Here's something different to end the week. This is me NOT talking about Houdini! That's because I was a guest on the To Live and Let Die in L.A. James Bond podcast with Steve Kilcullen and Neil McNally. You may know Neil from the excellent Doug Henning Project website. But this one is all about Bond, James Bond.
By the way, in the story I tell about attending The Living Daylights premiere in London, what I didn't mention was that the theater, the Odeon in Leicester Square, was once the Alhambra, where Houdini had his breakout success in 1900. See, I brought it back to Harry!
Check out Steve and Neil's To Live and Let Die in L.A. website and Instagram. And if you're in L.A., consider attending one of their screenings at the Culver Theater.
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Here's a somewhat Houdini connection: Timothy Dalton, who played Bond in two films also had a role in the Sam J. Jones Flash Gordon movie. In a scene Dalton and Jones were both shackled in a dungeon, and Dalton says to Flash: "Tell me more about this Houdini fellow."
ReplyDeleteYes, and he's saying it to Topol, who was in For Your Eyes Only.
DeleteThanks for the reminder. I added a pic above.
Your welcome! You got it! I misremembered it as Flash in the dungeon with him.
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