This Week At Dontmindme.com — June 17, 2001

A new week, a new site name, and a new theme. Since it appears that CTV is going to be doing a Friday evening 007 movie theme all summer — they're going to be showing 11 Bond movies, starting this Friday with Dr. No, and running until the end of August, it seems appropriate that I have a James Bond theme week. I also have a related feature or two planned to go along with this theme.

Song of the Week: There are a lot of great 007 theme songs, but I'm going to have to go with my favourite, which is Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" from of course the movie of the same name. It might be one of the lesser Bond films, but as is the case with many Bond movies, the bad movies have some the best songs. (Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" comes to mind from a similar situation, but that's another song for another week.)

Links of the Week: The Random James Bond quote generator. When you just need a random 007 quote, this site will provide one. Alas, it doesn't say which movie a particular quote is from. Oh well.

Fun Fact of the Week: Most people immediately associate James Bond with Sean Connery (well, apart from the people that are too young to remember the older 007 flicks) but it may come as a surprise that the first choice to play Bond was Roger Moore, who was contractually bound to his television role on The Saint, and so didn't portray Bond until 1973 in Live and Let Die.

DVD of the Week: Unfortunately I only own one Bond DVD, so I'm going to have to make that the DVD of the Week. I own several of the movies on VHS, but every DVD of the week so far has been a disc that I own, and I don't want to break that trend. So the disc this week is The World is Not Enough. There are a few cool features on this disc, including two audio commentaries, a music video for the theme song, and a "making-of" documentary. It might not be one of the best Bond films, but it is a worthy addition to your DVD collection.