If Richard Burton had played James Bond, then his wife/fiance, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, would have been on the set – if she was not making a movie! Both Burton and Taylor – are in my family tree! – as are the other actors that bonded with Liz. There would have been a Hollywood Bond – BRAND! I am the only author that has built such a Brand. I expect a pay day from Jeff Bezos.
“Had Burton played Bond,” says Masterson. “I think he would have been absolutely fantastic.”The potential casting of Burton was inspired and showed far greater insight into what kind of actor any potential Bond film needed in order to connect with world audiences than a previous screen incarnation” of the character.”
Above is a pic of me in my mother’s pool in Reseda, with Cindy Blake, the daughter of Harry Blake, Johnny Carson’s make-up artist. Cindy took over when Harry retired. I knew the Blakes since I was eleven. The year is 1969. This is what I looked like when I met Rena Christensen. Cidny and I went to see the movie ‘Easy Rider’.
My neighbors were extremely upset I had a bond with famous people, coupled with the truth I had not accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. How about Ian Fleming? How about…..James Bond?
John Presco
Richard Burton on Ian Fleming’s ‘You Only Live Twice’
Today is the anniversary of the death of the great Richard Burton. Once considered for the role of James Bond, he was a voracious reader and one wonders what he thought of Ian Fleming. The closest we might get is a short diary entry published in ‘Richard Burton: A Life’ (p. 292).
On March 28th 1969, Burton writes:
“I went to bed at 9 and read a book of Ian Fleming’s called You Only Live Twice. A clever schoolboy mind and atrociously vulgar.”
Burton did not suffer fools and someone with an intellect as he possessed, a James Bond novel might have appeared very lightweight to him at first glance. Melvyn Bragg described Burton’s reading habits as “indiscriminate but he chews on whatever he finds and turns it into something for himself.” And chew he did.
His brief ‘review’ particularly picked up on the gastronomical aspects of the novel describing Fleming as having a “pompous attitude to food and cocktails” and it clearly hit a nerve!
“[…] he has the cordon-bleu nerve to attack one of my favourite discoveries: American short-order cooking.”
Despite taking umbrage with Fleming’s treatment of American fast-food and describing the novel as “diffuse, urbane and empty”, he does offer some final, grudging respect:
“Yet you cannot help liking Fleming. He is so obviously enjoying the creation of his extroverted, Hemingway-esque, sadistic, sexually-maniacal boy-scout that in the end he becomes likable.”
Back handed praise from the great man. One wonders if he read any more?
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| It was during Fleming’s meetings with Paul Dehn, an early candidate to write the screenplay, that the subject of who to cast as Bond first arose. In a letter dated 11th August 1959 to his long-standing friend Ivar Bryce, Fleming announced, ‘Both Dehn and I think that Richard Burton would be by far the best James Bond!’ It’s a fascinating suggestion, and undeniably the first recorded statement by Fleming about who should play his hero. Years later Fleming would champion David Niven as Bond, a very traditional English actor and a million miles away from the wild Celtic image and brooding manner of Burton. But what a Bond a pre-Cleopatra/pre-Elizabeth Taylor Burton would have been, before vats of vodka and a heady dose of disillusionment had frayed his edges beyond repair. According to Burton’s brother, Graham Jenkins, the Welsh actor was a fan of the Bond books, numbering them amongst his favourite pulp reading along with Agatha Christie. Guy Masterson, a theatrical producer and director, and Burton’s great-nephew, told me that the great man once confided in him about his decision to turn the Bond role down. “At the time he was doing Camelot on stage and enjoying great stardom because of it. My uncle told me that Ian Fleming had approached him, asking him to play Bond. But back then Bond was a new concept – nobody had any idea it would be as big as it became. My uncle told me that he thought it was going to be just another movie.” No matter how big Bond became Burton never admitted to family or friends that he regretted missing out on the role. “Had Burton played Bond,” says Masterson. “I think he would have been absolutely fantastic.”The potential casting of Burton was inspired and showed far greater insight into what kind of actor any potential Bond film needed in order to connect with world audiences than a previous screen incarnation of the character. Back in 1954 CBS broadcast a live one hour production of Casino Royale. Since 007 was virtually unknown Stateside the network took creative licence to Americanize the character and cast the Hollywooden Barry Nelson. The whole affair was pretty dismal and Nelson’s only merit was to become one of the great movie trivia questions. |
Two Women – Play Bond
Posted on June 1, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Two female actresses were considered for the role of a female James Bond. Ian Fleming wanted Richard Burton to star in the first Bond movie. If a Bond movies is made from my Bond book, ‘The Royal Janitor’ then the interest in my sister’s artwork – would be revived – the goal Sydney Morris stated in a legal document. Being a partner in the law firm of Robert Brevoort Buck, I hereby inform Robert, he still has an obligation to continue with his legal strategy. A conflict of interest existed before the sale to Pierrot was made, being, recovery stories are written by those in recovery, and not hired ghost writers who never knew my family. An expert on how to author a self-help book, should have been consulted.
There is talk about two women playing Bond.
Jon
There are a lot of actors who could play 007 once Daniel Craig retires from the role he despises: Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender (even though he’s Irish), Tom Hiddleston (of Hiddleswift fame), David Oyelowo (who actually voices the character in the audiobooks). Hell, even controversially-mustached human man Henry Cavill thinks he has what it takes.
