Holy shit, Sally Quinn! I’m reading this profile in Vanity Fair of the ever-sweet -and-easygoing Georgetown (DC) powermeister, Sally Quinn, when this pops up: “After the firestorm, she entered the concrete meditation labyrinth her husband had built for her on their country estate in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, to think.” Wha’? Concrete meditation labyrinth?
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Even to me, it seems funny that you can locate the house of a feared dictator and killer and all-round Bad Boy merely by entering a few coordinates into Google Maps: Coordinates: 39.199569,126.020501 Google Maps
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As far as villains’ lairs go, the island hideout of Bond character Dr. No is the template from which many other fictional lairs followed. Dr. No was the first movie in the James Bond series. It’s got all the typical elements that any good villain needs: It’s an island in the Caribbean. It has...
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The true face of the James Bond series, at least throughout the Sixties and Seventies, isn’t Sean Connery. It’s a German-born set designer named Ken Adam. Born in Berlin in 1921, trained as an architect in London, Adam’s hand has influenced film style through movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Ipcress File,...
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