Robert Sellers interview about When Harry Met Cubby

http://bit.ly/2WDrihO

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https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/robert-sellers-talks-about-his-broccoli-saltzman-book/

I'M SO EXCITED! Book of the year for me easily.

Currently reading Some Kind of Hero and the best part has been the detailing of the partnership and how it broke down. The biggest bombshell was the confirming that the alternating started on YOLT and not LALD.

Harry's contribution is so undervalued. Every time I say Broccoli and Saltzman anywhere I usually get some questions over who I'm talking about. I think that when it all broke apart the films lost that magic spark he had. 999 ideas of which 950 were bad, but then those few gems no one else could come up with. I don't think he was the easiest person to deal with and was like oil to Cubby's water-but the combination of these completely differing people with surprisingly similar ideas is what made the series come to life. The continual writing Harry out of the history really bothers me whether intended or not.

Interesting read, thanks NP! Great title for the book. Battle for Bond was such an engrossing read so I'm sure Sellers' new book will be in the same vein.

Ah you ended up getting SKOH! Some of Saltzman's ideas were bizarre, but when he was on, he was brilliant.

The new book is already in my wishlist for it's eventual publication release date.

I can't get through SKOH fast enough. I've only had time to slow myself down and do a chapter at a time to digest it all properly. Some is replicated from the usual sources but the best bits are the unedited/unscrubbed pieces which finally answer some long standing questions for me, chiefly among those being how much did Tom Mankiewicz do on TSWLM and MR.

Some of the info regarding Tom's involvement in MR we discussed here. Feel free to add to if something was missed:

https://bondandbeyond.forumotion.com/t3551-moonraker-in-development

Back to When Harry Met Cubby, it's probably a good thing it won't get released for some time. I have too much reading to get through right now, and I just ordered the Closer Look at AVTAK book you suggested, HGTB.

Good! I think you'll quite enjoy it. It's a nice slim volume that's one of the better critical analysis's I've seen of Bond in print. At first I thought it was a joke since very few outside of here take AVTAK seriously but was beyond overjoyed when I found it to be well reasoned and for a film book inexpensive!