But there’s only one actor who should be the next James Bond, and that’s Idris Elba.
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Elizabeth Taylor In Bond’s London
Posted on November 28, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Two days ago, I discovered my kindred, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, made an album with John Barry who composed a James Bond theme. Liz is on the cover and recites a poem by Woodsworth. She also recites Pitt’s famous defense of America, and, the forming of a lasting bond. This renders Liz my ultimate muse. I dismiss the others for lack of enthusiasm. Liz created a Artistic Dynasty via Marriage Certificates. The art collector, Paul Melon, is in the Rosamond Family Tree, due to Liz’s marriage to John Warner. Her son, Christopher Wilding, married Aileen Getty, and thus is kin to Ian Fleming, who wanted Richard Burton to play Bond in the first movie.
This post is under construction. I have to sort out these videos. The first two introduced a powerful woman in the word Ian Fleming created. Music is very key to setting the mood and theme. The maker of the new Bond movie spent millions – struggling!
John Presco
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Woodsworth
Dame Elizabeth Taylor is today making a rare public appearance in Britain, taking centre stage with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Rivalling Taylor for top billing at the Palace investiture is Mary Poppins and Sound of Music star Dame Julie Andrews.
The British actresses, who have both won Oscars, were made Dame Commanders of the Order of the British Empire in the Millennium New Year Honours List.
In the Palace ballroom, Andrews, 64, will be first to receive her insignia for services to acting and entertainment. Next (in alphabetical order) Taylor, 68, will meet the Queen and receive her Dame Commander’s brooch. Taylor is honoured for services to acting and charity, recognising her fundraising for Aids research.
The investiture – the ceremonies are now recorded for television – promises to be one of the most glittering in recent times. Rarely have two such big stars been honoured at the same investiture.
An exhibition of portraits of Dame Elizabeth Taylor opens at London’s National Portrait Gallery on Thursday, and she will be the guest of honour at a charity spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on May 26 to raise money for Aids research.
On May 24, the British Film Institute will honour her with a BFI Fellowship at a tribute dinner at the Dorchester Hotel. Another highlight of a planned series of events in her honour is the National Film Theatre’s programme of a dozen classic Liz Taylor movies, including the epic Cleopatra in which she starred with Richard Burton.
In 1957, Warner married banking heiress Catherine Conover Mellon, the daughter of art collector Paul Mellon and his first wife, Mary Conover, and the granddaughter of Andrew Mellon. By his marriage, Warner accrued substantial capital for investing and expanding his political contacts. The Warners, who divorced in 1973, have three children: Virginia, John W. Warner, IV, and Mary. His former wife now uses the name Catherine Conover.[2]
John Warner married actress Elizabeth Taylor on December 4, 1976 at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. They divorced on November 7, 1982.
In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. Is this your boasted peace? Not to sheathe the sword in it scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel with yourselves, now the whole House of Bourbon is united against you…
Richard BurtonThe good looking actor who was known for his Shakespearean roles as well as his tumultuous relationship/marriages to Elizabeth Taylor reportedly turned down the first 007 role. Author Ian Fleming specifically wanted Burton when a movie adaptation was suggested in the late ’50s, but the Welsh actor thought it was too big a risk and had demanded a fat paycheck as well.
I am looking for descendants of Philip Rosemond and Moses Morton Rosemond who lived in Guernsey County, OH in the mid-1800s. This family descended from a James Rosemond who lived in County Leitrim, Ireland in the early 1700s. Other members of this same family settled in Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
The southern Rosamond family is also said to be descended from this same family, as are the Rosamond families in Australia and New Zealand. I am trying to tie all the branches of the family together. The information on the family in Guernsey County, OH is shown below. I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has any information regarding this family.
The reference for the earlier generations of this family is the booklet “The
History of the Rosemond Family” by Leland Eugene Rosemond, 1939.
Thanks.
To discover Liz was born in Augustus John’s house, with twenty paintings on his wall, says it all. Her father was sent home to America to be John’s agent in America. Her uncle Howard was a purchaser of fine art for the American rich. He played poker with his good friend, General Eisenhower, Commander of all Allied forces. Though it appears Monica Delacroix is Bond’s mother, I see this as a code denoting Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and ‘The Rose Croix’ of the world, and, THEY made their move when Hitler put a price on the head of Empress Zita von Habsburg, whose son co-founded Pan-Europa!
Richard BurtonThe good looking actor who was known for his Shakespearean roles as well as his tumultuous relationship/marriages to Elizabeth Taylor reportedly turned down the first 007 role. Author Ian Fleming specifically wanted Burton when a movie adaptation was suggested in the late ’50s, but the Welsh actor thought it was too big a risk and had demanded a fat paycheck as well.
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The Rosamunde Penny Ballet
Posted on November 10, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
My new star is born of the Internet. I will not give her name lest my enemies get to her, and turn her against me. We see our new literary muse in the top pic. She studied ballet, and now hates it. She will be Penelope Rosamund Bond, the daughter of Miss Moneypenny, who was played by Samantha Bond, whose is kin to Blowdwen John. Moneypenny was given the name JANE and thus the TWO JOHN NAMES – with ROSE! Perhaps I will have Penelope be a relative of Lady Rosamund Painswick.
“Your great great aunt is Lady Penelope Painswick.”
