Donate

James Bond

9 Actors of Color Who Could Totally Play James Bond

Arts, Culture & Media

We play casting director for the James Bond franchise and submit a short list of actors of color for your consideration.

Tavi Gevinson + Ben Whishaw

Arts, Culture & Media
Idris Elba

Why Idris Elba is not ‘too street’ to be James Bond

Culture
Radiohead

Wanna bet who will perform the next James Bond theme? You can’t if you live in the UK.

Culture
Chicago police move in to knock down a burning cross in front of a home, after an African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood, August 3, 1963. The civil rights movement in America was one of the historic trends transforming the

Here’s what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated

Global Politics

‘Lincoln,’ ‘Skyfall’ bring history into movie theaters this weekend

Arts, Culture & Media

Abraham Lincoln wasn’t just Honest Abe, he had a wheeling and dealing political side. That’s the take of the new movie, Lincoln, out this weekend. It’ll be up against Skyfall, the 50th anniversary edition of the James Bond series.

Stella Rimington: The real woman behind James Bond’s M

Arts, Culture & Media

When the British government first decided to reveal the person behind their MI5 spy agency, many were surprised to find that the person was a she, not a he. That woman was Stella Rimington, who’s become the basis of James Bond’s M — and a fiction writer in her own right.

Composer discusses surprising origin of James Bond theme song

Arts, Culture & Media

Monty Norman composed the theme song for the James Bond song, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. Norman had put the song together for an opera that never happened. With a few tweaks and a bit of Sean Connery, the bond theme song was born.

‘Art of Betrayal’ Reveals the Secrets of the MI6

As Daniel Craig storms the screen as James Bond in “Skyfall”  this weekend, MI6, the British Secret Service, is once again on America’s mind.   According to Gordon Corera, security correspondent for the BBC,  “For most of its existence, secrecy was so prized that MI6 did not even exist. At least, not officially.” Gordon reveals the secret history […]

The World

The Many Personas of Stella Rimington

Global Politics

The former head of MI5 was fictionalizing aspects of her life long before she started writing spy novels.