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Also, Fleming actually offered Lee the role of Dr. No, to which the latter accepted… only Broccoli and Saltzman had already cast Joseph Wiseman and didn’t bother to tel him 😬.

Also, to go with the Simpsons theme and be an extra annoying Comic Book Guy, you put up a picture of Charles Gray’s Blofled under Trump, but I think he’s closer to Christoph Waltz’ version: a guy who causes a tremendous amount of death and damage, is driven by personal grievance based on daddy issues, the leader of what is really just an international but ordinary criminal racket, and ultimately a fucking moron pretending to be brilliant.

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