All this was inspired by watching my NEW MUSE on Tik Tok. She was showing off her profile and long neck. I told her she should purchase a Cameo, take pics, and send them out to casting agents because she will be hired as an extra in period productions. Everything came together. The Glass Slipper fits! A Star is born!……A Love Child!
PENNY ROSAMUND BOND
PENNY BOND
Two nights ago, in my dream, I watched a unknown man do these amazing paintings in front of me. I struggled to get to my easel, because this was my work, somehow. I believe the man was Augustus John who is my kin via my cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. Augustus is kin to Ian Fleming and may have sired a hundred children in his life. These are the John Foundlings. Jean and Ian. I would love to be a part of a movies, or series on John.
John John
Howard Taylor and John Presco | Rosamond Press
Penny is an English pet form of Penelope. Penelope, in turn, is a Greek name (Πηνελοπη), most likely derived from “pēnē” meaning “weft” (a piece of woven cloth) combined with “lepō” meaning “peel” – in other words, unweave a piece of woven cloth.
Ian is of Scottish Gaelic origin and is the Scottish version of the name John. It comes from the Hebrew name Yohanan and means “God is gracious” or “the Lord is gracious.” Ian can also be spelled Iain. … Origin: Ian is a Scottish name of Hebrew origin meaning “God is gracious.”
EXTRA! I just had a vision of the opening credits to our Bond Movie. Penny does two modern dance-ballets to Love Child and Second Hand Rose. After being stricken with Parkinson’s Disease, Moneypenny is forced to quit work and raise her infant daughter on a small pension. She and Penny are living just above the poverty level in London. She spends her savings getting her daughter ballet lessons, so she can be somebody one day.
Samantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, who is best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also known for originating the role of “Miz Liz” Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Bond was born at 189 Uxbridge Street in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to Welsh parents Matthew William Bond (1899–1951) and Blodwen (née John; 1900–1981); he had an older brother, Ifor John Bond (1929–1992), and a twin sister, Shirley.[1] Bond’s first acting experience was at Burton Boys’ Grammar School, where he was a pupil, and in addition attended classes at the School of Speech and Drama in Burton.[2] In 1952 he joined the Central School of Speech and Drama (then based in rooms in the Royal Albert Hall), where contemporaries included Delena Kidd, Heather Sears and Ian Hendry.[3] In 1957, he played Sir John Marraby in the musical Zuleika, based on the novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.
Blodwen (John) Bond (1900-1981) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
George John (1861-1937) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Born 10 Dec 1900 in Abergwynfi, Glamorgan, Wales
Daughter of George John and Sarah Ann (Howells) John
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Matthew William Bond — married 1925 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Mother of Ivor John Bond and Philip George William Bond
He married the television producer Pat Sandys (1926–2000) in 1959. The marriage was later dissolved.[4] With Sandys he is the father of actresses Abigail and Samantha Bond,[5] and the film and TV journalist Matthew Bond. He lived in the village of Abergwynfi in his parents’ native Wales.
Samantha Bond is the daughter of actor Philip Bond and TV producer Pat Sandys, and is the sister of the actress Abigail Bond and the journalist Matthew Bond.[1] Bond’s paternal grandparents were Welsh. She was brought up in London, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets.[2] She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.[3]
From 1995 to 2002, Bond played Miss Moneypenny, M‘s secretary at MI6, in the four James Bond films with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. The role of Miss Moneypenny is the smallest role she ever played,[24] yet the character remains a favorite among James Bond fans. In a BBC interview, Bond remarked that she retired from the role when Pierce Brosnan stepped down as the lead.[31] However, she later appeared as Miss Moneypenny in an advertisement for London’s 2012 Olympic bid, alongside previous Bond actor Roger Moore.
Miss Moneypenny, later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M, who is Bond’s superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
Although she has a small part in most of the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually non-existent in Ian Fleming‘s novels, although it is somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson). On that note, she is not always considered to be a Bond girl, having never had anything more than a professional relationship with Bond.
Although not given a first name by Fleming, the character was given the name Jane in the spin-off book series, The Moneypenny Diaries; in the films, she received the first name of Eve in Skyfall (2012), which is set in the new continuity opened by 2006’s Casino Royale, where the character spent time as a field officer before becoming secretary to M. According to the film You Only Live Twice (1967), she holds the rank of second officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service.
The Moneypenny Diaries is a series of novels and short stories chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M‘s personal secretary in Ian Fleming‘s James Bond series; it is considered an official spin-off of the Bond books. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book’s “editor.” The series is a trilogy of novels, although in 2006, Weinberg also published two short stories: “For Your Eyes Only, James” and “Moneypenny’s First Date With Bond”, both of which appeared in UK magazines and were republished in September 2020 as a free ebook.[1]
An authorised book?[edit]
Although it has since been announced as an official book from Ian Fleming Publications, the holder of the literary rights to James Bond, there was some confusion and even deception prior to release as to whether the book was actually authorised by them.
The trilogy had originally been touted as the secret journal of a “real” Miss Moneypenny and that James Bond was a possible pseudonym for a genuine intelligence officer, the idea of which was perhaps influenced similarly to John Pearson‘s 1973 authorised biography of James Bond. James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 was based on the obituary in Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice in which Fleming hints that Bond is perhaps a real man.
