets, bond films, spy yarn, writer chip mosher, writer, sixties bond films
 
 
 
 
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Christmas Shopping? Have A Very Muir Christmas

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2007-12-17 07:46:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...gadgets, origins and super powers."-Lou Gaul, The Burlington County Times , March 4, 2004, page C1-C2 FOUR STARS/OUT OF FOUR)...The book opens with a succinct history of the subgenre, and notes how various eras have presented comic book figures, on home and cinema screens, from the straight-faced gung-ho action of postwar America through a...
 
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2008-02-21 22:52:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...gadgets. Proving just how mundane and commonplace gadgets have become since 007's inception, these new toys include a lot of faux cell phones, good for "sending messages between the devices" and "sending MP3 audio tracks." Yawn! The 21st Century version of Bond's classic attache case contains a "removable LED flashlight" and "secure...
 
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Chris Nolan Promises More Batman Escalation

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2008-03-18 13:31:43 by Larry Carroll in MTV Movies Blog
...gadgets and things, director Chris Nolan explained. The Bat Pod [motorcycle] being the largest of them, the most apparent. He also has this very cool sticky bomb gun that fires mines with timers on them, that he uses to set off explosions in sequence, and it folds up in this very peculiar manner and fits on the belt The utility belt is one of...
 
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CULT TV FLASHBACK # 52: Batman "Hot off the Griddle"/"Cat on the Fiddle" (1966-1967)