WHI-TBY FREE PRESS, Thursday, January 27th, 1972, Page 3 FROM A BIRD'S EYE VIEW -by im Quail James Bond...on a Budget A f ter a couple of imitations it was n i c e t o see Sean Connery back in the smasups saddle, so to speak. I saw Connery inThere was some pretty fancy driv- "D i amonds Are Foreverl" which is the ng and the coD s smashed up a lotof fi r st Bon d picture Connery has made cars but it ail seemed very hum-drum since his return to the role. compared ta the earlier pictures. It rnmight be because this picture was fi ltned Forget the plot almostentirely in the United States and I h a ve collected every James Bond ail the actors and actresses were Ar- book that lan Fleming wrote and I shall encan. k e e p t h em and re-read them over the The heavies were so bad they might year s because I find they are wellI wri t- as \,el 1 have been in an episode of "The ten and they keep you keenly interested Untouchables". Therewaseven a char t outbk hacter in the picture who as probably time I went to see a James Bond picture akh onis ery uie newrtHes I was disappointed because the plot did and asovery sc e not even remotely resemble the book. aTo beryI watced Since then I have learned to just go and Foee"atrice ad enaethse en joy the picture as entertainment and ond time 1 felt the whole thing seemed, forget the plot as it was in the book. we 1l just not as exciting as the first So w h e n I w e n t to see "Diamonds dames Bonds. Ar e Forever" I w as just prepared to Having g ai ned international recag- seeanentertaining show. Unfortunately nitionasamoviecritic, now I will offer I didn't. It wasn't particularly good or some suggestions for the next Bond entertaining. . It seemed to me the whole f1ick. picture was on a low budget. F i rst forget these American beaut- ies, they are too nice and toa talented. What happened to the Aston? vubackthose I ovely European girl, ad doIt topat three or four. Gone was the Aston Martin DBS to be Secondly, forget about these cheap replacedby a cheap Ford Mustang fast- Ar e r i c an cars. We can see smashed back. Gonewere those lovely European up yankee cars at any body shop and girls, so lovely to look at in the prev- many times they belong ta us. Give us ious Bond flicks and in their place was those racy European jobs that sound the I ovely Ji 11 St. John. But she was 1 ike Grand Prix specials and corner act ing and that spoiled it somehow. In like a wild hare. the previous pictures the lovel ies didn't We've seen America act much, they were just there to look Ànd finally, forget about Arica. at - and I certainly did. Most of us have seen this great contin- In t h i s p i c ture, Bond only got in- v o 1lv ed wit h three girl s which means WHATINTHEWORLD IS OXFAM? either he is getting too old for this sort Travel Agency? of thing or the picture was on a tighter Baby food? budget.Airine? budget. buDetergent? D u r ing a c h a s e scene through the Devedpment allL th_. Aeactosadacrse wr m s t r e e ts of Las Vegas, it\was obvious t h e c rowd was wai ting for the picture to be filmed because they were alI neatl y I ined upon the sidewalks vvaiting for the cars to race past. en t, and we would like to see more of Eu r o pe and Asia. There is something m y s t e r i o us about crowded European r a i I w ay cars, the East-West German b o r d e r or t h e narrow streets of the Orient. B e s ides a mastermind criminal has more of a chance in Europe anyway be- cause our police are so good over here th e y w oul1 d b e caught immediately. Wouldn't they..?.. "The Trade Pact Blues" Back in nineteen sixty-five, The auto trade pact did arrive. This is it, we ail were told; A real 'bonanza so they said; No more running in the red. Well build autos, thousands more, The U. S. markets at our door. Then came signs of some dissent. The Trade Pact wasn't Heaven sent. Sales were down, production slowed. Many workers hit the road. The layoffs came, some here,some there To Oshawa-Whitby, the lions share. But G.M. said "we'll call you back, The pictures not completely black. We'll call you back (well quite a few); But don't callI us, we'll callI you. " Then Benson said "let's make a deal", If you'll just show me where to kneel. The safeguards bug you? Let them go. We're not all that concerned you know. You want production? You take ours; We can stand some idle hours. .But what about the jobs you say, There'll surely come a better day; But in the meantime, get in line. The Welfare Office starts at nine. 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