An investigation by The Sunday Times into whether or not The Moneypenny Diaries were in some way real forced John Murray publishers to admit that the novel was in fact a “spoof”.[3] Prior to the admission, Kate Westbrook was said to be niece of the “real” Jane Moneypenny and that the diaries were discovered after her death in 1990. It was also claimed that Westbrook was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, however, the college replied stating no such person was in employment there. In an interview, Weinberg revealed that the ‘Kate Westbrook’ subterfuge stretched as far as her wearing a wig and coloured contact lenses for media interviews and at the launch party.[4]
The novel was officially recognized as an authorised book from Ian Fleming Publications on the day of the book’s publication in the UK, October 10, 2005. A side-effect of the deception resulted in a delay in this book finding an American publisher.
In Ian Fleming‘s first draft of Casino Royale (1953), Moneypenny’s name was originally “Miss ‘Petty’ Pettaval”, which was taken from Kathleen Pettigrew, the personal assistant to MI6 director Stewart Menzies. Fleming changed it to be less obvious.[1] Other candidates for Moneypenny’s inspiration include Vera Atkins of Special Operations Executive;[2] Paddy Ridsdale, a Naval Intelligence secretary;[1] Joan Bright Astley, whom Fleming dated during World War II, and who was noted for giving a warm and friendly reception to senior officers who visited her office to view confidential papers;[3] and Joan Howe, Fleming’s red-haired secretary at The Times who had typed the manuscript of Casino Royale.[4] The BBC has used the term “Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny” when referring to Jean Frampton, who typed out the manuscripts for Fleming’s later works and made plot suggestions to him, even though the two never met.[5]
AugustusEdwin John
Born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
Son of Edwin William John and Augusta (Smith) JohnBrother of Gwendolen Mary JohnHusband of Ida Margaret (Nettleship) John — married 24 Jan 1901 [location unknown]Husband of Dorothy McNeill — married 1907 in never married, lived together in EnglandFather of Caspar John GCB, Poppet (John) Pol, Vivien (John) White, Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming and
Biography
Augustus John was a Welsh painter known for his portraits and murals.[1]
Early in 1901, the famous artist Augustus John married his first wife, Ida Nettleship (1877–1907); the couple had five children.
One of his sons (by his first wife) was the prominent British Admiral and First Sea Lord
- Sir Caspar John.
- Romilly (1906–1986) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist.
After his wife’s death in 1907, Augustus John’s mistress Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner; they lived together most of the time from 1904 until his death and had two children, but never married.
- Poppet John (1912–1997), John’s daughter by Dorothy, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988).
- Vivien John (1915–1994) was a notable painter.
Willem Pol’s daughter was
- Talitha Pol (1940–1971) by an earlier marriage to Arnoldine Adriana “Adine” Mees (1908–1948). (Thus, Talitha was step-granddaughter of both Augustus and Dorothy). Talitha was a fashion icon of 1960s London, who married billionaire oil heir, John Paul Getty Jr.
John’s daughter
- Gwyneth Johnstone (1915–2010), by musician Nora Brownsword, was an artist.
By Ian Fleming‘s widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, Augustus John had a daughter,
- Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist.
Another of John’s sons, by Mavis de Vere Cole, wife of the prankster Horace de Vere Cole, is the television director
- Tristan de Vere Cole.
Augustus John’s promiscuity gave rise to rumours that he had fathered as many as 100 children.
Cole is believed to be the last-surviving illegitimate son of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961). His mother, Mavis Cole, met John at the Café Royal in 1928, and agreed to model for him. In 1931 she married Horace de Vere Cole, a well-known Edwardian practical joker, then in 1932 became the mistress of Augustus John. Cole was brought up in the John household at Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, from the age of 18 months, partly by his mother, and then later by Dorelia McNeill.[1][2]
Horace de Vere Cole – Wikipedia
Tristan de Vere Cole – Wikipedia
Celebrity Pool Party – A Play
Posted on December 7, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Celebrity Pool Party – A Play
by
Vincent Rosamond Rice
Copyright 2021
It was Bryan MacLean who suggested to James Bond they have a pool party at his house, and invite Elizabeth and Richard Burton, the actors James aced out of the home they wanted. The year is 1968. There is an uprising in Czechoslovakia. Leonid Brezhnev has amassed tanks on the border. When not giving instructions to his hired help, Bond is on a conference call to M16 in Britain. They want to know who is coming for a dip. Here are the guests that showed up that fateful day.
James Bond, Talitha and J. Paul Getty Jr. Ryan O’Neal, Andy Warhol and Edith, Lana Clark and Phil Spector, Liza Minelli and Barbara Streisand. Bryan and Arthur Lee, Peter Fonda and Steve McQueen, John and Irena the Acid Messiah of Height Ashbury, and his muse, the embodiment of Mary Magdalene. LIFE just did a layout on The Prophets of San Francisco, and many people in Europe were dare saying John looked like Jesus. The Hollywood Crowd were withholding their verdict. There was talk of The End of The World. The Cold War was about to turn – HOT!
James, anticipating Bryan was going to ask if his band, Love, could play at the party, hired his old friend, Christopher Lee, to play the baby grand by the pool and sing some British show tunes. Bond loathed Rock and Roll! When he came dressed as Dracula, the party went south, especially when Richard Burton and Lee started reciting George Bernard Shaw. Liza and Barbara tried doing a happy duet, but, a dark pall came over the celebrity crowd – full of potence! Arthur Lee got behind it, and wrote a flurry of new songs. Then….The Acid Messiah went into a trance…..and began channeling.
Celebrity Pool Party may turn into a musical when this Bohemian gathering hears Soviet troops have invaded the Land of Bohemia. Ryan puts on a pair of boxing gloves as Barbara and Liza begin a duet that others join in on. Phil Specter rages about hitting them with a Wall of Sound as a orchestra rises above the infinity pool with the dazzling lights of downtown LA behind them. Then, here come the La Bo Bollywood Dancers. There is talk about imminent nuclear war. Arthur Lee steps forward with new and rousing words to Seven and Seven Is.
“This is it! Say NO to tyranny!”
O’Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest son of actress Patricia Ruth Olga (née O’Callaghan; 1907–2003) and novelist and screenwriter Charles O’Neal.[6] His father was of Irish and English descent, while his mother was of paternal Irish and maternal Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.[6][7] His brother, Kevin, is an actor and screenwriter.[8]
O’Neal attended University High School in Los Angeles, and trained there to become a Golden Gloves boxer. During the late 1950s, his father had a job writing on a television series called Citizen Soldier, and moved the family to Munich, where O’Neal attended Munich American High School.[9]
Soviets invade Czechoslovakia – HISTORY
In 1966-1967 Los Angeles was Arthur Lee’s dark kingdom. Brian Wilson owned the sun, Jim Morrison traveled the other side, and while the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield gave L.A. its folkie hippie face, Lee’s band Love fashioned a punk muzak masquerade that fifty years on will still not relent. Their capstone album, 1967’s Forever Changes, is one of the handful of perfect rock records, but it is a difficult masterpiece, borne of a drug-addled band falling apart on the heels of some minor pop success (thanks to their cover of Bacharach/David’s “My Little Red Book” and the blazing protopunk of “7 and 7 Is”), as their chief admirers and competitors the Doors were surpassing them in popularity, commercially beating them at their own game. Forever Changes is not instantly recognizable for what it is, and its easy melodic beauty — indebted to the Tijuana Brass, smooth jazz, and surf instrumentals — supports a poetry far more complex and subtle than anyone else in rock was writing at the time, save perhaps Van Morrison.
Forever Changes really began with Love’s second album, Da Capo (1966), its first side moving away from the Byrds influence so evident on their first LP (as good as that record is), towards a baroque fusion of Spanish-inflected pop jazz mixed with fierce punk aggression. By the time they came to record Forever Changes in the summer of 1967, Lee had refined this sound to create, with the band’s other songwriter, Bryan MacLean, a seamless set of 11 songs beginning with the plaintive loneliness of “Alone Again Or” and concluding with a rumination on the album’s title in “You Set the Scene.” Engineer and co-producer Bruce Botnick (known primarily for his work with the Doors, labelmates on Jac Holzman’s groundbreaking Elektra Records), who had produced the band’s two previous records, has been credited with motivating the band to record, and in creating the album’s sonic consistency. The airy breeziness of the tunes and Lee’s at times affected vocal approach are often in stark contrast, and yet ultimately work with, the grim lyrical themes — mortality, war, racial division (Lee and guitarist Johnny Echols were black men in a very white rock scene), broken love — and the words are so deftly written and rendered that there is no belaboring the evident point: the Summer of Love is bullshit. These kind of dynamics create a layered masterwork that sustains prolonged discovery. Forever Changes is a slow grower, it reveals itself over time, but once its hooks are in it will not let go. I think it’s interesting that while the album tanked in America it hit #24 in Great Britain in 1968, and can be seen as being influential on both British progressive and punk rock. It’s no mistake that it was in London that Lee so successfully revived the album as a live performance in 2003, the recordings from which demonstrate the undiminished power of the songs (and, surprisingly given his rough life, Lee’s chops).
“Maybe the people would be the times or between Clark and Hilldale” opens side two of Forever Changes and contains in its three and a half minutes a snappy, bass-and-brass driven portrait of the transience of life — the comings and the goings and the intersections — surrounding the Whiskey a Go Go and the Sunset Strip, the heart of Love’s Los Angeles. Others feel more confident in their interpretations of the song, but it makes me feel good because wrapped inside this sunny tune, where at one glorious moment in the break Lee doubles the trumpet as if he’s Tony Bennett, there is room for thought and contemplation, and even if I can’t say for certain what was going through Arthur Lee’s mind when he wrote the words, perhaps that’s what makes this and other of Love’s songs feel so universal.
Bond On Bond
Posted on August 24, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
- Paris Hilton is getting married and she has no idea she is related to the Getty family, and Ian Fleming. Is her husband to be keen on genealogies like I am? When I saw the ad for Love, I was reminded of my movie idea where James Bond moves next door to the castle Love lived in. Right away James has a pushup with Arthur Lee. How many members of my family, and of Robert Brevoort Buck law firm, did the Scottish Jig thinking I had really blown my top – gone completely Coo-Coo? If a Ad Agency had handled the probate of Christine Rosamond Benton, all members of my family would be rolling in doe, even though my Neo-Nazi brother has lived his whole life making sure I am a failure. There’s your Villain – right there! Get him!
I belong to several Bond facebook groups and have read the members wanting a retro-Bond. I heard. I wrote LA Bond that takes place in 1969 after Jame’s wife is assassinated. Bond is approached by a Ad Agency that handles men’s colognes, and his first lay-out gets allot of attention. Elizabeth Taylor takes note, and wants James in her new ad. Carrie Fisher is all over James. The most beautiful young woman in the world is discovered on the boardwalk in Venice, and she appears in a Bond ad. The famous artist, Rosamond, asks James to be her first male model – her male muse! Everything is taking off for Agent 007. He gets a movie offer. But then, he crosses paths with…..The Spoiler…..this San Francisco Bohemian Artist and friend of Andy and Edith Sedgwick that made a name for himself exposing Phonies.
“I’m not a phonie! Who does this fooken bloke think he is?”
John Presco
Paris Hilton says her wedding will be a 3-day affair with 10 outfit changes (yahoo.com)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (film) – Wikipedia
Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds – YouTube
LA Bond – Live And Let Live
Posted on June 28, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
LA BOND
by
John Presco
It is rumored 007 influenced Arthur Lee to write two songs for Love’s ‘Forever Changes’.
At 12:42 P.M. James Bond was out by the pool throwing tomahawks at a log, when Arthur Lee stuck his head out the window, and shouted;
“Knock it off! Some people are trying to sleep!”
,Bond looked up and saw a angry, disheveled black man.
“Look chap! I’m a firm believer in ‘live and let live’, but it’s past noon. Normal people have long been up and about.”
“Well, I’m not normal people. I’m a rock musician. and I work till 2:00 A.M. and then party and jam with my my – mates – afterwards. You’re from England. Do me a favor. Can you throw your tomohawk in the evening. I don’t get out of bed till around four!”
James went over and pulled his weapons out of the block.
“You got it. Now, go catch some more shut-eye!”
By the way….what’s your name?”
“Bond….James Bond. What’s your’s?”
“Lee….Arthur Lee!”
Arthur Lee, a founder of the group Love, lay in bed trying to fall back asleep. He assessed if he was justified in yelling at the new neighbor. Would he cause trouble. He ended up composing a song that he wanted on the new album. ‘Live and Let Live’ was about the British Invasion, and, the people who were already here. The base in this song is played by Carol Kaye who would go on a date with James, who ended up on the wrong side of the Hell’s Angels who befriended Michael MacLure, whose nose he bloodied at the Whisky A Go Go.
Love – Live And Let Live – YouTube
At the party, Lee worked on another song about Bond, he recognizing him as another Alpha Male who moved in on Carol like a big dog. This member of Spector’s ‘Wrecking Crew’ had deflected many smooth moves from the smoothest men in the business were she was known as the best bass player – ever!
“I see that we are the adults in the room. You appear to be alert and into getting to the point. Let’s spend the night together.”
When I discovered Carol played the base in The Daily Planet I knew I had found the genius behind the Forever Changes album, that I want in LA Bond – if it becomes a movie.
Love – The Daily Planet – YouTube
Yes I’ve seen you sitting on the couch
I recognize your artillery
I have seen you many times before
Once when I was an Indian
And I was on my land
Why can’t you understand
On this day George Harrison circulated a memo at Apple to tell staff that he had invited a group of Hells Angels from California to stay at 3 Savile Row.
Hells Angels will be in London within the next week, on the way to straighten out Czechoslovakia. There will be twelve in number complete with black leather jackets and motor cycles. They will undoubtedly arrive at Apple and I have heard they may try to make full use of Apple’s facilities. They may look as though they are going to do you in but are very straight and do good things, so don’t fear them or up-tight them. Try to assist them without neglecting your Apple business and without letting them take control of Savile Row.
James Bond In La La Land?
Posted on July 13, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
The home where Elizabeth Taylor lived in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding has hit the market in Beverly Hills.
Coldwell Banker Global Luxury has confirmed the new listing — the first time in 21 years the property has been up for sale — at 1375 Beverly Estates Dr. for $15.9 million. According to the real estate broker, the couple purchased the 2.01 acre property as their private L.A. retreat in 1954, shortly after it was built in 1953. According to reports, Taylor and Wilding made the decision to buy the property after scaling a fence to check out the grounds. Taylor and Wilding married in 1952 and divorced in 1957.
What if no film company buys my Victoria Bond idea? Well, I got a back up. Just in case folks think I am fixating on Lara Roozemond, even stalking her, I am willing to let her go for The Almighty Dollar. Consider this My Giant Cop-out!
James Bond In La La Land
A Movie Script
by
John (Jon) Gregory Presco
Shortly after the death of his beloved wife, Teresa Bond, James has a total mental breakdown. He is sent to see a crack team of psychiatrist who tell him it is time to retire. They suggest he move to Los Angeles California, where he can blend in. Having won a small fortune playing cards in Monaco, he asks The Team Real Estate Agents, if they know of a house. They tell him a house designed by George McLean has just come on the market. There is another buyer who made an offer, but, it could be made to look like they lost a bidding war.
“Who is getting bumped?”
“Oh, just a has-been Hollywood couple whose latest movie was a big flop. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burton.”
“What about the neighbors? I don’t want to be disturbed. I’m not in the best of shape.”
“Let’s see. There’s Joe Spine on your right, and a rock band called ‘Love’ on your left. Joe is a right-wing T.V. talk personality, your typical American asshole.”
“What about noise?”
“L.A. is a noisy place. There’s an acid rock band every square mile.”
“Maybe I could jam with them. I play a mean Scottish flute.”
“You got one more neighbor, Mr. Natural, who lives illegally in a treehouse up the canyon. He’s harmless. He’ll actually give you money if you let him graze on your lawn.”
“What about women. Do they got pretty women in L.A.?”
“James. You act like you never heard of Los Angeles a place famous for beautiful women. You will have a pool. There will be pool parties, and, just women who like to hang.”
“O.K. Sounds like my cup of tea! Let’s close the deal. Are you sure the Burtons won’t be upset?”
Phone rings.
“Hello Liz. I was wondering when you would get wind of this. I’ll ask him.”
“What the fook. They know who I am?”
“Calm down James. They just know you aced them out. You see, there is this Hollywood Network thing. They want you over for dinner to let you know there are no had feelings. If you refuse, they will make sure things go badly for you in THEIR town.”
“What the fook? I thought I was ordered to stay out of trouble, and relax! My pappy always said “Sometimes when you aren’t looking for trouble, trouble is looking for you!”
Let me pre-warn my movie goers. I plan to shoot the greatest Acid Trip – ever! If I go before this is done – there goes the sixties! Cary Grant took LSD. He would have made a great James Bond. I don’t want to give it away, but, James has his martini spiked with LSD. Who did it?
Mr. Natural – Joe Spine – Liz – a Getty – Love
After his major freak-out James takes up bowling and joins a team that turns out to be Korean Vets who are suffering from PTSD. They are a bad bunch. A bond is made. They conclude bowling isn’t cutting it. James suggests they go over to the dark side and form a motorcycle club. They chose one bike. Here are your choices…….
Elizabeth grew up with an understanding and appreciation for fine art. Her father, Francis Taylor, was an art dealer with a gallery located at 35 Old Bond Street in London. He learned the business under the tutelage of his uncle, Howard Young. After relocating with his family to sunny California during the war, Francis opened an art gallery at the Château Elysée, but quickly relocated it to the more impressive Beverly Hills Hotel. It was at that location that such celebrities as Howard Duff, Vincent Price, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Hedda Hopper, and Greta Garbo could be found selecting art for their own collections. Francis Taylor was also a trendsetter; responsible for the popularity of Augustus John in the United States. Francis, who had a keen eye, asked John if he could buy some of the paintings John had discarded. John felt they weren’t good enough to sell, and gave them to Francis free of charge. They were sold back at the art gallery in the States, where Augustus John paintings would be sold exclusively for many years. Francis would soon find an art connoisseur in his daughter, Elizabeth, who would amass one of the great private collections of Impressionist art in America.
The Fleming Collection and Bond St. Gallery
Posted on July 13, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
What I have been putting together here is an Art Dynasty of people who share the same DNA, and are ‘Of The Art Blood’. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, artists, Christine Rosamond and Garth Benton, along with the Fleming family, are in the same tree. Did I leave out the Getty family? How about the Rothschilds?
What really irks folks, is – I am dirt poor! Who do I think I am? Jesus had no money – and he founded a world religion! Now – I am mad! Whatever……..I am the Touchstone! The next two Bond movies – BELONG TO ME!
John Presco
http://news.getty.edu/inaugural-getty-rothschild-fellowship.htm
LOS ANGELES – The Getty and the Rothschild Foundation today announced the creation of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, which will support innovative scholarship in the history of art, collecting, and conservation, using the collection and resources of both institutions. The fellowship offers art historians, museum professionals, or conservators the opportunity to research and study at both the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. The inaugural fellow is Dr. David Saunders, a foremost expert in the area of conservation science who will work on museum and gallery lighting during the fellowship.
“The Getty and the Rothschild Foundation hold similar values regarding the understanding and conservation of visual art around the world, and it is only appropriate that we would work together to support individuals who demonstrate these values through their research,” says Jim Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. “We are pleased to award the inaugural Getty Rothschild Fellowship to Dr. Saunders, whose work in museum lighting has been of long-standing interest to the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Museum.”
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Valentine Fleming 
| Gender: | Male |
|---|---|
| Birth: | 1882 Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland |
| Death: | May 20, 1917 (35) Picardy, France |
| Immediate Family: | Son of Robert Fleming and Sarah Kate Fleming Husband of Evelyn Beatrice Saint Croix Rose and a Fleming Father of Peter Fleming; Ian Fleming; Michael Valentine Paul Fleming and Major Richard Evelyn Fleming Brother of Philip Fleming and Dorothy Hermon-Hodge (Fleming) |
| Added by: | James Borthwick on May 26, 2007 |
| Managed by: | Tina and Michael Lawrence Rhodes |
The firm of Robert Fleming & Co., known as Flemings, was founded in Dundee, Scotland in 1873 by Robert Fleming, a successful manufacturer of jute fabrics used for sandbags in the American Civil War. The firm was originally formed as a series of investment trusts, pooling money from Scottish investors into overseas ventures, and later moved into merchant banking. In 1909 the firm moved its headquarters to London.https://www.youtube.com/embed/oo8AV6_GvH8?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/video/399854/history-of-the-getty-villa/
One of the most prestigious galleries of Scottish art, with a renowned private collection of Glasgow Boys and Scottish Colourists, is to close.
The Fleming Collection gallery in Mayfair, London, is to shut next year, and the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, which runs it, is to pursue a new “museum without walls” strategy.
The collection comprises over 600 oils and watercolours from 1770 to the present day.
After the sale of the Fleming’s merchant bank in 2000, the Foundation was established by members of the Fleming family with the aim of “furthering the understanding and fame of Scottish art outside Scotland through exhibitions, education and publishing.”
James Knox, director of the Foundation, said: “From now on our collection will support and initiate exhibitions to expand the audience for Scottish art in the UK and overseas.
“Indeed, this process of cultural diplomacy has already begun with our loan of key paintings and contribution of art-historical advice to the first ever survey of Scottish art to be staged in France [at the Musee du chateau des ducs de Wurtenberg, Montbeliard].
Rory Fleming, chairman of the Foundation, said: “This is a great moment in the history of the Foundation, which will build on our track record of raising the profile and influence of Scottish art and creativity.”
The Fleming Collection dates back to 1968 when Flemings, the former merchant bank, moved into new offices in London.
As a celebration of the Scottish origins of the bank, founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee, the Board began to acquire works by Scottish artists.
The collection includes works dating from the 18th century, including paintings by Allan Ramsay and Henry Raeburn.
It also includes two seminal images of the Highland Clearances: Thomas Faed’s The Last of The Clan and John Watson Nicol’s Lochaber No More.
It also owns works by the Glasgow Boys, Scottish Colourists as well as later twentieth century masters, such as Anne Redpath and John Bellany.
When the bank was sold to J.P Morgan in 2000, the collection was purchased by members of the family and vested in the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation.
The Wyfold name was added to the name to commemorate the life of the last Lord Wyfold, a grandson of Robert Fleming
Cleopatra Rosemond Bond of 35 Bond Street
Posted on May 25, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2016/07/bowie-collector.html
Richard Burton was Ian Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond. Richard married my kin, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, whose father ran an art gallery at 35 Bond Street, that was named after Jame’s fictional ancestor. Roger Moor was in a movie with this famous married couple, separately. There is the term ‘Hollywood Royalty’ that is now applicable to Meghan Markle, who was granted a coat of arms. The Bond name is a real name in the Peerage. The sons of Princess Diana ‘England’s Rose’ are assuming real roles in worldly affairs, and thus the time of them being merely figureheads, is coming to an end. What I suggest, is, that James Bond movies and book, can play a big role in making this world a better place to live.
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I awoke this morning from a dream. I was James Bond (somewhat) and I was writing myself a check. It was for an emergency, just incase I got hurt and suffered from memory loss. It would pay for my hospital bill, a hotel room, and dinner at a fine restruant. Is $10,000 enough? How about $50,000? Is the sky the limit?
I did not want to get rid of the idea for a Female Bond. Who would be my model? Who would understand? Who would get behind my cause? Who would not give me all this grief? Then, she came to me. My Savior. My kindred………Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor!
I got up and looked at Richard Burton who is in my family tree. Ian Fleming wanted him to be the first James Bond. I then looked at the paintings and drawings of Augustus John, that Francis Taylor and Liz owned. John had a daughter, Amaryllis, who was the mother of Ian Flaming. Elizabeth Taylor’s father had a art gallery at 35 Old Bond Street that was named after Sir Thomas Bond that is the ancestor of James Bond. Liz and Richard are in the Getty family tree, and we are kin to Talkitha Getty.
Caspar John is in my rosy family tree. He was a Sea Lord, and half-brother of Poppet Pol (John) There is no doubt that Rena’s late husband, Commander Sir Ian Easton, and John, knew each other. Tabitha Getty is Caspar’s second-niece. She was a Bohemian fashion model, and step-mother of John Paul, who was abducted. John is the subject of a movie and television series titled ‘Trust’. Why are these knighted men marrying beautiful American women? May I dare wonder?
Rena was the muse of my late, Christine Rosamond, and I. This is the love story of our time. The children born at the end of the World War were given a special mission. Rena and I were destined to meet – and part – so our spirits can rescue Britain from her enemies. Britannia rules the waves! Like Phoenix Birds…………..We will rise from the ashes?
Sotheby’s is located at 35 Bond Street. Is it on the same building that Francis Taylor had his art gallery? Did Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor ever go into this gallery? Today, there is a statue of Sekhmet above the door. She is The Guardian. She is the Daughter of God Ra!
On this day, May 25, 2018 at 9:00 A.M. PST…….Cleopatra Rosemond Bond…..is born! She will be called ‘Cleo Bond’. Cleopatra ‘Rose of the World’.
I bury Victoria Bond, and dismiss Lara Roozemond as the model of my Bond Woman. However, she might be my model for Cleo’s arch rival.
I FOUND a incredible connection that already existed. It lie there, dead, waiting for The Heir to come along – and resurrect the Rose-Bond Lineage. I am a immortal! I am in the cat-bird-seat. I have been given a blank check – from beyond the grave! There is a great battle brewing on the horizon! I am with ‘The Champions’! When I get my first royalty check, I’m moving to Bond Street. I want to open a Art Gallery on Bond Street, called –
‘The John Gallery’
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2018
Artist Augustus John auction by Elizabeth Taylor. See Tamara Cohen story.
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